Nobody I repeat, Nobody has ever explained the attack on Pearl Harbor in a video like this. Clear. Accurately. Visually. You show when the torpedoes hit, and where. You show who got shot down and you even explain why. You show what direction that planes came in from and why it mattered. You show how the attack succeeded and how it failed and even more you explained the goals and intentions of this attack that answers the many "what ifs" that plague this event. You should be proud man. This is perfection and everything that should be strived for when making a history video with narrative and informational graphics. Bravo sir
I too agree. Nicely done. Also I liked your intro about the strategic situation in the japanese perspectiv. Often seen as a cowardly sneak attack this was really sound military planning.
I agree, absolutely brilliant video! I thoroughly enjoyed it! I have however only 1 VERY small objection, and that is the referral to the United States as "America". While Americans themselves refer to their nation as such, it is a bit of a misnomer. For the historical accuracy of this video, the country should be referred to as the "United States", because America (outside the USA) is still considered as both North and South America. For example, Canadians refer to America as all North America, so on and so forth. Argentinians have a similar view on the word. But anyway, no biggie, great job!
However he failed to calculate the hit rate correct at 8:50: 19 torpedo hits out of 36 launched make 52%, not 48% said. Not critical, but a mistake though.
@@leopold3146 But that error is inconsequential compared to what Stout Lager talks about. You might also note that this problem was pointed out to him when the video was published three years ago, as mentioned in the description. Which makes me wonder if you even had noticed that error had it not been pointed out to you in the video description.
@@Bitchslapper316 Because you were actually listening. He wasn't; but he blames it on the school. They didn't provide pretty animations to watch. You see comments like these all the time for that very reason. Schools do teach this stuff but most kids don't really care to remember any of it beyond the test. Personally I learned a great deal from school because I took classes I was interested in rather than what was easiest. Plus I've always been interested in history. People also seem to think it's school's fault for not covering everything in great detail, but how could they? They're underfunded, paid too little and kids wouldn't appreciate a more detailed look into political history and the nitty gritty of every detail. They're taught the basis and it's up to them to learn more from there, whether it be college (ew) or learning on their own. UA-cam is a great place for independent historians to fill in the blanks, but again those blanks are no fault of the schools themselves. With the limited time and resources given they do a surprisingly good job of teaching what they can. It's up to the students to listen and commit it to memory. A great example of this is just how terribly people seem to understand English. Schools cover English in great detail from the very beginning to graduation, and yet native speakers butcher it constantly. I doubt most people could even tell you what a semicolon is for. And yet these same people claim schools don't teach anything and are useless. Math is another big one people complain about. Those same people aren't going into fields of work that require much math beyond a calculator, so expectedly they don't remember a lot because they don't need to. But for those who do plan on working in a mathematics heavy occupation? Math classes are invaluable in achieving success.
Aboard USS Utah was Peter Tomich. A man from Bosnia-Herzegovina who immigrated to the United States in 1913. He was a Chief Water Tender. After USS Utah was hit he went down to the boiler room to make sure the power stayed up with the pumps. The longer he could keep the ship from rolling over, the more shipmates could be saved. Peter Tomich stayed at his station and he died there. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. However because he had no known relatives, his medal of honor was given to a destroyer in 1943 named in his honor. It wasn't until 2006 that Tomich's family was tracked down in Split Croatia and given his Medal of Honor. Truly one of the forgotten heroes of Pearl Harbor.
@trueman mann you understand Americans are killing each other at atrocious rates... And what does anything you've said have to do with his actions? Saving mates from dying has nothing to do with ideology.
@trueman mann Again, what does anything you've just said have to do with the fact you totally besmirched and maligned the memory of a man, serving in you're country's military and awarded the highest honour for bravery simply because you didn't like where he was born? WTF does that make you? - an A grade DICK!
trueman mann I’d be happy to buy you a one way ticket to the country of your choice. If you don’t like The United States of America then your welcome to leave at anytime. Apparently you enjoy resting under the blanket of freedom the men and women of the Armed Forces provide for you. How’s about you just say thank you and move on... but I guess that’s part of what freedom is all about you can express anything you like any way you like. Just say it like a man and insult one of them to their face so they can respond in kind, likely you will just continue to post like a coward from behind your key board. Enjoy your Starbucks...
I love the use of photos. Swinging the animated map around to the exact angle the photo was taken from helps so much in figuring out what exactly was happening and when.
Back in 1989, I was taking flight training based at Hickam-Wheeler aero club, flying a Cessna 152. I did “Touch & Gos” at Ford Island, smack in the middle of Pearl Harbour
The thing that stuns me IMMENSELY about this video is how much my vision of what war comes down to is so incredibly skewed by the films and tv shows that I’ve watched about these events. Pyrotechnics and explosions feel like a constant barrage that underscores those representations, so it’s unbelievable to hear some actual numbers put behind this. The sheer volume of torpedos and bombs is much lesser than I would ever have expected, but the significance of each impact translates into something so much greater. The number of planes in the initial wave are tiny in comparison to what I expected, but their effect took the lives of so many more than I understood. All told, the numbers in this video are both staggering small and large at the same time, and none of it fits with what I had in my head. This has been an incredible learning experience. Thank you for the video
i was thinking the same thing. i watched the movie pearl harbor when i was 12 or 13, and had a certain idea of this attack. it’s not exactly what i had expected.
read "AT DAWN WE SLEPT-THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK" written by Gordon W. Prang. He interviewed many of the surviving Japanese and American participants in this attack and spent 37 years gathering the information to write this book. Much more detailed and very interesting!
I toured the Pearl Harbor National Memorial when I was in Hawaii. It's crazy how shallow the water is, and the Arizona just sits right under it. I remember oil on the surface and the Park Ranger told me it is still leeching oil and will for decades.
@@___meph___4547 you’re very right, I missed that. Something in the telling of this made it sound like Lt. Nagai with his 6 support planes, and Lt. Hirata and his troupe did the majority of the damage early, and my brain took over and discounted a huge number of planes also mentioned. 183 planes is indeed a lot. But I go back to my point that I have very poor understanding of scale when it comes to this, and the weight of individual action in reality seems so much more significant than the overall lens of chaos that films often use to dramatise these events
I gotta be honest, one of the greatest clear explainable, accurate, and visually video and explanation of Pearl Harbor I've ever seen. Truly one of the best youtubers for explaining history
Totally agree; I had never realised the extent of the damage - though I knew it was terrible - but usually you only hear about the main ships that were sunk, not the others that were also destroyed or were damaged. Truly excellent video series!
@@MontemayorChannel Agreed - these videos are amazing. I loved you included some pictures and video where you had it and highlighted what we were seeing. Amazing work, I am sure it take awhile to make one of these, but subbed for life!
I'm 73 yrs and this is the clearest and very best explanation I've ever encountered on the Pearl Harbor attack. Excellent job. Your usage of diagrams and maps and reference to photos were very helpful.
The one bomb hit on the Raleigh was an armor-piercing bomb that most likely failed to arm on the thinly armored deck of the light cruiser. It passed through an oil tank, the aft 3in magazine, nearly hit the 3,000-gallon aviation gas tank, and exited the bottom of the ship, embedding itself in the mud of Pearl Harbor. Had that bomb worked as designed, it would have disintegrated the ship and my grandfather along with it, 18 years before my father was to be born. I inadvertently owe my life to that very moment in history.
Dang. That tilting of the map effect to match the photographs... ...that sir, is SEVERELY COOL. Have my subscription and I'm off to watch the rest of your videos.
@@craighauser9482 Yeah, super visceral reproductions of these great battles for those of us who don't have the time or inclination to read long complex accounts
Thank you! i had envisioned those exact scenes months ago, and thats when i realized i was going to have to learn after effects and 3d camera techniques. thus, after 4 months of learning, i finally did it. the purpose was for the viewer to get a better perspective and understand what they are looking at and what angle they are looking at it from. Im glad it helped!
@@MontemayorChannel the Nevada was already planned on leaving that day as it takes hours to get the engines going. Thats why it was the only battleship moving. I learn about the engines on the USS Missouri. They talk about it took a long time to warm up.
@@MontemayorChannel absolutely GOATED, im a visual learner so this was so cool and helpful You my good sir have earned a subscriber, keep up the amazing work 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I have seen many different documentaries about this fatal morning. Every documentary lasted over 60 minutes and was about different aspects of this conflict. You, sir, managed to cover every aspect in just 17 minutes! Awesome video!!
When that detailed coloured map aligned and merged into the black and white photo, man I haven’t seen anything like that before. Damn good graphics man
I have never left a comment on a UA-cam video before, however, this deserves to be my first. I have read and watched a lot about the attack on Pearl Harbor over the years, but your 17 minute video put so much information, timelines, etc. I feel it should be required viewing in school history classes. The inclusion of the rare photographs, videos and maps really told the tale. Congratulations on a fantastic production, I’ll be checking out the rest of your videos very soon.
@@gordongo7919 I'm talking US-Japan war. Since when did the US enter wars that had nothing to do with them? It took the US 3-4 years to enter ww1. the war of the pacific in s. america, us stayed out of.
To this day, there is still not a single other video on TV or UA-cam that covers this battle (and other battles you do on this channel) more accurately than you. Clear, concise, unbiased, and points of view from both sides. Minute by minute decisions by commanders and pilots, it's all covered, all of your videos are like this and we very much appreciate your work. Excellent as usual!
do people really think this was unbiased?? I am willing to bet this youtuber is american, they seemed to downplay the damage the whole time and focus on things like the duds or how they should have chose better targets, how it could have been more devastating. They also described 19 / 36 torpedo hits as a 48% hit rate, putting it under half when its actually 53% idk how he even got 48%. listen at 12:18 and tell me thats not major biased.... "yeah sure I guess they got the nevada but it was mostly cuz the design flaws not the japanese bombs" get out of here. America obviously took the W in the end so whats the point of downplaying their L... - an unbiased canadian
@@solve4708 you are the one who is biased. The presentation was fine. It's perfectly acceptable to focus on Japanese Weapons Malfunctions. Watch a video on Midway and you will see the same thing talked about with American Torpedoes. That's not bias that is the facts. He made one math mistake in a very detailed video and you act like that is some big bias and like the 5 percent creates a big change in the tone. 48 and 53 percent most people see that and say "about half".
