Top 10 WW2 Japanese Planes & Weapons - UK Museums 2024

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

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[@rogersheddy6414]

I've been trying to figure out what tank I was shown at the gates to Carlisle when I was a toddler. I had always thought it was a world war I tank, until I saw the japanese as part of your grouping here. Postwar testing-- obvious they would have kept at least one.

[@xapaga1]

@@rogersheddy6414 　As a Japanese I remember visiting Carlisle Castle back in February 1996. Its adjacent Military Museum exhibited some wartime Japanese objects captured by the British Army such as the English-language propaganda notice "PROCLAMATION OF THE IMPERIAL NIPPONESE ARMY". The one that drew more of my attention was a Japanese flag (the same as the postwar one as shown at 1:04 & 13:32 here) with the clichéd 4-ideogram phrase, _Bu-un chōkyū_ (武運長久: [Wishing you] continued luck in the fortunes of war) handwritten horizontally from right to left on top of the red sun. On the righthand side of the red sun appeared vertically the dedicatee's name, a Mr So-and-so Suzuki (鈴木〇〇君). On the opposite side I saw the vertical signature of a major general of the Imperial Japanese Army, and lastly the signature of Chief of Urawa Police Station. This Suzuki-kun must have come from my hometown Urawa (today's Saitama-shi), 25km north of Tokyo.

[@Jean-vr7vj]

Yes, play war thunder everybody. Support its russian publisher. Too much support for ukraine, not enough for russia. Not fair

[@Grant80]

No5 and No 3 are both on display here in Australia in armour museum

[@daisuth6563]

Its either pocket lost or money lost

[@AhnkoCheeOutdoors]

My uncle flew a Ki-46 III in the Philippines during the war. In fact he was flying recognizance in Luzon when he spotted the US invasion fleet heading to Lingayen Gulf, which my father was a part of. I am 64 now, but when I was 7 my father bought me a 1/50 scale model of this plane, and we built it together. I still have it. He told me my Uncle Suzuki used to fly this plane. After the war he became an English language teach in Utsunomiya City.

[@arthurfoyt6727]

It was NOT an invasion fleet; Japan invaded. This was the U.S. fleet to kick the Japs out.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

Thanks! It's great to hear from the other side!

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@GNMi79 Have a little charity here, I suspect his English is a lot better than your Japanese.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@GNMi79 Why are YOU getting defensive over my reaction to your rather terse and brusque correction of Ahnko's comment? Lighten up! And at the same time learn a little tact. Ever learn the definition of tact? It's "The art of stepping on someone's shoes without breaking the shine." And looking at Ahnko's post there's little there to make me think he's NOT a Japanese national. If he's not I'm sure he'll let us know.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Slight correction about 9:19; Hornet was crippled by Japanese aircraft and was supposed to have been scuttled by its escorts. However, the issues with our torpedoes and how rushed it was meant that Hornet was still afloat when Japanese destroyers found her. While they apparently considered capturing her, they instead decided to put her down with their own torpedoes, which in this case were Long Lances.

[@rogersheddy6414]

One hell of a what if. "Planes report a carrier sighting." "One of these ones..." "Uh, no sir. It appears to be..... ..... the Yorktown. With a Jap meatball painted on the deck." "WTF!?!?!!??!!!"

[@Supreme-SEF]

How dare you try to correct the esteemed Dr. Mark Felton !

[@shanemcdowall]

There is a Japanese Zero in the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The Japanese pilot who flew the Zero visited the museum some years ago.

[@bclmax]

ive seent hat one too

[@Thorr-kl6jl]

I have seen a Mitsubishi A6M2 Model 21 "Zero", on display at the Pacific Aviation Museum, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. If I remember right, this aircraft had crash-landed in the Aleutian Islands, and was almost undamaged. It was test flown during the war. At the museum, it is painted and marked as one of the Pearl Harbor attack aircraft.

[@Thorr-kl6jl]

On display at the War of the Pacific, in Fredericksburg, Texas, is I-24tou. This is one of the five 2 man submarines, which took part in the Pearl Harbor attack. This sub ran aground outside of the harbor entrance, after the gyrocompass failed. The commander, Ensign Sakamaki, managed to swim ashore, where he was quickly captured. His crewman downed. For a while, Sakamaki was the only Japanese PoW in the USA. He must have felt bad! I have seen this sub. It is about 75 feet long, bigger than I expected, for a 2 man sub.

[@johnmcveagh4992]

Remember the Zero on my school trip to the museum in the 70's. Haven't had a chance to see it since. On the same trip came across a group of Japanese tourists who took the time to show me how my name is written in Katakana. Friendly bunch.

