Me too!

It was in '45, the war was virtually over by then. Major intelligence coup justs sounds more interesting than an utter waste of time.

@Johnny Reb the Japanese language's only similarities to Navajo language is in tonal variation. That's it. I think you are confusing Navajo Code Talkers with crypto analysts. They are completely unrelated and had nothing to do with each other. Code talkers provided unbreakable communications for US forces in the Pacific, specifically the US Marine Corps. It was not deciphered by the Japanese. Japanese code, in contrast, was broken BEFORE the war broke out.

@Johnny Reb The code was already broken because the US and Brits had a functional Enigma machine that the Germans and Japanese both used.

@Johnny Reb The Polish resistance got the first Enigma machine to the Brits, and the US captured a German U-Boat with a intact Enigma machine. Thanks for playing I'm a Moron. You are the winner.

We lost 3 night battles to the Japanese, 2 of them after Midway. This one, The Battle of Savo Island and The Battle of Tassafaronga-Night of the Long Lances. Back then night battles meant gunboat battles. . . . gunboats with torpedoes.

Oh give him time....

@freebeerfordworkers source of them being buried alive?

@freebeerfordworkers, not sure if this is true or not but the Japanese DESERVED the two atom bombs that they got. Too bad the Allies didn't have enough to carpet bomb that country right off the face of the earth! They were far more savage and barbaric than the Nazis were.

@@richardcline1337 I take it you're not Jewish, Slavic, Russian, Polish, or a gypsy then?

Superior in what way? Characteristically, the Ally’s ships were far superior to the Japanese in terms of logistics, fire control, damage control, and tactics. Once the confusion after Pearl Harbor and the US organized themselves the Japanese fleet poised little to no threat unless by surprise which only served them a few times. My favorite example of US superior is the Battle of Samar when Taffy 3 broke Japans glass jaw.

@@xivoryreaperx1182 Not at the beginning of the war. The advancements you're talking about came later. It's not a difficult subject to research. Long-lance torpedoes, superior optics, tactics, command and control by the IJN was second to none, at east in the beginning until we were able to catch up.

@@xivoryreaperx1182 But until we were able to catch up we took it on the chin many times. Ask ANY Veterans who served during that period and they'll tell you the same.

@@chrisnizer5702 I know, but using a small timeframe versus the overall theater is silly, as for research, spent most of my adult life doing that. The Japanese only had the advantage when using surprise tactics, or wonder weapons such as their torpedos in Pearl, or their Lance torpedos which more often then not were set off on their own ships.

@@xivoryreaperx1182 SMALL time frame??? 1940, '41, '42, and '43 isn't a small time frame. I spent 8 years in the USMC Infantry (a Department of the U.S. Navy) my friend. History is a large part of that experience. Veterans make up the majority of my friends and our family had several Navy Veterans, including my grandfather who served in the Navy during the 2nd World War. You're entitled to whatever opinion you choose. It's not necessary for us to agree with each other.

I had no idea.... makes me want to play them in some great naval warfare game.... lol haven’t found one worth a damn yet.

Agreed. The only issue is that the torpedoes had a nasty habit of exploding on onboard and causing severe damage to their own ships. Once American ships all had radar, and learned how to use it, the advantage of their torpedoes, at least on surface ships, was largely negated.

@@miamijules2149 Try World of Warships.

Cleveland class did not outgun the Japanese 8"armed cruisers. They may have had a higher rate of fire, but the 8" shell of the Japanese definitely had more punch.

@@mryhdy6266 Punch only works if you actually hit the target. The Japanese themselves rated their hit rate with 8 inch guns as extremely low.

no they dont. it's one of the most famous stunts a destroyer ever attempted in history.

@@comethiburs2326 @Christopher Babilon, Well, that explains the screen doors below the waterline.

The Piorun aint it?

Going after the pre atomlc steel. The Indonesian government allowed it to happen. Rumor says officals were bribed.

Not certain from which company the country was based in, but those salvage ships deserve to be sunk if they were caught doing such disposable things. Hope that Houston and Perth are still together.

@@texan-american200 salvage in open ocean is not illegal afaik . Maybe you should focus your anger on the original ships' govts for not getting to them sooner.

@@beargillium2369. By international treaty it is now highly illegal to salvage war grave ships of all sides in WW II. Or Truk lagoon would be stripped bare among other large ship grave yards. The US Coast Guard now is part of a multi-national watch fleet engaged in stopping salvage pirate fleets. I'm a Coast Guard Veteran and have friends still active assigned to a couple of the Cutters involved. A couple of the Coast Guards 375 foot Hamilton class cutters were sold to the Philippin Navy and are part of that fleet. Japan has several ships assigned as well. It has become a priority amoung former adviseries to stop them.

China?.....no.....you surprise me 😡

Well us industrial output and superior intelegence did. Technology and strategy wise both were somewhat close for most of the war. Though Japan lacked the industry to build what they developed in any number (like the amazing akizuki class DD or the ki-84 fighter)

Japan was spread too thin and was cut off from resources. They were fearful of a protracted war because they knew their resources were finite.

@@sd_league It was that industrial capability that Yamamoto Isoruku saw while serving as the Japanese Embassy Naval Attache during the interwar years of the Great Depression. Yamamoto-san recognized what capability meant if Japan were to go to war against the U.S. He had recommended strongly NOT to go to war with the U.S. but was ignored by the Army General Staff. The core of the fleet of new ships that would eventually anchor as Victors in Tokyo Bay was already under construction, fitting out and even training at sea when Japan attacked the U.S. on 7 December 1941.

