World of Warships - Kongou Desu!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ย. 2024
- Introducing the Kongo sisters: Kongo, Hiei, Haruna and Kirishima. Kantai Collection's got a lot to answer for. Burning looooooove!
This video's over 40 minutes long, you may want to watch it in installments.
Start: History and stats
First Battle: 11:33
Second Battle: 24:06
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Looking back at this video it's quite embarrassing how I didn't understand at the time what a bad idea it was for me to show the side of my ship to that Kongo. You live and learn.
Lol we forgive yah Jingles. I'm sure Kongou-san would too :P
We were all scrubs at one point, but you were the biggest of them all ;D
Yeah, I was noticing that too when you talked about the other ship crossing the T.
Any plan to do anymore of these awesome 40+ minute long reviews? When you did these consistently it was one of my favorite periods of time on your channel.
but isn't crossing the T always the most effective and best way to bring down another enemy ships?
I Guess Game mechanics dictate going broadside means your dead
I have no real interest in playing World of Warships, but I really enjoy Jingles insights into the game. Always a joy, thanks for the great entertainment :D
Hey shack!
Surprised by that. The game seems like it is right up your alley. Though I assume you don't have the time to manage yet another MMO.
Shack? Not in space? What next, Gul Dukat here?
Good to see you shack!
Well this is odd, seeing one of my favorite youtubers comment on another of my favorite youtubers videos. Kinda like seeing your teacher in places other than school.
I can't imagine the reaction of the post man who delivered the Kirishima doll to a 40 year old war vet.
Andrew Behrend
here
postman: WTTTTFFFF
>mfw Jingles shows off Kirishima statue
>cue Fubuki meeting Kongou in the flesh
>mental model of Jingles shattered
Orz
Jingles has recognized kancolle, it's all over now.
He went in to buy atleast one other statues, Yamato, and has put KanMusu in his thumbnails xD
Why? Kancolle is a good anime.
@@kucingterkejut2390 Animation wise it's pretty darn good. But when it comes to the plot it's actually pretty or kinda revisionist
@@kucingterkejut2390 you are stupid enough to understand it
@@kucingterkejut2390 Retard means to hold back like in engine timing you dumb ass. Learn proper grammar, sentence and word usage. Fucking kids these days not one fucking brain cell, all messed up on Pot, Heroine and X. Pathetic
Oh could it be?! The mighty Jingles has stumbled into Kancolle!!!!!
oh noes
It revolves around fictional ship-able personifications of ships, so now people can ship ships with ships.
Either the best or worst idea ever.
Dreachon HOW HORRIFYING
*****
And have some special curry made by destroyer division six.
Dreachon
Being unfamiliar with the series, I must ask whether or not said curry would be tasteful when made by aforementioned division.
GUYS. IT'S OFFICIAL. JINGLES HAS NEARLY JOINED OUR DARK SIDE.
Welcome Rear Admiral to the world of cute ship girls and unnecessary feels when they sink or get scrapped.
...
*****
Well they have Tanks with the spirits of little girls. Tachikomas. Well... spider-tanks, but hey.
Talon3000 Leave my little "think tanks" alone!
i love how they just mad that USA obliterated their fleet in WW2 :^)
If by dark side you mean the side of shitty fad anime that flopped after all the hype.
Mighty Jingles: "I tould you it (KanColle) makes no sense"
also Mighty Jingles: bought the statue
This is what your waifu looks like IRL.
Black Flame Productions *boner turns into a destroyer gun*
9Xx山田 太郎xX9
or you could say I'd fire my 18 inch (Yamato) guns when she's in range ;D
Primal Chaotix Kongou took a direct hit from me *insert Lenny face here*
+Eye'm not Taro Yamada
That engineer is a a spy!
was that a citadel penetration?
"Kongo, Hi, Haroona and Kirishima"
God bless you.
Burning love! Jingles is a Kantai fan! This calls for some more poi!
Haruna wa daijoubu desu!
forgotten09
My Haruna was almost not daijoubu after the last event, thank god for repair goddsses. :3
Tom Long I personally don't use them, you lose a slot for AP round, rather farm more buckets :D
I used it once, cuz I wanted Amagi.
Has anyone noticed in the later episodes, fubuki screams her lungs out before firing?
