The Pacific - Part 8 - Iwo Jima Beach Landing

HBO miniseries The Pacific

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[StonewallJackson26]

@cpreston5 That doesn't really make a difference. The Marines and the Navy conducted the most vital operations that brought down the empire of Japan.

China was in no situation to threaten Japan. Their Army had done nothing but retreat and delay since 38'. Midway, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa were the key battles that ended the Japanese Empire and destroyed state Shinto.

[cpreston5]

@j12torts No, the marines were a very small force, in a war of millions and millions. Their part in the war, in the big picture was very, very limited, the marines fought tens of thousands of Japanese troops. China fought hundreds of thousands of Japanese, the Soviets fought millions of Germans. The battles of the Pacific war, whilst very unique and interesting for myriad reasons, were fought on tiny specs of land by numbers of troops that China or Russia wouldn't even notice the loss of.

[BogotaDreamTV3]

@tokyodenjiman19xx I love your food and anime

[BogotaDreamTV3]

watching this I can't imagine the future battles between the Us and China

[carmium]

@misael1944 In case you are NOT ESL, let me point out that you misspelled biggest, battleship, Yamato, turrets, not, the, and American, plus you left out "what" the "american battelships" (sic) have on them. Can you spell "illiterate"?

[XSDX3R0]

not to take anything away from the chinese strategy but lets not forget how the delay strategy although did inflict a lot of japanese casualties...but how japan inflicted the amount of casualties on china in terms of civilian population and military...far exceeds. japan's army was a machine destroying everything until the entrance of the US forces into the war.

[StonewallJackson26]

Read up on some of the amazing Japanese Naval technology. We get so caught up in the talk over German armor, that we never realize other Axis technology. The Yamato battleship was the greatest in the world, they had a Navy that rivaled that of Britain's, and their soldiers were fearless.

The Japs had been winning battles in China where they were outnumbered sometimes 5 to 1.

[StonewallJackson26]

@cpreston5 If the Navy loses at Midway. The Pacific fleet is destroyed. That means the loss of air power in the Pacific. Which means the Japs could have focused their 50 big and small aircraft carriers against the coast of California, and they certainly would have advanced further into Alaska than just the Aleutian Islands. Now Alaska was a gold mine of oil.

Who knows what could have happened. You underestimate the Japs my friend.

[airmasquerade]

@StonewallJackson26

I know that Americans were proud of yourselves-- you absolutely deserve the pride.

You got superior weapons, strategies and still an excellent fighting spirit. We truly admire that a lot. I'm just saying that China had a different condition back in the

1930's so we chose a different way of fight. It was a good fight. Please don't take away

all the merit from Chinese soldiers by two big bombs. Peace ;)

[airmasquerade]

@StonewallJackson26

China was not that weak back in the 1930s. Delay was a good strategy-- just try to imagine the millions of tons of resource drained by logistic when the IJA traveled all the way on China's bad terrains under guerrilla threats. China to Japan was like Vietnam to the US Marines. How many Americans sacrificed in Nam? 58,000 good men. And how many Japanese soldiers got killed during the "delay" in China? 315,000 dead along with 502,000 wounded. C'mon!