@lucius1976 Iwo Jima's purpose was the airfields. With those airfields, crippled B-29's could land their. When Paul Tibbets, took off to drop the Atomic-bomb at Hiroshima, Iwo Jima served as a back base if Tibbets B-29 was hurt, he could land at Iwo, and they would lower the A-bomb into a hole at the end of the airfield, and another B-29 would proceed to Hiroshima, that was one reason for invading Iwo Jima.
@hubomba The Japanese's only mission was to take as many casualties as they could with them rather than actually holding the island (hence they let the beach fill up). It was a suicide mission for all of the defenders. Alot of the other movies I watch makes it out to be a legitimate effort to hold the island, but they knew it was impossible and that the US had too much.
Invasion of Iwo Jima was pretty useless in retrospect. The island was not necessary as air or naval base. Much simpler would have been to bypass it and starve it.
They abducted 200,000 Asians (& Caucasians), raped them up to 50 times a day & then buried them alive to save bullets when they became sick.
*Japanese govt won't apologize to any of the surviving sex slaves.
*It STILL sugercoats this by outrageously lying that the victims were whores who volunteered to service Japanese & received great treatment & even bigger salary than Japanese army generals from Japan.
GOOGLE: Jan Ruff O'Herne - Japanese military sex slave
If anyone reads this if your a Marine or know any Marine that survived Iwo Jima you are one of the best troopson this earth this battle was crazy and it was hell.
Don't know about today but back in 91 I was part of a task force that was suppose to hit Kuwait, I was on the LPH IWO JIMA (of all ships)
The tactics used are a lot different, as are our ability to hit bunkers, to see at night, and to actually determine where large concentrations of troops would be located.
considering all National socialism is a parasitic system it is highly unlikly that Europe would have been been off. As a matter of fact it would have been no better than a bunch of street gangs running the place
To the person that said The U.S. was not attacked on our soil: Go to wikipedia and search on Attack on Pearl Harbor. There was a little event that took place on Dec 7th 1941 where the U.S. was attacked on by Japan...on our soil.
Thanks for posting this. My dad was a 20 year old Marine who survived Iwo and is still alive today at 87. He refused to tell me anything about it. One time when I really pressed him, it was the only time in my life I saw him begin to cry. So, I backed off and never aksed him about it again. What an unbelievable time. I will never miss voting as long as I live and have to take my hat off to all the brave soldiers that fought so we can have our freedom.
Thanks for posting this. My dad was a 20 year old Marine who survived Iwo and is still alive today at 87. He refused to tell me anything about it. One time when I real pressed him, it was the only tme in my life I saw him begin to cry. So, I backed off and never aksed him about it again. What an unbelievable time. I will never miss voting as long as live and have to take my hat off to all the brave soldiers that fought so we can have out freedom.
@jbeall500 Thank your father for those of us that followed him, we are forever in debt to these men. Ask once more...and record it. The stories of these men are being lost and need to be recorded and saved for the future. Your father's story, while painful, is part of the roots that make us strong. I am a former Marine and knew an Iwo vet. He talked to me once and his story was incredible. He is gone now, along with the story. I can remember what he said...it was the way he said it.
@MorsTriumphalis obviously you miss the point about our involvement in the war, what were we supposed to do give Imperial Japan oil so they could continue their slaughter? Fuck no!
"No, your country caused the problem with its needless embargoes."
Needless embargoes ? So what could have stopped Japan to invade Asia, back in the 1930's ? Some useless speech, Society of Nations' style ? Yeah, right.
Long story short, Japan messed up in Asia, and the U.S. made it stop. End of story.
The U.S. came and helped us, as our ally. Impossible for Japan to invade the U.S. ? Then why did Japan try and took some of the Aleutian Islands, not so far before Alaska ?
@jbeall500 same thing but with my grandfather but he was in korea i keept asking him about. i asked what was it like at the beach and he said what do you think i saw my best friends die and u know i dont like to talk about it
@halodude178 Bravery in the face of death, yes, but a brave decision is not necessarily a smart decision. A brave and smart decision would have been--and still is-- to do as much as one can to make people question and oppose their governments when they act independently. If all people who do not want war did that, there would be no wars, because no government would have a military.
In fact, there would be no governments, because without the ability to enslave the people, they are powerless.
@jbeall500 my grandfather was in the Canadian 3rd Division, he faced beachheads in Normandy almost as strong as Iwo Jima. When i asked him about it he looked at me and started to tear up and said he hopes I will never have to go through what he did.
@dadikkedude Yes sir! and also it's sister movie, letters from iwo jima. It's basically both sides.. the japanese and the americans (flags of our fathers).
when in war you should not hate the soldiers on the battlefield for they are just like you. Sad, scared, and want nothing more then to see their families back home. We are all men, we are all brothers, just under a different uniform.
It's all well said, mate. But the Japanese military had the reputation not to treat captured enemy soldiers very well, to say the least. So would you show mercy to a soldier whom you know will most likely show none to you ?
@Briselance Thats basically generalization. When you watched the movie Letters from Iwo Jima you'll see that some Japanese are very brute to the Americans while others don't. Same for the Americans.
"Just replace East Asia with North America and the Chinese with Native American and Africans"? .Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of casualties America suffered and the countless families that were affected by Japan's attack . I am sure that they would have understood . Every nation has in their past something that they did that they are not proud of. The casualties of WWll had nothing to do with that period of history. Clint should have filmed the atrocities these "brave" Japs did too.
"Just replace East Asia with North America and the Chinese with Native American and Africans"? .Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of casualties America suffered and the countless families that were effected by Japan's attack . I am sure that they would have understood that statement . Every nation has in their past has something that they did that they are not proud of. The casualties of WWll had nothing to do with that period of history. He should have also filmes the Japanese atrocities
I feel a bit offended that Eastwood made such a film. It feels as if he is honoring the Japanese soldier. They were in the wrong. They started the conflict. I am sure that there are many stories of American men who fought and died at Iwo Jima that he could have focused on.
@Tony63909 its not all about the american men tho isit!! there was yes alot of brave americans who died that day, and yes i honour what theyve done but, the japanese were fighting for what they felt was right also, they were protecting their homeland at iwo jima and alot of them, just like the americans died bravely to the hands of the enemy, so yes, of course they deserve a movie made about them and also should be respected for their bravery also on the battlefeild dureing that day.
@FISHmann100 I respect your opinion, but I radically disagree. What you call "bravery" of the Japanese soldier, I call stupidity. There is no honour in commiting suicide or fighting for as unjust a cause as the Japanese soldier fought for during WWII. America suffered thousands of casualties at Pearl Harbor and hundredes of thousands more defeating Japan . Eastwood should have honored those lives and their bravery.
@Tony63909 What Japan was trying to do was create an empire for themselves and capture as much land as possible. Sound familiar to the creation of the United States? Just replace East Asia with North America and the Chinese with Native Americans and Africans. Also, don't blame the Japanese soldiers, they were practically brainwashed by the Nationalist Party to fear all foreigners, I'm not surprised though, after what the British, Dutch, and U.S. did to the Chinese through Opium trading.
