The japs would make short work of the americans if they hadnt air support. As usual, America always fight and wins wars against enemies much less capable, weak and stands because of its airpower. With no airpower, americans would not win a signle war, because their soldiers on the ground are pussies.
Man its sad to think that every soldier who died had a family and a life and even though they died for their country, the way they died is sad...this exclude the nazis and jap's...i dont care about em dying..regardless
@Me4tsh1eld If you attack in a relatively fair concentration the enemy literally won't have enough time to kill all of you before you reach a point of cover from which you can engage them more closely. A wide stream always has a weaker current, so to speak.
Yes the support teams moved up into a position that was in range of the forest outside the airfield as they were lead to beloved that that's were the japs had retreated too. Therefore the infantry had cover when making a assault into the perimeter of the jungle.
i've never been in the military but i cannot imagine the sort of relief (past or present) you would feel when the target you were supposed to capture was suddenly and heavily bombed by friendly fighters/bombers. granted, it was not always effective but just the boost to morale . . .
@PhalangitePower Did you know? Saving Private Ryan was directed by Steven Spielberg, and also produced by and starring Tom Hanks. Guess what? The Pacific also had Spielberg and Hanks as producers.
@PhalangitePower this explicitly shows both sides being total dickwads, saving private ryan acted like america is #1 and showed germans getting killed for no reason and making it look like they deserved it.. this didnt...
@iamgig9876 Saving Private Ryan DOES show a small German perspective - mainly in the eyes of Steamboat Willie - he was simply your average German soldier who was just doing his job. In fact, comparing SPR and The Pacific is idiocy alone - SPR is a fictional movie in the eyes of one squad whereas The Pacfic is a TV series spanning the memoirs and accounts of what several veterans saw and experienced. Both however, portrayed WW2 combat quite realistically.
@88Scatter saving private ryan realistic? so is call of dut then... private ryan antoganizes the germans whereas .. steambot willie was a 1928 short u asswad
@iamgig9876 SPR is know for portraying combat in WW2 very realistically - when the Omaha beach scene was shown to veterans who actually fought there, they all admitted that it was very much accurately portrayed. I'm referring Steamboat Willie as the nickname of the German soldier that the Miller's squad let off - come to think of it, the movie doesn't even portray the Germans as evil, homocidal and evil bigot Nazis - that goes to Inglorious Bastards.
LOL they suppose to be put some suppressing fire on that building there...try to flank the position and also firing those mortars so it covering our position
Respect to the Americans who freed Europe and Asia from these Axis assholes.. however can't say the same of the nowaday Americans, lol I just read the comment section under some kamikaze attack video's, on American ships, and the comments are incredibly pathetic and stupid..
@sm0keshell our military is just as amazing...its the guys running the show who don't have the guts to call a spade and spade and do what has to be done.
LOL Peleliu Airfield in Call of Duty: World At War.. love the American Campaign there.. wasnt really the best accurate campaign in the game but just playing it on Veteran and dying several times on the same checkpoint, to be able to relive that time, is really epic. that's why I love WW2 based games..
attacking that airfeild, with no cover like thast was one of the most heartbreakingly brave, and utterly insane things the american military ever did. it was a stupid order to give for an island that ended up having little value for all the blood it cost, , but those guys who pulled it off...wow they just don't make generations like that anymore. amazing kids.
@wadyano It wasn't the most bravest thing the American military ever done. Many times in other battles and on Peleliu they had to advance under heavy fire like on many beach landings that took place in the Pacific theater or and of the fortifications they had to attack. Also some of the bravest charges in US military history happened in the Civil War, there are tons of accounts of the most heroic charges you will ever hear of in that war.
@AUG351 any man that charges forth into the face of total annilation is a hero. no matter the country he comes from. still this is the futility we have of still having countries. a world govt will stop wars and put famine hunger and disease to rest and save billions.
@0Zolrender0 Yeah right. Just ask the elder citizens of Omsk, Vladivostok or Murmansk, how wonderful life became under hypercentralized government. Please leave ol' Finland out of it. Maximized decentralization is what we humans need.
@AUG351 The only thing I disagree with is that the civil war was the war with the most heroic charges. It doesn't matter if it's heroic or not because these men risked there lives for our freedom. Back onto my disagreement I say the most heroic charges were made in WW1 by any country. USA, Britain, Germany, Russia, anyone.
@OurDailyChallenges Well I didn't mean it was the war with the most heroic charges, I just meant there were many great famous charges that took place in the Civil War, but yes WW1 was full of heroic frontal attacks were thousands were killed and wounded like on the first day of the Somme where the British took over 60,000 casualties and about 19,000 dead.
@AUG351 I know right. Now and days 1,000 dead would be considered terrible and countries like america would sue for peace. Are you kidding me war is war and it will be gory especially with todays technology.
@AUG351 To be fair to the casualty rate at the Somme, the stupidity of the orders (advance at walking pace in full kit - not just combat gear) increased the casualties). But yet you are right, many heroic front charges occured in WW1. There have been many of the throughout history, during the Napoloeonic wars, the American Civil war, the Crimean war, WW1 and WW2 itself. There are probably more that I can't name of by heart aswell.
@AUG351 I don't mean to put down the bravery of any era of our fighting men, but consider this...In the civil war they didn't have tanks, aircraft, etc. They fought the way they did because that's how wars were always fought. It didn't even enter their minds to call for an airstrike, cuz there were no planes. The WW2 guys knew we had them but did infantry rushes anyway, when they might have been within their rights to wait for help. In my opinion they were ballsier for that fact.
@TheUncleDougger Yeah, but the soldiers at Peleliu really had air support and the navy had been bombing and shelling the island for days as most islands in the Pacific theater before the landings begun but the Japanese were always dug in so it didn't do hardly anything to their actual defences. The taking of the airfield wasn't really a charge but a advance across open ground to take the airfield.
@AUG351 Outstanding explanation. It was a regimental advance across open terrain and not a full on charge into prepared defenses. The actual volume of fire from the airfield was minimal, most came from the Umarbrogals to their left front.
