Important to note that many were escort carriers, but nonetheless still very impressive. I would say it was even more impressive that morale was considered important enough that ice cream barges were built.
People can't comprehend the scale of guns ships have, a destroyer's gun would be considered a large gun on land. People see and 88mm on a tiger and go oh shit but face off against a 16in gun or 18inch.
My grandfather fought in WW2 from France in 1940 to, North Africa, Italy and Germany in 45. Was wounded a number of times. His father fought in WW1 from 1914/8 and was wounded in the Somme.
@@user-tt6il2up4o My late grandfather served in in WW2 fighting in Japan and got shot multiple times even losing his pinky finger which was probably the weirdest thing seeing as a kid lol
@@bodin1912 the commander that planned the Pearl Harbor attack. Who argued not to fight America beforehand because he knew what we could do. Was killed few years later when his flight was intercepted by American forces.
@@bodin1912 he was the lead Admiral for the Japanese navy. While it's debated whether or not he said those exact words, we have plenty of historical documents that show that he felt this way about attacking America.
@@bodin1912 Yamamoto was the lead admiral for the imperial japanese navy, he protested the idea of attacking the US but the japanese war council ignored him and told him to attack anyway
Fun Fact about D-DAY The USS Texas, a Battleship at Normandy, deliberately began to sink its self so it could get its cannon to the right angle to make it's shot. The Texas survived this event, and is now a ship museum on the Texas coast. (I think it's going in galveston after repairs)
Correction, the USS Texas deployed intentional counterflooding of the anti-torpedo blisters, enabling her to gain a 2 degree list. A 2 degree list wouldn't sink any dreadnought unless in rare circumstances. The anti-torpedo blisters aren't technically part of the hull, so she didn't flood herself either. The USS Texas didn't have enough gun range, since dreadnoughts of this era didn't have as much gun elevation compared to their treaty era or post treaty counterparts. Counterflooding: Intentional flooding of a ship to usually counteract a list of the ship, or to fill a magazine to prevent it from detonating Anti-torpedo blisters: Bulges on the side of a ship, used to prematurely detonate torpedoes outside of the actual hull List: When a ship leans to a certain side, too much list and a ship will capsize or flip
@user-ud6ru4gu4e I think he's referring to the USS Liberty incident. The attacked the uss liberty with fighter planes and motor torpedo boats which killed 34 and wounded 171 crew because they were "confused on whether it was an Egyptian ship" even though it was flying the American flag and its identification was clearly shown with large letters on its hull. (Took place during the Six day war)
@@blitzy3244 Well....he knew they were coming just not when...the radar stations however saw the planes but wrote it off as a friendly training mission
@@blitzy3244 A common misconception. The US knew an attack was coming some days prior, but they didn't think it was Pearl Harbor, nor did they know when the attack was coming. They thought the attack would come at Wake, Midway, or the Philippines which did get attacked. American battleplanning didn't know that they would attack Pearl Harbor.
@@crystalcat1002 france: you see i was relevant because... Brazil: lol disbanding the only professional force go brrrr India: 💀 Iran: WHY TF AM I EVEN HERE Turkey; i joined, germany surrended, coincidence? I think not Lebanon: hold my non existant food
also the USSR finishing 80% of german troops KIA/MIA, fighting germany+italy+romania+(austria)+bulgaria+soldiers/volunteers from occupied countries+nazi-adjacent finland in parallel while the US bombed cities after realizing that factories had AA, which, surprise, actually increased german morale. they decreased Red Army casualties, but didn’t decide the war. the lend lease of all nations to the ussr was 4% in total war production and saved lifes, but not the outcome of the war. and then you landed when the ussr was like a solid year in retreat, achieving no territorial gains or victories after the battle of Kursk ended 1943. like army size/strength was comparable, but US was very cowardly, assuming they wanted to fight the nazis instead of allying with them against the USSR if their convois and harbor weren’t attacked
@@gonozal8_962 You forget the Pacific Theatre and the fact the U.S. still cared for their own soldiers, meanwhile the USSR lost 1/4 of their army and their leader didn't even care they were dying (benefit of the doubt is that its four percent less than Germany I guess), USSR in total lost like 30 million people. Of course the U.S. also supported the Allies through the lend-lease act, of which of course Russia received 11 billion. This was a fifth of the total worth of the weapons, 3 fifths being granted to Britain, and of course both payed the U.S. back for significantly less (Russia payed 700 million). The act also could have been one of the key components allowing Russia to defeat Germany, though this isn't likely and more so just helped a lot.