[@AJ-yo5ew]

There's a complete Zero at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand. When you get up to it. it's really tiny.

[@andrewstevenson118]

I was about to say the same thing. I visited it a few months back. They refurbished it recently (if that's the right word) and found a whole lot of poems and writings from the pilot in a cockpit compartment. Dunno if you're a Kiwi or not, but the museum's exhibit "Scars on the Heart" is worth a visit.

[@andrewd7586]

Also one in the Australian War Museum.👍🏼

[@andrewstevenson118]

@@andrewd7586 I went to the Melbourne Museum, back in the day, and I regret not seeing the A7V. Only one in the world.

[@LiLSnack13]

​@@andrewstevenson118it's in camberra

[@andrewstevenson118]

@@LiLSnack13 Is that right? I thought it was Melbourne. Great piece of history. My GG-grandfather was with the Aussies at Fromelles. I visited his grave at Ballieul 25 years ago. Okay, random Kiwi/Aussie anecdote. A Kiwi friend of mine was on a tour in Turkey. He wanted to take a day trip down to the Dardanelles and Gallipoli. The rest of the tour party were Aussies. The guide took them onto the heights and showed them Chunak Bair, Lone Pine and so on. He pointed out ANZAC Cove and said they would go down there later. Back along the road and then down and then along to the beach. My friend asked if they could just go down the gullies to get a better experience of the soldiers. "Oh, no, no, no" the guide said "many snakes." "Well, how big are the snakes?" An Aussie interjected. "Mate. How big do the snakes have to be?" Quite.

[@revvyhevvy]

My intended comment was hijacked when Prof Felton mentioned my town, Boise, Id! John Sterling had/has a very large nursery/landscape operation that has been quite successful as Boise has grown to over 1milion population as Idaho's major population center! My step father served in the Burma/India theater, rising to the rank of Major in the combat engineers branch of the Army. He made friends with the locals of the area, even naming his beloved dog after one particular friend! Thanks, Dr Felton! This post was especially meaningful to me as a 69yr old resident of Boise since 1961! You're the British version of Ken Burns!

[@outofturn331]

What is the stepfather's name? Asking for my dog

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

One million in Boise? Wow! That's a hell of a lot of California bail-outs! More than I thought! I guess Washington State and Oregon have made "contributions" of people s well. You know, there was a fun show on HGTV called "The Boise Boys" about two partners in a home rehab and remodel business. The haven't been on in a while and I can see why, they're probably too busy for TV work!

[@Idahoguy10157]

We aren’t yet a million residents of Boise and the treasure valley. We’re what? A half million?

[@Godzilla00X]

Missed chance not using clips from the most extreme for our countdown. For Godzilla Minus One, a ww2 plane was built as a near life size replica. After filming was concluded, the studio doniated the replica prop to an aviation museum!

[@DaveSCameron]

I’m sure he prefers originality as do I!

[@SportyMabamba]

Good thinking; although that particular plane they built the replica of (Kyushu J7W Shinden) had not advanced beyond 2 prototypes by War’s End

[@nathanworthington4451]

Wow!! Nobody cares!!

[@williamkwl6153]

​@@nathanworthington4451Holy! You cared!

[@Thompson123-ih4uh]

​@@nathanworthington4451you cared enough to reply

[@mitchmatthews6713]

I never skip a Felton video. Cheers, Mark!

[@andrewsnow5840]

From across the pond in the US, I had a chance to visit my brother when he taught at Oxford and we toured Duxford Air Museum and IWM in London. I was very impressed with the amount of history and remember seeing many of these weapons. Great channel, keep it up.

[@clifftrainor6774]

That Okinawa battle footage at the end is insane!

[@dannycalley7777]

CT ...............seems like anybody could go out and shoot ????....... all hands on deck !!!!!

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

There was a great story in the local paper written 30 years ago by a veteran of the Battle for Okinawa. He'd returned home after the war and was telling his great-aunt who'd lived through the Civil War (Remember, in 1945 the Civil War was 80 years in the past, just like WW2 is for us now!) about Okinawa and how terrifying the kamikaze's were. She said "Boy, I'm sure you're absolutely right. But YOU never saw a cavalry charge!" Isn't that something?

[@deanbuss1678]

Thanks!

[@barry2557]

I saw the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fly at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, CA. It was spectacular!

[@NothingIsKnown00]

It’s a beautiful machine. Next to it the Wildcat looks like a beer barrel with wings.

