Japanese Ace Interviews: Honda Minoru (Part 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Part 2: • Japanese Ace Interview...
Honda Minoru was a WWII Ace in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force, and later flew as a member of the Japanese Self Defense Forces. He clocked in over 9800 hours of flying in his entire career, and is credited with at least 17 kills. This is the beginning of his story.
0:03 Beginnings, Early Career
2:43 Flying the Zero
3:51 First Combat
5:55 Guadalcanal
9:41 Fighter Tactics
10:52 Combat with P-38s
12:44 A Love for Flying
Original Video Source: • Video
RIP Mr. Honda.
Sadly, he passed away by the senility on 3 October 2021.
It's worth noting: how good the interviewer conducts the interview. He's curious and lets his subject talk and reminisce, his interest prompts the subject to open up. Good stuff here.
I've seen plenty of documentaries with American, British, and German pilots, but it's damn near impossible to find any interviews with Russian pilots in English, and it's even more difficult to find an English interview with a Japanese pilot. Thanks for the upload! I seriously look forward to more!
@menckencynic More to come! Stand by!
Where can I find more of the Japanese videos?
there is an interview with fuchida in which you can hear him speak english during the interview
always fascinating to see both sides of history, the truth is never on one side. a brave man and a true hero.
no one ever truly wins in war
Seems like the vets of WW2 share a strong tendency to modesty regardless of country. These guys are wonderful to listen to!
That's true Jeff! Not a speck of bullshit to be seen or heard!
I love these Old Boys..what an honest, down to earth lot they are! No bullshit whatever!
I'm so glad to know these kind of vids are watched by many foreign people.
このような貴重な映像をありがとうございます☺️
Respect from Turkey brother!
What a marvelous personality of a man! Im so glad we’re friends now and not enemies. I salute Japan
This man was flying in my country Malaya a.k.a Malaysia
Salute and Respect for him
This man takes off from my birth place in Borneo islands too!
6 P38 couldn't bring this man down? Just goes to prove it doesn't matter who has superior equipment but who actually is the best skillful pilot.
Men were built different back then. Respect to Mr Minoru and all who shared the same skies
Keeping past wars in perspective as history allows all honorable veterans to be respected. It's a good thing all peoples are beginning to realize this, and treasure the memories and stories of those who served on all sides. This hero's recollections are so very interesting. Thank you for posting this interview!
Interesting interview. It seems that a pilot is a pilot, no matter what side you were on. The same love of flying, and doing his duty for his country is something all pilots share, so I am sure the conversations are very interesting when all these old warriors get together!
It was very nice for him to share his experiences, they need to document as many of these old warriors from all sides as possible, because we lose more and more of them each day.
Great honor to listen to the Legend.
Amazing interview with a fighter ace. There are almost none from this generation left to give stories that can be documented on film.
R.I.P. All the American and Japanese soldiers and especially Japanese civilians who died in the fire bombing of Tokyo and of course the 2 A bombs. They had nothing to do with the ultra nationalistic and imperial government of Japan and they paid the ultimate price with unimaginable suffering and in the end dying of radiation poisoning in a slow, painful death. RIP to all who didn't deserve it.
Some Americans today still think they deserve a 3rd
@@rafaeldoespiritosanto8440 Nawww... More like some Chiense and Korean. Most Americans LOVE Japan now. There's even a whole thing about them they call them "weebs".
@@alexfriedman2047 I’ve seen some pretty nasty internet arguments with Americans extremely hating the ww2 Japanese
@@rafaeldoespiritosanto8440 People are like that everywhere bro... People like to have enemies, objects to hate.... Flags , anthems, something to believe in. It's just human nature. Those people online really most likely have never even been to Japan. Japan went through a drastic change in the 50's and 60's. They were a defeated country and they know it. I personally love the Japanese. They were our enemy but so were the Germans and I'm German-American. I do actually hate what is happening in China though. We are experiencing one of the greatest tragedies of our time in China. Thousands of Muslims put into reeducation camps.
