History Buffs: Midway Part Two - العناوين المزدوجة
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Hello and welcome history buffs, my name is Nick Hodges and here is part 2 of my Midway review.
Thank you all so much for your patience and I hope you enjoy!
The Japanese carrier air group finally entered Midway's airspace, with the sound of their engines roaring over the horizon.
The islands inhabitants sprang to life, everyone rushed to their posts, manned their guns, and braced themselves for the onslaught.
The sky then swarmed with 109 enemy planes,
bombing and strafing the base at will,
but But no to decimated Midway's air defenses,
the Japanese soon realized that the planes that were supposed to hit were not parked in the runway as expected.
They were instead flying towards the Japanese carriers.
The Midway Island's air group was made up of 40 torpedo planes and bombers,
and by 10 past 7,
around the time they were supposed to be missing,
the Americans were right on top of the them,
but if surprise had been on their side,
it was squandered,
as many of the American pilots were rookies and had only recently finished flight school,
and now they are flying into a hornet's nest, being ripped apart by Japanese combat air patrol zeros and anti-aircraft fire.
The B-26's didn't fare much better,
as these medium bombers weren't really designed from naval warfare,
because when you're flying at 20,000 feet, it's almost impossible to score a hit if your target is moving.
So far, the Midway Islands are strong.
strike has ended in complete failure, without a single torpedo of bomb hitting its mark.
But despite his forces coming out on top, Nogumo was still taken aback.
He had been expecting to catch the US airbase off guard, just like at Pearl Harbor, but this time they were expecting him.
Whilst few American planes that survived now flying back to Midway to refuel,
and since the The island's defences hadn't been taken out, they still posed a threat, and that is when Naguma made his fateful decision.
According to Japanese doctrine, Naguma kept half his aircraft in reserve.
All of them armed with torpedoes and anti-ship bombs just in case any American carriers turned up.
But since Naguma wasn't expecting to see any for the next few days, he felt safe enough to order.
of them to be re-armed with land-based bombs and hit mid-way again.
Now the process of re-arming these planes with different weapons isn't quick,
it can take an hour or two before they're all ready to launch,
and just as they were half way through at 7.40am, this happened.
And now, it's and let them personally.
it, talking me.
I don't to but life.
So there's a quick thing I need to mention, Nogumo's decision to rearm his planes wasn't the main issue.
What the film doesn't mention is that later at 8.20am, Nogumo received a second message confirming the presence of at least one carrier.
This couldn't have come into worse time because the planes here seemed to sent to Midway,
were on their way back, and they needed to land and refuel, so did the zero circling above his fleet in their combat's air patrol.
Nagumo's dilemma wasn't so much, do I rearm my planes with anti-ship bombs?
It was,
do I launch now with what I have,
or do I wait to recover all my planes, refuel them, rearm them, and then launch a fully-coordinated air patrol.
strike against that carrier, my primary target.
He chose to do the latter in the end, which cost him time.
Time he did not have,
because the Enterprise and the Hornet had already launched their planes over an hour earlier,
and squadrons of torpedo planes and dive bombers were well on their way.
Meanwhile, just beneath the waves, lurked another threat.
An American submarine.
the USS Nautilus had stumbled upon the Japanese fleet during her patrol.
At 8.24 a.m.
she rose to periscope death and found herself right in the middle of the entire Japanese fleet and spent the
rest of that morning being attacked by aircraft and death charges.
Now all of this is true,
but where the movie differs slightly from history is when we see the Nautilus fire to torpedo and a Japanese carrier to hear you.
It the hear you she fired at, but a battleship called the Kiroshima, and just like we see here, that torpedo also missed its mark.
So you have a little creative licensing going on,
but it's not a big deal,
because the threat of the Norse list was very real indeed, and an order was given that would have grave consequences for the Japanese.
After fending off attacks from Midway all morning,
at 9.17am,
Nagumo had finally finished recovering his aircraft, and was at this crucial moment that his scout planes reported the presence of all the American carriers.
