British Couple Reacts to The Battle of Midway 1942: Told from the Japanese Perspective (1/3) Part 1

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[cheeseninja]

You guys should really finish this three part series. The third part goes over the American perspective of the battle. It will show you their side of the story and how that lead into the actions that caught the Japanese so off guard. I'm not gonna say what happens, but the change in perspective will really change how you contextualize some of the events you see in the first two parts!

[pagejackson]

Planes of that era did not have sufficient range to fly from a Japanese base to Pearl Harbor and return. The scout plane was a large seaplane (known to the Americans as an "Emily") which would fly to an unoccupied atoll named French Frigate Shoals and refuel from a Japanese submarine. The plane would then overfly Pearl Harbor, return to the submarine, refuel, and then return to base. When the submarine arrived a French Frigate Shoals they discovered several American warships anchored there and the scouting mission was cancelled.

[jeffreyphipps]

Planes had a practical ceiling. You have to understand - with higher altitude the temperature drops massively. This affects engine reliability, abilities of pilots, judgement abilities, camera equipment stops working, and many more issues. Planes were mostly not insulated to make longer distance runs leading to other additional problems.

[robertdysonn]

One thing you gotta remember about just flying a plane over the island is that no plane has that kind of range in those days and it would need to come from a carrier so if it were spotted with radar or other aircraft, not only would there be a chance that it would be shot down but it would also give away the fact that there was enemy ships in the area as well. A plane would’ve destroyed. The whole surprise element. The Japanese thought they had. The Japanese fleet was also under radio silence which means they couldn’t get the information the pilot found unless he made it back.

[vorsutus]

Midway isn't just tiny, it is less than a 20th the size of jersey(yours not ours). Its only real value is as a naval supply and airbase being almost perfectly placed as the name suggest close the middle of the pacific.

[jimmy_wang_]

Definitely need to see the "fog of war" from both sides in this series. Crazy bunch of events that happens.

[timothyporter]

The Doolittle raid on Tokyo proved to the Japanese High Command that America's carriers were a credible threat to the Japanese mainland. The fact that codebreakers in Hawaii learned Yamamoto's plan and set a trap for the Japanese fleet is largely why this battle went the way that it did.

[williambranch]

Except for their losses in the just prior Battle of the Coral Sea ... they would have had 6 carriers attacking Midway.

[HRConsultant_Jeff]

My Father was there on the Yorktown when it was hit and eventually sunk. Thank God he survived or I would not be here today.

[knightspearhead]

The reason you couldnt fly planes over pearl harbor or any heavily defended area is cause there was this new invention called Radar during WW2 it would be able to keep track of a plane even at high altitude if it was in the vicinity

[DanielDavis]

9:43 remember, this happened 38.5 years after the wright brothers' first flight at kittyhawk. The technology was very primitive in many ways compared to now. High altitude capabilities then were much lower than current technology.

[jamesturner]

So glad you guys reacted to this one. Being a Navy man this is one of my favorite videos on YouTube.

[donstuard]

Watch the 1976 movie Midway. This movie stars Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda. The movie is definitely a Hollywood I fluency picture, but, the historical facts are pretty accurate. There is one or two subplots but the movie tells the story. Good movie

[bryanhenchik]

Hi Beesleys, glad you followed those of us that encouraged you to watch this video after the Pearl Harbor video. This battle in my opinion is still the absolute best showing of the US Navy. In fact, I named one of my dogs Midway in honor of the battle. I don't want to spoil anything for the American perspective, but the one advantage, battlefield intelligence, that we had was enough to give us an overall advantage. That and the sacrifice of the torpedo squadrons, especially the Hornet squadron. I would highly encourage you both to watch one of the movies called Midway, the first is from the 1970s and is from the perspective of the USS Yorktown, while the 2019 movie from the Enterprise viewpoint was very good and accurate. Either of those would make a great movie review. I do disagree with Montemayor. The battle was very strategic in that it allowed President Roosevelt to focus on Europe first and not Japan. Thus, Prime Minister Churchill knew that the Americans would come to Britain's defense first and defeat Hitler before Japan. The 5 minutes of devastation of the kido bute bought by the earlier attacks, especially the torpedo squadrons, paved the way for Europe first. Love the reviews keep them up👍

[marieneu]

4:26 I really enjoy these videos and the narrator is so calm and even toned lol. I like that about him!

[sammurphy]

Midway was important in ww2 because aircraft range at the time. It had an airfield very close to Japan and bomb raids took off from midway.

[mtdualie]

Love this series. It explains so well how the battle twisted and turned.

[jamesturner]

22:44 the Nautilus commander having the absolute biggest balls to fire a torpedo that close to an enemy battlegroup. But this will also prove important for later.

[nxpepch]

John Ford the famous directed was on midway during the attack. He had been tipped off that there would be a battle. His documentary about midway has actual footage of the bombing.

[cliffcannon]

There is an outstanding 2005 book, _Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway, _ by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully; these three videos draw heavily on the new ideas contained in that book. _Shattered Sword_ completely revised our understanding of the Midway battle using evidence from Japanese war records to correct serious myths and mistakes that had been repeated in all English-language histories for more than 60 years. Not only is the book excellent history, but it is very well written and is an absorbing, dramatic narrative. Plus, there is a fine unabridged audiobook version if you'd rather hear the entire story told aloud...