A lot of people who advertise like that are frauds. I'm too young for WW2, but not for another war which came later. And, most of the war stories I've heard came from clerk-typists at Long Binh. A "Pearl Harbor survivor" may just be service member who was stationed somewhere in Hawaii when the attack came. I'm betting he wasn't on the U.S. Arizona.
Our grandfathers were the best generation of Americans. They were hardworking, honest, and sincere. Their sacrifices made America the greatest country in the world.
Today America is dominated by a whole generation of Ann Coulters. They're all heartless, ruthless, and self-centered. It's because of these young hardnosed skankies that our country is falling apart.
@metalfire86able Maybe next time your country is in need our aid after a pseunomi, earthquake, volcanic eruption or war the USA won't be there to help. If you seriously think the Japs treated your nation better read your history. They were the most brutal people in modern history. Read about the "Rap of Nanking", "Bataan death march"etc. Look how America treated Germany and Japan after the war. enough said.
@metalfire86able ohhhh u think you`re so good,but ur japanese people did the "rape of nanking" and u fucking killed the innocent chinese civilians in shanghai,and u say "so can i judge allies very bad than axis?? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH U,the axis are evil u douche ,U EVER HEARD OF HOLOCAUST??
I can't really understand why it was felt to be necessary to take the "pocket" on Peleliu. The whole point of the operation was to take out the airfield - so invade, bottle up the defenders, destroy everything that could possible supply the airfield (you could even mine the land), and maybe leave a naval cordon. Or, if you want to use the airfield, set up a perimeter around the pocket and make them come to you. Why play to your opponent's strengths?
According to wikipedia under "Japanese holdout"- Lieutenant Ei Yamaguchi and his 33 soldiers emerged on Peleliu in late March 1947, attacking the Marine detachment stationed on the island. Reinforcements were sent in, along with a Japanese admiral who was able to convince them the war was over. They finally surrendered in April 1947.
@pucksterz12 Yes, Japanese Americans fought in Europe while their families were in internment camps in the states. 442nd Infantry Regiment for more detail, most decorated unit of the war with 21 Medals of Honor.
@pucksterz12 No...Japanese-American Troops were sent to Europe to fight. Primarily in Italy. They were some of the highest decorated units of the war...they had something to prove.
@ antimatterXXXIII My wife's grandfather fought with the 6th Marines at Tarawa, Saipan and Okinawa. He was wounded several times and bears the scar of a Japanese bayonet on his thigh. He's nearly 90, but his memory of those years is very clear.
I read your comment to him. His response was: "Tell that stupid sh*t he doesn't know what he's talking about."
(Suggestion: Next time, don't base your comments on a book you once read.)
@Antimatter33 You are an idiot. Not for nothing. It ended a Japanese Empiracal Tryanny that had conquered and devastated other Asian nations and attacked the United States without warning. I've read the Old Breed several times. And, war is truly an ugly thing. But, not going to war in time only serves to increase the eventual death toll. Hitler could have been stopped in 1936 with the loss of a few hundred troops. But we stupidly "negotiated" with pure evil. Multiplied the losses by 10K times
@bikepeddlar6 Peleliu was not as big as either of those invasions, in either manpower or supporting fleet. Only in terms of the horror and the fighting spirit of the Japanese soldier were these three battles comparable. (oh and the fact that Marines kicked their ass all three times)
wow, that japanese soldier commiting suicide at 5:10 really shows how some troops were dedicated to giving their life for Japan. He could of simply thrown the grenade back but chose his own fate.
@ZIZELYIANN You are forgetting ideology, whether political or religious, it is a massive motivator for making war. Those who believe deeply in what they are doing don't necessarily think they are doing it for material wealth, they do it out of a sense of belief that is is morally the right thing and ofr this they are often prepared to die.
@ZIZELYIANN Oh really? I think you missed the main objective............ POWER - power to enslave - power to destroy those who don't share or want ideologies thrust on them...for a prime example muslimes! Don't be so simplistic in your conclusions - war is also necessary to maintain YOUR lifestyle and the freedoms YOU and YOURS enjoy, against those who would take us ALL back to the 'dark ages' with their false 'god' 'allah'
I'm deeply fascinated and moved by the story at 4:50 when the Japanese soldier is trying to commit suicide and the American soldier assists him instead of taking him as POW. It would've been humiliating for the Japanese soldier to become POW and thus the American soldier helps him to save his honour & dignity. Some kind of a weird moment of humaneness/compassion. War is fu*king hell!
Japanese were fanatical soldiers. Germans were most disciplined and best trained. US and British soldiers were most innovative and took initiative the best. Soviet "Peasant" soldiers were probably the toughest and bravest of all. Country's cultures produce different soldiers. Quite interesting sociologically. Just my opion of course...
@randy109 What Hegelian clap trap is that? Or is that blood and soil obliquey? Really, what the hell is that army training facility at Ft. Benning about, then? Your drivel would be funny if it weren't so wrong! The fact is, most warfare is reaching the point where one no longer need face his enemy. How is that for sociological relevance?
Here are SOME of the numbers of the US Army in the Pacific as stated in the book "World War II Official Army History Pacific Theater" and "The Army Almanac: The Army of the United States Order of Battle, US Army WW2" ; the US Army was composed of 22 Divisions for the Pacific campaign. The invasion of the Philippines--US 6th Army composed of 16 Divisions which fought approx. 250,000 Japanese. Compare those numbers to the Marine Corp if u like.
doesnt matter who fought over there army or marines but for sure these guys gave as much they could to secure that little island and thats something worth to look at
No, I am a civilian. I never stated the Marines did not do enough. Why do you make such remarks? The fact about this battle IS the US Marines got their asses beat/slaughtered and the US Army saved the " day." This is recorded History. Why do you have a problem accepting this FACT? If I am wrong about this fact then the History channel is wrong also.
This absolutely wrong. The Army did not "save the day". and in fact the SOP of the day is evidenced here. Once the Marines were fought out and had driven the enemy into the last refuge of the Umurbrogals, then it became the Armys job to finish it and garrison the island.
Please do not believe everything seen on ANY of the military docus. Do your research yourself. The history ch has been way wrong many times. Hell they have jet aircraft in WW2 docus??!!??
@MIT1369 Of course I know there were flying jet aircraft in WW2,, my point being there were non operational in the pacific theatre and these docus show Mig 17, F-86, etc in air battle footage from WW2. Short clips only and yes I understand the editting process also. Point is , you just can't believe these docus as gospel.
@MIT1369 OK I'm going to have to draw you a picture. Notice the conversation below and you will see that I am responding to a challenge that the History Ch is absolutely correct and is always factual.
Do I need to spend the time and show you links to how many History Ch docus that have VERY incorrect film footage.
We were not speaking of this video in particular, but docu footage in general.
@MIT1369 My apologies MIT, I am usually very civil on the Tube, but you were the recipient of a bad day. I do hope my explanation (beyond the condesention) was understood.
