You should make a page for him online and upload his pictures, tell his story. Military history nuts love learning about stuff like that.

Was his name Snowden?

@@30AndHatingIt ...Agreed, get it out there!

The only cool thing in my family is my great grandfather was in the battle of the bulge and he survived it but he died in 1998

Bennie Cox my family hasn’t done much, my grandfather was too young for ww2 but too old for vietnam

hahahahha

I tried watching that alien bs when it came out and quickly gave up

JoshuaIND .Agreed.

Aliens was a big part of our history they gave us all the religions on the face of this Earth the influence of man's technology

why can't we have both?

How cool! As much as I've read about this particular battle, I've never heard that before! Thanks!

Awesome, but it's not fun, it's just a fact

@@lost5510 You must be his greatest grand son

That's why I love Star Trek.

I did not know that. That is a cool story.

This made my day

He used wikipedia on his iPad to make this doc.

omg i actually laughed out loud to this XD

that is a fact

OMFG.

Yeah not aliens or crazy mountain people lmao

Jordan A. What if ancient civilizations were visited by aliens???? Only time will tell on this episode of ancient aliens

What... ancient aliens isn't history?

RIP GRANDPA HARRISON

Yeah yeah. At least it is not about junk or prawn shop.

I'm happy the history channel is deciding to actually talk about history

Larry B lol that or American Pickers, I swear to god they play that show on a constant loop.

@Larry B Larry B, u r a grade A clown!(compliment) Thanks for the chuckle...u really had me cracking up w that one! Lol..

The writing on this is horrid, actuallly, with “cliangers” every few seconds. E.g. saying the Japanese plane radioing results of the strike back to Nagumo was “breaking radio silence”

I know, I miss the old history channel.

You Australians weren't so bad yourself either. Thanks for backing us up out there.

Don't forget us filipinos😢

True we really suffer from the japanese occupation more than 1 million people died on that time

Thank u brave Americans from Canada we will never forget your sacrifice

Should we not thank every nation who fought on the right side in the fight against tyranny and oppression regardless of where they fought or how much they sacrificed?

The Hornet in this battle was sunk a few months later unfortunately.

ive been on the midway, infact i live a few miles from it. it was sooooo cool and always wanted to go again

@@mrlemflem Didn't they stop visits because the stairs were collapsing or something? Or did they fix it already

@@dogsidog0074 i dont know but they fixed it atleast a few months ago because i went in august and 2 years before that i went and it was fine i think it was just they stopped visits because the pandemic

Haven’t been on the Midway since I was a small kid. I need to go back and maybe stay overnight on it.

george martin yeah so clear.

george martin except for David Attenborough

I love the voice

its like audible chocolate..

hahahahaha

Ugh yes, exactly. They could have dragged this out to 30 minutes with drama and 60 with commercials. It's why I don't watch TV anymore.

Apart from some factual errors and failure to mention a couple critical things it was really well made

It was a glorious victory for us

Zach Jones What did they miss?

@@thegreyghost5846 the fated 5 minutes?

It was on the Up Next slot. They know me too well.

Im ready

they are making another Midway?

@@84MadHatter a new movie

@@84MadHatter nov 8th in theaters

dang, Guadalcanal was a major loss

He should have a moustache ....

No, sideburns and a jacket with leather elbow patches.

and smoking a pipe

Stephen James ii

01Bouwhuis Should i

Actually 15 minutes and 5 Seconds to be exact

And the US wouldn't have lost uss yorktown if they had subscribed to skillshare

😆

Not really. Standard encryption is already broken by US gov't. That's why it's allowed.

Archipel Brouwerij NV none of this could happen if Japan used Honey

Nice try!

Empress Twilight l imagined it in the kool-laid man voice😂😂😂💀😭😭

LMFAO!

My favourite sub, the Nautilus. Oh yeah, oh yeah!!!

Captained by Nemo?

Unfortunately for Yamamoto, he was stuck with some very mediocre officers.

Wasn't the Yorktown the one the Japanese thought they sunk in an earlier battle too.

