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Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns! Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what? Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack! Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his P-40's guns] AHHHHHHH!!! 😂
It wasn't so much to avoid offending Hitler or Mussolini directly but instead the local German and Italian citizens of America who could potentially communicate back to their home countries.
Nobuo Fugita was a great story. It was touching to see how Brookings reconciled with him. This resonated with the past where the US used the compensation from the Chinese Qing dynasty to run a school preparing Chinese students studying in the States.
I went there years ago and saw his sword that he gave the town as a gift. He originally planned to commit seppuku with it if The citizens of the town still felt bad blood about what he did. Instead he was made an honorary citizen
The University you are talking about is Tsing-hua university, one of the top in China. But with communists in power... Well.. China would love to see the U.S destroyed.
@Xing ha Lee: “ultimately humans”. Yes they were all ultimately humans it’s correct. I know it sounds a bit crazy looking back from today, but in those days people believed all kinds of silly nonsense like enemies in wars not being human. This was partly propaganda to make it mentally easier to kill the enemy.
Native Oregonian here and that Brookings/Fujita story never fails to lift the heart. Firebombing sky samurai turned Azalea Festival Grand Marshal and friend of Oregon.
Japan committed heinous crimes towards Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders, Russians, and the Chinese got the worst of it. They still haven't apologized for all their crimee... but hey they make Anime now so that's cool 👍🏽
@@kagar3465 His comment was based on the Japanese naval attacks on North America. I understand you're attempting to bring awareness of the Imperial Armys crimes in the Pacific, but using anime (as usual) as a reference is just plain retarded. Anime was around long before WW2 occurred and pretty much every allied nation used animation as propaganda (Tokio Jokio by US)
@@kagar3465 At the risk of goin off topic, same with the US tbh. I have yet to see the 'beacon of democracy and freedom' apologize for war crimes committed practically worldwide and even organizing coups on democratically elected governments.
I’m not sure exactly the details but I believe a Japanese pilot was also tasked with flying over the Pacific northwest region and to drop a bomb over a highly dense forest area to start a massive wildfire. Also I believe they were trying to put bombs attached to balloons to float high in the atmosphere and then gradually descend over the United States causing random damage. Great content as usual kings
One of those balloon ones actually hit by my home town. Omaha! Crazy one could float that far but the us military simply told people that it was a small factory fire and not a Japanese action to keep them calm. It was discovered after the war however and was simply a lucky shot that they couldn’t repeat.
The balloon bombs are somewhat successful and started several wildfires. The all black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion were airdropped over the fires to put them out and were the first smokejumpers. However, their mission was kept secret as were the balloon bombs to keep the US population from panicking.
The fact that young Fugita tried to kill American strangers and old Fugita gave those same strangers a 400 year old family sword as a token of regret , and even had some of his ashes entombed in a town of his former enemies, who now considered him an honorary citizen shows the utter stupidity of war.
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I've heard of Warrant Officer Fujita and the Oregon Town. It's a lovely story of former enemies becoming the best of friends. I think stories like this are always wonderful to remember. Great video.
With the amount of special topics in recent weeks, it may be safe to assume that Japan and the Allies are recovering and regrouping for the upcoming battles in 1942 onwards. Great work as always, K&G! Also, the Brookings story was wholesome.
Next up is the Guadacanal campaign, I believe, the first major US offensive of the war, which occurred a couple of months after Midway. The Japanese were still reeling from the destruction of their carriers, forcing them to rely on their surface forces to combat the US offensive. There was also the horrific offensive in China, where the Chinese military and civilians alike suffered unimaginably, and the British/Commonwealth forces were defending against a Japanese invasion of Burma.
Excellent! The effect of unique, small actions such as these on the national defense outlook of the USA during the early part of the war cannot be understated. Well done. This was very educational.
9:25 - Excellent work as usual K&G! One very minor and pedantic correction. I presume you mean the only Purple Heart recipient on _continental_ US soil, as I'm sure there were many Purple Hearts given at Pearl Harbor and elsewhere. Forgive my pettiness, and keep up the great work!
Stories like that last guy giving up his 400 yr old family katana and the town forgiving him and making him a citizen man that makes me so dang proud to be an American!! Gets ya right in the feels
KaG, your work is truly an inspiration. Thank you for bringing such insanely next level quality content to youtube, you produce some of the greatest history videos ever! :)
I have to say I felt for the Japanese pilot who was so afraid of a hostile reception he was prepared to commit sepuku, but went anyway and reconciled with the former enemy. Pretty awesome on both sides.