@Shinkansen0Series It is difficult to say, because so many men were MIA. But throughout the whole of the Second World War, europe and pacific, including civilians, the death toll was at about 60million. And I would just like to add that 25million of those were Russians. I will leave you to think About that. As well as over 500 german aircraft was taken down by russians ramming them in mid-air. And they would also clear minefields by marching over them. Those Soviets, were more than just brave.
@ATTACKaMAC They dropped bombs and artillery from ships on the island for day and during the landing. The whole island was shot to pieces but the Japanese were as on most islands dug in and survived. They're orders were to secure the airfield like they did on most islands. Don't say there stupid the whole battle was like this, the Japanese had coastal guns that could target the beach and the airfield.
@TakeyoLifebitch Yeah, but shrapnel can be deadlier than bullets because they can sometimes be big pieces, sometimes half a foot long and very sharp and jagged which can tear arms of limbs off and tear through flesh causing the worst wounds.
maaaaaaan fuck this shit. tell me to assault a fortified pos. over open ground you must be high. for one planes is all over this bitch. gimme three or five strafes. or two...how bout those navy guns blow that shit to fuckville, thank god wars changed a little...or if they didnt, peoples opions about dead americans. either-or.
One thing I don't understand about this scene is that why didn't they go around the flanks and try and encircle the airfield instead of a frontal attack?
Also even if that weren't possible, why wasn't there any tank or airsupport from the beginning? A couple of tanks here could've made all the difference in saving marine lives just by blasting away the Japanese in the buildings.
@JDubs878 Their objective was to take the airfield so they had to clear or sweep all the Japanese defence out and they had many tanks and air support also support from the battleships.
Okay, so we're gonna charge, across open terrain against an emplaced force in targetable buildings, the airfield. While offshore we got at least a few dozen, if not over a hundred, Navy ships with very accurate Naval artillery with which we could pulverize those very buildings we are charging!!!
@wyleehokie true. but the shells cost more then a human life back then, remember we needed money, the military was willing to send men in as long as it saved money,
@wyleehokie Study the battle and you will see that very little fire came from the airfield buildings. This scene has been "modified" for the cinematic experience. The vast majority of the fire came from the southern end of the Umarbrogals, better know as "Bloody Nose Ridge". Naval gunfire and aerial bombardment had very little effect on the fortifications in the ridges, the only way to do it was get your leather moving and get to the other side.
Yeah, good point. I forgot about Hollywood and their "for cinematic effect" attitude. I'll punish myself now. LOL
Though in pondering about the emplaced guns in the hills/ridge, I can see how naval gunfire or traditional aerial bombs would have little effect (due to precise accuracy issues). But I wonder how effective napalm would have been. Being a fluid it will want to flow into crevices and openings.
@wyleehokie You only get one lash for forgetting LOL! Napalm was pretty effective, but the Japanese had built they fortifications to help withstand napalm and flamethrowers by compartmentalizing the interior. Marine close air support flying of the airfield didn't even have to raise wheels, most missions were about 10 minutes, then back to reload. Upon checking references, the building shown here was destroyed by naval gunfire called in once they were across the airfield.
Saving pvt ryan sucks compared to this show man, i have this on dvd and with the old breed and iv studied the pacific side of ww2 for then the europian side and my grandfather was in peleiu and okinawa
@CHESTER9871 I remember watching the Peleliu episode with my grandpa who landed on Juno Beach and I can remember him saying, "We had it easy now that I look at it."
@Litterboxer529 Yeah, he was lucky he wasn't an American going to Omaha that day also, they were slaughtered and took over 2,000 casualties but Juno wasn't fortified as much.
@JordoF6 yea it was. if you saw this episode you would know they didnt add THIS music to this scene espicially in the begging with the intro music. The music in the actual episode made this scene more of a horror. The music this guy added made it more of sorrow. i watched this particular episode like 5 times before it stopped showing up on HBO so i know this guy added music to this scene which really killed it for me.
I was nerver in combat, but we were still being issued steel helmets in the late 70s. We never used the chinstraps, but always fastened in them together at the rear of the helmet. Our understanding was that they were pretty useless in action.
If you watch footage of Vietnam, you'll see a lot of times when soldiers are running, they have one hand on their helmet. Thats because hardly anybody used the chinstraps, and those old helmets bounced on your head really bad.
I'd like to apologize for the stupidity of the Japanese Empire at the time of this war. I'm a proud American, and descendant of honorable soldiers of the 100th and 442nd Japanese Amerian Combat Regiments and the events of this still fill me with disgust for the sides of my family that would attack the U.S.
@99thJediWarrior Because Call of Duty created that building for their fictional game, and it was never part of the war in real life. Ooops, sarcasm button was on. Get real idiot....
@CSATexan Sure if you don't count the nuclear subs that regularly patrolled the US coastline in the cold war. Bombers capable of reaching New York from Britain, and a modern tank capable of out-performing the US Abrams.
You're a typical bigoted American who's mind has never left your own soil. Shut up, and read a book published outside of your country for once.
As if I could expect anything less from a lunatic as yourself.
Ok here is how it works. The BULLSHIT SOVIET UNION sucked war for the most part had a bunch of reluctant allies at best. Which when given the chance got out as fast as the could hence.
For a look at what a war with the USA would have looked like you can see how to the Soviet Equipped Egyptian Army got its ass kicked by the Jews or how Saddams Soviet doctrine worked out for him.
@CSATexan The Soviet Union (Alone, no allies) is responsible for almost 80% of the casualties inflicted on the Germans in WWII. The Soviet equipped North Vietnamese kicked America's ass. Soviet equipped Cuba repelled an American invasion (Bay of Pigs), and the Taliban who are mostly using Soviet-era weaponry are currently grinding your wartime economy to a halt in an unwinnable guerilla war. The American space program also used a lot of stolen technology from the Soviets during the Cold War.
@CSATexan You didn't go to war with Germany until 1941 either. And you didn't actually play a major part in the Atlantic/European region until 1944. And check the entire war in Vietnam. November 1955 to 1975. They were allied with the Germans because of the Molotov/Ribbentrop Non-aggression pact which was mostly a political stunt.
