My da was working at the Quincy (Massachusetts) shipyard when the Lexington was sunk. He was working on a new carrier at the time. The Navy renamed that carrier-in-progress to Lexington…CVN-16. He (much later) was able to take a cruise on the Lex as it supported Naval carrier landing training out of Pensacola. He enjoyed talking to the crew and showing them what he had worked on. As a parting gift, he received a fantastic black and white aerial photo of the Lex making an extreme turn to port. He proudly mounted it over his fireplace.
Fore River Shipyard, to be specific. We had friends that owned a house on the water looking under the Fore River Bridge which effectively began the heart of the shipyard, which built almost everything that floate. Most especially the USS Massachusetts BB 59. "Big Mamie" was the only battlewagon to return with her crew intact after seeing action Atlantic and Pacific theaters. We launched at the ramp on Back River to go fishing in the sixties when the channel between Hingham and Quincy bays might still be navigated by an actual ship. Lack of deepwater access doomed the yard.
My dad served on the USS Yorktown. She got shot all to.hell in this battle, sailed to Pearl Harbor, was repaired and participated in the defeat of the Japanese navy at Midway. My dad transferred off the Yorktown while at Pearl Harbor, met my mother, and here I am.
As an Aussie I’m eternally grateful to America for stopping the invasion of my country (with our minor help). Some do-gooders in Australia today are anti-American, just want to say we are not all like that.
My Dad was in seven major battles in the pacific on USS Portland heavy Cruiser. This was his first battle. The sister ship to the USS Portland was the USS Indianapolis. These Cruisers and just about all the other Cruiser did what they called lone raiding mission's. Pretty much like USS Indianapolis last mission. I had met many of them. They all seen a lot of combat. Pretty though men. May God bless them all now. In Jesus mighty name Amen...
@@josephwachowskiiii7405 The USS Indianapolis delivered the atomic bomb to tinian. It was sunk on the return route. They unfairly punished the captain who was exonerated after his death.
@@nicholasbrowning4558 Your right on all points. What a lot of people fail to understand. Battleship were not in most of the engagements. Mainly because they were to slow. They had a hard time keeping up with the convoys. Like the night action at Guadalcanal. It was Nov./12/13 /1943. There were no carriers, Battleships. It was Cruisers, and Destroyers on our side. The uss Indianapolis wasto for away on another mission. The five solivan brother's were on Light Cruiser Uss Juneau it's Batteries were Mainly for Anti aircraft. I always understood all hands died When that ship went down. My Dad was the closest to the Torpedo that hit uss Portland And survived. He was messed up though. Bad ass battle. That night they stopped the Tokyo Exspress. 7000 Japanese Marines and soldiers Headed for Guadalcanal Island Ended up in the Iron Bottom Sound. On Guadalcanal Island They were already season, but 800 U.S. Marines. They just got their supplies on the morning of the Nov/12 /1943. If the 7000 troops would have landed. From what I upstand. They our Marines would have been wiped out. When the battle started in the Iron Bottom Sound. It reads like this. It was 01:58 that's a.m. The minute the Japanese turned on the search light that Is when Hell decented on earth. It was bad. I personally new some of the men who were there. The U.S Marines there ran to the shoreline. They said eveytime the big guns would go off or a ship would explode. The tree line and the Marines clothes and the men them self would be knocked backwards from the blast. It is written in different book that the Marines There witnessing the battle. Were glad they weren't on any of the ships. Two U.S Navy Anamerials were killed in the first 90 seconds of the battle. On Nov./ 14/ 1943 Uss George Washington and USS South Dakota both Battleships to do biding with remaining Japanese ships Mainly blow the Crap out of them. Hope this sheds some light. Hey have a great day...Joe
I attended the 50th anniversary of the battle of coral sea in Sydney Australia in the 90's when I was on the USS Independence CV-62. it was so awesome, the Aussies were such nice people to us all.
My late father was in a combat engineer battalion on the Island of Tana during the war. They built two hospitals and airstrips. He told me they saw the flashes and heard the low booms from this battle on the horizon of the South Pacific. They all agreed that was close enough.
Biggest result of Coral Sea is that it took 2 Japanese aircraft carriers out of action for the Battle of Midway less than a month later. There has been much speculation regarding how Midway would have played out if the Kido Butai had its full compliment of 6 full size aircraft carriers. Excellent video.
By combining the surviving air crew from both carriers, they had enough to man the undamaged Zuikaku for the midway battle. But Japanes carrier doctrine, for safety reasons dictated that air crew could not operat from a carrier they where not trained on. So she stayed in port while the rest of kido butai sailed for midway. Contrast that with American doctrine. Not only was the uss Yorktown mostly made up from the air crew from the uss Saratoga (Saratoga was in transit from the west coast and couldent make it to midway in time) but 3 of her boilers were damaged and she had sever structural damage with civilian workers still onboard repairing here during the battle. 😄
Well presented; but as said by a previous commenter, the most important result of Coral Sea was the unavailability if both Shokaku and Zuikaku for the Midway operation. This allowed Fletcher to be the victorious tactical commander in that battle also.
