they were amongst the lowest remnants of the groomers huge falls
but these few japanese pilots what
deadly professionals unlikely that miss their targets
no
on
no
on intent on revenge the pilots from the Harry
soon spotted what they were looking for no enemy
carrier it was the USS Yorktown
No
the crew the Yorktown horrified to see the Japanese bombers approaching
they've been hit by the Japanese before the battle the Coral Sea
but this time they were prepared the experience in the Coral Sea
told them vital lessons and damage control which they immediately put into
action
the
the five inch guns opened up first with loud cracks
then came the rubble multiple guns
the enemy bombers and fighters were under intense anti-aircraft fire from
all the automatic weapons No
the sky was black from Shell bursts
rate tracers makes the sky Japanese planes were falling
trailing fire exploding as they hit the water
no
anti-aircraft guns dropping effective barrage which destroyed
many of the approaching Japanese planes but seven of the bombers made it through
they dodged the wall flak coming from the carrier and drop their bombs
they scored three direct hits the bombs
ripped through the flight deck unexploded deep in the heart of worship
snuffing out the boilers the Yorktown slowed to a halt
on
it seemed like it was Bowl over for the Yorktown
but the Yorktown screw we're not gonna give up that easily
deep below decks the engineers struggled to get the ship going again but the boys
were wrecked
pic black smoke poured into the intense heat in the engine room
choking them and the
for over an hour they worked against the ONS fixing the boilers
by about 2 o'clock in the afternoon the Yorktown was operational again
making about 20 knots
report from that pilots with an enemy carrier have been destroyed
again revived japanese hopes a second attack called
was quickly launch from back to you to find and destroy
a mother love the american carriers
1040 to hear your second strike force arrived
and lotion on a devastating attack on the Yorktown the
the mighty ship taken all that she could and soon she was listing too
port accrue had to abandon ship
in
I'll
the Battle of Midway was now too n
we've won Bible active struck the japanese believe that shock
true other three US carriers they didn't realize they hit the Yorktown
twice they now thought but they were fighting on
equal terms with the Americans with just one
surviving carry out each ok
based on this misapprehension the commanders on the herein are made it
almost unbelievable decision
for the next 90 minutes the battle
would be put on hold
surviving Japanese pilots on the hair you had been up since before dornan
they're exhausted by the dais constant flight operations
they were barely able to function to nominate was thought there was only one
remaining American
aircraft carrier left sink the men were told
they had time take a rest and grab a bite to eat
it was a final fatal miscalculation
them
things were not nearly so relaxed Obama to american carriers
the American commander and will Bruins new body
had two fumble one remaining Japanese carrier
and striking before its aircraft could strike back at new ships
been in mid-afternoon Spruance got his chance
one with his stuck planes have located the hear you
than 330
Spruance mortgages dive bombers to finish the drama
and a very much for your shop
ninety minutes later the dive bombers appeared high above the wooden flight
decks at the hearing you
and began their high-speed dives heading towards the middle
in quick succession
for bombs smashed into the hearing you
they penetrated the flight deck and turned the bridge into an inferno
the last remaining Japanese carrier was born
fire
no me
me
demo does ambitious midway a battle plan had ended in catastrophic failure
with is carrie is gone he tossed vital
air superiority over the Americans is still had is big gun battle ships
but they were little more than white elephants in this new era where
aircraft reigns supreme hello to all who ships back to Japan
just over a dozen American bombs
had destroyed the cream of the Imperial Japanese fleet
and altered the course of the war in the Pacific the
about midway America lost just over
300 men and one carry on the Yorktown Japanese losses
far more severe around 250 planes have been destroyed
four carriers have been some and three thousand men
kill
years of combat experience and training have been wiped out
the aircraft carrier reigns supreme but japan had just lost the very minute
needed
to wage this kind of warfare
japan's label par never recovered from its defeat at Midway
on june the fall of nineteen forty drew America
build a whole new freedom aircraft carriers but it took
three more years of bloodshed before the japanese
surrendered here on the USS Missouri now moored in Pearl Harbor
where the Warhol begun
mine
people stop an enemy and only at most admitted defeat
when america deliver the final blow atomic bombs
on a rush about and mega sake which launched the world into the nuclear age
on
next time the Battle of Stalingrad over sixty years ago a battle was fought in
this Russian city
that would be the turning point in the second world war it was one of the
hardest fought battles a full-time
I'll be revealing what it was like for the German and Soviet soldiers who
fought street by street and building by building
and I'll be explaining how the leaders tactics
Drogba Odom is to the brink of destruction