@@averylongnameforabsolutely566 well like the chinese also get forgotten frequently about in the pacific theatre and the USSRs fears about a japanese invasion weren’t irrational either. like yes, the US did a contribution and saved lives, but it’s effort was still lower than the USSR‘s. the US having more factories at the beginning of WW2 than almost all other participants combined, even though stalin went to do sacrifices to build up a heavy industry fast, of course ment that they could use more equipment ("care about their lives"). the USSR killed 4x the nazis, who actually also occupied their factories and used better equipment and soldiers (because a 30yo is more useful at a dynamic front than in a bunker, significant portions of atlantic wall troops were foreign conscripted 60+ year olds, who of course can’t fight as much as 20-30s soldiers in their peak shape. most, like 90% of Tiger Is (Tiger II a bit more balanced) were used on the eastern front, although some of those 90% also fought in north africa, which the US didn’t join initially iirc. the most produced tank for both nations, m4 and T-34, had still 50k produced each. if you have 4 times as many tanks compared to the enemies‘ numbers and eg the italian troops were less motivated, it’s no surprise to suffer less casualties. they had better navy, though, the USSR couldn’t have pulled off normandy landing. in conclusion, the US had more industrial capacity than USSR and germany combined, yet still fought less/less intense, which allowed them to use support, like especially air (the USSR lacked aluminium) way, WAY more often, which having these capabilities ofc reduced US casualties. additionally, roads were better in western europe, which made transporting equipment easier or building combat airstrips in a non-muddy terrain. when your GI can call in CAS, instead of outnumbered aurcraft struggling to just negate air superiority, you ofc have better recon, and killing a target pinned in position by an airstike instead of having to charge with ground forces costs less lives. if the US had 500k shermans, they would have suffered even less casualties because like every platoon gets a tank assigned, but in 1944, the majority of casualties infliced on germany was more than half of germans casualties in the war already, so these bigger numbers wouldn’t equate to more KIAs/MIAs/wounded for german losses and thus not to more contribution in my playbook. there’s a WWII every day/week (I don’t remember) animation which visualizes pretty well that the germany was already loosing when the US landed. additionally, the factory bombing (which was later replaced by city bombing because factories had AA, but rather strengthened war support than deplete it+soldiers weren’t in the cities anymore) may have had some effects on denying supply to the eastern front, but I don’t know how that compares to derailing trains, eg by yugoslav or soviet partisans and the equipment destroyed by that. loaded trains w/o factory bombing would‘ve also compensated more equipment produced by more losses from sabotage to a part. I‘d be interested in the numbers of equipment lost due to factory bombing (US+UK) compared to sabotage (occupied countries), though. US lend lease and war participation was noticeable, yet the soviets participated that much that it’s almost more wrong in terms of inaccuracy as to say the did equal as to say the US did nothing in, at least for european theatre. due to also soviet fighting in manchuria, weakening the Japanese army a lot, and therefore also denyed them resources. if they waited and US didn’t occupy/bomb japan mainland makes the US AF and navy significant, but like not necessarily required to win WW2 (bcs japan would lack the eg steel to keep their superior navy running and having to shrink it), while the USSR not doing anything in WW2 would’ve been more significant. apart from human lives mobilized, the USSR not producing anything would have been significantly better for the axis than lend lease not happening at all a fifth of total weapons produced in WWII globally or by the US, a fifth of what were you referencing?
@@averylongnameforabsolutely566 the US didn't share a land border with the Axis, though, which is probably a major component as to why they didn't suffer as many losses compared to the USSR.
They weren't fighting for 'their truth,' they were fighting for their way of life, not merely their lives or livelihoods. This was no petty war over resources but about how human life was to be organized, spent, crushed, savored, sacrificed, employed, enslaved, elevated, or degraded. Those men toiled through fear and wrath to decide what world would become our and what world would be killed and buried. All that said, I fucking love these types of compositions of archival footage and remixed modern music. This one is particularly well done.
@David1Eskin Wars over resources are not “petty”. That is very dumb for someone to say who is completely dependent on those resources to not struggle to survive while constantly starving, freezing, and sick.
@@midgetydeath Well put. People might think wars over resources are dumb, and sometimes they are, but for the most part they're just to keep the resource flow going.
In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers. The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two million army trucks. In four years, American industrial production, already the world's largest, doubled in size. “Powerful enemies must be out-fought and out-produced,” President Franklin Roosevelt told Congress and his countrymen less than a month after Pearl Harbor. “It is not enough to turn out just a few more planes, a few more tanks, a few more guns, a few more ships than can be turned out by our enemies,” he said. “We must out-produce them overwhelmingly, so that there can be no question of our ability to provide a crushing superiority of equipment in any theatre of the world war.”
The Spanish empire tried it once, the next day they suddenly lost most of their colony. Imperial Japan signed up for a round in the ring, the next thing they know their empire of the rising sun, turns to the empire of rising suns.
@Sus-stewes, you mean a few centuries before this conflict? as an amateur ww2 historian and a us citizen, the British put in a colossal effort in this war and don't get recognized enough for it.
Even now? americans today are not like the men of the 1940's. We are weak, fat, and a bunch of potheads. You will be better to distance yourselves. The usa is an anchor of death.
Everyone has their favorite, but the literal armada of B-17s and P-51s that would appear basically every other day above Germany for the last 3 years of the war will always be my favorite image. The skies always have, currently do, and always will speak American. It's our domain, and ours alone. Everyone else visits by tolerance.
@@canadian8770im Canadian and to be honest he’s right you can’t compare the USA to Canada militarily because the the Americans outnumber and outgun us in every possible way
I am proud to have family members on both sides who have served for the US, both of my grandfathers were in the navy and mainly saw the aftermath of the war. I promise to not let their sacrifice go to waste and look up to those of the generation who stopped the axis: from regular soldiers and navymen to intelligent leaders and generals. May other nations remember what happens when you awake a sleeping giant!
I had two as well on died after he got his plane up in Pearl harbor and the other fought at midway and iwo jima in the navy he survived the war though but died a year before I was born
I once smoked a joint, shit talked the government a little bit, and walked outside to an AH-64 flying directly over me... really put things into perspective.
@@onions111 shouldn’t have questioned me, we Americans know our fucking oil man 💀💀💀 “Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world and is the world's fourth largest oil producer and fourth largest oil exporter.”