@@donnash5813 yup

@@jrptha4thEN - I read the other day it also picked up the space capsule from the Apollo 8 mission after it was the first to go around the moon. Quite a history for that ship.

@@donnash5813 that was a different Yorktown. the one at midway was sunk

@@samnobody8926 OK thanks. Didn't know they reused names.

Totally right... those guys were mad brave... the guys now afraid to die.

You talk about courage that some have in waging a battle, and here is one to remember. It is about an Israelite man named Gideon who lead 300 men into battle against 135,000 opposing Midianite soldiers or 450 to 1. But because Gideon had someone special on his side, he won the battle.(Note: Gideon started out with 32,000 men, but when asked if any man was afraid and trembling, he could return to his home, 22,000 left, Judges 7:3 in the Bible) At Judges 6, due to the Israelites doing what was bad in God's eyes, he gave them over to the Midianites for seven years, so that the Israelites called on God to save them from Midian's oppressive hand. The Midianites "would camp against them and ruin the produce of the land all the way to Gazʹa, and they left nothing for Israel to eat and no sheep or bull or donkey. For they would come up with their livestock and tents as numerous as the locusts, and they and their camels could not be numbered, and they would come into the land to destroy it. So Israel became greatly impoverished on account of Midʹi·an."(Judges 6:4-6) As a result of the Israelites humbling themselves before God, he sent an angel to Gideon to have him lead a small army of men against the Midianites, whereby Gideon was reticent in accepting, wondering "why has all this come upon us ?.....How can I save Israel ? Look ! My clan is the least in Ma·nasʹseh, and I am the most insignificant in my father’s house", in which the account said: "Jehovah faced him and said: “Go with the strength you have, and you will save Israel out of Midʹi·an’s hand. Is it not I who send you ?.......Because I will be with you, you will strike down Midʹi·an as if they were one man.”(Judges 6:14-16; Note: Jehovah is God's personal name, though here an angel spoke as a representative of Jehovah) The odds of 450 to 1 would normally be overwhelming, but with Jehovah's backing, this is what happened: the 300 men surrounded the Midianite camp at night in three bands of 100 men, with each one having a torch hidden inside a large empty jars and horns.(Judges 7:16) Then upon Gideon's command, they all broke their large jars and blew their horns, exposing their torches and shouting, "The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon" in which the Midianites thought that each torch was an army within itself, so that "all the while each man stood in his place all around the camp, and the whole army ran away, shouting as they fled. The 300 continued to blow the horns, and Jehovah turned the sword of each one against the other throughout the camp; and the army fled as far as Beth-shitʹtah, on to Zerʹe·rah, as far as the outskirts of Aʹbel-me·hoʹlah by Tabʹbath", that caused 120,000 soldiers deaths, leaving 15,000 that fled to their campsite of Karkor, east of the Jordan river.(Judges 7:21, 22) The remaining 15,000 were again hit with a surprise attack by Gideon, wiping them out at Karkor.(Judges 8:10-12) Now this took courage and faith in Jehovah God to back them up. Throughout history, people such as Abraham, Noah, David, placed their trust in Jehovah God. So, should we not do the same, who will do this in the near future: "Come and witness the activities of Jehovah, how he has done astonishing things on the earth. He is bringing an end to wars throughout the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the military wagons with fire."(Ps 46:8, 9)

@@wilsonerazo9789 Tell that to those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan

@jeyton That's not a sign of some kind of cowardliness, just a sign of them being stupid.

You still can be brave now or even braver. No point romanticising the past.

ThaiGooner94 im so shocked after the movie

ThaiGooner94 I’ve taken it upon myself to figure the facts out first and see the accuracy in the movie lol

@@Nomakoshi It's surprisingly very accurate.

Canaan B Is it now? I’m even more hyped to see it

@@Nomakoshi Pros: It's pretty historically accurate. There are no fictional characters that I know of. Cons: The acting is a bit hokey, and the CGI is a mess. Overall I'd say it's worth it. I just wish it would have been longer.

Erik Hertzer ....Rochefort.

