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  • Wow... a lot of Shit within 2 Seconds. Well targeted.

  • It's kind of weird, 1177 sailors and Marines were killed on Arizona and two of the planes from 9-11 were 11 and 77.

  • My father was on-board the USS Arizona during attack and on the Main Mast.

  • @MaryElizabeth99 I met a guy that was on the minelayer Oglala,being his ship sank he was ordered to go to Arizona

    and help remove bodies.He said it was hell.He built a a model of Oglala,he did a great job.

  • :(

  • @PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD Don't argue with me, I'm just the messenger. Read the book and it has all the evidence there in US military documents, memos and communiques. Stinnett studied the evidence. At the time, it wasn't easy to declare war... American cargo ships were being sunk by German U-boats in the North Atlantic, American pilots were fighting the Germans in Europe and the Japs in China (Flying Tigers) from 1939-41, yet the American public wanted to remain neutral and not go to war.

  • @AccordGTR there were american pilots fighting the germans in late 1940-41 but for the RAF.

  • i think that has to be the worst any american ship was ever attack...of all places..immobile in a harbor and the bomb penetrates the gunpowder storage area..Damn they really got us on that one...Didnt they realize what we would do to them or maybe they thought about it afterwards..Something no one had ever seen...black rain...

  • Wow....You can already see the West Virginia & Oklahoma listing to port in that footage after being torpedoed.

  • And one of the few battleships of which there is a movie of 'sinking ... The other is the HMS Barham, I believe!

  • right in the magazine!!

  • japan have a very good precision

  • If you look close by freezing the video at the 18 second mark you'll see the bomb as it comes straight at the arizona. well it's around the 18 second mark

  • @bzzymatt It's possible but is probably a spot on the film which there are a lot of. The black fume that rises from below where it was at is supposed to be where the forward magazine explosion mostly vented from the ship. If you ever go to or have already gone to see the Arizona, there is a large vent shaft in that area. But who really knows for sure.

  • place*

  • out of every single place to hit it stuck the weakest and most vulnerable plase of a battle ship

  • everybody stop fighting i dont want a comment war or 2nd comment war :)

  • @darksydelyons 334 surrvived 

  • damn, a single bomb killed 1,177 people, it ididnt matter that they wer covered by a steel fortress.... -.-

  • When about a million pounds of gun powder goes off, that's the kind of fire you get.

  • It hit the forward powert magazines

  • That's one big boom!

  • around 300 crewman miraculously survived this explosion. 

  • Truly astonished that there's footage of this, didn't know there was before now... damn...

  • This is the saddest video I have ever seen.

  • @leopard2a6mcan ...why are u sad?...ya its sad....but we bombed the japs for it!

  • whaat happened at pearl harbour was dreadfull but tbh i think it was needed... it showed america that there not untouchable as they once though it was a wake up call

  • @fishykidproductions No it wasn't needed one bit. We stayed out of the war and they brought us into. But it's ok cause bombed the hell out of Tokyo anyways. Hope those worthless SOB's got what they deserved.

  • my uncle was killed on that ship, his name was Ralph Mclearn Dougherty, FC1C

    (fire controlman first class) RIP to him and all of the other brave men who died on that ship and in Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941

  • The death of 1177 brave men. RIP

  • the reason we couldnt get people out of the arizona isnt because we couldnt cut through the steel its because the men would have been trapped in the bottom of the ship the nearby oklahoma capsized and they were aple to cut it open and reach the soldiers ... and there are no bodies inside i think well i mean if fish cant get down there than skeltons i hope i never find out

  • @phillip549 There are in both the Arizona and the Utah not only was it hard to cut throght the steal but the Japs where also straffing battleship row as well as bombing it but the Arizona was the only ship to sink at Pearl harbor the rest where just heavly Damaged.

    all other ships where sent to California for repairs while Arizona remains as a memorial of the Attack and they did not bother to recover the Utah because it was just a traning ship.

  • the japanese werent attacking constantly they had attacked pearl harbor in 2 waves on the same day but people could still hear the tapping of metal in the oklahoma and arizona for several days after the oklahoma capsized but the hull was still above the water so they could cut open the ship but the arizona at leas where the men were was completley under water only the tower stuck up out of the water and they didnt have underwater welding then

  • @phillip549 Oh I know that the Japs where not constantley attacking about the fact that they where straffing did not help the sitiation not only that but Arizona burned for three days and with a perimita of oil burning around her it was imposable to get to her.

