American Destroyer Laffey's Accuracy Was Beyond Belief Our Ships Were Obliterated (Ep. 6)
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Welcome to our video series where we delve into the memoirs of a Japanese destroyer captain in WW2. In this series, we explore the extraordinary life of a Japanese captain, a distinguished officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. His firsthand accounts provide an unparalleled perspective on naval warfare, strategy, and leadership during one of the most critical periods in history.
This is part 6
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Part 6: • American Destroyer Laf...
Part 7: • The Americans Obtained...
Part 8: • Our Destroyer Hamakaze...
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My father picked up survivors from this battle, one from the Laffey, who said he was in the carpenter shop and then suddenly found himself in the water. He was pushed by a dolphin to Savo Island!
That was Flipper
From the moment he found the sanctuary of those friendly shores the Navy chippy was filled with a new sense of porpoise.
It was a shark who preferred Japanese sushi to American hamburger.
I’ve seen dozens of stories of dolphins saving peoples lives! Awesome mammals!
@@RTS907 They're likely playing. We would often see dolphins swimming around and playing around our ship and in our wake.
Dolphins tend to follow the "big grey things" around, because we throw food trash overboard which attracts fish.
Juneau was wounded but wasn't sunk until after the battle while returning to Espirito Santo, by a sub. The Five Sullivans all died as a result. The oldest, George, made it to the water but drowned.
Their poor parents😢
@@erichughes284 yup
An officer on another’s warship happened to be observing Juneau bridge and seeing officers/sailors in it, when the image was suddenly replaced with smoke. Juneau simply exploded/disintegrated when hit by the Japanese sub launched torpedoes. I remember reading this recollection.
So much better than any Hollywood movie you do not know how true it is.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that the diaries we watch on the many channels that have them, are either fiction, such as the Last Panzer, which is presented on a number of channels as real diaries, but which is not, or fictionalized, as this one is, from historical info from the war as to what happened as well as the much more generalized memories of people such as the good captain. Before anyone objects, just think of the unbelievable detail of the account. Nobody has this sort of memory, or was able to write it down during, or right after a major battle.
I read Hara's "Japanese Destroyer Captain" this last year. Remarkably he was the only IJN destroyer captain at the start of World War II to survive the entire war. It's lucky for us he wasn't of age for flag rank as he might have matched or exceeded the great Tanaka. He did see a few things wrong as neither San Francisco nor Helena sank at Guadalcanal. The confusion of the battle was such San Francisco poured salvos into Atlanta hastening her doom. In the midst of that chaos, his situational awareness and grace under fire were topnotch. He makes an interesting comparison with our Arleigh Burke, whose exploits came shortly after Hara's.
He truly believed Long Lance torpedoes and IJN destroyers were war winning weapons. As devastating as they were, Allied airpower, improving night fighting doctrine, radar and above all industrial capacity proved too much for the redoubtable samurai. His tone at the end of his memoir was bitter and grieving, understandable from a man who lost so many comrades and saw his beloved Japan beaten. I can only hope much as Japan emerged phoenixlike from the war, Hara's last years were happier ones.
O-O--U-U-C-C-H--H-H...!!!
"Hell from the Heavens" is a well written story about the Laffey's incredible survival fighting off numerous Kamakazi attacks off the coast of Okinawa.
There were two different USS Laffey destroyers in WW2.
The first, DD-459, was launched 30 October 1941, fought in the battle described above, and was sunk 13 November 1942. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Laffey_(DD-459)
The second, DD-724, was launched 30 November 1943, fought in the battle you mentioned and many others, and is now a museum ship.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Laffey_(DD-724)
@@JugSouthgate Thank you for that clarification….
More inaccuracy in Hara's account. Helena hit 2 of the 3 destroyers that entered the battle late. She was not torpedoed and sunk. Her captain, Hoover, took over command of the surviving ships and led them to the SE, out of the battle. Not sure how Hara could make this bad a mistake. Hoover was removed from command for not attempting rescue of the Juneau's survivors.
The Japanese were notorious for self congratulations after the war. If you listen to them, they actually won the war. Famously, Nishizawa claimed that his squadron shot down more planes on a Port Moresby raid, than the Australians even HAD at Port Moresby. Hara, at the end of the war, was considered a coward by many of his colleagues.
@@jeffmcdonald4225 Sounded like every American ship shot every other American ship, if we believe Hara.
