Почему Япония не смогла обеспечить свой флот топливом после захвата нефтяных месторождений

In February 1945, two Japanese battleships sailed from Singapore carrying more than ten thousand drums of aviation gasoline on their flight decks, and twenty-six Allied submarines were sent to stop them. Three years earlier, Japan had captured every oil field it went to war for. This video follows how Japan won the oil and lost the road home: the 3,000-mile tanker route from the East Indies, a torpedo that did not work for two years, the codebreakers who read the convoys' noon reports, USS Tinosa firing fifteen torpedoes at one tanker, an escort command that started with a handful of ships, and the fleet that had to move to the oil because the oil could no longer reach the fleet. CHAPTERS 0:00 Drums on the battleship decks 0:47 Taking the oil fields 2:02 Two different jobs 3:44 The torpedo that did nothing 4:48 Japan's window 6:06 The codes break 6:32 Fifteen torpedoes, one tanker 7:35 The road breaks 8:18 A handful of guards 9:24 "A tanker would not sink" 10:59 The fleet goes to the oil 12:10 Tarakan crude and the Taiho 13:27 Five percent 14:54 Distilling tree roots 15:55 The last run from the south 17:40 The end of the line SOURCES Atsushi Oi, "Why Japan's Anti-Submarine Warfare Failed," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings (1952) United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Oil in Japan's War Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee, Japanese Naval and Merchant Shipping Losses (1947) Ian W. Toll, Pacific War trilogy Footage and photographs: U.S. National Archives, U.S. Navy (public domain) Some scenes that no camera recorded are shown with illustrative reconstructions. #WWII #PacificWar #ImperialJapaneseNavy #Submarines #History