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Shouldn't it actually be the US 8th Army fighting for Manilla or at least in control of the 11th Airborne division? The US 8th army doesn't really do much in this war but follow the 6th Army around and clean up in places but it they don't get talked about in Luzon they probably won't be mentioned in this series. The US 8th Army will become very important for the Korean War series the team is working on. I know the US 10th Army will get coverage during Okinawa and hopefully the US 15th Army will get mentioned soon.
@@USSChicago-pl2fq Lol now that you said that I'm thinking that also! Never thought it looked like an icecream cone either until Indy said that either.
I am looking forward to April 1, 1945. My Dad was part of the invasion force. He appeared in one of the newsreels. He was riding a tank and his mother saw him and recognized him. She was watching the newsreel in Quincy, IL and she yelled "That's my son!" The projectionist stopped the film and rolled it back several times so she could see it. I can only imagine how she felt, seeing her son alive and well.
Another sidenote this week on February 17 1945 is that Lieutenant Prakash Singh will be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in battle. Despite being wounded in both ankles and then hit in both legs, Lieutenant Singh dragged himself around the battlefield to direct his troops against a Japanese force in Burma. Even when hit again and mortally wounded, he inspired his men to victory by shouting their traditional Dogra war cry until he died.
The Indians are among the most valiant of the unsung heroes of both world wars, fighting with distinction and valor in every engagement. God bless the Indians both then and today, the rising superstars of the world.
Not to be confused with Lieutenant Parkash Singh who also was awarded the VC though not posthumously and in 1943. How coincidental that two men with almost the same name got the same award in the same war for two separate acts of heroism
@@AzhiniI mean, in collectivist cultures it's really, really common for multiple people to have the same first and last names. Perhaps that's why their middle names are often not omitted in these culture's common name format.
Guadalcanal: Mosquito and Mud Island. New Georgia: Rain and Misery Island. Peleliu: Blood, Sand, and Coral Island. Iwo Jima: Volcano Doom Island. These islands just keep getting better and better.
@@theholyone6 If the Japanese had piranha plants, bomb guys, and bullet bills, I’m fairly certain they would deploy them now. Thankfully the only thing those Marines will have to worry about is pill boxes, mines, and artillery.
Okinawa will be worse for all sides. Most especially the civilians. Japanese broadcasting company NHK has a website for a great documentary on the Battle of Okinawa. Don't bother with versions on youtube because they're cut up and not the full documentary.
Since the times of The Great War, Indy's German (and Polish) pronunciation of names and places has come a long way. I have been watching and listening intently all these years. All of your hard work has ushered in a new age of war documentaries. You have created a true wellspring of knowledge, from which I will keep drinking for years to come. A huge thank you from Czechia!
Now on to sorting out Japanese and Korean pronunciation. ("It's just like Italian they say. You can just sound it out." However they don't mention how phonemes get compressed and a name like Ku-ra-shi-ki end up sounding more like Krash-ki.)
We're really spoiled by Indy and team's efforts to do better and better pronunciations. It's hard to watch other documentaries and hear them butcher the names of people and places.
Important to note, Iwo Jima itself is not just an island, but the massive dome of a more massive submarine volcano. That's why the landing craft used in the invasion in 1945 are now above water, because the whole island is being uplifted, and it still has sporadic eruptions of steam on the beaches throughout the island.
@@sse_weston4138As you said yourself the island is being uplifted and becoming larger, meanwhile the average Japanese is becoming older and less children are being born to lower to replace the older people thus raising the average age of the country.
In fact, the Marines found the unnaturally warm volcanic black beach soil to be rather uncomfortable; it was their "incentive" to move inland, as was Japanese artillery fire. I'm surprised I've not heard of any initiatives by the Japanese to use Iwo as a geothermal generating station; it'd seem to have enormous potential.
@@selfdo That is a bit strange, maybe there's some geological reason that makes it unsuitable? One day that island is going to leave this world the way of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai, but that's probably a long ways off.
"Using flamethrowers to clear bunkers in left field and machine guns to clear strong points behind third base" is not what I expected to hear while I eat my oatmeal this morning.
Same nor did I expect to hear the British would seal up the tunnels the Japanese dug up to defend the city, essentially burying them alive. Wild shit man.
Walter Weiss? That name makes me think he might be the German supplier of drugs lol Also Steiner's counter offensive will surely put this one to shame...
@@Ramzi1944 some of the bitterest fighting in the Japanese offensive in Burma took place at Kohima where, among other things, troops were dug into the tennis court at the Deputy Commissioners bungalow. Wikipedia actually has it specifically listed as the Battle of the Tennis Court.
@@Ramzi1944 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kohima Basically the British and Indian forces defending against Japanese attack on Kohima Ridge. Some of the heaviest fighting took place at the north end of Kohima Ridge, around the Deputy Commissioner's bungalow and tennis court, in what became known as the Battle of the Tennis Court. The tennis court became a no man's land, with the Japanese and the defenders of Kohima dug in on opposite sides, so close to each other that grenades were thrown between the trenches.
I’ve always loved playing baseball, but have always felt that the machine gun behind third base sometimes ruins the game. Especially in little league, it always seemed a bit excessive.
Rod Serling served in airborne and fought in Manila. He earned a bromze star and purple heart. He suffered from ptsd post war because of his experiences.
The episode "The Purple Testament" from the twilight zone is greatly influenced by his wartime experiences. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching.