@@ammonalldredge3495 If you're rich the US is probably the best place in the world. If you're poor or middle class, not so much. You have to accept that to make the country a better place. Just saying we are the best country in the world is just dumb.
@@ralfzacherl9942 Im in the middle class, and it definitely depends on where you live in the USA, it's not as generalized as that. Also, my rights are worth living her for as well
@@ammonalldredge3495 Life as middle calss is not better in the US than Norway, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand or whatever. But when you work 2 or 3 jobs full time your life in a country with a stronger social democracy is better. Working minimum wage in the US has nothing good about it. As so called middle class you can't afford a house in a lot of areas as well. Don't know what rights you mean exactly but when it's about labour laws or similar, European countries are way better. When it's about guns of course not. But I prefer that my landlord can't kick me out any time or my employer quits me. Stuff like that can be prevented. I
Infact they were really fit, even the real skinny guys would beat someone's ass from the modern day easily. For some of the part, not saying they wouldn't lose, but they'd run people for their money with brawling@@thesharky
The Japanese attack made it necessary for the US to become the world most powerful Navy and Airforce on the planet. The Germans made it necessary for the US to become the most powerful Army in the world. And we can only thank the men and women who met and exceeded in that challenge. 🇺🇸
Imagine declaring war on a country that mass produces warships like it's nothing while some of it's dockyards are just reparing their and their allies ships 💀💀💀
I am proud to be related to one of the very first members of the US Airborne Infantry. My great- grandfather was unable to join the military during WW2 because he had a hernia in his back, but his brother was sent to the Bonin Islands. He told stories of his squad finding body parts in the Japanese duffle bags and other stories that gave me nightmares (one of the instances of my creative imagination coming back to bite me in the *ss). My grandpa (who passed down the stories from my great-uncle is retired Airborne Infantry, and my bio-dad is a Marine.
@@theawkwardhotchocalate5230 Japan: "Yeme... eh... word of advice. Don't. Touch. The Boats" Yemen: "Or what!? They are the aggressors! Not me!" USA: "Oh yes those merchant ships just transiting through international waters. MFer you haven't seen aggressive. Aggressive is when you can take pictures of your shadows 80yrs later!"
"Hell that isn't even the most aggressive, keep touching our boats and I'll be glad to deliver a red letter day to your doorstep, just ask Japan about the present, and we aren't helping you rebuild like Japan."@@Tank50us
@@SebbyKV nah, the Philippines literally granted America every permission to use their ports, that's where Japan lost because hundreds of US navy ships, carriers and most importantly thousands of planes swarmed Japanese Navy, and heck! the deadliest ww2 naval battle even happened in Philippine Sea!
I go to Norfolk sometimes to visit family, and the cranes to unload shipping are the size of apartment buildings, and there are dozens. at one port. just for unloading boxes. really puts things into perspective
Given that every war we've fought (with maybe one or two exceptions) was because some one, some where decided messing with our boats was a good idea. You'd think they'd learn by now.
I absolutely love the edit, and I like that it's in the Pacific theater (most of it), which is the part that my great grandfather served in. He served in the Occupation of Japan, basically the end of the war. Awesome!
@@definitely_not_Hirohito Oh, _he knew._ He warned against the exact action. However the Emperor ordered the attack, and that wasn't an order he could ignore.
@@definitely_not_Hirohito actually yes. Yamamoto studied in the US, and saw our manufacturing capacity and knew what we could do with it should we get on a war footing. He even told several of his colleagues that even if Pearl Harbor was successful, they would have six months of near total freedom in the Pacific before victory becomes extremely doubtful. By the end of the Battle of Midway on June 7th 1942, he was proven right as the last of the four carriers the IJN sent slipped beneath the waves.
No matter your view on the United States, She will go down as one of the most memorable and powerful nations in all of history. Dominating the air, the sea, and the ground, and one day the stars. First to the bomb, first to the moon, and reigns over her foes with superior firepower, and a defense budget large enough to fight god, and win.
The Seven Nation Army: 1. Nazi Germany 2. Empire of Japan 3. Kingdom of Italy 4. Francoist Spain 5. Romania 6. Kingdom of Bulgaria 7. Kingdom of Hungary
Don’t touch our damn boats
It's almost time to remind the planet why.
@@Nik-xi2riwe need a white American again
It shouldent be this ahrd 💀
Or our people.
They are called goddamn ,battleships, not boats
america had 8 aircraft carriers when it entered the war
when it finished the war almost 4 years later, it had 99
America was the only country that left world war 2 better than it entered.
Important to note that many were escort carriers, but nonetheless still very impressive. I would say it was even more impressive that morale was considered important enough that ice cream barges were built.
@@t26e44im guessing you learned about the ice cream barge from
Masterofroflness
@@salvadorsanone5181 nope, knew it long before him
@@t26e44 it was a coincidence you mentioning it after the video was released
Seeing a battleship plowing through the water towards you is quite the profound feeling
They fucked around and found out..
this is true@@A20FtPancake
@@A20FtPancake indeed
back then when the big boys still rules the seas
People can't comprehend the scale of guns ships have, a destroyer's gun would be considered a large gun on land. People see and 88mm on a tiger and go oh shit but face off against a 16in gun or 18inch.
The people that fought in ww2 are the definition of badass
WW2 being one of the most black and white conflicts in human history also helped with the badassery i feel
My great grandfather was one of those badasses that charged onto Omaha beach with fury in his eyes and his family in his heart
My grandfather fought in WW2 from France in 1940 to, North Africa, Italy and Germany in 45.
