(2/5) Pacific The Lost Evidence Saipan Episode 5 World War II

[Godrocks2100]

Facing japs in a night attack. Holy shit!!!!!!

[Nikitas1978]

@9:44 Japanese soldier carrying something like Type 100 SMG... very rare stuff!

[AUG351]

@Nikitas1978 Yeah, Type 100 SMGs weren't used by the regular Japanese forces, only some special forces units except they made a cheaper version that was used on Okinawa.

[xCh34pShOtx]

ahaha anti tank grenades would maybe leave a scratch on most German tanks.

[Asrvn147014x]

"fight to the end fight to the end fight to the end fight to the end...........................­....." since when will they get a new motto im feeling bored,maybe fight to the beginning? ftw man fight to the beginning when the japanese were cave monkeys,yeah,thats what happen after the whole country got nuked

[CocaColaIceBear]

Tojo said the same message every time. Damn, he was not very creative.

[octchung]

the history told us that Japs would rape all the school girls then blew tham all up.

[octchung]

good jobs

[octchung]

kill the japs and bring peace to all human mankind

[drdimov]

These American muppets - JEWS and NIGGAS had to meet the German WEHRMACHT and the SS in 1939 !

[whata86]

@drdimov There is always a idiot comment on one of these videos. Thank you for the staus quo.

[keithehlert]

it's NOT a bridge head,but a beachhead,the narrarator screwed up....this is basic info..how can you screw that up???

[cheiiairborne]

green troop? They first saw action in the attack and capture of Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, 21–24 November 1943. Two battalions of the 106th Regiment participated in the attack on Eniwetok Atoll, 19–26 February 1944, returning to Oahu in March. During this mission, one battalion landed unopposed on Majuro Island, 1 February, and completed its seizure, 3 February

[Dariuswk]

wow dude he made the army infantry sound like they didnt kno wat they were doin..."this time not combat hardened marines, but the 27th infantry division lol come on now im in the army :O

[Cayden1986]

@Dariuswk

The 27th Infantry Division was activated for service in 1940, and the only real action they saw before the Marianas Operations (which included the battle of Saipan) was the battle of Makin in the Gilbert Islands against Japanese fortifications during November 1943. Then in June 1944 they assisted the Marines on Saipan.

[Dariuswk]

@Cayden1986 ah ok gtcha thanks for that :)

[TheRapper10000]

I still can't believe that Japan's army armed Civilians and made them commett sudice.

[natuka1023]

!?

Is that a MP18 I see at 9:45?

Wow, I didn't expect to see that in a American Documentary.

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

The one guy that dissliked this is a Japanesse.

[Mr199072]

Marines kick ass! end of story

[wonnab213]

i luv this stuff

[belisariusorb]

OK the "horde" of Japanese tanks was in fact 37 tanks, 28 medium (model 97) and 9 light tanks (model 95), which is fewer than a tank battalion in the US at that time. Plus 1000 infantry.

But it was the biggest tank action in the Pacific, sure enough. Marines drove off the counterattack at a cost of 100 casualties, killing 300 enemy infantry and destroying 24 tanks. (from Osprey book p55)

[2bn442RCT]

@belisariusorb YEs pretty funny. Sherman's were like King Tigers compared to their worthless crap!

[XxstryaexX1]

@2bn442RCT MADE IN JAPAN...

[CaptainDickerson]

@2bn442RCT lol shermans are crap, our crap versus their crap, welp our crap's better

[Arelak]

@2bn442RCT I have actually stood next to those pieces of shit (what was left of them) jap tanks. Their armor was so thin on almost all of them a .45 would rip through. They were built for being really fast and easy to make in vast numbers. There is an open air "museum" on Saipan where they have a few of them, they were literally knocked out NOT by anti-tank weapons but just regular old RIFLES. You can find one of these tanks at the "suicide cliff" open air museum on the north edge of Saipan.

[co23ghttoe]

holy shit, ..... school girls. now that's something who threw the granade will keep in mind his whole life.

[Snipe4261]

My gtrandfather was in the 27th ID on Saipan; he never talked about it.

[FullCharge82]

@Snipe4261 Probably because of what he and his fellow soldiers had to face at first hand. I mean, yes war games are a shit load of fun and shit, but what they faced wasn't fun at all if you catch my drift. In war, it's so brutal and scary. You have to see people die, you have to kill people. It's just horrifying.

[FROMAGE45]

he maybe saw to many horror thing over there he don't want want to remember too much maybe glory to him anyway from France

[renegadebiker24]

This series shows the ugly truth of war on the island of saipan. I salute all family members of veterans who survived this bloody battle, and witnessed first hand the horror of civilians committing suicide due to japanese forces saying to civilians that the American Marines were monsters. The only monsters were the Japanese Army.

[cristop5]

The US had 8000 men landed on day 1, but he Japanese counterattack used only 500 infantry (plus tanks) out of a force of 30000 defenders.

[Mr199072]

@cristop5 well the japneese wanted to hold their remaning troop for the bigest banzai attack of the war read up on your history not to be mean.

[cristop5]

@Mr199072 You've got it wrong. The banzai charge was not part of some plan they had at the beginning of the battle. It happened three weeks into the battle when the US had captured nearly all of the island & the Japanese had no hope of winning it back (see part 4).

I was wondering why the first counterattack was so weak, given that at that stage the Japanese had more men and materiel.

[coolgui69]

the japs r the most cruelty human being on earth

[jackie35753]

what about north koreans?

[FullCharge82]

@coolgui69 No they are not. It's just that when a country has a disgreement they go to war. Also just because the japs did all of this crazy ass shit, doesn't mean they are bad people. As we do, they do to, we fought for what we beleive in, and of course

the japs did the same.

[King43STP]

@FullCharge82 Yeah, we had a disagreement with Japan so we went to war. Are you kidding, Japan attacked the US on Sunday 7 December 1941. Then ran roughshod over the Pacific. How can you compare us to them, when we captured an enemy we gave medical and food, when they captured an enemy they worked or starved them to death. The Japanese military code of honor was not to surrender and that influenced their treatment of their captives.

[co23ghttoe]

@coolgui69 being from the USA you're not really on the position to talk shit about other countries.

All countries have done lots of shit through history, and should not generalize. we can, if you want, count the victims caused by USmarines on vietnam?

no ofense to usa ppl, just hate when others generalize.

great documentary btw!

[at1212b]

Thank you so much for putting this up.

Mann, those Marines back then were really the greatest generation. Just running into certain death.

[ScaredPiglet]

Americans are too scared to take casualties in every war so they just bomb and blow up everything and kill innocent civilians and soldiers who deserve a fair battle.

The documentary is good. Thank you for this.

[Eye4Lites]

@ScaredPiglet

Piglet...stay scared. That is one of the most ignorant posts ever put up! What do you know of war? Learn something, then come back.

[x1mmx]

Fair battle. You've never been in combat otherwise the word fair wouldnt exist in your vocabulary when speaking of war.

[2ndsquad2]

i did not know the japonise used paratroopers

[trav1971]

Damn blew up school girls that is rough

[thc024]

@trav1971 dude the japanese have no soul! DUH! WINNING!