wtplay.link/ww2tales - Download War Thunder for FREE and get your bonus! Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 2 of memoirs of Two former officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, who tell their version of the history of the kamikaze attacks. One of them served as senior staff officer to Vice Admiral Takijiro Ohnishi, who initiated Japan's kamikaze attacks against American ships in the Philippines. Second Officer was flight operations officer for the 201st Air Group, which organized the first kamikaze special attack corps. Their memoirs cover the kamikaze operations from October 19, 1944, the date of the formation of the first kamikaze special attack corps, to the end of the war. Here is the link of the playlist th-cam.com/play/PLGjbe3ikd0XFm1LjNNMlJPKSOtLwLatx3.html Link of Part 1 th-cam.com/video/HLLlLZ2fSoI/w-d-xo.html
The insane level of dedication is a big part of the reasoning that brought the war to its final end. I talked to a former member of the Japanese military in Japan about the decision to drop the bombs that persuaded them to surrender. He said droping those two bombs saved his life as well as hundreds of thousands of other Japanese citizens and military personnel. Without that action, they would have continued to fight until all wear killed, believing the entire time that victory was possible just like they did on the day they bombed Pearl Harbor . He said that without the atomic bomb, he would've never had the children and grandchildren that had made his life joyful.
That's speculation,, what did s*icidal resistance get the Japanese nation? Horrible firebombing of Japanese cities,, Japan's soldiers being eliminated in place with entire divisions full of men just disappearing,, Japanese warships and EVEN the merchant marine reduced to almost nothing... The Soviet Union was what really influenced the surrender...
@@theoldman8877 You're the "delusional" one - who the hell mentioned the Soviets? The western allies had detailed plans for a sea-borne invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall). They expected at least one million allied casualties....
There is no way the IJN could have thought there was any chance of "winning" WWII by the time the USN landed on Leyte. They must have known the war was lost when Musashi went to the bottom. The IJN didn't have enough Zeros to fill even 1 full sized aircraft carrier, and by late 1944 the Zero was woefully obsolete. You know the war is lost when you are told to crash your plane into an enemy ship. That is insane. That the IJN pilots knew this and flew into battle anyway is a testament to their dedication and bravery. Still insane.
They knew they could never win a protracted war against the USA. They needed to get the USA to negotiate, by not getting the carriers at Pearl Harbor they knew then they were screwed.
The IJN may have realized there was no chance of winning, but the IJA felt they could hold the Americans off if they invaded the Home Islands. It was IJA members who tried to stage a coup before the Emperor could broadcast the surrender.
@@andrewtaylor940 By that point in the war, not only everything without air cover gets sunk by the Americans, but a whole lot of things that *did* have air cover, the best air cover the Japanese could provide, got sunk by the Americans. Some Japanese might have been realizing that the Americans were sinking islands… and they all lived on an island…
@@andrewtaylor940 And that’s disregarding the fact that not too much later, American naval personnel were in some cases so bored by a lack of targets at sea that they decided to start sinking *trains*.
Japanese instead of accepting reality found in more important to save face and would rather kill themselves than admit defeat, all the talk about dieing for a purpose and not wasted on a meaningless death seemed forgotten, they truly sacrificed so many young men for nothing.
I think their suicidal spirit of sacrifice would have worked against modern America, though, since the we don't have the remorseless drive and willingness to endure casualties that we used to.
The Japanese were introduced to skip bombing at Rabaul Harbor on the night of Oct. 23, 1942. While six B-17s of the 64th Squadron bombed from 10,000 feet, six 63d Squadron bombers came in at 100 feet to skip their bombs into the sides of Japanese ships. McCullar reported sinking a destroyer with two hits amidships.
