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@overdozze1226
4 жыл бұрын
Hey stay safe Simon and crew! Video 4 of asking for Pedro II Of Brazil
@jwenting
4 жыл бұрын
It's no better than Raid Shadow Legends!
@colt2274
4 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video over Robert the Bruce
@jamier65551
4 жыл бұрын
Life of Boris momebt
@tunafish3391
4 жыл бұрын
Game would be a lot better if it wasn't so pay to win.
@zachvetter6769
4 жыл бұрын
Not just the Aircraft carrier was named to honor him in the U.S. Navy, but the size class of aircraft carriers that are in service are all Nimitz class Carriers.
@Myrtle2911
4 жыл бұрын
I said that at the screen. :)
@moodyriver6673
4 жыл бұрын
Zach Vetter it restores my faith in humanity to find this comment so quickly 👍
@morskojvolk
4 жыл бұрын
There's one Ford class.
@Robbini0
4 жыл бұрын
If i'm not mistaken, the USN names all different models of in a similar way. Ie. the Nimitz-class Carriers, first one would be named Nimitz. Iowa-class battleships(not sure if it was Iowa, but you get the idea), first one would be named Iowa etc.
@mississippirebel1409
4 жыл бұрын
When the US makes a new class of ships those ships go by the name of the first ship in that class. So for example when the US built it's first super carrier the Nimitz, all rest of them are referred to as Nimitz class super carriers! The brand new USS Gerald R. Ford super carrier is the 10th Nimitz class carrier. Same with the US destroyers, they are the Arleigh Burk class of destroyers.
@ethanramos4441
4 жыл бұрын
“Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.” Chester W. Nimitz
@stevencooke6451
4 жыл бұрын
When it come down to it that is about right. Of course it's a lot harder than that pithy statement, and thus great leadership is rare.
@rogerhwerner6997
4 жыл бұрын
Nimitz was a genius on so many levels. He recognized his limitations regarding tactics and so surrounded himself with the likes of Bill Halsey, Marc Mitscher, Ray Spruance, and Richmond K. Turner. The first three were brilliant fleet tacticians and Turner, who nearly lost his professional head after Pearl Harbor, was resurrected by his friend to become the architect of all Pacific amphibious operations...and there were many others on his staff. Nimitz excelled at complex strategic manuvers and for a generally conservative minded fellow he had no fear of taking a calculated gamble. He also was blessed with being lucky and luck can often win a battle when one has the courage of his convictionsm which Nimitz possessed in spades. He was always one or two steps ahead of the Japanese. Perhaps the most brilliant naval mind in history, it's damned hard to citicize Nimitz on any level. He deserves every accolade the country can give and more. A lovely video!
@JRobbySh
3 жыл бұрын
It was luck and persistence that won the Battle of Midway. The Army and Navy threw everything they could to take down the fleet. It was like Rocky Marciano taking down not the aging Joe Louis but the man in his supreme . We just kept flailing away until we score some lucky hits that turned the course of the battle. Even at the end we might have lost if the last carrier had decided to sail west to join the main Japanese battle fleet, If he had done that we would have been hard pressed to resist that combined force.
@JRobbySh
3 жыл бұрын
PS. About the men of the American task force. we can use the words that Churchill applied to the RAF: never have so many owed so much to so few. Imagine that they had lost. We would not have been back in the war until 1944.
@dukeford8893
Жыл бұрын
Nimitz gets entirely too much credit for everything. Yes, he was a great administrator, but the majority of the strategic decisions in the Pacific were made by Admiral King and/or his chief of staff Savvy Cooke, subject to approval by the Combined Staff. Guadalcanal and the Central Pacific operations were all King initiatives. Okinawa was Spruance's idea. It was King that sent Kelly Turner to the Pacific to run the Guadalcanal amphibious operation (Turner was basically run out of Washington because he couldn't get along with the Army). The bit about Halsey being a brilliant strategist is another howler. He wasn't even a particularly good tactician.
@johnschuh8616
8 ай бұрын
@@JRobbyShOne of our carriers was hardly in the fight. And we still held Midway. The Japs still had some light carriers. but I think they were really in shock. Except for one of their submarines, no surface ship gave much of an account and they were wondering what to do whenever they could get the northern force combined. One probably was that Yamamoto was out of position. Nimitz was smart enough to stay a Pearl where he could talk to everyone and co-ordinate events with a staff that wasn’t worried about getting bombed.
@pat7504
4 жыл бұрын
I love that one of the Japanese aircraft carriers in the Pacific was called the Hiryu. In Glasgow, that's an aggressive way to get someone's attention - "Here you!"
@markb2881
4 жыл бұрын
Well done. One of the best bios of Nimitz I've seen or read. If you're ever in Fredericksburg, TX, it's worth visiting the Pacific War Museum. Had the privilege of touring it with my father-in-law, who was a Marine in the Pacific during WWII. We developed a respectful entourage as we moved through the museum as people listened to his stories. It was the first time my wife had ever heard him speak at any length about his experiences. He was part of a heavy weapons squad (Bazooka, flame thrower, squad machine gun), so of course he saw some of the heaviest fighting. He was ok until we got to the display of the Browning (I think that's what it was) and he broke down. His best friend was killed by a sniper in front of him. During the war, the military let friends join together to encourage recruitment and unfortunately he lost several. He was wounded twice and set back to Hawaii for recovery before rejoining his unit.
@AGnorTheChannel
4 жыл бұрын
If interested in Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King, I suggest the book "The Admirals," by Walter Borneman.