My grandfather (mom's side...flew B-17s as I have said on here) met him and they talked about differences between the air war and Philippines. He was actually a ghostwriter for the Twlight Zone episode where the person keeps dreaming about a plane crash.
Notice how Indy is not too surprised that the Japanese are reinforcing the third base line. That's because he knows that there's bound to be a dugout there.
Some additional context to note about Manilla. The Philippines was a part of the spanish empire for 400 years. The part of the city the Japanese are defending is called intramuros. It is the oldest part of the spanish forts that were built starting in the 16th century. To say the fort can withstand a beating is an understatemt.
@@ianhomerpura8937 A bit more. Magellan proclaimed the philippines as part of Spain and named them after King Phillip. That was in 1521. The Spanish American war saw them become an American possession in 1898 I would call that 377 years but you can argue when spanish colonization actually took hold
Another excellent video. It feels weird to finally see Berlin on the map. I do enjoy your coverage on Manila, i feel it gets shadowed heavily by Iwo Jima and Okinawa
SPOILER Some are better equipped than the German troops who were winning in Poland and Western Europe, 1939-40. For example, I have seen film of Germans in western Czechoslovakia hurrying to surrender to Patton's troops, and among the weapons they have stacked by the roadside for collection are state of the art Sturmgewehr assault rifles. Nonetheless, they cannot resist the tide coming in from all sides.
@@mikaelm5367 It's an example of the patchiness of the German war effort at the late stage of the war - a Luftwaffe that was the first air force in the world to send jets into action but it could not turn the tide, the Panzerfaust was in many ways state of the art, and took its toll of Western and Soviet tanks, but it could not turn the tide either, and so on...
I see those landing craft going into IWO. My late grand uncle was a coxswain mate, a driver. He drove those boats all across the Pacific. Came home (thankfully) totally disabled with PTSD. Lived in the woods for years. Away from everyone. Family got him help (VA) in the mid 50s. He was able to retire from industry and live his elderly years. He was fearless after the war. Got him in trouble a few times.
on the night of the 13th in Burma, my Granddad, a member of 67th regt HAA (a part of IV corps) was wounded in action, being shot in the side of the head during the crossing of the Irrawaddy. He thankfully made a full recovery and went on to live a long life in more peaceful times. Thank you Indy and team for covering a less documented front of the war in such detail, it's been interesting to be able to follow his journey from North Africa to India to Burma at the pace it unfolded.
I have heard that Dresden did in fact serve as an important industrial center and transportation hub with several major railways going into and out of the city, which was the reason it was considered a military target for bombardment. Is that true? Also, has the WAH episode that covers the fire bombing of Dreasden come out yet?
Yes, it's true. The Soviets provided a list of cities that were logistics hubs that they wanted the allies to bomb. Dresden was one of them. Also it was a lie, started by Goebbels after the raid (and repeated by Indy here 😢) that there were no military targets in Dresden. There was no heavy industry, but there were a ton of specialist factories there - field radios, optical sights, torpedo fuses etc. Also, there was a concentration camp just outside the city were over 1000 Jews were scheduled to be murdered the next day - the raid saved them. The raid itself was considered a "perfect" raid. The weather was cloudy all the way but clear over the city, all the RAFs spoofing tactics worked, and the cities AA guns had been removed to the east to point at Soviet tanks. IIRC the RAF only lost something like 5 aircraft and 2 of them were a mid air collision.
@@nevilleneville6518 achso eine Lüge ...im Krieg wird immer gelogen ...aber der Sieger schreibt die Geschichte ! ...auf Wahrheit wird dann nichts mehr geprüft
My father was on the flagship for the pre invasion bombardment of Iwo Jima. Minor point, but there was no underground connection between Surubaci and the other end of the island.. The Japanese had started one, but construction stopped when the Navy and Marines showed up. Also The battleships New York, Texas, Arkensas, Nevada, Idaho and Tennesse were there to begin the softening up process and they were later joined by the Washington, North Carolina and West Virgina on D-Day.
12:27 one note, the Zero was a navy plane not army airforce plane. It would most likely have been the Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa aka “the army zero” because allied pilots kept reporting all Japanese fighters as Zeros. A bit like all German tanks were reported as Tigers.
A good deal of zeros/zero pilots deployed from land-based runways for the entirety of the war. It's not impossible that it could have been Zeros, although I would agree it is less likely.
I've been watching the 1941 and 1942 episodes and it's really crazy to see how places like Burma, the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor are still active war zones
I remember in the episode of BBC's "World At War" dealing with this offensive how the RAF asked General Horrocks if he wanted the heavy bombers to flatten Kleve. He agreed to this, but said that even in 1970 he still had nightmares about the bombing of Kleve. By the way, Kleve was the city that Anne of Kleve, Henry VIII's 4th wife, came from. Her father was the Duke of Kleve, by way of marriage to the Duchess of Kleve, who was the actual title holder to the town. Got to love how complicated German nobility was back in the 1500s.
For those interested in the Burma campaign, especially the battle for Meiktila, I recommend George MacDonald Fraser's (author of the Flashman books) Quartered Safe Out Here - his memoir of being a 19 year old soldier in the Border Regiment, 2nd Bat, which I think was part of 17th Division (Black Cat). Absolutely brilliant. Keegan called it "one of the best personal memoirs of the Second World War". Great portrait of General Slim as well.