I served in the USAF in the 70s. I moved to the Philippines 5 years ago. In the USAF we were reminded that women and children of the enemy were off limits. "You are Americans. Act as men of honor, do not disgrace your nation with bad behavior!" As I ask about the WW2 Japanese invasion here on Samal Island, I have heard stories from financially challenged Philippine people about the monstrous behavior of Japanese soldiers from my wife's father who was a young boy at the time. Simple farmers. I wonder what this pilots wife would think of him if she saw him raping and torturing a 14 year old Filipino girl, cutting of her tiny breasts and flinging them around the room like toys as she screamed in the background. Or strafing a local church to test his Zeros weapons. This is exactly who these 'Japanese warriors' were. Monsters. Despicable, shameless monsters. Yes you can delete this WW2 tales, because it tells the Truth about the Japanese invasion of a peaceful people, and shows exactly the opposite of your 'pretty story' to make these monsters appear honorable. They were NOT honorable by any stretch of the imagination! Now you owe humanity to research and tell the horrors suffered by the Philippine people with the horrendous stories telling exactly what these invaders were! Now YOUR honer stands challenged!
The Japanese were ruthless against conquored peoples and. POWs. Germ warfare practiced. Torture. It’s what happens when people are brainwashed into the superiority of their race/country and anyone else is vermin.
Not to mention ,what they did to the Chinese people and all the others they “conquered “ . Our own troops had to be held away from the civilians because they had become so brutal fighting the Japanese.
What is so sad, is the throwing away of their prime of their generation for no reason. The “special attack” missions had no way to win due to the small number of plans. Drachinifel went over this rather well I think.
Remember, the Japanese knew that the war was lost. Their strategy was to inflict as many casualties as possible so that public opinion would force us to bring the war to a premature conclusion on more favorable terms than unconditional surrender. The Vietnamese learned the lesson well.
It feels like these have been filtered by the censors of the time as they often refer to the "miraculous heroics, magnificent performances, exceptional skill, superhuman efforts", of the Japanese and so on but still very interesting if reality can be gleaned.
That's an incomplete way of looking at it. Just one consideration... Imagine being a Japanese pilot in '44 and literally every other pilot who graduated with you from flight school in '43 is dead, and not only that, when you encounter American aircraft it's the best you can do just to survive another day, much less win an aerial victory. Frankly, death is inevitable. As for suicidal warriors? Consider infantry for a moment. An effective grunt is resigned to the randomness of death, he will do his best to perform both his duty and stay alive, but most grunts understand mortality well and stop worrying; that's not suicidal. I doubt Japanese fighter pilots of WW2 were much different. They didn't lose so much because of the individual's mindset, they lost the war the moment they decided to start the war. The very moment.
@JD-tn5lz That's what we faced in 42. The survivors trained the new guys who survived. If Thatch had thrown his life away, he would never have come up with the Thatch Weave.
@@JD-tn5lz The American wasn’t motivated by honor for honor’s sake. No…it’s definitely a distorted view of heroism. Kind of like Forrest Gump’s superior officer, who preferred to die on the battlefield than be saved…for “honor” and to continue the family legacy. There’s nothing really honorable about choosing death over life.
In the US too. My Dad was in the USAAF and he showed me (after the war) how the technique worked by skipping stones on a lake. Of course it's easier for Canadians because it's easier to skip a stone on ice!
Cultural differences. Americans and Europeans looked at suicide missions as something that should be avoided if at all possible. Japanese looked at it as a noble sacrifice for Japan and the emperor. A big part of the reason for the war was that neither side really understood the other. We thought the Japanese would understand that they couldn't beat us, and the Japanese thought that we would be weak and unwilling to sacrifice so many lives to beat them. Both sides were wrong, and both paid a high price.
Yes , , , high morale , , , join the kamakazi ranks , , , yes , , all for duty and honor , , , oh , by the way , , , I see the Emperor did not commit hari kari but instead chose to live on , , , after all lunch was soon to be served that day , , , and he had given up lunch yesterday to help the war effort , , ,
Japanese suicidal tactics eventually brought on the two atomic bombs. This may have been unnecessary if they weren't so suicidal. So sad. Neither side would back down.
