MXY-7 Ohka (Cherry Blossom) Kamikaze

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  • Опубліковано 9 лис 2015
  • READ: This project was made while I was still in Highschool and was more of a test to see how I enjoyed making videos. While all information in this video is backed with sources, the visuals may not be an accurate historical representation (Example; a lone aircraft carrier with no escort)
    Thanks for watching, please be civil in the comments.
    Programs used:
    Il-2 Sturmovik 1946
    HSFX 7.3
    Windows Movie Maker
    Sources:
    www.pbs.org
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  • @OchaFauzan01
    @OchaFauzan01 6 років тому +2078

    Bruh it might be late, but what is the name of the music in this video?

    • @Fubbo
      @Fubbo  6 років тому +278

      The beginning is called Imperial Honor from the Rising Storm game sound track. The second song is called Falling Snow played on the Koto instrument. :)

    • @OchaFauzan01
      @OchaFauzan01 6 років тому +43

      Fubbo many thanks dude, and i can't believe you pinned my comment😀😀😀

    • @OchaFauzan01
      @OchaFauzan01 6 років тому +13

      Fubbo i can't seem to find the second music anywhere in youtube after days of searching xD

    • @Fubbo
      @Fubbo  6 років тому +23

      i am retarded but ua-cam.com/video/LJ81S2s45No/v-deo.html. :)

    • @762forest_railway
      @762forest_railway 6 років тому +15

      Even today Japanese people will do it anytime
      For Japan

  • @Darrylx444
    @Darrylx444 5 років тому +1379

    "Duty is heavier than a mountain. Death is lighter than a feather."

    • @jjlarson74
      @jjlarson74 4 роки тому +26

      And ignorance is upon the lips of the guile!

    • @goatwarrior3570
      @goatwarrior3570 4 роки тому +31

      In 2020 trying to convince people to go outside when there's 0.1% chance they may die from a virus is harder than carrying a mountain.

    • @franzarvelcaole9624
      @franzarvelcaole9624 3 роки тому +16

      Goat Warrior its more like 3 percent still that is nothing to sneeze at theres like almost a million dead

    • @leopard2a6yes85
      @leopard2a6yes85 3 роки тому +8

      Well I'm pretty sure a 7.62 or a 5.56 weighs more than a feather

    • @RickaramaTrama-lc1ys
      @RickaramaTrama-lc1ys 3 роки тому

      >>>AMEN

  • @FarhanPerdana
    @FarhanPerdana 4 роки тому +608

    1:19 the translation is "Thanks for joining us today." but the voice actually said "Saraba da. Mata ao." It means "Adios. We will meet again." I cried a bit, because it is said that every Kamikaze Pilot will have this death altar on mainland, that the emperor will personally paid respect every year. So, it is kinda implied that, we will meet again in the shrine.

    • @ThatTurboProbe
      @ThatTurboProbe 3 роки тому +38

      I actually had the privilege and the pleasure of seeing a real life Ohka at the RAF Museum in Cosford. The atmosphere around it felt so heavy and so dreadful, I felt really sad and depressed when I was near it. I can't imagine what it would've felt like to actually be flying one of these things, knowing you'd never come back alive.

    • @Not_Ripp-49
      @Not_Ripp-49 3 роки тому +2

      Yea right

    • @6actual911
      @6actual911 3 роки тому +2

      Yawn

    • @starbladesfury2195
      @starbladesfury2195 3 роки тому +11

      @@6actual911 F*ck you too.

    • @thamghoul5719
      @thamghoul5719 3 роки тому +10

      @@ThatTurboProbe I felt the same way standing next to Bockscar (the Nagasaki atomic bomber) at the USAF museum.

  • @ignaciosolano6263
    @ignaciosolano6263 3 роки тому +1733

    Kamikaze instructor be like: Watch carefully, i will do it just once

    • @spaghettimonstersjudgingyo504
      @spaghettimonstersjudgingyo504 3 роки тому +34

      Ah 2020 humor. Funny but I wanna live in a world where things don't have to be bleak to mask the skid mark that is life these days.

    • @alohaxtara2582
      @alohaxtara2582 3 роки тому +10

      Spaghetti Monster's judging your life choices wait people still watch this

    • @ignaciosolano6263
      @ignaciosolano6263 3 роки тому +8

      @@crook7493 Pretty obvious its a recreation from what it happened

    • @crook7493
      @crook7493 3 роки тому +9

      @@ignaciosolano6263 Comment from a year ago under the video "Intense Footage of Kamikaze Attacks During WWII"
      By KrashBandit666- "Kamikaze instructor: Listen up soldiers, i'm only gonna be showing you this once"

    • @ignaciosolano6263
      @ignaciosolano6263 3 роки тому +2

      @@crook7493 Oh i thought you where talking about the vid

  • @chadthundercock8635
    @chadthundercock8635 4 роки тому +422

    1:07 “see you back at home base” uhhhhh right

    • @diobrando6245
      @diobrando6245 4 роки тому +10

      The ghost

    • @MrMusicWu
      @MrMusicWu 4 роки тому +64

      I think it is translation problem.
      He said"護衛に感謝する、借りができちゃったな。"
      護衛に感謝する means "Thanks for the help"
      借りができちゃったな means "I owe you one"

    • @itwontcomeout5678
      @itwontcomeout5678 4 роки тому +36

      I thought that was the escort fighter pilots talking to the bomber crew

    • @adude8424
      @adude8424 4 роки тому +1

      We don't do that here

    • @Tokax
      @Tokax 4 роки тому +2

      Translation problem

  • @alexhndr
    @alexhndr 6 років тому +276

    Ohka...
    Kamikaze...
    *A small cherry blossom, that was blown away by a divine wind*
    Never to be return, forever be gone..

    • @MoskusMoskiferus1611
      @MoskusMoskiferus1611 3 роки тому +13

      Deep

    • @user-vi2cr9tb3d
      @user-vi2cr9tb3d 3 роки тому +8

      Deep

    • @imreallynoob8311
      @imreallynoob8311 3 роки тому

      @@as-vu7bk they not weak us is OP

    • @imreallynoob8311
      @imreallynoob8311 3 роки тому

      US can win every one in 1v1 lol

    • @Zelurpio
      @Zelurpio 3 роки тому +2

      Im Really Noob they can't. It took the entire allied side to take out Germany. Multiple countries. Germany was the most powerful country in WWII.

