We Are Helpless Against American Bombers (Epi:1)

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5 ай бұрын

Step into the heart of World War II's Pacific Theater with this riveting video, immersing yourself in the dramatic chronicles of a Japanese naval officer's experiences. Uncover the intense moments of vulnerability during an American bombing raid, the challenges of invading the Netherlands East Indies, and the intricacies of Japanese air support. This captivating narrative navigates through victories, regrets, and the unwavering determination of a naval commander. Join us for a compelling exploration of the early wartime struggles of the Japanese Navy, filled with suspense, resilience, and the unpredictable twists of naval warfare in the Pacific. #ww2 #american #germany #japan #warstories #audiobook #worldwar2 #warmemorial #historychannel ‪@WW2Tales‬
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@Wartalesuncharted 5 ай бұрын

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Part 1 of "Memoir of a Japanese Frontline Destroyer Captain," a riveting journey through World War II's Pacific Theater. Join us as we explore pivotal moments in naval history, beginning with the vulnerability of the Japanese fleet during an intense American bombing raid on Davao Bay's harbor. Closed harbor mouths, inexperienced pilots, and a direct hit on the cruiser Myoko create palpable tension, setting the stage for the challenges faced during the invasion of the Netherlands East Indies. Experience the complexities of Japanese air support, marked by a shortage of planes and inexperienced pilots. Dive into an intense submarine encounter during an escort mission, revealing missed opportunities for successful attacks. This captivating narrative offers unique insights into the early wartime challenges of the Japanese Navy, combining moments of helplessness, regret, and a commander's determination to navigate the difficulties ahead. Plz subscribe and help us to grow , so that we may bring more compelling stories for WW2 enthusiasts like you.

@jeffreymartin8448 5 ай бұрын

Are these the actual words of a Japanese officer or an invented character intended as an editorial vehicle to convey a general sense of the Japanese thought during this period. Sorry, this isn't clear to me for some reason..

@giannicarguy1750 4 ай бұрын

please add simple maps with movement arrows

@johngaither9263 3 ай бұрын

I've read Hara's book. It's an interesting narrative from the Japanese perspective of WWII in the Pacific. From the early days when the IJN easily dealt with the USN and seemed unbeatable. To how things changed with the number and quality of American ships and crews as they began to turn the tables on the Japanese. Radar in particular ended the dominance of the IJN at night. In fact radar saw a squadron of Japanese destroyers under Hara's command pummeled by a pair of USN destroyers the Japanese never even saw.

@Tom-bm2kt 5 ай бұрын

8:00 "we are prepared for the worst..." No, no you are not. Not even a little bit.

@jimwolaver9375 4 ай бұрын

I bolted upright in my seat when I heard this part. "OH?!" I mentally exclaimed to the officer speaking. "I don't think so!"

@caryclemenson5558 5 ай бұрын

He who has air superiority delivers supplies with ships, he who does not delivers supplies with submarines….and his side starves.

@Paul-zf8ob 4 ай бұрын

I despised the Japanese of WW2 but it’s sad their soldiers starved to death filled with diseases! Many were normal citizens drafted into the military like me to Vietnam! I didn’t want to kill people that did nothing to me! The Japanese built subs as fast as they could toward the end of the war to deliver supplies to the soldiers and Japan. It was too late and failed miserably. They built 2 giant subs and had 3 more they stopped building as they didn’t have the resources. The 2 subs had hangers on top with several bombers each and were headed to the Panama Canal to destroy it but were called back to protect Japan.

@tonyhayes4980 3 ай бұрын

True

@TomFynn 5 ай бұрын

"we are not seeking war, but if we are given no other choice" The hypocrisy level is over 9000.

@scottjones1109 5 ай бұрын

The U.S. had cut the Japanese off from purchasing oil (along with scrap iron) because Japan invaded & was occupying Indochina. The Netherlands, in charge of Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) oil, had for the same reason halted shipment of that commodity to Japan. And the British, in control of Middle East oil, cut them off too. There was, at the time, nowhere else for Japan to go for that essential fuel - so they started the war to procure it, ultimately through their taking of the Dutch East Indies.

@miketrusky476 5 ай бұрын

@@scottjones1109 get it right, was the cover story Japan used , after the war in papers and interviews the IJN WANTED TO START A WAR, IN 1933, WITH THE USA, 7 years before FDR imposed an oil embargo on Japan for their invasion of MANCHURIA. In 1933 the IJA won out over the JAPANESE navy by order of HIRAHITO. Several books by both sides prove this. Yamamoto had already planned an INVASION of the USA because he was orderd to do so, before the oil embargo. What you wrote is a 100% Japanese cover story.

