I believe at one point he attacked a plane that dived into the clouds. It had Lyndon Johnson in it

@@thomasswafford250 Too bad he missed it then.

A fighter pilot with a heart. God bless his soul.

Many years after the war, the woman who held up the child in the window confirmed the story to be true.. After the war, he sent his daughter to study in the US. She subsequently married an American airman and so he became grandfather to Japanese-American children.. He died at a banquet in his honor while reaching across the table to shake the hand of an American fighter pilot.

Wow,dude this is a very sensitive testimony i love it, thank you

Free ff

In two visits to the lower 48 never got to Texas . Damn shame I missed that museum . You guys have got sooo much to see . 2 X 4 wk visits an Aussie can see very little .

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I’ve been there, truly the best ww2 pacific museum out there.

I wonder why Sakai donated it to Texas when there are Japanese museums aplenty.

I agree I think they should get a civilian medal

Where is the Colt 1911

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@@danielmassey3157 There is a posibility such pistol can be restored by repla cing all its corroded par ts with a brand new one... Almost all its parts are available for sale in Ame ricas gun market...

@@fortunatodeguzman8017 yes but most of the time a restoration will destroy a lot of the value

We had a delegation of observers from the JSDF come and watch our Training while I was at the School of Infantry on Camp Lejeune in '89.

I'm sure the pregnant women that were bayonetted and raped, the beheaded POW's and the odd few that became a Japanese meal are also all gratified.

@@wntu4 Agreed. They were certainly not humanitarians with the enemy.

@@vanmust I mean exactly what I said. It only happened a few times but it did happen.

obriets :the irony is, during WW2, China and USA were allies and enemies of Japan...now it’s opposite

Thanks for that insight . Amazing

Rofl.

when the hellcat arrived its game over.

Later in the war most of the Japanese pilots were all rookies !

First model airplane i built in the 80's was a Hellcat. When my Southern, demure, Christian grandmother took me in to pick something out, i just pointed and whispered cuz i dint wanna cuss at Granny. lol!

My Grandfather, Jerome K Albosta, flew with the record setting VF-80 (Vorse's Vipers) and the Hellcat was his favorite plane to fly - he flew Corsairs, Wildcats, Hellcats, and Bearcats. He also went on to fly jets during Korea. He was on the flight deck of the Ticonderoga when it took 2 Kamikaze strikes! Although he was only credited with 3.5 kills so not an Ace but he did get the Distinguished Flying Cross for sinking a Japanese ship with rockets. They also flew air cover for the Iwo Jima Invasion! He retired with the rank of Commander and recently passed in December 2020 at the age of 98! We have only a precious few left from "The Greatest Generation"! The following was their record setting day - On 16 February 1945, VF-80 participated in strikes against airfields and military installations on Honshu, also shooting down 71 Japanese aircraft-a single day record for carrier-based squadrons.[VF-80 supported the invasion of Iwo Jima from 21 February and hit other Japanese targets until early March when it was relieved and returned to Ulithi. Edit - I failed to note he also was awarded the Navy Cross

Outdoor freedom read Captain Taemichi Hara’s biography, Destroyer Captain... that will make you sweat....

Mine too. He tells, ao., how they practiced by grabbing flying flies in front of them!

I read it too, very well written from a real warrior.

@@aimokaki4706 Grabbing flies was something I practiced as a competitive fencer. The trick is to wait for them to fly toward you. I found it true with bats as well. I took out several small bats where I used to live when they would fly into my home when I would leave the door wide open in the summer. Lately, I bat wasps out of the air when they try to attack me. It's not as difficult, but I'm 70 years old now. Those wasps are sure surprised when I attack them. They are used to people running away!

Outdoor freedom I recommend the autobiography “I-Boat Captain” by Zenji Orita. He was the skipper of Japanese Submarines in WW2. One of his friends was Captain of the submarine that sank USS Indianapolis.

Yeah back when there were LOTS of MEN, and such traits were encouraged, neigh required by society. Soy boy softies will be the demise of western culture and freedom as a whole. Our military has gone woke while china grows stronger.

Right. Kids in school used to always learn of ww2. For obvious reason until bureaucrats have history removed from schools

@@motonut4503 yes sir

What the fck are you talking about?? The barbarbarism of Japans military culture will shame their history until the end of history

@@iandixon2278 Says the guy from the country who's only history is literally just war and conflicts

Oh my God my grandfather served in the Navy and was stationed in Hawaii when they were filming tora, tora, tora. My dad was in his early teens and told me about it. Also my grandfather and his shipmates played a role in the movie, " Wackiest ship in the army"

That's so cool! 😎🇺🇸

@@americanpatriotism1776 the army had ships? I thought that was the navy?