Wow that is a lot of highly ineffective attacks which I knew little to nothing about. The LA Panic/Battle of LA is the only thing here that gets any amount of regular coverage in most WWII documentaries. Edit: Ironically it was the only thing here that was not actually a Japanese action at all.
You see the Japanese destroyed British forces in Malaya Burma? Bully who? Even the British despite having more man power than the Japanese still defeated.. British had the most shameful defeat of their Empire History.
Japan also had a war with China which is had a 10 or 5 million Army, while simultaneously waging war with the U.S Britain Dutch.. The Germans on the other hand had many allies in Europe. While Italy wasn't even worth mentioning.. LoL
Fun fact: Fort Funston near San Francisco, which was reinforced in the event of a possible Japanese invasion, is now a dog park. But you can still walk past and through a large number of concrete bunkers and abandoned gun platforms that have now become overgrown with foliage or simply fallen off the cliffs into the sands of the beach below. It's oddly poetic that a location once dedicated to war has now become a simple place where dogs run and play to their heart's content
As a Californian, thank you for this history. Japanese Americans and Japanese companies are hugely impactful to the great Californian economy. Our ancestors fought each other to the death, but in the end we are at peace and thrive.
Probably because they were done to death in the 90's when I was a kid upon first learning of them. Not to mention the film "wind talkers" or something starting Nicolas Cage in early 2000's
I grew up in Marin County, just to the north of San Francisco, in the '90s and '00s. On the coast of the county, there are still the remains of concrete bunkers and shore batteries built in preparation for an expected Japanese amphibious landing during the war.
My grandma was born and raised in San Pedro California, right on the water down south by LA, she said those communities had lived in fear around the war
Family members told me that they saw this “balloon”. It had wings with red circles. I first heard this story in the 1950s, long before any movie came out. Dad said the newspaper stories changed over the first couple of days after the incident.
I never knew Japan attacked the mainland, they never taught us this shit in school. Only thing they taught us was Japan bombed Hawaii then dipped, then the U.S. attacked some small islands and dropped the nukes. That was all they taught us in school, the main focus was Germany and D-Day.😂
The only portrayed Japan as the instigators in bombing of the Pearl Harbour and the US forces started winning every battle after Mid Way to end of the war, that's basically it. None of the reasons leading up to Pearl Harbour or thesee US mainland attacks lol. Talk about subtle propaganda
lol tries bombing their town. Fails to cause massive fire Gets invited back after the war by the town. Becomes fire chief for the festival, where there’s no major fire. I bet both sides involved had fun moving on from the war with no hard feelings at all.
8:29 Didn't Mishino Kozo choose that target because of a personal slight before the war? He went to meet representatives of that oil company and was laughed at when he fell over. Please correct me if I'm wrong. It's gonna bug the heck out of me.
So I had never heard that and did some researching. It seems like there are lot of different versions of stories, made up by Americans as a lesson in treating people with respect / karma. Everything I read said the stories (the most common one I came across had to do with falling into a cactus patch, and onlookers laughed at him), were basically told to try and both explain why a target was chosen and to teach lessons in humility. Super interesting, glad I read this comment.
8:33 Something to fix for the inevitable supercut: The town to the northeast is Goleta, not Santa Barbara, which is five miles to the east. The attack is often associated with Santa Barbara, being by far the larger and more well known city, but those structures are all Goleta.
1942: Japanese military literally drops incendiary bombs in a Pacific forest during the summer and the fire doesn't spread 2022: Drop a lit cigarette west of the rockies during the summer and half the state is set ablaze
Its amazing how this is left out of the textbooks in the US. this is the first ive heard of it. growing up on the west coast its chilling to have been to most of the places in this video. I also wonder how this affected the internment of the Japanese living in the U.S.?
Yeah OP! I always heard vaguely of the failed attempts. I heard about them *trying* to start a fire in the forest. But all the American ships that were actually attacked, along with the battle of LA panic, the men who put the forest fires out, and even Fujita's story after the war. There is so much more! I feel cheated by my schooling. 😂 Thanks K&G. 😎👍
9:55 it’s weird seeing my home on Kings and Generals. I live in Huntington Beach but work in Westminster so I’m looking at it closely. Fun fact: the area that is now there Bolsa Chica wetlands used to be under Fort MacArthur and had three 155mm coastal artillery batteries looking out towards PCH and the beach. I’ve always thought how weird it would have been if a Japanese raiding force had landed near by. They couldn’t attack the guns directly as they are separated from the beach by a deep wetlands area so that means they would have to go around.