The US wasn't in Vietnam in 1975 The US left in 1973, (the Paris Peace accords)
The US supplied the USSR with about 2 million tons of steel, 250,000 trucks and about 15 million pair of boots. I would hardly call that not playing a major part. As a matter of fact the list of aid given to the USSR from the USA is so extensive it would take dozens of post to list it all.
I would hardly call the invasion of Poland a Stunt. it was the reason your nation declared war on Germany.
@CSATexan And don't even get me started on the genius of the AK-47. Which runs circles around the M-16, M1 Garand, Thompson and any other mainline rifle the American's fielded in the same time period. Being simple to clean and maintain, extremely durable, easy to master, cheap to produce and has enough stopping power to penetrate a modern kevlar vest at 30 feet.
the ak 47 is everything you say and more. But it very inaccurate, however soviet doctrine was basically spray and pray.
But it is a false doctrine in the 20th century. A dead soldier is ONE MAN ONLY taken out of a battle
A wounded soldier is 3 men taken out of a battle. One down and two to carry him. Not to mention the logistics involved in taken care of a wounded soldier.
What a joke, nobody wanted to be allied with the Soviet Union!!!!! That is why Stalin jumped at the chance to allied himself with Hitler to invade Poland.
@CSATexan You may have a Military background... but your studies on the topic's history seem rather lame. I suggest you read up a bit more then get back to me okay?
Not only do I read a lot of books matter of fact the book I am reading right now is written by a British author.
And unlike you I was in the Military during the Cold war and went through through years of classes on how the Soviets fought, how they trained and how they were equipped. I have been to thirteen countries. Have trained with Norwegians, ROK, Royal Marines and The Philippine Army.
Your little hobby was my profession for 4 years!!!
@CSATexan Ah... so you have resounding credentials... good for you.
I'm in the Canadian forces and spent about a year and a half in Afghanistan, combined with 5 years experience in total. I admit I never trained with the Norwegians, ROK, Royal Marines or Phillipene army. But I have trained with the American Marines, German Wermacht and French Legion.
@CSATexan The MIG could out-perform the Phantom in air combat because of both being lighter and being able to climb to higher altitudes before stalling. And the Russian Kiev class supercarrier had more hangar space then the Eisenhower. The Russians also designed the largest atomic bomb in history (Google or Youtube the Tsar Bomba). Russian submarines were more also more maneuverable then their Nautilus counterparts.
You ever wonder how it was that the allied sanctions on Germany were a complete failure??
The British navy was many times larger than anything Hitler could have built. And yet Norway, Denmark, Greece, Yugoslavia, France, nation after nation were invaded and beaten while the Germans didn't give the British embargo a second thought????
It was cause the USSR supplied Hitler!! They expanded their alliance to include trade
@CSATexan Not giving the British embargo a second thought? Sure... if you don't count the entire bloody war in the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, the Blitz, and the roughly 4 years of competition for the Atlantic between the Germans and British.
Hitler got more resources from France, Africa and the US when it was neutral then it did from the Soviet Union. Although I admit the Soviet Union was one of Germany's top oil suppliers.
@CSATexan If the Royal Navy were defeated, the British would have starved from lack of resources from Canada and the US (The Americans supplied both sides) which made British control of the North Atlantic vital. And British control of the Meditteranean and Mid/South Atlantic was vital in order to provide for her colonies fighting in Africa.
Had the USSR been the allied that History paints them. They never would have sided with Hitler against Poland and they sure as hell wouldn't have tried to join the axis powers.
The whole existence of the USSR was based on imperialism through the socialization of property.
@shadowmare97 The Phantom is no longer in frontline service and hasn't been for many years. About 90% of the Russian fleet is rusting away and "Nautilus counterparts"?? Time stamp alert: it is 2011, not 1965.
@Toddinfantry If you read the entire argument you would see that I was stating facts about Soviet competition THROUGH HISTORY, mainly during the cold war.... not just in modern times.
Although the Russians have a combat ready fleet in the port of Sevastopol in the black sea, as well as an unknown number of submarines deployed around the world. Their fleet is hardly "Rusting away".
@Homegate33 its because those that did usually were killed from the concussion caused my nearby artillery and mortar strikes, instead of the helmet coming off, it would usually choke them or give them a concussion.
I don't think the people of Carthage would have agreed with that statement. Their culture was destroyed, their army was massacred their people were sold as slaves and their city was burned to the ground.
I served for 20 plus, NEVER been in combat, (REMF), but many times I had to wear the helmet, in the tropics and jungle.
I wore a fibreglass inner, and the steel outer, always had the chinstrap done up, and, by christ, despite the weight, inconvenience, and shittiness of it, I always thought that, if 'this' was real, it only takes a piece of shit less than the size of a one cent piece to kill you.
With that in mind, the inconvenience was bearable.
@Homegate33 They do fasten them up it's just that if the buckled the chinstrap up, they had the possibility of getting their heads torn off. The reason it would get it ripped off because if there was an explosion, such immense force from the explosion would pull up on your head so hard your head would rip right off. This is why you see most of them with the chinstraps buckled to the back of their helmets.
@EinkOLED The helmets aren't actually heavy at all.
@Homegate33 American soldiers didn't fasten their helmets because as a result of an explosion, it was known that it could break their necks or choke them to death with such a tight strap.
@Homegate33 Very good question Homegate 33, but i have your answer. Think about how a bullet reacts to a surface. If you shoot at a normal wall in your house, the bullet is going to go into it, it wont deflect because its stationary. If you've ever tried to hit something that wasn't firm or was wobbly, it would be harder to hit or move around when you hit it. So if you had your helmet tight, the bullet would go right through and you would die. But the bullet had a chance to glance off or deflect
@blackoutmed worlds most powerful army. you mad bro?
theboss684684 1 day ago
The japs would make short work of the americans if they hadnt air support. As usual, America always fight and wins wars against enemies much less capable, weak and stands because of its airpower. With no airpower, americans would not win a signle war, because their soldiers on the ground are pussies.
blackoutmed 1 day ago
ahhh 240p we meet again
FzznProductions 2 days ago
this is so cool :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheWhiteOne511 2 days ago
This has been flagged as spam show
i think this is the level hard landing from call of duty world at war
Jacob6443 3 days ago
guess who got promoted to : kamikazi massive banzai charge suicide psico... the american. it used to be the japonese.
