(Part 9) Watch our video “Americans Shot Down Sixty Zero Fighters In Two Battles” 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 9 (second last part ) 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
Link of part 8 https://youtu.be/tGOhX-ri8KU
Great story! Is this a publication that I can read in its entirety somehow
Martin Caidin wrote the book SAMURAI which is being narrated. This seems to be the only extended English language translation of a Japanese memoir. Caiden wrote the book after an extended conversation with Sakai-san. There is another English language memoir possible from an anecdote that Boyington and a Japanese pilot were opposite each other in s book fair. Each was selling a book detailing how each shot down the other. The possibility does exist. I located an ex-Japanese Navy pilot who was then a business man in LA, but he refused an interview because he didn't want to talk about "ancient history." There are numerous Japanese pilot memoirs in the Japanese language. The Library of Congress has several. I did borrow two, photocopied them and sent them to an excellent American born Chinese aviation historian who read Japanese. He was quite pleased to receive what he had only read that existed. The other Caidan book ZERO is a history which is dry reading compared to this volume. The late excellent historian Henry Sakaida among his works is THE SEIGE OF RABAUL detailing the Japanese experience. Fascinating. By Google search on the "history of Rabaul' many hits on aviation topics and many excellent photos of that era unpublished. This narration will end but the topic doesn't have to end here.
Go Sakai!
Guys I'm a fan of your channel and I believe I was the one who instigated the hardest to get you to use this particular AI voice when World War II stories went offline a few months ago. Luckily that channel has returned and so the comparison is more clear and unfortunately they seem to do a much better job of working out the bugs in the narration. All I'm trying to say is that if they can use the same AI narrator and not have so many mistakes then you guys can do that too. I'm just asking that maybe you try a little harder. Thanks for the content. 🎉
6 years ago, they looked down on Chinese pilots, now, they were looked down by American. What a turn-around.
I love this channel. This playlist reminds me of a Bruce Springsteen song “Glory Days”
Pay back is hell, eh Tojo?
And that Dammed AI is still messing up so m any words. Does no one check these video's before they are published?
Can we get some USMC stories? And in this voice?
My father, Mineman First Class Albert Fisher was on a destroyer, the Henry A Wiley, blasting Iwo Jima (where the Japanese pilot Sakai was based) with her 5” guns from only a thousand yards offshore. Shells from the cruisers and destroyers, miles offshore, screamed overhead. He was a Gunners Mate during battle stations and manned a twin 50 caliber machine gun in that action, firing towards the shore. He said that during an aerial attack no gunner could aim at any one aircraft, you just put lots of lead up in the air and hoped a plane would run into it. The ship was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for her crew's heroics in action off Okinawa, during picket duty and fleet protection when the Wiley splashed over 10 baka bombers, Kamikazes and Zeros. He never mentioned the war to his kids. We found all this out when I attended a ship's reunion with him in the 90's. He died at age 97 in 2019. (Anyone interested in details of the Citation can Google it along with the ship's name.)—————-Edit: My father told me: “We didn’t think that any of those poor bastards on Iwo Jima could still be alive after the shelling.” But of course many were and fiercely fought American forces when they landed. Near Okinawa a kamikaze coming in low was hit by machine guns off the port bow, splashed, bounced over the bow and exploded off the starboard bow. During a different battle a Japanese pilot managed to bail out and after the battle the Wiley put a boat in the water to pick him up. My father was an oarsman in that boat. As they approached the pilot he cut himself loose from his life preserver and sank below the waves. He chose death over capture.———Two days before my father passed away he lay in his hospital bed, his mind gone to a place long ago and far away. I recorded him clearly calling out instructions to his mine laying crew. He told them what depth to set the mines for, and what the pattern should be. Dad had once told me that in spite of all the danger the time he spent on the Wiley was among the best years of his life. Clearly he had returned to those years.———It was obvious to me that among the ships that Sakai attacked could have been my father’s destroyer. And yet of course I was hoping that the pilot and his friends would survive. War IS hell…and strange…and brings out the very worst and best in those who fight it. On both sides.——-To all you armchair hero’s belittling the Japanese in your posts, let me tell you a little story. A very famous battleship is anchored in Pearl Harbor. It was on this ship three things happened which have stuck in my mind. The first is that during a fierce attack by a squadron of bombers and Zeros the USS Missouri shot down a Zero. The Zero’s pilot, rather than bail out, aimed his plane directly at the Missouri. Fortunately his controls were shot up and he only managed to gouge a huge scrape in the bulwark before skidding across the deck and exploding against one of the turrets. After the battle some of the crew wanted to just throw the body overboard. The Captain of the Missouri gave that pilot a burial at sea with a Japanese flag over his body, sideboys, full military honors. He didn’t belittle him. The second thing I remember is that it was on this ship that the Japanese signed the formal articles of surrender in Tokyo Bay. And the third thing I remember is that every member of the Japanese delegation, military and civilian showed up thinking that they would be hung immediately after surrender. They weren’t, nor were they belittled by any of the victors. Perhaps some of you should learn the meanings of respect and honor.
Sacrifice your lives to save your country? The same thing ukranians soldiers say.
not only as described here but also the Japanese launched from aircraft carriers and shot down hundreds of enemy aircraft refferred to as the great Marianas Turkey shoot….oh yea that was the Americans
What nonsense. Three planes against 60 and they made it through. This is a story all right, a bs story.
Left and right magnetos instead of generators….
defending Your country or attack other country
Amazing that these shitheads thought they were anything more than war criminals.
The Japanese are being overwhelmed.
14:35 – Start a war you have not chance of winning and suffer the consequences. The only solution is surrender, and fortunately, the US had a weapon which forced that decision and likely saved millions of lives.
18:39 – A war of religious believers against engineers, machinists and scientists. You lose.
22:24 – Japan never, after Guadalcanal, staged a successful offensive action. By now, you are the ragged mops, lefty to wipe the floors of the battlefields.
36:28 – Radar says you will never get close to the fleet.
57:26 – You will swing flyswatters and be hit by cannon.
58:49 – The US fleet would have laughed at your feeble attempt at causing harm.
59:23 – Needed another week to save Marines.
1:00:04 – Except the tunnels,
Kamakazis are bad.ss
The Claims the Japanese pilots made were the most unreliable of the war. While it wasnt uncommon for all sides to exaggerate, paperwork shows that his claims over Iwo of lost Hellcats is vastly exaggerated. The Zero even if it got the drop on a hellcat rarely brought it down as rhe hellcat was almosg impervious to the zeros firepower.
Who or what is reading this? A British AI?
Nice editing Mr AI. It cut off in the middle of the word "shells", I guess.
This was USA people not the whole Continent.
Sakai “I outfought 12 Hellcats while blind in one eye and completely numb in my left arm and my plane barely worked.” Ok Sakai…whatever you say we weren’t there so who are we to say. Half of this is clearly exaggerated.
Does the samuri code suggest it’s appropriate to torture pows?
My uncle Chuck was the tail gunner on one of those Avengers.
He had a difficult time emotionally after the war.
We used to go quail hunting in the 60's. I loved that man.
– His Nephew
Fake news