  • @MTLRNN
    @MTLRNN 6 років тому +2209

    "Named "Ohka" or "Cherry blossom"
    because the falling blossom never
    returns
    to the tree..."
    Honestly reading this made me tear up a bit.
    Edit: It's been a few years since I seen this video. I just saw all these replies the other day. I just wanna take this time at the top of the YT comments to say you're all wonderful humans keep doin your thing. Much love from Canada.

    • @Fubbo
      @Fubbo  6 років тому +97

      I'm glad my intended affect was delivered! Thank you for enjoying the video!

    • @scottishvikings5403
      @scottishvikings5403 6 років тому +21

      M3T4L R0N1N lmao they were noobs that got no scoped by the pro hackers

    • @GREDICthebeast
      @GREDICthebeast 6 років тому +23

      SavageDogg13 Not by their will... they followed orders

    • @762forest_railway
      @762forest_railway 6 років тому +28

      Even today Japanese people will do the same thing at any time
      For Japan

    • @firepower7017
      @firepower7017 6 років тому +7

      阪急電車急行は速い What a waste of people I mean the German Hs293 doesn't require a person and it actually sunk ships before

  • @RevOwOlutionary
    @RevOwOlutionary 3 роки тому +53

    There's actually a WWII anthology anime called The Cockpit which has an episode centered around a young Ohka pilot and the bomber crew he's assigned to, it's one of the more touching episodes of the series.

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 3 роки тому +368

    Even Germany had considered doing this with the V-1, with a range of 200 miles. They had a manned version. Hitler nixed the idea.

    • @Waddle_Dee_With_Internet
      @Waddle_Dee_With_Internet 3 роки тому +14

      Did they created the first suicidal drone?

    • @fenser
      @fenser 3 роки тому +62

      @@Waddle_Dee_With_Internet its called a missile

    • @succulentravioli954
      @succulentravioli954 3 роки тому +21

      @@fenserthe drone couldn't keep up with its finances, so it decided to take its life

    • @augustuswade9781
      @augustuswade9781 3 роки тому +31

      @@Waddle_Dee_With_Internet Hitler: "Wut bro u mad?"
      Hirohito: *Taking notes*

    • @danielafreedman
      @danielafreedman 3 роки тому +26

      The Germans did in fact have their own suicide rock propelled bomb. Called the Leonidas Squadron (like the Spartans) it was conceived by Otto Skorzeny and Hajo Herrman. They took a V-1 rocket and added a cockpit (FI 103 R). There were 70 volunteers for this squadron. It was called a total mission, in other words no coming back. Hanna Reitsch, the famous woman pilot persuaded Hitler to give the go ahead. The pilots only saw action at the very end of WWII when they knocked out 17 bridges to delay the advance of the Red army. 35 pilots were killed.

  • @hiddenrunner9259
    @hiddenrunner9259 4 роки тому +92

    1:27 that "sayonara" hit me

    • @lancegideondiokno1774
      @lancegideondiokno1774 3 роки тому +5

      bruh moment right there

    • @lvio_
      @lvio_ 3 роки тому +7

    • @kaito1213
      @kaito1213 3 роки тому +3

      @@lancegideondiokno1774 this is not funny

    • @kaito1213
      @kaito1213 3 роки тому +2

      You feel the japanese kamikaze pilots
      Same

  • @thewestindianboy
    @thewestindianboy 3 роки тому +31

    Those were brave soldiers. I can imagine the sadness when the plane would drop the human bomb. Imagine the pilot looking back and thinking “Thats it. No going back to see my family”. May both sides RIP.

    • @Galaxy-oy4nj
      @Galaxy-oy4nj Рік тому +2

      Not just that, but he also had a huge feeling of patriotism and honor, it was considered a honor to be a kamikaze pilot in Japan.

    • @TheBatugan77
      @TheBatugan77 7 місяців тому

      ​@@Galaxy-oy4nj
      Better them than us

  • @shannonwittman950
    @shannonwittman950 2 роки тому +18

    I've known about the Ohka since I was a little kid building and flying balsa model planes. I thought it was a beautiful design. If intended for something other in some parallel universe, it might've been a fine little aero sports car. I thought of building it as a slingshot glider or a Jetex powered free-flight plane. But in all honesty I just could never do it.

  • @littlebritain64
    @littlebritain64 4 роки тому +60

    The Ohka (Baka=Fool in the allies code) was really fast, more than 900 Km/h, but the firing rate of the allied fleet was insane, only a few % of them were effective in hitting the ships.

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 2 роки тому +8

      That had nothing to do with the AA fire, and more to do with the bombers carrying them being shot down by Allied fighters.

  • @dovaiS
    @dovaiS 5 років тому +121

    1:28 Sayonara and the explanation the planes name makes me realize how Japanese soldiers were so committed to their country, such as how they refused to wear parachutes, and that one soldier who stayed in the Philippines for years after the war ended. That dedication is something that is impressive.
    Also, isn’t saying Sayonara kind’ve like saying good bye but you won’t see them again? I recall that from a Japanese friend, I could be wrong but not wrong to ask.

    • @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122
      @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 4 роки тому +11

      dedication or lunatic?

    • @IbnShahid
      @IbnShahid 4 роки тому +24

      Yeah.......they were very committed alright. Just a shame about all the horrific slaughter of civilians (Chinese civilians in particular) and unarmed helpless prisoners of war. The Japanese military responsible for those countless atrocities utterly disgraced their cause. And no amount of sentimental, poetic stuff about cherry blossoms can hide that. They can rot in hell for all I care.

    • @hoxxi2373
      @hoxxi2373 3 роки тому +11

      IbnShahid Yeah lmao , there are so many Imperialboos who apparently defend fanatical murder and dedication with some retarded poetical shit.

    • @baskapat5239
      @baskapat5239 3 роки тому +5

      @@hoxxi2373 Mostly basement weebs, I suppose.

    • @Shiokkou
      @Shiokkou 3 роки тому +1

      @@hoxxi2373 True, I hate those who cover up for the crimes they've committed.

  • @user-zu4nl7bm9e
    @user-zu4nl7bm9e 6 років тому +384

    human guided anti-surface missile, the german bois used the radio control bomb to sink ship.

    • @superbmediacontentcreator
      @superbmediacontentcreator 6 років тому +20

      If you understood history you would understand why...