I "get" the targetting of merchant shipping, but the subsequent targetting of life boats is actually disgusting and infuriating! Those men weren't even soldiers!
Even the German raiders in the Atlantic and Pacific didn't target lifeboats. They would capture them as POWs, but rarely were they killed. What the Japanese did was evil.
Horribly, the crew of the submarine USS Wahoo did the same thing in 1943. The men they slaughtered were soldiers, but they were in lifeboats and even in the water all the same.
You'd remember that the Doolittle raid scared IJN. On the raid some B25 flew low on purpose, then shot unarmed schoolboys and civilians by machine gun.
Fascinating! Please consider relating the high altitude incendiary balloon bombs floated across- one of which exploded when discovered by a youth church group in Oregon.
Sadly, this documentary failed to mention the capture of one of these submarines, which is an amazing story in itself. Records are vague and eyewitness accounts vary, but the fact is Captain William Kelso (Known to his friends as "Wild" Bill.) lost his P40 Warhawk to enemy fire over Los Angeles, CA. He performed a successful wheels-up landing and was able to extricate himself from the plane with only minor injuries. Kelso wasn't done, though. Immediately after reporting his status to the local command, he commandeered a motorcycle (Some say at gunpoint.) and drove for the seashore to get his revenge. It is at this point where accounts vary wildly. Some say he stole a boat and others say he swam out, but several witnesses indicate Kelso drove his purloined motorcycle off of a pier with enough momentum to land nearly on top of the Japanese submarine. He then proceeded to board that sub, capture the entire crew and force them to take him back to Japan where he intended to kill the emperor himself. Obviously, this plan failed, but "Wild" Bill Kelso's bravery, determination and utter lunacy are legendary in the U.S. Air Force.
Brilliant movie as K&G usual! I knew submarines attack as mobilized reason of later US starvation maritime blockade to Japan, however didn't about bombing to forest. And I saw this series taught us postwar event perhaps first time. Waiting for episode the war criminal Gen Yamashita was killed by kangaroo.
As a Californian, I like learning about our unique past. It helps foresee vulnerabilities in the future as a frontline state in any Indo-Pacific confrontations
Japanese navy bombs an Oregon wilderness. As lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest accustomed to seasonal fires this is hilarious, the equivalent of bombing the Gobi desert. Can't believe they didn't mention the balloon bombs launched from mainland Japan, that actual did kill a few people in Oregon.
WELL, DONE KINGS AND GENERALS GREAT VIDEO ALSO GLAD YOU TALK ABOUT NOBUO FUJITA ALWAYS LIKE THE STORY AFTER WAR HE DID ALSO YOU DID NOT KNOW THIS BUT LATTER THEY NAME A NEW FORREST TRAIL AFTER HIM
My mom was living in Hawthorn during The Battle of Los Angeles and it scared the crap out of her. She thought the invasion was on and was expecting to see Japanese troops storming up El Segundo BLVD.
08:30 "The I-17 proceeded to fire the first of 17 rounds . . ." 11:58 ". . . I shelled the area with about 17 shots." 12:58 ". . . began to fire 17 rounds from its deck gun . . ." Hmmm. I'm beginning to sense a pattern here.
Battleships in the 1920s also had similar launch tracks for scout float planes as well. Just thought you'd enjoy learning this as well since I also did lol
Yes, they actually developed and builded submarine aicraft carriers but only managed to get two operative by the end of the war, still a frightening concept to be sure: submergible ar-carriers! Could have turned the tide of the war a couple of years before.
It is a matter of logistics. They had their hands full just maintaining their island territories. Mainland U.S. was a stretch. Also, they had a small submarine force and used them mostly for defense and supply transportation.
@@hjusn Also the German attack on the continental US didn't accomplish much in WWI. While a scare tactic, it also galvanizes the population to support the war more fervently despite the minimal threat so it's a self-defeating tactic.
@@hjusn I understand your point. Still before the War the IJN should have built dedicated submarine forces to harass the West Coast. Consider how well Operation Drumbeat did on the US East Coast.
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Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his P-40's guns] AHHHHHHH!!! 😂
Hello. Please make a week-by-week thingy on the US Civil War, and the American Revolutionary War as well.
