The Secret Mission for Pearl Harbor Revenge - Operation Vengeance
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Enraged over the sneak-attack on Pearl Harbor, just going to war with Japan over was not going to be enough to calm the fury of the United States. The American Government believed that the clearest course of action would be to get direct revenge on the man who planned the strike. With help from Japanese-Americans, the U.S. intelligence community launched Operation Vengeance and began to track the movement of Japanese Marshal Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto across the Pacific Theater. When the Magic code breaking unit intercepted his itinerary in April of 1943, FDR himself allegedly gave the simple order [QUOTE], “Get Yamamoto.” A squadron of P-38 Lightnings was quickly sent aloft to take down the Admiral...
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Excited for this new channel. Aviation photography and plane spotting are two of my favorite hobbies. Aviation topics won't be disappearing from Dark Docs, but the focus on Docs will be more on missions and a little less on hardware.
PeaRl harbor.
Pearl harbor
Wait it say it came 1 hour the comments is 2
Spelling mistake in your title
The "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor.. Pfft. In Melbourne's War Memorial in Australia, there is an exhibit detailing the Australian signals intelligence officer who intercepted Japanese communications, and relayed warnings about the impending attacks to U.S - TO NO AVAIL. How does it feel to understand that your government let those attacks happen so they could rally the American public into joining an unpopular war. False Flags, propaganda... You are treated like fodder by your own government and tricked into fighting unjust wars ALL THE TIME. For empire, the banksters, for Zionists. Wake the fuck up - you wouldn't have a single enemy on the planet if you just got the fuck out of other people's countries and spent your military budget on education, ending poverty, and redistribution of wealth of your top 1 percent. It's so simple it's infuriating.
The irony is, Yamamoto *knew* Japan had already signed its epitaph after Midway.
After pearl harbour you mean, he commented it as a waking up of the sleeping giant
@@Alhy-ls3dv yeah. Kinda sad actually. At least he didn't live to see how his nation would spend the next 4 years fucking it up.
@@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370 he would have been proud of the transistor radios in 60's n sushi restaurants now.
@@danman1809 yeah.
Both those who vilify Yamamoto and those who view him as the reluctant soldier get him wrong. He felt kicking the hornets nest of America was a bad idea, and that Japan would have been better off simply seizing the South Pacific and not starting a war on two fronts. But he was still a brutal Japanese Nationalist who wanted to kill Americans and push them from the Pacific. He just wanted Japan’s resource needs secured first. Unlike the others in the high command, he intended to use Midway as a launch point to invade Hawaii. All of his colleagues thought that was insane. The further East Japan pushed into the Pacific, the harder it became to defend. Halsey had really rattled them throughout ‘42 with his Carriers ability to randomly strike anywhere in the Pacific and disappear, only to show up a day or two elsewhere 1000 miles away brutalizing a different island garrison. Pre Midway America had not yet worked out massing Carrier Air Power or the true ability of Carriers to project sustained power, that would not come until ‘43. They mainly used Carriers as quick strike raiders. But Halsey and his crews were very very good at quick strike raiding. And it really spooked the bulk of the Japanese Admiralty.
This is the type of history they don't each in schools. Thank you for your work.
Nope..... the type of history they don't teach in schools are....here we go ; *Closing the borders for Jews and sending them back to Germany before and during WW2 by the USA, because of the "America First" policy.... *The segregated USA fighting Nazi Germany, a country with no segregation laws.....*The denying of coloured labourers working in the American war industry during WW2...... *Forced sterilisation of civilians by the US government from the 1920's til 1950's in rural parts of the country ( Appalachians) because they were considered "retarded" but all they lacked was decent education..... *The forced taking of American Native children and sending them to boarding schools, teaching them the "white man's way" and forbidden to speak their native tongue. While in the same time train Navajo men to be code talkers using their Native language in WW2 Pacific...... * The eugenics theories that were "invented" and used in the USA in the early 1900's, decades before Hitler used them.... *The 87000 documented sexual abuse and rape cases, of men, women and children, by US service men during WW2 in France and by the US occupied German territories. And other Allied war crimes.... *The ill treatment of German POW's in the Rheinwiessenlager by the US..... *The real reason of the Marshall plan..... *The testing of nuclear weapons by the US in the Pacific on natives islanders....... Just to name a few.....
TheTarrMan instead that teach us boring medieval shit
Four of Six, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 03 what is the real reason of the marshall plan
It's almost like WW2 is just one unit out of dozens that teachers can only scratch the surface of in a History class.
Four of Six, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 03 A lot of what you said is taught in history, especially APUSH
Quite sad that there was a dispute over the credit for the kill, given that no-one knew which of the two aircraft Yamamoto was on.
Everyone on the mission was responsible for its success, whether they were part of the attack formation or part of the cover formation.
So right! Shooting down the Bettys would of been more difficult with Zeros in the way.
And especially since both pilots did in fact fire on the plane. Why would they go on about it for half a century?
@@andrewtaylor940 No idea. It seems that with a small percentage of service personnel this kind of thing matters to them, whereas the vast majority would simply take pride in being part of the team who completed their objective.
