Okinawa, 1945: Sinking of the Battleship Yamato and Operation Ten-Go (Documentary)
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- Опубліковано 23 лют 2024
- April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the colossal Japanese battleship Yamato, a maritime behemoth, set sail for Operation Ten-Go. Laden with ammunition and troops, escorted by over half a dozen destroyers and a light cruiser, it sailed towards a suicidal thrust into the Battle of Okinawa...
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Yamato had many issues mainly due to design choice & battle doctrine.
Type 96 25 mm AT/AA for a start were not in triple but dual configuration amidship though 24 guns as 12 were increased to 162/ 81 as no evidence is certain of the experimental 3 gun arrangement.
Mind even if the experimental arrangement was the Type 96 25 mm AT/AA that is a copy of the French 25 mm Hotchkiss autocannon was put on market by the French in the 1st place as they saw it as near obsolete in 1936, let alone when they sold them to Romania in 1938.
The French military never used the 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun being rejected by command then exported as way to make up for the loses incurred.
You put AA but it was dual purpose AA & AT gun & really it was more of a anti vehicle & light tank gun for it had the size of shell required for a dedicated AA gun.
The USA have one nation to thanks for their victory more then any in the pacific & that is Sweden with their Bofors 40 mm gun that they sold the patent to the USA to make copies that they tweaked.
Even Britain grabbed up Bofer's like hot cakes when they could as it matched or exceeded the aging British QF 2-pounder naval guns at fraction of the weight & cost.
A Bofer's 40mm Maximum range was just over 7KM's being effective while the Japanese Type 96 25 mm AT/AA gun was is claimed to have a max range of 5.5 but even if so the shell is so small in flak area it is basically pointless.
Type 96's was optimal at 1 KM though useable at 3.5Km which this autocannon was more effective against tanks then air assets in many ways.
The Yamato even had At shells taking up space in case of facing tanks in shore bombardment but you have 5 to 18 inch guns so frankly what is the point?
Japan lost ww2 before it began when the took licence for the Hotchkiss 25 mm Autocannon in 1935 but France made a pretty penny.
The Japanese would have been better of using more 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval gun as it wasn't great AA but as a dual-purpose it was pretty nifty for it at least had shells larger enough to fulfil AA role.
Even if up gunned from dozen 5 inch guns to say a hefty 3 dozen/36 DP guns it would have likely still been over run by the Air.
Japanese can call Type 93 heavy machine gun to be a an AA gun but it wasn't anything of the sort.
4 of them in 2 dual configurations which were obviously for preventing boarding of the vessel which that it would serve well.
Personally 4 was over the top as 3 would serve well enough if 2 rear to aft opposite sided with 1 on the bow at front.
We British have a adage-saying; ''A camel is house made by committee''
The Yamato is a perfect example of a Camel it works but it was not what was requested-required for the job at hand.
The yamato's true useful speed was 16 knots at cruise for it could only go 27 knots for a very short time as the 12 boiler would not handle the pressure then require maintenance.
Some sailing vessels could exceed 18 knots so what is the point of a battleship that can keep up with sailing vessel if they flee?
The Yamato was a lumbering hulk with only 12 guns of 5 inch's suited to anti-air in any real regard.
Mind the Yamato was more a matter of moral & prestige then anything practical!
Do keep in mind the French were aware of the anti air short comings but funnily selected the Schneider 37 mm autocannon as they were more concerned with war against Britain then Germany funnily.
When ww2 did kick off against France & Germany in September of 1939 the French found themselves in a major pickle as they even resulted to converting 75mm Schneider guns to take up the shortage with limited contribution as only 190 odd guns were used in this role on a gun model made in 1917.
The French had good gear over all but lacked any meaningful; numbers for AA guns & production was no were near what was required for the Dewoitine D.520 only had 900 if that made before France capitulated.
Give France a reliable 40MM calibre AA gun & double it's aircraft production & that war would likely have been very different but the awful conflicting battle doctrine of France mired in politics would still have been present so Germany would have achieved victory but at much higher cost.
France was still in ww1 & Britain had the most up to date navy of the time & could throw out fighters quicker then the Jerries' could hope to destroy them but Germanies real set back was every lost plane equated 5to a lost pilot but Britain could bailout over it's own territory to fight another day if anything got prickly.
"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again." - Aeneas Tacitus.
We Brits heed the ancients advice even if it might lead to out mockery on occasion but especially we Englishmen have a very different mentality to battle compared to the continentals let alone the Germans & the Japanese who frankly have a death wish.
If your efforts will not secure any objective or victory then why fight?