These attacks were poor tactics. Wasting Warriors in such a manner is a disgrace to me. I was trained to bring my Marines home. Every Marine that ever served with or under me all came home. We may be busted physically or emotionally but we came home.
i always find it weird. Japanese always just said "The enemy". Americans always said the "Japanese (japs)". Japan taking the humanity out of it to make it more tolerable? taking the Hell out of war?
Hirohito was not insane, and was not that much of a ruler. Political and military decisions were made by the military. The Emperor mostly presided, rather than ruling. And Roosevelt had a role to play in starting the war, by meddling in Asia and his embargoes of raw materials to Japan, especially oil. Despite his war mongering, the United States was unprepared for the war Roosevelt's action provoked. That's not to let the Japanese military off the hook for their warmongering in Asia either, of course. But if Roosevelt wanted war in Asia, he should have prepared the Philippines and the US Navy a lot better than he did before provoking war. That said, once the war started Roosevelt deserves great credit for mobilizing the American people and industry to a stupefying military effort, and also selecting top military leaders like Marshal, Earnest King and Nimitz who provided remarkable leadership.
@@SeattlePioneerLook at the flip side of not embargoing Japan on scrap iron and oil. That would have been an endorsement of the murderous war being waged on a prostrate China. In good conscience how could the US provide the gasoline and metal for more Nankings and Shanghais?
In 1945 Japan was forced to follow the path suggested by the pre-war embargo. They had to reject militarism and colonialism and turn the industriousness of their people into making Japan a first rate country with clean, prosperous, peaceful cities. A better government could have done that 7 years earlier with several million war dead, burned out cities and the emnity of Asia for their actions during the war.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 2 of memoirs of Two former officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, who tell their version of the history of the kamikaze attacks. One of them served as senior staff officer to Vice Admiral Takijiro Ohnishi, who initiated Japan's kamikaze attacks against American ships in the Philippines. Second Officer was flight operations officer for the 201st Air Group, which organized the first kamikaze special attack corps. Their memoirs cover the kamikaze operations from October 19, 1944, the date of the formation of the first kamikaze special attack corps, to the end of the war.
Here is the link of the playlist
th-cam.com/play/PLGjbe3ikd0XFm1LjNNMlJPKSOtLwLatx3.html
Link of Part 1 th-cam.com/video/HLLlLZ2fSoI/w-d-xo.html
The insane level of dedication is a big part of the reasoning that brought the war to its final end. I talked to a former member of the Japanese military in Japan about the decision to drop the bombs that persuaded them to surrender. He said droping those two bombs saved his life as well as hundreds of thousands of other Japanese citizens and military personnel. Without that action, they would have continued to fight until all wear killed, believing the entire time that victory was possible just like they did on the day they bombed Pearl Harbor . He said that without the atomic bomb, he would've never had the children and grandchildren that had made his life joyful.
That's speculation,, what did s*icidal resistance get the Japanese nation? Horrible firebombing of Japanese cities,, Japan's soldiers being eliminated in place with entire divisions full of men just disappearing,, Japanese warships and EVEN the merchant marine reduced to almost nothing... The Soviet Union was what really influenced the surrender...
@micnorton9487 you are delusional . Have you even been to Japan. The Soviet did not even have the means to make a landing on Japan .
@@theoldman8877 You're the "delusional" one - who the hell mentioned the Soviets? The western allies had detailed plans for a sea-borne invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall). They expected at least one million allied casualties....
@@theoldman8877it's just the opinion of one guy dude
There is no way the IJN could have thought there was any chance of "winning" WWII by the time the USN landed on Leyte. They must have known the war was lost when Musashi went to the bottom. The IJN didn't have enough Zeros to fill even 1 full sized aircraft carrier, and by late 1944 the Zero was woefully obsolete. You know the war is lost when you are told to crash your plane into an enemy ship. That is insane. That the IJN pilots knew this and flew into battle anyway is a testament to their dedication and bravery. Still insane.