I'm reluctant to suggest that two exceptionally brave, supremely skilled, no doubt very intelligent men were acting in a juvenile manner, but it's difficult to see it any other way.
Compare with Special Forces operators, military intelligence, resistance or partisan members, or members of elite units who carry out highly secretive operations without much recognition at all and the situation does look a bit sad.
Everyone gets a trophy.... fitting
Right? Why can't they all have full credit, the guys flying are just as or more important then the guys shooting.
Fun fact: he was not heading out to "assess the damage" as you put it, but instead to instill confidence because soldiers were concerned about ground they had lost. How ironic, his purpose was to show that everything was still "okay".
Admiral Ugaki's fate was ultimately determined. During the attack of April 15th, a D4Y was witnessed crashing onto a beach along the shore of Iheya-ushiro-jima Island, north of Okinawa. The following morning, the crash site was inspected by an American seamen named Daniel Rosewell, who noted the odd site of three bodies occupying what was clearly a two-seat aircraft. He also noted that one of the bodies wore an ornate samurai sword.
That sword was later identified as belonging to Ugaki.
Steve thank you for the information. I hope his family for closures sake learned about it also.
sight*
@@aaronlopez3585 it was a sword given to him by Yamamoto.
Yamamoto was, in my opinion, an enemy of my country, but ultimately, an honorable warrior, and a skilled commander, who deserves respect in history. He was personally against the war with the US, and thought it folly, but he followed his orders.
The same absolutely can not be said for many Japanese commanders and soldier during the war though, let me be clear, especially in China.
He may have been a critical part of one of the most evil empires in history, but he deserves respect as a warrior because he served his duty honorably even though he had strong feelings against the war itself, knowing his country’s defeat was inevitable after the Battle of Midway
he was a damn war criminal, we just got to him first. This "following orders" cr ap didn't work for the Nazis and it doesn't wash here
Brilliance is brilliance. Rommel also comes to mind. A true pioneer of combat.
“We sank three boats” “and then... then they released the POWER OF THE SUN... TWICE”
It was the only way to bring peace quickly ,the Japanese would never have conceded otherwise.
Technically fission isn't fusion... Hydrogen bombs weren't used on japan
Russianbadger meme?
Don't fuck with our boats
@@zanist100 Let's hope they're never used anywhere
>"I mean I guess I'll watch something on the Doolittle revenge raid. Not exactly the darkest topic..."
I should know by now never to doubt Dark Docs.
I've been commenting asking him to do a video on The Laconia Incident for awhile. That is a fairly dark incident. He probably hasn't seen any of my comments.
@James Sloan and he could talk to the animals!
I WAS JUST WACTHING THAT
Yamamoto fought as an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905 where the Japanese fleet demolished the Russian 2nd Pacific squadron effectively ending the war between Japan and Russia in Japan''s favour.
Yamamoto was wounded during this battle, losing two digits of one of his hands. Had he lost a third digit he would have been released from the IJN on a disability discharge and would never have become an admiral in the IJN.
Remarkable how a single digit can make such a difference in history.
I’d never heard that about Yamamoto it’s quite a remarkable “What if?”
@@ammazzamoro Is it treason though? The Tsar's Russia wasn't exactly known for its good treatment of its Jewish minority. As far as I recall the leadership of the Bolshevist had many a Jewish member amongst them during the Revolution.
@@ammazzamoro German and even French I could manage, but My Russian is basic enough that I wouldn't starve when in Russia but reading Solzhenitsyn is probably far beyond my capabilities. I tried Dostoevsky reading a bilingual English/Russian edition of "Crime and Punishment" but soon gave up on the Russian ^_^
Vrolijk Pasen.
@@ammazzamoro No book is illegal to read or own in the United States
Roy Kliffen -later, Yamamoto would lose all of his digits.
My girlfriend has threatened to launch an Operation Vengeance of her own if I keep watching your channel while she tries to get my attention. Yikes.
Chuckles...
I'm in danger
Godspeed private
KI, that may be my favorite comment I ever read on UA-cam 🌞🇧🇻
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P-38 is a cool plane. Whats amazing is that the timing in this mission never got messed up. What if there were high winds or if they flew too fast or too slow. So many things lined up perfectly.
It has been stated that Yammoto was strict on keeping to a schedule which greatly contributed to our Pilot's success, thanks for the video !
Churchill was furious that the US carried out the mission which could have given the japanese very strong evidence we had broken their codes. The US flew missions over the area for the next several days to make the first mission look like an unfortunately coincidence. Also, it was not a 400 mile flight - it was 600 miles out, and 400 miles back - 1000 miles in total.
nobody cares
But what's the use of breaking a code if you don't use it? There will only be so many Midways.
@@davidhoward437 In the Atlantic, the allies made use of broken Enigma transmissions to make sure convoys avoided wolfpacks. In the Mediterranean, allies would send a recon aircraft to a location where a tanker bound for the Afrika Corps was known to be sailing, to not tip their hand to the Germans about our Enigma decrypts. For the Yamamoto shootdown, there isn't really a plausible reason why the P-38s showed up. If this caused the Japanese to change their cyphers then we'd be blind again.
