its not hollywood you retart, everything straight down to sledge not wanting to killl a dove after the war is accuratee. the script is obviously made up but 95 percent of the events are takin from interviews or journals
One of the books, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1981), by Eugene Sledge (the Sledgehammer in the film) is amazing. Straightforward, no chest beating. Worth reading
@porkchoplarue - One of the best books I've ever read. "With The Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa", I couldn't put it down. I'm also reading "Helmet For My Pillow" by Bob Leckie. Leckie has a different writing style. It doesn't grab me like Sledges book did.
@NAGGERNUTZ With The Old Breed at peleliu is clearly the best book i`ve ever read, Im just finished it now. And all of you should read it. Helmet For My 'Pillow is good to, But Wit The Old Breed At Peleliu is the best.
@fallout111111 calm down, yes this really happened but he was just trying to lighten the mood. im pretty sure that what happened in this video didn't exactly happen step by step.
@fallout111111 we do all of us! Memorial day is a day based on respect and memory of those who did this shit. a lot of people show respect every day. this was made by HOLLYWOOD most of the action is bull, but its neat to watch. Not that people die but rather to see what it was like.
@Marinesofairsoft1121 well actually people blow things way out of proportions, now im not saying the war wasnt gruesome, im just saying this isnt pin point accurate. no remake of something is, nothing! there is never a recreation of something that is 100% the same as something/someone that was meant to be that same. also my fellow youtuber, you can get over yourself because a lot of what happened is bull, its hollywood...
Read "Pacific", My Helemt For a Pillow, "Put me Back With The Boys", "With the Old Breed. All reflect War in The Pacific through Bob Likey, John Basilone, and E. B. Sledge.
@BongWaterSkinDiver Well, you can hate any Nips from the war but what about today? Japan changed from a warlike Militarist state into a peace-loving nation right from end of the war to today. Last year was the 50th anniversary of the beinginng of military partnership between the US and Japan and they still work well together today unlike in the war.
Nowadays Japan had plenty of disasters like earthquakes and tibial waves so we now helped Japan recover from such disaster.
Lol Americans blame japan much and say, they killed civilians! they killed civilians! YOU guys also killed civilians in japan korea vietnam! American troops did the same! So stop fucking arround cryin!
@martin12345125 Point of clarity....Japan was at war first with China, started in 1933. Germany started its war with the invasion of Poland in 1939. The most recognized start date for WW2 would be the German invasion of Poland. WW2 didn't actually just start into a world war, it grew into a world war over the course of seven yrs which ended with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
the League of Nations is just useless like fukin UN~ it only gives sympathy to those countries that "no body really cares"...The LON did nothing when Japs invaded China, like UN did nothing when US invaded Iraq........and nothing they can really do.
@skyfrank The USA sent U.N people into Iraq the U.N people where denied Entrance into Certain Iraqi areas thus started the war.
also the U.N did nothing when Saddam gased his own people. taking him out was a good thing. hell the U.N didn't do shit when he Invaded Kuwait, it was the USA and it's allies that banded together to take him down.
@skyfrank, the UN is a forum for nations to convene and discuss international issues and its agencies , it is only as powerful as its members want it to be, sure there are articles in the UN charter that could theoretically set up something resembling a unified military command but such a thing would be useless for all situations short of an alien invasion.
the UN is NOT a world government, stop fucking acting like it is.
@bargunner18 One of my instructors in the AAFC owned an M1 Carbine, M1 Garand, a Springfield 1903, a G98, a K98, a SMLE No.3 and an L1A1.
Sadly, after Port Arthur he was only allowed to keep the 1903, the G98 and the SMLE. Lost all his semi-autos to either the cops, or had to decommission them. Stupid Australian gun laws are retarded.
Such a good series. Would love a British miniseries to be made, tracking the British Army in Burma during WW2 or of the Royal Ulster Rifles from D-Day through until the end of the war.
Would be great to see more than just the American perspective- and I dont mean any disrespect in that comment.
@FixxerAce No, I understand. The British had plenty of WW2 legends as well. I would love to see a series about Montgomery's army as they fought to take down the Desert Fox (Erwin Rommel) in north Africa, for example.
@FixxerAce That North Africa campaign was one of the Royal Army's greatest achievements, but I think there isn't enough international awareness of it. I remember watching documentaries about it as a kid and thinking of Rommel and Montgomery as archenemies. I wonder if you could really say that was true, though. I don't recall how long the British were battling Rommel before the American army teamed up with them.
