hi i was wondering if anyone knew a website that has military records or documents of Guadalcanal because im am trying to find information on my grandfather who was in the 1st marine division and he says he was in M company on Guadalcanal so if anyone could help me find some information on him id be extremely thankful and im sure it would make him happy to see some old records and other things like that.
@t0ny0ngBayawak I've noticed a strong American influence on the Philippines, namely baseball and the electric chair of all things? I'm not being cheeky, just interested in the reasons.
@Noodles37UK Just like South Korea, Phillippines remained in good relations with the US through the Cold War. And it also helps as the US forces were one of the prominent forces that liberated the Philippines.
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?
@ricdeckard70 That's not a MP40, it's a variant of the Japanese Type 100 SMG, approx. 7000 of that variant made for the Rikusentai and the Imperial Parachute Regiment, designed and manufactured by the Nambu Arms Company. The scene at 7:49 is actual Japanese war stock footage, much of the other footage was taken by the Marine's own war correspondants, many of whom lost their lives in the Pacific theatre of WWII. A heartfelt thank you to all Marines past and present.
@ricdeckard70 It's not surprising, I've seen a History Channel version of the invasion of Normandy where U.S. soldiers have Russian Mosin Nagants. They make a lot of mistakes.
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For the Japanese, attacking Pearl Harbor was ultimately a tactical mistake. It gave the American people and soldiers a moral high ground, an angry desire for revenge and unity necessary to fight.
@salem hodson Basilone did not eliminate entire regiment! That's about 3,000 men. His weapon would have melted down. Just try to imagine how much ammo that would require and what a pile of brass would be left!
My Dad and uncle both were there on the light cruiser USS Atlanta, was sunk in a night battle off Guadalcanal. They spent a week on a beach in a fox hole waiting for a expected Japanese invasion... They all were heros
@salemhodson Again, please do some real research. Wiki can be edited and is well known for false info. By the way, 3,000 men is about a regiment. Basilone did not take out a regiment or 3,000 men. Amazing how a number can get so big. I will go back and reread, but if memory serves me correctly, there were just under 300 dead Japanese in front of Basilone's position. Still a very credible number of kills, although not all his.
japanese dont have navy today. thank god, if they had it, they would do few more banzai wars against world. they are better in making tv's, cars and toy's.
@drbogo321 The Japanease Maritime self defense force has a domestically built destroyer that is based on the American Arleigh Burke class. they also have a naval aviation branch.
@salemhodson Basilone DID NOT take out a whole regiment by himself...utter foolishness. Do some research and don't think "The Pacific" is a really good reference book or movie.
The problem with the Japanese army was that they could only rely on surprise attacks that could only last for a few months similar to the Russo-Japanese war. They were ill equipped for fighting long wars particularly since they were stretched thin throughout the islands China, Burma, Indonesia and Vietnam. They may have had the duty for battle but, unlike the Soviets, they lacked the industry and resources to stage such a war
I'm just reading John Toland's "Rise & fall of the Japanese Empire" & the Japs were actually outnumbered, starving, with no provisions & badly equipped. Kavaguchi didn't even know there was a ridge in front of Henderson field, but he thought they couldn't to go around it, 'coz they'll all die of starvation & sickness. Japanese soldiers named Guadalcanal Starving Island & they would lick the palms of their hands to taste the salt before dying. the Nips fought against odds
thats good because me being an aussie would have defended my country you slanty eyed wing wong ying yang if the japs made it to aust they would have slaughtered us but if there was a war today and some one invades aus JUST REMEMBER WE HAVE THE URANIAM WANT A NOTHER HIROSHIMA OR NAGASAKI
@xCh34pShOtx sure so u can just imagined what regard they had for other PPL's lives when they didn't have any for their OWN FA, it must a suprised the japanese a LOT when they found out americans were Not the poor defenceless chinese they could do to them whatever they wanted to n get away with it, this time they found out what is like to face a Real amry that was Not scared of them could outfox n out fight them all the way back to tokyo on land sea n air thy found out to their cost
@corrion1 the Japs were successful in frontal attacks alongside inflitration and envelopment tactics until they faced Australians in New Guinea and the Marines in Gaudalcanal where the extra firepower and determination to stay put and fight instead of falling back made a huge difference. The Japs refined their tactics in Malaya before they came to face the aussies and Marines.
@corrion1 : The Japenese didnt adapt to what was going on in the battle, they strictly followed orders, also when the Marines would land on any island, they got an idea of how many were on the island and they would send more men (always outnumbering the enemy)
@corrion1 But not against the Atomic bombs the japanese still fears the Atomic bombs i was in Japan 2009 "Studying Japanese war history" I asked one Random Japanese women i guess she might be 80 years old or so. I Asked about her perspective of the war. She answered she was a young back then i met an Marine Soldier.
She heard the broadcast of japans surrender after the first bomb she said that the japanese cried out for mercy and no more bombs. What they didnt know was that the americans.
That americans couldnt her the broadcast and one more bomb dropped. After the Peace contract was signed under on USS Missouri. Japan excuted Hideki Tojo. Thats from her perspective. But i doubt it may be wrong.
@corrion1 Moronic comment. They were very tough, well diciplined fighters with a unified combat doctrine. Respect is deserved for the soldiers in that situation however murderous the outcome.
They used that kind of shit when they know they're gonna lose, or instead of surrendering like a normal company would. That is why it was so hard to decide if we should even try a ground invasion
The japs got the whooping they deserved. Japs never once could beat American troops in battle.... and I'm not even a fan of america but have to admit this sad truth. KIll ratios of nips often were 20:1 in favor of the Marines.
im surprised they know about the no surrender tactics of the japanese if this was the first US offensive against them unless it was learned from survivors of the jap offensive?
My dad was there with the 2nd marine division ,machinegunner . He was in a fox hole with 3 other men, mortar shell hit them , my dad was the only 1 alive wounded was shipped to New Zealand .
My dad was there also. Was with the Americal Division of the Army. Made the mistake of volunteering, along with some hometown buddies, to drive trucks for the Marines. They transferred to the troop ship and were told there were no trucks.
He was issued a BAR and the next morning they all got on landing craft and hit the island. Was evacuated in January.
In his later years he told lots of stories, some funny, most not so much.
@7216sp are you sure about the 2d marine div.could he have been in 2d batallion of one of the 1st mar div. regiments.i did not know 2d mrn. div fought on the canal.i know the 2d mrn. div. took TARAWA.im not questioning your validity,just the 2d marine div being on guadal canal.im a vietnam vet.5th marines 1st Marine div.1968/69.
@0311RFLMN Semper Fi grunt!! The 2 MarDiv fielded elements of the 8th and 10th Marines on Guadalcanal, I believe it was sometime in Sept. that these units went ashore.