TheZxta 5 days ago
ew 240p
SaveaChicken 1 week ago
Man its sad to think that every soldier who died had a family and a life and even though they died for their country, the way they died is sad...this exclude the nazis and jap's...i dont care about em dying..regardless
doubleAspaceC 1 week ago
@doubleAspaceC i do - they still have families and people who love them...
OneRandomTiger 3 days ago
@doubleAspaceC Wow. What sort of choice do you think a Japanese or German young man had?
"No, General-san/Nein, Herr General - I think this war is unjust and I don't wan to go"...?
krazyFlipy 3 days ago
240p, we meet again...
incognito84 1 week ago
Was there a reason that the marines couldn't spread out more or run around in squads?
Me4tsh1eld 1 week ago
@Me4tsh1eld If you attack in a relatively fair concentration the enemy literally won't have enough time to kill all of you before you reach a point of cover from which you can engage them more closely. A wide stream always has a weaker current, so to speak.
TheUncleDougger 1 week ago
ima put some music over it to enhance the origional experience >.<
idiot
Evan7893 1 week ago
Shouldn't they at least tried to deploy some kind of smokescreen or would that make things more difficult?
Hunkarov 2 weeks ago
thank god for the nuclear bomb or this kind of events would have found place a lot more
teunlovessurfng 2 weeks ago
This is why the closest I get to war is airsoft.
I couldn't even begin to imagine losing a body part in an explosion or just having it shot off.
SamTehGr8 3 weeks ago
Yes the support teams moved up into a position that was in range of the forest outside the airfield as they were lead to beloved that that's were the japs had retreated too. Therefore the infantry had cover when making a assault into the perimeter of the jungle.
condarth1 3 weeks ago
They put the mortar teams an MG teams into assault instead of support? The makers of this piece should have had an real marine as an advisor.
Suojeluninja 3 weeks ago
Whats the soundtrack track that plays at the beginning of this video?
Polo423 3 weeks ago
@Polo423 "Honor (for Oboe and strings)"
Guitarded270 3 weeks ago
man the japs are always losing islands to the americans, they were losing the war against us anyway
MarineSldrX 1 month ago
@MarineSldrX but imagine the cost if we were to try to take the main island of Japan... would have been horrifying
RammsteinXgta 3 weeks ago
USMC really so much badazz even take many amount of fire...but they still have deliver a heavy knock out punch
HappiKarafuru 1 month ago
240p, we meet again..
Witherin1 1 month ago
i've never been in the military but i cannot imagine the sort of relief (past or present) you would feel when the target you were supposed to capture was suddenly and heavily bombed by friendly fighters/bombers. granted, it was not always effective but just the boost to morale . . .
erikcharger 1 month ago
single muslim advert everywhere..........why do I have to watch it next to every video?!!!
palisandr123 1 month ago
guys tell me this. is it me or the title of these vids kinda the same as the missions in waw (world at war)
cavanfamily12345 1 month ago
@cavanfamily12345 Because the missions in WAW and in this miniseries are all based on real battles in the Pacific.
guitarfreak223 1 month ago
@PhalangitePower. how in any way is this a copy of saving private ryan
muzicmoneylife 1 month ago
@muzicmoneylife the battle scenes..duh..it is not a copy..i should have chosen better words. It is similar*.
PhalangitePower 1 month ago
Saving Private Ryan is so good that HBO is trying to copy it. Sad stuff though.
PhalangitePower 1 month ago
@PhalangitePower Did you know? Saving Private Ryan was directed by Steven Spielberg, and also produced by and starring Tom Hanks. Guess what? The Pacific also had Spielberg and Hanks as producers.
The more you know.
BaronCarmine 1 month ago
@BaronCarmine Thanks. I have never seen this show. I dont have HBO. That really makes sense now.
PhalangitePower 1 month ago
@PhalangitePower this explicitly shows both sides being total dickwads, saving private ryan acted like america is #1 and showed germans getting killed for no reason and making it look like they deserved it.. this didnt...
iamgig9876 4 weeks ago
@iamgig9876 Saving Private Ryan DOES show a small German perspective - mainly in the eyes of Steamboat Willie - he was simply your average German soldier who was just doing his job. In fact, comparing SPR and The Pacific is idiocy alone - SPR is a fictional movie in the eyes of one squad whereas The Pacfic is a TV series spanning the memoirs and accounts of what several veterans saw and experienced. Both however, portrayed WW2 combat quite realistically.
88Scatter 4 weeks ago
@88Scatter saving private ryan realistic? so is call of dut then... private ryan antoganizes the germans whereas .. steambot willie was a 1928 short u asswad
iamgig9876 4 weeks ago
@iamgig9876 SPR is know for portraying combat in WW2 very realistically - when the Omaha beach scene was shown to veterans who actually fought there, they all admitted that it was very much accurately portrayed. I'm referring Steamboat Willie as the nickname of the German soldier that the Miller's squad let off - come to think of it, the movie doesn't even portray the Germans as evil, homocidal and evil bigot Nazis - that goes to Inglorious Bastards.
88Scatter 4 weeks ago
LOL they suppose to be put some suppressing fire on that building there...try to flank the position and also firing those mortars so it covering our position
HappiKarafuru 1 month ago
LOL all the movie were remind me the game..it completely same but the game more easy then a real..XD
HappiKarafuru 1 month ago
my father was a corpsman, ask any marine how they feel about corpsmen.
erikcharger 1 month ago
@erikcharger I'll start.....thank your father for his service and directly to him "Thanks Doc" ! A lot of us owe you guys everything.
Semper Fi !
