Japan's Sunken Timebomb That Nearly Changed WW2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- On December 19, 1944, the East China Sea churned with violence. Japan's newest aircraft carrier, Unryū, struggled against the sea, her hull punctured by an American torpedo. On her first combat mission, transporting a secret weapon to Luzon, she now fought for survival.
Despite the hit, Unryū remained steady, thanks to Captain Kaname Konishi’s command, keeping the ship's list to just 3 degrees.
Nearby, USS Redfish lurked beneath the waves. Commander McGregor peered through his periscope, knowing he needed a second salvo to finish the carrier. But then, destroyer Hinoki passed astern, perfectly lined up with Redfish's rear tubes.
Unable to resist, McGregor fired. But Hinoki neatly evaded, leaving him with empty tubes and a still-floating carrier in range. The skipper cursed his hasty decision, knowing it could have cost him his prize, but quickly refocused on the ship.
As his crew frantically reloaded a single torpedo, McGregor knew this was his last chance. At 1,100 yards, he gave the order to fire.
It would take forty-five agonizing seconds to see if they had sealed the fate of Unryū, one of the Empire’s last working aircraft carriers.
What about this sinking makes it a timebomb that nearly changed the war? The Ohka was a wasted effort, as was the Unryu herself. Nothing about this story came even close to changing WW2.
Agreed, even if they were fast, that was a huge fleet with lots of escorts and protected by carriers as well, they couldn't have gotten close.
Seems everyone is lowering themselves to using clickbait titles
Also, of what use is an aircraft carrier which has obsolete aircraft with untrained aircrew? No use except as bait. See the Battle of Leyte, in particular the decoy fleet which, despite intelligence reports that it was a decoy, still suckered Admiral Halsey into chasing after it, with nearly catastrophic consequences to the Taffey fleet and its transports.
@@johnbuchman4854where’s TAFFY 3?
Thanks for saving me 16 minutes
US Navy WW2 did not have armored flight decks. Nor did Japanese carriers. British fleet carriers were the only navy WW2 carriers with armored flight decks
Yes first commissioned US Armoured carrier was USS Midway which commissioned Sept.30 1945.
Not true. Fleet carriers the Yorktown and Essex class did. Just not as heavy as the British. Escort carriers were unarmored.
The Taiho had an armored flight deck and sealed hangers. This was a very costly carrier for the Japanese due to how much steel it used. The armored deck and sides also contributed to its loss, on its first sortie, at the battle of the Philippine Sea.
@@mattp6953The US Essex, and Yorktowns carried their steel lightly armored strength deck as the hangar deck. The flight decks were lightweight wood. This kept the vast amounts of weight lower in the ship, permitting larger flight decks and air wings. The Lexingtons had a similar arrangement as their hangar deck had been the planned Battlecruiser main deck. The Midway’s were the first steel flight decks of the US. They weren’t really armored per Se. They were just intended for heavier aircraft and jet operation.
@@mattp6953 Essex class did not have armored flight decks. He's right, British carriers had armored flight deck during WW2. Americans armored the hangar deck to lower the center of gravity and tonnage, and increase hangar capacity. There's a reason Essex class could hold around a hundred planes in her hangar and British hangars could hold 50 or 60: Armored flight decks and the structure to support them.
Shinano was planned to be a battleship but was converted into an aircraft carrier (as clearly shown in the picture). And the US did not use armored flight decks until the midway-class in 1945. I find this video to have quite a lot of pretty basic errors so far.
It's par for the course with this channel . . .
The USN only had armored deck with Midway Class carriers. They only joined the the Fleet after the end of WW2.
Yeah - the Brits used armoured decks, but the US during WW2 did not. Threw me too.
My thoughts as well, the RN on the other hand did have fully armoured decks which meant they survived hamikazi attacks for better.
Armored decks kind of useless against torpedoes!
@@Happy11807 True, but as for the deck not being armored and using wood, teak I think, was it made getting the takeoff/landing deck back into service faster than cutting and welding metal plate.
Did I miss the part about the "sunken time bomb"?
So many inaccuracies, I don't know why I watch.
Yeah its completely garbage as far as history and rambling mumbo jumbo
@@jamesherndon4278 Thank you - I'm glad it's not just me.
American carriers had wooden decks and weren’t armoured. British carriers were.
Clickbait title.
As usual from this channel.
It was the British aircraft carriers that had armoured flight decks.
Wasn't it the British who had armored decks tho?
Essex class had almost 3" of deck armor. Escort carriers did not. Yorktown I think had 2"
British used armored flight decks to be able to absorb more punishment and stay alive especially in the Mediterranean
The British carriers had armored flight decks. US carriers had wooden flight decks w/no armor. The hanger decks were armored.