@wyominghorseman9172
4 жыл бұрын
My Dad served on a Destroyer during WW2 and his ship was hit and sunk by a Kamikaze at Okinawa. He didn't talk much about the war to his kids or Mom only to other veterans and my Uncle Mark. He did tell me about the hospital ships being targeted by the Kamikaze and that they had to come in after dark, load the wounded and hopefully be beyond the range of the attackers by daylight. After his ship was sunk he was attached to a Construction Battalion (CB) unit and as an Electrician's mate 2nd class was assigned to em-place 9 Cat diesel generators which he mounted on RR Ties and synchronized and duty cycle them to operate the surgical and emergency hospital. The US Tenth Army and Marines were taking heavy casualties and couldn’t be evacuated to hospital ships while under attack. The US Navy had 362 ships hit by Kamikaze during this campaign. Because of constant sniper and sapper attacks my Dad slept under the generators with his carbine on his chest. I would guess he didn't sleep much. ( I guess that's why I became a Master Electrician). They had a sniper pick a guy off right at dusk and at dawn for several days before they figured out he had nested in the debris of a collapsed wooden water tower. They all opened fire and promptly killed the bastard. (from Dad). From the son of the Greatest Generation. I miss you Dad.
@CmdrChrisArcher
4 жыл бұрын
What is it with great naval commanders of ww2 and having lost fingers? Iirc, Yamamoto lost his index and middle fingers on one of his hands during the Battle of Tsushima
@jamestakacs
4 жыл бұрын
Your programs are incredible. Thank you
@andrewgillis3073
4 жыл бұрын
Admiral Kimmel agreed that Pearl Harbor was unprepared, and was taking steps to correct this. The Aircraft Carriers were out to sea because Kimmel believed the air-wings were deficient in their training, and sent them all to sea. In the military, it's normal to relieve an officer after scandal or disaster, in loarge part to increase the moral of the troops.
@JRobbySh
4 жыл бұрын
But the way they treated Kimmel was just evil. He was left in the dark about information the higher brass had in their possession.
@Isaiah42069
4 жыл бұрын
i have his autograph,.. well signature on an accommodation from WW2. my step great grandfather was a submariner during the war.
@JRobbySh
4 жыл бұрын
Bravo.
@CrisMind
4 жыл бұрын
He was definitely a badass and deserves all the respect
@JRobbySh
4 жыл бұрын
Henry Fonda playa dcim in a movie, I forget which, but they say that Fonda got him right. He was just look that, truly laid back, the most unpretentious flag officer in the US armed services. But he knew his own worth. Humble in the true sense.
@gemman1
4 жыл бұрын
I was in the Navy and Served on the USS Nimitz from 1979 to 1982. At the time it was one of the best ships to serve on (according to the Navy) We spent a LOT of time at sea...I mean a LOT of time...I still have fond memories of serving on her.. BTW the Photo of terhe he Enterprise you showed was the wrong one... You showed the Secon Carrier named Enterprise CVN 63 (nuclear powered) built in the 60's and a MEGA PROJECT
@schr75
4 жыл бұрын
CVAN 65 as build and later CVN 65, not CVN 63
@Oldschooldan1
4 жыл бұрын
My Grandfather served on the Battleship South Dakota which was Nimitz flagship, he was there in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered. The surrender was supposed to take place on the South Dakota, but because Truman was from Missouri... well you know where it took place. I have a copy of the surrender document along with a card signed by Halsey and Forrestel that they gave my Grandfather to prove he was present. They hang proudly on my office wall.
@Corn-y3u
4 жыл бұрын
15:05 , I didn't know they named a Yamato class battleship after their fallen admiral Yamamoto...
@michaelnistal2316
4 жыл бұрын
If I recall correctly, at that time weren't the aircraft carriers in the U.S. Pacific fleet the Lexington, and the YORKTOWN, and the Enterprise.
@HSMiyamoto
4 жыл бұрын
At least two important highways are named for this architect of victory. One is Nimitz Highway in Honolulu and the other is Nimitz Freeway in California.
@HSMiyamoto
4 жыл бұрын
The photo of schoolgirls waving cherry blossoms as a Japanese plane takes off at 14:26 is a famous photo taken in southern Kyushu, not Okinawa. The more you know.
@brucebartman4782
4 жыл бұрын
My Uncle John was killed during the Battle of Okinawa on 05 May, 1945. R.I.P Uncle John!
@kingsteven7
4 жыл бұрын
Also The Enterprise (65) is Nimitz class AC who isnt named after president.
@glenn_r_frank_author
4 жыл бұрын
LOL the photo of "enterprise" you put up at 5:06 is the modern NUCLEAR carrier Enterprise not the WWII one!
@wfp9378
4 жыл бұрын
5:05 OMG hahahah if they had had THAT Enterprise it would have been a very short war indeed!
@pinesparrow
4 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the James Forrestal Bio
@DarkGlass824
4 жыл бұрын
There's a great museum in his hometown devoted to him and the war.
@JRobbySh
4 жыл бұрын
Should get more publicity. If you come to Texas, do come to Fredericksburg. When I first visited the place the Nimitiz Hotel was still in operation. That was about 80 years ago and it was just a cow town.
@toma.1670
3 жыл бұрын
Why did you not cover, even if in a foot note, that he ran a Submarine aground at Peal Harbor??? Nimitz had his Submarines too.
@DMS-pq8
4 жыл бұрын
It was McArthur not Nimitz who came up with the strategy of bypassing Japanese strongholds cutting off their supplies and letting them "wither on the vine"
@dhruvrawat7404
3 жыл бұрын
Yamamoto was a nightmare of American navy❤️❤️
@drbobwoolery
4 жыл бұрын
Consider doing one of these on Nick Khokhlov. I knew when he taught at Cal State San Bernardino, that he had been a KGB agent who defected and was nearly fatally poisoned. Even Wikipedia has so much more than I knew then.
@davetuk3262
4 жыл бұрын
at 11:15 he says "the Germany's arability to attack Hawaii again" thought we didnt notice did ya Simon :)
@gilesa.4052
Жыл бұрын
Apparently Roosevelt did not tell Truman about the development of the bomb.