@onebinder The United States' expansion doesn't justify Japan's expansion nor does it justify the brutality with which the Japanese undertook that expansion. The story of the native americans is a dark chapter in US history but it's tame compared to Japan's brutal 8 year campaign in china.
You mention they feared foreigners because of what they did to China. You fail to mention that the Japanese had intense racial loathing of the Chinese above all other races.
@bschou The 8 year Japanese campaign in China does not compare to the 250 years of African slavery in the U.S? What about the slow destruction of an entire Native people? What about Korea? Vietnam? Iraq? Afghanistan? Before you criticize a small, and I mean SMALL portion of Japanese history how about you look at the U.S. and all the shit they have done for their entire existence. I guess Wounded Knee was tame? Don't call it a 'dark chapter' when the U.S. have been treating people like shit 4ever
Nice moral equivocation. US crimes decades removed from World War 2 DO NOT exonerate Japan's conduct in places like China and the Phillipines. As for "wounded knee" on the road to Nanking alone the Japanese were responsible for approximately 300,000 deaths. A majority of these were systematic mass executions. US conduct in Iraq/Nam never matched the systemic barbarism of the Japanese expansionists. Atrocity was the exception not the rule of the US army
@bschou Atrocity is the rule of the U.S. towards people who are not white or male. I'll list a group of people adversely affected by the U.S since its foundation: Africans / Chinese / Afghani / Japanese / Vietnamese / Iraqi / Native American / Filipino / Mexican / Korean / Panamanian / El Salvadorian / Libyan / Egyptian / Female / Spanish / Cuban / The U.S. has displaced, killed, or adversely affected more people than the Japanese have and forever will. Stop trying to marginalize U.S. atrocities
@onebinder You forgot to include:Cromagnen/Neanderthal/homosexuals,Puert Ricans,big breasted and small breasted females, Muslims,Jews, Christians,Buddhists,Atheists,dinosaurs,Giant Pandas,White Tigers,Japanese earthquake,Asian tsunami, Cancer,smog,starvation,etc... America really has been and still is SUCH a terrible place with SUCH a terrible history of destroying and attempting to extinguish SO many other people of different cultures and beliefs.LOL!Pepole like yourself are the consomate hypos
If you examine every bad thing done by a nation of hundreds of millions of course over hundreds of years of course bad stuff crops up.
They neither compare to nor justify ferocity of Japan's genocidal war. When did the US machine gun thousands of POW's in one day? And then continue with this day after day after day? When did the US perform vivisection without anasthesia on hundreds?
Unlike you, I am not condemning an entire country's history only their conduct in a period of time
@bschou In the United States' 250 years of existence it has killed, enslaved, and tortured more people than the Japanese have in their 3,000 years of existence. This does not justify the Japanese during WW2 but the U.S. has still not accepted blame for all the people they have killed and displaced.
If you say the rape, torture, and killing of Africans does not compare to what the Japanese did then you are blind. I'm sure the Vietnamese exposed to Agent Orange would also disagree with you.
@onebinder In Japan's China campaign alone. 15-20 million people were killed. Understand a majority of these were NOT soldiers nor civilian collateral from battle. Most were victims of deliberate extermination campaigns. Japanese soldiers were given explicit orders to kill every man, woman, and child in areas considered "unstable" due to potential communist/partisan presence. These people were not only shot but tortured, raped, burned/buried alive to send a "message" to the rest.
@bschou There is much dispute of how many Chinese were killed by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War because the Communists and Nationalists were fighting with each other during this time and there were still many provincial warlords occupying large territories in China who were fighting one another. Most people estimate Chinese deaths at around 10 million from the Japanese (you are probably looking at rates which include injures as well).
@onebinder Understand I am not out to condemn the Japanese people as a whole nor their culture or multifaceted history. I merely wish to highlight the suffering and barbarism beyond comprehension committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in it's quest to conquer East Asia.
Similarly to condemn the whole US and it's history, a country of 300 million people, with vastly different beliefs and ideologies for the actions of a few misguided politicians and irresponsible capitalists is also wrong.
@bschou To categorize all U.S. atrocities as acts perpetrated by: "a few misguided politicians and irresponsible capitalists" offends me. I am not here to make every U.S. citizen into a monster. I am here to illuminate the United States' dark history that many people seem to ignore and overlook. My intentions were not to make U.S. history seem completely negative, I am just pointing out specific examples which highlight U.S. imperialism and total disregard for human life.
@onebinder Perhaps I was out of line with my sarcasm. Being from Puerto Rico,I feel a great deal of gratitude toward America because,if it were not for the USA,my people would be starving to death.I can say the same for many other people that this nation has helped that are'"not white or male".Name me a nation as old as America that has not had a patch of injustice in it's history? No one is perfect. There is no place on Earth that I would rather live then here. I thank God every day for the USA
@onebinder Give me a break. Your blanket condemnation of a whole nation of millions of people does a disservice to history. The US is not a unilateral hivemind and people of very different minds occupy it. Slavery was a hotly contested issue among many differing factions in the US up to it's very end. Slave owners do not speak for the whole of the United States. Treatment of native americans differed greatly depending on tribe, region, local government, and administration.
@bschou For the most part the treatment of Native Americans was absolute garbage. The U.S. tried to "Americanize" 100,000 Native American children by sending them away form their culture, tribes, and families to boarding schools where they were white-washed. As I have stated before I am only discussing the negative aspects of the United States (I have never said that every U.S. citizen thinks the same way and I never intend to). When I say U.S. I speak of its policies, not its people.
@onebinder And yes. US expansion in America differs greatly from Japan's expansion. While bullying and unfair "treaties" abound the native population decline was largely due to disease spread unintentionally. Of course widespread mistreatment of native populations occured. On the other hand Japan was engaged in deliberate industrialized mass slaughter of millions akin to Germany in Russia with the express intent of converting the population into thralls of the Emperor.
@bschou U.S. expansion does not differ from Japanese expansion except for the fact that the U.S. got away with it and the Japanese did not. The decline of Native Americans was because their land was stolen from them and they were forced onto small reservations NOT because of unintentional diseases. What the U.S. did to Africans for 250 years was systematically done and calculated, same for the Native Americans. It's funny that you defend the most shameful country in the world and look foolish.
@onebinder If you seriously do not think they differ you obviously have a very distorted view of history. There IS a difference between an industrial war machine deliberately used to commit genocide and terrorize people into subjugation killing thousands in days with the very naked and explicit intention of racial subjugation vs. the gradual displacement(however unfair and occasionally unjust) of one large population/culture by a larger population/culture.
@bschou How is raping and killing Africans and stacking them into ships like sardines occasionally unjust? Answer that question. And just because a horrible act is done gradually overtime does not make it better than doing it for a shorter amount of time, it actually makes it worse.
@onebinder African slavery ended in 1863 with the emancipation proclamation. It ended much sooner in other parts of the country that were not the South. Many Americans fought against the practice as well before it was finally banned.