  • @thebritish25 thats also why they couldnt get to the men underneath also thank you for not cussing at me people do that alot to me

  • @phillip549 And I think there where a few Jap Mini subs roaming around

    And Thats allright I am not an imature Key board warriror I could swear and cuss at you untill the Cows come home but where whould that leave us in this allready messed up world?

  • @phillip549 But if you like I can swear and cuss at you (;

  • @phillip549 There is also accounts from crewmen aboard USS Tennessee BB-43 that heard tapping coming from the submerged USS West Virginia BB-48. That tapping went all the way to almost Christmas before it stopped. After the USS West Virginia was raised did they find the dead crewman who were trapped in an air space beneath the water.

  • @BBCKT realy i couldnt imagine a worse form of hell trapped in an air bubble for weeks thats tragic

  • @BBCKT Same with the capsized USS Oklahoma. They didnt hear any tapping, but When they cut her open they saw tally marks on the bulkheads that represented almost 2 weeks. I can't even imagine.

  • @thebritish25 They didn't want to recover the Utah and Oklahoma at first, but they felt that the two ships were blocking the channel so salvage efforts were performed last on those two. They managed to right the Oklahoma after a few months and thought they could do the same for the Utah. The Utah, unfortunately, started to drag rather then turn over. It sunk in the mud as a result. 15 yrs after the Utah sunk, there were plans to raise the ship, but they sold their winches by then.

  • I am sorry Clutch2013, but you are wrong. Pearl Harbor is considered a Shallow depth harbor. Here is a quote from Exhibit #17 from the Chief of Naval Operations.

    "It is considered that the relatively shallow depth of water limits the need for anti-torpedo nets in Pearl Harbor."

  • The reason we didnt ave them is becuase, We had no technology we have today to get them out, Pearl harbor is a naturally deep harbor, and we couldnt get them, The men inside survived in there for about a week becuase the doors were water tight, you could still hear tapping on the walls after a week, unfortunaly they probably suffered of no oxygen or food/water..The reason the ship is still there is becuase it is known as the men's "Final resting place" so the government isnt going to move it.

  • @Clutch2013 Your right, Except it was a Month. Not a week.

  • Is this real footage?

  • @simondevries2 The footage from 0:14 is real.

  • @historycat3 Are those sounds of the explosion real?

  • @Jeff12798 No. The sounds are recorded explosions used by the U.S. Navy for training exercises. The original video had no sound.

  • @simondevries2 The sound isn't.

  • actually, it was sailors and marines

  • I live here in Hawaii, Wheeler Army Airfield, where im stationed. To answer a few of the posts. 1. Yes there are bodies in the Arizona, it is now a cemetery. There are also people still alive from the pearl harbor attack, if they choose to they are allowed to be layed to rest there. 2. Yes people died in pearl harbor... a lot of people. 3. There is sound of the Arizona explosion, the real futage is kept at the Pearl Harbor memorial. The real sound is amazing and will always give you chills.

  • is there still bodies on that ship?

  • The Japanese were not aware that right beside the USS New Orleans, wich was in drydock, was a big tank with almost a million gallons of Gasoline. If they would have hit that, the amount of destruction would have been tremendously worse.

  • It wasn't so much that the destruction would have been worse. It was the fact that without the fuel there our fleet would have not been able to operate for probably 1-2 more years, thus either surrendering or at least pushing back the battle of Midway until more fuel could be obtained, refined and replenished.

  • Admiral Nagumo made a hige mistake not lauching high altitude or dive bombing of the fuel tank farms and repair facilities.

    Battle of Midway would not have been possible if he had launched 1-2-3 more attacks.

  • Midway would have still happened. It would have just taken longer. Remember this is when our manufacturing power was building to its peak and people were PO'd. Those that couldn't serve found another way to serve.

  • Were there people in the USS Arizona when it was bombed?

  • Yes.

  • Only about 1400 or so...

  • over 1000 soldiers were KILLED when the bomb hit, including my great great grandpa....and most of those 1000 are still in the ship

  • sailors not soilders

  • soliders? wtf are those? and also, they were sailors AND soldiers on that ship

  • combat sailors and in yo previous comment u said soilders

  • whos comment are you looking it? it says "over 1000 soldiers were KILLED when the bomb hit, including my great great grandpa....and most of those 1000 are still in the ship" it does not say soliders in that sentence...it says SOLDIERS not SOLIDERS!!!