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@@solve4708 You really can't tell he if is American based on the fact that he speaks English with an accent, making it unclear on where he's from. Not to mention how incredibly stupid it is to call yourself unbiased. Everyone is biased to some degree about everything, the best thing to do is to be as unbiased as you can. That first commenter didn't even say he's completely unbiased either, he said he hasn't seen anyone *more* unbiased about this event.
@@solve4708 Battles aren't like basketball games. You don't play to win 100-99, you play to win 100-0. Japan's failure to do more damage despite having achieved total surprise is definitely relevant to any study of this battle.
*You, sir, deserves so much respect and honor for your awesome work.* Born in China, grew up in Germany. I've been always interested in historical naval battles, especially those between USA and Japanese forces during WW2. The first film I've ever watched in my life, as a child back then, was Midway. Despite reading tons of books about these battles in the pacific ozean, in all 3 languages, Chinese, English & German, and also having watched tons of films, normal ones and documentary ones. NONE of them could even come close to your videos, in terms of accuracy, the amount of information, the route of every strike group, route of planes, mistakes both side had made by false decisions & maneouvering, etc. And also, what amazes me the most, is my sheer level of excitement during watching your videos. For a documentary historical video, without any action scenes, one would expect to simply watch it. But I feel that my heartrate goes up and up while watching at your videos. And also I already know exactly what will happen next, I cannot but simple follow each of your graphics and your explanations like a little child during christmas time who is about to receive his present. I thank you thank you so much dear sir, for providing us with this kind of awesomeness work to let us remember the great battles of the past and the heroes on both side who participated in them. Best regards from Germany! And Merry Christmas to ya all there!
@@pisslamicrapepublicofporki3947 That was before 2000s. Thanks to the US stupidity and capitalism greed, that 'shithole' has become a super power with more middle class than america... 20x the size and might of WW2 Japan. Talk about awakening a sleeping giant. Better polish up on your mandarin.
140,000 Subs 1M+ views per video. Please don't let this be a passing phase, and let it become a legitimate channel in the future.
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Yeah , I absolutely prefer his depictions of these battles then the big budget versions given to us by the history channel. I’ve just discovered this guy and already watched most of his vids and already waiting for more lol
Dude, I don’t believe I’ve ever watched a full video on the attack of Pearl Harbor. I can probably list the various reasons as to why but it all comes down to the content. Your video however had me so focused, I think I forgot to breathe a couple of times. The way you explain every detail of the attack coupled with excellent graphics, photos and film had me so focused and interested, it even shocked me. The time and effort you put into it shows and I appreciate it. As a civilian I don’t always understand what y’all are talking about but you explained everything perfectly. Thank you for teaching me about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
fantastic video. I've always been interested in this attack. I live in Hawaii, born and raised, i grew up literally 5 minutes away from pearl harbor. My family has lived in the area around pearl harbor since the 1920s (and still do). My grandfather witnessed the attack as a 18 year old, our family home is on the ridge over looking the harbor (Aiea). From there he saw the whole thing. Saw the USS Arizona explode. He actually was a laborer working at Pearl Harbor but that Sunday was his day off. After the attack he volunteered to go down there and help with the recovery efforts. He recalls seeing truck full of dead bodies being taken away. He later joined the Army and fought with the 25th infantry in the Philippines in 1944-1945. Those memories of the attack and his combat experience in the Philippines stay with him until the day he died (a few years ago) in his 90s.
Thank you for sharing your grandfather’s story. I couldn’t imagine his shock and disbelief as he witnessed that attack. It’s clear by your grandfather’s actions at Pearl and later why he was one of the “greatest generation”. I can see the love, pride, and respect you had for him in your words.
Around the 10:05 mark: I honestly got chills seeing that explosion. It really hits you seeing hundreds of soldiers losing their lives for their country in a matter of seconds.
@CreedOfHeresy same, I kind of expected to see the plane and impact first which adds to the shock value but even watching it back it's still terrifying
Montemayor, I will not be the first nor the last person to congratulate you on the astounding accuracy of your videos. The level of detail that you go into almost brings a tear to my eye. As someone that loves their military history. It truly irks me, when I see most other content creators videos and they put out an inaccurate, or blatantly wrong information regarding events. Yours suffers none of those deficiencies I started on your Midway video, watched all of that through. Then started to pick up some of your other videos, finally ending here. Your work is genuinely professional grade, you have a lot to be proud of! Thank you for the dedication that you put it to this.
Hear hear! I had a similar path. I think I watched one of his videos a year or two ago but finally watched all of the WWII pacific theater ones in the past week or two. Started with Midway, then Savo, then Coral Sea, and ended with Pearl Harbor. However, I believe Pearl Harbor was probably the video I watched a couple years back, so it's like coming full circle. Great series, Montemayor!
Most informative and visually coherent, detailed and critically explained presentation on the attack on Pearl Harbor that I've ever seen. You deserve a standing ovation.
"The Japanese reasoned that the Americans would not have the will to wage war against Japan after seeing one of their battleships sunk" Whoever came up with that idea clearly never met an American before
@@jonjo2598 So you mean Vietnam, a country where we fought for nearly a decade while killing millions of enemy fighters and taking relatively low casualties. As well as Afghanistan, a country where we fought for over two decades while inflicting who knows how many deaths on the enemy and suffering so little casualties it could hardly be called a war? Hmm, interesting examples you used there.
@@brycewalker3726 Yes, americans with superior technology did manage to effectively slaughter hundreds of thousands of people and dominate other peoples homelands, for a while. I do not think it is anything to be proud of.
>- That the US already knew of the impending attack way before it happened, They knew an attack was coming but wasn't sure where. With holdings in the Philippines and other Southeast Asian islands, it's an easy assumption that Japan would be more likely to target those areas as Japan was going for the Dutch East Indies and British Malaysia. >- and in fact moved their `well aged` Pacific fleet to Hawaii, (holding back their newer ships) to bait the Japanese in. Incorrect. While the U.S. did take some ships out of the Pacific fleet in favor of the Atlantic (Germany would be the bigger focus of the two), the main naval doctrine at the time was still battleship heavy. If you want to bring up the carriers being out of place it was because they were sending aircraft to the outlying regions. >- The top brass also ignored ALL radar reports on the day. Radar was incredibly new at the time and with under-qualified operators, the "brass" never got the information until it was too late. Besides, a better argument for incompetent brass should have been the moment the USS Ward attack on a midget submarine which would be a lot easier for anyone to comprehend moreso than new technology. >The US and their zionist controllers Well those zionist controllers didn't do a very good job seeing how the U.S. limited immigration of Jews escaping Europe and let in far fewer Jews per capita than many of the neutral European countries and fewer in absolute terms than Switzerland. What kind of zionist controller would just sit back and let significant members of their "own kind" get killed in droves? >for a sneaky way into the war with the FULL support of the American public, which were mainly of German and Italian decent. If that was the case, they should have created an atrocity in the European side rather than the Pacific because the only reason the U.S. became involved in the European theater was because Hitler decided to declare war on the U.S. So if these "Zionist controllers" wanted the U.S. to get into the war, they wouldn't have used Japan's attack as an excuse because it only encouraged the U.S. to fight Japan (which btw doesn't have many Jews so not like they're advancing their cause). This information is pretty much all brought up in the video (and the rest is high school level history) so I'm curious why you blatantly ignored all the reasons why an attack on Pearl Harbor wasn't seen as likely.
Not to mention the every one of FDR's economic policies toward the Japanese was designed to back them into an economic corner, which would force them to lash out at the US, at some time! FDR was encouraged in this by his Soviet-infiltrated State Dept. which wanted more far support for the Soviets, which the US entry into the war would bring!
"I can promise you 6 months of unprecedented victories after war begins, but then afterward there will be nothing but a slow and inevitable retreat." Admiral Yamamoto to the Imperial War Council, October 1941.
@@skippa7324 but they did man. The Japanese ships bypassed and launched airstrikes directly at Pearl. What could have prevented them from say, have 10.000 troops dissembark for an invasion?
@@skippa7324 much much appreciated the reply. I know the industrial might of the USA (I am Greek) was (and still is) immense, but I would have thought that actually landing on Pearl H., using the resources of the island itself and forming a supply chain directly from Japan, that would be a whole different story. The american State would have been well supplied (with oil fields and perhaps even capturing?! american ships, even auxillary ones, and perhaps airplanes, while the USA would have to sail from S.Diego California all the way to Hawaii, a very very long and tiresome journey. And contrary to Rabaul, Hawaii could NOT be bypassed...
This is the single best explanation video not only of pearl harbor but of any battle or attack I've ever seen. Your spoken explanation was clear and detailed and the visual map with animation was perfect. Not to mention the excellent additions of real photos. This is also the only video I've seen where the real photos were overlaid with highlights of which ship was which. Overall perfect explanation. This could be used in schools to teach.
Thank you for the kind words Ryan. It feels good to receive the appreciation because i did spend a lot of time working on it. my goal was just to visually explain it with detail by detail for anyone interested.
When they thought the oil tanks weren't "necessary" targets oh boy how badly they were mistaken This video is very detailed even included other ships no matter how small or utilized they were, all are named
The oil tanks as well as the shipyards were the planned target of an cancelled third wave. They would have taken them out with the first, but it was feared the smoke would interfere with the targeting of the following waves. The reasons to cancelling the third wave were the anti-aircraft fire and the fear to be caught by the US carriers while their planes were on the attack. The US carriers would have ripped the Japanese ones apart without their planes to defend them. Even 1 US carrier could have the Japanese carrier advantage. Consider, even if the Japanese carriers all escaped, if just their flight decks had been damaged too much, they would have had to ditch all the planes and the pilots. The planes were replaceable, the pilots weren't. Which once more the importance of intelligence and communication.
