Maybe the real enemies were coconuts all along

@@-LTUIiiin those damned imperial coconuts i tell u

That's awesome... I could have done the same in hunger... these courage and determination worked well when you have filled stomach. After all when fighting for someone's fight ... it's cool to be friends.

@@-LTUIiiin falling coconuts do kill a substantial number of people.

So he literally did nothing good job why even sign up 😆 🤣

Yeah he was a smart guy and advised the emperor not to attack the US

Yamamoto knew the US and was well aware of the immense industrial capacity of the country.

yamamoto is a brilliant tactician and visionary but war mongers in japan prevailed with their hot heads and ambitions..

Lesson to be learned ... Don't start wars you can't finish.

@Anglo Saxon Who are these Americans you speak of? And, how many Japanese forces could have been landed so far away from Japan? There are many mountains and rivers to cross before arriving in Chicago. Even if the Japanese could have landed a force of comparable size to the Normandy landings, I think, at best, they would made it not further than the Rocky Mountains. The US may not have been an amazing superpower back then. But much like the Soviet Union, there is a lot of land to conquer.

You are spitting some facts here thank you… I hate when Korea try to blame all the atrocities on Japan only when there were many Korean soldiers in Japanese military back then who also committed atrocities…

True. But people expect others to react as they would. Japan would expect the invasion of Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies as a potential risk/threat to the Philippines. The Philippines were a US possession at the time. If a possession of Japan was threatened like this they would react, so they expected the US to react. That meant knocking out the US first. No-one knows what the US would have done if Japan had not attacked Pearl harbor or the Philippines and left the US alone. Would the US have accepted Japan as the new Empire on the block. Now with independent resources? Or a threat best prevented before they got too big? In the end the Japanese misunderstood the American people. When attacked the people of the US put their differences aside and come out swinging, and swinging hard. Secondly the capacity of the US to repair and build. Especially when they put their mind to it. One of the major difference between the Japanese navy and the US navy is the importance placed on damage control and repair. IIRC (and I may be wrong), but I think that this can be seen in the battle of Midway. The lack of damage control in the Japanese fleet doomed ships. While the impressive damage control in the US fleet saved ships or kept them in the fight longer.

@@Kailhun - That sounds very sensible! When you look at the economic power of the axis and allies then its clear axis could not win, only a question of how long the war lasts. Reminds me playing a computer game of US Civil war. Whatever I did Confederates always lost.

The Japanese well knew they couldn’t sustain a war with the industrial might of the USA. They basically said that for 6 months to a year they would have victory after victory, but after that the victories would stop and they would lose. They wanted to hit hard enough and fast enough that they could dig in and wait for surrender. Germany really wasn’t that different. When they invaded Russia, they expected them to collapse within months as the French and Polish had collapsed, and the Russians collapsed early in WWI. When they met stiff opposition, the Germans were pretty much done.

@@Kailhun that is true, the impressive damage control the US got had made the Japanese navy to believed that they have damage and sunk more US ships when in actually.. they have only been attacking the same vessel over and over.

@@robertb6889 - Basically right except in WW1 Russia had fielded armies of millions for over 3 years. Russia did OK against Austria and Turkey but not Germany. So credit where credit due.

The Germans tried to assassinate Hitler, too bad that failed. Hitler's dream of "libensraum" or "living room" was to create a vast region of Germanic people in Europe, pushing out the other ethnicities. Hitler's famous/infamous "guns or butter" comment backfired. The Germans attacked with ferocity, and with high casualties. They could never be a version of The Imperial Roman Empire. Instead, if Germany just sold goods to the rest of the world, their industrial work ethic would have made them wealthy. Hitler's obsession with the Jewish people was a leftover of the Eugenics wave of thought, and the old Crusades religious persecution culture. Germany's loss in WW1, much like CSA Dixie's loss against Lincoln & The Union created the "Lost Cause" culture of vindictive grumblers. Book burning, marches, and violence followed. Osama bin Laden had his run, but with a vast religion instead of a purely racial/Ethnicity "purity" basis. The internet replaces all that, people get swept up into dangerous thinking today. Radicalization, or the mental sociopaths adopting blueprint ideas of hate & violence, launching copycat attacks. When I was on Guam, I spoke with elders who survived the 3 year Japanese Occupation, it was Hell. Many of their stories never were published. One lady told me she was 5 years old, put into a group of female Islanders, and used as a live human target for cave-clearing training by Japanese Army. Of 16 females, she was only survivor. Rosa Garrido.

