I'm currently reading Dick O'kane's autobiography about his time as captain of USS Tang.

To cool my friend

What?!!! WOW! That's so cool! Those dudes were and are AMERICAN HEROES!

It’s a luxury to survive and know you and your team made a difference. I’m glad they enjoyed that privilege.

I'm glad he wasn't the navigator!

He mentions radar several times in the first four minutes of the video.

​@@PVEnsemble The commenter didn't deny that, dude

@@Mega-tl8vv what did he say?

@@PVEnsemble He meant that the video didn't mention the Japanese not having radars on their ships at the time (Even though most people can probably guess that because otherwise the subs really couldn't have pulled that one off)

@@Mega-tl8vv the commenter said, "Radar was the technological edge of the allies NOT MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO." I just responded that the video mentions that several times in the first four minutes of the video. So, not sure what you're getting at.

It's Led Zepplin man.

It may be Led Zepplin, but holy crap it's annoying... had to nope out of there....

Its fine, go make your own video or mute it and turn in subtitles

@jt3008 I just don't watch annoying videos. There are plenty with no distracting music to choose from!

@@t-bonejones3576 then don't watch sister mister and quit crying

Please explain how the end result would have changed if they confidently, logically, and systematically found them vs stumbing upon them. Isn't it the actions after the position fix that matter. Many a systematic search came up empty in the Pacific. Even ones where the general location of the enemy was known. The sea is a big place. I sometime think of all the sailors and aviators lost who survived there crash or sinking but were never located. Horrifying. They would have been elated to be stumbled upon.

This guy repeadedly reinforces old propaganda.

@@mikemorgan5015 Oh, that's easy. They were sent to look for them and ordered not to attack untill they had reported the location, track and speed. This was different than the normal war patrol. Normaly they would have attacked them first and talked about it later. This was very different.

@@simplyamazing880 Seems in your world, sub commanders were trained no more than a bird dog, without the discipline. I still don't think the outcome is much different. Hell Leyte Gulf is only about 50 miles wide.

@@mikemorgan5015 It is relevant because to “stumble” on them would indicate luck. While a little luck is always good to have, this was more deliberate.

I've watched numerous TV documentaries about it, but am not aware of any big screen productions.

@@robertgrimm986 They are all too busy working on the remake of Ishtar and Sharknado:The Final Fin!

@@robertgrimm986 comprehension is very low out in the wide world. This could easily be a movie (if anyone wanted to bother), does that clear it up? you busy trying to be "actually" guy

Totally agree!

Or at the very least have some less obtrusive sound track

Psycho-idiots_Marketing, everywhere.

Disrespectful music at that.

Yeah! I hate hard rock musicians messing with my learning opportunities!

You're half right ha ha

love when people loving provide constructive criticism, instead of just being hateful! Have to agree

The breathy voice is also a big distraction.

yeah, would be better without it going much of the time.

Agreed. It is not helping the otherwise excellent content.

Mediocre content. "Ending America's Pacific War" is pure hyperbole. The SW Pacific was one theatre, not all of them.

This music choice is not a fit.

I have to concur. Your work is extraordinary and no small part of that specialness is your smart production. Dialogue is the attraction. Nobody is here to hear music. Nobody.

@@brasidas2011 You could have made that important point without the leading insult. Just saying.

Stuff like that is why I rarely watch dark content anymore. Alot of what he says is not consistent with well documented facts

You are both wrong. The Japanese did not know there were enemy nearby and certainly did not know they were about to be attacked -- unprepared. Whereas the Americans, discovered the Japanese task force, track the task force, and put together a hasty plan to attack the task force. The general overall preparedness of the US naval units allowed then to put together a quick, last minute plan to attack the Japanese task force before the Japanese knew the Americans were nearby -- prepared. In this example your vast years as "arnchair admirals" has failed you.

@joecombs7468 No, that was the Japanese centerforce, the most combat capable detachment they could muster. Verses a small detachment of destroyers and escort carriers to support landing operations, Laffy 3. Sheer incompetence is the only reason the Japenese centerforce was repelled. They grossly misclassified their targets as heavy cruisers and fleet carriers instead of destroyers and escort carriers. So they spent most of their time poking holes with armor piercing rounds instead of firing the more appropriate high explosive rounds. This alone is what made the fierce US defense possible, as they would have been utterly destroyed otherwise. Additionally, when the Japanese centerforce turned back, they had effectively rendered the US forces helpless. The Yamoto alone had a greater displacement than all of the US ships combined. The US forces were hopelessly out matched if it wasn't for the Japanese incompetence. The US got lucky that day. We were caught with our pants down when Halsey went after the Japanese decoy carriers. That was Japan's biggest blunder of the war. They could have really set back American efforts considerably if they had properly identified their targets at the start of that fight. That said, Laffy 3 was beyond brave, bold, and divisive. Their actions shouldn't be discredited in any way. They gave it thier all, and all of the ships had pretty much expended their magazines. But, if the Japanese had switched to those high explosive rounds sooner, or held out just a little longer before thier withdrawal...

​@@joecombs7468 What are you even yapping about? How can someone be so wrong yet so confident

Laffy 3? You mean Taffy 3? That group went down in history by gutting the will of the main attack force. Kurita was convinced he had severely damaged the US landing force and retired from the battle. The legend of the USS Johnston, a mere destroyer escort, was born.

Quietly hiding, under the water.