Nagumo gave the order to immediately change course from Midway and head northeast towards the U.S.
fleet.
With all his planes recovered,
Nagumo now just needed 45 minutes to launch his airstrike and win the war,
but barely a few moments later, a 9-20 AM, an American torpedo squadron from the USS Hornet arrived.
But as the planes got closer, the Japanese were completely baffled to see.
They had come without fighter escort.
The for this was because the American launches earlier that morning had been a mess.
Problems with various planes caused delays in the flight deck and as a result,
squadrons were ordered to get going as soon as they were airborne and not to wait around for the other planes to catch up.
So in the end there are all of these more scattered groups flying off of different directions on their own,
with no idea what the other groups were.
So when this torpedo squadron started their attack run,
they knew that without fighter escort,
the chances of making back a life were slim,
but the skippers told them that even if there was only one plane left, he wanted that man to go in and get a hit.
And that's exactly it.
what they did.
The American pilots bravely held their course as they were met with a heavy screen of anti-aircraft fire.
Chugging along above the water surface, these slow lumbering planes were easy prey for the zeros.
Left and right they were dropping like flies until there was only one man left, Ensign George Gay.
He was the only one to get close enough to a carrier.
saw you and drop his torpedo but the very last minute he missed and shortly after he crashed into the water but survived.
However in the movie they changed this small historic moment and give it to an American
pilot from another torpedo squadron Lieutenant Commander Eugene Lindsey but he did not survive his run.
Another change the movie made was had Lindsey's torpedo squadron be the first to engage the Japanese when it was really George Gay's squadron.
But regardless who was sent in first, all three torpedo squadrons met the same fate.
41 torpedo bomber sent in, 35 was shot down, without a single one landing a hit.
So far the Americans were losing, and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Nimitz had thrown everything he had into this battle.
He had nothing left in reserve to challenge the Japanese with.
But even though torpedo squadrons were being massacred, they still made a difference.
was preparing to launch his Counter Strike, but kept getting delayed because his flight decks were occupied with replenishing his fighters.
Whilst his bombers were waiting down below in the hangar decks,
fully fueled and ready to go, but in the chaos of rearming them, the hangar crews had not safely stowed away the land bombs.
To save time, they had just placed them up against the bulkheads.
which was extremely dangerous.
Meanwhile, the American dive bombers were only just behind the torpedo squadrons.
But by the time they arrived at their given coordinates, the Japanese carriers were long gone.
Despite low on fuel,
Wade McCluskey,
the commander of the bombing group,
ordered a box search, and just by chance at 9.55am, he spotted a white wake left behind by a lone Japanese destroyer.
It was the Arashii, which had stayed behind a pinned island.
the Nautilus.
quickly arranged onto the flight decks,
but just as they were warming up their engines, the dive bombers from Enterprise and Yorktown appeared out of the clouds 20,000 feet up.
Distracted by the attack from the last of the torpedo squadrons, there were no more zero fighters left above to provide cover.
numerous carriers were left completely defenseless.
This the moment, and all the American squadrons rolled into their dive and started their attack.
About down, anti-aircraft fire was booming all around them.
Puffs of black smoke filled the sky with flak.
In the fog of war, both squadrons for enterprise briefly forgot their training and went after carrier.
When what's supposed to happen is if there's more than one carrier,
the squadron goes after the furthest one away and the tail squadron attacks the closest one.
But at the last minute's commander Dick best recognized the problem and with two other bombers broke off and went after the jacket.
Japanese flagship, the Akagi.
Meanwhile, the other squadrons plummeted towards their carriers at a steep 70-degree dive.
The bursting shells of anti-aircraft fire were steadily creeping up behind them, trying to keep up.
The pilots almost had to push their throttles through the instrument panel to avoid them, all the while staying focused on keeping the carriers crosshairs.
Down in the water below, George Gay found himself a front row seat to the greatest show on earth.
The dye bombers continued screaming down towards the carriers and it wasn't until about 1,800 feet when they finally began to pull up and yank the release lever then it
was bombers away.