[@edlane4301]

Great aviation museum. Took my kids there many times when we lived in CA.

[@johndough1703]

Seen it in take off after a flight of US WW2 warbirds. All the US equipment floored it and sped down the runway. The Zero looked like a stork taking two hops and becoming airborne with effortless grace. They all took off in a single file line, the Zero being last, and there was still a p40 on the ground in front of it 1/2 way down the runway, and a Bearcat or something just starting to take off at the end. You could take off in a small parking lot with the Zero. Fantastic piece of historic engineering. Hearing working models were just scrapped is heartbreaking.

[@transcendentalidiot3321]

Back in the 70's and 80's, I would go to the Chino Planes of Fame Museum with my dad. The most amazing collection. They actually have an Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a Mitsubishi J8M1 Shūsui (copy of a Me-163 Komet)and, most astonishingly, the airworthy Me-262 that Howard Hughes once owned. I think they sold the Me-262 though...far too valuable.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

My "old man's" WWII ship, the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier (Essex class, CV10) was fortunate in that it was only struck once during the Pacific campaign by a bomb dropped by a Japanese aircraft during the time of the battle of Okinawa. He was there when it happened, and he said the explosion below decks really shook the huge ship. Around four sailors were killed from the blast and my dad's locker actually had some shrapnel damage.

[@46FreddieMercury91]

Maybe I've forgotten, but I thought the Yorktown was sunk after the battle of midway?

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@46FreddieMercury91 Yes, you're right, the original USS Yorktown aircraft carrier (CV5, Yorktown class) was indeed "sunk after the battle of midway."

[@patrickmccrann991]

24 Essex class carriers were completed during or shortly after the war. Of these, 4 survive today as museum ships; USS Yorktown (CV-10) in South Carolina, USS Intrepid (CV-11) in NYC, USS Hornet (CV-12) in Alameda, CA, and USS Lexington (CV-16/AVT-16) in Corpus Christi, TX. Many of the later ships were converted to Amphibious Helo carriers in the late 1950s until the Iwo Jima class LPHs were built in the early 1960s.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@patrickmccrann991 I've visited the Intrepid (twice) and the Yorktown.

[@patrickmccrann991]

@WAL_DC-6B My Dad served on the Intrepid during the Vietnam War, 1968 to 1971. It was the last ship he served on and the only one that survives.

[@laupernut]

11:20 I remember playing on that gun as a kid when I visited my cousin during summer school holidays. My uncle worked as a gardener for Lord Mountbatten and was extremely upset when he was killed by the IRA.

[@KatarupaYT]

I did the exact same! I believe the "do not climb" sign is only a recent addition

[@brandonburr4900]

Said this many times, marks channel is THE best ww2 history channel on you tube. Better than the history channel on cable! Thanks Mark and keep up the great work and research!

[@masahige2344]

A welcome showing! I was fortunate to see a few of these when last in the UK. Small correction -- IJA aircraft designations are not pronounced 'K.I.,' but rather, 'Key' (キ), being short for 'Kitai,' or 'Airframe.' So, for example, the Ki-43 'Hayabusa' was factory-coded 'Airframe 43' while being service designated the 'Army Type 1 Single-seat Fighter'.

[@patrickmccrann991]

The KI actually indicated the builder, Kawasaki. The Army used a different numbering system than the Navy, just like the U.S. Army Air Force and Navy.

[@masahige2344]

@@patrickmccrann991 That is incorrect. All Army aircraft used the 'Ki-xx' airframe designation alongside the Type/Model (式) service designation. 'Ki' is rendered with the katakana 'キ' for short but abbreviates 'Kitai' (機体). This is reflected in the designations of all Army aircraft across all designers and manufacturers.

[@Rayrard]

I find this common with aircraft videos where European aircraft usually spell out their names (M-E- 109) and people assume Japanese aircraft are the same. Even as a kid I wondered why all the Japanese planes had the "Ki" designation regardless of maker.

[@showato]

Another Great video to drink with my morning coffee!

[@deanbuss1678]

I genuinely appreciate your work Mark ‼️🇬🇧🇺🇲

[@marklatimer7333]

Those early scenes of what looks like the camera plane following the fighter dropping bombs, surely that would have been incredibly dangerous for the following plane being directly above the explosion or flying directly through the debris thrown up.

[@slick4401]

The bombs probably had delay fuses.

[@codyhilton1750]

Those are gun cameras.

[@marklatimer7333]

@@codyhilton1750 ?

[@YTAnon10]

I recall seeing footage of planes following too close in Europe and meeting an unfortunate end.