Also, I fail to see how massacring(very deliberately) people in a short amount of time is somehow "better" then people killed over a longer period of time for a wide numbering of reasons.
@bschou Slavery ended in 1863 but that does not excuse the U.S. for 250 years of slavery; and after 1863 Jim Crow Laws dominated the South for about 100 years, during which thousands of African Americans were lynched to death, you also failed to explain your reasoning behind slavery being an "occasional unjust" event.
I never said it was better, you fail to understand U.S. atrocities and mark them off as trivial events that are justified when they were not. You are beyond ignorant, it's funny.
@onebinder I never marked US actions as "Trivial" events nor justified. I was merely giving them context and mentioning how they differ from industrialized genocide.
Also the US was a form state in 1776. It would make slaveries practice in the US be about 100 years. The US were hardly the progenitors of slavery either. I also never mentioned slavery was a "occasionaly unjust" The injustice was in reference to Native Americans Your insulting attitude fails to lend your argument any credibility.
@bschou Let's get some things straight. The Japanese were not conducting industrialized genocide. Their goals in China were not to exterminate ethnic Han Chinese. They practiced a Scorched Earth policy (much like the U.S. during Vietnam) to prevent their enemy from gaining supplies in China. Your argument claims that the Japanese intended to wipeout an entire ethnic group when their intentions were far from it.
@onebinder I was wrong in stating they were given orders to exterminate every man, woman, and child. A more accurate description was to kill all men from teenagers to mid 60's. But the Japanese nonetheless ended up massacring villages wholesale. You are mistaking my reference to the Japanese anti-communist campaign. It was designed to specifically exterminate communists not to merely deny supplies. "Scorched earth" was the policy of kuomintang troops designed to weaken overextended japanese.
@bschou I am referring to the "Three All Policy" aka "Burn all, loot all, kill all". The Japanese did practice scorched earth in China to prevent the allies from aiding them but the Japanese never wanted a long campaign in China. They were focused on getting through to Russia but China proved to be a bigger obstacle then they had expected.
@bschou It is true that the colonists signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 but for all purposes they were a united set of colonies well before that and were considered independent because they rejected or strongly opposed their role as a British colony. Slaves started arriving into the U.S. around the early 1600s. Historians will claim that these colonists are Americans (Remember, just because they didn't sign a piece of paper means they are exonerated from owning slaves).
@bschou Just because the U.S. was not the first country to practice slavery means nothing. It would be akin to me murdering someone and then defending myself at court by saying "I wasn't the first person to shoot a gun, therefore I am innocent". It is unfortunate that the U.S. decided to practice slavery for economic reasons instead of letting people live freely.
There was also nothing just about what the U.S. did to Native Americans. They took advantage and destroyed their culture and people.
@Tony63909 I'm glad Clint Eastwood made this film. It tells people that everyone is human and that there are two sides to a story, not just the winning side. And before you talk about unjust causes look at the United States' dirty history with people who were not white, landowning, males.
@Tony63909 Clint eastwood merely wanted to document and tell the story of the Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima. I do not think it was his intention to apologize for Japan's military aggressions or war crimes.
I think the film does somewhat capture the sick military culture of the Imperial Army while still recognizing their common humanity. A film on their warcrimes would need to be a seperate movie entirely.
But the one thing that I dont understand is why unload 105 mm arti guns in the first wave of the assault with no cover when it is not a necesity as you have the guns of the fleet and CAS of the Carriers ??
By this time in the Pacific Theater of WW2 this was a child's war for the United States. From 1941 - 1943 most of the Marines were Volunteer's. People who were old enough to actually know what they're doing. In 1944 most of them were drafted into the war, they were nothing but 17 and 18 year old's (Child's War). Fresh out of high school, didn't even want to take part in the war. All they wanted to do was to go back home. That's why Casualties & Losses were HIGH after 1943. NO DISRESPECT!
@SerenityIsTheMan WOW!!! Sorry guy but this is a big load of crap. First, casualties were higher after 1943 for a couple of reasons, but right off the bat because the Marines fought more battles against an ever increasing fanatical resistance. If you would do your research, it's real easy with the internet, you will find that the ratio of volunteer to draftee in the Marine Corps didn't change a whole bunch. The majority of Marines until the end were vols.
Great Video! I love this movie. The de-saturation to the point of being almost black and white was very powerful. Made it feel very old, like it was filmed there. Amazing work by Eastwood once again.
@lordplaya8 God saved alot of lives on June 6. The men on Utah landed on the wrong beach. Where they were originally suppose 2 land was much more heavily defended. And ur grandpa died in helping 2 start the drive into fortress Europe. Ur grandpa died in the name of democracy ur grandpa died trying to help prevent the Germans from invading Britain and eventually us
u know its stupid they wait all that time when they couldve had a ton of men already through and saved (alot) of lives even if they ran but no command comes first rather than self temptation my grandpa told me that when i join the army ill take that sying with me just lke he did on omaha beach and lived may he rest in peace RIP.
Man u rock! Excellent vid! Clint is an excellent director when it comes down 2 getting stuff right. Michaels direction of pearl harbor was bull shit. Pearl harbor really didn't explain the attack. It was more of a story line and the attack got in the way. Excellent video
Letters from Iwo Jima is a superb film, clint eastwood as well as being a good actor is a great director. flags of our fathers I didnt like so much but thats just me.
This movie was always interesting......... it was not like one of those movies about the marines or the glory of America, it's the reality, the perspective of everyone.
@blood666fall I agree! As an American, I had always felt disappointed that most of our movies failed to consider any other country's point of view. "Letters from Iwo Jima" was a refreshing change from "typical" American war movies. I would love to see more movies that did this
A lot of people were angry that Letters From Iwo Jima portrayed the Japanese military in a respective light. Yes, they committed atrocities. Guess what? So has the American military. Bravery was seen on both sides of WW2.
@TheGreaterGood80 I agree. The thing is, the Japanese are PEOPLE just like you and i. Some fight for their country, others unwillingly. We cant look at them like monsters and their story should be told. Its a reality.
@TheGreaterGood80 I totally agree with you. I have a great uncle who fought for the Japanese Imperial Army of Japan and he was fighting in Manchuria, Beijing, the Philippines, and Taiwan. I respect him very much and he's a very sweet and nice natured man. Both the Japanese and Americans did things in the war that was seen as barbaric but many were just put into that situation. The Japanese were not more barbaric than the Americans. Both sides had their demons and both sides suffered greatly.
@TheGreaterGood80 I agree that the Japanese had very brave soldiers and their story is worth telling. That being said if you've done any reading on WW2 you should know Japanese atrocities dwarfed American ones in terms of scale and sheer cruelty. Japan's bioweap program ALONE killed 500,000 civilians in China.
When territory fell to Japan mass rape and ethnic cleansing occured.
When Japan fell to the United States the US implemented policies that helped her become a thriving modern economy.
@bschou Again, I don't disagree that the Japanese military was capable of butchery on such a vast scale. The Rape of Nanking, the occupation of Korea, etc. But let's look at other moments of our military history that aren't so heroic as WW2 could be. Nobody talks about our occupation of the Philippines after the Spanish-American war. We can criticize modern Japan for not doing enough to redeem themselves for the Imperial years, but we don't often speak of our moments as the bad guy.
