The Impossible Move that Outsmarted Japan at Pearl Harbor

[@johnharris6655]

Nimitz said that Pearl Harbor was a tactical failure for Japan. It was not the knockout blow they were hoping for. Nimitz said they made 3 mistakes 1) The bombed on Sunday morning with 90% of crews and most senior officers were on shore leave. 2) they did not destroy the dry docks and 3) they did not destroy the fuel reserves. That means ships could be repaired in Hawaii and not needed to be towed to California. 2) The Navy did not need to transport fuel to Hawaii from the Mainland to refuel the ships when repaired and 3) Once the Ships were repaired and refueled, they had enough officers and crew to man the ships. The irony is that many of the ships attacked at Pearl Harbor were fighting at the end of the war, most of the Japanese pilots who bombed Pearl harbor died before the end of the war.

[@ericanderson2987]

EXCELLENT Points...

[@mikespencer4922]

AND.... When the Japanese attacked, the pacific aircraft carriers were at sea!!

[@CarlHayes-v4b]

@@mikespencer4922 Two of them, anyway. Saratoga was in harbor at San Diego. She was actually just entering San Diego Harbor, so was underway -- maybe that makes your statement correct.

[@jeremiashalili]

Oo

[@xyz.ijk.]

Outstanding comment

[@TheBossJohn]

Just how did the United States outsmart Japan and Pearl Harbor? I mean per the video and it's title?

[@hughbo52]

Exactly?

[@Dagobah359]

Exactly! I kept waiting for the whole point of the video. It had nothing new, it just retold the story.

[@robertmiller3810]

They had the Battleship Pennsylvania in dry dock, so that torpedoes couldn’t be used against her in any attack. It was however hit by several bombs but was the first Battleship to be repaired and sent into action.

[@colonelfustercluck486]

@@hughbo52 correct.

[@wendigo53]

Well, it was impossible - didn't you read the video title?

[@edstein5642]

The biggest mistake Japan made at Pearl Harbor was neglecting to bomb the aviation & naval fuel tanks. They were too focused on the ‘glory targets’; battleship row & the airfields. They basically destroyed obsolete assets. If they’d hit the fuel tanks we never could’ve rallied for the Midway battle. The US would’ve been knocked out of the Pacific for possibly years, assuming the Japanese navy deployed submarines to strike tankers attempting to refuel Pearl. Trying to control the pacific from San Diego was logistically impossible. The Japanese didn’t bomb a single fuel tank!

[@CarlHayes-v4b]

Actually that was the second biggest mistake. Japan harbored no illusions that she could defeat the US in a long war. Her theory of victory was that the US would acquiesce in most of her territorial gains rather than than pay the price of reconquest. Japan hoped that a US focused on the European war, and not particularly enthusiastic about the European empires in the Far East anyway, would judge that victory was not worth the cost, and agree to a negotiated settlement. The attack was decided on within the Navy, and the rest of the Empire was never afforded an opportunity to reflect on the incompatibility between its strategy of a limited war and a surprise attack on the US Navy. In retrospect this seems absurd, and especially in a retrospect that includes the raw American nerve-ends after Pearl Harbor and Bataan. The Pearl Harbor attack's biggest mistake was that it assured that the Japanese strategy could not possibly succeed.

[@stephenwalton9646]

The fuel depots and more importantly, the dry docks were missed. They were slated for a third wave that the Japanese failed to launch. This allowed the US to respond many months earlier than it might otherwise. The video is wrought with errors portraying aircraft that had yet to be built, multi-engine bombers that were never involved in the attack. I really appreciated the German officers that made a brief appearance. The timeline is basically correct, some details are of interest but the visuals make this unwatchable.

[@richardnineteenfortyone7542]

The biggest mistake Japan made was attacking a much larger nation with several times their population, great superior technological and industrial strength, and vast internal resources. They did not have the smarts for assymetric warfare, so the result was predictable. A bully should only attack smaller and weaker adversaries and wipe them out quickly. And you think they lost the war and failed to learn from their mistakes? What kind of car do you drive? Japanese still consider themselves superior to other races, such as Korean and Chinese (While the Koreans consider themselves superior to Japanese and Chinese and the the Chinese consider themselves superior to Japanese and Koreans, of course).

