WW II : RARE COLOR FILM : GUADALCANAL : MARINE'S HOME MOVIE

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Prabhupada: Hmm. That is going on. The great two wars began from Europe simply on this basis. The German and Englishmen. The Englishmen, by their colonization, they made the whole world red in the map. Africa and Asia, India and America, Canada. And the Germans thought, "So this shopkeepers' nation..." Hitler used to say "shopkeepers' nation." "How they have occupied the whole world, and we are so intelligent? We are manufacturing so many things. We have no market to sell." That is the cause of the two great wars. This is a fact. Anyone, any politician, any gentleman knows what was the cause. The cause was Germany is always envious of England. Why this enviousness? Because England wants to lord it over, send Lord Clive to India to exploit. And the German wants that "We have got so many things manufactured. We cannot sell." That is the cause of war: lord it over. Everyone is trying to lord it over. The whole economic situation. Everyone is trying to become "the lord of all I survey." Yes. "In the lower stage of human civilization, there is always competition to lord it over the material nature..." That is the lowest stage of human civilization. But that is passing on as the highest stage of... Anyone who has developed to how to exploit the resources of nature, that nation is called to be very highly civilized or advanced. But that is the lowest stage of civilization. Everyone is trying to make economic development by exploiting the world--digging the earth, the mines, the... This is lowest stage, just like animal civilization.

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[medmond6]

@panthercreek60 I agree - clip not of the Canal.

[DD826]

@1961sd ditto that, the Aussies have always been there when it counted. My uncle was a Marine at that landing.

[panthercreek60]

@thecubanism I agree. it was the British in the Burma Theatre that held so many Japanese in place & away from the South Pacific islands. Our brave comrades from the British Isles are always being forgotten in this war.It is a pure shame. George McDonald Fraser has written a very good account of that particular bloody war titled "Quartered Safe Out Here" from Kipling's Gunga Din.

[panthercreek60]

I humbly submit that these videos are not from the Guadalcanal campaigne. The USMC didn't have tracked amphibiius vehicles in 1942, nor did they have camouflage netting for their helmets. Also, most Marines landed carrying only the bolt action 1903 Springfield or the .45 Reising. These Marines seem to be far better equipped for the time. By 1943-44 this had all changed, of course. Perhaps this is another of numerous island conquests that took place after 1942

[windsofchange345]

@acoyrazorback After the Japanese invasion on 8 December 1941 of Hong Kong,The Royal Rifles of Canada and The Winnipeg Grenadiers were there. They lost, but I think Canadians, were the first allied nation to see land battles with Japan, I could be wrong, I'm not a Canadian, but I can pick up a book.

[acoyrazorback]

@Apteryxrules Hmm best you do some more reading may I suggest Kokoda Peter Fitzsimmons is a good start.

[thecubanism]

Why is there no film of us lads in Malaya, as a National Serviceman in that part of the world we seem to be ignored, as do my mates,dead and alive, Burma the forgotten army, WHAT ABOUT US.

[thecubanism]

What I have never understood is why there is so little film of the allied landings given that there were so many cameramen on hand, all we see are the same old pictures of the invasion, incidentally, the greatest invasion in the history of the world but not very well covered, could it be that all these great cameramen bottled out?

[Apteryxrules]

@acoyrazorback Not quite. Not quite. Despite numerical superiority the Australians found themselves being forced back till the Japanese were within some 50km of Port Moresby. It was the Battle for Guadalcanal that changed matters. In order to defeat the Americans on Guadalcanal the Japanese could not continue support for the ongoing offensive on the Kokoda Track. Just a footnote. The Japanese remained in Papua until the war.