No....he is making a correct statement. The marines initially had a cakewalk taking the airfield after the workers fled into the jungle. After they lost Guad, the Japs started sending in poorly supplies troops to retake the airfield. By that time the Japs never had a chance to retake the airfield from marines who were well supplied and in prepared positions...
20,000 Jap troops? Maybe over the course of the entire battle but never at one time. I don't think they had more than 8000 at any one time. Since the marines had 16-20k men in prepared positions w/ tanks and pre-plotted artillary, the Japs never had a chance on the ground.
The Marines won some very decisive battles early on including the Tenaru river night attack and also in the ridges south of the airfield where the Marines were almost overrun. As the battle developed the Japanese decided to pull out and not reinforce.
When you're outnumber your opponent 3:1 or greater and are inflicting 10:1 and greater kill ratios it is not a close fight. The Japs had a chance to take some minor objectives near the airfield but they never had the men to take the airfield. Victory at Guad was won in the air and on the sea. To take the airfield the Japs would have needed 60,000 men to take on the 23,000 men the USA had. The Japs never had a chance to win Guad on land...
No luck involved. The USA had broken Jap codes and easily took the Guad. The Japs made several errors. 1. Not garrisoning troops of Guad. 2. Under estimating the number of marines. 3. Trying to take the island w/o having total control of the sea. 4. Continually sending in undersupplied troops in piecemeal. It didn't help that the Jap generals were terrible. Only the sea battles of Mikawa and Tanaka gave the Japs the illusion that they had the strength to retake the island.
Up to this point the Japanese decimated the western armies in the Philipines and Singapore. Guadalcanal marked the first time they fought against a modern combat unit.
Japanese hubris and faulty intel may have decided the fate of Guadalcanal before operations began, but the battle at Bloody Ridge was really the decisive land battle. The Japanese never came closer to victory than in September 1942.
Though I agree that the naval battles off the Cactus were what you can say really decided outcome
"easily took the Guad" - not really. Most landings were unopposed, it is true. But, there were dead Marines in the water when my dad landed. And the airfield changed hands many more times than "history" records, to the point that one morning a confused Japanese soldier was in a Marine chow line. And for two weeks a Christmas the Marines lived face down in the mud, the shelling was so intense. It was all about the airfield.
There is no evidence the Japs came even close to taking the airfield. None... Each battle the Japs took huge casualties in excess of 10:1 and greater. History was compiled from the 20k+ survivers of the battle. Your dad's memory differs from the other 20k+ survivers. Malaria and dysentary were a greater threat to the soldiers than the Japs. Once the Japs lost control of the seas near Guad, the land battle was a forgone conclusion... Starvation of Japs was the USA's most potent weapon.
no disrespect but i dont believe this was the "turning point" of the pacific. I am Australian and the first decisive japanese loss was fought on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea throughout 1942. the japanese eventually withdrew in late 1942 whilst the battle at guadalcanal was in its mid stages.
The reason it was pivotal was the airfield - which was to be used to bomb Australia. In addition, this was the first point in the war that the US was able to show its capabilities and ferocity.
You make a valid point however it was the battles at sea which determined the success of the land battles in the Pacific. The sea battles at Guad was a battle of attrition the Japs couldn't afford. The number of skilled pilots the Japs lost at Guad was crippling for them... After Guad, the Japs were playing defense and they had no hope of victory.
No disrespect from me either Mast, but the first decisive loss to the Japanese was at Wake Island. Even though they Japs finally took the island, their losses were extreme. After the battle Yamamoto was stunned by the losses, and his statement of "waking a sleeping giant", was proven by about 300 Marines and approx 1200 civilian contractors. This really shook the Jap leaders and confidence waned on the Jap side.
i like this battle cause i have landed on that air strip in the solomon is. as its now the international airport for the solomons. i have also been to the memorial hill overlooking all of Honiara
I think the Americans were very courageous and it really amazes me listening to stories from these old war vets that are still alive. I once got to see my friend's grandfather's uniform when I was an exchange studetn in the United States.. it was all nicely folded in this trunk and was given to him. I was just in a loss of words. Very cool and amazing
That was not Bushido--it was a modern perversion. The banzai charges etc were the result of 1920s doctrine in response to reductions in military budget. Most Japanese infantrymen didn't buy into it--they were scared of their COs. Hell, probably 10% or more of them were secretly communists.
I'm not going to justify the killing of non-combatants as you do. It's immoral no matter what the context. Besides, I fail to see what marines gained by torturing defenseless Japanese prisoners for fun.
I only reasoned why marines would want to kill POWs. While they did kill POWs, they still did not kill thousands of civilians for sport like the Japs did. You in fact justify the killing of POWs and civilians by argueing that the soldiers and their families back home would face punishment from disobeying orders. It is a hard choice to make, yet thousands of Jap troops chose to kill non-combatants so they would be spared the discipline of army officers.
My grandfather was there too. He was with Robert Lecke. There's someone playing my grandfather in HBO's The Pacific. the Asian theater version of Band of Brothers.
@ ozepaul. If people would read all points of WW@ history they would get very different perspectives. It was acknowledge by Field Marshall Slim the first place the Japanese were stopped was at Milne Bay. But I will always argue the most significant battle of the Pacific was Midway. No naval support, no infrastructure and that really hurt the Japanese Army as well.
Yeah. If you weren't white you were viewed as incompetent. But individuals from other races did fight admirably. One of the guys in that famous photo from Iwo Jima was a Navajo.
Not trying to start an argument or anything..but why isnt there any shows or history videos on the other races that fought in WWII? I haven't seen one that even cared to mention the black or native americans who fought..I understand they were seperate, but shouldn't at least someone give them some credit too? I mean seriously they fought just as hard and died for the country and yet apparently no one cares..
For the most part, black troops were relegated to segregated units and largely held out of front-line combat duties during WWII. They were mostly relegated to support units such as supply and logistics companies. It was a source of much frustration for the black community back then. There were major exceptions, such as the Tuskeegee Airmen, and it was outfits like that that helped pave the way for Truman to integrate the armed forces in 1948, three years after WWII ended.
As for native americans, there were many represented in the combat units of the various branches. There are many documentaries and dramas about both black and native american soldiers in WWII.
ee "The Tuskeegee Airmen", "Wind Talkers" or "Flags of Our Fathers" for examples of dramas. The documentaries are too numerous to count. Look up "Navajo Code Talkers" or "Ira Hayes" for leads on docos covering NA participation. As for native americans, there were many represented in the combat units of the various branches. There are many documentaries and dramas about both black and native american soldiers in WWII.
Japanese army invincible? actually it was the Japanese who think that the american were invincible. when the plan was drawn to the attack pearl harbor, General Yamamoto estimated that the American will recover it's fighting capability in as little as 6 month.
