Sinking the Japanese Carrier Shokaku

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  • @HiddenHistoryYT
    @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +20

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    • @johnheigis83
      @johnheigis83 Рік тому +6

      Yo
      Outstanding
      Always
      Thanks

    • @johnheigis83
      @johnheigis83 Рік тому +1

      Son. What if I told you, there's a system, you young folks should develop, and use, to mechanize and empower pure direct demos-kratia within a republic, like ours.
      I ain't joking. I'm betting, you could have us well on our way, within hours!
      With respect!
      Semper Fidelis...
      Standing by...

    • @frankmiller95
      @frankmiller95 Рік тому

      lf you're gonna do a video about an aircraft carrier, don't show a thumbnail of something that couldn't land any aircraft that existed at that time. Whatever TF that ship in the thumbnail is, a WWll aircraft, it ain't. There were no Harriers or F35's during WWll.

    • @cyrilasyley5413
      @cyrilasyley5413 Рік тому

      @@johnheigis83the

    • @reynoldolson8825
      @reynoldolson8825 Рік тому

      @@johnheigis83 ) lo

  • @TBNTX
    @TBNTX Рік тому +98

    My late Dad was a fighter pilot with the VBF-1 aboard the USS Bennington. He and his squadron were sent on a mission on July 24th, 1945 to the Kure Naval base. He bombed the IJN Hyuga, with his bomb striking amidship. He was only 22 years old.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +14

      Wow! Thank you to him for his service, he’s a hero! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @ernestwilliams268
      @ernestwilliams268 Рік тому +9

      They were real men in those days Audie Murphy was only 19 when he received his Medal of honor. Your Dad was one hell of a man.

  • @DonnyGossett-nz8rp
    @DonnyGossett-nz8rp Рік тому +55

    I have been onboard the Cavalla where she sits now in Sea Wolf park on Galveston Texas. Reconfigured to resemble a modern submarine she is a monument to the brave sailors who maned her.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @panzerabwerkanone
      @panzerabwerkanone Рік тому +2

      I find it curious that HHYT did not mention she was now a museum display. I've been there too. She sit s as she was after post war improvements. She served until decommissioning in 1969. Beside her in Seawolf park is the destroyer USS Stewart. I've been to the Battleship Texas as well (before she left for her new dry berth)

  • @larryking2697
    @larryking2697 Рік тому +24

    "All Gave Some......Some Gave All" God Bless American and it's Brave Soldiers and Sailors......

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @JohnRodriguesPhotographer
    @JohnRodriguesPhotographer Рік тому +93

    One of the things that the ijn had to do because of their critical fuel shortage was to use crude oil without refining it. This oil gave off an unusually high level of combustible vapors compared to normal bunker. Consequently it was much more combustible and dangerous

  • @viking4130
    @viking4130 Рік тому +16

    We owe so much to so few left now. Our WWII Veterans are passing into history. The best of us without doubt. I have nothing but admiration and respect for them all. The world owes Veterans a debt we could never possibly hope to repay.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @bettymamuyac8234
      @bettymamuyac8234 Рік тому

      Yes we do. My father survived, The Bataan Death March, Korea and Vietnam. He died a couple of weeks after his 99th birthday during 2018.

    • @rikk319
      @rikk319 Рік тому +2

      Both my grandfathers were WW2 vets. While alive, they said the same thing about the Civil War generation, and I'm sure that generation said the same thing about the Revolutionary War generation. The years and wars may change, but some people serve with honor.

    • @bettymamuyac8234
      @bettymamuyac8234 Рік тому

      @@rikk319 you were fortunate to have your grandfathers and their stories. My family were all in the military, grandfather, dad, brother, sister and myself. My youngest daughter also went in the military. Dad didn’t talk of his experience. I got war stories from the veterans at our local VA hospital. My interest started with the European side of the war, later the Pacific side. Watched a lot of programs of WW2, built models of tanks, planes, ships even the PT109.

    • @gloriaflanders3481
      @gloriaflanders3481 Рік тому +2

      I only wish I could have realized when my parents were alive how amazing they were. I wish our schools, especially high schools would teach more about WWII and the sacrifices and bravery they gave which kept our country free. Children need to know.