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@@PerfectDanceVideos As if he had it in the bombs ... wait 2020 ...
Idk if Germany or Italy would've cared about an attack on Christmas, but it would've definitely doubled the rage America felt after Pearl Harbor.
Well the US fleet wouldn't have been there on Christmas
Not to mention Hitler himself has a penchant for attacking during that time of HOLY festivities.
I mean Hitler was one of the few German soldiers of WW1 that was against the Christmas Truce of 1914 so yeah
It wasn't so much to avoid offending Hitler or Mussolini directly but instead the local German and Italian citizens of America who could potentially communicate back to their home countries.
@@nogibertv4824 nothing holy about those festivities
Mad respect for that bomber. He flew straight into the heart of the enemy alone with a biplane, twice... To start something California has every year.
Mad respect for a mad attack!
Tobacco giants had caused millions of times more death and forestal damage to the US than ALL the efforts of the Japanise empire combined!
But, California gets little rain, so fires are easier. The NW is the complete opposite.
Yeah, but this was Oregon.
This was 15 miles from the california border. We get a lot of rain in norther California @HKim0072
Nobuo Fugita was a great story. It was touching to see how Brookings reconciled with him. This resonated with the past where the US used the compensation from the Chinese Qing dynasty to run a school preparing Chinese students studying in the States.
I went there years ago and saw his sword that he gave the town as a gift. He originally planned to commit seppuku with it if The citizens of the town still felt bad blood about what he did. Instead he was made an honorary citizen
I love stories of enemy combatants meeting their old enemies and becoming friends.
The University you are talking about is Tsing-hua university, one of the top in China.
But with communists in power... Well.. China would love to see the U.S destroyed.
I've loved to learn about Fujita story, it is good to know that something good got out of these
Wholesome too
The reconciliation between Fujita and the officials of the city he bombed has to be one of the most amazing and heartwarming ever.
Fujita's post war gestures were a fitting epilogue to this. Shows that, for all their actions at the time, both sides were ultimately humans.
"both sides were ultimately humans" - this is a naive thinking. ah dont mistake it. i have nothing against you
@@leexingha In this war they were at least.
With all the flaws that that can imply after all.
@@lafeelabriel easy for you to say. ur lack of empathy and true understanding. well, why do u care anyways
@Xing ha Lee: “ultimately humans”. Yes they were all ultimately humans it’s correct. I know it sounds a bit crazy looking back from today, but in those days people believed all kinds of silly nonsense like enemies in wars not being human. This was partly propaganda to make it mentally easier to kill the enemy.
@@flashgordon6670 tell that to fat boy and small watever
Native Oregonian here and that Brookings/Fujita story never fails to lift the heart. Firebombing sky samurai turned Azalea Festival Grand Marshal and friend of Oregon.
Thank you for exploring the details of these Japanese attacks on North America. We don't learn about this stuff in school
Japan committed heinous crimes towards Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders, Russians, and the Chinese got the worst of it. They still haven't apologized for all their crimee... but hey they make Anime now so that's cool 👍🏽
@@kagar3465 His comment was based on the Japanese naval attacks on North America. I understand you're attempting to bring awareness of the Imperial Armys crimes in the Pacific, but using anime (as usual) as a reference is just plain retarded. Anime was around long before WW2 occurred and pretty much every allied nation used animation as propaganda (Tokio Jokio by US)
@@kagar3465 At the risk of goin off topic, same with the US tbh. I have yet to see the 'beacon of democracy and freedom' apologize for war crimes committed practically worldwide and even organizing coups on democratically elected governments.
@@maximipe USA never committed any War Crimes, Japan didn't follow the Geneva Convention
@@voodootrucker1896 Saying "USA never committed any War Crimes" is like saying "a Lion never kills his prey".
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I’m not sure exactly the details but I believe a Japanese pilot was also tasked with flying over the Pacific northwest region and to drop a bomb over a highly dense forest area to start a massive wildfire. Also I believe they were trying to put bombs attached to balloons to float high in the atmosphere and then gradually descend over the United States causing random damage. Great content as usual kings
One of those balloon ones actually hit by my home town. Omaha! Crazy one could float that far but the us military simply told people that it was a small factory fire and not a Japanese action to keep them calm. It was discovered after the war however and was simply a lucky shot that they couldn’t repeat.
they bombed the forests hoping to set them on fire. A Japanese general, trained in the US, thought brush fires would demoralise the Americans.
