WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:05.320 The Jesse Kelly Show. Final hour of The Jesse Kelly 2 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:10.279 Show on my anniversary, which I totally didn't forget, even 3 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:12.599 though Obs says I did because I didn't get a 4 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:17.000 card or anything. Anyway, on the final hour, we're gonna 5 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.120 finish up our Kami Kaze talk. We're gonna talk about 6 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:22.440 this dirty commy if I get to it, this dirty 7 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:27.440 COMMI having a beautiful wedding, luxury wedding when you shouldn't 8 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:30.600 have any of these things. We'll talk about gen z men, 9 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:36.799 college degree versus no college degree, emails more. But first 10 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:43.880 let's finish our Kami Kazi story. Now America is making 11 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:48.240 its way into the Philippines. I already explained that the 12 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:51.600 Philippines are critically important to Japan. They have to have 13 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:56.119 these resources. They took the Philippines on purpose, they needed 14 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:58.399 to keep it. But again, they don't have an avy anymore, 15 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:01.320 they don't have their top here fighter pilots anymore. They 16 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:05.040 don't have them, and Japan decides it's time to begin 17 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:10.000 recruitment of kama kazis, of men who will join the 18 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:13.840 Special Attack Squadrons. That's what they call them, Special Attack 19 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:16.920 Force Special Attack Squadrons. I saw both that then call 20 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.719 themselves kama kazis all the time. But they did refer 21 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:26.959 to themselves as that. Why, well, we have to go 22 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:31.439 clear back to last night and hour three. Remember the 23 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:37.599 Mongols tried to invade and conquer Japan twice. A typhoon 24 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:41.359 wiped out the Mongolian navy and its army which was 25 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:47.439 sleeping on the navy twice. Japan called it a divine wind, 26 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:51.879 a wind from God. Kami kazi is the word for it. 27 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:58.560 So when a horrible, huge, ugly, conquering force is coming 28 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:04.519 to take Japan, the belief is a divine wind will 29 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:09.759 rise up and save the country. And for hundreds of years, 30 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:12.919 that took place in the twelve hundreds. For hundreds of years, 31 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:17.759 that's what the Japanese were taught. That event has a 32 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:22.439 reverence had and has a reference for the Japanese people. 33 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:28.319 And so if you're going to sell suicide pilots and 34 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:32.400 subs and other things like that, what do you sell? 35 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:35.439 How do you sell it? It's not a hard thing 36 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:37.840 to sell at this point in time. Let's look at 37 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:43.080 the Japanese perspective. I'm believing I'm not doing Americans of 38 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.639 the bad guys thing We are looking at this from 39 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:49.840 the Japanese perspective. What is happening to you in your homeland? 40 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:55.680 American planes are flying overhead and they are bombing your 41 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.719 cities and burning them to ash. Remember that we fire 42 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:06.159 bombed Tokyo and we killed twice. We burned to death 43 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:10.000 twice as many people in Tokyo as we killed in 44 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:13.639 Hiroshima or Nagasaki with the Adam bombs. We just flayed 45 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.560 straight up dropped napalm. For lack of a more, I 46 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:19.120 don't want to go into details of it. We burned 47 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:22.120 the place down, and that was not unique. It wasn't 48 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:27.240 just Tokyo, it wasn't Hiroshima, it wasn't Nagasaki. Almost every 49 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:32.439 single major Japanese city was being put to the torch. 50 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:35.840 Right now, now, you can say, why were they so 51 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.960 afraid of us taking over? We weren't the Soviets, you know, 52 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:41.159 we weren't going to treat people the way they were 53 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:44.560 treating people. How could you know that if you're a 54 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:48.360 Japanese civilian and your whole family just burnt to death 55 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:51.560 in Tokyo, how are you supposed to sell that family 56 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:53.759 that the Americans are going to be lovely to you, 57 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:56.080 which we turned out to be, but that Americans are 58 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:57.879 going to be kind and lovely to you when you 59 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:01.120 take over. You're not gonna believe that Noma years. You're 60 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:03.800 going to believe the propaganda that the people who just 61 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.000 burnt my whole family to death they will come do 62 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.759 terrible things to me. They will wipe out out my 63 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.479 entire bloodline. We need a divine wind. Now combine that 64 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:16.759 with well, there was a Japanese rear admiral. There were 65 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:18.959 many guys like this, but there was a Japanese rear 66 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:25.000 admiral who believed in suicidal attacks. This story's going to be, uh, 67 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:29.399 not reliable, the one I'm about to say. And it's 68 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.560 going to be not reliable because I think I read 69 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:35.439 five different versions of the story. I'm going to give 70 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:38.800 you the version of the story that was sold to 71 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:43.319 the Japanese people. This rear admiral believed in suicide attacks. 