Japan Stunned by America's Floating Machine Shops, Carriers Repaired Faster Than Japan Could Damage скачать в хорошем качестве

Japan Stunned by America's Floating Machine Shops, Carriers Repaired Faster Than Japan Could Damage

October 15, 1944 — Ulithi Atoll. Aboard the Japanese submarine I-368, Lieutenant Commander Yukio Sato raised his periscope and froze. Before him lay not just a fleet — but floating factories. The USS Franklin sat inside one of these colossal sea-based workshops, surrounded by cranes, welders, and steam. The Americans, it seemed, had done the impossible: they had brought their industrial power to the Pacific front. In his secret transmission that night, Sato wrote the words that stunned Tokyo: “Enemy possesses floating factories capable of major carrier reconstruction.” What he had witnessed were U.S. Navy repair and service ships — mobile industrial complexes that could rebuild aircraft carriers, refit destroyers, and maintain entire task forces thousands of miles from land. This video reveals how America’s floating machine shops changed naval warfare forever, allowing the U.S. Pacific Fleet to fight without pause — and how one Japanese officer’s discovery exposed the terrifying scale of Allied wartime innovation. #WWII #PacificWar #USNavy #Ulithi #WW2History #NavalEngineering #FloatingFactories #ImperialJapaneseNavy #WW2Documentary #MilitaryInnovation #WarHistory #BattleofthePacific #USIndustrialPower #WW2NavalHistory