  • @JohnRodriguesPhotographer
    @JohnRodriguesPhotographer Рік тому +26

    An interesting thing about the Pacific War is that Raymond spruance was criticized for not being aggressive enough and Bill Halsey was criticized for being too aggressive.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +3

      Guess they balanced each other out 😂 As always appreciate you watching John and have a great weekend :)

    • @mako88sb
      @mako88sb Рік тому +8

      Then there’s Earnest King with zero actual combat experience getting upset with Jack Fletcher for the loss of the Lexington and Yorktown. Never mind the fact that he was doing on the job training at Coral Sea with all the confusion and wrong reports that would characterize carrier battles. The loss of both those carriers was sad but they came out ahead and learned valuable lessons. One book I read titled The Admirals does mention that King was pretty jealous of the fact Fletcher had been awarded the Medal Of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Veracruz.

    • @JohnRodriguesPhotographer
      @JohnRodriguesPhotographer Рік тому +2

      @@mako88sb I was going to mention him would made it a much longer post

    • @grandpavanderhof
      @grandpavanderhof Рік тому +2

      @@mako88sb King probably had a right to be upset with it. From Wikipedia..."After the fighting ended, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels ordered that fifty-six Medals of Honor be awarded to participants in this action, the most for any single action before or since." "The controversy surrounding the Veracruz Medals of Honor led to stricter standards for the awarding of the Medal of Honor and the establishment of lower ranking medals to recognize a wider range of accomplishments."

    • @rohanthandi4903
      @rohanthandi4903 Рік тому +4

      @@mako88sb Coral Sea shouldve been 2-0 for the IJN. Fletcher's result was a complete strategic win. Taking out 1/3rd of the ijn carrier fleet

  • @jollyjohnthepirate3168
    @jollyjohnthepirate3168 Рік тому +15

    You can tour Cavalla today. She's in a park near Galveston, Texas. If you are claustrophobic don't go aboard. The crew lived in a tiny space.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      I need to get down there to see those ships! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

  • @Dannyedelman4231
    @Dannyedelman4231 Рік тому +15

    "HIT SHOKAKU CLASS CARRIER WITH THREE OUT OF SIX TORPEDOES . . . RECEIVED 105 DEPTH CHARGES DURING THREE HOUR PERIOD . . . HEARD FOUR TERRIFIC EXPLOSIONS IN THE DIRECTION OF TARGET TWO AND ONE HALF HOURS AFTER ATTACK . . . BELIEVE THAT BABY SANK" those were his exact words

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +2

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @fawnlliebowitz1772
    @fawnlliebowitz1772 Рік тому +65

    My father in law was a MM2 aboard the Cavalla during the carriers sinking, his battle station was aft steering since they did not use hydraulics during silent running. he died at age 94 maybe 5 years ago, RIP MM2 Phil Urban.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +4

      Thank you to him for his service, and that is very interesting! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @kristoffermangila
      @kristoffermangila Рік тому +2

      Have you visited the Cavalla in Galveston?

    • @fawnlliebowitz1772
      @fawnlliebowitz1772 10 місяців тому +3

      No but he used to go to annual reunions. @@kristoffermangila

  • @briankorbelik2873
    @briankorbelik2873 Рік тому +8

    Number one, Taiho was not the sister ships of Zuikaku and Shokaku, she was built on similar lines but she was different in a number of ways. One was that she had an enclosed bow which was unusual for carriers at that time. Second she had an armoured flight deck like many RN carriers, and that would be part of her undoing, along with learning the lesson the hard way liked the USN did at the Battle of the Coral Sea with the USS Lexington (CV-2) that you don't try to disperse fumes from a cracked avgas tank by turning on all the fans and blowing the fumes throughout the ship. When Taiho exploded, with the armoured flight deck keeping the explosion from venting in that direction, the explosion blew out her sides and bottom.

  • @bkjeong4302
    @bkjeong4302 Рік тому +8

    Nimitz himself cheered when Shokaku went down, given what she'd gotten up to in 1942 alongside her sister.

  • @Giratina575
    @Giratina575 9 місяців тому +2

    The destruction of the shokaku is absolutely brutal. Imagine being on the deck as a japanese sailor as the deck slants further and further beneath the waves and then a series of explosions go off and obliterate the ship

  • @dboconnor57
    @dboconnor57 Рік тому +35

    These were some of the bravest, most capable men in our nations history. I hope we have more than a few of them in our navy today. We’re going to need them…

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +2

      Completely agree! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

    • @rikk319
      @rikk319 Рік тому +4

      They're always needed, war or peace. The price of peace is eternal vigilance.

