Hello everyone, boy this video took off after a year of being out? Learnt a lot from your messages and yes a lot of corrections to be made! Wanted to express my thanks and address the new channel direction. Please stay tuned for Pacific War content, next stop is the Opium Wars!

The Citizens of Tokyo must have been highly surprised when all those "B-52 JET BOMBERS" flew over in 1942. After all, they were really expecting B-25 BOMBERS.......

Hello everyone! Quite the surprise that this video has received so many views recently O.O! Thought I might say this here, I unbelievably did a poor narration job on this video and have taken all the commentary to heart going forward. This channel is actually changing completely in the next few months towards being a channel based solely on the Pacific War of 1937-1945 featuring a lot of background history of China/Japan during the 1800's! A lot of work has been done and it will be coming out soon! Thank you for watching and your comments! =3

Just to help you out. The yorktown was repaired in 36 hours, not 2 weeks.

16 B-52's launching from The Hornet!! Marvelous.

Keep goin with your channel man

What did you think of the Battle of Midway? Was it the turning point of the Pacific War? Let me know in the comments below!

Good channel. You're doing good and getting better. Got yourself a sub.

Learning history is great.thank you for sharing this document

Love your graphics

Except for a couple of mispronunciations and punctuation errors, I think this was a great summary. Obviously a lot of work went into this. You will only get better. Thank you for your research and creation

nice video!

enjoyed the video. One very very important thing to point out is the Yorktown was deemed for 3 to 6 months of repair and reshape by the Navy expert from the damage from the Coral sea battle. However, Nimitz knew the japanese operation is about to begin to hit Midway in pending, given 3 days for yorktown repair. so they had to carry out the work that's absolutely crucial to Yorktown instead of total repair thanks to Shipyard workers dedication. It should never be forgotten. Shipyard isn't a lego world to disassemble and assemble it back, which is one of the hardest workplace in industry.

Oh another polite correction. Yamamoto and Nagumo both expected the American Carriers to be commanded by “Bull” Halsey. He was sidelined shortly before the carriers sailed with a really nasty and threatening skin condition. Spruance, Halsey’s Destroyer Group Admiral was given those two Carriers in Halsey’s stead. With Jack Fletcher on Yorktown in overall command. The Japanese had no idea who Spruance was. Much of Yamamoto’s plan counted on Halsey being Halsey. The Bull. (See how well a similar plan to Midway almost worked by baiting Halsey after carriers at Leyte Gulf later in the War). But Spruance was an almost perfect foil to the Japanese plans. It was nearly impossible to bait him. He was an incredibly cold calculating chess player who was a master at denying the Japanese the type of battles they wanted. He was that rarest of gambler, one who knew when to cash in and get out without over extending himself. (For a great look at Spruance I recommend Jame’s Hornfischer’s “The Fleet at Flood Tide”. Easily on par with his better known “Last Stand of the Tin Can Salors”) Spruance’s task focused calm under pressure and ability to see the bigger picture instead of chasing the enemy around led to the wild success of the a Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.

You need to learn to pronounce names correctly. Halsey, Spruance are household names to anyone who has knowledge of WWII Pacific action. Code breaking won the battle.

You did a great job, don't be hard on yourself. Again you did a great job.

Oh my God. "SPRU-INTS," not "Sprontz." "HAUL- SEE." Halsey "Vin-SENS," not...whatever you said. "GRuH-Man," not "Grooman." "Aircraft," plural, is "Aircraft," not "Aircrafts." And "I.J.N." --Not "I.G.N." And I am only 11 minutes in. I don't even want to know what you are probably doing to the names of the Nip ships. Who hired you for the "narrator" job?