It is not a matter of cowardice but simple acceptance of the reality 1 can find themselves in for even the greatest mind can on occasion be caught out without any usable preparation or means to improvise.
You can barely lose, if never fought when your chances were near none?;)
Nothing wrong with scuttling the ship to the boats &or running to the hills after burning camp to revaluate your options.
Minute 13: you say rhey dropped torpedoes from a height of 500 feet. Do you mean 50 feet? From 500 feet they would hitvthe water too hard and sink.
Those sound affects in the background are horrible. I had to turn it off. Do it without them!
Enjoyed the video. My father was the pilot of the PBM, Dog 10 that spotted the Yamato on April 7, 1945 along with Dog 8.
Thanks for sharing!
Okinawa was my father's last combat mission in WWII. He never talked about it. Now that he's gone, I regret not asking him about his experiences in storming beaches at Saipan, Tarawa, Peleliu, and finally Okinawa. We all live a good life because of that generation and their sacrifice. Many never came home. As far as this video, I bow my head to all the servicemen on both sides for their sacrifice. I only wish that we would evolve enough to see the futility of war. I look around at the world today and realize that perhaps I'm wishing for too much.
You did your dad a favor by not asking.
Many, many of those guys wouldn’t talk about much or any of their experiences.
My Dad’s best friend was on Iwo Jima and he would never talk about that time. Or at least not to me. He did however talk about some of his time guarding Japanese prisoners as part of the occupation force on the home islands after the war was over.
Don’t hold it against him for not talking to you about those things, those guys all had it way tougher than most of the rest of us could tolerate over 10 lifetimes and never had any help with their mental health once they got back home. All of them had some sort of issues from the war, even if they kept it hidden from family and friends.
You do know that the IJN would routinely execute downed flyers and the crews of captured ships?
Excellent comment.
Search also for "Lestrade" "Pacific Theatre" "Yamato" "pdf".
2:25 I love the specifications of the space battleship 😂
Yup, I spotted it a few seconds into this segment. Very sneaky and very cool! :D
Yes, I guess they built it to fight the Gamilons. Very forward thinking.
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@@willhookeen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato
Battle of Pluto video incoming? Lol
very brave blokes, toughest generation ever, grew up in the great depression then thrust straight into the absolute hell of WW2,
total respect !!
The sadest part of all this is not the might of arms and armaments but rather the sacrifice of so many brave young men.
A whole generation gave their lives for the Emperor. It was a tragic waste.
@@Zerox_PrimeSenseless waste of lives and material.
@@Zerox_Primetheir emperor was short and weak.
Captain Tameichi Hara’s account from on board the Yahagi and after its sinking is truly amazing. And I recommend it to anyone interested in the operation.
I have read his book and it was incredible read
We already read that event before.. he was lucky he survived and ended up in a hospital back in Japan…
Read his book, 'Japanese Destroyer Captain'. Well written, consise, and well worth the time spent in it. Side note, he was a part of the squadron that ran into (literally) JFK that night in the Solomons.
Lol gotta love how the blueprint background is of Space Battleship Yamato! Nice Easter Egg!
When does Godzilla get here in this movie?????
Haha I knew I'm not the only one who spotted it 😂
I was confused for a second seeing that. Then I realized.
*UCHU SENKAN TO TAMATO!*
@@bonehead2768 Not in this movie but the Kagero class destroyer Yukikaze was in the final battle of Godzilla Minus One.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. Star blazers
After the development of carrier warfare the Yamato was described as "The right ship for the wrong war"
one of the blue print backgrounds used, around 19 min, shows the Yamato as she was in the TV show Space Battleship Yamato. Very cute.
hahah i noticed it too xD
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@@HoH You thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.
4:00 that's the space battleship yamato LOL
Wonderful work. I didn't know that the ship's crew disobeyed orders and filled their fuel tanks to allow for a possible return trip.
This is the first time hearing about the over-fueling.
Most of the crews didn't know about the fuel order. The decision was made by the senior officers of the squadron and the commander of the fuel depot to give them a fighting chance of surviving.
I love this series!
The visual style, and the relaxed manner of narration coupled with low background music volume is my idea of perfection, especially when you upload long form, videos as they are very relaxing and I use them to help me unwind before bedtime.
Thank you for your work!
Thank you for the kind comment - I'm happy you like my style.
The relaxed robot voice
Thanks for a beautifully animated and meticulously researched video! This channel is truly a marvel!⚔🔥👏
Another amazing video as always!
Thanks for another interesting and well made video.
Fantastic work Oscar. This was a great video and your narration is always spot on. This battle was huge for the Allies and aided in expediting the end of the war.
