this is the best stage in the entire game because there's no assholes throwing grenades at you

"It is possible to be killed by a grenade landing inside the plane when playing on Veteran."

"I see multiple casualties in the water" *SHOOTS WATER*

I love how you’re an unstoppable force in the first segment of the mission. A literal black cat to the Japanese. Then suddenly you end up becoming the mouse when you have to save your own guys in the water while shooting zeroes. Shit was intense and I loved it.

This mission proves that you can make any type of mission fun as long as the atmosphere and music is done right.

Me playing this mission: I GOT TO SAVE DAMN SAILORS, NO I DONT WANT TO SWITCH I WANNA SAVE THE SAILORS

God, hearing the men crying for their lives, begging not to be left behind to an inevitable death, that moves me more than any modern COD could.

"What are PBY's doing with that much firepower!?" Said the Japanese sailor.

Ahh the old days, when no matter who you controlled the character didn't say a word lol

Great example of a Rail-shooter level done well. Music is terrific, once it kicks in.

4:33 is what I call perfect combination of music and action...

9:06 you can hear a guy screaming " GET ME OUT OF HERE, I DON'T WANT TO DIE ". So much for Horrors of War. Hearing those screams makes me feel bad for those poor soldiers wanting to be save

if only my gunners in war thunder where like these

There's a dark side to this mission it was found out that in early days of the war that Japanese merchant ships where carrying POWs to the Japanese mainland imagine being one these pilots and you find out that may have just possibly killed your own or allied troops.

This is 1000 times better than Vanguard.

Can you IMAGINE if this happened IRL. Petty Officer Locke shot down 40 enemy zeros, sank 22 PT boats, rescued 5 men all in the span of 1 night lmao. Some insane stats tbh

The pacific ocean is not so pacific after all

Everyone is commenting about the inaccuracy of this mission, and I'm just thinking about how fun and intense this mission was.

7:00 is probably one of the best ways to use music in this game, it builds up as the situation tenses, as death seems more and more inevitable. Then as soon as the dialogue between Booth and Harrington begins it reaches a climax, right until Booth yells Harrington as the plane explodes. The jump from fast paced music to almost silence makes this scene for me.

Throughout school, specifically history, my teachers rarely talked about WWII or the heroes who fought during the war, or any war for that matter. Most of what I know about the war was from this masterpiece of a game. Thank you Treyarch for making my childhood and teaching me a little bit of history and about the heroism of WWII vets.

War Thunder be like: "You got a hole in your left wing!" "You got a hole in your right wing! "Your left wing!" "Youve got a wing in your right hole!"

If they ever remaster WaW. This should be a killstreak.

“Men who would risk everything before they would leave any of us, in enemy waters.” GOOSEBUMPS

"Among who stationed there are the crews of the U.S Navy Black Cats. Men who will risk everything before they would leave any of us, in enemy waters". Instant salute o7

Imagine this remastered... And with more missions like d-day, they could do so much instead of shitty futuristic story's. I can't imagine how fun driving around in tanks could be with today's graphics, running over other players and

Just think about it. A PBY landed meters from you that were floating in the middle water. Your friends were being pulled aboard and as you swimming to it, it began to accelerate for take off because the PBY couldn't carry anymore men. You became hopeless. It's scary just think about it.

I love the music of mission, it really; really captures the energy of this, chaotic display of destruction as you fire your weapons at the boats, you yourself is gradually receiving fire, bullets passing everywhere as your plane get riddled with them. And the best is that the music really get along with the atmosphere like in 2:16, as you’ve lost sight of the Japanese as the plane tries to make another pass, there’s an eerie silence but then boom on 2:25 the silence was replaced with a bang followed by an adrenaline induced soundtrack, making you very excited as once again you are going to fight them

Teacher: Okay students, we will travel to japan in a plane! Girls: Omg! Japan is so quirky! I want to try out sushi. Boys;

Damn, I teared up when the Corsairs showed up. I'm a sucker for hope in hopeless situations.

You got hole in your right wing! *check's right wing* *No wing*

7:45 the voice actor for Booth was amazing, he was able to convey how desperate he was to at least find some survivors

Back when cod made your adrenaline raise through the roof with the amazing gameplay & soundtrack: 1:35-2:20

Best soundtrack in any Call of Duty games. That's it.

The sense of terror that hammerhead gets, the feeling of panic during the rescue and the beautiful trolling you can pull off by NOT destroying the tankers is amazing.

“How good do you want the music to be in this game?” “YES, DAMMIT! YES! YES! YES!”

