In 1965-1969, I was a medic in the Vandenberg AFB flight surgeon's office. There were still some pilots and copilots who had flown B-25s in WWII and after. The pilots all had hearing loss in their right ear and the copilots in their left ear. They would move their head set off of the ear away from the engine on their side so they could talk to each other without using the radio. The engines must have been very loud.
Thanks for uploading the documentary on youtube. The F6F was the best standard carrier based fighter of WW2 and The A6M Zero was the 2nd best (best in early half of the war).
Note: 1 of Doolittle's crews did land, in Russia. They were taken prisoners even though Russia was our ally. They eventually convinced Stalin to let them fight with the Russians and escaped back to Europe through the middle east. Sadly the last of the Doolittle Raiders died in 2018 or 2019. I got the autograph of the navigator of the B-25 that landed in Russia at a air show in Columbia SC back in 2006.
They didn't all land in Russia over 70% of the b-25's landed in China. It's in all the documentary's and I just read it in The American Heritage History of WWII by American Heritage
@@TheHomeMaker1 Yes only that one crew in one B-25 landed in Russia, the others either crash landed in China or ditched in the sea approaching China. I don't think any landed wheels down.
Dude dogfighting in ww2 would have been so awesome I mean just imagine machine gun dogfighting just the ultimate job possible dying dogfighting would b well worth it!! Plus if you do get killed u die fighting n get to go out like these warriors not to bad in my opinion!!!
@chris storrier nope no guns. Just the plane. My father built a giant scale rc tank with a .308 rifle minus the stock as you said as the cannon and it is pretty cool but things like that would add to much weight to the airplane. In the past I have dropped fireworks from them but getting a system to light them at the flip of a switch is a pain and I always worried about it burning up the plane. If you care to search moki 400 radial on youtube and listen to the engine and you will see what the coolest part of the plane is lol. Sounds like a Harley kind of. Very cool when flying past you at full throttle.
@@anugranmathimugan2778 it took 10 months from start to finish. Working on it somewhat regularly. It has a 122 inch wing span and a gas radial engine. Flies awesome I have 18 flights on it so far.
Those are the ones that made it back! But are to damaged to be repaired. My dad made it back to the Essex with 3 cylinders blown off and a hole in the left wing that he could stand in. It went over the side after the good parts were removed.
@@markiefufu try watching the video all the way through. Timestamp 25:52. Again, there was only 4 Japanese Carriers at midway. That's why I said Midway, not Pearl Harbor. If I wanted to talk about Pearl Harbor, I'd say Pearl Harbor. But I was talking about Midway. So I said Midway.
I feel we need to see comparisons between Corsair vs lighting vs hell cat vs thunderbolts vs mustangs vs hawk vs wild cat vs …… what is the best American fighter in ww2 !!!!
It really does come down to theatre and role. Personally I'm on the side of the F6F Hellcat, the F4U Corsair (later revisions post engine upgrade) and the P-47. The common denominator amongst those is the engine. The Hellcat used one airframe approach to great multi role success and *complete* air domination once they rolled out. The preeminent turn n burn fighter of the pacific theater. The F4U took another approach. A true energy fighter that is a boom n zoomers dream and robust enough both in airframe and endurance on wing to make the navy it's most natural home. The P47 was yet another approach in airframe that again lent it vast superiority in a multi role capacity in air ground support it could put a heck of a payload on target, and in high altitude engagement and energy fighting (boom n zoom) it was a frigging flying *tank* that also came with 8 .50cal machine guns and if properly zoned in could put a literal fistsized buzzsaw on target. Not much, not even trains or destroyers could stand up to it for long. The P-51 is however a truly spectacular airframe and earned pride of place in the European theatre for a reason for the US forces involved (some versions of Spits can give a stang a run for its money tho and 190s stood toe to toe for a long time)
22:22 “By the end of the war there are over 100 aircraft carriers in the US fleet”. That seems not to be true but maybe they’re counting small little ships with a couple aircraft
They were including escort or jeep carriers, but 100 does seem high. 4 Essex class carriers exist as museums. The Yorktown Lexington Hornet and Intrepid.