"We won a great tactical victory at Pearl Harbor and thus lost the war." That was true. Note he did not claim a strategic victory. For example, the Battle of Coral Sea is often deemed a tactical victory for the IJN while a strategic victory for the USN. The IJN sank a fleet carrier, badly damaged another, 1 or 2 destroyers and an oiler. The US sank a light carrier and a few surface ships. The IJN sank more tonnage, but it had to withdraw. The invasion of Port Moresby was averted. Further, Yamamoto was denied two top-line fleet carriers for his planned Battle of Midway. Of the five carriers at Coral Sea, only one fought at Midway - the Yorktown. I believe her planes sank the Soryu. Similarly, Pearl Harbor was a tactical victory against a party against whom it had not declared war, but strategically it invited disaster. It had no chance against American industrial capacity. Had the IJN sunk all three American carriers at Midway without loss, Japan was destined to lose. If you doubt that, check records on how many fleet carriers and light carriers were produced before the end of 1943 and afterwards. The first Essex class carrier was launched shortly after Midway. Battleships, cruisers and destroyers were launched in massive numbers the IJN could not match. The US produced improved, lethal torpedoes. Check statistics on how many Japanese ships were sunk by subs. They sank two IJN carriers at the Battle of the Philippine Sea. After Midway, America produced advanced aircraft in huge numbers which were faster, more powerful than their Japanese counterparts. In fact, Nimitz considered before Midway not engaging the IJN there. He knew the USN was rapidly growing in power and number, and it would soon overwhelm the IJN . As example, look at the Battle of Philippines Sea. The US had fifteen aircraft carriers in that engagement.

Love what you are doing.. Keep up the great work.. Please learn more about pronunciation of the Japanese people and ships... so... as someone said earlier... Yorktown repair time is critical. There are great references to this story... brush up on the history/story... a good and easy start would be watching the 1976 Movie "Midway".. I fully support you and have subscribed... Godspeed

Ok NBS History, you're forgiven. My father fought in the Pacific during WW2, and took me through most of it, so those names developed a sort of sanctity and one can forget that some of those names can be as difficult to pronounce as those in the "Old Testament". It will just take a little practice. You did ok.

I promise to pronounce things better in the future haha.

I think you did a good job despite the technical shortcomings. The information is a bit disorganized and less detailed (We military nerds love details) but overall it's a fun video and it does offer bits and pieces of new information that is not commonly known as the outcome of the Japanese captain that murdered the US POWs recovered from the ocean.

The presentation is too confusing for the novice to the Midway Battle. The proper sequence of events were either omitted or presented wrongly. The Yorktown was repaired in 72 hours. In fact, Nimitz ordered the carrier to leave Hawaii while workers were still putting the finishing touch on the Yorktown. The workers were taken off the carrier while at sea and transported on to a ship that had been sailing along side of the carrier. This is proper presentations. The visual, too, were too confusing with aircrafts flying to the right, and to the left, and back-and-forth. Now, I did like the effort, but requires much more work. Great effort, though. Polishing it up and bring it back, again. Thank you.

Doolittle and his raiders were flying B-25s not B-52s. The B-52 did not come into service until 1956

It would be a good idea to learn the difference between what is northeast from northwest.

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man, l wish they had vid of B52's launching from the Yorktown in 1942.😅😅

Thank you for making this. My constructive criticism would be to make the voice over sentences less disjointed/cut up so as to not break the flow of natural speech. The one thing that really got me though was the use of the word "aircrafts" instead of "aircraft". Multiple aircraft don't need the s on the end. Other than that; I really enjoyed your explanation and look forward to more of your videos.