@@Legion-xq8eo relax its just the name of the movie nothing PC about it

@@Legion-xq8eo 😂😂😂🖕

Yes,same secret practice observed in Russian fro nt line during WW.2 acco rding to American eye wi tness....when the attendi ng doctor saw your batt le inflicted wounds see ms hopeless - they just put you in 2nd or 3rd pri ority ward untill you died natu rally...Accordingly, the Israeli emergency wa rd is only 100-200 mete rs from the frontline,all possible first aid treat ment will be experien ced by wounded soldiers immediately,just a few meters from the battle front...then transfered to a nearby helicopter if the case is so severe - for fur ther and final hospital treatment....Almost no wound death were reco rded due to such rapid first aid system ....except for those who are hit on the brain,heart,mutila ted body due to direct hit from artillery shells,bom bs,rockets,etc....

Discipline is serious habit for Japanese.

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I read years ago he returned to Japan to recuperate. He then had a role training new pilots when he had recovered. I have always been fascinated with this story. I was amazed that eventually he was able to meet his opponent and I believe they became friends until one of them died. Reminds me of Gabby Giffords who took 2 bullets to the brain & lived to tell about it. In his case landing an airplane on a carrier after taking a bullet through the forehead, absolutely incredible.

@@paleoman5223 When I spoke to Saburo Sakai in the late 1990's at Maxwell AFB, Alabama I asked him if he flew off carriers during the war. He responded that he was carrier qualified but after Pearl Harbor he never flew off a carrier. All of his assignments were in land based fighter squadrons.

Thank you, I stand corrected then. His story is truly fascinating. Speaking with him must have been something else.@@johnemerson1363

He was blind in one eye. Read his autobiography, Remember his saying that his 1st view of a B-29, it was framed larger then his vision.

Myth. Sakai flew upside down only momentarily, and only because he was so disoriented from the pain of his wound. He used his muffler to staunch the bleeding.

@@Nachtsider I speak Japanese and did my research in Japan. Please quote your sources.

@@GM-fh5jp His memoir. Page 171. "Finally I was through. The muffler was taut beneath my helmet, and pressed tightly against the wound. I crawled back to my seat and brought the fighter back to an even level. My head felt better at once. The bleeding stopped." "More than once I snapped awake to find the Zero in an inverted position. Once I came to, flying upside down,and was so loggy I failed to move the controls. In a few seconds the engine coughed alarmingly. It was enough to bring me awake and I jerked the controls over to right the plane." Pretty conclusive evidence that he had no intention whatsoever of flying upside down. With a muffler staunching the bleeding, he would have no need to pull such a silly stunt.

@@Nachtsider Presumably you are quoting "Samurai!" which I read in Japanese?

@@GM-fh5jp, no matter the fighter (then or now), none are designed for sustained negative Gs and the engine would have starved as the fuel pickups and fuel system ran dry. No way Sakai flew over 100 miles inverted.

flyforce16 please read Tom Farrier and World War 2 aircraft Facts

Definitely

@@sandrastone5847 What? Are you talking about the Dunkirk movie?

Sakais book is a great read, "Samurai"

334th_Hartmann , Absolutely, I read it in 1971 and have never forgotten it.

Once the Allied pilots figured out how to fly their heavier, but better-armed and protected aircraft, the Zeros were done. They were flammable coffins. The way Japan designed these planes to fight a WW1 style turning fight while establishing a training program that expected their pilots to survive many encounters was a major planning failure on their part.

Exactly what I was thinking Wildcat was a helpless cow for a Zero..even the later Hellcat was not much in a dogfight...what helped the US pilots was the atrition of Japanese experienced pilots and the general order not to engange in dogfights but perform a boom and zoom tactic...with the huge numbers of US planes produced and getting involved that brought results

Read up on Sergeant Major Vouza: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_C._Vouza

True.

Many villagers on the pacific islands were decorated by the British and Americans.The Japanese got stupid and abused them which of course they went from bystanders to allies."Be careful who's hand you bite"

Pug must have plump and delicious to those cannibals. If they had the right spices they might have had a meal.

@@ppumpkin3282 A maybe on Guadalcanal cannibals. A definite on Papua New Guinea cannibals. Also, that place have over 600 of the world's different languages. They don't all get along.

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This is so true. So many served and suffered, never to be remembered..