@scottjones1109 5 ай бұрын

@@miketrusky476 You seem to know something about this. It doesn't surprise me that Yamamato had worked on war plans during that period in case of a conflict with the U.S. but a planned INVASION of the United States? Invasion-wise, are you talking about the continental United States, some of the Pacific Islands under our control, or both? And just what was it specifically Japan expected to long term accomplish by invading us, if they had, in 1933? Certainly they couldn't expect to overrun Hawaii & our west coast & successfully occupy them indefinitely.

@miketrusky476 5 ай бұрын

@@scottjones1109 Scott, Japan had planned to invade Hawaii after their hopeful victory at Midway, that loss, stopped that. JAPANESE subs shelled the west coast off Oregon and I believe northern California. It was hushed up at the time, never could find details of damage, am sure it is available somewhere. After the war JAPAN said the subs started fires and loss of life.

@scottjones1109 5 ай бұрын

@@miketrusky476 The Battle of Midway took place in June of 1942 . And the minor shelling of the California & Oregon coasts by Japanese submarines occurred early in 1942. So tell me, what about 1933 & your statements about Japanese military planning & intentions relative to a possible war with the United States that year? You didn't answer any of the questions I asked you about that .

@jackieking1522 4 ай бұрын

3.53.....I like how the General Staff don't consider that the embargo would have been lifted immediately had they stopped slaughtering the Chinese

@MrDaiseymay 4 ай бұрын

AFTER PEARL HARBOUR, YAMAMOKO , IT IS CLAIMED, SAID, ''I FEAR ,ALL WE HAVE DONE, IS TO AWAKEN A SLEEPING GIANT, AND FILL HIM WITH A TERRIBLE RESOLVE'.

@michaelgeraghty3989 4 ай бұрын

Had Japan followed Hara's course by only attacking the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and French Indochina they would have solved their raw material requirements and likely would have avoided war with the US and Great Britain. The Netherlands and France were already occupied and in no position to defend their colonies.

@bruceboyer8187 4 ай бұрын

💯. Japan anticipated that the US would strategically attack Japan if they attacked the Brits & Dutch only. They failed to read the U.S. to understand that the American people would not go to war over British and Dutch colonial control.

@edwardhalpin7503 4 ай бұрын

@@bruceboyer8187 we need to step back further to broaden our field of vision and ask more questions about instigation and motivation

@currentbatches6205 4 ай бұрын

Nope. They had access to that petroleum and the resources to move it to where it was needed before starting a war. Thereafter Japan "owned" the petroleum and had no way to get it to where it was required. Trade worked wonders; war, not so much.

@THE-michaelmyers 4 ай бұрын

I am far from an expert on Japan and the actions that preceded the war in the Pacific. I understand that the government of Japan was warlike and had become controlled by the military in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor. It is my opinion that even if Japan was able to get those raw materials at some point war would have still happened. In fact, when I think about Adm Yamamoto's willingness to attack and to do quickly he understood this and wanted to cause apathy back in the US. One of my HS history teachers was a Marine who most likely would have been part of an attack on the homeland had the nuclear option not happened. I am 65 so these lessons happened almost 50 years ago. He said while in school back in the 1950s he had a chance to become friends with a man who was alive during the 1930s in Japan. He said this man told him the Army and the Navy spent most of the 1930s feuding with each other over their desire to become a world power. If even half of the things I have been told are correct there were way too many hotheads in Japan to have avoided war. As Neville Chamberlain learned you can't negotiate with a government set to become a world power. I suspect FDR and the US SoS knew this and that is why they held firm.

@michaelgeraghty3989 4 ай бұрын

Hard to say. Japan had already been fighting for over two years in China, and the warlords under Tojo would’ve demanded they took all of southeast Asia - Burma, French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies. That would’ve secured oil, rubber, tin and other needed raw materials. Would they have started a war with the US, Britain and possibly their ally the USSR so they could take HK, Singapore and the Philippines? Very few raw materials there…we’ll never know.@@THE-michaelmyers

@chriswatts2096 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing history

@dennisweidner288 3 ай бұрын

The Hull note did not demand anything like "capitulation". It demanded that Japan end its invasion of China and withdraw from China,

@NormanLor 4 ай бұрын

"PEARL" WAS THEIR WATERLOO AND MILLIONS IN JAPAN PAID THIS PRICE!!

@cyphi474 3 ай бұрын

What he doesnt mentioned is embargo on Japan was issued because Japan invaded Manchuria and attacked China.

