By Three PM Americans Sank Yamato Yahagi Asashimo And Hamakaze

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  • @WW2Tales
    @WW2Tales  10 місяців тому +15

    Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 6 of memoirs of Two former officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, who tell their version of the history of the kamikaze attacks. One of them served as senior staff officer to Vice Admiral Takijiro Ohnishi, who initiated Japan's kamikaze attacks against American ships in the Philippines. Second Officer was flight operations officer for the 201st Air Group, which organized the first kamikaze special attack corps. Their memoirs cover the kamikaze operations from October 19, 1944, the date of the formation of the first kamikaze special attack corps, to the end of the war.
    Here is the link of the playlist
    ua-cam.com/play/PLGjbe3ikd0XFm1LjNNMlJPKSOtLwLatx3.html
    Link of Part 1 ua-cam.com/video/HLLlLZ2fSoI/v-deo.html
    Link of Part 2 ua-cam.com/video/Q5dmCSpJVRA/v-deo.html
    Link of Part 3 ua-cam.com/video/EKb2u_qdfFA/v-deo.html
    Link of Part 4 ua-cam.com/video/LKvGUqeXO8Q/v-deo.html
    Link of Part 5 ua-cam.com/video/q-7_babQE9M/v-deo.html

  • @willlockler9433
    @willlockler9433 10 місяців тому +11

    To be reckless is to aide the enemy. True words never spoken.

  • @rinkevichjm
    @rinkevichjm 10 місяців тому +18

    Indeed, the purity of youth did bring a divine wind of Hell Cats, Corsairs, Mustangs, Flying Fortresses, Super Fortresses, and Liberators

  • @MGood-ij1hi
    @MGood-ij1hi 10 місяців тому +41

    Ugaki's suicide mission failed to do any harm to the Americans, caused the senseless needless deaths of the young men who followed him, and showed that any claim to be a servant of his emperor was a lie by his disobedience of his emperor's command to surrender. A fitting end of the Kamikazes.

  • @MSMW23
    @MSMW23 10 місяців тому +34

    The argument still rages on the Unites Sates using the bomb to end the war. I think there is no doubt that in the dire situation they faced in 1944 and early 1945, Japan would have had no hesitation in using nuclear weapons, both tactically and strategically to achieve victory, had they developed them in time. And had the US not used atomic weapons, the whole nation of Japan being used as a special attack force to defend against invasion would have seen slaughter on scale never seen before in human history.

    • @davidphillips6803
      @davidphillips6803 10 місяців тому +5

      Very true.

    • @klackon1
      @klackon1 10 місяців тому +11

      Many of those criticising the use of atomic bombs never wore a uniform, let alone fought the fanatical Japanese.

    • @scottjones1109
      @scottjones1109 10 місяців тому +1

      All absolutely true.
      And I think it's evident the ignition of these 2 bombs over Japan and the resulting human & physical damage incurred has successfully discouraged anyone else's use of them against another country or people.
      At least so far.

    • @uffdad8211
      @uffdad8211 10 місяців тому +1

      The fact that the Russians finally decided to actively militarily enter the war against Japan at nearly the same time as the nuclear destruction of their two cities, may have also influenced their final decision to surrender. Caught between two powerful adversaries, the Japanese had realistically no other choice but to surrender to avoid complete annihilation as a country.

    • @uffdad8211
      @uffdad8211 10 місяців тому +1

      @@andrewtaylor940 Thank you for the added details! The deteriorating Japanese civilian situation, which added to the pressure to end the war, seems to have been greatly minimized by the West and you are absolutely right in pointing this out as a cofactor in Hirohito's decision to seek a way out to save his country from total ruin.

  • @rodneyperry3124
    @rodneyperry3124 10 місяців тому +8

    The word "special " has a nice ring to it when it's used as a substitute word

  • @feliksj.kwiatkowski2935
    @feliksj.kwiatkowski2935 10 місяців тому +14

    "A pressure which encouraged volunteering". .... deeelicious......

    • @Crumphorn
      @Crumphorn 10 місяців тому

      Yes, I would not like to be subject to the 'pressure' of a death-worshipping Japanese commander who saw my only value as a suicide bomb.