@@grayscribe1342 This! If the 3rd wave had happened Enterprise and Lexington would have attacked and sunk 2 or 3 Japanese carriers easily. The Japanese were able to declare a success by saving all of their ships. Also the Japanese did not have enough fuel to stay idle there for too long. If the 3rd wave had launched they would not have been able to sail westward for another 12-24 hours and they would have had to abandon almost all their destroyers. They literally did not have enough oil fuel to last much longer there. Enterprise in fact almost caught up to the Japanese and there would have been a likely Midway disaster for the Japanese if the third wave was launched. Also, the fuel tanks narrative is so fake and wrong. There was no Japanese submarine threat to the supply chain between Hawaii and California. There would have been new fuel tanks brought in within weeks and 200 weekly oil tanker ships would have come into Hawaii with no fuel problems.
I think some part of the decision by the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor can be better understood when one studies the history of American brinkmanship against the Japanese.
Are you lost? They wanted to cripple the Pacific Fleet to prevent them from interfering... You act as if America was going to sit out for the duration of the war. America already had the lend-lease act going on and politicians in America was finding every possible way to enter the war. Strategically for Japan, it would be best for them to strike first than to react once America decided to move against them.
actually the us first sank a Japanese submarine that had tried to sneak into pearl harbor, so they should have known that an attack from japan is coming
My mom was playing in her back yard on the North Shore of Oahu when the Japanese planes flew over; she said they looked up and saw planes with big red dots under the wings but didnt know what they were, wow, amazing story.
Of the hundreds of movies and documentaries made of this day over the years by big and little studios. This was by far the best overview of the attack. Hats off to you.
This level of detail is just so amazing. I mean, really, there's like a kajillion Pearl Harbor documentaries, and not one of them explains the onslaught step by step, like this.
That was my goal for this video, to break it down step by step. too often we are just shown pictures of the aftermath, but its hard to picture what we are looking at or what angle we are looking at it from, etc. Thank you!
Really love the way that you included pictures and videos from the attack. It really adds a lot to it. Sometimes learning about these huge moments in history you can feel detached from it, but seeing the pictures and videos from the events makes it feel much more real
ChakRaLight this video isn’t about the causes and effects, it’s about the battle specifically. And raging about “Zionist controllers” makes you sound like either a high schooler or a fringe conspiracy theorist. It’s not some hidden unknown fact that the US wanted to go to war in 1941. Secondly get it straight, the US knew an attack was coming but not when or where. They were shocked that the Japanese attacked pear harbor, most thought the attack would be in the Philippines.
ChakRaLight I just rewatched it, he does briefly mention the broader picture, be regardless you are wrong about some things. The US didn’t deliberately ignore radar signals. They had just set up a new system but the two men monitoring it didn’t have a phone to relay messages. They actually had to go to a gas station a mile away to use one when they saw something. However since no one expected the attack, when they saw a blip they assumed it was US planes on a training mission
I rarely add comments to UA-cam because the comment section is usually horrible but I have to say I really enjoy your videos. You give enough detail and explanation without it being overwhelming and boring. Please keep up the good work!
1,000 likes, 5 dislikes. Deserving for a channel that puts out some absolutely fantastic content. Thanks for the hard work and the great videos, you deserve it.
This was a fantastic video! I've seen many movies, documentaries, and videos on Pearl Harbor, but never have I seen it described in such detail, blow by blow. I can't wait to check out more on your content.
You did a damn good job explaining the attack. Just by taking the time to research this and pass on the information I feel you have honored the memory of all the people who perished that day. Thank you.
May 21, 2019-- For many years while I was in school... they never taught us like this one in the video... History books never done something like this... whoever created this video really did a good job putting maps, aircrafts, battleship, etc... Two thumbs up for this dude creating this video...
The US knew that an attack was possible but never considered a carrier raid on Hawaii since it was a high risk operation with assets they can't quickly replace (carriers). The US moved the fleet to Hawaii in May of 40 a year and a half before the attack but it was a move designed to send a message to Japan. I don't know where the notion of them only moving their old ships came from but it's pretty much nonsense since they moved their fleet carriers out there and that's hardly sending your oldest and weakest ships. There was only one radar report that got discounted that day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_battleships_of_the_United_States since they moved their fleet to hawaii in 1940 only battleships they had ware ww1 era ones anyway.
>Implying Japan didn't do the exact same thing with Marco Polo as an excuse to get into war with China in the first place that led to the embargo. >Implying the German Workers Party didn't use similar tactics with the Reichstag Fire and Communist Fears I digress, of course the USA wanted the attack to happen, it was practically itching to get into the fun everyone else was invited to by then, so much benefits they could get from both internal and external, that and the Americas were next anyways after Europe, Africa and Asia...
I was here when it had 20K views. Holy crap man. I didn’t know it was a new video back then. You helped me when I was younger and you shall help me again now! Thank you for this amazing video detailing the Attack of Pearl Harbor. I watched it in February of 2018
Found your channel today and subbed right away. Was kinda dissapointed to see no videos for 4 months but Here you are now. So lucky! Incredible channel!
Everything about this video was wonderful. I especially enjoyed how you turned the perspective of the battle map so that it matched up perfectly with real life photos taken during the attack. That detail made it much easier to put those photos into perspective. Thank you so much for this video. Very informative.
Well done, Sir. This minute by minute of who did what and why along with showing the angles and positions the photos and movies were taken in regards to the action was brilliant. None of the documentaries I have seen over years even mention the USN getting a flak screen up or mounting any AA defense at all. I wasn't even aware of it until I began researching individual some time ago and they all reporting shooting back. The BB38 opened fire before General Quarters was sounded or that BB36 made a run for open water, for example. All of the documentaries seem to focus on the midget submarines or the Arizona, not at all on the cruisers, let alone show us the entire Harbor and where everything was in context.
the problem is that most documentaries are 90% fluff- half the time they focus on a modern "mystery" and spend the entire episode padding out the "mystery"
That's exactly right. It gets frustrating wasting an hour of my life for 30 seconds of information. Even as a kid there documentaries claiming "New never before aired on television" and the entire episode would a repeat of the previous 10 documentaries I had watched with a quick clip of some rare footage or photograph and brief story of where that came from at the very end of the program. In this respect, UA-cam has been fantastic. In the last ten years or so, most of them have been exactly what you said, "Why weren't the midget submarines more successful" or "Why did the Oklahoma Capsize" and proceed with the fluff and filler of wild theories, crappy animations, action sequences of reenactments, and of course B roll of the site today until the final minutes of the program when they finally hit on what they teased with. The focus seems to be on everything but the information.
You put so much detail in these videos, I love that there is no bias. I’m starting to love this channel now, keep up the great work! I’ll always be excited for the next video.
haha thanks man. as much as i would love to, I can't really see this going as far as a career. these videos take a long time to complete because i add so much detail and i strive for quality not quantity. and since i have a job, i can only complete this on my free time. I think to be successful as a youtuber you constantly have to put out new material, and i would hate it if the pressure was so much that I began to lower my quality... that can not occur! lol but thanks again, the amount of support i get from you guys keeps me going.
Admittedly, I don't know how Patreon works, but if you had an account of just 10% of your 51K subscribers paying like a $1.00 a month that would be $5100 a month!!! I'd pay $1.00 a month to see more content.
Absolutely not the case Montemayor! Quantity does not =Quality. Most subscribers would prefer a HIGH QUALITY VIDEO over daily, or even weekly videos. Look at the time between Vsauce videos! Michael has nearly 10 million subscribers, and puts out a video every couple of weeks or months. If you put effort, and time, and passion into creating quality content, your subscribers will see that! Keep up the good work!
Extremely good video. One minor error. Fuchida was a Commander, not a Lt., at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Otherwise I loved it. Puts the entire anti-ship attack into an understandable context. You could do an entirely separate one about the attacks on the airfields and the aerial combats, but as a discussion about the sequence and results of the anti-ship attacks it is great.
I did make the video with purpose of mainly showing the Shipping attack, since I am very interested in naval aviation. But i guess i could have changed the title to specify that it would be focused only on the naval base attack. But thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it!
Detailed. Easy to understand. This is the most fantastic explanation of the Pearl Harbor attack I've ever seen. Already watched your midway and Coral Sea videos. Also fantastic. You got my subscription, buddy. Keep it up!
in the summer i completely envisioned those scenes in my head... and thats when i realized i was going to have to learn adobe after effects to use the 3d camera... thus the 4 month gap lol. but Im glad you like it!
I've been reading about PH for 40 years and I learned a lot of new stuff, especially the torpedo attacks on the one end of battleship row. Midway was of equal excellence. You're docs rate some of the Best I've ever seen. I think you are also a wargamer. Make more of these!
subscribed! I don't know of anyone else that has gone this in depth about Pearl Harbor. Love the use of the pictures and especially the highlighting of the important aspects in those pictures. Great job. I would assume that Midway, and maybe Coral Sea, are planned for the future? I am looking forward to any future videos.
Thanks, & there were tons of photographs that made this project easier to make. i had to integrate them. and perhaps they some i would do in the future.
Been stationed at Pearl Harbor for the last two years and this is one of the better videos I’ve seen about the attacks. Including the ones they show on the tours.
This masterpiece of a video is almost 4 years old and nobody has made a video as good as this on the Pearl Harbor attack. This production is going to stand the test of time; not only as "entertainment" for those interested in history but much more importantly it is a great educational tool. He's gotten many well-deserved comments on it but I thought I'd take the quick minute to add mine to the bunch. It's superb.
You have a lot of potential on yt, I can see you getting 500k subs in a matter of a year or 2 if you keep posting consistent work. I just should advise you 2 things. You need to have a consistent cover image of your videos that is recognizable.That you chose an animation style and stick with it so your easily recognizable and that you focus on one time period/campaign/war for maximum chance of people continuing watching your videos i.e people who watched this video would likely click on "the battle of Midway" the battle of Peleliu" were shown in the suggest bar on the right . Overall keep up teh good work
Thanks! the problem tho is the consistency. my work day work gets in the way so i may tend to lag between releases, but ill keep working at it!...and i have noticed that im a bit all over the place with my battles, Mexican american war, then a naval surface engagement, then the civil war, now an air raid. but i think im going to settle with just covering the Pacific war for a bit.
