Were the Japanese kamikaze pilots welded shut into their planes?

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  • @aotearoa24-79
    @aotearoa24-79 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +30995

    "Okay, watch carefully guys because im only going to do this once"
    - Kamikaze instructor

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2240

      💀-TimeGhost Ambassador

    • @joshmonus
      @joshmonus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

      Lol

    • @benjaminrapp7418
      @benjaminrapp7418 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +352

      You should be ashamed of yourself! Just like I should be ashamed of myself for laughing! 😂

    • @ticketstation
      @ticketstation 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

      😂😂😂😂I hope I go to hell for laughing at this.

    • @jbong7114
      @jbong7114 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      “there is no greater shame than dishonor” - some volunteers probably

  • @DejectedCat
    @DejectedCat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3520

    There was actually one Kamikaze pilot that managed to sink an American destroyer by actually releasing the bomb and making an accurate direct hit. The guy thought the whole idea was stupid, but was pressured into joining the Kamikaze corp. After he returned to base, his superior were actually pissed at him for coming back alive and not set an example for others. He did this 9 times and each time his superiors puts him in even worse odds so he's less likely to return alive. He ended up surviving every mission and eventually the war and died in 2016 at the age of 92. His name was Sasaki Tomoji.

    • @mr.netflix9149
      @mr.netflix9149 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +502

      Seems like he was in the wrong unit?

    • @potatowarrior333
      @potatowarrior333 หลายเดือนก่อน +309

      What a Gangster

    • @GoogleRuinsAnythingItTouches
      @GoogleRuinsAnythingItTouches หลายเดือนก่อน +615

      Good work, soldier. You're demoted.

    • @richardashendale922
      @richardashendale922 หลายเดือนก่อน +215

      Should make an anime based on him. Or at least a movie.

    • @Stint45678
      @Stint45678 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      ​@@richardashendale922sause: youjo senki
      jk

  • @TOM-ei9nb
    @TOM-ei9nb 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3632

    The torpedo operator had 100% fatality rate, whether he hit the target or sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Wow what a job.

    • @JoshuaTootell
      @JoshuaTootell หลายเดือนก่อน +388

      I believe the warhead had a timer. It would blow no matter what, so the death would always be "quick", as opposed to suffocating at the bottom of the ocean

    • @klashnacovak47
      @klashnacovak47 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      ​@@JoshuaTootellnot quick enough.

    • @DustyHoney
      @DustyHoney หลายเดือนก่อน +167

      @@klashnacovak47 Quicker than most of us can hope for. Death is not kind.

    • @relaxandunwind564
      @relaxandunwind564 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      it was also a child

    • @solitivity
      @solitivity หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@relaxandunwind564 Yo, WTF? There's no way a kid willingly wanted to do that.

  • @Trash_prince
    @Trash_prince 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +423

    “When do I eject”
    “That’s the neat part…!”

    • @matthewwynn3025
      @matthewwynn3025 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      You don't!

    • @ravioliravioli693
      @ravioliravioli693 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      ​@@matthewwynn3025nah.. more like "everywhere"

  • @tomascostanzo3673
    @tomascostanzo3673 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +540

    The saddest thing about the Kaiten is that the pilot, inside it, was truly a well-trained soldier. Imagine training a soldier exhaustively, spending a huge amount of time and resources, just to perform a suicide mission.

    • @apples874
      @apples874 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not sad, the Japanese government at the time was allied with the Nazis

    • @LJBSullivan
      @LJBSullivan 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +41

      I can't imagine being told your life is only valuable to be on a suicide mission.

    • @fugyfruit
      @fugyfruit 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

      To put it in perspective Japan only started doing these kamikaze attacks very late into the war after the entire European front was all but lost and Japan was facing the full force of the US Navy, they had a lot of soldiers and a desperation to prevent total capitualation leading to such extreme measures

    • @jonslg240
      @jonslg240 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      *He's not focusing on the truth which is sad*
      #1: they were expected to complete their mission and their life was worth far less than their attack was worth.
      #2: MANY Kamikaze pilots were sent on missions where they wouldn't have enough fuel to get back. Meaning their life was worth far less than their mission and forcing them to die either way.
      #3: if they came home they & their family were completely disgraced regardless of the "reason"
      #4: *and the worst part* they were basically forced into being Kamikaze pilots with the same social pressures that make 11 to 15-year-olds become suicide bombers in the multiple Jihad's.
      *The ruling dictators for both them and Muslims decided MASS suicide missions were necessary, AND decided individual lives mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.*
      The only value any persons life had was how much damage they could inflict on the enemy.
      Is that not evil? If it isn't, please let me know why.

    • @jonslg240
      @jonslg240 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      My last comment just got deleted by the channel. Why would they stifle discussion about what it means to be a suicide bomber?

  • @aaron6178
    @aaron6178 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16505

    Sealed into a sub. What a vile war it was. Good lord. I'm former military, and I understand duty, but that's just mind boggling.

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +969

      Yeah, but that may have been more about obtaining a watertight seal than preventing the pilot from escaping.

    • @yoeyyoey8937
      @yoeyyoey8937 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +402

      Learn about the last Japanese soldier to surrender and you’ll understand better

    • @greyberet1
      @greyberet1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +187

      @@castleanthrax1833
      Yeah, and weren’t there rumors that he had a son whom he raised as a Japanese soldier who also resisted the fact that the war was long since over…? Just asking for a friend 😂.

    • @candle_eatist
      @candle_eatist 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +251

      grim fact: both of the original designers of the Kaiten died while piloting one. If I recall correctly, both were not in combat at the time, only training or testing of the Kaiten.

    • @candle_eatist
      @candle_eatist 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

      @@castleanthrax1833 Earlier models had an hatch that could be unlocked and opened from the inside, but I think no Kaiten pilot ever tried to use them, so they ditched that feature.

  • @craigplatel813
    @craigplatel813 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3359

    For any one wanting to learn more about the mindset of the kamikaze pilots the book "blossoms in the wind" published about 2005 is a very good read. It written by an American who has lived in and is a professor in Japan since the 80's. He was able to get many former pilots, relatives etc... to open up to him about how it was.

    • @TrickiVicBB71
      @TrickiVicBB71 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

      Thank you the book recommendation

    • @evancrum6811
      @evancrum6811 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Thank you!

