Operation Vengeance: Avenging Pearl Harbor - Pacific War #74 DOCUMENTARY
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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues. In 1943, the Japanese still believed they could return to that era of recent glories; and Yamamoto was the symbol of hope. That hope is finally going to be crushed, as the daring Allied pilots launch Operation Vengeance, the payback for the infamous Attack on Pearl Harbor.
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#2 - Invasion of Malaya: • Japanese Invasion of M...
#3 - Guam, Wake, the Philippines: • Japan Attacks Everywhe...
#4 - Borneo, Philippines: • Japan Continues Attack...
#5 - Wake Island: • Fall of Wake Island - ...
#6 - Kampar: • Battle of Kampar - Pac...
#7 - Slim River: • Battle of Slim River -...
#8 - Dutch East Indies: • Battle for the Dutch E...
#9 - New Britain: • Invasion of New Britai...
#10 - Fall of Malaya: • Fall of Malaya - Pacif...
#11 - Makassar: • Battle of Makassar Str...
#12 - Fall of Singapore: • Fall of Singapore - Pa...
#13 - Sumatra: • Japanese Invasion of S...
#14 - Timor: • Japanese Invasion of T...
#15 - Java: • Fall of Java - Pacific...
#16 - Rangoon: • Fall of Rangoon - Paci...
#17 - US Response: • How the US Responded t...
#18 - Tojo: • Hideki Tojo: Bringing ...
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#20 - Bataan: • Fall of Bataan & The B...
#21 - Doolittle Raid: • Doolittle Raid: Americ...
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#27 - Sei-Go: • How Japan Responded to...
#28 - Midway: • Battle of Midway - Pac...
#29 - Japanese Invasion of Alaska: • Japanese Invasion of A...
#30 - Japanese Attack on Sydney: • Japanese Attack on Syd...
#31 - MacArthur and the Philippines: • How MacArthur Caused t...
#32 - Attacks New Guinea: • Japan Attacks New Guin...
#33 - Biological Warfare in China: • Japanese War Crimes: B...
#34 - Japan Attacks the Continental United States: • Japan Attacks the Cont...
#35 - Invasion of Buna-Gona: • Invasion of Buna-Gona ...
#36 - Kokoda: • Battle of Kokoda - Pac...
#37 - Invasion of Solomon Islands: • Invasion of Solomon Is...
#38 - Savo Island: • Battle of Savo Island ...
#39 - Raid on Makin Island: • Raid on Makin Island -...
#40 - Battle of Eastern Solomons: • Battle of Eastern Solo...
#41 - Isurava: • Australia's Thermopyla...
#42 - Milne Bay: • Battle of Milne Bay - ...
#43 - Bloody Ridge: • Battle of the Bloody R...
#44 - Ioribaiwa: • Battle of the Ioribaiw...
#45 - Matanikau: • Battle of Matanikau - ...
#46 - Cape Esperance: • Battle of Cape Esperan...
#47 - Kokoda Track Counteroffensive: • Kokoda Track Counterof...
#48 - Henderson Field: • Battle for Henderson F...
#49 - Santa Cruz Islands: • Battle of the Santa Cr...
#50 - Oivi-Gorari: • Battle of Oivi-Gorari ...
#51 - Guadalcanal: • Naval Battle of Guadal...
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#54 - Tassafaronga: • Battle of Tassafaronga...
#55 - Fall of Gona: • Fall of Gona - Allied ...
#56 - Battle of Mount Austen: • Battle of Mount Austen...
#57 - 1st Arakan Campaign: • First Arakan Campaign ...
#58 - Fall of Buna: • Fall of Buna - Pacific...
#59 - Sanananda: • Sanananda Campaign - P...
#60 - Galloping/Sea Horse: • Galloping Horse and Se...
#61 - End of Buna-Gona: • End of the Battle of B...
#62 - Rennell Island: • Battle of Rennell Isla...
#63 - End of Guadalcanal: • End of the Guadalcanal...
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#68 - Blackett Strait: • Battle at the Blackett...
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I'm not sure why, you had some glitches with your infoboxes in this episode. Wanted to point it out in case you didn't notice it when you went to publish. 🙂
Fun fact: The airplane wreckage can still be visited. After 80 years, it is still there in the jungle
No matter who says Yamamoto is a good or bad guy, we must admit he is the most important and greatest commander of IJN. The table has turned from now on
He had more vision, a better grasp of strategy, than any *two* other admirals in the navy at the time combined.