[@ronaldbrouhard1247]

Dear "Ultimate Discovery" BOT, ( I'm sick of Bots!) NOTE: there were NO B-29s flying during the Doolittle Raid! There ARE still some of us left who know the facts. Advice: KNOW your FACTS, then make your video. And USE a Human.

[@alvamarsh4290]

The B 29 was not yet made

[@ridgecoyote]

@@alvamarsh4290nor is it mentioned in this video. Watch it again

[@ridgecoyote]

But I agree the stupid bots are annoying. “Point five oh caliber” 🙄

[@FearsithInstauratorRuinae]

More confusion.. don't know what's real.. instead of humanity getting smarter ignorance is willy nilly. Thanks to those who were there.. thanks for the warning of false info.. such a shsme

[@willbar1961]

Yeah, Doolittles Raiders flew B-25 light bombers, before the B-29. In 2016 my daughter and I had the honor of meeting LTC Richard Cole, Doolittles co-pilot and was the last surviving member of the Raiders. He was age 100.

[@steveanderson6180]

As successful as the attack was, major failures included failure to target drydocks, failure to target the fuel farm, failure to catch the aircraft carriers, several others. Look up the following battles in the Pacific.

[@williamwallace9826]

Why in God's name use images of modern container ships, when such things didn't exist in the time leading up to WW2? 5:11 -- why is the image the reverse (mirror image) of the image at 4:50? 12:15 -- narrator talks about an ensign while showing a photo of an admiral. And after 37 excruciating minutes -- not a single word about some mythical "impossible move" that outsmarted the Japanese at Pearl Harbor.

[@terrencemccoy8219]

Probably met the cruiser St. Louis emergency move from dry dock or pier out to open Sea.., besides the Nevada try, since she already had her steam up before the second attack and was behind Arizona awaiting repairs from Vestal AR.

[@wendigo53]

Who doesn't like modern container ships?

[@charlieshafer866]

You are quite an historian. I watched the first 1:02 minutes to see the Communist flag of the CCP misrepresented as the Republic of China at that time in history. Go find the correct flag on the internet. Good way to start your version of events and end of my interest.

[@terrencemccoy8219]

And the statement "both National and Communist China fought the Japanese in the late 1930s.." Never heard nor read the Communist factions of Mao fought the Japanese, of anything they would have sided with USSR or Nazi?

[@peterjrgensen905]

Dansk

[@peterjrgensen905]

29:58

[@williambent9636]

@@terrencemccoy8219 keep reading, according to the Japanese, they suffered 50,000 killed to the communist guerillas

[@richardnineteenfortyone7542]

You are guilty of anti-Communist hate speech. KZbin's algorithm may ban you!

[@whoever7374]

Wrong flag for china from that era.

[@frederickandersen8284]

This video should be labeled "The Attack on Pearl Harbor". A ploy to camaflage a ship in Pearl was nothing more than a footnote.

[@donchen199]

The flag of China is wrong. At the time China was under government that rules Taiwan now, so the flag should be what Taiwan’s own flag instead.

[@philiphoang2845]

That prove how ignorant the person who made this narrative .

[@wendigo53]

@@philiphoang2845 You get what you pay for.

[@richardnineteenfortyone7542]

You can't say that. It is not politically correct. You could be targeted as an anti-Chinese capitalist hate criminal and banned from commenting on KZbin.

[@leewyton7975]

YOUR EDITING IS INNACCURATE, AND THE NARRATIVE IS GRAMMATICALLY ATROCIOUS !!!

