Outnumbered Japanese Destroyers Crush U.S. Heavy Cruisers: Battle of Tassafaronga, 1942 - Animated

In late 1942, as the U.S. sought to disrupt Japanese supply routes to Guadalcanal, Rear Admiral Carleton Wright led Task Force 67 into a night battle near Tassafaronga. Opposing him, Admiral Tanaka’s destroyers used innovative tactics to deliver supplies to the soldiers stuck on "Starvation Island"...

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[terryporche]

Lost a great uncle in this battle. He was on the New Orleans in forward ammo room. Age 18. RIP Harris Brien.

[MilitarySummaryChannel]

*Fun fact: After the New Orleans had her bow blown off, she collided with the still floating bow, technically making her the only ship to have rammed herself.*

[athrunzala]

Love how informative this is, never heard much about Guadalcanal before this and never laid out so simply on a map making it easy to follow

[Hillbilly]

The wait wasn't too long. Been really dig'n these naval videos. Thanks for the upload. Cheers from Tennessee

[kami-oshi.kronii]

Thank you for these! We are rapidly approaching a time when WWII veterans will all have passed on, and it's ever increasingly important to educate ourselves on the sacrifices these folks made. Gone but never forgotten.

[danielsantiagourtado]

Thanks For all your hardwork! Really liked this one

[johnhallett]

arguably the worst defeat in USN history. savo island was bad; but command was fractured; and most of the cruisers were very inexperienced. By November the US cruisers had learned; and in this battle THEY were the attacking force. THEY had overwhelming firepower. They had Radar. But they also had an idiot for an admiral. Up against arguable the best Admiral the IJN had in Tanaka the Tenacious.

[kevinbarry]

Admiral Wright was incompetent. He seemed to think he was somewhere in the cornfields of Nebraska or something

[daniellucas]

Excellent as usual sir - another wonderful job!

[trevorsutherland]

I learned about this, and many other Guadalcanal battles in 1993 when the computer game "Task Force: 1942" came out. That game also introduced me to the Yamato and Musashi; and the vivid descriptions of the night battles, with starshells and such fascinated me. However, these animations make things MUCH clearer than the most detailed written account; as they say, "a picture is worth 1000 words"

[gunnarnilsen]

Great video with high production standards as always. Keep up the excellent work!

[Napoleon-lc]

This channel’s details are way better than Battle 360.

[mohammedsaysrashid]

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode about that naval stroke between Japanese navy forces and US navel Task force ...thank you an excellent ( house of history) channel for sharing this magnificent episode

[ronald]

My father was cpo on us s. minne. This is what happens when a desk jockey gets put in charge of a combat force!

[nunya]

I love how the flag showing Japanese losses, uses the layout drawings for the Argo, (formerly Yamato) from the cartoon Starblazers.

[squeakycatdaily]

Several years ago I talked to an old man who claimed he was on the Northampton. Very interesting story from pearl harbor to watching the signing on board the missouri.

[ronlee]

At the time the USN didn’t realize the outstanding range of the Long Lance Torpedos.

[cluster]

Your visual artstyle is really simiar to bazbattles in a good way.

[flycatchful]

Making a mistake is human error but making the same mistake is negligence.

[alexstoyanov]

Learning about Naval history, I noticed that in situations when British or American admirals and captains would take their chances and try their best to exploit any opportunity to finish the enemy, even taking a significant risk, Japanese, German or Russian command would be more indecisive and cautious, and mostly satisfied with limited success.
I think that if Tanaka would be American or British "style" admiral, he would do everything to inflict as much damage as he could after crippling opposing task force.
Don't know was this Anglo-Saxon trait decisive for the outcome of Pacific War, but it added to this outcome dramatically.