You should build up an catalog than and plan releases ahead, in the style of dont post videos for 1-2 months (or more) and then post 1 video every week for a specific campaign/war/scenario until its covered or finished for the most part, mostly because unless its exceptional content people forget these 1 video every 2-3 month kind of you tubers . Use the next month to plan the battle you want to do over the working day and than animate it over the weekend, thats how I go about my extra work. Also remember to make a playlist for your battles either in release or battle date order
Montemayor: These are the best videos I have ever seen on the sea battles that you cover. Thank you very much for keeping them up. I have learned a LOT! You must have done a LOT of research in order to make these.
I gasped at the same point, when I first saw this video nearly a year ago, but for a slightly different reason: My father, Carl Sanders, was on the USS Raleigh at Pearl Harbor on December 7. His version matches yours, but what took my breath away was to see, in context, a picture of the ship my own father was on at the time of this attack, from the perspective of a Japanese pilot. (I became a pilot in the Navy, before he told me his story, but happily was never put in the position of this pilot.) I have a hatch dog from a Japanese mini sub stripped for souvenirs by the sailors that he gave me the only time I ever got him to talk about his war experiences. Going from big picture graphics to tangible historic photo to existential family history revealed in an image was a life altering experience for me that has haunted me since the first time I got 5 minutes and 35 seconds into this video.
@TheBaconHunter i was quite comfortable commenting on the video I watched a year ago, so I'll politely decline your passive-aggresive suggestion that "you'll let me find something better as I apparently need the challenge. "
I am 63yo & grew up in Annapolis...better than anything I ever saw detailing that day at Pearl Harbor.. this makes my subscription to UA-cam worthwhile!! Many thanks
Wow, this is one of the BEST videos I've ever seen. You clearly are a talented historian and documentarian. I've seen many videos but none were laid out as well as this, INCLUDING the rare footage of the Arizona blowing up which I had never seen before. You deserve an award for this. When my daughter studies history (she is half Japanese, by the way), I hope I can show her THIS video as it's the best presentation I've ever seen on this event. Just WOW.
The Japanese did not want to attack the fuel tanks because it would create a lot of smoke which could hamper the attack. The fuel tanks were last on the list to attack but after news of no carriers present the Japanese called of the wave planned to attack the fuel tanks.
I've read comments from researchers years ago about the mistake of the Japanese not taking out the fuel tanks. A lack of sizable fuel storage would've made US Navy operations cumbersome at best. I've been there a couple times those tanks are huge. As I recall additional storage tanks were built (later)but higher up on hillside set into the terrain for protection. When you stand on the ground and view Pearl Harbor, and compare it to photos of the smoke/chaos post-attack, it slowly sinks in the magnitude the sheer size of area effected. The amount of black smoke is hard to imagine but it happened. I'm glad I've to Pearl twice to contemplate and try to experience the noise, confusion, acrid smells of AA guns, fuel tanks exploding, bodies floating in the oil slicks, etc.
Another analysis of the failure to attack the fuel storage was that it would have required a 3rd strike, and the IJN had never considered that. Some of their ships would have run out of fuel on the way back, had they taken the time to land, rearm, fly off, and then recover. The fuel there was heavy, low grade stuff for boilers, difficult to set aliight. And as he points out, the AA was getting good, and they had lost a lot already.
@@lamwen03 A 3rd strike was considered, but was decided against. The pilots were willing to deliver it, but the fleet command fears a counter attack. Yamamoto regretted it many months later.
Subs. His fleet was safe so long as no one knew it was at sea, or generally where. But he didn't know where the carriers were, and a sighting could have vectored subs onto his fleet. The IJN did not like to gamble with their ships. Same thing at Midway, and Leyte.
I'm a Filipino, so I should not be rooting for Japan during this time but the way the narrator narrates about the second wave, I can't help but get annoyed as to how epicly they failed their mission Admiral Yamamoto to 2nd Wave: You have ONE job!!!
Holy sh*t, you explain these awesome battles so clearly and accurately! They are amazing and I love watching them, even tho I hate history in class, I love these videos were it is explained in depth and in an entertaining way! Just Paypalled you 10 euros, you deserve it!
Nobody
I repeat, Nobody has ever explained the attack on Pearl Harbor in a video like this. Clear. Accurately. Visually.
You show when the torpedoes hit, and where. You show who got shot down and you even explain why. You show what direction that planes came in from and why it mattered. You show how the attack succeeded and how it failed and even more you explained the goals and intentions of this attack that answers the many "what ifs" that plague this event.
You should be proud man. This is perfection and everything that should be strived for when making a history video with narrative and informational graphics. Bravo sir
Thank you! I am glad you liked it and that it was clear and easy to understand. I appreciate the compliment.
I too agree. Nicely done. Also I liked your intro about the strategic situation in the japanese perspectiv. Often seen as a cowardly sneak attack this was really sound military planning.
I agree, absolutely brilliant video! I thoroughly enjoyed it! I have however only 1 VERY small objection, and that is the referral to the United States as "America". While Americans themselves refer to their nation as such, it is a bit of a misnomer. For the historical accuracy of this video, the country should be referred to as the "United States", because America (outside the USA) is still considered as both North and South America. For example, Canadians refer to America as all North America, so on and so forth. Argentinians have a similar view on the word. But anyway, no biggie, great job!
SLR107FR31 unfortunately they don't talk about the Japanese Plane that landed during the attack.
it was a HOAX...never happened!
the ships that 'sunk' were old rust-buckets destroyed by under-water charges...
You just explained the Japanese motivation for attack in the first 90 seconds better than any history teacher I had in high school.
However he failed to calculate the hit rate correct at 8:50: 19 torpedo hits out of 36 launched make 52%, not 48% said. Not critical, but a mistake though.
@@leopold3146 But that error is inconsequential compared to what Stout Lager talks about. You might also note that this problem was pointed out to him when the video was published three years ago, as mentioned in the description. Which makes me wonder if you even had noticed that error had it not been pointed out to you in the video description.
Sad to hear, when I went to school this was taught in detail.
@@Bitchslapper316 Because you were actually listening. He wasn't; but he blames it on the school. They didn't provide pretty animations to watch. You see comments like these all the time for that very reason. Schools do teach this stuff but most kids don't really care to remember any of it beyond the test. Personally I learned a great deal from school because I took classes I was interested in rather than what was easiest. Plus I've always been interested in history. People also seem to think it's school's fault for not covering everything in great detail, but how could they? They're underfunded, paid too little and kids wouldn't appreciate a more detailed look into political history and the nitty gritty of every detail. They're taught the basis and it's up to them to learn more from there, whether it be college (ew) or learning on their own. UA-cam is a great place for independent historians to fill in the blanks, but again those blanks are no fault of the schools themselves. With the limited time and resources given they do a surprisingly good job of teaching what they can. It's up to the students to listen and commit it to memory.
A great example of this is just how terribly people seem to understand English. Schools cover English in great detail from the very beginning to graduation, and yet native speakers butcher it constantly. I doubt most people could even tell you what a semicolon is for. And yet these same people claim schools don't teach anything and are useless. Math is another big one people complain about. Those same people aren't going into fields of work that require much math beyond a calculator, so expectedly they don't remember a lot because they don't need to. But for those who do plan on working in a mathematics heavy occupation? Math classes are invaluable in achieving success.
@@MintyLime703 i’m pretty sure he’s just joking lol
Aboard USS Utah was Peter Tomich. A man from Bosnia-Herzegovina who immigrated to the United States in 1913. He was a Chief Water Tender. After USS Utah was hit he went down to the boiler room to make sure the power stayed up with the pumps. The longer he could keep the ship from rolling over, the more shipmates could be saved. Peter Tomich stayed at his station and he died there. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. However because he had no known relatives, his medal of honor was given to a destroyer in 1943 named in his honor. It wasn't until 2006 that Tomich's family was tracked down in Split Croatia and given his Medal of Honor.
Truly one of the forgotten heroes of Pearl Harbor.
@trueman mann
My comment is meant to educate only. I can't comment on issues I am not familiar with.
@trueman mann you understand Americans are killing each other at atrocious rates...
And what does anything you've said have to do with his actions? Saving mates from dying has nothing to do with ideology.
@trueman mann Again, what does anything you've just said have to do with the fact you totally besmirched and maligned the memory of a man, serving in you're country's military and awarded the highest honour for bravery simply because you didn't like where he was born? WTF does that make you? - an A grade DICK!
trueman mann
I think the stupid idiot is you you salty bitch ass
trueman mann I’d be happy to buy you a one way ticket to the country of your choice. If you don’t like The United States of America then your welcome to leave at anytime. Apparently you enjoy resting under the blanket of freedom the men and women of the Armed Forces provide for you. How’s about you just say thank you and move on... but I guess that’s part of what freedom is all about you can express anything you like any way you like. Just say it like a man and insult one of them to their face so they can respond in kind, likely you will just continue to post like a coward from behind your key board. Enjoy your Starbucks...
I love the use of photos. Swinging the animated map around to the exact angle the photo was taken from helps so much in figuring out what exactly was happening and when.
Yeah that was really cool and helpful
Yeah. Must be nice. I’m blind thank you for reminding me why I can’t do things
Back in 1989, I was taking flight training based at Hickam-Wheeler aero club, flying a Cessna 152. I did “Touch & Gos” at Ford Island, smack in the middle of Pearl Harbour
@@uwekonnigsstaddt524 great. Do you want a kiss or something?
@rigel2112 I’m BLIND. I used to be a pilot, sharpshooter, professional color QA for Crayola… my eyes were my life.
5:27 the thing you do where you line up the map with the historical photographs is pretty outstanding, I love it
thank you! it takes a while to sync them somewhat perfectly but when it's done, it's worth it .
