Victory at Sea Episode 4 Part 1

Victory at Sea: Midway is East

Japanese victories & the Midway Battle

Victory at Sea is a documentary TV series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally aired by NBC in 26 half-hour segments on Sunday afternoons, starting October 26, 1952, and ending May 3, 1953. It is now in the public domain.

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• Midway
• navy
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• War
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• Hitler
• US
• Japan
• Germany
• Nazi
• submarine
• NBC
• TV
• television
• 1953
• 1954

[locutys]

I think it's fair to say that all of the allies underestimated the Japanese in the 1930's. Britain was understandably more concerned with Nazi Germany and the war in Europe. Even when war broke out in the Pacific 80 to 90% of the men and materials went to Europe. The allies officially adopted a "Europe first" policy. Even if the British reinforcements had put up a fight lack of supplies would have made it a short campaign. The atrocities committed by the Japanese are NOT the Brits fault!

[ualuuanie]

@neil03152 Nope I didn't say its all your fault infact if you read between the lines you would have noticed the locals then were too trusting on you guys to protect them so much so that when you guys withdrew in the middle of the night leaving them to protect your behinds so that you all can regroupe in Singapore and surrender without even a fight. And thanks I am having a good life :)

[neil03152]

@ualuuanie You sad little uninformed man. And so you believe that all the atrocities carried out by the Japs were our fault do you?. How very intelligent. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and boy do you prove that. Have a good life.

[ualuuanie]

@neil03152 I stop reading that propaganda bs that you guys wrote to justify your surrender. As for my respect it goes to those grukas and the locals that were stupid to believe in the brits and laid their lives holding the line for you chaps to retreat down south? Do you know whole villages were burnt down and all the women were raped and all men above 16 were rounded up and gunned down just because some of them helped you guys?

[neil03152]

@ualuuanie How dare you call these men cowards you ignorant little shite. I suggest you carefully read up on good history books before making such stupid unworthy comments. Your comments show a total lack of respect but then there is probably no point in telling you that I suspect.

[rebbeccanne]

My mom used tyo let me stay up at night to watch Victory at sae during the 1050's. I cried because my father was killed during WWII. So I watched to see if I could see him. He was given a purple heart and the silver cross for saving 4 other men from death(postumisly).. I am proud of him. I wanted to be like him but no one would take a girl except the U.S.Navy. SSo I went in as a wave. I am proud to serve in Viet Nam. Rebecca Ann

[MRobert21]

I would not say the British or Commonwealth troops were cowards, though they did out number the Japs and did surrender. The Commonwealth troops were poorly armed, poorly trained, inexperienced, draftees that were no match for the smaller, but superior, professional Jap army. The Limey officers in the Far East were the worst the Brits had because all the good Limey officers were in Africa or England. The English under estimated the Japs and did not prepare for war in Asia until it was too late

[ualuuanie]

@chayi Nope but my family were there and those japs took quite a few to the death camps. Got to know that those brits didn't even fight they told the locals that they would protect them then just surrender. How I know this? From the old locals that fought the japs in the malayan jungles and history books did state the amt of troops and weapons on both sides thats why I know its 3xs.

[ualuuanie]

Heard that there were 3xs more commonwealth troops had over the japs in singapore and yet those cowards surrender :(