And whats more, having lived in the US for many years between the wars he knew *exactly* how much of a long shot this war with the US was.
There is no way to over state just how devastating his loss was to the IJN.
And Nagumo kept undermining him
The table had turned way earlier, but now it turns faster
@@zainmudassir2964 Nagumo, quite frankly, was, to borrow a phrase from a US general almost a hundred years previously: a hell of a damned fool.
Man had no business being put in charge of the Kido Butai.
True, but still maintained the "one big victory" fallacy that had become dogma in the IJN since they beat the Czars navy.
In some ways the fate of Yamamoto reflects the war effort of Japan as a whole. While at the start of the war, Japan was a formidable enemy with elite pilots and legendary commanders. However, as the war dragged on and casualties mounted they were unable to find replacements for those initial talented warriors. Japan's doctrine of keeping their elites at the front is the complete opposite of America's procedure of rotating ace pilots and commanders out of the front lines and into the training schools to ensure replacements maintained standard quality.
Not to spoil the future of the war too much, but after Yamamoto's death Japanese leadership would begin to make decisions that would best be described as highly questionable, for example the entire battle of the Philippines sea and the battle of Leyte Gulf
Keep in mind that one of the reasons the US had a rotation system was because the US had a greater population. They could be replaced and those rotated out of combat were used to train the next guy.
As Japan and Germany were losing pilots they couldn't be replaced - and they couldn't afford to rotate out their veterans.
Japan had two good commanders. The rest were all junk and preferred individual glory over winning the war with teamwork.
They are no spoilers in history
@@the_feedle haha, right? We know who won, bro.
@@the_feedle Well I don't so don't spoil it for me. Hate it when people ruin a good yarn by giving away the end.
Normally I think no one man can really change the course of a war, but Mitchell being able to navigate so perfectly over open ocean like that really did change the war.
Flying only 50 feet above the waves for that long in high heat..
And being able to navigate perfectly to intercept the target at that distance. What an absurd mission.
Yamamoto came from Nagaoka, Niigata, which I visited in 2011.
He didn’t want war with the US, and was only following orders. One of a few who can genuinely claim this excuse.
However, sending his entire itinerary by radio transmission was an act of idiocy on the part of Japan.
That's because they were still using the very same coding system as they did on December 7th. They did not think that the Americans would be able to break through their two layered security system. In other words, you needed a code book and a chiffer book in order to decipher the intercepted messages.
But Rochefort and his team were by this stage able to read the messages just as fast the Japanese themselves.
Interestingly, many Japanese officers, who had a chance to visit the USA before the war, recognized the foolishness of picking up a fight with Americans. Such officers include Admiral Yamamoto and General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Japanese Commander of Iwojima garrison).
Of course, some came up with different conclusions. Hideki Tojo, for example, visited the USA once and was convinced that Americans were soft people who only cared about making money, sex, partying, and drinking.
@@Jedsa009 Generally speaking most high ranking IJN officers don't want to fight the West, because their ranks were more educated to fit their job which gives them better wisdom in analyzing than their army counterpart.
I alway feel some pity for Yamamoto and his ultimate fate. By all accounts, Yamamoto greatly respected the United States and did not want to make war upon it. It’s worth remembering that he himself did not believe that Japan could win a war with the U.S.A. It was loyalty which doomed him, just as it doomed millions of Japanese servicemen; loyalty which compelled them to fight a war that they could not win.
He still did wrong.
I'd never heard of this operation before and the detail about the pilots fighting over who really shot Yamamoto down reminds me so much of how there's like 3 different Navy Seals who all claim they shot Bin Laden.
It's a first for me also, which is kinda surprising to me.
Not surprised. They just murked an important target and of course they be arguing who made the killing blow...
Considering it was dark, it wouldn't surprise me if there was confusion who was the one who killed Bin Laden. In the case of Aviation, it's also hard because you have three different axis and poor visibility to worry about
It's rather funny. Twice in American history, the U.S. was brought into a war by a surprise attack, and both times the U.S. conducted an operation that killed the mastermind of the attacks, and both times people argued over who fired the killing shot.
@@canaanclb in both cases i think the targets were hit by multiple shooters and it will never be determined who landed the first shot or the killing shot
I want to thank K&G for putting the infoboxes at the top of the screen. Many of us without English as our first language like to watch videos with subtitles and the previous infoboxes at the bottom were usually covered by them. It was a nice touch to get them up there!
