The Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942: Destroyer Sims' Last Stand - Animated

[@HoH]

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[@spikymikie]

As an old USAF vet, I really enjoy your animated documentaries. I find navel warfare fascinating, and Im a huge fan of WWII history also. I just became a Patron good sir. Thank you for what you do.

[@avnrulz]

And Naval warfare.

[@skyden24195]

This action during the Battle of the Coral Sea is all too often glazed over with relatively little attention to the details, so I do appreciate the more in-depth review of the initially unintentional attack on the oiler and her escort. In fact, it is rarely even noted that the oiler was all but empty of fuel; an aspect I had not known of before. Thank you, "House of History" for this detailed laden video.

[@HoH]

Thanks for watching!

[@gbagaskoro2]

It's a great feat in detailing the attack on Neosho and Sims, down to the point of the nick name of Neosho. Simple but great animation too. Great work

[@Doncroft1]

You gotta be proud when a freaking oiler fights so gallantly for survival against a force meant to sink a cruiser and a fleet carrier.

[@WildBill-kf2pc]

Great as usual. Can’t wait for the next episode of the Coral Sea.

[@TheIndianalain]

Love these detailed recounts of less known naval battles. The battle(s) of the Coral Sea are usually disained in favor of Midway, and that's a shame. Great work!

[@HoH]

Thank you! I will make sure to cover Midway in-depth once this is done.

[@rwarren58]

Your level of detailed information is amazing. Combined with the simple yet effective animations, this channel is a winner 🏆

[@KHK001]

Great video as always HOH!

[@johnlandrigan6578]

I agree Coral Sea lasted 3 days yet is more a footnote to Midway. 2 poor little ships attacked by 90 plus planes must have been discouraging.

[@OverlordGrizzaka]

Typical eastern barbarian horde doctrine. Like insects from a nest.

[@cjthebeesknees]

@@OverlordGrizzaka Piss off, your ignorance is a plague.

[@ronbridegroom8428]

I knew a petty officer who was at Coral Sea. According to him, the destroyer with the most mechanical problems, in this case the Sims, was detached from the fleet to cover the Neosho and the thought was they would be safer separated from the main battle group. He was on one of the other destroyers with the main fleet and he said they listened on the radio as the Sims was attacked and overwhelmed.

[@HolgerGöken]

Danke!

[@Hillbilly001]

Another excellent video HoH. Cheers from Tennessee

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Amazing as always! Can't wait For the next one

[@richardkeilig4062]

Well done! My mum in the Australian Air Force communications and her fellow airmen eould send out signals for the allies. I am proud of her and her Aussies.

[@w.osterberg9385]

THANK YOU very much for this series. Awesome Job!!!!!

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

When Sims forgets it has Defensive AA Fire

[@MilitarySummaryChannel2024]

One of the retreating American destroyers, Alden, had Ernest Evans on board. He felt ashamed about the retreat, and said that if he even commanded his own destroyer he would go into harm's way no matter what. Well, he did, as captain of the USS Johnston during the action off Samar, Battle of Leyte Gulf.

[@petestorz172]

Between the battle and operational losses from this attack and other operational losses from searched, by the time Shokaku and Zuikaku engaged Lexington and Yorktown, their air groups had already lost a good number of aircraft and aircrew. This plus the losses from the "main" battle meant that Sho's and Zui's air groups headed for home significantly depleted. Besides turning aside the assault on Port Moresby, the Battle of the Coral Sea also reduced Kido Butai's carrier complement at Midway.

[@daniellucas1494]

Anxiously awaiting your next posting. Nicely done sir!

[@OtisMcnutt]

My father was a radioman on the Astoria during the battle of Coral Sea , he always has said that the battle was a U S victory because they turned the Japanese away from Port Morisbee

[@gvibration1]

Yep. The Japanese would have walked into Port Moresby. WW2 in the Pacific would have been longer and harder.

[@AkT4on]

"Eyes narrowed against the rising sun" Absolute Cinema

[@marvinm8343]

One unintended consequence of detaching Admiral Crace's Task Force to block the Jomard Passage was that it attracted several land-based air strikes (including one by friendly B-17s), that would have been otherwise directed against Fletcher's carriers. On the other hand, the mistakes of the IJN on May 7 were borderline incompetence. Especially both Shokaku scout pilots mistaking the Neosho and Sims as "a carrier and a cruiser".