  • @stevewhite3424
    @stevewhite3424 10 місяців тому +47

    The admiral demands the right to choose a method of his death while sending tens of thousands of young men to die with no choice. Such arrogance.

    • @Slaktrax
      @Slaktrax 10 місяців тому

      Not if you understand the Japanese psyche. You cannot use western reasoning on a culture that is quite different.

    • @stevewhite3424
      @stevewhite3424 10 місяців тому +4

      @@Slaktrax I spent 3 years in Japan from early 2009 through late 2012. I am very familiar with their society.

    • @zeropoint546
      @zeropoint546 10 місяців тому +2

      @@Slaktrax Of course we can. After defeating them.

    • @RalphTempleton-vr6xs
      @RalphTempleton-vr6xs 6 місяців тому

      This seems a common thread in the IJN , issuing orders that result in senseless losses and deaths while they themselves sit safely in the homeland. One wonders; if these admirals were standing to on the bridges of these ships, would the orders have been the same

  • @charlesjames1442
    @charlesjames1442 10 місяців тому +12

    Ugaki wanted to die as a warrior. Instead, he ignored the wishes of the Emperor and instead committed a crime. If anyone died because of his attack then it was murder. A similar attack by Americans in reverse circumstances would have resulted in an orgy of Japanese retribution. He was not a warrior, he was a fanatic.

  • @Bob.W.
    @Bob.W. 10 місяців тому +18

    Picture appears to be Admiral Ugaki right before his infamous kamikaze attack AFTER Japan surrendered. He was criticized for taking other young fliers with him on the attack. The marines found him in a wrecked plane on a beach and used a rope and jeep, I think, to pull his body out of the plane.

  • @oldgysgt
    @oldgysgt 10 місяців тому +7

    It's telling that Japanese officers spoke of making any sacrifice to insure the continued existence of Japan, when in reality they were only trying to insure the continued existence of THEIR Japan. A Japan were feudal warlords and officers lived in their own world of privilege, and the vast majority of Japanese only lived to serve them in a "medieval" type of society. Japan itself was NEVER in danger of being removed from the earth. Anyone can look at Japan today if they are in doubt of that fact. During WWII the Japanese "leaders" and officers proved, by their savage mistreatment of prisoners and conquered people, that they had absolutely no honor at all. If that sounds harsh, check out 'The Rape of Nanking', by Iris Chang, copyright 1997.

  • @willamcombs1106
    @willamcombs1106 10 місяців тому +2

    I have watched almost all of these videos, assembled from diaries and memoirs written after the War was over and I can't help but feel the utter hopelessness, sadness that is the result of war. What a waste of everything decent. I hope and pray that God will judge those that made the ultimate sacrifice of their lives on all sides with mercy.

  • @Nochancet.v
    @Nochancet.v 10 місяців тому +8

    I dont know why but ive been in awe of ww2 since i was a wee lad from Birmingham 😮

    • @richardm3023
      @richardm3023 10 місяців тому

      Yer from Alabama? Roll Tide! Yeehah.

    • @Nochancet.v
      @Nochancet.v 10 місяців тому

      @@richardm3023 noooo the original birmingham england boyyyy

    • @richardm3023
      @richardm3023 10 місяців тому

      @@Nochancet.v yeehah! Roll...um...uh...Ashton Villa???

    • @Nochancet.v
      @Nochancet.v 10 місяців тому

      @richardm3023 yeah mate !!! Aston villa fc!!!! Or birmingham city fc

    • @richardm3023
      @richardm3023 10 місяців тому

      @@Nochancet.v honestly. I don't really watch much sports anymore. Seems either boring or fixed.

  • @Thor13332
    @Thor13332 10 місяців тому +43

    Idk. From what I've read a lot of pilots in the suicide squad were not so eager and were shamed, threatened and forced. I guess this is just from one person's perspective.

    • @petersouthernboy6327
      @petersouthernboy6327 10 місяців тому +7

      I've read accounts that some of the pilots had their canopies bolted shut and in grneral the planes were given only enough fuel to reach the target.

    • @Iamkcs2c
      @Iamkcs2c 10 місяців тому +8

      The author alluded to this at 15:55 "there developed a pressure that encouraged volunteering"

    • @petersouthernboy6327
      @petersouthernboy6327 10 місяців тому +7

      @@Iamkcs2c typically (Japanese) understated to the extreme.