The Axis mentality was strike first and overwhelm. But they forgot that the _overwhelm_ part works for both side

They were going up against much larger enemies. It was an underdog fight. Also Patton said he was ordered to give Berlin to the Soviets, and strongly regretted it.

@@pinetree5184 Germany lost both wars as much in the factories as on the battlefield. In World War II in particular, American industrial might made an Axis victory impossible. Artillery alone made the superior marksmanship of German soldiers a moot point.

It wasn't like they wanted to go to war, but every major Allied nation leader was dead set on getting elected/power and receiving funding from the bankers to go to war.

I hope your grandmother is doing well. God Bless you and your family.

That's incredible

Ok

Incredible.

@@gamewizardks she's doing good.

Why would your dad have PTSD from Pearl Harbor when he wasn't harmed? PTSD is falsely attributed to mental health issues that people had LONG before they entered the military.

Jane, I hope that at time your father appreciated that however badly he was affected by his experiences, (1) he was still better off than those who died or were horribly disfigured in the experience; and (2) it had to be done for the salvation of the country and there are still many people around who salute people like your father. I have always thought of it as "the last good war" meaning a war which had to be fought and which we fought not out of choice or malicious intent but to resist a country that brought savagery to war in many nations other than us. His life was meaningful - never forget that. At one time in a medical unit in the Army, I saw the result of war - and if you see enough of it, it brings out the pacifist feelings that lurk within us all.

@@stevenwolfe7101 Whether or not he was better off than others is debatable. I wasn't kidding when I said "extreme" PTSD. It filtered all the way down through all of us, his kids and grandkids. There are 14 people who exist because of dad, 3 of us have extreme mental disorders, and all but 2 have a very difficult time functioning. One committed suicide. Only dad was at Pearl Harbor, but he brought the war home with him, and spread it to the rest of us. I have forgiven him ... but it took a very, very long time.

@@janeaustin3479 That is terrible to hear. But hearing the story, my own reaction is that your father may have also suffered from something else and his wartime experiences just set him off. I think in any event, you are best served by turning the page. Many people have problems with one or both parents covering a wide variety of disorders, some of which have a genetic effect upon children. Nothing is guaranteed to us in life. I have always thought about my own family and concluded that I must play the hand I am dealt. By and large they wee good parents but there were points of conflict that I had to work out - and I did. What would Elizabeth Bennett have done?

America stole a lot of Japanese resources. Japan had no choice but to go to war

I feel the same thing about the War of 1812. We hear about it in terms of impressing sailors, trade, and Britain treating the US like a colony. It was really because the USA were trading with the French under Napoleon, the British were trying to blockade Europe, and it’s a minor side-theater to the napoleônicas wars in Europe. I was 30 before I finally learned the war of 1812 was mainly about Napoleon.

Note what you have just realized is that there are two sides to a war. Both are accurate from their point of view, the British were attempting to control American trade, did impress many American sailors and board their ships with force, and they did so in part because of the wars with France and blockades.

Oil. It's always about the oil.

@@faithnfire4769 - it's important to talk about both sides and world context. Similarly to talking about the Winter War in Finland or the Japanese invasion of China, they all tie into the larger global context of WW2. I just found it odd how much the USA glosses over Napolean in its curriculum when the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars are one of the most historically significant events in world history, and even our involvement in them in the war of 1812 was framed in a very narrow field of view and out of context, which is why it never quite seemed to make sense as a war.

@@robertb6889 neither the French revolution or rise of Napolean make America look heroic or good in any way, so they are not relevant for US education.

Well, Midway was on June 4th which was almost 6 months to the day.

The Japanese wanted to attack the US because they thought the US would enter the war eventually so they did a preemptive attack. I don’t think they would have attacked the Japanese until much later. I think the US would have been more focused in Europe than in the pacific. Well, at least more than how it happened

@@AnTunZee This is all idle speculation. The Japanese did not think about the US entering the war against Germany. In fact, if they had, they would have waited until after we were already at war with Germany before attacking us. In fact, they propelled us into war by bombing Pearl Harbor. Moreover, they knew it was not a pre-emptive strike and Yamamoto famously predicted that its effect would last for only six months. Let's see: Pearl Harbor was December 7, 1941 and Midway was June 4, 1942, almost six months to the day. And after Midway, the Japanese fleet could not even protect the possessions the Japanese had acquired before the war (China excepted) and soon began to face bombing close to home and then on the home islands. Hardly pre-emptive. They thought, because this is what they would have done, we would sue for peace immediately. Bad guess. The might of the strongest industrial nation on the planet was turned against them, first on their possessions and then at home.