I'm like, JEEZ GET THAT GIRL SOME ANESTHETIC IMMEDIATELY
Kantai!!!!!
***** some how i did saw it coming...but dont expect it to be this soon...
Hentai!!!!!
VIPGAMER No.
VIPGAMER
Like to keep it clean, sir if you don't mind
VIPGAMER wat
Jingles has joined the Poi side?! Dear God!
hes been there for ages now
WhyUbrown I bring you THIS: th-cam.com/video/nBFfc5246fM/w-d-xo.html
boxinthefield where have you and this been all my life O_O
Eh Yamato is best Ship girl. And no she is not a Hotel!
If it's any interest to you, Jingles, Nao Toyama (one of the Voice Actresses for Kancolle) did a twenty minute long audio story solo, where eight of her characters (Kongou, Kirishima, Hiei, Haruna, Atago, Maya, Takao and Choukai) interacted with each other. It's hilarious.
Our battle will be legendary - touhou fanmade anime seiyuu
The community is generally great, but like WoT, there's always an exception or two. I am playing as the Farragut destroyer on the ice map and I decide to play more conservatively as I don't want to die without making a worthwhile contribution to my team. The enemy team made it more difficult for me to get close with torpedoes that have a range of 4.5km as the attacked the objectives on the flanks of the map and put them in the more open water. If I were a cruiser, I would be ok with fighting in the open with other Clevelands, Pensacolas, and Mogamis, but I'm not ok with that in a destroyer. I decide to turn to the A cap and wait near an iceberg closer to the center of the map and come to a full stop. When a Nagato and Fuso battleship got closer (9km) to me, i sped up and popped my smoke, concealing my position. I rush the Nagato and launch a full spread of torps at him, which is 8 in the Farragut, and killed him. I didn't want to die by the fuso, so i tried (and almost failed) to sail around a big iceberg to catch him on the other side with reloaded torp tubes. While doing this, a cruiser that died early in the game called me out for being a bad destroyer captain because i wasn't facing a fuso battleship head on with a destroyer that has to wait 1 minute to reload torps. I then told him he shouldn't label me as unskillful because he had NO KILLS. He said he had 53 hits...IN A CRUISER, which is not uncommon for cruisers and goes on to tell me that i'm a "suckass destroyer" for not being able to cap another objective in time to win. some people are scumbags that think their shit don't stink...
the Kongo girls are HOT though Jingles.
ExiledPiasa
my favorite of the 4 is Hiei.
Haruna looks so innocent
The only person who knows who their goddess is
Haruna is my favorite
Purely because of kancolle I'm now working my way up the Japanese line, I'm at the Tenryu. I'm going to get the Kongou, and once I get it everytime I fire HE I'll shout burning love!
BURNINGU LOOOOOOOVEO
+吳竟宏 *LAAAAAAAAAAVU
My fave thing when i take the kongo out of storage i use the valentines day skin just so i can say that.
Jingles, I have watched about 75 or so WoW games now...and you are the ONLY player to say "crossing the T" and actually try to perform it, and know why you do it. My uncle was on a DE in WWII and so I have an affinity for old navy combat ships and how they were used. Well done.
Gary Seven Nice; my grandfather served on dry land from Normandy to VE-day. RIP, Pop-pop. =,(
So, did your uncle have any stories about depth-charging U-boats? I hear it was the latest fashion with sailors back then.
It's always fascinating to hear your stories about the histories of these ships - loads of thanks, Jingles.
"Storytime with Uncle Jingles"
That other Kongou just wanted to show you some burning love.
Poi~ desu.
+Toyosatomimi Miko Pan Paka Pan!
Juri Aishado, agreed.
Poi
If yuudachi was put into wows "poi" would fill the whole chat poi poi poi poi poi
ken poi Carcedo YAS! Poi.
Apreggio of Blue Steel is my preferred "Girl embodies warship" anime. The opening theme is so amazing.
You. I like you
Yes
I agree with the anime part. Kancolle the anime was pretty boring excluding some funny and epic scenes. I personally like Kancolle (the game, even though I have never played it yet) in terms of variety of ships in game.
Also, I wonder if Verniy will be a Russian premium. If so, that would be so awesome yet so sad at the same time.