[@chuckkirstenpool6409]

Great mismash of historical records and historical footage. From the historical records, the absence of the flattops at Pearl brought the three wave attack plans into question as the first wave returned to the IJN carriers. The attack was supposed to wipe out the USA's war-making & war-sustaining capability which may have succeeded with a third attack wave albeit without the element of surprise. The pictures of the B-29's which were not even on the drawing boards in 1941 really threw this whole video on its ear! Poor historical representations. Good view of Doris Miller, a black Mess Attendant on one ship, taking 50 caliber machine gun position during the attack after his crew mates - who probably would not have shared a cup of coffee with him - was a notable view, but there was no mention of his heroism or sacrifice. He had not been taught to man that station, yet he managed to defend his ship and was recognized for his heroism with the awarding of the Navy Cross - for the first time to any African American! As any true American Citizen should act, he defended his Navy in wartime! Sadly he lost his life two years after defending the USS Arizona from a machine gun position - he continued to serve in the USN and his ship was torpedoed in 1943 - his body was never recovered but given his duty station and its location to the ships magazine (which the torpedo either struck or struck nearby) his record was immediately posted as lost in action - presumed dead. To his honor, two ships have been christened as USN warships named "Miller". To show the recreation of Dorie Miller at the Machine Gun without commenting on him is a disservice to History of the Navy and of the valiant African Americans who served. Still waiting to see what the impossible move might have been - were you talking about the Doolittle Raid? Because that was not an impossible move after Japan proved the impossible could be done diabolically with the full scale attack on Pearl that Sunday Morning. Like they say - it is impossible until it is done, but once done anything similar (like the Doolittle Raid) is no longer impossible, or even improbable. Poor titling of this video, and why did you show planes and ships that were not present at the time of Pearl. Also - You mention the aircraft at Hickam Field - those were so outclassed by the Japanese aircraft and the experienced pilots that there would not have been much of a fight by the American Pilots! It took several years before American Fighters could match the experience or skill of Japanese pilots.

[@emerkamp1]

Pointing out wrong data is one thing, but telling someone what should or shouldn't be included is absurd. Go make your own

[@CarlHayes-v4b]

Actually Doris Miller was in USS West Virginia, not USS Arizona, at Pearl Harbor.

[@decibellone696]

I watch a lot of baseball. Often when a team get an early lead, say in the 1st 2 innings... its difficult to hold. because you have the rest of the game to play. and defending a lead is harder than attacking that lead. Baseball is the great game of life.

[@sheyken365]

So many of these video segments are so inaccurate. Sloppy work!

[@hughbo52]

B-25

[@samiam619]

I made it to 3:05 BEFORE stopping this abortion of history. Will ban this channel.

[@nathaniellampman2052]

Japan made a big mistake because they bombed pearl harbor with the battleships but miscalculated because the aircraft carriers were delayed by a storm and safe from the attack.

[@terrencemccoy8219]

Only Yorktown-class Enterprise CV 6 was returning at the time. Lexington was delivering planes to Wake Island and Sara was delivering to Midway, not sure if that included the first Grumman TBF Avenger assigned to VT-8 yet or not, that would be wiped out at the Battle of Midway in June 42, along with some of the earlier TBD Devestor on Hornet CV 8.

[@CarlHayes-v4b]

@@terrencemccoy8219 No; It's Enterprise that had delivered aircraft to Wake and was almost back to Pearl (she arrived at about sundown). Sara was in harbor at San Diego, and Lex was about 500 miles SE of Midway.

[@DoubleMrE]

There are so many inaccuracies in this video that it would take too long to list them. 🤨

[@theadventuresofbrockinthai4325]

December 7th 1941, my Dad was in his room when the alarm was given. He told me he set his cup of coffee down on his desk and put on his pants and walked out the door. That was when the torpedo hit. It threw him up against the side of the hallway and he was knocked unconscious. Coming to he headed to the engine room. He was the Chief Engineer of the ship. When he got to the engine room it was chaotic. They took a direct hit in the engine room and everything was a mess. Luckily know one was killed but there were a few men wounded, one of them was his brother J.D.. it took them 3 days to do the repairs and they sailed back to Bremerton, Washington. Three days prior to the attack by the Japanese, my Dad's ship the USS HELENA pulled into 1010 dock where the fleet Flagship had been parked. Since the information the Japanese had was 3 days old, they didn't know that the Flagship had pulled out. They wanted to sink the Flagship because they thought that would demoralize the American military. What they did to the USS ARIZONA was more than sufficient to make every man and woman in the military or civilians mad as hell and hell bent on making Japan pay for it.

[@buckbenelli8]

I think your dad was a hero, our current potus thinks he’s a sucker and a loser.

