Unofficial High Speed Tour of Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2019
- Generally speaking, only able to get to it if you take a bus from the Pearl Harbor Memorial, formerly known as the Pacific Aviation Museum
www.pearlharboraviationmuseum...
The remains of that Zero (and the complete aircraft painted to resemble the original) is one of the most significant and yet forgotten aspects of the Pearl Harbor attack.
The Japanese recognized that several aircraft might be damaged in the attack and designated Niihau Island, the westernmost of the major Hawaiian Islands, as the emergency landing field. This privately owned island was thought to be uninhabited, so pilots were to destroy their aircraft and rendezvous with the submarine I-74 for rescue. Ultimately only Airman Nishikaichi from Hiryū was the only pilot to make it. Of the other 28 aircraft lost in the attack, 27 were shot down over or near Oahu and one got lost on the way back.
Niihau is not uninhabited, the Robinson family allow several dozen to live on the island, at the time including Ishimatsu Shintani, Yoshio Harada, and his wife Irene. Shintani and Irene were Japanese immigrants, while Yoshio Harada was born in Hawaii to Japanese parents.
After Nishikaichi landed in the field (with anti-landing ditches damaging his plane), Hawila Kaleohano ran up to him, recognized he was Japanese, and took his papers. At the time they didn’t know about the attack and didn’t speak Japanese, the islanders called for Shintani, who departed after a few words. Next they called the Haradas, who after learning of the attack agreed to help Nishikaichi get his papers back and destroy the plane.
That night the islanders learned of the attack and decided to send Nishikaichi to Kauai when Aylmer Robinson arrived on Monday. But he didn’t show, inter-island traffic was banned. The Hawaiians agreed to let Nishikaichi and the Haradas stay together, but with four guards. Shintani then offered to buy the papers from Kaleohano, who refused.
Shortly thereafter, Nishikaichi and the Haradas overpowered their guards and took their guns. Kaleohano warmed the other islanders before rowing to Kauai at night. Nishikaichi and the Haradas searched, but couldn’t find him, though they burned his house and the plane after taking off a machine gun.
The Niihau Incident ended when the Japanese held Ella Kanahele captive and sent her husband Ben to find Kaleohano. He knew he had departed and came back, and when Nishikaichi passed a shotgun to Yoshio he and Irene attacked. Yoshio managed to shoot Ben three times, which in his own words just “made me mad”. He lifted the pilot like one of the island sheep and hurled him against a wall, where Ella bashed his head in with a rock. Yoshio then committed suicide with the shotgun.
Ben Kanahele was awarded the Medal for Merit, at the time the highest award possible for a civilian. Irene Harada was imprisoned, but never charged for the incident. Shintani was sent to an internment camp. This incident, where two of three Japanese-Americans directly helped a Japanese pilot, was a major factor in the Japanese internment, stifling any claims that the odds of Japanese-Americans helping the Japanese were remote. Thus began one of the darkest chapters in our recent history.
In addition, that Zero wreckage is one of four known surviving aircraft from Pearl Harbor. An SBD Dauntless, also the only Midway survivor, is on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida. A JRS that searched in vain for the Japanese fleet is in the Smithsonian. And a J2F Duck, beautifully restored to flying condition, is now at the Mid America Flight Museum.
@@Imbeachedwhale you forgot a P-40C is also a Pearl survivor.
True Born Son of Liberty I only knew of the four. Thank you for bringing her to my attention.
Sorry, it wasn't so dark. It had to be done. Don't be a drama queen.
"The Doolittle briefing room... what's in here? ... hm"
lol, enough said.
When you were sent to the Mojave, and you were perhaps, patrolling it, did it make you wish for anything in particular?
yeah more meme history videos my man
Patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
Damn, I got beaten by 10 hours...
Bob semple reproduction
baste and NCRpilled
"This is all modern stuff" - as the camera is pointed at a DC-3.
Thats not wrong though, they still fly in service, albeit as turboprop conversions from basler BT
@@monostripeexplosiveexplora2374 You can see the radial engines on the C-47. And, earlier in the video in the second hangar, The Chieftain walks past a two-blade prop in front of a radial engine on a low-wing monoplane - probably some sort of trainer. It's all good, I just figure he was too distracted by the F-111s to notice anything else - "Oooh, another Aardvark".
I believe that B-17 is the only earlier “E” model known to exist. It is a recent recovery.
There are three others: one at the National WWII Museum, one in the late Paul Allen collection, and another being restored in a barn in Illinois, the "Desert Rat."