72 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:49.480 He was sending his pilots off to go do attacks. 73 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:52.279 They weren't going off to do suicide attacks, but they 74 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:56.360 were going to do attacks. He chooses, remember he's a 75 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.319 rear admiral, he's a big shot. He chooses to fly 76 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:03.879 with them and in an effort to save the homeland. 77 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:11.360 He crashes his plane intentionally into an American aircraft carrier, 78 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:16.439 causing all kinds of death and destruction, almost sinking it. 79 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:19.639 That is the version that was sold to the American people, 80 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.600 and that may be true. By the way, I got 81 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:25.759 versions of this that said, he missed that. He didn't 82 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:28.480 crash his plane into it all that he tried, but 83 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.000 he dropped the bomb that hit. There are a bunch 84 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.199 of different versions depending on what you read. That's not important. 85 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.759 What is important is the Japanese people. This word spreads 86 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:41.040 far and wide by the government across the country. Look 87 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:44.360 at this hero, Look at this lion. Look at what 88 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.480 he did. Let's build a shrine to him. What a 89 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:52.560 hero of Japan. He is the divine wind. Now, young men, 90 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:54.639 do you want to do the same. Do you think 91 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.240 a country like that would have volunteers? Of course they would. 92 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:01.120 The volunteers start coming in, coming in and coming in. 93 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:06.160 Now America's fleet gets into Layte Gulf of the Philippines. 94 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:08.839 Don't worry about the details. They get to the Philippines 95 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.680 and it is a massive fleet, a massive fleet. This 96 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:16.600 is when MacArthur returned to the Philippines. We're taking back 97 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:23.600 this critically important part. We get a kamikaze, He flies 98 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:28.800 right at the ship, crashes into the ship. At first, 99 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:32.360 the Americans thought the exact same thing you would think. 100 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:36.720 But what an idiot. Must have been an accident. Did 101 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:40.240 he pass out in the cockpit and he did this accident? 102 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:46.360 What a moron? They quickly realized that Japan had changed 103 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:50.839 its tactics. Now let's stop for a second because we 104 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.519 have to talk about a couple nerdy military details that 105 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:57.120 will matter. You know, in all warfare, no matter the age, 106 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:59.800 World War II or ancient Sparta, that doesn't matter what 107 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:04.759 the ages, there's always a development in tactics, in weaponry, 108 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:07.600 and then a counter development. The enemy will do something, 109 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:09.560 you figure out how to counter it. You will do something, 110 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:13.199 the enemy will figure out how to counter it. Americans, 111 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.560 they found out early on in the war that air 112 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.439 power can take out a ship the way our ships 113 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:23.800 were currently configured. What do you do about that? We 114 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:27.959 did a few different things about that, had a few 115 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.759 different things, and so here are the things we had done, 116 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:32.519 And this is going to be important when it comes 117 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:38.160 to the kamikazies themselves. The first thing is, at first 118 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.360 we did not have enough guns anti air guns on 119 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:45.759 these navy ships. You need way more guns than you 120 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:50.600 think you need. It's very, very difficult to shoot a 121 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:55.079 plane out of the sky, even with advanced anti airguns 122 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.959 from a ship. So if you look at any World 123 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:02.759 War two eraship, what ever it is, a battleship, a 124 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:05.639 destroyer does it doesn't matter what it is, you will 125 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:08.319 see what look like. You go look what up right now, 126 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:10.519 as long as you're not driving, you will see what 127 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:16.639 looked like almost big steel coffee cups along the outside 128 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:21.480 of it, little half pods, if you will. Those are 129 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:25.519 gun stations that we had been adding as a country 130 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:29.800 to our ships. We need more guns, more guns. Each 131 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:33.320 one of those little steel coffee cups holds an anti 132 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:38.360 air gun. That's where we're putting our anti air guns in. Okay, Now, 133 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:44.080 we did other things. We even created things like proximity fuses. 