One of the reasons for that was because the Japanese had failed to take out the dry docks, ship repair centres and fuel stores that were essentially the strategic targets for Pearl. If they had decided to send in the 3rd wave of bambing runs, we would have seen a much closer view of the war of the pacific. And everyone would know where Victoria and Esquimalt were. LOL
@ dba7dba. Good point. Per capita, Australia mobilised more military men and women than any other allied country during WW2. Also during the last year of the war, a lot of Australian soldiers were demobilised to help on farms to feed the allied forces. But the American military didn't want them demobbed because they wanted quality soldiers to help them. In perspective Australia well and truly did its bit to help win the war.
The Germans surrendered when no more resistance would change the outcome of the battle. German army was a much more superior , better trained and better equipped force than the japanese. Only SS was a fanatical politically
driven force. German Army was just a super professional Army
... and yet the German Army in Northern Europe was spanked by a Finnish force less than 1/3 its size, and Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia bled them for years and even had a liberated provisional government in 1943. Neither force enjoyed significant aid. US invasion of the Jpn empire relied primarily on cutting over-stretched supply lines. An invasion of Japan itself would have gone quite differently, indeed.
Why the tyrans dont want the U.S troops to come home?.imagine 150.000 angry soldiers coming to their homes with weapons.tyrans & WHITEHOUSEWHORES will be very affraid of 2nd. Oklahoma style bombing & rebelion.tyrans,fascist WHITEHOUISEWHORES send them in land far away looking for WMD & there were none.Restoring peace & order to find out their own country of U.S & Israel who are planting bombs in market places,schools & killing doctors,teachers..etc. enjoy resistance..From Iraq..El Toro.
thanks KoLo2071 for posting these videos!! I am a big WWII fan. I like the Pacific theatre more than the European campaign. Although the Nazis were better equipped and more advanced, the Japanese were more disciplined,loyal, and fanatical. The Japanese rarely surrendered, the Germans surrendered in the millions!
Yah but the Germans only surrendered when there was no longer hope for victory. They fought just as stubbornly as the Japs but they were European Professional soldiers who believed in full-quartering for surrendering troops.
"they were European Professional soldiers who believed in full-quartering for surrendering troops."
Too bad they waited so long to surrender at Stalingrad. I dunno, one reason why the Japanese didn't like to surrender was that US marines would regularly shoot POWs. They surrendered much more easily to US army units, even requested this.
You have it the other way. Japanese in the past lived by Samurai code which means if you lose in a battle, your life is worthless. If you don't win, you should commit suicide. If you don't commit suicide after losing in battle, than you are coward that must be killed. So Japanese treated 'prisoners' with much much contempt and cruelty. Marines heard of this and they returned the favor. Never heard Japanese preferred surrendering to US army. Because marins usually went 1st?
Because the marines didn't want them to surrender to the army. Still, lots of Japanese units were held down by the army as marines moved forward into other strategic points. This comes from a G-2 document following Guadalcanal. Marine discipline improved towards the end, but at the beginning they were pretty much wiping their asses with the Geneva Code. Samurai code had nothing to do with it. Japanese troops were worried what the higher police would do to their families back home.
The Japs fought by their Bushido code which did not accept POWs. They regularly killed POWs. Ever hear of the Bataan Death March? The Japs killed hundreds of POWS (Brits, Aussies, Philipinos, and US troops)) only to send them to die in work camps. The Marines only killed POWs after they experienced the Bushido Code and saw what the Japs did to their comrades. Would you take a Jap POW who beheaded your friends for sport or cut off their genitalia and stuff if their mouth while still alive?
That was not Bushido--it was a modern perversion. The banzai charges etc were the result of 1920s doctrine in response to reductions in military budget. Most Japanese infantrymen didn't buy into it--they were scared of their COs. Hell, probably 10% or more of them were secretly communists.
I'm not going to justify the killing of non-combatants as you do. It's immoral no matter what the context. Besides, I fail to see what some marines gained by torturing defenseless Japanese prisoners for fun.
That was not Bushido--it was a modern perversion. The banzai charges etc were the result of 1920s doctrine in response to reductions in military budget. Most Japanese infantrymen didn't buy into it--they were scared of their COs. Hell, probably 10% or more of them were secretly communists.
I'm not going to justify the killing of non-combatants as you do. It's immoral no matter what the context. Besides, I fail to see what marines gained by torturing defenseless Japanese prisoners for fun.
What i do not understand about Japan is they were willing to do for their emperor yet they were cowards when it came to naval warfare. The ENTIRE time during the guadacanal campaign the Yamato was no more then 1000 miles from Guadacanal yet the Japanese were willing to toss away thousands of troops yet they were not willing to send in their super battleship in? Its not wonder they lost the war, the Yamato alone would of probably sunk the South Dakota and Washington if it replaced the Kirishima.
If you read one of my previous comments you will note what I think is the turning point of WW2. Who brought about this turning point?? The US Navy!!! If any fighting force had the most effect against the Japanese, it was the US Navy. Without their navy, the Japanese support infrastructure for their ground forces was gone. Each enclave of Japanese resistance was eventually crushed or very rarely forced to submission and surrender.
LOL - In the Empire Air Scheme that had Australian citizens in it flying in the air war against Germany, Aussies were involved in some of the most dangerous air raids. Also keep in mind per captia, Australia mobilised the most amount of fighting citizens then any other country. Also proportionaly we did more fighting than USA and mother England. USA showed up late for two World Wars, at least the Poms know how to start a fight. You blokes sit on the sideline and wait for half time.
The British Field Marshal Sir William Slim, who had no part in the battle, said:
"Australian troops had, at Milne Bay in New Guinea, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. If the Australians, in conditions very like ours, had done it, so could we. Some of us may forget that of all the Allies it was the Australian soldiers who first broke the spell of the invincibility of the Japanese Army; those of us who were in Burma have cause to remember."
As for great support at Kokoda. There wasn't much from USA until Aussie units push them back over the Owen Stanleys and started fighting at the northern beach heads, Bona Gona etc. American army units were refusing to fight. If you don't believe me, look up why General Douglas MacArthur ordered Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger "take Buna, or don't come back alive". True story!!! Remember I am not having a go at USA and I am very pro Australia - America Alliance.
Sorry to say, but I think you should break away from your mainstream history study up a a variety of sources. No Guadalcanal was not the first loss on land. Yes we didn't wholesale route the Japanese, but at Kokoda and Milne Bay we proved first they could be defeated and started to push them back. As for a massive blow to their confidence as Guadalcanal, the Japanese were that fanatical they made the German SS look a bunch of boy scouts.