    • @ChrisHyde537
      @ChrisHyde537 10 місяців тому +7

      @@Iamkcs2c”encouraged volunteering” is ominous

    • @pitchfo248
      @pitchfo248 10 місяців тому +3

      I’d like to read more true accounts of the kamikaze pilots and phenomenon. What book did you read and does anyone else have recommendations?

  • @rons4778
    @rons4778 10 місяців тому +13

    I am not a war veteran I just study and watch a lot of ww2 videos and from my perspective is that loosing your trained pilots is why wars are lost Germany in the Battle of Britain lost countless pilots captured or lost at sea because they had lousy air sea rescue the Japanese and their Kamikaze just dam crazy as an Australian I think the Americans with there tour of duty then go home and past their knowledge onto the new pilots

  • @markgrissom
    @markgrissom 10 місяців тому +5

    As a retired US Marine, I find these videos insightful, but very sad. While the willingness to give ones life in defense of his country is admirable on an individual level, to organize suicide attacks from the highest levels of command are despicable and reflect selfishness and corrupt leadership. Willingness to wantonly sacrifice your men and a significant portion of your civilian population is just plain evil.

  • @Bob.W.
    @Bob.W. 10 місяців тому +8

    Tameichi Hara was captain of the Yahagi. He got fished out of the water and survived to write his book.

  • @fredferd965
    @fredferd965 10 місяців тому +1

    In war, it is important to remember that honor and courage may be expressed in equal measure by the warriors and soldiers of any combatant nation. There are no nations of cowards. All young men will sacrifice and die, never mind what side they are on. The Americans and the Japanese were equally brave in battle. The only differences, really, were the ways in which they went about it. True to their culture, the Japanese thought as a group, not as individuals. It does not matter if they were the enemy at the time, honor and courage must be respected, no matter what its origin. In this, we must honor the Japanese.

  • @michaelgeraghty3989
    @michaelgeraghty3989 10 місяців тому +17

    Japan was wise to surrender in August 1945. The Soviets, having completed the fighting in Germany, saw an opportunity to secure a partial occupation of Japan and other formerly Japanese occupied territory. They blew through Manchuria and would've invaded Japan about the same time as the US. Life in postwar Japan would have been much worse had this occurred.

    • @Iamkcs2c
      @Iamkcs2c 10 місяців тому +4

      I read a Korean take on Japan's slowness to surrender. They viewed it as causing a greater catastrophe than just Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the Korean War. Had Japan surrendered earlier then the Korean peninsula would not have been partially occupied by the Soviets -> there would not have been a partition at the 38th parallel -> no war 5 years later.
      There were analysts who had called for surrender as early as mid 44. One guy went so far as to brief Tojo. Days later he was reassigned from Tokyo to China. xd

    • @Iamkcs2c
      @Iamkcs2c 10 місяців тому

      Also, the US promised the Soviets a lot of concessions at Potsdam in exchange for Soviet entry into the war 90 days after the defeat of Germany. Those specific promises were greater than the kind of generalized wishfulness Japan was offering as part of their fantasy plan to get the Soviets to take up arms beside Japan against the Anglosphere.

    • @barryb7682
      @barryb7682 10 місяців тому

      The Eastern campaign was pretty much a land grab as the Soviets steam rollered over the Japanese. Big reward for a month of work for Stalin....unlike the USA in the west who got 1/3 of half of Germany and half of Berlin.
      I guess the IOUs from arms sales was the big bonus for USA for European theater?

    • @michaelgeraghty3989
      @michaelgeraghty3989 10 місяців тому

      Okinawa is not considered one of the home islands. The Japanese wanted the sovereignty of the Emporer included as a condition of the surrender, but the US rejected this. Once MacArthur was in control he wisely took a laissez faire attitude on this.@@joesmith701

    • @michaelgeraghty3989
      @michaelgeraghty3989 10 місяців тому

      Interesting. Mao didn’t defeat the Kuomintang until 1948….probably too late to affect a division of Korea. Had the Soviets been occupying Manchuria, who knows how that would have worked out. @@Iamkcs2c

  • @richardthornhill4630
    @richardthornhill4630 10 місяців тому +2

    The glory days of Japan surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and SE Asia were forgotten.
    Gone were the memories of the thousands of their victims all across SE Pacific.
    The invaders forgot they were the cause of their own defeat. The aggression of their relentless assaults, murder of multitudes of innocent victims, use of captive women for their lusts, and devotion to evil were ignored as they sought to expand their empire across the South Pacific.
    At the end of the war and defeat inevitable, the war lords couldn't face the reality of their own aggression and cause of their defeat.