@@davidhoward437 To use it to avoid something huge. Sacrifice a ship or two today, so you can save a few aircraft carriers tomorrow.
I think that the fury regarding actually using actionable intelligence has long been overstated. As others pointed out the Allies were routinely doing things that should give an equally revealing idea that the codes had been broken. I mean Midway? Coral Sea? The fact that American Carriers moved like Ghosts and were never where the Japanese expected them to be? By mid to late 1943 they had begun using intercepts to direct both Subs hunting Japanese Convoys and Merchant Shipping, and to direct US destroyers against Japanese Sub Patrols. Guadalcanal was actually the least likely place to tip off the Japanese about the code breaking as the Japanese knew the Americans had well hidden spotters throughout the Solomons reporting Japanese movements. It was also an incredibly arrogant and foolhardy mission by Yamamoto. Even if they did not suspect that their codes had been broken, a sane Command would have and should have realized that certain types of callsigns do display a pattern, even when encrypted. I mean the Japanese were doing this themselves. Even if they could not read the messages, after a while you start to figure out who they are to and from. You recognize the key assets such as the Admirals. It was sloppiness on the Japanese Command's part. They did this a number of times. The loss of Admiral Koga and the Z Plans reaching MacArthur are a good example.
As a teen, I read a book called "Baa Baa Black Sheep" winch was supposed to be an account of Marine Corps Major "Pappy Boyington. In that book he claimed that it was an open secret that the Army Air Force was going after Yamamoto. Makes one wonder how much some of those old warriors stories were correct.
Big Earl >> One of my favorite WW2 books was called “The American Aces Speak” unless I’m misremembering it. Great book; it even went into detail on being shot down, POW experiences & so on. One pilot was briefly in an extermination camp and spoke about it: “There were about 3,000 Gypsy kids and they killed all of them.” It gives you pause.
Probably more than you might think. UFO's were probably the king of conspiracies for 60 years until the DoD casually dropped F/A-18 footage.
"Let's not argue and bicker over who killed who, this is a time of rejoice and celebration"
Look! The dead Prince!
Robert Deen at the end of war all you have is credit.. not saying it’s a good thing. It’s just a thing the winners tend to hold on to.
@@Bbknuckles He doesn't really want any of that. He'd rather just SING.
I wasn't being all too serious. That line comes from Monty Python's Holy Grail.
@@robertdeen8741 Nice one centurion, liked it... liked it :)
“F4F Wildcats” - picture of F6F Hellcat (which was probably the right aircraft anyway by this point of the war).
“Japanese Betty bombers” - picture of American B-24s, probably over Europe.
“Escorted by A6M Zeroes” - picture of D3A “Val” dive bombers.
“‘Kamikaze attacks” - British aircraft firing rockets.
Yep. Saw all of that and thought WTF? Looks they just took any films of airplanes they could get and used them. It certainly ruined a good presentation.
F4F were still used on American escort carriers
Yes with all the film footage available they could've done a better job.
@@jamessuter551 go cry a river somewhere else. This is a narration channel, not a cinematic recreation of events.
How are you verified?
It’s too bad that “credit” was a zero-sum game. Half? Full? Who cares. THEY got him. That’s what counts.
And credit still is a zero-sum game. Having your name be more prominently written in the history books as having landed the killing blow is massive. I'm not even just talking about bragging rights. This is also generally good in terms of military recordkeeping and history to learn the most detailed account possible.
@@smishdws
Agree - facts matter. Its clear from the combat reports that Barber was the pilot that shot down the Betty carrying Yamamoto. Lanphier committed a serious breach of protocols by bragging (over the radio?) he'd got Yamamoto upon his return to base.
How American of the pilots, trying to get more credit than deserved and selling their fellow pilots out for notoriety and a book deal. Today it's more prevalent, Chris Kyle especially comes to mind. No one should ever profit from their service.
Funny how two of the kill planes were not able to go witch left only two humm
It’s important to the brass that credit is given to THEIR division so the have bragging rights and can earn a promotion. You see the same thing in Europe between American generals and British generals, I’m sure you know who I’m referring to, each country wanted to have been the first to do something
Japan: *Sinks ships*
US: NO. U. *Drops the sun twice*
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@Carey Hunt lol they did not offer to surrender until after. The us offered peace before they dropped it. Japan retorted by saying the campaign to take Japan would be the longest and bloodiest battle in us history. It began arming civilians and training children to fight. They didnt even offer to surrender after the first bomb. They thought the us only had one. It was almost immediately after the second one when they finally did after realizing the us was just going to keep dropping nukes on them until they did.
@Carey Hunt Your Mommy and Daddy never washed your mouth out with soap for lying, did they.
@@phillipgrubb2443 I just wish more people got to spend the evening with two vets as I did. They had been buddies all their lives, and we're together in the first wave of the occupation force. They were terribly ready for us to invade. The second bomb was the game changer.