The aussies didn't wholesale route the japanese. American army units gave a great deal of support to them on new guinea, and further up through the south pacific. American marines, on the other hand, defeated the japanese in around 4-5 months, and only needed reserve army units to mop up after they had been fighting from the very beginning.
crap fighting finished in feb 1943 but still had jap stragglers in north of the island. Read your history book mate the aussie coast watchers saved guadalcanal u guys fought there we told you when they were gunna attack
where do you get your bullshit info from mate you had no army left, first units werent ready till mid 1942. Tell me any battle where it took you 4/5 months to defeat the japs bar those pissy little islands like iwo jima, tarawa.
hi i was wondering if anyone knew a website that has military records or documents of Guadalcanal because im am trying to find information on my grandfather who was in the 1st marine division and he says he was in M company on Guadalcanal so if anyone could help me find some information on him id be extremely thankful and im sure it would make him happy to see some old records and other things like that.
Pauliebuck 3 hours ago
It's The Lost Evidence Drinking Game! Take a shot every time he mentions these "stunning high resolution photographs".
anadryantontine 3 weeks ago
My uncle was a Marine there
DD826 6 months ago
theres a MP40 in 7:4! Is it a Video of german Soldiers accidently placed into the Pacific documentary or did Japan actually import german weapons?
Gool349 6 months ago
@Gool349 The weapon at 7:41 is a Garand.
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i meant 7:45
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ginjaninja1988 3 months ago
this is pretty much the last time the springfield was used widely
JTelli786 7 months ago 3
When was America's first ground ebgagements WW2? I played Rising Sun and that was set Phillipines early '42?
Noodles37UK 8 months ago
@Noodles37UK that might be it coz' 6 hours after the attack on Pearl, the Japs had done air raids on some bases in the Philippines.
t0ny0ngBayawak 5 months ago
@t0ny0ngBayawak I've noticed a strong American influence on the Philippines, namely baseball and the electric chair of all things? I'm not being cheeky, just interested in the reasons.
Noodles37UK 5 months ago
@Noodles37UK Just like South Korea, Phillippines remained in good relations with the US through the Cold War. And it also helps as the US forces were one of the prominent forces that liberated the Philippines.
laxjoh 3 months ago
@laxjoh Cheers. The query stuck in my head for years.
Noodles37UK 3 months ago
@Noodles37UK Yeah, it is right.
Normacly 5 months ago
boring
beckiekristen123 8 months ago
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?
aziqbal 9 months ago
7.49 that jap soldier has a mp40 in his hand.
wtf.
bryanspijkers1995NL 9 months ago
@bryanspijkers1995NL
I saw that, lol
dragon3600000 8 months ago
@bryanspijkers1995NL Odd. Could be a different gun but it does look like an MP-40
Deathofblades 8 months ago
@ricdeckard70 That's not a MP40, it's a variant of the Japanese Type 100 SMG, approx. 7000 of that variant made for the Rikusentai and the Imperial Parachute Regiment, designed and manufactured by the Nambu Arms Company. The scene at 7:49 is actual Japanese war stock footage, much of the other footage was taken by the Marine's own war correspondants, many of whom lost their lives in the Pacific theatre of WWII. A heartfelt thank you to all Marines past and present.
northwi60 10 months ago
@northwi60 Its very clearly an MP40. It looks nothing like a Type 100. I am familiar with both weapons from frequent first hand experience.
ginjaninja1988 3 months ago
Let's have a look on the guy at 7:49 min. A japanese soldier armed with a german made MP40? A mistake in the equipment at this point of reenactment?
ricdeckard70 10 months ago
@ricdeckard70 It's not surprising, I've seen a History Channel version of the invasion of Normandy where U.S. soldiers have Russian Mosin Nagants. They make a lot of mistakes.
flydfan 9 months ago
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reddlocke 11 months ago
For the Japanese, attacking Pearl Harbor was ultimately a tactical mistake. It gave the American people and soldiers a moral high ground, an angry desire for revenge and unity necessary to fight.
Shrunkinskulls 11 months ago
800 Jap soldiers traded with 34 GIs. What a bunch of sucking losers !
kreuzerback1972 1 year ago
Hey, I noticed one of the Japanese soldiers was armed with an Mp40.
newmemberish 1 year ago
My grandfather's experience: ht...tp://ww...w.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/e6ora/what_were_your_grandparents_doing_during_ww2/
bugmewhen 1 year ago
Oh this shitty doco where they don't show a single recon image but instead just bullshit on the whole time with repetitive garbage.
mryellow123 1 year ago
i cant imagine the horror on that island, must have been really brutal.
My dad faught in Europe, in the underground resistance just like my grandfather.
I dont know much about the war in the pacific, they dont teach us much about that.
Just what happened in Europe
iwan1986 1 year ago
"by the time this war ends, japanese will be only spoken in hell"
USMCM249gunner 1 year ago
7:49 MP38/MP40 O_O WTF where did they get that???
StrikerSVKBF2 1 year ago
everytime a coconut fell, there was an eruption of fire lol
boipinoi604 1 year ago
lauftinant john BASILONE. they dont give you the medal of honor for notthing toddinfantry.
TheIcelandicPatriot 1 year ago
@TheIcelandicPatriot Basilone was not a lieutenant.
Eye4Lites 1 year ago
"If they want to die for their emperor, we will accommodate them."
The perfect sentence.
Arelak 1 year ago
@salem hodson Basilone did not eliminate entire regiment! That's about 3,000 men. His weapon would have melted down. Just try to imagine how much ammo that would require and what a pile of brass would be left!
drbogo321 1 year ago
My Dad and uncle both were there on the light cruiser USS Atlanta, was sunk in a night battle off Guadalcanal. They spent a week on a beach in a fox hole waiting for a expected Japanese invasion... They all were heros
eskrima1 1 year ago
@salemhodson Again, please do some real research. Wiki can be edited and is well known for false info. By the way, 3,000 men is about a regiment. Basilone did not take out a regiment or 3,000 men. Amazing how a number can get so big. I will go back and reread, but if memory serves me correctly, there were just under 300 dead Japanese in front of Basilone's position. Still a very credible number of kills, although not all his.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
japanese dont have navy today. thank god, if they had it, they would do few more banzai wars against world. they are better in making tv's, cars and toy's.
misteraxl1 1 year ago
@mister xl1 The Japanese do have a Navy. It's part of the Japanese Defense Force!
drbogo321 1 year ago
@drbogo321 The Japanease Maritime self defense force has a domestically built destroyer that is based on the American Arleigh Burke class. they also have a naval aviation branch.
kdraper2007 1 year ago
@salemhodson Basilone DID NOT take out a whole regiment by himself...utter foolishness. Do some research and don't think "The Pacific" is a really good reference book or movie.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
@salemhodson I think that a Kamikaze attack from the entire air force would be much, much more frightening. Holy shit the noise.