Was wounded a number of times.
His father fought in WW1 from 1914/8 and was wounded in the Somme.
@@user-tt6il2up4o My late grandfather served in in WW2 fighting in Japan and got shot multiple times even losing his pinky finger which was probably the weirdest thing seeing as a kid lol
The Greatest Generation, a generation made of stone.
"We destroyed the mighty American Navy"
fast forward
- The FUCKING SUN......TWICE -
America is just like: “Acceptable loses.”
Funny cause just years after pearl, all those battleship sunk (minus the arizona) got raised and whoop their ass in the Philippines.
“We attacked 2 boats, THEY DROPPED THE SUN ON US TWICE”
Japan learned the rule that started with the Barbary Pirates: DO NOT F*** WITH AMERICA'S BOATS!
@@TechLeafRanger 😂
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
-Isoroku Yamamoto
I don’t know who that person is, but he (or she) was correct on the “awaken a sleeping giant” part
@@bodin1912 the commander that planned the Pearl Harbor attack. Who argued not to fight America beforehand because he knew what we could do. Was killed few years later when his flight was intercepted by American forces.
@@bodin1912 he was the lead Admiral for the Japanese navy. While it's debated whether or not he said those exact words, we have plenty of historical documents that show that he felt this way about attacking America.
@@Kirisame312 He once said : i can handled the british and americans for 6 months, but after that, their giant economy will swallow us
@@bodin1912 Yamamoto was the lead admiral for the imperial japanese navy, he protested the idea of attacking the US but the japanese war council ignored him and told him to attack anyway
Fun Fact about D-DAY
The USS Texas, a Battleship at Normandy, deliberately began to sink its self so it could get its cannon to the right angle to make it's shot. The Texas survived this event, and is now a ship museum on the Texas coast. (I think it's going in galveston after repairs)
Texas baby
It's also the sole remaining dreadnaught in the world
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they gangster leaned a ship???
Correction, the USS Texas deployed intentional counterflooding of the anti-torpedo blisters, enabling her to gain a 2 degree list. A 2 degree list wouldn't sink any dreadnought unless in rare circumstances. The anti-torpedo blisters aren't technically part of the hull, so she didn't flood herself either.
The USS Texas didn't have enough gun range, since dreadnoughts of this era didn't have as much gun elevation compared to their treaty era or post treaty counterparts.
Counterflooding: Intentional flooding of a ship to usually counteract a list of the ship, or to fill a magazine to prevent it from detonating
Anti-torpedo blisters: Bulges on the side of a ship, used to prematurely detonate torpedoes outside of the actual hull
List: When a ship leans to a certain side, too much list and a ship will capsize or flip
The day the World Witness the awakening of a Giant.
Listen, I'll be your First comment. But yeah, this is Actual Facts.
Russia boutta find out why healthcare ain't free
@@averagecustodes2562 America invests in un-healthcare so the rest of the free world can do the opposite.
@@averagecustodes2562 back to back to back world war championz
Bro that comment gave me chills 😅
Germany: "We started ww2"
Italy: "What?!"
Japan: "We brought USA into WW2"
Germany: "What?!"
Japan: I said, we brought USA into WWII.
Germany: Oh, awesome. Thanks for that!
Italy: idiots
Germany declared war on the US, Japan and Germany were only in a defensive pact not an normal alliance.
We, in fact, did not start anything, that was also Japan. Or France with the treaty of Versailles however you want to see it.
@@Peter-ii6in Germany started it with the Franco-Prussian War.
Moral of the story:
Don’t fuck with Americas boats
And if a country does, they’re screwed
Unless you're Isreal lol
@@VVanDraven?
@@user-ud6ru4gu4e look up the USS Liberty Incident
@user-ud6ru4gu4e I think he's referring to the USS Liberty incident. The attacked the uss liberty with fighter planes and motor torpedo boats which killed 34 and wounded 171 crew because they were "confused on whether it was an Egyptian ship" even though it was flying the American flag and its identification was clearly shown with large letters on its hull. (Took place during the Six day war)
Non-Americans listening to Seven Nation Army: "It's a metaphor you see..."
Americans listening to Seven Nation Army: "What the fuck is a metaphor."
Americans: It's not a metaphor. It's a *PROMISE*
I Dunno why, but the beginning of the song with Roosevelts speech with the music kinda gave me the chills
same bro
Not as powerful when you realize he knew the attacks were coming and didn't tell the soldiers so he could get his war with Japan.
@@blitzy3244 Well....he knew they were coming just not when...the radar stations however saw the planes but wrote it off as a friendly training mission
@@blitzy3244 A common misconception. The US knew an attack was coming some days prior, but they didn't think it was Pearl Harbor, nor did they know when the attack was coming. They thought the attack would come at Wake, Midway, or the Philippines which did get attacked. American battleplanning didn't know that they would attack Pearl Harbor.
Roosevelt the jew puppet who provoked the Axis into war to save the UK and the USSR
American war industry is just gigantic. They can produce a liberty class cargo ship in 2 days
4 days is the record!
one day is the record, accomplished as a contest between shipyards @@henoch8173
@@henoch81731 day was but it split after
We were churning out a b-29s like crazy
One B-29 per hour with 1.5 million parts
POV: japns sinks 22 American navy vessels. Two days later: “THIER BACK WITH 78 OF THEM”
they're
@@ginajankovich2708get your 🤓 lookin ass outa here
four years after:
Italy:😵
Germany:💀
Japan:☠🥵
USA:😎😈
USSR: 💀💀💀👿👿👿
UK:
😢😭😭
China:
🚩🚩🚩
@@crystalcat1002 france: you see i was relevant because...