StarCraft noob after a failed zergling rush

@@nachonachoman I am not certain to whom this was directed. Cam I be enlightened?

Thanks!

@@Jack-id4qm Yep there's an audiobook version too

You could say the entire Japanese empire 'kamikazed' itself into America

You can cite this and that but it doesn't change the fact that it was a false flag. Look no further than the fact we dropped two nukes on civilian locations and purposely avoided leadership and the emporer. People go to war. Nations don't exist. If so, put it in my hand. Not to mention they magically avoided all radar and detection on the initial attack on PH. I know a thing or two about ww2 but all that matters is the beginning and the end and it appears the card dealers won and got away with their plan. I'm no stranger to hated and lies

Thanks, Tom.❤

After learning what Japan did wtf…. Reading that history was like taking a glimpse into eternal hell of torture snd powerlessness against torture. I think it was right for the USA to bomb Japan. It was for the greater good because if you read the history in detailed and fully, your mind will crack into insanity. If I was in that time and the Japanese invasion was successful, would kill myself and my children so we don’t have to experience horrors that awaits us. I rather be dead than become a slave or be tortured and brutally raped

How old was your great grandmother?

You are a lair, shame on you.

Sorry but I couldn't help but notice. They thought the food was poisoned so they fed it to the dog? Thank goodness that Japanese had kindness.

@@dbronx347 Another self-proclaimed animal right activist. Had u been in their place, you would have done the same. Don't assume moral high ground.

@@YT97898 what’s your source? candy wrapper perhaps.

@@davidestillore5942 doesnt sound unrealistic to me

@@YT97898 Yes this is true. Not surprising that it was the president who also decided to start selling weapons (as he mentions in the early part of the video) to other nations found a way to go to war which lead to all of our tax money going to these same weapons manufacturers.

@@hc3657 Obviously, English is not your first language because your comment is grammatically incorrect. 🤭🤭🤭

@@davidestillore5942 Lol poking fun at someone's grammar just because you can't refute their statement. Grow up, manchild.

😂😂🎉

Common for POW's to not speak about their experience. My uncle didn't speak about it. All men are created equal. My uncle was American.

Too bad and he got off easy

How many innocent civilians your grandfather had killed? Don't play victim, Japanese chose this.

HOW MANY BABIES DID HE KILL?

We didn't train Japanese pilots, dude- and the Army Air Corps general who predicted an attack on Pearl Harbor claimed that it would come from Japanese land- based bombers operating out of the Marshal Islands. Just sayin...

crazier still USA sold arms to iran iraq and isreal and many more.

@BasicDefense care to provide a source for this? A quick google search doesn't say anything about the U.S. training Japanese pilots prior to Pearl Harbor. If you have a link or any info about the old documentary you mentioned that'd be good too Edit: Given that he still hasn't responded, I'm gonna have to say this is fake news

What's even crazier is we never did anything like that. The closest thing we did to that was training Filipino military but those were our allies.

@@ThePersistentKoala yeah that compulsive need to add to "USA created it's enemies" myth making . The only such case of "train thy enemy" i know was Russia training German pilots and tanks . Those trainees would later train the entire Luftwaffe and Wermacht that invaded Russia.

chad energy right there

@@youthawe123 nah he died for nyash he fumbled the bag for some hoe

Yup he must’ve been infantry

so was she your grandmother?

@@slam5 Nah, when he returned from war he met and married my grandmother and had a bunch of kids.

Nobody ever said they attacked for no reason. 🙄 They attacked because their stupid. If you come to any other conclusions after watching this video you are stupid. 🙄

They are no winners in war. Only a loser and a dictator who just got the world's guns pointed at them.

being japanese american and born close to 1960, i had classmates who teased me about Pearl Harbor and why my ancestors bombed it.....it still hurts til today. Abit off topic but kinda similar.....for me also as still being single, i fret alot of times when I SEE the popularity of now, japanese mixed couples (japanese woman with white man)....I often think back of how white americans would put down and criticize japanese people......YET, its alright and fine for the men to marry japanese women. I honestly feel.....by the time i am in my grave, no japanese woman would find interest in me. You may want to tell me hows about dating white women.......fyi, alot of white women are jealous of asians because their "man" is NOT interested at all about dating their own......they strickly seek and desire of asian women only. And white women also do criticize japan about the Pearl Harbor issue.

