Yeah man, killing civilians who weren't involved in the Nanking slaughter certainly avenged that! Meanwhile the USA let the god-damned japanese military leaders who ordered the POW camps, the "comfort women" disgrace and all the hellish acts that took place in China walk away like nothing happened!
@@teflonpan115 it's always people who would never fight in a war that have that opinion . If it was up to you the war would have dragged on for years longer and millions more would have died. I'm sure you would feel different as an American soldier on the front line in western Europe. Any action that ends the war quicker and saves lives on your side must be taken. If anything we went easy on Germany and Japan we should have dropped a couple billion bubonic plague infected fleas into their cities in 1939 that would have shortened the war.
Goes without saying that regardless of the mind set, this was still horrible thing to do regardless. yet despite that, Japan forced our hands. They had every chances to surrender even as we gain Saipon, but they made their stance clear that they would make us consider civilians as soldiers as well cause they would throw every man, woman and child at us till either we gave or they were wiped out.
@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 Japan and the Soviet Union weren't at war when they attacked Pearl Harbor though? Unless you're talking about the Chinese communists
@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 Chinese communists were by then allied with Chiang Kai Shek's nationalists. Both were supported by the Allies during the war.
True but still innocent people have nothing to do with war. That's the saddest part of war. A whole nation have to suffer for the deeds of a certain party
@@blinkbernardino3135 They consider their Emperor "God" like those North Koreans so If they kill the Emperor it is less likely that they'll surrender, that's also one of the reason we didn't drop it on Tokyo.
My Japanese grandmother was a victim to these air raids , she would always tell me stories about how her brother ended up out in the open and a B29 saw him and opened fire on them luckily she grabbed him in time and ran for her life.... she is still alive today at 92 years old. She says the only thing she hates more in this world is "war." She was a schoolgirl at the time and they made them help work in the factories to make bombs, she also had a cremation job where she would need to pick up dead bodies and their missing body parts and put them back together like lego pieces so they can burn the dead and honor them. Her stories are brutal, she has been through so much.....
@@todd3285 I think I am remembering her story incorrectly , she is a 1st language Japanese speaker so maybe she meant "fire" as in the incendiary bombs. I can get your email and we can FaceTime or VIdeo chat with her if you'd like to hear it directly from her.
@@youngbassedrob Robert I ment no disrespect and maybe she might have been talking about a Navy or Air Force fighter plane which would make sense . The B-29"s were extreme high altitude bombers but because of the trade winds over Japan they were stripped of their armaments and flew low level missions at night . On the daylight raids after the the bombs where dropped the escort fighter were released to do staffing runs . That's probably what she was referring to .
@@todd3285 Okay I revisited my grandma today and got clarification from my Dad that it was a P51 Mustang plane that shot at her my dad says there's actually footage out there he saw on history channel or something of my grandmother's exact description of where she was at
In reality, the air raids were more cruel. For example, in the Tokyo air raid, B-29 pilots mercilessly burned Tokyo. They burned all the outer edges of the planned bombing area to prevent people from escaping. And they ashed everything inside of the area. The attack killed about 100,000 people in 2 hours.
I just finished reading the Bomber Mafia by Malcom Gladwell, which you absolutely must check out. It’s an audiobook that was then converted to a written book, so it’s actually meant to be listened to rather than read, but either would work. Anyway, the book offers some pretty compelling evidence, in my opinion, that the 100,000 death estimate is wildly low, and that that the actual kill count could be closer to 1,000,000. Specifically, the area had an average population density of 103,000 per square mile. The bombings destroyed 15.8 square miles, mostly within a 2-3 hour period. The affected areas housed 1,500,000 people. I don’t think it’s even possible to bomb an area that densely populated, at night while everyone is sleeping, with the amount of firepower they did and kill just 100,000. To look at it another way, it is physically impossible to evacuate 1.4 million people in the middle of the night in to flee a 15 acre fire that surrounds you. I think its almost certainly 1,000,000.
@@UponThePen Thank you for introducing an interesting book. According to the official announcement, the total number of dead and missing in Japanese city air raids excluding Hiroshima and Nagasaki is more than 500,000, but there is a possibility of 1 million. Due to the San Francisco Peace Treaty, Japan, which lost all its foreign assets and was in huge debt, could not compensate the victims of the war. Far from compensation, Japanese deposits were even frozen. The Japanese government of GHQ puppets would have wanted to reduce the number of war victims as much as possible.