On the bridge of the hair you, Rhea Admiral Yamaguchi could only watch in horror.
as the cargo was hit, then the saw you by three bombs from Yorktown's dive bombers.
Not even the Akagi could escape, as she tried desperately to steer away from danger.
Dick Best and two of his wingmen were on her in a matter of seconds.
When Best released his bomb, his was the only one to score a hit, but it landed in the most devastating place possible.
The only one What happened next occurred on all three carriers.
Fire started spreading uncontrollably, creating the perfect conditions for an inferno.
Flames leapt onto gasoline hoses snaked across the decks, igniting torpedoes, bombs and planes.
causing a chain reaction of secondary explosions.
Things got so bad that Nagumo had to abandon his flagship, the Akagi, and relocated to a cruiser.
The carry left untouched in all of this was to hear you.
Now, you'd think were the losses they just suffered that the Japanese would call it a day,
especially with the odds no longer in their favor.
But no,
they crack on and kept steaming on towards the Americans, and within 30 minutes, the here you launched a full counter-struck against the Yorktown.
Unfortunately though, this barely gets mentioned in the movie, it's like if you blink you miss it.
And that is literally it.
Obviously the Yorktown's for survival was cut for time,
which is understandable but still a shame,
because what happened was very dramatic, as the Yorktown was hit by not one but two separate waves from the hear you.
When the Japanese were picked up on Yorktown's radar at 1152,
they immediately flooded the fewer lines of carbon dioxide,
so when the Yorktown was hit in that first wave her crew was quickly able to prep it.
fires, so much so that when the Japanese hit the Yorktown again at 230, they thought she was a completely different carrier.
In Nagumo's mind,
Aniyama Motos, who was 600 miles away with his fleet of battleships, they may have had only one carrier left, but so did the Americans.
By the time the American pilots returned, they were drained and exhausted.
Instead of feeling jubilant for what they accomplished, the mood was poignant and bleak.
A quick glance at the board said it all,
the true cost to their morning's victory could be counted by the empty bunk beds in their sleeping quarters.
An empty The in the ready room,
roughly half the men that went into the fray, were now reported dead or missing, and the torpedo squadrons had suffered the most.
But battle was not yet over, there was still one more carrier out there.
The order was given to round up all the pilots left that could still fly for one final big push at 3.30 p.m.
combined at 3 A group from Enterprise and the survivors of Yorktown launched off the flight decks to find the HAYU,
and minutes later, around was when they finally did.
Unlike the last three carriers, the HAYU, used Combat Air Patrol were circling high above the Japanese fleet.
The zeros climbed to 19,000 feet to engage the dive bombers, but just like the Americans, they were also exhausted.
They been flying since before dawn and were barely functioning.
It also didn't help that this time, they were the ones outnumbered.
They're 13 fighters against the 25 American dive bombers.
The dogfights could only hold them off for so long before eventually, enough broke through to begin their dives.
Almost the entire fleet opened up, the sky turned black from shell bursts.
With complete disregard for their own lives,
some of the zeros follow the Americans down in their dives, into incoming friendly fire just for a chance to kill their enemy.
For the next 22 seconds,
the Americans dodged falling planes,
flak and tracer rounds, before finally reaching their drop point and seeing their red rising sun shine brightly on the flight deck.
The bullseye.
In just seconds, the hair you were struck by four bombs, and burned from stem to stern, turning it into a floating wreck.
From point on, the Battle of Midway was pretty much over.
Some isolated incidents continued into the night, but by the next morning, even Yamamoto had to face reality.
His plan had backfired spectacularly and cost Japan 4 aircraft carriers.
That's 2 thirds of a total fleet carriers, as well as 3000 lives and 275 planes.
against 307 American dead, 145 aircraft and one carrier, the Yorktown.
To the Japanese, this was a loss so grievous that the Empire would never recover.
To give you an idea of how significant this was,
by the end of 1942, the United States was building five new carriers, whilst Japan was building only one.