I read a paperback memoir by a junior officer named Cooper, also in the Border Regiment, who described fighting the Japanese in Arakan and later battles. In one clash his unit was taking casualties from Japanese sharpshooters and he spotted a muzzle flash in a tree a few hundred yards away. Cooper emptied an entire Bren gun magazine at the tree and his sergeant said he had got him. Through binoculars the Japanese could be seen swinging from the tree - like many of them he had tied a rope attached to the tree around his waist.
Shouldn't it actually be the US 8th Army fighting for Manilla or at least in control of the 11th Airborne division? The US 8th army doesn't really do much in this war but follow the 6th Army around and clean up in places but it they don't get talked about in Luzon they probably won't be mentioned in this series. The US 8th Army will become very important for the Korean War series the team is working on. I know the US 10th Army will get coverage during Okinawa and hopefully the US 15th Army will get mentioned soon.
Don't know a lot about the Philippines Campaign but isn't US 8th Army still busy at Leyte? US 15th Army (under Leonard Gerow) was more of an occupation and holding force. I'm not sure it even saw battle at all.
@@901Sherman Yeah I'm not an expert on the Philippines campaign either ( a very under covered period of major combat in WW2) but from what I have read the most significant combat the 8th Army had in WW2 was the battle for Manilla. A massive battle when put in world history terms but in WW2 terms just kind of a middle of the road battle. As for the 15th Army they also didn't see much combat either during WW2 and was mainly more of an occupation force but they did see combat in WW2 that also would be considered major combat if we were not talking about WW2. The 15th Army was fighting in France since November of 44 holding the German's in the French Atlantic coast ports and had some units fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. The most significant combat the Army took part in was the fighting in the Ruhr pocket. The only US armies that didn't see combat in WW2 (sort of) was the US 2nd and 4th armies which were responsible for the training of troops and defending the US East and West coasts. I said "sort of" because the 4th army took part in the "Battle of Los Angeles" where the anti-aircraft guns opened up on the mystery targets flying over LA that were picked up on radar lol.
@@901Sherman I think it saw some action in the battle to clear the Ruhr area of the remnants of Model's armygroup B. But that was about it. And after the war it became more of an administrative unit as 3rd and 7th US Army became the occupation armies. It was Patton's last command when he got booted out from 3rd Army after making some 'undiplomatic remarks'.
@@PhillyPhanVinny Kinda interesting how the odd numbered US armies all fought in the ETO or MTO while the even numbered ones were either in the Pacific or back at home. Seems like a deliberate decision but I'm honestly not sure.
@@901Sherman Haha yeah that was actually by design by the United States. All the odd numbered armies were sent to fight in Europe and Africa and the even numbered armies were stationed in the United States and the Pacific. Odd numbered Armies- 1st, 3rd, 9th and 15th armies France and Germany, 7th Army Africa, Italy, France and Germany, 5th Army, Italy. Even numbered armies - 2nd and 4th the United States, 6th, 8th and 10th Armies fought in different areas of the Pacific.
I just realized I have the best birthday gift to look forward to this year. It will be victory in euro to day!!! Can’t wait! Please do a special that day. If I got to watch your program and fossil hunt… it’ll be perfect.
Really weird feeling. I watched you back in Early 2022 and followed all weekly vids and specials. And now I am in the middle of a war, reguralry waking up to a sound of balistic rockets hitting my city. Hope nobody has to witness this first hand. Really feel this connection to british people during the Blitz - fighting against all ods, while remaining friends help you with both hands tied behind their backs. But we will fight, and we will never surrender, Glory to Ukraine.
With the end of the war seemingly in sight I had a question/proposal for future content. I watch Extra History and have for years and at the end of their series they do an extra episode called Lies where they correct their mistakes and talk about bias in their sources and such. Is there a chance yall would do a retrospective "Lies" like episode? Idk any mistakes made off hand, but everybody makes them and it's fun to go back through and talk about it (as a viewer at least)
"We were crossing the river and on one side there was Buda, and on other side Pest" My great-grandfather, an Azerbaijani Soviet soldier Suleyman Suleymanov, fought in Budapest as an artilleryman. My grandmother doesn't recall a lot about her father's military career, as he never fully recovered from his wounds and died in 1967, when grandma was 15. The only thing she recalls her father told is this sentence. This sentence is the only memory that's left from a story of a long, difficult and psychologically devastating journey of a soldier
Some small fact: There is a place called "New Manila" located in Quezon City because this is where prominent families from Manila resided because of the war. Quezon City back then was part of other towns (later on some of it becomes cities) like Caloocan, Mariquina (Marikina), Montalban (renamed as Rodriguez), Pasig, San Mateo, and San Juan del Monte (renamed as San Juan).
This upcoming week, on the 22nd, a relative of mine will be wounded on Luzon, as a part of the 32nd American infantry division. He will die in a few weeks from this injury. This was the second ancestor of mine to perish in the war - the other being in September 1939 defending northern Poland. I've always found it very interesting that the two relatives of mine to die in this war were the same nationality, however on completely opposite sides of the world, and time of the war.
I hadn't realized the firebombing of Dresden didn't occur until so late in the war. With the Soviets within reach of Berlin and the Western Allies on the Ruhr it really seems wasteful. Had it been done in Feb 1944 instead of Feb 1945 it seems more justifiable.