23:50 I really love the older generation's sense humor, and grit... "...well, if you didn't protect the carrier, you wouldn't have a place to hang your toothbrush, see?! And, you can't just do that by manning the balls, and the ramparts ya see...you gotta go out to where the trouble starts, and put those guys out of business!" 😳😂😂 😎🇺🇸❤
if the australians and new zealanders had more american equipments , they would have had a more active presence in the pacific, specially in singapore, malaya, the NEI and taiwan
There were P51s stationed on Iwo Jima after it was captured and they escorted b-29s to Japan. About 45:00 minutes into this video They talk about this.
Nevets Legasi The P51-Mustang was used in the Pacific. Packard contracted with Rolls Royce to build the Merlin engine for the P-51s used in the Pacific theater. Try reading some WWII military history books before commenting.
Wrong, they were. Instead of having a letter & number designation it was mostly numerical. 67, 100, 101, I 200, 542,600,150,210. Lil butch 150,47th fighter squadron. Look it up
If it really was like it is portrayed the guy who received the call from the radar facility should have been court martialed and busted down to private. Too bad the guy making the call didn't make a voice like a pissed of colonel and threaten the guy with hellfire if he didn't get off his lazy ass and alert Pearl.
It wasn't! The young lieutenant at the "command" center got a phone call from the radar site telling him about the radar contact. He assumed it was the B-17's due in that morning. Even if he had realized the true nature of the radar contact, at that point there was NO telephone lines to any of the army airforce fields so he couldn't warn anyone if he wanted to.
Evil always thinks good is an innocent mistake made by the naive. So they think if they can demonstrate clealy enough that compliance is easier, then the 'slow' person will learn. Both the Nazis and the Japanese saw things this way.
4:09 we know the same scenario for 9/11, donn't we? "although we knew, we had signals, we nev er took any precautions, blah-blah -blah" and then not only none of high brass was judged and sacked - they got medals, hnors and promotions... USA!!! The World Loves You Today!!!
Nearly Everything about Midway is wrong. Only 80 Japanese pilots were Lost. The Japanese decks weren’t filled with bombs, ammo, planes, they were in the hangar deck being refueled and rearmed. The new 2019 HOLLYWOOD MOVIE“Midway” is more accurate than this “mythumentrary”. Someone needs to read “Shattered Sword”, by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully is is the TRUE story of Midway. Without this HUGE FUBAR on Midway ruined it.
In 1965-1969, I was a medic in the Vandenberg AFB flight surgeon's office. There were still some pilots and copilots who had flown B-25s in WWII and after. The pilots all had hearing loss in their right ear and the copilots in their left ear. They would move their head set off of the ear away from the engine on their side so they could talk to each other without using the radio. The engines must have been very loud.
Man, I remember being a kid and coming home from school and not being able to contain my EXCITEMENT for this show! Thanks for the upload!
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE BRO!!! I have studied WWII for 13 years now all starting with this show.
@@TheElectronNinja Great minds think alike good sir!! Thanks for sharing!!
@@GIGroundNPound Thanks for reading.
Thanks for posting! One thing, though. The P-38s max speed was 414 mph. The Corsair flew in excess of 445 mph.
so did the F6F. 305 aces with the Hellcat.
Pilot and soldier from both side are truly a brave young men... They are not enemy, just a boy sacrificed by their leader in hunger of power.
Thanks for uploading the documentary on youtube. The F6F was the best standard carrier based fighter of WW2 and The A6M Zero was the 2nd best (best in early half of the war).
Note: 1 of Doolittle's crews did land, in Russia. They were taken prisoners even though Russia was our ally. They eventually convinced Stalin to let them fight with the Russians and escaped back to Europe through the middle east. Sadly the last of the Doolittle Raiders died in 2018 or 2019. I got the autograph of the navigator of the B-25 that landed in Russia at a air show in Columbia SC back in 2006.
They didn't all land in Russia over 70% of the b-25's landed in China. It's in all the documentary's and I just read it in The American Heritage History of WWII by American Heritage
@@TheHomeMaker1 Yes only that one crew in one B-25 landed in Russia, the others either crash landed in China or ditched in the sea approaching China. I don't think any landed wheels down.
These guys are real men. I respect every single one of them.
God doesn't allow men like them on Earth anymore
@@snowman374th VIP section in heaven is getting a little full.