My Grandfather my father's father fought WW1 in France and Italy. Grandad had 2 brothers also fought at Gallipoli WW1 .All came home. My Grandfather my mums Dad swerved WW2 never got to go overseas. But Mums mother had 5 brothers served overseas in WW2 in various theatres in Europe and the eastern campaigns. All bare one came home . The youngest being underage put his age up (as a lot did at the time to go join his brothers ) was killed in France on his 21st birthday.

Nope. The wreckage was discovered decades ago. Pug's 1911 was confirmed recovered in 1968. This is TRIPE television, not documentary. The man is a sham.

They didn't my mansions & then cry about "we beez sooooo oppressed...", either... 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@@lunaokittens9574 Or demanded gender rights due to being confused on what sort of creature they are.

@@eelchiong6709 😂😂😂😂😂😂... I'm soooo bloody 💀💀💀🤦‍♂️👍

Glad we are now allies.

I thought it was a 30. cal. A 50. cal would disintegrate a human.

Its funny you say that. Because it was about during my summer vacation in 1976 or"77 while my folks went to work, that I would read his book. And when my father would get home I would recount what i had read and it was a glorious time too. There were passages that were both wrenching and remarkable events to read.

@@josephcisneros9290 May I know the book title and the author name,will try to buy it on.line if possib le.....

My grandfather was on quite a few these islands as well. Their generation was as tough as nails!

@@johnmilligan2964 >> Amen.

@@johnmilligan2964✌ Tru Statement bro most definitely was and still is touch My grandfather was in ww2 and afterwards till this day stay in French at 91 years young?🌷Rih Rip🌷 to all the kings and Queens that lost their lives❤ Thank y'all for being Brave enough to fight✊ for all Generation ❤☝🏽

@@johnmorrison7879 GOD BLESS

@@johnmilligan2964 AMEN !!

hmm yes the 49min saturdays, my fav

Indeed it was man to man machine against machine. Prop planes no fancy stuff just skill and firepower . A light agile plane with no armor against a somewhat sluggish built like a tank . Good match great adventure. Hats off to both brave pilot’s....🙏👍✌️🤙

Rumor has it that Southerland was growling through his teeth: "Dammit! I'm gonna go see the F6F dealer when I get back to the carrier."

@@jasondessing3508 F4F did what it was designed to do and smashed the Japanese at Midway, after that even without the F6F the Japanese didnt have enough experienced pilots to be effective anyway.

@Sunflower Seeds mbń

Perhaps the 5th regiment, which was part of 1st Marine division. They had an awfully tough time there, as did the Navy. Your father likely went through plenty of traumatic experiences in the fight for survival.

I am currently a canadian Air Force trainee lol

Literal good samaritans

Are you willing to foot the bill to recover it out of that jungle? Find someone who is willing if you want it that way.

@@eelchiong6709engine would have been easy

It's just a helicopter flight away

well said

"Samuray" book Saburo Sakai

@@aleksandarljubenovic347 Yes ...a wonderful book. The only discrepancy in this video is the bullet didn't go clear through his head it lodged in the back of his skull it's in minor story also he wasn't the highest Ace of the war for Japan a wonderful amazing pilot named Nishizawa had 100 kills including 10 Mustangs sake credited him with being the best pilot of the war the poor guy got killed while riding in a transport plane being evacuated from Iwo Jima he never had a chance to defend himself

john gibson What about Tetsuzo Iwamoto..?

@Young DreYes good point ...Saburo's superior in kills was Nakajima who was an IJA pilot ...he had confirmed 101 kills. Interesting Lee Saburo knew him and mentions him in the book in his very sad, ironic Death. In the book "samurai" that Sakai wrote he said he was sad because Nakajima suffered an Inglorious death he went downas a passenger in a transport plane going from rabaul to another Island. Nakajima had dreamed about his death which Sakai said had terrified him before it happened... it was every fighter pilots Nightmare and probably still is to have to be flying in a transport plane as a passenger totally helpless Nakajima was nicknamed 'Hanya" ( The Demon) for how he fought in the air .

@Young Dre Correction on the name of the highest IJA ace : he was Lt. Nishizawa...he flew a Nakajima ki-43 " Oscar"

Aired for the first time, 8th November 2006.

Agreed

Sakai finished fighter pilot school as one of 40 out of 1500 that applied. He was talented and flown a superior aeroplane.

@@theguywhoasked5591 JJ in the

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They might have even become friends.

A Zero crashed at pearl harbor during the attack. We had a flyable zero back in 1941

Michael Mace And a new canoe.

Really dang!

While living in Fiji with my ex-wife I regularly made the trip to Guadalcanal to dive Iron Bottom. The island is truly a snapshot of WWII history.

..Zero was 'copied' off an American design or two..

@Hello Taylor how are you doing