@@lonelypigeon7562 Don’t feel bad about the bombing. None of it was your fault and that goes for anyone. Its like telling a German should be blamed for the Holocaust, even if they were not even born

As far as I know....this was a setup by the American government, to get into the war....! The president knew this was going to happen....and let it.

It was reported that they were aware of the attack but took it for granted. Also the Japanese ambassador thought it was nuts and tried to talk them against it. But mistakes were made...

Why are there so many arm-chair historians that are fanboys of Yamamoto? I understand he was right in many of his predictions but the way his fanboys talk over exaggerate his thoughts and achievements. Yamamoto considered Pearl Harbor a success and lamented his vice admiral for not being able to destroy the airship carriers. The entire fleet was under his command and his men were loyal to him. Considering the beef between the Army and Navy. Both were made up of strong unity and loyalty. So the idea that his men did things on their own over his plans is wrong. On a unrelated note, I find the idea that Japan is known for honor but the past wars they have fought were started on their stealth attacks on their opponents.

@@profile1172 if you are accusing me of being a fanboy, you are amputatedly mistaken

He only considered pearl harbor a success due to politics, Yamamoto wanted to replace Nagumo for the longest time, but due to Nagumo's senority in the navy he had no shot, so when Nagumo never got to the U.S carriers, he was obviously frustrated to a degree, but didn't want to ruffle any feathers since japan already had enough internal political turmoil.

I remember he even told the higher ups, that if they want to open hostilities with the US, they should prepare themselves to invade the west coast, if they don't have that resolve they shouldn't attack the US half heartedly

@@profile1172 the American also did sneak-attack the Spainish in the Phillippines. The Spainish saluted the Americans' ships. But the American fired several guns....killing the Spainish.

Can you imagine if the US found out about this too and distributed the book too? The Japanese fleet was vulnerable to detection as it travelled through half the Pacific Ocean in open water. All it would take is for US officials to be fully aware of the possibility of a simultaneous strike and give Hawaii's bases the order to do to reconaissane to the west, not just a 'sabotage' war warning that they actually got. If the news got out this Bywater guy could have accidentally designed and dismantled the Pacific war before he realised what happened.

But, it was only in 1940 that the Pacific fleet moved to the naval base at Pearl Harbor.

I know the Battle Force(part of the Pacific fleet) moved to Pearl Harbour in 1931 so that doesn't seem to be true.

The Japanese took a lot of inspiration from the British airstrike against the Italian fleet at the naval base of Taranto en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto

What i have read the generals knew about the attack and some people in the industrial complex wanted it to happen so that they could stay in the war.

Do you know what their thought process was behind killing a child? The terror aspect? BTW Philippines is a great place and I have worked with and have a lot of respect for the people. The women also respect femininity and it's very hard to not admire them. Good Day.

@@jamesandrews568 ok......

@@jamesandrews568 nobody mattered if they were not Japanese. Their idea if "master race" made the Germans look like children.

@@jamesandrews568 Yes It was a Initiation for toughening up young soldiers an new recruits. I am named after one such victim.

The Filipinos, like the Chinese, were constantly victimized by the Japanese during the war. The atrocities committed by the Japanese against these people were brutal. so much for the so-called "Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".

Are your flags correct??

Kids at college now don't learn much about anything worth knowing.

The success at Taranto would have been even greater if the second carrier had been available.