Even for us English speaking natives, the info boxes have a lot of good trivia. I love them.
I'd like to add, I really wish they'd do them in better and clearer font, they are quite hard to read, especially for those that don't have perfect eyes.
After all, it was not Yamamoto personally who demanded the attack on Pearl Haubor; but the totalitarian Japanese General Staff. He is to be considered a tool and the shooting down as symbolism, a Japanese moral blow. Thanks for a good lecture series
Most of the commanders who spent time in the US and understood the extent of American industrialization actually advocated for alternatives to war. They understood that any success would be short term. America had the capacity to manufacture their current arms while also researching and upgrading. A good example is the wild cat and hell cat fighters. American manufacturing was able to keep up supply of the older wild cats and then transition over yo the much superior hell cat in 1944. Compare it to the Japanese who were struggling to maintain production of the zero fighter which was essentially unchanged from the aircraft they invaded China with. The ability of the Americans to maintain supply while also enhancing their equipment meant that Japan was quickly going to find itself with obsolete weapons.
@@ternel You are absolutely right and these are long accepted facts. It is still a small hard core of the general staff that is pushing and does not take experienced connoisseurs of the USA into account including Yamamoto.
I alway feel some pity for Yamamoto and his ultimate fate. By all accounts, Yamamoto greatly respected the United States and did not want to make war upon it. It’s worth remembering that he himself did not believe that Japan could win a war with the U.S.A. It was loyalty which doomed him, just as it doomed millions of Japanese servicemen; loyalty which compelled them to fight a war that they could not win.
@@davidblair9877 Me too. Blind obedience is not enviable. I learned, as a soldier/conscript, the duty to refuse an illegal order and at the same time was taught the Geneva Convention, which you see violated in countless cases in Ukraine. Russia today, like Japan before and during WW2, has not ratified the convention, with lots of different traumas for civilians and returning veterans.
@@janlindtner305 one of the key outcomes of the Nuremberg trials was the consensus that soldiers cannot avoid responsibility. "I was only following orders" is not a valid excuse.
That's a lesson that a great many Russian soldiers will need to learn before this war is over.
The Rex Barber version of the events of that day is today considered to be the correct version.
The P38 Lightning is such a sexy plane imo
The stories of the pilots flying those early aircraft are always a bit wild to me. Such limited features regarding basic security or safety, no heating control or only designed for 1 specific part of the sky for operations.
Some truly gripping tales, no wonder the public loved them in the first world war.
The fact that I'm just learning about this is mindblowing to me. This is highly noteworthy for the history books, but our "revenge" for Pear Harbor was thought to be just the Dolittle Raid. Glad to have learned this. This was impressive.
To be perfectly honest, there are plenty of military engagements through the Pacific war that would eventually gain that name. The Doolittle Raid (1942), Midway (1942), Operation Vengeance (1943), Operation Hailstone (1944), and the Battle of Philippines Sea (1944) will all gain that title for different reasons. The Doolittle Raid for an attack on the enemy's homeland; Midway for the destruction of 4 aircraft carriers; Vengeance for the death of Yamamoto; Hailstone for the complete destruction of a major Japanese harbor/bastion in the central Pacific; and Philippines Sea for the one-sided, complete destruction of Japanese air power.
This is one the greatest military catastrophic I have ever witness thanks to Kings and generals keep up the good work
For such an experienced an inteligent officer to display such arrogance... almost no escort, radioing the trip...
I blame the allies. Their incompetence in the early years of the war made the japanese too lax.
@@GeorgeEstregan828 a bit, maybe, but japanese arrogance was always high...
@@jlvfr they have a right to be arrogant. Beating the allies too easily made them that.
@@GeorgeEstregan828 they were arrogant going in. Years of easy wins in China, coupled with the damn fake version of the "bushido code", made them so. This can be seen even their overrall strategies and some equipment design
@@jlvfr would say beating Russia is what made them arrogant to the 11
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Can you make a documentary series about the war of 1812 and the 7 years war? There aren’t many videos about the topic so they’d be super interesting, not to mention helpful for anyone in school(also thanks for helping me pass history classes in school)
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Highlight of my week. This and Indy.