[@glayo_]

As a boy some 20 years ago, I attended an Army open day in York's Imphal Barracks. A kind WW2 vet allowed me to play with a captured Arisaka bolt action rifle. So much fun and I felt very special!

[@mattgeorge90]

Great episode as always!

[@DaveSCameron]

Indeed and RAF DUXFORD in Cambridgeshire England is truly a global jewel when talking about finest museums. Airplane ✈️

[@maineiacman]

15:15 Drag racing light tanks

[@dwaynelthompson]

Mark, I really like it when you do videos about the Pacific theater. I wish you would do more.

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

Sadly, they almost always don't receive the same audience as for the ETO. I wish they did, then I'd make a lot more. But thanks for watching!

[@aiugiamos3057]

@@MarkFeltonProductions From now on I'll only watch your Pacific theater videos and try to make a difference!

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@MarkFeltonProductions There's probably a lot of reasons for that and not any one reason but there's two I can think of offhand. One, it's a safe bet most of your viewers live in Euro-centric countries and the US and Canada certainly fit that category, and second the Germans and the Nazis fascinate more than the Japanese do. Just the way it is.

[@dwaynelthompson]

Ya I get that, but you do an excellent job of both. Thanks for the response ​@@MarkFeltonProductions

[@who2u333]

I had the opportunity to visit the Imperial War Museum, Duxford back in 2012. Still the finest museum of military equipment I have seen.

[@TroyDowVanZandt]

Boy, this video reminded me of something. Some years ago, I was enjoying some time with my mother, watching an episode of Mad Men in which the character of Roger Sterling has a meltdown when he learns the ad firm will be doing business with a Japanese company. I mentioned that his attitude seemed over the top. To use one of my late mother's southern Ohio-isms, she looked at me like I was a man with a paper head. She informed me that Sterling's attitude was quite common among the men who had fought the Japanese. I'm in my early 60s, so the older men I grew up around were in large part WW2 vets, and most of these veterans of the Pacific Theater. By the time I could appreciate their opinions, I think most of that vitriol had been bottled up. Though, I do remember some stories here and there.

[@jcorbett9620]

The men who really had issue with the post-war Japanese, were the ones that had had the 'pleasure' of being PoWs of Imperial Japan. My father worked with an ex-PoW in the mid 70's and when a Japanese delegation visited the factory they both worked at, he was given the day off, to avoid any unpleasantness. From what I understand, he really hated the Japanese with a passion for what they had done to him and his comrades.

[@garywagner2466]

The Japanese claimed to be more civilized than the rest of the world, but were actually savages in war. They viewed all other races as inferior, which justified their brutality. Their Korean guards were worse. The American and British, including Commonwealth, soldiers who fought them learned to hate them. Those attitudes are impossible to shake. All of those revisionist amateur historians who claim that dropping atomic bombs on Japan was “barbaric” have no idea what an invasion of the home islands would have been like. They would not have had to fight there.

[@HamanKarn567]

My local war museum where I live in Virginia had a decent axis section. Mostly small arms but the Japanese section was interesting. They had some heavy and light machine guns and knee mortars. Surprisingly they had a good Italian and Finnish section as well. But the Japanese had some cool small arms mostly there.

[@lexiheart6558]

What museum is this ? I'm in Virginia too.

[@HamanKarn567]

It's in Newport News. It's called the Virginia War Museum. They have some vehicles outside and artillery but it's mostly uniforms and small arms from 1700s to now. It's a smaller museum but still pretty cool.

[@analystanalyst7652]

My dad was part of the P-51 program at North American and was hands on, at one point, after they brought the Alaskan Zero down to the lower 48. It was light and unarmored, and agile. The Grumman Hellcat had already taken it’s first flight before the Alaskan Zero was brought down for testing. It really wasn’t a huzzah. I have a photo, someplace, of it flying with the US insignia on its side, along with color slides of P-51’s flying with factory numbers still on the tail and color footage of parked 51’s, which probably shouldn’t have been taken at the time. A lot of that equipment was just left. Everyone had had enough from Guadalcanal through Okinawa. My dad’s cousin flew a Mitchell and was one of Kenny’s Kids, as far as I know, not getting a whole story, and was captured and beaten badly over his captivity, lasting only a year after repatriation before he was dead. Never heard much about it, except once in passing. The PTO was a nightmare, not that the ETO wasn't.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

Historian Steven Ambrose called the Pacific Theater "The Worst War In History" and he probably wasn't far wrong.

[@johndough1703]

part of the design team? flight testing?

