The Naval Battles That Turned The Tide Of WW2's Pacific Theater | WWII In Colour | War Stories
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- Discover the pivotal naval battles, from the Coral Sea to the Battle of Midway, that turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific. Witness Admiral Nimitz's strategic brilliance as US forces clash with the Japanese navy in a bid for supremacy. Explore the daring maneuvers, the courage of sailors and pilots, and the decisive moments that shaped the course of WW2.
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I always feel like the battles against Japan are overshadowed by the ones in Europe. The Korean war is hardly ever mentioned even. We should remember all these heroes who died for our freedom in both North America and Asia
I agree but the tide
Is turning !!
I think a lot of the reasons the Asian front isn't talked about a lot in modern history is because many allied prisoners suffered under Japanese treatment and the colonial way of thinking was that people who died in Asia as a whole weren't as important as those from closer to home. After the war we generally detached Nazis actions from Germany as a whole to aid in reconstruction . In the same vein the darker sides of Japanese actions in WW2 aren't mentioned now because to this day Japan as a whole denies vehemently denies a lot of the crimes it committed. In a drive to improve diplomatic relationships it is generally considered bad etiquette to remind them they were monstrous animals with very little humanity because if you weren't Japanese you weren't considered worthy of humane treatment so to them everything was justified.
I think so too because the world is fed with biased nonsense.US citizens know more about the US Civil War than WW1.Believe it or not.
I totally agree. The soldier who fought in Africa and Italy are even more forgotten. The Americans began fighting in Africa right after Pearl Harbor in mid 1942 and the Brits and Aussie’s had been fighting there as early as 1940! By the time D-Day occurred, all those men were fighting in those other theaters for YEARS!
Nah everyone knows japans naval fleet against the Americans fleet was the best sea combat in WW2
The Japanese didn't just wake "the sleeping giant", they went into his yard, and smashed his toys
And then the Giant went and stomped on their house and destroyed it.
@@kenkleinsasser8165 yeah...didn't end well for them...kaboom!
They didn't get any carriers, which was their objective. Got their Whole country destroyed
I don't understand why, all through history there have been people that wanted to "take over the world". And it always ended badly for them. I guess that the Axis Powers didn't study world history much. The Allies gave them a crash course in history repeating itself. Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. It is a shame that between 65 to 80 million people had to die in the process. I believe that China & Russia had more dead soldiers & civilians than the rest of the Allies combined. And the biggest reason the Japanese had such success was that with the Great Depression that military outposts in Asia were not being kept up to par cuz of the lack of funds from the UK & USA. And in 1940 we were just getting over the Depression but military funding hadn't had a chance to start reinforcing the much neglected military outposts in Asia. Which imo is why large troop concentrations of the USA & UK had to surrender to smaller Japanese forces. They just didn't have the appropriate equipment to keep fighting. And weren't fanatical enough to do bonzi charges like the Japanese.
And killed his dog
This makes it sound as though the only reason the Japanese were not able to take Port Morseby was because of the arrival of US troops. Wrong. The Australian forces had already stopped the Japanese advance and was beginning to force them back. This also completely overlooks the defeat Australian forces inflicted on Japanese troops at Milne Bay, the first defeat of a Japanese army force in the war.
Go make your own documentary then you whining Sheila
Grinds my back teeth the way we were Underestimated in what we achieved. We had troops in Africa desert come back to fight in Jungles -no one else did this
Australians have never been underestimated. It took time to build up the US forces and armament. Australian troops played a pivotal role in keeping the Japanese at bay until that came into fruition. As a grandson of a WWII combat bombardier do not ever minimize Australia’s role in the war.
I met some Australian troops on R and R in Hong Hong. That experience left no doubt in my mind about the Australian soldiers. I know the history of that area , the Kota trail and the battles they fought. I for one have no doubt about the strength and courage of those men. My dad served with some Australian Engineers in the Philippines, and he was astounded by their skills, courage and will to" just do what it took". Americans do tend to forget about the others, for several reasons, but rest assured that despite the obvious overlooking in this work, there are many Americans who fully understand and appreciate what those men did .