Failificationable 1 year ago
American kicks butt. Proud to be an American.
johneverready 1 year ago
The japs are good warriors and willing to fight to the death...we should re-arm japan and send them to get the Taliban...
awacs888 1 year ago
The problem with the Japanese army was that they could only rely on surprise attacks that could only last for a few months similar to the Russo-Japanese war. They were ill equipped for fighting long wars particularly since they were stretched thin throughout the islands China, Burma, Indonesia and Vietnam. They may have had the duty for battle but, unlike the Soviets, they lacked the industry and resources to stage such a war
alexiaNBC 1 year ago
hey guys is that japanese guy at 7:43 look like hes holding a mp40 ?
DamnedInBlack92 1 year ago
My father was on the USS Atlanta. After she was sunk Nov 13 he (wounded) wound up in a Fox hole for two weeks along side marines on Guadalcanal
eskrima1 1 year ago
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stipicaradic 1 year ago 2
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I'm just reading John Toland's "Rise & fall of the Japanese Empire" & the Japs were actually outnumbered, starving, with no provisions & badly equipped. Kavaguchi didn't even know there was a ridge in front of Henderson field, but he thought they couldn't to go around it, 'coz they'll all die of starvation & sickness. Japanese soldiers named Guadalcanal Starving Island & they would lick the palms of their hands to taste the salt before dying. the Nips fought against odds
stipicaradic 1 year ago 6
Awesome show yesterday, I just watched it again online at lastnightstvshows (.) com
harmoniouspulp40 1 year ago
mad respect to both Japanese, AND Americans. I could never imagine what those islands must have been like..
Bhousm76 1 year ago 7
Unfortunately, Japan lost the airfield on the 1st day of the battle. Otherwise, we could have driven those yanks back.
YamamotoForever 1 year ago
@YamamotoForever maybe they shouldnt have lost the airfield.
paulinotou 1 year ago
thats good because me being an aussie would have defended my country you slanty eyed wing wong ying yang if the japs made it to aust they would have slaughtered us but if there was a war today and some one invades aus JUST REMEMBER WE HAVE THE URANIAM WANT A NOTHER HIROSHIMA OR NAGASAKI
samspiderpig0 1 year ago
thanks for uploading these videos!!!
NeguevXXI 1 year ago
during that time children and adults were taught of emperor worship, the emperor is considered as God, Hideki Tojo was a scape goat.
mikaeloisa 1 year ago
if i went to war, i would expect i would be the one blown open, shot or stabed. i would in way expect to live, if i went i would expect not to return
SupaTROopa2 1 year ago
@SupaTROopa2 whaat..?
Reality9O 1 year ago
@Reality9O uhhhhh i have no idea, i cant find my comment, what did i say. it was also like 10months ago :S
SupaTROopa2 1 year ago
if the japanese had actually used tactics not involving suicide attacks they might have stood a chance against the marines
corrion1 1 year ago 30
@corrion1 True, had the emperor not encouraged them to be suicidal, I'm sure they would have fought harder.
xCh34pShOtx 1 year ago
it wasn't the emperor, it was the military leader, Hideki Tojo
cdh513 1 year ago
@cdh513 They killed themselves FOR the emperor...
xCh34pShOtx 1 year ago
@xCh34pShOtx sure so u can just imagined what regard they had for other PPL's lives when they didn't have any for their OWN FA, it must a suprised the japanese a LOT when they found out americans were Not the poor defenceless chinese they could do to them whatever they wanted to n get away with it, this time they found out what is like to face a Real amry that was Not scared of them could outfox n out fight them all the way back to tokyo on land sea n air thy found out to their cost
polygamous1 1 year ago
@corrion1 the Japs were successful in frontal attacks alongside inflitration and envelopment tactics until they faced Australians in New Guinea and the Marines in Gaudalcanal where the extra firepower and determination to stay put and fight instead of falling back made a huge difference. The Japs refined their tactics in Malaya before they came to face the aussies and Marines.
thar777 1 year ago
@corrion1
suicide attacks should be resorted at Tokyo. they were really not clever about this.
JinKazama92 1 year ago
@corrion1 : The Japenese didnt adapt to what was going on in the battle, they strictly followed orders, also when the Marines would land on any island, they got an idea of how many were on the island and they would send more men (always outnumbering the enemy)
BeaukLynch 1 year ago
@corrion1 But not against the Atomic bombs the japanese still fears the Atomic bombs i was in Japan 2009 "Studying Japanese war history" I asked one Random Japanese women i guess she might be 80 years old or so. I Asked about her perspective of the war. She answered she was a young back then i met an Marine Soldier.
She heard the broadcast of japans surrender after the first bomb she said that the japanese cried out for mercy and no more bombs. What they didnt know was that the americans.
Ncnk1 1 year ago
@Ncnk1 Edit: She met a Marine Soldier back then
That americans couldnt her the broadcast and one more bomb dropped. After the Peace contract was signed under on USS Missouri. Japan excuted Hideki Tojo. Thats from her perspective. But i doubt it may be wrong.
Ncnk1 1 year ago
@corrion1 Moronic comment. They were very tough, well diciplined fighters with a unified combat doctrine. Respect is deserved for the soldiers in that situation however murderous the outcome.
mryellow123 1 year ago
@corrion1 i was thinking the same thing
ssung1988 1 year ago
@corrion1
They used that kind of shit when they know they're gonna lose, or instead of surrendering like a normal company would. That is why it was so hard to decide if we should even try a ground invasion
Assaultpredator 11 months ago
The japs got the whooping they deserved. Japs never once could beat American troops in battle.... and I'm not even a fan of america but have to admit this sad truth. KIll ratios of nips often were 20:1 in favor of the Marines.
ScaredPiglet 1 year ago
im surprised they know about the no surrender tactics of the japanese if this was the first US offensive against them unless it was learned from survivors of the jap offensive?
innit27 1 year ago
My dad was there with the 2nd marine division ,machinegunner . He was in a fox hole with 3 other men, mortar shell hit them , my dad was the only 1 alive wounded was shipped to New Zealand .
7216sp 1 year ago 33
My dad was there also. Was with the Americal Division of the Army. Made the mistake of volunteering, along with some hometown buddies, to drive trucks for the Marines. They transferred to the troop ship and were told there were no trucks.
He was issued a BAR and the next morning they all got on landing craft and hit the island. Was evacuated in January.