Oh and just for clarity, the Marines did not get their asses beat/slaughtered. The suffered enormous casualties in one of the harshest battles EVER known. Check the Army casualties and you will find they suffered heavy losses on a "secured island". No island taken during the pacific campaign was anything near Peleliu in terms of terrain, heat, and the greatest cause of casualties...the inability to dig in. Piling chunks of coral in front of you isn't much protection.
The question of whether this battle was necessary, remember that the survivors of the USS Indianapolis attack were discovered by a plane flying out of Peleliu.
I thank God for the brave American men who risked and lost their lives to liberate the Pacific Islands. My father was a boy in a jap prison camp in Indonesia. Without the Americans, he likely would have died there, and I would not be alive today.
The Jap defense of Peleliu set the stage for the a-bomb attacks. Can you imagine the price the marines and infantry would have had to pay to take Japan's own soil, let alone a meaningless island like this? The death toll taught US leaders a lesson.
The Marines were the good guys, the japs were the bad guys. They started it, we finished it. They ran every pow camp as a concentration camp, over a million and a half chinese murdered for sport.....Hirohito should have hung for war crimes - in fact too few of them did hang -we never tolerated this with the Germans -we sought them out , strung them up-the jap criminals skated. They have never apologized. At Peleliu the Japanese Memorial dwarfs the American one -this needs to be corrected.
And let's not forget what the Japanese empire did to Korea, parts of China and other Asian nations that they had under their control...
Seems like Japan has built War Memorials where their soldiers fought in WW2. I remember seeing a PBS special about Aleutian Islands Campaign. Ironically, a US vet visiting the battle grounds saw a big stainless steel monument built by Japan for Japanese soldiers. He was not happy about that 'monument' being US soil.
US could have bypass those silan garrison and deal with them later.You see Japanese navy and airforce had been almost totally annihilated..They could move their troops anywhere.The sea and the air solely owned by USA.They could go straight to Japan main Island
It's too bad you can't smell rotting corpses on the Internet - that would quell all the right-wing armchair warriors in the audience. Anyone who has read "With the Old Breed" will know that this was not heroism - it was slaughter on a massive scale that was beyond politics or objectives - it was pure hatred, one side for the other, both ways. For essentially, nothing.
@antimatterXXXIII I completely agree. The Generation now seems to have the mentality Kill everyone who disagree's with you. It's sad. They should pay more attention to history.
@antimatterXXXIII Im guessing your probably keeping up with the hbo minisiries The Pacific. One of the guys they follow in this series is Mr Sledge. the author of with the old breed. im liking it so far, 2 episodes to go and they just hit iwo. the 3 preceding episodes were mosly devoted to Peleliu. Gruesome stuff and they didnt really pull to many punches in the telling.
@antimatterXXXIII: Excuse me, but what do you mean by "right wing arm chair warriors"? Did you know something like eighty-five percent of our military in uniform today are registered republicans? Are they "right wing armchair warriors"?
Advocating a strong defense and preparedness does not make someone an "armchair warrior". It's common sense and it saves lives.
@tomthefunky One, the current military apparently have a difficult time defeating men with small arms who wear pajamas into battle (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) and moreover, are supreme bullies (Grenada, Panama) looking for trigger time. Countless atrocities have been committed in our names - so no, these people are not right-wing warriors, they are not warriors at all, rather, a pack of armed thugs who think its fun to terrorize women in their homes and kill civilians indiscriminately.
@antimatterXXXIII: There is a special place waiting on top of the stove in Hell's kitchen for people like you. You are worse than scum, you are cowardly scum because you wouldn't dare talk like that in front of servicemen. Walk into a VFW hall and say that, tough guy. No, instead you save it for youtube. If our troops are so bad, why haven't those atrocities been committed against you yet? Hey, I can always hope!
@tomthefunky One day we are going to need the Army, and its low moral character will be revealed - modern Americans are so corrupted morally that utter defeat is inevitable. This Army doesn't even look like Americans - they look and act more like Nazis than the citizen soldiers of my father's Army.
@antimatterXXXIII Incorrect- the fascist Japs were SAVAGES pure and simple, every bit as bad as the Nazis.
Fucking scum who treated the people they conquered like animals. Your IDIOTIC comment does a great disservice to the men who actually stood up to the STINKING JAP SCUM.
@antimatterXXXIII The funny thing about guilt ridden left wing armchair warriors is that they have selective memories. They don't like to talk about the estimated 60 million people wiped out by left wing Communists. They like to ignore Stalin's killing of 20 million Estonians by enforced starvation. While they sat back and dreamed of their uptopias, their leaders murdered millions of their own people in one gigantic, manic, ego trip. That is why we fight and must go on fighting lefty vermin.
@xqtr74 Yes. You are right. I apologise. I was very tired when I wrote that and had been working all day researching Estonia for a project. For anyone interested in the Famine, check out the report on the History place website and others. History place is good because it reports on the press manipulation and in some cases, capitulation by and to the Soviets.
@antimatterXXXIII Its good thing we have/had gutsy Right Wing Warriors to save you Left Wing Pantie Waist Deuce Bags like yourself or you'd be living under Kraut or Nip Rule.
@antimatterXXXIII I think its interesting to see Radical Left Wing Nuts blaming US wars on Right Wing Republicans. Democrats were in the White House when the USA entered Vietnam, Korea, WW II, WW I. The Civil war was begun by the Confederacy which was run by the old Southern Democratic party as was the KKK and Jim Crow Laws. Republican Presidents got us out of Vietnam and Korea and ended Slavery (Abe Lincoln-Republican). Read your History. Its mostly Right wingers that make up our Military.
Ah yes, you're one of those people I hoped I wouldn't have to deal with on YouTube. Lovely rebuttal to my argument, you gave, take another look at it. If you want to have an acutal talk on the Pacific War, instead of ignorantly cursing me out, I'm ready to accept your apologies and listen.
That's the most stupid Japanese I've ever seen ... why didn't he throw back the damn hand grenade ... ?!!! ... he had nothing to loose really ... In any case, that's also one of the most stupid marines I've ever seen ... he deserved to have that hand grenade hurled back to him ... he was begging for it ...
I believe that was a soldier that did that; however, the soldier knew what the Japanese soldier was trying to do. I would not judge the US soldier since neither you or I were there.
If being 'there' had any weight in the understanding of the past, we could never study human history ... in fact, history, as science, would never have any value ...
"The story is always written by the victors", too bad for those on the other side of the field, they always end up the as the wronged one.
Marines or not, they both helped out to win the battle. Though the Marines were immortalized in the Pacific Theater of operations, the Army made a name in the European Theater where they battled it out with the Nazis.
So its really not about what branch they came from, its about what they have done to help end the bloodiest war of all time. Peace!