That old timey mixture of British - American I think that's called a Transatlantic accent ? I think Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and William Buckley Jr. all had it.
Yes it was. The Japanese were, and possibly still are, a cruel people and they had cruelty inflicted on them. I have no sympathy for the Japanese. They deserved everything they got.
"Only the beginning-"
Sounds so threatening
It was the day that ghosts of Nanking smiled
lol true.
True, this was nothing compared to the millions of innocent killed my the Japanese
Yeah man, killing civilians who weren't involved in the Nanking slaughter certainly avenged that! Meanwhile the USA let the god-damned japanese military leaders who ordered the POW camps, the "comfort women" disgrace and all the hellish acts that took place in China walk away like nothing happened!
It's not like the Allies attacked Japan as revenge for the Chinese. Stop with the white knighting bs
@@stilscarlott that’s not what we are saying calm down
“Only the beginning”
Brilliant foreshadowing
Japan : throw attack to pearl harbour
USA : YEPPEEE, EVERY CITY IN JAPAN HAS DESTROYER
The Mission to Tokyo novel got me here, not gonna lie that it's such an amazing book to read.
"Only the beginning”
Is Crazy 😭😭😭That guy is the reason for their population decline
Weebs mad.
Scoreboard!!
The best comment lol.
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Well its okay. Japan does everything better than big fat dumb America anyway lets be frank here.
@@eren_yeager9927 you prove his point lol
This is only the beginning. The end.
The Allies did the same with Dresden in february 1945.
Yes, Dresden was an important production site in Germany which would have dragged the war for weaks, maybe even months, if left untouched
@@Palladiosios oh, they massacred endless amounts to civilians to "end the war quickly" argument
@@teflonpan115 it's always people who would never fight in a war that have that opinion . If it was up to you the war would have dragged on for years longer and millions more would have died. I'm sure you would feel different as an American soldier on the front line in western Europe. Any action that ends the war quicker and saves lives on your side must be taken. If anything we went easy on Germany and Japan we should have dropped a couple billion bubonic plague infected fleas into their cities in 1939 that would have shortened the war.
@@joshuaortiz2031 The ends doesn't justify the means. Killing women and children is not something I sign up for.
@@teflonpan115 The Germans destroyed (bombed) countless cities, if they did it first, its not a warcrime. Cry harder
Goes without saying that regardless of the mind set, this was still horrible thing to do regardless. yet despite that, Japan forced our hands. They had every chances to surrender even as we gain Saipon, but they made their stance clear that they would make us consider civilians as soldiers as well cause they would throw every man, woman and child at us till either we gave or they were wiped out.
Maybe if Americans stopped supported the Communists, the Japanese wouldn't have bombed Pearl Harbor?
@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 Japan and the Soviet Union weren't at war when they attacked Pearl Harbor though? Unless you're talking about the Chinese communists
@@TheMyopicFed yes.
@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 Chinese communists were by then allied with Chiang Kai Shek's nationalists. Both were supported by the Allies during the war.
Never any reason to bomb a city like that. Never.
after everything japan did, they deserved this and much worse
They should nuke the emperor's house as well
True but still innocent people have nothing to do with war. That's the saddest part of war. A whole nation have to suffer for the deeds of a certain party
@@prince_bharath1595 literally every Japanese person were willing to die for their country they literally committed suicide before getting captured
@@blinkbernardino3135 They consider their Emperor "God" like those North Koreans so If they kill the Emperor it is less likely that they'll surrender, that's also one of the reason we didn't drop it on Tokyo.
Before the nukes,they already suffered from this bombing
Good job fellas
My Japanese grandmother was a victim to these air raids , she would always tell me stories about how her brother ended up out in the open and a B29 saw him and opened fire on them luckily she grabbed him in time and ran for her life.... she is still alive today at 92 years old. She says the only thing she hates more in this world is "war." She was a schoolgirl at the time and they made them help work in the factories to make bombs, she also had a cremation job where she would need to pick up dead bodies and their missing body parts and put them back together like lego pieces so they can burn the dead and honor them. Her stories are brutal, she has been through so much.....
@@todd3285 I think I am remembering her story incorrectly , she is a 1st language Japanese speaker so maybe she meant "fire" as in the incendiary bombs. I can get your email and we can FaceTime or VIdeo chat with her if you'd like to hear it directly from her.