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 Maybe he should visit Russia one day.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@nematolvajkergetok5104 Stephen Ambrose? That might be a little tough for him, he's been dead 22 years.

[@tonidmc]

The Airfix Dinah was one of my first builds as a kid. Love this video👌

[@dustylover100]

You're right, Dr. Felton. There's only from time to time that the role of the British and Australian forces in the Far East is talked about at length. However, movies such as The Bridge Over The River Qwai. And do I love that whistling!

[@thomasburke7995]

The PIMMA air museum in TUSCON AZ. has a complete ZERO in the same hanger as most of the NAVY fighters and bombers. See them together you get true scope of how small and fragile the ZERO is next to F4U, the hellcat , f7 Tigercat and other GRUMMAN airframes.

[@AtheistOrphan]

*Pima.

[@JamesDavis-p8t]

I worked in the UK for two years and every weekend I would visit a regimental museum (over 100 museums). I was always amazed by the lack of unit history displays about Malaya/Burma, even if the regiment had many battalions there. There were displays about POWs, but virtually nothing about combat operations. Lots of displays about combat operations in Africa & Europe. When I discussed this phenomenon with senior officers of the British Army, they could not explain or offer any rationale of why that was. It almost appeared that regiments were ashamed of being with the “Forgotten Army”

[@Jacobismychannel]

One of my favourite features of Mark's videos is his ability to find and include relevant and accurate archival footage of the vehicles and weapons of which he is speaking. Such an unfortunately rare level of accuracy on this medium.

[@JESUSisLORD24151]

Mark, you really make some fabulous videos. Thank you for your contribution to world history.

[@edjopago1]

Excellent video, Doctor Felton. Thank you.

[@pac1fic055]

The Long Lance torpedo was also remarkable in that it produced almost no visible bubble trails.

[@TeunisD]

Thank you for another video Mark!!!

[@Flies2FLL]

What happened to the great Japanese plane makers? Mitsubishi makes stereos, pianos, and cars. Nakajima makes cars as well; Today their cars are named after the Japanese word for the Pleiades star system: Subaru.

[@andrewstevenson118]

Thank you for being my "learn something new today" person. 🙂 I guess that explains their logo, too.

[@NS-hs6lt]

Mitsubishi makes cars still

[@Flies2FLL]

@@NS-hs6lt Hi! How you doing? I believe I said exactly that....

[@andrewstevenson118]

@@Flies2FLL Indeed you did. 🙂

[@bmoboss]

Mitsubishi is barely surviving as a car manufacturer these days, the division that made planes is now Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, under which they make air conditioners as Mitsubishi electric

[@finnyishere3532]

Wow that’s such a coincidence. I was actually at the RAF museum Hendon today and caught a good look at the three Japanese planes on display. It’s such a good museum!!

[@johnfisher247]

The Australian Armourcand Artillery Museum has a Type 95 Light Tank on display which may be in working order.

[@ishure8849]

They've got one at the Pucka museum ten minutes drive from my joint 👍.

[@brick6347]

East Asia was pretty chaotic in the late 1940s, I guess preservation was the least of anyone's worries. Was a lot of Japanese equipment reused in those conflicts?

[@Justin-rv7oy]

The Korean War, Indonesia, and especially the post 1945 Chinese Civil War saw use of Japanese weapons. Last conflict was probably Vietnam.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

both sides did in the Chinese Civil War.

[@i_nameless_i-jgsdf]

The surviving Ki-100 is definitely very unique in such a perfect condiction, and what a gorgeous aircraft same with the Ki-46. When i was little all i knew was the Zero so when i was introduced to other Japanese aircraft i got surprised that Japan had more than just the Zero fighters.

[@oldtop4682]

Excellent as always! That little tank looked familiar to me, so I pulled up some pictures of the US Army Ordnance Museum in Maryland (now mostly relocated to Virginia and a new museum built). There was a field behind the museum in Maryland with bunches of Axis stuff, and there was this same type of Japanese tank among them. I was stationed there when the museum was fully up and running, and I spent a lot of time there looking at our stuff and that of the Axis. You brought back some fond memories good sir! When the original museum in Maryland broke up, some things were sent to the Armor and Artillery museums, and a lot of it stayed in storage until a new facility could be built. Lots of US and some Allied or Axis stuff in parks and smaller museums in the US. A recent addition was a T-90 that is not yet on display. E.g. the collecting bug didn't stop at WWII lol.

[@greenockscatman]

Amazing that these things are still there for us to visit.