Brazil: lol disbanding the only professional force go brrrr
India: 💀
Iran: WHY TF AM I EVEN HERE
Turkey; i joined, germany surrended, coincidence? I think not
Lebanon: hold my non existant food
Japan: YOU WILL SURRENDER TO US
America: Smiles
Japan: You are surrendering right?
Japan: we are the land of the rising sun!!! Usa: how about i give you and personal up close view of it!?
@@jarodh7e1232x😂
@@jarodh7e123 OH DEAR GOD I GOT THAT REFRENCE
Twice
“United States vs japan, FIGHT!!!”
Us: picks extinction ball
Most countries fighting on two fronts: shit
Meanwhile the us:
Germany did it in 2 world wars then clossed 2 entire front and just got fucked by enemy size
@@thefirstkingdogo1126 They still lost regardless and the US achieved a double-victory, in the end that is the important thing
yeah the US was crushing it on all fronts
@@kmmediafactory jep
@@azuresstuff2363 Us never fought in 2 fronts at the same time.
"A seven nation army couldn't hold me back" describes the US military so well
also the USSR finishing 80% of german troops KIA/MIA, fighting germany+italy+romania+(austria)+bulgaria+soldiers/volunteers from occupied countries+nazi-adjacent finland in parallel while the US bombed cities after realizing that factories had AA, which, surprise, actually increased german morale. they decreased Red Army casualties, but didn’t decide the war. the lend lease of all nations to the ussr was 4% in total war production and saved lifes, but not the outcome of the war. and then you landed when the ussr was like a solid year in retreat, achieving no territorial gains or victories after the battle of Kursk ended 1943. like army size/strength was comparable, but US was very cowardly, assuming they wanted to fight the nazis instead of allying with them against the USSR if their convois and harbor weren’t attacked
@@gonozal8_962 You forget the Pacific Theatre and the fact the U.S. still cared for their own soldiers, meanwhile the USSR lost 1/4 of their army and their leader didn't even care they were dying (benefit of the doubt is that its four percent less than Germany I guess), USSR in total lost like 30 million people. Of course the U.S. also supported the Allies through the lend-lease act, of which of course Russia received 11 billion. This was a fifth of the total worth of the weapons, 3 fifths being granted to Britain, and of course both payed the U.S. back for significantly less (Russia payed 700 million). The act also could have been one of the key components allowing Russia to defeat Germany, though this isn't likely and more so just helped a lot.
@@averylongnameforabsolutely566 well like the chinese also get forgotten frequently about in the pacific theatre and the USSRs fears about a japanese invasion weren’t irrational either. like yes, the US did a contribution and saved lives, but it’s effort was still lower than the USSR‘s. the US having more factories at the beginning of WW2 than almost all other participants combined, even though stalin went to do sacrifices to build up a heavy industry fast, of course ment that they could use more equipment ("care about their lives"). the USSR killed 4x the nazis, who actually also occupied their factories and used better equipment and soldiers (because a 30yo is more useful at a dynamic front than in a bunker, significant portions of atlantic wall troops were foreign conscripted 60+ year olds, who of course can’t fight as much as 20-30s soldiers in their peak shape. most, like 90% of Tiger Is (Tiger II a bit more balanced) were used on the eastern front, although some of those 90% also fought in north africa, which the US didn’t join initially iirc. the most produced tank for both nations, m4 and T-34, had still 50k produced each. if you have 4 times as many tanks compared to the enemies‘ numbers and eg the italian troops were less motivated, it’s no surprise to suffer less casualties. they had better navy, though, the USSR couldn’t have pulled off normandy landing.
in conclusion, the US had more industrial capacity than USSR and germany combined, yet still fought less/less intense, which allowed them to use support, like especially air (the USSR lacked aluminium) way, WAY more often, which having these capabilities ofc reduced US casualties. additionally, roads were better in western europe, which made transporting equipment easier or building combat airstrips in a non-muddy terrain. when your GI can call in CAS, instead of outnumbered aurcraft struggling to just negate air superiority, you ofc have better recon, and killing a target pinned in position by an airstike instead of having to charge with ground forces costs less lives.
if the US had 500k shermans, they would have suffered even less casualties because like every platoon gets a tank assigned, but in 1944, the majority of casualties infliced on germany was more than half of germans casualties in the war already, so these bigger numbers wouldn’t equate to more KIAs/MIAs/wounded for german losses and thus not to more contribution in my playbook. there’s a WWII every day/week (I don’t remember) animation which visualizes pretty well that the germany was already loosing when the US landed. additionally, the factory bombing (which was later replaced by city bombing because factories had AA, but rather strengthened war support than deplete it+soldiers weren’t in the cities anymore) may have had some effects on denying supply to the eastern front, but I don’t know how that compares to derailing trains, eg by yugoslav or soviet partisans and the equipment destroyed by that. loaded trains w/o factory bombing would‘ve also compensated more equipment produced by more losses from sabotage to a part. I‘d be interested in the numbers of equipment lost due to factory bombing (US+UK) compared to sabotage (occupied countries), though.