@@phillipgrubb2443 Japan offered to surrender, but on the condition that they got to keep most of the territory they took along with a couple other thing. Those were unacceptable for obvious reasons.
quarantined at home and my school closed for the rest of the year... But that doesn't mean i cant continue to learn new things ive been binge watching this channel for a few hours now
So he was basically a General Robert E Lee kind of person: opposed to the war he fought in, but loyal to his people and nation to the point where he would fight for them and did his best
@@ammazzamoro I didn't know that he was a Catholic, looks like you learn something new everyday.
It was probably against American best interest to kill him ultimately, he was terrible tactically. He does not even earn a mention with Lee in that regard.
Hindsight being 20/20.
@@ammazzamoro Isoroku Yamamoto was not Catholic; apparently there is some confusion with an older admiral also named Yamamoto who was.
@@berrytharp1334 he was a brilliant tactician , the fact that America broke the Japanese Naval code was the 🇺🇸 saving Grace and the Japanese dedication to sticking to a plan wit no option
@@berrytharp1334 I'm just curious ...... how did you conclude that Yamamoto was a bad tactician? He ran wild (just as he had said that he would) until the Battle of Midway in June of '42. The loss there was a strategic one (tactical commander was Admiral Nagumo, of Pearl Harbor infamy), in that it prevented the completion of Japan's planned zone of defense - and had been facilitated by the compromised JN-25 code. Yamamoto's tactical plan for the attack on Midway (and its ancillary ambushing of any American rescue fleet) was quite good. Four fewer carriers later, though, things looked just a tad differently, to be sure. Oopsy ............... :-)
Rex T. Barber was flying a barrowed mount on this mission the "Miss Virginia". His plane "Diablo" was being repaired as he sheared 4' off the left wing when he straiffed a Japanese destroyer and clipped the super-stucture of the ship, close one.
My family personally knew Rex in Redmond, OR and as I don't believe that I ever personally met him (too young), heard he was a super nice guy with lots of great stories. 🙂
Ah... a Barber that did indeed - enjoy 'close shaves'. I always enjoy hearing the first hand accounts from servicemen - you seem to get an honest assessment of what could've gone wrong or what they were thinking at the time. Thanks for sharing.
The Air Force wasn't formed till 1947, so the Lightnings couldn't be part of the Air Force as you stated. They were assigned to the Army Air Corps.
I saw a documentary on the History Channel that said, by killing Yamamoto we shortened the Pacific War by at least 3 years. Because he was such a brilliant and strategic war planner. Thank you.
I don't know about that. They were losing.the battle of attrition, thus its pretty hard to plot and scheme around that.
Yamamoto got off easy with a "warrior's death", had he survived the war the Americans would have executed him by hanging, just as they did to Tojo.
@KV-85 контрмера snake attack traitor means
He is against waging war against the United States but his superior ordered him and he obeyed as a soldier
@@christianpaullegaspi5641 Tell that to the families of the men entombed in the battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor..
Yamamoto would have gutted himself before the Americans got him.
Richard the lion heart we also watched the vid thank you🥱
Oh man, this is one of the best videos you have put out yet. Outstanding!
7:53 I love it when the rotation of propellers are synced with the frame rate of a camera (or the engine could be off)
It was shut off - based on the maneuvers and filming, it was likely during single-engine tests to determine (or demonstrate) flight characteristics with an engine out.
I happen to be uniquely familiar with this operation. A close friend of mine's father was one of the pilots of this Squadron of P38. And the flight would not have been possible at all without the input of Charles Lindbergh who show the Army Air corps how to get over twice the range with the P-38 by running the engines much leaner when they were merely traveling. Lindbergh had flown with that group for a while and even had shot down a couple of Japanese aircraft with it. When he noticed that the planes were running out of fuel at a fairly High rate he developed procedure for more than doubling the mission capability of the aircraft. Even flu the aircraft for almost 1,900 miles and landed it back at the base and mechanics took the engines apart because they were sure that running that engine that lane would damage the Pistons. There was no damage to the engines whatsoever.
All of the ciphers were broken by 1940. For all intensive purposes.
True. Lindbergh's advice also helped extend the range of the P47 Thunderbolts in the area.
Thank God Yamamoto was a stickler for punctuality and his flight appeared at the intercept location at exactly the expected time. The P-38's only had enough fuel to remain on station for a few minutes. A slacker like me would have been at least 30 minutes late and missed the entire show.
We caught you slippin dark docs! Peal harbor? Lol
Can you do a video on Operation Highjump in 1946 and the USS Liberty incident of 1967 please one day?
Thor's Hammer we cant add the bad rep for Israel ...
shhhhhh
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I bet the USS liberty will never ever be covered.
@@SOS-School_Of_Survival , there is a good documentary here on utube about that incident. At least there was about 2 years ago, last time I seen it.
My dad was one of the aviators who participated in Operation Highjump.
Hello all, nice Movie to see this Operation is : The Gallant Hours !