[@kennethlongsr4009]

According to this we should have been prepared for this because of such high tensions

[@endlessmountainoutdoors]

He said it, we underestimated the capabilities of Japan. It took us twenty years to learn that in Afghanistan and it was known they were battle hardened fighters hiding in caves. Some of those caves were dug as far back as the late 1700’s.

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

But we did stop the terrorists who were working out of that country. They lost their home base. Moved to Pakistan maybe, but they didn't do so well there either.

[@ouiroc]

We're going to get caught with our pants down and the only clue will be the mushroom clouds now

[@Headloser]

Actually, USA was warn for MONTHS about the attack, it even came from USA ambassador for Japan. Plus ironic twist my attacking the ships they ignore next door USA entire Pacific Fleet fuel depot. Had Jap destroy that, it would have taken months to restock them.

[@barryknodel9654]

Agree, it is obvious

[@PhilipVanEssendelft-zh7iv]

Being aware of trouble is vastly different to believing in trouble. Our problem was that we could not believe thus could be happening to us

[@terrencemccoy8219]

As history again repeats..

[@valmikabeneteau7229]

Back then we helped China defend against Japan. Soon it will be reversed.

[@richardnineteenfortyone7542]

You mean China will help US against Japan? That is lucky; we will need all the help we can get!

[@peterzavon3012]

They were allied with Germany and Italy but they had NOT joined forces. Their forces and areas of operation were always separate.

[@richardnineteenfortyone7542]

At least the Italians have something that makes them hard to hate: women.

[@maumor2]

Video title should be "The attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolitle raid" and its way too long. Adding duplicate footage, mirrored footage or totally unrelated footage (like the south korean diplomats from the 90s @ 6:49), mentions "cruiser" shows a battleship, mentions ensign shows an admiral, showing twin engine japanese bombers (not present at the attack), showing a flight of Vought Corsairs (still under evaluation in December 1941), wrong flag at the time for China, etc made it almost unwatchable

[@GraemePayne1967Marine]

That's what you get when you use a computer bot to do a Human's job.

[@jesstreloar7706]

The U.S. Navy learned a great deal about damage control with the recovery of the fleet at Pearl Harbor. These lessons were still being taught in the 1980s when I achieved the assignment as assistant locker leader in Repair 5 on board a Knox class frigate.

[@TUMARK2]

Fun fact: admiral Richardson objected to moving the fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor. He argued that the fleet couldn't be defended at Pearl Harbor. For his efforts he was relieved of command. Admiral Kimmel replaced him. He was relieved of duty for not defending the US fleet.

[@larryehrlich57]

How did America get Japan to surrender? Do you know? America dropped two Atomic Bombs on Japan. This was brand new technology, Only America had this technology.

[@stephenobrien2859]

This video is mistitled! It should be: "The Improbable moves that outsmarted the Japanese at Pearl Harbor". It was improbable that all of the carriers were out at sea; it was improbable that the USS Utah looked like a carrier from the air; it was improbable that both the Nevada and the St Louis would get under way; it was improbable that the maintenance facilities and oil storage tanks were missed; it was improbable that most of the senior officers were not on their ships; it was improbable that the Japanese didn't bomb and strafe the naval officers' quarters nor the communications center; it was also improbable that they didn't bomb and shoot up the submarines and their facilities. In fact, the four subs (Narwhal, Dolphin, Tautog, and Cachalot) which were in port that day, shot down several Japanese aircraft and later sank many Japanese ships. It would be nice if you would stick to pictures pertinent to to the story - instead of having June 6, 1844 pictures; pictures of B-29s, Stukas (minute 33:11), and other aircraft and ships which weren't involved. It's also worth noting that both Stark and Kimmell were brought up for court martial and were acquitted!

[@leonemery7344]

Where did you get this info? 12:44 the Captain of USS West Virginia was Mervyn Bennion, not Bennett.

[@brooklynbummer]

These fliers risked everything flying this raid. The raid forced Japan to beef up their home defenses taking away offensive away. Japan also changed Japanese war plans, eventually leading to Midway.