While this is often repeated, I have to note that there is evidence that it's not the case. First and foremost, Japan had been working on how to stabilise air-dropped torpedoes for years prior to either Taranto or Pearl. The Kyoban modifications (breakaway wooden stabilisers) make their first appearance around 1936/37 and are different to the British solution to the problem (a wire running between the torpedo's nose and the aircraft, essentially forcing it to bellyflop into the water). The implication is that the Japanese had been working on the technical side of such an attack long before Taranto and thus it had at least been vaguely contemplated. It might not have been Pearl and it probably wasn't - plenty of other potential adversaries in the area had shallow anchorages as well and Pearl wasn't the Pacific Fleet's main base but just its forward anchorage until summer 1940 - but the basic scenario was presumably under consideration. The other elephant in the room is Fleet Problem 13. This was a US Navy exercise held in 1932, simulating a "militaristic, Asian, island nation" (sound familiar?) attacking Pearl Harbour. The definitely-not-Japanese commander, Rear Admiral Yarnell, pointed out that the positively-not-the-Japanese had a preference for surprise attacks. He therefore left his battleships behind and sprinted the carriers Saratoga and Lexington to a position NNE of Pearl. And on the morning of Sunday, February 7, 1932 (a date that did not live in infamy...although perhaps it should have done, at least in the USN), 152 planes roared into the attack. The immediate result? White flour. White flour everywhere along Battleship Row and pretty liberally spread everywhere else, since the planes had been dropping sacks of the stuff to simulate bomb hits. Quite how much of a cleanup job the enlisted had afterwards is not recorded. The umpires declared Yarnell the winner and the USN learned a valuable lesson...no, of course they didn't. The exercise was barely over before the top brass were complaining to the umpires. Yarnell had attacked on a Sunday (the sacrilegous cheek of it!). He'd come in from the NNE, mimicking planes arriving from the mainland (and if you're wondering about that, since Pearl is to the west of the contiguous states - Alaska) which was distinctly unsporting. And most importantly of all, apparently everyone knew - just knew - that Asians didn't have the hand-eye coordination to accurately drop bombs at low level. The fact that the IJN had been operating carriers for 5 years at this point and the Japanese naval aviation service - which you'd think would have been an interesting collection of lawndarts were that the case - remained distinctly un-crashed seems to have passed them by. The entire episode, however, did not pass by the Japanese who had a consulate on Oahu. If there was foreign inspiration behind December 7, 1941 then it is to be found here. Taranto might have served up a few fine details for the IJN but the core idea had been around long before 1940.

Sounds like BS to me. The attack on Pearl Harbour was totally different and across a vast ocean, not an inland sea.

@@Yuzral that’s an excellent analysis, and completely new to me, having grown up with the Taranto theory it’s interesting to get some facts into the conversation, thank you.

@@tancreddehauteville764 What does the size of the body of water have to do with anything? You launch a torpedo from a few thousand yards, not a few thousand miles...

LIES THE US GOVERNMENT BOMBED PEARL HARBOR TO GET THE PUBLIC INTO THE WAR 3 DAYS BEFORE THE "BOMBING" JAPAN HAD FORFEITED THE WAR

@@jacobnazarian1147 again... they lied to the public to trick them into joining the war

America stole a lot of Japanese resources. Japan had no choice but to go to war

@@username12954 are you smoking crack? or just buying the lies they told you

@@jacobnazarian1147 japan was brutal raping any woman no matter the age and killing and torturing babies and making experiments on. Them

Ten times better boy was he wrong only reason we won was because we were getting fked up and had to use nukes

Contrary to US propaganda the Japan was pretty much completely destroyed by conventional bombing. Bomber pilots didn't even have targets anymore because nothing was left. There was virtually no threat and the idea that "invading the mainland would have been bloody" is nothing more than a myth. All the men were on the front lines anyway and Japanese leaders and the emperor were simply looking for a way out that allowed the emperor to remain the figure head. The US insisted on "unconditional surrender" and then allowed the Japanese to maintain the emperor system anyway. The point of Hiroshima And Nagasaki was sending a message to Russia. We WILL use these things if we have to so take note. The use of the nukes was a crime. Plain and simple.

@@bigdoinks8325 actually, carpet and firebombings killed more than the nukes combined, the nukes were just an experiment from physicists and chemists that were skeptical, but the Gov. still gave it a shot and that leads to an endless energy source only that environmentalists are not awake yet as to the potential of it.

@@doublestrokeroll "The use of the nukes was a crime. Plain and simple." - I don't know what planet you are living on, but the US military was predicting 1,000,000 US casualties in an an invasion of Japan!!! The Japanese were the most fanatical & devoted fighters back then & would have stopped at nothing to resist a US invasion and occupation in 1945!!!!! And the use of The Bomb affected me and my familly directly!!!! I am past 78 years of age, born August 16, 1943!!!! My father & my uncles were in the armed forces then & facing what could been the most terrible battle of all time!!!!! The Little Boy and the Fat Man prevented that!!!! Although they were not human beings, I consider them to be the greatest superheros that ever existed!!!!!

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because the US was financing China

but with the usual NERVING, DISTURBING MUZAK, making me close after 2 minutes. Can't TAKE it.

Thank you very much!

@@matpk soon it might be to late

Nagumo was willing to sacrifice half of his carriers to carry out the attack. Once the first two waves were so successful with minimal losses he decided not to press his luck. If he had carried out those 3rd and 4th wave he would have significantly delayed the US getting back into the fight. Imagine if the Yorktown was not able to put into to Pearl Harbor after Coral Sea. She would not have been at Midway. Her planes sank a carrier, and she absorbed all the blows from the Japanese air strikes.

