"YANKS SMASH TRUK!" WWII U.S. ATTACK ON JAPANESE BASE AT TRUK OPERATION HAILSTONE 28704
Вставка
- Опубліковано 18 сер 2015
- Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: / periscopefilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.
Subscribe and consider becoming a channel member • Help us preserve more ...
This WWII film, one of a series of newsreels produced by Castle Films, shows 1944's Operation Hailstone -- the U.S. Navy's assault on "Japan's Pearl Harbor" -- the naval base at Truk. Footage shows Task Force 58, which included the fleet carriers USS Yorktown, USS Essex, USS Intrepid, USS Bunker Hill, USS Enterprise, and the light carriers USS Belleau Wood, USS Cabot, USS Monterey, and USS Cowpens as they strike the Japanese base beginning in February of 1944. Extensive gun camera footage is seen in the film, as well as an astounding shot of a carrier plane making a perfect landing on one wheel. Japanese ships sunk during the Truk raid included the light cruisers Agano, Naka, Katori, and the destroyers Akikaze, Mutsukaze, Harusame, Maikaze, Nowaki, Oite, Sutsuki, Shigure, Tachize and Fumizuki. The film ends with footage of American planes returning to their carriers, including a plane landing on one wheel (8:30) and wounded aircrew receiving medical attention.
The U.S. attack involved a combination of airstrikes, surface ship actions, and submarine attacks over two days and appeared to take the Japanese completely by surprise. Several daylight, along with nighttime, airstrikes employed fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo aircraft in attacks on Japanese airfields, aircraft, shore installations, and ships in and around the Truk anchorage. A force of U.S. surface ships and submarines guarded possible exit routes from the island's anchorage to attack any Japanese ships that tried to escape from the airstrikes.
In total the attack sank three Japanese light cruisers (Agano, Katori, and Naka), four destroyers (Oite, Fumizuki, Maikaze, and Tachikaze), three auxiliary cruisers (Akagi Maru, Aikoku Maru, Kiyosumi Maru), two submarine tenders (Heian Maru, Rio de Janeiro Maru), three other smaller warships (including submarine chasers CH-24 and Shonan Maru 15), aircraft transport Fujikawa Maru, and 32 merchant ships. Some of the ships were destroyed in the anchorage and some in the area surrounding Truk lagoon. Many of the merchant ships were loaded with reinforcements and supplies for Japanese garrisons in the central Pacific area. Very few of the troops aboard the sunken ships survived and little of their cargoes were recovered.
We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example like: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference."
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com
In the mid 1960s my ship pulled into Truk lagoon a couple times during our Caroline Island patrols. The lagoon was littered with sunken Japanese ships. We docked at Moen Island and had time to visit with an American Peace Corps teacher. There was an artillery emplacement near her house and the barrel of the gun pointed out over the lagoon.
Being on Truk was a rewarding experience for me as Dad was on one of the first ships hit by a Japanese torpedo in Pearl Harbor. Truk was Japan's Pearl Harbor.
1986 I WAS SO FORTUNATE TO SCUBA DIVE 13 SUNKEN SHIPS,,ALL TENDERS..SEVERAL PLANES ALSO,,MAX DEPTH 135 ft
@@MrRiprip56 I have heard a lot about scuba diving in Truk. A neighbor of mine served in the Pacific and is an active diver.
@@Me2Lancer Sir, This was 1986 and it was a lovely place. the dive sites and the island of Moen. Some of our dive guides Granddad were made to use picks to make gun implacements for the Japanese. the last day we were going to dive on a submarine. Due to the weather we were not able to do that. I swam right past a brand new ZERO as shinny as the day it was made aluminum. All the ships were tenders and supply ships. I went to 135 and paid for it. I also sat on fire coral on a gantry and talk about scared, as it was near the private area of my groin. For weeks after the return to the USA the area got brown and sluffed off skin. There were 2 Japanese divers also and the men or we called them boys called the young lady "CHICKEN" as in soft meat good to eat or that was my AMERICAN idea of why they said what they said. A fine group of young men and it was a PADI approved DIve shop. It is sad that there is another atoll that was filled with scraps of an atomic blast and had a concrete dome placed on top. I understand it leaks from the bottom and soon the atoll will be underwater. In a way very much like the reactor melt down in Fukashima Japan. they say man does not poses the knowledge to put out the melt down. Best to you sir and Im from Kentucky USA. So enjoyed that trip more than any!
My father who is 95 was on the USS Massachusetts BB59. In the last days of the war the Big Mamie unleashed her wrath on Truk with her 16" guns. My father was part of the crew furnishing powder bags to the center gun in the forward upper turret.
Bombs are dropped in water near beach to detonate mines in landing areas.
Everything that these men accomplished and fought for is being disrespected now.
Yeah not wrong amigo.
Yea, by lunatic liberal Democrats and their minions!
PATRIOTS who love America as much as these brave souls did, need to stick together and not allow the demonrats to run this country. Spread TRUTH and love direct. Conservative need not be silent no more!
@@yakopro49 lol
What?