In this Movie Halsey flies to Midway in a Huge Seaplane, but during flight receives information 18 Zero's where spotted heading to Midway, (because Yamamoto figured out there was a Big Plane travelling somewhere around Midway with some higher US Navy Commanders..)
So Halsey decided not to go to Midway, but Guam...if I am correct.
The end reminds me of Gaming WW2 Dogfight's, When Your KIll got stolen !
Thank You Dark Docs , for these Interesting Docu's !
I love dark docs and now I cant wait to start watching dark skies
Japanese officer: You know it seems weird that they just happened on our top admiral, were our codes cracked?
Other Japanese officer: Nah, I mean the American press said they just happened upon us. I mean sure the US military was the one who told the events. But we have not evidence.
(3-6 business days later)
Letter from American intel officer to other Japanese officer: Hey thanks for not questions if your codes were cracked.
Thanks dark docs for taking up that mantle History Channel have up.
“Transport and exports”; escorts? And about at 8:55; the Admiral was inspecting the Solomons, not Guadalcanal. I think the P-38’s flew from the latter island.
Another little error was showing footage of Grumman F6F Hellcats while speaking of their predecessor aircraft, the F4F Wildcat. Also it was the “Army Air Force” until the USAF was established in 1947.
Frankly there is too much footage of aircraft unrelated to the subject. Maybe you could have had Dr. Felton from Mark Felton Productions look over this one before posting it? Pretty sure he’s a fan!
One word: Wow
As noted above, please take care when showing and naming aircraft, the mistakes are annoying and misrepresent history. There was a shot of a British crew boarding a Wellington bomber shown 3 times, none of which made any sense. Nitpicking aside, it was a nice production. Well done.
David Kyle >> It was indeed a nice production and a great channel. Now I feel a little bad; usually I find something to praise when I leave comments too...
@@jaybee9269 Don't feel bad, your comments were warranted, if someone does a history presentation, they should get their the facts straight. :)
Hey cmon it’s kinda hard to compel footage from 80 years ago.. I thought he did a pretty well overall job
5:15 "furthermore the lightning lack an awacs radar aircraft" This is irrelevant since awacs was introduced in 1977 well after WW2
Exactly why I came to the comments. AWACs? Really?
AWACS was hardly necessary as it was all about gunfights anyway. Ships and land based radar were more than enough. For bombers they eve used to use two beams of radar from England to triangulate to the target.
yeah.... this channel makes routine mistakes per epsiode. I watch because I think it is fun to laugh at their ignorance,
They also lacked satellite mapping.
Caught that too. However, if they had AWACs then, that would have been a big advantage throughout the war.
The incredible navigation skill of the P38 pilots to be able to intercept Yamamoto's plane. And the engineering behind the P38 was something else.
Almost as if the divine wind itself felt betrayed by the pearl harbor attack. Or just luck.
Good to see another channel. Being here since Dark 5. Great content that always makes me think how different things are now. Cheers
YES my day cannot get better but no man with the best voice proves me wrong
A correction: Yamamoto did *not* actually have an accurate read of America. He and Naval GHQ, while well aware of America's overwhelming economic advantage, assumed that a quick, devastating strike on Pearl Harbor would be enough to knock the US out of the war. Instead it fired up the American populace and gave FDR a solid, unassailable reason for the US to enter the war on the Allied side.
Kido Butai also failed to destroy the American carriers (although they would have also likely been destroyed), meaning that, while the US Pacific fleet had been dealt a tremendous blow, they were by no means out of the fight. USS Yorktown and USS Lexington would go on to surprise the Japanese at Coral Sea as they attempted to invade Port Moresby (Operation MO). Though Lexington was sunk, Operation MO failed and Yamamoto became obsessed with destroying the American fleet carriers, while also assuming (for some reason) that the Americans were reluctant to fight, even though they had just went on the attack at Coral Sea.
So when he planned for Midway, he did so with this flawed assumption in mind; he created a detailed plan that involved drawing out the supposedly cowardly US Navy out of Pearl Harbor, while never once considering the possibility that Chester Nimitz might have actually been seeking the IJN out. Of course, we all know what happened there: four of the best carriers in the IJN ended up decorating the ocean floor.
So, if the assassination of Yamamoto failed, or was called off, it would have been highly unlikely for Imperial Japan to turn the war back in their favor. In 1943 the US economy was in full war-mode; they were producing Essex-Class fleet carriers every other month, something that Imperial Japan could not in their wildest dreams hope to match. I'm not even mentioning the escort carriers, destroyers, and destroyer escorts that were produced in eye-watering amounts. By 1944, the US Pacific Fleet was essentially brand new, heavily armed, well-trained and well-equipped. Nothing Yamamoto could have done would have stopped this force from dismantling the IJN.
Thank you for a historical video of a reasonable length. There are so many videos on historical topics that I would like to know the basics of but don't care for an hour long dive into. Love videos like this where I can scratch the surface and dig for more if I want it.