But losing those carriers meant much more than losing the ships.
The Butai was 15 years in the making.
This potent naval aviation weapon system was only so because of the men who served the boards,
the crews,
the mechanics,
technicians, pilots, officers, observers, all that wealth of experience that made everything run like Hawkwork gone, and the Bling
of an eye and that's something you can't replace, not all at once.
The had turned and Japan will be on the defensive for the rest of the war.
America's victory in Midway also shortened the fighting by at least a year and saved the lives of hundreds of thousands if not
millions of lives.
In end, Japan got their Trafalgar.
They just never assumed that they will be on the losing side.
Despite this indisputable fact, Japan stubbornly continued its conquest at the Pacific, even though its states were numbered and supply lines stretched thin.
In order to stop her advance altogether,
the Allies now had to defeat Japan on land,
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the-largest island on the planet,
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So here's something I bet you thought I'd never say.
Roland Emmerich has made a historically accurate movie.
I'm not even joking.
This guy, the director of 10,000 BC and the Patriot, has done a 180 for making historically an accurate crap to Midway.
A movie so accurate I struggle to find anything significantly wrong with it and believe me I tried.
But despite my biases of the man, even I have to acknowledge what he's done here.
Midway feels like an old fashioned war movie from the 60s and 70s, just with CGI instead of practical effects.
Where every character in every character every scene and much of the dialogue is all based on real history.
The type of movie where history is used as a to tell a story, not a guideline.
These are the types of films that history buffs love to watch, which is why I'm so surprised that Roland Emmerich even made this.
History may be a passionate audience, but we're also a niche one.
That's why Hollywood doesn't like catering to us.
the time.
Because in order to get a film like Midway right,
you need a huge cast of characters, with no focused screen time on the central protagonists, and tons of exposition.
There's no time to faff about with character development when you have all this history to plow through.
And most people don't like these kinds of films, which comes as no surprise that Midway wasn't well received when it came out.
Some of the criticisms I understand,
but there are also some who assume that because it's Roland's Emric,
he has Hollywood-Eyes history,
because there are several scenes that appear to be so epic, and so over the top, that it must be fiction.
Like moment comes to mind is when Bruno Guido's on the flight deck, and he sees five Japanese high-level bombers approach at the Enterprise.
The planes drop their payloads,
but miss,
and are eventually driven away by the ship's anti-aircraft guns,
all except one plane that gets winged in the attack and turns around for a suicidal swoop to crash into the Enterprise.
Guido sees this and immediately jumps into a park's plane to shoot it down.
Because of his bravery, he saves the ship and is immediately promoted on the spot by Admiral Halsey himself.
Now, we've all watched the scene a million times in other movies, but this did actually happen.
A shows it exactly how it went down.
and he started shooting at him like this.
As the bomber crosses over the deck, it's right wing shears off the tail section of Geider's plane.
Ten minutes after that was over, Paulsy called down and said, who was that guy in the rear seat of that airplane fired at the...
attacking plane and he said send him up to the bridge.
The Admiral says what is your name?
And they said Bruno Giro.
What rate are you Bruno?
Maybe it's your machine that's made through class.
They said Bruno you are now aviation machine that's made first class.
another really cool moments later on, where a similar sort of thing happens but to the Japanese instead.
It's when Agumo's fleet are being attacked by American bombers from Midway and one of them gets hit and deliberately dives down to crash into Agumo's flagship.
get shot down and as it comes diving down the pilot seems to have set a cause to crash into the
flagship and comes within the pretty short compass of running straight into the pin and his command
team but if received from this movie that blew me away, it would have to be this one.
Unbelievably, about a month before the Battle of Midway, the Japanese were playing a war game and one
of the junior officers who was playing the Americans placed his fleet almost exactly
what the Americans were going to be and his superiors were furious when he did this.
Thank you.
I was just afraid.
I knew it was just why I should feature the hidden events.
It was a way to I had never done about it before,
it good well all the It's one of those things where you're like, wait, what?
