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The Battle for Henderson Field: An Astounding US Victory | Battle 360 | History
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- Опубліковано 19 гру 2019
- In October, 1942, the Japanese launch an assault to retake Guadalcanal. In the following Battle for Henderson field, the US delivered an astounding victory - and sunk a Japanese battleship. Discover the US tactics that led to victory in this video from Battle 360, "Enterprise vs. Japan." #Battle360
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My dad was in there somewhere on a destroyer, the U.S.S. Strong. The Strong was sunk by Japanese torpedoes and a few men survived of which my dad was one.
I wonder what it would have been like to be there.
@@shadowling77777 Terrifying.
My Dad was at Guadalcanal as well on a destroyer but I don't know which one.
God blessed him
2 years late but still that guy deserves a lot Of respect
My uncle was a gunnery officer in the A turret of the Washington when it sank Kirishima.
My great grandfather steered the Washington. I never knew this until a few days ago
@@brad6118 Cool. Perhaps he had the QM watch when my uncle had the deck at some point.
@@brad6118 Your great grandfather helped save the men on Guadalcanal. He was a hero.
God bless Admiral Lee and the USS Washington BB-56 and all who helped in this Legendary Engagement of Battleships. Go Navy God Bless America.
Amen.
Back when y'all actually showed stuff about history.
Yes! As is my personal custom, I do have one quibble :-) :
HE shells by the time weren't made of lead, but of steel, with, as the name implies, a high explosive inside (plus fuse, detonator etc., of course). There were some shells (commonly termed HEAP = high explosive anti-personnel) that additionally contained lead shot, and lead was one possible material for a rotating band (a band around the shell, softer than the shell itself, which engages the rifling on firing, so that the projectile is spin-stabilized), and there were a few other specialized applications.
A hollow lead shell would not have withstood the force of the propellant explosion, in fact, as stronger steels were developed, weaker steels, and, earlier, cast iron, were replaced by them. The reason is simple: If your shell material is stronger, you can make the projectile's wall thinner, and you can put in more explosives without changing the caliber.
TL;DR: HE shells were mostly made of steel to give them structure, and explosives to give them destructive power.
Don't you guys like UFO "documentaries"?
Or that stupid "picker" show 24/7
Oh look, another comment about history...
@@FM-ig3th That's a great show, what are you talking about
My Grandpa Jack was on the U.S.S Washington and was in this battle. I had no idea what he had been through until years later. I once asked him if he was ever afraid.during battle's and he said they were too busy and they focused on doing their task properly. He passed away in 1994.
Shame, been to northern Aussie not far from the coral sea... seen and thank the graves of your American kids... thanked them for saving our parents 🌹
Regan Orr
Thank you to your Dad... I’ll see if I can send you a photo of the lands that he help save👍
Regan Orr
Yeah it won’t let me.., but you must come n see the South Pacific... there are memorials here in NZ.., far more up in North Aussie.., and throughout all the tiny island nations.., they were treated very badly, esp when they help a yank.. & they did... Shame our boys were away in Africa..., Our.who dated your kids .., said they were so you.., drank milk & chewed gum.., in her words “next they were in the “islands” breathing said water”🌹🙏... not sure what to say..., she & Dad made! Us kids to know of the suffering and sacrifice made for us here in NZ and the Pacific...
We lost out kids in Africa , Crete and Europe, esp in “bomber command with the brits..
Regan Orr
Just watched the latest movie Midway in the weekend.. I’m getting to old, cuts me to see the trouble the US is going through..
The day I was leaving Sydney, after a week of R&R from Vietnam, I was standing outside my hotel, in my Dress Navy Whites, waiting for a taxi back to the airport. Suddenly an older woman approached me and thanked me, actually the US Navy, for saving Australia in the Battle of the Coral Sea in WW II. I was very surprised but quickly composed myself and accepted her thanks! I will never forget that.
@@joehoppy4912 That was very nice of her. Far too few now even bother to remember the sacrifices others made for our freedom. Thank goodness for USA.