Those are mostly late war planes, if you think that's crazy look up cherry blossoms at night
The balloon bombs are somewhat successful and started several wildfires. The all black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion were airdropped over the fires to put them out and were the first smokejumpers. However, their mission was kept secret as were the balloon bombs to keep the US population from panicking.
The Fugo bombs. Super interesting!
The fact that young Fugita tried to kill American strangers and old Fugita gave those same strangers a 400 year old family sword as a token of regret , and even had some of his ashes entombed in a town of his former enemies, who now considered him an honorary citizen shows the utter stupidity of war.
Yes especially being the loser of the war.
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@@danielramirez1529 Nobody asked.
@@Gameknight10 in that case, pretty please 🙏
I love learning all the stories I never knew. Thanks for all the work and care you all put into this series.
The maps are beyond magnificent in these videos... especially this one.
I wonder how they make them
Literally cannot believe we get this god tier content for free
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You didn’t
@@blu3508 no actually you didn’t 😂. Where are your ancestors from I bet you don’t even know 😂
That's really cool about the Japanese pilot becoming friends with that American town. I like that, I really do.
Same here! I thought it was odd at first just on the randomness of it but upon hearing the relationship that developed really warmed my heart
I've heard of Warrant Officer Fujita and the Oregon Town. It's a lovely story of former enemies becoming the best of friends. I think stories like this are always wonderful to remember. Great video.
With the amount of special topics in recent weeks, it may be safe to assume that Japan and the Allies are recovering and regrouping for the upcoming battles in 1942 onwards.
Great work as always, K&G!
Also, the Brookings story was wholesome.
USA history should be taught - both that is favorable and unfavorable to the USA. This is how were learn from mistakes
I think the battle of Los Angeles what a UFO
Next up is the Guadacanal campaign, I believe, the first major US offensive of the war, which occurred a couple of months after Midway. The Japanese were still reeling from the destruction of their carriers, forcing them to rely on their surface forces to combat the US offensive. There was also the horrific offensive in China, where the Chinese military and civilians alike suffered unimaginably, and the British/Commonwealth forces were defending against a Japanese invasion of Burma.
@@addisonsmith7949 Nah, weather balloon.
@@Cailus3542 Yes. I think the Guadalcanal episodes for K&G will begin on the first week of August.
Japanese attacks on the California coast were dramatized in the 1979 comedy film '1941' starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [after parking his P-40 fighter plane in front of a gas station with the engine running] Fill her up! Ethel!
Gas Mama: Where?
Excellent! The effect of unique, small actions such as these on the national defense outlook of the USA during the early part of the war cannot be understated. Well done. This was very educational.
HA HA HA! At 10:40 I heard 'Kirov reporting". Nice one K&G.
9:25 - Excellent work as usual K&G! One very minor and pedantic correction. I presume you mean the only Purple Heart recipient on _continental_ US soil, as I'm sure there were many Purple Hearts given at Pearl Harbor and elsewhere. Forgive my pettiness, and keep up the great work!
Hawaii was not a state during World War II, so it was not U.S. soil; in the same way that today Puerto Rico wouldn't be referred to as "U.S. soil".
@@WaterShowsProd then I stand corrected!
Stories like that last guy giving up his 400 yr old family katana and the town forgiving him and making him a citizen man that makes me so dang proud to be an American!! Gets ya right in the feels
KaG, your work is truly an inspiration. Thank you for bringing such insanely next level quality content to youtube, you produce some of the greatest history videos ever! :)
I have to say I felt for the Japanese pilot who was so afraid of a hostile reception he was prepared to commit sepuku, but went anyway and reconciled with the former enemy.
Pretty awesome on both sides.
An amazing story
I’m man enough to admit that last story brought me to tears.
Love the story - Fujita Nobuo, and the respect and peace that former enemies move to. They took him as one of their own.
Wonderful story about the Japanese pilot regretting his bombing actions and giving his Katana as a present! Thank you!
I get so hype when I see you guys have added a new video to this series. Thank you
Wow that is a lot of highly ineffective attacks which I knew little to nothing about.
The LA Panic/Battle of LA is the only thing here that gets any amount of regular coverage in most WWII documentaries.
Edit: Ironically it was the only thing here that was not actually a Japanese action at all.
Is not this whole event satirised in the Spielberg-Belushi action-comedy movie '1941'! 😉
It caused more deaths than any other Japanese attack on the mainland... and it didn't have any Japanese.