It is computer generated so many errors
Nice video. Can we just take a second to appreciate how amazing it is to be able to lay artillery fire on targets 20+ miles away? Imagine sunning yourself on the deck and a three thousand pound AP shell comes ripping out of the clear blue sky at your ship. Yikes.
very brave blokes, toughest generation ever, grew up in the great depression then thrust straight into the absolute hell of WW2,
total respect !!
Very well done video. I was pleasantly surprised. Cheers.
Love your work! Keep it up! You're amazing 😊❤❤❤
Great video and very informative as usual.
Any chance you could do a video on the Battle of Imjin River/ Gloster Hill
Thought you could slip the Space Battleship Yamato by us! Love that little Easter Egg! Excellent video!
Last summer I visited the yamato Museum close to Hiroshima it ls impressive and a monument to human futility
Thank you, this was very informative and interesting.
Thank you very much for making this video.
Good stuff!
Thanks mate.
You have a mate that is a computer voice ?
Something that wasn't mentioned in this video is that Admiral Lee, in charge of the US fast battleships, wanted engage Yamato with the Iowa class battleships. This was initially approved, but Admiral Mitscher then nixed the idea by saying he could intercept the vessels before they reached Okinawa.
This has lead to a great "what if" that is the grounds for endless debate, as we will never know how the Yamato would have faired against an Iowa class battleship.
Can an Iowa class battleship sustain 18in shells damage? How resilient was Yamato armor v.s. 16in shells.
Which ship had the best fire control system and rangefinders?
Speed, maneuvrability, crew, commander, damage control,...
Luck...
Admiral Deyo's bombardment group, consisting of the older standards, was also alerted to prepare for surface battle, as the fast battleships (both American and British) were non in the best positions for intercept. The Colorados' et al. did not have the speed to force battle, but if Yamato was coming on anyway, you could have seen West Virginia, Tennessee and California, all with the most modern Type 8 fire control systems (wartime refits), taking the lead (if possible from a rain squall or other cloud cover from where they could have used radar targeting).
@@mechanicsfield2266. Only disadvantage was the Iowa class could not sustain hits from the 18.1’s. However, the Iowas had better fire control & radar guidance, and they could also dictate terms of battle with their superior speed.
A more fun idea would be the 12 16in broadside from the Montana class that were never to be.
@@stuartwald2395. Well said.
@@bri-manhunter2654 Drachinifel did a great creation/presentation of a 4 on 4 battle between TF34 (with Iowa and New Jersey) and Center Force (with Yamato). ua-cam.com/video/35yLWdYEbZQ/v-deo.html
Outstanding video!! Thank you
Thanks ( house 🏠 of history ) for sharing this remarkable historical coverage naval battle in 1941 between Japan and the USA
Good thing I'm a history buff and anime fan, because I loved the history of this battle and spotted the easter eggs of the Space Battleship Yamato!
Even though I had already known about this engagement, this presentation drew me right in.
Great video and history lessons.
Above all this is my admiration for the industrious country of Japan! They are truly hard and efficient workers considering the small size of Japan and some limited materials and supplies. More so now, they build many great products that help this modern world. I say this because my country of Mexico doesn't come close to the magnitude of inventive skill, products, engineering expertise and learning discipline that the land-limited country of Japan has. Truly something to be admired at least for me!
The moral of the story is that sneak attacking a country with 12x your GDP is hazardous to one's health.
I can’t imagine what it would feel like to be there and see all this chaos going on around you. Our grandpas and great grandpas had some serious courage.
2:30 THIS cracked me up, those blueprints look so modern, even futuristic. 😹
Oh boy, this made my day, thanks. ✌
Nice vid, would be cool to learn more about Hirohito
Brilliant documentary of the battle and rendering of history. Sad, sad, sad the loss of such good men and the heroic valour of those who got to come home. The futility of war. I am deeply touched and awed every time.
One of the great dramas of the war.
I agree with other comments and recommend Hara's "Japanese Destroyer Captain" as a great read. He was the captain of a cruiser in this battle. His cruiser was sunk, and he had to swim for it before being picked up by a USN ship and made a POW.
Awesome video 🫡
A good presentation but hopefully you will release more details of the Gurkha.
This served as an example of war leaders thinking the next war would be fought just like the last war. Japan wanted the prestige of having the best battleships in anticipation of a Pacific Battle of Jutland. No one, not even the Americans, understood that the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean would make aircraft carriers the most effective weapon of 'the next war'. Fortunately, America had the industrial capacity to boost their carrier fleet even as they continued to build battleships that would only serve as auxiliaries for the carriers and artillery support for the marines. Even their role as artillery for beach landings was mimicked by carriers launching ground support aircraft. Billy Mitchell was proven correct in saying that planes could sink battleships. The fate of the Yamato, the world's most powerful battleship, confirmed this.