In his later years he told lots of stories, some funny, most not so much.
stephengrass820 1 year ago 2
@7216sp Similar stories. My dad had many similar experiences. God bless 'em all.
stephengrass820 1 year ago
@7216sp are you sure about the 2d marine div.could he have been in 2d batallion of one of the 1st mar div. regiments.i did not know 2d mrn. div fought on the canal.i know the 2d mrn. div. took TARAWA.im not questioning your validity,just the 2d marine div being on guadal canal.im a vietnam vet.5th marines 1st Marine div.1968/69.
0311RFLMN 1 year ago
@0311RFLMN Semper Fi grunt!! The 2 MarDiv fielded elements of the 8th and 10th Marines on Guadalcanal, I believe it was sometime in Sept. that these units went ashore.
Thank you for your service.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
@7216sp
Hope he made the most of it.
Glad to hear he has a son
Assaultpredator 11 months ago
Imagine the terrain,insects and the wheater climate those were the real enemy
redstar213la 1 year ago
I would have craped in my pants.
God Bless these brave men.
the82spartans 1 year ago
There were only a few hundred Japanese construction workers. Those yanks were lucky.
YamamotoForever 2 years ago
If you are saying that Guadalcanal was defended by only a few hundred construction workers - you are making a false statement.
SirKnightErrant 1 year ago
No....he is making a correct statement. The marines initially had a cakewalk taking the airfield after the workers fled into the jungle. After they lost Guad, the Japs started sending in poorly supplies troops to retake the airfield. By that time the Japs never had a chance to retake the airfield from marines who were well supplied and in prepared positions...
nlpjohn 1 year ago
I believe that there were eventually more than 20,000 Japanese troops on the island.
They made their own luck.
ednj1 1 year ago
20,000 Jap troops? Maybe over the course of the entire battle but never at one time. I don't think they had more than 8000 at any one time. Since the marines had 16-20k men in prepared positions w/ tanks and pre-plotted artillary, the Japs never had a chance on the ground.
nlpjohn 1 year ago
The Marines won some very decisive battles early on including the Tenaru river night attack and also in the ridges south of the airfield where the Marines were almost overrun. As the battle developed the Japanese decided to pull out and not reinforce.
ednj1 1 year ago
When you're outnumber your opponent 3:1 or greater and are inflicting 10:1 and greater kill ratios it is not a close fight. The Japs had a chance to take some minor objectives near the airfield but they never had the men to take the airfield. Victory at Guad was won in the air and on the sea. To take the airfield the Japs would have needed 60,000 men to take on the 23,000 men the USA had. The Japs never had a chance to win Guad on land...
nlpjohn 1 year ago
No luck involved. The USA had broken Jap codes and easily took the Guad. The Japs made several errors. 1. Not garrisoning troops of Guad. 2. Under estimating the number of marines. 3. Trying to take the island w/o having total control of the sea. 4. Continually sending in undersupplied troops in piecemeal. It didn't help that the Jap generals were terrible. Only the sea battles of Mikawa and Tanaka gave the Japs the illusion that they had the strength to retake the island.
nlpjohn 1 year ago
Up to this point the Japanese decimated the western armies in the Philipines and Singapore. Guadalcanal marked the first time they fought against a modern combat unit.
Japanese hubris and faulty intel may have decided the fate of Guadalcanal before operations began, but the battle at Bloody Ridge was really the decisive land battle. The Japanese never came closer to victory than in September 1942.
Though I agree that the naval battles off the Cactus were what you can say really decided outcome
t3magtoto 1 year ago
"easily took the Guad" - not really. Most landings were unopposed, it is true. But, there were dead Marines in the water when my dad landed. And the airfield changed hands many more times than "history" records, to the point that one morning a confused Japanese soldier was in a Marine chow line. And for two weeks a Christmas the Marines lived face down in the mud, the shelling was so intense. It was all about the airfield.
stephengrass820 1 year ago
There is no evidence the Japs came even close to taking the airfield. None... Each battle the Japs took huge casualties in excess of 10:1 and greater. History was compiled from the 20k+ survivers of the battle. Your dad's memory differs from the other 20k+ survivers. Malaria and dysentary were a greater threat to the soldiers than the Japs. Once the Japs lost control of the seas near Guad, the land battle was a forgone conclusion... Starvation of Japs was the USA's most potent weapon.
nlpjohn 1 year ago 2
For all the Axis soldiers in the WW2,
I hate Japanese Soldiers the most.
ojtero 2 years ago
This was the battle that severly weakened the Japanese and started a chain of defeats for them.
Matt52493 2 years ago
no disrespect but i dont believe this was the "turning point" of the pacific. I am Australian and the first decisive japanese loss was fought on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea throughout 1942. the japanese eventually withdrew in late 1942 whilst the battle at guadalcanal was in its mid stages.
Mast3rDisast3r 2 years ago
The reason it was pivotal was the airfield - which was to be used to bomb Australia. In addition, this was the first point in the war that the US was able to show its capabilities and ferocity.
SirKnightErrant 1 year ago
You make a valid point however it was the battles at sea which determined the success of the land battles in the Pacific. The sea battles at Guad was a battle of attrition the Japs couldn't afford. The number of skilled pilots the Japs lost at Guad was crippling for them... After Guad, the Japs were playing defense and they had no hope of victory.
nlpjohn 1 year ago 2
i agree US aircraft help destroy jap convoys headed to New Guinea so it was a joint victory.
Mast3rDisast3r 1 year ago
No disrespect from me either Mast, but the first decisive loss to the Japanese was at Wake Island. Even though they Japs finally took the island, their losses were extreme. After the battle Yamamoto was stunned by the losses, and his statement of "waking a sleeping giant", was proven by about 300 Marines and approx 1200 civilian contractors. This really shook the Jap leaders and confidence waned on the Jap side.
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heavens scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.
MrWiseguy91 2 years ago 2
i like this battle cause i have landed on that air strip in the solomon is. as its now the international airport for the solomons. i have also been to the memorial hill overlooking all of Honiara
joshbanford 2 years ago
i like this battle because my grandpa was in this battle no joke!!!
uloveis1st 2 years ago
I think the Americans were very courageous and it really amazes me listening to stories from these old war vets that are still alive. I once got to see my friend's grandfather's uniform when I was an exchange studetn in the United States.. it was all nicely folded in this trunk and was given to him. I was just in a loss of words. Very cool and amazing
DaCosmicCat 2 years ago 2
That was not Bushido--it was a modern perversion. The banzai charges etc were the result of 1920s doctrine in response to reductions in military budget. Most Japanese infantrymen didn't buy into it--they were scared of their COs. Hell, probably 10% or more of them were secretly communists.
I'm not going to justify the killing of non-combatants as you do. It's immoral no matter what the context. Besides, I fail to see what marines gained by torturing defenseless Japanese prisoners for fun.
zombiesoiree 2 years ago
I only reasoned why marines would want to kill POWs. While they did kill POWs, they still did not kill thousands of civilians for sport like the Japs did. You in fact justify the killing of POWs and civilians by argueing that the soldiers and their families back home would face punishment from disobeying orders. It is a hard choice to make, yet thousands of Jap troops chose to kill non-combatants so they would be spared the discipline of army officers.