@heavyarms01h Royal Army? lol British Army you mean, if that concept was to be picked up by a company they may as well just base it on the Desert Rats (7th Armoured Division)and/or the 11th Hussars from the desert plains, through Normandy, across France into Germany.
Americans came in '42, Monty ran the North African show.
@FixxerAce Well its from an American perspective cause its an American movie filmed by an American channel, based on two books by two American Marines who were there and John Basilone's life as well. no disrespect. I know there are some good BBC war films from the British perspective.
@TheJanco10 I would've done the same shit. Seeing your friends getting killed by these fuckers and because of them your fighting on foreign land. I would've put a grenade in his mouth.
@photolitherland Modern wars are started like all wars in mankind's history. Greed, power, resources, religion, politics, ideology (which can be wide ranging), and good 'ol hatred.
Pick up some history books or actually listen to your history teachers, and learn. Don't just pick up some nifty sayings from the internet. Man has been killing man for ages for a very wide variety of reasons. Religion is but one out of many.
are you people really questioning the immorality of this, read the book then remember the names bataan,corregidor,guam,wake,goettege patrol then tell me this is immoral
@Toddinfantry Well the person that told me it is someone that I know to be very knowledgeable, so I just believed him, but obviously that was a mistake on his part.
This is not at all how Sledge describes the clearing of the bunker in his first book, "With the Old Breed". This is why I hate Hollywood movies depicting "history". It's because people watch movies and try to "learn" from them the "history" they "depict". You dumb fucks need to stop getting riled up by a movie and actually read the book. Hollywood has to make the movie sell, people need to make money. Don't you understand that all "war movies" are fake and intentionally sensational?
I agree it was a good battle scene, but if you liked this I recommend The Thin Red Line. The scene when they take Hill 210 is among my favorites by far, followed by the sympathy you feel for the captured Japanese POWs.
@Warmsunset26 What an odd thing to post...especially considering that God himself is said to have instigated conflict in order to purge non-believers. Like when he is said to have created the flood, killing countless people, righteous and unrighteous alike. And when he is said to have destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
If God ever truly picks sides, I believe he would have sided with the Allies, for was their cause not just? Did the Nazis and the Japanese not need to be stopped?
@futurebestseller84 I'll have to read that book. Is it any good? I just wonder whether this was actually his first kill, or the first kill he was "aware of".
Reason I say this, is that I once spoke to a British WW2 veteran. He said he was only aware of killing a few of the enemy. As in, he witnessed his target fall. He said he didn't know how many he had killed indirectly, as in, by throwing a grenade, or by firing blindly etc. He thought there may have been alot more.
This scene ripped a piece out of my soul, and I don't think I ever got it back.
Flamethrowers were a godsend to marines fighting entrenched Japanese who'd rather die (and take a few Americans with him, even medics trying to help) than surrender, but burning alive a room full of men is something nobody can fully square with their conscience or their god, even when it was necessary.
And yeah, it was probably necessary for these guys, under the circumstances.
When Capt. Haldane was killed, he was about to put Bugin in for the Silver Star for his actions here. Unfortunately he was killed before filing the paperwork. Burgin said, "It didn't make me feel any better or worse."
@Goatoftheforest well its kind of hard to do that since its based off two books written be two soldiers that experienced it first hand. Sledge's memoir 'With the Old Breed' and Leckie's 'Helmet for My Pillow'.
@Goatoftheforest At the risk of sounding cold, why should it be up to American film makers to take such a task? 10 times out of 10, if American film makers take on a historical war film its going to be about their own countrymen. Spielberg, Hanks and co. felt Sledges', Leckie's, and Basilone's stories should be told. Eastwood's 'Letter From Iwo Jima' was a good film. Not that I would not support and see the film and wouldn't want both perspectives.
@ksb78 Wishful thinking on my part I suppose. Most Americans, film makers included, aren't overly interested in portraying an event from both sides. The whole reason slaughter on such an epic a scale as WWII occurs is because people feel a strong sense of loyalty to their country instead of humanity. I'm just not a fan of nationalism or patriotism. It leads to an "us vs them" mentality that makes war possible.It's still a great series that tells some amazing true stories
it was a war of revenge. the people who were stupid enough to attack america didnt know that the most vicious american is one who is fighting a war of revenge. we dont like to fight people, unless they piss us off enough. then its extra bloody and vicious. the muslims today need to thank george 43 for us not doing to them what we did to the japanese. he talked us down and refused to fight a war of revenge. we muddle around in a police action or political war, but for revenge, that is different.
when is america and its allies coming to free my country tibet , we tibetans have waited for a long time for u to rescue us . my father says chinese soldiers said in 1959 where r those bastard american frnds , why r they not coming to rescue u . FREE TIBET AMERICA NOW . WHERE R U .