Keep these awesome videos coming , as a retired soldier I find myself very interested mostly in the navy campaign verses the army side in the pacific, maybe because I kind of know a lot more about the army side of things , now boys don’t get upset there’s no disrespect intended , not from this old vet . Thank you for the great video.
My dad was on the USS Northampton......it ended up being sunk off Guadalcanal, he swam to savo island. A strange side note is James Robard was a shipmate. At some point the USS Northampton had the USS Hornet under tow.
You forgot to mention that because the battle of the Coral Sea, the Shokaku could not participate in the battle of Midway. Furthermore the flightcrews of the Zuikaku were thinned out, and could also not participate in the battle of Midway. Had both ships been there the outcome could have been different. You might also have mentioned one particular Dauntless pilot: Lieutenant John James Powers from the US Yorktown. He attacked the Shokaku with the words: "I am going to get a direct hit if I have to lay it on the flight deck." He could not recover from his dive and died. He was posthumously awarded with the Medal Of Honor.
You are so correct. If one more carrier had been there we would have lost more ships. Did you know that Yamamoto sent a carrier task force to attack the Aleutian Islands to draw the US ships away from Midway?
@@richardmeo2503 Of course. I am 64 now and have read about the pacific war, and watched documentaires since I was 17. In fact, when the battle of Midway would have gone wrong the war in Europe probably would have lasted at least at least a year longer.
My mother's best friend from school was engaged to a fighter pilot on the Yorktown. Sadly I cannot remember his name, and much sadder he was killed in the battle of the Coral Sea. I'm a geezer now at 66.
@@briankorbelik2873 Gettin old stinks. The Admiral in charge was either cursed or just plain bad. He delayed and then ran away from Wake when the Marines needed him, lost Lexington at Coral Sea, and Yorktown at Midway. His performance at Guadalcanal was defeatist, and that was his last fight, and he was reassigned.
A sort of ‘Won the battle, lost the war’ result. In this case, the US fleet defeated one important man. The admiral who called off the invasion. He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and Yamamoto knew it full well.
Legitimate documentaries need to develop a system to let viewers know if the images being displayed are real, cinematic or CGI. Perhaps a symbol in a corner of the screen.
Yeah, this "documentary" is mostly fluff with a terrible robovoice. This might work for a middle schooler's introduction to the battle, but it's risibly amateurish otherwise.
Frank Jack Fletcher was a very underrated combatant! "Black Shoe carrier admiral" by John B. Lundstrom rehabilitates this much maligned Admiral's reputation. Just for the record, I'm Andy, Annmarie's husband and I'm responsible for the content of this post not her.
The SDB had a positive air to air kill ratio, because they were often used like this to attack incoming bombers. I don't know of another bomber in WWII or any time since that did that. Reliable and deadly bombing or being used like a fighter. Better than the SB2C that replaced them IMO.
Look up History Channel Dogfights. They recreate the story of Swede Vedjesa (not sure about the spelling). He was an SBD Dauntless pilot who was jumped by 3 zeros at once and survived the dogfight killing at least 2. He was transfered to a Wildcat after that. You can probably find it on youtube.
I still admire the Japanese culture, how a relatively small island nation became a world power is amazing.not excusing their atrocities….but admiring their productivity to this day.
I get that, In James Jones novel "The Thin red line," one of the characters (can't recall which, but the scene is on Guadalcanal) thinks "About the Japanese, with their manners, their ritual tea drinking, their incredibly delicate paintings, and beheadings.." I'm paraphrasing terribly but you get the idea
Like Germany if they had just used their technology and economy, they could have established themselves as a world power without killing hundreds of thousands of people!
Thank you for posting this rare footage. The computer imaging has become so sophisticated that it is almost impossible to tell what is real footage and what is computer generated! This is even more of a problem, when you throw in scene from Japanese feature movies and those od Hollywood. Those dogfights cannot possibly be authentic or real, since that would require a filming crew aboard a fighter plane to film while the pilot is trying not to die, but kill the enemy. the very rare, bulky and expensivedashcams of the time--if any--could not possibly film the events this clearly and extensively. Btw/ This and the Battle of Midway are two turning points in the war for primacy between US and Japan.
This video is far from a documentary. It shows a little clip of this and a little clip of that, most of which has nothing to do with the Coral Sea battle. There's a Texan masquerading as a Zero (from some Hollywood war film), Hornet appears, (she was not at the Coral Sea), we see USN aircraft in 1944 markings (not 1942).