    • @P-Mouse
      @P-Mouse 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      +

    • @TheEgg185
      @TheEgg185 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      No time to read. Please sum it up in 3 sentences or less. Thank you.

    • @craigplatel813
      @craigplatel813 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +179

      @@TheEgg185 you can't sum a complicated issue like that in 3 sentences or less.

  • @Rickinsf
    @Rickinsf 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1703

    I read about a Kamikaze unit that had more pilots than airplanes for the days' mission and those being left behind begged the "lucky" ones to let them take the planes.
    The C/O scolded them for being "so selfish," and their turn would come soon enough.

    • @justinlast2lastharder749
      @justinlast2lastharder749 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +309

      There was a Kamikaze Pilot that came back unsuccessful so many times that he became an Officer...and later practically hijacked a plane to Kamikaze with.

    • @allrequiredfields
      @allrequiredfields 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a good thing Japan was defeated - the world has a big enough death-cult with Islam.

    • @TheNoiseySpectator
      @TheNoiseySpectator 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      Did the C/O later die on a mission or get executed when the war ended? Or did he survive the War?
      I think I will ask both of you this about the subjects of your comments.

    • @pagodebregaeforro2803
      @pagodebregaeforro2803 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      Sounds fake but I dont doubt it either.

    • @Vhvjdow0ajsbcdhcuei3o22-om4sm
      @Vhvjdow0ajsbcdhcuei3o22-om4sm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      i dont believe that for a second.

  • @Lemonator32
    @Lemonator32 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5096

    "We have a new torpedo that can home in on any target in the water"
    "Interesting. What's the computer used in this device?"
    "Computer?"

    • @benjaminmorris4962
      @benjaminmorris4962 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +363

      Funnily enough at that time "computer" referred to people who did computing...

    • @benjaminmorris4962
      @benjaminmorris4962 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

      Funnily enough at that time "computer" referred to a person, not a machine, that did computing work

    • @wheeze_sanchez
      @wheeze_sanchez 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Came to say what Ben said

    • @ernestgibson8792
      @ernestgibson8792 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      his name is Toshi. he really had dedication. bless his heart

    • @archieil
      @archieil 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@benjaminmorris4962 funnily enough,
      we are back (in labs) to computers using a living brain cells to do their job,
      the other one are using advanced physics.

  • @balllee6959
    @balllee6959 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    My husband’s grandfather was a reserve 回天(Kaiten) pilot in the 特別攻撃隊. He “was volunteered” and, realizing the futility of the undertaking, managed to get put in reserve and survived the war.

    • @archieil
      @archieil 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      There are rumors here (still existing probably) that they were high during missions.
      not delirious but on some mild drugs.

    • @nora-bee
      @nora-bee หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@archieil I would not discount this detail also, Japan was producing a lot of drugs in the early-mid Shōwa Era, as stimulants were seen as a productivity booster and were sought after in the domestic market. I can't recall if they issued drugs to their armed forces like the Germans did but I would be very surprised if they did not.

  • @evh1734
    @evh1734 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9479

    "Mechanical failures" is often a face-saving euphemism for being unwilling to attack.

    • @Cheato111
      @Cheato111 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +857

      Yea, and I think I would have “mechanical failures” if I were in their shoes

    • @atomic_wait
      @atomic_wait 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +230

      Source: Godzilla Minus One 😝

    • @KPW2137
      @KPW2137 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +669

      That is possible, but mechanical reliability of the aircraft was a serious problem in Japan late in the war.

    • @AlreadyTakenTag
      @AlreadyTakenTag 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +510

      ​@@KPW2137especially since a lot of the aircraft used in kamikaze attacks were older outdated models (the Japanese weren't just going to throw a state of the art Ki-84 at a cargo boat).

    • @bilalsadiq1450
      @bilalsadiq1450 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +203

      I'm not sure how prevalent the 'strong arming'/peer pressure was to people volunteering for these missions, but I doubt many people would go to the effort of learning and becoming Kamikaze pilots, only to ditch at the last second under the guise of a 'mechanical failure'. These people weren't suicidal as it were, they believed they were performing a sacrifice for the greater good.

  • @johnathanblackwell759
    @johnathanblackwell759 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1102

    Some were willing, some were voluntold

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      Yea.. very much so, i would say probobly most of them was Voluntold.Specially in the later part.

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      I like that term "voluntold." ✌️

    • @TylerWin
      @TylerWin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      @@castleanthrax1833its a popular term in the us military

    • @rowbearly6128
      @rowbearly6128 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      My wifes Grandfather was 16. He was sent on a mission, failed to find a target. Was being sent for the second and FINAL try..when he was flagged down on takeoff and told the war was over. Poor guy was a big drinker and gambler all his life after that.

    • @johnathanblackwell759
      @johnathanblackwell759 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@matsv201 there's a young man who's name I keep forgetting, who was an experienced dive bomber who actually managed to hit American vessels on more than one occasion, shortly after becoming married he was selected to be a Kamikaze

  • @fyang1429
    @fyang1429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4433

    “Kamikaze pilots returning to base with mechanical failure”
    One who faked it found a monster at base killing all the repair squad:

    • @vanoy13
      @vanoy13 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +177

      Gojira

    • @jonbaxter2254
      @jonbaxter2254 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +194

      And he went on to redeem himself and actually cause a tear in my eye.

    • @destituteanddecadent9106
      @destituteanddecadent9106 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Is that from a Godzilla movie? Which one?

    • @zachradoux2038
      @zachradoux2038 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      @@destituteanddecadent9106Minus One

    • @destituteanddecadent9106
      @destituteanddecadent9106 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      @@zachradoux2038 wow, didn't know the new one was a period piece. Is that why it's called minus one, like a prequel? I'm curious how they incorporated a real and tragic war into an popcorn movie franchise.