@solanut Yes, I am proud the fought so valiently to protect their country and their loved ones. I don't even know why you are living in the U.S. when you don't appreciate what they did for you. If you can't accept your own country then no country will accept you. And if your Japanese living in the U.S. it doesn't necessarily mean whatever Japan does is right.
@sugarclouds61 no you moron as in white american i said i like my japs well done because one of my grandfather's fought in the pacific during world war 2
K/3/5 (Eugene Sledge's company) suffered 65% casualties on Peleliu. Of it's original 7 officers, only 2 remained at battle's end. Among the dead was also the company's highly decoared company commander, Captain Andrew 'Ack Ack' Haldane.
Okinawa was even worse with K company suffering over 80% casualties.
The jackass that said these guys were not in much danger is both unfamiliar with the source material the series is based on, and not well versed on the Pacific Theater of WW2 in general.
@taff1976 LOL, I just read that part in Sledge's book. I love his description of it (plus he gives greater insight - the bunker was reinforced inside, so the grenades killed some men inside but most remained safe). Great book, he really had a way with words.
@lynnfamily4 My interest is primarily the German ETO but my father recommended I read the book. I was immediately gripped and wanted to ration myself, to eek out the pages. Alas, it was done in just a few hours!
By all accounts, in his later years he was quite the Southern gent.
i hate watching this with my friends cause they always say the same things " why didnt he jump out of the way when the grenade came at him" will guess wat he was probbly in shock and was thinking he was going to die and the other is "i would have put another round in the jap that sledge killed" will the answer to that one is pretty simple you can see that in his face that he had never really killed someone that close
War is horrible
airforcerotc305 2 days ago
i want to reenact a japanese soldier, anyone know a shop were i can buy that stuff?
greetings from germany ^^
Makkeman72 2 days ago
My father helped a lot with this
He was there and built the diorama for HBO to make for this episode and
He worked in collaboration with Sledge himself
TurnTableTracks 5 days ago
trop bien
zinedine2907 5 days ago
guy with flamethrower uses it LIKE A BOSS
Takster 6 days ago
Youtube comments on WWII related videos are filled with the most idiotic brain dead bullshit I've ever seen.
TheSeveredArm 1 week ago 7
its not hollywood you retart, everything straight down to sledge not wanting to killl a dove after the war is accuratee. the script is obviously made up but 95 percent of the events are takin from interviews or journals
NYYNYG2121 2 weeks ago
Thanks for posting this with sound on :D
TheIvanNewb 2 weeks ago
@nabeken1012
貸し付けは、次の時間がないでしょうね！！
katanian 3 weeks ago
前回は負けたが、次は勝
nabeken1012 3 weeks ago
前回は負けたが、次は勝
nabeken1012 3 weeks ago
wtf is wrong whith us peple
rubberduck182 1 month ago
Uk
dejomony1 1 month ago
fuking americans treat war as if it is a game and just some fun
dejomony1 1 month ago
@dejomony1 where are you from exactly??? if usa wouldnt have stopped japan i think the world would have another threat aside from the nazi
The1dynasty1 1 month ago
7 jap looks this video :)
killerpaul53 1 month ago
the audio is unsynched
Vectoreenio 1 month ago 2
Throw a fucking grenade!
ljlassi 2 months ago
I used to walk down a street, but then i took a shot to the knee!
bazi84524 2 months ago
One of the books, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1981), by Eugene Sledge (the Sledgehammer in the film) is amazing. Straightforward, no chest beating. Worth reading
porkchoplarue 3 months ago
@porkchoplarue - One of the best books I've ever read. "With The Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa", I couldn't put it down. I'm also reading "Helmet For My Pillow" by Bob Leckie. Leckie has a different writing style. It doesn't grab me like Sledges book did.
NAGGERNUTZ 2 months ago 3
@NAGGERNUTZ With The Old Breed at peleliu is clearly the best book i`ve ever read, Im just finished it now. And all of you should read it. Helmet For My 'Pillow is good to, But Wit The Old Breed At Peleliu is the best.
NorthernNorwayDigger 2 months ago 2
@NorthernNorwayDigger - Black Hawk Down is another good one.