Valid points, but the only way to rectify this would be to jump into a time machine and film the events as they happen. Because this is not currently possible, we will have to make do with second best.
@@WorldWar2inColours His criticisms are over pedantique trivial matters, this was a great video, very well put together, best one on Coral Sea I've seen. hope you do some more
Yeah,just Ridiculous how this guy has the nerve of doing such thing without any knowledge of this battle and probably from all the war. The Us carriers were the Lexington ( who later went down) and the Yorktown. What a joke.
Poor Shōhō. Brand new lil’ Light Carrier, first real day on the job… ends up eating more live ordinance in 10 minutes than most of Pearl took in 2 hours.
Shoho's CAP at the time of the attack consisted of 2 now obsolete A5M "Claude" fighters, which was the contingent of fighters Shoho carried, and one A6M Zeke/Zero which shot down one of the torpedo bombers. Since they suspected American carriers presence following the attack on two of their tankers, if Izawa had more Zeke's aboard, he would have assigned them to CAP duty. The fact that 3 fighters were the CAP indicates catching him either retrieving for refueling or launching afterwards. Since Shoho's maintenance logs probably went down with her I'm suspecting some accounts might rely on F4F pilot claims . . . and that needs vetting regardless of nationality.
Japan won tactically but lost strategically. And the battle at Coral Sea proved that Zero fighters were not invincible. Along with Battleship Yamato, I guess Zero fighters were overrated.
Actually it doesn't mean shit if they won or lost this battle... they lost the war ending in two cities being vaporized. So it really doesn't matter what battles they won or lost, in the end they were taking orders from US officials.
Indeed. I can't imagine how many sailors burned to death or died from smoke or fuel inhalation. Serving in the US Navy was no picnic in WW2. The safest sea duty was Fletcher class destroyers and those made after 1943. Their mortality rate was around 12%. Battleships were also very safe duty all things considered. The US Navy did not lose a single battleship after Jan 1942. But many a sailor died due to kamikazi planes.
This video is rife with inaccuracies, the first being that the oiler Neosho was not sunk during the battle, it limped away got the fires out and flooding stopped and was able to off load much of it’s cargo before being scuttled several days later.
You state riddled with inconsistencies, but mention just one that was not inconsistent. When the Neosho sank on May 11, the Zuikaku was still in the coral sea, searching for Yorktown, even though she was in the process of starting her return voyage to Japan and Operation RY had not been cancelled yet, so the sinking was well within the confines of the battle.
@@WorldWar2inColours you said that Enterprise and Hornet were 10k miles away from the coral sea. the coral sea is less than 4000 miles from mainland japan
@UncommonSense1776 I was not aware that the oiler Neosho managed to off load her cargo. Just goes to show you can miss information. Thanks for the extra info.
The Japanese code was NOT BROKEN UNTIL THE DAYS LEADING UP TO MIDWAY ..... not earlier here as stated - lest I be wrong - I think you have made an error in that regard.
The very beginning the closed caption text says dogless dive bomber and the audio sounds like that also. Unless there is some secret airplane this ex captain is unaware of I am pretty sure that should be Douglas dive bomber!
The planes were actually dogless as dogs weren't allowed to fly airplanes in these days, to this days dogs aren't allowed in the navy and I would agree this is a great injustice but it is what it is
It was a joint effort; the dive bombers, who scored two hits, were from the Shōkaku. While the killing blow was delivered by Zuikaku’s torpedo bombers, which ruptured the aviation fuel tanks with two torpedo hits,
I wish Hollywood could make an epic 3 hour long CGI sea battle movie. With all navies around the world, gathering up in the Indian Ocean to square off with each other, with so much action and tremendous explosions, in slow motion done so incredibly well for at least a 24 hours long battle. And with a Gerald Ford Class Carrier U.S.S. Enterprise (of that movie) being the only ship to survive the bloody epic battle and sailing off home, as the sun rises behind her. It'd be a perfect WW3 sea battle scenario.
When you see this real life video footage, you know this was Two Empires fight for Survival, If I could describe Hell this footage pretty much looks like it, you had to have nerves of steel to survive this bsttle
Repair crews requested 3 months to fix the Yorktown after it limped back to Pearl, Nimitz gave them 3 days. Repair crews did it in 2 days knowing it was needed for Midway.
A great victory for the US is what was said. Wow, unbelievable and I'm American. It was a pure loss. The Japanese called off the invasion due to stupidity, not that the US Navy stopped them. BTW, these two Japanese carriers show up again at Santa Cruz with pretty much the same result, Hornet sunk and Enterprise heavily damaged.
Ah great...Using the video of USS Enterprise during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons when the 3rd bomb hit her while describing Yorktowns bombardment at Coral Sea...Great job guys keep doing things wrongly and dishonestly. Funny you can even see the list the Enterprise has because her steering engines temporarily broke down afterwards and was stuck...Really great job guys using wrong footage of two entirely different Carrier Battles. Great job.
