The USS South Dakota had a very courageous sailor on board during the Battle. He was severely wounded after his anti-aircraft crew was hit. Though wounded he still assisted in rescuing other sailors. For his actions he was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star with a V for valor. Now, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story." The sailor's name was Calvin Graham. He was born April 3, 1930 which made him a grand total of 12 years old!! When the Navy found out they of course kicked him out and took back the medals. They were re-awarded 2 years after his death in 1992. His story is quite amazing and they even made a movie about him starring Rick Schroeder. Graham went on to serve in the Korean War as a Marine.😯
@@mikealvarez2322 I read about his story. That's a disgrace for the Navy to take the medals he earned and conveniently wait till he died to give them back to his family. He did lie about his age, but he was a hero, no matter his age. What bravery from someone so young.
My father was an SDB diver bomber pilot on the USS Hornet (CV8) assigned to VS-8. He was credited with hitting Zuikaku's sister ship the IJN Shokaku with a 1000 lb. bomb during the Battle of Santa Cruz. Unfortunately his squadron was unable to sink it. However, it did put Shokaku out of the war for almost 7 months. During his return to the US fleet, he was attacked by a Zero which severely wounded his rear gunner. He was able to escape but when he sighted the Hornet it was dead in the water, listing, and unable to land planes. Fortunately he was able to find the USS Enterprise. After an initial wave off and with almost empty fuel tanks he was able to land. His rear gunner had lost so much blood that as his plane was being pushed aside, an Enterprise plane handler pointed at his SBD and said "Look that plane is bleeding!" Hopefully this channel will also do a video about the Shokaku.
@@shipwrecksunday Thank you and for what you do to keep the memories of our Greatest Generation alive. I forgot to mention that my father was able to shoot down the Zero that wounded his rear gunner. As the Zero passed by his SBD, he fired at it not knowing he had scored a hit until he saw its pilot bailout. Also, his rear gunner survived the war and lived until 2007.
Thank you, very informative. My father served from the beginning to the end of WWII - mine sweeping in a small converted fishing trawler from the north of England, Scotland and to Iceland. Probably why I have a love of ships.
I wonder how many more carriers like Zuikaku the Japanese could have built for the money they spent on Yamato and Musashi? I’m guessing about five or six. If they had done that the Pacific War might have gone on for many years more. Thanks you guys for another great video, telling the story of a monster combatant that has gotten little love from naval historians. I just loved this video!
Thanks Elinor for the amazing video as always! I never had heard of this ship and her sister ship but you made these long forgotten ships come back to life through the dignity and poise that you told her story with in this video 😊. I really must thank you for becoming one of my favourite TH-camrs on here and becoming one of my major inspirations on this platform 😀.
@@shipwrecksundayNo problem Elinor! I really appreciate you and how you and your work have inspired me to up my game on my channel! I’m proud to call you an inspiration and hopefully a friend within the maritime history community 😁
An entertaining presentation. Lots of niggly errors, but I will only point out one at 12:44, just because it is also ... uh ... entertaining. Mutsuki was not sunk by planes from Henderson field. Up to this point in time Japanese naval officers had realized that, while the B-17s were fearsome planes, their bombing attacks on ships were wildly inaccurate and rarely, if ever, struck anything. The captain of the Mutsuki was well aware of this, and thus completely ignored a B-17 attack while coming to the aid of the damaged Kinryu Maru. At which point a bomb dropped from a B-17 hit his destroyer and sank it. Oops.
3:31 WWII in the Pacific actually started well before it did in Europe, with Japan's invasion of China in 1931 in the Mukden incident. To say that the Pacific Theater only opened with Pearl Harbour is a bit of a Eurocentric view.
@@shipwrecksundayYou're focusing on the naval history, so that makes sense! I'm a history teacher with a degree in comparative history, so it's my job to make miniature corrections in the comments section
When I heard a female narrator, I thought "computer voice" and went to turn off. But I realized it was a well read narration and (gasp) 95% accurate! Well done.