    • @marksamuelsen2750
      @marksamuelsen2750 Рік тому

      Yes you are absolutely correct! With what is going on in our world today we need a strong group of military men to stand strong and protect America. I’m a 70yo disabled USAF VETERAN & I pray that our military is up to speed to protect our country. God save America from external forces and forces within. The Biden Criminal Family has sold our military secrets to the CCP. The Chinese own our President and America is in grave danger!! God save us all!!

    • @lutherheggs
      @lutherheggs Рік тому +2

      Why? Is Godzilla on the move?

  • @Wolfpack345
    @Wolfpack345 Рік тому +6

    Great video! I just visited USS Cavalla today

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Greatly appreciate it! That sounds awesome, I still need to see all the ships down there. Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

  • @andrewvelonis5940
    @andrewvelonis5940 10 місяців тому +3

    There was a tv show in the 1950's called The Silent Service. They had an episode about the Cavalla. It's on UA-cam. Worth watching.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  10 місяців тому +2

      I haven't actually watched it but I have "watched" most of it lol. It's probably my most used footage throughout my videos. Basically the only thing out there that has clips of an aircraft carrier in WW2 being sunk and a lot of good American submarine footage.
      Appreciate you watching and have a great rest of your week :)

  • @jonathonhass4178
    @jonathonhass4178 Рік тому +5

    “Dropped anchor off Saipan”……US subs didn’t take anchors on war patrols, nor stanchions and lifelines due to concerns that the chain locker could be burst open during depth charging and drag the sub to crush depth and no lifelines to due concerns that mines could get snagged on the stanchions and drag the mine onto the sub.

  • @ARCMASTER1130
    @ARCMASTER1130 10 місяців тому +2

    Taiho was her own class of carrier,not a sister.Zuikaku was the sister to Shoekaku

  • @bigantplowright5711
    @bigantplowright5711 Рік тому +9

    Submariners, either extremely brave or totally mad. Probably a mixture of both.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      I agree! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @phibber
      @phibber Рік тому

      we built 28 subs in my city, submariners come here for reunions,...they tell me they are on a sub to come home in one piece, or die quickly

  • @CAROLDDISCOVER-1983
    @CAROLDDISCOVER-1983 Рік тому +5

    I think the actual peace treaty was signed in 1952 but it was signed in California I believe San Diego. That's in contrary with Russia and Japan who have never signed a peace treaty from world War II

  • @kristelvidhi5038
    @kristelvidhi5038 Рік тому +2

    I want to see CGI movies about Jutland, Cape Matapan, the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf and the Falklands war.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +2

      That would be very cool! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @Idahoguy10157
    @Idahoguy10157 Рік тому +11

    By the time of the Battle of the Phillipine Sea Pacific fleet submarines finally had torpedoes that worked!

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @jerrycottrell302
      @jerrycottrell302 Рік тому

      Navy Torpedo Station worked round the clock t make exploders that worked properly !!!😊🎉😅

    • @kristoffermangila
      @kristoffermangila Рік тому +1

      @@jerrycottrell302 one of the main flaws of the Mk XIV torpedo is that the firing pin is not lightweight enough. The guys at the Pearl Harbor Submarine Base, who were charged by Charles Lockwood in correcting the torp's flaws, found the right material for the firing pin. The material? Aluminum, specifically, the type found on Japanese aircraft propellers.

  • @dodoubleg2356
    @dodoubleg2356 Рік тому +4

    1st time viewer, new subscriber...This was really interesting. I'd watched other vids on the topic, but you did a great job of not just illustrating the battle, but the events before & after...Look fwd to future content. 😉👍✌️

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Glad you enjoyed it! Appreciate the sub and have a great week :)

  • @robertstack2144
    @robertstack2144 10 місяців тому +2

    Saipan appears to have changed drastically since I was there in 2000

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  10 місяців тому

      How was it?