A stunning engagement, that only true history buffs tend to fully appreciate.
STAND ASIDE IM COMING THROUGH IS THE BEST BATTLE CALL
Further analysis has shown that Kirishima sank due to progressive flooding and was not scuttled.
Yes, more content like this, History Channel!
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@@HISTORY You're being a bit disingenuous about terming this vid 'The battle for Henderson Field' as an "Astounding US victory." Obviously in the end it was a US victory, but at great cost. You failed to mention (for some obscure reason) the US lost 24 warships...8 cruisers, 2 heavy carriers, and 14 destroyers. And you make no mention of the Naval Battle of Savo Island.
@@johnbrattan9341 It was in the episode of battle 360, this is just a clip of it
@@HISTORY Will there be, or is there an official soundtrack for the series?
The animation in these are great
It would be better if the picture would stop shaking.
Bob Jennings It’s just for cinematic effect. A little shaking is fine for concussive blasts for a bit of realism. If there’s too much, it can be a bit distracting.
@@Omegadoomship yeah I like it better that way
I typically don't watch "animation", however this one is the best I've watched through.
They making it in 2006
The narrator has a golden voice! It's like a movie I'm watching.
My dear father was part of the 1st Marine Div -Amphibious Div that made the first landing on Guadalcanal. He was part of the ones assigned to guard Henderson Field. He said the Japanese bombed them every night. He was so sick with malaria and dysentery and all of them were suffering from starvation. I am so grateful he survived. Many did not. He went on to become a wonderful father of three. He retired after 30 years as a Los Angeles Police officer. He was awarded the Medal of Valor by the LAPD for rescuing a family of four from a burning vehicle. He passed away in my arms at 91 years of age.💔 A life well lived. I miss him everyday. They truly were the "Greatest Generation".
This video if from the olden days when the history channel actually presented history.
One of the things that doomed the IJN: no radar on their ships. They still relied on sight and range finder while US ships already had radar.
Thats true but the japanese had superior night vision optics which gave them the advantage in the earlier battles.
Astounding when one side had Radar and the other didn't... more like expected.
i would not say expected but the radar given to us by the british was an advantage. in those days about a 15 min advantage. it was a much better advantage at midway because were always ready when we were attacked!
But it really wasnt reliable then.
@@williamdaniels6943 Midway was determined by breaking the Japanese naval code, not radar.
@@trashpanda314 and a few other factors as well, but yeah the code was the main one
The first battle of Savo Island: Am I joke to you?
Adm. "Ching" Lee was correct in ordering the other ships to get out of his way. The Combat Information Center on the USS Washington was better at directing gunfire by radar than the rest of the fleet, and radar was the only way they could detect the enemy on that night.
interestingly enough the Japanese had night vision technology in the form of infrared scopes which im pretty sure they acquired the technology from Germany
so while the US battleships were tracking the Japanese on radar, the Japanese were visually tracking the US battleships in scopes
nice, back when history channel was actually about history
This is why we don’t kneel we don’t disrespect the people that gave their life for freedom
awesome
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Woah Nice
Back in the early 1990's there was a movie about a sailor on the Washington-he was only 16 years old. He was asleep on the deck and didn't hear the alarms. He was actually outside as the 16 inch guns went off. He was injured and taken to a hospital where his true age was found.
I think Ricky Schroeder played the sailor.
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No
The Battleship Washington fired on Battleship Kirishima from 9,000 yards and wrecked it. While the Japanese warships had target fixation on Battleship South Dakota. The US Navy lost all four Destroyers brought to the battle. The Battleship South Dakota returned fire very little due to engineering failures
Nothing happened to the Washington?
john kempf ... it’s electrical distribution bus failed. It was blinded and without power
@@Idahoguy10157 Just read the damage report on the South Dakota. She had lots of shells that went below the superstructure and didn't explode. Her searchlights and deck were scathed with holes from 3 inch to 14 inch shells . The crazy part was that the only real fire damage was from a couple of lifejackets getting sparked.
john kempf ... it literally was a new ship. The shakedown cruise would have been minimal. Manned by sailors without prior service. Against the professional Japanese Navy. The South Dakota and Washington pulled off a defeat of the IJN. That’s impressive
I just recently read that someone accidentally tripped a circuit breaker on the South Dakota, causing power to go out over parts of the ship
Please release the full episodes of Battle 360 again
Could not agree more.only find the odd number episodes.