@shop99er
4 жыл бұрын
Wrong USS Enterprise in the picture. You needed CV-6, not CVN-65. And, you pictured the wrong USS Yorktown. You needed CV-5. The one you pictured was the second Yorktown, CV-10. The Japanese counter-attack did not sink Yorktown. It did damage her severely, but she was sunk by a Japanese submarine on June 7, 1942. Interesting side-note. In the US Navy, there has been one officer that is considered to be of a higher rank than the Fleet Admirals of WW2. That was George Dewey of Spanish-American War fame. By Act of Congress, he was promoted to Admiral of the Navy. The Navy officially considers this rank to be a 6-Star rank. As codified when created, the rank can not be awarded to any other officer at this time. A new law authorizing 6-star rank for all the US Armed Forces would be needed.
@Gorgotrove
4 жыл бұрын
I should point out that Americans being lucky by catching Japanese carriers mid-rearmament at Midway is not true. Basically just the Japanese Admiral covering himself. Fun.
@JohnSmith-rw2yn
4 жыл бұрын
How about a video on general orde wingate in keeping with the war/ Pacific theme for a video
@stonecoldku4161
4 жыл бұрын
11:15 Small mistake, not a big deal but you said "The Germanese" instead of Japanese.
@lovingmayberry307
4 жыл бұрын
lol! It does sound like that!
@73Trident
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah Blutos speech in Animal House. Glad I'm not the only one that heard it.
@Atomicperson
4 жыл бұрын
You got to make sure your video editor uses the correct Enterprise
@1Wiseman001
4 жыл бұрын
There are no shortage of the WWII Enterprise they could have used.
@Ootlander
4 жыл бұрын
Great episode. Would love to see a Biographics on Larry Flynt.
@happygolucky143
Жыл бұрын
5:04 i dont think this is the same USS enterprise in Pearl Harbor that time.
@0755575
4 жыл бұрын
You had the wrong picture of the USS Enterprise. You used CVN - 65 the nuclear powered Enterprise and not CV - 6 the World War 2 Enterprise.
@nealebrowning4686
4 жыл бұрын
Suggestion: since you did Nimitz could you cover Admiral Zumwalt?
@fredlougee2807
4 жыл бұрын
The guy who allowed sailors to wear beards and got rid of the "Crackerjack" uniform? My dad came back from spending 6 months off the coast of Nam in 1972 with a full beard. I was seven and didn't recognize him. He kept the beard, trimmed neatly, for the rest of his life. When I enlisted it was not long after the Navy had reinstated the Crackerjack, all of the older sailors were clueless as to how to tie the neckerchief. It's just a square knot and you guys are sailors...figure it out.
@mikecurtin9831
4 жыл бұрын
A great presentation of a fascinating story. Thumbs up to crush a troll.
@scottriley1913
4 жыл бұрын
It’s sad that Chester Nimitz had a low profile, and gets little attention in the classroom. Likely one of the best or the best 5 star Commanders ever in the U. S. Military.
@spacecatboy2962
4 жыл бұрын
imagine if doolittle had a nuke for that first raid, but then he would have been labeled a murderous sociopath like lemay
@--enyo--
4 жыл бұрын
Correctly labelled
@weatherpunk62
4 жыл бұрын
The picture of the enterprise is not correct. That is the modern carrier not the ww2 one.
@jamiegodwin3070
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant as per usual dude
@MrDavePed
3 жыл бұрын
Nimitz allowed Big E to be scrapped.. for shame. ..
@JustaMuteCat
2 жыл бұрын
Was I the only one that caught unawares by the Auld Lang Syne at the end of the video? I had to go back to the start of the video to make sure Simon didn’t mention him being of Scottish American family accidentally or something outrageous like that.
@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723
2 жыл бұрын
A great man indeed, but with much tragedy in his legacy,
@markrowland1366
4 жыл бұрын
Six hundred ships belonged to the US Army. At the end of the war, it had as many ships as the navy. The British Royal Navy has more planes than it's Royal Air Force.
@PFC1783
4 жыл бұрын
Very Nice Bio. I would love to see another military leader's bio. Chesty Puller is the most decorated Marine in history.
@johngorter7807
4 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. Awarded the Navy Cross 5 times, as well as the Army DSC. Amazing he was never awarded the MOH
@Dutchball
3 жыл бұрын
The 287 downvotes are from disillusioned Star Trek fans that expected to see NCC 1701 instead of CVN 65 when Enterprise was mentioned
@lewiswhitman1470
4 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@beingbees5158
4 жыл бұрын
Please do a video on king RajaRajaCholan and his son Rajendra cholan.
@pierrefrancois1008
4 жыл бұрын
they dont have any military history so it only makes sense to name a ship after someone great
@crissto8591
4 жыл бұрын
was "raid shadow legends" not available as a sponsor?
@nomine4027
4 жыл бұрын
Anyone know what book FA Nimitz has on his desk for his official portrait? I'm curious.
@wcarcass
4 жыл бұрын
With all due respect to the effort you put into making this videos, I would expect more... ehem, BIOGRAPHIC information. You mentioned in the epilogue he was married, what was the name of his wife? Did he has children? What was he as a person? Yes it’s interesting what he did as part of his “professional duties”, but what about the man? You started with Chester W. Nimitz... didn’t even refer to what was the W. stood for! This is not a biography, is a compilation of professional records and anecdotes.
@QuestionEverythingButWHY
4 жыл бұрын
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless." --Chester W. Nimitz
@FultonEagle1948
4 жыл бұрын
The Admiral waxed poetic.