During the Yalta Conference on 4 February, the Deputy Chief of the Soviet General Staff, General Aleksei Antonov, raised the issue of hampering the reinforcement of German troops from the western front by paralyzing the junctions of Berlin and Leipzig with aerial bombardment. In response, Portal, who was in Yalta, asked Bottomley to send him a list of objectives to discuss with the Soviets. It was justified in that the Soviets asked the western allies to bomb Dresden and other remaining logistical centers, so that the Red Army would have an easier time fighting its way west.
Wasteful? Look at Germany 20 century history. They tried hard to waste good relations with everyone. After WWI Germans made up a myth that they were unbeaten on the field and wont pay for what they destroyed in war. They did this cause they had no war on their lands (apart from 1914 Tannenberg quick summer campaign). Occupying even small parts of Germany for a decade (Ruhr) was a nightmare. But after WWII occupying whole of nazi indoctrinated Germany seemed far easier. Cause Germans knew that things like Dresden will happen if hate driven Germany goes to war.
At this point many bombs have been dropped and the firebombing of Tokyo and the two nukes didnt even bat an eye. It was a very destructive war. Dresden is only painted as an abnormal act so horrible that it has to be propped up and repeated all the time by neo nazis. Its just another day in the war
Ha, I ca see Bataan from my 30th floor balcony facing Manila Bay! Not far away. _Erratum: I studied at "De La Salle University" (DLSU), the "De" is official TGA! =)_ Hurricane tin-openers still doing the hard yards, even in 1945. Gotta love the old warhorse.
Ok this is the third Saturday that I missed the premiere of WW2 because I was watching past episodes of WW2. That notification just doesn’t get through to me, I gotta set timer. Now that little hippy in my head is saying “time is just a human construct man!” Get a job little “head hippy”, get a job and buy me a timer.
Apparently not. I never realized it was an actual battle that happened in manilla till now. Never thought much on that map till this episode when I to realized that this is what the map was based on. The more you know
"Using flame thrower to clear bunkers in left field and machine-guns to clear strong points behind third base"... That's taking baseball to a whole new level!
My cousin was the first paratrooper to land on Corregidor (right after his captain) in terrible weather and fierce resistance. He lived to tell about it.
I am not sure what you mean by terrible weather. It was clear in the newsreels of the assault. Did you mean high winds? All the paratroopers seemed to land like bags of cement.
@6 - Exactly, high winds. Not a few unfortunate troopers were blown into the sea or smacked into the cliffs. My cousin was already on the ground and had to "hold" until reinforcements arrived, which took some time. They tried amphibious landings, but those also failed.... My cousin was one lucky bastard, lived through the whole war, being dropped all over the bloody place BEFORE Corrigedor. BTW: According to the book I read, all the Navy shelling had reduced the island to a landscape of splintered tree stumps sticking up like "teeth". They had to miss those, too.
@@fredrichenning1367 Yeah, I noticed that in the pics...plus the rubble and broken buildings. Knew a guy once who did a jump. Nice easy green grass dropzone. There was a small industrial park not too far away with a six story building in the middle. The jumpers were specifically enjoined to watch out for that building and stay well clear of it coming down. Guess where he ended up? The air conditioning units broke his fall.
You could hear the joy in Indy's voice when he described the action by 1st Cav at the baseball field in Manila. Not unlike my own joy when a new episode of Watch Sunday Baseball used to drop back in the day. ⚾⚾⚾
"... using flamethrowers to clear bunkers in left field and machine guns to clear strong points behind third base" I don't know much about baseball, but I think that's against the rules
Something you did not mention about the Canadian advance through this region is that the 3rd Canadian Division used LVT-4 Buffalos, aka US Amphibious Amtracs, to conduct flanking maneuvers through the flooded landscape to force the German troops out of their defensive positions.
With that description of Iwo Jima, I can only imagine the dread the US commanders must have felt at the prospect of taking it. It's like the island was purpose-built to be defended.
The police station Indy mentioned in 16:37 is the current Manila Police District headquarters. So is the church and the university mentioned, they were repaired/rebuilt and they are still used as such to this day.
Small correction: Although the bombing of german cities can be criticised, Dresden was very much a military target in Feburary 1945. It was the major rail and logistic hub for axis forces on the Eastern Front.
I didn’t realize they were using napalm in 1945. I had only really heard it being used 25 years later in Vietnam. I didn’t think it was even an option in WW2
@@caryblack5985 At the end of the war, North Korean POWs who had napalm burns and were repatriated were filmed and photographed by propaganda units as particular examples of US imperialist brutality.
When 1st Cavalry enters the La Salle University baseball field, they find out Who's on first, What's on second, and I Don't Know's on third. 1st Cavalry uses flamethrowers to clear Why in left field and machine guns to clear I Don't Know behind third base.
4:24 Side note: vehicles did not have seat belts in 1945, the first attempts came at the end of the 1940s (47 and 49, lap belts in two vehicles that were commercial failures) and would not become more common until 1959 and later. So falling asleep at the wheel was even more dangerous than today.
In a previous episode, a battle that took place across a tennis court was mentioned. That being said, attacking a baseball stadium with a tank seems more surreal/bizarre/unexpected place for a battle.
In Dresden at the time of the bombing a 22 year old Kurt Vonnegut hid in a slaughter house with other American POWs. He would later go on to write an insignificant book about it. So it Goes
I have seen a photo of him and others in a North Korean publication, undated, but everyone in the photo is wearing Red Army uniform greatcoats (a little too large for several of them). It is generally reckoned that he served in the Red Army in WW2 though precisely where and what he did is unclear.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88th_Separate_Rifle_Brigade#/media/File:1943-10-05-%EC%A0%9C88%EC%97%AC%EB%8B%A8_%EB%8C%80%EC%9B%90.jpg This is not the photo I saw, which looked like it was taken in the winter months. A special brigade in the Red Army was apparently created in the Soviet Far East, consisting of Koreans, Chinese and some members of Soviet Central Asian nationalities, and Kim Il Sung is visible in this photo, apparently taken in summer 1943.
