Same

hahaha - I seem to be some people's cure for insomnia

@@FlashPointHx don't knock a talent. Just means I have to keep rewinding

Haha. I never thought of it that way, but it’s so true.

@@FlashPointHx History is my Ambien.

You guys are the best

Opps got this out last night - let me add your links all over this - good time doing this with you!

Appreciate that Mike - Being in the same category as Dan Carlin is awesome!

You're right - the armed forces then made it a point to divide up brothers so that if a ship when down not everyone in that family would be taken out. As a father I also wouldn't imagine losing all my children

Appreciated K!

I'm one of the biggest fans but this was kind of a flop. The part about pearl was full of post war what ifs that are full of real war holes. Why didn't the Japanese make a 3rd attack? Well let's look at it. First, fuel plays into it. The fleet didn't have time ro dilly dally much. 2nd. The loss of planes in the morning attack had greatly increased from the 1st to the 2nd attack and now the Americans would be even more ready. I think its about 30 planes shoot down out of 330. About 10% losses. What about the damaged planes? These are Japanese planes and not know for being tough. I'm saying probably double that can't be sent out again but let's make it another 30. Down to 270. These pilots took off at dawn and flew a combat mission for what 4 or 5 hours and have been in the cockpit for probably an hour before that. Vet they are tired and hungry.. And for what fuel tanks that are easily repaired as we see by the Germans in the war? Easy fix too. Pull over fuel barges and use them as floating storage tanks til the land ones are fixed. Oh and the dry docks? Ask the British how hard they are to knockout. How many air raids it had vs the drydocks on the French Atlantic coast and the raid to knock them out. Now the biggest reason. Where are the America carriers? Cause Japan doesn't know, they now need combat air patrol, scout planes, and a major force in reserve to attack if the American carriers show up.. Basically any attack formation would have been probably half the size of the morning attack, and it would have gone into an enemy waiting on them. The loss of the fleet oiler would have been more damaging then all the battleships they did hit combined. They had their chance. Japanese doctrine always went after combat ships not ships and things to wage war.

Agree Sam - think about what it would have been like if you were asked at that time to fly this. You'd have no idea it would succeed - those guys had guts !

I would say that Midway was the most epic operation of the Pacific War. The Doolittle raid is up there too though and was the event that set in motion the circumstances for Midway to turn the way it did.

@@MrNiceGuyHistory I can definitnely respect that. The moment when all those dauntless(?) dive bombers came in at the best possible moment and just destroyed everything would've been insane to be a part of. I just really like the concept of catching an entire empire completely off guard, and strafing through their major city completely by surprise. Must've been absolutely surreal to be flying over Tokyo to deliver that first small dose of revenge.

@@samwisegamgee8318 Pure adrenaline at it's finest.

hahaha! I took me a while to get FDR's speech for this video. I was happy which how that intro came out.

Thank you Tuhin - appreciate the comment !

@@FlashPointHx Thank you Your brother from India

Happy that you liked this!

Don't we all ? =)

I require three voluptuous mistresses, two attack helicopters and snipers to protect them... Alas I never get what I require. I am so oppressed...

Yeah wish it was 5 hours long😅

Seems that YT has been shifting its way to shorts

@@FlashPointHx awww man I love your content longer like this

Thank you Doyle!!

Yeah YT is in an all out war against long content - it wants to be the next tik toc and is promoting the 15 -60 sec shorts

Thanks Raven !

There is a book called 'What If" - it contains a bunch of scenarios through out history - what if the Spanish Armada won? what if Cortez was killed by the Aztec? - One of them is - what if Halifax became PM and made peace with Hitler? America would have had its own private war with Japan. But the Cold War would see the Soviets. . . you know I'm not gonna ruin it for ya

Thank you!

Its sad that there are so few survivors of WW2 left.

@@FlashPointHx It really is. He passed in 2012. I moved in with him in his last year to help out. I would spend as much time with him talking as I could. They really were a different breed of men. The ammount of absolute sh*t they went through was astonishing. They just grinned and push forward. In every aspect of life.

@@pablowentscobar I met a lot of WW2 vets - they never complained about anything. Guess they had seen the worst humanity had to offer and everything else was just low key to them.

@@FlashPointHx Yeah, absolutely. My grandfather was real close to all the men that served in our area so I was blessed to grow up around them. One thing I really remember that sticks with me is they were always smiling and having a good time. After what they went through, just sitting around with a glass of iced tea was heaven to them. It really gave me a great lens to see life through.

Yeah - I'm kind of happy we got into that and Craig was spot on in his responses

Thank you Daniel!

@@FlashPointHx Np

Yeah - that guy is an inspiration

Will eventually get back to that - need to brush up on Ottoman history

(Spoiler) it fell. That's after the 14th century, during which they had a civil war every 10 minutes.

Everything that wasn’t MacNarcissiist idea was always a bad idea and would piss him off. I strongly believe he was born pissed off because his mother gave birth to him and he could not do it himself

@@patrickols Are you by any chance a Buttstralian?

Corregidor was a lost cause - I think MacArthur was upset cause he probably didn't know about the raid and thus couldn't take credit for it

@@patrickols hahahahah

@@FlashPointHx That still wouldn't lose the Army Air force all of its bombers but that might not pump up the egos of those New Deal D.C. bureaucrats.

We did this via Zoom chat - so very little for voice augmentation. We edited it as there were times that my little one was playing in the background and making noise.

@@FlashPointHx awwww well that makes sense

Japan got exactly what it asked for

Ha!

thats why I've got millions of view hours every month! =)

Also you are the best. And im gonna listen to the whole playlist again thx legend

hahaha appreciate the cookies

That's what she said! Boom roasted

Since all the decision makers and participants are now gone unfortunately we must rely on the reports and archives left available from those days, we are all pretty ignorant of even that took place before we were ever born we can only go with what those who witness it decided to tell us for the future

Whoa! I didn't know this emoji even existed

Chris, I love your comments - this was a learning experience for me as well. I had no idea there was a Unit 731. I stated reading into it. This was atrocity on a whole new level. They would dissect men alive. As always appreciate that you like this so much!

@Flash Point History yes, vivisections were commonplace and unspeakable human/pathogen exposures were encouraged. I learned the true extent of their horrific practices only recently I'm grad school. The Soviets had a bio weapons program of their own (Biopreparat) that became the most advanced in the world. Though their practices were far more humane. I'd recommend a book called Biohazard by Ken Alibek.