Karl Arty It's possible that the entire russian navy will be premium. They would have to stretch pretty far to get ships all the way to tier 10.
lol
With the American battleship line being the first one that I ground out in WoWs, I have one thing to say: Oh Jingles, you so silly. 25 knots is a dream come true.
Don't forget that in the game, there are also several foreign ships, including one British (Warspite), one American (Iowa) and several German and Italian ships.
There weren't when this video was made, it was all IJN back then
MerryJerry I said "there are," not "there were," didn't I? ;)
I accept your correction, though. I was just going based on information about the game that I know.
Italian? Did i miss somthing they added an italian ship?
Proud he's talking about Kancolle
Proud He's right. WoWS doesn't have any Italian ships yet. They'll almost definitely add them eventually, though.
trolling your audience with a dead link to win beta keys? Damn first of April, you got me there
Oops, link fixed. Sorry.
The Mighty Jingles You >.>
You had me! >:c
I have been fooled D;
Eidoss My jam man
The Mighty Jingles What the!? You Ass!
The Mighty Jingles Now what if we like the song anyways? :P
"It makes no sense" - but still popular. As soon as Mars colonies open I'm leaving this fucking planet.
I wonna colonize a galaxy between those 3 stars there......yes those one! Merci thank you! Eh buddy sorry!
Bajan_Other_Canadian
Is English your first language?
You do notice, that the moment those colonies come to fruition, most of earth's culture (including japanese) will flow there, so NO ESCAPE MATE!!!
Too bad Mars will be owned by the Japanese COMMIE Republics.
soundslave Nooo, i don't want mars to become the planet of Bigots. Just a bunch of intolerant guys sitting around afraid of having an opinion because they will be judged by other bigots xD That'll be fun :D
You should be afraid of Bronies more... like what even? XD
But it is weird...I know people who like anime and... it's just not for me.
Burning Love!
+Strettger NO..
should be BANIGU RABUUUUUUU!!!!!!
oh u changed ur Kongou profile
Ah, the times when Jingles was sitting side on to battleships and didn't think of angling his ship, whilst simulatously wondering why the enemy ship would do such a thing as in sailing straight at him (and not noticing that the enemy Kongo with her four guns was averaging more damage per salvo than Jingles with his full eight guns).
Hi Jingle. years ago I got very sick and your videos were something for me to watch and enjoy. Thank you for making these. I may never meet you but from one human to another. Thank you .
Kongou Bongou is the ultimate shipfu. BURNING LOVE!!!!!
JINGLES THE PANZER II J IS IN THE PREM SHOP
No seriously, IT'S THERE
Dfault Yes, for one day, and i don't have enough money for it this month :(
100 euro's to buy a tier III tank in a free online game...
I understand wargaming has to make money, but seriously, who the hell pays for this??
Dfault Yeah, for a 100 Euros it is...
***** No game is worth spending 100 Euros on it
Nadir R its not only the PZ. IIJ ... there is gold withij the pack...but you are right 100 euros is too much..but if you enjoy a game much and you have the money why not?
"The Nagato now has Kongou problems"
Hmmm... why am I thinking of that scene :3
I got to say, I just watched this video, all the way through to the end. Beta key is pointless but not a single atom in me has ever regretted watching your videos to their conclusion.
You keep me interested, and that speaks volumes to your form of art. I am watching your channel with bated breath sir...I prey we meet in game one day!
Absolutely beautiful with the April fools jingles, but jokes on you! I actually won a key today in a livestream!
JINGLES!
You must include some sort of Kantai music/noise/anything in your next World of warships video to piss off the anime haters! :D :D :D Kaksoispistedee!
TROLL ALL Of THE HATERS!
noo pls
Murder cookie Hintahtavaa menoa.
I don't hate the music because it's anime..
I hate the music because most are sung by girls who sound like Justin Bieber and I don't like that...
ThisIsCertainlyNotMyName Well the opening and the ending theme of Kancolle anime are not sung in a cute/moe voice but in a normal voice and sound awesome (Well for me that is)
can someone please make a voice mod for WoWs to activate "Burning Love" everytime I fire in my Kongo
I named mine Haruna, and she is gorgeous.
She was the last surviving ship of the Kongou class before she too was killed off like her sisters
Kongou is best Kongo!
Jingles I love how you give these historical background videos, It's why I subscribed
Oh, Jingles... Falling in love with every steel-clad girl that flashes her main guns your way. Silly, silly Jingles.