[@legoeasycompany]

Scale is hard to judge from altitude so mistaking Sims with a cruiser is a forgivable mistake, mistaking Neosho for a carrier is the biggest slip up. Also it's really weird they'd assume a carrier and cruiser would off sailing on their own which is the biggest mistake.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

​@@legoeasycompanydepends a lot on visibility though. Other such blunders often coincided with heavy cloud cover only allowing short glimpses at a small area, hiding even ships close by to the spotted ones. Another factor could be range. If they had searched so l8ng that their fuel was running out they might not have time for a closer look or seeking other ships if positioned in a in a wide defensive pattern...

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Extremely wonderful historical coverage video...thank you;🙏( house of history) channel of sharing this magnificent video

[@sidwhelan6918]

“Eyes narrowed against the Rising Sun.” Nice writing

[@KalebLoshbough-eh6tm]

Man I love HOH love from The Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee

[@redclayscholar620]

Hi there cousin! Good to see other East Tennesseans here.

[@maryholder3795]

I'm being to realise that the Battle of the Coral Sea is not just a battle of the carriers on both sides. But also other smaller battles like with this battle Neosho the fleet oiler and the destroyer Sims. But they didn't go down without a fight. Gallent ships.

[@Fabio-Jose-DragonKing]

Thanks For this! Your work always make My day ❤❤❤❤

[@FireDragon16180]

Excellent video

[@alexanderleach3365]

Marvelous video.

[@joelrankine1981]

Great videos mate, keep up the good work!!👍👍🇦🇺

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Keep up the good work! You always make saturdays better 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤

[@jimpottsman]

I love you videos! Although the ‘S’ sounds are very harsh. Can you work on reducing their volume?

[@kiearnhorne9382]

Super small error at 8:30. it is stated that "all bombs fell to starboard" but the animation shows the bombs impacting the water to the right of the oiler. Since its "facing" us, that is port side for the oiler

[@Rebellion1776]

Would love to see you do one of these vids on my Grandpa ship. DE-401 USS Holder. They were helping escort supply ships in the Mediterranean in 1944 and were attack by JU-88 Torpedo Bombers. His ship was hit by a German Torpedo and he was severely wounded. He received the Purple Heart!

[@noleafclover1986]

Great video. Thank you for that. I would like to ask something. Which software do you use for animations?

[@oneshotme]

I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

The Battle of the Coral Sea had far more implications than the average Lay-person would assume, it set up all the future Nexus points for America's victory at Midway, and this innocuous Naval action had big implications for the Coral Sea Carrier battle, in Simplistic terms, this mistaken flight to what was support ships and not the Carrier Fleet put a Whale of a Hitch in the Japanese Git-A-Long, it screwed their whole schedule, & the Japanese were of the mindset schedules must be met at all cost as later events would pan out, the Japanese upper authorities were very slow when it needed to improvise plans on the Fly, specially when their Plans were Waylaid.

[@TheSilentPrince-mt5mx]

It's the small mistakes which the Japanese could ill-afford to make. Like 'Barbarossa' in 1941, and many of Napoleon's campaigns from 1808 onwards. the enemy had the capacity to absorb losses which the Japanese could not. Thus US commanders could learn from their own, and others, experiences because replacements, often better replacements, were going to compensate. The Japanese had the correct strategic doctrine but failed to execute properly at a tactical level.

[@johnforrester9120]

I Australia Paul Keating told the world how important the battle of the coral sea was for us to save us and Port Moresby

[@ELCADAROSA]

@7:15 - "Neosho, commanded by Captain John S. Phillips ..." I wonder if he is an ancestor of Capt. Richard Phillips of the infamous Maersk Alabama hijacking.

[@TheGOAT161]

This series is awesome. I can't wait till they do the Battle of Midway

[@williamestes629]

I tend to forget how much the island battles weren't discussed in history.

[@StephenLuke]

RIP To the 715 US Navy men and airmen, and 966 Imperial Japanese Navy men and airmen who were killed in the Battle of the Coral Sea

[@larryzigler6812]

Where are they resting ?

[@Seag_Plays]

Love ur vids!

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nicely done video

[@johnparsons1573]

Fantastic channel

[@johnheigis83]

Well done. Thanks... Damn! (Need bomb hit correction, as Oiler starts heading south. Not Port.) Otherwise, very helpful... Overview...

