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Correction- As an American who knows more than what will be common knowledge on the subject..
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a False Flag Operation. Japan was provoked to the point of attacking Pearl Harbor and the entire stage was set by our leadership intentionally.
Same with Gulf of Tonkin Incident with Vietnam, same with 9-11 and Iraqi Freedom.
All lies to get the public to sacrifice their children's lives!
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Great video and reaction! On the first point of the Japanese hoping that loss of a battleship would keep the US out, most Americans were very against joining the war. Fresh memories of WWI and the loss of life. What the Japanese didn’t realize (but perhaps one of my favorite things about being an American) the US comes together in an attack. It had the complete opposite effect that the Japanese wanted. Once the public knew about that attack most of the country was wanting to go to war. It was a lot of the same after 9/11 and tbh as divided as we are now, if there was an attack from a foreign power on US land we’d unite to fight back. At that point politics don’t matter, only the country matters at that point
The thing is that while we had a fair sized Navy we had almost no military otherwise. I hear Europeans complain that it took us so long to get in the war but it was because after WWI we all but disbanded the Army because we became anti-war. The reason we have such a big military now is because after WWII a doctrine was created that said we need to be able to fight 2 major wars and a smaller war at the same time. Because that's what happened in WWII.
If you get a chance watch the movie Pearl Harbor, it is a wonderful account of the attack on Pearl! And a darn good movie to boot!
@The Beesleys – i would like to request reactions to the docuseries "Greatest Events of WW2 in colour", available in NETFLIX, 10 episodes, 50mins each. Compiled actual video footages of ww2 in colour. Episode 3 is all about pearl harbor. Thanks!
You need to watch the movie midway it came out about 3 years ago!
It was a terrible miscalculation. Even today if if you attacked America today and destroyed a base every recruitment Depot in the United States Army Navy Airforce Marines Coast Guard everything would be full we can fight each other just like family you can talk all the crap you want to your brothers and sisters and they can to you but nobody else can. When 9/11 happened all the crewmen Depot's were full me and my cousin went down it was a year waiting list he even try to join up. Talking like 10 12 million people immediately ready to go.
Actually, American intelligence knew quite well two weeks beforehand that this was going to occur. But America always needs an attack on its own in order to justify getting into a war. Whether it be the Lusitania being sent into waters where they knew it would be sunk, the Gulf of Tonkin lies for Vietnam, 9/11 for Iraq and Afghanistan, et cetera and so on.
Admiral Yamamoto: " I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant". He had studied at Harvard so he was a little more clued in than many in the upper echelons of the Empire.
There are several movies, old and new, on Pearl Harbor and Midway.
What really makes me mad about the attack was that it could have been much less or not have happen at all. The top brass ignore reports the the Japanese were going to attack.
The second part of that quote is always missed.
“…and filled him with terrible resolve.”
I have visited the USS Arizona Memorial and it it eerily moving. Same with the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (a.k.a. Punchbowl Cemetery) in Honolulu. The stories of those that lived through the attack are astounding and vanishing as those that were there are dying.
Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, had spent time living in the States before, once as a student at Harvard to learn English and once as an attache' a few years later. He took time to travel the country and saw our industrial complexes. He was particularly taken with Detroit. He also believed Americans were lazy isolationists who would rather sue for peace than fight for it.
Boy was he ever wrong. But he WAS right about our industry when he told other Japanese leaders that was our greatest weapon and if it took more than 6 months for the US to attack in return, he would be shocked. Still, he planned the P. H. attack. It was about 5 months until the Doolittle Raid.
Americans will NEVER sue for peace within their own borders. The fight was on and we know how that worked out.
Japanese didn't understand American culture.
George Lucas paid homage to the rally of the Nevada in the film The Empire Strikes Back. When the Nevada slipped her moorings and tried to run for open seas, everyone who could see it cheered. Lucas put a similar scene in Empire.
The most decorated sailor in the history of the Navy was aboard the Arizona when it was attacked. He kept moving from gun emplacement to gun emplacement because he didn’t know how to reload the anti-aircraft guns. It took until 1959 to get his Congressional Medal of Honor that he earned that day. The aircraft carrier USS Doris Miller is slated to be commissioned in his name in 2028. He was played by Cuba Gooding jr in the most recent film version of Pearl Harbor, even though he appears in the film for less than ten minutes.
(22:12) They sunk five of are battleships, we dropped the sun on them…twice.🤣
Worst mistake in Japanese history
Battle of Midway was the the battle that avenged Pearl Harbor 6 months after.