A few more bits to tighten things up. While it always gets bandied about what “single acts” the battle hinged on. It really turned on a number of small events that the US was able to better exploit. But while the Japanese Advantages are often talked up. Few ever note the American advantages going into the battle. The American’s had much better ship and shore based anti-aircraft Fire. It was literally a massive technological leap over the Japanese at this point. Japanese AA was still mostly visually aimed by the Gun crews. The American’s had powered controlled guns linked to their very advanced fire control directors. Midway Island itself was expecting the attack and was able to put up a withering curtain of steel and fire. 23% of the Japanese planes in the first wave were either shot down or rendered too badly damaged and thrown overboard when they limped back to the Carriers. Most of this was from the withering ground fire. And most of the Japanese planes lost were the Torpedo planes from Hiryu and Soryu. This is why the strike leader called for a second strike. And why Nagumo first ordered the re-arming. The first strike had done nothing to neutralize Midways airfields. Let’s contrast this with the Japanese AA fire. Over the three days of the actual battle, only 3 American planes were lost to Japanese AA fire. A PBY rigged with a torpedo and sent against the invasion force the day before the battle. A Dauntless shot down by the crippled cruiser Mogami the day after. And one Dauntless that the Kaga happened to catch with a lucky shot on his climb out. The AA was so bad that Kaga and Akagi could not shoot directly upwards. Their flight decks hung over the larger AA artillery. So once the American dive bombers were above the carriers they were home free. Another thing that doesn’t get much attention is where American planes had advantages and Japanese disadvantages. The legend of the zero is a bit overdone. The Japanese had the far better torpedo plane and Torpedos. They were the IJN’s single best weapon. But due to Midways insanely good AA fire, Hiryu only had 9 badly shot up and barely flyable torpedo planes left to counter strike with. The American Torpedo planes. The mis named “Devastators” were by comparison the worst, most useless weapon in the American arsenal. Slow, fragile, and with Torpedos that did not work. Their losses were staggering. Whereas the Americans had the superior Dive Bomber. Better speed. Better payload. Devastatingly effective twin 50’s guarding the tail. And once it drops it’s bombs a strikingly agile fighter. (The first Zero kills of the war were by Dauntless’s). The Dauntless’s quickly proved to be the American’s best weapons. The Japanese Dive Bombers we’re nearing the obsolescence. They were effective in their role. But were badly chewed up by AA fire and Wildcats. Of 18 sent against Yorktown only 3 made it away from the American’s (to be lost later). And then there was the Zero vs the Wildcat. The Zero has this legendary rep. And yes it was the best dog fighter of the time. But it had a problem. It only had 7 seconds of cannon ammo. And the Zero pilots, who were mostly meeting the Wildcats for the first time at Midway, were discovering that the Grumman’s were like flying tanks. It would take all of a zero’s 7 seconds of cannon Ammo to take down one Wildcat or Dauntless. Their machine guns were all but useless against them. The Grumman’s each had 4 or 6 Cannons to the Zero’s 2. With each cannon having 30 seconds of ammo. And the pilot could selectively fire to preserve ammo. So only shooting 2 cannon at a time. And it only took a 2 second cannon burst to flame a zero. The Zero’s could out dance the Wildcats. But the Cats could out shoot the Zeros. It was a much more closely matched pairing than the myths would leave you to believe. With the advantage going to the Wildcat once the pilots learned to not play the zeros game. And one last correction. You misread something about the Yorktown. The Yorktown was able to resume flight operations an hour after being bombed. Her flight deck was patched, the fires were out and she was making 20 knots speed. That’s why when Hiryu’s torpedo planes showed up they thought they had found a new undamaged carrier. Either Hornet or Enterprise. Also the Yorktown didn’t get two weeks of repairs after Coral Sea. It took her two weeks to limp home to Pearl at 16 knots. Leaking oil. She got 2 days of emergency repairs before leaving for midway. 5 of her 8 boilers were offline and her hull was cracked and duct taped. She should not have been operational. Here’s the other fun fact that always gets overlooked. Yamamoto thought he would be facing 2 Carriers, he actually faced 3. But if the battle had happened on his planned schedule, and not 3 days early, he would have faced 5 American Fleet Carriers. Saratoga was repaired had already left San Diego and was 2 days out from Point Luck when the Battle started. Wasp had just transitioned the Panama Canal and was similarly making flank speed to join the fray. At no point in the Pacific War, from December 7th until the day of his death in ‘43, did Yamamoto ever correctly predict where the American Carriers would be. At least not before the bombs started falling.

2:15 B25s not B52s*

I believe the reason the Japanese called the SBD’s “ Helldivers” was because of the very early Clark Gable movie 🎥 called Helldivers about dive bombers on the USS Saratoga....film made in the early 30’s

They launched 16 B-52's from carriers? Just how big were those carriers? LMAO!

I watched the battle from a fishing boat. It was very loud.

it wasnt two weeks it was the trip back to pearl harbor plus 3 days to make the battle of midway for the yorktown

By the way... the Navy/ Marine Corps designated their aircraft differently from the US Army Air Corps. Army Fighter or Pursuit aircraft were designated P as in the P40, and came in order of their development. Naval aviation was a bit different. Take the F4F Wildcat for example. The F stood for Fighter. The 4 was the fourth fighter type adopted by the Navy, and the last F stood for Grumman. In other words, the F4F was the fourth Grumman fighter in US Naval service. F4F -3 was the 3rd production version, etc. The SBD Dauntlass was a Scout Bomber - Douglas. The 3rd designator points to the manufacturer.. The Navy used this system until Robert McNamara became Secretary of Defence.

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Yorktown was repaired in 2 days not 2 weeks

"Kaga receives 5 direct hits".... shows the clip from the movie of Dick Best's single bomb hitting the Akagi. :p

I would have enjoyed this more if the narrator would have pronounced the names of the American admirals correctly. He also mentioned B-52s were involved in the Coral Sea battle???