Amongst the six fighter pilots who escorted Yamamoto were two aces, Kenji Yanagiya and Shoichi Sugita, one of the highest scoring Japanese pilots in World War II with 70 kills. And contrary to the American pilots' claims, none of the escorting Zeros were shot down during the mission. However, the six pilots thought themselves responsible for the incident so seriously that they charged themselves to shoot down as many Allied airplanes as possible.
In the end, only Yanagiya survived the war - and only because he lost his right hand while engaging two F4Fs over Russell Islands on June 7, 1943.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!
You just can't beat waking up on Wednesday morning and watching this series!! I'm loving every minute of it.
Best series on the pacific war by far on this platform. Amazing job kings and Generals team
I love this series!
Yamamoto never expected to win the war against 🇺🇸, he new Japan would always lose, but as a true patriotic man would do whatever he could to maybe get a decision that might be favourable into the future if he could make it undesirable for the US to continue the war
It’s a little more complex than that. Having studied, toured, and worked in the US for a few years, Yamamoto had a far better understanding of American culture, industry, and military, than most of Japanese High Command. Unlike most he realised that far from being weak and unwilling to fight a long war, the US had nearly bottomless resources and willingness fight a war to it’s conclusion. What Yamamoto planned for was winning such a quick and overwhelming series of victories that they might be able to convince the US to cut its losses and accept the new state of affairs before it had time to bring their military and industrial might to bear. Unfortunately even Yamamoto under estimated both the depth and degree of outrage America felt over the attack on Pearl Harbour, and the speed of industrial armament production, which had already been underway due lend lease and pre-war planning.
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography nice post I had the same feelings coming away from reading Yamamoto's account of America. He actually should have known that Pearl Harbour wouldn't have been a small thing, American pride has always been outsized they could have bombed an Aluetian island and probably would have illicitrd an outsized response.
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography excellent summary 👌, the IJN biggest mistake was that they didn't follow up with the second wave against Pearl harbour and totally destroy the harbour facility..storage fuel tanks etc. Saying that it would have only given them maybe 12 months anyway before they were overrun in the pacific
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography The pearl harbour assault also didn't at all achieve what it should have. If it had taken out 1 or more carriers and a significant amount of the fuel supply and or damage to the drydocks, it might have had a much bigger impact. This would have allowed the Japanese more time to consolidate their conquests and Pacific defenses, making a US retaliation war much much more costly and lengthy and thus more likely to end in a peace treaty favorable to the Japanese. Now the overall damage of the Pearl harbour raid was pretty limited and only really fuelled America's desire and determination for vengeance.
US casualties in the pacific theater never really were high in comparison to (other countries on) other fronts of the war, thus never giving the US any inclination to go for a peace treaty that was anything less than total victory.
Been looking forward to this one for awhile.
This is a very good episode and very much expected. This episode shows how important is to make sure that the enemy cannot listen your communication and use it against you.
The only downside is that I would given a bit more information about the aftermath of that event from both US and Japanese sides respectively especially concerning that the US P-38 pilots weren´t able to keep their mouths shut and because of that flight commander John W. Mitchell´s Medal of Honor nomination was degraded to be the Navy Cross. AFAIK, only one Zero during this engagement was damaged by P-38 planes which means that all talks about shooting down Zeros were misleading.
I would also give an episode idea to King´s and Generals that would cover the importance in radio intelligence in WWII. Both US Navy radio intelligence and cracking the enigma code would be interesting but I would also add the Finnish radio intelligence during WWII which was pretty efficient as well.
Well, by the end of the war, Yamamoto could't move his pinky finger without the americans knowing
Right now idiotic Russian troops are getting blown up in Ukraine when they post their locations online. Some people never learn...
10/10 series, keep up the good work fellas
Excellence is a foregone conclusion K&G.
John Mitchell Jr deserves to earn medal of honor,why he did not receive it,maybe it's time to honor Mitchell,US Congress and the navy should review this matter
He was nominted for MOH after the operation. But his pilots, Lanphier and Barber, didn't keep their mouth shut as they leaked the entire operations to an AP war correspondent in New Zeleand, so Halsey decided to downgraded his nomination to Navy Cross as a punishment.
Yamamoto was carrying the navy on his back and on that day his back broke.
Been waiting for this to be looked over.
U guys are amazing
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I think the real avenge is the operation Hailstone. Truk was a major IJN base in Pacific, similar to Pearl Harbor to USN.