True that. Marines get most if not all the credit but there was more Army fighting in the Pacific than Marines. Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Saipan, Okinawa, the Phillipines, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Army Rangers(Merrill's Marauders) in Burma, Army fought and died at all those places...there was even some Army Infantry that fought at the end of the battle of Iwo Jima.
Show me the numbers on that. The Army did not fight on Iwo as the "island securing force". The rooted out some diehard holdouts in the north part of the island. This was SOP, Marines take it, kill it, secure it then the Army garrisons it.
For sure the Army had a very small role on Iwo as mop up but i just thought i'd throw that out there in my comment. but that wasn't really SOP in the Pacific though. look at battles like Okinawa where the Army had more Infantry commited into the battle and hit the defense lines in southern Okinawa first while the Marines went north.then later the Marines relieved Army Infantry in the south and helped out alongside the Army Infantry in crushing the japs in the South...all did assaults on japs
It was SOP. The Amy was used mainly in battles were manuever was more possible. Okinawa was one battle where both services were tasked together, Oki was just to big. Same same with the Phillipines and MacArthur would never allow the Marines to retake the Phillipines.
The Army did have a fairly large Pacific showing, but all the div. you listed weren't all deployed at the same time (same with Marines)
I can if you would like do the research and give you numbers by year of each and battles.
@Toddinfantry This is just utterly moronic, as if you've learned history from John Wayne and Sarah Palin. Total killed on Okinawa were some 4600 Army, 2800 Marines, and 5000 Navy (rough figures). The figures are typical for the Pacific as a whole. The Army did not participate on Iwo Jima because the Marine Corps refused any assistance. One does not hear so much about the Army because they are not as adept at self-promotion as the Marines.
lol @ accusing me of making up my own shit. wtf? THERE WERE MORE ARMY SOLDIERS FIGHTING IN THE PACIFIC THAN MARINES...PERIOD! at its height the Marine corps had 6 divisions and 5 air wings..in one of my earlier comments i listed just SOME of the Army divisions that saw active combat throughout the Pacific from Okinawa, phillipines, new guinea to Guadalcanal. Now, will everyone quit catching feelings off my comments. I aint even talking shit about the Marines and people getting all offended.
@DDIISSEE Lol I'm in the Army, and you're making it sound as if the Army actually won most of the battles. They were only sent in when Marines needed support...
@DDIISSEE with exception of IWO Jima majorities of battle Marine fought have Army unit fight along side them include Tarawa. as usual they will not get mention. If you are a soldiers fighting with or along side Marine you can be guaranteed your sacrifice not be remember, sad but true. Nobody can beat Marine when it come to PR, no one.
I would say yes. Not only did the Army Infantry fight in places like Okinawa, Saipan, Peleliu etc...they also assaulted and took the Phillipines, Fought in New guinea and many other places by themselves. Most Pacific land battles had the Army assaulting or fighting..except for Iwo and Tarawa, maybe a few more? wake island? how many Marine divisions fought in the Pacific? 6? i can think of many Army divisions, 25th, 1st cav, 96th, 7th, 37th, 11th airborne, 503rd PIRct, 27th, 81st, 24th, 77th, etc
perhaps it came out wrong, what i meant to say was that the Army had way more forces commited in the Pacific and were doing alot more than the Marines were. Which is understandable considering the Marine corps is quite a bit smaller than the Army...even in ww2.
@DDIISSEE The job of the Marines is mostly tactical - take and hold fixed objectives in amphibious assaults (that's why they are called Marines). The Army has both a tactical and strategic role, like the Navy. The Army has its own equivalent of the Marines who are trained just as well and are just as deadly - the Ranger battalions - who carry out purely tactical raids.
Just goes to show how Madison Avenue-like advertising can help get the visibility an organization needs. In the Central Pacific, the Marines carried the lion's share of the operations and they damned well made sure that everyone knew. MacArthur was the same way in the South Pacific theatre. Anything his people did, the WORLD knew about. Basically, it all boils down to advertising and getting your achievements noticed. Generally speaking, if you get noticed, you get funds.
The Marines did NOT carry the "lion's share" of operations in the Pacific. There were ten Army infantrymen fighting for every Marine. What the Marines took in large share was the credit for the outcome. When things went badly, the Marines blamed the Army; when things went well, the Marines said "what Army?"
Typical "history" presentation that highlights the Marines, but downplays the Army's role in the Pacific theater. A Marine fart is more noteworthy than an Army objective.
Wait until you see the one about Okinawa... a 10th U.S. Army operation that brought alone a few marines. Yet, the storyline is all about the Marines, and most people today think the Marines took Okinawa AND Peleliu. In fact, the Army took both.
@mnpd007 i Swear if you are a soldiers fighting in the Pacific, you can be guaranteed your sacrifice will goes unnoticed. It just amazing the fuckin arrogance, self promotion the Marine are. Their PROPAGANDA MACHINE IS EQUAL TO NONE.
My father fought in many of those "brand name" Pacific battles. He was a soldier, and never saw a Marine in action. He was tired of reading and hearing about Marines doing his fighting before the War even ended. He always thought the difference was that the Marines had huge numbers of cameramen which the Army lacked, and a large public affairs operation which courted the press. The Army was too involved in fighting to woo the media.
@mnpd007 kind of glad no Marine fought against German on the Atlantic side, if a few of them did they probably take all the credit there too. no shame in their game.
I don't deny there was propaganda, but it was on BOTH sides, and I wish that you could just accept that the Japanese had it coming to them; I didn't expect a fellow American would be such a bleeding heart towards those barbarians. I don't mean that to all Japanese, but to all the soldiers in their army during the war, by the way, so don't think I'm some racist. There's just too much evidence that the Japanese DID start it and they got what was coming to them.
You think that many Japanese mothers wanted their sons to go off and be killed in the war and have their teeth pulled out by American gold hunters? Nope. Few ask for war except generals, corporations and politicians. There were many barbaric Japanese officers and soldiers, but also some of like kind in the US military. Others on both sides just tried to stay alive.
No the mothers didn't. But as you grow wiser you'll learn that what mothers want has nothing to do with anything. If mothers ran the politics there would be no wars.
(from last comment) That soldier talks about a patrol on Guadalcanal, when his squad found several dead American Marines who had had their testicles cut off and placed in their mouths by the Japanese pigs who killed them. He then said that they didn't take many prisoners after that. I can't, nor can you, blame him for those actions; in fact, I think that killing any captured Japanese was being lenient after what they did to captured American troops.
I am shocked and, quite frankly, horrified that you would actually consider the acts of American soldiers to be anything like those of Japanese soldiers during WW2. If you were to see the documentary, "Hell in the Pacific," you would hear the testimony of a man in the 2nd Raider Battalion. (See next comment.)