NAGGERNUTZ 2 months ago
sucks to be the japs at 5:20ish in this movie, damn, from ashes to.. well, you get my point
ReneM1989 3 months ago
5:31 That guy played in Jurassic Park as that boy named Tim
99thJediWarrior 4 months ago
@99thJediWarrior dude ur right i just noticed that!
ducttaperules175 4 months ago
The horrors of war are best known by those who experiance it first-hand.
TheBroDude777 4 months ago
THE JAPANESE HAD GUERILLA TROOPS IN ALASKA AND CALIFORNIA DURING THE WAR : IT WOULD BE A GREAT MOVIE .
billslusser 4 months ago
@billslusser I would like to see a movie about that, or a movie about Ramree Island
kevdura 2 months ago
6 of the jap that were in the bunker disliked the video
wow572 4 months ago 10
@wow572 what the hell is wrong with you this really happend
fallout111111 4 months ago 47
@fallout111111 who gives a shit
fatprick44 2 months ago
@fallout111111 calm down, yes this really happened but he was just trying to lighten the mood. im pretty sure that what happened in this video didn't exactly happen step by step.
Turkahify 2 months ago
@Turkahify yea i know but but i think we should show some respect to the pepole who was on this island
fallout111111 2 months ago
@fallout111111 we do all of us! Memorial day is a day based on respect and memory of those who did this shit. a lot of people show respect every day. this was made by HOLLYWOOD most of the action is bull, but its neat to watch. Not that people die but rather to see what it was like.
Turkahify 2 months ago
@Turkahify Actually this was pulled from the journal of a soldier and cantains the least bull Ive ever seen in a war movie.
Marinesofairsoft1121 1 month ago
@Marinesofairsoft1121 well actually people blow things way out of proportions, now im not saying the war wasnt gruesome, im just saying this isnt pin point accurate. no remake of something is, nothing! there is never a recreation of something that is 100% the same as something/someone that was meant to be that same. also my fellow youtuber, you can get over yourself because a lot of what happened is bull, its hollywood...
Turkahify 1 month ago
@wow572 apparenly there are 9 now
Blueboy0316 3 weeks ago
Read "Pacific", My Helemt For a Pillow, "Put me Back With The Boys", "With the Old Breed. All reflect War in The Pacific through Bob Likey, John Basilone, and E. B. Sledge.
ernstbecker1 4 months ago
Spielberg seems to have some kind of obsession with soldiers getting shot in the ass :/
Dancing88Mike 4 months ago
@Bloodsteame Lol I never knew it was him until one day I finally looked him up. I think I said "Wow he's handsome" lol..
berserker276 5 months ago
Argh why is there always just a single upload from this series and no others?
berserker276 5 months ago
U.S.M.C all the way!!!
armyranger1531 5 months ago
@armyranger1531 Who the fuck is cheering in the comments of such a video? Grow up for the sake of santa...
isak098 4 months ago
@BongWaterSkinDiver Well, you can hate any Nips from the war but what about today? Japan changed from a warlike Militarist state into a peace-loving nation right from end of the war to today. Last year was the 50th anniversary of the beinginng of military partnership between the US and Japan and they still work well together today unlike in the war.
Nowadays Japan had plenty of disasters like earthquakes and tibial waves so we now helped Japan recover from such disaster.
DavBlc7 5 months ago
@DavBlc7 Japan has changed,yes but they still refuse to admit that Nanking and many other events ever happened.
Dogmeat1950 5 months ago
I know that this is a very seious war show but at the same time, that flamethrower part looked really cool.
99thJediWarrior 5 months ago
4:30 trololololol
gun1421 5 months ago
lol DUMBASSES! this was not iraq!!! they fuckin started it!!!
0351assman1 6 months ago
Lol Americans blame japan much and say, they killed civilians! they killed civilians! YOU guys also killed civilians in japan korea vietnam! American troops did the same! So stop fucking arround cryin!
War, war never changes...
BigMek456 6 months ago
@BigMek456
America brop murderous ihuman weapons on japanese too, no guts to kill them with there beare hands
Haddockxyz300 5 months ago
@Haddockxyz300 Ok you can use your fist and I will use my gun. Sure I have no guts, but at least I'm still alive.
