The Naval Battles That Turned The Tide Of WW2's Pacific Theater | WWII In Colour | War Stories

I always feel like the battles against Japan are overshadowed by the ones in Europe. The Korean war is hardly ever mentioned even. We should remember all these heroes who died for our freedom in both North America and Asia

The Japanese didn't just wake "the sleeping giant", they went into his yard, and smashed his toys

A very good summary of the Pacific War for the first year. It, however, was lacking in the discussion of the promised NAVAL battles during that period.

Reminds me of the old Midway episode from the Battlefield series., it would be so cool see their documentaries remastered with colorized footage like in this video

This makes it sound as though the only reason the Japanese were not able to take Port Morseby was because of the arrival of US troops. Wrong. The Australian forces had already stopped the Japanese advance and was beginning to force them back. This also completely overlooks the defeat Australian forces inflicted on Japanese troops at Milne Bay, the first defeat of a Japanese army force in the war.

Always interesting to watch these documentaries.

I love ww2 documentaries

I love these documents

Personally, I think the tide really turned after Guadalcanal was secured, at great sacrifice to the USN, Army, Marines, and Australian units too. Just my opinion, debatable for sure.

Its a series on American Heroes Channel called World War II in color. I remember seeing this episode a while back.

Great video

In Asian WW2, it started in 1937, not 1941 .US navel forces had the most advanced 11 aircraft carriers rathar than several escorting aircraft carriers .. Japan was spotted 👀 by US intelligences since 1925 ..Japan underestimated US navel fleets strengthen and wagered suicide adventures during WW2.

The 1st steps Japan took towards war wasn’t in 1940,as they have been fighting since 1937.

Out of I love WW2 and specially Vietnam war all documentaries 👍

President Roosevelt did not declare war on Japan. On December 8, 1941 he asked a joint session of Congress to declare that a state of war existed between the United States and the Empire of Japan. It is obvious mistakes like this made by British historians that raises questions about the validity of their historical research.

Three US aircraft carriers in the Pacific, at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Enterprise and Lexington were both delivering fighters, to Wake, and Midway. Saratoga was on the West Coast of the US.

US Navy had 3 carriers at Midway.

Its an interesting documentary, it gives you a time line of the war between Japan and USA plus allies from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal. How the Japanese started well but that the USA started to catch up as they honed their battle skills.

" The American military ďiscovered many of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero's unique attributes when they recovered a largely intact specimen of an A6M2, the Akutan Zero, on Akutan Island in the Aleutians. During an air raid over Dutch Harbor on the 4th June 1942, one A6M fighter was hit by ground-based anti-aircraft fire. Losing oil Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshu Koga attempted an emergency landing on Akutan Island about 20 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor, but his Zero flipped over on soft ground in a sudden crash-landing. Koga died instantly of head injuries (his neck was broken by the tremendous impact) but his wingman hoped he had survived and so went against Japanese doctrine to destroy disabled Zeros. The relatively undamaged fighter was found over a month later by an American salvage team and was shipped to Naval Air Station North Island" (at San Diego, California) "where testing flights of the repaired A6M revealed both strengths and deficiencies in performance and design" (source Wikipedia). Two defects in Zero aircraft was the lack of self sealing fuel tanks and the absence of armour plating behind the pilot's seat.

The fighting in New Guinea was probably the hardest and most strenuous in the war. Some days troops fought to gain 10 or 20 meters.