TP .............the suicidal tendencies were crazy and beleaguereing ? .........live to fight another day , it worked for George H .Bush .
Brainwashed
They knew they could never win a protracted war against the USA. They needed to get the USA to negotiate, by not getting the carriers at Pearl Harbor they knew then they were screwed.
The IJN may have realized there was no chance of winning, but the IJA felt they could hold the Americans off if they invaded the Home Islands. It was IJA members who tried to stage a coup before the Emperor could broadcast the surrender.
They had enough planes but not enough good pilots
Musashi: b-but this is impossible! I was supposed to be unsinkable!
Titanic, and Bismark: yeah. Us too.
Yamato: ...I feel...a disturbance...
Dont envy the man who had to walk into a meeting and explain to his bosses how an "unsinkable" battleship has now sunk.
@@andrewtaylor940 By that point in the war, not only everything without air cover gets sunk by the Americans, but a whole lot of things that *did* have air cover, the best air cover the Japanese could provide, got sunk by the Americans.
Some Japanese might have been realizing that the Americans were sinking islands… and they all lived on an island…
@@andrewtaylor940 And that’s disregarding the fact that not too much later, American naval personnel were in some cases so bored by a lack of targets at sea that they decided to start sinking *trains*.
Eveny????? Even Godzilla can spell better than that.
@@bloodybones63you can edit you post now too.
Yes correct
I really enjoy hearing these stories from the other side
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Sir so nice of you for your kind words , really motivate us to keep going ❤️
Japanese instead of accepting reality found in more important to save face and would rather kill themselves than admit defeat, all the talk about dieing for a purpose and not wasted on a meaningless death seemed forgotten, they truly sacrificed so many young men for nothing.
I think their suicidal spirit of sacrifice would have worked against modern America, though, since the we don't have the remorseless drive and willingness to endure casualties that we used to.
These Japanese pilots were true fanatics. A different breed.
The Japanese were introduced to skip bombing at Rabaul Harbor on the night of Oct. 23, 1942. While six B-17s of the 64th Squadron bombed from 10,000 feet, six 63d Squadron bombers came in at 100 feet to skip their bombs into the sides of Japanese ships. McCullar reported sinking a destroyer with two hits amidships.
it was over on dec 8th 1941.they just did not know it
During this time Nishizawa’s friend Saburo Sakai was back in Japan recuperating and lost an eye from battles in Rabaul..
I served in the USAF in the 70s. I moved to the Philippines 5 years ago. In the USAF we were reminded that women and children of the enemy were off limits. "You are Americans. Act as men of honor, do not disgrace your nation with bad behavior!"
As I ask about the WW2 Japanese invasion here on Samal Island, I have heard stories from financially challenged Philippine people about the monstrous behavior of Japanese soldiers from my wife's father who was a young boy at the time. Simple farmers.
I wonder what this pilots wife would think of him if she saw him raping and torturing a 14 year old Filipino girl, cutting of her tiny breasts and flinging them around the room like toys as she screamed in the background. Or strafing a local church to test his Zeros weapons. This is exactly who these 'Japanese warriors' were. Monsters. Despicable, shameless monsters.
Yes you can delete this WW2 tales, because it tells the Truth about the Japanese invasion of a peaceful people, and shows exactly the opposite of your 'pretty story' to make these monsters appear honorable. They were NOT honorable by any stretch of the imagination!
Now you owe humanity to research and tell the horrors suffered by the Philippine people with the horrendous stories telling exactly what these invaders were! Now YOUR honer stands challenged!
The Japanese were ruthless against conquored peoples and. POWs. Germ warfare practiced. Torture. It’s what happens when people are brainwashed into the superiority of their race/country and anyone else is vermin.