No, a third wave was not planned. Nagumo's oilers were not in position to support a 3rd wave. Genda (and others) did indeed urge Nagumo to strike again; Yamamoto later admitted that a third strike probably should have taken place, but that he could not have ordered Nagumo to do so without a serious loss of face. Nagumo had succeeded in doing what the original plan envisaged, and his orders were to inflict as much damage as possible on major warships (on which naval thinking at the time was centered, to the exclusion of much else) then get the hell outta Dodge and preserve his strike force for upcoming operations in the south. Since most admirals (worldwide) still believed in the primacy of the battleship, the PH attack was viewed as a sort of high-stakes commando raid, not the opening salvo in a brand-new form of naval warfare. Over the next 12-18 months, of course, a brand-new naval paradigm asserted itself quite vigorously.

@michael boultinghouse .... from the (very flawed) perspective of the Japanese leadership at the time, it was a gamble but by no means a suicidal one. Most did not think that US industrial power could be brought to bear as quickly and energetically as in fact it was. (Many in the US might have agreed.) The thinking was that by the time the US got its act together, Japan would have seized everything it needed to resist US retaliation.

No, any further strikes would not have targeted the oil storage or the dry docks. Oil storage and dry docks were not on the target list AT ALL. The target list was: 1) sink 1 or more battleships, for propaganda and strategic purposes. (7 available, 4 sunk, 2 badly damaged, 1 lightly damaged) 2) sink the carriers in port, if possible. This was because they are expensive capital ships and the fleet scouts of US doctrine (which they partially knew, as we published it in country). None were in port. 3) sink any cruisers you find (8 were in dock during the attack, 3 were damaged) Destroyers, submarines, auxiliaries and infrastructure were never on the target list, but auxiliaries ate a sizable percentage of the ordinance deployed, as did a few destroyers.

Do you feel proud that your people fought for the same white supremacists that nearly wiped out your people?

As you should be Randall. Pride in our greatest generation is slipping away as each of those soldiers passes on! God Bless your Grandfather! And God Bless you!

@@themarbleking I agree with you the military should be only white no POC.

@@porothashawarma2339 wtf I'm agreeing with our fellow liberal up there

@@themarbleking 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

failamoto

@@arcadeslum5882 Yamamoto was a pawn played by Roosevelt to wake the sleeping giant.

That is what I deduced. A pre-emptive strike before U.S. hit them first.

They should have went after the aircraft carriers.

@@DANTHETUBEMAN They did not know where they were.

Sad he had to fight his brother’s. Same with my great grandfathers

Lies again? Gun Oil Pah Lawan

@@NazriB Gun Oil Pah Lawan? What are you talking about?

But with their sneak attack they’d stirred up a national anger where the USA wasn’t going to back down. They thought that they’d balk at the brutal meat grinders of those assaults, but were wrong.

@michael boultinghouse and they treated their fellow Asians very nobly as well

@michael boultinghouse the noble cause of conquering everyone else because they thought themselves as superior? The “noble” treatment they gave to chinese, korean, philippine etc civilians was horrific.

@michael boultinghouse BS, their goal was Asia for Japan. We didn't owe them the resources to butcher everyone else.

@michael boultinghouse They were inside China and other nations shooting up their soldiers resisting invasion by their 'rescuers', and murdering their civilians.

Your story is remarkably similar to mine except all my Aunts joined my Dad and the Uncles to serve in some capacity--so there were 12 of them. One Uncle actually witnessed the mob that mauled Mussolini and his mistress and has the pictures to prove it. My mom served as well. Thematic to this discussion, she was stationed in Hawaii in the Coast Guard, although after Pearl Harbor.

@@boxsterman77 That's quite a story! Thanks for sharing it with me.

My grandpa fought on Oki in WWII and was in the Army. Iwo is more famous but Oki was more brutal. Ironically, my dad, an Army officer, spent several weeks on Oki, for processing, before heading to Vietnam. My daughter's first duty station in the Marines was Camp Kinser on Okinawa.

