Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 1 of diary of a Japanese Kamikaze Pilot, Here is the link of the playlist kzfaq.info/sun/PLGjbe3ikd0XHH9QjU_w0jlvtZaIPZgGGX These are the memoirs of a Japanese Kamikaze Pilot . In this episode he talks about getting blooded in Taiwan ,Gearing Up, Escorting Convoys ,B-24s ,Solo and Team Combat ,Sliding Maneuver, Landing Woes at different airfields, Cockpit Lunches and Formosa Air Battle. Please Subscribe to Our channel and Help Us Grow ,so that we may continue improving and upload more great content for World War 2 enthusiasts !

I knew a guy who flew a Hellcat during WW2. He said that by the time he got on his carrier, and i cant remember which one, anyway he said that we had so many planes that you rarely seen a Japanese plane one on one. He said that most aces were from earlier in the war because of this fact as the Japanese just didn't have enough planes or pilots to go around. He was a great and very humble guy and a joy to talk with. RIP Bill!

Almost 50 and I look back at when I was 18 and how I was a dumb kid playing video games, and yet these boys were playing such games in real life with no reset. My hats off to all those kids, on both sides, who fought and died for their countries.

Dude said it wasn't honorable to shoot at targets on the ground. I guess he wasn't around during Pearl Harbor...

As a preschool child I lived in a military compound complete with concrete walls, topped with broken glass, guard towers with machine guns, etc. My father was a US Army officer working with the Chinese Army to prepare the island for an invasion from mainland China. I lived in Hchinchu. We played in the mountain caves the Japanese had dug out of the mountains as defensive redoubts. Back then the caves were deep, and open. Wet too. We had a favorite we knew as "Monkey Disease Cave". Hell of a playground. I bet the caves are still there as they were deep. Probably all walled in by now. I had a weird childhood. So I joined the US Navy when I had the chance to get a commission.

been listening to all your videos on a 200.00 laptop and never had any volume issues, love all these first hand accounts and appreciate your channel very much!

Its good to see the Pacific is getting some coverage. I enjoy listening to these while at work. Well done! By the way, volume is not an issue for me. And i listen with a single ear bud, in a kitchen.

I think of the poor American aviator tied up. The Japanese were brutal and had no regard for prisoners or other peoples lives.

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The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa?🤔

Tje Grumman F6F Hellcat was specially designed to outperform the Japanese Zero, it could turn with the Zero, but it could climb faster, dive faster and it rolled better too, and was faster in level flight. Besides Japan had lost most of its greatest fighter pilots by the time the Hellcat appeared in combat, so the results were to be expected.

I haven’t had any problems with volume. I listen with Bluetooth headphones/ hearing aids. And I have to turn them down.

Having served in the military I DO UNDERSTAND the person in the uniform .... human first and duty to the nation you serve .... BUT, I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE MILITARY MINDED BRAIN-TRUST THAT HAD NO MERCY, NO DECENCY & NO CONCERN FOR HUMANS THEY USED, ABUSED TORTURED & STARVED ..... if not lopping off heads ! For that reason I cannot say anything about the pilots - experienced or their replacements. While they were proud & productive in early on engagements ... once the Grumond 1200 HP radial engine of the F4F Wildcat was scrapped for a 1200 HP Pratt-Witney engine, Missles added under each wing, THE ONCE VULNERABLE Wildcat was now a bad-ass F6F Hellcat dynamo ( ended war with a 19 to 1 Kill Ratio) .... and the first Japanese Pilots to encounter what they presumed an easy prey Wildcat ..... they found It had BETTER everything, more options to engage, power to OUT CLIMB even the Zero they thought so highly of. It was turkey shoot more times than not! ! The shameful elements of this warring culture and Godless society brought much carnage. There is NO mitigating factors. Sadly stories can be told. Honorable or not. GBjj

Not many accounts like this from the Japanese.

Wonderfully done keeps me away from real life.

Great perspective.

Have no problem with loudness

It was Formosa back then.... just sayin'

The fact the Hellcats looked identical to the Wildcats lured many Japanese pilots to their deaths.

He was promoted to Flyer First Class on August 15th 1945? That's the day after the Japanese surrender.