Not to mention ,what they did to the Chinese people and all the others they “conquered “ . Our own troops had to be held away from the civilians because they had become so brutal fighting the Japanese.
Very interesting point of view. Extremely well presented.
Thank you kindly!
I found this somewhat disturbing. My dad eventually died from wounds received from a kamikaze attack on his battleship at Leyte Gulf. It's just odd.
God bless your dad
Totally riveting and vital for All to Hear and Internalize.
What is so sad, is the throwing away of their prime of their generation for no reason. The “special attack” missions had no way to win due to the small number of plans. Drachinifel went over this rather well I think.
Remember, the Japanese knew that the war was lost. Their strategy was to inflict as many casualties as possible so that public opinion would force us to bring the war to a premature conclusion on more favorable terms than unconditional surrender. The Vietnamese learned the lesson well.
Totally Riveting and Vital for All to Hear and Internalize!!!
High emotion and spirit versus cold, remorseless strategy. The suicide attacks were a symptom of failure and a refusal to admit it.
it was over on dec 8th 1941.they just did not know it
It feels like these have been filtered by the censors of the time as they often refer to the "miraculous heroics, magnificent performances, exceptional skill, superhuman efforts", of the Japanese and so on but still very interesting if reality can be gleaned.
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Victors don't try to die for their Country, they make the other poor fellow die for his Country.
The Japanese did not learn Patton's lesson. The point is not to die for your country. The point is to make the other person die for theirs.
In the US, a pilot who was suicidal was considered a liability, and for good reason. No wonder the Japanese lost.
That's an incomplete way of looking at it.
Just one consideration...
Imagine being a Japanese pilot in '44 and literally every other pilot who graduated with you from flight school in '43 is dead, and not only that, when you encounter American aircraft it's the best you can do just to survive another day, much less win an aerial victory. Frankly, death is inevitable.
As for suicidal warriors? Consider infantry for a moment. An effective grunt is resigned to the randomness of death, he will do his best to perform both his duty and stay alive, but most grunts understand mortality well and stop worrying; that's not suicidal. I doubt Japanese fighter pilots of WW2 were much different.
They didn't lose so much because of the individual's mindset, they lost the war the moment they decided to start the war. The very moment.
@JD-tn5lz That's what we faced in 42. The survivors trained the new guys who survived.
If Thatch had thrown his life away, he would never have come up with the Thatch Weave.
@@JD-tn5lz The American wasn’t motivated by honor for honor’s sake.
No…it’s definitely a distorted view of heroism. Kind of like Forrest Gump’s superior officer, who preferred to die on the battlefield than be saved…for “honor” and to continue the family legacy.
There’s nothing really honorable about choosing death over life.
The sad thing is, we have learned nothing from all this, except that now we are all kamikazes.
All kids in Canada know how to skip stones on the water
In the US too. My Dad was in the USAAF and he showed me (after the war) how the technique worked by skipping stones on a lake. Of course it's easier for Canadians because it's easier to skip a stone on ice!
@@rabbi120348 lmao
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
This is hilarious and has great ending at every turn
I loved the sound of "air flotilla in Manila."
Sounds like an Ali fight - "The flotilla in Manila."
@@rabbi120348 indeed
Obviously proud that all volunteered and honored! Why then do I think it was stupid?
Oh it was waaay stupid.
Yes very stupid!!!
Cultural differences. Americans and Europeans looked at suicide missions as something that should be avoided if at all possible. Japanese looked at it as a noble sacrifice for Japan and the emperor. A big part of the reason for the war was that neither side really understood the other. We thought the Japanese would understand that they couldn't beat us, and the Japanese thought that we would be weak and unwilling to sacrifice so many lives to beat them. Both sides were wrong, and both paid a high price.