    • @bhuraqe
      @bhuraqe 5 років тому +18

      japan have also kamikaze submarine called "kaiten"

    • @yoloeveryday9057
      @yoloeveryday9057 5 років тому +23

      @@bhuraqe its a torpedo diven by human

    • @finnishwehraboo8377
      @finnishwehraboo8377 5 років тому +5

      V1 flyn by germans was also made :)

    • @razgriss5882
      @razgriss5882 5 років тому +16

      well to be fair, the fritz x was only ever used in three different occasion and only sank one ship, the Italian battleship roma

  • @theniceumbrella7174
    @theniceumbrella7174 3 роки тому +323

    Girls:boys dont know what true sadness is
    Boys:

  • @ajaxx9492
    @ajaxx9492 3 роки тому +18

    I had the pleasure of seeing one in Virginia at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. I don't know if it's a replica but either way, the image of such a beautiful craft with a bomb plunger and sight at the tip is unforgettable. Such a fitting name

  • @yannicknharts4176
    @yannicknharts4176 8 років тому +610

    i`ve heared that kamikaze pilots drank alcohol before flying into death. is that true?

    • @Fubbo
      @Fubbo  8 років тому +236

      I believe it was actually tea.

    • @user-gu7ux7qr1z
      @user-gu7ux7qr1z 7 років тому +75

      ノ~。水です。末期の水

    • @Fubbo
      @Fubbo  7 років тому +87

      Oh okay! Thanks!

    • @hrafnkellorrirastarson7544
      @hrafnkellorrirastarson7544 7 років тому +143

      It was Sake which is Rice Wine

    • @nobinobiii
      @nobinobiii 7 років тому +57

      Hell No! That was " the Last water " ( Matsugono Mizu in Japanese) .

  • @sovietboom6243
    @sovietboom6243 5 років тому +9

    Wow.Made me tear up. Espacially the music and the cherry blossoms at the very end.

  • @legendarypussydestroyer6943
    @legendarypussydestroyer6943 5 років тому +72

    2:10 "YAAAA!!" *sound of crashing and death*

    • @The_Str4nger
      @The_Str4nger 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/ETFNSVNQqfE/v-deo.html

  • @obliviousdenji
    @obliviousdenji 3 роки тому +3

    Yoooo thank you SO much for showing the back of the cherry blossom cause I was trying to make the plane in simple planes lol and idk what the engines looked like

  • @ferrilatamig8153
    @ferrilatamig8153 6 років тому +953

    *IT'S OVER JAPANAKIN, I HAVE THE HIGH SEAS!*

    • @Fubbo
      @Fubbo  6 років тому +206

      "You underestimate my Kamikaze!"
      "....Don't fly it...."

    • @ojoconlosvideos
      @ojoconlosvideos 6 років тому +11

      Usa Capi/imperialist detected

    • @kostan55
      @kostan55 4 роки тому +6

      Fubbo LMAOOO

    • @kostan55
      @kostan55 4 роки тому +3

      A. Williams LMAOOO

    • @azathoth2067
      @azathoth2067 4 роки тому +25

      @@FubboYOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE BOATS! NOT JOIN THEM!!!

  • @lennyfais5040
    @lennyfais5040 7 років тому +242

    The animation, combined with the music, was very moving. You could feel the overall melancholy despair of the mission.
    You know, despite their fanaticism and destructive wake, the Kamikaze, I always felt sorry for them. Bunch of young pilots who threw their lives away for nothing, and they did it willingly out of devotion to their emperor. I remember one level in a game I played where I, somehow had to protect a carrier from these Ohka planes, it was tough, but I beat it. But then I thought, "Jesus, all this for a war they're still gonna lose, what about their families? What were they thinking?"
    I also admit to nearly tearing up at the cherry blossom leaf at the end. Clever symbolism my friend...
    This video earns my 10/10

    • @Fubbo
      @Fubbo  7 років тому +19

      Rancor Palmach thank you! You are the first person toPoint out the Cherry Blossom falling at the end thank you for recognizing it

    • @lennyfais5040
      @lennyfais5040 7 років тому

      No problem!

    • @charleschapman6810
      @charleschapman6810 6 років тому +2

      it was all based a fatal misunderstandinfgofthe Americans-who had also sacrificed thousands sons fightingtheirway across the pacific. Nothingthre kamikaziscould do was goingto convince them to sail back to San Franciscans leave Japan with its conquests!japan chose warts the death-andthat'sexactly what they got!Replacement she, aircraft and pilots were being produced faster than Japancould damage them-andthe A-bombwasalready closeto operational.

    • @fortheholyland8615
      @fortheholyland8615 5 років тому

      Damn right/same

    • @Chino56751
      @Chino56751 5 років тому +5

      They were crazy, and not in a good way

  • @canobenitez
    @canobenitez 2 роки тому

    awesome vid Fubbo, would like to see more vids with technical details as well as your sensible editing

  • @IV-dp4xu
    @IV-dp4xu 3 роки тому +6

    I love this piece of art. The sea remembers its own

  • @57thorns
    @57thorns 6 років тому +23

    I can't check you historical accuracy, but you did cover the subject in a respectful manner. You deserve credits for that.

    • @Fubbo
      @Fubbo  6 років тому +3

      57thorns thank you! Sources are cited at the bottom of the description.

    • @managerofthecostumeparty5090
      @managerofthecostumeparty5090 3 роки тому

      Fubbo what did you use to make this video

  • @mexicobasado8177
    @mexicobasado8177 3 роки тому +128

    The simple idea of a plane designed specificly for this is specially sad,

    • @therealspeedwagon1451
      @therealspeedwagon1451 2 роки тому +5

      Even the Germans made this but at least they knew not to pointlessly sacrifice manpower in a human missile

    • @therealspeedwagon1451
      @therealspeedwagon1451 2 роки тому

      @Jon yeah well it’s different cultures. They were taught that it’s about the group more than the individual and that serving your country is one of your biggest purposes in life. They would rather die than surrender and even today Japan has a very high suicide rate because the only way to get them to surrender was to make them give up their warrior culture. Hell after WWII Japan abolished its army even though America didn’t want it to. Nowadays their military is more for national defense and not for interests abroad.

    • @Ko_Kasumi
      @Ko_Kasumi 2 роки тому +2

      The most sad part was the results it got...horrifyingly enough the average Kamikaze attack costed less lives to pull off than a conventional one...