@@youngbassedrob Robert I ment no disrespect and maybe she might have been talking about a Navy or Air Force fighter plane which would make sense . The B-29"s were extreme high altitude bombers but because of the trade winds over Japan they were stripped of their armaments and flew low level missions at night . On the daylight raids after the the bombs where dropped the escort fighter were released to do staffing runs . That's probably what she was referring to .
@@todd3285 Okay I revisited my grandma today and got clarification from my Dad that it was a P51 Mustang plane that shot at her my dad says there's actually footage out there he saw on history channel or something of my grandmother's exact description of where she was at
Yeah y'all gotta remember there's no good side in war and that civilians suffered for what the military did instead of cheering
Bombs Away Lemay
Back then needling a haystack was impossible so they had to level the whole haystack. They didn't have guide or smart bombs and such like today.
They were targeting civilians on purpose, so no, they didn't have to bomb specific targets.
@@tinyprince well they had to they couldn’t specifically target military targets
@@tinyprince Most military arsenals of the Japanese Empire was at cities, so It'd make sense to drop the bombs on them.
Ohhhh that’s hot 🥵
Tf?
Wth
WTF
That is why we call it "Tokyo Hot".
😳
In reality, the air raids were more cruel.
For example, in the Tokyo air raid, B-29 pilots mercilessly burned Tokyo.
They burned all the outer edges of the planned bombing area to prevent people from escaping. And they ashed everything inside of the area.
The attack killed about 100,000 people in 2 hours.
I just finished reading the Bomber Mafia by Malcom Gladwell, which you absolutely must check out. It’s an audiobook that was then converted to a written book, so it’s actually meant to be listened to rather than read, but either would work. Anyway, the book offers some pretty compelling evidence, in my opinion, that the 100,000 death estimate is wildly low, and that that the actual kill count could be closer to 1,000,000. Specifically, the area had an average population density of 103,000 per square mile. The bombings destroyed 15.8 square miles, mostly within a 2-3 hour period. The affected areas housed 1,500,000 people. I don’t think it’s even possible to bomb an area that densely populated, at night while everyone is sleeping, with the amount of firepower they did and kill just 100,000. To look at it another way, it is physically impossible to evacuate 1.4 million people in the middle of the night in to flee a 15 acre fire that surrounds you. I think its almost certainly 1,000,000.
@@UponThePen 1,000,000? That’s literally 2% of their population…
In 1945 of course
@@UponThePen
Thank you for introducing an interesting book.
According to the official announcement, the total number of dead and missing in Japanese city air raids excluding Hiroshima and Nagasaki is more than 500,000, but there is a possibility of 1 million.
Due to the San Francisco Peace Treaty, Japan, which lost all its foreign assets and was in huge debt, could not compensate the victims of the war. Far from compensation, Japanese deposits were even frozen.
The Japanese government of GHQ puppets would have wanted to reduce the number of war victims as much as possible.
that's mercy compared to what they did the the chineese and koreans.
The narrator of this was American. For some reason American dudes back then used to fake British accents when they were on the radio/TV/etc.
Huh? This guy has the most original American accent you’d hear.
U think british and American accent is yhr same?
That old timey mixture of British - American I think that's called a Transatlantic accent ? I think Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and William Buckley Jr. all had it.
“Special delivery” literally is
Y'all had it coming
The tokyo pearl harbor
Eerie
Jembud
Did the bombers truely hit Tokyo? Damn
Yes. The B29 were flying too high that no interceptor planes in Japan can reach it.
Someday this will repeat in Beijing
Yeah
When
Raka Putra robably near the end of ww3
YES!!
I like you
Buckle up Tojoe!
Very cruel
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Yes it was. The Japanese were, and possibly still are, a cruel people and they had cruelty inflicted on them. I have no sympathy for the Japanese. They deserved everything they got.
YES THE JAPANESE WERE THE MOST EVIL PEOPLE ON THE PLANET AT THE TIME, EVEN THE NAZIS WERE DISGUSTED BY THEIR ILLEGAL DOINGS.
Nanking wants 731 more bombing runs
Anyone here because of the recent meme explode?
Yeah
1:14 get some weebs and j**s
The allies tent to be smart and don’t attack people because of their religion
レイシストにも同じものを落とそう
really sad one
Such heroic presentation of a crime against humanity. pathetic cowards.
they started it we finished it
Shaddup they got what they deserved
Arabs love japan for some reason
@@nickwright4079 we ho deserve the civilians
Lol has this guy ever seen the Japanese war crimes? They are considered the most Evil in history to some.