  • @MrDino1953
    @MrDino1953 10 місяців тому +6

    It’s curious how he notes, almost in passing, the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and makes no mention at all of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki or the reasons for it. Too painful maybe?

  • @AlGreenLightThroughGlass
    @AlGreenLightThroughGlass 10 місяців тому +7

    Such a talented bedding officer gone west. Squandered talent gone to waste

  • @ArnieD17
    @ArnieD17 10 місяців тому +2

    The folly of human beings is amazing. Germany and Japan somehow thought they could take on the easily two most powerful nations of the time, the USSR and the USA, and win. Add in the British empire, well the final outcome followed.

  • @russwetzel1972
    @russwetzel1972 10 місяців тому

    I would love to hear these as Podcasts with few commercials.
    otherwise great work.

    • @stischer47
      @stischer47 10 місяців тому

      What commercials? I have seen/heard none.

  • @shootfirst2097
    @shootfirst2097 10 місяців тому +3

    35:30 I wonder if the pilots just made the calls back to say they were making their final dive when they were really
    about to get shot down... and they just wanted to keep everybody's morale high

  • @MrDino1953
    @MrDino1953 10 місяців тому +4

    Is that plane in the photo a Suisei (“Judy”)?

    • @shootfirst2097
      @shootfirst2097 10 місяців тому +2

      I wondered that, too. I think it is the torpedo bomber... with the long greenhouse canopy.
      Seems too big for a fighter.

    • @japekto2138
      @japekto2138 10 місяців тому

      Yup. Judys have versions with an inline engine and a radial engine.

  • @JoseFernandez-qt8hm
    @JoseFernandez-qt8hm 10 місяців тому +6

    old men killing young men for nothing.....

  • @johnpower8356
    @johnpower8356 10 місяців тому +6

    Bataan death march
    Kamikeze
    The rape of Nan King
    Running the gauntlet
    And another 1/2 dozen reasons i have 0 sympathy for these people
    I wasn't born yet but i know enough. If not for the atomic bomb we would have had to land on the mainland and take it hand to hand with terrible losses. There are other nations not to be trusted ever again also. Weird thing tho, i guess not everybody remembers because it looks like war again

    • @zenden6564
      @zenden6564 10 місяців тому +2

      And of course, the supremely notorious and disgusting:
      "Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), short for Manshu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons"
      My father saw what unspeakable atrocities they did in New Guinea, and while that is not the worst by any means, he was traumatised for life by it. 😮

    • @53kenner
      @53kenner 10 місяців тому

      Ehhhhh... invading would have been stupid. Japan is a series of islands lacking critical natural resources. A naval blockade combined with naval and air bombardment would have led to mass starvation...along with casualties from ongoing attacks. Japan had no real means of resisting. Japanese casualties would have been even more horrific. Invasion was popular with Army and Marine generals who didn't want to cede position to the Navy and Army Air Force.

  • @amadeusamwater
    @amadeusamwater 10 місяців тому +3

    I wonder if some of their reports of damage to American ships weren't embellished by the pilots. It sounds as though half the fleet was put out of action.

    • @RalphTempleton-vr6xs
      @RalphTempleton-vr6xs 6 місяців тому

      They definitely overstated the effects of the attacks. America built an unprecedented number of warships, but even we couldn't have kept up this rate

  • @willlockler9433
    @willlockler9433 10 місяців тому +1

    Unintended consequences. Death over life. As beautiful as self sacrifice may be viewed from the Japanese perspective, it was seen from the American perspective as maniacal. It unhappily led to a very dim view of Japanese culture. Time heals and a greater understanding has thankfully taken place.