The thing that stuns me IMMENSELY about this video is how much my vision of what war comes down to is so incredibly skewed by the films and tv shows that I’ve watched about these events. Pyrotechnics and explosions feel like a constant barrage that underscores those representations, so it’s unbelievable to hear some actual numbers put behind this. The sheer volume of torpedos and bombs is much lesser than I would ever have expected, but the significance of each impact translates into something so much greater. The number of planes in the initial wave are tiny in comparison to what I expected, but their effect took the lives of so many more than I understood. All told, the numbers in this video are both staggering small and large at the same time, and none of it fits with what I had in my head. This has been an incredible learning experience. Thank you for the video
More than half of those lives lost were all aboard USS Arizona...
i was thinking the same thing. i watched the movie pearl harbor when i was 12 or 13, and had a certain idea of this attack. it’s not exactly what i had expected.
read "AT DAWN WE SLEPT-THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK" written by Gordon W. Prang. He interviewed many of the surviving Japanese and American participants in this attack and spent 37 years gathering the information to write this book. Much more detailed and very interesting!
I toured the Pearl Harbor National Memorial when I was in Hawaii. It's crazy how shallow the water is, and the Arizona just sits right under it. I remember oil on the surface and the Park Ranger told me it is still leeching oil and will for decades.
@@___meph___4547 you’re very right, I missed that. Something in the telling of this made it sound like Lt. Nagai with his 6 support planes, and Lt. Hirata and his troupe did the majority of the damage early, and my brain took over and discounted a huge number of planes also mentioned. 183 planes is indeed a lot. But I go back to my point that I have very poor understanding of scale when it comes to this, and the weight of individual action in reality seems so much more significant than the overall lens of chaos that films often use to dramatise these events
I gotta be honest, one of the greatest clear explainable, accurate, and visually video and explanation of Pearl Harbor I've ever seen. Truly one of the best youtubers for explaining history
Thanks man!
Totally agree; I had never realised the extent of the damage - though I knew it was terrible - but usually you only hear about the main ships that were sunk, not the others that were also destroyed or were damaged.
Truly excellent video series!
@@MontemayorChannel Agreed - these videos are amazing. I loved you included some pictures and video where you had it and highlighted what we were seeing. Amazing work, I am sure it take awhile to make one of these, but subbed for life!
bro I agree with your username
@@MontemayorChannel The Pacific war in my most fav war of all time. It started with Pearl Harbor then the US declares WAR!
I'm 73 yrs and this is the clearest and very best explanation I've ever encountered on the Pearl Harbor attack. Excellent job. Your usage of diagrams and maps and reference to photos were very helpful.
I’m 119 and I think it’s pretty swell too. I’m blind though
@@deoglemnaco7025 wow you lived a very long time
I’m 2.5 years old and I can’t read yet, so the visuals and music are really helpful.
The one bomb hit on the Raleigh was an armor-piercing bomb that most likely failed to arm on the thinly armored deck of the light cruiser. It passed through an oil tank, the aft 3in magazine, nearly hit the 3,000-gallon aviation gas tank, and exited the bottom of the ship, embedding itself in the mud of Pearl Harbor. Had that bomb worked as designed, it would have disintegrated the ship and my grandfather along with it, 18 years before my father was to be born. I inadvertently owe my life to that very moment in history.
Congrats to your grandpa for surviving the Pearl Harbour attack!
The float planes fuel?
@@yourlocalmilkman916 correct! I believe the Omaha Class carried OS2U scout planes.
@@Rysander1 neat
@@Rysander1 did your grandfather transferred to another ship? Just asking
Dang.
That tilting of the map effect to match the photographs...
...that sir, is SEVERELY COOL.
Have my subscription and I'm off to watch the rest of your videos.
Dude only has 3 videos, I see great things in his future
Totally! When I saw it tilt I was confused then I saw the overlay of the photos. Top notch all the way!
@@4968ace he has more now and they are all stunning this guy is the cream of the crop
@@craighauser9482 Yeah, super visceral reproductions of these great battles for those of us who don't have the time or inclination to read long complex accounts
yeah i was astounded at that. this guy rocks.
The maps transitioning to real photographs were very cool to see, and the analysis of them with outlines were very helpful to gain context.
Thank you! i had envisioned those exact scenes months ago, and thats when i realized i was going to have to learn after effects and 3d camera techniques. thus, after 4 months of learning, i finally did it. the purpose was for the viewer to get a better perspective and understand what they are looking at and what angle they are looking at it from. Im glad it helped!
@@MontemayorChannel the Nevada was already planned on leaving that day as it takes hours to get the engines going. Thats why it was the only battleship moving. I learn about the engines on the USS Missouri. They talk about it took a long time to warm up.
@@MontemayorChannel absolutely GOATED, im a visual learner so this was so cool and helpful
You my good sir have earned a subscriber, keep up the amazing work 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
5:30 this transition from map to photo is seriously incredible. excellent work
"One torpedo missed the target so bad, it hit the ship next to it".
"The real victims however, were the two destroyers next to it. 2 hit the Cassin and one hit the Downes"
Torpedo Bomber Pilot: Suffering From Success
Like how would he even know 🤦🏽♂️😂
task failed succesfully
the ship next to it:
b r u h
*when you miss so badly you even hit another ship*
When you when
Surprising they can see with those slits
ketchup bottle when u miss ur target but sink another ships u thought u would never hit :0
warships stuff
Do you know what a bomb is?
I have seen many different documentaries about this fatal morning.
Every documentary lasted over 60 minutes and was about different aspects of this conflict.
You, sir, managed to cover every aspect in just 17 minutes!
Awesome video!!
Thanks man!
Yes. Great work.
I believe it's because he sticks with it straight proven facts no theories or his person thoughts on it wonderful video to watch
That's the power of UA-cam historians.
Totally agree
I'm a World War 2 buff. How is it that I only understood the Pearl Harbor attack completely after watching a 17 - minute video? Terrific work indeed!
This left out alot. Pretty basic knowledge video, good, but basic.
@@ScootsMcPoot Hardly important though. It covered perfectly attack alone on Pearl Harbor itself from Japanese perspective.
When that detailed coloured map aligned and merged into the black and white photo, man I haven’t seen anything like that before. Damn good graphics man
Thank you! the merging part during the editing was quite fun actually.
I have never left a comment on a UA-cam video before, however, this deserves to be my first. I have read and watched a lot about the attack on Pearl Harbor over the years, but your 17 minute video put so much information, timelines, etc. I feel it should be required viewing in school history classes. The inclusion of the rare photographs, videos and maps really told the tale. Congratulations on a fantastic production, I’ll be checking out the rest of your videos very soon.
Thank you Michael hammer! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Read Harpers Magazine 1933 article: "A New Propaganda For War" by George Seldes. You'll realize war was spinning up long before 1941.
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@@Rao665 really., Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, China proper in 1937
@@gordongo7919 I'm talking US-Japan war. Since when did the US enter wars that had nothing to do with them? It took the US 3-4 years to enter ww1. the war of the pacific in s. america, us stayed out of.
I love how all of your animations and information are backed up with historical photographs and recordings. High quality stuff here!
thank you! this one was a gem in that there were tons of photographs to work with.
ChakRaLight This is about the actual battle, not the stuff that happened before the attack
To this day, there is still not a single other video on TV or UA-cam that covers this battle (and other battles you do on this channel) more accurately than you. Clear, concise, unbiased, and points of view from both sides. Minute by minute decisions by commanders and pilots, it's all covered, all of your videos are like this and we very much appreciate your work. Excellent as usual!
do people really think this was unbiased?? I am willing to bet this youtuber is american, they seemed to downplay the damage the whole time and focus on things like the duds or how they should have chose better targets, how it could have been more devastating. They also described 19 / 36 torpedo hits as a 48% hit rate, putting it under half when its actually 53% idk how he even got 48%.
listen at 12:18 and tell me thats not major biased.... "yeah sure I guess they got the nevada but it was mostly cuz the design flaws not the japanese bombs" get out of here. America obviously took the W in the end so whats the point of downplaying their L...
- an unbiased canadian
@@solve4708 you are the one who is biased. The presentation was fine. It's perfectly acceptable to focus on Japanese Weapons Malfunctions. Watch a video on Midway and you will see the same thing talked about with American Torpedoes. That's not bias that is the facts. He made one math mistake in a very detailed video and you act like that is some big bias and like the 5 percent creates a big change in the tone. 48 and 53 percent most people see that and say "about half".
@@solve4708 You really can't tell he if is American based on the fact that he speaks English with an accent, making it unclear on where he's from.
Not to mention how incredibly stupid it is to call yourself unbiased. Everyone is biased to some degree about everything, the best thing to do is to be as unbiased as you can. That first commenter didn't even say he's completely unbiased either, he said he hasn't seen anyone *more* unbiased about this event.
@@solve4708 Battles aren't like basketball games. You don't play to win 100-99, you play to win 100-0. Japan's failure to do more damage despite having achieved total surprise is definitely relevant to any study of this battle.
You were kidding, right? I've seen middle school presentations that had more detail and less errors. This gets a C-.
*You, sir, deserves so much respect and honor for your awesome work.*
Born in China, grew up in Germany. I've been always interested in historical naval battles, especially those between USA and Japanese forces during WW2.
The first film I've ever watched in my life, as a child back then, was Midway.
Despite reading tons of books about these battles in the pacific ozean, in all 3 languages, Chinese, English & German, and also having watched tons of films, normal ones and documentary ones.
NONE of them could even come close to your videos, in terms of accuracy, the amount of information, the route of every strike group, route of planes, mistakes both side had made by false decisions & maneouvering, etc.
And also, what amazes me the most, is my sheer level of excitement during watching your videos. For a documentary historical video, without any action scenes, one would expect to simply watch it.
But I feel that my heartrate goes up and up while watching at your videos. And also I already know exactly what will happen next, I cannot but simple follow each of your graphics and your explanations like a little child during christmas time who is about to receive his present.
I thank you thank you so much dear sir, for providing us with this kind of awesomeness work to let us remember the great battles of the past and the heroes on both side who participated in them.
Best regards from Germany! And Merry Christmas to ya all there!
HONORABLE VIDEOS BY THIS MAN. SO WELL DONE
Well u are born in shithole and living in heaven....
@@pisslamicrapepublicofporki3947 That was before 2000s. Thanks to the US stupidity and capitalism greed, that 'shithole' has become a super power with more middle class than america... 20x the size and might of WW2 Japan. Talk about awakening a sleeping giant. Better polish up on your mandarin.