His death will change the course of pacific war...
Well-made video Kings and Generals, masterfully done!
Great video! And great work moving the text boxes to the upper zone of the screen, easier to read with cc!
As time goes on, Imperial Japanese incompetence steadily increases. This case was a shockingly easy win for America that should never have happened.
This was so well-done and very informative. I had known about this mission for practically my whole life as I read all incoukd about WWII well before thenword Internet became so well known. That was innthenage of magazines and encyclopedias.
The thing i learned today however is that Yamamoto was hit by .50 caliber slugs. Damn....
I'm not entirely sure Yamamoto deserves the acclaim he currently receives.
In December, 1941...no base in the world could have defended itself against the Kido Butai...even had Pearl Harbor been on the alert, it still would have suffered SIGNIFICANT damage...in fact, potentially GREATER damage, since the ships would have been struck in deeper water, and included the carriers which were completely outclassed at this time.
The attacks on the Phillippines, Malaya, and the DEI were conducted against opponents who were actively withdrawing or attempting to merely defend with forces at hand, rather than actively trying to win.
Midway was a very clear demonstration of Yamamoto's limitations and questionable decision making. His plan is SERIOUSLY flawed, and has absolutely zero chance of succeeding...even if the US fleet hadn't sortied to defend the island, it was impossible for the amphibious task force to actually take or hold the island.
The actions to 'defend' Guadalcanal and the complete repeat of the flaws of Midway's plan in Operation KA's plan...really highlight that Yamamoto wasn't some kind of brilliant naval commander. Merely a figurehead by this point in the war.
Midway failed mostly because US crypto-analysts already knew what was going to happen. USA basically had hacks going into the fight.
Despite those failures Yamamoto remained popular and effective in IJA, otoh US needed story of avengers or dragon slayers. Maybe these are the points too
Interesting. Wouldn't have thought this deserved an entire episode. But I didn't realize that there was so much controversy on the details.
Thanks for the video
Another great video. The death of Yamamoto further turned the tide of the Pacific War in the Allies' favor. Also, I'm curious as to how Ugaki survived that crash. Did he just get lucky? I'd appreciate any information you have on that.
My guess is that the airplane might have remained stable enough to make a somewhat more gentle glide into the ocean. That way, its occupants were able to suffer much less severe injuries upon impact.
Honestly the fact that he survived an arterial wound is amazing. I’m shocked he didn’t die or pass out and drown from blood loss.
@@bloodrave9578 and saltwater crocodiles!
good but my favorite detail is the compass.... That navigation was GENIOUS.
Glad to see you used the image of Yamamoto from world of warships.
Told ya. Great video as always
It seems incredibly negligent to the point of suspicious that such a detailed message was sent in an old code by the Japanese - If I had been the Americans I'd have been thinking that it was a deliberate trap and an atempt to see if the code had been broken. It seems almost as if they wanted to get him killed but it seems incredible that anyone would want Yamamoto dead... perhaps a rival?
Japan never learned their code had been broken
@@MurdocIsASaint true the Japanese never learned that their code was broken but the Americans couldn't know that then.
I mean it's common knowledge amongst history enthusiasts how much the IJA and the IJN hate each other to the point of killing each others' officers...
Aren't we lucky Sima Yi wasn't in command of allied forces. That guy was too smart a slightly smarter gambler can outsmart him.
Keep up the great work
Thank you , K&G .
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awesome episode idk why i always thought he died from a bomber dropping a bomb on a building he was in idk why i thought that...cant wait for next week keep up the great work!
Omg, it's here!
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
a Brillant man would not fight a war. Isoroku Yamamoto
Watched this video on the 70 anniversary of the operation
Fantastic stuff
Being from DC i am always amazed that 30 years after gifting us cherry blossom trees. As a sign of friendship between the two countries. They attacked pearl harbor.
Well one guy's version of events has him single-handedly defeating the Japanese Air Force and then the other guys has it a team effort... I can tell you which one I think is more likely ...
I just saw this video playing at an airforce museum. Congrats to K&G.
Which country and city and museum?
@@KingsandGenerals Palm Springs Air Museum, USA, California
Thank you 🙏
Yamamoto kept his reputation with a warrior’s death. Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal were all disasters, 6 carriers, 2 battleships and 4 heavy cruisers plus numerous other vessels were lost under his tenure. No one could have defeated the US Navy which dwarfed the other navies of the world by 1944 and got larger by 1945.