The mentioned P-38 fighters , were not Air Force aircraft, as the USAF did not exist at that time. The aircraft and their pilots were, in fact, members of the US Army Air Corps. THE USAF was founded in 1947, 2 years after the end of the war.
Glad i havent seen this yet. Been needed something good to watch.
The P38 Lightening, what a plane and what brave young crews flew them! Superb code breaking intelligence also 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸 I respected as a gifted adversary Yamamoto but .....he was the enemy and....the bastard had to die. Good job too!
I love the P38 but have you ever heard what the pilot had to do to bail out of one? unlike a regular aircraft that the pilot just jumped out of, a P38 pilot had to pop his canopy then crawl out onto the wing before letting go or risk being cut in half on the center tail flat.
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I am a history buff from childhood, and while overseas, I read every book in the Child's section, then the Adult Section on WWs I and II.
Thus qualified, I recall from the mid 70's, (when my gf was Gen. Doolittles' great niece, and yes he visited them once a year), that the actual pilot who shot down Yamamotos' aircraft stated on a TV interview that he and his wingman saw a Bomber break away, and try to run, and as they were still our of range, he pulled the trigger to "clear" or "test" the guns, and make sure he could shoot, or to reassign the shot to his wingman, and unexpectedly, while 'out of range' the bomber burst into smoke, and displayed fire, and went into the canopy.
I can only recall the man was 50ish, dressed in a blazer with a tie, and a little overweight. Maybe more like 230s. But my point is that there is an interview out there in the TV world somewhere with the single pilot who claimed he hit the shot to down Yamamoto made at about 30 years after the event.
Too much inclusion of 50 caliber waist gunner clips. P38'S have a nose full of forward facing Machine guns fired by the pilot like a fighter. Technically I think they are a fighter/bomber class plane. But have no fuselage full of crew shooting machine guns.
Not to mention shots of Beaufighters and Wellingtons and B-24s, etc. Good footage but irrelevant.
I would have liked more P-38 footage too. Beautiful airplane, curvaceous & Art Deco like the YB-17.
You always do a fantastic job.
Keep up the good work.
Some great military men such as Robert E. Lee, Yamamoto and others warned of the danger of entering conflicts and counseled against going to war. But when they made their decision to go along with the warmongers they shared the guilt for the atrocities that followed.
While I completely understand your point. War is a dirty and complicated business. And no nation that has ever engaged in it has hands that are completely clean. Patriots follow the actions of their Nation. And in the end, history is written by the victors.
The Infidel Truman had little choice but to use the atomic bombs unless you would prefer the Japanese fight to the end and go extinct in an invasion (as well as millions of allied soldiers dying).
And the reason the bomb wasn’t used on Germany was because the bombs weren’t ready until Germany was already defeated (it was finished in July and Germany surrendered in May).
Truman was a good man and president. And his decision saved a countless amount of lives including my Great Uncles. Not to mention he stopped MacArthur from using the bombs on China in the Korean War so he clearly wasn’t a warmongering monster.
@The Infidel GOD is judge (John 12:48). We did not start those wars. And the brutal aggression of the instigators deserved the response they received. All you have to do is look at Newton's law of physics: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
He drew his science from Paul's words: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Galatians 6:7. The physical and moral laws are kindred.
@@cgustafson240 Agreed. Adrenaline combined with our base passions is not a good combo, bro. But we see a few who have remained steady, like Desmond Doss.
I read the book Killing Yamamoto that was published in the 80s. This doc mirrors the info in the book, minus the controversy about the kill. Great doc. Keep up the good work.
"That still only counts as one!"
Excellent documentary!!! I didn't know this!
It was actually cold on the morning of the attack.
When the P-38s arrived, there was a Nip in the air!
Wow this is great. My grandfather told me a lot about the conflict with japan, he was a fairly high ranking Canadian naval officer in WW2 before he moved to the United States in the early 70’s, but i obviously never heard about anything like this. Not even in school.
It wasn't "who" got Bamako to.
It was a TEAM effort, all the way to the guys that got the planes ready to go.
Great topic! Impressed I am.
So... what role DID RAF Wellington,s play in the death of Yamamoto ?
I do wish your film editor would know what the hell they are do as a project this week
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The P-38's also attacked ground targets after shooting down the Bettys. They were instructed to do so in order to avoid having the Japanese suspect that they had known that Yamamoto was flying in. Command wanted it to look as if they had encountered the Admiral's flight by chance on a regular raid against New Britain to prevent the enemy from realizing that the Allies were reading Japanese codes.
Awesome video. If i may a have a suggestion for a new video. Its actually two one on project Philadelphia and two an in depth look/analysis at nikola tesla and his inventions and work with the government. It may be possible to tie them together since Tesla was involved in Philadelphia.
A yarn that originated from one single, solitary source with no secondary confirmation.
Fantastic content.......nothing is more satisfying than vengeance and retribution!
Like the old saying goes:
“He had it coming”.......
Keeping the same vids up is good well done DD
nice mixture of allied aircraft NOT used for Operation Vengeance , including a Vickers Wellington , and a Bristol Beaufighter !!!
