Three classic The History Guy episodes about some of the biggest, baddest warships ever to sail under the American flag.
00:00 Battleship USS Tennessee and the Second World War
14:40 The WWII Naval Bombardment of Japan
29:37 Last of the Battleships: The Iowa Class
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My grandfather worked at the Philly navy yard. He gave me a picture of Battleship New Jersey, all the guns are facing the same direction and firing at the same time. Impressive picture
The Instruments of Surrender should have been signed on the deck of the USS Enterprise.
Love it best one yet.
Saw the new Jersey as a kid in Japan. I think it affected me to the point I joined the Navy. Later I was recalled to active duty to serve during the conflict off the coast of Lebanon. Not nostalgic for more battleships but pictures don't really convey how beautiful they are… especially when underway.
I was on the Iowa as a museum ship and some of people said that within 30 days could get get the Iowa class ships back into action
Love this channel. The History Guy does excellent and important work.
Unfortunately, notable historical events just took place Saturday but The History Guy isn't covering it…
All these museum ships should be scrapped.
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My father was on the USS Missouri when it was commissioned in 1944 and remained on the ship until the end of the war. He witnessed the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945. He was always very proud of that and his service. Just before the ship was decommissioned for the last time at Long Beach in 1991. I was able to accompany him on a visit and tour of the ship. I will always treasure that memory, he was so happy to be aboard her again.
Mr. History Guy, you are a CBS’ Sunday Morning caliber host. Absolutely top drawer presentation, sir. Your channel is a treasure.
Outstanding compilation! Thx.
Just found your channel very impressed it shows that you put a lot time into research and it shows easy listening to and enjoyable and educational great pictures I enjoy naval history and you do a great job at it grade A in my opinion looking forward to the next one can't thank you enough for what you do thank you
Thank You History Guy
I’d really love to see any stories you might tell about the USS Massachusetts… I love that ship.
Nobody said that.
I don’t know where requested subjects should be posted so I will try my luck here.
In the 1920’s the government constructed concrete arrows to guide air mail pilots across country
Small error. 12:39 "Battleships Yamashiro and Mogami" Mogami was a cruiser. Fuso was the second battleship. Both of these were contemporaries of The Tennessee.
Weird ask, any chance you could do an episode on sandblasting/ maybe related things? Started blasting at work and was curious if you had any insight to the topic
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Bb59 uncle walters ship❤
My father's first ship upon entering the Navy was BB-43. Was on the Tennessee from 1930 thrrough '34. Never an overly emotional man, I knew he had a soft spot in his heart for the ship and was kinda "broken up" when he heard of her being scrapped.
Please tell us your thoughts. You have studied and understand history better than almost anyone. Based on that knowledge, please share your intuitions for the future Thank you.
USS Tennessee… Patron Saint of Shooting Things!
No information on the Texas! The Last Dreadnought.
My uncle was a steamfitter at Puget Sound. I wish I could remember the stories he told to me when I was four and five years old. He described the Great Grey Ladies gliding through the mist and fog of the Sound,
The point of Tennessee's survival at Pearl Harbor being "paramount" in the Navy's success in the Pacific is overblown. The most important "good news" out of the Pearl Harbor raid was that the Navy's carriers–Lexington, Yorktown, and Enterprise–had not been there. And it was the carriers–not the slow, pre-North Carolina-class BBs–that won the naval war.
You should add the draft when stating dimensions. It determines where they can pull in and with whom.
Any battleship which cannot use her guns in a seaway when the waves are larger than flat calm is not going to be the best of anything. The long bow of the Iowas proved time and again a weakness lacking buoyancy especially in exercises in the Atlantic leading to water over the bow that prevented the use of A barbette in any significant wave height unlike the near contemporary HMS Vanguard which could use all of her guns in almost any weather
The DLG and later CG is a class of ships built in the 1960s that seems to have been lost to history. The only war they fought in was Vietnam which wasn't really a naval war. I had the honor to serve on three of this class and their history deserves to be remembered.