To me it always felt like Midway was definitely the turning point but GuadalCanal was just as important same with Australian holding Port Moresby so three sides of the same.

dolittle used b-25b Mitchel planes

Sorry I checked in. I see you acknowledge the poor narration. Hope you do some study before any other videos.

The Yorktown was finally torpedoed by a Japanese submarine which is why she went down. She was being towed back to Pearl

Love the channel but 16 B-52s launch from the Hornet wrong plnes wrong time they were Mitchell B-25s

You need to use top views for the aircraft.

What’s IGN? Does he mean IJN?

Two corrects: Not the IGN but the IJN. The Dooltiitle Raid was carried out by B-26s not B-52s

First, nice effort on pictures and graphics. I liked the video, however the pronunciation of many of the names was very distracting. I began to wonder if this was a GPS computer reading a script.

2:16-don't you mean 'B-25s', not B-52s?

"Port Moresbury?" "Horyu?" I think you meant Port Moresby and Hiryu (pronounced Hee-ryu) respectively. There are other pronunciation slip-ups as well, but the facts should be presented as facts. The Yorktown was repaired in 48 hours, not a couple of weeks. It wasn't a bad presentation, but you should really get the facts right. Having said that, it was a pretty interesting video.

あのとき最初の米攻撃隊の後をつけ張れば 空母の位置わかったはず。

The planes used in the Doolittle raid were B-25s. Not B-52s.

the japanese delay in securing the philippines because of the stand of filipino and american forces in bataan and corregidor was a major factor in their defeat in coral sea and midway.

So glad you are starting off in this area but some things you may want to try look at other persons pronunciation of the ships and planes. Also a lot of events timing is off and this is big: They did not launch “pease meals” or piecemeal. Actually the American carriers launched in two distinct waves but due to poor coordination many of the attacks hit the Japanese in a piecemeal fashion. Everyone is going to pick your video apart but remember this - America made lots of mistakes in WWII and stayed with it to win. That is your mission with this channel- be brave and keep going till you win.

Doolittle raid didn't use b-52s! They weren't even around until well after the war. Maybe it was a dyslexia slip, Don't ask me why, but I can relate to that. They were actually b-25s.

You need someone to proof read and edit your material.

The 15 planes that bombed Tokyo in the Doolittle raid were B-25 Mitchell bombers not B-52's as it is spoken in the Video.

3:42. Spruance. Not Sprouse.

Yeah, one other thing to watch for as you further dive into the Pacific war. Fuchida is at best what is described as a full on “Bullshit Artist”. The Japanese flagged him as such decades ago. But for some reason his accounts of the battle from the Japanese side were one of the few translated to English. So most of the English language falsehoods about midway come from him. Things like “the Japanese Strike Force was on the deck, minutes from launch”. Yeah no. A big tip-off should be “the a Japanese lookout screamed “HellDivers!”” A name and word that would not enter either the Japanese or the American English vernacular for at least a year.

Admiral Sprance? Admiral Hasely?

The Doolittle raid did not use B52's: they weren't designed until the 1950's.

Just wanted to point out hat Dolittles Raiders flew B25 Mitchells not the B52 as was stated.

At 2:17 in this video, the commentator states the Doolittle Raid was performed by 16 B 52's! This is a HUGE mistake! The planes Doolittle used were B 25's! The B 52 is a 4 engine Huge Jet Bomber still in service!

2:12 “b-52’s” bombed Tokyo?

Moresberry?

山本長官が東郷元帥と同じく、陣頭指揮を取ってさえいれば、真珠湾もミッドウェーにおいて貯蔵施設のうち漏らしも、換装の判断ミスも無かったものを。山本長官は結果責任をとらねばならなかった。撃墜死は覚悟の上であったろう。

Yamato was not at midway. , Yorktown was repaired in 2 days not 2 weeks. Anyway I'm subscribed

Yorktown was repaired in 2 days, not 2 weeks

B 25 not B 52 which had not been made yet for decades

That was nothing short of murder on the part of the US Navy high command sending the slow lumbering devastators into combat without a fighter escort.

Keep it up dude, love the effort. Maybe practice your delivery a bit more and check your pronunciations? Clearly you were reading from a prepared script, but it’s all good man, practice makes perfect right?

Aircrafts?

