This Famous Pacific Battle is Captured in Stunning Detail

My grandfather was killed by the Japanese when they invaded Korea. My father recently received the Korean equivalent of the medal of honor because my grandfather stayed to defend Korea when he'd already been relieved to go home. His replacement didn't show, so he couldn't abandon his men. Captain Rolland Bacon.

This is really incomplete and misleading without mentioning the date and a few basic reasons for the rout. Could have done it in 20 seconds.

Loving it

Open battle in the middle of the ocean? No thanks. Chances of getting stranded at sea and surviving were probably very low after a battle, and that's if you made it to land. Even then, search and rescues couldn't do much, if any.. These dudes were just built different. Then again, they didn't have much of a choice. I wonder what the statistics are on this, would be interesting to learn.

やむを得ず、原爆の火を使いましょう

None of this will have mattered if you don’t vote blue 💙

Goooooo 🇯🇵💪

The hellcat wasnt a very good plane thank god for an upgrade!!!

The color footage in this video is remarkable! You can clearly see the "Rising Sun" insignia on the Japanese planes being shot down.

ahh yes The Smithsonian "Giants aren't real and we don't have any evidence".

My Great Grandpa, Dan Lawrence Babione, was on the USS South Dakota durring all of the war. He saw a man that had been blown in half by that kamikaze hit. He had to give him morphine. He then made a little ring out of a piece of magnisuim from the zero. Sadly, it was lost. RIP Grandpa Babione

80 years ago today.

Of the men who fought in this war, we owe them. We owe their memory, we owe them our thanks and our prayers that they find peace in heaven through the grace of God and never have to fight again. This was global conflict on an up close and personal level I pray we never see again. May we never have to have another such war. 🇺🇸

Possibly the greatest generation to walk on the planet. Many nations in Pacific rim including Australia ow the U.S. a debt of gratitude. The Japanese started the conflict, the U.S. finished it.

Amazing aerial gunnery by these Hellcat pilots. This was years before radar assisted gunsights, these guys were literally calculating in their brains where the bullets needed to go based on the speed and angles of their planes. An amazing generation, especially when you realize these guys were only 21 years old or so.

He wasn’t kidding when he said a halo of smoke, that’s absolutely ghoulish. Like seriously, 24 men die and a halo of smoke appears over their place of death. That’s spooky

What a wonderful video and words... thanks so much for share this my friend...

I would have aimed for the cockpit

Air raid siren on an aircraft carrier for dramatic effect huh? Thats some c grade average film school editing hackage alright.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them ! Lest we forget !

Gobble, gobble.

The absolute weirdest, yet awesome naval Battle of all time. All love and respect to the fallen of both sides.

Was the original film color or black and white?

like a BR 5.0 vs BR 2.0 lol

Can you imagine asking the pansies of today to do this???

Where "boys" are "MEN"...and now they can't decide whether to have a gender change.

🇺🇸 USA

My grandfather was in the navy for WW2. His main ship was the USS Quick a destroyer later made a minesweeper. Later in the war he was transferred to a cruiser but before she set sail he got a bad case of pneumonia and had to be hospitalized. The ship was the USS Indianapolis. If you know you know.

sheesh

I feel elated when I see see the enemy shot down, but awful when I don't see the pilot eject. In any case, it was a great 'rout', not 'route'.

These actual footage videos are awesome

its hard to watch these as someone heavily involved with asian culture i have many friends from korea and japan but i also live in america. i never can look at this as an us vs them because i know people from japan who are awesome it was a different time for both countries. americans might feel pride seeing the japanese get shot down i feel sadness i also feel sadness seeing the kamikaze strike and hearing in the comments about the USS chenango. war is so easy to see as a "were the good guys" both american and japanese showed great bravery and for similar reasons. the imperial japanese were prideful and that was their downfall...the US is very proud. sometimes it worries me just how proud the US has become. Incredible moments caught props to all the men who lost their lives on both sides

imagine hitting a cobra maneuver

The Greatest Generation.

My grandpa discuss about these stories during past times...may his soul rest in peace.

No wonder there's such good tuna fishing over there. Wrecks everywhere

The aircraft carriers of today..will be like the battleships of ww2..against worthy adversaries...sitting ducks...the way to go is small ..frigates..armed to the teeth with missiles...like tge chinese type 55

Yeah, you don't want to be the turkey side of a turkey shoot.

Should've scrambled F16s instead

They somehow managed to do worse with 128 planes

Seeing the amount of firepower these ships had especially against the Kamikaze just how much ammunition did the battleships carry and did they reload their own ammunition

What video game is this?

It all just looks like Hollywood stunts. Crazy to think this happened

when you consider that in 1939 the us army was smaller than the portuguese army, 19th largest in the world, shows how the might of the american people came together and became one of the most powerful military machines the world has ever seen in such a short time is proof that this generation was one of the greatest ever. never forget what these men and women did, never forget ever.

the japanese navy is clearly inferior compare to the american navy.

Moment of silence for all the fish who died