@@k75romeofive You are absolutely correct. Aussie’s will never fall into a category of doubt regarding their heroism, determination and commitment to whatever comes their way. History has proven that time and again. 🇺🇸 will always stand proudly together with Australia 🇦🇺.
A very good summary of the Pacific War for the first year. It, however, was lacking in the discussion of the promised NAVAL battles during that period.
This channel does this with every video they ever upload. You can guarantee that the title is NOT accurate to the video because it's a form of click bait. Bet you watched the entire video waiting for those naval battles.
I mean... Midway....?
@@cleverusername9369 The coverage of the Midway Campaign lacked the depth of a serious discussion about the battle itself.
A good overview of these battles as a whole. If people want more detail, they should study each battle individually.
@@robertdelacruz2951 The Midway account is pretty much also the classic "myth of Midway", long-exploded in Japan, and more recently by US and other historians. The Aleutians force was not a feint. And the Japanese were never anywhere near being able to launch a second strike as their decks had been busy replenishing their CAP under a series of US air attacks from Midway. Nor could the Japanese have held or possibly even taken Midway - strategically their commanders, high commands and services were all at each others' throats, and Midway was the resulting pointless disaster.
Personally, I think the tide really turned after Guadalcanal was secured, at great sacrifice to the USN, Army, Marines, and Australian units too. Just my opinion, debatable for sure.
Winning Guadalcanal, was the starting point for the island hopping campaign. Midway was turning point for boosting American morale.
Reminds me of the old Midway episode from the Battlefield series., it would be so cool see their documentaries remastered with colorized footage like in this video
It would be horrible and a crime against history to colorize or alter historical footage.
No! FDR did not declare war. Congress declared war. That power is vested in Congress. I am disappointed in whoever wrote the script. Sad, because the rest is quite good!
A lot of documentaries say or suggest that he declared war in that speech. It bothers me too. Here they even edited it to make it sound like he declared it. Wtf
Always interesting to watch these documentaries.
I love these documents
I love ww2 documentaries
The 1st steps Japan took towards war wasn’t in 1940,as they have been fighting since 1937.
Yup in China
Before deciding on attacking the Pacific Fleet the Japanese Imperial Army tried taking on the the Red Army in Siberia. Got their butt’s handed to them. Then the Army dominated government made their fateful decisions
The Japanese went into a pact with the Soviets in April 1941. They formally recognized the satellite states set up by the other in China. The Japanese recognized Mongolia while the Soviets recognized Manchukuo. It was only after the US impoing an oil and raw material embargo against Japan in August 1941 which prompted the Japanese to start their moves against the US, the UK, and the Dutch East Indies where the oilfields and refineries were.
I think the Brits are very good soldiers, sailors, and airmen but they never seem to tire of overestimating their selves and under estimating their enemy.
My Father was aboard the Lexington at the Coral Sea. When the destroyer that fished him out of the water arrived at Pearl Harbor, He was debriefed by Admiral William Halsey's staff and placed on the Enterprise as a observer, He spent time on many ships going in harms way for the next three years. And made his first retirement after serving on the Missouri in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender. Standing behind Admiral Bull Halsey. And reenlisted for Korea until 1985.
Three US aircraft carriers in the Pacific, at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Enterprise and Lexington were both delivering fighters, to Wake, and Midway. Saratoga was on the West Coast of the US.
The third one in the Pacific was the USS Hornet
Just another video ignoring the Saratoga,
In this part of the video I remember years when I was helping my nanny in Pennsylvania and I woke up because in the back yard I could hear someone talking out loud so I got up and a man was looking for his dog and I used Military language and he understood me,he was a Veteran so am I veterans understood veterans it's a language that most people don't understand unless you served
Japan thought the US had no stomach for war? While seventy years before then we had massive casualties in the Civil War. About 620,000 killed in a much smaller population. Did they think we changed?