@talalatrkchy1017
3 жыл бұрын
Indi nedyll Videosindy neidyll videos
@johnwhitehead5457
3 жыл бұрын
A quote that would serve our President Trump in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds to destroy him and subjugate America to the whims of the Globalists like Soros.
@jamesdreads7828
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnwhitehead5457 hows that trump support gone for ya? looooool
@nullvid
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnwhitehead5457 where's that idiot with the tan?
@chicagopablo2
4 жыл бұрын
Chester Nimitz about the Marines on Iwo Jima: "Uncommon valor was a common virtue." Outstanding man.
@Louis_Davout
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah! The Marines worked for him!
@trwhitford65
4 жыл бұрын
@@Louis_Davout The Marines work for their Country. Semper Fi
@benjamin112
4 жыл бұрын
It's so sad to see the point flying so far above people's heads. Nice quote.
@vanringo
4 жыл бұрын
@A Pacifist Machine Gunner what is it? God, Corps, Country or God, Country, Corps. That is what i always thought the Marines fought for.
@vicordecastro2851
3 жыл бұрын
Admiral Nimitz even made MacArthur believe he was 'running the show' ...
@stephenwright8824
4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: After his retirement from the Navy, Nimitz confessed to a journalist that he always got seasick on board ships.
@yupimbackk
4 жыл бұрын
I still do after spending 35 years out at sea.
@chrisjames7887
4 жыл бұрын
Ironic. Still it proves you don't need to be great sailor to be a great admiral.
@noth606
4 жыл бұрын
Chris James if anything it proves that you can be a great sailor even if you get seasick.
@Louis_Davout
4 жыл бұрын
That's why he preferred submarines.
@GatorScientist
4 жыл бұрын
You get used to it after a couple of days out unless you are a pilot. It always surprised me how these guys could twist A-4, A-7, A-8, F-14, and F18's in 3G inducing dogfights and get nauseous in a sea state 3 on the bridge.
@MrDoYouKnowMe2211
4 жыл бұрын
Massive missed opportunity to have this sponsored by World of Warships
@PaulMcElligott
4 жыл бұрын
Also a massive missed opportunity for me to get to this joke first.
@MrDoYouKnowMe2211
4 жыл бұрын
@K 2 r/wooosh
@Kevin_Kennelly
4 жыл бұрын
Chester Nimitz lost a finger. If he'd lost two more fingers, he would have been 'invalided out' of the USN. Chester Nimitz went on to become Admiral Nimitz. Isoroku Yamamoto lost two fingers at the Battle of Tsushima. If he'd lost one more finger, he would have been 'invalided out' of the IJN. Isoroku Yamamoto went on to be come Adrmiral Yamamoto.
@jasonirwin4631
4 жыл бұрын
What's even crazyer is that the ship Yamamoto was on when he lost his fingers was the INJ mikasa by the end by the end of WW2 the ship was I severe disrepair so a group of British businesses men convinced then fleet admiral Nimitz to run a promotional campaign to raise funds to preserve her. Later when the USS Nimitz was stationed in Japan sailors from that ship helped repaint the mikasa. To and strangeness to the story the reason why the British business men wanted to preserve the mikasa was because she was and is the last British built pre-dreadnought battle ship.
@Paddydhistorian
3 жыл бұрын
@@jasonirwin4631 Mikasa sukasa. (sorry, I couldn't resist.)
@gasmonkey1000
3 жыл бұрын
A clash of Poseidons
@CardinalSpeed
4 жыл бұрын
If anyone is ever in Fredericksburg I highly recommend visiting the Chester Nimitz Museum. Its a WW2 history Museum focused on the pacific war and its incredible!
@stephen5147
4 жыл бұрын
That is good advice. I spent 2 full days going thru that museum, which was still not enough time.
@johnbernsen6145
4 жыл бұрын
There are two museums. One is the Nimitz museum, and one is the Museum of the Pacific War. You can, however, gain entry to both with a ticket to either.
@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke
4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately when I was down there a few months ago it was closed for repairs
@JRobbySh
4 жыл бұрын
Second that! It takes hours to do it properly. Fredericksburg has become a resort town. I can remember it as a small hill town settled by German Immigrants.
@k.t.1641
4 жыл бұрын
Judy S. So true. I live in Kerrville, and Texas monthly put out a good article about that. All the “rich” people from out of state and country making it more suitable to them.😕
@chuck62891
4 жыл бұрын
The USS ENTERPRISE pictured at about the 5 minute mark was the much newer nuclear aircraft carrier of the name, not the WWII era ship.
@chuck62891
4 жыл бұрын
11:18 Germany's ability to attach Hawaii? That is a slight error.
@cynergycx4323
4 жыл бұрын
@@chuck62891 he said Japanese
@sierravortec2494
4 жыл бұрын
I noticed that and immediately paused the video to see how many comments there were about it lol
@michael522
4 жыл бұрын
@@chuck62891 He said Japanese
@kokofan50
4 жыл бұрын
As long as it’s not the Ford class one that’s planned to be built.
@kalashnikovdevil
4 жыл бұрын
A random note about Admiral Nimitz, during the occupation of Japan, he found the time and had the love of naval history in him, to help ensure the preservation of the Japanese battleship Mikasa, at the time already encased in permanent dry dock, she easily could have been scrapped or destroyed. The Mikasa was the flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Battle of Tsushima, when the fledgling world power clashed with and utterly defeated the Imperial Russian Navy. She's also the last of the British built pre dreadnought battleships... and indeed the only British battleship left in the world. Admiral Nimitz is honored aboard the Mikasa, still around nearly two centuries after her birth in England's shipyards, in Yokosuka, beating heart of the American 7th fleet and Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, where she continues to serve as a museum ship. A small part of a great man and a legendary warrior's legacy, but an important one none the less.
@Kaiserboo1871
2 жыл бұрын
I think the Japanese see the Mikasa like how the British see the HMS Victory.
