HISTORY OF THE U.S. NAVY: CONQUEST OF THE OCEAN | 1890 - 1945

June 4th, 1942. Two hundred and fifty miles northwest of Midway Island, four Japanese aircraft carriers, the same ones that struck Pearl Harbor, have fought off American torpedo bombers all morning. Then, at 10:22, dive bombers from the Enterprise appear overhead. In less than five minutes, three carriers are burning, and the war in the Pacific has turned. Fifty-two years earlier, the United States Navy had not a single modern battleship. Its newest cruisers still carried masts and sails. How did that navy become, in two human lifetimes, a fleet larger than all the other navies on Earth combined? This documentary follows the US Navy from 1890 to 1945: Mahan's big idea and the first battleships, the Spanish-American War and the Maine, the Great White Fleet, the dreadnought revolution, the first submarines and naval aircraft, the First World War, the treaty navy and the birth of the carrier, Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea and Midway, Guadalcanal, the industrial miracle, the submarine war and the Battle of the Atlantic, the island-hopping campaign, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. CHAPTERS 0:00 Midway, June 4th, 1942 3:38 Steel Fleets, Flat Tops 3:51 Chapter 1: The New Navy 7:33 Chapter 2: A Splendid Little War 16:08 Chapter 3: The Great White Fleet 21:47 Chapter 4: The Dreadnought Revolution 27:22 Chapter 5: Submarines and Flying Machines 32:18 Chapter 6: The Great War, and the Battle Nobody Expected 40:16 Chapter 7: The Treaty Navy 54:26 Chapter 8: December 7th, 1941 1:00:42 Chapter 9: Coral Sea and Midway 1:12:04 Chapter 10: The Grind at Guadalcanal 1:15:02 Chapter 11: The Industrial Miracle 1:21:12 Chapter 12: The Silent Service, and the Battle of the Atlantic 1:26:13 Chapter 13: The Long Road Across the Pacific 1:30:45 Chapter 14: Leyte Gulf, Okinawa, and the End 1:39:09 Chapter 15: The Verdict Next time, the final part: 1946 to today. Rickover and the nuclear submarine, the "revolt of the admirals", the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iowa-class battleships in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, Aegis and the supercarriers. Subscribe so you don't miss it. IMAGES Photographs, paintings, maps and documents from the Naval History and Heritage Command, the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the US Navy, the Imperial War Museums, the New York Public Library and Wikimedia Commons. Background paintings by Fitz Henry Lane, John Frederick Kensett, Martin Johnson Heade, Albert Bierstadt, James E. Buttersworth and Alfred Thompson Bricher. MUSIC (public domain recordings, Musopen and others) Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 "Italian", II. Andante con moto Chopin: Nocturnes Op. 9 No. 1, Op. 32 No. 2, Op. 62 No. 1, Op. 72 No. 1 Brahms: Symphony No. 3, II. Andante Debussy: Clair de lune Borodin: String Quartet No. 1, II. Andante con moto Brahms: Symphony No. 1, II. Andante sostenuto Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, II. Andante con moto Brahms: Symphony No. 4, II. Andante moderato Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1 #USNavy #WW2 #History