Sorry but lots of wrong information on this. Spruance did not take command until midway because Halsey became sick with the singles. Halsey recommended Spruance to take his command.

It’s not IGN, It’s IJN. Imperial Japanese Navy

Kung mangyari sa laban US vs china ito tinatawag second bathel of spratly island sea ang SCS- WPS..

Dude... "SPRU - INTS." Read it that way, aloud, seven times...and then pronounce "Spruance." Who the hell is "Admiral Sprontz?"

Desember 7 ,1941 pearl harbor has been attack by japan more than 2000 sailor death and many battleship has destroyed and damage,few month later american army is payback to japan and good war strategy also solid between fleet and bomber squadron also torpedo squadron.And who win battle in midway also ending war pasific 1945

B52Jet bombersweren’t around in 1942. They were introduced in the mid 50’s The first operational jet was the German ME-262 jet fighter too late to make a difference

Bom se fosse traduzido em portugues

Just watched the film Midway on Amazon and one of the Japanese carriers is destroyed and the captain says he must scuttle the ship so it doesn't end up in enemy hands and he'll go down with it. If this happened and was Japanese honour, surely someone should of said "Sod honour. We need your experience on other ships. Come with us" seems like such a waste of experience and knowledge just for honour.

Why are actors from a movie presentated as if they were the real thing?

Oh wow they used B52s in the doolittle raid! Amazing they were really ahead of their time, and they are still in service today! Amazing!

Sprew-ence, hall-zee. Hard to take this serious, When legendary American commanders names are pronounced wrong.

Yamamoto had it right. Nugumo should have gone after the carriers with whatever he had. The land based aircraft were a threat, but nothing compared to the American carriers. He blinked under pressure. So what was the response of the Navy? To put him in charge of the Leyte Gulf battle, in which Japan was humiliated and lost the war, by not forming a battle line before bringing his ships into action against a force 1/10 his size. The War Council in Japan was simply out of touch to give this proven failure a second chance to fail one last spectacular time.

Doolittle used B 25s not B52s

Bombers ised were B-25 mitchell 16 planes. B-52 were not built yet. Jets weren't built till Korean war.

in the first 2 minutes, while describing the Dolittle raid on Tokyo, the narrator says that '16 B-52's' dropped bombs... They were B-25's... The B-52 was a jet powered bomber not developed until 1955.... 10 years after the war ended....

Why didn’t Yamato use the Wave Motion Gun? 😉 jk but seriously a fine video even if you mispronounced “Spruance” The tide in the Pacific truly turned in the space of a few minutes when the American dive bombers commenced their initial attack after the torpedo planes brace but doomed attack. The gallant but hopeless torpedo attacks by Navy aviators in slow outdated devastators cleared the sky of zeros for the dive bombers to truly rain death from above on the imperial carriers.

I hate to tell you this there were not any B -52 bombers in WW2. It was 16 B-25 medium bombers that took off from the US Carrier USS Hornet that bombed Japan.

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B52? THINK you meant B29

No offense intended - BUT you called Dolittle's planes B-52s. They were B-25s. I'm sure it was just a "flub".

B-25s not B-52s. One B-52 bomb load is more than 10 times that of a B-25. When you add in cruising speed, cruising altitude and greater range Tokyo would have been badly damaged.

Audio is poor...even a robo voice would be an improvement.

god judges when the cup of sin is full。wormwood。

"Sanked"?

I take exception to your statement that if the IJN battle fleet had found the U.S. carrier fleet, the U.S, carriers would have been destroyed. What makes you think this, just superior numbers or the infamous Yamato? I can not think of one instance in either theaters of the war in which a surface battle fleet without air support defeated a carrier fleet, not once. Should I list the number of battleships sunk by aircraft during the war? By the second day, the Saratoga was in route from Pearl with replacement planes for Enterprise and Hornet. The U.S. would have 3 operational carriers against a surface fleet with no aircraft and no carriers. Yet you think the IJN would have won? You seem to forget the U.S. planes sunk and damaged several cruisers without air cover, a battleship would fare no better. I will take a planes over a battleship any day. Carriers can strike a battleship from 200 miles away, a battleship must be within 20 miles to even fire its guns. Carriers would never close with a battleship, they would run and launch aircraft. Basic naval tactics, even in WWII. I won't comment of the audio and pronunciations, enough has already been said.

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IGN??? Don't you mean IJN??

IJN. Not IGN.