No doubt. It takes moral integrity to examine one's own wrongdoing which is difficult to say the least. I'm not surprised Japan has not owned up to war crimes given their enormity and the higher importance of saving face in Japanese culture.
You have to admit, 12,000 Japanese defenders against an invasion force of that size is a bit lopsided. Even so, the Marines who stormed the beaches and routed the enemy deserve much respect. This matches anything our men had to go through in history in terms of sheer hellishness. We can only hope that with a healthy dose of self-reflection, our leaders and soldiers can make a reasoned determination on whether our current conflicts are both just and necessary. If not, pull them out.
@MicheasTheMighty2 Keep in mind you can only put so many men on the beach at one time. Sure the total numbers where lopsided but they are more even in numbers when you look at force on force fighting at any given time during the beginning of the battle.
Saving private Ryan is better but you cant really compare them because the other one was 1) older? 2) In normady this is near japan but this is same kind of warfare
Flags of Our Fathers because of Clint Eastwood over Micheal Bay except when it comes to Micheal Bay's other masterpieces like Transformers, Bad Boys, and Armageddon.
@smallvile1992 lol pearl harbor... such a waste of time... so full of errors... a hangar with the letters 'est. 1956' on it... or some missile cruisers being bombed? the US Navy would've been very very happy if one of those was there... and why the hell was that dolittle raid needed in Pearl Harbor? srsly.... skip Pearl Harbor and keep watching Tora Tora Tora... for Flag of our Fathers... that's an ok movie. but it has not much to do with the battle itself, but for some (tbc)
@JheakrynaKyAlur True, But keep in mind that Flags of Our Fathers was not JUST supposed to be about Iwo Jima. Flags of Our Fathers was more about the Marines who rose the flag on Suribachi, and what it was like to deal w/ the fame they felt was undeserved during that Bond Tour.
@smallvile1992 pearl harbor is a piece of garbage. Micheal Bay is all about explosions. This is a real masterpiece from an excellent director. Micheal Bay sucks.
@lucius1976 Iwo Jima's purpose was the airfields. With those airfields, crippled B-29's could land their. When Paul Tibbets, took off to drop the Atomic-bomb at Hiroshima, Iwo Jima served as a back base if Tibbets B-29 was hurt, he could land at Iwo, and they would lower the A-bomb into a hole at the end of the airfield, and another B-29 would proceed to Hiroshima, that was one reason for invading Iwo Jima.
zachwood1218 1 week ago
i like this video
ammar51467 2 weeks ago
This is pretty much one of the only accurate movie accounts of this battle.
hubomba 2 weeks ago
@hubomba The Japanese's only mission was to take as many casualties as they could with them rather than actually holding the island (hence they let the beach fill up). It was a suicide mission for all of the defenders. Alot of the other movies I watch makes it out to be a legitimate effort to hold the island, but they knew it was impossible and that the US had too much.
hubomba 2 weeks ago
Invasion of Iwo Jima was pretty useless in retrospect. The island was not necessary as air or naval base. Much simpler would have been to bypass it and starve it.
lucius1976 1 month ago
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FRforcing 2 months ago
I like it when 2 stories meet and connect together, like half life 2 and portal.
WarFreak1st 2 months ago
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Japanese were as evil as Nazis.
They abducted 200,000 Asians (& Caucasians), raped them up to 50 times a day & then buried them alive to save bullets when they became sick.
*Japanese govt won't apologize to any of the surviving sex slaves.
*It STILL sugercoats this by outrageously lying that the victims were whores who volunteered to service Japanese & received great treatment & even bigger salary than Japanese army generals from Japan.
GOOGLE: Jan Ruff O'Herne - Japanese military sex slave
KimInLosAngeles 2 months ago
do you know john basilone?
one of the best soldiers of the us marines during the pacific war.
he kill duzens of japs by himself
navyseals997 2 months ago
5:29 john basilone?
AJY987 2 months ago
whitch weapon do you think is better?
the thompson 1928 or the m1a1thompson?
the m1garand or m1 carbine?
colt45 or nambu?
y wanna know your opinion people.
navyseals997 3 months ago in playlist C.O.D games
I wish the M16A2 was made back then pretty good rifle for them
Ascenscion123 3 months ago
If anyone reads this if your a Marine or know any Marine that survived Iwo Jima you are one of the best troopson this earth this battle was crazy and it was hell.
Ascenscion123 3 months ago
wtf private jackson from saveing private ryan at 6:25
MegaDragon117 4 months ago
My grandfather when to war for japan and after watching this film, I sort of know how he felt.
TheNinjanordundor 5 months ago
I never seen so many landing craft.
njkm22 5 months ago
i wonder if we had to do this shit today how much different it would be
jt18023 5 months ago
@jt18023
Don't know about today but back in 91 I was part of a task force that was suppose to hit Kuwait, I was on the LPH IWO JIMA (of all ships)
The tactics used are a lot different, as are our ability to hit bunkers, to see at night, and to actually determine where large concentrations of troops would be located.
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan Thanks for your service man. Yeap, the beachhead was a decoy as Shcwarzkoff used the media.
HDNighster1 5 months ago
Hard to believe any Americans survived.
JITTERdUdEepic 5 months ago
There is no good side or bad side in war. Only victims.
Killjoy45 6 months ago
@Killjoy45
Sounds like a bumper sticker.
Perhaps Europe would have been better off living under NAZI Rule.
CSATexan 5 months ago
@CSATexan
Perhaps.
Unfortunately we will never know.
Killjoy45 5 months ago
@Killjoy45
considering all National socialism is a parasitic system it is highly unlikly that Europe would have been been off. As a matter of fact it would have been no better than a bunch of street gangs running the place
CSATexan 5 months ago
He was a Corporal
jbeall500 6 months ago
To the person that said The U.S. was not attacked on our soil: Go to wikipedia and search on Attack on Pearl Harbor. There was a little event that took place on Dec 7th 1941 where the U.S. was attacked on by Japan...on our soil.
jbeall500 7 months ago
Great Battle Scene, great Movie.
Spasivo32 7 months ago
Dont hate the player hate the game, in other words dont hate the soldiers hate the war
alldud13 8 months ago
My grandpa survived Iwo Jima.
GrievousCommander 8 months ago
awsome scene. really liked the ending
MrStarchild7 8 months ago
intense battle lol
LtKoAlA 9 months ago
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Thanks for posting this. My dad was a 20 year old Marine who survived Iwo and is still alive today at 87. He refused to tell me anything about it. One time when I really pressed him, it was the only time in my life I saw him begin to cry. So, I backed off and never aksed him about it again. What an unbelievable time. I will never miss voting as long as I live and have to take my hat off to all the brave soldiers that fought so we can have our freedom.
jbeall500 9 months ago
Thanks for posting this. My dad was a 20 year old Marine who survived Iwo and is still alive today at 87. He refused to tell me anything about it. One time when I real pressed him, it was the only tme in my life I saw him begin to cry. So, I backed off and never aksed him about it again. What an unbelievable time. I will never miss voting as long as live and have to take my hat off to all the brave soldiers that fought so we can have out freedom.