  • @LalaLa-ld1gs
    @LalaLa-ld1gs 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +793

    Kamikaze pilots were heavily questioned upon their returns to base and after a set number of returns, if they didn't find a target or found too many excuses to return, they were executed for cowardice

    • @hotos.1
      @hotos.1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      okay history matters

    • @whitetiana3022
      @whitetiana3022 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      volunteers*

    • @therookieotaku8477
      @therookieotaku8477 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      @@hotos.1.... you're literally watching a history video-

    • @katiebarber407
      @katiebarber407 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      whereas in America you were just thrown in jail if you refuse to join the draft

    • @freedfree7933
      @freedfree7933 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@katiebarber407
      Your name is very suiting

  • @06racing
    @06racing 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    Welded into a torpedo seems worse than welded into a plane

    • @Weremoogle
      @Weremoogle หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Completely agree

    • @cyanimation1605
      @cyanimation1605 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Instead of heights, you get thalassophobia and claustrophobia in a tiny neat package!

  • @rihenry7364
    @rihenry7364 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    "I had a mechanical failure so I came back."
    "Your job is literally crashing your plane."

    • @legalwaterdrinker3286
      @legalwaterdrinker3286 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Crashing it into the ocean would achieve nothing

  • @davidperry4013
    @davidperry4013 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +202

    Some kamikaze pilots returned to base due to the war being ended during their mission.

    • @CriminalonCrime
      @CriminalonCrime 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      Some Japanese war planes landed on the wrong aircraft carriers and the refueling guys just filled em up and let them go so they could refill ours faster too! 😂😂😂

    • @Kalashnikov413
      @Kalashnikov413 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      One actually returned 10 times before being executed for cowardice

    • @4.0.4
      @4.0.4 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@CriminalonCrimeno way that's true

    • @CriminalonCrime
      @CriminalonCrime 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@4.0.4 it's true, they couldn't very well hem up the deck with foriegn plane detainment while trying to refuel our own, it's actually logical when you think about it.

    • @joaogomes9405
      @joaogomes9405 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      ​@@CriminalonCrime No it's not. In no universe would the crew of a carrier let an enemy plane land, let alone refuel it to "save time" so that the plane could turn around and shoot at them or RTB and report valuable Intel on the carrier. There are no known instances of japanese planes ever successfully landing on US carriers either to defect or to gather intelligence, although there were cases of japanese planes trying to land. The most famous being the damage yokosuka floatplane that tried to land on Yorktown but was turned away by AA fire before bombing Yorktown's deck. Which is what happened to every japanese plane that tried landing on US CVs, since AA wasn't keen on letting enemy planes near

  • @mejbishow5297
    @mejbishow5297 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    The being welded shut into a submarine reminds me of Iron Lung

  • @marcusaurelius4777
    @marcusaurelius4777 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +189

    I read a war diary from the book "Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies", there's one entry from a Kamikaze pilot. It's absolutely true that these guys were HYPED to die for the empire. Like, the dude could BARELY contain his frustration that he couldn't "commit gyokusai" and smash his body "to bits" against the ships of the Americans. Dudes were hardcore. It's true. Look up the book, it's the first of the twelve diaries.

    • @fasted8468
      @fasted8468 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      It's overcompensation.
      The reaction to "kill yourself for us" could hardly be "ehh ok not sure but whatever." Gotta Hype or th stupidity sets in

    • @notyourordinarygran
      @notyourordinarygran 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Same delusion from those willing to blow themselves to bits for the religion of peace.

    • @markkNL
      @markkNL 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Hardcore can be read as 'nuts'.

    • @fahdtolba4512
      @fahdtolba4512 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​​@@notyourordinarygranwell that depends on whether you believe in the Almighty Creator or not. I would assume you don't. However no dying for the Almighty Creator is not the same as dying for an "empire" whether it's the japanese or the american flavour. We shall see who is delusional.

    • @badabada38
      @badabada38 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      'hardcore' more like nationwide madness and brainwashing

  • @thehappyhermit01
    @thehappyhermit01 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    My father served in the Navy during WW2 on the USS Bunker Hill, an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. During one specific battle, they were kamikazeed not once, but two times. Over 1,300 sailors lost their lives that day. Dad never talked about the war, as he got too emotional about it. Got my info from Mom.

  • @Elongated_Muskrat
    @Elongated_Muskrat 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +228

    There was the Ohka too which was a piloted rocket. Though you wouldn’t need to seal a pilot in since they couldn’t return anyway.

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Sure, they could return... just with a little "louder" landing than the kamikaze pilots. 💥

    • @jupiterapollo4985
      @jupiterapollo4985 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What was the purpose this exactly? When they land after being shot out of the rocket they are dead. So what does it yeild?

    • @illuforce
      @illuforce 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jupiterapollo4985 To try to sink a ship. Check out the cockpit anime.

    • @yevrra5012
      @yevrra5012 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@jupiterapollo4985it was essentially a huge bomb with wings and it wasn't landed anywhere, it's a human guided kamikaze bomb if you will

    • @dude_moode
      @dude_moode หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      True. The aircraft was called "Baka" by the allies, the Japanese word for "fool".
      And while at it: Did you know that "kamikaze" actually means "special airborne assault force" (no suicides invloved)? The Japanese to this day do not use this word in the meaning the Westerrn Wolrd does.

  • @unbearifiedbear1885
    @unbearifiedbear1885 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +570

    It should also be noted that the guys operating the "torpedoes" were also called Pilots.
    Kaiten Pilot was the name of my band when I was a teenager

    • @daruween1398
      @daruween1398 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      That goes really hard

    • @unbearifiedbear1885
      @unbearifiedbear1885 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@daruween1398 😂❤🍻

    • @NoblePineapples
      @NoblePineapples 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      That is a really dope band name. I like that.

    • @destituteanddecadent9106
      @destituteanddecadent9106 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Now I'm just imagining a band called the nuclear warheads or the jihad jackers 💀

    • @johngavin1175
      @johngavin1175 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Was it a metal or punk band?

  • @leeswecho
    @leeswecho 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +178

    Trivia: if you’ve seen Godzilla Minus One, the Japanese themselves did not call these pilots “kamikaze”. They called them “Tokkou”, short for tokubetsu kougeki tai (“special attack force”).

    • @TheCheeseManGuy
      @TheCheeseManGuy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Makes sense, it sounds a lot better than "crack suicide squad"

    • @AnonymousYouTubeconsumer
      @AnonymousYouTubeconsumer 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      @@TheCheeseManGuy Kamikaze means divine wind, it only got the “suicide-squad” meaning afterwards

    • @jic1
      @jic1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@AnonymousTH-camconsumer Yes, it was a reference to a storm that wrecked a Mongol invasion fleet.