The museum there on Ford Island has one thing few if any other military museum can boast, actual battle damage. Some of the windows of the hangar still have (or at least still did in 2015 the last time I was there) bullet holes in them from the Pearl Harbor attack.
They are still there.
they had em last year when i was there
Seeing as a lot of military museums are based on old fortifications and bases around the world that's actually pretty common... But I get it would be reasonably rare in the USA.
@@Theduckwebcomics I think the only old fortifications the US has left with battle scars are Civil War era forts... So basically the only fortifications the US mainland has with battle damage is self inflicted! XD
@@Feiora Haha! 😄
There are bullet holes in the hangar glass from the attack. Outside and around the left side of the hangar is a stretch of pavement that still has strafing marks and some scars from bombs. I was there in Sept. to visit Missouri, my ship.
The B-17E is called "Swamp Ghost" and is in that condition since it was (illegally) pulled out of a swamp in Papua New Guinea in 2006. It took 4 years of legal wrangling before they were able to bring it back to the US. It's one of the only E models in existence and even was equipped with a remote control Bendix belly turret instead of the later Sperry ball turret.
Illegally? Bfd! Better than rotting in the jungle.
Meh, fuck PNG, that plane belongs in a museum!
I never knew any B-17’s before the “G” model had a remote turret!
Flown by an Australian crew till it run out of fuel
@@geoffreyscott5701 nope
7:25 It's an Infrared Search and Track system. That F-14D also has one under the nose next to the daytime camera!
yeah was thinking that an IRST
As does the F-4
That was an A-3 Skywarrior. My father was the bombardier on the A3-D in the late 50's. At the time the airplane was the Navy's nuclear delivery vehicle, which was superseded by submarines shortly after the A3 came into the inventory. 60's -90 it was an electronic warfare platform and also aerial refuleer. Nicknamed All Three Dead was due to the advanced design, large size and the fact that the crew had no ejection seats. I believe it was the largest plane to fly off the carrier.
Except of course for that one C-130.
Second time the chieftain has made a unique comment on the f-14 tomcat. Must be one of his most favorite jet fighters, mine as well
Mine too! Restore one, just one that can fly!
@@jamesedenfield5039 sadly I don't think that will ever happen
Oh I know, and I know why. Here's to wishful thinking though...
@@jamesedenfield5039 is it because that our fu@#ed up government sold a bunch of these birds to Iran, then Iran became bad, and the government becomes paranoid and scraps all remaining Tomcats in boneyards to prevent the Iranians from getting spear parts?
Personally, I think he said doff your hat one aircraft too early.
4:42 Shout out to that /k/ copypasta about the Kiowa pilots intentionally flying at zero alt and close to the enemy so they could fire their M4s at them
Are Kiowa pilots always so insane? or is just because they seem to have an innate death wish that compels them to get closer to the enemy to hit them with swords?
@@Feiora yes, they liked to hand drop various pyro also.
@@ftargr So Kiowa pilots are born again WW1 fighter pilots?!
If it's a museum where you can get close enough to bump your head into a plane, it is a museum that I want to visit.
It's a good thing they saved the old control tower.
Hope this wasn’t a surprise visit.
OldEtonian I see what you did there.👍
Lol..
Nice to see one of our old Aussie F-111's on show. Fantastic aircraft in their day and a massive hit at airshows with the dump and burn. F/A 18's are fine but just spitting out a few flares doesn't cut it by comparison.
Yeah the RAAF retired them too soon i could remembr when they wer discussing keeping them in service until some tim in the 2020s. For most of my life i have lived not far fom Amberley RAAF base and could quite frequently hear the F 111s flying around. Also have good memories of going to the riverfire festival in Brisbane a few times as a kid and watching them dump and burn at low altitude along the Brisbane river at the end of the fireworks shows, the F 18 superhornet or F35 will never be as cool as the F 111 was.
@@somerandomalbinodude Too noisy out there now am at Ironbark so much preferred the F111s, the f18s so bloody noisy can almost reach out and touch that C17 somedays.
Dump and burn was for petrol-head wankers. Showed nothing of aircraft performance.
Been here in 2013. Probably one of the most eery museum experiences I've ever had.
Now you have shown me another place I am dying to go, and can not afford, LOL! Thanks for the video, it was excellent!
The museum has a special display planned for the Swamp Ghost, recreating where it sat in the swamp.
Douglas NA 3B Skywarrior N877RS
Australia were one of the first customers for the F-111, retired in 2010.