If you had to face the horror of having your friend gutted by a Jap while resting in his foxhole, cclennon, you would know what I'm talking about. I also, have not known such a terrible thing, but having listened to veterans from the Pacific Theater, I've come to understand that if not all, then MOST of the Japanese soldiers were psychotically devoted to their Emperor and would do any kind of monstrous act in his name.
just watched the entire series. Although, i already had immense respect for my grandfather who fought here...it gives me new respect for the Marines in the Pacific.
who ever what that japanese marine that accepted death and commited suicide with the grenade, i give my props even they were our enemies, i respect those who fought against us
they had spirit, but they did some awful, awful things. i can only forgive the ones that didn't butcher our dead soldiers with bayonets, or disect living POW's.
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By not stopping those atrocities, all of the Japs in the Pacific Theater were guilty. They didn't have spirit, ramberghini, they were fucking psychopaths, every last one of them. I don't mean to be rude, and I know you see my point, but none of them should be forgiven for the monstrous acts committed against our soldiers in the Pacific.
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WOW, you've been brainwashed by your country's propaganda! All Japs were crazy? Get fucked, your just ignorant and up your own ass. You know the shit Americans do in Iraq and Afghanistan? HUH? like Kill 1 Million people innocent in their own country! and call the resistance fighters that try to kick them out 'terrorists' or 'insurgents', when 30 years ago you called them 'freedom fighters' when it suited you coz they were fighting the Russians?. You know nothing more than "USA, yeah! apple pie"
Please, if you'd like to have a discussion about this, we don't need to cuss each other out. I respect your opinion, and agree that the U.S. has switched sides at times in our history. I'm just trying to say that the Japanese were guilty of far more war crimes than were the Americans in the Pacific. I also know about what has happened in Iraq, but it is by a small number of rear-echelon troops who in no way represent the entire U.S. military.
@soberauzzie son, you do know that your country would have been under the empire of the sun if not for the US. and what are you talking about...1 million peolpe killed?? are you serious? Stop reading your socialist propaganda and grow up.
what a tragedy, the only battle that i will ever call meaningless. just a worthless piece of rock, a black-head or pimple to be squeezed to bursting. too many good men on both sides wasted. but i'm proud that the men of the history channel paid tribute to all those poor men who were thrown against the wall at peleliu.
it cant have been meaningless because would the japs want to hold onto it so badly and why whould they have such a large garrison if it was worthless. the airfeild could have seriously messed up the landings on the philippines and jepordized the entire war in the pacific.
that's kind of messed up, teaching someone how to suicide with a grenade, I don't like the Japanese soldiers...but still, really messed up
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badawyelghad 1 month ago
@headlicetonight
A lot of people who advertise like that are frauds. I'm too young for WW2, but not for another war which came later. And, most of the war stories I've heard came from clerk-typists at Long Binh. A "Pearl Harbor survivor" may just be service member who was stationed somewhere in Hawaii when the attack came. I'm betting he wasn't on the U.S. Arizona.
mnpd007 1 month ago
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Our grandfathers were the best generation of Americans. They were hardworking, honest, and sincere. Their sacrifices made America the greatest country in the world.
Today America is dominated by a whole generation of Ann Coulters. They're all heartless, ruthless, and self-centered. It's because of these young hardnosed skankies that our country is falling apart.
mocksession 2 months ago
5:15 why didnt they just shoot the guy.
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I know why the Marine call this "The Forgoten Battle", but if they need the airfield just destroy the airfield then attack the Phillipines.
TheRapper10000 6 months ago
I know why the Marines call this The Forgoten Battle if they need the airfield just destroy the airfield then attack the Phillipines.
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redbaron785 7 months ago
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ghasl1 7 months ago
i was too sick seeing too much comment on bias way..
my land were invaded by british and japanese..
american civilian you all must thank god during WW your mainland never been invaded by enemy.. but you go to hunt them on their land too.
if you know the price, you will think twice to comment.
for me, we cant judge who is right and who is wrong..
if you see casualties in war, allies made big murderer than axis...
so can i judge allies very bad than axis?
you all have the answer
metalfire86able 8 months ago
@metalfire86able Maybe next time your country is in need our aid after a pseunomi, earthquake, volcanic eruption or war the USA won't be there to help. If you seriously think the Japs treated your nation better read your history. They were the most brutal people in modern history. Read about the "Rap of Nanking", "Bataan death march"etc. Look how America treated Germany and Japan after the war. enough said.
MarkFFHH 8 months ago
@MarkFFHH my Japanese friend said his grandfather went to the Americans cos they took better care of him then his own army did
alphex1000 3 months ago
@metalfire86able ohhhh u think you`re so good,but ur japanese people did the "rape of nanking" and u fucking killed the innocent chinese civilians in shanghai,and u say "so can i judge allies very bad than axis?? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH U,the axis are evil u douche ,U EVER HEARD OF HOLOCAUST??
u better think before u talk shit
TheN00b4Lif3 6 months ago
@metalfire86able
Actually my homeland has been invaded by the enemy numerous times. 1776, 1812, 1861 and now Washington DC has invaded.
mnpd007 1 month ago
some sad shit..
binzsta21 9 months ago
I can't really understand why it was felt to be necessary to take the "pocket" on Peleliu. The whole point of the operation was to take out the airfield - so invade, bottle up the defenders, destroy everything that could possible supply the airfield (you could even mine the land), and maybe leave a naval cordon. Or, if you want to use the airfield, set up a perimeter around the pocket and make them come to you. Why play to your opponent's strengths?
guysmiley00 1 year ago
@guysmiley00 Cuz they would keep using the artillery to bomb the marines
SniperCadett 10 months ago
Collecting skulls, now thats gangsta.
nils4545 1 year ago
According to wikipedia under "Japanese holdout"- Lieutenant Ei Yamaguchi and his 33 soldiers emerged on Peleliu in late March 1947, attacking the Marine detachment stationed on the island. Reinforcements were sent in, along with a Japanese admiral who was able to convince them the war was over. They finally surrendered in April 1947.
bc1969214 1 year ago
Were there any Japanese-Americans that fought on our side during this war? If so that must have been weird for them.
pucksterz12 1 year ago
@pucksterz12 Yes, Japanese Americans fought in Europe while their families were in internment camps in the states. 442nd Infantry Regiment for more detail, most decorated unit of the war with 21 Medals of Honor.
bc1969214 1 year ago
@pucksterz12 No...Japanese-American Troops were sent to Europe to fight. Primarily in Italy. They were some of the highest decorated units of the war...they had something to prove.
MarkFFHH 8 months ago
@ antimatterXXXIII My wife's grandfather fought with the 6th Marines at Tarawa, Saipan and Okinawa. He was wounded several times and bears the scar of a Japanese bayonet on his thigh. He's nearly 90, but his memory of those years is very clear.
I read your comment to him. His response was: "Tell that stupid sh*t he doesn't know what he's talking about."
(Suggestion: Next time, don't base your comments on a book you once read.)
