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@ Stalingrad the Germans lost the 6th Army with 300,000 men and equipment and were never the same again yet they had inflicted equal or more severe losses on the Soviets close to 10 times and yet they still kept coming! You can tell the official numbers from Soviets are B.S. they say they had 1.2 million soldiers in the area and over a million are killed or captured but still more than a million soldiers still in front of the German lines... Don't care how hard people try with propaganda I know Communism, Marxism, or Bolshevism is way worse than National Socialism and murdered way more innocent people and continues

Before they being the mission the kamikaze pilots where given Sake to get then drunk because many of then return in the past when they were given that mission at the late stages of 1944 and the beginning of 1945 and what he say it is true when he say that they couldnt find target or mechanical failure.

Many of my fellow Americans can't read a map, either.

Back in 1983 my Grandpa took me to Quantico as he was a lawyer for the DOD following his WW2 commission. Quantico had a small war museum which featured one of those specially designed Kamikaze "Rocket with wings". Lord knows how they got it but it had in it's small cockpit a joystick and specialized crosshairs on the dashboard. I hope it's still their and if not it would be at the Smithsonian. I didnt't realize it then but the bravery of my Grandpa to show me a lot of that war stuff(Virginia/Wash. DC area was dripping with old Revolutionary & Civil War battlefields) he would take me almost every weekend to see from the Summers of 83-86. Thanks Time Ghost team for putting this together.

Love the ocean like tie!

American ships, they just hit the steel decks of the British and we brushed them off the side. A little damage but nothing debilitating 😂

When Kamikaze attacks began in 1944, a number of the 20mm and even 40mm Bofors antiaircraft guns were deemed no longer suited for the task. The US Navy was working on bringing back old 3"/50 (76.2mm/50) guns on new mounts to replace these. This gun size was important because it was the smallest that could use proximity fused shells. These medium sized AA guns were needed as a layer of air defense behind the larger but slower firing 127mm/38 guns the US Navy had a lot of already. The war ended before this program was completed and guns fielded. They did show up post WWII.

I got a book out of the library about the kamikazes and returned it the very same day before I got even halfway through---I felt sick just reading it.

No one questioned you on this… I think you just wanted to make a video

Tiger Stripe is so cool imo ❤

Need a Hulu or HBO limited series on this

With the fall of Japan looming, I have to add a bit of trivia, sorry about proper attribution ( Just can’t remember, recovering from a stroke!) anyway, what with the invasion of japan looming, the pentagon placed an order for Purple Heart medals, based on invasion projections. After the Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bomb attacks, and ensuing capitulation,(sorry to give away the ending!) it took several weeks to cancel the order. The volume of medals already delivered, were instead issued. The medals were distributed until the viet-Nam war! Through the Korean War, and the subsequent years!

A last gesture of insanity to round out an era of insanity. Sending the future of your nation on a one way trip, to win a war that had already been lost. Excellent look at kamikaze operations.

I would love you guys to have a post European war updates. What happens after VE Day? How do people go on under a communist occupation? It's an area on history that is hard to find a breakdown on.

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It's very interesting to see how your map symbols and animation has evolved between Week 118 and Week 298.

The destroyer USS Kidd was hit April 11th off Okinawa. She’s a museum ship in Baton Rouge if any viewers are in the area.

USS Mannert L Able DD 733 Sumner Class wreck was found last year of May.

This clearly shows (among many other things) how necessary A-bombs were. And how life saving for both sides they were.

The thought process that led to the Kamikaze in WWII makes the game theory analysis behind the Cold War's "Mutually Assured Destruction" seem nearly rational.

When you consider the huge costs in lives and aircraft that a carrier strike costs to inflict even some damage on a squadron (up to 85%). Its no wonder that Kamikaze strikes became popular. In 1941 you'd send 50 planes out to score 2 or 3 hits (might not even be critical damage) and lose up to 30/35 planes and pilots. In 1945 a single kamikaze can score a critical strike for 1 loss.

Cheech and Chong did a piece on the Kamikaze on one of their albums. Expressed what I was thinking when I learned about Kamikazes.

Indy didn't mention the kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima backed out of the Kamikaze and encountered something monstrous on a Japanese base that turned up in Tokyo a few years later...

Drachnifel made a video pointing out that at the time this tactic would be most effective (early in the war 41-42), the Japanese didn't have a real for it, and when they did deploy it (1945) it was ultimatley counterproductive.

The role of the Vatican in setting up ratlines and spiriting away Nazi and Ustasha war criminals, and others of their kind makes a very interesting subject to follow up on.

Check out the story of German kamikaze pilots, Germany was copying Japan as a last ditch effort to turn the tide of the war.

"Rump Roast our Orange WANNABE Hitler" here in the U.S. seems to be going down the same avenue as Hitler In The Bunker imagining that everyone has either backstabbed or failed him !

Great episode. The armoured deck of HMS Formidable proved its worth in saving the ship (and many lives). I gather filling the dent in the flight deck with concrete had the carrier up and running again in short order

Glory Days, plural? Pretty sure these lads had ONE glory day, maximum 😊

Great stuff Indy!

Ich bin immer wieder inspiriert von der Furchtlosigkeit, mit der Frauen in diesem Raum ihre Meinung äußern.😘

Laffey is now a museum ship in Charleston Harbor.

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I’m genuinely curious about your view on the new kamikaze drones, and it’s impact in modern warfare

Military training in Imperial Japan was brutal even when the recruits were not a Kamikaze.

i heard somewhere; that per sunk cruiser, it took less Japanese live with a kamikaze attack compared to conventional attack with dive bombers (not sure about a torpedo attack). as you have a higher hit percentage, you lose no planes on the return flight etc. it pretty gruesome to think like that.

And the part played by the proximity fuse?

When the USS Bunker Hill was attacked on 11 May 1945, my grandfather was there. He was a 23 year old PO1 and anti-aircraft gunner on the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL 103). He passed away in 1996, but when I was a boy he told me about this day. He told me that after the attack when rescue and evac operations were underway, the Wilkes-Barre wedged her bow into the Bunker Hill to help stop her from listing too far over while her crew put out the fires and bilged the water they'd taken on. The US Navy website details this in the service history of Wilkes-Barre as well. The AA gunner you show a brief clip of at (12:31) actually kinda looks like him.

The British armoured Carriers handled Kamikazee hits much better than the IS carriers. They just cleaned up the debris, and poured quick set concrete in the dent in the flight deck.

Can you update the maps behind you? It's annoying after watching for all these years.

One of the officer running the Kamikazee raids wrote a book about them.One thing that I noticed was that they tended to massively over report the successes of Raids,ships that were minimally damaged were reported as sunk, destroyers were reported as Cruisers or battleships..