  • @stevenwallman2346
    @stevenwallman2346 3 роки тому +63

    The allied reporting name for this aircraft was “Baka”, over 800 were built but only seven vessels, all escorts or supply ships, were sunk or damaged by “Baka bombs.” No major combatants of any kind were successfully attacked by Ohkas. They were usually destroyed before launching from their slow moving “Betty” bomber carrier plane.
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_MXY-7_Ohka

    • @J4CK_COMB4T
      @J4CK_COMB4T 3 роки тому +10

      Baka mitai

    • @outdoorfreedom9778
      @outdoorfreedom9778 3 роки тому +5

      Baka also became a slang name for crazy or stupid in Japanese.

    • @J4CK_COMB4T
      @J4CK_COMB4T 3 роки тому +5

      But baka mean fool in Japanese

    • @ghostyperson3160
      @ghostyperson3160 3 роки тому +1

      Bruh um thats fake news if i ever heard one

    • @J4CK_COMB4T
      @J4CK_COMB4T 3 роки тому

      @@ghostyperson3160 are you a vegan ?

  • @EvilMunkee08
    @EvilMunkee08 5 років тому +5

    The comparison between the cherry blossom and the kamikaze pilots moved me to the point of me writing a series of waka poems. Thank you for this

  • @patrickjan7896
    @patrickjan7896 3 роки тому +8

    This is honestly the most emotional documentary I've ever seen

  • @BlackCatRedScarf
    @BlackCatRedScarf 5 років тому +31

    For a second I thought this would be a meme video.
    I end up with tears in my eyes.

  • @user-sx7ir9lu3c
    @user-sx7ir9lu3c 4 роки тому +54

    From Japane to you. 日本人より🇯🇵🕊
    The idea that no one wants to die is the same for the Japanese people at that time. They decided they would attack because they thought they could protect their family and as many people as possible. They were more afraid of family deaths than themselves. They didn't like the deaths of more people than themselves. They just wanted to prevent their allies from dying. We cannot forgive the government at the time that created such a tragic situation. And this has to be passed on to the next generation in order not to repeat the same tragedy.
    My point is that we have to avoid war.
    (I'm sorry for my broken English.)

    • @cageverrette4388
      @cageverrette4388 4 роки тому

      I love how you can speak English how is the weather up in Japan? Do they make weird food? Do they have the highest suicide rates?😭😭😥😥😥

    • @user-sx7ir9lu3c
      @user-sx7ir9lu3c 4 роки тому +7

      It's raining in Tokyo. Japan has a lot of water because it has a lot of rainfall and snowfall.
      Japanese food respects various fresh ingredients and their characteristics, and expresses the beauty of nature and the changing seasons. In Japan, DASHI, Japanese soup stockis, always used when making soup. The soup stock is extremely delicious because it makes the most of the umami components, such as glutamic acid, inosine acid, and guanylic acid, contained in the food. Japanese food is healthy due to its excellent nutritional balance, and the obesity rate of Japanese is about one-tenth that of the United States.
      I heard that a policeman killed a non-resisting human in the United States. Murder cases rarely occur in Japan. Japan has one-twentieth the murder rate per capita as compared to the United States.

    • @guychem7638
      @guychem7638 4 роки тому

      AznGuy Jr.
      You seem very foolish🙃
      You had better cure your brain lmao.
      Oh sorry I forgot that you can't understand English😜

    • @theodoros9428
      @theodoros9428 4 роки тому +1

      @@cageverrette4388 You are an indiot

    • @theodoros9428
      @theodoros9428 4 роки тому +1

      Ugaki has said .This monstrous method saw as all the mistakes which we did after Perl Harbor .
      The first mission of ohka was a completed failure The Hellkats destroyed 15 Betty's bombers and Ugaki when he heard that started to cry .
      I want to say something Japan never said sorry about the wars crimes which committed
      Never. Like the Turks with the Armenians . Salute from Greece

  • @tulipan57
    @tulipan57 7 років тому +296

    Official number of kamikaze flights was almost 5500. Some of them never even saw enemy, breaking down on the way to the mission. Most attackers were shoot down by aa guns or fighters. Only 8 to 9 % realy hit targets.

    • @gdd29
      @gdd29 7 років тому +45

      Very true. But 8 to 9% hit was quite high at that time for us Japanese against American fleet which were equiped with their sophisficated fire control systems with VT fuse technology and the radar based picket line tactics with lots of their advanced F6F air cover. Conventional torpedo attack and dive bombing by IJN Air Corps made only 0 to 1% hit in 1945...that is the number which was 85% only 3 years before, in 1942 in Indian Osean against the Royal Navy. How fast Americans developed their technology in 3 years is why we didn't have choice other than Kamikaze in 1945 and that's why we still respect the Americans.

    • @NotNibrasakhi
      @NotNibrasakhi 6 років тому +25

      When your plane gets hit but manages to hit the target
      *top 10 anime comebacks*

    • @AmbroseBoaBowie
      @AmbroseBoaBowie 6 років тому +9

      HaloPro096 I would hardly call throwing 18 year-olds at American ships worthy. How much of this war do you actually know if cause America V Japan was nothing like America V Germany. It was a whole nother monster

    • @lohphat
      @lohphat 6 років тому +5

      Compare the strategy to that of ICBM warfare. You make clustered warheads comprised mostly of decoys -- perhaps 20x the number of real warheads.
      That means that any anti-ICBM technology must destroy EVERY incoming warhead as any percentage of real warheads which make it through will still destroy the target. Destroying all incoming projectiles is numerically impossible.
      Mutual Assured Destruction.

    • @cloroxbleach9222
      @cloroxbleach9222 6 років тому +5

      8-10 percent was actually more than conventional attacks by Japan

  • @TheNeena30
    @TheNeena30 4 роки тому +10

    This song really touches your heart

  • @user-zd6qw3jv8r
    @user-zd6qw3jv8r 3 роки тому

    Great video!! I saw your video because I've just recommended your video by UA-cam.

  • @wompstopm123
    @wompstopm123 2 місяці тому

    this video never fails to give me the feels

  • @chrisvesy7245
    @chrisvesy7245 5 років тому +126

    They gave us the "cherry blossom" so we gave them the "magic mushroom".....

  • @stevebaer50
    @stevebaer50 6 років тому +58

    Most kamikaze were shot down but very few actually hit their target.

    • @muhammadthepeacemaker106
      @muhammadthepeacemaker106 5 років тому +2

      Not this one do..it was so fast that thr guns can't even hit it.

    • @Bialy_1
      @Bialy_1 5 років тому +10

      @@muhammadthepeacemaker106 if you fly "so fast" and you are flying toward the guy that is shoting at you then every bullet that is able to hit you have much more power... its basic physics. And its not so hard to hit the guy especialy that in the end he needs to hit the ship not some random place so in the last moment you can not do any manuvers with your plane.