And not just once. That shot of the crew heading towards the Wellington was shown at least three times. More like, Operation Any Old Aircraft Will Do For This Doco
B24 over Europe (Ploesti raid?) Is a bit strange as well
Lack of footage, most of which was rather blurred or near impossible to understand
Very good story. I never knew this. Thank you for the history lesson. Also subbed immediately to your new channel. Looking forward to seeing what comes up. 👍
Yamamoto was a great Admiral. He never wanted to attack the U.S. he knew the outcome would be a disaster for Japan.
I concur...
This dude legit was pure evil. He hated Americans.
@@mikhail2709 Nonsense, he actually had a lot of admiration for Americans and he knew that once awakened, the "Sleeping Giant" would stomp them into goo.
It would be interesting to see how these wars are taught in schools over in Japan, Germany, Belgium, etc..
Did anyone else hear clapping when the pictures of the Japanese officers were shown at 8:39? am I hearing things?
Nah, DD was just changing slides 😉
Always so good .love the topics, the historical data, the narration . It's all really well done.
3:24
"unknown to them, the Military Intelligence Service have been able to intercept their communications for years"
yeahhhh...
Are you being skeptical with your "yeahhh", or being a cheerleader (punctuation helps, in comprehending these things).
Joe Rochfort and the intel boys did their own sort of magic with that Japanese JN-25 "Magic" code for a few years prior to April of '43.
It is now commonly believed that it was Rex Barber who shot down Yamamoto’s Betty, but Yamamoto was hit by a 50cal. bullet in his shoulder & died before his plane crashed in jungle. So anyone, including Lanphire, who shot at Betties could have killed him
Barber's testimony is the one that matches up most with visual evidence.
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The fire bombing of Beijing then...
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Already planned by US, UK & Israel. As with this present day Germ warfare, frame up & coverup against China.
Excellent rendition. Great history lesson.
I may be wrong on this, but I thought 2 of the P-38's used were an unarmed Radar equipped variant?
Andrew Taylor i was thinking the same thing actually
I don’t think so - but there’s very little mentioning the actual support forces (as well as the protective force of zeros) - also that was a Val dive bomber shown. And what was up with all the B-17 footage lol.
@@EstorilEm Might as well show some of Audie Murphy on the burning Sherman tank and some paratroopers jumping out of a plane to add to the unrelated montage of footage used in this video.
Rex Barber was eventually given full credit for shooting down Yamamoto when the US military examined the wreckage and found it was shot down from the rear which only Barber had fired from the rear.
A loser captain that takes credit from those under him. Say it ain't so?
When I was a child my next door neighbor was Niesi. He served with Naval Intelligence in WWII. One of the bravest men I knew.
Kamikaze attack- when did the Japanese used RAF Beaufighters?
I love your videos. I refuse to pay UA-cam for your services without commercials. Where can i see this outside of UA-cam? I can pay!
They did have a warning about pearl harbour but they ignored it
This was extremely interesting
Why the interspersed aircraft in the video that had nothing to do with this mission?!
This should be made into a movie 🎥.
I could be wrong, but if I remember right, this was the 1st time the US military was ordered and used to assassinate a high ranking government official or officer of another country while at war as most were protected by the Geneva conventions... Our country's official policy is to follow those agreements. Espically during any conflicts... Just a thought to consider...
Yamamoto was an officer in an armed force activly actively engaged in war, as such he was a combatant and had zero special or protected status as the Geneva conventions in force at the time only applied to military personnel when wounded, sick or prisoners of war. The more extensive protections provided by the 4th Geneva convention and its protocols were only in place from 1949 with the protocols being added even later.
No to mention that he was travelling on a armed military aircraft, all of which are lawful targets in war.
Did you know that the intercepted message was translated by Sgt. Harold Fudenna, a Japanese-American Nisei in the MIS. Their work was top secret and they could not talk about it after the war.
It's a pity that Yamamoto was so devoted to his country, he was truly one of the world's greatest strategical commanders
Nothing wrong with his devotion to his country. The devotion is likely the biggest reason he was so good at what he did. Enemy or not, highly skilled soldiers, pilots and sailors are respected across the board for their genius.
Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance, Fletcher, Patton, Bradley, MacArthur, Churchill, Rommel, Goring, Richtofen, Yamamoto, Nagumo, Toyoda... These are just a handful but the actual list is VERY long and every single one of them was highly, highly respected by their opponent.
Yamamoto was shot down in the jungle in Buin bottom of Bougainville. Locals took us to the crash site in 2016.
@7:19 why in the name of sanity are you showing footage of B-24 Liberators while narrating a mission comprised entirely if P-38 Lightnings?
You are right ,that footage was over the ploesty oil fields,you see too much of those inaccuracies in these documents
This is something you should expect when only one person does the research, writing, editing, voice over, directing, and production. It's not as easy as it looks. Trust me. I do the exact same thing.
Have a good day everyone.
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Too bad Lanfier broke protocol and apparently had an ego about the mission.
Both men would have rightly been awarded the Medal of Honor but for that.