3:05 BOOTH: "Negative. We can do this." Coincidence, there's a miniature poster with a lady in it saying "We Can Do It" Love the mission and music but we sadly lost Harrington/Hammerhead :(

In my opinion, this level is a lot more intense then "Death From Above" from Modern Warfare. It gets your adrenaline pumping cuz your right in the middle of the fight and there's a chance.of getting shot down unlike being in an AC-130 which hard to take down since it's flying at a high altitude. Not saying it was a bad level, but I enjoyed Black Cats more. And the soundtrack is fucking amazing. Kinda reminds me of that old Xbox game Blood Wake.

I think I can confidently say that this is one of the best missions in gaming. Developers should make more vehicle gunner scenes like this, not only in COD but in many war fps franchises.

God the kamikaze sound is so terrifying as it comes down.

*Locke pans over to fire on PT boats while on the .50 waist turret. Rosie the Riveter appears in the peripheral* Harrington: Should we abort? Booth: Negative! We can do this! I think that was absolute perfect timing. Either that, or it was meant to be a minor Easter egg from Treyarch.

Did anyone else learn about the O'clock navigating technique from this mission?

8:28! Almost a decade later, this part still gives me the goosebumps :)

This mission makes you feel so immersed in a small area that you dont even have full control over and i think thats the real gem here.

Now if only the PBY was this useful in War Thunder

**Imagine seeing the gernade icon when trying to save sailors.**

Last scene when allies help us makes me emotional everytime.

Best cod soundtrack is this missions

I'm amused by the fact that none of the sailors you save are able to take at least one of the turrets.

Even after playing this mission so many times it still kicks so much ass and still makes you feel so badass because of the rythm and feel of the music, movement, shooting etc, damn i cant see a remaster of this game by treyarch but i do hope it happens, would make me, an old time fan very happy and so many others would to. 💚💙💚

I remember before this game came out I read about Japan in ww2 and when I heard kamikaze 2 o’clock that’s when I started getting chills

Quality Game Quality Music Quality CoD

The best Call of Duty released. The story was excellent, music was awesome and everything else was just "holy shit'. I liked the fact that at 2:37, Booth actually gives a shit about Locke instead of treating him like the usual one man army character and a bunch of other minor details. Whoever wrote the script for the levels deserves a gold star. And let's not forget those fucking drums on the music. Holy hell.

7:20 R.I.P harrington and his crew

Me: Wow, this video is quiet, I can't hear a damn thing *Turns up volume.* Grandpa with the Bluetooth headphones: THOSE FUCKING PT BOATS ARE COMING!

In my opinion this is still the best mission in all of Call of Duty

The PBY Catalina did some major work saving downed pilots during the war alongside reconnaissance work; if it wasn't for the Catalinas the Brits would have never found Bismarck trying to make a run for it to the Atlantic as well. A great if exaggerated homage to them in this level.

I can’t stress this enough, You are literally a sitting duck on the vast ocean. And you manage to survive while rescuing survivors, truly bring a tear to my eye.

I love how the soundtrack went perfectly with this mission you're riding a fighter plane being ordered around by your fellow soldiers switching guns around and shoot at the ships to rescue people it's just fascinating

Meanwhile in War Thunder, the Catalina gets rekted by Zeros or any other fighter planes.

My god just by watching this whole video makes me feel Intense... This is by far and away, the best Call Of Duty mission. Anyone agree?

Always a little heartbreaking when you see the guys swimming up to the plane right as you need to switch turrets

Back when gunfire in video games had a deafening effect while wearing headphones

Congratulations you have destroyed a flotilla of Japanese PT boats and an entire Carrier Air Group worth of zeros singlehandedly. What are you going to do with all of the medals of honor you are going to receive?

I’ve rescued about five survivors in this mission. Also I’ve discovered the following dialogue when you rescue the certain amount of people: “Two and they are in pretty bad shape” “Only four” “We pulled in five men on board”

As great as the entire mission looks, I think the final bit is the best. So much is happening, from the men crying out for help, the music keeping a constant beat that can be barely heard through all the noise, the PT boats firing on you, kamakazi planes making that loud roaring sound before crashing down and exploding, all of it really sells the difficulty and danger people went through across all combat fields in the war

Seeing the rates of the sailors being saved & hearing the General Quarters alarm really hit me

TAKE OUT THOSE FUCKIN PT-BOATS!!!

the background music mixed with the machine gun fire really makes this mission 2x more badass

I didn't realize that you play another character in this mission. So altogether it makes two American soldiers and One Russian Soldier. Two on the ground and One above.