Arctic Grayling : thank you...I guess I spelled him a bit too French, lol...

Erik Hertzer ...Your spelling was insufficiently French.

Arctic Grayling ...oui...

@Rasputin Ra ra Rasputin lover of Russia queen

They can't do that. We won't be prepared when ancient astronauts return.

Wil!!!!! ❤❤❤

Agreed, that breakdown is so good. I think anyone making a TV doc about the battle, or any battle, to see how Montemayor focused on the actual numbers and timelines. Information is more important than flashy production.

In reality crossing oceans and landing on foreign land is a lot harder than just invading by land so yea I'd agree, plus all the island hopping. I'd say both suffered equally cuz on one side you have young men landing on beaches getting mowed down by machine guns as they landed and the terrible ocean conditions which is what happened at dday which is why there weren't many tanks at the battle because they'd sink before they even make it. Then you have the Russians or soviets who didn't have to cross an ocean but did have to take the bulk of the German forces. Both are hard things most countries would fail to do.

His balls must of dropped before he was even born, it's the only explanation.

The best scotch and a real Cuban cigar every so often makes that voice.

Agreed

Dope? Stop being a wigger.

vonnivf yeah makes my prostate ache

the man is crazy..did he even have enough fuel to land after his bombing raids?

lyhthegreat Considering VB-6 participated in the second attack, then yes.

pretty sure the destroyer was behind to deal with the sub, so technically that submarine may have helped change the tide of midway. IMO

Nah that's Guadalcanal

@@anthonystejan8492 Midway, Guadacanal and Leyte.

@@rainynight8385 Guadalcanal was the turning point for the empire, they lost a lot of personnel, warships, and aircraft... Along with the crucial base at Rabaul later on at Cartwheel. Leyte was the deciding action for the IJN and the real end of the Empire of Japan’s resources. Midway just depleted their carrier fleet and helped the US morale, not that important of a battle as Guadalcanal and Leyte...

This is a myth. Only Hiryu lost more than 50% of her aircrew to all causes (72 KIA). Kaga lost 21 airmen, Soryu ten, and Akagi a mere seven. The worst losses were the mechanics and aircraft technicians, 40% of all embarked (721). As unlike America Japan had fairly few men with innate mechanical knowledge from, say, working on the tractor on your farm, this was a disaster. Read Shattered Sword. It is amazing how much myth surrounds the battle.

I'm beachedwhale1945 well done

I dont think so, its more their carriers which they didnt have the industrial power to replace

we lost more at Midway they blew up our base, cratered our runways, killed our pilots, and sank Yorktown and Hammond but it was the US who won Midway and retook control of the Pacific.

Also, my understanding is that the Alaska strike was not intended as a diversion as they say here, but was actually a whole separate operation forced on Yamamoto by Naval GHQ as a compromise for being able to carry out the Midway campaign. So was it the same with the Coral Sea campaign as well. That's one of the reasons the Japanese went in with fewer carriers than they would usually engage with.

He had to decide to turn north and keep looking before he found the breadcrumbs

@@Jacob-df5hr He did have to follow his instinct because he didn't know if they would have enough fuel to reach the possible Japanese fleet or if they would run out before they even got there or returning. Also, add to it that the destroyer could've been part of a smaller fleet meant to lure the fighters and bombers away from the actually Japanese fleet.

If McClusky had not followed his gut, he would not have discovered the Arashi.

Guess ya haven't seen the Battlefield series..

To bad,half of the content is rubbish! Read "Shattered Sword"!!!!!

@@pebo8306 Agreed. A lot of this seems top be from old outdated sources. Modern research in books like First Team and Shattered Sword has altered what we know about the timeline and flow of the battle a great deal.

@@DronesintheWild Thank you for the hint on "First Team",did not know that one,but ordered it immediately!(Part 1+2)

@@pebo8306 You're welcome. John Lundstrom, author of "First Team" is probably the most important source for "Shattered Sword". He also wrote another good one, "Black Shoe Carrier Admiral" about Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal. I highly recommend it.

