The Battle of Midway 1942: Told from the Japanese Perspective (1/3)

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Strong rec sillysaurusx · 2021-05 · on “We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor”

It wasn't as lucky as it seems. The dive bombers were able to dive straight down, almost vertically, with no risk of being shot down by the enemy Zero fighters (since they were drawn away by a previous attack). It's more lucky that they didn't attack the same targets, than that they hit their targets. Also, not directly relevant, but I'll plug this video: [this video] it's great.

Recommends tony · 2019-09 · on “Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?”

- Psychologist / Counselor / Professor: Huge impact opportunity. Society is so career and status focused nobody pays attention to emotional needs. There is opportunity help others understand and express the feelings of why they suffer, instead of acting out in indirect/critical, dysfunctional ways, which compounds the problems. That is just benefits that can be attained at ground floor. Please check out Attachment Theory and Schema Therapy: [LINK] , [LINK] - History professor: Because history rocks. Aside: Montemayor, an independent history documentary maker, has a documentary on The Battle of Midway at [this video] . If you would like to support his work he has a Paypal on his channel page! - Fl

Recommends jasode · 2020-03 · on “AlphaGo – The Movie [video]”

>, raises a lot of questions about what it means to be human. The relationship between AI and humans is developing and a topic of intense interest, especially among the HN crowd. We're talking about 2 different things: the importance of the topic vs the the method of exposition . You're emphasizing the topic's importance. I'm not disagreeing with that. Instead, I'm explaining that the documentary's style of exposition would be a turnoff to a subset of the HN demographic. As example showing differences in how Battle of Midway can be explained... Here's the "personality-driven" type of history documentary. Scrub the video and you'll see there's a lot of video showing the narrators walking arou

Recommends rusanu · 2021-04 · on “USS Johnston: Sub dives to deepest-known shipwreck”

This youtube series telling the Battle of Midway from Japanese perspective (ie. only using the information available to them)is interesting [this video] [LINK] [LINK]

Recommends SkyMarshal · 2021-05 · on “We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor”

The amount of luck involved in the US victory at Midway is astonishing. About the only part of it not due to luck was the codebreaking that tipped off the US about the coming Midway attack, the heroic efforts of the dock workers in getting the damaged Yorktown fixed and back to sea in 72hrs, and persistence of the aviators who finally broke through the Japanese defenses and hit the carriers. This video series from the Japanese perspective is pretty good and shows all the luck involved: [this video]

Recommends kayodelycaon · 2021-12 · on “We only talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor”

For midway, you might want to watch: [this video] > Ineffective dive bombing at Midway? It was the only thing that was effective! Poorly executed would be a better term. They succeeded by almost pure luck. Two different squadrons managed to accidentally attack in different directions at the same time while the Japanese carriers had fully fueled and armed airplanes in their hangars waiting for an opening to launch an attack. Their hit ratio was terrible, but one bomb on a carrier was enough to destroy it given the conditions. > And, what was poor about the navigation at Midway? USS Hornet's Flight to Nowhere. The carrier completely screwed up launching their squadrons and then went in the wrong di

Recommends philistine · 2022-02 · on “How Russia Took over the Internet in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine”

> Even with overwhelming superiority during WW2, the US damn near lost their first attempt to invade Japan. > Ditto for Japan attacking Midway, and every other decisive battle. What you're missing here is the fog of war. When decisions are viewed through what information was available to the decision-makers, it paints a far more relatable picture. No one was stupid at Midway. Have a look at this long video going through the battle from the Japanese perspective: [this video]