US lend lease and war participation was noticeable, yet the soviets participated that much that it’s almost more wrong in terms of inaccuracy as to say the did equal as to say the US did nothing in, at least for european theatre. due to also soviet fighting in manchuria, weakening the Japanese army a lot, and therefore also denyed them resources. if they waited and US didn’t occupy/bomb japan mainland makes the US AF and navy significant, but like not necessarily required to win WW2 (bcs japan would lack the eg steel to keep their superior navy running and having to shrink it), while the USSR not doing anything in WW2 would’ve been more significant. apart from human lives mobilized, the USSR not producing anything would have been significantly better for the axis than lend lease not happening at all
a fifth of total weapons produced in WWII globally or by the US, a fifth of what were you referencing?
@@averylongnameforabsolutely566 the US didn't share a land border with the Axis, though, which is probably a major component as to why they didn't suffer as many losses compared to the USSR.
@gonozal8_962 if the soviets weren't there america would've still carried. Don't forget the nuclear bomb
Idk why I love these ww2 edits so fuckin much. Rest in eternal peace to all who lost their lives fighting for their truth
They weren't fighting for 'their truth,' they were fighting for their way of life, not merely their lives or livelihoods. This was no petty war over resources but about how human life was to be organized, spent, crushed, savored, sacrificed, employed, enslaved, elevated, or degraded.
Those men toiled through fear and wrath to decide what world would become our and what world would be killed and buried.
All that said, I fucking love these types of compositions of archival footage and remixed modern music. This one is particularly well done.
@David1Eskin
Wars over resources are not “petty”. That is very dumb for someone to say who is completely dependent on those resources to not struggle to survive while constantly starving, freezing, and sick.
@@midgetydeath Well put. People might think wars over resources are dumb, and sometimes they are, but for the most part they're just to keep the resource flow going.
@@midgetydeathYou say that as if you are too stupid to know what trade is.
@@David1Eskin a person's truth *is* their way of life
In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers. The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two million army trucks. In four years, American industrial production, already the world's largest, doubled in size.
“Powerful enemies must be out-fought and out-produced,” President Franklin Roosevelt told Congress and his countrymen less than a month after Pearl Harbor. “It is not enough to turn out just a few more planes, a few more tanks, a few more guns, a few more ships than can be turned out by our enemies,” he said. “We must out-produce them overwhelmingly, so that there can be no question of our ability to provide a crushing superiority of equipment in any theatre of the world war.”
You know your going to win the war when your guys are eating ice cream half the world away while your enemies starve miles from their homeland.
@@jack727dave5 Truly a good indicator!
We donated more train locomotives to the Soviet Union than Nazi Germany even had before the war.
and we're still going strong in military innovation and production, especially in aeronautics 🦅
@@kuhnville3145 the Japanise where drunk or something
“I am afraid we have awoken a sleeping giant…”
run,
and filled him with a terrible resolve
Japan must have not heard the phrase:
*"Don't touch our boats."*
They know about now
The Spanish empire tried it once, the next day they suddenly lost most of their colony.
Imperial Japan signed up for a round in the ring, the next thing they know their empire of the rising sun, turns to the empire of rising suns.
Im so fooking glad we are on the same side.
From England.
love ya bro"s.x
W
Are we just gonna forget 1700’s?
@@notcloseatall wdym
@Sus-stewes, you mean a few centuries before this conflict? as an amateur ww2 historian and a us citizen, the British put in a colossal effort in this war and don't get recognized enough for it.
Even now? americans today are not like the men of the 1940's. We are weak, fat, and a bunch of potheads. You will be better to distance yourselves. The usa is an anchor of death.
i thought modern America/NATO edits hit hard, but this hits HARDER.
God Bless America! 🇺🇸
You mean god bless 🇮🇱
@@therealignotus7549 yeah but this video isn't about Israel, it's about the U.S. in World War II
@@YupItsMack He’s a subcriber to the “Isreali’s rule the US govt” theory
@@GigaChadlovesandcares ah, so he just has room temperature IQ
@@YupItsMack A lot of American haters have that in common
Everyone has their favorite, but the literal armada of B-17s and P-51s that would appear basically every other day above Germany for the last 3 years of the war will always be my favorite image.
The skies always have, currently do, and always will speak American. It's our domain, and ours alone. Everyone else visits by tolerance.
Now that one bad ass quote.
crazy how usa went from a colony to a strong country in a matter of decades
And now the strongest country.
Technology and being essentially isolated helps
@@averagecustodes2562 not only technology but also raw resources and weak neighbours
@@adwitiyaagarwal192not very nice
@@canadian8770im Canadian and to be honest he’s right you can’t compare the USA to Canada militarily because the the Americans outnumber and outgun us in every possible way
I am proud to have family members on both sides who have served for the US, both of my grandfathers were in the navy and mainly saw the aftermath of the war. I promise to not let their sacrifice go to waste and look up to those of the generation who stopped the axis: from regular soldiers and navymen to intelligent leaders and generals. May other nations remember what happens when you awake a sleeping giant!
I had two as well on died after he got his plane up in Pearl harbor and the other fought at midway and iwo jima in the navy he survived the war though but died a year before I was born
I once smoked a joint, shit talked the government a little bit, and walked outside to an AH-64 flying directly over me... really put things into perspective.
The democracy officer in the corner:
Uncle sam heard u talking crazy😂
I'm a Canadian and this sparked some anxiety I didn't know existed in me
Best can Trudeau before you get too un-American… Canada has a lot of oil, right?