At Pearl harbor, when Japanese bombs and torpedoes took out the antiquated capital ships of battleship row, they did the US Navy a huge favor. With its "battleship admirals" now taking a back seat, US strategy used carrier-based aircraft increasingly to dominate engagements with the Japanese fleet, and support US island hopping toward Japan.

Japan lost the war when they attacked Pearl Harbor. They made a bet the US wouldn't deny them the West Pacific and they lost that bet in spades.

ah yes torpedoing several of your own ships the soundest battle plan.

@@Tdelliex the enemy cant sink our ships if our ships dont exist to sink

And for that, Mogami is the best spy ship in Japanese navy

@@gibusspy5544 exactly

and the Melbourne was doing peacetime exercises

my grandfather was an aa gunner on the arkansas and he said they fired so many rounds ,he said it looked like you could walk up to them on the aa gun blasts and the kamikaze would still get through

My great great grandpa was a main battery power bag worker on Bismarck and yes I’m german

@@parkerterry03 those german ships were very well put together .

They really were especially scharnhorst and her sister and tirpitz and print eugen and admiral graf spee

I can go on an on all day about all those ships dude I’m telling you

Yes

I hope Royal Hellenic Navy Warships ww2 should get Video

Show info russian cruiser George Averoff

Never expect accuracy on this channel....

Yeah you heard right, it was a shock to me as well, I had thought the best that could be achieved was 30 knots. 😮

@@tommargarites2811 Truly fascinating when we stop and realize those speeds were achieved some 75+ years ago, and are still considered quite good even today. I served in the Navy from 2006-2014, the first assigned duty was aboard USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN-74). During Shakedown cruise after our deployment and drydock pier side increment availability (DPIA), we achieved a bit over 30 knots if I remember. That's haulin ass for a 100,000 ton Nimitz Class carrier! The shop I was assigned to was just aft of midship 4th deck down, and I swear it felt and sounded like we were in an earthquake!!!! How these boats manage to stay together under that kind of structural stress is a true testament to the engineering of these huge haze grey floaty things! 😀

@@jeffreymontgomery4091 Lol, thanks for commenting, it really is a wonder of engineering architecture, to construct such a fast beast of that enormous weight.

My bet is on the German K-wagen because of its similar design to the British mark one,s gun arrangement And locations I would say it was inspired by the British mark one tank design.

They all were built by US materials.

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This is a excellent point!

Aircraft.

Austro-Hungarian SMS Szent Istvan! Oooooops

I think sending in more than 200+ planes to sink Yamato was overkill.

@@MrEd-qg8td That was repayment

The US Navy at that time so heavily outnumbered the Japanese that hundreds of planes would be sent up only to find 2 or 3 worthy targets, so the entire alpha strike would drop its ordinance onto a handful of unlucky cruisers and destroyers. If you have that kind of superiority over the enemy, one may as well use it. No one ever said that a fight always had to be equal in times of war. What crippled the Japanese from the very beginning is that they started a war with the Western world believing the old medieval philosophy of bushido would bring them to victory. Only a handful of their leadership understood that bushido wasn't going to cut it in an industrialized war. I believe it was actually Hitler who made the surprisingly insightful comment that "this war [WWII] would be won not on the battlefield but inside the factories." Too many Japanese military leaders believed that the individual soldier would always be the most powerful weapon a nation would have - and therefore did not put a lot of investment into technology and industry. Also, their obsession with death didn't help, either. American troops fought hard to survive because they felt they had a life they wanted to return to. Japanese troops practically considered themselves dead before they even got to the battlefield. When you feel your life is already over and there's nothing to fight for except those abstract notions of patriotism, well ... it's not that the Japanese soldier fought with less skill or bravery. But they threw lives away too easily even allowing thousands of soldiers to die of starvation, left stranded on little Pacific islands that were no longer needed.

Japanese pilots were so accurate early in the war that many of their attacks were overkill. Look up the stats on the older British carrier and two heavy cruisers sunk in the Indian Ocean. It's almost like they were dropping smart bombs, and that's according to British sources.

@@hannable70 You said it already, Japan was defeated because of the American factories and not because of 1 on 1 skill in the battlefield.

They did try, they weren't able to keep up with Western technology after they decided to sever diplomatic ties with them Hiryu and Hyuga had an experimental set at Midway. Shokaku had one in the Solomons. They in fact invented a listening device picking up the pings the radar sends out so some ships had some idea that US ships were around, just not the amount or types Another crazy fact is the US deployed "window" (aluminium strip's in the sky to confuse radar operators of the types and quanity of planes) first in WW2 at Rabaul, but the Japanese radar at Rabaul was so rudimentary, they weren't deceived, and put their usual CAP vs 13th AF

@@Wayne.J thank you Yamamoto warned they will not be able to maintain a long conflict but pride and arrogance blinded the army

@@alwaleedalthani9624 Definitely They wanted a war now despite the slim to none odds of winning it. Crazy times, national suicide

@@Wayne.J Yamato and Musashi also had fire control radar installed.

Very astute points Robert.

The U.S. did that too. I'm assuming other countries probably did as well.

@@shawnc1016 the US was late to the show on it. It was not till later naval engagements that it was fully utilized by the Allied forces.

@@chuck.reichert83 I know they had it by Guadalcanal. San Francisco's color was all over Atlanta.