The war had already turned in America’s favor, it was just a matter of time to the end, his death just made it quicker!
Brilliant video as always! I'm weeping and mourn for my country hero (in my pov.)
Since the ADMF Yamamoto tragedy, IJA had stopped giving all info about the Admirals' move to their units. It wasn't clear when and where a person would arrive so it doesn't sound like a good for command
Japan - a great nation, a great people.
Hail to the algorithm
FOR THE ALGORYTHIM!
Knowledge is key...
He died in a surprise attack... ironic
Yamamoto's fate came to him like Lightning from a cloudless sky...
I'll see myself out now...
Like Patton, there was only one Yamamoto; and no one could replace him.
this is so badass!!!! salute to hines!!!!
Is there another post ceasar civil war video planned like the Illyrian campaign led by Agrippa
For some reason i remembered this op took place off the coast of the Philippines not the Solomons.
i would like the names of the soundtrack used in this magnificient documentary, i love the background music and i would like to know the names of the soundtracks used
How could they possibly transmit such an important message with an old code? wow.
The Holmes vs Rex Barber debate is interesting one.
Good show and graphics. As I point out in my work, FATAL FLAWS Book 1 1914-1945, there was no replacing Yamamoto. Japan did not win another naval battle in the war. (His plan for Midway was not so good.) In reality, Japan could never compete with America's Industrial capacity, (as Yamamoto had warned), and their demise was almost a certainty with the losses they had taken the past year. In a few months would come the invasion at Tarawa. Admiral Spruance's Fleet would possess more carriers there, than the Navy had at the start of the war.
No Zeroes were actually lost in this operation. And for everyone in the comments he never said the thing about waking a sleeping giant..that is only in movies
“Ladies and Gentlemen we got him”
The Man Who had Courage to Start War Direct with USA The Isoroku Yamamoto, 🔥🔥
the credit should go the Lamphier and Barber the team
The story goes that the body of Yamamoto was found still gripping his sword. Given that he was hit by two 50-cal bullets that is highly unlikely to be true. But despite all, I find myself still wanting it to be true.
I alway feel some pity for Yamamoto and his ultimate fate. By all accounts, Yamamoto greatly respected the United States and did not want to make war upon it. It’s worth remembering that he himself did not believe that Japan could win a war with the U.S.A. It was loyalty which doomed him, just as it doomed millions of Japanese servicemen; loyalty which compelled them to fight a war that they could not win.
He did warn them
RIP Raymond K Hine
I like your voice
didn't US planes have gun cameras? Would that have helped to resolve (or at least weigh in on) the "credit" issue?
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing gun cameras.
Please make a video about the history of georgia 🙏
Yamamoto woke up a sleeping dragon you shouldn't attack Pearl harbor does with that happened it went very bad for the Japanese in WWII 👈🤨👍🏼🤔🤔🤔
I think they got those codes from the Japanese Submarine I-1 that was attacked by 2 tiny Minesweepers HMNZS Kiwi and Moa. That story itself is amazing.
Its clear that Yamamoto committed suicide. To say that he didn't remove himself from the playing board knowingly, is an insult to his character and intelligence.
The beginning of the end.
In my opinion, Ozawa was better admiral than Yamamoto.
Most intelligent comment on this video
Yamamoto is incompetent. He attacked Pearl Harbor and that's why Japan lost. Of all the Japanese generals, he's probably the most responsible. And there is even a conspiracy theory that he was so pro-American that he deliberately attacked the U.S. to make Japan lose.
*And then Yamamoto survives by going through a mysterious time portal and proceeds to change history by forcing the U.S. to sign an armistice after several crushing defeats*
great
Minute.4:37 zoom in on the top secret sheet can anyone tell me why it's says
13/april/1755
Had Yamamoto lived, Japan still would have lost the war. A brilliant admiral doesn't compensate for the seemingly unending production and resources of the U.S. in WWII.
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The Great War of Archimedes good movie. thanks
I bet the American Japanese translators were second generation Language specialists rarely mentioned in these
Intro music sounds like I'm bout to be murdered lol
Now, what would happen if he was on a boat...
Yamamoto was truly a unique figure in world history. And like it or not it was necessary for the Americans to take him out when they got the chance.
Respect 💯 to Yamamoto as a Commander n Leader of Men. Even though He was America's enemy hats off to him.
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