    • @digitaljanus
      @digitaljanus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@jic1Two storms!

    • @jeremiaas15
      @jeremiaas15 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Better yet, the "kamikaze" (神風) in the full name is actually read as "shinpu" in this context.
      The Americans put all their skilled translators in concentration camps and only employed ones who had no real experience with the language outside of books.

  • @michaelcummings7246
    @michaelcummings7246 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    The first pilot that it was named after actually missed, didn't die, and made it to the end of the war. When he found out during the war they were praising what he supposedly did he hid the fact he was still alive for many years after the war.

    • @michaelpetras1613
      @michaelpetras1613 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Research

    • @Frommerman
      @Frommerman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Kamikazi wasn't named after a guy, my dude. The word means "divine wind" and refers to a real historical event where the Mongol empire failed to invade Japan because their ships were destroyed by a cyclone. The Japanese believed they had been protected by the gods through that storm, hence the term. The kamikazi pilots were meant to be the divine wind protecting Japan from foreign invasion once more.

  • @Driven2Beers
    @Driven2Beers 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    My dad served on the U.S.S. Missouri from '44 to '46. The kamikaze aircraft that impacted the ship in April of '45 essentially disgorged the top half of the poor pilot kid's corpse onto the deck. That wouldn't have happened if he was welded to the cockpit. Really sad for the kid. At least they gave his remains a burial at sea. I still have a part of the "meatball" from the wing of the plane that flew up onto the deck that my dad took as a souvenir.

    • @Manntitz
      @Manntitz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You shouldn't have kept a man's testicle as a souvenir

    • @gekigami1791
      @gekigami1791 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wait, so you're saying you have human remains from WW2 of a kamikaze pilot taken as a "souvenir"?

    • @HuntPost22
      @HuntPost22 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ⁠@@gekigami1791”from the wing of the plane”.. reading comprehension

    • @gonuts4donuts
      @gonuts4donuts 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@gekigami1791 “meatball” was the term used to describe the roundel markings used for identification on Imperial Japanese Army and Navy aircraft. The red circle 🔴 hence “meatball”.
      Not meatball as in a ball of human remains😂

    • @ironheavenz
      @ironheavenz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@gonuts4donuts I only knew 'meatball' as the glideslope indication unit, which made no sense in this context so I was really thrown off for a second there too hahah
      Thanks for clearing it out 🤣

  • @nickcarey6003
    @nickcarey6003 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    Memiors of a Kamikaze by Kazuo Odachi is an excellent autobiography that puts you in the shoes of those pilots. An incredibly powerful work that grants Western readers a perspective not found elsewhere. Highly recommend.

    • @jupiterapollo4985
      @jupiterapollo4985 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Is there really any insight to reading about people being manipulated for a "Grander cause" that any of the other similar stories can't show you? It's the same old story of the fragility of the mind of young people told over and over again. The only difference is Japanese men in planes...

  • @derevianne1108
    @derevianne1108 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    the way he moved at the beginning makes me think he's getting self-aware

  • @Southlander1000
    @Southlander1000 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    Many were **not** willing volunteers. Extant letters home from some of these pilots questioned what they were doing and why they were picked for these missions. Toward the end of the war, most kamikaze pilots were not volunteers, though the peer pressure kept them from bowing out and heading for the infantry.

    • @aidanhart6419
      @aidanhart6419 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’m sure the infantry wouldn’t have been much better considering they were often sent on suicide runs

    • @izak5356
      @izak5356 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@aidanhart6419neither sound great, but I'd rather a high likelihood of immediate death from a .50 cal or 20mm anti-aircraft cannon or severe blunt force trauma than bleeding out in the battlefield hours after disemboweled. Sounds like there is a higher likelihood of a quick and less painful death, and hey maybe you get a parachute and it has a "mechanical failure" somewhere half a kilometre from an allied warship. I dunno how well either side would have treated POWs, but I'd rather be an allied POW than be executed for cowardice. Don't even get me started on that manned torpedo, fuck that is evil, having such little value for human life.
      What a horrible way to go, how anyone managed to make it back from that war is a mystery to me.

    • @sor3999
      @sor3999 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      "peer pressure" i.e. execution for desertion

    • @Southlander1000
      @Southlander1000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@sor3999 I am not talking about desertion. They could bow out of kamikaze training and be sent to the enlisted ranks of the IJA infantry, complete with loss of face and family dishonor.

    • @ironheavenz
      @ironheavenz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@izak5356 just wondering why seemingly nobody thought of killing their commander while they sleep, literally my first idea
      Your own people kill you one way or the other, nothing is stopping you from actually taking out the trash before being killed or killing yourself quickly to avoid torture

  • @NotGrimman
    @NotGrimman 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Germans: we made a mechanical computer guided bomb
    Japanese: we took the computer out of the bomb and put people in it

  • @digitalphoenix72
    @digitalphoenix72 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is hands town the best channel on TH-cam for WW2 information and history. The only thing that would send you guys over the top, would be to interview surviving veterans or civilians who were present. You would outdo every mainstream media outlets' work in terms of production value and just plain information (you already put 'discovery's and 'the history channel's to shame)

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well, I have some news for you ... -TimeGhost Ambassador

  • @shaider1982
    @shaider1982 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +121

    Besides, welding aluminum to aluminum is hard.

    • @justinlast2lastharder749
      @justinlast2lastharder749 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      It's kind of hard to weld metal to wood. Would have had much better luck just screwing the canopies close.

    • @dustinandtarynwolfe5540
      @dustinandtarynwolfe5540 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      What? No it's not. Although in the 40s it probably was. I must have missed the joke. R/whoosh?

    • @ljt3084
      @ljt3084 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@dustinandtarynwolfe5540
      Tig welding was invented in the US in 1941.
      It wasn't EVER used on One single Japanese fighter fuselage during WW2 because the Japanese didn't have Tig welding until after WW2.
      Even if they had Tig welding in Japan, the Zero fighter was light because the rolled aluminium sheet used was around a third the thickness gauge of the allied fighter planes.
      This alone would have taken a highly skilled Tig welder. Sheet so thin its like trying to weld cigarette papers together.
      Rivets were the main stay of WW2 fighter production for all countries.
      They could have just drilled and riveted the canopy shut.