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Shouldn't it actually be the US 8th Army fighting for Manilla or at least in control of the 11th Airborne division? The US 8th army doesn't really do much in this war but follow the 6th Army around and clean up in places but it they don't get talked about in Luzon they probably won't be mentioned in this series. The US 8th Army will become very important for the Korean War series the team is working on.
I know the US 10th Army will get coverage during Okinawa and hopefully the US 15th Army will get mentioned soon.
I always thought Iwo Jima looks more like a pork chop
@@USSChicago-pl2fq Lol now that you said that I'm thinking that also! Never thought it looked like an icecream cone either until Indy said that either.
So, would I be correct in saying that General Wenck achieved a Pyritz victory against Zhukov?
If I had the money I'd send it. Be thankful for a click.
I am looking forward to April 1, 1945. My Dad was part of the invasion force. He appeared in one of the newsreels. He was riding a tank and his mother saw him and recognized him. She was watching the newsreel in Quincy, IL and she yelled "That's my son!" The projectionist stopped the film and rolled it back several times so she could see it. I can only imagine how she felt, seeing her son alive and well.
Interesting, and that is good to hear :)
Thank you very much for sharing this story with us, hard to imagine the relief she felt seeing that.
Must've been scary as hell, having seen your son alive in one reel, but knowing the war is not over yet....
That's amazing! Hello fellow IL resident. Knew Quincy since I'm a WIU alum
I dont trust her.
Another sidenote this week on February 17 1945 is that Lieutenant Prakash Singh will be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in battle. Despite being wounded in both ankles and then hit in both legs, Lieutenant Singh dragged himself around the battlefield to direct his troops against a Japanese force in Burma. Even when hit again and mortally wounded, he inspired his men to victory by shouting their traditional Dogra war cry until he died.
The Indians are among the most valiant of the unsung heroes of both world wars, fighting with distinction and valor in every engagement. God bless the Indians both then and today, the rising superstars of the world.
Forever Motivated…. Never Halted!
Not to be confused with Lieutenant Parkash Singh who also was awarded the VC though not posthumously and in 1943.
How coincidental that two men with almost the same name got the same award in the same war for two separate acts of heroism
@@AzhiniI mean, in collectivist cultures it's really, really common for multiple people to have the same first and last names. Perhaps that's why their middle names are often not omitted in these culture's common name format.
@@Azhini They were cousins, 99% probability.
Guadalcanal: Mosquito and Mud Island.
New Georgia: Rain and Misery Island.
Peleliu: Blood, Sand, and Coral Island.
Iwo Jima: Volcano Doom Island.
These islands just keep getting better and better.
You kinda make it sound like mario levels.
@@theholyone6 If the Japanese had piranha plants, bomb guys, and bullet bills, I’m fairly certain they would deploy them now.
Thankfully the only thing those Marines will have to worry about is pill boxes, mines, and artillery.
"Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea."
Home alive, by 45
Out the sticks, by 46
Golden Gate, by 48
Bread line, by 49
Okinawa will be worse for all sides. Most especially the civilians. Japanese broadcasting company NHK has a website for a great documentary on the Battle of Okinawa. Don't bother with versions on youtube because they're cut up and not the full documentary.
Since the times of The Great War, Indy's German (and Polish) pronunciation of names and places has come a long way. I have been watching and listening intently all these years. All of your hard work has ushered in a new age of war documentaries. You have created a true wellspring of knowledge, from which I will keep drinking for years to come. A huge thank you from Czechia!
Není zač!
Now on to sorting out Japanese and Korean pronunciation.
("It's just like Italian they say. You can just sound it out." However they don't mention how phonemes get compressed and a name like Ku-ra-shi-ki end up sounding more like Krash-ki.)
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We're really spoiled by Indy and team's efforts to do better and better pronunciations. It's hard to watch other documentaries and hear them butcher the names of people and places.
Important to note, Iwo Jima itself is not just an island, but the massive dome of a more massive submarine volcano. That's why the landing craft used in the invasion in 1945 are now above water, because the whole island is being uplifted, and it still has sporadic eruptions of steam on the beaches throughout the island.
Even though the Japanese population is aging and will soon shrink in size, the country itself is still growing.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 What do you mean?
@@sse_weston4138As you said yourself the island is being uplifted and becoming larger, meanwhile the average Japanese is becoming older and less children are being born to lower to replace the older people thus raising the average age of the country.
In fact, the Marines found the unnaturally warm volcanic black beach soil to be rather uncomfortable; it was their "incentive" to move inland, as was Japanese artillery fire.
I'm surprised I've not heard of any initiatives by the Japanese to use Iwo as a geothermal generating station; it'd seem to have enormous potential.
@@selfdo That is a bit strange, maybe there's some geological reason that makes it unsuitable? One day that island is going to leave this world the way of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai, but that's probably a long ways off.
"Using flamethrowers to clear bunkers in left field and machine guns to clear strong points behind third base" is not what I expected to hear while I eat my oatmeal this morning.
