Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Zero" video.

  1.  @erictaylor5462  The North Vietnamese were not trying to do the same thing though. They kept their war in their own backyard. If they'd been invading all the rest of Asia, let alone bombing Hawaii, American resolve to fight would have been infinitely greater, as it was against Japan.
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  2.  @ronidude  Robert Goddard, an American, invented liquid-fueled rockets, Frank Whittle, an Englishman, invented the turbojet engine, and Chuck Yeager, an American pilot flying an American-designed and American-made Bell X-1, was the first person documented to fly faster than sound.
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  3.  @Deltaworks23  Hunker down and wait for the Americans to become weary of the bloodshed.
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  4. Still, people should see them. Most people just don't know.
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  5. Most of the planes faced by the AVG were Ki-43s or earlier planes, not Zeros. To the Americans in the early days of the war everything they saw in the sky was a Zero, just like later on every German tank was a Tiger.
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  6. They did not actually see combat until after December 7.
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  7. @momo chi It was packed with refugees who were not included in that census figure.
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  8. There is zero (pun intended) evidence of that.
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  9.  @slb2623  Don't believe everything you see in TV. I'd love to have a chat with your schoolteacher about it. I take it he or she also believes in chemtrails and a flat earth?
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  10.  @stephenjacks8196  The US carriers were not purposely kept out to sea. Saratoga was in San Diego having just completed a lengthy refit and Enterprise was supposed to be back in Pearl before December 7 but was delayed by bad weather. There is zero actual evidence that anyone in the US had any intelligence that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor. Obviously the theoretical possibility of an attack there was known to everyone.
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  11. And after the pilot ejects what would he do? Die slowly of exposure or drowning in the water or be captured, which was considered by most Japanese to be far worse than death.
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  12. The P-51 obviously had the speed but it didn't have the endurance at that speed.
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  13.  @Mastordant  Completely untrue. The Americans did not stop the negotiations at all.
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  14. No.
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  15.  @331coolguy  Probably no differently. They had great difficulties producing enough engines for a significant number of planes, the ones that were produced had severe reliability problems, but most important, most of the veteran pilots were dead by then. What crushed Japan's air forces was its inability to replace the skilled pilots lost in the first two years of the war.
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