Operation Vengeance (Yamamoto Mission) - Yarnhub Reaction

From what I understand Ugaki was the brainchild behind the kamikaze concept. He felt so much grief and guilt from sending so many young people to thier death that he decided to join them. I've read some of his letters that justify that claim.

3:00 Yamamoto also didn't "flaunt" the idea of marching on the White House. This is the text of what he is attributed as saying. "Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices." "march into Washington..." was used by US propaganda but he clearly meant they'd have to conquer the USA to get the American to surrender...and he didn't think the war politicians(eg Tojo of the Army) really understood the culture of Americans

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Agreed on Yarnhub's quality - they've come a long way. Those guys do a great job and I always look forward to new videos from them.

11:58 I looked into and the "killer team" originally consisting of 4 planes was all that was meant to take on the 6 escorts and the Betty Bomber. The other flights described as "top cover" at the beginning were tasked with taking out the eventual counterstrike from the near by Japanese Airbase. So when the two planes had to leave formation due to the drop tank malfunction, it meant they didn't have enough planes to deal with all the Japanese escorts during the start of the dogflight.

Gonna be 2060 by the time Napoleon Marshals series gets a reaction

Thanks Chris for introducing me to Yarnhub. Great video and awesome movie like animation. And thanks for all you do.

For another Yarnhub video, I would recommend one from 5-ish months ago (as of writing) about tbe USS Laffey standing against a huge number of kamikaze attacks.

The P38 Lightning quite maneuverable and found very effective against the Zero. Ugaki would later take part in a suicide charge by aircraft against the US Navy as a kamikaze attack. It's standard procedure to assign names to the warships, aircraft, and other weapons of rival nations. Soviet fighter/attack planes were given names like Flogger, Flanker, and Foxbat. Bombers were given names that started with "B" such as Bull (the Tu-4, a clone of the B-29), and Bear, the Tu-95.

1:22 I love the West Wing! The We Killed Yamamoto episode was one of its best!!!

There were some in the U.S. military who were opposed to the mission because they were afraid that it would give away the fact that they had broken the Japanese Naval codes. It was for the same reason that they didn't report Yamamoto's death until after the Japanese themselves reported it to their people. In spite of the killing of Yamamoto and the earlier U.S. codebreaker coup at Midway, the Japanese still believed that their codes were unbreakable.

Yes! Finally a Yarnhub reaction video. Love Yarnhub!

Wow--amazing quality video! And I learned a lot. Thanks!

If you're interested there's a video called "The Pilots Who Failed to Protect Admiral Yamamoto" by TJ3 History that is about what became of the 6 Zero pilots that were guarding the bombers and what they did after Operation Vengeance.

If we look at both Sun Zi´s the Art of War and Kautilya´s Arthashastra, the both books approve assassinating enemy generals in a war because in both cases the enemy will lose skilled commanders and it will make harder for them to wage the war. If the enemy losses skilled commanders then it may also spare friendly resources and help to end the war quicker.

The United States took a serious risk when it greenlit this mission. We learned of Yammamoto's inspection trip because our cryptologists had solved Japanese diplomatic and military codes to the point that we could determine Japan's plans to an amazing degree of accuracy. We knew where Yammamoto would be and exactly when- he was known for his punctuality. Sending our fighters on this mission was tantamount to an admission that we'd solved their codes. Bougainville was out of range for normal patrols and we even a stretch for the long-legged P-38s. It is amazing that the Japanese did not conclude that we had solved their codes and just put the intercept down to "bad luck".

I love your videos Chris. I look forward to them every single day

This is your best presentation so far. I’ve studied this attack for years and learned a few things.

6:01 I am not sure, but I think the US not knowing about the second Betty is an oversight on US intelligence part didn’t consider that Yamamoto will be traveling with his retinue of aids and staff hence the second Betty.

He went to Harvard!