[@williamantico7768]

Very Good recount of the beginning of WWII . Nice movie clips too. A lot of mistakes on both sides, it's just good that the US was victorious.

[@GraemePayne1967Marine]

Ummm... World War 2 started in 1939 in Europe. Go back to school. The USA was late to the party.

[@terrencemccoy8219]

Probably real footage that would later be used in wartime movies of 1940s-50s, and Sci Fi TV series like The Time Tunnel, but nothing from the 2002 color Pearl Harbor, which had it's own interesting perspective of the aerial attack.

[@wendigo53]

This was not the beginning of WW2, this was half-way through.

[@richardnineteenfortyone7542]

That was not the beginning of WWII. WWII began in 1936 with the war to kick the communists out of power in Spain, and in the far east with expansion of the greater Japanese co-prosperity sphere. Many Americans, such as Henry Ford and aviation hero Charles Lindberg were great admirers of Hitler.

[@dginia]

“As the talks crumbled.” Uh, they were never supposed to succeed, so I don’t think they crumbled. They were supposed to be delayed until all those documents could be translated to English, to be presented just at the hour of the attack. We all know that was a bust in every way.

[@danieljorge746]

The Dolittle Raiders were amazing men to complete that mission.💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@terrencemccoy8219]

After the best composite squadrons crews and best maintained B-25Bs were chosen for the deployment, which began on April 1st at the pier near the current Essex -class USS Hornet CV/ CVA/ CVS-12 Air and Space Museum at Alameda, having flown in to nextdoor former NAS Alameda.

[@margaret-pb6mt]

It’s my understanding that the weapons and subsequent ammunition were all left overs from WWl. I had an uncle who joined the army after Pearl Harbor. He was sent to a boot camp somewhere in New York. He said for quite some time they carried broom sticks while marching and during other training activities which normally required each soldier to carry a rifle! My father joined the navy. While he was in boot camp they had to learn how to do different things that men were trained for during WWl and that, thank heavens, were ultimately discontinued and dropped for more modern methods that they waited for with great frustration. One such useless training activities was learning to patch the canvas of WWl bi-planes!!! These things turned out to be wasteful in time and items that would not be needed after boot camp. The U.S. isolationism left us woefully unprepared for conflict. Although, war was declared on the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, it was months before we could launch any useful defense or offense!

[@hughbo52]

Folks/historians, I think we are missing the bigger picture. This is the rewriting of history.

[@terrencemccoy8219]

😢

[@richardnineteenfortyone7542]

How do you expect to fix the errors of actual history without rewriting it?

[@lizardfirefighter110]

😂😂😂 They were high ranking Naval Officers: “Were would they make an attack if they were the Japanese?” Why were they so lacks about a the possibility of an attack at Pearl Harbor? They also must have known that Billy Mitchell predicted a Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor 15 years earlier! I feel, that once again, the official narrative of the attack is only part of the story!

[@richardnineteenfortyone7542]

Why were we so lax about the 9-11 attack on New York and numerous other disasters that could have been avoided by simple precautions.

[@normanedwards7220]

Let me see if I read that right .........America outsmarted Japan at pearl harbour, !!!!!!! 😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@michaelskok5135]

We sure fooled them, didn't we?

[@alpearson9158]

@@michaelskok5135 the fact that no carriers were in harbour meant that Japan had not been successful

[@terrencemccoy8219]

​@@alpearson9158, Because as the attack proved the use of aircraft over the battleship wins the war

[@DMac8674]

Correction the Japanese carriers launched their aircraft Dec. 7 not Nov. 25 🤦‍♂😞

[@KeithRanker]

Few have mentioned that many of the Japanese planes that returned from strikes were too damaged to fly again without first being repaired. Per orders to the Japanese strike force, land based planes, battleships, carriers, and smaller warships had a higher attack priority. See historian Jon Parshall’s interview on a WW2TV podcast.

[@KeithRanker]

It may have been a blessing that the fleet was surprised. Many more lives may have been lost if those battleships and smaller warships would have been sunk if the Japanese aircraft had found them at sea. Also, an unexpected storm kept 2 U.S. carriers at sea and extra day until late on Dec 8th or early on the 9th.