Sailing so close to an enemy battlegroup and transmitting radio reports where anybody with a tin can and some wire could probably hear them. In a diesel sub, this is unheard of, as usually if you have an ASW screen worth a damn they're pinging on active sonar and trigger happy on anything that remotely resembles a submarine. No destroyer pickets, that's just asking for trouble.

OP needs to provide his address so we can send “waste of time” invoices

Firing torpedos with iffy fuses from knife fighting range. A close miss with a main gun sinks the sub. I am retired navy and just boarding a sub give me the creeps.

@@johnthomas-uy4twI’m also a retired navy man, spent 12yrs on subs and they give me the creeps as well

According to the movies, we did it with substandard torpedoes. See what I did there?😅

We definitely had a target rich environment. With most of our surface force was not in our AO we had the depths to ourselves.

Yes as usual forgot about all the other countries fighting Japan. For instance the Chinese had been fighting them for years. It was nice you finally showed up.

@@user-og1ux8nr3iAnd the Royal Navy…👌🏼😉

​@@rwarren58Unfortunately that's true. A lot of them didn't explode and they were easier to spot thanks to their air bubble trails

And the narrator sounds like he has a mouth full of water in every video.

Get a life and make your own video.

@@chrisnull3658 Let's you narrate one.

Not so much not needed as actively makes it worse.

Are you implying tha the allies didn't win the naval war in the Pacific because of rockin' guitars?

Indeed Sir! I 2nd your comment.

@@glennharrison7036 Well said, sir!

Probably to fool YT's copyright filters.

I served on two WWII submarines after the Korean War. One was original and the other had been modified as a "Guppy". Later I would serve aboard two different "nukes", at the height of the "Cold War". The earlier boats were very "hands on", whereas the "nukes" were becoming more and more systems oriented, moving towards "push button" technology. I can hardly imagine what the latest designs must be like. "Inner Space" ships must be "star wars" in the deep. The big thing is to understand that this is transit warfare in an inky black alien environment where sound waves become the medium of identification and directional fields of fire, in a type of warfare vested in scientific formulations, all considered in a 360° spheroid of deep space, in which nothing is tangible, except the reciprocal contacts and if combat ensues, the only survivors are those ships not stricken. During WWII, the primary combat was near the surface, even at 500', whereby some survival was still possible for casualties. Now, at depths unimaginable, it is pretty much all or nothing. Consider the famous James Bowie. When dueling was legal, "gentlemen" had "seconds", who under strict rules, would determine where and when the duel would occur and with what weapons. Bowie, under the rules, chose an empty cotton warehouse, near New Orleans, LA, stripped except for a pair of trousers and armed with razor sharp knives, at midnight, with only a single door (and no windows), fastened shut and no light, in the inky black interior of the empty warehouse. Imagine how the two men would control their breathing and movements, so as to not be discovered first by his opponent. Bowie emerged alive. Modern submarine warfare is like that. "Music"? Who cares? It is the "silent" service. But, if you haven't been there, the silence is deafaning. The portrayal is just that...a portrayal. The narrator has already destroyed the silence. Chilling.

I had to turn off the sound and just read the cc text because the background music was so distracting. Ughh!

I came to the comment section to say the exact same thing

Agree. Stopped watching. Thumbs down

You might as well use excerpts of "Victory at Sea", which was my brother's favorite music for about a decade.

It's very annoying

Subs search for enemy, find enemy, engage enemy & escape enemy. “Jaw-dropping”!😂😂

This channel is heavy on click bait titles. I skip most of them. I should have skipped this one.

Going by what was said, victory was never within his grasp. It was the lure .. Had he known he lost the element of surprise, he would have turned tail for open water

Yes, but you need to remember that they were also in uncharted waters, with reefs of unknown depths, and shapes. Easily handled now days, but back then?

The tactic was to play annoying music on the video to annoy the Japanese, ended up annoying everyone.

My dad tracked subs from a P-3 Orion. He said he was 5 days on a carrier, 3 days on a sub and that's 8 days too long to be on anything that's grey and float. I was in the U.S. Army....

Mostly correct, but from Kurita,s View, he may well have been up against fleet Carriers. Sharnhorst faced one carrier, where as Kurita faced sixteen carriers and about 450 planes. we have retrospect, he did not. Kurita also lost contact with the battle as he headed north to avoid torpedoes. Taffy 3 was lucky, if this was poker, they won with a pair of 2's.

@@ronhastings8439 Kurita lost situational awareness which is part of command and control. However whether he was facing 16 aircraft carriers or not he had three supporting the landing in his sights . His mission was to thwart the landing. In the end he lost Yamato on a suicide mission any way without inflicting any damage to the enemy. We on the flip side the brag about sinking a defenseless battleship as proof of carrier superiority. This on top of Prince of Wales . We never posit that a lone aircraft carrier would have met the same fate to a superior land based attack as Prince of Wales. Nor do we ever account for the fact that a carrier has to leave port with a plethora of support because in reality it can’t defend itself either .

Have a look further up at a comment series discussing the use of AP shells because he misidentified the type of ships he was fighting. Very interesting discussion. Goes into the overly cautious approach the Japanese employed against Taffy 3

Kurita realized he was not fighting capital ships. If he hadn't turned back when he did he would risked being bottled up. Moreover he had been promised air support, which he realized was not, and was never coming, meaning any damaged ships would not be returning home. Kurita never admitted it, but he was likely one of the few commanders who didn't believe in throwing away thousands of men in a futile effort. Ultimately, even if he had pressed forward he would have been destroying escort carriers, support ships and transport ships that had already unloaded their crews. He was intending to fight against capital ships.