Say what you will about Kongou being a total loon. The one thing they kept from the ship was the reliability. That woman has gotten me out of more tight spots than I can count, and, as you point out her true form has much the same record for your faction.
Kancolle figures for the "Man Cave". Yes.
Hmmm, whats this Add Music button?
Ahhhhhhh, I seeeee
yea.................
what do you mean?
just click the button...
I don't have one :( I do have an auto-darude switch in the quality settings though..
BMWM3GTRLOVER I thought I was gonna get rickrolled.
I always snicker whenever Jingles snickers. It's really infectious!
Bless you Mr. Jingles, bless you!
I love that i now have a chance for the Beta Key, thanks for opening up the competition jingles
i advise doing an update video on this ship jingles, a lot has changed indeed
"If you have anything more than 203mm, you are a Battleship"...Welllll they do change that do they, WG that is.
Agir Alaska Stalingrad (Kronstadt?)Sigfried and the most important: MOSCOW
WG should add an option to name your ship. Because it's a ship and those do have personal names, unlike tanks or planes.
Self-replicating whatnot Ever seen Fury? Most tankers named their tanks, bro. Russians, Americans, British and Germans all named their tanks.
Mitter Nacht
That is more a matter of showing off, whereas ship's name goes into official documents.
CsDeathshadow
Just a nickname.
@@Self-replicating_whatnotah yes Der masculine class noun of Bismarck
Au contaire planes an tanks were given names by their crews albeit maybe not ( officially ) by the governing powers that be 😎✌
Thank you so much for introducing me to Kantai collection. Absolutely loved the series =)
And you got me into Girls und Panzer! The Mighty Jingles
I appreciate Jingle's effort to say the correct naval terminology for every naval thing in the game. Likr Joining the T.
Saw anime in the thumbnail so I clicked. First GUP now this :D lol
Same fam
what did you press to see their health?
Hold Alt.
Can't you change that like in wot?
The Mighty Jingles looks like youtube has pulled a quick one on you video.so how do you like the add music buttons?
Richard Gustafsson yes
lolrolfzomfg what's the name of the song?
Even after all this time, I still cringe every time Jingles pronounces 'Hiei' wrong. I used to be the same, but it's so painful now
The old pronounciation "Hai" = "Yes" in Japanese lol
Love how the peanut gallery shut down after seeing the overall impact of helping the carrier group.
Great vid as usual Jingles :D
I really love the combination of history, and gaming in your vids. Good job Jingles.
Nagato or Na- Ga- To .... we'll just call them Dave
BURNING LOVE!!!
omg gaijins april fools event... G freakin G.
55 min. long vid. good thing you edited the gameplay footage, its just only 45 min now...
oh come on Jingles, thats why we are here for the longer vids!
Those were the days, when caliber meant a thing. Nowadays cruisers get bigger guns than battleships - absolutely hilarious.
KONGOU DESU! THough I prefer NANODESU!
Hawawawawawa
Guess who bought today his Panzer 2 J :D
Herold der Vollkommenheit I wanted it too till I saw the price.
Someone who just threw 100 euros away?
still a better investment than anything in Star Citizen
Herold der Vollkommenheit All the dirty sealclubbers? :P
Who?
I'm terrible at guessing D:
(a - \ah\, o - \oh\ u - \oo\)
Nagato - Na-ga-toh
Myogi = Mio-gi
Fuso = Foo-soh
Yamato = Ya-ma-toh
Kongo = Kong-goh
Just finished watching Arpeggio of blue still and was like " Yep. Need to start playing Warships now. Best go check out the Jingles vids."
Most entertaining and informative World of Warships video I've seen yet. Good work.
Haven't watched the video, but Arpeggio of Blue Steel is better, in my opinion.
Anime wise, totally. Game wise...
Does Arpeggio even have a game?
Karl Arty no
Karl Arty
I believe everyone is hoping they do a somewhat better job in the next season of the anime, because although the did 'well enough' to be 'enjoyable enough' to keep the game audience, they likely wouldn't get away with it again. The show has some really good points, but it also has some really bad/stupid points.
Raptorx911 Next season? The manga is over 10x the length that left behind the first season. I have been waiting for a 2nd season, never got it. Never any confirmation of there even being a next season.