    • @Dr.Pepperdave
      @Dr.Pepperdave 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Truth

  • @MichaelW-vj6wx
    @MichaelW-vj6wx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Kamakazies were a last ditch effort by a nation that knew defeat was coming. The proof is that there were zero suicidal pilots at the beginning of the war and didn’t begin until the war was decisively in favor of the allies.

    • @QlocoDoco
      @QlocoDoco 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kamikaze pilots are what got America involved into the war in Pearl Harbor, Japan was dominating the Pacific until American involvement.

  • @SonGoku-mj5pq
    @SonGoku-mj5pq 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +129

    I recently watched a documentary about a kamikaze pilot who returned to base after having mechanical failure but then later that night a dinosaur looking creature killed his fellow soldiers and destroyed his plane.

    • @TheThingoftheSky
      @TheThingoftheSky 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Pretty good doc.

    • @stormveil
      @stormveil 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      One of my favourite documentaries last year. Very informative.

    • @Springer_Entertainment
      @Springer_Entertainment 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Godzilla is real

  • @martinsachs3837
    @martinsachs3837 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    It's really stupid as airframe aluminum isn't designed for welding. Especially not with 1940s welding technology.

    • @sabotabby3372
      @sabotabby3372 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      aluminum is incredibly easy to weld and the technology barely differs from steel
      no investigation, no right to speak

    • @krisd5697
      @krisd5697 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      To be fair, I don't think airframe aluminum was designed to be smashed into a battleship either.

    • @Big_Dolfie
      @Big_Dolfie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@krisd5697 good point

  • @Suicidal_Soy_Sauce
    @Suicidal_Soy_Sauce 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "These new torpedoes are 💯% accurate!"
    "Nice! What mechanisms are used to be so efficient?"
    "A joystick and your hand! 🙃"

  • @randallporter4835
    @randallporter4835 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    One of my Professors walked by a catering hall in Tokyo stating that it was hosting a Kamikaze Reunion. He kinded wanted to go up an visit it but could not.

  • @michaelnewton5873
    @michaelnewton5873 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    A episode of black Sheep Squadron had a Kamikaze pilot land on their island and he tried to Grenade himself but Boyington captured him. I don't remember if they found a way he could die honorably.

    • @RouGeZH
      @RouGeZH 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's not a Kamikaze, it's a Japanese ace in 1943.

    • @michaelnewton5873
      @michaelnewton5873 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@RouGeZH I was early teens At the time. And the show jumped around. Thank you.

    • @sstrick500
      @sstrick500 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow...totally forgot about Black Sheep Squadron! What a show that was. 😅

  • @eltonjohnson1724
    @eltonjohnson1724 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I think this was due to the fact that many in the military like rumors and rumors spread really fast in the military. I once read that US Marines on Saipan were claiming that Japanese soldiers were chained to their tanks so they couldn’t escape.

    • @LamgiMari
      @LamgiMari 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Probably a rehash from WWI rumors that the Germans would chain machine gun operators to their weapons.

    • @kewlf00l85
      @kewlf00l85 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I heard Japanese cooks were chained to their grills so they couldnt escape

    • @sarcasticguy4311
      @sarcasticguy4311 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@kewlf00l85 Japanese scuba divers were chained to the sea so they couldn't escape.

    • @cooliusmaximus5802
      @cooliusmaximus5802 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@kewlf00l85 Japanese firefighters were chained to the buildings so they couldn't escape.

    • @SarafinaSummers
      @SarafinaSummers 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The rumor mill in the military is worse than high school just before prom. 🤣

  • @Nasota99
    @Nasota99 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Channels like this focusing on very specific facts of time in recent and distant history is so important because myths and false narratives often take over the nuance and truth of situations which were far more complex while they were happening. But it is easier for many to take one or two quick notes away from history as opposed to taking in all of the perspectives and reasons for it.

  • @Flying_Fetus
    @Flying_Fetus 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Its crazy to think that the Kaitan probably required dozens of tests before ever being deployed in combat. Thats got to be a hard sell to a "voluntary" test subject.

    • @torg2126
      @torg2126 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They probably loaded those ones with dummy charges, and maybe gave the test pilots salvage axes, or something else to breach out with. If you are a good swimmer, you might be able to pilot a second one!

  • @stephengrinkley9889
    @stephengrinkley9889 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    Indy nailed it in the first line. These were willing volunteers, so therefore there would be no need to seal them in.

    • @AnDoneCom
      @AnDoneCom 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      His last name name is spelled way too similarly to "nailed 'et"

    • @dubious_potat4587
      @dubious_potat4587 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      and the whole point of kamikaze tactics was to increase the effectiveness of pilots so imagine just losing these precious pilots simply because they got lost whatever

    • @ad_astra5
      @ad_astra5 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@dubious_potat4587yeah, the idea and likely truth was they’d die anyway, so why not try and stop what they viewed as the end to Japan as a race and culture? (Completely brainwashed ofc, and that’s not excusing the worst abuses imaginable, but there were some calls for genocide after the war)

    • @dubious_potat4587
      @dubious_potat4587 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ad_astra5 that too, yeah

  • @RedHawkgamingcz
    @RedHawkgamingcz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Idk why but immediately after he mentioned a torpedo and being welded in shut the game "Iron lung" imediately jumped into my mind

    • @chickenfarmer321
      @chickenfarmer321 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I'm surprised you're the only one mentioning it, especially with the movie coming out soon.

  • @thebigm7558
    @thebigm7558 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    That headturn

  • @ButINowant2Binfluencer
    @ButINowant2Binfluencer หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you so much for creating this channel

  • @bernarrcoletta7419
    @bernarrcoletta7419 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My Das’s ship was hit by a kamikaze at Okinawa. The wing went between the barrels of the aft 5-inch mount and pirouetted into the sea without exploding. They pulled the pilot out of the sea. They couldn’t have done that if he was welded in.

  • @Vtarngpb
    @Vtarngpb 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    History Matters did a really good episode about this

  • @richtomlinson7090
    @richtomlinson7090 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    My late father had a piece of a Japanese Zero.
    His ship was covered with gas, water, oil and aluminum shreds, from bow to stern.
    Someone found a piece of the pilot on the fantail of the ship, but you couldn't keep that.