Capitalism is a helluva drug.
" The American military ďiscovered many of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero's unique attributes when they recovered a largely intact specimen of an A6M2, the Akutan Zero, on Akutan Island in the Aleutians. During an air raid over Dutch Harbor on the 4th June 1942, one A6M fighter was hit by ground-based anti-aircraft fire. Losing oil Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshu Koga attempted an emergency landing on Akutan Island about 20 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor, but his Zero flipped over on soft ground in a sudden crash-landing. Koga died instantly of head injuries (his neck was broken by the tremendous impact) but his wingman hoped he had survived and so went against Japanese doctrine to destroy disabled Zeros. The relatively undamaged fighter was found over a month later by an American salvage team and was shipped to Naval Air Station North Island" (at San Diego, California) "where testing flights of the repaired A6M revealed both strengths and deficiencies in performance and design" (source Wikipedia). Two defects in Zero aircraft was the lack of self sealing fuel tanks and the absence of armour plating behind the pilot's seat.
Its a series on American Heroes Channel called World War II in color. I remember seeing this episode a while back.
In Asian WW2, it started in 1937, not 1941 .US navel forces had the most advanced 11 aircraft carriers rathar than several escorting aircraft carriers .. Japan was spotted 👀 by US intelligences since 1925 ..Japan underestimated US navel fleets strengthen and wagered suicide adventures during WW2.
President Roosevelt did not declare war on Japan. On December 8, 1941 he asked a joint session of Congress to declare that a state of war existed between the United States and the Empire of Japan. It is obvious mistakes like this made by British historians that raises questions about the validity of their historical research.
Bruh, it was a declaration of war because when they received the diplomatic message from Japan, the default is whether or not you as a state accept this or immediately sue for peace. That was after all, the entire Japanese goal no matter how deluded, and it became the policy to seek unconditional surrender in turn by the United States.
The United States Constitution Article I States the powers of Congress, as it states that under Article I Section 8 line 11, "To declare War, grant Letters of of Marque and Reprisal, and concerning Captures on Land and Water."
Delete the seventh coral See battle was The turning point ND Pacific roar, not midway. This is when the Japanese advance stopped and planning for The allies return begin. It's also affected the number of Carriers that were at midway, which reflect the number of aircraft available
For the Japanese counter.
Coral Sea was seen as a tactical draw even though the IJN was checked strategically but Midway was the true blunder.
Just read "Shattered Spear" about Midway, which is excellent. They very much make that point that Coral Sea meant two less Japanese fleet carriers at Midway, one because of damage and one because its air wing had been so badly savaged (and unlike the US, who regarded squadrons as pretty much freely reassignable between carriers, the Japanese regarded them as an integral part of the ship, so repopulating with new squadrons wasn't even considered). And if the Japanese had had all six of their fleet carriers there, the result would likely have been very different.
"We won a great tactical victory at Pearl Harbor and thereby lost the war."
-- Rear Admiral Chuichi "King Kong" Hara
Long Live The King
The fighting in New Guinea was probably the hardest and most strenuous in the war. Some days troops fought to gain 10 or 20 meters.
No doubt it may be true but What about the battle of Stalingrad.. ? Both armies used to fight for control of severage lines streets houses and even rooms of houses for months without electricity and without heat at minus 30c temp.... I remember a line from a German soldier.... We advanced meter by meter but pls remember that it was a Stalingrad meter...
@@masroor5672 I don't disagree. I've experienced both frostbite and heat exhaustion, they both suck. Tough dudes in all of these encounters.
You missed the part after the 4 us warships were sunk (they were destroyers) where Ching Lee turned his battle ship around past the damaged South Dakota and destroyed the capital ship of the japenese task force, a Japanese battle ship. He peppered it to death in 5 minutes then lured the remaining Japanese fleet away from the South Dakota.