  • oops spelled it wrong

  • R u serious most of them is still in there? Why we didn't get them out?

  • I really dont know, maybe we cant get there bodies out, their intombed in the ship, in the tangled metal of the distroyed ship

  • I hope I don't sound sick but I would luv to be the first one in there if we could go and get them bodies.

  • @talkingsports that is sick,  I don't think there would be anything left anyway as sea creatures and molecules eat anything. When ballard found the bismarck and titanic he found no bodies.

  • Thats not sick at all. Pretty unlikely there'll be anything left, but I also think we should leave it as it is...But..your chance may come. The Arizona is falling apart and whatevers left of the men inside will surely float into the harbour. Sad as that is.

  • Because it was best to leave it as the tomb, as grim as it sounds.

    RIP USS ARIZONA & Crew

  • @the82spartans my uncle was cleaning his gun (cannon) on deck and was thrown into flaming water, as the oil from the tanker was set ablaze, under the water he kept swimming and was burnt also and he could see the remains of his shipmates. he had nightmares of it all his life.....he had a happy marriage and went to reunions of the navy at Pearl Harbor until his death....(source) John D. Walker.....remembering those men today.

  • @thepixieful -- I salute your Uncle, as well the others who died that fateful day in our history.

    Thank you.

  • @talkingsports the deck of that ship was 3 inch steel. can you imagine trying to cut through that in the 1940s, underwater, after a massive attack? they did try, but they just couldnt break into it in time. :(

  • sailors or soilders my freind

  • I thought nobody died at pearl harbor

  • quite a few died

  • between 2 and 3,000 americans lost their lives that day including civilians. this was the worst attack on u.s. soil prior to 9/11.

  • Dude, over 3 thousand americans died at pearl harbor on dec. 7 1941

  • 2,350 navy soldiers,pilots,nurses and 68 civilians.

  • to the japs revenge is a is a huge bitch

  • @sergantsnipesalot Yeah we bombed the hell out of Tokyo.

  • was it the arizona that capsized or the indianapolis. i always get those confused.

  • the ship that capsized was the USS Oklahoma a Nevada class battleship. and the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a IJN sub after transporting Little Boy

  • The Oklahoma and Utah capsized

  • the Utah didnt capsized

    it was damaged rlly severley and it was flooded

  • i stand corrected it did capsized two days after the attack

  • what gets me is how does the camera man know the ship is going to be hit by a bomb? he's pointing the camera straight at it like he's prepared for something.

  • It was partially damaged already and maybe was just taking a long shot of it when it happened. also he could have seen the bomb coming in and it was just off-camera.

  • I have never seen all of it, but the original film is much longer than just the explosion. Camera man was on another ship north side of Ford Island, and his view of battleship row was limited to mainly the Arizona and the Nevada behind Arizona. So he filmed what he saw. Arizona was taking damage from other bomb hits, so filming was done where action taking place. Also, any sound you hear is fake (explosion sound) as there was no sound on original film.

  • well look theres pearl harbor and what they did look at japan at the end REVENGE IS A BITCH

  • think thats a big boom?..check out the Yamato's boom...apparently largest explosion to occur at sea...

  • I have never seen this footage before, is this real?

  • yes it is, and at that momment, 1700 navy and marines were killed

  • we, let our gaurd down, the japanes new that our gaurd was down so they used our weakness to hier advantage. the declarance of war from the japanese was supposed to arrive at america, but the leter had been dameged on the way to get the emperers signeture. the japanese were already very close to the islands, so they chose to carry on with the attack.

  • shit directly on the magazine

  • Well I'm sure you must have worked in the U.S. Army intelligence department from 1928 until way after the war to know so much. Suffice to say I will not be replying anymore as I have better things to do than discuss this further with someone born in 1993 that knows so much more than the rest of us about WWII.

  • The concussion from that explosion stalled cars that were driving as far as 20 miles away.

  • holy shit...all those people in there

  • You interpreted my reply incorrectly. I did not say it was a conspiracy. Our overconfidence in the distance from Japan to Pearl & the sense of security based in the strength of our navy is why we let it happen. Like I said it was out if ignorance/complacancy, if it was intentional then so be it but but the first two reasons are how we let it happen. By the way with all of your knowledge how is it you don't realize we were reading there messages for months seeing how we cracked purple machine?