Two reasons why they hit Pearl Harbor, and they tie into each other. Despite the successes they had in China, Japan was cut off from oil supply from us. As a result, Pearl Harbor was partially to punish. But, the main reason was the hopes that the attack would knock us out of the game long enough for them to colonize across the Pacific, and they did succeed a good bit there as well, but as history said, they only attacked a few ships themselves. No fuel storage or any such along those lines were hit and the three main ship targets weren’t even present anyway. Two were undergoing repair in San Diego and one was at sea.
Also, there were some pretty nasty battles in the Pacific War. Guadalcanal was one of the worst, but Iwo Jima was another one.
I was lucky enough to meet a WW2 veteran who was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked! The craziest part is he was a guest speaker at the embassy in Brasilia and come to find out we lived 20 minutes apart and he knew my grandparents!
They could have hit thee fuel depot which would have severely slowed the recovery as well as damage to the harbor.
The Philippines were attacked near the same time as Pearl Harbor
The Pacific is definitely one show that should top your list after Band of Brothers
This is one of those things where a strategy looks good on a map or mission board but when the action starts the smallest of things can turn it to a mess. Fog, poor munitions, pilot error on target selection, the Japanese had all these conditions.
But honestly what caused this attack to be the ultimate failure is the carriers was not there. If they were the war would of been very different.
Japan fundamentally misunderstood the American mindset. They are/were a literal island country. We are a country of immigrants, for better or worse. You poke a country full of immigrants, you better believe they'll suddenly pull together and get VERY angry. We may have our differences, but you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.
Oopsie!
When I was in the Navy I met a guy that was on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl. We where both at the Navy dental office in the waiting room. We talked for awhile and when I asked him how long he was in and what did he do, he mentioned he was on the Arizona. I asked if he served during Pearl and he said yes. I was in my dress uniform, I stood up in front of him, snapped to attention and saluted him. He started crying and said no one has every done anything like that for him. Most don't know but almost half of those killed during the Pearl attack were on the Arizona.
No battle plan, no matter how well-conceived, survives first contact with the enemy. The very first planes to reach the harbor discovered that their intended targets, the aircraft carriers, weren't even in the harbor that day. That alters target selection, timetables, battle cadence. They had to quickly select an alternative target. I mean, they're flying around at 300-350kph stepping into the attack and having to make split second decisions.
The narration is sometimes confused! First, he states the two most important objectives were the destruction of the CAPITAL ships (Aircraft Carriers and Battleships). Makes sense. With the carriers gone, the focus was then placed on the second objective – Battleships. However, the narrator places blame for the continued focus on Battleships on the young aircrews and Japanese warrior culture. You got to be kidding!? Yes, there were targets that were mis-identified such as Cruisers mistaken for Battleships. Targets of Opportunity. The biggest Japanese blunder was attacking the base without any Aircraft Carriers anchored there. That important fact aside, the Japanese met many of their other mission objectives; especially when taken into account the complexity of the attacks, munitions problems, and inexperienced aircrews. This narrator makes it sound as if the Japanese were a bunch of opportunistic, bumbling fools. Anything but that. The attacks were largely effective, lethal, and severely rattled the US government and US Navy USA. That is the reason why the USA will never forget this attack.
"This is no joke. This is a REAL WAR."
The Japanese hit the Philippines in the north the very next morning.
The carrier Akagi, Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo's flagship, was sunk at Midway, along with Kaga. The carriers Hiryu and Soryu were also sunk.
Our carriers were elsewhere, fortunately. The Enterprise was headed towards Pearl, but was delayed by a massive storm system.
Police calls to the Honolulu Police Department were recorded as they came in. They are on YouTube.
Do the Midway video.
There's still oil coming up to the surface from the Arizona today as far as I know.
The US was still crawling out of the Great Depression in 1941 and that decade made some very tough and innovative people. Even if the carriers were sunk or damaged there was no way the US would back down.
I met a group of Pearl Harbor survivors at a parade many years ago in the early 1990's. Friendly, funny, great older gentlemen. One of them said " Bob here lost his leg during the attack." To which "Bob" (I can't remember his real name) replied " I didn't lose it. I know exactly where it is. It's at the bottom of Pearl Harbor!"
6:36 Wow
Look at the history. Japan was an ally in WW1 but got relatively nothing after the war. Dutch in Indonesia, Yanks in the Philippines, French in Indochina, Japan in China? Oh, hell no. No more oil for you. Next?
I think Pearl Harbor was the point in American history where we realized there was no "neutrality" in global conflicts.