What Happened When Kamikaze Pilots Failed or Wimped Out? (Short Animated Documentary) — Transcript

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1. 0:01you had one job most people have heard
2. 0:04of kamikaze pilots young men who were
3. 0:06tasked with crashing their planes into
4. 0:08enemy warships these pilots could
5. 0:10ideally accurately target important
6. 0:12parts of ships and do more damage than a
7. 0:14traditional bombing run also it was
8. 0:16believed that the display of a kamikaze
9. 0:17pilot willingly sacrificing themselves
10. 0:19for Japan would demoralize the enemy now
11. 0:21the effects of kamikaze attacks are well
12. 0:23debated but something not spoken about
13. 0:25is what happened when they failed what
14. 0:28was to become of a kamikaze pilot that
15. 0:29Eva missed or wimped out so some
16. 0:32background as of 1944 things weren't
17. 0:34exactly going great for Japan and the
18. 0:36only hope of preventing America from
19. 0:38defeating them was to destroy or at
20. 0:39least their capital ships most
21. 0:41importantly their aircraft carriers
22. 0:42simply attacking the ships with
23. 0:44conventional means was too costly for
24. 0:46Japan as such taking young pilots
25. 0:48sticking them into planes loaded with
26. 0:49explosives and then ordering them to fly
27. 0:51into critical parts of enemy ships was
28. 0:53deemed to be a better strategy the men
29. 0:54chose him for this weren't just some
30. 0:56random champs but were some of the most
31. 0:57gifted pilots in Japan the training was
32. 0:59harsh but the rations were much better
33. 1:01and culturally kamikaze pilots were
34. 1:03revered pilots were expected to reflect
35. 1:05on death in their time off to prepare
36. 1:06them for their upcoming mission yet for
37. 1:08some this preparation and love that
38. 1:10Japan wasn't enough to get them to
39. 1:11introduce their face to the deck of an
40. 1:13American warship so what happened to
41. 1:15failed kamikaze pilots well many were
42. 1:17shot down before they even completed
43. 1:19their mission or could get there some
44. 1:21hit the wrong part of the ship or miss
45. 1:22completely and fell into the ocean we're
46. 1:24providing they survived they'd be
47. 1:25captured and taken to a prisoner of war
48. 1:27camp and before continuing there's a
49. 1:29common misconception that kamikaze
50. 1:31pilots were only given half a tank of
51. 1:32fuel to ensure they couldn't come back
52. 1:34which isn't true also there were
53. 1:36legitimate reasons for a pilot to turn
54. 1:38around and losing a world trained
55. 1:39kamikaze to a malfunction would be a
56. 1:41waste and the entire reason why Japan
57. 1:43turned to this strategy in the first
58. 1:44place was because their resources
59. 1:46including pilots were limited so pilots
60. 1:48that turned around because of technical
61. 1:50issues or bad weather would face no
62. 1:51consequences because it wasn't their
63. 1:53fault better luck next time and there
64. 1:54was going to be a next time those that
65. 1:56returned due to less easy to confirm
66. 1:58reasons like enemy resistance or the
67. 2:00inability to find their target would be
68. 2:01chastised and the number of these cases
69. 2:03was alleviated by undertaking kamikaze
70. 2:05attacks in groups and also getting the
71. 2:07pilots drunk so they wouldn't think too
72. 2:08much about the whole dying thing however
73. 2:10when only one survivor returned he
74. 2:12looked quite suspicious but remain
75. 2:13kamikaze pilots were valuable resources
76. 2:15and so Japan wanted to utilize every
77. 2:17single one of them thus no punishment
78. 2:19back out you go now there was a limit to
79. 2:21how often someone could return for
80. 2:23example there was one pilot that
81. 2:24returned nine times before he was
82. 2:26executed for cowardice for most pilots
83. 2:28though returning from a suicide mission
84. 2:30was to an extent expected in in many
85. 2:32cases not something that would get you
86. 2:33imprisoned or shocked like all resources
87. 2:35during the Second World War
88. 2:36Japan had to conserve who make the best
89. 2:38use of his kamikaze pilots if it were to
90. 2:40compete with the industrial might of the
91. 2:41United States had given that a single
92. 2:44kamikaze pilot could fit an aircraft
93. 2:45carrier out of commission for mumps they
94. 2:47were seen as something not to be wasted
95. 2:49hence while returning kamikaze pilots
96. 2:51weren't often punished I hope you
97. 2:52enjoyed this episode and thank you for
98. 2:54watching but thanks to my patreon
99. 2:55supporters whom you can see on screen
100. 2:57now and with an extra special thanks to
101. 2:59James Bissonnette Ike Danny Maloney
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103. 3:03Waterhouse Erin the white Jordan long
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106. 3:08Marcus Ozma Maggie packs Kowski David
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