They actually predicted how the battle is going to play out in a war game.
Now, I will admit that it's difficult to verify if this story is 100% true.
Most of the people who were there like Yamamoto or Nagumo died during the war,
so those or Nagumo Some of the details reported really are hearsay,
but at the end of the day, it's not like the filmmakers made this up.
They clearly did their research and figured that it would make a great scene in the movie, which it is.
Until also goes far to say that even when Midway is inaccurate, it still manages to be historically authentic.
For example, there's a short scene in the movie where the crew of the USS Nautilus are listening to Radio Tokyo.
These were English-speaking propaganda programs that were broadcasted over the Pacific on shortwave, and they were specifically intended for American GIs.
They would play all the latest hits to encourage them to listen, and then an English-speaking woman would announce.
There are about 20 of these English-speaking women who were known collectively as Tokyo Rose,
and they were tried to demoralize American soldiers by saying stuff like their wives were cheating on them back home,
that they were all going to die fighting this war, and they were now all orphans in the Pacific.
However, the earliest these pro- programs could have started was late 1942, but more likely by the summer or autumn of 1943.
So Midway is taking a small liberty by having Tokyo Rose play much earlier in April 1942.
But the filmmakers do this so they can have this great transition to the do-little raid.
I have to say, if a movie's inaccuracy is still based on history, then that's a huge improvement for Roland Emric.
Of course there are a few more midway than just one, but they're not really worth complaining about.
Like the bit where Do Little gives his big speech on the hornet about their mission to bomb Japan.
I mean, if you want to be technical about it, you point out the Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281.
They failed, but they certainly hit Japan's home territory.
But you know what, maybe do little didn't know that, so I'm gonna give the movie a pass on that one.
I'll also do that.
same for this throw we lined the beginning of the movie.
Ruger, Ranger, Yorktown, Enterprise, Wasp and the Hornet, but technically what he said
is correct, because just referring to the Pacific Theatre, and December 1941 the only had three.
The others were the Atlantic and prioritized for that theatre.
Reason because Roosevelt had decided on a Germany first policy,
where it was agreed that the third Reich was the greatest threats and needed to be dealt with first.
So King was working with fewer resources against the Japanese.
That's why I assume he's being a little hyperbolic him.
Anyway, as you can see Roland Emric has really made an effort this time round to make a historically accurate film.
I never thought I would say this, but I'm actually impressed.
There's very little for me to pick apart in Midway,
accuracy-wise,
and if it continues like this, then I look forward to watching his films in the future, something I thought I would never say.
Having said that, there is one moment in the movie that comes close to undermining the good work he has done.
It's a misguided creative decision that I feel is an appropriate at best,
and depending on which part of the world you're from, offensive at worst.
It's at the very end credit where a text pops up saying,
this film is dedicated to the American and Japanese sailors who fought at Midway.
The sea remembers its own.
Now, this should go without saying, but before I continue, I have nothing against contemporary Japanese society.
I genuinely believe that there are force for good in this world, and if enriched all our lives with its technology, arts and culture.
There's much more to it.
respect and admire by the Japanese people of today.
However, I don't feel the same way about the Imperial Japanese armed forces of the Second World War.
For all in Denmark to put them on the same level as their American counterparts is not poignant, it's just wrong.
Let me put it to you like this.
If they remade the battle of Britain today, how do you think people would react to the end credits it said?
This movie is dedicated to the pilot to the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.
They would be up in arms, screaming bloody murder and you know it.
So if people have this gut reaction with Nazi Germany then why is it not the same with the Japanese Empire?
Especially their war crimes were just as abhorrent and evil.
Well truth is that people in western countries tend to be generally ignorant.
into what the Japanese did in World War II,
and he'd assumed the same would be the case with Roland Emric if it wasn't for the fact that he researched the hell out of this movie,
and he even mentioned some of their atrocities.
Like at the end credits,
another text pops up saying, the Imperial Japanese army killed an estimated 250,000 Chinese civilians for helping do little and his men escape.