@davidelliott5843
Жыл бұрын
Mikasa keel was laid down at the Vickers shipyard Barrow-in-Furness on 24 January 1899.
@@DMS-pq8 they prefer emus. Emus are better than lions
@THE-HammerMan
3 жыл бұрын
Sure, Nimitz' actions saved many Aussie lives- so thanks. But without ANY Allied help, there's no way the Japanese would ever have conquered Australia. You guys fight better, drink better and have a better sense of honor, humility and humor.
@corneliali7747
3 жыл бұрын
@@Berry01000 that's why the Australians fought so well -- they've faced the emus.
@mindeloman
4 жыл бұрын
I've studied Nimitz lot over the years. Actually went to his hometown of Fredericksburg Texas many times and have gone through the museum there a number of times. It is an amazing museum. Can spend an entire day there. I've studied the man and i can't seem to find a fault in him. Nimitz is one of those guys that never forgot who he was and where he came from. One of the more interesting antidotes from Nimitz life was he would go for walks on the beach in Hawaii in his civilian PT clothes. One day he encountered just a common 17 or 18 year old sailor and they walked/ran together. The sailor thought he was just an old civilian dude. He asked the sailor what ship he served on and if he liked his chiefs and officers. His ship wasn't some interesting ship of war. Just come common and uninteresting support vessel. The young sailor went on a diatribe complaining about everything and how much he hates life onboard the ship and badly their treated by the chiefs and officers. Nimitz asked if be had tried to talk to anyone to voice his complaints, and the young sailor told him that it was pointless because nobody cares what we think or how we're treated. It was at that point Nimitz introduced himself as THE CINCPAC and said, "and I certainly care about how my sailors are treated." Nimitz actually personally visited that sailor's ship and had a word with the ship's CO. He really cared.
@Shineon83
11 ай бұрын
Know you wrote your comment a while ago, but it really amused me (I was thinking that after Nimitz introduced himself, that poor sailor probably made the loudest “gulp” in history :)
@johnschuh8616
8 ай бұрын
Nimitz was so low key that when as a young Lit his ship ran aground on a sandbar, he calmly put out a chip on the deck and waited until the tide rose and he could back off. He was so little of a fire eater that His boss wondered if he was aggressive enough to go on the offensive. Then he pulled off Midway with an audacity that befitted a Nelson. Never see him smiling, though, because he is said to have bad teeth. Of his subordinates Spruance was a lot like him in many ways. Which is why.I guess, he put him in command of Midway operation .
@FredRogenstein
28 күн бұрын
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@nyymianmalacon713
4 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was on the USS Arizona when it was sunk, he survived and served throughout the rest of the war under Nimitz
@stevencooke6451
4 жыл бұрын
December 7 must have been absolute Hell. Glad your grandad made it out. Did he talk to you about that day?
@honkimusmaximus7477
4 жыл бұрын
Some few years ago I was on a city bus in El Paso and sat across an behind a small wizened Hispanic man wearing a USS Arizona cap. I wanted to shake his Han but was too shy.
@dennismombo4343
4 жыл бұрын
Wow what did he have to say about him?
@ME-ke7qc
2 жыл бұрын
hey so did mine :) its a small world
@LordSluggo
4 жыл бұрын
For reference, the 75,000 US casualties at Okinawa were about 1/6 of all US casualties during the war.
@JRobbySh
4 жыл бұрын
We still get flack from the anti-American left about the use of the bomb. Better them than our guys. Millions of people are alive today, including descendants, because of the A-bombs.
@briantanner1068
4 жыл бұрын
Disregard Allied deaths for a moment. The atomic bombs killed a quarter of a million Japanese, either directly or indirectly. Over 28 million potential Japanese guerrillas were preparing to resist the invasion. A great many of those would die during the invasion and occupation, not counting those the guerrillas would kill in reprisal against collaborators or those who just refused to join them. As an alternative, the US could have starved Japan into submission by destroying farms and even more infrastructure. Considering the fanaticism seen on Okinawa, it would have taken many millions of deaths, from combat or starvation, for the Tojo or the Emperor to even consider a surrender. Also, in the months required to bring about Surrender, Japanese forces in China and Southeast Asia would continue to fight the Allies and commit atrocities on local civilians and Allied POWs. So, choose your poison: Invasion, Starvation and other Atrocities, or A-Bomb. I can guess Judy S. choice, how would you choose?
@johnaustin704
4 жыл бұрын
@@JRobbySh In regards to Truman's decision about dropping the bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, I for one think the deaths of both the Japanese and Americans would have been horrendous if we had invaded Japan in operation Downfall. PS I'm on the left and I love America and will support her when she's doing the right thing and seek to correct her when she is making mistakes.
@vanringo
4 жыл бұрын
@@johnaustin704 i remember my daughter coming home from school the first week in 2005 upset because her history teacher was calling America the only true terrorist country since we are the only ones that have dropped a nuclear bomb in combat. The next day I was up there and convinced the principal to allow me 10 minutes to give a better account of the use of the atomic bombs. I explained how the japanese people were being trained and brainwashed to fear Americans. I also referred to the massive losses in Okinawa and the concern of the estimated 1 to 5 million casualties Americans would have and the roughly 15 to 30 million estimated for the Japanese. While it did cause more issues than we knew at the time of the use, overall it saved not only American lives, but the lives of millions of Japanese. I had resources printed to show legitimate sources, not Wikipedia. I then turned to the teacher and asked if his father or grandfather was in WWII. He said his grandfather was. It turned out that his grandfather was in Australia where they were training divisions of troops for the invasion. So my grandfather was too. So I told him to thank Truman for his being here. Had the Japanese invasion happened, it ia possible that the baby boomer generation didn't happen and that millions of Americans possibly would not exist today because our grandfathers had been either severely wounded or killed taking japan. If they never got to have their children, then we wouldn't be here. I did not make it political. I kept it factual with a few personal notes that I had learned from family. The teacher apologized as he had never had it put to him that way. I personally thought if that was true, then that is sad. I learned that in junior high.
