2:54............50 pounds of gear is not practical. they should have had rifle, pistol, knife, first aid kit, rain cape, canteen, salt pills, maps. for food, they had a bountiful providing jungle all around them! why didnt they do this? they could have moved very fast!! and no big artillery. speed is everything!!
@semtex84 ........maybe not in the towns, but out in the bush there are berries, other fruits, roots, animals, fish, etc. so a guerilla force could survive quite well i think. if they knew bush skills.
@acerb45666555 I'm guessing you've never been there yeah? The jungle up there cannot support the amount of food you're going to need to feed an army of thousands of men.
@semtex84 ......in order to confuse the Japanese forces, i would have used small fast local tribal guerilla units, and army rangers. all split into widely scattered groups . this way a region is not stripped of food by one huge mass of troops! also, sneaking food from Japanese depots and caches and dead enemy, would supplement the wild food! i follow the General George Crook Principal. ( 1886-Arizona-New Mexico-Chiricahua War).
this shows footage of my grand father being stretchered down the mountain by the fuzzy wuzzy angels.he came home and lived until 1988..
kermitkermit1000 10 months ago
2:54............50 pounds of gear is not practical. they should have had rifle, pistol, knife, first aid kit, rain cape, canteen, salt pills, maps. for food, they had a bountiful providing jungle all around them! why didnt they do this? they could have moved very fast!! and no big artillery. speed is everything!!
acerb45666555 2 years ago
@acerb45666555 PNG is far from 'bountiful'
semtex84 1 year ago
@semtex84 ........maybe not in the towns, but out in the bush there are berries, other fruits, roots, animals, fish, etc. so a guerilla force could survive quite well i think. if they knew bush skills.
acerb45666555 1 year ago
@acerb45666555 I'm guessing you've never been there yeah? The jungle up there cannot support the amount of food you're going to need to feed an army of thousands of men.
semtex84 1 year ago
@semtex84 ......in order to confuse the Japanese forces, i would have used small fast local tribal guerilla units, and army rangers. all split into widely scattered groups . this way a region is not stripped of food by one huge mass of troops! also, sneaking food from Japanese depots and caches and dead enemy, would supplement the wild food! i follow the General George Crook Principal. ( 1886-Arizona-New Mexico-Chiricahua War).
acerb45666555 1 year ago