Maybe the real Fujita's attack was the friends he made along the way
And the Christmas cards he suddenly finds in his mailbox.
Maybe he met the sons of the Japanese soldiers that invaded the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
Brilliant series from a great channel. Always look forward to Tuesday's when a new episode drops!
runaway weather balloon casuing panic is pretty funny in a grim way.
This series has been phenomenal so far! Keep up the good work!
Japan during WWII: "Oh, look, it's Britain-Junior. Gonna cry?"
USA during WWII: "You picked the wrong house, fool!"
lol Japanese Bully Maguire vs USA Big Smoke XD
I wouldn't want to fight me neither...
You see the Japanese destroyed British forces in Malaya Burma? Bully who? Even the British despite having more man power than the Japanese still defeated.. British had the most shameful defeat of their Empire History.
Japan also had a war with China which is had a 10 or 5 million Army, while simultaneously waging war with the U.S Britain Dutch.. The Germans on the other hand had many allies in Europe. While Italy wasn't even worth mentioning.. LoL
I'll never understand people who act like war is a funny pissing contest. "LOL" ..
Fun fact: Fort Funston near San Francisco, which was reinforced in the event of a possible Japanese invasion, is now a dog park. But you can still walk past and through a large number of concrete bunkers and abandoned gun platforms that have now become overgrown with foliage or simply fallen off the cliffs into the sands of the beach below. It's oddly poetic that a location once dedicated to war has now become a simple place where dogs run and play to their heart's content
As a Californian, thank you for this history. Japanese Americans and Japanese companies are hugely impactful to the great Californian economy. Our ancestors fought each other to the death, but in the end we are at peace and thrive.
Just north of the Columbia across from ft Steven's is another battery looking down from the hills on the Rivers entry to the pacific. We were ready.
Ypu need to do a documentary on the Navajo Code Talkers. There are many WW2 documentaries but nothing about the Code Talkers.
Probably because they were done to death in the 90's when I was a kid upon first learning of them. Not to mention the film "wind talkers" or something starting Nicolas Cage in early 2000's
@@irenebradley6288but does this generation know anything about them?
I grew up in Marin County, just to the north of San Francisco, in the '90s and '00s. On the coast of the county, there are still the remains of concrete bunkers and shore batteries built in preparation for an expected Japanese amphibious landing during the war.
My grandma was born and raised in San Pedro California, right on the water down south by LA, she said those communities had lived in fear around the war
Crazy times 😮
Spielberg's "1941" with Belushi captured this brilliantly.
10:45 If that was a weather balloon, it was a damn tough one.
i remember if it was the same balloon portrayed from the movie battle: los angeles
It was alien
@@RideSky360 nice observation
Family members told me that they saw this “balloon”. It had wings with red circles.
I first heard this story in the 1950s, long before any movie came out. Dad said the newspaper stories changed over the first couple of days after the incident.
I never knew Japan attacked the mainland, they never taught us this shit in school. Only thing they taught us was Japan bombed Hawaii then dipped, then the U.S. attacked some small islands and dropped the nukes. That was all they taught us in school, the main focus was Germany and D-Day.😂
The Pacific War is really underrated. Its ashame that the US focuses more on the European front.
The only portrayed Japan as the instigators in bombing of the Pearl Harbour and the US forces started winning every battle after Mid Way to end of the war, that's basically it. None of the reasons leading up to Pearl Harbour or thesee US mainland attacks lol. Talk about subtle propaganda
@@maverick7291 Well it did kill 6 people
@@maverick7291 yes, and don't forget the indonesians 😢
Serio
lol tries bombing their town. Fails to cause massive fire
Gets invited back after the war by the town.
Becomes fire chief for the festival, where there’s no major fire.
I bet both sides involved had fun moving on from the war with no hard feelings at all.
8:29 Didn't Mishino Kozo choose that target because of a personal slight before the war? He went to meet representatives of that oil company and was laughed at when he fell over. Please correct me if I'm wrong. It's gonna bug the heck out of me.
So I had never heard that and did some researching. It seems like there are lot of different versions of stories, made up by Americans as a lesson in treating people with respect / karma. Everything I read said the stories (the most common one I came across had to do with falling into a cactus patch, and onlookers laughed at him), were basically told to try and both explain why a target was chosen and to teach lessons in humility.
Super interesting, glad I read this comment.
@@ericburton5163 Thank you for the reply :) I don't even remember where I heard it.