134 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:46.240 Remember I just said it's very hard to shoot a 135 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.799 plane out of the sky. It gets a whole lot 136 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.679 easier when you come up with uh, I'll just call 137 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:53.759 it a bullet. When you come up with a bullet 138 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:58.360 that doesn't have to hit the plane. If it gets 139 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:02.559 close to the plane, it will read that it's close 140 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:07.279 to a plane and explode, damaging the plane. That is 141 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.919 a huge advantage when you're trying to shoot these planes down. 142 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:15.320 We had all these things that were done, and there 143 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:18.399 were other things as well, and they were all done 144 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:23.519 in an effort to stop Japanese planes from torpedoing our ships. 145 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:27.399 Remember they had torpedo planes from dive bombing our ships 146 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:31.480 from and these things we had done had proven to 147 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:36.879 be very very effective at stopping what the Japanese had 148 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:43.919 previously been doing. The problem is those things are not 149 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:49.639 nearly as effective against a plane that is trying to 150 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:53.600 crash into you. If he's trying to fly over you 151 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:56.960 and drop a bomb on you and fly away, or 152 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:58.840 he's trying to fly at you, load to the water 153 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:03.039 and drop a torpe and fly away, that's one problem, 154 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.360 and that's a problem you figured out how to deal with. 155 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:08.480 What do you do when he has that bomb and 156 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:11.919 he's not trying to fly away, he's trying to fly 157 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:17.799 it into you. What do you do? What do they do? Well? 158 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:21.840 In the Philippines, we are figuring all this out, and 159 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:26.320 we'll talk about that. Next is the Jesse Kelly Show 160 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:29.799 on what is now completely a history show, apparently tonight 161 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:32.600 talking about the Kamikaze of Japan. We'll get back to 162 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:36.600 our regularly scheduled programming either tonight or tomorrow, maybe next week. 163 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.919 I have no idea. If you want to email the show, 164 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:44.559 you can Jesse at jesse kellyshow dot com. Japanese planes 165 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:48.240 start intentionally crashing it, crashing into our ships when we're 166 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.159 in the Philippines taking back the Philippines. At first we 167 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:57.200 are mortified. We stay mortified, and this is something we 168 00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:01.399 have to discuss here. Remember, wars, especially in the modern era, 169 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:05.799 they really need public support to continue, or in the 170 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:10.879 very least, they can't afford widespread public outrage. By this 171 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:15.600 point in the war, American resolve isn't what it was 172 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:20.039 right after Pearl Harbor. The Americans are tired of their 173 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.159 boys dying, dying in Europe, dying in the Pacific. It's 174 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:27.840 a lot of death, a lot of suns lost. The 175 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:33.919 American military apparatus is horrified by this new Japanese tactic, 176 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:39.159 and so they start lying about it. Initially, they completely 177 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:42.240 banned the press from talking about it, and they started 178 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.519 lying about it. That's how horrified they were by it. Now, 179 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:50.879 let's fast forward past that. How do you handle this? 180 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:54.480 It becomes a problem. The admirals are screaming at the 181 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:58.200 high command. Someone better come up with the plan, because again, 182 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.960 you can't stop the things with anti air for the 183 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.960 most part. And it's just a question of momentum. Even 184 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:08.159 if he's diving right at you, even if you kill 185 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:10.519 the pilot, even if you shoot the plane to bits, 186 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:13.679 momentum says the plane is still going to end up 187 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.279 where it was aimed at before. You can't blow it up. 188 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.519 We don't have missiles. That doesn't work that way. What 189 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:23.080 do you do? We come up with a concept. The 190 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:27.720 concept was essentially the entire anti Kamakazi concept was known 191 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:30.840 as the Big Blue blanket. But here's what the initial 192 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:35.120 concept was. If we can't stop them hitting the ships, 193 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.120 let's stop them on the ground. We have incredible pilots. 194 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:43.120 We having a lot of planes, incredible planes. Let's send 195 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:48.679 them out constantly to look out to take out any 196 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.960 Japanese planes they find that are concentrated on the ground. 197 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:56.600 When you see a Japanese airfield, assume those are all 198 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:59.440 about to be kama kazi's and you take them out 199 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:04.679 on the ground. It was not that effective, somewhat effective, 200 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:08.360 but not that effective. Why Japanese are not stupid either. 