@@azdubz2021 Thanks for the heads up.
Great Job to ALL OF THE AMERICAN FORCES DURING THAT HISTORIC VICTORY BATTLE
From the halls of Montezuma...to the hills of Bloody ridge. Semper Fi.
USS Washington vs Kirishima it is Battleship vs Battleship where winner takes all
Legend has the sharks of the pacific dont use chopsticks with their Japenese
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The night-time battle was later described by USN commanders as 'a bar room brawl with the lights shot out'.
One of the only Battleship duels in the Pacific Theatre
The only one on one, toe to toe slugfest. Unfortunately for Kirishima, she was too busy mauling South Dakota to even see Washington until it was too late.
@@allanboyer2769 yeah like Kirishima would have even stood a chance against USS Washington even if she knew about Washington’s presence
“stand aside i am coming through” reminds me of that justice league scene where green lantern says “stand back and peep the light show green lanterns got this” then he gets waxed by all those goons
The night of November 14, 1942 was one of the worst nights in US Navy history. It was called "The battle Of Iron Bottom Sound'' and it was when the Japanese got their revenge for The Battle of Midway.
You are talking about the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942 when a Japanese bombardment group found a US cruiser task force in the way and destroyed them. We lost four cruisers and some destroyers and Henderson field was wide open to bombardment. That was the worst US naval defeat of wwII.
Lead? Battleship rounds are made of steel.
Steven Kramer I think it’s for dramatic affect
yeah I know.....
@@Biggiecheese706 That why I said it.
lead, as in the colloquial vernacular for anything shot out of a gun.
He kept saying rifle
That wasn't a gun fight. It was a back alley brawl.
It was described by USN commanders as 'a bar room brawl with the lights shot out'.
Without diminishing the accomplishment of BB-56 Washington in sinking the Kirishima, this red-white and-blue account of the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal is hugely inaccurate as "history," and does a major disservice to the over 240 U.S. sailors who died during this critical engagement. A far better and more accurate account can be read on Wiki (Search: Naval Battles of Guadalcanal).
While BB-56 did indeed pummel Kirishima into eventual sinking, what gets left out of this fairy-tail account is that BB-57 South Dakota, also on this mission, experienced an electrical failure at a critical moment which knocked out her guns for a period of time, resulting in Kirishima and others pounding her badly. Also ignored completely is that the 4 U.S. destroyers assigned to this Task Force that night were sunk, at great loss of life. Not even mentioning these facts is a huge disrespect of the sacrifice of those men that night.
As stirring rah-rah U.S. "history", this account is adequate. But it's not real history -- it's incomplete propaganda which is an insult to the brave sailors who participated in that battle, many of whom died that night.
Could not agree more.
I was always told by my dad, who served in the Pacific that that battle was at best, a draw.
It all ended in two mushroom clouds over Japan. So how's that for a rah rah story. BTW, Go 🇺🇸.
@DaveKraft1 You do realize this is a 5 minute clip from a 45 minute episode right? All the things in your comment were discussed in the full episode. Try watching the entire series first before commenting.
@@worldman3218 Yes, I had seen the entire series before. It's kind of irrelevant though if you're going to post this as a stand-alone piece. Quite honestly, that whole rah-rah flavor of the entire series was really off-putting. It occurred in almost every episode. It's commentary seemed designed to stir up nationalistic sentiments, not history; and shouldn't masquerade as history. Contrast the manner in which Jonathan Parshall, a naval historian, makes his points with the way that uniformed Marine sergeant (sorry, don't have access to his name) makes his. I don't think REAL history needs a "color commentator." It's not a Superbowl. The thrills are too cheap, and misleading.
