Lost Evidence "Guadalcanal" 2/5

[Lightblinder]

damn, eating and drinking all those things the japs left behind, could totally have been poisoned.....

[RolloffDeBunk]

Admiral Jack Fletcher let his men down in the battle of Savo Island. His battleships were not within range to counteract the enemy. Strike 2 Jack!

[Noodles37UK]

If we can't get them out, we'll BURN them out.

[DRAGONKINGOFTIBET]

I WAS IN THIS WAR AND I HAVE TAKEN A REBIRTH GUYS IN THIS LIFE .I WAS KILLED IN THIS WAR IN THE LINE OF DUTY . IT WAS HORRIBLE

[reafdaw01]

@DRAGONKINGOFTIBET you are an idiot.

[tdowling1971]

Our boys were so brave. They are indeed the Greatest Generation. 

[aziqbal]

one thing i dont understand is why the Japanese didnt provide air cover for thier 11 transports on the night of 14 Nov 1942 when they were reinforcing thier forces on the island:? almost all of them were sunk and hardly any resupply made it to the island??? where was Japanese air support?

[Toddinfantry]

@aziqbal To unreliable at night. Identifying your ship from theirs and navigating to and from would have made it tough on the Japanese. With poor radios, communication from air to ship would not have been good.

[Artas1984]

OMG, the Japanese narrator at 6:30 is the same from Battlestations video game.

His English is just horrible (the way it sounds)

[deriter64]

I'm not an American but I've read about Guadalcanal for decades. Don't tell me Americans can't fight when they have to. That was horrible.

[meggerhatter]

I was calling you Jethro dumb ass. The reason we fought the Japs at Guadalcanal, is because that is where their airfield was, not in California, FYI - tard. As for your rabbit comment, great, we are safe if invaded by the bunny marines, pick them off corporate hillbilly - pick them off. As for the liberal comment, don't worry hick, I hate niggers just as much as I hate inbred white trash - ie, you.

[hardrocker19901]

@meggerhatter Dude wats your problem? U seem pretty pissed off

[chetter7]

hey some of those video clips are from okinawa. but a great documentry, and fastray72 is right

[CirrusLX]

" the deadly japenese war machine "

[Assaultpredator]

@CirrusLX

With no comment your quote is quite pointless and RATHER FUCKING STUPID.

what are you trying to say?

[CirrusLX]

@Assaultpredator

aye....buck u fuddy

[Assaultpredator]

@CirrusLX

and "the deadly" is referring to the Japanese military, not Japanese people at that time in general, if you were meaning it is "so one sided" in the documentary.

GG

[jameslalu1]

SEMPER FIDELIS US MARINE CORPS!!!!

-PHILIPPINES

[jameslalu1]

SEMPER FIDELIS US MARINE CORS!!

-PHILIPPINES

[debonaire305]

this show is the shit!!

[scumatron]

that is the worst fake japanese accent LOL!!!

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

ha ha tojo icefactory under new amanegment that line craket me up:)

[edxx7]

the navy left the marines?? omg

[Fatzombie1980]

I think america was more at war with japan then germany.

[Toddinfantry]

@Fatzombie1980 Very true.

[Lightblinder]

"we found a lot of rice and...sake, rice wine, oh that stuff was brutal" lol

[tss77]

Henderson field named after Major Lofton R. Henderson.

I wish in this series they had mentioned besides the landing at Tulagi the fierce engagement to take the Islets of Gavutu and Tanambogo. The Landing force on

Gavutu was the U.S. Marine 1st Parachute Battalion (by Landing Craft) The Samurai spirit had to be dealt with on both locations short but bloody fighting.

[BaganJermal]

Guadalcanal, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq - the common theme the US Marine experience is ill equip during combat.

The personnel high up in US Marine should adopt Foreign Legion strategy to be self-reliant and mentally ready if the supply line does not accomodate them in time.

But I might be wrong.

[alexiaNBC]

@BaganJermal yeah, Guadalcanal was not like Vietnam, or the countries we're currently fighting in. The Japanese had very little resources or war industry to supply their forces but the US did. The Japanese were also not used to fighting in jungle terrain as disease and heat took a grave toll on them

[snakes3425]

I remember seeing a National Geographic Documentary about Guadalcanal's Naval Battles, and one of the veterans said that the translator discovered the sake they discovered was actually fly spray

[onefugowie]

i could not even imagine...and look what we are doing to this country...

to much government running things they shouldnt be

[thar777]

Bloody Nips needed extermination and what better then the US military. Nips are vermin and up there with the taliban, the nazis and all the other bastard groups!