@@rafaeldoespiritosanto8440 Also remember that America is a BIG country with 50 states. There are so many opinions and different types of people. It would be like if you picked 10 Brazilians each from a different part of the country and asked them "what is life like in Brazil ?" You would get 10 different answers probably. It's true though... SOME people like to pretend we are still in the 40's and this is a different time. I'll tell you what... It's mostly older Americans who remember what they did to use and their fathers telling them stories who hate the Japnese.
I'm glad you're doing this. Thank you for taking the time to subtitle these interviews.
+Jim Chamberlin without subtitles it would be much less comprehensive indeed ;)
"and of course, the 7.7mms dont do anything!"
lmao
Every war thunder player knows this man's pain
@A C H and thats why I enjoy warthunder more. just 1 7.7mm can kill a pilot :D or you can aim for wing and engines.
Pour 500 rounds into the wings and it might just work.
really cool interview! the hi or noise the interviewer is making is in the Japanese culture like "cool" or like " im listening/understanding?" Or am i wrong? Thanks for upload
+PhlyDaily that or yes/okay/uh huh,ect (if im also not wrong as well XD)
+PhlyDaily I believe so. I took it as a respectful, "yes", with the hope that Minoru would continue telling his story.
+PhlyDaily Yes, you are correct. The interviewer is trying to show utmost respect for him.
+PhlyDaily Normally, you would just lightly shake your head and say something like "yes", "mhm". It is for the speaker to make him know that you are listening to him and you understand what he says.
+PhlyDaily They are the only appropriate sounds to make when Senpai notices you.
I always like to hear about peoples first time engagements with the unknown. Rather it be the Americans fighting zeros, or the zeroes fighting P-38's, or anything really. Just to see them try to apply what they know already to the new and unknown things to try to fight them is quite interesting, as well as funny to see it not work at all (such as the P-38 situation, or the Americans dogfighting with the zeroes, etc).
There are a bunch of documentaries about US B-17 gunners trying to catch the brand new Messerschmit me-262 jet fighter and being unable to track it. Would like to find some similar references about the me-163 komet (but they saw little action).
Awesome! The man just wanted to fly!
Thanks to mr. Honda and the Japanese people who built Honda Motor Company. Growing up back in the 80s in old coal mining town in Pennsylvania you made a lot of poor kids happy with the excellent Honda 3 wheelers you built.
They were some of the best Days of Our Lives beating those machines into the ground and they kept running.
Fellow Pa coal mining town inhabitant here, we must be around the same age because apparently we've both experienced the "has been" era of Pa coal mining where there was no job's left when we graduated high school, just big mountains of coke ash to ride dirt bikes in and ride sleds down in the winter, they were also ideal for zeroing the scopes on hunting rifles right before buck season.
And yes the Honda 3 wheelers were pretty big in the late 70's and early 80's until the law suits started flying around and they discontinued them to make the much more stable 4 wheelers, I had a friend who broke his collar bone when he suffered the typical wreck that the 3 wheelers were notorious for where you'd fly over and to one side of the handlebars, ironically however I had another friend that got killed a year or two after I got out of the Army in 86 when he wrecked it and one of the hand grips went through his eye and into his brain in the tumble.
Love it! Thank you for your work. Looking forward to the next part.
Damn I laughed when he said that they were just bombers at 11:35
Same
Thank you so much for this.
i appreciate the effort, waiting for more of these ^_^
Amazing interview. It says smth of the skills of this guy to survive the whole war in a Zero. He must have been a fearsome opponent. Like his German colleagues, the top 5% or so, they could take on anything with confidence.No tour of duty and then you get to leave-you just fly till you go down or there are no more planes or petrol left. Thousands upon thousands of logged hours
He didn't fly the entire war in the Zero, since he was one of their more experienced pilots he was moved up to later and better models as the war went on, he covers that in the following parts of his interview, for some reason it's broken into 3 parts.