You are talking about naval battles but that's the last naval battle with battleship on battleship combat. Ever. In this documentary it was described as. The Japanese sunk 4 warships. You didn't mention they lost a battleship for 4 destroyers
Have you never heard of the Battle of the Surigao Strait?
While to the Japanese the aircraft carriers were of secondary importance; it was disappointing to them that they weren't there. Funny considering the Pearl Harbor attack was conducted by aircraft carriers. The Japanese like everyone else at that time believed that battleships were the most important element of a navy. To that extent in their minds, it was a success.
For the Navy, most were of Yamamoto's mindset that carriers were the king of the oceans with even older battleship hands like Kurita or Nagumo begrudgingly accepting that. The problem is that they thought so dogmatically at Midway while Fletcher, Nimitz, and Kincaid all showed that carrier operations required huge flexibility.
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The ad in this "ad-free" video begins at 12:30.
US Navy had 3 carriers at Midway.
Not when they left.
@@AbbyNormLarrogant
Unfortunately your description of PNG is inaccurate suggesting US troops ‘came to the rescue’ of the retreating Aussies. That is inaccurate. Yes the Aussies did initially retreat along the Kokoda trail. They regrouped and then attacked again without American help as the Japanese were overstretched. They were pushed back to the North-East coast of PNG. Please be more accurate next time because it is insulting to the Aussie diggers despite the amazing support of US troops.
Totally agree. Also the Australians were mostly conscripts on the Kokoda track not highly trained professionals and yet they still turned back the Japanese.
Its an interesting documentary, it gives you a time line of the war between Japan and USA plus allies from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal. How the Japanese started well but that the USA started to catch up as they honed their battle skills.
Great video
Many times more bombs on Darwin than Pearl. The fight back by Admiral Nimitz had long been in operation. The greatest concrete Batching plant was dispatched from the giant storage areas in the mid west. Planning had been helped by the Japanese deciding they had succeeded but Nimitz was jubilant upon seeing what was left undamaged.
On 7 December 1941, the three (not 2) Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers were USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Lexington (CV-2), and USS Saratoga(CV-3). A later ship named for CV-2 was also Lexington (CV-16). In the early 1970s I got my carrier quals going aboard the Lex.
Great video!!
Battle of Midway. The beginning of the end of the Japanese empire.
It's really pathetic when the truth is covered with fog. Part of preventing a war is seeing what war really is and means.
really it takes almost an hour, to flesh this out....like the battle of Midway....
Great documentary
The Aleutians campaign was never a diversion. It was part of the strategy of forming a protective ring around Japan
The diversion was a secondary goal. The Aleutian campaign was a waste of time and troops for everybody there. My neighbor was there and all it accomplished was to kill pilots and crew with impossible weather.
My grandfather was part of the 206th CA from the Arkansas National Guard that was stationed at Dutch Harbor. From the books I have read about his unit and the Aleutian campaign, the Japanese invasion force was to be a diversion in force. Basically, it was to hopefully draw attention away from Midway and if any substantial territory had been gained, then they could seek for reinforcements, but it really was a hey I'm here you can't get me type of thing then when they didn't get as much of a response as they were looking for, they pulled out so to not put the entire task force at jeopardy of being caught and destroyed. With the loss of the carriers at Midway, the Japanese had to know there was no way they would ever be able to keep Kiska and Attu without naval protection. When US/Canadian troops invaded Attu then Kiska, the Japanese were able to evacuate under the cover of dense fog. The American General in command was the son of a Confederate General. The son's name was Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr who was also a racist, maybe due to the times, but honestly, I don't think so for this general. I think he was influenced too much by his father.
@@vanringo Read "Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway," by Jonathan Parshall, and Anthony Tully. The Aleutians campaign was added to Midway campaign by the Navy General staff, to close the gap in the north (under the assumption that Midway would be successful). There is no evidence at all that the Japanese considered it a diversion. Nor would it make sense as a diversion, if you look at the timing of the campaign.
