U.S. Bombers Strike IJN Carrier Shōkaku: The Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942 - Animated

At dawn on May 8, 1942, the Japanese fleet launched a search mission to locate the U.S. carriers, with aircraft deployed from various bases and accompanied by additional screening forces. By mid-morning, both fleets had launched strikes against each other, with the U.S. carriers Yorktown and Lexington, aiming to neutralize the Japanese forces.
Amid heavy cloud cover, the Yorktown dive bombers managed to locate the Japanese Aircraft Carrier Shōkaku...
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[@gamedude412]

This may a strange topic but the Ship losses in Operation Hannibal is a forgetten bit of history

[@alebiosuabdulkabir6591]

Can check kings and general maybe you can give a more detailed information than them

[@manuelacosta9463]

Excellent work. This was quite the intense chaotic clash, the carrier battles of the Pacific theater always were. Can't imagine the tense waiting periods of quiet before the planes are spotted........

[@KHK001]

Another amazing video HOH as always!

[@strike5029]

Thank you sir for all the effort your putting into this channel.

[@christopherscott5567]

Your videos are awesome. One aspect of carrier warfare that I'm trying to understand is how so many planes are launched, recovered, rearmed AND launched again. I would very much like to see an animated illustration on how that is accomplished. No doubt, the USN and IJN used different doctrines. Thank you. Keep up the great work.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Wow. The mistakes they made just trying to find each other. Sounds a little like a metaphor for life. Nice video.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Amazing video as always HOH! keep up the good work 😊😊

[@eveun3094]

It was a very good video, I'm trying to learn as much as I can about the Shôkakû and the Zuikakû during their actions, because these aircraft carriers didn't get the recognition they deserved.

[@Doncroft1]

Dude, they were the best carriers Japan had during the war.

[@cluster4583]

​@@Doncroft1 they weren't just known as japan's best aircraft carriers but were known as the best aircraft carriers in the world out of any country during the war. They proved their superiority multiple times against the us's best fleet carriers at the time the yorktown and lexington class in the battle of coral sea and savo islands where they sank one of the fleet carriers in both battles while not losing their own. They only lost as they were eventually outnumbered by the newer us aurcraft carriers and were depleted of their aircrafts and the most skilled pilots.

[@Doncroft1]

@@cluster4583 They were excellent ships, for sure. Sadly, their experienced pilots most got KIA, and the replacements were poorly trained and got slaughtered. The best carrier in the world is no good without pilots.

[@shawnc1016]

​@@Doncroft1Actually they were looked down upon by Nagumo's four carriers

[@Doncroft1]

@@shawnc1016 Why? They were newer and better constructed.

[@alexanderleach3365]

Another great video! Awesome work

[@atomicwedgie8176]

Thank you for your time and effort... love these videos!

[@bkjeong4302]

Shokaku and her sister ship Zuikaku were probably the most threatening Axis warships overall, and inflicted plenty of damage to the USN during 1942. Fun fact: they were intended for for qualitative superiority in the same vein as the Yamatos, which they were built alongside (they actually had more hangar space than the Yorktown's, though the Yorktowns ended up with slightly more aircraft because deck parking plus more compact folding wings).

[@malcolm5514]

Did the Japanese not use deck parking?

[@HistoryBeyondBordersTV]

This video is incredibly informative, especially your portrayal of the battle's tension.

[@ageingviking5587]

Great Vdeo . Thank you HoH ! 🙂

[@stevefox7566]

Most call the Battle of Coral Sea a draw and on paper it was. But that battle had two under-rated consequences that benefited that Allies immensely. 1- It halted the Japanese plan to take Port Mosbey (which delt the immediate Japanese plan to take New Ginia a serious blow). And the inability to take New Ginia made their future plan to invade Austria utterly impossible. As huge as that was it the other consequence 2- the serious damaging one of the Japanese fleet carriers that kept that carrier from participating Japan's planned Battle of Midway, that was planned a short time after the battle of Coral Sea that probably had a more important outcome (at least for the Americans). I say this because I think the Battle of Midway would have had a far different outcome if the Japanese had that extra carrier.

[@davidforbes7772]

The Japanese wanted to invade Austria?? I think their allies, the Germans, might have disagreed with that intention. Why don't people read their comments before posting them?

[@skyden24195]

As previous videos have contained, extensively more detail to this engagement than most (if not all) of any other video I have ever come across which discusses this overall battle (i.e., the "Battel of the Coral Sea.") I do believe it is the extent this channel puts into the individual engagements rather than giving a grouped detailing of the entire battle or general stages of the battle. For example, most would likely have just gone over how many hits were made on the Shokaku as well as on the U.S. task force carriers, (more or less.) House of History videos detail which sailors had a cold on the morning of the battle. lol. 😉

[@kerberos623]

Excellent video. keep up the great work.