0341MarineInfantry 1 month ago
This is the most saddest, epic, and heroic scenes of the whole series
spawnkiller671 1 month ago
Respect to the Americans who freed Europe and Asia from these Axis assholes.. however can't say the same of the nowaday Americans, lol I just read the comment section under some kamikaze attack video's, on American ships, and the comments are incredibly pathetic and stupid..
sm0keshell 1 month ago
@sm0keshell our military is just as amazing...its the guys running the show who don't have the guts to call a spade and spade and do what has to be done.
wadyano 1 month ago
LOL Peleliu Airfield in Call of Duty: World At War.. love the American Campaign there.. wasnt really the best accurate campaign in the game but just playing it on Veteran and dying several times on the same checkpoint, to be able to relive that time, is really epic. that's why I love WW2 based games..
yourexistanceisover 2 months ago
FUCK 240p
wEavAs25 2 months ago
its amazing ANYONE survived.
wadyano 2 months ago 15
attacking that airfeild, with no cover like thast was one of the most heartbreakingly brave, and utterly insane things the american military ever did. it was a stupid order to give for an island that ended up having little value for all the blood it cost, , but those guys who pulled it off...wow they just don't make generations like that anymore. amazing kids.
wadyano 2 months ago
@wadyano It wasn't the most bravest thing the American military ever done. Many times in other battles and on Peleliu they had to advance under heavy fire like on many beach landings that took place in the Pacific theater or and of the fortifications they had to attack. Also some of the bravest charges in US military history happened in the Civil War, there are tons of accounts of the most heroic charges you will ever hear of in that war.
AUG351 1 month ago 15
@AUG351 D-day is one of them...
CazualNinja 1 month ago
@AUG351 any man that charges forth into the face of total annilation is a hero. no matter the country he comes from. still this is the futility we have of still having countries. a world govt will stop wars and put famine hunger and disease to rest and save billions.
0Zolrender0 2 weeks ago
@0Zolrender0 Yeah right. Just ask the elder citizens of Omsk, Vladivostok or Murmansk, how wonderful life became under hypercentralized government. Please leave ol' Finland out of it. Maximized decentralization is what we humans need.
krazyFlipy 3 days ago
@AUG351 The only thing I disagree with is that the civil war was the war with the most heroic charges. It doesn't matter if it's heroic or not because these men risked there lives for our freedom. Back onto my disagreement I say the most heroic charges were made in WW1 by any country. USA, Britain, Germany, Russia, anyone.
OurDailyChallenges 2 weeks ago
@OurDailyChallenges Well I didn't mean it was the war with the most heroic charges, I just meant there were many great famous charges that took place in the Civil War, but yes WW1 was full of heroic frontal attacks were thousands were killed and wounded like on the first day of the Somme where the British took over 60,000 casualties and about 19,000 dead.
AUG351 2 weeks ago
@AUG351 I know right. Now and days 1,000 dead would be considered terrible and countries like america would sue for peace. Are you kidding me war is war and it will be gory especially with todays technology.
OurDailyChallenges 1 week ago
@AUG351 To be fair to the casualty rate at the Somme, the stupidity of the orders (advance at walking pace in full kit - not just combat gear) increased the casualties). But yet you are right, many heroic front charges occured in WW1. There have been many of the throughout history, during the Napoloeonic wars, the American Civil war, the Crimean war, WW1 and WW2 itself. There are probably more that I can't name of by heart aswell.
TRUExSIGHTS 1 week ago
@AUG351 I don't mean to put down the bravery of any era of our fighting men, but consider this...In the civil war they didn't have tanks, aircraft, etc. They fought the way they did because that's how wars were always fought. It didn't even enter their minds to call for an airstrike, cuz there were no planes. The WW2 guys knew we had them but did infantry rushes anyway, when they might have been within their rights to wait for help. In my opinion they were ballsier for that fact.
TheUncleDougger 1 week ago
@TheUncleDougger Yeah, but the soldiers at Peleliu really had air support and the navy had been bombing and shelling the island for days as most islands in the Pacific theater before the landings begun but the Japanese were always dug in so it didn't do hardly anything to their actual defences. The taking of the airfield wasn't really a charge but a advance across open ground to take the airfield.
AUG351 1 week ago
@AUG351 Outstanding explanation. It was a regimental advance across open terrain and not a full on charge into prepared defenses. The actual volume of fire from the airfield was minimal, most came from the Umarbrogals to their left front.
Semper Fi !
0341MarineInfantry 1 week ago
@AUG351 Yup..and they did it anyway, full well knowing they were screwed. That is balls.
TheUncleDougger 1 week ago
Германию победили РУССКИЕ!
blackkite65 5 days ago
bei 2:09 leuft einer ohne kopf
Hater286 2 months ago
how many men did really die
Shinkansen0Series 2 months ago
@Shinkansen0Series It is difficult to say, because so many men were MIA. But throughout the whole of the Second World War, europe and pacific, including civilians, the death toll was at about 60million. And I would just like to add that 25million of those were Russians. I will leave you to think About that. As well as over 500 german aircraft was taken down by russians ramming them in mid-air. And they would also clear minefields by marching over them. Those Soviets, were more than just brave.
rapperjoecool 2 months ago
@rapperjoecool they were brave certainly. thats why they made such a scary enemy to us when we were no longer on the same side.
wadyano 2 months ago
10 people are japs
seedyclips01 2 months ago
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AUG351 2 months ago
"we need an air strike & artillery" -- you do that BEFORE you attack on foot
ATTACKaMAC 2 months ago
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@ATTACKaMAC They dropped bombs and artillery from ships on the island for day and during the landing. The whole island was shot to pieces but the Japanese were as on most islands dug in and survived. They're orders were to secure the airfield like they did on most islands. Don't say there stupid the whole battle was like this, the Japanese had coastal guns that could target the beach and the airfield.
AUG351 2 months ago
@ATTACKaMAC dont talk shit mate
schugi8 2 months ago
@ATTACKaMAC yeah, this is a tactic movie fail
Afvall 2 months ago
Im surprised any of them made it at all considering the amount of shrapnel that must have been whizzing through the air.