[@DuxBrit-66]

Re 7:26 Mark, the Zero cockpit was originally displayed at the IWM Kennington, London in the 70s as I used to see it there during my frequent visits as a teenager. IWM Duxford was first opened in 1976, so I guess that it moved there after that date.

[@howardg2435]

This was a fantastic video Mark, and I have some insight to share. There are actually two Mitsubishi A6m Zero fighters restored to flying condition. One is owned by the Commemorative Air Force in California, and the other is owned by the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, CA. The latter museum also has a fully restored Mitsubishi J2M Raiden (Jack). There are also at static restored Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden Kai (George) fighters. One is at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, and the other is at the Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio. I saw Facebook and KZbin short video clips of a George possibly restored to flying condition, either by the Commemorative Air Force, of Planes of Fame Museum. I have also seen news of the possibility of at least one, or more, Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bombers being restored. I would love to hear more about this possibility.

[@john07973]

Good stuff as always

[@carlbrown9082]

Thanks for another interesting video, Dr Felton. For a while, I was very sad about how all the aircraft, vehicles and other weapons were scrapped after the war or just dumped in the sea. But obviously everyone just wanted to move on from the trauma of the war and removing all the physical reminders was part of that.

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

I always look forward to Dr. Felton's videos on WW2 tech. Thanks!

[@ashively1]

I always look forward to your posts. Another well done video.

[@edwinbruckner4752]

A good Japanese movie about the Kamikaze pilots is Eien no Zero, or The Eternal Zero. Gotta watch it again after seeing this Felton video :)

[@JohnnySmithWhite-wd4ey]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos.

[@ollie3548]

Another great production, thanks Dr Felton

[@ProfessorM-he9rl]

Great post, thank you.

[@metallicasnake]

Great stuff as always. Thank you. Dr. Felton.

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

8:44 The big deal about the Type 93 torpedo wasn't its range or warhead. For these it was a pretty average device. The ingenious engine, running on almost pure oxygen was the real menace. Western torpedos carried regular compressed air to feed the internal combustion. This burnt imperfectly, leaving a trail of bubbles in the water, giving away the location of the torpedo. The "Long Lance" burnt all the oxygen and did not leave a visible trail. This, combined with the Japanese Navy's emphasis on night attacks, made it a very formidable weapon.

[@scipioafricanus4328]

Great episode, Japanese weapons are often stereotyped as inferior but they performed well in the undeveloped and logistically isolated areas the Japanese fought in.

[@Paulfromwish]

I don’t know what you changed but the audio tuning is perfect, old videos were way to loud on lowest headphones setting to sleep too

[@jdg3275]

I always look forward to the latest highly informative episode from Dr. Felton

[@billbarton9046]

My uncle fought out there, being a commando, with No5 Army Commando.

[@tommorwood888]

Wait, The U.K as an ACTUAL Ki-100!?!? Hell, I'm not sure we have one of those in "The Colonies." 🙁

[@ishure8849]

I'll bet there's a few in the drink 👍.

[@brucermarino]

I believe that the Long Lance torpedo did not use enriched O2 but essentially pure oxygen (although enriched oxygen was used to start it and so reduce the possibility of explosion). The interwar British 24 inch torpedo did use enriched oxygen. It is reported that the Japanese misunderstood this and it inspired the work on a pure oxygen system. Is this correct? Thanks so much for another great presentation!

[@AndyJarman]

Admiral Viscount Mountbatten was murdered by the IRA while on his speed boat in the 1970s, he was one of a number of other senior WW2 heros killed ling after the war ended.

[@jmholmes98]

Excellent documentary, Mr. Felton

[@jamesgarman4788]

Dr. Mark! You never disappoint. Another great Mark Felton Production and a favorite topic of mine as well! Many thanks for posting!

[@MGB-learning]

Great video

[@Crocodile212]

Another fascinating episode Dr Felton. It’s regrettable that so little kit has survived generally but I hadn’t appreciated how little there was in the UK! I don’t know myself how much British and Commonwealth WW2 surplus remains in mothballs but it may be a good time to get what we have here audited and see what appetite there might be to spread some examples around on a loan or swap basis? I’m freshly back from the Romanian military museum which had an array of examples from WWI, WWIi axis and soviet and Cold War kit under one roof (as well as going back to pre-history)

[@certinstructorron4050]

Very good video Dr. Felton!

[@locutus155]

The KI100 was a variant of the Ki61, when the factory that built the engines for the latter was destroyed the engineers had the uneviable task of modifying a airframe designed for an inline engine to a racial one.