Sever Teran I was speaking of Kantai Collection, which has a confirmed second season, so at least 12 more episodes.
I would LOVE a second season of Arpeggio of Blue Steel. It would be the best thing ever, and it could be possible since the show has a good reception. However, nothing has been confirmed, so I'm not holding my breath.
Time to fire burning love;)
Poi
Kyon Poi
Thenuclearwalrus Poi.
Kyon Poi Poi Poi~~~~!!!
Kyon Poi.
Kyon Poi Poi ( • • )
BURNING LOOOOOOOOOOOVE!
Thank you for introducing that anime to me, Jingles. :D
The Mogami-class was planned with 20.3cm guns in twin turrets, but were changed to 15.5cm triple turrets due to the Washington treaty. Retrofitted with the 20.3cm guns later on, and some of the Mogami-class (Mogami and I think Kumano) were converted into hybrid-carriers.
the converted hybrids are actually a subclass of the mogami. its tone and another ship. mogami and tone is related but they have a diffrent gun arrangement and diffrent armor
Actually the Mogami was refitted with no rear turrets and a small "flight deck"
The Tone was a completely different ship
No problem Dess
Thor God of Thunder
Kongou: Maybe
Fubuki: Maybe?! You said maybe didn't you?!
BANINGU RABUUUUUUUU~
omg youtube has an add sandstorm button
What? Aprils fools day joke or are you joking? XD
Richard Gustafsson its a thing, i was wondering this my self lol, theres a little add music button right next to the quality selector
I wish google wouldn't completely ignore non-chrome users...
Bier Bart Yeah I don't see anything because I use firefox :/ Edit: LOL it works on firefox too XD
Jingles,
FWIW - My uncle, Jack Hill (USNA '41), was an officer in the #1 turret of the USS Washington when it sank the Kirishima on the night of 14-15 November 1942 off Guadalcanal. In 1982 I was qualified to operate the Mk 8 Rangekeeper and the Mk 41 Stable Vertical which were the heart of the BB main gun fire control system. Unfortunately I was not assigned to one of the recommissioned BBs.
Wow haha Jingles you got a fig from Kancolle. Respect my man, love the honesty. I play the game a bit.
Who is watching in 2016
Not me, I'm watchign from 1969
dis guy
+M41A1 same
+Kitkat Nguyen kongou, ganbarimasu!
Watching in 2017
Kantai collection is bad.
Baxter The game is strangely addictive. The show though...while it had it's funny and awesome moments, plot-wise it was rather bad.
the anime got royally fucked by diomedea
even the japanese were displeased
diablolrm90 did they switch writers every episode? Cause there was almost no consistency...
diablolrm90 It's so rare to find fellow TTK who have the same view. Welcome to our rank my friend.
Reshio
I feel like this would actually be an interesting idea.. Getting different writers for every episode.
Jingles... you have raised the bar on your, allready high, standard of vids.
These WoWarships vids are an absolute joy to watch. Your massive knowledge of naval matters shines though.
I sailed a fair bit myself, allthough only in the civillian fleet ;)
The game is awesome... and again the vids are a joy to watch.
Hope to catch your wake in game. (Got test access last week ;) WUHUU :D )
Thanks Jingles for the link in dispricion for the closed beta
of World of Warships.
Any Kancolle player would understand just how awesome and well loved the Kitakami class torpedo cruiser is, and yet there is not a single WoWS video on youtube that does our wonderful KTKM-sama justice!
Jingles! As a fellow Kancolle player! Please correct this great injustice! You are our only hope!!!
903IDFOLEY I don't think he plays Kancolle. He probably only seen the anime(which is pretty mediocre). However, I do agree with you. KTKM-sama is the best.
Comberrium
Not true, because I told a partial lie. There are 2 video's I've seen of Kitakami in action on youtube.
One was just a very short one of an enemy Kitakami getting blown up in seconds, but it's last torpedo salvo still blows up the player's cruiser as well as finish the battleship with him.
The other is a more extensive gameplay video, but the player just ends up doing trying to hide behind an island, trying to reverse when discovered, then dying quickly without doing anything to properly show off the ship.
Both videos were in German though, so maybe the European servers are ahead of the US ones?
I really love the history lessons and the close up of the ships!!
