Imperial Japanese Navy carrier Akagi pre-Pearl Harbor scenes

These clips were put together from a really old VHS tape of the 1956-vintage documentary "Air Power" narrated by Walter Cronkite. The footage was taken from Japanese Navy sources aboard the Akagi (exterior views)and vintage Japanese movie clips (interior views). Some good close-up shots of the island portion of the Akagi and its flight deck...plus various views of Vals, Kates and Zeros. A few shots were aboard other Japanese vessels (the sailors exercising/wrestling etc)... video clips assembled for Youtube by Greg Clarke

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Education

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• Imperial
• Japanese
• Navy
• WW2
• aircraft
• carrier
• Akagi
• Zero
• Val
• Kate
• Pearl
• Harbor

[HobieTyourtube]

Walter Cronkite commentary?

[skyraider1404]

Yes...definitely..... Cronkite's voice is unmistakable -- great narrator

[darthrid]

some parts sime to belong to "tora tora tora" film

[skyraider1404]

These clips were taken from a 1956-vintage documentary film....since TORA TORA TORA was filmed in 1970, it is likely they used the older footage themselves....

[FlavioCapimba]

Imperial Japanese navy: from 1939 to 1942 the most powerful naval force in the world.

[ShanxiSlave]

Great Imperial Japanese Navy !!!!!!

[DavBlc7]

Akagi was the one that took part on the Pearl Harbour plan and also involved in some invasions before it too joined three other aircraft carriers to take Midway islands.

However all four were sunk by brave pilots of the US Navy and I suspect Akagi is on the bottom of the sea nowadays.

[enushisama]

That aircraft carrier is a movie film set.

It is a type of fictitious that doesn't exist.

[crpdst2003]

@p8ryot don't appologize to us. I think the Chinese are still waiting, Korean Comfort women too.... your leadership also needs to appologise to your people still..a japanese survivor said of his American guards, My enemies were the first to treat me like a human being... post war cmdr Fuchidas friend related his imprisonment experience in USA,,,he had a nurse who treated them very well dispite her missionary parents having been beheaded in New Guinea...shamed them and changed them...

[victorbrunswick]

@Kapindur "The BoyKing Obama has ensured all of our current enemies that We are Weak, and so history repeats, and We Will have teach this lesson again soon, and you can thank our Nobel prize Winning president for it."

Exactly! It was the perception of our weakness in the minds of our enemies that set in motion the chain of events (Khobar Towers, USS Cole, African embassy bombings) that culminated in 9-11.

[TectonicPower]

Little Boy and Fat Man are greater and more powerful.

[Kapindur]

Its a shame that one cannot find honest interior video of IJN Warships. It is a loss for history, and very sad.

~Not as sad as losing American ships of course. The IJN had to learn the hard Way about American Warriors, and that cruel lesson must taught every other decade or so to her enemies. The BoyKing Obama has ensured all of our current enemies that We are Weak, and so history repeats, and We Will have teach this lesson again soon, and you can thank our Nobel prize Winning president for it.

[deltaoneduck]

naive japanese on ww2

[WildBillKelso1]

I guess that explains why all those Asian and Polonesian nations are still demanding an apology from Japan.

[p8ryot]

@DaManzMoney

There's no cause for disrepect. It was a different mind set over 65 years ago. They've apologized, the U.S. has also committed atrocities. We should follow Japans example of recognizing our mistakes and trying to make things right.