@johnaustin704
4 жыл бұрын
@@vanringo Thank you for using data and logic to convince the teacher. We on the left can be somewhat defensive and irrational too, so I'm glad the teacher was more open minded than some. On a personal note, my father was in the Navy in WWII as an enlisted man, so he might have been a victim of a kamikaze attack on the ship he was in if Operation Downfall had come off. Dad got out of the Navy after WWII, but served in Air Force from 1950 until he had to retire in 1976 because of his age, having served his country for 30 years. I grew up as a service brat, so I have different perspective on service people than I would have had if Dad hadn't had the career he had.
@stevenl.cranford5992
4 жыл бұрын
I was looking for more biographics on the PERSON "Chester Nimitz". What we recieved was a quick history of the Navy battle of the Pacific.
@flicmydik
4 жыл бұрын
Preach my brotha PREACH!!!
@jalderink
4 жыл бұрын
I agree. This one was not very informative on the subject, at all.
@odinfromcentr2
Жыл бұрын
To be fair, a lot of the way it went was his brainchild.
@dizzytheday5586
4 жыл бұрын
there's a large hill on Guam named after him
@MichaelOKC
4 жыл бұрын
A mini Biographics/Geographics crossover! Woot!
@PhillipCummingsUSA
4 жыл бұрын
Every navy base has something named after him.
@Koolaidheart11
4 жыл бұрын
Your moms named after a large hill
@garymartin9777
4 жыл бұрын
There's a freeway named for him in Oakland/Alameda.
@MikeyA5693
4 жыл бұрын
@@garymartin9777 In Hawaii part of the interstate highway (H1 Route 92) is named after him too.
@Eric_Hutton.1980
4 жыл бұрын
Chester Nimitz is a personal hero of mine.
@carlosnevarez4003
4 жыл бұрын
Same here ^.^
@stephenmcdonagh2795
4 жыл бұрын
From the little I know of Nimitz, he seems to have been quite a modest man- rather like Neil Armstrong. I think Nimitz deserves more recognition for his WWII actions, McArthur seems to have been a self publicist who stole some of the limelight that Nimitz deserved.
@Appytail
4 жыл бұрын
Chester Nimitz is THE hero to me.
@suedoe4316
4 жыл бұрын
hipster alert
@itsblitz4437
4 жыл бұрын
My father worked on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
@IxyMorningstar
4 жыл бұрын
My cat's name is Nimitz. We watched this together. He was on my lap for most of it. He knows who he's named after!
@Jekyll_Jackal
4 жыл бұрын
A bit of information: they are a total of 9 schools in honor of his name throughout the U.S. (One of them i graduated from)
@alexconaghan3486
4 жыл бұрын
Only 9. We need to change that!
@michealcormier2555
4 жыл бұрын
I attended Nimitz Elementary just outside Hickam AFB HI.
@machtschnell7452
4 жыл бұрын
I attended Nimitz Junior High School in San Antonio, Texas.
@chuckcabral1771
4 жыл бұрын
I hope some low life doesn't think he is poleter in correct and try to remove his name from history
@shannonwittman950
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Antifa is aware?
@ZachValkyrie
4 жыл бұрын
Any British person: pronounces "Maryland." Me, an intellectual: "Where the hell did that 'Y' come from?!?"
@shmackedmuffins7948
4 жыл бұрын
Loses finger “tis but a scratch”
@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff
4 жыл бұрын
That's why you don't wear jewelry if you work around machinery. I grew up on a farm, lot's of machinery. You never wear anything that can get caught or won't break free easily.
@lightninsadventures2692
4 жыл бұрын
@@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff the ring isn't what caused him to get his hand caught in the gears. It is what saved him from losing his whole hand instead of just the ring finger
@sarahobrien997
4 жыл бұрын
I have multiple family members who attended the Naval Academy and there are lots of stories of people's fingers being saved from wearing either their class ring or their combat ring.
@Erik-rp1hi
4 жыл бұрын
I really don't want to see China invade Taiwan. I hope we have smart war fighters that make the correct calls to always keep China saying, "today is not the day" and if not support Taiwan to repel the invaders.
@thewolfbloodwarrior8788
4 жыл бұрын
Well, you're not welcome in China anymore. You would do well to stay out of China. Those commie bastards check out everyone's comments on public sites like these to see whether it's anti-Chinese. And if they see one and you visit China, they will throw you in jail.
@vanringo
4 жыл бұрын
@@thewolfbloodwarrior8788 I would have to say that means you aren't welcome their either. Sorry Bro.
@thewolfbloodwarrior8788
4 жыл бұрын
@@vanringo Never planned to go to China. I don't ever want to go to some communist shithole place. If one day the CCP collapsed, just like the USSR did, then I would probably go.
@mukundaneshepherdcrystal6544
4 жыл бұрын
Whistler should consider doing a video on Edwin Layton, the intelligence officer that helped Nimitz win the battle of Midway by cracking Japanese secret code and intercepting radio signals, and consequently take control of the Pacific
@Eric_Hutton.1980
4 жыл бұрын
Joseph Roachfort
@mukundaneshepherdcrystal6544
4 жыл бұрын
Oh yes. Roachfort
@ronclark9724
4 жыл бұрын
@@mukundaneshepherdcrystal6544 "Thin.... Damn near invisible." The best Nimitz line in the film Midway...
@christerprestberg3973
4 жыл бұрын
CV USS Enterprise kinda deservs it's own biographics ^^. In fact there are alot of ships that could get that treatment.