Very good footage! But why did it take 7 of our torpedoes and several bomb hits to sink a LIGHT carrier? Japanese torpedoes we’re SO much better than ours!
Ha ha ha! Oh my Lord this is mine! She is a travel nurse and was clear across the country for 6 months. I can tell you the exact day and time that her switch flipped. I knew something was wrong. She denied I got proof,she denied. Told me that I was imagining things and to get therapy or get out. So I did. I still had my doubts. Fast forward 3 months and I found proof. Real tangible proof. And when I confronted her she said good for you. After about two days of silent treatment the love bombing started. I took her back. Now a year later she is across the country and wants to have a open relationship. Guess she needs a different supply. Lol.
The video confuses the Youktown and the Lexington ! Very disturbing that this video has been released... All of these unknowing souls below have learned it wrong !!! SHAME ON THE PRODUCERS !
Excellent mix of vintage footage with digital recreation!
if u r interested there is an uploaded series here in youtube similar to this vid its called Battle 360
My da was working at the Quincy (Massachusetts) shipyard when the Lexington was sunk. He was working on a new carrier at the time. The Navy renamed that carrier-in-progress to Lexington…CVN-16. He (much later) was able to take a cruise on the Lex as it supported Naval carrier landing training out of Pensacola. He enjoyed talking to the crew and showing them what he had worked on. As a parting gift, he received a fantastic black and white aerial photo of the Lex making an extreme turn to port. He proudly mounted it over his fireplace.
Fore River Shipyard, to be specific. We had friends that owned a house on the water looking under the Fore River Bridge which effectively began the heart of the shipyard, which built almost everything that floate. Most especially the USS Massachusetts BB 59. "Big Mamie" was the only battlewagon to return with her crew intact after seeing action Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
We launched at the ramp on Back River to go fishing in the sixties when the channel between Hingham and Quincy bays might still be navigated by an actual ship. Lack of deepwater access doomed the yard.
My dad served on the USS Yorktown. She got shot all to.hell in this battle, sailed to Pearl Harbor, was repaired and participated in the defeat of the Japanese navy at Midway. My dad transferred off the Yorktown while at Pearl Harbor, met my mother, and here I am.
As an Aussie I’m eternally grateful to America for stopping the invasion of my country (with our minor help). Some do-gooders in Australia today are anti-American, just want to say we are not all like that.
Hey, well, we Americans have the democrat party, and those bastards hate America even more. More than anyone, anywhere, on the whole F’ing planet.
They saved us 3 times,ww1ww2cold war
Aussies are great it’s our government’s that are causing us trouble
The Japanese only discussed invading Australia and then it was rejected as unattainable due to lack of land forces and shipping.
@@anthonyeaton5153where did you hear this fairy tale?
My Dad was in seven major battles in the pacific on USS Portland heavy Cruiser. This was his first battle. The sister ship to the USS Portland was the USS Indianapolis. These Cruisers and just about all the other Cruiser did what they called lone raiding mission's. Pretty much like USS Indianapolis last mission. I had met many of them. They all seen a lot of combat. Pretty though men. May God bless them all now. In Jesus mighty name Amen...
@@josephwachowskiiii7405 The USS Indianapolis delivered the atomic bomb to tinian. It was sunk on the return route. They unfairly punished the captain who was exonerated after his death.
@@nicholasbrowning4558
Your right on all points. What a lot of people fail to understand. Battleship were not in most of the engagements. Mainly because they were to slow. They had a hard time keeping up with the convoys. Like the night action at Guadalcanal. It was
Nov./12/13 /1943. There were no carriers, Battleships. It was
Cruisers, and Destroyers on
our side. The uss Indianapolis wasto for away on another mission. The five solivan brother's were on Light
Cruiser Uss Juneau it's
Batteries were Mainly for
Anti aircraft. I always understood all hands died
When that ship went down.
My Dad was the closest to the
Torpedo that hit uss Portland
And survived. He was messed up though. Bad ass battle.
That night they stopped the Tokyo Exspress. 7000 Japanese Marines and soldiers
Headed for Guadalcanal Island
Ended up in the Iron Bottom Sound. On Guadalcanal Island
They were already season, but
800 U.S. Marines. They just got their supplies on the morning of the Nov/12 /1943.
If the 7000 troops would have
landed. From what I upstand.
They our Marines would have
been wiped out. When the battle started in the Iron Bottom Sound. It reads like
this. It was 01:58 that's a.m.