[@GeorgeRuffner-iy7bm]

Well done! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@CharlesMorris-x7g]

God bless all the people lost in WW2

[@jamesevans3492]

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[@kenb4849]

Not much about outsmarting anything but a decent recap of events.

[@Howie-du7ov]

Informative video, but why was a picture of Stuka dive bombers included in it?🤔

[@peternewman7940]

Not sure why containerships were used to show the cessation of US exports. They hadn't been invented.

[@azure6392]

I've been looking for this info for quite some time. We had broken the Japanese Code Purple (diplomatic code) before this. My hypothesis was that the either the warnings weren't communicated up channel, were ignored, or more likely, that we were looking for an excuse to enter the war. From this video, I still can't rule any of those possibilities out.

[@davebowman6497]

If you already know the Pearl Harbor history, you need not waste time here. - Sequence of events are basically correct, but you already know them. - Weird selection of image and film material. Examples: A Lancaster bomber, ie British or Canadian. Air photo of a container harbor, nonexistent in the 1940s. Radar sets with a PPI with rotating beam, nonexistent in 1941. Airplanes that did not exist in 1941. The list could go on and on..

[@ifga16]

Overall not too bad but the plethora of random shots of non related aircraft and ships spoiled it.

[@3sundragon]

A lot of NEW history in this video. Where has this information been these 75 years later.

[@terrencemccoy8219]

Right, first time I've heard or read the cruiser St. Louis was the second capital ship to succeed getting under way and out to sea, besides the Nevada which was hit by a Val bomb between first and second turret, causing her to start sinking by the bow, thus beached and repaired/ revised to fight the rest of the war.

[@RickyMatthews-b7h]

Your video states that the Japanese attack was in the afternoon, but it actually happened at7am on a Sunday morning! Get your facts straight.

[@CarlHayes-v4b]

7:55 am, actually.

[@wendigo53]

It is always afternoon somewhere.

[@Anthony-u5y]

It depends on what time zone you're referring to..... Washington DC is 5-6 hours ahead of Hawaii

[@alexhayden2303]

Just as Billy Mitchell foresaw!

[@EricJFKLEIJSSEN]

@ 4:25 Vought F4U Corsairs are shown but they were not delivered until July 1942.

[@tevman69]

My father’s youngest brother, went down with the USS Arizona and remains there still.

[@snl1962]

REALLY... "On November 26th, 360 planes were launched..." Apparently attention to detail and accuracy is not as important as clicks!

[@andyjones357]

My granddad Foster Northcutt was the radio man on enterprise he was knocked unconscious by a box of needles to his radios in this war

[@terrencemccoy8219]

Why was it "box of needles" stored in the radio room above the sets !? That's like the liquid and electronics rule.

[@wdygoaphagfy]

Why, if this is about Pearl Harbour, at 09:43, does the video show three GERMAN Kriegsmarine officers being saluted by a subordinate??????

[@jhe001]

The American naval officers that are saluting at 5:15 are saluting with the wrong hands. Being an Army vet myself, I am aware of what hand you salute with.

[@davidgari3240]

KZbin videos are often reversed (mirror image) for some reason.

[@CarlHayes-v4b]

Army rules and Navy rules were, and still are, different. In the Navy, if you can't salute with the right hand, you use the left. But probably the video was flipped, anyway.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel3102]

America was planning to do the SAME EXACT THING from China, Japan just beat us to the punch.

[@johnvictor2451]

Lots of historical photo errors. I guess easy trumps accurate.

[@KeithRanker]

One cause of surprise at Pearl Harbor was that Hawaii wasn’t being given much of the info derived in Washington or the Philippines from Purple Code intercepts.

[@Fiasco3]

Japan beat Japan at Pearl Harbor. They had a detailed attack plan from Yamato which they didn't carry out. The whole attack wasn't suppose to be launched with the American carriers out of harbor and the second wave of bombers were suppose to destroy the fuel yards and supplies. The only reason the final attack on Pearl Harbor didn't happen was Yamato was not in charge of the operation, he was begrudgingly ignored, the officer in charge wanted to play it safe and retreat the Japanese carrier group to insure his glory.