Both of my uncles on my Mom's side, my late Father, and my next-youngest Uncle on that side were too young for WW II. ALL of the remaining 8 Uncles and Aunts served (One uncle in the Merchant Marine, rest in various Military/aux branches). My paternal Grandfather died during the war, *apparently* as a Merchant Marine sailor likely on a North Atlantic convoy, but that's supposition from what little I've ever been able to dig up about Grandpa from my uncles. My maternal Grandpa was both a farmer, *AND* worked at the Indianapolis Uniroyal plant both during and for decades after the war (retired around 1974) - essential occupations so did not serve in the Military. Of my "too young" uncles, 2 of the 3 served during Korea - as did my late Father.

I worked with a number of WW2 vets from America, and know and did business with a few German veterans of WW2. I find that this sentiment is often felt: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7Z6nrGLmJa7hmQ.html

Have you ever heard of the greatest story never told- Adolf Hitler in Germany?

I admire Germany for telling the truth to its people about wwII and Hitler’s crimes unlike the United States for hiding our misdeeds for 246 years and continues to cover it up. This will all end badly I’m afraid. We seem bent on creating Hitler’s world.

@@dianemitchell1717 They didn’t exactly have a choice, It’s illegal to deny the holocaust.

@@emimtz3040 Who are you? It is well known Germany is open about its past. What are you talking about?

Ya not hitting the dry docks was one of the biggest missed opportunities, had they destroyed those it would have significantly slowed down the push into the pacific.

The Navy and the Army hated each other. There are several instances of them sabotaging each other during the war.

@michael boultinghouse Well, yes and no. He had ultimate responsibility and wasn't punished after the war due to MacArthur's intervention (and political types in Washington).

A great starting point about Japanese pre-war decision-making in this respect is "Fateful Choices" by Ian Kershaw

It’s not surprising that the Army wanted to fight a land war (the “Northern Strategy”), while the Navy preferred a sea war (the “Southern Strategy”).

The army had been beaten by a combined Soviet/Mongolian army on the borders of Mongolia/Manchuria. The leaders in Japan would not back the army.

I love the names of the carriers lol, imagine serving on lady lex That's so cool

They knew it was coming. The Americans forced Japan to attack with all their sanctions. Result. Many Japanese now consider Japan to be another American state. They have competition of course with Germany, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria ... and coming soon to a country near you.

You are good! Thank you. Really loves the names, especially the 3 that were not in Pearl Harbor that day ...

@@agbebimeritayoyinka5587 It is simple manipulating and it apparently works on you.

@@AliasSchmalias And that is great. It really is as simple as ABC, which helped boost morale for the sailors. Hats off to the US Navy!

You forgot to put.. " -Sun Tzu the fart of war" at the bottom.

Never call a Sicilian a German Lebanese man. Lesson #6.

No! Don't sanction Russian Oil! "But they invaded a neighboring country and are killing people there. We need to sanction their oil to starve their war machine and save innocent lives!" Wait a minute, are you talking about Russia in Ukraine 2022, or Japan in China and Korea in the 1930s/40s?

"A Princess Bride"

Make sure to watch out for the 2nd knife when fighting a guy from Jersey.😄

Japan attacked because it was delusional in its thinking just as the Nazis were delusional in their invasion of France.

Just because someone served in the armed forces doesn't mean they know nor understand history.

@@bighands69 What are you talking about? France folded rather quickly. Hitler posed for photos in front of the Eiffel Tower while his soldiers goose-stepped to their heart's delight up & down the Champs-Elysees 😂 Where Germany was delusional was in their belief that they could sustain an all-out war with the Soviet Union (forget about invading it) while AT THE SAME TIME fending off the expected attack from the Americans & the allies from the west. Basically, they were delusional they could win a war fighting on two separate fronts against multiple, not to mention formidable, opponents.

Maybe if you'd study other historical outlets of knowledge other than those of the Japanese you might learn a little more. My father was a US Marine in the Pacific. He took two Jap bullets and was a POW. The torture inflicted upon him was unspeakable. I don't know how he survived. Learn about what the Japs did to the Chinese before the war. If you truly understand "Japan's perspective" perhaps you can help explain the mass murder of Chinese civilians, the Bataan Death March and the other atrocities they perpetuated. And don't forget the warnings they were given by the Truman administration before the atomic bombs were dropped, which they chose to ignore.

I believe that, in truth, good and evil are just words shaped to mean different things by different people in different times with different intentions. What really moves the world is power, and the pretty much universal desire to secure it, to subdue others. There's really no innocents in history, no one without blood in their hands, which is why we should learn with our past mistakes and their consequences.