@@onions111 shouldn’t have questioned me, we Americans know our fucking oil man 💀💀💀
“Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world and is the world's fourth largest oil producer and fourth largest oil exporter.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Canada
@@onions111 I’m in Florida, gonna need a bigger fire to get me man.
We are earths final boss for a reason
Japanese Empire has been real quiet after this was released
America the country that literally came from rags to riches proud to be American
Tbh the US pretty much sucks. I would not live in your country in todays age. Especially as middle or lower class.
@@ralfzacherl9942 Still proud to live here, and I would live here over almost any country 🇺🇸
@@ammonalldredge3495 If you're rich the US is probably the best place in the world. If you're poor or middle class, not so much. You have to accept that to make the country a better place. Just saying we are the best country in the world is just dumb.
@@ralfzacherl9942 Im in the middle class, and it definitely depends on where you live in the USA, it's not as generalized as that. Also, my rights are worth living her for as well
@@ammonalldredge3495 Life as middle calss is not better in the US than Norway, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand or whatever. But when you work 2 or 3 jobs full time your life in a country with a stronger social democracy is better. Working minimum wage in the US has nothing good about it. As so called middle class you can't afford a house in a lot of areas as well. Don't know what rights you mean exactly but when it's about labour laws or similar, European countries are way better. When it's about guns of course not. But I prefer that my landlord can't kick me out any time or my employer quits me. Stuff like that can be prevented. I
When the anime kid makes fun of your weight.
lmao
Prepae to feel the power of the sun, twice
american's weren't fat back then though
@@thesharky Exactly
Infact they were really fit, even the real skinny guys would beat someone's ass from the modern day easily. For some of the part, not saying they wouldn't lose, but they'd run people for their money with brawling@@thesharky
Those battleship shots at the beginning were fucking badass
This is by far the best edit of the US Navy operating in the Pacific
They’re called the Greatest Generation for a reason
bro created the hardest war edit on youtube
The Japanese attack made it necessary for the US to become the world most powerful Navy and Airforce on the planet.
The Germans made it necessary for the US to become the most powerful Army in the world. And we can only thank the men and women who met and exceeded in that challenge. 🇺🇸
Imagine declaring war on a country that mass produces warships like it's nothing while some of it's dockyards are just reparing their and their allies ships 💀💀💀
"Democracy is Non-Negotiable"
-Liberty Prime
No matter what you think of the usa, it will olways be 1 of the most greatest nations in history 🥺🇺🇲
Imagine needing half of the world to defeat Saddam Hussein
@@niggafromblock6530 the us did 99% of the work so your argument is invalid
Huh? 🤔
HAHAHHAHAHHA, Read history. Rome lasted for 1500+ years. Lets see if US can manage 1/5
@@niggafromblock6530 Based
Japan:Wow the sun is very bri....
Here comes the sun
Do do do doooo
Here comes the sun and I say
@@U.S.S_Enterprise_CVN-65 Do do do dooo
This should have more views! Thank you!
Fun fact: If you count the puppet state of Slovakia or Manchuria, the USA was at war with at least seven different nations
The growled "hounds of hell" along with the Stuart pulling itself out of the water was epic.
touch our boats = 3 suns
What was the third one?
@@th3revoker The sun on the Japanese flag hirosima and nagasaki
I am proud to be related to one of the very first members of the US Airborne Infantry.
My great- grandfather was unable to join the military during WW2 because he had a hernia in his back, but his brother was sent to the Bonin Islands. He told stories of his squad finding body parts in the Japanese duffle bags and other stories that gave me nightmares (one of the instances of my creative imagination coming back to bite me in the *ss). My grandpa (who passed down the stories from my great-uncle is retired Airborne Infantry, and my bio-dad is a Marine.
All the way
@@west3979 Yep, and I'm planning to go into the Air Force. My oldest brother is a tank mechanic.
@@kaitlinschol9586 All the best to you -- keep your head high and don't let anyone shove it into the dirt
@@west3979 I will! Thank you!
I hope you have a great day (or night)!
The slow build up at the beginning was the best part with the speech was *chefs kiss*
This is one of the MOST badass edit ive ever seen
Japan: *blows up a few boats*
America: *casually destroys 40 years of imperial expansion in 4 years
It was at this moment Japan realized they FUCKED UP
I'm feeling patriotic even if I'm not American.
God bless America
Americe : we really don’t like it when you fuck with our boats . Japan : giggles pearl harbor . America : ok oppenheimer it is
japan:
Why do I hear boss music?
Japan when one bomber flies over Nagasaki: Somethings wrong I can feel it
My grandpa fought in WWII, he was such a noble dude...
His dad was a fireman, who fought fires so violent
I think I bored my therapist while playing him my violin
Oh my god, that’s so insane!
@@Jie_Hua oh my God that's such a shame!
Next to them, my shit don't feel so gra-a-and...
Rule 1: Don’t fucking touch Americas boats 🤷♂️
Just ask Japan. They know about it all too well
tell that to yemen
Tell that to Iran and Muslim pirates
@@theawkwardhotchocalate5230
Japan: "Yeme... eh... word of advice. Don't. Touch. The Boats"
Yemen: "Or what!? They are the aggressors! Not me!"
USA: "Oh yes those merchant ships just transiting through international waters. MFer you haven't seen aggressive. Aggressive is when you can take pictures of your shadows 80yrs later!"
