Pearl Harbor: A Third Wave To Destroy Oil Tanks? w/ Jonathan Parshall

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  @MilitaryAviationHistory · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  Like and comment on this post if you want Justin to write a book! :_mahHappy:

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• KM

  @KMN0341 · 1 year ago

  Its real simple folks, whenever a video pops up featuring Jon Parshall as the guest you watch it

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• TO

  @TomFynn · 1 year ago

  "for the people who don't know Jonathan Parshall, first of all, you should know Jonathan Parshall" :trophy-yellow-smiling:

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• JA

  @jamesnigelkunjuro12 · 1 year ago

  It's always such an absolute pleasure to listen to Jonathan Parshall talk about anything WW2 related. I hope you have a follow-up session soon!

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• WA

  @Wanhope2 · 9 months ago

  This production is enormously under appreciated, seeing this meeting of minds is absolutely incredible

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• LE

  @legoeasycompany · 1 year ago

  Seeing Jonathan Parshall in a video always makes it a must watch. Sadly yall keep the tangents to a minimum this go around. Always next time

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• RA

  @Ralphieboy · 6 months ago

  Good thing that Neosho was not mistaken for an aircraft carrier at Pearl Harbor as she was at Coral Sea.

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• CM

  @cmdrflake · 1 year ago

  Admiral Nagumo was rightly concerned about the absence of the American carriers. His caution reflected the possibility of the American carrier’s aircraft attacking them. Not to forget the submarines which had critically defective torpedoes, Nagumo wasn’t aware of that. He dearly wanted to return home with the Carrier force.

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• ED

  @edlib91604 · 1 year ago (edited)

  My father was a civilian mechanical engineer working for the Navy in D.C. before the summer of 1940, when he activated his Army reserve commission (after the fall of France, he said, everyone in D.C. could see war coming...).  At circa 10 years old (~1964), I asked him what he did for the Navy, and he said his biggest job was to design the oil storage facilities for Pearl Harbor.  I asked him what it was like to travel to Pearl Harbor in those days, and he said he didn't have to go.  I asked him how he could design the facilities without being there, and he replied "Good maps !".  As to the value to the Japanese of destroying the facilities, I must say, as a chemical engineer and retired US Army Colonel, the US in those days would have readily overcome destruction of those facilities -- if there's one thing we knew how to, and were equipped to, do in those days, it was to build oil facilities !

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• TH

  @thedollsservant8147 · 1 year ago

  Flashback to when the Japanese strike of Coral Sea finds Neosho and instead of seeing an instant win, they circle around to look for the carriers over and over then go after her.<br>They even wasted a good portion of the strike trying to go after the escorting destroyer Sims instead of securing the kill, as Neosho stayed afloat for four days and had to be scuttled.

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• TA

  @takashitamagawa5881 · 1 year ago

  I very much appreciate Jonathan Parshall stressing the point about the Japanese not ever grasping the logistics issues of fighting a war across the Pacific.

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  @Vito_Tuxedo · 1 year ago

  Superb video, Chris! The <i>Unauthorized History Of The Pacific War</i> channel is right up there with <i>Military Aviation History</i> as some of the very best historical content on YouTube, so it’s great to see this collaboration with Jon, who succeeds Captain Bill as co-host on the <i>UHOTPW</i> channel. Sorry to see Bill go, but glad he accepted the call to come out of retirement to help rebuild the U.S. Navy. Thanks for a great mythbusting episode, Chris…and yeah—Justin should write a book. 😎

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