[@herrherbert-f8h]

you know it gets interesting, when dr. felton tells a story everybody knows and then starts saying: "however..."

[@AtheistOrphan]

I live fairly close to Balcombe in Sussex and was unaware of that museum. Definitely going to pay a visit soon!

[@ginjaico_6132]

Me too, driven past lots and always thought to give it a visit. This has given me added impetus.

[@daystatesniper01]

Superb video as per usual Mark many thanks

[@MarineBioFin]

Being a local I thought you might appreciate that Coltishall heritage centre have just got a Jaguar GR1 back from cosfordb

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

At the NMM museum at Soesterberg was also one Japanese tank.

[@derp8748]

❤❤❤❤❤ IVE BEEN A WW2 PLANE BUFF SINCE I WAS ABOUT 8 OR 9 IN 1974. THE FOOTAGE YOU PROVIDED OF THE B5N AND IVE SEEN IT ALL AD NAUSEUM....WAS FANTASTIC AND NEVER SEEN BEFORE BY MYSELF. SIMPLE YES....BUT NEVER HAVE I SEEN B5Ns LANDING on carriers. FANTASTIC. THANK YOU

[@trevormillar1576]

The "Japanese tank" in the film The Fighting Seabees was actually a British Bren Gun Carrier with a dummy superstructure and an American M3 turret.

[@tommorwood888]

Dr. Felton, wasn't "Prince of Wales" and "Repulse" also lost primarily to the "Long Lance" torpedo?

[@TexasSpectre]

No, they were lost to the air-dropped cousins, IIRC. The full-house Long Lance was too big to be carried by most aircraft, but there were smaller versions made for airdrops.

[@tommorwood888]

@@TexasSpectre I did not know there was a smaller version. I had always assumed the "Long Lance" (with wood fins) had smoked us at Pearl. I'll continue my research, thanks for the 411.

[@TexasSpectre]

@@tommorwood888 Most countries made smaller versions of their main antiship torpedo for use by aircraft, patrol boats, destroyers, etc. For example, the US's main torpedo going into the war was the Mk14 torpedo, which was initially an absolute debacle. (Drachinifel has a good video here on KZbin about that nightmarish comedy of stupid that was the Mk14's initial development and distribution - KZbin won't let me link for some reason.) The US was a bit unusual in that our ''main" torpedo was intended only for use from our large fleet submarines and not destroyers or other vessels. From the 14, BuOrd developed the smaller Mk15 for use by destroyers - which had pretty much the exact same problems. Fortunately, BuOrd never got around to developing the air-dropped version of the 14 that had been proposed, so most of the torpedoes dropped by US aircraft were Mk13s, an older and completely unrelated design (though they also had problems early on in the war - fortunately not at all related to the ones the Mk14 had and BuOrd actually wanted to fix these.) Instead of following the Mk8 to Mk15 upgrade path that most of the surface fleet used, the PT boats and such got the Mk13 as an upgrade instead once the problems with the 14s/15s became known, which worked out just fine. The Japanese designed their surface combatant torpedo first, the Type 93 Long Lance, and then made a submarine launched version of it in the Type 95. The Type 91 aerial torpedo was an offshoot of the development program for the Type 93, scaled down and using a lighter, less powerful conventional propulsion system. Similar (but again, scaled down) warhead and a similar guidance system; since it used more well-known and already proven technologies (as nothing Japan could put on a carrier could lift an empty/disarmed Type 95 let alone a Type 93) despite development being started later it entered service first.

[@bugre-z6m]

A really interesting video

[@derekjames1574]

My dad was an aircraft fitting during WW2. He had a story regards the first Japanese plane which the RAF were able to get their hands on, apologies can’t remember what type. The thing which got the engineer’s was the size of the rivets!? Allied forces used 1/16 inch, the Japanese where using 1/32 inch. The story may have been passed on to him by my uncle who was in the RAF in India? As always another interesting video.

[@derekjames1574]

@@Arthur-rl1cj . You don’t know what you are talking about !

[@derekjames1574]

I am talking about the Royal Indian Air Force. I apologise for any misunderstanding ! And for clarification it was my uncle who was in India. My dad was in the U.K. building Halifax bombers.

[@dmain6735]

Great upload. An in Cockpit review of the Ki- 46 III would be amazing.

[@scarlet_squadron]

9:03 The Type 93 was able to damage 5 ships in a single launch; Sakura-Maru, Horai-Maru, Kumano-Maru, Shinshu-Maru, W-2 minesweeper. It was friendly fire from the Japanese Force. Torpedoes aimed at the USS Houston missed and hit a Japanese convoy in an extension. The long range of the Type 93 was an advantage, but it also had risks.