8enbloc 1 year ago
and if you traitorous leftist scum were left to defend your country, there'd be NO ONE left to defend!!
colliecandle 1 year ago
The Army mopping up after the marines as always......nonetheless I salute all of em, the Grunts, Army and Marines.
kishaba1980 1 year ago 3
@Antimatter33 You are an idiot. Not for nothing. It ended a Japanese Empiracal Tryanny that had conquered and devastated other Asian nations and attacked the United States without warning. I've read the Old Breed several times. And, war is truly an ugly thing. But, not going to war in time only serves to increase the eventual death toll. Hitler could have been stopped in 1936 with the loss of a few hundred troops. But we stupidly "negotiated" with pure evil. Multiplied the losses by 10K times
boxwoodgreen 1 year ago 9
woah! what a battle. i thought iwo jima and okinawa were the big battles of the pacific campaign. but woah. peleliu was just as big.
bikepeddlar6 1 year ago
@bikepeddlar6 Peleliu was not as big as either of those invasions, in either manpower or supporting fleet. Only in terms of the horror and the fighting spirit of the Japanese soldier were these three battles comparable. (oh and the fact that Marines kicked their ass all three times)
Semper Fi !
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
@Toddinfantry well thats what i meant when i said "big". i was reffering to the casualties and well just horror simply put.
bikepeddlar6 1 year ago
wow, that japanese soldier commiting suicide at 5:10 really shows how some troops were dedicated to giving their life for Japan. He could of simply thrown the grenade back but chose his own fate.
m1grand70 1 year ago 16
@m1grand70 Yes he could have thrown the grenade back, but He had honor. Honor is more important than victory, thats what i think.
TheTantanski 1 year ago
@m1grand70 it's called Bushido code and not only troops had that but it's in their culture.
BattlefieldE3 6 months ago
@m1grand70 more like brainwashed and stupid
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ZIZELYIANN 1 year ago
@ZIZELYIANN You are forgetting ideology, whether political or religious, it is a massive motivator for making war. Those who believe deeply in what they are doing don't necessarily think they are doing it for material wealth, they do it out of a sense of belief that is is morally the right thing and ofr this they are often prepared to die.
EvilSirJasper 1 year ago
@ZIZELYIANN Oh really? I think you missed the main objective............ POWER - power to enslave - power to destroy those who don't share or want ideologies thrust on them...for a prime example muslimes! Don't be so simplistic in your conclusions - war is also necessary to maintain YOUR lifestyle and the freedoms YOU and YOURS enjoy, against those who would take us ALL back to the 'dark ages' with their false 'god' 'allah'
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ZIZELYIANN 1 year ago
I'm deeply fascinated and moved by the story at 4:50 when the Japanese soldier is trying to commit suicide and the American soldier assists him instead of taking him as POW. It would've been humiliating for the Japanese soldier to become POW and thus the American soldier helps him to save his honour & dignity. Some kind of a weird moment of humaneness/compassion. War is fu*king hell!
FinnicPagan 1 year ago
Japanese were fanatical soldiers. Germans were most disciplined and best trained. US and British soldiers were most innovative and took initiative the best. Soviet "Peasant" soldiers were probably the toughest and bravest of all. Country's cultures produce different soldiers. Quite interesting sociologically. Just my opion of course...
randy109 1 year ago
@randy109
strongly agree on that mate!
findthem34 1 year ago
@randy109 What Hegelian clap trap is that? Or is that blood and soil obliquey? Really, what the hell is that army training facility at Ft. Benning about, then? Your drivel would be funny if it weren't so wrong! The fact is, most warfare is reaching the point where one no longer need face his enemy. How is that for sociological relevance?
whiff1962 1 year ago
xCh34ShOtx you are correct in your assessment.
nsswitcher 1 year ago
Here are SOME of the numbers of the US Army in the Pacific as stated in the book "World War II Official Army History Pacific Theater" and "The Army Almanac: The Army of the United States Order of Battle, US Army WW2" ; the US Army was composed of 22 Divisions for the Pacific campaign. The invasion of the Philippines--US 6th Army composed of 16 Divisions which fought approx. 250,000 Japanese. Compare those numbers to the Marine Corp if u like.
nsswitcher 1 year ago
doesnt matter who fought over there army or marines but for sure these guys gave as much they could to secure that little island and thats something worth to look at
tdabamm12 1 year ago
That General was pretty stupid to refuse Army support. Got more Marines killed and eventually called the Army anyway...
xCh34pShOtx 1 year ago
i guess the marines didnt do enough if you listen to DDIISSEE or nsswitcher..im guessing they are army or air force..
TheMaddog780 1 year ago
lol! so THIS is why you commented my youtube page all mad and shit? haha
DDIISSEE 1 year ago
No, I am a civilian. I never stated the Marines did not do enough. Why do you make such remarks? The fact about this battle IS the US Marines got their asses beat/slaughtered and the US Army saved the " day." This is recorded History. Why do you have a problem accepting this FACT? If I am wrong about this fact then the History channel is wrong also.
nsswitcher 1 year ago
This absolutely wrong. The Army did not "save the day". and in fact the SOP of the day is evidenced here. Once the Marines were fought out and had driven the enemy into the last refuge of the Umurbrogals, then it became the Armys job to finish it and garrison the island.
Please do not believe everything seen on ANY of the military docus. Do your research yourself. The history ch has been way wrong many times. Hell they have jet aircraft in WW2 docus??!!??
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
@Toddinfantry You do know that there WERE jet aircraft in operation during WWII don't you?
MIT1369 1 year ago
@MIT1369 Of course I know there were flying jet aircraft in WW2,, my point being there were non operational in the pacific theatre and these docus show Mig 17, F-86, etc in air battle footage from WW2. Short clips only and yes I understand the editting process also. Point is , you just can't believe these docus as gospel.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
@Toddinfantry Where did you see Korean era footage. I'm usually good at picking out discrepancies like that and don't recall it.
MIT1369 1 year ago
@MIT1369 OK I'm going to have to draw you a picture. Notice the conversation below and you will see that I am responding to a challenge that the History Ch is absolutely correct and is always factual.
Do I need to spend the time and show you links to how many History Ch docus that have VERY incorrect film footage.
We were not speaking of this video in particular, but docu footage in general.
Are we clear here?
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
@Toddinfantry Look, you needn't be such a condesending ass. I asked a simple question. Now, I'm through with you.
MIT1369 1 year ago
@MIT1369 My apologies MIT, I am usually very civil on the Tube, but you were the recipient of a bad day. I do hope my explanation (beyond the condesention) was understood.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
Oh and just for clarity, the Marines did not get their asses beat/slaughtered. The suffered enormous casualties in one of the harshest battles EVER known. Check the Army casualties and you will find they suffered heavy losses on a "secured island". No island taken during the pacific campaign was anything near Peleliu in terms of terrain, heat, and the greatest cause of casualties...the inability to dig in. Piling chunks of coral in front of you isn't much protection.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
The question of whether this battle was necessary, remember that the survivors of the USS Indianapolis attack were discovered by a plane flying out of Peleliu.