The minute the Japanese turned on the search light that
Is when Hell decented on earth. It was bad. I personally
new some of the men who were there. The U.S Marines
there ran to the shoreline. They
said eveytime the big guns would go off or a ship would
explode. The tree line and
the Marines clothes and the
men them self would be knocked backwards from
the blast. It is written in different book that the Marines
There witnessing the battle. Were glad they weren't on any of the ships. Two U.S Navy
Anamerials were killed in
the first 90 seconds of the
battle. On Nov./ 14/ 1943
Uss George Washington and
USS South Dakota both
Battleships to do biding
with remaining Japanese
ships Mainly blow the
Crap out of them. Hope this
sheds some light. Hey have
a great day...Joe
Bloody well done USA. The greatest generation.
I attended the 50th anniversary of the battle of coral sea in Sydney Australia in the 90's when I was on the USS Independence CV-62. it was so awesome, the Aussies were such nice people to us all.
The Coral Sea is between Brisbane and Port Moresby
My late father was in a combat engineer battalion on the Island of Tana during the war.
They built two hospitals and airstrips.
He told me they saw the flashes and heard the low booms from this battle on the horizon of the South Pacific.
They all agreed that was close enough.
RIP
To the 715 US Navy men and airmen, and 966 Imperial Japanese Navy men and airmen who were killed in the Battle of the Coral Sea
i was just thinking about the same mate, what a time, what men...!
rip and respect to all of them
My grandmother's brother (my great-uncle?) was one of the men from the Yorktown that didn't come back.
Not only in stunning color, but with stunningly distorted aspect ratios at no extra charge!
Dad was on the Yorktown at Coral Sea and then lost her on his birthday.
He may have known my grandmother's brother (my great-uncle?). He was on the Yorktown at Coral Sea, and he's still there, God rest his soul.
Being a history buff, I find your narrations of these battles excellent. Especially impressed with you Japanese pronunciation. Great job.🤟
Biggest result of Coral Sea is that it took 2 Japanese aircraft carriers out of action for the Battle of Midway less than a month later. There has been much speculation regarding how Midway would have played out if the Kido Butai had its full compliment of 6 full size aircraft carriers. Excellent video.
By combining the surviving air crew from both carriers, they had enough to man the undamaged Zuikaku for the midway battle. But Japanes carrier doctrine, for safety reasons dictated that air crew could not operat from a carrier they where not trained on. So she stayed in port while the rest of kido butai sailed for midway. Contrast that with American doctrine. Not only was the uss Yorktown mostly made up from the air crew from the uss Saratoga (Saratoga was in transit from the west coast and couldent make it to midway in time) but 3 of her boilers were damaged and she had sever structural damage with civilian workers still onboard repairing here during the battle. 😄
Unbelievable what they all went through, no wonder there is ptsd.
Well presented; but as said by a previous commenter, the most important result of Coral Sea was the unavailability if both Shokaku and Zuikaku for the Midway operation. This allowed Fletcher to be the victorious tactical commander in that battle also.
Keep these awesome videos coming , as a retired soldier I find myself very interested mostly in the navy campaign verses the army side in the pacific, maybe because I kind of know a lot more about the army side of things , now boys don’t get upset there’s no disrespect intended , not from this old vet . Thank you for the great video.
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1:26 the coral sea is less than 4000 miles from mainland japan. for them to be 10000 miles away they would have to be on the other side of the earth.
True, thanks for the update.
Great compilation of footage, well written scripting but lose the computer voice over, hire a voice. I subbed though
thank you for the sub
Really good video
My dad was on the USS Northampton......it ended up being sunk off Guadalcanal, he swam to savo island. A strange side note is James Robard was a shipmate. At some point the USS Northampton had the USS Hornet under tow.
You forgot to mention that because the battle of the Coral Sea, the Shokaku could not participate in the battle of Midway. Furthermore the flightcrews of the Zuikaku were thinned out, and could also not participate in the battle of Midway. Had both ships been there the outcome could have been different.
You might also have mentioned one particular Dauntless pilot: Lieutenant John James Powers from the US Yorktown. He attacked the Shokaku with the words: "I am going to get a direct hit if I have to lay it on the flight deck." He could not recover from his dive and died. He was posthumously awarded with the Medal Of Honor.
You are so correct. If one more carrier had been there we would have lost more ships. Did you know that Yamamoto sent a carrier task force to attack the Aleutian Islands to draw the US ships away from Midway?
@@richardmeo2503 Of course. I am 64 now and have read about the pacific war, and watched documentaires since I was 17. In fact, when the battle of Midway would have gone wrong the war in Europe probably would have lasted at least at least a year longer.
My mother's best friend from school was engaged to a fighter pilot on the Yorktown. Sadly I cannot remember his name, and much sadder he was killed in the battle of the Coral Sea. I'm a geezer now at 66.