8:33 Something to fix for the inevitable supercut: The town to the northeast is Goleta, not Santa Barbara, which is five miles to the east. The attack is often associated with Santa Barbara, being by far the larger and more well known city, but those structures are all Goleta.
1942: Japanese military literally drops incendiary bombs in a Pacific forest during the summer and the fire doesn't spread
2022: Drop a lit cigarette west of the rockies during the summer and half the state is set ablaze
Almost like something is changing
It’s really weird hearing about wartime activities around where I grew up and hearing Port San Luis in anything other than a fishing context
Its amazing how this is left out of the textbooks in the US. this is the first ive heard of it. growing up on the west coast its chilling to have been to most of the places in this video. I also wonder how this affected the internment of the Japanese living in the U.S.?
What do you think would’ve happened to the Japanese in the USA if they weren’t interned?
@@flashgordon6670 Forcing the choice between lynching and concentration is not appropriate for citizens.
Yeah OP! I always heard vaguely of the failed attempts. I heard about them *trying* to start a fire in the forest.
But all the American ships that were actually attacked, along with the battle of LA panic, the men who put the forest fires out, and even Fujita's story after the war.
There is so much more! I feel cheated by my schooling. 😂
Thanks K&G. 😎👍
@@internee9181 No, it's not appropriate or acceptable, but in that time, that was the decision they had to take.
9:55 it’s weird seeing my home on Kings and Generals. I live in Huntington Beach but work in Westminster so I’m looking at it closely. Fun fact: the area that is now there Bolsa Chica wetlands used to be under Fort MacArthur and had three 155mm coastal artillery batteries looking out towards PCH and the beach.
I’ve always thought how weird it would have been if a Japanese raiding force had landed near by. They couldn’t attack the guns directly as they are separated from the beach by a deep wetlands area so that means they would have to go around.
That was a tear jerking ending to a roller coaster of a video. Good on him, not many would full face admit they may have overplayed their hand.
FUJITA'S Pilgrimages story IS INSPIRING
Excellent work. Thank you.
Thanks for the information in this video
Another excellent video, K&G.
The Battle of Los Angeles is documented in the film 1941. It's actually a comedy starring John Belushi and many others.,..
It takes guts to operate thousands of miles from home or any logistics bases. The IJN was a scary foe.
Wow. First time I've viewed anything concerning the historical context in this Video. Excellent. Thank you.
Wow, the end was really emotional!
An excellent episode!
I "get" the targetting of merchant shipping, but the subsequent targetting of life boats is actually disgusting and infuriating! Those men weren't even soldiers!
Even the German raiders in the Atlantic and Pacific didn't target lifeboats. They would capture them as POWs, but rarely were they killed. What the Japanese did was evil.
Horribly, the crew of the submarine USS Wahoo did the same thing in 1943. The men they slaughtered were soldiers, but they were in lifeboats and even in the water all the same.
Then I would not recommend watching last weeks episode lol
targeting life boats doesn't sound like something Japanese Bushido would approve of.
You'd remember that the Doolittle raid scared IJN. On the raid some B25 flew low on purpose, then shot unarmed schoolboys and civilians by machine gun.
Was not expecting that ending
Wholesome Ending
Unexpectedly poetic ending
Love getting info on the more obscure operations of the war.
I'm glad that we all ended up as friends.
Fascinating! Please consider relating the high altitude incendiary balloon bombs floated across- one of which exploded when discovered by a youth church group in Oregon.
You guys should cover Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, the plan (ultimately scrapped) to drop plague-infected fleas on San Diego.
Sadly, this documentary failed to mention the capture of one of these submarines, which is an amazing story in itself. Records are vague and eyewitness accounts vary, but the fact is Captain William Kelso (Known to his friends as "Wild" Bill.) lost his P40 Warhawk to enemy fire over Los Angeles, CA. He performed a successful wheels-up landing and was able to extricate himself from the plane with only minor injuries. Kelso wasn't done, though. Immediately after reporting his status to the local command, he commandeered a motorcycle (Some say at gunpoint.) and drove for the seashore to get his revenge. It is at this point where accounts vary wildly. Some say he stole a boat and others say he swam out, but several witnesses indicate Kelso drove his purloined motorcycle off of a pier with enough momentum to land nearly on top of the Japanese submarine. He then proceeded to board that sub, capture the entire crew and force them to take him back to Japan where he intended to kill the emperor himself. Obviously, this plan failed, but "Wild" Bill Kelso's bravery, determination and utter lunacy are legendary in the U.S. Air Force.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing that!