This to visualise that number for a second,
that's a quarter of a million people murdered as punishment for a raid that caused very little damage.
This of sadistic cruelty hadn't been seen by a foreign invader in China since the days of Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes.
Now some people might point out yes, but the atrocities in China were committed by the Imperial Japanese others.
army.
This film was dedicated to the sailors, the Japanese Navy.
Well, the truth is that the Navy was just as guilty of war crimes as the army was, and Roland Emerick even
showed some of them.
In the Battle of Midway, Ensign Franco Flaherty and his Gunner Bruner Gaido, the same Bruner Gaido mentioned earlier, were shot down during a dogfight.
They managed to inflate the rubber life raft in time when they dished them.
the but tragically they were picked up by a Japanese destroyer, the Makigumo.
By this point in the battle,
the Akagi, the cargo and the saw you were up in flames, and the two airmen were greeted by a vengeful crew.
These Japanese sailors for the first time had tasted defeat, and were eager to take out their anger on the Americans for losing face.
Now, in the movie, this interrogation is far more cordial than what actually happened.
Bruner guided a cheekily asked for a cigarette and the captain reciprocates.
All just so Roland Embrich can have guided to deliver this stupid line.
In reality the pair of them were beaten horribly and after confessing everything they knew,
the captain ordered that they be tied up to the weighted fuel cans, but in the movie they use an anchor.
Guido and Eflarity screamed for mercy as they were dragged to the stern, but no avail.
They dumped overboard like refuse and drowned.
Something else the movie doesn't show is that Eflarity and Guido weren't the only American prisoners murdered at Midway.
There was also Ensign Wesley Osmis, who was one of the pilots from the failed torpedo bomber attack.
His plane also crashed, and he was picked up by the Arashi, the same destroyer that was hunting the Nautilus.
Despite displaying almost suicidal bravery during his attack run, you'd think the Japanese would be into that.
The same decision was made.
After beating the information out of him, Commander Watanabe ordered his execution.
A and a Japanese sailor swung a fire axe at his neck, but failed to behead him.
Oswas was knocked over the rail, but managed to cling onto the ship's chain railing.
The sailor struck him once more with the axe, and the American fell to his death.
Another atrocity committed by Japanese sailors who fought at Midway was on a heavy cruiser called the Tone.
That was the ship's reconnaissance plane spotted the attack.
American fleets during the battle.
On 9th of March 1944, they had been assigned to commerce raiding in the Indian Ocean, when sank a British merchant ship called the Behar.
The survivors were fished out of the water,
and after 10 days in captivity, 70 were assembled on the stern and ordered for disposal by Adron Aomassus Akondu.
This instruction was due to a standing order.
ordered by the Imperial Japanese Navy, first issued a submarine a earlier, but later amended for warships.
The read, Do stop at the sinking of enemy ships and cargoes at the same time, carry out the complete destruction of the crews.
The survivors of the Berha were kicked in the stomach and testicles by their eager captors,
then one by one, the heads were chopped off and their bodies were kicked off thrown overboard for the sharks.
This sadistic behavior by Japanese sailors can be seen in every country they occupied,
and a large part of it could be explained by their training.
Instilled into them on day one, the same way it was also done in the army.
The officers would physically beat their recruits for the smallest infraction, who, in turn, would take out their anger and frustration.
on the only people lower than them.
The soldiers were forced into a slave mentality towards their offices.
There was no concept of human rights.
The result was that when they were sent abroad, they in turn thought it okay to act brutally against people they saw as inferiors.
These inferiors included prisoners of war and the subjugated people they conquered because to surrender was dishonorable and if they had any honor,
then they would have died protecting it.
So each time a new territory was occupied, the officers allowed?
Even the troops to run amok in an orgy of rape and murder.
Brainwashed by years of racism and xenophobia.
mercy of the Japanese were considered non-entities.
That meant their worthless lives belong to the Emperor and is devout warriors, to do with as they pleased.
When we went searching for food, we found women hiding.
We thought, oh, they look tasty.