201 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:11.240 Always easy to think of your enemy as stupid. The 202 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:13.840 Japanese knew what we were going to do. We'd been 203 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.600 doing this kind of thing. They had built legions of 204 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.120 fake planes and left them out on the runway, and 205 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:23.039 they hid the real planes in the jungle, again, frustrating 206 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:28.240 our efforts. Measures countermeasures, measures, countermeasures, What do you do? 207 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.600 As far as the techniques the planes used, I don't 208 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.919 know which one would be more difficult to deal with. Remember, 209 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:37.799 the Japanese knew, they were well aware that we had radar. 210 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:42.279 Radar was a huge problem for them. We could detect 211 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:46.879 planes coming in. They used a few different techniques. The 212 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:52.080 first one was super low. You fly your plane essentially. 213 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.120 I've seen there's video of this. You can go look 214 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.360 at these kamic cazes. It looks like the plane is 215 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.279 ten feet above the ocean. You're that low, you're off radar. 216 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:05.960 They get a plane flying in that low, oftentimes you 217 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:10.200 can't see him until it's way too late and the 218 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:13.759 radar didn't pick him up, and soon he's slamming his 219 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:17.000 plane into the side of your aircraft carrier and killing 220 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:21.840 three hundred sailors, or they would fly super high. The 221 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:27.679 exact opposite. Cloud cover became a nightmare because the Japanese 222 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:31.399 would stay in the clouds. They would stay in the clouds, 223 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:34.559 and maybe you're sitting there wondering, well, what about the radar. 224 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:39.799 Didn't the radar pick them up? Again? Japanese not stupid radar. 225 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:43.559 Radar then wasn't what radar is now. I know that's 226 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:47.639 kind of an obvious point. But now radar on a ship, 227 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:50.440 it'll tell you everything about that plane you're looking at, 228 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.120 Everything about that plane you're looking at, at least you 229 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:55.879 would know everything about it. Back then, it's just a blip. 230 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:02.039 It's just a blip. The Japanese they would wait until 231 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.559 our planes were coming back from patrol. It was known 232 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.039 as cap combat Air patrol, but that's not important, and 233 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.480 they would hop in behind it. They would fly right 234 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:16.720 behind our combat air patrol. Radar is looking at it. 235 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:20.759 In radar's mind, that's just our boys coming back from 236 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:26.360 combat air patrol. They don't know there are Japanese kama 237 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:30.120 kazis in there. They think our guys are coming back soon. 238 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:35.879 Our ships are being pummeled. Now we win the Philippines. 239 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:40.399 We move on, We move on, We fight Ewojima. In 240 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:46.480 ewo Jima. We do get some a few Kamakazis, but 241 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:51.720 not many, really, not many at all. We think we 242 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:55.519 have stopped this problem. You know, when you get pounded 243 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:58.159 like we did in the Philippines with these things, and 244 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:01.399 then you fight another major war for Ewojima. We needed 245 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:06.799 that Ewojima airfield and you don't get anything near that volume, 246 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:11.080 you think, well, our countermeasure has clearly worked. Clearly the 247 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:14.960 big blue blanket worked. We are good to go. We 248 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:20.480 take Ewojima, we take the airfield. Then we move to 249 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:25.960 the worst moment in US Navy history, far worse than 250 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:29.159 Pearl Harbor was, and most people don't even know about it. 251 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.559 It was the Battle of Okinawa. And I will try 252 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:36.519 to finish this story next. It is the Jesse Kelly 253 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:39.840 Show on a wonderful Tuesday, trying to finish up our 254 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.919 our Kama Kazi history. Actually I'm not even trying. I'm 255 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:46.720 having myself a good time. So the Japanese have tested 256 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:50.240 kama Kazi's in the Philippines and had some success. Then 257 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:54.039 we took Ewojima. Now I need to explain once again 258 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:58.519 the B twenty nine super Fortress in what it was 259 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:03.440 doing to mainland Pan already. Because this really drives home 260 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:06.960 the fear they had had. The B twenty nine super 261 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:11.759 Fortress was our bomber, our new bomber. I personally, I 262 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:14.720 am a huge fan of the B seventeen Flying Fortress. 