Here here
They were all on amphetamine on all sides so that probably helped.
Dude dogfighting in ww2 would have been so awesome I mean just imagine machine gun dogfighting just the ultimate job possible dying dogfighting would b well worth it!! Plus if you do get killed u die fighting n get to go out like these warriors not to bad in my opinion!!!
I always wondered what the narrator looked like. His voices fits him perfect
Ahhhhhh..... reminds me of the good ol' days, when the History Channel didn't sell out and play reality tv garbage all day long!
I built a giant scale rc hellcat with a moki radial and it flies so good I love that airplane.
@chris storrier nope no guns. Just the plane. My father built a giant scale rc tank with a .308 rifle minus the stock as you said as the cannon and it is pretty cool but things like that would add to much weight to the airplane. In the past I have dropped fireworks from them but getting a system to light them at the flip of a switch is a pain and I always worried about it burning up the plane. If you care to search moki 400 radial on youtube and listen to the engine and you will see what the coolest part of the plane is lol. Sounds like a Harley kind of. Very cool when flying past you at full throttle.
@chris storrier you as well. Have a good one sir
That’s amazing mate , must have taken years.
@@anugranmathimugan2778 it took 10 months from start to finish. Working on it somewhat regularly. It has a 122 inch wing span and a gas radial engine. Flies awesome I have 18 flights on it so far.
@@Atti19216 Wow that is impressive, should stick it on UA-cam if you can
Every time I see them ditch a plane over the carrier side, I shed a tear!
Those are the ones that made it back! But are to damaged to be repaired. My dad made it back to the Essex with 3 cylinders blown off and a hole in the left wing that he could stand in. It went over the side after the good parts were removed.
Uh, the Japanese Navy only had 4 carriers at Midway, not 6.
They had 6 carriers when they attacked Pearl Harbor.
@@markiefufu try watching the video all the way through. Timestamp 25:52. Again, there was only 4 Japanese Carriers at midway. That's why I said Midway, not Pearl Harbor. If I wanted to talk about Pearl Harbor, I'd say Pearl Harbor. But I was talking about Midway. So I said Midway.
@@markiefufu correction... Timestamp 25:50
@@jasontimmons1715, you are correct! There seems to be quite a few errors in this video. Seems like they should have had better researchers.
@@markiefufu lol, agreed. Such a shame cause it's well put together other than that.
I feel we need to see comparisons between Corsair vs lighting vs hell cat vs thunderbolts vs mustangs vs hawk vs wild cat vs …… what is the best American fighter in ww2 !!!!
It really does come down to theatre and role. Personally I'm on the side of the F6F Hellcat, the F4U Corsair (later revisions post engine upgrade) and the P-47. The common denominator amongst those is the engine.
The Hellcat used one airframe approach to great multi role success and *complete* air domination once they rolled out. The preeminent turn n burn fighter of the pacific theater.
The F4U took another approach. A true energy fighter that is a boom n zoomers dream and robust enough both in airframe and endurance on wing to make the navy it's most natural home.
The P47 was yet another approach in airframe that again lent it vast superiority in a multi role capacity in air ground support it could put a heck of a payload on target, and in high altitude engagement and energy fighting (boom n zoom) it was a frigging flying *tank* that also came with 8 .50cal machine guns and if properly zoned in could put a literal fistsized buzzsaw on target. Not much, not even trains or destroyers could stand up to it for long.
The P-51 is however a truly spectacular airframe and earned pride of place in the European theatre for a reason for the US forces involved (some versions of Spits can give a stang a run for its money tho and 190s stood toe to toe for a long time)
Amen!
Nice videos but a number of errors
22:22 “By the end of the war there are over 100 aircraft carriers in the US fleet”. That seems not to be true but maybe they’re counting small little ships with a couple aircraft
30 Essex Class carriers through out the war. 3 existing, built 27.
escort carriers are carriers too.
It was more like 90 from everything I've read, and watched. That is counting escort carriers
They were including escort or jeep carriers, but 100 does seem high. 4 Essex class carriers exist as museums. The Yorktown Lexington Hornet and Intrepid.
@@gregboyington4896 I read the USA had 63 Essex class carriers at the end of ww2 .Not counting escort carriers.