Can you please tell me which from which website I can use this AI voice? Been a big fan of your WW2 tales
@MemeDomain1 Sir please check speechify, eleven labs ,murf ai
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Yes , , , high morale , , , join the kamakazi ranks , , , yes , , all for duty and honor , , , oh , by the way , , , I see the Emperor did not commit hari kari but instead chose to live on , , , after all lunch was soon to be served that day , , , and he had given up lunch yesterday to help the war effort , , ,
Wow, that sucks:
Flying a kamikaze mission with diarrhea.
Keep it up
@ajitdandona891 Very kind of you dear Sir 💐
I would love to have been a kamakazi pilot as long as I had success and it brought honor to my family
Try it today
Japanese suicidal tactics eventually brought on the two atomic bombs. This may have been unnecessary if they weren't so suicidal. So sad. Neither side would back down.
So, the Japanese pilots returned with new planes to go try to crash into our ships? Brilliant!
Brave men.
Brave men stupid strategy. It was a useless wast
Hindsight is 20/20@@barbarahunter5463
More like brave but foolish 20 year old kids . The old men always survive , the young men die .
Kamikaze, the original smart bomb.
Aaaaand it’s gone
I believe it is good to put a more human face on the special attack units in spite of the foreign concept to me as a western.
These attacks were poor tactics. Wasting Warriors in such a manner is a disgrace to me. I was trained to bring my Marines home. Every Marine that ever served with or under me all came home. We may be busted physically or emotionally but we came home.
i always find it weird. Japanese always just said "The enemy". Americans always said the "Japanese (japs)". Japan taking the humanity out of it to make it more tolerable? taking the Hell out of war?
The Japanese had many Allied enemies.
@@Watkinsstudio valid point. just a thought that occurred to me.
BS.....to ram a prop driven plane into another plane and not have your prop bent in some way is impossible.
The enemy?
It seems like every thing called unsinkable shortly after sinks
A lot of suicide in the heat of the moment..
Nobody wants to die alone.
Sad to have lived so long and learned nothing
Very much like the Germans, ww1 & ww2.
a waste of a. young generation of men that would be desperately needed to rebuild Japan after the war
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See?... if you hadn't decided to follow an insane emperor, you'd have a much better life!!
Hirohito was not insane, and was not that much of a ruler. Political and military decisions were made by the military. The Emperor mostly presided, rather than ruling.
And Roosevelt had a role to play in starting the war, by meddling in Asia and his embargoes of raw materials to Japan, especially oil. Despite his war mongering, the United States was unprepared for the war Roosevelt's action provoked.
That's not to let the Japanese military off the hook for their warmongering in Asia either, of course.
But if Roosevelt wanted war in Asia, he should have prepared the Philippines and the US Navy a lot better than he did before provoking war.
That said, once the war started Roosevelt deserves great credit for mobilizing the American people and industry to a stupefying military effort, and also selecting top military leaders like Marshal, Earnest King and Nimitz who provided remarkable leadership.
@@SeattlePioneerLook at the flip side of not embargoing Japan on scrap iron and oil. That would have been an endorsement of the murderous war being waged on a prostrate China. In good conscience how could the US provide the gasoline and metal for more Nankings and Shanghais?
In 1945 Japan was forced to follow the path suggested by the pre-war embargo. They had to reject militarism and colonialism and turn the industriousness of their people into making Japan a first rate country with clean, prosperous, peaceful cities. A better government could have done that 7 years earlier with several million war dead, burned out cities and the emnity of Asia for their actions during the war.
Welp, he was a god! Who the hail believes a god needs a palace, a vehicle, food, and toilet paper??
You mean like the Germans following an insane dictator?
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If I didn't know better, I swear this Japanese account is as as Woke as Fuck!
Why does the narrator of these tales always have to have a British accent? Can't you change it up once in a while?
Some like his accent
Heh, heh!
Sorry old chap!
Tally-Ho fellow samurai!
Pip pip, cheerio and all that sort of rot.......Y'ALL. hahah
I hope Set48 appreciates the humor displayed in his thread!