8 crashed of 43, 23 were scrapped, this one at display was the last example to go
replaced by Super Hornets
Thanks for the look! Heard about this museum somewhere else on YT and now Ive seen it. Mucho Gracius senoir
Thanks, Nicholas. I was glad to see a few of my WWII favorites as well as the old Frog Chopper that I few on as cargo in the Marine Corps.
Great work Chieftain! 👍
you're just mad that planes dont have track tension
Hey, welcome to Hawai’i! Love your channel! Hope you enjoyed your stay here.
Interesting stuff. Thanks.
Thank you for showing your video
That F-111 is a sexy beast
Thankyou Nick,
I will be visiting Pearl Harbor in May next year and this museum is on my list.
I stayed on Ford island back in 1982 for rimpac 82, I did a walk around these hangars which were derelic at the time and still had a few bullet/ shrapenal holes in them, glad theve done something with them.
Just think , I can travel a 1/3 of the way around the world to go to another air museum which has an aircraft Ive actually worked on, again, (Aircraft in question is the RAAF F111c), Im starting to feel old, maybe some museum has a spot waiting for me...
As a side story, a different two seat Japanese air craft( I think a Val) crash landed on a occupied private Hawaiian Island and the people captured the pilot (who survived the crash). The people had no radio, but knew something was up. A week later the weekly boat from the mainland still hadn't shown. To make matters worse a Japanese American broke into the jail and freed the Japanese pilot and together with the weapons from the plane they forced the few towns people to flee. Eventually a very large sheep herding Islander attacked the two Japanese and after taking a bullet, grabbed the Japanese American and broke him over his knee. The pilot killed himself, rather than meet a similar fate. It took several more weeks for a boat from thee mainland to arrive. At thee time this story was suppressed so as to avoid panic.
Sorry but you have a garbled version of the original. There was only one crash landed Japanese aircraft like that. There is only one privately owned large island in Hawaii that has people living on it and it is Niihau Island. Sorry.
Love the video!
Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX-1) AKA The Floating Golf Ball @ 3:30. Last time I was on Ford still had the Ferry. Lived on Oahu 20 years. Great place!! Thx!
Thank you Nicholas. I'll doubtful ever make it there on my own.
You didn't want to get on the bad side of the ROK.
I was at the RAAF Amberley heritage centre museum on the airbase on Sunday. 2 F-111 cockpits that you can climb in and another F-111 with its nose all opened up. Definitely recommend
My dad was stationed on Ford Island during Vietnam special army Clarence along with the Navy. We are actually going there the September it will be his first time back to Fort Island since Vietnam.
I do believe that The_Chieftain was in a bit of a hurry to get his "ars" outta there and get to THE HAWAIIAN BEACH 👀 Can't really blame the guy though.
Niihau is the island which i only learn about form magnum pi
That Private Island is the Island of Ni'ihau. It is the Northwestern most populated island of the eight main islands. A damaged zero crash landed there and there was a stand off between some Japanese-American contractors and residents of the island over what to do with the injured pilot. The incident played a minor part in the internment decisions as the Japanese-Americans technically aided the enemy (and some did actually want to help him escape). Eventually there was a stand off and a bit of a shoot out between those that wanted to help the pilot and those that wanted to turn him over to the authorities on Kaua'i (the closest island to Ni'ihau and home to the county government).
You can learn more by reading up on the Ni'ihau Incident.
That ball in front of the F102 cockpit is an infrared
detector for the IR search and track system. It is retractable.
Sorry, but the F-106 IR ball is retractable. The F-102 one can't. Hope that this is of some use.
@@gmatgmat nine catch1
Oh man, Chieftain was in Hawaii and I didn't get to fangirl over him? D':
I've seen that F4F Wildcat fly many times from where it used to live on the mainland. It is fully restored.
The story of the B-17 is an interesting one and that F-105 you walked past as you entered the hangar was one of the early Wild Weasel F-105Gs.
Just got stationed at Hickam AFB a few days ago as the 15th Wing historian... I have achieved Nirvana!
Then maybe you can answer a question? the plane just beyond/behind the prop plane at 6:50 , what is that plane?
@@Feiora That is a T-33A Shooting Star, a two-seat jet-powered training aircraft.
@@redknight1322 Thank you so much! I'd been wondering what that plane was for years but without a maker name or designation I could never figure it out and had given up until I saw your comment!
@@Feiora No problem, if you have any other questions about aircraft in the video just let me know and I'll do my best to get you an answer.