Many War 2 vets believe "The Medal" should only be awarded posthumously..
I had no idea how much the Betty looked like the Liberator - fascinating.
Might as well throw some tanks shooting to add to this montage of unrelated footage.
You make it sound like the USA and FDR are like the Five Families and Don Brazini out to get Sonny Corleone after he starts the war when Don Corleone gets hit outside Genco Olive Oil Importing Company in Little Italy "I'm gonna get you Don Yamamoto! if it's the last thing I do, you'll be sleeping with the fishes!"
It's disgusting the way people feel only a Medal of Honor is worthy for them.
Real Medal of Honor recipients never made it back or wear it in honor of those that have fallen.
I don't understand where you got that from the video.... I understood it as they were upset over having credit for the kill, not that they didnt get the Medal of Honor
@@Matt_P - Obviously, you missed minute 11:00 when it says a pilot received the Navy Cross, instead of the more prized Medal of Honor.
@@BA-gn3qb Yes the Medal of Honor is more "prized" than a Navy Cross.... that is kinda how precedence of awards go.... Please inform me where MAJ Mitchell was expecting and disappointed that he didn't get it. (Spoiler, he wasn't).
@@Matt_P - Please inform me where I mentioned anyone by name in either of my posts.
You should get a job at CNN. You like to make up fake stuff.
@@BA-gn3qb
1. "Obviously, you missed minute 11:00 when it says a pilot received the Navy Cross, instead of the more prized Medal of Honor."
2. Again, that is kinda how precedence of awards go.
Best detail I have seen yet on the subject. Great job. I hit this subscribe button on your channel.
"I shot him down!". . . . . "No I did!" . . . bunch of babies.
G. Elliott Nielsen >> It is a tiresome argument, to be sure.
The biggest baby is the US. Declaring War, I can understand, but executing a raid for petty revenge?
@@MANJYOMETHUNDER111 makes perfect sense to me, morale is everything in war
@@MANJYOMETHUNDER111 plus killing a high ranking admiral isn’t just revenge, it’s smart.
This attack needs to be made into a movie.
Adam Allman it is
Shannon Ashton what movie?
I swear to god, but I remember “Pearl Harbour” not “Peal Harbour”
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One other fun addendum to this, was the secret off the books contribution of one of Americas greatest flying heroes. Charles Lindberg. Lindberg was a staunch Isolationist for the US. He was firmly against the US getting involved in overseas wars. He had even resigned his military commission in protest. Leaving him in a touchy spot with Roosevelt, who was unwilling to restore it once actual fighting began. Still Lindberg wanted to do what he could, largely as a consultant. Often sneaking in to provide help before the top brass found out and had him sent back to the states. Early in their deployment he got to spend quite a lot of time with this P-38 squadron. What he saw was a plain that was not being flown properly for its capabilities. In a few short weeks he taught the crews how to get the most out of the twin engine pursuit plane by effectively doubling its range. He showed them some easy tricks with the engines to cruise along using minimal fuel over long stretches of ocean. Using Lindberg's tricks the pilots could stretch their fuel consumption such that they went from 1200 mile range to 2500. And thus they became the ideal aircraft with the range to intercept Yamamoto. The Japanese never expected the US to be able to project interceptors out that far from one of their bases.
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Totally agree with the previous comments in regard to giving credit for the shoot down of Yamamoto’s plane to all the participants of the raid. Indeed, the Navy Cross was awarded to all the members of the mission. However, there was a culture already in-bedded in the military flight community that awarded “Kills” and “Aces” to those pilots who were successful at downing enemy fighter planes. This served to foster an air of competition among the pilots, that at times, would cause some to use questionable judgement. With such a high value target that the Yamamoto mission presented, the competition for the kill would only have been accentuated. Only four of the eighteen P-38’s were designated as the “killer” flight with Lanphier and Barber as part of this segment, and the rest providing cover.
Although the evidence seems to have weighed in Barber’s favor, each were awarded half of the kill for the downing of Yamamoto’s plane, which at the time seemed acceptable to all. In later years however, Barber became upset because Lanphier was publishing material that was intimating that he alone had shot down the Admiral’s plane. Lanphier continued to claim full credit until his death in 1987. Barber carried on trying to get the record changed so that he would have received full credit for the downing of Yamamoto until his death in 2001. It is sad that these brave men had let their ego’s get the better of them in their later years.
As a further aside, the official report was ammended to reflect that none of the Japanese fighters were shot down thereby taking away the fighter kills reported by Lanphier and Barber. This effectively removed Lanphier’s “Ace” status from the records as it reduced his total number of verified fighter kills from five to four.
The bottom line is that both these men were brave pilots along with all the others who participated in the mission. Sometimes in the confusion of combat the actual events that occur become muddled and the combatants recollections of the events don’t always dovetail with reality. These pilots tended to be very competitive, so at times details of a mission may have become embellished somewhat. This should not take away from their greater accomplishments during this time in history; because these few, are owed so much by so many (credit to Sir Winston Churchill).