So you thought it was kind of great for Japan to invade China.

you're insane

A tragedy that the values, love of country, God and fellow Americans of that generation has evaporated into what will soon face a much greater threat. For some time our current leaders have grown unacquainted with the meaning of resolve. The brave young men of today's military are as likely to be shot from behind by political correctness as to be shot by the enemy they are facing.

I would say the greatest fight was the great war.

My paternal grandparents and my Dad(2months)his brother and sister was there in hawaii.my Dad later on joined the USA Air force and manned the communication Tower s.my Aunty died Dec 7 2019.. RIFP

It was Hickam not Hickman. Just trivia.

One's comment section is invalid, until blessed by: Steve Wolfe.

You have to understand that many of these academics have modern political agendas. Many are trying to blame the US for the war and so on.

@@bighands69 and have little to no understanding of early Showa Era Japan.

There were many other things that drove Japan into a frenzy way back before 1931. One of which was their Racial Equality proposal at the Treaty of Versailles. Guess which country rejected their proposal? US.

@@JinKazama92 wrong. It was not the US that rejected it but the UK and France. That was because both had colonies in the region and elsewhere. But the issue goes beyond that, to at least 1900 and what Japan did after that.

@@0311Mushroom US did reject it. This infuriated Japan.

Japan lost the war when it attacked Pearl Harbour ie they lost the war by starting it

Actually if they sunk the aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbour and managed to win the Battle of Midway, Japan might have achieved a draw.

@@paulvirgo9798 america started it by enforcing embargos on Japan and wanted Pearl harbor to have an exeuse to go to war. If america did not enter ww2 it would not be a superpower

American was trying to use its economic power to influence the war without having to actually send people to die. Applying it so forcefully gave the stubborn Japanese an ultimatum: yield or go to war. It was a game of chicken on both sides that resulted in a collision when neither would budge. A good lesson for today with Countries like China and Russia and the US. If you push too hard against either side’s interest, it’s likely to go the same way, with Taiwan looking to be a likely spark.

@@sdgvscrwogs2483 no draw, the US can always build more ships. Japanese decisive victory will only prolong the war in the pacific with Japan losing in the end.

And you should see how the Japanese business men today make beans the same price as meat in Hawaii, and preside over one of the most corrupt governments in the world.. Selfish, racist, primitive mentality, they treat anyone who is not Japanese as an enemy. All the public play acting they do is a lie, they still feel the same way they did before and during WW II. After I moved here I could not believe how many school employees get caught stealing from the children of Hawaii. Most Japanese here basically pretend that no one else exists. Just plain primitive. And when they get money and power they are like a five year old with a pack of matches. They act all humble and friendly, and then you see them almost run over pedestrians, and smile about it. I've had it happen to me repeatedly, even when I lived in San Diego. If you are not Japanese, they look the other way and keep coming straight at you.

From another comment.."This helps me to better understand what happened to my grandparents and great grandparents in the Philippines. My grandfather witnessed his baby brother get bayoneted to death by the Japanese. When the Japanese invaded their village, my great grandfather knew how to strategically grow food and keep it hidden from the Japanese, and that's how our family survived. They moved to the US successfully approximately 25-30 years later." How many baby brothers were bayonetted to death in front of their families in the Japanese internment camps in Hawaii or the rest of the US?

@@5400bowen You’re not wrong…

check out how Muslims were treated after nine eleven

I bet they were not treated the same way as the Japanese did to the POW's or the civilians in China and south east Asia. Agreed?

It's easier to guard a smaller area than a larger one.

It's harder to destroy a larger area than a smaller one.

@ Lars S Oil was the key resource.

America stole a lot of Japanese resources. Japan had no choice but to go to war

The Japanese had a substantial amount of iron ore in Manchuria, and a small amount in Korea - but it was a lot cheaper to import the scrap from the USA and faster to produce from it. That's not counting their own small domestic iron industry in Japan itself - which wasn't nearly enough to support their war machine on it's own. OIL though, they had NO native production, pretty much NO production from Manchuria or Korea - they had to import well over 90% of it from outside their empire.

Did you mean They are more reactionary than proactive. ?

It's called 'showing two faces'.

That's Asian countries in general.

One of the big problems the Japanese military had in WW2 was that their Army and Navy disliked each other. This led to and lack of cooperation between the two in the Pacific War.

@@ziggy2shus624 They still fight over everything.

Not many people realize this and don't understand how America perfectly pivoted herself to get into the war for its economy. It wasn't to "help the global community" it was to pull the country out of the depression. Japan simply tried to kick put colonial powers in Asia already raping the East for the previous 100 years.