Dbackfed 2 years ago
my grampa faut in quadal canal
godzillaairsoft 2 years ago
my grandfather was there too...first marine division. He said they were just 'canon fadder.'
Lunkanp 2 years ago
My grandfather was there too. He was with Robert Lecke. There's someone playing my grandfather in HBO's The Pacific. the Asian theater version of Band of Brothers.
buffalonian88 2 years ago
i wsh there are video games on this
worldbattle39 2 years ago
Call of Duty 5 would be the closest game i can think of
jamesjcg 2 years ago
Battlefield 1943
Back2BackJack 2 years ago
Try pacific Assault
vidsfan2009 2 years ago
i never got into pc games
worldbattle39 2 years ago
worldbattle the closest is medal of honor pacific assault. which the game actually have a campaign for Guadalcanal.
redchaosdragon1 2 years ago
Hi! =D
DereKincaid 2 years ago
I think ozepaul we are agreeing on the same thing. Milne Bay was fought by Aussies. Have a look, that is the point I have been trying to make!!!
mtp0202 2 years ago
@ ozepaul. If people would read all points of WW@ history they would get very different perspectives. It was acknowledge by Field Marshall Slim the first place the Japanese were stopped was at Milne Bay. But I will always argue the most significant battle of the Pacific was Midway. No naval support, no infrastructure and that really hurt the Japanese Army as well.
mtp0202 2 years ago
Champ first army to defeat the nips on land was the aussies which was in early 42 miday happened in june 4 1942
ozepaul 2 years ago
Yeah. If you weren't white you were viewed as incompetent. But individuals from other races did fight admirably. One of the guys in that famous photo from Iwo Jima was a Navajo.
TheFlarbar 2 years ago
Not trying to start an argument or anything..but why isnt there any shows or history videos on the other races that fought in WWII? I haven't seen one that even cared to mention the black or native americans who fought..I understand they were seperate, but shouldn't at least someone give them some credit too? I mean seriously they fought just as hard and died for the country and yet apparently no one cares..
Hamptoncltn 2 years ago
For the most part, black troops were relegated to segregated units and largely held out of front-line combat duties during WWII. They were mostly relegated to support units such as supply and logistics companies. It was a source of much frustration for the black community back then. There were major exceptions, such as the Tuskeegee Airmen, and it was outfits like that that helped pave the way for Truman to integrate the armed forces in 1948, three years after WWII ended.
bryantay11 2 years ago
As for native americans, there were many represented in the combat units of the various branches. There are many documentaries and dramas about both black and native american soldiers in WWII.
bryantay11 2 years ago
ee "The Tuskeegee Airmen", "Wind Talkers" or "Flags of Our Fathers" for examples of dramas. The documentaries are too numerous to count. Look up "Navajo Code Talkers" or "Ira Hayes" for leads on docos covering NA participation. As for native americans, there were many represented in the combat units of the various branches. There are many documentaries and dramas about both black and native american soldiers in WWII.
bryantay11 2 years ago
I see...ok thanks
Hamptoncltn 2 years ago
Japanese army invincible? actually it was the Japanese who think that the american were invincible. when the plan was drawn to the attack pearl harbor, General Yamamoto estimated that the American will recover it's fighting capability in as little as 6 month.
phadil 2 years ago
they had basically blitz'd across the pacific.
dubendorfy 2 years ago
One of the reasons for that was because the Japanese had failed to take out the dry docks, ship repair centres and fuel stores that were essentially the strategic targets for Pearl. If they had decided to send in the 3rd wave of bambing runs, we would have seen a much closer view of the war of the pacific. And everyone would know where Victoria and Esquimalt were. LOL
VanIsleNuckFan 2 years ago
In Yamamoto's words I think we have awoken a sleeping giant.
ozepaul 2 years ago
thought it was sleeping bear
Hotwheelsonfire 2 years ago
i think the movie the thin red line is based on this intense battle
crapcake101 2 years ago
the thin red line is the korean war i think. not sure though
EReamer 2 years ago
"The thin red line" is based on the Guadalcanal Battle, you're right.
joemarket700 2 years ago
Was Guadalcanal before or after the Kokoda campaign?
gnarkillkicksass 2 years ago
started before, ended after
legomaster101 2 years ago
kokoda was first dip shit. Kokoda feb 42 guadalcanal mid 42
ozepaul 2 years ago
that night.
BlackBirdZGTR 2 years ago
@ dba7dba. Good point. Per capita, Australia mobilised more military men and women than any other allied country during WW2. Also during the last year of the war, a lot of Australian soldiers were demobilised to help on farms to feed the allied forces. But the American military didn't want them demobbed because they wanted quality soldiers to help them. In perspective Australia well and truly did its bit to help win the war.
mtp0202 2 years ago
Too right not to mention we were all volunteer soldiers. We were also the first army to defeat the germans in WW2 @ Tobruk..
ozepaul 2 years ago
jmburke....full quarter bullshit.
LAND37 2 years ago
to elwin38
The Germans surrendered when no more resistance would change the outcome of the battle. German army was a much more superior , better trained and better equipped force than the japanese. Only SS was a fanatical politically
driven force. German Army was just a super professional Army
UrielWN 2 years ago
@UrielWN:
... and yet the German Army in Northern Europe was spanked by a Finnish force less than 1/3 its size, and Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia bled them for years and even had a liberated provisional government in 1943. Neither force enjoyed significant aid. US invasion of the Jpn empire relied primarily on cutting over-stretched supply lines. An invasion of Japan itself would have gone quite differently, indeed.
zombiesoiree 2 years ago
hey we got dragged into both wars so shut up!
theawesomehuntsman 2 years ago
Why the tyrans dont want the U.S troops to come home?.imagine 150.000 angry soldiers coming to their homes with weapons.tyrans & WHITEHOUSEWHORES will be very affraid of 2nd. Oklahoma style bombing & rebelion.tyrans,fascist WHITEHOUISEWHORES send them in land far away looking for WMD & there were none.Restoring peace & order to find out their own country of U.S & Israel who are planting bombs in market places,schools & killing doctors,teachers..etc. enjoy resistance..From Iraq..El Toro.
bull9stud 2 years ago
thanks KoLo2071 for posting these videos!! I am a big WWII fan. I like the Pacific theatre more than the European campaign. Although the Nazis were better equipped and more advanced, the Japanese were more disciplined,loyal, and fanatical. The Japanese rarely surrendered, the Germans surrendered in the millions!
elwin38 2 years ago
Yah but the Germans only surrendered when there was no longer hope for victory. They fought just as stubbornly as the Japs but they were European Professional soldiers who believed in full-quartering for surrendering troops.
jmburke89 2 years ago
"they were European Professional soldiers who believed in full-quartering for surrendering troops."
