Posted on 06/04/2022 6:51:17 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Like most Freepers, I don’t particularly care for youtube postings.
But in watching this documentary, the rare Freeper with an attention span will take away a deeper appreciation of the events faced by Vice Admiral Nagumo and Rear Admiral Yamaguchi on June 4th.
I suggest scheduling an hour or so when you can view it without interruptions. You’ll want to hit the pause and occasionally rewind to absorb the fateful decisions and fog of war at sea before the widespread use of a new technology called radar.
The Battle of Midway was a closer run thing than the outcome, the annihilation of the Kido Butai suggests. The IJN’s superior experience, training and aircraft almost countered the American intelligence advantage.
The Battle of Midway 1942: Told from the Japanese Perspective (1/3).
Why Nagumo didn’t know the location of the American carriers on June 4th. Operation K.
Thank you
80 Years ago today. I said a prayer for the fallen earlier this morning.
Thank God they are not here to see what has become of the country they gallantly gave their lives for.
Careful with this kind of thing.
Some of the DS shills around here may have to admit that there is a Russian perspective on events concerning The Ukraine.
R.I.P. Torpedo Squadron 8, as well as all the other servicemen who perished in the battle.
I always liked the way they thought of an ingenious way to confirm the target as Midway. Sent a clear text transmission that the water processing faculty was down and they need a replacement from Pearl. When the Japanese send a encoded transmission “Bring extra drinking water...”, that was the confirmation.
Thanks for posting this. I saw it a few months ago and it is very well done.
If the goal was to destroy the American carriers, then attack the American carriers.
Pearl Harbor wasn’t impregnable 6 months earlier.
Why not go at it again?
Saved for later!
“Pearl Harbor wasn’t impregnable 6 months earlier. Why not go at it again?”
Because Pearl was no longer sleepy. All planes on every carrier and those on land would have been up in the air way before they got close.
You’re exactly right.
The Japanese couldn’t hit all the shipyards on the continental United States. That would have mattered but it was impossible for the Japanese to do it.
Thanks for the link. Watched it several months ago. What a battle. True American Heros.
“The Japanese couldn’t hit all the shipyards on the continental United States.”
My point was after Dec 7th, the number of patrols from Pearl were greatly increased. Very little change of a surprise, especially with us reading their mail by then. Carriers, battleships, destroyers at Pearl would have been sent to meet them. Planes at Hickman would be up in the air and heading out too.
I like when twice they identified US planes coming from angles away from Midway and they realized “Oh bleep! Those planes could only have come from a carrier”.
That’s right.
After Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto said he could win some battles for 6 months to a year and then it would be difficult. He knew it was hopeless.
Just prior to the battle John Waldron CO of Torpedo 8 was involved in a heated argument on the bridge of Hornet with the other strike leaders regarding the location of the Japanese fleet.
After the strike was aloft (and headed in the wrong direction) Waldron was heard over the radio to say, to the effect, ‘screw this’ disobeyed orders and took his Torpedo 8 in a more southerly direction, where he was sure the Japanese would be.
They were and he took his men in in those slow obsolete aircraft alone, without air cover. He knew what the odds were. That is dedication.
IIRC, the Japanese code name for Midway was “AF.” I find that ironic given today’s meaning of the letters. :0)
I think they were only thinking about a quick, devasting destruction of American Naval capability caught at Pearl Harbor so that the US would relent and ease their embargoes and restrictions against Japan and let them take the South Pacific/Asia for resources as they had been.
Their mistake was twofold. 1) Their spying did not account for the absence of three American Carriers (IIRC) based out of Pearl Harbor, and 2) Yamamoto’s failure to launch additional waves of planes while they had the chance for fear of their A/Cs being discovered.
You’re right. And they didn’t hit any fuel storage tanks.
Lol. Good one.
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