These ships do not fire lead ammunition.
Captain obvious over here.
It's just a saying my guy. Not literal.
It’s a figure of speech.
My god, now I am pumped and I have no clue what to waste this energy on.
Wife!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where you at
This is why wives either love or hate the history channel! Go get 'em Tiger!
When US battleships swing their massive metal ball bats.
Best history in the video.
Victory thanks to the British radar designs given to the US enabling the US ships to accurately aim at the Japanese during the night.
You neglect to mention the upgrades made by the U.S. to the British invention.
@@billcorbell5362 You mean like the cavity magnetron?
andrew allen The British help us out after the hundreds of tanks,cars,planes, guns and ammunition we gave them for lend lease
alex lyster Sold but at one of the greatest discounts ever. And parts of their debt were scratched off
andrew allen Much of that technology was shared with us to help with development and mass production as the UK's production capacity had about reached its limits.
I worked on radar in the U.S. Navy and found the cavity magnetron the Brits developed to be brilliant engineering.
Also, thank you for your contribution to the LIGO upgrade which made it possible for us to detect gravity waves! 👍
16" gun firing American lead?? There's no lead in an APCBC armor piercing 16" shell.
Stop being so dam picky. They are just adding emotion to describing the battle taking place in the video.
@@davids9520 Thought it was supposed to be a history video
Lead, just a gunfighter expression from the old west
@@jojodelima1953 Yes I know
@Ryy Dog Why not?
This is History channel at its best
This is from battle 360, Enterprise. to bad they don't have all the episodes on the tube.but the ones do have are great.Alsp check out Patton battle 360.
Even a 5” gun is called a riffle.
Because no gun is big enough for the U.S
A riffle is a rough place on a body of water
No mention of how the Kirishima savaged the South Dakota BB look it up
The clip leaves out a lot, probably to save air time.
Today I just read that South Dakota screwed up, somebody on board tripped a circuit breaker or something which took power out from the ship for a while
@@kbanghart Incorrect. It was hit by 26 shells, at least 1 of which damaged the electrical system, which was out for 3 minutes.
USS South Dakota "I run from a fight" battleship
@@casualguy3938 nope you are incorrect, it’s electrical systems failed before the fight
They just said in this video it was the only Battleship on Battleship fight and sinking of another during WWII. For being experts in history they obviously forgot about the Bismark sinking the Hood in 1940 or the battleships that went after and sank the Bismark later
The hood was a battle cruiser, the Bismarck was sunk by two British cruisers.
They said only American battleship, this is technically correct.
@@zacharyzier314
Battle of Surigao Strait
@@jamess7576 in the battle of Surigao straight the IJN battleships were sank by torpedoes, not by BB fire.
@Apple Gamers Incorporated while there was an enemy battleship "sank" there, it was moored at dock and had only one operational turret.
My favorite of Biden's stories is the one of how he got his Medal of Honor for bayonetting Ho Chi Minh at the Battle of Henderson Field. It's also where he got the honorific "G.I. Joe."
Lol. C'mon man, you know, the.............thang.
Amazing animation.
Doesn't bring up the four destroyers lost and the beating the battleship south Dakota took prior to the Washington kirishima engagment.
Nice clip, BUT the documentary left out critical facts of this battle, that further the high stakes drama of this firefight.
1 Battleship South Dakota was brutally damaged, losing radar and frequently power throughout the battle. I read that it took about 40 shell hits.
2 IJN made a fatal error of concentrating fire on South Dakota, as battleship Washington, undetected, continued to fire unopposed at Kirishima.
3 The RAdm Lee was the top radar gunnery expert in the world, early in on its development for the US Navy.
4 Kirishima was scuttled later the following day by its commander, though Lee got credit for the sinking.
5 USA suffered terrible ship losses.
U.S.S Washington receives citadel crisis. World of warships reference
Lol, move aside, I'm coming through to end this man's whole career.