Kinda makes it worthwhile.
dog123903 1 year ago
kolo i subscribed
your videos r the shit
good post all of em!
1963impalass409 2 years ago
I thank God for the brave American men who risked and lost their lives to liberate the Pacific Islands. My father was a boy in a jap prison camp in Indonesia. Without the Americans, he likely would have died there, and I would not be alive today.
The Jap defense of Peleliu set the stage for the a-bomb attacks. Can you imagine the price the marines and infantry would have had to pay to take Japan's own soil, let alone a meaningless island like this? The death toll taught US leaders a lesson.
naturebay 2 years ago
japaneses are fagots some could have lived on but they just suicide and those who survived that war are lift with forever wounds in their hearts
noob2top3210 2 years ago
The Marines were the good guys, the japs were the bad guys. They started it, we finished it. They ran every pow camp as a concentration camp, over a million and a half chinese murdered for sport.....Hirohito should have hung for war crimes - in fact too few of them did hang -we never tolerated this with the Germans -we sought them out , strung them up-the jap criminals skated. They have never apologized. At Peleliu the Japanese Memorial dwarfs the American one -this needs to be corrected.
Umurbrogal11 2 years ago
@Umurbrogal11
And let's not forget what the Japanese empire did to Korea, parts of China and other Asian nations that they had under their control...
Seems like Japan has built War Memorials where their soldiers fought in WW2. I remember seeing a PBS special about Aleutian Islands Campaign. Ironically, a US vet visiting the battle grounds saw a big stainless steel monument built by Japan for Japanese soldiers. He was not happy about that 'monument' being US soil.
dba7dba 2 years ago
US could have bypass those silan garrison and deal with them later.You see Japanese navy and airforce had been almost totally annihilated..They could move their troops anywhere.The sea and the air solely owned by USA.They could go straight to Japan main Island
ali4330 2 years ago
It's too bad you can't smell rotting corpses on the Internet - that would quell all the right-wing armchair warriors in the audience. Anyone who has read "With the Old Breed" will know that this was not heroism - it was slaughter on a massive scale that was beyond politics or objectives - it was pure hatred, one side for the other, both ways. For essentially, nothing.
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago 22
@antimatterXXXIII If that's all you got out of Eugene's book then I pity you.
MIT1369 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII I completely agree. The Generation now seems to have the mentality Kill everyone who disagree's with you. It's sad. They should pay more attention to history.
Rnwbman 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII I totally agree with you as im an owner of with the old breed myself. why dont they tell of the gold teeth??
DutchPetriot 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII bless all the warriors~
mixerd0822 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII Im guessing your probably keeping up with the hbo minisiries The Pacific. One of the guys they follow in this series is Mr Sledge. the author of with the old breed. im liking it so far, 2 episodes to go and they just hit iwo. the 3 preceding episodes were mosly devoted to Peleliu. Gruesome stuff and they didnt really pull to many punches in the telling.
atltom58 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII: Excuse me, but what do you mean by "right wing arm chair warriors"? Did you know something like eighty-five percent of our military in uniform today are registered republicans? Are they "right wing armchair warriors"?
Advocating a strong defense and preparedness does not make someone an "armchair warrior". It's common sense and it saves lives.
tomthefunky 1 year ago
@tomthefunky One, the current military apparently have a difficult time defeating men with small arms who wear pajamas into battle (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) and moreover, are supreme bullies (Grenada, Panama) looking for trigger time. Countless atrocities have been committed in our names - so no, these people are not right-wing warriors, they are not warriors at all, rather, a pack of armed thugs who think its fun to terrorize women in their homes and kill civilians indiscriminately.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII: There is a special place waiting on top of the stove in Hell's kitchen for people like you. You are worse than scum, you are cowardly scum because you wouldn't dare talk like that in front of servicemen. Walk into a VFW hall and say that, tough guy. No, instead you save it for youtube. If our troops are so bad, why haven't those atrocities been committed against you yet? Hey, I can always hope!
tomthefunky 1 year ago
@tomthefunky One day we are going to need the Army, and its low moral character will be revealed - modern Americans are so corrupted morally that utter defeat is inevitable. This Army doesn't even look like Americans - they look and act more like Nazis than the citizen soldiers of my father's Army.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
@tomthefunky watch?v=R0WZvDa0Uvs
If you think this is an isolated incident, then you are even more naive than you are deluded.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII Incorrect- the fascist Japs were SAVAGES pure and simple, every bit as bad as the Nazis.
Fucking scum who treated the people they conquered like animals. Your IDIOTIC comment does a great disservice to the men who actually stood up to the STINKING JAP SCUM.
You fucking asshole.
jessicafischerqueen 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII The funny thing about guilt ridden left wing armchair warriors is that they have selective memories. They don't like to talk about the estimated 60 million people wiped out by left wing Communists. They like to ignore Stalin's killing of 20 million Estonians by enforced starvation. While they sat back and dreamed of their uptopias, their leaders murdered millions of their own people in one gigantic, manic, ego trip. That is why we fight and must go on fighting lefty vermin.
DumblyBrilliant 1 year ago 2
@DumblyBrilliant Not 20 million Estonians (Estonia never even had a population of this size), but 2.6-7.5 million UKRAINIANS.
xqtr74 1 year ago
@xqtr74 Yes. You are right. I apologise. I was very tired when I wrote that and had been working all day researching Estonia for a project. For anyone interested in the Famine, check out the report on the History place website and others. History place is good because it reports on the press manipulation and in some cases, capitulation by and to the Soviets.
DumblyBrilliant 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII Its good thing we have/had gutsy Right Wing Warriors to save you Left Wing Pantie Waist Deuce Bags like yourself or you'd be living under Kraut or Nip Rule.
MarkFFHH 8 months ago
@antimatterXXXIII I think its interesting to see Radical Left Wing Nuts blaming US wars on Right Wing Republicans. Democrats were in the White House when the USA entered Vietnam, Korea, WW II, WW I. The Civil war was begun by the Confederacy which was run by the old Southern Democratic party as was the KKK and Jim Crow Laws. Republican Presidents got us out of Vietnam and Korea and ended Slavery (Abe Lincoln-Republican). Read your History. Its mostly Right wingers that make up our Military.