23:50 I really love the older generation's sense humor, and grit...
"...well, if you didn't protect the carrier, you wouldn't have a place to hang your toothbrush, see?! And, you can't just do that by manning the balls, and the ramparts ya see...you gotta go out to where the trouble starts, and put those guys out of business!"
😳😂😂
😎🇺🇸❤
43:09 Friendly fire! Oopsy daisy, hope his ground crew didn't find out.
The narrator left out the three cannon mounted on rge engine cowling of the zero fighter... I guess they don't do research!
2:19 Climb Mount Nitaki? I'm sure that it's supposed to be "climb Mount Niitaka".
You are correct
We had a funny guy, he got his brains blown out over the South Pacific, nothing funny about that.
Do you have the European Theater episode?
I beleive so but do pls subscribe to get updates on new uploads.
And african theater too, also from Germany or japan side
if the australians and new zealanders had more american equipments , they would have had a more active presence in the pacific, specially in singapore, malaya, the NEI and taiwan
How many shots did the Emperor fire in anger at the enemy?
18:50 - that medal was not "captured" - it was fairly received by DoLittle... (when and how it could be captured then?)
received by the US Naval Attache in Tokyo, not Doolittle.
The P51 Mustang was NEVER used in the Pacific. Very very confusing opening to this program.
There were P51s stationed on Iwo Jima after it was captured and they escorted b-29s to Japan. About 45:00 minutes into this video They talk about this.
Nevets Legasi The P51-Mustang was used in the Pacific. Packard contracted with Rolls Royce to build the Merlin engine for the P-51s used in the Pacific theater. Try reading some WWII military history books before commenting.
Wrong, they were. Instead of having a letter & number designation it was mostly numerical. 67, 100, 101, I 200, 542,600,150,210. Lil butch 150,47th fighter squadron. Look it up
If it really was like it is portrayed the guy who received the call from the radar facility should have been court martialed and busted down to private. Too bad the guy making the call didn't make a voice like a pissed of colonel and threaten the guy with hellfire if he didn't get off his lazy ass and alert Pearl.
It wasn't! The young lieutenant at the "command" center got a phone call from the radar site telling him about the radar contact. He assumed it was the B-17's due in that morning. Even if he had realized the true nature of the radar contact, at that point there was NO telephone lines to any of the army airforce fields so he couldn't warn anyone if he wanted to.
I know the narrator is a famous actor, but I can't remember his name. Anybody know who he is?
Where are the U.S and Japanese bomber planes in Battlefield 5 😡
Is it wired and bad? that I think those Japanese pilots are cute as hell?
Not at all. Well, maybe a little weird, seeing as how they are old men or dead now. Lol. But nah. Like what you like.
Evil always thinks good is an innocent mistake made by the naive. So they think if they can demonstrate clealy enough that compliance is easier, then the 'slow' person will learn.
Both the Nazis and the Japanese saw things this way.
I love how every aircraft type claims to have shot down more jap planes than any other plane ! Incredible ! 😂😂😂
4:09 we know the same scenario for 9/11, donn't we? "although we knew, we had signals, we nev er took any precautions, blah-blah -blah" and then not only none of high brass was judged and sacked - they got medals, hnors and promotions... USA!!! The World Loves You Today!!!
A couple of error with this story…really should have been checked
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CLICK BAIT!!!!!!!!! First HALF of this video is on EVERYTHING BUT the F6F Hellcat!
Nearly Everything about Midway is wrong. Only 80 Japanese pilots were Lost. The Japanese decks weren’t filled with bombs, ammo, planes, they were in the hangar deck being refueled and rearmed. The new 2019 HOLLYWOOD MOVIE“Midway” is more accurate than this “mythumentrary”.
Someone needs to read “Shattered Sword”, by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully is is the TRUE story of Midway.
Without this HUGE FUBAR on Midway ruined it.
Well... Well done! But anytime you're trying to... you hit the wall. Or You hit the sponge of ignorance...
One of the carriers Did have bombs and torpedoes still on the flight deck. They didn't have time to put them away.
The man was There. Believe I'll rahe His word for it.
The man was There. Believe I'll take His word for it.
What a lousy rug!!!