    • @robertstack2144
      @robertstack2144 10 місяців тому

      Very quiet. Beaches were empty. Scuba great, but only saw one Whitetip

  • @hivicar
    @hivicar Рік тому +3

    We should appreciate that the history, when written by their own WWII historians, distort most of how and especially why it happened. Fascinating to me the development further of the culture, in light of the ownership thing. Still veneration toward the Emperor Hirohito felt by a big senior population.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Thanks for watching and have a great rest of your weekend :)

  • @jmrodas9
    @jmrodas9 Рік тому +4

    Amercan submarines did a great job reporting enemy fleet movements, and also sinking many warships and cargo transports. They did such a good job, Japan was practically defeated before the atomic bombs were released on Japanese soil.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Indeed! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

    • @jmrodas9
      @jmrodas9 10 місяців тому

      @@HiddenHistoryYTThanks to you for making this clearly explained video. Regards

  • @miguelfuentes7800
    @miguelfuentes7800 Рік тому +3

    Wow, I love that Submarine.,👍👍👍

  • @davehconner
    @davehconner Рік тому +2

    Thanks for the video

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @metallampman
    @metallampman Рік тому +3

    the narrator says: tragic story of shokaku humm i think many U S sailors would say the only good japanese carrier is one taking on water

  • @Paul-zf8ob
    @Paul-zf8ob Рік тому +4

    You forgot Ozawa had coordinated with the ground units to attack-from airports! That pretty much equaled up the amount of airplanes used!

    • @craigplatel813
      @craigplatel813 Рік тому

      Not really. The US had pretty much destroyed any Japanese airpower in the Mariana's before the battle took place.

  • @theargonauts8490
    @theargonauts8490 Рік тому +3

    Kossler was a bit eccentric. He knew his subs, but carried around an empty glass everywhere he went 😏

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great rest of your weekend :)

  • @dennishagans6339
    @dennishagans6339 Рік тому +2

    The Japanese had one particular fatal flaw, their service men, whether flyers, sailors, or ground troops owed their lives to the emperor and it was an honor for them to die for the emperor.
    So every experienced flyer, sailor, and ground troop with that in mind, did not really pass on their training and experience, the battle of midway saw the Japanese lose the cream of their experienced flyers, while this was due to being killed in their cockpits before they could take off, it was a loss that Japan would not recover from, however if these had been rotated out to the flight schools before midway they could have trained the new flyers and passed on their experience.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)

  • @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe
    @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe 9 місяців тому +1

    Not all of Naval Intelligence analysis was CRACKING codes . Extra tedious and melodramatic at once? I am a IJN Symp.

  • @TheBrettWay
    @TheBrettWay Рік тому +2

    love that restaraunt

  • @rvykdhes
    @rvykdhes 10 місяців тому +1

    Cavalla was transferred to the Texas Submarine Veterans of World War II. She now resides at Galveston Naval Museum in Seawolf Park on Pelican Island, just north of Galveston, Texas.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  10 місяців тому

      Yep very cool! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

  • @psujeffpsu
    @psujeffpsu 6 місяців тому +2

    Visit the USS Cavalla at the Galveston Naval Museum in Galveston, TX.

  • @maximilliancunningham6091
    @maximilliancunningham6091 Рік тому +2

    Well presented. TY

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Greatly appreciate it! Thanks for watching and have a fantastic rest of your week :)

  • @010bobby
    @010bobby Рік тому +2

    Bravo Zulo.. job well done shipmates..

  • @briandstephmoore4910
    @briandstephmoore4910 Рік тому +3

    The good ole days

  • @seantonnesen1636
    @seantonnesen1636 Рік тому +3

    To the crew "Well Done"

  • @22vx
    @22vx Рік тому +2

    Nice work 👌 thanx for sharing 👍

  • @Ragefps
    @Ragefps Рік тому +5

    Always wondered why the Japanese never seemed to be very good at ASW. If a U boat had lucked into the same position on an allied CV (Post 1943) firing her fish would have been a guaranteed death sentence. Was it radar? training? active/passive sonar or a combination of factors?

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +2

      Poor coordination is the simplest answer IMO. Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @EstorilEm
      @EstorilEm Рік тому +1

      Coordination is one element, but they were also limited by poor equipment and vastly out-classes in radar/sonar technology by this point in the war. The fact that captain reported no sonar activity post-attack is telling.
      The US had also amassed considerable data on Japanese tactics and capabilities, and based their training and doctrine on this data - the IJN didn’t appear to adapt nearly to that extent.