Adds a whole new meaning to "Who's on first?"
Same nor did I expect to hear the British would seal up the tunnels the Japanese dug up to defend the city, essentially burying them alive. Wild shit man.
That sounded like a "no holds barred" game of baseball.
It brings to mind the Battle of the Tennis Court, as part of the larger battle of Kohima.
Abbott and Costello would be proud.
Walter Weiss? That name makes me think he might be the German supplier of drugs lol Also Steiner's counter offensive will surely put this one to shame...
The pervatine cook
That's because Steiner airdropped Atlas's for reckon
This was Steiners offensive, he commanded the 11SS panzer army that prosecuted the offensive.
Reminds me of a meme where a WW2 memorial displays the name "Walter Witte".
Fun fact: Walter Weiss also played shortstop for the Oakland Athletics. (not the same Walt)
16:27 fighting on the baseball field puts me in mind of the grenade-tossing matches in the tennis courts at Kohima.
What are you referring to?
@@Ramzi1944 some of the bitterest fighting in the Japanese offensive in Burma took place at Kohima where, among other things, troops were dug into the tennis court at the Deputy Commissioners bungalow. Wikipedia actually has it specifically listed as the Battle of the Tennis Court.
@@kemarisite Thank you
@@Ramzi1944 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kohima
Basically the British and Indian forces defending against Japanese attack on Kohima Ridge.
Some of the heaviest fighting took place at the north end of Kohima Ridge, around the Deputy Commissioner's bungalow and tennis court, in what became known as the Battle of the Tennis Court. The tennis court became a no man's land, with the Japanese and the defenders of Kohima dug in on opposite sides, so close to each other that grenades were thrown between the trenches.
I’ve always loved playing baseball, but have always felt that the machine gun behind third base sometimes ruins the game. Especially in little league, it always seemed a bit excessive.
Remember, you never want to be thrown out, or machine gunned, on third base.
@@johnpoole3871 true true- one of your guys gets machine gunned at third base, it's always the manager's fault.
@@johnpoole3871 you especially don’t want to get machine gunned with less than two outs.
The machine gun was named "I Don't Know"...
Don't ignore those signals from the third-base coach, son.
4:30 oh he actually got in a car crash at first i thought it was an elaborate metaphor regarding his offensive
I thought Wenck was trying to kill himself
@@CityinleadSame!
My mom's cousin Cpl. Joe Highland, was with the 25th Marine Regiment, 4 MARDIV at Iwo Jima. He's still there.
R.I.P.
Rod Serling served in airborne and fought in Manila. He earned a bromze star and purple heart. He suffered from ptsd post war because of his experiences.
The episode "The Purple Testament" from the twilight zone is greatly influenced by his wartime experiences. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching.
My grandfather (mom's side...flew B-17s as I have said on here) met him and they talked about differences between the air war and Philippines. He was actually a ghostwriter for the Twlight Zone episode where the person keeps dreaming about a plane crash.
His (Serlings) experiences and what he got out of it, really deserves a look at.
11th Airborne Division.
@@WorldWarTwo That's one. Arguably even more notable are "A Quality of Mercy" and "The Encounter".
"bunkers in leftfield...and strong points behind third base" - That's right Indy. Spring Training has opened!
Who's on first?
Notice how Indy is not too surprised that the Japanese are reinforcing the third base line. That's because he knows that there's bound to be a dugout there.
Thanks for the extensive coverage of the Pacific Theatre this week
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As always a deep researched week of battles.
Thank you for watching.
12:08 so that's where video game villains got their plan of attack
also how you know your team has lost in MP
Some additional context to note about Manilla. The Philippines was a part of the spanish empire for 400 years. The part of the city the Japanese are defending is called intramuros. It is the oldest part of the spanish forts that were built starting in the 16th century. To say the fort can withstand a beating is an understatemt.
400... Yea yea yea
333 years to be exact
@@ianhomerpura8937 A bit more. Magellan proclaimed the philippines as part of Spain and named them after King Phillip. That was in 1521. The Spanish American war saw them become an American possession in 1898
I would call that 377 years but you can argue when spanish colonization actually took hold
@@ternel formal occupation only started in 1571 though, with the conquest of Manila by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi.
Another excellent video. It feels weird to finally see Berlin on the map.
I do enjoy your coverage on Manila, i feel it gets shadowed heavily by Iwo Jima and Okinawa
I really hope you will make/release a special episode about the state of the Wehrmacht in 1945, which at this point was just abysmal.
The Heer has definitely been bled dry
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Some are better equipped than the German troops who were winning in Poland and Western Europe, 1939-40. For example, I have seen film of Germans in western Czechoslovakia hurrying to surrender to Patton's troops, and among the weapons they have stacked by the roadside for collection are state of the art Sturmgewehr assault rifles. Nonetheless, they cannot resist the tide coming in from all sides.
A couple of nice weapons here and there does not make for well equipped army
Every weekly episode at this point covers the abysmal state of the Wehrmacht. Not in detail, but certainly in its performance defending Germany.
