SBD Dauntless Series Pt 12: Operation Hailstone and the Raids on Truk Atoll
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- In the early part of 1944, in the aftermath of the assault on Rabaul, the ships of the Japanese fleet were pulled back, many to the fleet base at Truk atoll in the Caroline islands. This major base hosted the heavy ships of the combined fleet, and posed a threat to the southwest and central pacific. This became the next target of the carrier air wings of Task Force 58, most of which was composed of the fast new Essex-class fleet carriers. The 150 SBDs aboard carried out a large part of the reduction of this so-called Gibraltar of the Pacific in a pair of two-day operations that rendered the base useless to the Imperial war effort.
SBD Dauntless Units of World War 2, Barrett Tillman
Douglas SBD Dauntless, Peter C Smith
"1944 - Truk Atoll" James D Ramage. www.cv6.org/1944/truk/default.htm
"Task Force 58" pacific.valka.cz/forces/tf58.com
"H-gram H-026-3: Operation Hailstone - Carrier Raid on Truk Island, 17-18 February 1944" history.navy.mil/about-us/leadership/director/directors-corner/h-grams/h-gram-026/H-026-3.html
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Really enjoy your work.. you make good use of reliable sources & I'm sure it's a lot of work your researching sources, going through them all, deciding which to include or not & to put them all into a coherent script & find excellent images then with all that produce an excellent series of videos!!
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Having Previously read a lot of WW2 periodicals over the Last Fifty Plus Year's, & some Book materials. Your's is by far the Best I've ever come Across so Far. Thank You so much for Providing it. Merry Christmas 🎄⛄🎄by the Way.
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Those pictures you showed were great.I have never saw any of them before.Many thanks mark.
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Hey thanks, you've been there from the beginning and I am totally grateful for your comments and support!
I was a member of a P3B Orion flight crew that flew a Maritime Air Patrol (MAP) flight where we flew to most of the islands in the Carolines looking for signs of habitation on the unpopulated islands. We were able to add Truk to our flight and we got photos of some of the wrecks visible from the air. One of the wrecks is the San Francisco Maru which sank in fairly shallow water because her forward mast is still visible above the water. I wonder who sank her.
Mark, I've enjoyed the SBD series, but you made a couple of comments about the Battle of the Coral Sea which are not exactly accurate. While the U.S. lost the carrier Lexington, besides sinking the Japanese carrier Shoho, we also severely damaged Shokaku was heavily damaged and Zuikaku's air wing along with the one on Shokaku was essentially destroyed. As a result, neither carrier joined Yamamoto's forces at Midway. If it were not for the Battle of Coral Sea, it would have been six Japanese carriers vs. three U.S.
Second point, the Japanese were forced to change where they were going to land on New Guinea. Had they landed in their original location, Port Moresby might have fallen.
Other than that, great stuff!!!
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Again, a good presentation and plainly you have been working on your voice talents for 'listen-ability'. Note: @5:40 you accuse the Independence class (Belleau Wood, etc.) as light cruisers. CVL vs CL. No worries as you are covering a great deal of ground here. Keep up with the good work that you are doing.
Thanks for the compliment. I was humbled to realize how much skill goes into just talking to be understood lol. I owe a lot of my improvement to helpful suggestions from listeners (who understandably want to avoid the ear-beatings of my earlier efforts.
While reading for this series I consulted SE Morrison's books on the Pacific war, where he consistently refers to the Independence -class ships as 'cruiser-hulled carriers'. That's where I went wrong lol. My brain is an 8-track player in an iphone world.
@@MarkSeven I agree that speaking to communicate/entertain is "a thing". Regards Samuel Eliot, I had read the popularized Two Ocean War back in the '70s and @ 40 years later read a copy of S.E.M.'s entire 8(?) volume Official History of U.S. Navy Operations of WWII in the library in Scottsdale, AZ. I still have the very readable Two Ocean with the beautiful dust jacket artwork.
@@gyrene_asea4133 Ah, that's one of my all-time favorites. Agreed about the dust jacket also
Bro were you at?
hay when is the next episode?
It won't be until mid February at least. Things have been tough irl and I have had little time for research, but it's good to know someone is looking forward to it👍
@@MarkSeven yess i am!
Well then for you dude I will get it done!
@@MarkSeven lol, thanks! love to see how your channel has grow btw, i remember you at 50 subs, now you are over 1k!
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When's the next episode?