  • @jonny-b4954
    @jonny-b4954 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Haha you can't easily weld thin aluminum or steel plates anyways.

    • @justinlast2lastharder749
      @justinlast2lastharder749 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's what Rivets are for.

    • @tylersmith1468
      @tylersmith1468 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@justinlast2lastharder749 pop rivets are horrible though.

    • @jonny-b4954
      @jonny-b4954 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tylersmith1468 Pop rivets are, but traditional rivets are great. Just labor intensive

    • @tylersmith1468
      @tylersmith1468 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jonny-b4954 I've only used pop rivets, and I hate doing so. TIG welding is best, followed by bolts.

    • @jonny-b4954
      @jonny-b4954 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@tylersmith1468 Yeah, old school riveting is pretty situational. Used in boat building, a lot still. Just a copper/bronze rod you hammer a head over on one side, then brace the head, and round over the other side after clamping the 2 pieces together.

  • @richorichards4655
    @richorichards4655 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So refreshing to see professional quality shorts, that have something interesting to say and something to teach us. One of the best channels out there.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for the kind words!
      -TimeGhost Ambassador

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for the kind words!
      -TimeGhost Ambassador

  • @noneyabidness9644
    @noneyabidness9644 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Considering this is the first time I've heard this, I'm going to say "no."

  • @RiczRonin
    @RiczRonin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Also, the picture where people holding flower branches towards the airplane... That' depicting a departing ritual where sake (or osake) were given to the pilots. Little known fact that the sake was drugged with Philopon which is the Japanese equivalent of Pervitin, the methamphetamine-based medicine and improver. This helped the already indoctrinated ones to become more brave and do the bidding without a question and lessen the chances of chickening out at the final moment.

    • @aslamnurfikri7640
      @aslamnurfikri7640 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Drinking sake is a ritual before any mission, not just kamikaze

    • @RiczRonin
      @RiczRonin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      ​@@aslamnurfikri7640Yet drugging sake with methamphetamine wasn't, which was my point.

    • @TheNoiseySpectator
      @TheNoiseySpectator 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​It is a very good point about how the Japanese military government regarded the Japanese People as tools to do their bidding.
      And, the fact that the Japanese people _clamored_ to go get themselves killed fighting for The Emperor shows something else.
      If we had used a nuclear bomb on Tokyo, and destroyed the Rulers of Japan, that would not have ended the war.
      Any land invasion would have been met with the civilian population charging the ground troops, everywhere and anywhere they went in all of Japan proper!
      If the Emperor had not ordered the Japanese to surrender, they would have gone on fighting, without end...
      (And by "they" I don't just mean the military or solders, I mean *all* Japanese everywhere in Japan!)
      .... Say, I know the top military rulers of Japan killed themselves when they definitively lost the war,
      But what about the Emperor? He had been the supreme authority at that time, with everyone under him.
      I don't think _he_ killed himself. Was he sentenced to Life in Prison, or permanently put under house arrest?
      Much like Slobadan Milosovich, did he just kind of put on civilian clothing, slip out the back door and start a new life under a different name?
      What happened to him? 🤔

    • @Aera223
      @Aera223 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And make them more alert, maybe

    • @ninjalectualx
      @ninjalectualx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As long as their mission doesn't last more than 3-4 hours that might work

  • @nasis18
    @nasis18 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    There was one Kamikaze pilot who returned to base 7 times. He didn't get another go after that.

  • @jus10lewissr
    @jus10lewissr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you, TH-cam, for instilling a new ridiculous and totally irrational fear in me: Being welded into a human-piloted torpedo.

  • @jacobwestbrook9527
    @jacobwestbrook9527 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    That intro was amazing

  • @frogmouth2
    @frogmouth2 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “No it was just the kamikaze divers who were welded in.”

  • @98-SR5
    @98-SR5 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Kamikaze that held the record for the most times returned from a mission was 9. He was executed for cowardice on the 9th time.

    • @tankman5783
      @tankman5783 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How the hell did he even do that?

    • @98-SR5
      @98-SR5 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tankman5783 They were permitted to return for a few reasons, bad weather, mechanical malfunctions... if something beyond their control/ not their fault occurred, they would not be punished, just told better luck next time.

  • @keithlewis8217
    @keithlewis8217 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What's the difference between Arnold Schwarzenegger and a kamikaze pilots, when Arnie goes off to fight he says "I'll Be Back" where as the kamikaze pilots say "I Won't Be Back"

  • @datguy0857
    @datguy0857 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Imagine missing the ship while in your torpedo then slowly loosing speed and sinking to the bottom of the ocean💀

  • @E1DOLHANZ
    @E1DOLHANZ หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Being welded into a sub is somehow more horrific than an airplane.

  • @Contenttrough82
    @Contenttrough82 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Also they were running out of metal near the end of the war that’s why they were doing kamikaze so why waste metal welding them in

    • @tombarr949
      @tombarr949 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Uh, an ounce of welding rod while you are using thousands of pounds of planes to kill the good guys???

  • @Ranzoe813
    @Ranzoe813 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    They had a experimental ohka missile that if deployed would have wielded the operator inside launched from the h8k i think

  • @fasted8468
    @fasted8468 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    "SAMURAI" tells of how the first time they were ordered to kamikaze into the ships, noone did, they all returned. And were not admonished for it.
    The damned proximity charge... if not for that K tactics would have worked pretty well.

  • @JDRyder23
    @JDRyder23 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Jedi: "It's dishonorable"
    Sith: "You're a weakling"

  • @JohnathanSoren
    @JohnathanSoren 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Those torpedos were probably safer than an Oceangate sub.

  • @starzkream
    @starzkream 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I have also heard a rumor that they dropped the landing gear on takeoff so that they could not land.

    • @torg2126
      @torg2126 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's more about weight savings, as well as cutting down on drag. A lot of landing gears where permanently fixed

    • @redrick8900
      @redrick8900 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can land without landing gear.

  • @DomHamilton-wu3fw
    @DomHamilton-wu3fw 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    No they thought it an honor to die for the emperor and homeland

    • @deutsche9025
      @deutsche9025 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      which is what he meant when he said they were volunteers

    • @Peter..Griffin
      @Peter..Griffin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Also, they knew that they would end up dead from the war anyways, so why wait.