@tommorgan1291 5 ай бұрын

Did anybody ask, "Sir if they won't let us purchase needed chemicals, materials and fuels, and since we have no natural resources if we declare war how will we obtain those needed resources to carry out this war?" Reply, "We are blessed by superior species, work ethics and a willingness to die for our cause. And the enemy is soft and not able to fight. It will be easy! Trust our leaders as they know what their doing."

@williamtomkiel8215 3 ай бұрын

or- to quote nother YT Wizard : "It's going to be super easy. Barely an inconvenience" thanks for the set-up.

@bluemouse5039 4 ай бұрын

The Japanese did not embrace a convoy system to protect their merchant marine that transported raw materials or moved troops and equipment till later in the war when U.S submarines were crippling their supply lines and even when the Japanese finally tried to address the problem ,did not allocate many destroyers for the job and still considered protecting the convoys low priority and thought destroyers were of more value in the offensive role with the fleet

@weekendhero7411 4 ай бұрын

Either did the US.

@MrVenona 3 ай бұрын

Strange that Japan didn't learn from Britain's experience with submarine warfare. Both are island nations that depend on supplies delivered via ships.

@tarekamer9616 3 ай бұрын

Air superiority wins 70% of the battle

@Cooky00123 5 ай бұрын

It took me a while, but robot narrator.

@TomFynn 5 ай бұрын

"bombed whales" When Task Force 317 steamed south during the Falklands War, the RN ASW crews were understandably nervous about Argentine subs and thus adopted a "better safe than sorry" attitude to any submerged sonar contact. So the first scores of TF 317 were probably whales.

@TrulyUnfortunate 4 ай бұрын

The ship shown in this video seems awful long!!! What was its classification?

@gandydancer9710 4 ай бұрын

"Japanese Destroyer Captain"

@mikemines2931 4 ай бұрын

It's two ships line abreast.

@gandydancer9710 4 ай бұрын

@@mikemines2931 No, it's not.

@Paul-zf8ob 4 ай бұрын

It’s one. They usually had 5 to 6 guns on board. You can see them!

@rembrandt972ify 4 ай бұрын

I believe it is an Akatsuki class destroyer.

@ralphballtrip2214 4 ай бұрын

I am listening to your video, but our government says you attacked us for no reason in other words, United States, calls World War II against Japan If I understand this, thank you for the video I’m learning a lot. I wish you well. I was stationed in Japan in 19 6768 beautiful country air force.

@Wartalesuncharted 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your perspective, and we appreciate your openness to learning through the video. It's interesting how historical events can be viewed from different angles, and the complexity of World War II adds to that narrative. We are glad the video is providing you with valuable insights, and it's wonderful to hear about your time stationed in Japan in the late '60s. Wishing you well, and if you have any more thoughts or questions, feel free to share. Safe travels on your journey of learning and exploration!"

@edwardhalpin7503 4 ай бұрын

History is written by the victors therefore inevitably propagandist and error prone. For accuracy We must seek out alternate sources

@noahsmith7732 5 ай бұрын

Wait the other one is finished? I swear he was not done,

@Wartalesuncharted 5 ай бұрын

Sir, We are diligently working on enhancing that series by addressing narration and technical faults. The improved and complete series will be uploaded soon. We sincerely appreciate your patience and encourage you to stay tuned to our channel. We are confident that you'll find the upcoming series as enjoyable as the previous one. Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

@SeattlePioneer 5 ай бұрын

It wasn't. Hara went on to command a cruiser in the fleet sailing to Okinawa and destiny along with the battleship Yamato. The entire fleet was sunk except for one destroyer. Hara's cruiser was sunk and he had to swim for it for several hourse before being picked up by a USN ship and made prisoner. I read Hara's excellent book a couple of years ago ---my first introduction to the memoirs of a Japanese officer during WWII. Several such memoirs have appeared recently on You Tube, and I have found them all interesting.

@gandydancer9710 4 ай бұрын

@@SeattlePioneer He is presumably referring to the Fuchida biography.

@Titus-as-the-Roman 5 ай бұрын

Comments going whack today, doing again, disappeared J I C it shows back up

@L5man 5 ай бұрын

Is the voice reading this a human or a computer voice? Thank you.

@Jeff-jw1rl 5 ай бұрын

Computer generated!

@cregan55 5 ай бұрын

I honestly dont know either,but the strange pronounciation of some words leads me to believe its a computer narrating..

@manlyotool1165 5 ай бұрын

Definitely a computer. Too many mistakes in pronunciation while no stumbles that a person would have.

@mitchellhawkes22 5 ай бұрын

A Brit with the Brit accent just doesn't fly when reading a Japanese naval officer's downcast but still poetic thoughts about the Japanese Crisis in 1941 -- and the inevitable war to come.

@phhdvm 5 ай бұрын

A Brit? It’s a computer