    • @Doyle-
      @Doyle- 3 роки тому

      They Biggest Ship Sink By Kamikazes Were Casablanca Escort Carriers, USS Bismarck Sea In Battle Of Iwo Jima

    • @remigiuszdarmach4233
      @remigiuszdarmach4233 3 роки тому +1

      Americans was so afraid of kamikaze pilots because they where dangerous even after their plane was shoot down. If you shoot down plane it won't magical disappear but it will continue to fall, Japanese pilots knew that so they where approaching USA ships by flying straight down on them. I seen bunch of historical videos showing shoot down kamikaze planes that turned into ball of fire and hit the ship anyway.

    • @baskapat5239
      @baskapat5239 3 роки тому +1

      @@muhammadthepeacemaker106 Yet thier tiny dicks could not stop America from kicking their back to their main island.

  • @rdrdrd7777
    @rdrdrd7777 5 років тому +1

    I like the plane animation, very nice!

  • @silentrider4372
    @silentrider4372 3 роки тому +8

    imagine all alone in a quiet place then suddenly hear "Tenno Heika Banzai"

  • @paulpwns8054
    @paulpwns8054 4 роки тому +3

    Dude. Those song choices were fcking perfect.

  • @cidneverwas5481
    @cidneverwas5481 3 роки тому +11

    I'd never heard of the Ohka until now... I have to say my regret for the pilots sacrifice is tempered by the knowledge of how they collectively treated prisoners and the peoples of the lands they invaded.

  • @daniel_dumile
    @daniel_dumile Рік тому +1

    This was amazing for a high school project

  • @rogerdodger8415
    @rogerdodger8415 5 років тому

    Wow! What a beauty!! Not those that died or got killed by it, but the design.

  • @kimmer6
    @kimmer6 6 років тому +46

    My dad was in on the Saipan invasion. He called these Baka Bombs and said they had a huge warhead but weren't very good. A lot of them were shot down by Navy fighters before being released.

    • @superbmediacontentcreator
      @superbmediacontentcreator 6 років тому +5

      I am sure your Dad means well but they were historically remarkably effective weapon. The term "Baka" means fool but that was a term that the common Europeans had for what they thought was a foolish self-sacrifice...

    • @stevetobe4494
      @stevetobe4494 5 років тому +14

      @@superbmediacontentcreator The Ohka was not effective at all.

    • @vietphuongbong3441
      @vietphuongbong3441 5 років тому +2

      @@stevetobe4494 the average shot down rate/sunk ship between normal planes and these kamikaze planes?
      6 normal/3.7 kamikaze.
      Almost twice as efficent.

    • @gelf6303
      @gelf6303 4 роки тому

      they would be good if launched, key word if, lol.

    • @Ropetor
      @Ropetor 3 роки тому +4

      @@superbmediacontentcreator out of 800 okha, only 7 hit a ship the biggest one sunk was a Fletcher class dd.
      Normal kamikaze where a Lot More effective

  • @Firenamer2
    @Firenamer2 6 років тому +10

    *Description:* EDIT: I don't know why, but as of 2/13/18 This video has been getting about 5K views a day For the past week...
    *Response:* Welcome to UA-cam

    • @Fubbo
      @Fubbo  6 років тому

      catzoo I know right?

    • @notagoodpilot8161
      @notagoodpilot8161 6 років тому

      I think I know why, "Military History; Visualized" publish a video on Kamikazes and if they were more efficient that a regular attack on an Aircraft Carrier, Which it turned out to be. He talked about this "Plane" (Manned Missile), the Ohka and how it served on the high end of the technology spectrum for Kamikazes.

  • @sathishashokkumar6849
    @sathishashokkumar6849 4 роки тому

    I'm really touched by this video.

  • @deralbtraumritter8573
    @deralbtraumritter8573 3 роки тому +1

    This video is underrated. Beautiful music, editing, even the text clips... And unlike most ppl, their English is really good (there's ppl who are in America who miss type words and such on video titles and also in the video too. Wetherbe to try and be ' hip ' and ' cool ' or whatever)...

  • @users4007
    @users4007 3 роки тому +29

    Teacher: tomorrow we will be learning to fly planes
    That one Japanese kid:

    • @albee8259
      @albee8259 3 роки тому +1

      Since when does a teacher teach his/her students to fly plane

    • @FuriouzJeth
      @FuriouzJeth 3 роки тому +7

      @@channelmoved2014 Correction: the emo japanese kid:

    • @blutimberry
      @blutimberry 3 роки тому +3

      My correction: The Japanese kid whos grandfather is a kamikaze pilot

  • @pepeeateer
    @pepeeateer 3 роки тому +3

    I like how they said see you back at home base right in front of the kamikanze

  • @k.w.churchill4397
    @k.w.churchill4397 3 роки тому

    LIFE! So beautiful and delicate ! How could anyone think it could last ?

  • @rogerkay8603
    @rogerkay8603 2 роки тому

    Poignant stuff mate.

  • @thomasimalski7580
    @thomasimalski7580 5 років тому +18

    The greatest Respect, to this Soldiers! 🇯🇵

    • @rrangwooo
      @rrangwooo 3 роки тому +1

      And it should never be repeated

    • @baskapat5239
      @baskapat5239 3 роки тому

      For murderers.

    • @thomasimalski7580
      @thomasimalski7580 3 роки тому

      @@baskapat5239
      Before I would write anything, I would think carefully beforehand, or do you know the way of, Bushido,, !

    • @baskapat5239
      @baskapat5239 3 роки тому

      @@thomasimalski7580 Doesn't justify their genocide in Asia.

    • @baskapat5239
      @baskapat5239 3 роки тому

      @@thomasimalski7580 but it's ok, im not gonna roast you or do something like that, im just stating a fact from another point of view

  • @jaytea4093
    @jaytea4093 5 років тому +4

    2:16 "Let's go home"
    Because that's totally how Kamikaze attacks work.

  • @nilz5909
    @nilz5909 2 роки тому +1

    Absolutely beautiful and poetic

  • @champagnegascogne9755
    @champagnegascogne9755 3 роки тому +1

    In early 1945, Saratoga participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima as a dedicated night fighter carrier. Several days into the battle, she was badly damaged by kamikaze hits and was forced to return to the United States for repairs. While under repair, the ship, now increasingly obsolete, was permanently modified as a training carrier with some of her hangar deck converted into classrooms. Saratoga remained in this role for the rest of the war and was then used to ferry troops back to the United States after the Japanese surrender in August. In mid-1946, the ship was a target for nuclear weapon tests during Operation Crossroads. She survived the first test with little damage, but was sunk by the second test.