    • @RaveDecoy242
      @RaveDecoy242 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's a myth they already debunked, with sources from survivors of the Imperial Japanese army. There would be kamikaze missions where some would return, with the excuse of "not finding any targets". They will not kill these men because trained pilots were getting rarer and rarer. Stop mythologizing war criminals. They're already monstrous as they were.

    • @Peaches-i2i
      @Peaches-i2i 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      People are not a monolith.

  • @scottjuhnke6825
    @scottjuhnke6825 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    I think the issue here has a lot to do with the Western inability to wrap their heads around the whole Kamikaze tactic. I will admit I inherited that from my parents, Dad served in the Navy.
    I believe it is Military History Visualized has a great video explaining the very rational reasons for the Japanese to embrace this tactic.

    • @bigchungus4336
      @bigchungus4336 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Nothing rational about it, just desperate

    • @scottjuhnke6825
      @scottjuhnke6825 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@bigchungus4336 Desperation certainly played a part, but it was, nonetheless, very rational.
      If you send 20 dive, or torpedo bombers at a US carrier, how many get through? Not very many, and even fewer will land hits. If you send out those same 20 aircraft on a kamikaze run, your odds are far greater that the planes will get through, and a significantly higher number of them will cause damage.
      In a situation where there are a rapidly diminishing number of aircraft, it is a very rational use of those resources.

    • @Cybermat47
      @Cybermat47 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@scottjuhnke6825the thing that makes it irrational is that Japan had already lost the war. It would have been far more logical for the Japanese government to simply surrender to the Allies instead of continuing to get their own people killed.

    • @scottjuhnke6825
      @scottjuhnke6825 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@Cybermat47 From our perspective. Japan was hoping it could cause enough damage, and casualties that the US, in particular, would seek peace on favorable terms.
      It just wasn't in their culture either. We can't judge them from our perspective, and values. In JPan during this period, the Japanese saw themselves as the pinnacle. Everyone else was lesser. They simply were not going to just give up. Listen to the Emperor's announcement. He said something about the war having turned not necessarily in their favor. Even in abject defeat the language does not reflect that.
      They were very rational when you try to understand it from their point of view.

    • @justinlast2lastharder749
      @justinlast2lastharder749 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@scottjuhnke6825The problem simply is that Kamikaze was not a good tactic. Here's the thing about using Fighters instead of Kamikaze...a Fighter can make multiple passes. It can fight in multiple battles. It can eliminate other fighters and targets. A successful Kamikaze however is a One Shot Weapon. There is a Reason Frontline Troops carry weapons capable of Automatic Fire instead of Bazookas. Sure the Automatic Weapons can miss, but you can fire them multiple times. A Bazooka is pretty much a Single Fire Weapon. Sure, when it hits the target it does a lot of damage...but that is only when it hits the target and you have no second chance.
      Zero's did very well in Dogfights until the Mustang came around. Having more Skilled Pilots in a Capable Aircraft is much more valuable than throwing away your pilots in disposable bomb planes. Effective Air Combat is something only experienced pilots are capable of. If you are Kamikazing constantly, you do not have the Veteran Pilots that should be the backbone of your Air Force.

  • @BeanyBabe420
    @BeanyBabe420 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A “certain degree of peer pressure and strong arming” feels like a huge understatement

  • @calebharry
    @calebharry 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I like the way you intro the video with the head swish and noise to go with it. Content was good but the intro had be locked in.

  • @C88_4
    @C88_4 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    early version of the iron lung game

  • @wilsontheknight
    @wilsontheknight 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Peer pressured and strong arming does not qualify them as being volunteers. That’s what we would call coercion with the threat of violence.

    • @justinlast2lastharder749
      @justinlast2lastharder749 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Not exactly. It was Peer Pressure, but they didn't need to be strong armed. When your culture views martyrdom as the highest honor and accomplishment, you get a long of willing volunteers for it.

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Except in many cases they weren't peer pressured or strong armed. They were fanatically volunteering to die. Suicide bombers aren't coerced, they genuinely are that zealous.

    • @ethanedwards422
      @ethanedwards422 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If you listened properly, most cases were people volunteering, while few were strong armed and pressured into it.

  • @leftblank
    @leftblank 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    How horrific it all was

  • @savory_
    @savory_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Being welded into a torpedo is even more horrifying.

  • @PittsPics
    @PittsPics 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Certain degree of peer pressure is putting it lightly.

  • @archmagos1436
    @archmagos1436 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I feel like, if you had to weld someone into a plane to fly it, you're better off just *not* - - do you really want that person who probably now hates you welded into a plane?

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Well, it never happened, so trying to explain how it's a bad idea is kind of superfluous.

    • @richardlionerheart1945
      @richardlionerheart1945 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That flag looks better with 2 heads

  • @alexadamson9959
    @alexadamson9959 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Why did I read the thumbnail as “why the kamikaze pilots welded the sun into their aircraft.”?
    It’s late and I’m tired.

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice Tanya pfp

  • @AmberAmber
    @AmberAmber 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Dude you look like Michael Caine!!

    • @EGarrett01
      @EGarrett01 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And I don't blink. And I don't blink. And I don't blink.

  • @irenehigginbotham6392
    @irenehigginbotham6392 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for your service and this report.

  • @kioshekat7931
    @kioshekat7931 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it is good to know the ones that had missed or had mechanical issues had the opportunity to return and try again at what they believed was their duty instead of sitting feeling like a failure in death.

  • @Davie-jx4rh
    @Davie-jx4rh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    ‘Certain degree of peer pressure’ my brother it was not opt in it was opt out
    They were given all their fuel and not sealed in though, as there was no guarantee they’d even find a ship and losing a plane for no gain was what the kamikaze tactic was developed to prevent
    I remember something about a Japanese ace pretty much saying that pitting green pilots against seasoned aces was just the same amount of suicide

  • @GeldtheGelded
    @GeldtheGelded 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    A human piloted *what?*

    • @sirhenrymorgan1187
      @sirhenrymorgan1187 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Torpedo. Yes, the Japanese had suicide bomber torpedos that were manually piloted from the inside.

    • @KPW2137
      @KPW2137 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@sirhenrymorgan1187 and very ineffective at that - Kaiten in theory was sort of serious threat, but in reality the weapon was problematic.