The P-47 was used in the Pacific. There is mention of them being used by the army in the Philippines and on Okinawa. Source: The Navy's Air War A Mission Completed by Albert Russell Buchanan.
0:51 looks like P-47 Thunderbolts.
In fact, P-47s were carrier-launched but not carrier-retrieved in the Pacific war.
Truk, once called "the Gibraltar of the Pacific" was bypassed by the American ground forces, but were pulverized by its aerial attack, destroying everything that has a military value to the Japanese.
So ... what is your real name? (I use mine; is the Bushido spirit dead now?)
imagine being in the plane raining down hell on a destroyer what a hell of a experience😍
With hell coming up at you, too ... no thanks. War is played for keeps.
Thanks from down under 👍🇳🇿
Terrific narration!
They showed the P-47 Thunderbolt a couple of times in this movie; funny because the P-47 was not a naval asset.
Steve Harris they were not p47s
At 0:52 they showed P-47 "Razorbacks" but many mistakes were made during the war years slicing film together. But Army Air force P-47's of the 318th FG were flown off the Escort Carrier USS Manila Bay CVE-61 during the Saipan Operations !! ..... www.criticalpast.com/video/65675047538_P-47-Thunderbolt-fighters_Major-John-Hussey_P-47-catapulted-from-carrier_Navy-personnel
There are other mentions of the P-47 in the pacific. They were used by the army to provide air cover over some of the islands. I cannot remember offhand which ones.
Tracer flying everywhere, I call them freedom bullets! lol
The endless audio overlay of machine guns, airplane engines, and explosions make it hard to watch with sound on
GOD BLESS THEM ALL AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ALL HER PEOPLE
You read my mind, Brother!
bravo !!!
out standing!!!
I've been and lived in truk but it's really spelled Chuuk. I've seen the Japanese planes that were destroyed and the ships especially. There are many other Japanese military installations all around the islands including the main island of chuuk. Pretty cool stuff to explore especially diving down to those Japanese ships that were sunk. I've also lived in Hawaii so of course I wanted to visit pearl harbor
Did I see P-47's?
*A Rebirth in an Ancient Tomb.*
The Grand Passage Tomb is located in Ireland and was constructed over fifty-two-hundred years ago, it defines the winter solstice and celebrates a Rebirth of the Sun.
"Let the Sunshine In."
E pluribus Unum.
0:51 - something tells me USAAF Thunderbolts did not fight in this battle.
Why they put them in this film is beyond me.
I agree that these planes and scenes are not from Truk.
Didn't know P-47s were part of the attack... /sarc/
Anthony Smith
lol.....
i saw that too
Yeah...saw that.
some nice HE secondaries in there
ÓTIMO DOCUMENTÁRIO DA SEGUNDA GUERRA, BRASIL OK.
1:22 what is that from it seems like there is a gunner facing either forward or to the side. I'm familiar with some planes having a tail gunner but were there planes with multiple forward facing gunners?
It's a B25. They used the film footage that was available. Also a P47 Thunderbolt is seen twice.
@@steveb6103 thanks
Where in the hell did the P-47 Thunderbolts come from??? 00:52 of the film... Last time I checked there are no records of a Thunderbolt launching from any American Aircraft Carrier...
These film reels played in theaters all during the war. Usually before the feature. Oh yea......it cost 5 cents back then!
What is the aircraft with the forward firing crew manned machine gun? Don't think I've ever seen anything like that before.
B25 & B26 bombers had a front machine gun like you described. There may be others.
Anthony Smith
...Douglas Dauntless....
OneTallOrder probably B-25 footage
If I am not mistaken, that plane was also used as a U-boat hunter/destroyer.
some of those are just broom sticks to scare Japanese fighter planes attacking US B26 bombers. lmao!
Thunderbolts .i spotted in that footage ............and the first 3 mins doesn't corresspond to the narration , The footage is a mix of ETO and the PTO mixed for some reason
colintraveller because no one cared inthe 40s
Whoopsy!
Looks like somebody awoke a sleeping giant!
Will someone please make a movie about this..
John Long Midway!
6:31 are the bullets bouncing back?
Those are ricochets off the ship or the water. Some of the other footage shows Japanese guns firing back at the planes.
How does Periscope Films have the license for this, isn't it old US Navy footage?
This is material that we've preserved after the U.S. Government in its infinite wisdom -- threw this film away!
PeriscopeFilm Damn...our tax dollars!
@@PeriscopeFilm
Excellent. Thanks for your efforts.
@@BrianBattles
tax dollars don't be so disrespectful
When he said at the beginning the finest planes and the best pilots , I thought "oh good a film about Spitfires and RAF pilots"..... :)
top Allied ace of WWII was Russian-Ukrainian Aviation Marshall Ivan Kozhedub, who fought 120 air battles in WWII and shot down 62 German planes
A few men stopped the entire western German army from invading Britain, not 62 planes. :)
www.telegraph.co.uk/history/battle-of-britain/11866425/Its-time-to-shatter-the-myths-of-the-Battle-of-Britain.html
And? When the RAF went against the Germans every time they was out numbered , yet destroyed more planes than they lost.
What did they have to do with this!