RvnBlarg 5 months ago
@RvnBlarg
I take back wath i've said...Anyway ruissia uses them too, iraquies....Its modern warfare :)
Haddockxyz300 5 months ago
@BongWaterSkinDiver I'm not saying that Japan didn't start ww2. But every body else say's that Germany started the war first
martin12345125 6 months ago
@martin12345125 Point of clarity....Japan was at war first with China, started in 1933. Germany started its war with the invasion of Poland in 1939. The most recognized start date for WW2 would be the German invasion of Poland. WW2 didn't actually just start into a world war, it grew into a world war over the course of seven yrs which ended with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Toddinfantry 5 months ago
@Toddinfantry
Dont wanna be a party pooper, but Japan went to war first with Manchuria, then China.
WarHawk44 5 months ago
@WarHawk44 Manchuria was part of China. Who do you think protested the Japanese invasion of Manchuria?....China. Whoopsy poopsy!
Toddinfantry 5 months ago
dude guys just chill, all war is horrible, death is horrible, if you want to ever get revenge or make war fair, just dont start war and we'll b fine
legomyeggo123 6 months ago
The video is out of sync with the sound.
Trae141 6 months ago
Everytime I see sledge it reminds me of jurassic park
Bloodsteame 6 months ago
@Bloodsteame
Thats where that kid is from.....That was really bugging me.....
TheIrredeemable 6 months ago
@TheIrredeemable your welcome~ :3
Bloodsteame 6 months ago
why is audio off on every clip, avoiding copyright?
RetrousseRaptor 6 months ago
This was a powerful scene. The way the filming was focused around Sledge was very good, you could really see his heart sink. Great acting.
TaZ101SAGA 6 months ago
5 people were japs
treesonfire118 6 months ago
War is ugly.
213SEMPERFI 6 months ago
the League of Nations is just useless like fukin UN~ it only gives sympathy to those countries that "no body really cares"...The LON did nothing when Japs invaded China, like UN did nothing when US invaded Iraq........and nothing they can really do.
skyfrank 7 months ago
@skyfrank youre a fuckin retard
leftoverlunch23 6 months ago
@skyfrank The USA sent U.N people into Iraq the U.N people where denied Entrance into Certain Iraqi areas thus started the war.
also the U.N did nothing when Saddam gased his own people. taking him out was a good thing. hell the U.N didn't do shit when he Invaded Kuwait, it was the USA and it's allies that banded together to take him down.
Dogmeat1950 6 months ago
@skyfrank, the UN is a forum for nations to convene and discuss international issues and its agencies , it is only as powerful as its members want it to be, sure there are articles in the UN charter that could theoretically set up something resembling a unified military command but such a thing would be useless for all situations short of an alien invasion.
the UN is NOT a world government, stop fucking acting like it is.
fludblud 4 months ago
war is agony covered in courage to continue
nokillings 7 months ago
@bargunner18. You lucky son of a bitch
thecheeseisnice 7 months ago
This was my absolute favorite show ever.
jblast8 7 months ago
i have both the m1 carbine and garand,im braggin
bargunner18 7 months ago
@bargunner18 One of my instructors in the AAFC owned an M1 Carbine, M1 Garand, a Springfield 1903, a G98, a K98, a SMLE No.3 and an L1A1.
Sadly, after Port Arthur he was only allowed to keep the 1903, the G98 and the SMLE. Lost all his semi-autos to either the cops, or had to decommission them. Stupid Australian gun laws are retarded.
TheHandgunhero 6 months ago
Such a good series. Would love a British miniseries to be made, tracking the British Army in Burma during WW2 or of the Royal Ulster Rifles from D-Day through until the end of the war.
Would be great to see more than just the American perspective- and I dont mean any disrespect in that comment.
FixxerAce 7 months ago
@FixxerAce No, I understand. The British had plenty of WW2 legends as well. I would love to see a series about Montgomery's army as they fought to take down the Desert Fox (Erwin Rommel) in north Africa, for example.
heavyarms01h 7 months ago
@heavyarms01h Great idea for a series!
FixxerAce 7 months ago
@FixxerAce That North Africa campaign was one of the Royal Army's greatest achievements, but I think there isn't enough international awareness of it. I remember watching documentaries about it as a kid and thinking of Rommel and Montgomery as archenemies. I wonder if you could really say that was true, though. I don't recall how long the British were battling Rommel before the American army teamed up with them.
heavyarms01h 7 months ago
@heavyarms01h Royal Army? lol British Army you mean, if that concept was to be picked up by a company they may as well just base it on the Desert Rats (7th Armoured Division)and/or the 11th Hussars from the desert plains, through Normandy, across France into Germany.
Americans came in '42, Monty ran the North African show.