What is really irritating is that I am now hearing a common male "computer voice" from FB Reels and some TH-cam videos that is now heard in TV advertisements, especially for that "generic Viagra" advert. :(
Glad to hear a woman historian in the mix... But she has a tall order to deliver unique content relative to what Drachinfel and Oceanliner Designs puts out. Good luck!
just a story rhat you can ignore but i simply don't bother telling anyone (until now but it will not circulate with anyone) but several years ago i bought t-shirts that i thought recognized some of the great warships of ww2- HMS Warspite (obvious choice), USS Washington (winner of the Guadalcanal championship round), the sisters Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (most effective of Germanys capital ships and the Channel Dash) and the Zuikaku (Yukikaze was a tough out, but then it got to star in Godzilla Minus One) which in the end was the best and longest lasting member of Kudo Butai and participated in the one undisputed victory for the IJN- Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Some people do look askance when i wear it but... thanks
I’m 60, I was born 22 years after Pearl Harbor. My grandfather and great uncle fought in the war, my great uncle a career Marine. To this day I still have bad feelings towards the Japanese. As a vet, the son of a vet, the grandson of a vet…… all the way back to the Civil War and before, 😮I think it’s because it was a sneak attack before the declaration of war.
@@larry648 I can understand that! It was so upsetting to see Pearl Harbor and I can only imagine living through that! My great grandfather was stationed over in Australia as a tank mechanic.
It is amazing she fought very little in 1943. And are you sure the USS Princeton wa sunk by a kamikaze? I am pretty sure it was a high level bomb that sank it.
I'm going to be visiting USS New Jersey on the 26th for a symposium on Leyte Gulf, and the MV Cape Henlopen (nee LST-510) sometime before the end of November. With the caveat that I'm not a particularly good photographer would you like copies of whatever pictures I manage to get? (I have some of New Jersey in drydock a few months ago if you'd like a sample.)
You kinda misspoke, the US part of the war in the Pacific started but that war started years earlier in China with battles against both China & Russia. Otherwise good vid 👍🏽
Instead of wasting resources on the Yamato class battleships the Japanese would have been better served building two more Shokaku class carriers and the escorts for them.
But would Japan have had the pilots to fly off additional carriers? By the time of the battle of the Philippine Sea, Japanese carriers were reduced to the role of decoys.
@@shipwrecksunday I do enjoy your work so, keep it up. Tough competition with Drach, Oceanliner Designs, Central Crossing, etc. but you're doing great.
So about the sailor who was “captured,” sounds a little like you were talking about a U.S. sailor, could have said “ a Japanese Navy sailor was captured.” I know what you meant but, need some more accuracy so as to not confuse those younger cell phone people.
Oh I am so sorry to tell you this, but WWII was well underway by 7 December. America was a late entry to the war, which we had been fighting since 1939. Not sure why you are attempting this revisionist history here.
I never stated World War II wasn't underway. In fact, I mentioned the invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II in 1939. Not sure why you're attempting this revisionist version of my content.
Get rid of the "Viewer discretion advised" disclaimer. It makes the video sound like something made for "Modern Audiences." WWII history is not a fairy tale. It was a brutal conflict full of atrocities. Most everyone watching learned it as a child and with it all the bad that came with and from it.
Good video, but why should you put an age disclaimer on the video? It’s historical. I seriously doubt that there are too many younger people who would actually put down their cell phones to watch something like this, which is really quite sad. But for a girl narrator, it’s pretty good.👍🏻🥸
@@anthonycassata5152 I have children in my audience that listen to this as a bedtime story! I don't want them to get nightmares. Also, I appreciate your praise, but I don't believe my gender has anything to do with my knowledge on this subject.
We all want to believe our kids are all innocent snowflakes that we need to over-protect. Adults often live in their own fantasy world. Protecting them and ourselves from the brutality of reality is really dumb.
The USS South Dakota had a very courageous sailor on board during the Battle. He was severely wounded after his anti-aircraft crew was hit. Though wounded he still assisted in rescuing other sailors. For his actions he was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star with a V for valor. Now, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story." The sailor's name was Calvin Graham. He was born April 3, 1930 which made him a grand total of 12 years old!! When the Navy found out they of course kicked him out and took back the medals. They were re-awarded 2 years after his death in 1992. His story is quite amazing and they even made a movie about him starring Rick Schroeder. Graham went on to serve in the Korean War as a Marine.😯
@@mikealvarez2322 thank you for adding his story!! ❤️
@@mikealvarez2322 I read about his story. That's a disgrace for the Navy to take the medals he earned and conveniently wait till he died to give them back to his family. He did lie about his age, but he was a hero, no matter his age. What bravery from someone so young.
@mikealvarez2322 I watched that movie. It was well done and Ricky Schroder did a marvelous performance.