11.37 edited highlights of these 2 games. otherwise the vid would be 55 min long. the vid is 45 min. oh jingles you never cease to amaze me.
KantaiColle might be the silliest concept since Strike Witches, but it is fun to watch. Good recommendation Jingles.
I like how I knew all the history behind battleships before watching this video. I have the old old Time Life Books "The Dreadnoughts" book and I've read it literally dozens of times. Passion for naval warfare = high
Jingles, you make the best movies about World of Warships. Please make more of them!
Really good battle Jingles! It's funny how many rookies were in this game, like you said the real way to play this game is knowing what the other ships can and can't do and use your advantage agains't them. I like your long range salvos!
Regarding rules of the road at sea, I had the opportunity to qualify as OOD underway onboard a Destroyer. During this training, I was taught there was an unlisted rule of the road that was considered cardinal called the Law of Gross Tonnage. This law holds that it is the responsibility of the smaller, more maneuverable vessel to preserve its buoyancy by getting out of the way of the larger, more resilient vessel. Put that way, right of way takes second place to desire to remain afloat.
I read somewhere that the design philosophies made the difference. The British warships were designed to patrol an empire and had lighter armor and larger crew spaces. The German warships only had to patrol in the North Sea, so they had much heavier armor and smaller crew spaces with more bulkheads and greater compartmentalization.
Hi Jingles! Dude64 from WOT/NF - I was a WOT Beta tester, Navy Field Beta tester... Why oh why is it so hard to get into WOW Beta? Anyway - Love the clips, lots of good XP and fire control tips! Can't wait for the "GO LIVE" Best of luck on the battle fields!
I can't wait until the release of this game, watched the whole video. You source a lot of information regarding the ships, nice work Jingles...like always :)
@ Jingles:
Nice video, as usual. Thanks.
I noticed that none of the "let's play"-ers I'm subscribed to, who play World Of Warships, has featured any carrier gameplay yet. If my memory doesn't deceive me, you mentioned playing carriers once in one of your Alpha gameplay videos.
It would be interesting to see you play a carrier, since it has to be quite different from playing any of the other kinds of ship in the game.
Hey! That thumbnail is my wallpaper! Good taste lol. Looks like someone finally watched KanColle.
Can't wait to get the Kongo class battleship - the Kirishima was the first model I built as a kid back in the 1970's. Glad to hear it's well represented in the game!
Dear sir, it is about 2:30 a.m. here in Texas, I just got my Kongo. Ran two games, both loses, BUT that thing kicks all kinds of ass. Both games were three kill games. The second game was interesting because two of my kills were ST. Louis cruisers, I have no idea why they tried to close with me, it did not go well for them. Third ship was some sort of IJN cruiser, but he died in a long range duel. The only thing I had to fear were TB's, however I gave the two carriers a good beating, have no idea why they came forward, visual range is great. I'm liking this. i did it ass backwards and upgraded my fire control system, but got the EXP I need to upgrade the propulsion. Got what I needed in two games. Going to bed now.
Ah Jingles, I knew you were a man of impeccable taste. I strive to be a wealthy individual that can hold such amazing hobbies. Oh and mostly buy figs and tons of merchandise.
I'm a recent addict to WoWS... and I find these very amusing and informative. Currently using the Kirishima, which would have been funnier with a pink teddy on it somewhere lol, keep up the good work.
More ship reviews Jingles please, your mix of history, stats and gameplay is unique to you :)
the pronouncing of the nagato is right how you call it. Love how you tell us about the history of the Ships / Tanks / whatsover, shows you really are into it and btw, nice kirishima figure ;)
Kevin Moser oh and guns on the mogami, 5x 3x 6.1 inch is it? (15.5 cm) high RoF, they can reck a yamato as stock outfit and 7,9 inch? (20.3 cm) dual mount guns upgraded. Same guns as on the Aoba, still pretty high damage output, but lower RoF than the 15.5 cm
One interesting fact about the Kongo - Class Battlecruisers/Fast Battleships was, that at the time they were built, they were superior over both the Lion and Tiger Class Battlecruisers which they where based upon. It's often referred to as the best battlecruiser of its time. Due to the various updates it got later, it actually had still a good fighting chance in the second world war.
Just subscribed the moment after you showed off the Kirishima statue :)