@@robskalas It was a diversion because they sent light carriers and evacuated from the islands before the US counterattacked to the point that we lost more lives from friendly fire, the climate, and traps than direct combat. We saw none of the banzai suicidal defense seen at Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, or Saipan.
I've come to realize what a great general he was, and that Hawaii still belongs to the US because of him and all the soldiers and sailors who followed him.
Seems very odd to me that the Japanese strategized that an attack on the barren, nearly frozen Aleutian Island eskimo fishing villages would distract the entire Pacific Fleet, although one admiral started heading in that direction for about 8 hours if I remember right.
'It was different..' l,he said and 'it was not..!'. "I am ready..!", another said and nodded.
After Midway and Guadalcanal it was said Japan was retreating and the US was reloading.
Can't believe they kept fighting a loosing battle after the main Japanese military guy said 6 months or we will not win
There are really only two things that sealed the Japanese Empire's defeat in 1945. They were the act of attacking US possessions in the Pacific including Pearl Harbor and then the US deciding to declare war and defeat Japan.
When the US decided to wage war, Japan was defeated. It was just a matter of time.
Interesting
The misleading title is disappointing, but this is an accounting I had not seen before, so worth the time, click bait notwithstanding!
In an alternate universe,
"Who was the Nimrod that decided to park the planes one by one like that?
General Short "I was. I wanted them to be protected from saboteurs."
Okay PRIVATE Short!!!
Don't worry Aussie friends when real American men think of who our best allies and fierce fighting men are we depend on Australia to stand shoulder to shoulder with us and that goes both ways as far as I am concerned!
Bottom line is that the allies were able to hold and inflict enough losses on the Japanese in 1942 to ensure the war ended when it did. Had things gone worse in 1942, the war could have lasted another year. About half of Japan would have starved by then. Another point many do not realize was how close Churchill came to losing power after the combination of losses to the uboats Tobruk falling. While he survived the vote of no confidence pretty well, had there been a disaster in the pacific say loss of Port Moresby, there might have been another vote and he might have lost. In that case Halifax would have become PM with a mandate to negotiate an armistice.
We should never forget the UNforgivable Japanese aggression and cruelty and their refusal to surrender unconditionally at the end of World War 2.
Someone didn't do their homework. The US invaded Guadalcanal in August 1942, not July 1942.
3 carriers not 2
Get you some jay pan yeah
Why didn't the Japanese assign some carriers for defense and some for striking midway? That is given their tight clustering of forces.
The fall of Singapore was a total disgrace. A moronic senior British Officer surrendered it to a much smaller ill equipped army.
The quintessential, " Sucker Punch!" 😠
The brits where the third best naval power in ww2
GOD SAVE THE KING
Multiple descendants of Italians and Germans (Nimitz, Einstein, Oppenheimer) helped lead America to victory over Japan.
That would be the western ring of the pacific.
So show us the fundamental shift in weapons turning against Japan with some numbers and new models.
How was it that General MacArthur was not fired given the poor readiness and operation of Clark Airbase?
I don't care for MacArthur but he didn't have the assets to defend the Philippines.
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Communicatios hotlines of the US Armed Forces and its allies were very weak at that time.
I wish that it is more alert nowadays ... no more lines like 'while England slept' ...
British and Americans were not ready for the ferocity of Japan at the beginning of the war. Japan had air superiority for way to long.
"TOO long." ( Learn, "to, two, and too.")
Very simple words.
FDR did not declare war on Japan.... he called on Congress to declare war on Japan, as the Constitution stipulates.
I gonna stop to watch this chanel, only interested in advertising
Some poor decisions of british and US commanders are really disappointing! How could they „sleep“ on many occasions if they knew Pearl Harbour was only the beginning of Japans Empire! They could have known better what was to come next from Japan. Line up aircrafts one by one on the ground - you never do that!