More of 1.5 hands distracted

Yea but Japanese were like blinded by high beam light

James Viles yes indeed. The US fleet at Midway did have one hand tied behind its back but the irony is that so did the IJN by their own stupidity.

The US was not going to give them their big battle they wanted until they could win it they learned the lesson taught by the Russian fiasco.

@@f430ferrari5 I would say arrogance.

@Phagnabot gamer u got it steve. the announcer blew it big time. + no mention about Mr best. it's shameful. he bombed 2 of them.

Standard procedure was that the bombs were all on deck during rearming and refueling ….While the planes are returning from a mission…bombs were coming up from the bottom of the ship…so they could get the planes armed /fueled and out..being on a aircraft carriers during Vietnam…I was a plane captain and I would sleep right between to 1000 pound bombs behind the island ..waiting for my plane to return. Get in plane check it out..fuel it armed it. Away they go….BUT…ww2 may have been different..Vietnam had very few planes and ships…

@@chrsshears4528 Ok I edited that section a bit… thanks for the info.

How is it not ok now? Oversensitive right winger

I think you answered your question yourself, oversensitive, perpetually offended cry bully.

Rochefort's "reward" was to be shuffled to the side back in Washington. There was a power play in the intelligence community and the Washington crowd was jealous of Rochefort and his team.

Artifactsofmars precisely!

It's a detail often overlooked. Mcclusky was one of the heroes of Midway.

only because they had the UAV killstreak going on.

@@lespaulguitarist92 Lol

@Over Opinionated Bogan XD funny tho

@Over Opinionated Bogan Yeah true... Theses are stories of valor and tactics. But Just because he makes a joke that I find funny doesn't at all take away any meaning out of this story. Yes people died for a 'good' cause And people dying isn't funny but still.

Zach Powers They where spawn camping

_Nautilus_ unexpectedly turned that battle without doing damage. _Arashi_ chased _Nautilus_ without success but then McCluskey found the destroyer literally pointing to the main fleet. Absolutely insane battle fortune.

Yes!! I was about to say that!!!

Regarding battle fortune, there is another point not mentioned in the video: The japanese plane which spotted the Yorktown had a delay of 30 minutes due to technical problems. If the Japanese would have discovered the American fleet half an hour earlier, Nagumo could possibly have started an attack strike in time.

yea

Thank you. Amazing that this error is made

That’s a bit harsh, but I agree.

Actually at the time, some Japanese sailors witness a shadow that looked like the infamous Ogopogo. Coincidence?

Next on History, the battle of oak island :P

It's a bloody shame that the "History" channel has become so poor. I went from encouraging my boys to watch it when they were young, to telling them to avoid it. "Ancient Aliens"??? "Hunting Hitler"??? Need I go on?

@@canuck_gamer3359 let's not forget American Pickers

So was Discovery channel, before they turned into a reality show channel.

Sorry, did someone say Ancient Aliens?

Yup. The video was going well until 9:20. smh

It was dual purpose. It could aslo carry bombs as well. It would normally carry either a single 1,000 lb, or two 500 lb bombs. However it could also carry a dozen 100 lb bombs.

Another mis-statement was that it was the end of all Japanese offensive operations. Despite this setback they actually tried to regain their momentum by opening a new theater of operations in the Solomon Islands.

Yeah, and that's a key point: The Devastator was utterly ineffective due to a combination of poorly designed torpedoes and ineffective tactics used by torpedo bombers (ie, trying to drop them parallel to the water instead of letting the torpedoes enter at a slight down angle).

@@TheNoonish It was also very slow, with very little defensive armament and very poor radio technology for the time. It was the Navy's first carrier monoplane torpedo bomber!-John Doey Waldron (Desert Storm/Shield USN)

Id argue that this wasn't the most greatest victory in ww2 by far

Yes, despite some dramatic license and fictional characters, that movie depicts the main facts of the battle quite well. I especially liked how they depicted Admiral Nagumo's dilemma and the command decisions forced upon Admiral Spruance, who was not a career aircraft carrier commander.

@@davidforbes4392 I think Yamamoto and the other more competent Japanese commanders must have been disappointed in Nagumo. He made lots of lackluster mistakes.