The US used wooden flight decks instead of armored decks 4 several reasons:
1. Lower center of gravity,
2. Increased aircraft load, &
3. It was faster & easier 2 repair a wooden flight deck in order 2 get back in the action while still @ sea w/o leaving the battle area. Whereas carriers w/armored flight decks, often had 2 leave the battle area & return 2 port in order 2 get repaired (depending on what part of the flight deck was hit, & how bad the damage was) b4 it could return 2 the battle fleet.
Yes, a lesson the US learnt from the British along with many other carrier features. The US would have no armoured flight decks until post WW2.
@@jimdavison4077 semantics. The Yorktown and Essex class had armor under the wooden deck but not enough. None of the deck armor was proof against AP bombs but the extra 1.5" on the Illustrious class helped significantly against kamikaze attacks.
Thank god Dark Seas put that big red arrow pointing to the sunkend ship in the thumbnail! I would have never seen it if it weren't for that! thank you!!
😂
As far as I was aware only midway had an armoured deck. All American carriers after 1945 did. But the British carriers had armoured decks. The Americans and the Japanese followed after. Japan had 2 or 3 with armoured decks. But I can only find midway that did for the US.
I've had a quick check Taiho and Shinano were built with armoured flight decks. Midway the only one for America.
At about 2:50 you say that the japanese carriers lacked the armored decks of the american carriers....uh the american carriers didn't have armored decks, they had wooden decks, it was the British carriers that had metal decks, which is why the kamakazi attacks did so little damage to them while they were devastating to the american carriers.
Even though this was a bit of clickbait, one thing is for sure that vessel sure makes a nice coral reef 😂
@3:20, I do believe that's the Graf Spee.
Typical DarkSeas...over hype with a clickbait title then use all sorts of clips unrelated to the topic.
Yep, thought so myself. At about the 3:20 mark.
Yes, the IJN's pocket battleship😂
Clickbait title! And a number of glaring errors, like referring to the 'battleship Shinano'!. Laid down as a Yamato class but completed as a support carrier. Severely reduced my respect for this channel.
No subs no content .like your own opinions but failed to take part in utube .so who cares for your feeling .your a troll .
And exactly what would’ve changed the outcome of the war? CLICKBAIT.
The tsunami out of Japanese contral lol
Why show the Graf spee ?
Had nothing to do with …
Never mind …
I used to watch your product WITHOUT THE CLICK BAIT titles.It’s a shame you feel this is necessary.
Only the Royal Navy had armoured flight decks on there Aircraft carriers.
US carriers did not have armoured decks UK carriers did
Interesting that when talking about the decimation of the Japanese destroyers needed for escorts we get an image of the Graf Spee?
did that time bomb explode when it sank?
Clickbait title. Neither this ship nor its cargo could have in any way changed the outcome of WWII. Also the name Unryū is generally translated as 'Cloud Dragon' not 'Heavenward Bound Dragon'.
Shinano was built as a carrier. She may have been laid down as a battleship but the conversion began early in her construction.
And why at 3:20 do we see the German Panzerschiff Graf Spee sinking off Uraguay in 1939, 5 years before the events of this video? Is there some hidden relevance or do you just have no idea what you are looking at?
“Lacking the armoured decks of their American counterparts” - British maybe, American not so much!
By that time, Japan needed more skilled pilots, not another aircraft carrier.
Well they were smarter muh more it took them 10 years to train compared to our 6 months
And fly from the mainland? That made sense.
The US carriers in WWII did not have armored flight decks. The British had armoured flight decks.
the closes the us navy got to a armoured deck was USS Robin (HMS Victorious)
American carriers did not have armored flight decks. The British carriers hard them but not American.
In what way could three Ohkas change the course of the war? Also American carriers did not have armoured flight decks due to a decision to leave them unarmoured in order to increase their flight complement.
American carriers didn't have armored flight decks
Oka's were nothing more than glorified kamakazi planes. They would have suffered the same fate as their ineffective predecessor. Kamakazi were scary but not really a game changer.
The british aircraft carriers used metal flight deck as wood would burn like the americans found out when hit by kamazarzi planes
The secret weapon they carried was the jet/rocket powered kamikaze plane. Possibly prototype.
This channel has sunk.
I'm gonna mark this channel with "do not recommend". I'm tired of click bait titles.
always quality, thanks !
I think I saw the GRAFF SPREE in there !
Ironically Shigure would be sunk by Redfish's sister ship USS Blackfin.
Solid idea: build CVs with no planes or pilots
You are mistaken! American Aircraft Carriers did “Not” have armored flight decks!
So...what is the awaiting time bomb?
Outstanding video and presentation
What "timebomb" to reverse a war already lost?
Good episode.
Shinano was started as a battleship but completed and sunk as an aircraft carrier.
Seeding the bottom with meatballs.
Thanks for the comments, it save me the time watching stupid stuff.