Too bad they waited so long to surrender at Stalingrad. I dunno, one reason why the Japanese didn't like to surrender was that US marines would regularly shoot POWs. They surrendered much more easily to US army units, even requested this.
zombiesoiree 2 years ago
@zombiesoiree,
You have it the other way. Japanese in the past lived by Samurai code which means if you lose in a battle, your life is worthless. If you don't win, you should commit suicide. If you don't commit suicide after losing in battle, than you are coward that must be killed. So Japanese treated 'prisoners' with much much contempt and cruelty. Marines heard of this and they returned the favor. Never heard Japanese preferred surrendering to US army. Because marins usually went 1st?
dba7dba 2 years ago
Because the marines didn't want them to surrender to the army. Still, lots of Japanese units were held down by the army as marines moved forward into other strategic points. This comes from a G-2 document following Guadalcanal. Marine discipline improved towards the end, but at the beginning they were pretty much wiping their asses with the Geneva Code. Samurai code had nothing to do with it. Japanese troops were worried what the higher police would do to their families back home.
zombiesoiree 2 years ago
WRONG
The Japs fought by their Bushido code which did not accept POWs. They regularly killed POWs. Ever hear of the Bataan Death March? The Japs killed hundreds of POWS (Brits, Aussies, Philipinos, and US troops)) only to send them to die in work camps. The Marines only killed POWs after they experienced the Bushido Code and saw what the Japs did to their comrades. Would you take a Jap POW who beheaded your friends for sport or cut off their genitalia and stuff if their mouth while still alive?
Dbackfed 2 years ago
That was not Bushido--it was a modern perversion. The banzai charges etc were the result of 1920s doctrine in response to reductions in military budget. Most Japanese infantrymen didn't buy into it--they were scared of their COs. Hell, probably 10% or more of them were secretly communists.
I'm not going to justify the killing of non-combatants as you do. It's immoral no matter what the context. Besides, I fail to see what some marines gained by torturing defenseless Japanese prisoners for fun.
zombiesoiree 2 years ago
A POW is a man who tries to kill you and fails, then asks you not to kill him. - Churchill
Back2BackJack 2 years ago
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That was not Bushido--it was a modern perversion. The banzai charges etc were the result of 1920s doctrine in response to reductions in military budget. Most Japanese infantrymen didn't buy into it--they were scared of their COs. Hell, probably 10% or more of them were secretly communists.
I'm not going to justify the killing of non-combatants as you do. It's immoral no matter what the context. Besides, I fail to see what marines gained by torturing defenseless Japanese prisoners for fun.
zombiesoiree 2 years ago
What i do not understand about Japan is they were willing to do for their emperor yet they were cowards when it came to naval warfare. The ENTIRE time during the guadacanal campaign the Yamato was no more then 1000 miles from Guadacanal yet the Japanese were willing to toss away thousands of troops yet they were not willing to send in their super battleship in? Its not wonder they lost the war, the Yamato alone would of probably sunk the South Dakota and Washington if it replaced the Kirishima.
BlackBirdZGTR 2 years ago 2
"if they want to die for thier emporer, we'll accomidate them."
CaptainAmerica322 2 years ago
If you had to fight where would you choose to be? The Jungle, the desert, or a wintery, cold forest? I'd rather be in the cold forest.
RedHilariousComments 2 years ago 3
If you read one of my previous comments you will note what I think is the turning point of WW2. Who brought about this turning point?? The US Navy!!! If any fighting force had the most effect against the Japanese, it was the US Navy. Without their navy, the Japanese support infrastructure for their ground forces was gone. Each enclave of Japanese resistance was eventually crushed or very rarely forced to submission and surrender.
mtp0202 3 years ago 2
LOL - In the Empire Air Scheme that had Australian citizens in it flying in the air war against Germany, Aussies were involved in some of the most dangerous air raids. Also keep in mind per captia, Australia mobilised the most amount of fighting citizens then any other country. Also proportionaly we did more fighting than USA and mother England. USA showed up late for two World Wars, at least the Poms know how to start a fight. You blokes sit on the sideline and wait for half time.
mtp0202 3 years ago 2
@mtp0202,
sure sure. who supplied the rest of the world to fight on?
dba7dba 2 years ago
The British Field Marshal Sir William Slim, who had no part in the battle, said:
"Australian troops had, at Milne Bay in New Guinea, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. If the Australians, in conditions very like ours, had done it, so could we. Some of us may forget that of all the Allies it was the Australian soldiers who first broke the spell of the invincibility of the Japanese Army; those of us who were in Burma have cause to remember."
mtp0202 3 years ago 2
As for great support at Kokoda. There wasn't much from USA until Aussie units push them back over the Owen Stanleys and started fighting at the northern beach heads, Bona Gona etc. American army units were refusing to fight. If you don't believe me, look up why General Douglas MacArthur ordered Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger "take Buna, or don't come back alive". True story!!! Remember I am not having a go at USA and I am very pro Australia - America Alliance.
mtp0202 3 years ago 2
Aussies Blow Balls, were it not for the sacrifices of Allied troops from Britian and The United States the Aussies would be a Japanese slave state.
headlicetonight 3 years ago
is that so?
Mo0nBugGy1 2 years ago
Bullshit
ozepaul 2 years ago
fuck you american dickhead you know shit about the wars.
ozepaul 2 years ago
Sorry to say, but I think you should break away from your mainstream history study up a a variety of sources. No Guadalcanal was not the first loss on land. Yes we didn't wholesale route the Japanese, but at Kokoda and Milne Bay we proved first they could be defeated and started to push them back. As for a massive blow to their confidence as Guadalcanal, the Japanese were that fanatical they made the German SS look a bunch of boy scouts.
mtp0202 3 years ago
The aussies didn't wholesale route the japanese. American army units gave a great deal of support to them on new guinea, and further up through the south pacific. American marines, on the other hand, defeated the japanese in around 4-5 months, and only needed reserve army units to mop up after they had been fighting from the very beginning.
ramberghini 3 years ago 2
crap fighting finished in feb 1943 but still had jap stragglers in north of the island. Read your history book mate the aussie coast watchers saved guadalcanal u guys fought there we told you when they were gunna attack
ozepaul 2 years ago
where do you get your bullshit info from mate you had no army left, first units werent ready till mid 1942. Tell me any battle where it took you 4/5 months to defeat the japs bar those pissy little islands like iwo jima, tarawa.
ozepaul 2 years ago
Midway is the tu