@@briankorbelik2873 😔
@@briankorbelik2873 Gettin old stinks. The Admiral in charge was either cursed or just plain bad. He delayed and then ran away from Wake when the Marines needed him, lost Lexington at Coral Sea, and Yorktown at Midway. His performance at Guadalcanal was defeatist, and that was his last fight, and he was reassigned.
My dad was a radioman on the Astoria during that battle
The Battle of the Coral Sea was a pivotal battle of the Pacific War.
Omg. He was flying a Dogless torpedo bomber! He should have taken a Dog with him.
A sort of ‘Won the battle, lost the war’ result. In this case, the US fleet defeated one important man. The admiral who called off the invasion. He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and Yamamoto knew it full well.
Mr. Moto did the same thing at Pearl Harbor.
Legitimate documentaries need to develop a system to let viewers know if the images being displayed are real, cinematic or CGI. Perhaps a symbol in a corner of the screen.
Yeah, this "documentary" is mostly fluff with a terrible robovoice. This might work for a middle schooler's introduction to the battle, but it's risibly amateurish otherwise.
Time 9:52 looks like Ark Royal has sneaked into this production? Ju 87 Stuka bomb splashes in the Mediterranean?
That`s nothing ! Tora Tora Tora gets a look in as well !
Frank Jack Fletcher was a very underrated combatant! "Black Shoe carrier admiral" by John B. Lundstrom rehabilitates this much maligned Admiral's reputation. Just for the record, I'm Andy, Annmarie's husband and I'm responsible for the content of this post not her.
This was probably one of the bravest things that Nimitz ever did. He's a real fighting Admiral
It was kind of a draw but it stopped jaoan from expanding into australia. Then came midway and as an offensive navy for japan it was over.
It was a strategic victory if not a tactical one
The SDB had a positive air to air kill ratio, because they were often used like this to attack incoming bombers. I don't know of another bomber in WWII or any time since that did that. Reliable and deadly bombing or being used like a fighter. Better than the SB2C that replaced them IMO.
@@WilliamMcDougald-pm3fq Brit Navy Blackburn Skua dive bombers shot down quite a few Nazi bombers in the Norway campaign.
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935sbd's were even successful against zeros
Look up History Channel Dogfights. They recreate the story of Swede Vedjesa (not sure about the spelling). He was an SBD Dauntless pilot who was jumped by 3 zeros at once and survived the dogfight killing at least 2. He was transfered to a Wildcat after that. You can probably find it on youtube.
Damn good video! ✨👏🏼😎✨
War is horrible. This battle proves it.
Thanks for this 👍✈️🇳🇿
thanks for watching.
OUTSTANDING!!!
that footage starting at 8:58 is remarkable footage. Wow
I still admire the Japanese culture, how a relatively small island nation became a world power is amazing.not excusing their atrocities….but admiring their productivity to this day.
I get that, In James Jones novel "The Thin red line," one of the characters (can't recall which, but the scene is on Guadalcanal) thinks "About the Japanese, with their manners, their ritual tea drinking, their incredibly delicate paintings, and beheadings.." I'm paraphrasing terribly but you get the idea
Like Germany if they had just used their technology and economy, they could have established themselves as a world power without killing hundreds of thousands of people!
I don’t admire their culture as they used it for evil, same with Germany…..my dad had to fight that war.
1:28 - 10,000 miles from the Coral Sea? C'mon! More like 3,000 miles.
0:33 Uhhh, that's a scene from Tora Tora Tora, the attack on Perl Harbor, not the Coral Sea. I'm out of here.
VERY well presented.
Of course it's in colour. A lot of it is movie footage from much later.
Great video! I'm subscribed.
Awful, emotionless narration bot
I would have loved a Yorktown movie to coincide with the Midway movie.
The Yorktown was the Daniel Jackson of WW2, every time he was killed he just came back
Thank you for posting this rare footage. The computer imaging has become so sophisticated that it is almost impossible to tell what is real footage and what is computer generated! This is even more of a problem, when you throw in scene from Japanese feature movies and those od Hollywood. Those dogfights cannot possibly be authentic or real, since that would require a filming crew aboard a fighter plane to film while the pilot is trying not to die, but kill the enemy. the very rare, bulky and expensivedashcams of the time--if any--could not possibly film the events this clearly and extensively. Btw/ This and the Battle of Midway are two turning points in the war for primacy between US and Japan.
The carrier video of the aircraft carrier with the bouncing plane is form the Big E during the battle of Santa Cruz
Spectacular footage
90% of it from movies and CGI. Garbage, actually.
A really great video.
This video is far from a documentary. It shows a little clip of this and a little clip of that, most of which has nothing to do with the Coral Sea battle. There's a Texan masquerading as a Zero (from some Hollywood war film), Hornet appears, (she was not at the Coral Sea), we see USN aircraft in 1944 markings (not 1942).