WHAT
Brilliant movie as K&G usual!
I knew submarines attack as mobilized reason of later US starvation maritime blockade to Japan, however didn't about bombing to forest. And I saw this series taught us postwar event perhaps first time. Waiting for episode the war criminal Gen Yamashita was killed by kangaroo.
That's pretty cool how the city of Brookings and the bomber pilot who bombed near them made peace.
Superb. Been subscribed for awhile. Love it. I had no idea these events had taken place.
I very much enjoyed this episode. I'll admit, I love the stories of former enemies embracing as friends. 🙏
As a Californian, I like learning about our unique past. It helps foresee vulnerabilities in the future as a frontline state in any Indo-Pacific confrontations
Gran video! Por un momento pensé que los japoneses llegarían hasta las costas mexicanas y el canal de Panamá en esta entrega
Japanese navy bombs an Oregon wilderness. As lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest accustomed to seasonal fires this is hilarious, the equivalent of bombing the Gobi desert.
Can't believe they didn't mention the balloon bombs launched from mainland Japan, that actual did kill a few people in Oregon.
WELL, DONE KINGS AND GENERALS GREAT VIDEO ALSO GLAD YOU TALK ABOUT NOBUO FUJITA ALWAYS LIKE THE STORY AFTER WAR HE DID ALSO YOU DID NOT KNOW THIS BUT LATTER THEY NAME A NEW FORREST TRAIL AFTER HIM
The untold side stories make this more interesting to watch ....
As serious as this unknown story was, it did give the necessary premise for the movie 1941.
An ingenious plan that never failed
I'm amazed how fast an SOS call can be received and acted upon.
I didnt even know that US-Mainland was attacked. Thanks for the Video
Same shocking right
I'm learning so much from this series!!
Loved the ending about the story of Fujita.
What a great story to end on!
0:16 song ?
Lally the light keeper deserved a medal he never abandoned his post defending his lighthouse
My mom was living in Hawthorn during The Battle of Los Angeles and it scared the crap out of her. She thought the invasion was on and was expecting to see Japanese troops storming up El Segundo BLVD.
Fr that’s crazy historical times
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Commander Akiro Mitamura: What?
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Commander Akiro Mitamura: Who?
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Commander Akiro Mitamura: Where?
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Commander Akiro Mitamura: Hollywood?
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08:30 "The I-17 proceeded to fire the first of 17 rounds . . ."
11:58 ". . . I shelled the area with about 17 shots."
12:58 ". . . began to fire 17 rounds from its deck gun . . ."
Hmmm. I'm beginning to sense a pattern here.
Japanese subs had planes in them in 1942!? Insane.
Battleships in the 1920s also had similar launch tracks for scout float planes as well. Just thought you'd enjoy learning this as well since I also did lol
On them. It was the later (I-400 class, from 1943) subs that were designed to transport aircraft within the hull.
Yes, they actually developed and builded submarine aicraft carriers but only managed to get two operative by the end of the war, still a frightening concept to be sure: submergible ar-carriers! Could have turned the tide of the war a couple of years before.
I learned so much more from your channel than school.
Wow I didn’t know the American homeland was attacked great video very interesting to
I have always felt that the IJN made a big mistake not regularly attacking the US West Coast
Because this somehow wouldn't end in the destruction of Japan? The mistake was going to war with the US to begin with.
It is a matter of logistics. They had their hands full just maintaining their island territories. Mainland U.S. was a stretch. Also, they had a small submarine force and used them mostly for defense and supply transportation.
@@hjusn Also the German attack on the continental US didn't accomplish much in WWI. While a scare tactic, it also galvanizes the population to support the war more fervently despite the minimal threat so it's a self-defeating tactic.
@@hjusn I understand your point. Still before the War the IJN should have built dedicated submarine forces to harass the West Coast. Consider how well Operation Drumbeat did on the US East Coast.
@@Edax_Royeaux totally concur
Awesome video. Very touching story about Fujita and the town of Brookings.
This video reminds me of the war movie/conedy with John Belushi “1941”.
that was awesome. I had not know of these battle. Keep up to good work.
The comedy movie '1941' should be seen. It covers the battle of los angeles and it's funny has hell.
Orre wood...orre wood...
General Joseph W. Stilwell: Madness - it's the only word to describe it. This isn't the state of California, this is a state of insanity.
Very interesting.