So we raped them.
But every single time a woman was raped, the soldiers would kill her.
Kick a chink, kick a dog, kick a stone.
It all the same.
We arrogant.
Killing Chinese person was just like killing a dog.
The worst atrocity by the Japanese Navy was at the Battle of Manila in February 1945,
where 17,000 naval troops fought to the death defending the Philippine capital against the American Liberators.
For the next month the city saw some of the worst street fighting of the Second World War,
second to none in levels of urban destruction in the Pacific War.
But as these Japanese sailors battle, they took out their impotent rage on defenceless civilians.
Facing an imminent death sentence, they engaged in wanton acts of cruelty on an appalling scale, the result in the deaths of 100,000 Filipinos.
In Mark Felton's book Slaughter at Sea, the story of Japan's naval war crimes, he Filipino historian Benito J.
Lagada's experiences when he would was 18 and what he saw.
Women were raped and sliced with bayonets from groin to throat and left to bleed in the hot sun.
Children were seized by the legs and had their heads bashed against the wall.
Babies were tossed into the air and caught on bayonets.
Unborn fetuses were gouged up with bayonets from pregnant women.
And the way,
there are pictures of Japanese troops doing this,
but I'm not going to put video for obvious reasons, if you still need convincing you can google it yourself.
Now I'm not saying that all Japanese sailors were war criminals,
but they all share the shame because they were fighting for an evil regime where war crimes were a matter of foreign policy,
same way as in Nazi Germany.
Going back to Midway and how the movie is dedicated to these Japanese sailors,
just think about what they were there, Where to do, they went to defeat America in order to keep their newly conquered empire.
Now consider what life was like for the 250 million people who lived in it and the 30 million who died in it.
people with guttural voices that we didn't understand or in charge of our lives and they were cruel, brutal.
It was a dark ages come to us.
They send it on us.
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قم بتثبيت ملحق Trancy لفتح المزيد من الميزات، بما في ذلك ترجمة العناوين الذكية، تعريفات الكلمات الذكية، تحليل القواعد النحوية الذكية، التحدث الذكي، وغيرها.
متوافق مع منصات الفيديو الرئيسية
يوفر Trancy دعمًا للعناوين المزدوجة في منصات مثل يوتيوب، نتفليكس، يوديمي، ديزني بلس، تيد، إيدكس، كيهان، كورسيرا، بالإضافة إلى ترجمة الكلمات/الجمل الذكية، وترجمة النصوص الغامرة بالكامل، وميزات أخرى لصفحات الويب العادية. إنه مساعد شامل لتعلم اللغة.
جميع متصفحات المنصة
يدعم Trancy جميع متصفحات المنصة، بما في ذلك ملحق متصفح Safari لنظام iOS.
أوضاع عرض متعددة
يدعم وضع المسرح، وضع القراءة، وضع المزج، وأوضاع عرض أخرى لتجربة ثنائية لغوية شاملة.
أوضاع تدريب متعددة
يدعم تدريب الجملة، والتقييم الشفهي، والاختيار من متعدد، والاستماع والكتابة، وأوضاع تدريب أخرى.
ملخص الفيديو الذكي
استخدم OpenAI للملخصات الذكية للفيديوهات والتمسك بالمحتوى الرئيسي بسرعة.
العناوين الذكية
قم بإنشاء عناوين يوتيوب ذكية ودقيقة في 3-5 دقائق فقط.
تعريفات الكلمات الذكية
انقر على الكلمات في العناوين للبحث عن تعريفات، باستخدام تعريفات ذكية مدعومة بالذكاء الاصطناعي.
تحليل القواعد النحوية الذكية
تحليل قواعد الجمل لفهم معاني الجمل بسرعة واجتياز نقاط القواعد النحوية الصعبة.
المزيد من ميزات الويب
بالإضافة إلى العناوين المزدوجة في الفيديو، يوفر Trancy أيضًا ترجمة الكلمات وترجمة النصوص الكاملة لصفحات الويب.