@@maccheese8639 sad but true. They do have a problem with the rising middle class ruining communism like in Russia...
Fuck china
140,000 Subs
1M+ views per video.
Please don't let this be a passing phase, and let it become a legitimate channel in the future.
Yeah , I absolutely prefer his depictions of these battles then the big budget versions given to us by the history channel. I’ve just discovered this guy and already watched most of his vids and already waiting for more lol
I disagree, do what feels right, do it for the passion Montemayor!
He's posting videos on brilliance now, since it's not worth the effort for youtube
@@DylanDkoh Can you send a link?
A year later, Sub count has almost doubled, Views too.
Dude, I don’t believe I’ve ever watched a full video on the attack of Pearl Harbor. I can probably list the various reasons as to why but it all comes down to the content. Your video however had me so focused, I think I forgot to breathe a couple of times. The way you explain every detail of the attack coupled with excellent graphics, photos and film had me so focused and interested, it even shocked me. The time and effort you put into it shows and I appreciate it. As a civilian I don’t always understand what y’all are talking about but you explained everything perfectly. Thank you for teaching me about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
fantastic video. I've always been interested in this attack. I live in Hawaii, born and raised, i grew up literally 5 minutes away from pearl harbor. My family has lived in the area around pearl harbor since the 1920s (and still do). My grandfather witnessed the attack as a 18 year old, our family home is on the ridge over looking the harbor (Aiea). From there he saw the whole thing. Saw the USS Arizona explode. He actually was a laborer working at Pearl Harbor but that Sunday was his day off. After the attack he volunteered to go down there and help with the recovery efforts. He recalls seeing truck full of dead bodies being taken away. He later joined the Army and fought with the 25th infantry in the Philippines in 1944-1945. Those memories of the attack and his combat experience in the Philippines stay with him until the day he died (a few years ago) in his 90s.
Fascinating story. Heroes like that will never be forgotten
Amazing.
Thank you for sharing your grandfather’s story. I couldn’t imagine his shock and disbelief as he witnessed that attack. It’s clear by your grandfather’s actions at Pearl and later why he was one of the “greatest generation”. I can see the love, pride, and respect you had for him in your words.
I plan on visiting the Arizona memorial this spring!
Great story. I love to hear these acts of kindness and selflessness
Around the 10:05 mark: I honestly got chills seeing that explosion. It really hits you seeing hundreds of soldiers losing their lives for their country in a matter of seconds.
@CreedOfHeresy same, I kind of expected to see the plane and impact first which adds to the shock value but even watching it back it's still terrifying
Sailors
not hundreds, thousands
That was beyond any doubt the best explanation of the attack on Pearl Harbor I've ever watched. Thank you.
@Arnold Bosch Dude, that was literally the first thing he mentioned. Perhaps you should watch it again, and actually pay attention this time.
Montemayor, I will not be the first nor the last person to congratulate you on the astounding accuracy of your videos.
The level of detail that you go into almost brings a tear to my eye. As someone that loves their military history. It truly irks me, when I see most other content creators videos and they put out an inaccurate, or blatantly wrong information regarding events. Yours suffers none of those deficiencies
I started on your Midway video, watched all of that through. Then started to pick up some of your other videos, finally ending here. Your work is genuinely professional grade, you have a lot to be proud of! Thank you for the dedication that you put it to this.
Hear hear!
I had a similar path. I think I watched one of his videos a year or two ago but finally watched all of the WWII pacific theater ones in the past week or two. Started with Midway, then Savo, then Coral Sea, and ended with Pearl Harbor. However, I believe Pearl Harbor was probably the video I watched a couple years back, so it's like coming full circle. Great series, Montemayor!
Wow. I wasn't expecting that change of POV with the pictures. Excellent!
I hoping that would be the mind blowing moment for the audience haha. thanks!
Definitely deserves a Battlestar ⭐
@@MontemayorChannel Judging by all the nice comments here, you blew everyones mind, including mine!
Most informative and visually coherent, detailed and critically explained presentation on the attack on Pearl Harbor that I've ever seen. You deserve a standing ovation.
Subscribed!
Thank you!
Single best video on the Battle of Pearl Harbor.
Agreed
Try... World of warships official Pearl Harbor
"The Japanese reasoned that the Americans would not have the will to wage war against Japan after seeing one of their battleships sunk"
Whoever came up with that idea clearly never met an American before
Thought the same thing, like poking a sleeping bear 😂
Afghanistan says hello. As does Vietnam. Soon to be Taiwan as well.
@@jonjo2598 See you in Beijing, kiddo.
@@jonjo2598 So you mean Vietnam, a country where we fought for nearly a decade while killing millions of enemy fighters and taking relatively low casualties. As well as Afghanistan, a country where we fought for over two decades while inflicting who knows how many deaths on the enemy and suffering so little casualties it could hardly be called a war? Hmm, interesting examples you used there.
@@brycewalker3726 Yes, americans with superior technology did manage to effectively slaughter hundreds of thousands of people and dominate other peoples homelands, for a while. I do not think it is anything to be proud of.
Best Pearl Harbor breakdown I have ever seen! Keep up the great work dude!
Thank you!
>- That the US already knew of the impending attack way before it happened,
They knew an attack was coming but wasn't sure where. With holdings in the Philippines and other Southeast Asian islands, it's an easy assumption that Japan would be more likely to target those areas as Japan was going for the Dutch East Indies and British Malaysia.
>- and in fact moved their `well aged` Pacific fleet to Hawaii, (holding back their newer ships) to bait the Japanese in.
Incorrect. While the U.S. did take some ships out of the Pacific fleet in favor of the Atlantic (Germany would be the bigger focus of the two), the main naval doctrine at the time was still battleship heavy. If you want to bring up the carriers being out of place it was because they were sending aircraft to the outlying regions.
>- The top brass also ignored ALL radar reports on the day.
Radar was incredibly new at the time and with under-qualified operators, the "brass" never got the information until it was too late. Besides, a better argument for incompetent brass should have been the moment the USS Ward attack on a midget submarine which would be a lot easier for anyone to comprehend moreso than new technology.
>The US and their zionist controllers
Well those zionist controllers didn't do a very good job seeing how the U.S. limited immigration of Jews escaping Europe and let in far fewer Jews per capita than many of the neutral European countries and fewer in absolute terms than Switzerland. What kind of zionist controller would just sit back and let significant members of their "own kind" get killed in droves?
>for a sneaky way into the war with the FULL support of the American public, which were mainly of German and Italian decent.
If that was the case, they should have created an atrocity in the European side rather than the Pacific because the only reason the U.S. became involved in the European theater was because Hitler decided to declare war on the U.S. So if these "Zionist controllers" wanted the U.S. to get into the war, they wouldn't have used Japan's attack as an excuse because it only encouraged the U.S. to fight Japan (which btw doesn't have many Jews so not like they're advancing their cause).
This information is pretty much all brought up in the video (and the rest is high school level history) so I'm curious why you blatantly ignored all the reasons why an attack on Pearl Harbor wasn't seen as likely.
I have read that they thought the Radar signatures were from Friendly forces. So they didn't call it in to higher ups.
Not to mention the every one of FDR's economic policies toward the Japanese was designed to back them into an economic corner, which would force them to lash out at the US, at some time! FDR was encouraged in this by his Soviet-infiltrated State Dept. which wanted more far support for the Soviets, which the US entry into the war would bring!
wrr
"I can promise you 6 months of unprecedented victories after war begins, but then afterward there will be nothing but a slow and inevitable retreat." Admiral Yamamoto to the Imperial War Council, October 1941.
@S The fact the Japanese didn't invade Hawaii with troops was their worst mistake.
@@skippa7324 but they did man. The Japanese ships bypassed and launched airstrikes directly at Pearl. What could have prevented them from say, have 10.000 troops dissembark for an invasion?
@@skippa7324 I'll have a look; the long reply is actually appreciated.
@@skippa7324 how could the Japanese have won the war in your opinion? Or was it a doomed effort from the get go?
@@skippa7324 much much appreciated the reply. I know the industrial might of the USA (I am Greek) was (and still is) immense, but I would have thought that actually landing on Pearl H., using the resources of the island itself and forming a supply chain directly from Japan, that would be a whole different story. The american State would have been well supplied (with oil fields and perhaps even capturing?! american ships, even auxillary ones, and perhaps airplanes, while the USA would have to sail from S.Diego California all the way to Hawaii, a very very long and tiresome journey.
And contrary to Rabaul, Hawaii could NOT be bypassed...
This is the single best explanation video not only of pearl harbor but of any battle or attack I've ever seen. Your spoken explanation was clear and detailed and the visual map with animation was perfect. Not to mention the excellent additions of real photos. This is also the only video I've seen where the real photos were overlaid with highlights of which ship was which. Overall perfect explanation. This could be used in schools to teach.
Thank you for the kind words Ryan. It feels good to receive the appreciation because i did spend a lot of time working on it. my goal was just to visually explain it with detail by detail for anyone interested.
Why can't history be taught like this
When they thought the oil tanks weren't "necessary" targets oh boy how badly they were mistaken
This video is very detailed even included other ships no matter how small or utilized they were, all are named
oh yes, destroy the supplies and NOW they're in a pickle.
The oil tanks as well as the shipyards were the planned target of an cancelled third wave. They would have taken them out with the first, but it was feared the smoke would interfere with the targeting of the following waves.
The reasons to cancelling the third wave were the anti-aircraft fire and the fear to be caught by the US carriers while their planes were on the attack. The US carriers would have ripped the Japanese ones apart without their planes to defend them. Even 1 US carrier could have the Japanese carrier advantage. Consider, even if the Japanese carriers all escaped, if just their flight decks had been damaged too much, they would have had to ditch all the planes and the pilots. The planes were replaceable, the pilots weren't.
Which once more the importance of intelligence and communication.