  • @scottmcdonald5237
    @scottmcdonald5237 10 місяців тому

    😮😮

  • @Newslies1
    @Newslies1 10 місяців тому +3

    Some men would rather die than adjust to a new reality.

  • @Thor13332
    @Thor13332 10 місяців тому +1

    I wonder if one of the reasons the Admiral wanted to die is because he was avoiding possible trial later.😢

    • @maxcaravan7584
      @maxcaravan7584 10 місяців тому

      I think he was humiliated given his language such as accusing US forces of arrogance - I rather think he was talking about himself.

  • @garypillischafske1425
    @garypillischafske1425 10 місяців тому +7

    There is nothing noble in wasting a life for a cause that is evil to begin with. The ingrained attitude of this kind of following is demented and wasteful of life given by God. The (Emperor) was a blatant fool of whom bears the responsibility of lives lost.

    • @mikespangler98
      @mikespangler98 10 місяців тому +3

      If Hirohito had refused to approve the starting of the war the military work have killed him.
      When he did surrender the surviving hardliners attempted a coup.
      The culture was as insane as the Nazis.

    • @joesmith701
      @joesmith701 10 місяців тому

      @@mikespangler98 the "attempted coup" you talked about was a minority in the Japanese Army where a handful of Mid ranked officers literally had to kill their commanding officer to forge documents to start. And not all the mid ranked officers who participated in various points knew that two other officers killed the commander. However I would agree prior to the start of the war the chance for a coup would've likely been much greater which also might have influenced Hirohito in starting the war.

  • @sgt.grinch3299
    @sgt.grinch3299 10 місяців тому +1

    Sad story of these men. I don’t see the glory or honor.

  • @sgt.grinch3299
    @sgt.grinch3299 10 місяців тому

    1700 pilots in kamikaze attacks is a waste of manpower, equipment, and resources. There is a famous quote that this story reminds me of “A Man must know his limitations”! The leadership of Japan violated this quote.

  • @tbm3fan913
    @tbm3fan913 10 місяців тому

    Always hoping for that one last Divine Wind to repeat itself. Unfortunately for them the Divine Wind was just sheer luck and nothing more.

  • @George-vf7ss
    @George-vf7ss 10 місяців тому +1

    I wonder how much sake it would take to make me volunteer.
    I'm not saying i could drink all of it, but they would have to put on a night shift.

  • @kevinquist
    @kevinquist 10 місяців тому +1

    the whole kamikkaze idea is beyond disgusting.

  • @jimsmith9819
    @jimsmith9819 10 місяців тому +2

    Kamakaze, what a waste of young men horribly brainwashed.

  • @prieten49
    @prieten49 9 місяців тому

    Ugaki defied the Emperor's call to surrender and proceeded with his suicidal attack? He even allowed a younger pilot to sit next to him in a cockpit made for just one? Japanese often tell me Americans are racist and this influenced their decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. But this fanatic resistance in the face of certain defeat must have also influenced the American decision.

  • @johnlandrigan6578
    @johnlandrigan6578 10 місяців тому

    Kamikaze had 1 fatal flaw the pilot was sure to die

  • @denniscashell2407
    @denniscashell2407 10 місяців тому

    these idiots didn't even flinch when over 100, 000 burned to death in Tokyo

  • @ChrisHyde537
    @ChrisHyde537 10 місяців тому +5

    To quote Country Joe and The Fish 🎵Well, there ain’t no time wonder why. Whoopee!! We’re all gonna die!🎵

    • @scottklocke891
      @scottklocke891 10 місяців тому

      Be the first one on the block,
      To have your kid come home in a box!

  • @galenhaugh3158
    @galenhaugh3158 10 місяців тому +1

    Sleeping Giant Syndrome.

  • @mencken8
    @mencken8 10 місяців тому

    Many of the comments in this thread reflect the unbridgeable gap between cultures. Read Ruth Benedict’s description of Guilt Cultures v. Shame Cultures in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.

  • @kevinquist
    @kevinquist 10 місяців тому

    ....... 'arrogant enemy'. 'conceited enemy'? from a wwII Japanese. wow. that is pure sh!+.

  • @robertfousch2703
    @robertfousch2703 10 місяців тому

    Ok, six ads in the first 30 mins. Unsubscribing.