[@timf2279]

Much better than the operations room. Well done.

[@Stella-gm7bo]

Both are good. Don’t need to berate one to elevate another.

[@timf2279]

@Stella-gm7bo No berating here clown. Just saying I like one a lot better than the other. Thanks for respecting my opinion.

[@Stella-gm7bo]

@@timf2279 🙂

[@OverlordGrizzaka]

​@timf2279 it's a bad opinion that you presented as fact. It's your fault you got edged when called on it, clown.

[@CGoody564]

Shots fired.

[@richardkeilig4062]

Both ships fought hard.

[@Stella-gm7bo]

Hey, would it be possible to cover the battle of Samar next time? It would be very cool!

[@HoH]

I will definitely cover it in the future!

[@Stella-gm7bo]

@ great!

[@natheriver8910]

Very interesting

[@ericfg806]

Awesome!

[@richardkeilig4062]

DD Sims did the best they could.

[@lightravenn]

Well.. using the bombs to hit something is way better than dropping those over the sea. Logistical vessels are important targets.. a fleet cant move easily without them, the thing is one tanker isnt 100% of the auxiliary ships of a fleet. Take for example the raiding of the Graf Spee in hostile waters of south atlantic, he had two auxiliary ships, one for general cargo, and the other for oil. All for a simple heavy cruiser. Now imagine how many tankers a big fleet should have.

[@GODzilla_FH]

Tehehe, with the Space Battleship Yamato easteregg again. 😂

[@ELCADAROSA]

I think I missed it ... where? (Timestamp?)

[@GODzilla_FH]

@@ELCADAROSA The after action report, the faint background line drawing for the japanese losses at 13:57

[@ELCADAROSA]

@@GODzilla_FH . nice catch! Thank you!

[@JRyan-lu5im]

It'd imagine that the Japanese not engaging would have hardly changed the outcomes of the next few phases of the Pacific War. Seeing the loses and difficulty they had sinking only two isolated and weak ships - what loses would the Japanese have taken fighting the carrier force and its fighters? Assuming even the best of likely outcomes - the consequently stripped down IJN air forces would have likely had many claws pulled out for it, and caused a major calculus revision. Since time wasn't on the side of the Japanese, I'd call this mistake bought time for the doomed Japanese.

[@torbenjohansen6955]

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[@kylelee9474]

[@isaiahfelix2672]

They are very unlucky

[@Davinci8425]

At 8:25, are you getting starboard and port side mixed up? The animation is showing all the bombs falling on the PORT (left) side of the ship as it’s heading in a southern direction, not the STARBOARD (right) side.

[@janlindtner305]

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[@jonathanpurba2374]

❤❤❤

[@paulfri1569]

So the battle of the Coral Sea is the battle the Japanese should've won?

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

They actually won it. But it was not a strategic victory for them.

[@gvibration1]

​@AnthonyEvelyn the much bigger picture was that the troop ships for the invasion of Port Moresby turned back. They would have walked in, and WW2 in the Pacific would have been longer and harder. They made 2 other attempts: landing at Milne Bay on eastern tip of New Guinea, and long arduous overland battle from the north of the island.

[@jefferystein5452]

Awsome

[@johnheigis83]

I ask, you take notes, about Treasurer Island Navl Station Activity. (I served there, a couple years, as the Marine Barracks Armoror... Worth telling... Transients... Medical... Rehab... Intell... Bay Security.... Note, news... Memorial Day, '76... I hate what is happening, to - the history - of that Base. It gets mentioned, in movies. In Harms Way Alcatraz Riot Hulk Even, Charley Chan... An incredible view of the City - at night. ... "Lights"- Journey Many WestPac personnel passed through there. ... Put word out... Ask Fans... Should get very interesting. Thanks Semper Iratus Fidelis...

[@GHoPLAYZ69420]

57 or 58 mins 👇

[@isilder]

Note about the suburb of Crace in Canberra, Australia, its named after this Crace family. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gregory_Crace_(designer) , the interior designers to the kings and queens of England (George III, George IV, and Victoria.. ) well the suburb is really named for his son, who moved to Canberra, and his grandson, who was CO of that task force at the Coral Sea.

[@anime6867]

first time being this early

[@brianford8493]

How would you have done it differently?