FixxerAce 7 months ago
@FixxerAce Well its from an American perspective cause its an American movie filmed by an American channel, based on two books by two American Marines who were there and John Basilone's life as well. no disrespect. I know there are some good BBC war films from the British perspective.
ksb78 4 months ago
5:24 - 5:30 ... that's terrible
TheJanco10 7 months ago
@TheJanco10 How? He is just unleashing his anger. Its not like the Jap felt anything, he was already dead.
MRcalibrecincuenta 7 months ago
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TheJanco10 7 months ago
@MRcalibrecincuenta Actually, I understand his action.
TheJanco10 7 months ago
@TheJanco10 I would've done the same shit. Seeing your friends getting killed by these fuckers and because of them your fighting on foreign land. I would've put a grenade in his mouth.
MRcalibrecincuenta 7 months ago
@MRcalibrecincuenta No still it's terrible.
tjoolder8 6 months ago
@tjoolder8 That's war is.
MRcalibrecincuenta 6 months ago
Japs were out of their mind man.
Cwebb000 7 months ago
@photolitherland Modern wars are started like all wars in mankind's history. Greed, power, resources, religion, politics, ideology (which can be wide ranging), and good 'ol hatred.
Pick up some history books or actually listen to your history teachers, and learn. Don't just pick up some nifty sayings from the internet. Man has been killing man for ages for a very wide variety of reasons. Religion is but one out of many.
Warmaker01 8 months ago
did Eugene ever get that sword?
brianthao102 8 months ago
@brianthao102 It was a bayonet and no.
5MIKEY3 8 months ago
@5MIKEY3 since when did a Bayonet look like a sword?
brianthao102 8 months ago
@brianthao102 Never, but he wasn't looking at the sword, he was looking at a bayonet.
5MIKEY3 7 months ago
@5MIKEY3 at the part of 4:16 i mean
brianthao102 7 months ago
@brianthao102 No, he didn't end up taking anything.
5MIKEY3 7 months ago
@5MIKEY3 thanks for the answer, Eugene Sledge died in 2001
brianthao102 7 months ago
It's called war for a reason.
Bramak17 8 months ago
war makes peace peace makes war
canhelpwithgames 8 months ago
are you people really questioning the immorality of this, read the book then remember the names bataan,corregidor,guam,wake,goettege patrol then tell me this is immoral
bargunner18 8 months ago 20
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@bargunner18 What dumb twat said this was immoral?
FlyingBoxHead 5 months ago
@bargunner18 Don't forget Nanking
kyle9524 5 months ago
@kyle9524 how could i forget
bargunner18 5 months ago
@bargunner18 were can i buy the book i read it in my library but i cant keep it out for long so i only read about 68pgs : /
outdatedinvalidname 4 months ago
@outdatedinvalidname used 1s on amazon are really cheap
bargunner18 4 months ago
@bargunner18 thank you
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@photolitherland I believe in God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
ChristianWarriorUSA 8 months ago
amazing movie
SoulIgorski1 9 months ago
by the way... are flame throwers still used today in the military??
ronggong 9 months ago
@ronggong I think so. But theres a rule that dennies the use of napalm bombs today unless if you´re not in a citzen area.
ceduardoam 8 months ago
@ronggong No, they were banned by the Geneva convention.
TaZ101SAGA 7 months ago
@TaZ101SAGA Nope. Not banned just not used. US quit using them after Vietnam in 1978.
Toddinfantry 7 months ago
@Toddinfantry Oh, thats not what I was told.
TaZ101SAGA 7 months ago
@TaZ101SAGA It is easy to look up.
Toddinfantry 7 months ago
@Toddinfantry Well the person that told me it is someone that I know to be very knowledgeable, so I just believed him, but obviously that was a mistake on his part.
TaZ101SAGA 7 months ago
@ronggong No, our military quit using them in 1978. They are not banned weapons, just not used.
Toddinfantry 7 months ago
This is not at all how Sledge describes the clearing of the bunker in his first book, "With the Old Breed". This is why I hate Hollywood movies depicting "history". It's because people watch movies and try to "learn" from them the "history" they "depict". You dumb fucks need to stop getting riled up by a movie and actually read the book. Hollywood has to make the movie sell, people need to make money. Don't you understand that all "war movies" are fake and intentionally sensational?
dror91 9 months ago
I agree it was a good battle scene, but if you liked this I recommend The Thin Red Line. The scene when they take Hill 210 is among my favorites by far, followed by the sympathy you feel for the captured Japanese POWs.
go0fy11137 9 months ago
S T O P - this fighting.
That will ONLY happen when the King of Kings comes through the clouds and set up HIS rightful kingdom.