The time bomb that was sunk was the German sub that was captured in route to Japan. On it was the remains of the German atomic bomb program.
So after about the. Minutes now what was the secret weapon
At the 6:03 , were flying kamakese manned bombs
As an aviator, I'm just going to say that it's not a great idea to serve alcohol to your Pilots right before they take off.
No this poor last carrier wasn't going to change anything.
Bless our Vets. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I agree with the comments. I don't need or appreciate the click bait titles.
Wow I can finally watch this in normal speed... He's not talking fast anymore
Where you sick when recording this?
The Okha had no chance of changing WW2.
To misquote SunTzu, wars are won and lost even before they are fought. Japan traitorously took America by surprise, but overestimated themselves and underestimated America. Like Yamamoto said: "the only thing we have accomplished is to wake a sleeping giant."
Now did the sub launch 6 or four torpedoes first. He said it launched 6 at first. Pretty sure US subs only had 4 tubes forward and two aft. Am I wrong here or no. I’d like to know. Confused
All midway class where armored.Served aboard Roosevelt, DC-3.Example,6 in. thick torpedo belt, 12" over after steering.
'lacking the armoured decks of their american counterparts'? News to me, I thought only British carriers had them!
And now, not just friends, but steadfast allies.
Yes after the US rebuilt their country,and paid for everything for the next 30 years,at the expense of US industry !
They've never admitted their many wrongs.
@@veramae4098
That would help tremendously with South Korea and the Philippines.
The Yanks didn't have armoured decks, the Poms did.
Too much background noise for those of us with hearing problems.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was 23-26 October 1944
That weapon would never have changed the fate of WWII... just as none of German weapons did.
2:35 Can someone tell me, US carriers Armored decks? I though only British Carriers had armored decks.
What American aircraft carriers had armoured flight decks? I think none, except the British carrier leant to the Americans!
5:16. Shinano was an aircraft carrier, not a battleship.
she originally was supposed to be the third of the Yamato Class Battleships but it was converted after the IJN lost four fleet carriers at Midway
@@robertyoung3992 Yes, but someone didn't do their homework.
The narrator also works for PGA putting narration
just love your videos.... they help us remember what was crucial about this past time... and important for today
Really the war against Japan came down to Japan not making the nuclear bomb first. They were working on one and had plans to use it on completion.
A tale of increasing desperation and futility.
Are They looking for The Shinano? That's the One that needs to be found.
thought I would try one more time. Nope your quality for facts is lacking. it's been a good run but I'm out.
No WW-II American carrier had an armored deck.
Armoured decks of American counterparts? Which ?
I was thinking the same thing. My understanding is that US aircraft carriers had wooden decks, making them vulnerable to air strikes.
@@jnmrn4069Oak vs balsa?
Could be wrong but think it was british carriers that had armoured decks
@@danielgemmell3340 I just checked that and Wikipedia says you are right. The U.S. changed to the same design type as the British starting with the Forrestal class of carriers. Not originally having armored decks seems pretty dumb.
Correct the British had armored decks on their carriers. We didn’t.
American WW2 carriers did not have armored decks, rather, wooden. further point, why show the exploding and burning German Graf Spee when describing the the diminishing Japanese destroyer fleet? Furthermore, film of the building and launch of the Japanese carriers is actually USN Essex class carriers...
credibility lost....
Another good video Dark with relevant photo's keep it up
AND that Pathetic, Tik-Tok CCP navy with ZERO war experience thinks its a match for AMERICAS Navy !!!!!!
Shinano was off to get finished, not to Manila.
This aint Mark Felton, not by a long shot.
Another ''CLICKBAIT'' title..
This gets a thumbs down and a block from me.
Wonderfully scripted, delivered with respect to all brave sailors involved in these moments of history.
Got a gruff voice for this video..😂
Dark Seas is getting a bit worse every new post........
c'mon man - by this point in the war, japan had no major naval vessels to support this carrier or trained crews or planes or aviators for flight operations and no fuel...this is a silly video...
Gotta love clickbait
Sounds like our narrator has a cold.
The overly dramatic reading is a bit annoying.
… Remember, Bataan?! 🇺🇸🗽🇵🇭
clickbait BS
Whoever is narrating. It sounds absolutely hideous. I don’t know why people try to talk weird. Why not speak normally
This is the voice I expect from Dark videos not that Ai sounding garbage.
It is sad this channel has been reduced to using clickbait titles. Just sad.
What's going on with your voice?
These "Dark" channels used to be treat, what happened?
Your voice?
clickbait. shame on you.
the voice of the announcer is very grating. I figured out very quickly that he had nothing to say and that this video would be a waste of time
One though vary noticable. We lost a ship we renamed a new one under the same name. Japan did not do the same. I believe there where a hand full of ship of that renamed the same as the ones left st
3:20. Graf Spee.