    • @rikk319
      @rikk319 Рік тому +1

      @@EstorilEm Between poor ASW and even worse damage control procedures, US submarine attacks were the leading cause of IJN tonnage losses in the war.

  • @davidcoleman2796
    @davidcoleman2796 Рік тому +2

    A real hero

  • @georgiamule
    @georgiamule Рік тому +3

    Honor our heroes.

  • @firebassgames7744
    @firebassgames7744 Місяць тому

    i love how the thumbnail isnt exactly shokaku

  • @warhawk4494
    @warhawk4494 Рік тому +1

    Great video as always. Habe a good day

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Greatly appreciate it! Thanks for watching and have a fantastic week :)

  • @jamesellis4664
    @jamesellis4664 Рік тому +3

    Talk about David slaying Goliath.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +2

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @koaung3803
    @koaung3803 Рік тому +6

    THE JAPANESE IN THE SECOND WIRLD WAR WERE GETTUNG TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL.THE MIDWAY PLAN WAS WHAT WAS NEEDED UNDER THE COOL N CALM LEADERSHIP OF ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET CHESTER NIMITZ GOT IN EXACTLY CORRECT.❤❤❤😅

  • @vernsmart5447
    @vernsmart5447 Рік тому +2

    Very interesting documentary.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Greatly appreciate it! Thanks for watching and have a fantastic week :)

  • @johnpower8356
    @johnpower8356 Рік тому +3

    Excellent 👌 👌 👌

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Greatly appreciate it! Thanks for watching and have a fantastic week :)

  • @adorable6385
    @adorable6385 Місяць тому

    I'm adjusted to the older gentlemen narrative voices

  • @raymondanthony8651
    @raymondanthony8651 Рік тому +2

    Great story.

  • @bigbob1699
    @bigbob1699 Рік тому +3

    Run silent, run deep!

  • @briankorbelik2873
    @briankorbelik2873 Рік тому

    It was not the US 7th Fleet, that was "Dugout Doug's" 'Navy. The US carrier fleet was the 5th Fleet when commanded by Admiral Spruance and the 3rd Fleet under Admiral Halsay. This was done to try to confuse the Japanese. And while I'm here, it probably would have turned out even better for the USN if Halsay had been in command in the Philippine Sea, and Spruance at Leyte Gulf. Spruance was cautious and Halsey a bit of a loose cannon.

  • @ronengle9524
    @ronengle9524 Рік тому +1

    This video gained you a sub

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +2

      Greatly appreciate it Ron! Have a fantastic week :)

  • @DamonNomad82
    @DamonNomad82 Рік тому +2

    I just can't take it seriously with that name! "Shokaku" sounds like what a sleazy guy in a trench coat in a bad part of town likes to do to anyone who walks past him...

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +2

      😂 Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

  • @alanstone3184
    @alanstone3184 Рік тому +1

    It was the 5th Fleet at the Marianas, not the 7th Fleet.

  • @moistmike4150
    @moistmike4150 Рік тому +2

    Back when America was great, we had The Greatest Generation.
    Fast-Forward 80 years: My nephew had a near-perfect score on the SAT and was offered a full-ride scholarship to the U.S. Naval Academy and Air Force Academy. After watching the debacle in Kabul and Joe Biden checking his watch during the off-loading of the 13 dead servicemen (whose deaths Joe himself was responsible for), my nephew turned down both offers.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Sad country today. Thanks for watching and have a great rest of your week :)

  • @larryehrlich57
    @larryehrlich57 Місяць тому +2

    Remember this, it took two Atomic bombs...in two different cities, to force Japan to surrender. Unfortunately, Japan did not surrender after the first Atomic bomb blast. America dropped a second Atomic bomb....then Japan surrendered and stopped all hostilities. Sad but true.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Місяць тому

      Appreciate you watching & have a great week :)

  • @randelclemons5798
    @randelclemons5798 11 місяців тому +1

    American Heroes that turned the tide of the war. God bless America 🇺🇲

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  11 місяців тому +1

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @johnh2410
    @johnh2410 Рік тому +3

    A few maps with animation would have been helpful.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      I will add some in in future videos when talking about places! Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)

  • @larryehrlich57
    @larryehrlich57 Рік тому +6

    Don't forget that America dropped two Atomic bombs on two Japanese cities...which ended the war with Japan. Who remembers the pilot's name that dropped both attomic bombs on Japan? I met him for a job interview in the early 1980's. I wasn't interested in the job but I wanted to meet the man that dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.