Valid points, but the only way to rectify this would be to jump into a time machine and film the events as they happen. Because this is not currently possible, we will have to make do with second best.
@@WorldWar2inColours His criticisms are over pedantique trivial matters, this was a great video, very well put together, best one on Coral Sea I've seen. hope you do some more
Yeah,just Ridiculous how this guy has the nerve of doing such thing without any knowledge of this battle and probably from all the war.
The Us carriers were the Lexington ( who later went down) and the Yorktown.
What a joke.
Kinda difficult to have actual footage as there is very little.
Don’t be trivial
The balls on these Americans... blows my mind.
A terrific vid thanks!
Not entirely from Coral Sea. There is a carrier USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), which was not commissioned until May 1944.
Awesome vid.
Poor Shōhō. Brand new lil’ Light Carrier, first real day on the job… ends up eating more live ordinance in 10 minutes than most of Pearl took in 2 hours.
These guys had balls!
True, but they were doing what they had to do whether they wanted to or not...RIP to them all
Nice, but don’t pad out amazing historical footage with daft computer games and even more daft movies (Midway). The past was not filmed in HD.
Dont forget clip from tora tora tora
Aside from the bs excessive explosions,Midway was good .Wished that they put more Japanese pov of the battle in the film.
Shoho's CAP at the time of the attack consisted of 2 now obsolete A5M "Claude" fighters, which was the contingent of fighters Shoho carried, and one A6M Zeke/Zero which shot down one of the torpedo bombers. Since they suspected American carriers presence following the attack on two of their tankers, if Izawa had more Zeke's aboard, he would have assigned them to CAP duty. The fact that 3 fighters were the CAP indicates catching him either retrieving for refueling or launching afterwards. Since Shoho's maintenance logs probably went down with her I'm suspecting some accounts might rely on F4F pilot claims . . . and that needs vetting regardless of nationality.
Boo hoo
WTF was with the voice over?!
I seem to recall that the anti air guns were not upgraded until after this battle. Am I wrong or is this sloppy research.?
Why do they have the sirens from German JU 87 dive bombers on the soundtrack
It's not Douglas it's not dogless it's dauntless
Wow great footage !!!👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Actually Japanese won this battle at Corel Sea because Japanese Zeros sank a bigger and better Flattop carrier than lost of their Flattop
Actually they lost because they failed in their objective
Japan won tactically but lost strategically. And the battle at Coral Sea proved that Zero fighters were not invincible. Along with Battleship Yamato, I guess Zero fighters were overrated.
Actually it doesn't mean shit if they won or lost this battle... they lost the war ending in two cities being vaporized. So it really doesn't matter what battles they won or lost, in the end they were taking orders from US officials.
@@sheldonturley1849 Yes but it prevented Japan from expanding and invading Australia
At one point, both forces considered sending a surface force to attack the other! They both decided against it! They were only about 80 miles apart?
It is DOUGLAS not DOGLESS.
“He” is saying Dauntless.
Ai voice
A rotten way for Lexington to pass. The aviation fuel on board did more damage than any bomb hit.
Indeed. I can't imagine how many sailors burned to death or died from smoke or fuel inhalation. Serving in the US Navy was no picnic in WW2. The safest sea duty was Fletcher class destroyers and those made after 1943. Their mortality rate was around 12%. Battleships were also very safe duty all things considered. The US Navy did not lose a single battleship after Jan 1942. But many a sailor died due to kamikazi planes.
This video is rife with inaccuracies, the first being that the oiler Neosho was not sunk during the battle, it limped away got the fires out and flooding stopped and was able to off load much of it’s cargo before being scuttled several days later.
You state riddled with inconsistencies, but mention just one that was not inconsistent. When the Neosho sank on May 11, the Zuikaku was still in the coral sea, searching for Yorktown, even though she was in the process of starting her return voyage to Japan and Operation RY had not been cancelled yet, so the sinking was well within the confines of the battle.
Much of it is cargo? Pure genius.
@@WorldWar2inColours you said that Enterprise and Hornet were 10k miles away from the coral sea. the coral sea is less than 4000 miles from mainland japan
@UncommonSense1776 I was not aware that the oiler Neosho managed to off load her cargo. Just goes to show you can miss information. Thanks for the extra info.
The Japanese code was NOT BROKEN UNTIL THE DAYS LEADING UP TO MIDWAY ..... not earlier here as stated - lest I be wrong - I think you have made an error in that regard.
Not correct, it was broken about two months before, they only verified it just before midway
They never really broke it - they were able to put bits and pieces together, that's how they knew the IJN was going to the Coral Sea.
What a nightmare…and the Chinese want too have a go now…
Go where?
Chas the player..........not the speller.
The Chinese don't even have a carrier. They could fly SU's from land, but they would have a Hornets nest to deal with.
No nation to this day can compete with our military..........especially when it comes to our Navy!