My father was an SDB diver bomber pilot on the USS Hornet (CV8) assigned to VS-8. He was credited with hitting Zuikaku's sister ship the IJN Shokaku with a 1000 lb. bomb during the Battle of Santa Cruz. Unfortunately his squadron was unable to sink it. However, it did put Shokaku out of the war for almost 7 months. During his return to the US fleet, he was attacked by a Zero which severely wounded his rear gunner. He was able to escape but when he sighted the Hornet it was dead in the water, listing, and unable to land planes. Fortunately he was able to find the USS Enterprise. After an initial wave off and with almost empty fuel tanks he was able to land. His rear gunner had lost so much blood that as his plane was being pushed aside, an Enterprise plane handler pointed at his SBD and said "Look that plane is bleeding!" Hopefully this channel will also do a video about the Shokaku.
Wow! That is incredible and I thank him for his service! Shokaku is on my radar to cover!
@@shipwrecksunday Thank you and for what you do to keep the memories of our Greatest Generation alive. I forgot to mention that my father was able to shoot down the Zero that wounded his rear gunner. As the Zero passed by his SBD, he fired at it not knowing he had scored a hit until he saw its pilot bailout. Also, his rear gunner survived the war and lived until 2007.
Very nicely put together tribute to the Japanese fleet carriers. Well done Elinor and crew!
@@Brock_Landers Thanks so much!!
I never knew how exactly the war on the pacific was like. This was very enlightening. Thank you Elinor
@@SuperMAZ007 thank you so much for watching!!
Thank you for another great video. Zuikakuu definitely saw a lot of action.
@@brianspendelow840 she definitely did!! Thank you so much!
Thank you, very informative. My father served from the beginning to the end of WWII - mine sweeping in a small converted fishing trawler from the north of England, Scotland and to Iceland. Probably why I have a love of ships.
@@Phillips66Geo thank you so much for watching! And I thank your father for his service!
Ive been waiting for this all day.
@@ericcriteser4001 I'm so glad to see you here!!
Amazing video! Thank you Elinor!
@@XdenderMachado thank you so much! It's great to see you!
I"m a Navy vererannand I love these videos!!!!¡¡!😊
@@charlespeyersen1955 thank you so much for your service, and for being here! ❤️
Thank you for another fine presentation! Well done in research and presentation.
@@brucermarino thanks so much!
I've always admired this class of carriers.
They were incredible work horses and a force to be reckoned with!
@@shipwrecksundayYeah but it ain't hard to be badazz when you got 18 Zeros lol💥...
Thank you Elinor. see ya Friday. 😎💚💙👍👍🍺🍺🍻
@@walterathow5988 see you Friday my friend! Great to see you!! 😎
Very well executed video. I enjoyed this very much. I look forward to seeing more from your channel!
@@wtgardner6914 thank you so much!!
Thank you very much
@@gottfriedbogen5184 thanks so much for watching!
I wonder how many more carriers like Zuikaku the Japanese could have built for the money they spent on Yamato and Musashi? I’m guessing about five or six. If they had done that the Pacific War might have gone on for many years more.
Thanks you guys for another great video, telling the story of a monster combatant that has gotten little love from naval historians. I just loved this video!
Thanks Elinor for the amazing video as always! I never had heard of this ship and her sister ship but you made these long forgotten ships come back to life through the dignity and poise that you told her story with in this video 😊. I really must thank you for becoming one of my favourite TH-camrs on here and becoming one of my major inspirations on this platform 😀.
@@theWanderersnotebook Awww thank you so much!! I appreciate you!
@@shipwrecksundayNo problem Elinor! I really appreciate you and how you and your work have inspired me to up my game on my channel! I’m proud to call you an inspiration and hopefully a friend within the maritime history community 😁
Thank you Elinor. Always enjoy your videos. My best choices are carriers and submarines.
@@howieb3344 thank you so much, my friend! I need to cover more carriers and subs - I don't do it often!
An entertaining presentation. Lots of niggly errors, but I will only point out one at 12:44, just because it is also ... uh ... entertaining. Mutsuki was not sunk by planes from Henderson field. Up to this point in time Japanese naval officers had realized that, while the B-17s were fearsome planes, their bombing attacks on ships were wildly inaccurate and rarely, if ever, struck anything. The captain of the Mutsuki was well aware of this, and thus completely ignored a B-17 attack while coming to the aid of the damaged Kinryu Maru. At which point a bomb dropped from a B-17 hit his destroyer and sank it. Oops.