[KCHiffy]

@thar777 What a stupid and ignorant comment. You must have your head up your ass for the past 70 years. Japan is now a major tec center. Racists like you should burn in hell.

[thar777]

@KCHiffy hello slit eyed cunt.

u better take ur ugly head out of a jap butt and smell fresh air again.

japan is an ongoing violator and is the scum of the earth n the chinese, koreans and asian states fuck japan whenever the occasion presents itself!

now the bastard japs just like u want to kill whales so go n FUCK urself with a jap made dildo!

[KCHiffy]

@thar777 Being a motherfucking racist doesn't prove that you're somehow better than everyone. And besides, New Zealand is a shithole that doesn't really contribute to the world economy. It just sits there like you do with your fat ass all day long on the computer having nothing better to do with your life but troll. Japan is much more technologically advanced than your country. If you don't know, New Zelands economy right now is sucking some big balls right now. Also, they have a high crime rate

[thar777]

@KCHiffy i pity slit eyed self professed yanks.

Getting fucked are we in Afghanistan etc?

Go cry u retard as u obviously don't know enough of my nation of the valiant!

We kicked u cunts out with ur nukes way back in 84!!!

[KCHiffy]

@thar777 Obviously if your nation harbors extreme racists like you it's not a good country at all.

[kellydresical]

@thar777 someone needs a hug :)

[KCHiffy]

@thar777 And besides, I'm American you dicksucker.

[tenyar]

A good primer for "The Pacific" mini-series.

[mackie1968]

Lost Evidence Guadalcanal

[PAPERGUNLOVER]

ayayyyyyyyyyy  U.S baby

[djscotty1111]

I can't imagine each day dealing with all the extremes of the Jungle plus dealing with a ferocious enemy. I met a Vet from the Pacific I asked him if he was a Vet he said yes.I said where? The Pacific was the answer his facial expression I will never forget and would not pursue any other questions. I just said Thank you, I appreciate what you did. LEST WE FORGET...RESPECT THEIR SACRIFICE

[senjahcore]

@djscotty1111 Amen

[user225937]

This video quit at 7:52 on my machine with my Chrome browser.. A second video in the series did a similar thing. I ran this video in IE 8 with no problem..Hummm

[user225937]

This video stops at 7:52 on my machine. Has anyone else had a problem?

[ojtero]

hell for the japs.

[rabidninja]

the sake i had was only like 9 or 10 % alcohol. hardly brutal, brutal tasting maybe

[DinoPal]

watch this

(4/10) Battlefield II The Battle of Manchuria World War II

[SupaTROopa2]

i wonder even with all the resistance from americans in the pacific if the japenese would have enough fighting strenght to attack america and canada?

[core1976scotland]

They wanted to make america impotent,Thus making thigs easier for them.

[DutchPetriot]

Well they couldnt in the second world war simply because they had no fleed ! but if the japanese would had a large fleed back then, and would not have stacked them together so the US could destroy nearly all of them ( battle at midway ) they would have been capable of transporting troops from island to island

[fastray72]

This question, more so why, is answered by the Japanese Admiral Yamamoto himself: "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." The second Amendment is the reason Japan did not invade mainland America. This is why we need to defend the 2nd amendment at all costs.

[SupaTROopa2]

im actually canadian so i dont know the admendments well, what is the 2nd one?

[fastray72]

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

[Wolffmanjackk]

The right to bear arms.. IE Guns.

A well armed society is a polite society. Its a shame that the second amendment has come under major attack..

[snowboredsnj]

It is the right to arm blades of grass with fire arms.

[Toddinfantry]

Outstanding!!  So right.

Semper Fi !

[UBiQproductions]

@fastray72

So true!

[captaincadavor]

@fastray72 AGREED!

[luvpump1]

@fastray72 So with nuclear weapons, who do you think is going to" Invade the US" ....America is a nation is decline ...

[Assaultpredator]

@fastray72

Personal Freedoms for the win.

[meggerhatter]

@fastray72 I am tired of reading such trash comments with their political bias. Listen Jethro, the reason Japan didn't invade the US is in this video, and the defeat at Midway. Does the fact the base at Hawaii still stood, the US Pacific fleet, or the impossible supply lines mean anything. No, in your 2nd amendment feeble brain, it is a bunch of unorganized inbreds in the bushes with shotguns. Really? Maybe if you knew how to use your Johnson, you wouldn't be looking for a substitute.