"Hell that isn't even the most aggressive, keep touching our boats and I'll be glad to deliver a red letter day to your doorstep, just ask Japan about the present, and we aren't helping you rebuild like Japan."@@Tank50us
ALL OF EUROPE WOULD WOULD BE SPEAKING GERMAN IF JAPAN DIDNT MAKE THE GRAVEST MISTAKE IMAGINABLE. 🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Only reason y'all won is because of a nuke.. , ur fleets were getting destroyed before.
@@SebbyKVwym, The Imperial Japanese Navy lost 334 warships, compared to the USAs 18 ships
@SebbyKV wrong, even without nuke Japan was losing so bad. See Battle of Philippines Sea
@@SebbyKV only prior to mid 1942. After the battle of Midway we steamrolled the Japanese back to their main islands.
@@SebbyKV nah, the Philippines literally granted America every permission to use their ports, that's where Japan lost because hundreds of US navy ships, carriers and most importantly thousands of planes swarmed Japanese Navy, and heck! the deadliest ww2 naval battle even happened in Philippine Sea!
POV: you touched the U.S boat’s
Imagine being a Japanese’s in ww2 and hearing the 16 inch shell landing around you
*Japanese soldier
Despite everything, the United States industrial might is truly a sight to behold.
I go to Norfolk sometimes to visit family, and the cranes to unload shipping are the size of apartment buildings, and there are dozens. at one port. just for unloading boxes. really puts things into perspective
Japan: sinks a boat.
Axis Powers:
"Why do we hear Boss music?"
This is a good reason to grind the us tech tree in war thunder
Japan : "Attacks once"
US : " Two Nukes
Iran : "Attacks 15 times"
US : Hey! I said stop!!
no shit sherlock, japans attack was worse than random terrorists banding together to take down the most powerful country in the 21st century.
maybe it's because we don't future generations of Iranians taking pictures of the shadows on the walls?
Nukes tend to have that effect...
A destroyer going full speed fully loaded is one of the scariest things to see ever, i can vouch
this is one of the first edits ive seen with battleships really included, so thanks for making something new and exciting!
Imagine being in WW2, a hellish battle is there and 80 years later you hear this banger play
The Axis Powers never stood a chance 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Moral of the story.
Dont mess with Uncle Sam's boats.
Given that every war we've fought (with maybe one or two exceptions) was because some one, some where decided messing with our boats was a good idea. You'd think they'd learn by now.
I absolutely love the edit, and I like that it's in the Pacific theater (most of it), which is the part that my great grandfather served in. He served in the Occupation of Japan, basically the end of the war. Awesome!
fantastic video bro and the scene with the battleships firing in line with the music!
this goes unnecessarily hard
By the far the greatest generation are those men that fought WW2
Sadly people don't remember or just don't care about the lost generation....
RIP THE FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS OF WORLD WAR I
Gotta love those b-29s and b-17s
This music fits perfectly with the sheer power the US military has.
Shouldn’t have messed with our boats.
Yamamoto's lack of judgement
@@definitely_not_Hirohito Oh, _he knew._ He warned against the exact action. However the Emperor ordered the attack, and that wasn't an order he could ignore.
@@Tank50us nuh uh
@@definitely_not_Hirohito actually yes. Yamamoto studied in the US, and saw our manufacturing capacity and knew what we could do with it should we get on a war footing.
He even told several of his colleagues that even if Pearl Harbor was successful, they would have six months of near total freedom in the Pacific before victory becomes extremely doubtful. By the end of the Battle of Midway on June 7th 1942, he was proven right as the last of the four carriers the IJN sent slipped beneath the waves.
@Tank50us I know, if I just said "nuh uh" and actually didn't know I wouldn't be someone that wants to listen to reason. I was joking
why is this actually so well made ngl
sickest edit i've seen in a while
WWII is the definition of, Don't mess with the wrong person
Rule 1: dont touch our fucking boats
Rule 2: dont mess with our oil
Rule 3: do not underestimate us
Iran broke them all, and that’s how praying mantis happened.
As a Canadian I feel safe in saying THANK FUCK we are on ur side
No matter your view on the United States, She will go down as one of the most memorable and powerful nations in all of history. Dominating the air, the sea, and the ground, and one day the stars. First to the bomb, first to the moon, and reigns over her foes with superior firepower, and a defense budget large enough to fight god, and win.
not only were we fighting a empire, we were keeping a other empire fighting
Please make more this is amazing
American: Seven Nation can't stop us
Russian: Thousand Yard Stare
Don’t touch our fuckinng boats or we will be a nightmare
best edit ive seen watching it probably for the 10th time now
when we show up, we dont come to lose, we come to prove a fucking point.
awesome edit!
GOD Bless my Country Amen 🙏🏻🇺🇸🗽🦅
omg this is the first time ive heard this version of seven
im in love
This song mix is actually sick
Sick edit man!!
This is the most American video I’ve seen in a long time
Bruh why were the bass drops so perfectly timed with the battleships firing the cannons 😂
If anyone's wondering, the song is a remix and it's titled
'Seven Nation Army - the Glitch Mob remix'
this makes me feel truly American
This gives me chills watching this
this is so good keep up the good work
The Seven Nation Army:
1. Nazi Germany
2. Empire of Japan
3. Kingdom of Italy
4. Francoist Spain
5. Romania
6. Kingdom of Bulgaria
7. Kingdom of Hungary