263 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.559 You've seen those the movie Memphis Bell, You've seen those 264 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.720 BE seventeen Flying Fortresses. It's my favorite plane. Ever, I 265 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:24.119 admit that the B twenty nine super Fortress is better 266 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:27.240 than it in every way. It's bigger, faster, more range, 267 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:32.519 in every possible way. It was a super plane. It 268 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:39.759 also flew at thirty thousand feet. The Japanese over cities 269 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:44.200 like Tokyo. They did not have an anti air gun 270 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:50.519 or a fighter plane that could reach thirty thousand feet. 271 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:56.359 Not only were these super bombers laying waste to Japanese cities, 272 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:03.400 the Japanese were completely helpless to stop them. Picture what 273 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.640 that feels like. You don't have a weapon to stop 274 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:11.920 the super bomber from wiping you out. And this is 275 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:16.039 what they think is coming for every inch of Japan. 276 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:21.000 That is truly Godzilla. It's what they think is coming. 277 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:27.680 It's already arriving. Then America lands the largest fleet man 278 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:32.480 ever created outside of Okinawa. The Marines, the Armies, they 279 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:34.079 go on to fight Okinawa. We're not going to go 280 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.480 into that's a whole other story. Horrible fighting Okinawa. The 281 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:41.920 Japanese had like one hundred thousand troops. There was crazy, bloody, awful. 282 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:48.599 We have this huge fleet outside of Okinawa. They decide 283 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.839 this is their moment to send the divine wind because 284 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.640 if America takes Okinawa, they know the B twenty nine's 285 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.319 will simply rain hell all over Japan and they are 286 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:04.359 powerless to stop it. So they send waves and waves. 287 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:09.799 We have not found in appropriate countermeasure yet. So I 288 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:12.039 touched on this a couple of nights ago, maybe last night. 289 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:15.400 Came up with a new concept. This whole flying around 290 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:17.359 looking for the planes on the ground thing obviously was 291 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:19.519 not working. They were hiding their planes. It wasn't working. 292 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:25.200 We came up with picket stations. They were called and 293 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:28.160 these men. You probably have never heard of these men 294 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:31.480 unless you're a World War two buff They deserve so 295 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:38.559 much of your respect. We had fifteen picket stations draw 296 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:43.680 a big circle, a big ring around Okinawa and mark 297 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:49.839 fifteen different stations. What they were was a few smaller ships. 298 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:53.079 We're not talking big battleships and aircraft carriers. We didn't 299 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:56.640 want to waste our most prize ships on this. We 300 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:02.000 would send a few ships out so there radar could 301 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:07.680 pick up the Japanese planes coming from mainland Japan early 302 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:12.079 enough that we could send our planes up and take 303 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:16.759 out the Japanese kamikaze before they hit our ships. Because 304 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:20.200 because that is really the only super effective way to 305 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:24.440 do it. The Japanese actually had a suicide rocket plane. 306 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:26.480 It's amazing. It was called the Oka. It was known 307 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.200 as the Oka. It didn't end up doing a ton 308 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:32.359 of damage because they had to attach it to the 309 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:36.599 bottom of a Japanese bomber and it couldn't take off 310 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:39.039 her land. Chris, the Oka could not take off her land. 311 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:41.279 They had to attach it to the bottom of the bomber. 312 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:44.680 The bomber would have to fly towards the American fleet. 313 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:48.839 Then the pilot would crawl down get in the Oka. 314 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:53.359 It was a suicide bomb essentially, and it was rocket propelled. 315 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:56.319 It was going six hundred miles an hour. He would 316 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:58.720 break off the Betty break off of the bomber. Sorry, 317 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:01.680 was called a betty. Break off the Japanese bomber and 318 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:04.519 zoom towards our ships. Your anti air has no chance 319 00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:07.680 of stopping that none. But we figured out quickly it's 320 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:10.519 actually not a big deal. The Oka might be fast, 321 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:14.279 but the Betty ain't. Let's go shoot the Betty out 322 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:16.119 of the sky before the OCA ever takes off. So 323 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:19.400 we figured out, you have to catch the Kama Kazis 324 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:24.119 before they get to your ship. They are reigning hell 325 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:28.400 on the United States Navy outside of Okinawa. Did you know? 326 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:36.039 Did you know that we lost roughly twenty six twenty 327 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:40.599 seven hundred Americans live lofts in Afghanistan? Did you know that? 328 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:45.920 Did you know we lost five thousand American sailors outside 329 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:52.319 of Okinawa because of Kama Kazi's Double the deadliest battle 330 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:56.640 by far in US Navy history. It was not one 331 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:01.319 Kama Kazi here or one Kama Kazi there. They would 332 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:05.000 come in waves, they would come alone, they would come 333 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:09.880 at night, they would come during the day, and they 334 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:13.440 