Jesus Christ.
We D O N O T have a choice as to ''do we want to be in this spiritual battle'' or not.
We have to make a decision.
Choose the love/forgiveness of God while it is still day.
Better the Lovingkindness of a merciful God - than His wrath...............................
Warmsunset26 10 months ago
@Warmsunset26 What an odd thing to post...especially considering that God himself is said to have instigated conflict in order to purge non-believers. Like when he is said to have created the flood, killing countless people, righteous and unrighteous alike. And when he is said to have destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
If God ever truly picks sides, I believe he would have sided with the Allies, for was their cause not just? Did the Nazis and the Japanese not need to be stopped?
Englander30 10 months ago
The Japanese soldier shot at close range by Sledge was an enlisted Sergeant. You can see his Sergeant's insignia on his collar dogs.
Just thought I'd point that out.
Englander30 10 months ago
@Englander30 lol yea...in the book, it said that this is where he got his first kill
futurebestseller84 10 months ago
@futurebestseller84 I'll have to read that book. Is it any good? I just wonder whether this was actually his first kill, or the first kill he was "aware of".
Reason I say this, is that I once spoke to a British WW2 veteran. He said he was only aware of killing a few of the enemy. As in, he witnessed his target fall. He said he didn't know how many he had killed indirectly, as in, by throwing a grenade, or by firing blindly etc. He thought there may have been alot more.
Englander30 10 months ago
This scene ripped a piece out of my soul, and I don't think I ever got it back.
Flamethrowers were a godsend to marines fighting entrenched Japanese who'd rather die (and take a few Americans with him, even medics trying to help) than surrender, but burning alive a room full of men is something nobody can fully square with their conscience or their god, even when it was necessary.
And yeah, it was probably necessary for these guys, under the circumstances.
MomoTheCow 10 months ago
@MomoTheCow yeah id never be alright with myself again if i burned a roomfull of people alive, no matter how bad they were or how necessary it was
thedory108 10 months ago
0:35 did he laugh???
MayloIZ 10 months ago
sound is off by a few seconds
rickythechicken 10 months ago
When Capt. Haldane was killed, he was about to put Bugin in for the Silver Star for his actions here. Unfortunately he was killed before filing the paperwork. Burgin said, "It didn't make me feel any better or worse."
MrCrackerJack420 10 months ago
WOW ! sound lag!! haha
CrIp1391 11 months ago
Excellent miniseries. I just wish the told more of the story from the Japanese perspective
Goatoftheforest 11 months ago
@Goatoftheforest well its kind of hard to do that since its based off two books written be two soldiers that experienced it first hand. Sledge's memoir 'With the Old Breed' and Leckie's 'Helmet for My Pillow'.
ksb78 11 months ago
@ksb78 that's my point, maybe it should involved a book written about a Japanese soldier's first hand experience
Goatoftheforest 11 months ago
@Goatoftheforest At the risk of sounding cold, why should it be up to American film makers to take such a task? 10 times out of 10, if American film makers take on a historical war film its going to be about their own countrymen. Spielberg, Hanks and co. felt Sledges', Leckie's, and Basilone's stories should be told. Eastwood's 'Letter From Iwo Jima' was a good film. Not that I would not support and see the film and wouldn't want both perspectives.
ksb78 11 months ago
@ksb78 Wishful thinking on my part I suppose. Most Americans, film makers included, aren't overly interested in portraying an event from both sides. The whole reason slaughter on such an epic a scale as WWII occurs is because people feel a strong sense of loyalty to their country instead of humanity. I'm just not a fan of nationalism or patriotism. It leads to an "us vs them" mentality that makes war possible.It's still a great series that tells some amazing true stories
Goatoftheforest 11 months ago
it was a war of revenge. the people who were stupid enough to attack america didnt know that the most vicious american is one who is fighting a war of revenge. we dont like to fight people, unless they piss us off enough. then its extra bloody and vicious. the muslims today need to thank george 43 for us not doing to them what we did to the japanese. he talked us down and refused to fight a war of revenge. we muddle around in a police action or political war, but for revenge, that is different.
nomadnametab 11 months ago
bunker cleaing 101
METHODMAN2828 11 months ago
one person has never...... wow...... just forget about it.
MrDragonJuice 11 months ago
American is japanese Killer!!
American Fack Fack Fack!!