    • @sirhenrymorgan1187
      @sirhenrymorgan1187 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@KPW2137 Indeed. Kamikaze and Kaiten were occasionally useful, but ultimately more wasteful and desperate than anything else. How many young men were sent to their deaths only for Japan to unconditionally surrender in the end? Absolutely senseless...
      I think Japan was banking moreso on the psychological impact of suicide bombers rather than practicality. "Look at how fanatical and devoted we our to our Emperor! Aren't we scary!? Absolutely terrifying! We will fight til the last man! If you want this brutality to end, it is up to YOU to surrender, America!"

    • @bilalsadiq1450
      @bilalsadiq1450 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I remembered the Kaiten from the game 'Battlestations: Pacific' back on the 360. Very morbid in hindsight, piloting the sub in the Japanese missions.

    • @Sol_Invictus_
      @Sol_Invictus_ 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@sirhenrymorgan1187 on the idea of kamikaze attacks being a waste of men and resources it's somewhat of a misconception. The kamikaze attacks would see about half the casualties of torpedo bombers due to smaller attack forces being committed. They would also use planes with a simpler design and the pilots would be less well trained than other pilots so they wouldn't be loosing their best in these attacks

  • @jakealcock5905
    @jakealcock5905 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Also to note, the pilots who returned were extremely shamed for the rest of their life and often killed themselves.
    Search up the poem: Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland.

    • @rap2xtrooper878
      @rap2xtrooper878 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Not really. Kamikazes were very much encouraged to return to base if ever they didn't encounter any Allied ships (a hard-learned lesson from the first kamikaze units in the Philippines). They were realizing that a lot of kamikazes were crashing themselves into the ocean even if they didn't spot any enemy ships, so they were later explicitly ordered to stop wasting their precious planes and payloads and just return back to base if no contacts were made. That was part of why regular Japanese fighter units were ordered to escort kamikazes - They weren't escorting them so much as because they suspected them of cowardice, but because they wanted to make sure they were actually even dying from the enemy.
      But yes, there was a very real stigma around kamikaze pilots who didn't manage to die before the war ended. But as a rule, this stigma only applied to the post-war Japanese culture. There was nothing intrinsically wrong with the act of a kamikaze returning back to base in the hopes of flying another mission another time, though.

    • @orlandof6496
      @orlandof6496 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bit of an exaggeration. Returning to base(with the goal of trying again on another mission), was perfectly acceptable.

  • @ronbyrd1616
    @ronbyrd1616 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have it on close second hand knowledge that those who survived by missing their target and crashing into the sea were not picked up, but met a very quick end .

  • @notablediscomfort
    @notablediscomfort 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagine your torpedo misses, runs out of fuel, and just starts sinking.

  • @maximilianoleon2
    @maximilianoleon2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    They were high on meth

  • @JustinTime-rg7ks
    @JustinTime-rg7ks 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    There's not a myth(Lie) that hasn't been told

    • @aceman0000099
      @aceman0000099 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah like me NOT sleeping with your mother. That's an Obvious lie

  • @podcastfan2544
    @podcastfan2544 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    They were bolted in

    • @LordOfAnal
      @LordOfAnal 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They were not, as this guy said. They were willing participants

    • @tesserae-c2y
      @tesserae-c2y 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Myth. The Japanese soldiers did this willingly in service of the Emperor. I think this is a concept a lot of modern people find hard to understand.

  • @KolMan2000
    @KolMan2000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know people talk about it all the time, but Godzilla Minus One is actually a great modern telling of this situation. The main character was a Kamikaze that abandoned his duty by lying that he had mechanical issues. He returned home and was later plagued with the feeling that he had failed his country, that the world would be better off if he did his job, and even believed to the point that the great life he later had was just a dream and he really died either fulfilling his duty or to Godzilla in the opening scene. It really is a gripping character dynamic that is mostly foreign to western audiences.

  • @erichanastacio9695
    @erichanastacio9695 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    According to the movie Godzilla Minus One, there weren't any seat ejector / parachutes in the kamikaze planes. So it's useless to save themselves when they're diving into the enemy.

  • @letsmakeacomment1649
    @letsmakeacomment1649 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Wait, a second; if they could ditch the plain after missing the target, then why wouldn’t they just ditch the plane anyway?

    • @earthfederationspaceforce9844
      @earthfederationspaceforce9844 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      and get shot by all those AA fire? nah.

    • @qwardel7799
      @qwardel7799 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Because they were soldiers?

    • @ianbelletti6241
      @ianbelletti6241 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They were guiding the missile. By the time impact was assured it was too late to eject anyway. The ejection for missing is because there's no honor in dying outside of combat.

  • @robertheuer7670
    @robertheuer7670 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    burtal

  • @rev.leonidasw.smiley6300
    @rev.leonidasw.smiley6300 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    No, Kamikaze pilots were dedicated to their WW2 objective.

    • @RaveDecoy242
      @RaveDecoy242 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Literally a myth thats already debunked, even by survivors of the Imperial Japanese army. They were mostly crazed fanatics, but not all of them were willing to die.

  • @franklawrence1232
    @franklawrence1232 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    One time Godzilla showed up and scared the pilot into turning back

  • @phil20_20
    @phil20_20 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I read an autobiography of a Kaitan pilot, called, "Suicide Submarine." Very interesting. A lot of them got ditched or floundered, killing the pilot inside.

  • @ShortEnterprises
    @ShortEnterprises 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They also had the "cherry blossom". A piloted V1 type aircraft. It was deployed from the bomb bay of a Japanese bomber. The Cherry Blossom pilots were unable to egress once deployed.

  • @NoriKassidy
    @NoriKassidy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Their dedication and loyalty is both respectable and worrying. Though I know my hopes are futile, I pray something like this never has to happen again.

  • @ObviouslyBenHughes
    @ObviouslyBenHughes 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never knew Tre Cool was also a history buff

  • @NunnyNugget
    @NunnyNugget 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    “There was a certain degree of peer pressure”
    Like… basically being treated as if they were dead by all their loved ones if they ever decided to bail and come back?

  • @rei_cirith
    @rei_cirith 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    honestly, being sealed into a torpedo sounds even worse than being sealed into a plane.

  • @AttackACactus
    @AttackACactus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why do you look like you were just woken up when the video starts? You get my sub for that. 😂