were killing us. The thought was one plane, one ship, 335 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:16.799 That's what the Japanese were selling. And so we sent 336 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:21.200 these brave men out on picket stations. But remember, put 337 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:24.480 yourself in the mind of a seventeen year old young 338 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:28.000 Japanese man, you're scared out of your mind. Maybe you volunteered, 339 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:30.960 maybe you were voluntold. But you know it's a one 340 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:34.319 way trip. Now I need to pausit real quick. Why 341 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:37.279 is it a one way trip? Oh? They use words 342 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:40.839 like shame. Oh, your family will be shamed. You know 343 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:44.680 what that looks like in Japan. Most of these men 344 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:51.400 came from rural areas, small Japanese villages where everyone works together, 345 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:57.039 everyone knows each other, everyone supports each other. If word 346 00:22:57.079 --> 00:23:02.319 got back that your son chicken down, your son didn't 347 00:23:02.319 --> 00:23:07.039 give his life to the emperor, the entire family would 348 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:12.400 possibly starve to death. The entire family would possibly be 349 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:16.599 jumped by the other villagers and beaten to a pulp. 350 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:20.599 That is how big of a deal the shame was 351 00:23:20.680 --> 00:23:23.519 back home. So now you're a seventeen year old young 352 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:26.799 Japanese pilot, you understand this is a one way trip. 353 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.920 There's nothing you can do about that. You obviously you'd 354 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:34.799 like to take out an aircraft carrier, but you're gonna 355 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:38.319 take out the first American ship. You see, You're gonna 356 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:40.599 be tempted to take out the first American ship, you see, 357 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:43.640 especially because remember about one in ten of these pilots 358 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:46.559 actually made it to their destination, made it to the ship. 359 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:49.359 We are shooting down a bunch. You know, your odds 360 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:53.240 aren't great. So you come across a picket station, a 361 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:57.960 few little dinky destroyers down there. Screw this carrier stuff. 362 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:00.640 I'm going into a dive and I'm getting I'm getting 363 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:06.200 mine right now. Our men died in droves, in these 364 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:10.160 pickets and droves. That's a medal of honor citation. I 365 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:15.559 read McCool from yesterday last night, hour two. That's where 366 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:20.119 he earned his Medal of honor. Men dying on his ship, 367 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:23.799 men burning. They were on a picket station and a 368 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:30.720 kami kazi came screaming in and took him out. I'm 369 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:32.599 gonna wrap this thing up here. I think that's probably 370 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:35.279 about as much about kamakzes as you need to learn 371 00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:40.880 from me. After Okinawa, of course, we dropped the atom 372 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:45.039 bombs and Japan ends up surrendering, and you understand all that. 373 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:47.599 But I want to repeat what I told you earlier. 374 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:53.400 They had legions of these prepped and ready to go 375 00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:57.640 for our invasion of Japan. We discovered things after we 376 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:03.119 occupied Japan that blew us away. And while the Marines 377 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:06.799 in the Army they were dying on Okinawa, the brave 378 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:11.240 men in the United States Navy, they would wake up 379 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:15.039 and just look at the sky and just wait, and 380 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:18.240 they knew today might be the day you burn to death. 381 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:24.200 You're scalded to death. You drown because the Kamakazies would 382 00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:27.279 come screaming in and they'd smash into the elevator on 383 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:30.480 the aircraft carrier. So now it's all the fuel and bombs, 384 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:34.079 or they'd smash into essentially the command structure. Now your 385 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:40.680 commander is blown up. Now you're five thousand sailors lost 386 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:48.240 in Okinawa. Now something to marinate on. As we brought 387 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:55.720 up last night, is that suicide? That? Yeah? But do 388 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:58.160 you understand them a little bit more now than you 389 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:03.480 did before. I don't know that I've ever researched a 390 00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:08.599 history topic that interested me and had my mind change 391 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:11.880 as much as it changed when I was reading about 392 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:15.200 these young men, young men who are still celebrated in 393 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.920 Japanese museums to this day. You can show up, you 394 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:24.920 can read their names, you can read their letters home foolhardy, 395 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:29.240 evil by the government no question about it. But young 396 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:32.480 men giving their lives to try to save their country 397 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:37.200 from total destruction. That's the story of the Kamikaze. Let's 398 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:39.480 do a couple of political things before we check out it. Here, 399 00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:44.119 shall we? It is The Jesse Kelly Show. Final segment 400 00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:46.240 of The Jesse Kelly Show, and what has been a 401 00:26:46.279 --> 00:26:50.799