BNR34OSAKA2600 11 months ago
If you enjoy the pacific read sledges book. With The Old Breed
deltaboy91 1 year ago
amerikka worships the kardashian kunts yet knows not the names of the real heroes of the country...sad...so sad.
jjjazzycraig 1 year ago
@jjjazzycraig you dont know shit about me i am American and you are just ignorant
eaglemike1515 11 months ago
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@eaglemike1515 what part of my comment was incorrect???
jjjazzycraig 11 months ago
Every American soldier loves to kill someone every American is sick!
LetsPlayMaster112 1 year ago
4:34 - 5:35 omfg it's like that song ripped my heart out and transcended it in to something i cant put in words. does any one know the name
j85h 1 year ago 21
@j85h greatness why
canhelpwithgames 8 months ago
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when is america and its allies coming to free my country tibet , we tibetans have waited for a long time for u to rescue us . my father says chinese soldiers said in 1959 where r those bastard american frnds , why r they not coming to rescue u . FREE TIBET AMERICA NOW . WHERE R U .
DRAGONKINGOFTIBET 1 year ago
if i was sledge when that jap pulled that sword i would shit my pants
romayord1996 1 year ago
i love my japs well done!
solanut 1 year ago
@solanut umm... you better not be living in America.
sugarclouds61 11 months ago
@sugarclouds61 yup proud american!!!
solanut 11 months ago
@solanut Yes, I am proud the fought so valiently to protect their country and their loved ones. I don't even know why you are living in the U.S. when you don't appreciate what they did for you. If you can't accept your own country then no country will accept you. And if your Japanese living in the U.S. it doesn't necessarily mean whatever Japan does is right.
sugarclouds61 11 months ago
@sugarclouds61 no you moron as in white american i said i like my japs well done because one of my grandfather's fought in the pacific during world war 2
solanut 11 months ago
thats what happens when you drop bombs on the u.s.a.!!!!
littledutchboy1996 1 year ago
"...arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other."
@THEKINGOFMETROPOLIS: This may partly illustrate the problems a serious scholar has to cope with, when gathering knowledge out of historical sources.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 year ago
Just the very nature of combat in to a show
codeman127 1 year ago
Hard to believe that Joeseph Mazello went from an innocent boy in Jurassic Park to a borderline sociopathic U.S. Marine in little over a decade...
360Nomad 1 year ago
K/3/5 (Eugene Sledge's company) suffered 65% casualties on Peleliu. Of it's original 7 officers, only 2 remained at battle's end. Among the dead was also the company's highly decoared company commander, Captain Andrew 'Ack Ack' Haldane.
Okinawa was even worse with K company suffering over 80% casualties.
The jackass that said these guys were not in much danger is both unfamiliar with the source material the series is based on, and not well versed on the Pacific Theater of WW2 in general.
Kenzo808 1 year ago
0:19 ass shot!
kenken8765 1 year ago
0:20 ................. it just .......ah :(
RECordKitty 1 year ago
0.09 I got it ! SNAFU is refering to Bill Leydens joke to the seebee about a jap sword
Edfiki86 1 year ago
Watching those Japanese soldiers burn... I feel like something died in me.
RequiemForADream110 1 year ago
@RequiemForADream110 it makes me want sushi
cwood4ever 1 year ago
Do you think they chewed out the guys from 1st platoon after this? Way to clear a bunker, there were like 50 Japanese down there...
lynnfamily4 1 year ago
@lynnfamily4 Read "With the Old Breed" and find out. It was written by Sledgehammer and is one of the best first-person accounts I have ever read.
taff1976 1 year ago
@taff1976 LOL, I just read that part in Sledge's book. I love his description of it (plus he gives greater insight - the bunker was reinforced inside, so the grenades killed some men inside but most remained safe). Great book, he really had a way with words.
lynnfamily4 1 year ago
@lynnfamily4 My interest is primarily the German ETO but my father recommended I read the book. I was immediately gripped and wanted to ration myself, to eek out the pages. Alas, it was done in just a few hours!
By all accounts, in his later years he was quite the Southern gent.
taff1976 1 year ago
Badass- 2:06
NottheFacePlease 1 year ago
( ´・ω・｀) ショボーン
kawatagelion1104 1 year ago
0:20 OMG! I was surprised
Chuhyeong 1 year ago
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Salguine 1 year ago
i hate watching this with my friends cause they always say the same things " why didnt he jump out of the way when the grenade came at him" will guess wat he was probbly in shock and was thinking he was going to die and the other is "i would have put another round in the jap that sledge killed" will the answer to that one is pretty simple you can see that in his face that he had never really killed someone that close
namffuakable 1 year ago