“Move aside, I’m coming through.” Refers to a particular point of this battle. Four US destroyers were in line in front of the two battleships. They came in contact with the Japanese first and were sunk or heavily damaged quickly. Then Washington and South Dakota came forward through the wreckage to engage the enemy fleet to take advantage of a brief element of surprise.
@@franklinbarrett4630 Yeah, it's a really awesome part of US history for sure
Awesome 😎
There was a reason the USS Washington was so accurate and vicious thanks to the admiral that commanded her
This is why im subscribed in the first place.
Bit of a mistake....the old USS Battleships sank the IJN Yamashiro (battleship) at the Battle of Suriago Strait
that radar played a bigger part at midway then is mentioned. it was only about a 15 min warning but in 15 min you could clear your deck . man your guns. and move up to flank speed. a decisive advantage. thank the english for that advantage!
Nobody:
American battleships:dish it out!
They got what they had coming; remember Pearl Harbor.
Good show
Go Washington 💪 huuura
Boy they just glossed right over the part where the US destroyer screen got shredded.
My Uncle Manuel fought and was wounded at Guadalcanal
when history talks about ww2 and then said 10 miles away
The image of the washington shows the shape of an iowa class bb
I don't care, it's a battleship
Turrets are similar.
I might be wrong, but I believe the real prize were the transport ships that were delayed and caught out in the daylight by American Wildcats and bombers. The destruction of the men and equipment resulted in the decision to evacuate.
Two of South Dakota's front turrets' 16" rifles were defective and could not be fired
No background on the radar advantage of US ships?
This video misses about 20 SUPER interesting factoids about that battle!
Well, the Washington with radar and 16" guns vs. no radar and 14" guns sounds like the Kirishima was way over-matched and so the result was not surprising.
Except that the radar wasnt reliable and battleships make easy targets for Japanese destroyer torpedoes which greatly outranged ours.
@@marksummers463 , I understand. And what about range of projectiles 16" vs. 14" and armor of the Kirishima vs. Washington?
@@WJack97224 The problem was that the US would see the Japanese ships at night, turn perpendicular to the J line of ships to "cross their "T" and get hit by a million ultra long range Japanese torpedoes (long lance) fired by the J. destroyers, effectively ending the fight. In the narrow straights that problem was very big.
@@@marksummers463, Did the Japanese score hits with their torpedoes?
@@WJack97224 Heck yes! All over the place in just about every battle in Iron Bottom Sound. Our torpedoes were short range and rarely worked as they were supposed to.
1st rule for a battle ship duel . Always being bigger guns
The caliber of the guns was of little importance, Kirishima was an old, pre ww1 battlecruiser without a radar, and fireing on the South Dakota, that would have been sunk if the undetected Washington did not emerge "from nowhere" to crash the party.
No mention of how Kirishima was targeting South Dakota, severely damaging Dakota which allowed Washington to move in for the kill, but whatever
Or that the South Dakota had major electrical issues, because they rushed her to the Pacific. She did not get a proper shakedown cruise and it showed. South Dakota had to return to the States for major repairs after this battle, until 1943, having been subjected to dozens of hits from the Japanese fleet that targeted her.. and did not see the Washington. The South Dakota was lucky that she did not get sunk.
she was lightly damaged but ok.
I love USS Washington Its the Only US Battleship to sink an Enemy Battleship
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Too bad they didn't use actual footage of the big ships in action.
Much better than computer game screens...
It looks as if it were a night battle. You'd only be able to see grainy fires with that 1942 film. Unless John Ford was filming it, of course.
Salute to the brave Japan 🇯🇵
Nice to hear all of the action and history but a very poor video due to lack of night vision on my part. Watching a black screen with a splash of light is one thing but really not that we'll done .to show a huge piece of history
Well it is showing the history. No cameraman was sitting in a rowboat taking movies !! Just saying .
They were armor Piercing high explosive salvos, not led.