@@mackydog99 Problem is, there are still nutjobs willing to try
The very beginning the closed caption text says dogless dive bomber and the audio sounds like that also. Unless there is some secret airplane this ex captain is unaware of I am pretty sure that should be Douglas dive bomber!
Dauntless
The planes were actually dogless as dogs weren't allowed to fly airplanes in these days, to this days dogs aren't allowed in the navy and I would agree this is a great injustice but it is what it is
What carrier sunk Lexington, shokaku or zuikaku?
It was a joint effort; the dive bombers, who scored two hits, were from the Shōkaku. While the killing blow was delivered by Zuikaku’s torpedo bombers, which ruptured the aviation fuel tanks with two torpedo hits,
@@WorldWar2inColours thanks !
We sunk the Lex scuttled😮
Why bother with the computer aided rubbish ? Its just insulting the intelligence of people.
Good Job. Its amazes me that the men on the Yorktown aren't celebrated.
I wish Hollywood could make an epic 3 hour long CGI sea battle movie. With all navies around the world, gathering up in the Indian Ocean to square off with each other, with so much action and tremendous explosions, in slow motion done so incredibly well for at least a 24 hours long battle. And with a Gerald Ford Class Carrier U.S.S. Enterprise (of that movie) being the only ship to survive the bloody epic battle and sailing off home, as the sun rises behind her. It'd be a perfect WW3 sea battle scenario.
Hell, I wish Hollywood could make a movie worth a damn period. 🤣🤣
I loled at the first guy on the radio tho
This is little more than a hodgepodge of random video clips that have been thrown together.
When you see this real life video footage, you know this was Two Empires fight for Survival, If I could describe Hell this footage pretty much looks like it, you had to have nerves of steel to survive this bsttle
More then that too luck luck luck duck tape, bailing wire and more luck to survive it all.
What about the Battle of the Coral Sea my father survived that
Thank you for your Father’s Service. I am a Desert Storm veteran from USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72
Repair crews requested 3 months to fix the Yorktown after it limped back to Pearl, Nimitz gave them 3 days. Repair crews did it in 2 days knowing it was needed for Midway.
That repair work was considered a miracle, but the ship was not at full capability during Midway and it may have played a part in Yorktown's sinking.
Very strange collwction of footage including the film Tora Tora Tora and tge movie Air Force
Wasp in the beginning? Why? 🤔
I didn't know american and japanese planes used the german Stuka air-sirenes 🤔
They only switch it on when they go down in flames😛
I can't listen to these IA generated voices. Its so impersonal. Why don't you just record it with your own voice?
Sounds narrated by AI. Not watching it.
10,000 miles? Naaah!
"was exalted to discover" makes no sense...
USA 🇺🇲 air force they're true pilots
Actually those fliers were Navy
A great victory for the US is what was said. Wow, unbelievable and I'm American. It was a pure loss. The Japanese called off the invasion due to stupidity, not that the US Navy stopped them. BTW, these two Japanese carriers show up again at Santa Cruz with pretty much the same result, Hornet sunk and Enterprise heavily damaged.
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Ah great...Using the video of USS Enterprise during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons when the 3rd bomb hit her while describing Yorktowns bombardment at Coral Sea...Great job guys keep doing things wrongly and dishonestly.
Funny you can even see the list the Enterprise has because her steering engines temporarily broke down afterwards and was stuck...Really great job guys using wrong footage of two entirely different Carrier Battles. Great job.
AI voice, grow a pair.
Fletcher used radar to locate CAP over Japanese carriers
Wourld Waur Twou.
Very good footage! But why did it take 7 of our torpedoes and several bomb hits to sink a LIGHT carrier? Japanese torpedoes we’re SO much better than ours!
Every other target is secondary to a carrier, and that was the only one around.
Probably about 20% of early U.S. torpedoes would explode during the first two years.
its NOT the first carrier battle-the first is ceylon april 1942
Shokaku > Sho-kah- koo
Zuikaku > Zwee-kah-koo
Also "Lady Lex" not Lux.
Shokaku
Hey, that's nice. What is it for Hiryu, Soryu, Kaga and Akagi?
@@williamhaynes4800 Hiryu=飛龍, Soryu=蒼龍, Kaga=加賀, Akagi=赤城
Thanks. I am making coffee table books of all Axis and Allies naval forces. I shall add this to the IJN book.
Quite some "life footage" from the movie "Tora Tora Tora!" 🙂
And you can tell, Tora Tora film is much better than some of the actual live film shot during the actual action.
Woow good batle
I hate AI computer voices
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She won't stay faithful to you.
The video confuses the Youktown and the Lexington ! Very disturbing that this video has been released... All of these unknowing souls below have learned it wrong !!! SHAME ON THE PRODUCERS !