Great vid.
Other than Nelson's battle, are there any battles with Tall Ships (Cannon balls, etc) with enough detail to do a recreation? I'd like to see Blackbeard or maybe even a fake out with Captain Jack Sparrow :) something with cannonballs would be cool. Awesome channel. Liked and Subscribed
Its impressive how ineffective was the japanese AA. They were full aware of the air attack but just downed 2 aircraft per ship lost.
Thanks!
Tameichi Hara was certainly fortunate to survive this action. His memoirs are worth a read.
New subscriber.
Terrific video!
Welcome aboard!
Such a sad fate for such a Mighty Ship like Yamato. Nicely done video.
It should be noted that while Yamato’s dismal career (albeit not quite as dismal as once assumed, but still terrible) is very often used to make the argument the Japanese failed to adapt quickly enough to the changing naval paradigm, the truth is that this was a problem that EVERYBODY had in WWII. Literally every major navy built pointless new battleships they didn’t need, and found that they couldn’t use them as capital ships, forcing them to either not use them or use them as very large, very expensive destroyers in supporting roles (which is still strategically a massive disaster and a huge waste-battleships cost so much that the only real justification for them at the strategic level was to use them as capital ships against enemy capital ships).
There were many things the IJN got wrong that other navies didn’t (their garbage anti-submarine doctrine for example). Wasting money on pointless new battleships in the carrier era isn’t one of them because everyone else also got this one wrong.
I feel like battleships were more of a fleet in being that forces enemies to plan around them, so they still had an impact
I agree. The other naval powers had the resources to correct that mistake. The IJN didnt.
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Only the US had the resources to cripple themselves by building battleships and keep going just fine (and that’s not because they were smarter about this than anyone else, but because the US war economy was such a juggernaut even self-sabotage didn’t affect it that badly). Everyone else badly sabotaged themselves by making that mistake, with Germany likely being the worst offender in this regard.
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The enemy could just ignore them most of the time, the enemy just didn’t know it. All the cases of the British desperately trying to keep Tirpitz contained? They were all completely pointless because Tirpitz was effectively harmless from the start, due to lack of fuel and being a battleship in the carrier era (and a badly designed one too compared to everyone else’s useless battleships)
Russians have a navy. What good is that to them? Same situation with China. No repair ports outside their territorial water.
Sending the Yamato was like bringing a knife to a gunfight.😮
There's symmetry with the Prince of Wales and the Repulse being sunk by overwhelming air superiority at the very beginning of the war and Yamato meeting the same fate at the very end.
Wait until you see the video about the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, next Saturday!
Yamato and her crew were sacrificed so the old Samurai, who hid in bunkers, could claim that the Imperial Navy had done it's part in defending Okinawa. They were supposed to sail to Okinawa were they would beach the ship and it's crew was supposed to bolster the defenders on the Island while the Yamato's main battery was used to strike at American troops.
This mad scheme had no hope of any sucess. Even if the Yamato had survived the air onslaught, she would have faced a line of American battleships.
It's kinda infuriating to think about. All these brave young men thrown away for "honor".
A lot of those guys were roasted alive when Boxcar visited Nagasaki.
Thanks
Cheeky little Space Battleship Yamato blueprint in there at 2:30
Great vid as usual! Can you have a detailed {as humanly possible} of the rise & to it's fall of the Genghis Khan - Mongol Empire & his descendances.
Corrections
@ 2:33 You used the Profile of Space Battleship Yamato as a Blueprint Background
@ 3:40 You used the Profile of USS Montana as a Blueprint Background
You found the space easter egg 🧐
I thought it looked a little weird, now it makes sense.
I loved and watched the Yamato space battleship. Long live the Japanese spacemen! It was good to see that the Yamato was raised and used to defend us earthings. One thing that always bothered me was that the spacebattleship didn't have guns on its bottom hull! What an oversight!😢
But her secondary bridge was on the bottom.
@19:05 That's space battleship Yamato.. You can't fool me.
OUTSTANDING! Anothe monument to the truism: "Play stupid games, win stupid rizes," which is an updated version of the old Toyota jingle: "You asked for it, you GOT it."
Incredible.
Just a heads up at 4:20 you use the schematic for space battleship YAmato, not the actual Yamato
19:05 ... Looking at the schematics you used for the background for the statistical table, one wonders why the Yamato didn't just use their Wave Motion Gum ... 😏
Interesting that the blueprints in the background at 2:20 are of the SPACE BATTLESHIP Yamato, not the IJN Yamato
very interesting
RIP
To the 97 US Navy men and airmen, and 4,137 Imperial Japanese Navy men and airmen who were killed in Operation Ten-Go
Make a video on the Battle of Malacca Strait ❤
A curious parallel to what happened to HMS Prince of Wales in December 10 1941.