  • @1mplies
    @1mplies 3 роки тому +32

    その「さようなら」と聞いた時に深く感動して泣いちゃった

    • @user-pv6fc5lg5m
      @user-pv6fc5lg5m 3 роки тому +3

      靖国で会うんだから
      さようならとは言わないだろw
      直面する死に対する恐怖を紛らわせるには
      靖国で祀って貰えるという事だけ

    • @clhwhiffleball4418
      @clhwhiffleball4418 3 роки тому +1

      Yall not planing another Kamikaze right?

    • @303pilot8
      @303pilot8 2 роки тому

      @@clhwhiffleball4418 lol

    • @junkmaru
      @junkmaru 2 роки тому

      たしかにさよならはないな

  • @allahsnackbar9915
    @allahsnackbar9915 7 років тому +178

    i think its insane that they actually did this

    • @BenM
      @BenM 7 років тому +10

      perfectly normal

    • @allahsnackbar9915
      @allahsnackbar9915 7 років тому +37

      just how much brainwashing does it take to make someone believe its a good idea to blow themselves up for the sake of another person, either real or fictional? we see the same with suicide bombers. i dont really think any sane person would do anything like this.

    • @BenM
      @BenM 7 років тому +30

      At the time it was the best choice a pilot had. Also you have to understand social norms. The Japanese deemed what they did in China to be normal, thus they expected the US military to commit the same atrocities to them. Thus thousands of civilians were convinced to commit suicide to avoid getting raped by the US Marine Corps.

    • @lespaulguitarist92
      @lespaulguitarist92 7 років тому +18

      my guess is that they were extremely patriotic and when your nation is on the verge of being invaded... you'll happily gave your life away an attempt to save it?

    • @WarblesOnALot
      @WarblesOnALot 6 років тому +2

      G'day,
      Why would you think that ?
      British & Commonwealth Aircrews had to fly 30 Missions on an Operational Tour with 5% Average Chop-Rate per Mission, so they were 150% statistically-dead after the first Tour, and after a 6-month "Rest" while instructing on clapped-out obsolete Aircraft then they had to fly a second Tour...; the 3rd Tour was Voluntary, unless they were posted to Pathfinders for their 2nd Tour, & the PFF had 60 Mission Tours, with a 10% average Chop-Rate.
      If a Politician tells you to take Pay to try to kill a Stranger, because "your National Honour requires it of you...", and you agree to that proposition ; then you're a Murderous Mercenary and you richly deserve EVERYTHING which subsequently "goes wrong" with the mess you made of what's left of your Life.
      "THOU SHALT NOT KILL....!" ; is the Commandment.
      Kamikazes were not "Mad", they were "Patriotic Murderers" ; just as was EVERYBODY that they killed.
      Because, y'see.., the Creator-God of the whole Universe is not AmeriKan, nor Japanese ; so both sides were equally blasphemous Murderers, deserving to be composted.
      Fair is Fair, after all.
      ;-p
      Ciao !

  • @hannorasmusholtiegel6044
    @hannorasmusholtiegel6044 5 років тому

    I can watch this over and over again

  • @jimwortham8634
    @jimwortham8634 3 роки тому

    Plain and simple thanks for posting so glad I clicked

  • @yonaoimete
    @yonaoimete 5 років тому +6

    Ohka(Cherry blossom) was a very sad airplane.
    It could take off the land and landing.
    But it didn't take off nor land itself.
    When Mitsubishi G4M took off with Ohka,
    that was the end of Ohka. Ohka would never landed.

  • @johnhanley9946
    @johnhanley9946 5 років тому +27

    I don't think the ohka was the most deadly kamikaze weapon, they weren't too successful, as I recall...

    • @artmoss6889
      @artmoss6889 5 років тому +6

      You're right. From what I've read, suicide attacks by traditional airplanes were more successful, if only because they were much more numerous, than okhas. Moreover, there is no record of an ohka ever getting near an aircraft carrier. All US naval ships sunk or forced to withdraw due to ohka attacks were small ships such as destroyers.

  • @user-cs5dr7ln1d
    @user-cs5dr7ln1d 5 років тому +41

    桜花…機体のデザインは…好きだが…特攻用に作られたデザインだと思ったら…なんかなぁ
    追記 素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます。この悲惨な歴史をもっと伝えていって欲しいです。
    あ、チャンネル登録しました

    • @babymagnam
      @babymagnam 4 роки тому +9

      桜花の設計者、三木忠直はずっと後悔し続け、戦後『日本の役に立てるなら』と
      史上初の超高速鉄道『0系新幹線』に携わります。
      桜花と0系新幹線のデザイン、どことなく似ているように見えます。

    • @kamkam_99
      @kamkam_99 4 роки тому +9

      大型空母どころか護衛空母にすら突っ込んだという戦果は無く、輪形陣の最外縁の駆逐艦やピケット艦に突っ込むのがせいぜい。
      それ以前に発射に至れば幸運で母機ごと被撃墜が多数だったので、誇張がすぎて桜花関連の動画は歴史を伝えるには不適当なものが多いのが問題。
      「コクピット」すら美化がすぎる。
      唾棄すべき兵器と唾棄すべき作戦で、無駄に命を散らしたことをちゃんと伝えて、次こそ合理的に戦うようにしなければ、英霊も浮かばれない。

    • @babymagnam
      @babymagnam 4 роки тому +5

      @@kamkam_99 アメリカ軍が『BAKA bom』ってコードネーム付けるくらいですからね…
      確かに桜花関連はいかにも第戦果を挙げたようなモノが多い気がします。

    • @cv-6ussenterprise326
      @cv-6ussenterprise326 4 роки тому +4

      @@kamkam_99 やっぱり、その方が見映えがいいからじゃないかね。言い方は悪いけど。

    • @user-up4hs3cj5v
      @user-up4hs3cj5v 3 роки тому +2

      見た目好きなんだよな
      特攻兵器じゃなければ

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 Рік тому +1

    Information;
    They did build a 2 place practice plane, with instructor.
    The plane landed at high speed on a skid.
    Then you got to fly the real thing.
    Actually, totally necessary.