@@mikaelm5367 It's an example of the patchiness of the German war effort at the late stage of the war - a Luftwaffe that was the first air force in the world to send jets into action but it could not turn the tide, the Panzerfaust was in many ways state of the art, and took its toll of Western and Soviet tanks, but it could not turn the tide either, and so on...
always love the one sided phone calls, great videos as always. and your ties
Indy is for sure a dapper chap! Cheers for watching.
aye :D hes a dapper dan for sure :P @@WorldWarTwo
I see those landing craft going into IWO. My late grand uncle was a coxswain mate, a driver. He drove those boats all across the Pacific. Came home (thankfully) totally disabled with PTSD. Lived in the woods for years. Away from everyone. Family got him help (VA) in the mid 50s. He was able to retire from industry and live his elderly years. He was fearless after the war. Got him in trouble a few times.
being a witness to barbarity changes genes not to mention attitudes. That generation held it well.
Thank you very much for your work !
Thanks a lot for your comment!
on the night of the 13th in Burma, my Granddad, a member of 67th regt HAA (a part of IV corps) was wounded in action, being shot in the side of the head during the crossing of the Irrawaddy. He thankfully made a full recovery and went on to live a long life in more peaceful times. Thank you Indy and team for covering a less documented front of the war in such detail, it's been interesting to be able to follow his journey from North Africa to India to Burma at the pace it unfolded.
Thank you for your kind words and sharing your grandfather's story.
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Another week, another "how much longer can this go on?"
I have heard that Dresden did in fact serve as an important industrial center and transportation hub with several major railways going into and out of the city, which was the reason it was considered a military target for bombardment. Is that true?
Also, has the WAH episode that covers the fire bombing of Dreasden come out yet?
Not out yet
Yes, it's true. The Soviets provided a list of cities that were logistics hubs that they wanted the allies to bomb. Dresden was one of them.
Also it was a lie, started by Goebbels after the raid (and repeated by Indy here 😢) that there were no military targets in Dresden. There was no heavy industry, but there were a ton of specialist factories there - field radios, optical sights, torpedo fuses etc. Also, there was a concentration camp just outside the city were over 1000 Jews were scheduled to be murdered the next day - the raid saved them.
The raid itself was considered a "perfect" raid. The weather was cloudy all the way but clear over the city, all the RAFs spoofing tactics worked, and the cities AA guns had been removed to the east to point at Soviet tanks. IIRC the RAF only lost something like 5 aircraft and 2 of them were a mid air collision.
@@nevilleneville6518 achso eine Lüge ...im Krieg wird immer gelogen ...aber der Sieger schreibt die Geschichte ! ...auf Wahrheit wird dann nichts mehr geprüft
My father was on the flagship for the pre invasion bombardment of Iwo Jima. Minor point, but there was no underground connection between Surubaci and the other end of the island.. The Japanese had started one, but construction stopped when the Navy and Marines showed up. Also The battleships New York, Texas, Arkensas, Nevada, Idaho and Tennesse were there to begin the softening up process and they were later joined by the Washington, North Carolina and West Virgina on D-Day.
12:27 one note, the Zero was a navy plane not army airforce plane. It would most likely have been the Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa aka “the army zero” because allied pilots kept reporting all Japanese fighters as Zeros. A bit like all German tanks were reported as Tigers.
@17:48- misidentified B-24s for B-17, which were no longer in the front-line bomber role in the Pacific...............
A good deal of zeros/zero pilots deployed from land-based runways for the entirety of the war. It's not impossible that it could have been Zeros, although I would agree it is less likely.
plus mostof the zeores are know used for kamikaze attacks@@mikkim-mh9bc
Thank you for the lesson.
I've been watching the 1941 and 1942 episodes and it's really crazy to see how places like Burma, the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor are still active war zones
Thanks for another great episode!
And thanks for wtching!
The dark foreshadowing of Iwo Jima is more than warranted.
That place was without a dout, one of the many top hell's on Earth of the War.
Looking at the aerial photos prior to landing, it was such a deceiving hell hole.
One of my favourite channels, keep up the good work mate! 🤘
another great video!
Glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching.
Another great episode which I enjoyed deeply while cooking my Saturday meal :)
I remember in the episode of BBC's "World At War" dealing with this offensive how the RAF asked General Horrocks if he wanted the heavy bombers to flatten Kleve. He agreed to this, but said that even in 1970 he still had nightmares about the bombing of Kleve.
By the way, Kleve was the city that Anne of Kleve, Henry VIII's 4th wife, came from. Her father was the Duke of Kleve, by way of marriage to the Duchess of Kleve, who was the actual title holder to the town. Got to love how complicated German nobility was back in the 1500s.
i live in kleve hard to imagine how it must looked like after the bombings
Beloved character actor Alvy Moore, who played Mr. Kimball on "Green Acres," was a Marine in WWII and fought on Iwo Jima!
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For those interested in the Burma campaign, especially the battle for Meiktila, I recommend George MacDonald Fraser's (author of the Flashman books) Quartered Safe Out Here - his memoir of being a 19 year old soldier in the Border Regiment, 2nd Bat, which I think was part of 17th Division (Black Cat). Absolutely brilliant. Keegan called it "one of the best personal memoirs of the Second World War". Great portrait of General Slim as well.
Agreed. Brilliant book.
I read a paperback memoir by a junior officer named Cooper, also in the Border Regiment, who described fighting the Japanese in Arakan and later battles. In one clash his unit was taking casualties from Japanese sharpshooters and he spotted a muzzle flash in a tree a few hundred yards away. Cooper emptied an entire Bren gun magazine at the tree and his sergeant said he had got him. Through binoculars the Japanese could be seen swinging from the tree - like many of them he had tied a rope attached to the tree around his waist.
Super wonderful historical coverage through military prospectives 🙏👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻thanks
Well done! Another great WW2 weekly episode!