And the vast majority of his flight hours were after the war working as an instructor in the Japanese military after the war and for the aircraft division of Mitsubishi.
please do upload part 2 (or 3, if there's more).
i am glad you survived
Very Good!
i always wanted to learn about there pilots great
Moral of the story: get to know the mechanics!
Second, any information on the name of the pilot mentioned at 0:43?
Thank you for sharing such treasure.
this is hero. awesome.
Today he still lives there or passed away ? But I look him, so healthy and his brain is clearly remembering.
This guy is a stud
ty very much for these.
Hi means yes...!!!!
Respect
I read his excellent biography. Great warrior, even if some of his countrymen soldiers were really horrible criminals. He was not one of those.
What is it called? Was is translated into English?
Not every soldier buys the high command's line of bullshit, later in the Atlantic war when Hitler forbade the rescue of survivors from torpedo attacks and insisted they all be killed, U- boat captains were appalled; they considered themselves to be professional warriors, not simple butchers so it wasn't unusual for an after action report to state the sinking resulted in "no survivors" when in fact the boats quickly left the area without murdering the helpless survivors.
american or allies do many horrible thing too
Wonder what his views were about December 7th, 1941?
People rather watch Kamikaze footage or whatever instead of seeing the history of both sides
A great warrior and pilot. He must have been to survive into the later years of the war. By 1944, most or nearly all of the front line pilots Japan had at the beginning of the war in the Pacific with the United States were dead. Did the Japanese pilots have parachutes? Or did they go down with their planes?
Often it didnt matter anyway since their planes just exploded.
They had parachutes as they were recovered from crashed planes in Hawaii and I have seen them. Towards the end of the war the fighter planes were stripped of guns to lighten and to reach the flying altitude of B-29's and they clipped the wings of bombers with their own and many survived parachuting down and completed several missions as such. As I was a soldier once, death is not fearful as Honda stated.
Honda Minoru made that Buffalo crash and he did not take credits. Chuck Yeager be like I have 11.7 victories xD whats up with the half a kill and shared bs xD
I remember reading about how some Americans asked this Japanese pilot why, among all his kills, he failed to shoot down former U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson's plane during WWII... Lol. But on a more serious note, people back in the 60s really were _that_ upset that this guy was solely responsible for dragging us further in to the Vietnam conflict. Which I can totally understand.
Does anybody know is he is still alive?
He passed away in October 2021😢
@@lazyozzy Rest in peace. Brave man.
SALUTE! So much modesty....
Hi Taka, how are you lately?
Still super busy with work. Working 75+ hrs/week due to new COVID variant increasing my workload :(
Fascinating, though the interviewer's interjections every time Honda spoke was a bit distracting.
I think it’s a respect thing, like you’re heavily emphasizing that you’re paying attention to every word by going “uhuh, I see” every time.
Idk
What's the source?
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+RHWT TakaLeon Cheers
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HI
Very HONORABURRUU!!
Hai Hai Hai Hai Hai
That repetition is a sign of respect and attendance to the speakers words, it is not the same as yup, yup, yup.
Hi!!!
原爆の地上起爆を知っている人ですよね ？
idiot
Bonsai Bonsaiiii Bonsaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Bonsai🪴
Banzai🗡
😂
@@Jack-cd5dj 만세!!!! 만세!!!!!!!!!!!! (Korean Version of Bonsaiiiiiiiiiii) lol
Interesting. However I had to turn it off due to the interviewer constantly making horrific breath noises. Ewww.
he is saying "Hai" which means yes or understood , he is showing respect to the old man , educate your self
@@zrewio
Yes indeed, "Hai" has several meanings depending on how you say it, in the context he's using it it means "Yes I understand, and that's very interesting, please continue".
To not do that while an elder is conveying a story would be a sign of disrespect.
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I just wish the interviewer would stop that hissing hai to everything. Just shut up and listen to the old man talk.
That repetition is a sign of respect and attendance to the speakers words, it is not the same as yup, yup, yup.
The interviewer is very annoying