  • @williamtay741
    @williamtay741 8 років тому +412

    Yes japan occupied my country in ww2 and gave us foul treatment but I still respect these ohka pilots. It is never easy to be a Kamikaze personal, you will never know the feeling of it until you are about to do it. The different between a soldier and a Kamikaze is that as a soldier you still know you have a chance to return home while Kamikaze you know for sure you are never returning home. Never again seeing your love ones, how will you feel?

    • @eastdream20001
      @eastdream20001 8 років тому +30

      +khant tun They literally threw their lives, to protect their land and people. You might not believe, but back then "their people" included your grand parents, as exactly same as people in Japan.

    • @sphinxrising6563
      @sphinxrising6563 7 років тому +3

      POSER

    • @ClubMicrobio
      @ClubMicrobio 6 років тому

      In my opinion once you get the decision of being a kamikaze is quite easier to deal with war because there is no chance at all, all the tickets are sold ..

    • @rictherealtor
      @rictherealtor 6 років тому +2

      Fool!

    • @superbmediacontentcreator
      @superbmediacontentcreator 6 років тому +5

      Your analysis is so far from the reality. I really suggest you do a bit more research before attempting to be an amateur oriental historian...

  • @user-up2vm4go1k
    @user-up2vm4go1k 4 роки тому +6

    戦争でお亡くなりになった尊い命に合掌。

  • @crusaderfrost2757
    @crusaderfrost2757 Рік тому

    This hits unbelievable hard for some reason

  • @gado7543
    @gado7543 2 роки тому +1

    Damn Il-2 Sturnmorvik 1946 i love this game

  • @alifnaufal
    @alifnaufal 7 років тому +284

    This is so sad and very depressing

    • @762forest_railway
      @762forest_railway 6 років тому +7

      Even today Japanese people will do the same thing at any time
      For Japan

    • @drongojonkins8945
      @drongojonkins8945 5 років тому +15

      Well,, living on the Asian seaboard myself,, If Japan wasn't stopped we'd all be speaking Japanese now. We saw how they treated the Chinese in the 30's and POWs during the war. They were war-like and cruel, considering anyone who was not Japanese as animals, and they were the aggressors who started the war (along with the Nazis). Yes they were brave pilots, but no braver than anyone else. These pilots were the victims of a cruel Imperial order who sacrificed their lives in planes that mostly didnt even work, robbing these proud men of even having success in death.

    • @wavular
      @wavular 5 років тому

      really? makes me want to go out and buy a drone and crash it! lol

    • @williammcdonough7521
      @williammcdonough7521 5 років тому +4

      But magnificent in a way, that men were willing to sacrifice their lives in honor of their Nation !

    • @williammcdonough7521
      @williammcdonough7521 5 років тому +6

      @@drongojonkins8945 Dont be absurd...Japan had no intention of invading the huge USA ! Texas has the same land area as all of Japan ! The Japanese had just hoped to rule their neck of the woods after tossing out the White Men who were stealing natural resources from all over Asia..

  • @a.-.f_k
    @a.-.f_k 5 років тому +26

    I'm so excited for my first day of work!
    *dies on the first day*

  • @parvuspeach
    @parvuspeach 2 роки тому

    2021 algorithm is still pushing you :)

  • @Red-Magic
    @Red-Magic 3 роки тому

    For something that's purpose is very dark...
    that's the most befitting name I've ever heard for any plane

  • @cloroxbleach9222
    @cloroxbleach9222 5 років тому +10

    Many Kamikazes broke down before flight or regretted their decision mid-flight, however the tactic was still used since it was less costlier in planes than conventional attacks and the pilots can be resupplied easily

    • @person5476
      @person5476 2 роки тому

      @So not Halal mode bro they probabally had blackboxes or heard it over the radio

  • @Samuel-ok5yu
    @Samuel-ok5yu 5 років тому +3

    Guy: See you Back at Base
    Ohka pilots: so that was a
    Fucking lie

  • @A.G.798
    @A.G.798 4 місяці тому +1

    Der Nachteil der Ohka-Bombe war das sie von einem langsamen 2 Motorigen Bomber geschleppt werden musste, und die Alliierten nicht nur über die absolute Luftüberlegenheit, sondern auch über ein weitreichendes gutes Radar verfügten, und somit die Trägerflugzeuge samt Ohka-Bombe lange vor ereichen des Abwurfpunkts abschießen konnten.

  • @TopGunFan47
    @TopGunFan47 Рік тому

    why- why is this so emotional-

  • @noseefood1943
    @noseefood1943 3 роки тому +3

    As a flower I am cherry blossom as a man I am samurai. - unknown warrior

  • @wimpwampwomp
    @wimpwampwomp 3 роки тому +5

    Japanese officers: We're losing men
    Motoharu Okamura: Lose more
    Officers: Wh-
    Okamura: _lose more_

  • @anic0806
    @anic0806 Рік тому

    切り離す際の「さようなら」が哀愁を感じさせますね。
    本当はどんなやりとりをしたんだろう…

  • @farhanpratama0285
    @farhanpratama0285 3 роки тому +8

    German V1 flying bomb : with autopilot
    Japan Cherry Blossom : with human.

    • @nps6566
      @nps6566 2 роки тому

      Kawasaki Ki-147 I-Go Type 1A - Ko

  • @klaatubaraadanikto110
    @klaatubaraadanikto110 3 роки тому +5

    The Ohka was specifically designed as part of "Operation Ketsugo", the Japanese home-island defense plan. We needed to capture the southern island of Kyushu first, as a staging area, and unlike D-day, the Japanese knew exactly where we would need to land. According to US Dept of Defense, by Nov-Dec of '45, the time of the planned invasion, here's what we would have been facing:
    OVER-THE-HORIZON, FOR FLEET ATTACK:
    > Kamikaze pilots & planes, many of them Ohkas: ...................... 10k - 12k
    > Kamikaze "Kaiten", manned torpedoes ..................................... 120
    > 2-man, midget suicide subs, packed with explosives .............. 400
    > Operational fleet submarines: ..................................................... 46
    CLOSE-IN, TO ATTACK LANDING CRAFT:
    > Hi-Speed Shinyo suicide boats: ........................................... 2,400
    > Frogmen with explosives: .................................................... 4,000
    ON THE LAND:
    > Japanese Imperial Army: ........................................................ 4.3 million
    > Civilian population actively resisting: ................................. 25-30 million.
    It would have been a bloodbath! The A-bombs saved lives on all sides.