At 6:54 it says Japan had the worlds most advanced ced naval aircraft. I DONT THINK SO.
Japanese biggest misstake in ww2... waking up a sleeping giant and made the superpower that is US
Why in the name of all things holy did the Japanese not attack the shipyards, the repair facilities and the oil station there as soon as they knocked out the very meager American air defenses. This was a strategic disaster on Japan's part. There were some plans for a third attack on them, but due to reconnaissance reports of the U.S. Enterprise being somewhere nearby, the Japanese left. The Japanese did not near get their money's worth compared to how enraged they made the United States. JMO and probably several others opinion.
This is the best WW2 in color because others have color but half of it is black and white so it’s not really “in color”
22 minutes in and still no naval battles? Title seems misleading.
Enjoy what you're given and stop complaining.
ARIGATO.
Tell that to the Wee Vee
I think the Japanese attack on pearl harbor was too limited in scope. They should have brought ground troops and invaded. Then the battleships couldn't have been repaired. Midway would have fell soon after. Early in the war was bug out fever for American forces they would have surrendered all of Hawaii
Lol
What doc is this from?
Nevermind. I'm dumb
MacArthur squirts out in the night and america abandoned all those soldiers to the Bataan death march..........dark chapter of American history.
At that time, Japan had been set up by American president to attack Pearl habour, it was just like moth flying into the flame.
Read Four Books and Five classics of Confucianism for ethical vewpoint.
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Death is so close when fighting that it becomes a part of the person just waiting for it. The gospel for salvation 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and read Ephesians 2:8-9. The good news is that because of what Christ did on the cross all will be saved. 1 Corinthians 15:22 & 28. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive 28...........that God may be all in all.
More poorly researched "Brit" history about a battle in Papua New Guinea, in which they took no part in!
"General Douglas MacArthur ordered the divisional headquarters and two regimental combat teams from the 126th and 128th infantry regiments to deploy to Port Moresby. They arrived between 15 and 28 September 1942."
"The Japanese advanced to within sight of Port Moresby but withdrew on 26 September." The Japanese Division was exhausted and at the end of a long and torturous supply line. And while it seems like the US forces took part in the defence of Port Morsby there are no accounts of them engaging the enemy before the retreat. Indeed the Japanese withdrew so quickly, even the Australians did not engage them during the night time withdrawal. Maybe the two US regiments scared them off! Despite an experienced Australian Division and the remains of the young militia force that held them up on the track, being on the ground outside Port Morsby.
In this account the US forces ride in to save the Australians, a very British view! One probably designed for the American market!
Lets not ever say Wee Vee
The Mighty Hand of our GOOD LORD protected the US then. Let us repent and seek HIS Face with truth and diligence. Such times are upon us. Praise HIS Holy Name!
Long live a free Japan 🇯🇵
Bow to the emperor.
It took the Americans a long time to wake up from peacetime operations, they made so many mistakes while waking up.
Too bad that this is colorized. Adds nothing.
Ok, and 1937??????,,,,,
FDR depended on the Pearl Harbor attack. He moved the carriers away. Remember that Japan depended on our oil. And they were in break out mode. He knew when they would attack. At least he had a very good idea. Remember this, FDR had a better world view than most of the presidents after him. But I still don't like him.
Quite the opposite, he moved the Carriers to Pearl. And even more opposite. 2 of the carriers were on supply missions to Wake and Midway where the Americans were expecting the Japanese to attack
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What do you mean ‘the local philippine troops melted away’? Check your facts…AH!
After watching two or three of these Pacific war stories ,
I discovered that the narrator, always say that this battle was the turning point of the war, It is absolutely not true,
Narrators don't get paid for their looks,
Like actors, politicians, and preachers, hey I have a good question why don't narrators hire a proofreader before they read the script ?
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Reminds me of the old Midway episode from the Battlefield series., it would be so cool see their documentaries remastered with colorized footage like in this video