This was my favorite Call of Duty mission at the time, and it still is because not only are you put in a different kind of environment and war machine the franchise hasn't done before.. but you also feel the sense of hopelessness once you're surrounded by enemy fighters. Mounted machine guns are always badass, and this mission offers several variants. And then you get to add on rescuing efforts WHILE combating enemy forces. Call of Duty doesn't have enough of that : rescuing.

Easiest mission, best soundtrack.

Fuck this was my favorite CoD mission ever.

Idk about yall but the sound of those kamikazes coming in and hitting that ship sent chills up my spine. Realistic sounds. One of my fav missions.

Can we take one minute to thank the voice actors for their awesome work?

Probably my favorite mission in all of CoD. I was in awe the first time I played this, especially when the Zeroes came in around 8:07. I'll never forget those sounds.

i wish they would start making WW2 games again

The second half of this mission is probably the most stressed out I’ve gotten in a vid campaign, trying to save people and kill the enemies simultaneously

It was actually pretty common for merchant ships on both sides to carry anti-air and anti-surface guns during WWII, for this exact reason. It also helped against submarines, as, back then, subs were way slower underwater than they were on the surface. So if you lob a few shells towards them, they’ll dive and have less chance of getting into a good firing position. The problem is that the subs had an easier time spotting ships than vice-versa, so they could just attack on the surface at night and be invisible to the naked eye, or, in daytime, submerge ahead of the ship and wait for it to get closer. Surface attacks were preferred, at least by the Germans, as surfaced submarines couldn’t be detected by ASDIC (active sonar). The British and the Canadians, and later the Americans, countered this by putting radar on their escort ships in 1941, but AFAIK the Germans continued with surfaced night attacks until mid-1943, when the Allies effectively defeated the U-boats and forced them to adopt the Dutch ‘sniffer’, to allow them to use their diesel engines underwater, and to create the ‘elektroboot’, the first modern diesel-electric submarines. But these weren’t enough/came too late to challenge Allied technological and tactical superiority. I’m not an expert on WWII naval combat, though, so I could be wrong about some of this.

Back when call of duty games were good...

why does this look better then the new call of dutys?

Just watching this with all the sounds and music get your heart pumping. My all time favorite cod mission

the fact the guns don't over heat still amazes me to this day.

such an intense level

everyone starts dancing at 4:34

In my opinion, this is the best campaign mission of all time, perfect amount of pressure and emotional connect to hammerhead and your fleet. And obviously the music too

The music for this mission is what does it for me

...........Good job Americans and Japanese You destroyed all forms of life in the Pacific

i love the sounds there when a plane is crush

"TAKE OUT THOSE FUCKING PT BOATS" One line I couldn't forget

I like that the level shows the Black Cats performing their actual mission (night-attack and naval interdiction) before being redirected to "Dumbo" duty. Also, the Black Cats were the only ones that used the 20mm bow autocannon - they're not standard armament for the PBY-5A, which normally had three Browning M1919 .30 caliber machineguns and two M2 .50 caliber machineguns. The nose-turret had a pair of dual-mounted .30s, and a single .30 was mounted in the ventral hatch by the tail. The .50s were single-mounted in the waist blisters. The Black Cats also used bombs and torpedoes in addition to strafing attacks. A PBY-5A has a ten-member crew, which is why they didn't have to have one guy frantically running from one gun to another. I haven't found any sources yet specifying whether they had been modified to carry one or two Oerlikon guns.

I LOVE THIS SONG PAM PAM PAM TAM TAM PAM BAM BAM

Call of duty world at war remastered 💯 Anyone agree??

The BEST on rails level in video game history.

Best missions in the game hands down, its immersive, action packed, and makes it feel like you are actually at war. Plus the music and voice acting are amazing.

Still better than COD WWII

*when I try to reenact this in war thunder* Take #1 me: shoot the fucking pt boats- *interrupted because of aa pilot snipe* Take #2 me: Shoot the Fucking- *gunner is unconscious* *you got a hole in your left wing* *plane rips apart* Take #3 me: Shoot the- *Aircraft Collision because AI pby flew too close to me* Take #4 me: shoo- *aa snipe and plane explodes* Take #5 *me barely gets to say anything and a zero comes out of nowhere and sets me on fire* "your leaking water!" "oh no! theres flames in the cockpit!" "BAIL OUT!!!!"

this game deserves a remaster

“We lost Hammerhead!! We’re on our own.” That dialogue stuck with me for years.

Best on-rail sequence EVER!

This shit is so intense. Imagine how the gunners felt in the real war. Man that just deserves respect.