Wildcat425B 2 months ago
@Wildcat425B sure did scratched up i bet, but if they arent dead or seriously wounded, you keep going
TakeyoLifebitch 2 months ago
@TakeyoLifebitch Yeah, but shrapnel can be deadlier than bullets because they can sometimes be big pieces, sometimes half a foot long and very sharp and jagged which can tear arms of limbs off and tear through flesh causing the worst wounds.
AUG351 2 months ago
@AUG351 Shrapnel is deadly, due to it's unpredictable shapes some of which can rip a man-sized target in half
GeneralNutcase 2 months ago
And then after the island was taken, the brass determined it wasn't necessary after all.
jjj1951 3 months ago
Peleliu was a real meat grinder. A fucking nightmare.
Conn30Mtenor 3 months ago
maaaaaaan fuck this shit. tell me to assault a fortified pos. over open ground you must be high. for one planes is all over this bitch. gimme three or five strafes. or two...how bout those navy guns blow that shit to fuckville, thank god wars changed a little...or if they didnt, peoples opions about dead americans. either-or.
busterdog321 3 months ago
Nice job with the music dude. Dont remember it being in the show though
TheTyphus25 3 months ago
One thing I don't understand about this scene is that why didn't they go around the flanks and try and encircle the airfield instead of a frontal attack?
Also even if that weren't possible, why wasn't there any tank or airsupport from the beginning? A couple of tanks here could've made all the difference in saving marine lives just by blasting away the Japanese in the buildings.
JDubs878 3 months ago
@JDubs878 Their objective was to take the airfield so they had to clear or sweep all the Japanese defence out and they had many tanks and air support also support from the battleships.
AUG351 3 months ago
the camera guy is way better thn chuck norris~ he run through all the heavy mortar like ''hey mom,i wanna ride that unicorn''~ xD
webranshu 3 months ago
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webranshu 3 months ago
@tonilerma its the pacific main theme
jmon1994 3 months ago
Okay, so we're gonna charge, across open terrain against an emplaced force in targetable buildings, the airfield. While offshore we got at least a few dozen, if not over a hundred, Navy ships with very accurate Naval artillery with which we could pulverize those very buildings we are charging!!!
Ummmm, what is wrong with this plan here?
wyleehokie 4 months ago
@wyleehokie true. but the shells cost more then a human life back then, remember we needed money, the military was willing to send men in as long as it saved money,
werwr4 3 months ago
@wyleehokie Study the battle and you will see that very little fire came from the airfield buildings. This scene has been "modified" for the cinematic experience. The vast majority of the fire came from the southern end of the Umarbrogals, better know as "Bloody Nose Ridge". Naval gunfire and aerial bombardment had very little effect on the fortifications in the ridges, the only way to do it was get your leather moving and get to the other side.
Toddinfantry 3 months ago
@Toddinfantry
Yeah, good point. I forgot about Hollywood and their "for cinematic effect" attitude. I'll punish myself now. LOL
Though in pondering about the emplaced guns in the hills/ridge, I can see how naval gunfire or traditional aerial bombs would have little effect (due to precise accuracy issues). But I wonder how effective napalm would have been. Being a fluid it will want to flow into crevices and openings.
Thx
wyleehokie 3 months ago
@wyleehokie You only get one lash for forgetting LOL! Napalm was pretty effective, but the Japanese had built they fortifications to help withstand napalm and flamethrowers by compartmentalizing the interior. Marine close air support flying of the airfield didn't even have to raise wheels, most missions were about 10 minutes, then back to reload. Upon checking references, the building shown here was destroyed by naval gunfire called in once they were across the airfield.
Toddinfantry 3 months ago
Saving pvt ryan sucks compared to this show man, i have this on dvd and with the old breed and iv studied the pacific side of ww2 for then the europian side and my grandfather was in peleiu and okinawa
CHESTER9871 4 months ago
@CHESTER9871 I remember watching the Peleliu episode with my grandpa who landed on Juno Beach and I can remember him saying, "We had it easy now that I look at it."
Litterboxer529 3 months ago
@Litterboxer529 Yeah, he was lucky he wasn't an American going to Omaha that day also, they were slaughtered and took over 2,000 casualties but Juno wasn't fortified as much.
AUG351 3 months ago
@AUG351 True, Juno did take quite a bit of casualties. "The Loss of each man is the loss of a private war."
Litterboxer529 3 months ago
@Litterboxer529 No I meant the Americans at Omaha took over 2,000 casualties. On Juno they took almost 1,000 casualties.
AUG351 3 months ago
@AUG351 Yes, yes they did. The Americans had it rough on Omaha, but Utah was a walk in the park.
Litterboxer529 3 months ago
saving private ryan is better
MVASNOOPY 4 months ago
@MVASNOOPY saving private ryan was a movie not a series
CampinCarl354 3 months ago
All this horrible carnage and heroism and all you guys talk about is chinstraps!!
gasman396 4 months ago
The bravest Marines in history.
iAREanthonyyy 4 months ago
what's the name of the song at the begin? :)
tonilerma 4 months ago
why did you add music to it? sorta killed it for me
CampinCarl354 4 months ago 45
@CampinCarl354 the music wasnt added.
JordoF6 3 months ago
@JordoF6 yea it was. if you saw this episode you would know they didnt add THIS music to this scene espicially in the begging with the intro music. The music in the actual episode made this scene more of a horror. The music this guy added made it more of sorrow. i watched this particular episode like 5 times before it stopped showing up on HBO so i know this guy added music to this scene which really killed it for me.
CampinCarl354 3 months ago
4:44 look pvt.Miller and sgt. Roebuck
softairsnipero 4 months ago
I was nerver in combat, but we were still being issued steel helmets in the late 70s. We never used the chinstraps, but always fastened in them together at the rear of the helmet. Our understanding was that they were pretty useless in action.
If you watch footage of Vietnam, you'll see a lot of times when soldiers are running, they have one hand on their helmet. Thats because hardly anybody used the chinstraps, and those old helmets bounced on your head really bad.
neckronn99 4 months ago
the Japanese had only the weapons they needed more training, ranging from some fucking katana, but the Germans smart SUMMER
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During Band of Brothers and The Pacific, whenever I saw any of those young soldiers die, I could feel my heart breaking.