[@ChristopherHayden-c1c]

Come on. Get your dates right.

[@jesstreloar7706]

They missed the fuel tanks. Enterprise pulled in that night refueled and was gone by morning.

[@anonymusum]

This vid repeats all of the common narratives without any critical thinking. For example: Admiral Yamamoto was not brilliat at all. Just look at his overcomplicated, failed Midway plan. - The list of his errors goes on and on.

[@stevengrotte2987]

A WHOLE LOT OF MOVIE CLIPS/SENCES FROM THE MOVIE "TORA, TORA, TORA" M,ADE ABOUT 30 YEARS AFTER THE 7:30 AM SUNDAY DECEMBER 7 1941 ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[@JackSSN605]

Your videos are difficult to watch. The narrative is OK but the photos of modern not factual ones mixed in with old related ones is totally distracting.

[@seb2549]

The conclusion that the third raid would delay some operations by a year and prolong the war with Japan by two years is very wrong. There would be minimal to no impact on the Manhattan project. Japan would be bombed with more nuclear bombs maybe before it would face the inevitable decision to surrender but the timeline of surrender would not be greatly affected.

[@boomshine7]

Doolittle, and S Low, love these names

[@ronald4700]

Lucky for navy aircraft carriers were at sea on maneuvers, my father was on one of those the USS minne.

[@GraemePayne1967Marine]

Another example if why I will NEVER accept a bot masquerading as a human being.

[@stevensmith6231]

He's mentioned the Japanese attacking aircraft carriers more than once, but the carriers weren't at Pearl Harbor. He also gives the names of Japanese senior leaders in reverse order. It's Isoroku Yamamoto, not Yamamoto Isoruku.

[@joeqmix]

For the ease of western understanding, Japanese names are often written in English documents as if they were English names, with surname last. But in Japan, Japanese names are traditionally written in the opposite order: surname first. One of the few things the video gets right.

[@CarlHayes-v4b]

@@joeqmix You beat me to it, Joe.

[@peterlovell4617]

By the way, B-29s did not exist in 1941. They were a 1944-45 bomber. Scratch all your footage of B-29's !!!

[@JohnPius-l9q]

U r showing pictures of B29 how come

[@wendigo53]

B-29 - cool plane.

[@Bcr26420]

Interesting video... why are they showing B-29's in the video??? There were no B-29's in 1942

[@lars1854]

Wrong Flags wrong aircraft Wrong Guns kinda takes away from the story !!

[@GeraldMiller-mp8fc]

A sloppy mess. A child at school would get an F grade.

[@KeithRanker]

The lieutenant who answered the radar operator’s call had absolutely no training for his job. BTW, why are videos of two engine planes shown when bombers were mentioned? They looked most like B-25s.

[@irishprince317]

California was not the flagship USS PENNSYLVANIA BB38 Sister to the Arizona was. My grandfather was a RM 3 on-board during the attack. Took 2 bomb hits while in Drydock

[@KeithRanker]

The Kido Butai orders made attacking shore facilities at the bottom of the priority list, below land based aircraft, battleships, carriers, and other warships,

[@zascreamer100]

Which grade skoolers did you hire to put this together ? Doolittle’s raid had B-29’s, and British Corsairs, Pearl had “flames and smoke rising from a nearby battleship “ - wait, that’s a carrier! Put some effort into this, man!

[@raimondrademaker3500]

b29 are not build yet in april of 1942 first flight b29 was on 8 sep 1942

[@janiceduke1205]

Planes used in the Doolittle Raid: 16 B-25B Mitchell medium bombers, each with a crew of five, were launched from the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet, in the Pacific. Crucially all three of the Pacific Fleet’s aircraft carriers were NOT at Pearl Harbor during the attack and so escaped damage. USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Lexington (CV-2), and USS Saratoga(CV-3).

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

​​@@janiceduke1205And we BUILT over 150 aircraft carriers during the rest of the war (in 3½ years).

[@cathybrind2381]

Less screaming please. Corsairs did not exist and British forces had nothing to do with the Doolittle raid. Battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse were already sunk off Malaya, nowhere near the Doolittle operation which came later.