  • may god bless crew and loved ones...rest in peace my brave american sailors for you have been avenged by nukeing japan twice! we will never forget 7 dec 1941!

  • Huh? Japan

  • ok thats fine with me.

  • i dont get that...

  • its ok. all you need to know is that you do. go ask someone about it.

  • Did the fatal hit come from a Vall dive-bomber (220 kg bomb ), or from a Kate (800kg) ?

  • i think it was a kate.

  • it was a Kate.

  • it was hit by a kate class torpedo plane armed with an 800kg bomb

  • Some of the Japanese Kates were used as level bombers. The first wave scored no hits from 10k feet. The second wave went in much lower, they scored more hits but their bombs didn't fall fast enough to penetrate the battleships deck armor. No bombs dropped that day penetrated any armor more then 4in thick, including the USS Arizona which had 5in of deck armor.

  • the bombs that the Kates used were modified 18 inch armor piercing shells from the Yamato class battleships. Kate torpedo bombers carried a torpedo modified for shallow water.

  • I think only 7 souls survived that... most were blown clear of the ship and lived, a few others climbed out of a hatch. Everyone on the bridge was burned alive as the tower fell forward into the flames. Oh well, Japan got theirs in the end...

  • No more than 7 people. I think 300 or so survived.

  • More than one of those bombs hit, not just the one that hit the gunpowder.

  • nvr say nvr it will turn up someday mayb not in our life time but someone wil come up wit it

  • nobody suckerpunches the usa and gets away with it!

  • The Bomb detonates between the both towers.. not in the front.

    A mistake from the movie "Pearl Harbor"

  • Nope, the bomb went through the front into the magazine of the guns where the shells were stored. This created the huge blast!

  • ok i´m sorry.thank you.

  • craxis34, What a stupid question. How come the Thousand Year Reich lasted 15 years?

  • Someone already answered my question so shut up.

  • Well, it's not my fault you asked a stupid question.

  • the ship its self wasn't prepared for the attack like all of the others. Its guards were down and all its windows were up (helping it sink) because it was to be inspected the Monday morning after and the soldiers wanted to air the ship out so the inspectors would feel more comfortable. Thats why it was so easily sunk.

  • wow right when that bomb hit over 1,700 soldiers,marines,and navy were killed its sad and one of my great uncles was one of them

  • no 1,700 but "just" 1177 men died. but only 335 survived.

  • The United States organized "Flying Tigers" before World War II, and was attacking Japan.

    Moreover, China tried to large-scale make an air raid to Japan before World War II.

  • good

  • The group first saw combat on 20 December 1941, 12 days AFTER Pearl Harbor, so you're a liar about them attacking you first. The Tigers were credited with destroying almost 300 aircraft while losing only 14 pilots on combat missions. Moreover the chinese didn't have a standing airforce untill 1937. The war between China and Japan started when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931. So there goes your BS lie about a large scale air raid from a non-existant airforce. Even on the internet you're a loser

  • China invaded Nagasaki in August, 1886, and hundreds of Japanese citizens were killed and injured.

  • No they didn't. Do you ever tell the truth on anything? Let me guess, you refuse to acknowledge the rap of Nanking and other war crimes comitted right?

  • "Nanking" is a lie that Chiang Kai-shek made .

    There is no thing that a scientific investigation is done about Nanking up to now. China is refusing everything.

    Chiang Kai-shek destroyed HwangHo and three million destruction Chinese was killed. (At that time, even rescue operation went in a Japanese army. )

    After WWII, the Soviet abducted 1.07 million Japanese to Siberia and imposed forced labor. And, 370,000 Japanese died.

    Therefore, Nanking is absolutely necessary to attack Japan.

  • Wow, you and Neo-Nazi's have a lot in common. Tell me something, do you pride yourself on being an ingorant racist bigot or do you have ANY shame at all for the tripe you spread? It's people like you that make me feel that dropping the atomic bomb on Japan twice was justified if that's the mentality you still have.

  • There were actually photos and films made of the bombings, the taking of the city by Japanese troops and the brutal firing squads. It's on film, it was shown in movie theater news casts, you can stiil find copies, if you look.

  • I say to you beforehand.

    A lot of Japanese women who had come back from Asian various places after World War II were being raped by Chinese, Korean , the Russian, and the American.

    The aborticide hospital was set up in many of ports in Japan.

