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The Battle of Midway (2/2) - Sink the Japanese Carriers! - Animated

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In June 1942, just six months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy launches an ambitious operation to seize the Midway Atoll and lure the remaining American aircraft carriers into a decisive battle. But US codebreakers had uncovered the plan, allowing Admiral Chester Nimitz to prepare an ambush of his own. What follows is one of the most dramatic and consequential naval battles in history.

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@StagehandKP 1 month ago

USS Yorktown “I didn’t hear no bell! I fought so hard y’all thought I was two carriers!”

@StonedVet81 1 month ago

The loss of life due to obsolete equipment was nightmare fuel

@_spacegoat_ 1 month ago

"Fuel lines criss-crossed the hangar bays with little concern for safety...."

In the business, we call this "foreshadowing"

@Voodoo_Clerk 1 month ago

The loss of Yorktown is always a gut punch. She was so close to being saved

@efraim3364 1 month ago

remember, if it werent for the Battle of the Coral Sea there would have been 6 IJN fleet carriers at Midway and things could have been very different

@legolascousins 1 month ago

Thanks for releasing part 2 so quickly!

@Kwaj 1 month ago (edited)

Arashi: (rejoining the Kido Butai after the first attack) Okay guys, I think I scared off that subm-- Whoa! What happened?!

@ald1144 1 month ago

Even if any of those US torpedoes had hit, there was probably a better than even chance they would have been duds. Those poor brave guys had every card in the deck stacked against them.

@owenyin3316 1 month ago

“Hey look, porpoises”

😭look at this guy’s joy and whimsy

@BeanDipBroskii 1 month ago

Henderson and his men did not die in vain. The chaos of the Midway based strikes led to victory and broke the Japanese offensive. Semper Fidelis Marines.

@jimmymcgoochie5363 1 month ago

“You sank one of our carriers, but we’re going to build twelve more and fill them with new planes and new pilots.”

“You sank four of our carriers, but we’re going to, uh… convert some battleships into mad half-carrier contraptions and have barely any competent pilots to put in the hardly any planes we can put on them?”

@OnionBagger-o3b 1 month ago

Commander Thatch came into the fight saying "Okay boys, daddy's going to show you how to tango"

@bonetiredtoo 1 month ago

Tiny error: fuel lines would be filled with carbon dioxide not monoxide.

@KarlBunker 1 month ago

So much crazy, deaf, dumb and blind luck involved in this victory. It's mind-blowing.

@mr.s2005 1 month ago (edited)

3:02 sad thing is apparently Enterprise fighters were in the area but didnt see when the torpedo planes made their attack
Also, heard when Gay died, his ashes were taken and spread out where the rest of his squadron died

@edwardloomis887 1 month ago (edited)

8:15 Jimmy Thach rotated back to the U.S. after Midway, unlike the Japanese who kept their best pilots on the front line until they were killed. Besides training the next groups of fighter pilots on tactics, Thach traveled to Grumman on Long Island and gave the engineers feedback that went into the Zero-killing F6F Hellcat.

@theterminator9293 1 month ago (edited)

What scares me the most is that Yamaguchi, a clearly brilliant military leadership, despite making almost every choice right with the options he had, was still doomed by the incompetence of his peers and an insane amount of bad luck.

@nursestoyland 1 month ago

Poor TBD crews, an aircraft that became antiquated by the time of Pearl Harbor, coupled with very crappy torpedoes

@Xblue72X 1 month ago

Yorktown, the ship that was "sunk" 4 times. Once at the Coral sea, twice more during the battle of Midway, and one more time after the battle. Only the last time did it actually sink. The Yorktown is such a bittersweet story that isn't talked about nearly enough.