    • @frankquevedo6001
      @frankquevedo6001 Рік тому +1

      Col. Paul Tibbets. USAAF - USAF. B-29 Enola Gay. Named after his mom.

  • @kristelvidhi5038
    @kristelvidhi5038 Рік тому +1

    A real shame Shinano was the largest carrier of the time, yet she got sunked without sending a single plane to fight.

  • @RobertPaskulovich-fz1th
    @RobertPaskulovich-fz1th Рік тому +2

    I was born too late and missed out on all the excitement in the Pacific.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @davidtwliew616
      @davidtwliew616 Рік тому +1

      You were fortunate not to be born in that era. In any war, both sides loses, there is no winner in wars.

  • @matthewmartin9649
    @matthewmartin9649 Рік тому +1

    my dad rode the uss bang in 1968 , not sure if thats the boat he rode in the gulf of tonkin

  • @heyheymymy4362
    @heyheymymy4362 Рік тому +3

    Sinking a carrier on the first patrol - seems like the US navy did something right in their training program

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      I agree! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @iwaswrongabouteveryhthing
    @iwaswrongabouteveryhthing Рік тому +2

    nice job

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)

  • @jiyushugi1085
    @jiyushugi1085 Рік тому +2

    Interested in reading a Japanese sailor's account on life in Japanese subs? Do a search for 'Kaiten Special Attack Group, A Story of Stolen Youth', the autobiography of Yutaka Yokota.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      I’ll have to check that out, thanks for the suggestion!
      I actually just did a video on Kaitens and so somewhat by relation him as well: ua-cam.com/video/F7VJ8VepHL0/v-deo.html

  • @ellendimmig2965
    @ellendimmig2965 Рік тому +3

    Very informative...
    Nice touch with the Captain's log. I will take one subscription please, and thank you.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Greatly appreciate it! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

  • @jorgechang7426
    @jorgechang7426 Рік тому

    The Americans involved in the Marianas battle and led by Spruance were from the Fifth Fleet, not the Seventh

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Ya my bad, appreciate you watching! Have a fantastic weekend :)

    • @jorgechang7426
      @jorgechang7426 Рік тому

      The same to you!!@@HiddenHistoryYT

  • @JamesJones-cx5pk
    @JamesJones-cx5pk Рік тому +1

    Good times.

  • @jesterr7133
    @jesterr7133 3 дні тому

    Why did 1,200 Japanese sailors go down with this ship when it floated for several hours with multiple Japanese ships nearby? Why did they not evacuate any unnecessary personnel from the ship when it was that badly damaged?

  • @davidpickens8800
    @davidpickens8800 Рік тому +2

    Look at them Burn!

  • @geeeeeee3
    @geeeeeee3 Рік тому +3

    "Tragic tale"? What is do tragic? It's tragic the Japanese bombed Perl Harbor. It's tragic the Japanese tortured and murdered allied prisoners of war and civilians. It's tragic thousands of women were raped by them. It's tragic over hundreds of thousands of Chinese unarmed civilians were killed by them. But it is not tragic that a instrument of the horrors the Japanese inflected upon the world was sunk.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Poor wording, I don’t have much sympathy for the Japanese! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @paxwallace8324
    @paxwallace8324 Рік тому +1

    They had no experienced pilots left.

  • @sage1875
    @sage1875 Рік тому

    A person on a UA-cam article "Here's What People Ate To Survive During World War ll" with the handle, nektekket, wrote me that the United States of America did not win World War ll and seemed very bitter towards the USA. Maybe someone from this article can respond to that person.

  • @andrewtownend4511
    @andrewtownend4511 Рік тому +1

    You need to show maps

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Appreciate the feedback, I have used a lot more in videos since this one! Thanks for watching and have a great rest of your weekend :)

  • @__40su
    @__40su Рік тому

    Your back?

  • @frankquevedo6001
    @frankquevedo6001 Рік тому +2

    Kicking ass n taking names; USS Cavalla(Spl).