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@jbeall500 Respect to your father. I salute him and thank him for her services for our country.
Thisisreality434 9 months ago
@Thisisreality434 you said "her"
Guercinator 6 months ago
@jbeall500 Thank your father for those of us that followed him, we are forever in debt to these men. Ask once more...and record it. The stories of these men are being lost and need to be recorded and saved for the future. Your father's story, while painful, is part of the roots that make us strong. I am a former Marine and knew an Iwo vet. He talked to me once and his story was incredible. He is gone now, along with the story. I can remember what he said...it was the way he said it.
Semper Fi
Toddinfantry 8 months ago
@jbeall500 what does attacking japan have to do with freedom? Was Japan going to invade the USA?
No, your country caused the problem with its needless embargoes. It is physically impossible for the WWII Japan or Germany to invade America.
Americans died for international banks.
MorsTriumphalis 7 months ago
@MorsTriumphalis obviously you miss the point about our involvement in the war, what were we supposed to do give Imperial Japan oil so they could continue their slaughter? Fuck no!
usteeler81 6 months ago
@MorsTriumphalis
"No, your country caused the problem with its needless embargoes."
Needless embargoes ? So what could have stopped Japan to invade Asia, back in the 1930's ? Some useless speech, Society of Nations' style ? Yeah, right.
Long story short, Japan messed up in Asia, and the U.S. made it stop. End of story.
The U.S. came and helped us, as our ally. Impossible for Japan to invade the U.S. ? Then why did Japan try and took some of the Aleutian Islands, not so far before Alaska ?
Briselance 3 months ago
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TITIRomain63 6 months ago
I think your dad was a good soldier ( a great marine ) .What he was?Captain?Sgt?
TITIRomain63 6 months ago
@jbeall500 your dad is one of the lucky 27?
Guercinator 6 months ago
@jbeall500 same thing but with my grandfather but he was in korea i keept asking him about. i asked what was it like at the beach and he said what do you think i saw my best friends die and u know i dont like to talk about it
halodude178 4 months ago
@halodude178
That calls for anger at those that sent him, because they do not value human lives as anything significant.
Giriath1 4 months ago
@Giriath1 what?? lolz my grandfather went by chocie thats real bravery
halodude178 4 months ago
@halodude178 Bravery in the face of death, yes, but a brave decision is not necessarily a smart decision. A brave and smart decision would have been--and still is-- to do as much as one can to make people question and oppose their governments when they act independently. If all people who do not want war did that, there would be no wars, because no government would have a military.
In fact, there would be no governments, because without the ability to enslave the people, they are powerless.
Giriath1 3 months ago
@jbeall500
Voting? Your vote makes no difference except perhaps in trivial matters.
Giriath1 4 months ago
@jbeall500 my grandfather was in the Canadian 3rd Division, he faced beachheads in Normandy almost as strong as Iwo Jima. When i asked him about it he looked at me and started to tear up and said he hopes I will never have to go through what he did.
Umedark 2 months ago
isn't this from flags of our fathers?
dadikkedude 9 months ago
@dadikkedude Yes sir! and also it's sister movie, letters from iwo jima. It's basically both sides.. the japanese and the americans (flags of our fathers).
Thisisreality434 9 months ago
Winner = justice
Looser = evil
This is everything.
taiyakiuser 10 months ago
when in war you should not hate the soldiers on the battlefield for they are just like you. Sad, scared, and want nothing more then to see their families back home. We are all men, we are all brothers, just under a different uniform.
tubby140793 10 months ago 12
@tubby140793 Well said.
Thisisreality434 10 months ago
@Thisisreality434 Thx bro
tubby140793 10 months ago
@tubby140793 CLAP CLAP
MrBloopers555 9 months ago
@tubby140793
It's all well said, mate. But the Japanese military had the reputation not to treat captured enemy soldiers very well, to say the least. So would you show mercy to a soldier whom you know will most likely show none to you ?
Briselance 9 months ago
@Briselance Thats basically generalization. When you watched the movie Letters from Iwo Jima you'll see that some Japanese are very brute to the Americans while others don't. Same for the Americans.
deadly840 3 months ago
09:57 : Holly shit ...
Briselance 9 months ago
I like this movie. They portrayed the Japanese in the light of what they really were. People like you and me that would die for their nation.
TheJafrikan 10 months ago 2
@TheJafrikan Couldn't agree any more. The very reason why I love this movie.
Thisisreality434 10 months ago
"Just replace East Asia with North America and the Chinese with Native American and Africans"? .Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of casualties America suffered and the countless families that were affected by Japan's attack . I am sure that they would have understood . Every nation has in their past something that they did that they are not proud of. The casualties of WWll had nothing to do with that period of history. Clint should have filmed the atrocities these "brave" Japs did too.
Tony63909 1 year ago
"Just replace East Asia with North America and the Chinese with Native American and Africans"? .Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of casualties America suffered and the countless families that were effected by Japan's attack . I am sure that they would have understood that statement . Every nation has in their past has something that they did that they are not proud of. The casualties of WWll had nothing to do with that period of history. He should have also filmes the Japanese atrocities
Tony63909 1 year ago
I feel a bit offended that Eastwood made such a film. It feels as if he is honoring the Japanese soldier. They were in the wrong. They started the conflict. I am sure that there are many stories of American men who fought and died at Iwo Jima that he could have focused on.
Tony63909 1 year ago
@Tony63909 its not all about the american men tho isit!! there was yes alot of brave americans who died that day, and yes i honour what theyve done but, the japanese were fighting for what they felt was right also, they were protecting their homeland at iwo jima and alot of them, just like the americans died bravely to the hands of the enemy, so yes, of course they deserve a movie made about them and also should be respected for their bravery also on the battlefeild dureing that day.
FISHmann100 1 year ago
@FISHmann100 I respect your opinion, but I radically disagree. What you call "bravery" of the Japanese soldier, I call stupidity. There is no honour in commiting suicide or fighting for as unjust a cause as the Japanese soldier fought for during WWII. America suffered thousands of casualties at Pearl Harbor and hundredes of thousands more defeating Japan . Eastwood should have honored those lives and their bravery.
Tony63909 1 year ago
@Tony63909 What Japan was trying to do was create an empire for themselves and capture as much land as possible. Sound familiar to the creation of the United States? Just replace East Asia with North America and the Chinese with Native Americans and Africans. Also, don't blame the Japanese soldiers, they were practically brainwashed by the Nationalist Party to fear all foreigners, I'm not surprised though, after what the British, Dutch, and U.S. did to the Chinese through Opium trading.
onebinder 1 year ago
@onebinder The United States' expansion doesn't justify Japan's expansion nor does it justify the brutality with which the Japanese undertook that expansion. The story of the native americans is a dark chapter in US history but it's tame compared to Japan's brutal 8 year campaign in china.