@GDLean12
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Especially the Enterprise
@kevinbourke1847
4 жыл бұрын
Yes yes and yes
@coreytaylor447
4 жыл бұрын
that would be more for his mega projects channel
@thecitizen49
4 жыл бұрын
I remember when the Navy sold the Enterprise (CV-6) for scrap. There was a push to save her but It didn't happen. I was just 8 years old but I knew the story of that ship and I was sad that she couldn't be saved.
@johnsonzheng1728
4 жыл бұрын
Let history never forget the name Enterprise!
@NotTheNine
4 жыл бұрын
Love this bio! My uncle was under his command, I grew up in Texas right next door to Fredericksburg, went to Nimitz Elementary. He's beloved in our community still. P.S. it's FRED-ericksburg, not FREED-ericksburg
@fredlougee2807
4 жыл бұрын
Or as Marty Feldman would have called it, FRODE-ericksburg.
@travis7211
Жыл бұрын
Kerrville?
@markthornton7347
4 жыл бұрын
this bio devolved into a lot of re-tread of the specifics of the pacific war whereas I really was interested in the personality and life of the subject, who is very interesting
@EnclaveGeneral
4 жыл бұрын
I don’t mean to be “that guy”, but the USS Enterprise you showed was the newer Nuclear Powered Carrier from the 60’s. The Enterprise that served in WWII was a Yorktown-class with the number CV-6, compared to the one you showed’s CVN-65. Also the USS Yorktown you showed was the later Essex-class, named in honor of the Yorktown than sank at Midway.
@michaelhurley3171
4 жыл бұрын
You love being "that guy!"
@jimland4359
4 жыл бұрын
Also if you want you can sleep on the Essex class Yorktown. It is docked in Charleston.
@jb6027
4 жыл бұрын
Please, be "that guy". Simon's fact checkers often don't check their facts very well. A lot of their scripts are stolen word for word from Google and their actual knowledge of the subject matter is zilch.
@abchaplin
4 жыл бұрын
Be "that guy," so I don't have to be.
@Rager_U
4 жыл бұрын
As long as you aren't a jerk about about it (and you definitely weren't), corrective comments like yours are the *only* decent reason to read *any* KZitem comments section. And as I have some personal experience with the USS Constellation (CVA-64) which was commissioned 15 years after WWII, I was looking at that photo of the Enterprise with an eye raised as soon as I saw it.
@isabellacalavera8577
4 жыл бұрын
Been waiting ages for this one: Gustav Mannerhiem! The Swedish-Finnish general who spat in the face of the soviets during the Winter War.
@chrisjames7887
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. He's fascinating, complex character who ensured Finland's independence.
@richardbidinger2577
4 жыл бұрын
I wanna see that one.
@chuckymcchuckface8768
4 жыл бұрын
He's a great giant of a man! Awesome history. Once had a finish girl as my apprentice carpenter she was 16. On arrival I asked her to name me a famous finlander, she smiled and promptly said "Gustav Mannerheim! I replied... Great man you've every reason to be proud of him!
@brentgranger7856
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely! He is often overlooked.
@8kigana
4 жыл бұрын
I hope they do a solid video of him. Swedish nobility with German ancestry having served in the Russian army and deciding to stand up for Finland ? That's a bio story you can't make up. His Birthday is coming up why not do a video of him. I will never forget how Hitler who hated smokers smoking in front of him in his army literally had to deal with him constantly smoking cigars in front of him 😆 , he's the real deal.
@milosjanos5058
4 жыл бұрын
you forgot to tell one important fact, well one important and one fun fact. Important fact is that during Nuremberg trial with grand admiral Donitz, Nimitz supported Donitz, resulting in "just" ten years of prison for Donitz. By the way Nimitz spoke german fluently. Fun fact is, that Nimitz helped to raise funds to restore japanese battleship Mikasa.
@hikaru248x
4 жыл бұрын
It goes a lot deeper than that. The Mikasa was the IJN's flagship at the Battle of the the Tsushima Straits, under the command of Admiral Togo. The Japanese shocked the world by crushing the Imperial Russian fleet at this battle, effectively ending the Ruso-Japanese war. During his time at the Naval Academy, Nimitz was among a group of Midshipman who were sent on a trip to Japan. While there, Nimitz not only met Admiral Togo, bit joined the midshipman joined the admiral for dinner with the Emperor. Nimitz would site Togo as one of his personal heroes for the rest of his life. After the war, the Mikasa, which had been decommissioned for years already, had here guns and stacks stripped per the terms of the Japanese surrender. When Nimitz (who was now retired) heard of this, he jot only raised funds for her restoration, but used his influence and connections in Washington to have an exception made for the Mikasa. He also wrote a letter to the Tokyo Times to drum up support in Japan. Today, the Mikasa remains a museum ship in Yokosuka, Japan. She's one of three "World Herritage ships", the other two being the USS Constitution and the HMS Victory.
@jasonirwin4631
4 жыл бұрын
@@hikaru248x funny thing is that 2 of the 3 world heritage ships(mikasa/victory) where British built.
@michaelgarwood7076
4 жыл бұрын
Lucky me, as a young Bosun's Mate my ship made a port call to Kure, Japan in1992. Saw a War museum with models of the Yamato, and Admiral Togo's house.
@johnc2438
3 жыл бұрын
@@hikaru248x Yep... and a few years back (maybe several, now) sailors serving on the Nimitz helped repaint the Mikasa when it needed some periodic sprucing up. I also went on board Mikasa while serving at Yokosuka. Two of the museum displays are nicely scaled models of the USS Constitution and HMS Victory, along with explanations of the close relationships of all three navies: British navy is parent, and the Japanese and U.S. navies being siblings (the quarrels are over).
@djzrobzombie2813
3 жыл бұрын
Is there any video where he speaks german?