Imagine their thoughts when 12 aircraft carriers, two more than Japan had at the start of the war, showed up to go after Taiwan. If anyone there knew that, they would have immediately known Japan was doomed.

Hell Cat was a well armoured , Navy fighter bomber that had broke 400 mph ; it was fast . The Hell Cat ,vAnd P47 Were sold d built "flying tanks " that were very quick , especially during the invasion of North Africa , Sicily , Normandy , France , Salerno , Italy , Anzio , Italy , South France , along the Mediterranean , and those invasion s on those heavily defended Japanese Islands too .

The robo-commentaries are a hoot, cracks me up. Then comes ads about problems with private parts...

Thanks!

It would be interesting to know who authored this.

Grumman was a revelation to a lot of japanese pilots back then...Hirohito's guys had never seen a really big birth control with wings and guns....

Don't know when this was made, but the narrator's voice sounds like Tom Courteney - he played Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov in Dr. Zhivago.

Volume seemed fine on my phone.

13:00 - Worked with F4Fs 13:53- D-to-V software one more oops: That's pronounced "led", not "lead". 14:56 - "A few seconds" is not gonna knock and F6F out of the sky. 16:36 - The Axis plans, east and west, were based on the assumption that "spirit" will out over lead, aluminum, steel and dollars. It didn't. 20:55 - Pretty much universal training for US 'general aviation', post war; rudder/opposite ailerons to 'crab' the plane into the wind, aligning to the runway after touchdown (and getting the flaps up) (22:37 - Totally off topic: My first solo, X-country had me with left-over veal scaloppini in a box and a V8-juice 'beverage'. After the plane was trimmed to stable flight, I enjoyed a meal and the view) 24:21 - "August 15, 1945": - The war is over in all but name by then. Care to correct the date? 29:19 - By that time in the war, all you had to show was an airplane. 21:32 - You could not.

Not much talk about the Hellcat. Oh well.

Cook-ed by the mother. The AI really has a major issue with ed at the end of words.

No volume problems but there are at times interesting pronunciations in groups. Then it goback to normal. It sounds like an old comedy routine.

Very Sad

B-29's flying from their base in China? Not sure they came from there. They did have incredible range.

Why does it say Taiwan when it was called Formosa in those days?

Very sanitized.

One would assume, that by logical thinking, fighter planes would be able to fire back at their attackers, just like a B-17 has a tail gunner. If an enemy got on your tail, why not just fire from the tail, a shotgun loaded with solid or explosive shot, like a Revolutionary War cannon, into the head-on flight path of the pursuing enemy fighter? Just put an extra small fuel tank in the wing to compensate the tail weight. The rear-view mirror could have been with a reticle to center the enemy plane. it would at the least, ruin his propeller or wings. It doesn`t make any sense just to try to outmanuver without being able to fire back at the enemy at the same time. The offensive fighter plane weapon now becomes defenseless and useless. It was absurd designing of WW2 fighter aircraft. Even cowboys and Indians in the movies, could turn in the saddle or bareback, resp., and fire back at their pursuers. cf. WW1 LFG Roland C.11 - If you couldn`t outrun `em you could at least shooot back. Counter?

Knocking over fishing boats😂

Taiwan, really?

You think they'll ever forget all the kids, women and elders vaporized? Karma exists kids

Love this series, but would like to see better way of chronologizing! And the island was known as Formosa during the war, didn't become Taiwan until the CCP took control of the mainland. This memoir must've been penned after that

War criminal, huh??

AI. It's impressive. 13:45 in. No Brit reads like that. " one of the four american fighters waiting at altitudatargeted, this instaant, and unleash a a spray of leed just as the zerro was about to plungee into a divay" nobody reads like that.

The story is great, but even with a Brit accent, AI voices suck and always reveal themselves.

If you are going to read these stories, at least learn to pronounce the words properly. There were a large amount of poorly pronounced words in this video.

Message to producer of this video: your text-to-speech software is crap. The commentary is riddled with absurd mispronounciations, at times so bad that it was hard to follow the script. I quit viewing after a few minutes. If you want to attract more subscribers, smarten up your act.