Just curious, but did the tail guns on the Dauntless have a mechanism to stop the involuntary damage to the tail fins??🤔
They always look dangerously close to shearing off the tail assembly??
Actually they explained this part during the series episodes concerning Midway. Lloyd Childers was a rear seat gunner was being chased by a Japanese Zero on his tail and the Zero was out of ammo. So the pilot of the Zero planned to cut the plane off with his propeller. Lloyd then carefully aimed and constantly swayed his sights on the enemy, knowing that he'll hit his own plane tail of he just opened up.
Isn't it the same night as what happened during Friday the 13 of November 1942?
The South Dakota took a beating in that engagement all the fighting was done by Washington.
Where was the part where the USS South Dakota got mauled because it lost power due to its guns overloading the electrical circuit so it sailed blind into the Japanese fleet and got an overhauling
Muy buenas películas
Washington was so close to IJN Kirashima that Washington could use its 5” dual purpose guns
Yep. About 45 shells from its 5 inch guns fired. Only 9 shells from its 16 inch against Kirishima.
And the South Dakota take heavy damage in this night battle
I am glad I have laternatives to history channel now. If I only had listened to their biased videoes I would also chant USA at every opportunity i got.
Once again, "HISTORY" channel intentionally ignored the truth to make the show more heroic and melodramatic.
Just before the Kirishima's death, 4 US destroyers were completely anihilated by a sole IJN destroyer, besides, South Dacota was crippled by more than 36 hits.
My Father served on the Washington
Chief
@Douglas Davis Don't appreciate you humor
How is this a victory when we lost 242 and Japan lost 249
Saved the Marines on the island.
Where can i find the soundtrack for Battle 360?
Notice how only the victories are spoken about?
In Jaws of the Enemy they showed when a Japanese force led by heavy cruiser Chokai ambushed and destroyed several US ships and an Australian ship so actually no. Granted it's a lot of US victories but Battle 360 isn't one sided. This here is only a small clip from one episode.
You know this is actually movie style graphics
i think we should have kept the battleships around, they upgraded the Missouri and it was relevant in desert storm , if nothing else just for the nostalgia of them and protecting the carriers
They were older ships that were not worth it to refit. One of their biggest disadvantages were speed: the North Carolina and South Dakota class could only manage 28 knots, which new carriers could easily exceed. The ships were also not large enough to actually fit improved powerplants to keep them up to speed. The Iowa class, meanwhile could reach 33 knots so it was fast enough to escort carriers.
@@richieThach yea the Missouri was an Iowa class so keeping those would have been nice
@@mikesmith-wk7vyall four iowas were kept and are still alive today which is pretty nice
Their only contribution would be as floating artillery which a modern destroyer or cruiser can easily undertake with cruise missiles. They would be massively expensive to operate, with thousands of sailors on board and would be vulnerable to air or missile attack. While not providing any great tactical advantage, they would be targeted by the enemy for the huge propaganda value in sinking one. And given that the US are reducing even Nuke Carrier numbers now due to their vulnerability to long range missiles, the last thing the navy would want is a battleship in the fleet. Especially as you could operate 5 or 6 much more versatile frigates for the same cost.
It's CGI, the camera does not need to shake.
Wait this isn’t pawn stars wtf
The actual battle wasn't as one-sided as it appears here. Kirishima disabled South Dakota with a lucky hit, shorting out her electrical systems, and the US destroyer screen got fairly beat up as well.
From what I heard was that South Dakota didn’t had a electrical failure not because of Kirishima, but it’s not like South Dakota got out of the battle unaffected, it was pounded by the Japanese cruisers
Idontbelevethe tounds are lead
"The History Guy" on UA-cam does a better job of explaining and making history exciting and interesting in any one of his 5-10-minute shows than "The History Channel" does in a month of their shows.
And I'll bet his budget is a lot less.
The quote from Admiral Willis "Ching" Lee is incorrect.
"Tell your Big Boss "Ching" Lee is here!