Zerephai 4 months ago
Mixing soundtrack with clips is not good form
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volunteer1941 4 months ago
There should have been no music.
tomthefunky 4 months ago
@tomthefunky There was no music at this part in the episode whoever made the vid just added it.
AUG351 4 months ago
The soundtrack for this scene is bad ass!!!
buddeelov 4 months ago
I was in the Marines and these men are held sacred... no other way to put it
MrJuliesguy 4 months ago
many of the comments are useless......
rexmanager 4 months ago
I'd like to apologize for the stupidity of the Japanese Empire at the time of this war. I'm a proud American, and descendant of honorable soldiers of the 100th and 442nd Japanese Amerian Combat Regiments and the events of this still fill me with disgust for the sides of my family that would attack the U.S.
rerun20001 4 months ago
RIP to the 400,000 american soldiers that served our country during world war 2
legomilitary2011 4 months ago
this was filmed with a potato
pitt2105 4 months ago
They dont where their helmets because the strap could break their jaw or their neck if a shell goes off near them
tenorman1218 5 months ago
go RUSSIANS
mh82149 5 months ago
That looks just like the building in Peleliu from Call Of Duty World At War
99thJediWarrior 5 months ago
@99thJediWarrior Because Call of Duty created that building for their fictional game, and it was never part of the war in real life. Ooops, sarcasm button was on. Get real idiot....
ralfisloved 5 months ago
@ralfisloved Hey calm down. I was merely saying that it looked the same. Cool it.
99thJediWarrior 5 months ago
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@ralfisloved Hey calm down. I was merely saying that it looked the same. Cool it.
99thJediWarrior 5 months ago
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@ralfisloved Hey calm down. I was merely saying that it looked the same. Cool it.
99thJediWarrior 5 months ago
the pacific is awsome
ReNaToHS1000 5 months ago
If the only cover u can find is that of a bombs crater u are SOL my friend, god bless those boys.
keefelakes47 5 months ago
Christians killing themselves, something must be wrong about your book...
Deathvent 5 months ago
240 p strikes again!
Dude123asshole123 5 months ago
DUDE RUSSIA WOULD KICK AMERICAS ASS ANYTIME ASSHOLE
MsDavidak47 5 months ago
@MsDavidak47
Russia Kick the USA ass??
H HA HA - AH AH AH
I don't think Russia could build a ship that would have made it to the US east coast. Much less a fleet of them.
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan Sure if you don't count the nuclear subs that regularly patrolled the US coastline in the cold war. Bombers capable of reaching New York from Britain, and a modern tank capable of out-performing the US Abrams.
You're a typical bigoted American who's mind has never left your own soil. Shut up, and read a book published outside of your country for once.
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
As if I could expect anything less from a lunatic as yourself.
Ok here is how it works. The BULLSHIT SOVIET UNION sucked war for the most part had a bunch of reluctant allies at best. Which when given the chance got out as fast as the could hence.
For a look at what a war with the USA would have looked like you can see how to the Soviet Equipped Egyptian Army got its ass kicked by the Jews or how Saddams Soviet doctrine worked out for him.
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan The Soviet Union (Alone, no allies) is responsible for almost 80% of the casualties inflicted on the Germans in WWII. The Soviet equipped North Vietnamese kicked America's ass. Soviet equipped Cuba repelled an American invasion (Bay of Pigs), and the Taliban who are mostly using Soviet-era weaponry are currently grinding your wartime economy to a halt in an unwinnable guerilla war. The American space program also used a lot of stolen technology from the Soviets during the Cold War.
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
The Soviet Union didn't even enter the war against Germany till 1941 prior to that they were allied with Hitler!!!!
The Soviet Union didn't even enter the war against Japan till it was already over.
And just when did North Vietnam kick the USA ass??? What year was that?
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan You didn't go to war with Germany until 1941 either. And you didn't actually play a major part in the Atlantic/European region until 1944. And check the entire war in Vietnam. November 1955 to 1975. They were allied with the Germans because of the Molotov/Ribbentrop Non-aggression pact which was mostly a political stunt.
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
The US wasn't in Vietnam in 1975 The US left in 1973, (the Paris Peace accords)
The US supplied the USSR with about 2 million tons of steel, 250,000 trucks and about 15 million pair of boots. I would hardly call that not playing a major part. As a matter of fact the list of aid given to the USSR from the USA is so extensive it would take dozens of post to list it all.
I would hardly call the invasion of Poland a Stunt. it was the reason your nation declared war on Germany.
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan And don't even get me started on the genius of the AK-47. Which runs circles around the M-16, M1 Garand, Thompson and any other mainline rifle the American's fielded in the same time period. Being simple to clean and maintain, extremely durable, easy to master, cheap to produce and has enough stopping power to penetrate a modern kevlar vest at 30 feet.
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
I own both the AK and AR
the ak 47 is everything you say and more. But it very inaccurate, however soviet doctrine was basically spray and pray.
But it is a false doctrine in the 20th century. A dead soldier is ONE MAN ONLY taken out of a battle
A wounded soldier is 3 men taken out of a battle. One down and two to carry him. Not to mention the logistics involved in taken care of a wounded soldier.
CSATexan 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
The Soviet Union alone no allies???
HA HA HA
What a joke, nobody wanted to be allied with the Soviet Union!!!!! That is why Stalin jumped at the chance to allied himself with Hitler to invade Poland.
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan You may have a Military background... but your studies on the topic's history seem rather lame. I suggest you read up a bit more then get back to me okay?
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
Not only do I read a lot of books matter of fact the book I am reading right now is written by a British author.
And unlike you I was in the Military during the Cold war and went through through years of classes on how the Soviets fought, how they trained and how they were equipped. I have been to thirteen countries. Have trained with Norwegians, ROK, Royal Marines and The Philippine Army.
Your little hobby was my profession for 4 years!!!
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan Ah... so you have resounding credentials... good for you.
I'm in the Canadian forces and spent about a year and a half in Afghanistan, combined with 5 years experience in total. I admit I never trained with the Norwegians, ROK, Royal Marines or Phillipene army. But I have trained with the American Marines, German Wermacht and French Legion.