Thank for the video of my home town. In Tokyo now. Too bad Burl Burlingame passed away recently, he worked at the museum and was a modeler.
I’m sure it’s been said but..”patrolling the Mojave sure makes you wish for a nuclear winter”
Welcome to Hawaii Mr Chieftain!! Aloha!!
NICE Air Craft 👍
LOL, you kept going to the Mojave because you were a tanker and they loved keeping the tankers in desert training. I didn't get to see much naval history during my week stay in Hawaii, but I did tour the coastal battery station at Ft. DeRussey, as well as the observation levels at Diamond Head. Would love to go back and get out to Pearl some day.
Sounds like its an unfortunate curse on tankers...
*interesting video, liked & subcribed!!!*
Size wise, this place seems comparable to the Fagen Fighters WWII museum in Granite Falls, MN a great little privately owned museum with a few ground vehicles there in great condition when I was there two years ago it's a very good stop for anybody heading to or from the Badlands. Chieftain I do recommend a stop by if you're ever in the area just a word of advise if you've passed the yellow P-51B you've go passed the first road to it and the second is just ahead.
the placard says the pilot for the RAAF plane later become our Air force chief, i couldnt contain my exitement when i saw that last year!
The ball on the F102 is a IRST infared search and track. You get them on the modern typhoon
Things have definitely changed since I was stationed at Schofield in 03
Hi Chieftain, if you ever find yourself around Los Angeles, there are two hole-in-the-wall WWII museums with fly-able aircraft. They’re Lyon Air Museum in Santa Ana and Commemorative Air Force Museum in Camarillo.
He just did a runner from Cali
There's something incredibly visually-appealing about Convair's F-102 and F-106.
I regard the F-102 as the best looking jet fighter ever designed.
@@MrDgwphotos I vote for the Hawker Hunter, but the "Deuce" is very nice, too.
Hey Sir! Currently stationed on pearl theres alot of interesting us armed forces museums around the island if you're still around check them out!
That was a F102 Delta Dagger. The F106 Delta Dart had it's intakes well behind the canopy.
Might I suggest a visit, if you ever find yourself in NY, to take a trip to the Glen Curtis museum. There is a lot more than just motorcycles there.
It’s a great museum. Up until the mid ‘00 pre museum This hanger was were the first two parts of the PFT was done for HQ Bn, Marine Forces Pacific. My last PFT. Its Internal supports have bomb damage
@The_Chieftain did you visit the Missouri too? I'd love to see that. Been there too, but had way too little time to see it all properly
It was the island of Niihau and they didn’t plow up the whole island. They just plowed the large dry lake bed at the southern end of the island.
I always stop by there whenever I fly into Hickam AFB and grab a bite to eat....a former co-worker was the crew chief on the Vietnam era Huey currently being restored in the other hanger...
Is it still being restored or is it the one that we saw in the video?
The ball on the F-102 is an IR sensor.
Awesome would love to see all the museum in the world on the war side 👍
I didn’t see a Starfighter...I did see an F-86D “Saberdog” which is an F-86 with a big black nose for a radar.
It was right next to the MiG-21.
To provide more information. The Sabredog is actually an 'L' model, an updated version of the 'D.' Its an original HANG F-86L and survived as a display aircraft in the HANG compound until sent over to the Museum. The HANG F-86Ls were different as they all lacked the SAGE AN/ARR-39 datalink receiver with its ventral blade antenna forward of the cockpit. Thailand also received F-86Ls. Hope that this is interesting info.
@@gmatgmat That jet has probably the nicest looking tail paint scheme of any Air Force jet ever. Too bad Nick didn't get a good picture of it. Is there still a HIANG F-4 around? I worked on those in the early '80s just before the F-15s arrived.
199th FIS Hawaii ANG was the Last F-102 unit. So makes sense that its there.
Did you make the Submarine Museum at Peral ?. That one is pretty interesting.
Cool you got to meet Swamp Ghost the B-17E
Wow a F5 museum piece, in my country Honduras, our air force have 5 in actually use.
@ 4:20 Christopher Lee 'Now that's what I call Solar Power! Yes Mr Scaramanga! The plane the plane!
@The_Cheiftain you should do a video on the 442nd RCT absolutely amazing unit.
hope there is a follow-up video from hawaii visiting the 57.500 ton 270 meters in length habour guard also lying at Ford island.
aardvark known to australians as "the pig"
not surprising Vark translate to pig
@@crazyafrican9955 Earth pig! Not a promising name for an airplane, but not as bad as Erdnagel, which was German for the f-104
Just out of curiosity will there ever be an inside the hatch for aircrafts?