Some of Battleship were built where I was born on Kure city...My ground father, grandmother, my father and his sisters lived in the city of Kure.
My grandmother has got to loss Her husband by B-29 bomb to the Kure Navy Arsenal in 1945. Therefore I do not know about my grandfather. My father was three years old at that time.
There were three children in my grandmother. She cleaned the wageful British military camphouse to feed them. She died at the age of 72 because she had a hard time.
No more War...
And it's some illiterate Yank waffling about the 'finest pilots and finest aircraft in the World' More American BS.
Self promotion is no recommendation. Whenever I met up with the USN for naval exercises their gunnery direction was awful. Couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo.
The Japanese shouldn't have bombed others first.
@@bobknob5819
The Japanese murdered men women and children everywhere they went from beginning to end.
For every tale of Japanese family loss, multiply by 3(?) to get the family losses in China, Malaysia, Philippines, Burma, Indonesia, Borneo, etc etc etc.
4:18 Katori class cruiser?
You could be forgiven for thinking these were Yanks on exercise manoeuvres, y'know war games where the film crew are the only ones actually shooting anything!
Wow
Americans know how to fight.
Ok, who snuck those P-47s into this USN film - and why?
0:52 P47 Thunderbolts peeling off. Those are not carrier planes.
pilots were taught to shoot below the smokestack to disable the boiler and powerplant on ships and vessels
You got that right Curly!
The p38 fighter planes were used ln the philippines liberation and they were called double body plane by us
If the japanese had armoured their planes and had self sealing fuel tanks ,i think a lot of dogfights may have ended differently,but the japanese high command wasnt worried about saving pilots.
The Japanese high command wasn't interested in saving any Japanese , even themselves . . . Very foolish !!
I'm proud in my veterans grandfather who faught Japanese imperial army witu allies american Chinese Vietnam and malaysian they derserve to be honored to liberating our country Philippines Japanese now creating toyota that's my car today
Yes thank you God and God keep and God bless the beautiful Filipino people oh God in the name of Jesus. pagpalian ka ng Diyos Mahal Kong mga kaibigan 🙂🇺🇸💖🇵🇭
many of these clips are from B-25 Mitchell bombing raids.
alright ima play some war thunder to calm myself
6:55 申し訳ない。思ったより船体は大きいかもしれず
マストらしきものもみえるナレーションのとおりother destroyerかもしれない。
遠距離からの撮影で機銃の水柱も小さい。
香取の救命艇ではないと思う。
Duckett the jars big time. Yanks smashed thru
I do not understand how bullets can destroy a ship made out of metal
They are very large caliber, armor piercing bullets.
Corsair for instance had three .50 caliber machine guns mounted in each wing panel. So that's six .50 cal. Each ammo belt usually had one armor piercing bullet, one incendiary bullet, and one tracer, in the belt, repeated over and over. Quite a can of whoop ass!
its even easier now with depleted uranium rounds which is like being hit by a 4000C degree/ 2000KM/hr missile, which melts though 2 inch steel.
They dont pierce the hull, obviously. The point is to damage anything on the ship and potentially set it on fire. Sinking them is the task of torpedo bombers.
DU penetrator cores dont exist for anything under 30mm (though its been tried for the 20mm). And your comparison is completely absurd.
Small arms and most auto-cannon (20-30mm) penetrators are made of tungsten alloy (denser and harder than DU alloy), tungsten carbide or high strength steel alloy. The performance differences for projectiles with such low mass is negligible and does not typically justify the cost increase.
Sharks ate good that day.
After the attack of Pearl Harbour in dec 1941, admiral Yamamoto of the Japanese Imperial Marine Corps declared:" We just woke up a dragon"...And USA proved it!
I just mentionned his words from the film, TORA TORA.
@R Mack Well! As we speak French here in Quebec, in case you did'nt know, I watched this movie in French and the actor said: DRAGON. Japanese people very often mention the word dragon in their uses...
@R Mack This is getting into obsession, we'll say sleeping giant. Is that OK with you?
Joke's on you America. Japan later destroyed our nation from within, with video games and anime.
And cheap electronics.
No.
Hulk smash truk.
HOLY SH#* !!
As propaganda films go, not bad. The P-47 Thunderbolts (Army Air Corps) were definitely not carrier based, however, Mr. and Mrs. America back in the States wouldn't know that.
Keith Cripe
They cut and pasted film to fit their narrative.
Who is the deaf guy doing the subtitles ?
観ててイラだたない方がおかしいよね 多分
No one is irritated to watch it. It is excellent combat footage against a dangerous and capable foe.
Even though at the time the Japanese were our enemy, GOD BLESS ALL THERE SOLDIERS WHO DIED BATTLING. AND GOD BLESS ALL THE AMERICAN FORCES WHO DIED FOR WHAT WE HAVE NOW.
Japanese Pearl Harbor
I have one question...Why would the kamakazi pilots wear a helmet??haha
You Sir are funny.
Al McGuire called that the only mystery in life.
😈Hellcat 🐱
Japan is our Allie..ironic👍
Didn't the nips have radar on Truk?