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The Japs poked a giant they never should have 😮 and payed the price
3 carriers not 2
Και μετά τον πόλεμο η Ιαπωνία έγινε η καλύτερη γκομενα της Αμερικής
"We won a great tactical victory at Pearl Harbor and thereby lost the war."
— Rear Admiral Chuichi "King Kong" Hara
Reminds me of the old Midway episode from the Battlefield series., it would be so cool see their documentaries remastered with colorized footage like in this video
In Asian WW2, it started in 1937, not 1941 .US navel forces had the most advanced 11 aircraft carriers rathar than several escorting aircraft carriers .. Japan was spotted 👀 by US intelligences since 1925 ..Japan underestimated US navel fleets strengthen and wagered suicide adventures during WW2.
The CCP is going to try to do the same thing against the United States in the future.
This makes it sound as though the only reason the Japanese were not able to take Port Morseby was because of the arrival of US troops. Wrong. The Australian forces had already stopped the Japanese advance and was beginning to force them back. This also completely overlooks the defeat Australian forces inflicted on Japanese troops at Milne Bay, the first defeat of a Japanese army force in the war.
The Japanese didn't just wake "the sleeping giant", they went into his yard, and smashed his toys
I wonder what the US military budget would be today had the US not been pulled into WW2.
Pear Harborr was not reallly a naval battle and how do you justify calling it “tide changing”? F’ing lame dude. Lame.
You missed the part after the 4 us warships were sunk (they were destroyers) where Ching Lee turned his battle ship around past the damaged South Dakota and destroyed the capital ship of the japenese task force, a Japanese battle ship. He peppered it to death in 5 minutes then lured the remaining Japanese fleet away from the South Dakota.
You are talking about naval battles but that's the last naval battle with battleship on battleship combat. Ever. In this documentary it was described as. The Japanese sunk 4 warships. You didn't mention they lost a battleship for 4 destroyers
The battles between the Japanese and the United States in the Pacific in World War II, be it at the Coral Sea, Midway, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, was just a "small dent" in the scope of what is written down in the Bible at Revelation 6:3, 4, of the symbolic rider on "a fiery-colored horse" that denotes political, human warfare, that started its "ride" with the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, and will be brought to a halt at Armageddon (Rev 16:14, 16), when the political nations with their some 8 billion supporters are annihilated by a heavenly government called God's Kingdom.(Dan 2:44, 45)
Revelation 6:4 states that the symbolic rider on "a fiery-colored horse…….was granted to the one seated on it to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword." The 20th century saw the nationalistic murder of an estimated 110 million soldiers and civilians.
According to the Worldwatch Institute (based in Washington D.C. until 2017 C.E. when it ceased operations), it stated on April 29, 1999: "Three times as many people fell victim to war in [the 20th] century as in all the wars from the first century AD to 1899.”
Some 80 + million people died in just the two world wars alone, that only covered a period of some 31 years, from 1914 through 1945 C.E., or some 7.27 million per year over the course of the eleven years both wars were fought. The Washington Post reported that in 2022, some 238,000 people were killed in global conflicts.(article, "A historic rise in global conflict deaths suggests a violent new era", June 29, 2023)
Only the complete obliteration of the political system (that is under Satan's influence, Rev 12:9; 13:1, 2), with its some 8 billion supporters, will "stop the slaughter", which God's Kingdom will accomplish, and then take FULL control of the earth, so that when its "work" is finished, "not a trace could be found" of the political system, nor of its two other "friends", the religions of the world called Babylon the Great (Rev 17:5) that helps supply its "manpower" in wars and "the merchants of the earth" (Rev 18:3, 11) that supplies the political system with its array of deadly weapons.(Dan 2:35)
The Americans were not "blissfully unaware". They had partially cracked the Japanese code and that's why the Aircraft Carriers weren't there. They allowed it to happen so the public world back the war. Same thing as 9/11. These people are not who we think they are.
What isn't said in this video In 1941 The whole American Army ,Navy and Airforce equipment was inferior , out of touch with modern enemy versions and commanded by poorly skilled inept officer structure. It took until 43 for the whole machinations to be ahead of anything the Nazi's or Japs had
Ok, and 1937??????,,,,,
The 1st steps Japan took towards war wasn’t in 1940,as they have been fighting since 1937.
Many times more bombs on Darwin than Pearl. The fight back by Admiral Nimitz had long been in operation. The greatest concrete Batching plant was dispatched from the giant storage areas in the mid west. Planning had been helped by the Japanese deciding they had succeeded but Nimitz was jubilant upon seeing what was left undamaged.
The misleading title is disappointing, but this is an accounting I had not seen before, so worth the time, click bait notwithstanding!
At 6:54 it says Japan had the worlds most advanced ced naval aircraft. I DONT THINK SO.
Three US aircraft carriers in the Pacific, at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Enterprise and Lexington were both delivering fighters, to Wake, and Midway. Saratoga was on the West Coast of the US.
" The American military ďiscovered many of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero's unique attributes when they recovered a largely intact specimen of an A6M2, the Akutan Zero, on Akutan Island in the Aleutians. During an air raid over Dutch Harbor on the 4th June 1942, one A6M fighter was hit by ground-based anti-aircraft fire. Losing oil Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshu Koga attempted an emergency landing on Akutan Island about 20 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor, but his Zero flipped over on soft ground in a sudden crash-landing. Koga died instantly of head injuries (his neck was broken by the tremendous impact) but his wingman hoped he had survived and so went against Japanese doctrine to destroy disabled Zeros. The relatively undamaged fighter was found over a month later by an American salvage team and was shipped to Naval Air Station North Island" (at San Diego, California) "where testing flights of the repaired A6M revealed both strengths and deficiencies in performance and design" (source Wikipedia). Two defects in Zero aircraft was the lack of self sealing fuel tanks and the absence of armour plating behind the pilot's seat.
After watching two or three of these Pacific war stories ,
I discovered that the narrator, always say that this battle was the turning point of the war, It is absolutely not true,
Narrators don't get paid for their looks,
Like actors, politicians, and preachers, hey I have a good question why don't narrators hire a proofreader before they read the script ?
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Delete the seventh coral See battle was The turning point ND Pacific roar, not midway. This is when the Japanese advance stopped and planning for The allies return begin. It's also affected the number of Carriers that were at midway, which reflect the number of aircraft available
For the Japanese counter.
Personally, I think the tide really turned after Guadalcanal was secured, at great sacrifice to the USN, Army, Marines, and Australian units too. Just my opinion, debatable for sure.
Multiple descendants of Italians and Germans (Nimitz, Einstein, Oppenheimer) helped lead America to victory over Japan.
The Aleutians campaign was never a diversion. It was part of the strategy of forming a protective ring around Japan
I think the Japanese attack on pearl harbor was too limited in scope. They should have brought ground troops and invaded. Then the battleships couldn't have been repaired. Midway would have fell soon after. Early in the war was bug out fever for American forces they would have surrendered all of Hawaii
propaganda.
Japan thought the US had no stomach for war? While seventy years before then we had massive casualties in the Civil War. About 620,000 killed in a much smaller population. Did they think we changed?
The quintessential, " Sucker Punch!" 😠