Jerry Liu 😂😂

Steve Jobs/ George Clooney hybrid

It's Steve Martin

All the graphics was done on iPad Pro..

lol, real life chuckle!!

It's why the Yorktown was nicknamed, "The Grey Ghost" because they thought it couldn't plausibly be the Yorktown...but indeed it was!

@@OrbitFallenAngel Enterprise was nicknamed the Grey Ghost. Japan thought they sunk her three times but once again, American damage control too OP Yorktown was thought to be a different carrier at the time, so they hit her twice. Since she sunk at Midway, she didn't get any nicknames from the Japanese

thats the best video explanation of the battle, not this pathetic history channel story for drug abusing kids

Toader Spanache I Agree this is pitiful compared to the other guys and he is just covering it as the Japanese imagine if he explained it from an overall stand point.

@@toaderspanache8571 Drug abusing kids Huh

Montemayor is awesome! I just wish he had more videos. Bazbattles is a youtube channel every bit as good as Montemayor, for all you fellow military history buffs.

Agreed, the Montemayors youtube channel gave good details, minute by minute, then view Jonathan Parshall's lectures - backstory: difficult to imagine Spring 42 after Pear Harbor, how bleak it looked, 6 months after Pearl we had Doolittle Raid, then Layte Gulf - a draw, then Midway, and the US was just ramping up production by '44 we had 10-1 advantage.

Later tactics kept most attacking planes from getting to our carriers. Many CVLs mostly provided CAP and ASW support.

Us planes had a higher ceiling but also learned Japanese zeros were light armored and did not have self sealing gas tanks. The battle of midway was also the first time the thatch maneuver was used. In which us fighters would cross cross each other

They forgot to mention that when they attacked the aircraft carriers one of the pilot leaders invented a way to actually go toe to toe with the japanese dogfighters usinging Thach weave tactic where when one plane was being chased they would start flying like an S and their buddy would also weave in the opposite way and kill the japanese chasing them. Previous to this the Americans would lose every dogfight to them

@@kelvinw.1384 Thach Weave

And then they had to go back and refuel. Which took about 30 seconds

Enjoyed this more than the movie...update.

thats my catcher in the rye.

El Alamein in October/November1942 was just as important, as it ended Rommel's threat to capture the Suez Canal. The British 8th Army was in the offensive for good.

@@stevenweaver3386 I would disagree with this. Given the Torch offensive, Rommel had no way of reaching Suez. And if you look t the German losses, they were a small fraction of what occurred at Stalingrad.

Actually, maybe 1943...

@@thatguyinelnorte rreeee

Nah bro

cringe

Hahaha this so funny and but we're were ear hustling on radio waves worked in our favor.

they had a cloaking device.

TrainMan42 Dude midway was an inside job

SinZ they were in the upside down silly! Smh

Under the water .No aliens were injured during this battle.

Helping the Americans break Japanese code

Microwaves shocked my great grand mother

How about less than twenty years--WWI.

We went from horse-drawn carriages to landing men on the moon in 100 years. Absolutely insane.

Weird that mankind barely moved ahead during all those thousand of years and then suddenly it was as if an explosion of advancements occurred.

@@radrook4481 Technology advances exponentially and we still havent hit our peak.

You think? The US Navy is the finest on the planet. Yes I'm a little bit proud of the men who fought this battle and beat the Japanese Navy...it was still costly... But our boys fought hard and tough. *US Navy* 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

OrbitFallenAngel Sir I would say with certain the U.S. Navy is grand I appreciate that you had Britain’s back in that bloody terrific fight

@@oplteam9712 Hey I'm a girl, but yes the US Navy and the British Navy were both very good during WW2. We beat the Axis powers and saved the world!! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧 Heck, you guys were fighting long before we even entered WW2. My Grandpa served in the US Army and was in the European Theater...in General Patton's 3rd Army. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Our counties may be different but during WW2 we worked great together!! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧

You Limey's didn't do too poorly either ;)

When I hear the word "determination," I think of the British.