Question for you chief, if the M18 with the M36 turret had gotten approved for production, would it have been M18A1 or M36B3?
Do any of the aviation museum over there have a Brewster Buffalo? I seem to recall they were rare, enough that one Finnish one fished out of a lake in Russia was being restored into US markings and such, which was a pity....
When are you going to do a tank chat for Tiger 1 and 2?
Did you get to visit the USS Utah Memorial?
YAAAAAAY !
The Man With The Golden Gun was the Bond movie you were thinking of and, yes, Bond does fly that marque of aeroplane.
What is the plane in question?
@ 1:16 the island you are referring to it Ni'ihau, which is the westernmost of the Hawaiian Islands.
I still find it odd that the Japanese didn't bother to investigate the island first before designating as a emrgency landing zone...
What station were you at in the Mojave?
When are you going to tour of hill field?
are there any usa f111s left ? in every one of heys vids its a raf aircarft
5:50 the B-66 Destroyer (USAF), based on the (USNavy) A-3 Skywarrior, the B-66 was made famous by the "Bat-21" book & film.
When I saw that one plane out of all the others there, Bat-21 instantly came to mind and now I wanna watch it again... >.< Well okay and o-2a skymaster...
@@Feiora "Covey Leader to Raven!" .... oh wait, that's a Rambo quote.
That one is actually an EA-3D EW aircraft. The Bomb bay has been replaced with a crew compartment for the EW operators. We had them on my first cruise on the USS Constellation in 78. We lost one with all the crew on that cruise. Chieftain is right in that they were commonly referred as the Whale.
@@tolson57 You [and Chieftain] are correct sir(s). Prior to becoming a museum piece, it was engaged in F-14 radar weapons test with Hughes/Raytheon. Apologies.
First air museum I've seen where they've put foam guards on the pitot tubes^^
Some guy likely lost his eye
@@crazyafrican9955 In a way I would like to see the same thing in a museum of human statues and for the same reason =P
8:31 Soul Man is playing in the background and I hope im not the only one who noticed
That's got to be one of the few Aussie Aardvarks that didn't park itself into the side of a New Zealand hill while on exercise. At one point they were doing it at the rate of 1.5 a year.
Check out the Bowfin, and do a video comparing WW2 cramped tanks to WW2 cramped submarines. Then look at the big boy guns on the Missouri!!
They sell some really cool pearl harbor shirts with all the ships that were hit, you should pick one up. =3 And your sure thats a War Hawk? Not a P-36 Curtis Hawk, the two look similar. I only ask because I'm not sure they had them at Pearl at the time, I could be wrong, probably am.
Why isn't there anymore episodes of Inside the Chieftain's Hatch? It's been a while since the last one (which was about the Panzer III, I think)... Did I miss an annoncement or something?
No, you did not. The next episode is finished editing, pt 2 is almost done. When both are done, it'll be released.
@@TheChieftainsHatch Understood. Thanks for the answer!
6:10 So used to Ground vehicle designations that starting with M is second nature, and needed to be corrected.
That was funny as hell... "The Mmm-F5..."
Last time I was this early the Bismark was rocking out with sabaton
Looks like lt. Commander Thach's Grumman f4f-3 wildcat from VF-3. They shot some promotional video's of him flying with O' Hare on his wing after their airial victories during the aborted Rabaul raid.
I have finally been to a museum that the Chieftain has been to.
I would have liked to have seen more of swamp ghost but I suppose it was a quick walk through
Theres not much to see, by the time it had been pulled out of the swamp trophy salvagers had already gotten to it and stripped the plane clean... Which probably indirectly made salvaging it easier when Hagen came along and recovered it from the swamp...
Dog Sabre.
No Douglas Devastator nor Vindicator nor Brewster Buffalo. They were outdated; but they were what was there.
The only TBD's left in the world are all on the bottom of the sea. Hopefully one will be recovered, but the Navy is stonewalling.
@@MrDgwphotos the Navy has a no salvage policy because alot of the TBDs went down with all crew...
I thought they had the Japanese sea plane from Willow Grove ? Forgot the name of it .
They still working on restoring that 17? Damn i was there 3 or 4 years ago
Find parts takes time, trophy hunters had stripped the plane long before Hagen got it out of the swamp. AND on top of having to find parts, if they cant find parts they'll have to have the parts made and this takes time...
Australian F-111Cs were absolutely NEVER called Aardvarks!