(Part 8) Watch our video “American Navy Pilots Were The Best I Have Ever Fought ” and Embark on a riveting journey through the skies of the Pacific War as you delve into the harrowing memoirs of Japan’s living legendary flying ace. Step into the cockpit and witness firsthand the adrenaline-soaked drama of the greatest air battles of World War two. This gripping series unveils the untold stories of aerial prowess, courage, and sacrifice from the Japanese perspective. As this flying ace’s soaring narratives unfold, experience the highs and lows of dogfights that shaped history. From the roar of engines to the dance of fight in the clouds, each episode promises an immersive exploration of the extraordinary life of a true samurai of the skies. Get ready to soar into the heart of the action, where valor meets the clouds, and the legacy of a wartime hero takes flight.
Link of the playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGjbe3ikd0XGLxNyj6uVM2YdDEBkUWzyd
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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 8 of memoirs of a Japanese Naval Aviator and Flying Ace, He was one of the Imperial Japanese Navy's top aces, with over 60 confirmed kills in air to air combat. He also had a charmed life which somehow saw him through the war despite the tremendous losses the IJN took. He saw active action in South East Asia and Pacific Theater of World War 2
Here is the link of the playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGjbe3ikd0XGLxNyj6uVM2YdDEBkUWzyd
Link of part 1 https://youtu.be/6dPu-SZOwHY
Link of part 2 https://youtu.be/NkYH90wYUbk
Link of part 3 https://youtu.be/vj-TQwUW-i8
Link of part 4 https://youtu.be/07cIRpQSORo
Link of part 5 https://youtu.be/gVl_2dlK3n0
Link of part 6 https://youtu.be/-6Yc6ZT5z5U
Link of part 7 https://youtu.be/qB1BTKGfaYk
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Only ones flying less than Obsolete Aircraft ? Brewster Buffaloes – Chinese Bi Planes ? At the start of the War the Japanese Flyers WERE the best trained in the World – perhaps overtrained – Not enough in the Pipeline to replace their losses ? Look at the ratio of bombs or torpedoes dropped to how many Actual Hits they Got ? VERY IMPRESSIVE – DEADLY ! We lucked out at Pearl Harbor ( carriers not home) ! And Midway ( reading their mail helped ) ? Could have easily gone the other way ? 🫣
The author is much more realistic and without all the German end-less talking with each other.
A Japanese pilot said it best( The happy dream is over)!
In 'The Miraculous Torpedo Squadron' Juzo Mori describes getting shot down over Guadalcanal and the horrific weeks he spent with the stranded and starving Japanese troops in the jungle, all while he was grievously wounded. Worth a read, as it's one of the very few autobiographical accounts avallable in English.
Fake cover picture of Mt. Suribachi in ghostly background.
Thats a cool picture of Mt Suribachi in ghostly background.
Bullshit zeros were not better than hellcats
That air battle at the end over Iwo Jima is insane. This man was a true master of the air.
I'd love to hear any surviving account from one of those Hellcat pilots as well all trying to take down just one guy.
I understand that most of this is a glorified embellished tale but I'm still going to say it:
I'll take things that never happened for $1000, Alex.
Rabool, Rabowl, Raball….the AI voice is quite inconsistent.
This guy must be from the Japanese version of Kentucky or West Virginia.
Nishizawa's final score ranges between 87 and 103. He was shot down and killed flying an unarmed transport plane, the Japanese version of the C-47.
The Japanese instructor pilot, trains his 'green' American pilots in the School of 'Learn or Die'…….
I like the perspective he gained when he became an officer.
The army and Navy in Japan didn't work together …part of the reason they seemed scattered..one branch , didn't know what the other was doing… btw believe half of whats said here…
sakai git on the tail of a dougllas freighter flying low beneath clouds,getting in close,he eyed the windows,, all with navy nurse faces looking at him,,a good guy,, he let them be
The comment about Midway "with most of their pilots lost" is not true. Only about 1/4 of the pilots of the Midway carriers were lost.
5:30 – Pronounced "Yokuska", spelled "Yokosuka". I was there.
11:28 – Several books mention the quality issues regarding Japanese aircraft. One made the claim that Japanese machine tools were built to the tolerances of US end products; engine replacement parts required hand-fitting for installation.
12:02 – Guadalcanal was the first Japanese strategic offensive failure; there would never be another success. 2-1/2 years of additional worthless, blood letting remained.
12:42 – And the cargo transports. As an island nation, Japan imported, by sea, nearly everything it required. Those sunk or beached transports meant to aluminum for airplanes, steel for guns or ships, no fuel for any vehicle and no rice for bellies.
12:50 – You got in sucker punches, and it should have been obvious that was not a winning strategy.
14:53 – And soon, scant fuel to practice.
15:33 – That was the skip-bombed convoy, where Keenny had taught his fliers to drop at nearly wave-top level and 'skip' the bombs into Japanese hulls like rocks on a lake surface. effective defense was nearly impossible. In this case, it didn't help that the Japanese air cover happened to be 'changing shifts' when the US attack began.
21:58 – Yamamoto had spent duty in the US and attempted to warn the war-hawks of what they faced. He was ignored.
28:45 – Amazing effort, near zero result.
32:30 – The desperate hopes of losers everywhere, hoping 'spirit' is stronger than steel, aluminum, lead and capital. In (non-optional) wars it never is.
34:36 – It was now tragic in trying to deliver new aircraft to any off-shore location.
40:29 – "Turkey Shoot".
1:01:26 – Fortunate there were no veterans in the F6Fs.
Why didn't the pilot marry Fugico?
Interesting the English language version was originally published in 1957, so the memories must have been still pretty fresh in the mind during the writing of it years earlier.
A couple of decades ago I read the book called No Surrender. About and wrighten by the Japanese military intelligence officer who did not surrender in the Philippines until three decades after the war ended.
After reading the book I concluded that was the worst military intelligence officer of the Japanese military because he was convinced the war was still going on and the emperial Japanese empire will be back to retake the Philippines up until 1974.
What!? In love with his cousin? I didn’t know Mississippi was in Tokyo!! 🙃
If the Japanese had rotated their pilots out for training the new pilots they’d have done a lot better I think.
They had pilots fly until they died or were too wounded to fly anymore.
I think the battle over Iwo was bit fantastical……good reading….but please
Compared to Chinese or British or Philippine we were the only county they Telly fought against ,we kicked ass
Need to take his account with a grain of salt.It was a turkey shot of Japanese pilots at this time. I don't believe his account of how bad the American pilots are.
Prior to the war, Japanese Armed Forces only trained 100 pilots per year and this would have never worked.
Hellcats lost in dogfights in all of the Pacific in WW2 numbered 270, the Hellcat had a 19 to 1 kill ratio, yet this one eyed pilot sees 6 or 7 HCs shot down in his first encounter with them, then he’s surrounded by 15 of them and he has a running battle with them and survives? Yea sure.
Any stories of the exploits of Japanese aces?
Saburo Sakai's A6M2 Zero was salvaged from Rabaul / Gasmata Island and is in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
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