[@ItsAlwaysRusty]

Never have seen the war films of Kate's landing on Japan's carriers before. Port side islands so its either Akagi or Hiryu. Great coverage as usual..

[@kkupsky6321]

Doc Felton should do a show with drachifenel

[@chrism2027]

Really very interesting video.

[@phmwu7368]

13:03 a Kokutai is an Air Group, comprised of three Hikotai (squadron) (Hikotaicho = squadron leader).

[@badgalkia10]

Please don’t ever change the intro music. I live for it 😂❤

[@Sparkypark]

Was just about to ask if you had been to the Wings museum in Sussex. Glad you have been there. Did you see the working Spitfire sight? (Maybe the only working one left in the world). Brilliant video as always.

[@Steve-GM0HUU]

👍Very interesting, thank you.

[@thEannoyingE]

The shot of the Long Lance, was the same one on display in San Francisco, it is displayed at the navy museum near the base, which also dates to WWII, and is still in use.

[@dominiquecharriere1285]

This is a real piece of investigation!

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Thanks for this fine WW2 Japanese Planes & Weapons video.... Mountbatten he is a very interesting man and his history....Thank you Sir Shoe🇺🇸

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

There was a VERY interesting biographical series on Mountbatten shown here in the US in the late 1970s. Mountbatten himself did a lot of the commentary and I was struck by the fact that if there were other commanders he had difficulty working with (And there were some!) he said nothing about them at all. You know the old saying? "If you don't have nothing nice to say about someone don't say anything!" That was Mountbatten in that series. He struck me as a very classy guy!

[@steveshoemaker6347]

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 l think he also changed his name to Mountbatten to sound more British.....That is what my mother told me...She died at 97 years old and i am in my 80's....Thank you....Shoe🇺🇸

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@steveshoemaker6347- Yes, in 1917 when King George V changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor in order to sound less German, the Battenbergs changed to Mountbatten.

[@steveshoemaker6347]

@@AtheistOrphan Thank you so much my friend.... Shoe🇺🇸

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@steveshoemaker6347 It was his father who changed the family name. Long story short the family name was Battenberg and they were of German ancestry and aristocracy. Mountbatten's father was in the position of First Sea Lord (The Royal Navy's top admiral) in 1914 and in response to the anti-German hysteria changed the family name from Battenberg to Mountbatten but it didn't help, he was forced from his position at the RN. Mountbatten never forgot the injustice done to his father so when he himself became First Sea Lord decades later he had his father's old office refurbished (it hand't been used in years) and moved in!

[@neilfoster814]

That Ki-46 Dinah is a really good looking aircraft for sure, it looks like it's doing 400mph stood still.

[@DanceDiscounter]

There's a photo of a KI 100-1b in Kenneth Munsons 'Aircraft of World War II'. The photo was probably taken at an airshow, but the plane has a diffenerent colour scheme. You said that the version in your video is the only one existing, so may that be the same plane? The book is from 1972 and there might be more around at that time.

[@Phaust13]

A great video - as always! Another interesting example of a Japanese artillery piece in the UK is a Type 94 75 mm mountain gun (the Type 41's replacement as the standard pack artillery gun in Japanese Army service), which is on display at Fort Nelson (part of the Royal Armouries), near Portsmouth, Hampshire.

[@o0oLukeo0o0o]

Will definitely visit a few of these museums very interesting.

[@fordfairlane662dr]

I love these kind of informative videos from Mark Felton

[@luzmalara5584]

Hello Mark, Is it possible for some Japanese aircraft to be in pristine condition, preserved under water? The US Navy displays aircraft at The Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, Florida's Naval Air Museum. Some of these were pulled out of the water off Chicago. Of course, Lake Michigan is fresh water, so there are fewer corrosive elements. I think even the Naval Aircraft pulled from the lake were in bad shape. Just a thought, considering how many Japanese aircraftt were lost in water. Thanks again for your great work!! Nathan in Chicago 🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@Subbacultcha100]

Interesting note on the Ohka- On top of being rocket powered some were powered by a little Motor-Jet engine

[@thomasb1889]

The Japanese designed and even built some amazing planes as the war wound down but while the Germans had lost the ability to build planes at a fast enough rate the Japanese did not have the experienced pilots needed for their very good planes to have any real effect on the war.

[@american101]

I saw an MXY-7 at the Pima Air and Space Museum earlier this year!

[@zillsburyy1]

AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM has a few rare japanese weapons