[@CelxD]

Another great video

[@darkfox2076]

Amazing visuals and quality commentaries must be a House of History vid ❤

[@stanleydomalewski8497]

Great Video, Thanks for Sharing !

[@ivoryjohnson4662]

Excellent video

[@sailordude2094]

Great history, I love the details! BTW, its a real shame that Lt. John J. Powers' rear gunner is basically unknown to the history books. I looked for it online but its a question mark on reference web sites. RIP brave sailor.

[@goldenmingwr]

Nice video!

[@gbagaskoro2]

Great video detailing the attack ❤

[@GM-fh5jp]

The next battle in line...the Last Stand of the Lexington. I hope he tells it well.

[@jonatasarruda2824]

Great work

[@larryking2697]

The BRAVERY of all the GREAT AMERICAN FLYERS is ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY. Many of them stayed longer than they should to sink these enemy ships. Then they ran out of fuel trying to return to their carrier. May they all REST IN PEACE. WE COULDN'T LOVE YOU ANY MORE THAN WE DO......

[@davidgaine4697]

“If I could turn back time”. Cher I believe. 😂

[@tommiatkins3443]

The bit where the SBD was hit by "anti aircraft fire from a zero fighter".

[@GM-fh5jp]

Yes, a touch cringy.

[@TheIndianalain]

Technically, that's not erroneous 😇

[@RigidAirshipsworkshop]

Who shot the SBD? Was it AA or the Zero 😂

[@mathewhills8807]

These engagements were like keystone cops. Always completely inept and reliant on luck

[@Indyjeeplover]

Just remember, they didn’t have radar like we do today. Vast majority of reconnaissance was visual and there were frequent rain squalls and low cloud cover. Like being in a boxing match with a blindfold. One of the best assets the U.S. had was code breaking

[@richardstone5552]

Thanks

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Suggestion: Please consider doing a reconquista series. Or Even just a series of Ferdinand and Isabella conquering granada

[@HoH]

Thanks - great suggestion but right now I'm focussing more on learning how to get a grasp of 3D animating... If (when) I return to landbattles, I will first cover the Franco-Prussian war in-depth before anything else.

[@natheriver8910]

Very fascinant

[@DMModelCars]

Probably not the best place to suggest this. But it would be cool to perhaps see some animations of wolfpack sorties in the Atlantic.

[@HoH]

Great suggestion! I can't promise anything, but it's something I've been reading about for years, just haven't really had the proper way to put it into an animated video.

[@DMModelCars]

@HoH Even though I am from the UK, the Pacific theatre is my favourite from WW2. But it the Atlantic seems to be a bit of an untapped area as far as content goes. Really appreciate the hard work and the style of your videos.

[@isaacsilvas2285]

The west was Infantry fighting and tanks and air superiority In the east it was naval battles and air superiority

[@janlindtner305]

👍👍👍

[@scottmcdonald5237]

😮

[@jimpool7780]

It took over 80 US Navy aircraft to sink one LIGHT Japanese Carrier. This Carrier had about 6 fighter aircraft on board. 80 US Aircraft to sink ONE LIGHTER JAPANESE CARRIER. Pathetic performance on Fletchers part. US air crews must have incredible inept.

[@chemicalsister100]

No

[@GHoPLAYZ69420]

11 hours😢

[@jamesscully7108]

👀👍🇮🇪⚓

[@MW-eb1qh]

your video shows 4 bombs hitting Shokaku. But the audio said three, and historical accounts indicated it was three.

[@realdealjalil]

After the first two hits, he mentioned that gas fires also broke out on the shokaku

[@bearcatracing007]

Water was the wrong colour, clouds all wrong, just unbelievable hey.........

[@multifunktionsnutzvieh]

Werbung, die legale Art des Terrors.

[@Ubique2927]

1942... US Torpedo's and planes still useless.

[@davidgaine4697]

😂

[@JuanRico-d1b]

USA should have done better they had radars,better planes,better anti air,better weapons,unlimited production,unlimited resources, better ALL while Japan yeah they lost but they did amazing with all the disvantages they had so to me its not that incredible when USA won the battles i mean they had everything on his side so to me JAPAN was better if they had the same technologies and resources they would mop the floor with USA

[@KingJacktheThird]

I mean you are not wrong. The problem was that it took the US time to get production to that point, where they could use all those resources and then you had to consider the leadership and how experienced those leaders were. Their torpedoes also sucked.

[@emma12345678961]

No doubt better equipment but still 1940 technology

[@boone315]

Not so much at that time. Then they used High Frequency Direction Finder's to locate the enemy.

[@theganymedehypothesis4057]

The mere presence of US carriers at Coral Sea should have told the Japanese that their codes had been broken...