MarkFFHH 8 months ago
@antimatterXXXIII Eugene Sledge wrote that right
redbaron785 7 months ago
Ah yes, you're one of those people I hoped I wouldn't have to deal with on YouTube. Lovely rebuttal to my argument, you gave, take another look at it. If you want to have an acutal talk on the Pacific War, instead of ignorantly cursing me out, I'm ready to accept your apologies and listen.
czj617 2 years ago
That's the most stupid Japanese I've ever seen ... why didn't he throw back the damn hand grenade ... ?!!! ... he had nothing to loose really ... In any case, that's also one of the most stupid marines I've ever seen ... he deserved to have that hand grenade hurled back to him ... he was begging for it ...
fredhubner 2 years ago
I believe that was a soldier that did that; however, the soldier knew what the Japanese soldier was trying to do. I would not judge the US soldier since neither you or I were there.
nsswitcher 2 years ago
If being 'there' had any weight in the understanding of the past, we could never study human history ... in fact, history, as science, would never have any value ...
fredhubner 2 years ago
That is very grusum
vidsfan2009 2 years ago
"The story is always written by the victors", too bad for those on the other side of the field, they always end up the as the wronged one.
Marines or not, they both helped out to win the battle. Though the Marines were immortalized in the Pacific Theater of operations, the Army made a name in the European Theater where they battled it out with the Nazis.
So its really not about what branch they came from, its about what they have done to help end the bloodiest war of all time. Peace!
liquidchicken23 2 years ago 3
The US Army played a significant role in the Pacific also; maybe even more so than the USMC.
nsswitcher 2 years ago
True that. Marines get most if not all the credit but there was more Army fighting in the Pacific than Marines. Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Saipan, Okinawa, the Phillipines, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Army Rangers(Merrill's Marauders) in Burma, Army fought and died at all those places...there was even some Army Infantry that fought at the end of the battle of Iwo Jima.
DDIISSEE 2 years ago
Show me the numbers on that. The Army did not fight on Iwo as the "island securing force". The rooted out some diehard holdouts in the north part of the island. This was SOP, Marines take it, kill it, secure it then the Army garrisons it.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
For sure the Army had a very small role on Iwo as mop up but i just thought i'd throw that out there in my comment. but that wasn't really SOP in the Pacific though. look at battles like Okinawa where the Army had more Infantry commited into the battle and hit the defense lines in southern Okinawa first while the Marines went north.then later the Marines relieved Army Infantry in the south and helped out alongside the Army Infantry in crushing the japs in the South...all did assaults on japs
DDIISSEE 1 year ago
It was SOP. The Amy was used mainly in battles were manuever was more possible. Okinawa was one battle where both services were tasked together, Oki was just to big. Same same with the Phillipines and MacArthur would never allow the Marines to retake the Phillipines.
The Army did have a fairly large Pacific showing, but all the div. you listed weren't all deployed at the same time (same with Marines)
I can if you would like do the research and give you numbers by year of each and battles.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
@Toddinfantry This is just utterly moronic, as if you've learned history from John Wayne and Sarah Palin. Total killed on Okinawa were some 4600 Army, 2800 Marines, and 5000 Navy (rough figures). The figures are typical for the Pacific as a whole. The Army did not participate on Iwo Jima because the Marine Corps refused any assistance. One does not hear so much about the Army because they are not as adept at self-promotion as the Marines.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII What are you talking about?? What is "utterly moronic"?
"The Army isn't as adept at self promotion" WTF?!?
Since I seem to be "moronic" why don't you just jump up here and tell me your version. Everything in my post is correct and verifiable.
And your branch of service?
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
@DDIISSEE Sorry, but No. Marines did 75% of it. Stop making up your own shit.
xCh34pShOtx 1 year ago
lol @ accusing me of making up my own shit. wtf? THERE WERE MORE ARMY SOLDIERS FIGHTING IN THE PACIFIC THAN MARINES...PERIOD! at its height the Marine corps had 6 divisions and 5 air wings..in one of my earlier comments i listed just SOME of the Army divisions that saw active combat throughout the Pacific from Okinawa, phillipines, new guinea to Guadalcanal. Now, will everyone quit catching feelings off my comments. I aint even talking shit about the Marines and people getting all offended.
DDIISSEE 1 year ago
@DDIISSEE Lol I'm in the Army, and you're making it sound as if the Army actually won most of the battles. They were only sent in when Marines needed support...
xCh34pShOtx 1 year ago
lol, whatever homie. Read up a little on the Pacific and get ur mind right
DDIISSEE 1 year ago
@DDIISSEE Yea, "Homie", I'm pretty sure I know 10 times as much as you do about the Pacific Theater. Reading wikipedia doesn't count kid...
xCh34pShOtx 1 year ago
@DDIISSEE with exception of IWO Jima majorities of battle Marine fought have Army unit fight along side them include Tarawa. as usual they will not get mention. If you are a soldiers fighting with or along side Marine you can be guaranteed your sacrifice not be remember, sad but true. Nobody can beat Marine when it come to PR, no one.
d8654474 1 month ago
While I agree the Army did play a large role in the Pacific, more than the Marines? Like DDIISSEE, show me the numbers that support this.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
I would say yes. Not only did the Army Infantry fight in places like Okinawa, Saipan, Peleliu etc...they also assaulted and took the Phillipines, Fought in New guinea and many other places by themselves. Most Pacific land battles had the Army assaulting or fighting..except for Iwo and Tarawa, maybe a few more? wake island? how many Marine divisions fought in the Pacific? 6? i can think of many Army divisions, 25th, 1st cav, 96th, 7th, 37th, 11th airborne, 503rd PIRct, 27th, 81st, 24th, 77th, etc
DDIISSEE 1 year ago
@DDIISSEE 100 percent correct - glad someone knows his facts.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
perhaps it came out wrong, what i meant to say was that the Army had way more forces commited in the Pacific and were doing alot more than the Marines were. Which is understandable considering the Marine corps is quite a bit smaller than the Army...even in ww2.
DDIISSEE 1 year ago
@DDIISSEE The job of the Marines is mostly tactical - take and hold fixed objectives in amphibious assaults (that's why they are called Marines). The Army has both a tactical and strategic role, like the Navy. The Army has its own equivalent of the Marines who are trained just as well and are just as deadly - the Ranger battalions - who carry out purely tactical raids.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
Just goes to show how Madison Avenue-like advertising can help get the visibility an organization needs. In the Central Pacific, the Marines carried the lion's share of the operations and they damned well made sure that everyone knew. MacArthur was the same way in the South Pacific theatre. Anything his people did, the WORLD knew about. Basically, it all boils down to advertising and getting your achievements noticed. Generally speaking, if you get noticed, you get funds.
penumbra155 2 years ago
@penumbra155
The Marines did NOT carry the "lion's share" of operations in the Pacific. There were ten Army infantrymen fighting for every Marine. What the Marines took in large share was the credit for the outcome. When things went badly, the Marines blamed the Army; when things went well, the Marines said "what Army?"
mnpd007 1 month ago
Typical "history" presentation that highlights the Marines, but downplays the Army's role in the Pacific theater. A Marine fart is more noteworthy than an Army objective.