@@grayscribe1342 This! If the 3rd wave had happened Enterprise and Lexington would have attacked and sunk 2 or 3 Japanese carriers easily. The Japanese were able to declare a success by saving all of their ships. Also the Japanese did not have enough fuel to stay idle there for too long. If the 3rd wave had launched they would not have been able to sail westward for another 12-24 hours and they would have had to abandon almost all their destroyers. They literally did not have enough oil fuel to last much longer there. Enterprise in fact almost caught up to the Japanese and there would have been a likely Midway disaster for the Japanese if the third wave was launched.
Also, the fuel tanks narrative is so fake and wrong. There was no Japanese submarine threat to the supply chain between Hawaii and California. There would have been new fuel tanks brought in within weeks and 200 weekly oil tanker ships would have come into Hawaii with no fuel problems.
I feel like the narrative of this event is always so convoluted, but this explanation paints it crystal clear - bravo!
Japan: Cannot afford the risk of the US entering the war.
Also Japan:Attacks the US
I think some part of the decision by the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor can be better understood when one studies the history of American brinkmanship against the Japanese.
poke the eagle, get the talons. both of them.
The US had already declared war on the Axis on 11 September 1941.
Are you lost? They wanted to cripple the Pacific Fleet to prevent them from interfering... You act as if America was going to sit out for the duration of the war. America already had the lend-lease act going on and politicians in America was finding every possible way to enter the war. Strategically for Japan, it would be best for them to strike first than to react once America decided to move against them.
actually the us first sank a Japanese submarine that had tried to sneak into pearl harbor, so they should have known that an attack from japan is coming
My mom was playing in her back yard on the North Shore of Oahu when the Japanese planes flew over; she said they looked up and saw planes with big red dots under the wings but didnt know what they were, wow, amazing story.
Ikaika Maleko how old r u?
@@PikaPluff if his mom was a little kid then probably 50 - 60 years old
This was captured in several accounts and also in the movie if I recall correctly. Such was the element of surprise!
Of the hundreds of movies and documentaries made of this day over the years by big and little studios. This was by far the best overview of the attack. Hats off to you.
I feel like I should be paying to watch these videos. They’re so well put together. Excellent job!!
This level of detail is just so amazing. I mean, really, there's like a kajillion Pearl Harbor documentaries, and not one of them explains the onslaught step by step, like this.
Thank you! this has been one of my longer videos but it was necessary to explain it all thoroughly.
This is probably the clearest account of that attack I have ever seen, good job. You have a great channel, keep up the good work!
That was my goal for this video, to break it down step by step. too often we are just shown pictures of the aftermath, but its hard to picture what we are looking at or what angle we are looking at it from, etc. Thank you!
This is an excellent visual representation of the attack. Thank you for the time and effort put into the maps and graphics. Great work!
This is by far the best description of the Pearl Harbor attack that I have ever seen! Thank you so much!
That is what i was aiming for... and thank you!
I second this. Lot's of things about the Battle are making sense now. Thanks!
that great! i hope this clears confusion. and you are welcome!
Really love the way that you included pictures and videos from the attack. It really adds a lot to it. Sometimes learning about these huge moments in history you can feel detached from it, but seeing the pictures and videos from the events makes it feel much more real
This is the highest quality battle video I have ever seen on UA-cam!
thank you! as you can tell, i spent a lot of time on this.
I agree, this video is top tier mate! Can you please make more videos of the Pacific theater? Maybe do Midway, Wake Island, or the Coral Sea!
ChakRaLight this video is specifically about the battle. Keep your world view to yourself
ChakRaLight this video isn’t about the causes and effects, it’s about the battle specifically. And raging about “Zionist controllers” makes you sound like either a high schooler or a fringe conspiracy theorist. It’s not some hidden unknown fact that the US wanted to go to war in 1941.
Secondly get it straight, the US knew an attack was coming but not when or where. They were shocked that the Japanese attacked pear harbor, most thought the attack would be in the Philippines.
ChakRaLight I just rewatched it, he does briefly mention the broader picture, be regardless you are wrong about some things. The US didn’t deliberately ignore radar signals. They had just set up a new system but the two men monitoring it didn’t have a phone to relay messages. They actually had to go to a gas station a mile away to use one when they saw something. However since no one expected the attack, when they saw a blip they assumed it was US planes on a training mission
I rarely add comments to UA-cam because the comment section is usually horrible but I have to say I really enjoy your videos. You give enough detail and explanation without it being overwhelming and boring. Please keep up the good work!
1,000 likes, 5 dislikes. Deserving for a channel that puts out some absolutely fantastic content. Thanks for the hard work and the great videos, you deserve it.
thank you man! the support over the last day with comments and likes has been an encouragement for me.
This was a fantastic video! I've seen many movies, documentaries, and videos on Pearl Harbor, but never have I seen it described in such detail, blow by blow. I can't wait to check out more on your content.
Thank you!
I have watched this at least 5 times. I never gets dull.
You did a damn good job explaining the attack. Just by taking the time to research this and pass on the information I feel you have honored the memory of all the people who perished that day. Thank you.
May 21, 2019-- For many years while I was in school... they never taught us like this one in the video... History books never done something like this...
whoever created this video really did a good job putting maps, aircrafts, battleship, etc... Two thumbs up for this dude creating this video...
@tinwoods You're a jerk
Extremely well made. As a member of the US Navy I've never really thought of the attack from the Japanese perspective. Very interesting.
May I ask what rank you hold? =)
this isnt japanese perspective its realistic review of attack.
The US knew that an attack was possible but never considered a carrier raid on Hawaii since it was a high risk operation with assets they can't quickly replace (carriers). The US moved the fleet to Hawaii in May of 40 a year and a half before the attack but it was a move designed to send a message to Japan. I don't know where the notion of them only moving their old ships came from but it's pretty much nonsense since they moved their fleet carriers out there and that's hardly sending your oldest and weakest ships. There was only one radar report that got discounted that day.
battleships were old ones the rest of ships were not.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_battleships_of_the_United_States since they moved their fleet to hawaii in 1940 only battleships they had ware ww1 era ones anyway.
This was great! Well done. The 3 Coral Sea, Midway and Pearl made my night.
I've read and watched a LOT of Pearl Harbor attack history, and this is THE BEST presentation I've ever seen. Bravo!
This is an amazingly high quality video. I hope you consider patreon or other avenues of viewer support. I hope to see more content from this channel.
Thank you! and it something i might consider in the future.
>Implying Japan didn't do the exact same thing with Marco Polo as an excuse to get into war with China in the first place that led to the embargo.
>Implying the German Workers Party didn't use similar tactics with the Reichstag Fire and Communist Fears
I digress, of course the USA wanted the attack to happen, it was practically itching to get into the fun everyone else was invited to by then, so much benefits they could get from both internal and external, that and the Americas were next anyways after Europe, Africa and Asia...
And another idiot thinks that jews and zionist started thr war
I was here when it had 20K views. Holy crap man. I didn’t know it was a new video back then. You helped me when I was younger and you shall help me again now! Thank you for this amazing video detailing the Attack of Pearl Harbor. I watched it in February of 2018
Found your channel today and subbed right away. Was kinda dissapointed to see no videos for 4 months but Here you are now. So lucky! Incredible channel!
yeah, that's quite lucky actually. haha & thank you!
I think it takes so long because he does his research and actually puts effort into his videos.
@Sara Same
We are visiting Pearl Harbor in August. So glad I found this. Tremendously well done!
that's nice dear
@@ashdobbs7492 Thank you honey
Everything about this video was wonderful. I especially enjoyed how you turned the perspective of the battle map so that it matched up perfectly with real life photos taken during the attack. That detail made it much easier to put those photos into perspective. Thank you so much for this video. Very informative.
Well done, Sir. This minute by minute of who did what and why along with showing the angles and positions the photos and movies were taken in regards to the action was brilliant. None of the documentaries I have seen over years even mention the USN getting a flak screen up or mounting any AA defense at all. I wasn't even aware of it until I began researching individual some time ago and they all reporting shooting back. The BB38 opened fire before General Quarters was sounded or that BB36 made a run for open water, for example. All of the documentaries seem to focus on the midget submarines or the Arizona, not at all on the cruisers, let alone show us the entire Harbor and where everything was in context.
the problem is that most documentaries are 90% fluff- half the time they focus on a modern "mystery" and spend the entire episode padding out the "mystery"
That's exactly right. It gets frustrating wasting an hour of my life for 30 seconds of information. Even as a kid there documentaries claiming "New never before aired on television" and the entire episode would a repeat of the previous 10 documentaries I had watched with a quick clip of some rare footage or photograph and brief story of where that came from at the very end of the program. In this respect, UA-cam has been fantastic. In the last ten years or so, most of them have been exactly what you said, "Why weren't the midget submarines more successful" or "Why did the Oklahoma Capsize" and proceed with the fluff and filler of wild theories, crappy animations, action sequences of reenactments, and of course B roll of the site today until the final minutes of the program when they finally hit on what they teased with. The focus seems to be on everything but the information.
Recently this channel has exploded with popularity. I hope it gets better, ots well deserved.
thanks!
In loving memory of the many lives who were lost on this day 80 years ago. At Pearl Harbor.
You put so much detail in these videos, I love that there is no bias. I’m starting to love this channel now, keep up the great work! I’ll always be excited for the next video.
SeaDragonMiner R you "love there is no bias" while your avatar is the Imperial kyokujitsu ki standard.
Dude, You have 44k subscribers with 8 videos. Take a hint: "Your videos are great", and "do more stuff"...
haha thanks man. as much as i would love to, I can't really see this going as far as a career. these videos take a long time to complete because i add so much detail and i strive for quality not quantity. and since i have a job, i can only complete this on my free time. I think to be successful as a youtuber you constantly have to put out new material, and i would hate it if the pressure was so much that I began to lower my quality... that can not occur! lol but thanks again, the amount of support i get from you guys keeps me going.
Admittedly, I don't know how Patreon works, but if you had an account of just 10% of your 51K subscribers paying like a $1.00 a month that would be $5100 a month!!! I'd pay $1.00 a month to see more content.
Absolutely not the case Montemayor!
Quantity does not =Quality.
Most subscribers would prefer a HIGH QUALITY VIDEO over daily, or even weekly videos.