You mention they feared foreigners because of what they did to China. You fail to mention that the Japanese had intense racial loathing of the Chinese above all other races.
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou The 8 year Japanese campaign in China does not compare to the 250 years of African slavery in the U.S? What about the slow destruction of an entire Native people? What about Korea? Vietnam? Iraq? Afghanistan? Before you criticize a small, and I mean SMALL portion of Japanese history how about you look at the U.S. and all the shit they have done for their entire existence. I guess Wounded Knee was tame? Don't call it a 'dark chapter' when the U.S. have been treating people like shit 4ever
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder
Nice moral equivocation. US crimes decades removed from World War 2 DO NOT exonerate Japan's conduct in places like China and the Phillipines. As for "wounded knee" on the road to Nanking alone the Japanese were responsible for approximately 300,000 deaths. A majority of these were systematic mass executions. US conduct in Iraq/Nam never matched the systemic barbarism of the Japanese expansionists. Atrocity was the exception not the rule of the US army
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou Atrocity is the rule of the U.S. towards people who are not white or male. I'll list a group of people adversely affected by the U.S since its foundation: Africans / Chinese / Afghani / Japanese / Vietnamese / Iraqi / Native American / Filipino / Mexican / Korean / Panamanian / El Salvadorian / Libyan / Egyptian / Female / Spanish / Cuban / The U.S. has displaced, killed, or adversely affected more people than the Japanese have and forever will. Stop trying to marginalize U.S. atrocities
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder You forgot to include:Cromagnen/Neanderthal/homosexuals,Puert Ricans,big breasted and small breasted females, Muslims,Jews, Christians,Buddhists,Atheists,dinosaurs,Giant Pandas,White Tigers,Japanese earthquake,Asian tsunami, Cancer,smog,starvation,etc... America really has been and still is SUCH a terrible place with SUCH a terrible history of destroying and attempting to extinguish SO many other people of different cultures and beliefs.LOL!Pepole like yourself are the consomate hypos
Tony63909 11 months ago
@Tony63909 When a person cannot come up with a reasonable and intelligent response they do what you do. Checkmate, thanks for playing, try again.
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder
If you examine every bad thing done by a nation of hundreds of millions of course over hundreds of years of course bad stuff crops up.
They neither compare to nor justify ferocity of Japan's genocidal war. When did the US machine gun thousands of POW's in one day? And then continue with this day after day after day? When did the US perform vivisection without anasthesia on hundreds?
Unlike you, I am not condemning an entire country's history only their conduct in a period of time
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou In the United States' 250 years of existence it has killed, enslaved, and tortured more people than the Japanese have in their 3,000 years of existence. This does not justify the Japanese during WW2 but the U.S. has still not accepted blame for all the people they have killed and displaced.
If you say the rape, torture, and killing of Africans does not compare to what the Japanese did then you are blind. I'm sure the Vietnamese exposed to Agent Orange would also disagree with you.
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder In Japan's China campaign alone. 15-20 million people were killed. Understand a majority of these were NOT soldiers nor civilian collateral from battle. Most were victims of deliberate extermination campaigns. Japanese soldiers were given explicit orders to kill every man, woman, and child in areas considered "unstable" due to potential communist/partisan presence. These people were not only shot but tortured, raped, burned/buried alive to send a "message" to the rest.
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou There is much dispute of how many Chinese were killed by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War because the Communists and Nationalists were fighting with each other during this time and there were still many provincial warlords occupying large territories in China who were fighting one another. Most people estimate Chinese deaths at around 10 million from the Japanese (you are probably looking at rates which include injures as well).
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder Understand I am not out to condemn the Japanese people as a whole nor their culture or multifaceted history. I merely wish to highlight the suffering and barbarism beyond comprehension committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in it's quest to conquer East Asia.
Similarly to condemn the whole US and it's history, a country of 300 million people, with vastly different beliefs and ideologies for the actions of a few misguided politicians and irresponsible capitalists is also wrong.
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou To categorize all U.S. atrocities as acts perpetrated by: "a few misguided politicians and irresponsible capitalists" offends me. I am not here to make every U.S. citizen into a monster. I am here to illuminate the United States' dark history that many people seem to ignore and overlook. My intentions were not to make U.S. history seem completely negative, I am just pointing out specific examples which highlight U.S. imperialism and total disregard for human life.
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder Perhaps I was out of line with my sarcasm. Being from Puerto Rico,I feel a great deal of gratitude toward America because,if it were not for the USA,my people would be starving to death.I can say the same for many other people that this nation has helped that are'"not white or male".Name me a nation as old as America that has not had a patch of injustice in it's history? No one is perfect. There is no place on Earth that I would rather live then here. I thank God every day for the USA
Tony63909 11 months ago
@Tony63909 Puerto Rico is basically a U.S. territory, so you are not really a foreigner at all.
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder Give me a break. Your blanket condemnation of a whole nation of millions of people does a disservice to history. The US is not a unilateral hivemind and people of very different minds occupy it. Slavery was a hotly contested issue among many differing factions in the US up to it's very end. Slave owners do not speak for the whole of the United States. Treatment of native americans differed greatly depending on tribe, region, local government, and administration.
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou For the most part the treatment of Native Americans was absolute garbage. The U.S. tried to "Americanize" 100,000 Native American children by sending them away form their culture, tribes, and families to boarding schools where they were white-washed. As I have stated before I am only discussing the negative aspects of the United States (I have never said that every U.S. citizen thinks the same way and I never intend to). When I say U.S. I speak of its policies, not its people.
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder And yes. US expansion in America differs greatly from Japan's expansion. While bullying and unfair "treaties" abound the native population decline was largely due to disease spread unintentionally. Of course widespread mistreatment of native populations occured. On the other hand Japan was engaged in deliberate industrialized mass slaughter of millions akin to Germany in Russia with the express intent of converting the population into thralls of the Emperor.
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou U.S. expansion does not differ from Japanese expansion except for the fact that the U.S. got away with it and the Japanese did not. The decline of Native Americans was because their land was stolen from them and they were forced onto small reservations NOT because of unintentional diseases. What the U.S. did to Africans for 250 years was systematically done and calculated, same for the Native Americans. It's funny that you defend the most shameful country in the world and look foolish.
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder If you seriously do not think they differ you obviously have a very distorted view of history. There IS a difference between an industrial war machine deliberately used to commit genocide and terrorize people into subjugation killing thousands in days with the very naked and explicit intention of racial subjugation vs. the gradual displacement(however unfair and occasionally unjust) of one large population/culture by a larger population/culture.
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou How is raping and killing Africans and stacking them into ships like sardines occasionally unjust? Answer that question. And just because a horrible act is done gradually overtime does not make it better than doing it for a shorter amount of time, it actually makes it worse.
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder African slavery ended in 1863 with the emancipation proclamation. It ended much sooner in other parts of the country that were not the South. Many Americans fought against the practice as well before it was finally banned.
Also, I fail to see how massacring(very deliberately) people in a short amount of time is somehow "better" then people killed over a longer period of time for a wide numbering of reasons.