Wait until you see the one about Okinawa... a 10th U.S. Army operation that brought alone a few marines. Yet, the storyline is all about the Marines, and most people today think the Marines took Okinawa AND Peleliu. In fact, the Army took both.
mnpd007 2 years ago 2
@mnpd007 i Swear if you are a soldiers fighting in the Pacific, you can be guaranteed your sacrifice will goes unnoticed. It just amazing the fuckin arrogance, self promotion the Marine are. Their PROPAGANDA MACHINE IS EQUAL TO NONE.
d8654474 1 month ago
@d8654474
My father fought in many of those "brand name" Pacific battles. He was a soldier, and never saw a Marine in action. He was tired of reading and hearing about Marines doing his fighting before the War even ended. He always thought the difference was that the Marines had huge numbers of cameramen which the Army lacked, and a large public affairs operation which courted the press. The Army was too involved in fighting to woo the media.
mnpd007 1 month ago
@mnpd007 kind of glad no Marine fought against German on the Atlantic side, if a few of them did they probably take all the credit there too. no shame in their game.
d8654474 1 month ago 2
I don't deny there was propaganda, but it was on BOTH sides, and I wish that you could just accept that the Japanese had it coming to them; I didn't expect a fellow American would be such a bleeding heart towards those barbarians. I don't mean that to all Japanese, but to all the soldiers in their army during the war, by the way, so don't think I'm some racist. There's just too much evidence that the Japanese DID start it and they got what was coming to them.
czj617 2 years ago
You think that many Japanese mothers wanted their sons to go off and be killed in the war and have their teeth pulled out by American gold hunters? Nope. Few ask for war except generals, corporations and politicians. There were many barbaric Japanese officers and soldiers, but also some of like kind in the US military. Others on both sides just tried to stay alive.
meerkat1954 2 years ago 2
@meerkat1954
No the mothers didn't. But as you grow wiser you'll learn that what mothers want has nothing to do with anything. If mothers ran the politics there would be no wars.
mnpd007 1 month ago
Wasn't this documentary 1.5 hours long?
antdude 2 years ago
(from last comment) That soldier talks about a patrol on Guadalcanal, when his squad found several dead American Marines who had had their testicles cut off and placed in their mouths by the Japanese pigs who killed them. He then said that they didn't take many prisoners after that. I can't, nor can you, blame him for those actions; in fact, I think that killing any captured Japanese was being lenient after what they did to captured American troops.
czj617 2 years ago
I am shocked and, quite frankly, horrified that you would actually consider the acts of American soldiers to be anything like those of Japanese soldiers during WW2. If you were to see the documentary, "Hell in the Pacific," you would hear the testimony of a man in the 2nd Raider Battalion. (See next comment.)
czj617 2 years ago 2
If you had to face the horror of having your friend gutted by a Jap while resting in his foxhole, cclennon, you would know what I'm talking about. I also, have not known such a terrible thing, but having listened to veterans from the Pacific Theater, I've come to understand that if not all, then MOST of the Japanese soldiers were psychotically devoted to their Emperor and would do any kind of monstrous act in his name.
czj617 2 years ago
from 0:19 to 0:25 what the hell is that a UAV are maybe a UFO?
n8tivguitar 2 years ago
if you look closley, it is flapping it's wings, it's a bird.
f14fan1243 2 years ago
your right
n8tivguitar 2 years ago
1500+ u.s soldiers dead for 6 miles tht bull
2ndsquad2 3 years ago
just watched the entire series. Although, i already had immense respect for my grandfather who fought here...it gives me new respect for the Marines in the Pacific.
Great job!
nagasama75 3 years ago 16
5:20 they want to die than to live
shugunate rule!!
themesenger21 3 years ago
who ever what that japanese marine that accepted death and commited suicide with the grenade, i give my props even they were our enemies, i respect those who fought against us
terminator6267 3 years ago
they had spirit, but they did some awful, awful things. i can only forgive the ones that didn't butcher our dead soldiers with bayonets, or disect living POW's.
ramberghini 3 years ago
Who are you to forgive that shit? I presume you with youre 54 years wasn't there, not even alive.. Only the men on the island can forgive or not.
Dofol 3 years ago 2
this is my dad's profile, im a 14 year old american. you have to excuse me for sometimes being less than the image of maturity.
ramberghini 3 years ago
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By not stopping those atrocities, all of the Japs in the Pacific Theater were guilty. They didn't have spirit, ramberghini, they were fucking psychopaths, every last one of them. I don't mean to be rude, and I know you see my point, but none of them should be forgiven for the monstrous acts committed against our soldiers in the Pacific.
czj617 2 years ago
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WOW, you've been brainwashed by your country's propaganda! All Japs were crazy? Get fucked, your just ignorant and up your own ass. You know the shit Americans do in Iraq and Afghanistan? HUH? like Kill 1 Million people innocent in their own country! and call the resistance fighters that try to kick them out 'terrorists' or 'insurgents', when 30 years ago you called them 'freedom fighters' when it suited you coz they were fighting the Russians?. You know nothing more than "USA, yeah! apple pie"
soberauzzie 2 years ago
Please, if you'd like to have a discussion about this, we don't need to cuss each other out. I respect your opinion, and agree that the U.S. has switched sides at times in our history. I'm just trying to say that the Japanese were guilty of far more war crimes than were the Americans in the Pacific. I also know about what has happened in Iraq, but it is by a small number of rear-echelon troops who in no way represent the entire U.S. military.
czj617 2 years ago 2
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Whatever man
soberauzzie 2 years ago
Very mature behavior.
ghostdivision7 2 years ago
@soberauzzie son, you do know that your country would have been under the empire of the sun if not for the US. and what are you talking about...1 million peolpe killed?? are you serious? Stop reading your socialist propaganda and grow up.
fisherking100 2 years ago
fuck you
worldbattle39 3 years ago
world battle i don't meant it.....jeez
terminator6267 3 years ago
ok sorry it was uncalled for
worldbattle39 3 years ago
Man, the Japs would rather die than surrender
They were very commited 2 fight 2 the death
PGY2J 3 years ago 2
what a tragedy, the only battle that i will ever call meaningless. just a worthless piece of rock, a black-head or pimple to be squeezed to bursting. too many good men on both sides wasted. but i'm proud that the men of the history channel paid tribute to all those poor men who were thrown against the wall at peleliu.
ramberghini 3 years ago 2
it cant have been meaningless because would the japs want to hold onto it so badly and why whould they have such a large garrison if it was worthless. the airfeild could have seriously messed up the landings on the philippines and jepordized the entire war in the pacific.
psykomentalist 2 years ago
Holy Sh*t!!
dogwhitesector 3 years ago
5:36 RIP he was very brave to do that
ww2luv 3 years ago 4
thanx for uploading.
i have great respect for the japanese onhow they think about maintaining their honour even though they are about to die.
great people but they foght for the wrong cause
o9a6la 3 years ago 6
thanks for the upload.
gmdimaano 3 years ago 3