Look at the time between Vsauce videos! Michael has nearly 10 million subscribers, and puts out a video every couple of weeks or months.
If you put effort, and time, and passion into creating quality content, your subscribers will see that!
Keep up the good work!
@@MontemayorChannel start a patreon deal
DO MORE STUFF!!!!
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Phenomenal Work!!!!
Extremely good video. One minor error. Fuchida was a Commander, not a Lt., at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Otherwise I loved it. Puts the entire anti-ship attack into an understandable context.
You could do an entirely separate one about the attacks on the airfields and the aerial combats, but as a discussion about the sequence and results of the anti-ship attacks it is great.
I did make the video with purpose of mainly showing the Shipping attack, since I am very interested in naval aviation. But i guess i could have changed the title to specify that it would be focused only on the naval base attack. But thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it!
Detailed. Easy to understand. This is the most fantastic explanation of the Pearl Harbor attack I've ever seen. Already watched your midway and Coral Sea videos. Also fantastic. You got my subscription, buddy. Keep it up!
welcome back! I liked the integration of film/ pictures from the battle; It added a surprisingly fresh view. Love your vids, keep up the good work!!
in the summer i completely envisioned those scenes in my head... and thats when i realized i was going to have to learn adobe after effects to use the 3d camera... thus the 4 month gap lol. but Im glad you like it!
Beautiful video ! Greetings from France.
Thanks! greetings as well!
Tiens un visage familier... et si les japonais s'étaient mieux débrouiller et avait envahit Pearl Harbour et la Californie?
et si les trois porte-avions américains n'ont pas quitté pearl harbor avant l'attaque?
Ah bah coucou toi ^^
AlterHis je me rends
I've been reading about PH for 40 years and I learned a lot of new stuff, especially the torpedo attacks on the one end of battleship row. Midway was of equal excellence. You're docs rate some of the Best I've ever seen. I think you are also a wargamer. Make more of these!
I go back and rewatch this sometimes. It’s an absolute classic and probably the best single WW2 documentary I’ve seen online.
Love the way you included archives' video in it!
subscribed! I don't know of anyone else that has gone this in depth about Pearl Harbor. Love the use of the pictures and especially the highlighting of the important aspects in those pictures.
Great job. I would assume that Midway, and maybe Coral Sea, are planned for the future? I am looking forward to any future videos.
Thanks, & there were tons of photographs that made this project easier to make. i had to integrate them. and perhaps they some i would do in the future.
Been stationed at Pearl Harbor for the last two years and this is one of the better videos I’ve seen about the attacks. Including the ones they show on the tours.
thank you!
This masterpiece of a video is almost 4 years old and nobody has made a video as good as this on the Pearl Harbor attack. This production is going to stand the test of time; not only as "entertainment" for those interested in history but much more importantly it is a great educational tool. He's gotten many well-deserved comments on it but I thought I'd take the quick minute to add mine to the bunch. It's superb.
Please keep posting, your animations are getting better and better btw
Thanks for noticing!
You deserve your own show at the History Channel. Excellent research! What details!
You have a lot of potential on yt, I can see you getting 500k subs in a matter of a year or 2 if you keep posting consistent work. I just should advise you 2 things. You need to have a consistent cover image of your videos that is recognizable.That you chose an animation style and stick with it so your easily recognizable and that you focus on one time period/campaign/war for maximum chance of people continuing watching your videos i.e people who watched this video would likely click on "the battle of Midway" the battle of Peleliu" were shown in the suggest bar on the right . Overall keep up teh good work
Thanks! the problem tho is the consistency. my work day work gets in the way so i may tend to lag between releases, but ill keep working at it!...and i have noticed that im a bit all over the place with my battles, Mexican american war, then a naval surface engagement, then the civil war, now an air raid. but i think im going to settle with just covering the Pacific war for a bit.
You should build up an catalog than and plan releases ahead, in the style of dont post videos for 1-2 months (or more) and then post 1 video every week for a specific campaign/war/scenario until its covered or finished for the most part, mostly because unless its exceptional content people forget these 1 video every 2-3 month kind of you tubers . Use the next month to plan the battle you want to do over the working day and than animate it over the weekend, thats how I go about my extra work. Also remember to make a playlist for your battles either in release or battle date order
I'd rather see Napoleonic wars, German unification wars, ww1, and the other theatres of ww2 than the Pacific, but it's your choice.
Montemayor: These are the best videos I have ever seen on the sea battles that you cover. Thank you very much for keeping them up. I have learned a LOT! You must have done a LOT of research in order to make these.
pausing at 5:35 to comment on a superb edit from graphics to actual photo..... good stuff.... unpausing now :-)
The production values here are top gun.
I gasped at the same point, when I first saw this video nearly a year ago, but for a slightly different reason: My father, Carl Sanders, was on the USS Raleigh at Pearl Harbor on December 7. His version matches yours, but what took my breath away was to see, in context, a picture of the ship my own father was on at the time of this attack, from the perspective of a Japanese pilot. (I became a pilot in the Navy, before he told me his story, but happily was never put in the position of this pilot.) I have a hatch dog from a Japanese mini sub stripped for souvenirs by the sailors that he gave me the only time I ever got him to talk about his war experiences. Going from big picture graphics to tangible historic photo to existential family history revealed in an image was a life altering experience for me that has haunted me since the first time I got 5 minutes and 35 seconds into this video.
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@TheBaconHunter i was quite comfortable commenting on the video I watched a year ago, so I'll politely decline your passive-aggresive suggestion that "you'll let me find something better as I apparently need the challenge. "
@TheBaconHunter "they" say a lot of things...... what do you say ?
Good job. Love this one.
Thanks!
Your channel deserves so much more attention, keep creating good content and the success will follow!
thanks man!
I am 63yo & grew up in Annapolis...better than anything I ever saw detailing that day at Pearl Harbor.. this makes my subscription to UA-cam worthwhile!! Many thanks
Wow, this is one of the BEST videos I've ever seen. You clearly are a talented historian and documentarian. I've seen many videos but none were laid out as well as this, INCLUDING the rare footage of the Arizona blowing up which I had never seen before.
You deserve an award for this. When my daughter studies history (she is half Japanese, by the way), I hope I can show her THIS video as it's the best presentation I've ever seen on this event. Just WOW.
Guys make this guy rich he deserves it
If you keep making videos like this you're gonna be huge! Keep up the good work!
When a 17 minute video is more accurate and informative about Pearl Harbor than the 3 hour Pearl Harbor movie
That's not a very high bar to cross...
if you want a good movie about pearl harbor i reccomend "Tora! Tora! Tora!" from the 60s. excellent movie.
Clear, concise, history presented the way it should be. Best documentary I've seen on Pearl Harbor. Thank you.
this is an amazing video, thank you for creating this!
you explain better than documentary does, hope to see the battle of Java sea, Coral sea, battle of midway, Philippines sea soon
thanks! and those ares some battles id like to cover actually.
Battle of leyte gulf
I’ve never watched a video this detailed.
Keep it up dude, love your videos!
God bless all the men that fought in that terrible war
This is the best explanation of PH I have ever seen then again I always expect the best from your channel.
thank you Anthony Johnson!
The Japanese did not want to attack the fuel tanks because it would create a lot of smoke which could hamper the attack. The fuel tanks were last on the list to attack but after news of no carriers present the Japanese called of the wave planned to attack the fuel tanks.
Thank you. I did not know that part.
I've read comments from researchers years ago about the mistake of the Japanese not taking out the fuel tanks. A lack of sizable fuel storage would've made US Navy operations cumbersome at best. I've been there a couple times those tanks are huge. As I recall additional storage tanks were built (later)but higher up on hillside set into the terrain for protection.
When you stand on the ground and view Pearl Harbor, and compare it to photos of the smoke/chaos post-attack, it slowly sinks in the magnitude the sheer size of area effected. The amount of black smoke is hard to imagine but it happened. I'm glad I've to Pearl twice to contemplate and try to experience the noise, confusion, acrid smells of AA guns, fuel tanks exploding, bodies floating in the oil slicks, etc.
Another analysis of the failure to attack the fuel storage was that it would have required a 3rd strike, and the IJN had never considered that. Some of their ships would have run out of fuel on the way back, had they taken the time to land, rearm, fly off, and then recover. The fuel there was heavy, low grade stuff for boilers, difficult to set aliight. And as he points out, the AA was getting good, and they had lost a lot already.
@@lamwen03 A 3rd strike was considered, but was decided against. The pilots were willing to deliver it, but the fleet command fears a counter attack. Yamamoto regretted it many months later.
Subs. His fleet was safe so long as no one knew it was at sea, or generally where. But he didn't know where the carriers were, and a sighting could have vectored subs onto his fleet. The IJN did not like to gamble with their ships. Same thing at Midway, and Leyte.
This is great! I've never seen a historical battle video on UA-cam with such quality.
thanks!
ChakRaLight oh.
This tied everything I saw this morning when I jogged around the 4 mile Ford Island loop. Incredible presentation. Mahalo!
That was an absolutely sublime video. And to think you make it in PowerPoint...amazing.
oh no, those powerpoint days are over. haha i've moved forward with Adobe after effects. but thank you!
I'm a Filipino, so I should not be rooting for Japan during this time but the way the narrator narrates about the second wave, I can't help but get annoyed as to how epicly they failed their mission
Admiral Yamamoto to 2nd Wave: You have ONE job!!!
On a terrible side note, they were more successful at invading our country.
DeadTroperSociety filipino rin ako pinanood ko ito para tingnan ang taktikang ginamit nila
Well if pearl harbor didn't got bomb more lives is lost in europe and asia because of american involvement
When it comes to history, don't root for anyone. Who did what and why is what's important.
Gracias por escribir "Filipino" y no "Philippine".
Great video
coming from TIK himself, it means a lot. thanks man!
7:54 you can actually see the semi circle of ripples from the hits still in the water.
Holy sh*t, you explain these awesome battles so clearly and accurately! They are amazing and I love watching them, even tho I hate history in class, I love these videos were it is explained in depth and in an entertaining way!
Just Paypalled you 10 euros, you deserve it!