    Therefore, it is necessary to make an excuse to the victorious country, that is, "Comfort woman".

    Do not think that the Japanese is enduring your lies indefinitely.

  • Hundreds and hundreds of men died on the battleships...that is loss of life, and it's no different than if they'd be strafed. It was an act of war, not some sort of 'humane' killing.

  • i still dont really like japan for this

  • And they dont like you for the oil cut off and a bombs.

  • its our oil

  • I understand, but I can't help but feel sorry for what happend to the Japanese Americans after this.

  • @shaolinloser Yeah, in WW2 in Canada,ever Japenese person was put in camps. You know David Zuzuki? (pardon my spelling of his last name) he is so mad, he crys everytime because his parents were put into a camp.

  • @shaolinloser concentraition camps and all that

  • @shaolinloser I find this an odd place to bring up feeling sad about the Japanese Americans and what happened to them. During an actual discussion of the internment camps, do you feel the need to bring up how sad you feel about the thousands of young sevicemen killed and severely wounded aboard the Arizona and aboard the other ships and throughout the island?

  • @shaolinloser

    The Japanese are proud people and they don't need your pity.

  • @JohnLeePedimore They do not have it. they got what they deserved. Rape of Nanking, experiments on live prisioners beheading POWs.

  • @shaolinloser I agree, but war sucks any way you look at it. The Japanese through the first punch and put their citizens in harm's way by attacking Pearl Harbor.

  • oh but still this is old

  • DATS A OLD VIDEO

  • where do you get the video from the ship the orginal vid

  • WOW is that the actual video of it going down?

  • I had a relatives friend who almost got killed on the attack he was on the Westy

  • didn't that explosion lift the whole ship 2 feet off of the sea? i heard that from a witness while visiting ford island

  • It was hit by an armor piercing bomb passing through the front right deck just off the right of gun turret 1, entering the foward magazine and blowing up the entire munitions supply in that room. It was not blown up by a torpedo.

  • i remember it geting hit by a armor piercing bomb by i think a dive bomber (could be wrong about the dive bomber) in a documentary on the military channel about pearl harbor

  • Nice shot!

  • YouTube: "THE BONES OF STATION H"

  • One problem: Divers could not find a hole in the main deck where you show the bomb hitting. A close frame by frame analyst by the Navy indicated a large oil and gasoline fire in the bow. Since black powder stowed for the catapult was in the same area it was proposed that it's ignition set off the magazine and not the bombs. None of the other ships had their main decks penetrated by bombs because the Japanese bombers were too low.

  • EXCELLENT diagramming and related graphics. Wish there were more videos like this on YT.

  • My grandpa shot down 3 japanese zeros and helped sink 2 japanese tankers during the war.....and it's funny that 60 years later I have a girlfriend who is japanese and her grandpa fight for japan in world war 2!

  • A lot of things can hapon in 5 years letalon 60

  • Lol, my gf is japanese too, but we (Italy and Japan) were allies in WWII

  • meh, it was a war like 60 years ago so its ok to go out with japanese girls

  • Remember the men who died on that ship. Honor them forever.

  • t opening image actually shows arizona in 1931 steaming towards my hometown Ponce PUR carrying pres herbert hoover aboard as part of a caribbean cruise just after arizona's refit which gave her her better known tripo-masted appearance

  • They did not just drop bombs on ships, they strafed civilians and soldiers both, after the ships were already bombed and sinking.....steer clear of this blame America first crap. We are the only nation people seem to want to demand apologies from. Japan surrendered, but only after the *2ND* atom bomb. Hitler refused to surrender voluntarily. Neither country has "apologized" to the world at large for the havoc they caused.

  • Japan had already surrendered BEFORE the 1st atomic bomb, you ***

  • No, they had sent out feelers, but they would not accept unconditional surrender. The US and Britain had laid down the conditions for surrender when Roosevelt and Churchill met in North Africa in 1942. Yes, the bombs were unnecessary, but Japan started the war and America finished it.

  • yeah..........the germans started BOTH world wars. shut your mouth

  • I'm not german, thank you, you better shut your mouth and count the many wars your country started in the last 60 years.

  • hm...i cant think of too many. i guess you can count the two we're in now. korea, north invaded south. vietnam, same shit. 1st gulf, iraq invaded kuwait. those are the only wars we've been in in the last 60 years. (not counting the small month long ones)