"In the southeast end of Indispensable Strait the USS Juneau was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-26. Having received reports that three more Japanese submarines lurked along his route and with a submarine present in his area Hoover made the decision to not search for survivors of the USS Juneau, thereby abandoning 100 survivors, of which only ten survived. The Sterett's sonar was out of commission leaving the Fletcher as Hoover's only effective ASW ship. Hoover sent a signal to an overhead USAAF bomber to ask ComSoPac (Halsey) to rescue Juneau's survivors. The message was reportedly never received by Halsey. Admiral William Halsey, angered by Hoover's decision, had Captain Hoover removed from command, effectively ending his career. Halsey later expressed regret about his hasty decision to remove Hoover, but the damage had been done.
That commander that was removed was had his command taken for another reason because not stopping for sinking ships in a combat zone is standard procedure you stop to pick up
Survivors you
Could get sunk yourself
@@johnsepulveda443 Halsey removed Hoover for not attempting to pick up survivors. That's what happened.
wow, @45:00, almost like those japanese torpedoes were homing... getting multiple hits from a single salvo.
A lot of the long range precision torpedo strikes from Japan were the result of One Japanese destroyer.
You can visit the Laffey in the port of Charleston, SC.
That's a different Laffey, commissioned in 1944 after the loss of the Laffey mentioned here at First Guadalcanal on 11/13/42. Their histories are equally impressive.
Love the series.
The narrative if this Japanese Commander was very impressive. His straightforward account not only of his engagement and subsequent narrative of the following navel plan showed the criplaing results of the American Naval engagement tactics and faults exemplifies the industrial capacity to repair inflicted damage but also the reality of the Japanese lack of similar capacity. His honesty of his assessment of his own upper command failure to ascertain his battle experience shows the general Japanese command unwillingness to take in the learned experience was not only the mindset of the Navy but is also reflected in the Army's mindset, both ignoring experience suffered but doggedly holding to their general held perspective that they had the ability to defeat whom they engaged, for the Emperor. All showing that this commander understood, though not directly express, but through reflection his disappointment at the lack of interest of others in the command structure to learn from his real time experience.
impressive but insanely full of inaccurate information that can easily be double checked, sad 😔.
Brief introduction to the Japanese high command during WWII: The emperor was not a king or a president. He was a God, their God and they lied to him regularly.
USS Helena : The Original Machine Gun Cruiser
This was a good story.
The battle of Salvo Island was a big wakeup call to the American Navy. Americans had a way of learning and improving. It was a good victory for Japan and showed their good abilities at night fighting. Brave men on both sides. Sad for the number of lives lost in that bitter war. I pray the world will avoid such wars again. But that is not likely because of governments thinking in ways not conducive of it now.
Great video
What episode is the next 1 following this? I find it hard to follow an would love to listen to episode 7 of this series
Check the video description for all parts
Hara was a great captain
O' Hara?
If you care, the Japanese name Abe is pronounced "Ah-Bay". If you don't care, please forgive me for mentioning it. Chick Lewis
Tone is pronounced to-na
It's an AI folks, it is not a person. Hence all the weird pronunciations.
😎 Japanese perspective of battle .
The jeaun0 battle cruiser,thes guy refuse to pick up servivors.
So this hoover cowardet' out.
I didn't hear much about the obliteration of the Japanese ships by the destroyer Laffey. Click bait.
Ha yeah, one of the first mentions of Laffey in the video was it getting "obliterated" by shells from 2 Japanese ships.
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Is this narrated by AI? I would expect a person would have known the difference between a LEAD(As in first) vessel not LEAD(As in pencil) vessel. That was bad. Very bad.
yes. This person scanned documents into computer.
Wtf @1:04:40?
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@@aaroncarter4089 It turned into a creepy reversed voice clip when I listened the whole way through the first time.
Prayer to attract wealth? LOL!
I question this narrative. It does not sound as taken from a Japanese Captains log book. To much color and English language have been added to make this (entertaining ?). This type of videos this many years since WW2 is changing the scope of our History. I watched another video, that I will not name. that kept referring to the attack of PEARL HARBOR as occurring on December 13, 1941. For those of you that wonder what the date should be find a History book and READ about it. This video gets a Thumbs Down.
Lost me @about 1:50.......if you can't be bothered to check your AI's (ick!) or human presenter ( tragic! )pronunciation of the very tricky word " lead ", that's lousy quality control. In this context, it was meant to describe the first ship in a line.
Thus, " leeed" (long E sound, you linguists.....)
So: no Like.
no Subscribe.
no Share.
Sorry.
Ok bye @hughbarton5743. No need to slam the doors on your way out…
He isn't alone in his complaint - I have seen many similar complaints of each video, on all 3 channels using this AI reader. I enjoyed the videos but such mistakes wake you up from the narative as you were enjoying following it along in your imagination. I wouldn't suggest they leave because you depend on viewership numbers for al your videos. Ask them to leave during criticisms of this video, means less viewers likely to stick around for the next series of videos.