@@sk43999 thanks so much for the corrections!! ❤️
Excellent Job !! A lot of research went in to this episode totally enjoyed. 👍🇺🇸
@@Vet-7174 thanks so much Rick!! Cheers!
Thank you......just subbed. And thanks for not using a robot voice.
@@inappropriatejohnson thank you so much! I appreciate it!!
Great videos, God bless
@@BestFriendOfJesus God bless, my friend! Thank you so much!
3:31 WWII in the Pacific actually started well before it did in Europe, with Japan's invasion of China in 1931 in the Mukden incident. To say that the Pacific Theater only opened with Pearl Harbour is a bit of a Eurocentric view.
@@teacherCF when I researched it, that was the date I was given! Thank you for adding this information!
@@shipwrecksundayYou're focusing on the naval history, so that makes sense! I'm a history teacher with a degree in comparative history, so it's my job to make miniature corrections in the comments section
@@shipwrecksundayI think the way you put it is fine. China had no navy to speak of; it was a war in Asia, but not in the Pacific.
1931
@@robertyoung3992 Whoops, you're so right!
Very cool, WWII history is always interesting.
@@batgoat28 it's the best!
Thank you.
@@CurtisWebb-en5kh Thank you so much for watching!!
@@shipwrecksunday keep up the great work.
Queued for morning commute 👍.
@@leopardone2386 have a safe commute, my friend!
I always considered Taiho to be the best Japanese carrier despite its short career.
@@Zyworski there's a good argument for that. She was one of the more effective of the IJN's ships!
When I heard a female narrator, I thought "computer voice" and went to turn off. But I realized it was a well read narration and (gasp) 95% accurate! Well done.
@@williamkoppos7039 thanks so much! I appreciate you!!
What is really irritating is that I am now hearing a common male "computer voice" from FB Reels and some TH-cam videos that is now heard in TV advertisements, especially for that "generic Viagra" advert. :(
Glad to hear a woman historian in the mix... But she has a tall order to deliver unique content relative to what Drachinfel and Oceanliner Designs puts out. Good luck!
@@emmgeevideo they put out great content!
just a story rhat you can ignore but i simply don't bother telling anyone (until now but it will not circulate with anyone) but several years ago i bought t-shirts that i thought recognized some of the great warships of ww2- HMS Warspite (obvious choice), USS Washington (winner of the Guadalcanal championship round), the sisters Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (most effective of Germanys capital ships and the Channel Dash) and the Zuikaku (Yukikaze was a tough out, but then it got to star in Godzilla Minus One) which in the end was the best and longest lasting member of Kudo Butai and participated in the one undisputed victory for the IJN- Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Some people do look askance when i wear it but... thanks
Interesting! I'd love to have a shirt like that myself! I have a couple ocean liner ones that I love.
@@shipwrecksunday thanks
@@papajohnloki Sounds cool 👍...
Interesting to remember the first Warship that was attacked and sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was Japanese.
The mini-sub! Forgot its name and found in the last 30 years I think. Heavily debated that it even existed.
@@blackjed 2016 I think. Terry Kerby found it near the spot USS Ward reported firing on and sinking a submarine operating inside the security zone.
@@blackjed @Peace2U-ec6es thank you both for pointing this out! ❤️
@@shipwrecksunday we come to learn and teach. Everyone wins!
@@blackjed That was: - Type A Ko-hyoteki class submarine No.20...
the zuikaku , unlike the yamato, performed well
I’m 60, I was born 22 years after Pearl Harbor. My grandfather and great uncle fought in the war, my great uncle a career Marine. To this day I still have bad feelings towards the Japanese. As a vet, the son of a vet, the grandson of a vet…… all the way back to the Civil War and before, 😮I think it’s because it was a sneak attack before the declaration of war.
@@larry648 I can understand that! It was so upsetting to see Pearl Harbor and I can only imagine living through that! My great grandfather was stationed over in Australia as a tank mechanic.
Nicely done again thank you. But stop it with the food, your making us all hungry. My very best to you and yours. Leona
@@leonasmith6180 lmao I love it! Thank you so much for being here!! ❤️
Excellent video. One suggestion: don't mix Us Customary and Metric units when noting the specs.
Fair suggestion! Thank you so much!
A picture giant spider carrying hundreds of little spiders was not what i needed to see at 3 AM on a Monday morning......................