It's my profession as well my friend :)
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
Good then you know their is NO WAY ON EARTH the USSR with its bullshit weapons systems were going to out perform US weapon systems.
The Soviets make one thing that is worth a fuck and that is GUNS!!!! Everything else is bullshit.
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan The MIG could out-perform the Phantom in air combat because of both being lighter and being able to climb to higher altitudes before stalling. And the Russian Kiev class supercarrier had more hangar space then the Eisenhower. The Russians also designed the largest atomic bomb in history (Google or Youtube the Tsar Bomba). Russian submarines were more also more maneuverable then their Nautilus counterparts.
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
You ever wonder how it was that the allied sanctions on Germany were a complete failure??
The British navy was many times larger than anything Hitler could have built. And yet Norway, Denmark, Greece, Yugoslavia, France, nation after nation were invaded and beaten while the Germans didn't give the British embargo a second thought????
It was cause the USSR supplied Hitler!! They expanded their alliance to include trade
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan Not giving the British embargo a second thought? Sure... if you don't count the entire bloody war in the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, the Blitz, and the roughly 4 years of competition for the Atlantic between the Germans and British.
Hitler got more resources from France, Africa and the US when it was neutral then it did from the Soviet Union. Although I admit the Soviet Union was one of Germany's top oil suppliers.
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
Why would the battle of the Atlintic be of any importance?? I thought you said the US didn't contribute that much?
The Battle of the Atlantic shifted the battle from an allied embargo of Germany to a German Embargo against the British Islands.
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan If the Royal Navy were defeated, the British would have starved from lack of resources from Canada and the US (The Americans supplied both sides) which made British control of the North Atlantic vital. And British control of the Meditteranean and Mid/South Atlantic was vital in order to provide for her colonies fighting in Africa.
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
The Royal navy had zero effect in its embargo against Germany while Hitler and Stalin were allied.
It wasn't until Germany started to loose ground that the embargo had any effect what so ever.
Fighting in Africa?
The US invaded Africa in 1942, are you trying to suggest that the African front was of some sort of importance?
But that is another story as I recall the UK also traded with Germany prior to Poland and also aided Germany in getting Czechoslovakia
CSATexan 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
Had the USSR been the allied that History paints them. They never would have sided with Hitler against Poland and they sure as hell wouldn't have tried to join the axis powers.
The whole existence of the USSR was based on imperialism through the socialization of property.
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan You're jumping all over the board my friend... is this an argument about Military or Political history?
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@shadowmare97
what was it that Clausewitz said about war is the continuation of politics by other means???
They are two sides of the same coin!!
CSATexan 5 months ago
@shadowmare97 The Phantom is no longer in frontline service and hasn't been for many years. About 90% of the Russian fleet is rusting away and "Nautilus counterparts"?? Time stamp alert: it is 2011, not 1965.
Toddinfantry 5 months ago
@Toddinfantry If you read the entire argument you would see that I was stating facts about Soviet competition THROUGH HISTORY, mainly during the cold war.... not just in modern times.
Although the Russians have a combat ready fleet in the port of Sevastopol in the black sea, as well as an unknown number of submarines deployed around the world. Their fleet is hardly "Rusting away".
shadowmare97 5 months ago
@commisarmike NOT ONLY THAT THEY COULDNT REALLY DO SHIT IN THE WAR =)
PeTrioBoy 5 months ago
@commisarmike I amnot a fat ass...I can run your ass underground at any time ruskie. Why don't you strap this on your sore ass... Semper Fidelis
wildblueflyboy 5 months ago
@Homegate33 its because those that did usually were killed from the concussion caused my nearby artillery and mortar strikes, instead of the helmet coming off, it would usually choke them or give them a concussion.
qeaqk11 5 months ago
@Crazyclipzz those we're Marines...BIG fucking difference !!
anteracmacash 5 months ago
IN WAR THERE IS NO VICTOR BUT ALL ARE VICTIMS
nolypat13 5 months ago
@nolypat13
I don't think the people of Carthage would have agreed with that statement. Their culture was destroyed, their army was massacred their people were sold as slaves and their city was burned to the ground.
CSATexan 5 months ago
Why do (in the WW2 and Vietnam war movies) American soldiers newer properly fasten their helmets?
Homegate33 5 months ago 17
I think that 1: the helmets are pretty heavy and will not fall off. And 2: the soldiers can use it as a weapon/shield during hand to hand combat.
EinkOLED 5 months ago
@EinkOLED
I served for 20 plus, NEVER been in combat, (REMF), but many times I had to wear the helmet, in the tropics and jungle.
I wore a fibreglass inner, and the steel outer, always had the chinstrap done up, and, by christ, despite the weight, inconvenience, and shittiness of it, I always thought that, if 'this' was real, it only takes a piece of shit less than the size of a one cent piece to kill you.
With that in mind, the inconvenience was bearable.
twinstu50 5 months ago
@Homegate33 They do fasten them up it's just that if the buckled the chinstrap up, they had the possibility of getting their heads torn off. The reason it would get it ripped off because if there was an explosion, such immense force from the explosion would pull up on your head so hard your head would rip right off. This is why you see most of them with the chinstraps buckled to the back of their helmets.
@EinkOLED The helmets aren't actually heavy at all.
Hotstarter10 5 months ago
@Homegate33 American soldiers didn't fasten their helmets because as a result of an explosion, it was known that it could break their necks or choke them to death with such a tight strap.
M1179108 5 months ago
@Homegate33 because if an artilery shell were to land near them then the shock wave would tear their heads off
woo302 5 months ago
@Homegate33 Very good question Homegate 33, but i have your answer. Think about how a bullet reacts to a surface. If you shoot at a normal wall in your house, the bullet is going to go into it, it wont deflect because its stationary. If you've ever tried to hit something that wasn't firm or was wobbly, it would be harder to hit or move around when you hit it. So if you had your helmet tight, the bullet would go right through and you would die. But the bullet had a chance to glance off or deflect
loudouncounty10 5 months ago