[@RichardAutry-l4z]

That was a massive undertaking. ​@@We_All_Seek_Truth

[@dennismckown4951]

even though its a protected harbor, Pearl Harbor should have 2 entry points from the ocean. although the capts were smart enough not to let their ships sink in the entry and exit point to Pearl. one way in and out, isnt ideal, in my opinion

[@coastalsailor9151]

Read the book, "30 Seconds Over Tokyo." Pretty sure they flew the B25's all the way to Japan and did not switch to what was that, B24's? I am sure the extra two engines would have been helpful, but...let's not rewrite history. 30 Second's Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson. He was there. And I am sorry for this late point, but was that a British AA crew preparing to shoot down the Doolittle Raiders?

[@billhill8902]

I agree no byplanes at pearl harbour

[@jesstreloar7706]

9:17 While the pilots orders may have said battleships and aircraft carriers, there were no carriers in port for the attack. Which was a great disappointment to the Japanese.

[@freedomnoah5799]

Amen

[@terrybernardo7121]

why do you show videos of ships and plane that were NOT there? No carriers, and Japan didn't have twin engined bombers at P.H.

[@terrencemccoy8219]

Probably because they were used as "filler" for lack of or not enough research of archive footages or copyright use

[@WilliamDraw-ip5em]

Get over yourself.

[@KStone-w5n]

B29 wasn't even built yet. Alot of inaccurate photos😮

[@quentinmichel7581]

Interesting how the narrator is using the name convention of the Japanese rather than the Western viewers by putting the surname first

[@joeqmix]

one of the few things they did not screw up!

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

I don't like the phrase "met their end" as a euphemism for death. We don't know if people really "meet their end" when they die. Sounds kinda fatalistic to say that.

[@melissahess9743]

If they use words like that they are liable to be demonetized. Yes, the country is being terrorized by "snowflakes"

[@tomjohnson5134]

It's a lucky thing we didn't outsmart the japanese at every naval battle!!!!!

[@johnvictor2451]

There were no carriers in port for the Japanese to attack. That reference is incorrect.

[@klptldn]

the title is wrong, it is How Japan outsmarted the American....😂😂😂

[@reelreeler8778]

22:15 Wow...two Newport class LST's transported from 1970's to WWII

[@chrisdominguez7485]

Dramatic -but many errors of fact and imagery. Creator would fit into current politics.

[@DMPB-fi2ir]

lol ok can see this will be a comical video 0:48 in the late 19 . 19 what lol bloopers right at the start lol

[@irvinelawrence2733]

Having decades to what if... Can anyone shed light on what would have prevented splitting the B25s between both carriers and interspersing the cover fighters on the flight deck?🤔 My limited awareness points to the issue of limited fuel being burned awaiting the full launch to form up... Even a ratio or ⅔ on one Carrier and ⅓ on the other may have been an option- Ah well, it kinda worked despite the early launch 🥺

[@higgme1ster]

If you are going to make a historical video don't use modern photographs.

[@PookieBear777]

At sbout 33:00 (33 mins), while the B-25's were over Japan, a black/white photo shows German Junkers Ju-87 Stukas? Look for reverse gull wing roots, and tail strut supports. No other plane has these structures.

[@glenh865]

Why would you post a photo of a B-29, when you're talking about a B-25??! Plus a lot more mistakes. I'll make sure to never waste my time with this maker in the future.

[@sayaka8587]

Isn't the crucial point that Japan didn't send the second wave to attack pearl harbour as those in charge foolishly decided they had done enough. History written by the Victor's. 😢

[@dennissylvester110]

The biggest failure was to not catch the carriers at Peal plus the fuel and facilities indicated above. They were delivering air raft to Midway Video is very inaccurate, saying B-17s while showing twin engine bombers, B-25s I think

[@CarlHayes-v4b]

One of them (Enterprise) was on the way back to Pearl after delivering aircraft to Wake (not Midway). Another (Saratoga) was in harbor at San Diego. The third, Lady Lex (Lexington), was asea, about 500 miles SE of Midway.

[@irvinelawrence2733]

🤔Again I ask...what ever became of that "flock of B17s?"😮