@@gallofourteen116 LMAO I traumatized myself making this video 😂😭
@@shipwrecksunday 🤣😂
It is amazing she fought very little in 1943. And are you sure the USS Princeton wa sunk by a kamikaze? I am pretty sure it was a high level bomb that sank it.
@@horaceball5418 could be! I've heard both.
there were no carrier v carrier actions in 1943
@@greenflagracing7067 The Princeton was sunk in 1944 at Leyte Gulf, not n 1943.
I should have made two paragraphs.
The President said that December 7, 1941 was "a date that will live in infamy." He did not say it was "a day that will go down in infamy."
I'm going to be visiting USS New Jersey on the 26th for a symposium on Leyte Gulf, and the MV Cape Henlopen (nee LST-510) sometime before the end of November. With the caveat that I'm not a particularly good photographer would you like copies of whatever pictures I manage to get? (I have some of New Jersey in drydock a few months ago if you'd like a sample.)
@@joeb5316 absolutely! You can email us at speedforcemedia.business@gmail.com 😁
So she had quite a few morale booster 25mm AA guns, which were about as useful as peashooters
@@MichaelCampin lmao! Exactly!
You kinda misspoke, the US part of the war in the Pacific started but that war started years earlier in China with battles against both China & Russia. Otherwise good vid 👍🏽
@@davidkelley5382 very true! I correct that in this week's episode ❤️👍 thank you for adding this!
Instead of wasting resources on the Yamato class battleships the Japanese would have been better served building two more Shokaku class carriers and the escorts for them.
@@CaptainColdyron222 very true!!
thats why the US canceled the Montana Class what would have been used to make them went into more Essex Carriers
But would Japan have had the pilots to fly off additional carriers? By the time of the battle of the Philippine Sea, Japanese carriers were reduced to the role of decoys.
Don't think they sank Neosho. Badly damaged but scuttled ultimately by US destroyer.
@@EffequalsMA fair!
@@shipwrecksunday I do enjoy your work so, keep it up. Tough competition with Drach, Oceanliner Designs, Central Crossing, etc. but you're doing great.
You sound like Ellie in Space... Are you?
@@SpruceSculpturesI am not!
So about the sailor who was “captured,” sounds a little like you were talking about a U.S. sailor, could have said “ a Japanese Navy sailor was captured.” I know what you meant but, need some more accuracy so as to not confuse those younger cell phone people.
You have a really cute voice
@@Nookdashiddole thanks so much! I appreciate that as I've always hated how I sound 😂
With respect, I think that's "Ha-Go" (8-5) pronounced "Hah- go" as in "hah hah".
Thank you for this correction!!
👍👍
@@joeanderson9852 😁😁😁😁
Soryu is pronounced sore you
Hiryu is pronounced hear you
@@benmccullough7820 thank you ❤️
@@shipwrecksunday no problem just letting my inner history nerd out
@@benmccullough7820 I love it!!
Oh I am so sorry to tell you this, but WWII was well underway by 7 December. America was a late entry to the war, which we had been fighting since 1939.
Not sure why you are attempting this revisionist history here.
I never stated World War II wasn't underway. In fact, I mentioned the invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II in 1939. Not sure why you're attempting this revisionist version of my content.
Get rid of the "Viewer discretion advised" disclaimer. It makes the video sound like something made for "Modern Audiences." WWII history is not a fairy tale. It was a brutal conflict full of atrocities. Most everyone watching learned it as a child and with it all the bad that came with and from it.
I won't be doing that, so if you don't like it, you'll have to go somewhere else. 😁 I have children who watch this channel.
I will never again watch one of your videos with all the YT obnoxious ads.
@@MrKen-wy5dk okay! Fine by me. 😁
... well, a tip from someone whose native language is not English, ... please speak more slowly and clearly, ... the girl seems almost rushed ...
Fair!
Good video, but why should you put an age disclaimer on the video? It’s historical. I seriously doubt that there are too many younger people who would actually put down their cell phones to watch something like this, which is really quite sad. But for a girl narrator, it’s pretty good.👍🏻🥸
@@anthonycassata5152 I have children in my audience that listen to this as a bedtime story! I don't want them to get nightmares. Also, I appreciate your praise, but I don't believe my gender has anything to do with my knowledge on this subject.
We all want to believe our kids are all innocent snowflakes that we need to over-protect. Adults often live in their own fantasy world. Protecting them and ourselves from the brutality of reality is really dumb.