[fastray72]

@meggerhatter That quote was not from "Jethro", it is from an Admiral in the Japanese Navy, an Admiral that had studied the United States and it's people. This quote was discovered after the war in Japanese archives. It the reason we fought the Japanese at Guadalcanal, not in California. I’ve fought for my country and I much prefer having a country boy who can hit a rabbit at 100 yards with a .22 next to me than some left-wing liberal punk who can’t do anything but talk trash.

[Eye4Lites]

Amen to that!

Semper Fi!

[Vectorgrader]

@fastray72 Hmm. The Japanese wanted an imperial trading sphere, not rampant, nonstrategic conquest; America, like the British at Singapore, were simply a colonial adversary. Attacking the U.S. mainland would have been detrimental to Japanese aims of seizing resource areas, for its difficulty in taking. They had learned that lesson from China almost a decade before Pearl Harbour. Not everyone wants to invade America for the sake of it; do please stop waving politics in the good viewers' faces.

[rahulbond3m]

invading america? thats like over 7000 miles from japan.....they tried to invade small islands of midway and look what happened

[Toddinfantry]

@rahulbond3m  Yeah, and they invaded islands like Wake Atoll (captured), Guam (captured), Phillipines (captured) and on and on. Don't underestimate what the Japanese were capable of. Had we not had advance knowledge of the the task force heading to Midway, the whole war in the Pacific could have been very different.

[prodigiousbastard]

@fastray72 Even if they invaded the mainland they wouldn't stand a chance. There empire was logistically overextended, and it took alot of time and effort to supply every soldier around every piece of land that they conquered. They were already having a hard time with China, the British, and the Dutch.

[laxjoh]

@fastray72 Well another main reason is the simple fact that they did not have sufficient quantity of oil to fuel their battleships all the way across the Pacific towards the US mainland throughout an entire war. Pearl Harbor was one battle, one incident. With the oil embargo placed on Japan, there would be no way to "finance" their forces to fight in North America. And even if the 2nd amendment exists, most people would run and flee.

[SirReptitious]

@fastray72 While I fully support the 2nd amendment(I own a pistol and an AR-15), it is not a reason why Japan wouldn't have invaded the US. I can think of 4 that ARE valid though. Our population was much larger than theirs. Our country is HUGE(3,000 miles wide!). They would have had to have a huge supply line for such an invasion, and they just didn't have the resources. They were also already spreading themselves too thin by invading China and all of SE Asia

[zombiesoiree]

Man, those guys--Japanese and American--were savagely tough. That was an awful engagement. If the Japanese counter-attack had worked, we might have needed another six months to a year to gain a foothold or, worse, lost the entire war. Imagine if the Japanese had an aircraft carrier and better air support! I can't even imagine being stuck there. It must have been pure hell.

[lilwolf67]

They did have aircraft carriers.

[zombiesoiree]

Japanese "carriers" were light during the US invasion. They did not commit a significant carrier force to the Solomons. Most of their air forces were army-based.

[lilwolf67]

I stand corrected but i doubt that if we lost guadelcanal we would have lost the war.

[mehdan2]

It would've made the war longer, but Japan would definitely be eventually defeated.

PLUS both their naval and diplomatic codes were broken or constantly being broken...

[IJjung]

but logicaly, it's heaven for the japs

[ccx2009]

Almost the entire thing shown from the american perspective: no interviews with Japanese survivors, hardly any clips of Japanese men doing anything except being shot up, very little to humanise the other side. This HAS to be an american-made "documentary."

[jmburke89]

Thats because there were hardly any, if even any, Japanese survivors. They fought to the death. And the USMC accommodated them.

[zombiesoiree]

That's not true. Over 1000 Japanese were captured. Many more were withdrawn to other theaters. There are also diary accounts. It would have been interesting to see the Japanese side of the story.

[theawesomehuntsman]

didnt the japs attack the ships in harbor at guadalcanal and sink a few leaving the marines without support? i think thats what happened

[WindKun]

My grandfather beached Guadalcanal along with many other islands in the pacific theatre, he also fought in the korean war, the unrest in the dominican republic and trained troops for Viet Nam.

RIP First Sargent John "Striker" Lankesi

[mtp0202]

Midway is the turning point of the Pacific Theatre. Twenty minutes and four sunk Japanese Aircraft Carriers. The Japanese Army was lost without its support from the Japanese Navy. Don't forget the Aussies at Kokoda and Milne who first stopped the Japanese Army on land and pushed them back. Fact acknowledged by both British and American military sources.

[lionOFjudah33]

Thanks for uploading...Semper Fi!

[ele90]

Ooh Rah!!!

[FutureWarrior2006]

Thanks for uploading!

[pupentaco]

thank you for uploading! good footage! =)