Yamato vs Bismarck 🤔
Another great video, how about a series on the First Coalition,not focused on Napoleon but how France was able to go through a revolution on hold off other European powers
At 19:00 the blue diagram pick shown is for the space battleship yamato. 😅
What is you source for the ships being fully fueled? I’ve never seen any source make that statement. Not challenging, just wondering.
Having enjoyed 2 of your presentations, I would enjoy hearing a presentation on the defeat of the Japanese army by the "flying tigers" at "the Swaleen Gorge", placing it in the sequence of events during WWII.
Thanks, that's a great recommendation. I hope there are some detailed sources available about this, I'll check the library on Monday.
Would like a video about the Japanese super subs/aircraft carriers. I think the I-19
Why did you use Space Battleship Yamato blue prints for the backdrop in 2:28
Why were you using the Space Cruiser background?
Nice production
Listing the Japanese ships with Japanese (in Chinese characters) is a nice touch.
A few minor suggestions,
Using the correct ship profile would increase your credibility in accuracy.
For example, USS Hornet will accompanied by a Yorktown class profile (CV-8) which was sunk in 1942, and not the Essex class (CV-12).
Using a green color with seemingly red dots to illustrate Helldivers along side with the correct blue colored Avengers were confusing.
Keep up the good work.
Great history
Do they only use semi-armorpiercing Bombs or the AN-MK33 to?
Fantásticos la narración y los gráficos de los barcos... aunque no se ven explotar los torpedos! Enhorabuena desde España
19:27 they use the schematics of the Yamato from the cartoon series Space Battleship Yamato/ Argo from American version Star Blazers
Well presented..
Texas
They didn't have the fuel for them, its why they were so rarely used. Takes a lot to move 70,527 tons
Greetings from Brazil !
1:00 The map shows Hainan island as already under Japanese occupation at the time of expansion into Manchuria, but it was only invaded in 1939.
Battle ships were obsolete before the Yamato was began. It was an utter waste of resources for the Japanese.
The Japanese Navy did not have radar. Bombs were dropped down the smokestack which caused Yamato to stop. Without fire control about 20,000 tons of ammunition exploded looking like an atomic bomb.
Its ironic that countries put so much resources into battleship they were absolutely terrified from even using them, in the event they were lost.
I watched a docudrama on UA-cam on the Yamato .. it stated the Yamato was unstable in rough seas
Thank you…
A lot of videos about Yamato sinking....
What about Musashi?
The Yamato class battleship was obsolete before its hull hit the water! Even so, an artillery battle between an Yamato class battleship and an Iowa class battleship would more than. Likely end the defeat of the Yamato Class battleship. Why the Iowa class gunner radar was significantlyrics better, the range was about the same, if the Yamoto class battleship started to find its range then the Iowa class battleship could maneuver out of range with its 5 knot superior speed.
ww tales has run a series on Ohara's biography... including this battle....and his rescue
I'd like to see you cover the battles of Yamato as Space Battleship Yamato!
Some of the blueprints had blueprints of Space Battleship Yamato, just something I noticed.
This was my father's last battle was Okinawa. He was on a fast attack troop ship. It received six battle stars for its service in the war. He was in the invasion of Sicily, North Africa, Normandy, and Okinawa. He was seventeen when he inlisted in the Navy. The captain's son wrote a book about his ship, and I have it. The ship was Charles Carroll. APA 28. I saw a picture of it docked in Okinawa on a random website. Everything my dad told was true. He never spoke of the Pacific campaign, though. They all thought they were going to die from a kamikaze attack while on picket duty. Yes, a troop ship did picket duty if other ships were not available. I didn't believe it either. My dad had horrible PTSD. He died of cancer on june 6th 1975. His ashes were scattered off the coast of Normandy. He was given a full military burial service at sea buy the Navy.
Thank you for sharing.
Main armour belt was in two parts riveted together - not a single sheet - it fell apart under bombardment...
Can a yamato battleship - as shown in the animation - really pivot around a vertical axis located inside the battleship's own boundary? See vid at 12:40 and at 13:20 and at 14:25
The animation has port and starboard reversed from the narration. Port is left, starboard is right, facing the bow, or front, of the ship. You would think they would have caught that. Otherwise, great video.
Awsome
I would like to see your take on the Korean War, particularly the retreat from the Chosen Reservoir - how the Marines got it right and the US Army did not. Based on Thomas E Ricks book