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou Slavery ended in 1863 but that does not excuse the U.S. for 250 years of slavery; and after 1863 Jim Crow Laws dominated the South for about 100 years, during which thousands of African Americans were lynched to death, you also failed to explain your reasoning behind slavery being an "occasional unjust" event.
I never said it was better, you fail to understand U.S. atrocities and mark them off as trivial events that are justified when they were not. You are beyond ignorant, it's funny.
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder I never marked US actions as "Trivial" events nor justified. I was merely giving them context and mentioning how they differ from industrialized genocide.
Also the US was a form state in 1776. It would make slaveries practice in the US be about 100 years. The US were hardly the progenitors of slavery either. I also never mentioned slavery was a "occasionaly unjust" The injustice was in reference to Native Americans Your insulting attitude fails to lend your argument any credibility.
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou Let's get some things straight. The Japanese were not conducting industrialized genocide. Their goals in China were not to exterminate ethnic Han Chinese. They practiced a Scorched Earth policy (much like the U.S. during Vietnam) to prevent their enemy from gaining supplies in China. Your argument claims that the Japanese intended to wipeout an entire ethnic group when their intentions were far from it.
onebinder 11 months ago
@onebinder I was wrong in stating they were given orders to exterminate every man, woman, and child. A more accurate description was to kill all men from teenagers to mid 60's. But the Japanese nonetheless ended up massacring villages wholesale. You are mistaking my reference to the Japanese anti-communist campaign. It was designed to specifically exterminate communists not to merely deny supplies. "Scorched earth" was the policy of kuomintang troops designed to weaken overextended japanese.
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou I am referring to the "Three All Policy" aka "Burn all, loot all, kill all". The Japanese did practice scorched earth in China to prevent the allies from aiding them but the Japanese never wanted a long campaign in China. They were focused on getting through to Russia but China proved to be a bigger obstacle then they had expected.
onebinder 11 months ago
@bschou It is true that the colonists signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 but for all purposes they were a united set of colonies well before that and were considered independent because they rejected or strongly opposed their role as a British colony. Slaves started arriving into the U.S. around the early 1600s. Historians will claim that these colonists are Americans (Remember, just because they didn't sign a piece of paper means they are exonerated from owning slaves).
onebinder 11 months ago
@bschou Just because the U.S. was not the first country to practice slavery means nothing. It would be akin to me murdering someone and then defending myself at court by saying "I wasn't the first person to shoot a gun, therefore I am innocent". It is unfortunate that the U.S. decided to practice slavery for economic reasons instead of letting people live freely.
There was also nothing just about what the U.S. did to Native Americans. They took advantage and destroyed their culture and people.
onebinder 11 months ago
@Tony63909 I'm glad Clint Eastwood made this film. It tells people that everyone is human and that there are two sides to a story, not just the winning side. And before you talk about unjust causes look at the United States' dirty history with people who were not white, landowning, males.
onebinder 1 year ago
@Tony63909 Clint eastwood merely wanted to document and tell the story of the Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima. I do not think it was his intention to apologize for Japan's military aggressions or war crimes.
I think the film does somewhat capture the sick military culture of the Imperial Army while still recognizing their common humanity. A film on their warcrimes would need to be a seperate movie entirely.
bschou 11 months ago
If there is one thing no one can seem to compete Clint Eastwood in movie making, is showing both sides of the story.
Shadoweye12 1 year ago
FUCK USA!
Coward American!
pcgetmasa 1 year ago
@pcgetmasa If you know any history of America, particularly that of their independence from Britain; they are anything but cowards.
Alexr197 1 year ago
9:21 YEA AMERICANS!!!!!!!!!!
mrhsfm 1 year ago
first pearl harbor now this SARAH PALLIN WHERE ARE YOU!!!
mrhsfm 1 year ago
I great movie and a great upload
But the one thing that I dont understand is why unload 105 mm arti guns in the first wave of the assault with no cover when it is not a necesity as you have the guns of the fleet and CAS of the Carriers ??
thebritish25 1 year ago
By this time in the Pacific Theater of WW2 this was a child's war for the United States. From 1941 - 1943 most of the Marines were Volunteer's. People who were old enough to actually know what they're doing. In 1944 most of them were drafted into the war, they were nothing but 17 and 18 year old's (Child's War). Fresh out of high school, didn't even want to take part in the war. All they wanted to do was to go back home. That's why Casualties & Losses were HIGH after 1943. NO DISRESPECT!
SerenityIsTheMan 1 year ago
@SerenityIsTheMan WOW!!! Sorry guy but this is a big load of crap. First, casualties were higher after 1943 for a couple of reasons, but right off the bat because the Marines fought more battles against an ever increasing fanatical resistance. If you would do your research, it's real easy with the internet, you will find that the ratio of volunteer to draftee in the Marine Corps didn't change a whole bunch. The majority of Marines until the end were vols.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
being burnt to death is the worst way to die
EmkobAllianceForce1 1 year ago
@EmkobAllianceForce1 Ive allways though off bleeding out via the carotid artiry as the worst.
thebritish25 1 year ago
@thebritish25 trust me burning is alot worse then bleeding
EmkobAllianceForce1 1 year ago
oh my good the head
MrGnominator 1 year ago
Clint Eastwood is the only American director that didn't glorify U.S.A. in a WW2 movie.
I respect that
tak0242424 1 year ago
@tak0242424 Oliver stone with Platoon accomplished the same thing
Snako85 1 year ago
A flamethrower would not blow up as easy as the movies make it seem. But all in all good vid. It makes me feel bad about liking Japanese girls lol.
xFPSxGYPSYx 1 year ago
Great Video! I love this movie. The de-saturation to the point of being almost black and white was very powerful. Made it feel very old, like it was filmed there. Amazing work by Eastwood once again.
gman1225 1 year ago
@lordplaya8 God saved alot of lives on June 6. The men on Utah landed on the wrong beach. Where they were originally suppose 2 land was much more heavily defended. And ur grandpa died in helping 2 start the drive into fortress Europe. Ur grandpa died in the name of democracy ur grandpa died trying to help prevent the Germans from invading Britain and eventually us
lovatojonasfan1 1 year ago
u know its stupid they wait all that time when they couldve had a ton of men already through and saved (alot) of lives even if they ran but no command comes first rather than self temptation my grandpa told me that when i join the army ill take that sying with me just lke he did on omaha beach and lived may he rest in peace RIP.
lordplaya8 1 year ago 3
@lordplaya8 Sorry about your grandpa, my respects.
Thisisreality434 1 year ago
Man u rock! Excellent vid! Clint is an excellent director when it comes down 2 getting stuff right. Michaels direction of pearl harbor was bull shit. Pearl harbor really didn't explain the attack. It was more of a story line and the attack got in the way. Excellent video
lovatojonasfan1 1 year ago 4
@lovatojonasfan1 Thanks :D
Thisisreality434 1 year ago
Letters from Iwo Jima is a superb film, clint eastwood as well as being a good actor is a great director. flags of our fathers I didnt like so much but thats just me.