    • @ElRifrawad
      @ElRifrawad 2 роки тому

      wheneve i hear Americans saying "mass killings saved lives" i have to step back in awe of the sheer mental gymnastics and denial it would take for someone to wholeheartedly make this statement.

    • @bobsq5099
      @bobsq5099 2 роки тому

      @@ElRifrawad He aint wrong. Killing a few hundred thousand is much, much of a better cost than killing 40+ million in infinitely worse ways. Both are shit options but the atom bombs were the less shit option.

  • @dwarvenmoray
    @dwarvenmoray 5 років тому +5

    My great grandfather fought in the pacific. He told stories of him shooting down Japanese kamikaze planes. As an American point of view, I can really say that the Japanese have some courage. They are willing to sacrifice themselves for their country, respects.

    • @Askhat08
      @Askhat08 4 роки тому +1

      They should've just surrender instead of pointlessly wasting lifes.

    • @dwarvenmoray
      @dwarvenmoray 4 роки тому

      @@Askhat08 Yes, obviously good point. The Japanese used to believe that surrender is the ultimate dishonor, & that dying in battle was the highest. Now, my philosophy is that if you survive, you won something. Try not to die though.

  • @overwatchelite4083
    @overwatchelite4083 4 роки тому +1

    "Named "Ohka" or "chery blossom" because the falling blossom never returns to the tree... Just as the pilot of ohka will never return home." Sounds so deep but that just gave me a meaning of the MXY 7 Ohka

  • @insolentstickleback3266
    @insolentstickleback3266 3 роки тому +2

    That spirit for your children, your country, it is beautiful.

    • @stefan2292
      @stefan2292 2 роки тому

      Calm yourself. Japan was defeated and occupied by Americans. It became a prosperous, successful, respected, peaceful nation. So the sacrifice was pointless and unnecessary. Nothing beautiful about it.

    • @insolentstickleback3266
      @insolentstickleback3266 2 роки тому

      @@stefan2292 Telling others how to think and feel on the internet is a fools errand. It demonstrates a level of presumption one would be wise to avoid.

    • @stefan2292
      @stefan2292 2 роки тому

      @@insolentstickleback3266 Depends. Sometimes it's a good thing. Like in this case.

    • @insolentstickleback3266
      @insolentstickleback3266 2 роки тому

      @@stefan2292 Stefan, you're barking up the wrong tree.

  • @f-4j986
    @f-4j986 4 роки тому +11

    1:27 さようなら
    がめっちゃ感動?泣けてくるんだけど

  • @Oldbmwr100rs
    @Oldbmwr100rs 6 років тому +6

    One guy I knew when I lived in san Francisco told me his grandfather eventually told the family his job in the Japanese air service was training young men to fly kamikaze missions. I thought that was a really rough thing to live with from his grandad's position.

    • @Fubbo
      @Fubbo  6 років тому +1

      That's crazy! Thanks for sharing!

    • @charleschapman6810
      @charleschapman6810 6 років тому

      Ifthey'dbeen abletotrain pilots fast enough gr through the American CAP,they wouldn't have needed suiciders!And God knows they tried. They used motion ictureson multiple screen hitch to to the conrolsin a model cockpits [otdcouldgetusedtothe controls-andthe pitchandrolloftheir "aircraft"supplied by naval ratings liftingandshakingitoncue. What they neededcwas a computer to run their "simulator." But then they wouldn't havehadt waste half-trained pilot get awarheaon target!

  • @IGNACY-fp8zo
    @IGNACY-fp8zo 4 роки тому

    I’ve seen one of these at the Smithsonian. Extremely interesting plane.

  • @jerrysnider1950
    @jerrysnider1950 4 роки тому

    Truly well done a salute to human spirit

  • @greenvirdy
    @greenvirdy 4 роки тому +5

    I felt weird and a little horrified when he said *bomb's away*

  • @stuka6727
    @stuka6727 3 роки тому +10

    Bomber pilot : direct hit let go home!
    Kamikaze pilot : wait for me!

  • @Momo_Kawashima
    @Momo_Kawashima 3 роки тому +1

    Man one day I wish I'll be able to fly in one of those

  • @alm5992
    @alm5992 3 роки тому

    I've never felt so sad watching an Il-2 video before.

  • @striker-2104
    @striker-2104 5 років тому +4

    1:33 is like a bullet to the chest that struck me hard...

  • @user-hj8fg3qh1u
    @user-hj8fg3qh1u 5 років тому +37

    悲しい場面のはずなのに乗員の無線が普通に明るくてしんみり感じないwww

    • @e-sound2316
      @e-sound2316 3 роки тому +8

      渦中にいると案外そんなもんなのかもね…

    • @hideyan3367
      @hideyan3367 3 роки тому +2

      嫌だなぁ

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 3 роки тому +2

    I believe an Ohka actually sank one ship, split it in two. A few ships were damaged. For 600 Ohka pilots and Bettys, that was the result.
    Almost all Bettys were shot down in thir efforts.

  • @Renshen1957
    @Renshen1957 5 років тому +2

    On April 1st, 1945 an Ohka was thought to be successful in partially damaging a gun turret on the US Navy battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) off Okinawa. Transport ships were also hit during the same Kamikaze attack but it was uncertain whether these were Ohka’s or other Japanese aircraft. The first US Navy ship sunk by an Ohka was the destroyer USS Mannert L. Abele (DD-733) on April 12th, 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa. Less than 60 Okha’s are thought to have been used in actual combat. The US Navy's name for the Ohka, was Baka or Baka Bomb. The US Navy soon extended a defensive perimeter around
    the fleet with ships providing heavy anti-aircraft fire and combat air
    patrols to target the “Betty” bombers and take out the Ohka’s before they could be launched. Further ships were damaged in Ohka attacks at Okinawa but no capital ships were badly damaged yet alone destroyed and the overall impact of the Kamakase attacks using the rocket powered Ohka were deemed negligible in the battle.

  • @leehongjin6884
    @leehongjin6884 6 років тому +14

    I feel sad for the pilots

  • @tokumei1933
    @tokumei1933 3 роки тому +7

    “Because the falling blossom never returns to the tree, just as the pilot of the ohka will never return home”
    Damn that’s deep

  • @Gxhbro
    @Gxhbro 3 роки тому

    I have never cried this much

  • @dunruden9720
    @dunruden9720 3 роки тому +1

    There really was only ever one effective solution to a philosophy such as this!