@aviatorflighttraining
4 жыл бұрын
Did anyone else laugh out loud when he showed the Lexington, Saratoga and Enterprise... the wrong enterprise! Might as well shown the Star Trek Enterprise! 🤦♂️😂
@mattw.6726
4 жыл бұрын
But which one? I mean, I personally lean towards the NCC-1701D, but...
@vanringo
4 жыл бұрын
@@mattw.6726 NCC-1701 the original
@marjoriemargel1567
4 жыл бұрын
I have a beautiful professional large photo of my Grandmother meeting Shaking hands with Nimitz!
@TheBIGBOSSCROSS
4 жыл бұрын
Please do one on John Paul Jones father of the US Navy
@kbubblingtime
4 жыл бұрын
The guy's name was Husband? "I would like you to meet my husband, Husband."
@pyromania1018
4 жыл бұрын
I know he's your husband. What's his name?
@raghul0078
4 жыл бұрын
@@pyromania1018 husband
@pyromania1018
4 жыл бұрын
@@raghul0078 I know that's who he is. What's his name?
@richardbidinger2577
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and who's on first?🤔😏😏
@baker2niner
4 жыл бұрын
I have a friend whose last name is Darling. Imagine the endless fun of, "Husband Darling?"
@thebaron6481
4 жыл бұрын
Battleship Yamamoto? Aircraft carrier enterprise from the cold war period? What the hell are you guys smoking?
@richardpehtown2412
4 жыл бұрын
@11:16 Did you say "Germanese"?
@Cadmium141
3 жыл бұрын
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@Belgianbanshee
4 жыл бұрын
Hmmmm... Wrong Enterprise. Or maybe they found that wormhole as in 'the final countdown' 😁 Also.... Battleship Yamamoto?!
@richardbidinger2577
4 жыл бұрын
Everybody makes that mistake. I'm 55, and people were calling it that when I was a kid. I think because it's only one syllable difference, and Yamamoto was more famous as a person, than Yamato the ship at the time, some people just have a slight disconnect with the name because of that. Perfect example of something similar is when people refer to actor Willem Defoe as "William" Defoe. It's like an irritating mental version of spell check.
@TheStackeddeck77
4 жыл бұрын
@@richardbidinger2577 you probably know this but since japan couldnt out manufacture us they decided to build larger ships. The battleship Yamato was the largest battleship in the world at the time of her commission.
@13stalag13
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheStackeddeck77 Not just the time of her commissioning, but EVER!
@Raadpensionaris
4 жыл бұрын
Can you do an episode about one of the most underrated admirals of all time. Michiel de Ruyter. I would place him 2nd after that crazy korean admiral
@xelolath
4 жыл бұрын
Yes please!
@jayvee1947
4 жыл бұрын
The first photo of the Enterprise shown was that of CVN-65. Not the WW2 carrier CV-6. Some mispronunciations of names and places. But given the scope of the Pacific war and focus on Nimitz, it was educational.
@Furudal
4 жыл бұрын
Nimitz would have loved to have that Enterprise
@manuelvalentin2648
4 жыл бұрын
If it hadn't been for his class ring saving the rest of his hand and therefore his career, who knows who would've been put in his place and the choices such commander would've made. We might be living in a totally different world because of that.
@JayJay-ex6yo
4 жыл бұрын
interestingly, admiral Yamamoto also lost 2 fingers early in his career during the Russian Japanese war, injuries just short of being medically discharged from the navy
@JRobbySh
4 жыл бұрын
@@JayJay-ex6yo Anyone who works with machinery is in danger of losing a digit or two.
@mukundaneshepherdcrystal6544
4 жыл бұрын
Woody Harrelson who acted as Chester Nimitz in the 2019 movie Midway actually has a close semblance to the real life Grand Admiral. It's a great WW2 movie
@liamweaver2944
4 жыл бұрын
I actually saw that film last night!
@mukundaneshepherdcrystal6544
4 жыл бұрын
@@liamweaver2944 oh! That's quite interesting
@mrd1433
4 жыл бұрын
Way better movie that the one with Charles Heston and Burgess Meredith.
@rusoviettovarich9221
4 жыл бұрын
Harrrelson was good fact most of the acting was but that film paled in terms of authenticity to the one made in 1976. The new version had some good background per Yamamoto.
@Sommertest
4 жыл бұрын
I have to say I didn’t care for it. The movie felt rushed and incomplete, and didn’t give the battle on the Yorktown any real time. Instead of calling the movie “Midway” they should have called it “Dive Bomber Faces”
@taatrs
4 жыл бұрын
As a 20 year Naval Flight Officer I want to thank you for this video. Great job depicting the life of a great man.
@grantameele421
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for covering an important U.S. Navy Sailor.
@xXEpicxManXx
4 жыл бұрын
Literally watched the one about General MacArthur last night and told myself that it would be cool to see one about Admiral Nimitz and BAM there it is!
@seanbrazell6147
4 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the Matrix, Mister A Stalk of Broccoli. We missed you.
@charleschiang3098
4 жыл бұрын
It’s nitpicking, but why is the picture of USS Enterprise the post world war 2 ship, when there are plenty of photos of the ww2 ship?
@ZoomZip
4 жыл бұрын
because they just googled uss enterprise and then were like 'close enough'
@ronclark9724
4 жыл бұрын
@@ZoomZip I seen the same occur with HMS Ark Royal. There are more than one ship's photo available.
@jagerbombasstic
4 жыл бұрын
I recommend reading "The Admirals" by Walter Borneman if you want to know more about Nimitz along with the other 5 star admirals. Very very good read.
@JustaMuteCat
2 жыл бұрын
A very good read and a very hard book to come by these days for me. Miss my copy at home and I can’t for the love of Nimitz find a copy to buy in Japan.
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