Hardrada88 1 year ago
I don't know if you guys think this also, but this part looks less intense than the Pacific Part 8.
55DJL 1 year ago
This movie was always interesting......... it was not like one of those movies about the marines or the glory of America, it's the reality, the perspective of everyone.
blood666fall 1 year ago 17
@blood666fall Agreed, completely agreed...
Thisisreality434 1 year ago
@blood666fall My thoughts exactly..
Thisisreality434 1 year ago
@blood666fall I agree! As an American, I had always felt disappointed that most of our movies failed to consider any other country's point of view. "Letters from Iwo Jima" was a refreshing change from "typical" American war movies. I would love to see more movies that did this
Goatoftheforest 8 months ago 3
Wow watching the artillery and MG barrels coming out of cover/foliage is kind of badass but fucked up at the same time.
snoopyofdoomxx 1 year ago
A lot of people were angry that Letters From Iwo Jima portrayed the Japanese military in a respective light. Yes, they committed atrocities. Guess what? So has the American military. Bravery was seen on both sides of WW2.
TheGreaterGood80 1 year ago 27
@TheGreaterGood80 I agree. The thing is, the Japanese are PEOPLE just like you and i. Some fight for their country, others unwillingly. We cant look at them like monsters and their story should be told. Its a reality.
Thisisreality434 1 year ago 4
@TheGreaterGood80 I totally agree with you. I have a great uncle who fought for the Japanese Imperial Army of Japan and he was fighting in Manchuria, Beijing, the Philippines, and Taiwan. I respect him very much and he's a very sweet and nice natured man. Both the Japanese and Americans did things in the war that was seen as barbaric but many were just put into that situation. The Japanese were not more barbaric than the Americans. Both sides had their demons and both sides suffered greatly.
ponotsunami 1 year ago
@TheGreaterGood80 I salute you! T_T
Shadowfang3000 1 year ago
@TheGreaterGood80 I agree that the Japanese had very brave soldiers and their story is worth telling. That being said if you've done any reading on WW2 you should know Japanese atrocities dwarfed American ones in terms of scale and sheer cruelty. Japan's bioweap program ALONE killed 500,000 civilians in China.
When territory fell to Japan mass rape and ethnic cleansing occured.
When Japan fell to the United States the US implemented policies that helped her become a thriving modern economy.
bschou 11 months ago
@bschou Again, I don't disagree that the Japanese military was capable of butchery on such a vast scale. The Rape of Nanking, the occupation of Korea, etc. But let's look at other moments of our military history that aren't so heroic as WW2 could be. Nobody talks about our occupation of the Philippines after the Spanish-American war. We can criticize modern Japan for not doing enough to redeem themselves for the Imperial years, but we don't often speak of our moments as the bad guy.
TheGreaterGood80 11 months ago
@TheGreaterGood80
No doubt. It takes moral integrity to examine one's own wrongdoing which is difficult to say the least. I'm not surprised Japan has not owned up to war crimes given their enormity and the higher importance of saving face in Japanese culture.
bschou 11 months ago
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@TheGreaterGood80
"Guess what? So has the American military."
They did so in WW2 ? When ? Where ? Against who ?
Briselance 9 months ago
if you guys liked this you should watched "Peleliu Beach Landing" its titles orange beach II. but type in the thing in quotes to find it.
SerenityIsTheMan 1 year ago
what a nice ending! :s
lewau97 1 year ago
Great job!
Samski90 1 year ago
You have to admit, 12,000 Japanese defenders against an invasion force of that size is a bit lopsided. Even so, the Marines who stormed the beaches and routed the enemy deserve much respect. This matches anything our men had to go through in history in terms of sheer hellishness. We can only hope that with a healthy dose of self-reflection, our leaders and soldiers can make a reasoned determination on whether our current conflicts are both just and necessary. If not, pull them out.
MicheasTheMighty2 1 year ago
@MicheasTheMighty2 Keep in mind you can only put so many men on the beach at one time. Sure the total numbers where lopsided but they are more even in numbers when you look at force on force fighting at any given time during the beginning of the battle.
m1rock 1 year ago
@m1rock: That's true. Needless to say, I wouldn't want to have had to fight this battle.
MicheasTheMighty2 1 year ago
@MicheasTheMighty2 Absolutely agreed. Well said.
bschou 11 months ago
I love how with some clips from Flags of our Fathers is in Letters From Iwo Jima
masterchief4lifeftw 1 year ago
they got messed up badly but japanese had no chance because one way or another 1 of japanese guys would die before 10 americans
itzalexplox 1 year ago
Saving private Ryan is better but you cant really compare them because the other one was 1) older? 2) In normady this is near japan but this is same kind of warfare
itzalexplox 1 year ago
@itzalexplox Saving Private Ryan ISN'T better, shut the hell up, cunt.
ColonelChaos09 1 year ago
@ColonelChaos09 SPRs opening scene had so many holes in it it was ridiculous but this was great
Snako85 1 year ago
Great jobe dude!
Hazmat117 2 years ago
wow this mast be a big battle untill the end O_O XD
DeClipMaker 2 years ago
cool video great movie
Malla906 2 years ago
whats better? Flags of our fathers or Pearl harber?
smallvile1992 2 years ago
Flags of Our Fathers because of Clint Eastwood over Micheal Bay except when it comes to Micheal Bay's other masterpieces like Transformers, Bad Boys, and Armageddon.
pinoyboy1562 2 years ago
those are not masterpieces in the slightest..
pooper1905 2 years ago
JheakrynaKyAlur 1 year ago
soldiers who are back at the homefront and having some backflashes of what was on Iwo Jima...
JheakrynaKyAlur 1 year ago
@JheakrynaKyAlur True, But keep in mind that Flags of Our Fathers was not JUST supposed to be about Iwo Jima. Flags of Our Fathers was more about the Marines who rose the flag on Suribachi, and what it was like to deal w/ the fame they felt was undeserved during that Bond Tour.
waltknowm 1 year ago
@smallvile1992 pearl harbor is a piece of garbage. Micheal Bay is all about explosions. This is a real masterpiece from an excellent director. Micheal Bay sucks.
zeropluszeroiszero 1 year ago
awesome, you're probably like warmovies in the pacific or in the east
Sooi3 2 years ago
I Love You!
Zepol54032 3 years ago
Lol ok..
Thanks?
Thisisreality434 3 years ago
I got this movie on Blu-ray- It Looks AWESOME! Especially on an HD TV (Samsung) and 5.1 dolby digital surround sound. It is Sweet!
ConsoleKiller100 3 years ago
Nice man!
Wish I could get it.
Thisisreality434 3 years ago
not to be a nit pick, but isn't it two of my favorite movies? they're mine too..
Nobuto15 3 years ago
Yea, these are two of my fave movies too. Especially how it shows both sides.
Thisisreality434 3 years ago
Awesome combination =D
Good job !
Foyama 3 years ago
Thanks man :D!
It's one of my favorite movies.
Thisisreality434 3 years ago