  • @StaffanJohansson-s9e
    @StaffanJohansson-s9e Рік тому +1

    Det borde vara förbjudet att kriga att vi inte lärt oss att det är livsfarligt.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Jag håller med fullständigt! Tack för att du tittade och ha en bra vecka :)

  • @briangoldy8784
    @briangoldy8784 Рік тому +1

    Wait,,,,,A tragedy this Warship (Japan) was sunk? said the Narrator.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Poor wording, more so loss of life. I have no sympathy for imperial Japan. Thanks for watching and have a great weekend :)

  • @69Applekrate
    @69Applekrate Рік тому

    1:18 into- "Ozawa concieved". I do not think Ozawa 'concieved/created' this plan. Have read he was ordered to proceed with it, he did not create the idea.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      Probably better phrasing on your part! Thanks for watching and have a great weekend :)

  • @gilzor9376
    @gilzor9376 Рік тому

    'G 8 oh' or 'Gah toe' . . . . as far as I'm concerned, I will always pronounce it the same way as the brave men did, who died fighting on board twenty of these subs that went down during WW2 . . . . G - 8 toe.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому +1

      Appreciate the feedback, have corrected it in all videos since this one! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

  • @DonnyGossett-nz8rp
    @DonnyGossett-nz8rp Рік тому +4

    I listen with pride to these war videos. My father was in the European theater and arrived on Normandy beach on D eight. My grandmother said as a truck driver he was responsible for the removal of bodies killed in the battle. I some how realized that all the people that died in this effort were sons and daughters brothers and sisters fathers and mothers of people not unlike me. How sad it is to lose so many loved family members for nothing more than a megalomaniacs desire to control more people.

  • @RickLowrance
    @RickLowrance Рік тому

    Good video. Fifth Fleet, not Seventh.

  • @emmgeevideo
    @emmgeevideo Рік тому +1

    "Tragic tale"? The US Navy sunk an enemy carrier and this was "tragic"?

    • @PowerfulTruth
      @PowerfulTruth Рік тому +4

      Not at all. We call it “Payback” and “Justice.” 🇺🇸🫡

  • @gregsmith6756
    @gregsmith6756 6 місяців тому +1

    "Tragic"? What is tragic about sinking the Shokaku? The Japanese started the war after all. Plus they were brutal to their POWs and to people in the conquered lands.

    • @蒸かした犬
      @蒸かした犬 2 місяці тому

      鬼畜米英は自分に都合が良い歴史を捏造し、米比戦争のような残虐な戦争犯罪を抹消する。我々はあなたの国を許す事はない。

  • @winstonteo9207
    @winstonteo9207 Рік тому +1

    Arcade games.....😁

  • @ronmartin3755
    @ronmartin3755 10 місяців тому

    I give a thumbs dow and mark any video on youtube that forces commercials on me! With youtube's new anti adblock feature, I watch only videos that the publisher doesn't load up with three or four commercials before I can watch the video!! So you are out of here!

  • @carlhull8276
    @carlhull8276 Рік тому +2

    Turkeys don't shoot back

  • @stevemccann4166
    @stevemccann4166 Рік тому +1

    Japanese damage control lacking

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  Рік тому

      As always! Thanks for watching and have a great rest of your week :)

  • @samkoppen9366
    @samkoppen9366 Рік тому +2

    seessshhhhhhh

  • @JovitaMortel-po1gx
    @JovitaMortel-po1gx 10 місяців тому

  • @webbtrekker534
    @webbtrekker534 Рік тому +1

    Gato = GAY-TOE Class. Not GOT-O

  • @leetaylor7231
    @leetaylor7231 Рік тому

    Google Chrome😅

  • @josephrmancini3877
    @josephrmancini3877 Рік тому +1

    Wear pants to bed no hotel or airnb lest Tasha till Insurance

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 Рік тому

    japan will retake the kurils sakhalin and vladivostok south korea will take north korea.

  • @Tigersnack-m7o
    @Tigersnack-m7o Рік тому

    My Grandad was on a 40MM Bofors AA gun and he always wanted to shoot down a German plane...and BY GOLLY...last week he finally did it!!!!
    (joke stolen from The Simpsons)

  • @Music-lx1tf
    @Music-lx1tf 11 місяців тому +1

    You're opening sentences put me so far off that I turned you off at that gave you a thumbs down.

  • @wayneasiam65
    @wayneasiam65 Рік тому

    Interesting at first, then quite boring.