History read like a sports page is phenomenal. Thanks Indy
there had to be a feeling..'hey there's way too many of them than there is us....damnit man.'
Shouldn't it actually be the US 8th Army fighting for Manilla or at least in control of the 11th Airborne division? The US 8th army doesn't really do much in this war but follow the 6th Army around and clean up in places but it they don't get talked about in Luzon they probably won't be mentioned in this series. The US 8th Army will become very important for the Korean War series the team is working on.
I know the US 10th Army will get coverage during Okinawa and hopefully the US 15th Army will get mentioned soon.
Don't know a lot about the Philippines Campaign but isn't US 8th Army still busy at Leyte?
US 15th Army (under Leonard Gerow) was more of an occupation and holding force. I'm not sure it even saw battle at all.
@@901Sherman Yeah I'm not an expert on the Philippines campaign either ( a very under covered period of major combat in WW2) but from what I have read the most significant combat the 8th Army had in WW2 was the battle for Manilla. A massive battle when put in world history terms but in WW2 terms just kind of a middle of the road battle.
As for the 15th Army they also didn't see much combat either during WW2 and was mainly more of an occupation force but they did see combat in WW2 that also would be considered major combat if we were not talking about WW2. The 15th Army was fighting in France since November of 44 holding the German's in the French Atlantic coast ports and had some units fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. The most significant combat the Army took part in was the fighting in the Ruhr pocket.
The only US armies that didn't see combat in WW2 (sort of) was the US 2nd and 4th armies which were responsible for the training of troops and defending the US East and West coasts. I said "sort of" because the 4th army took part in the "Battle of Los Angeles" where the anti-aircraft guns opened up on the mystery targets flying over LA that were picked up on radar lol.
@@901Sherman I think it saw some action in the battle to clear the Ruhr area of the remnants of Model's armygroup B. But that was about it. And after the war it became more of an administrative unit as 3rd and 7th US Army became the occupation armies. It was Patton's last command when he got booted out from 3rd Army after making some 'undiplomatic remarks'.
@@PhillyPhanVinny Kinda interesting how the odd numbered US armies all fought in the ETO or MTO while the even numbered ones were either in the Pacific or back at home. Seems like a deliberate decision but I'm honestly not sure.
@@901Sherman Haha yeah that was actually by design by the United States. All the odd numbered armies were sent to fight in Europe and Africa and the even numbered armies were stationed in the United States and the Pacific.
Odd numbered Armies- 1st, 3rd, 9th and 15th armies France and Germany, 7th Army Africa, Italy, France and Germany, 5th Army, Italy.
Even numbered armies - 2nd and 4th the United States, 6th, 8th and 10th Armies fought in different areas of the Pacific.
Thank you Indy,.....fascinating,interesting,and educational.....as per usual.
Thank you for your comments, really appreciate your support!
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I just realized I have the best birthday gift to look forward to this year. It will be victory in euro to day!!! Can’t wait! Please do a special that day. If I got to watch your program and fossil hunt… it’ll be perfect.
Really weird feeling. I watched you back in Early 2022 and followed all weekly vids and specials. And now I am in the middle of a war, reguralry waking up to a sound of balistic rockets hitting my city. Hope nobody has to witness this first hand. Really feel this connection to british people during the Blitz - fighting against all ods, while remaining friends help you with both hands tied behind their backs. But we will fight, and we will never surrender, Glory to Ukraine.
Slava Ukraini
@@WorldWarTwo Heroyam Slava
As Red Green would say "I'm pulling for you, we're all in this together."
TIL about Wilhelm René de l'Homme de Courbière. Thanks Indy.
With the end of the war seemingly in sight I had a question/proposal for future content. I watch Extra History and have for years and at the end of their series they do an extra episode called Lies where they correct their mistakes and talk about bias in their sources and such. Is there a chance yall would do a retrospective "Lies" like episode? Idk any mistakes made off hand, but everybody makes them and it's fun to go back through and talk about it (as a viewer at least)
They are going to start a week by week of the hundred years war
Walther Wenck and car crashes, name a more iconic duo. Wenck actually did die in a car crash 37 years later.
In my supermarket we have already put up easter stuff...
I am looking forward to the brief mention of the week long battle for Aschaffenburg.
Breathless narration 😊
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Wow, what a week. I have a sense of deep foreboding right now.
"We were crossing the river and on one side there was Buda, and on other side Pest"
My great-grandfather, an Azerbaijani Soviet soldier Suleyman Suleymanov, fought in Budapest as an artilleryman. My grandmother doesn't recall a lot about her father's military career, as he never fully recovered from his wounds and died in 1967, when grandma was 15. The only thing she recalls her father told is this sentence.
This sentence is the only memory that's left from a story of a long, difficult and psychologically devastating journey of a soldier
Thank you.
Kudos on your skillful negotiation of foreign place and proper names.
8:36 bro really brought his accordion to the battle
Stock footage of Soviet troops celebrating a victory always seems to include at least one accordion.
@@ahorsewithnoname773perhaps they were standard issue
Some small fact: There is a place called "New Manila" located in Quezon City because this is where prominent families from Manila resided because of the war. Quezon City back then was part of other towns (later on some of it becomes cities) like Caloocan, Mariquina (Marikina), Montalban (renamed as Rodriguez), Pasig, San Mateo, and San Juan del Monte (renamed as San Juan).
This upcoming week, on the 22nd, a relative of mine will be wounded on Luzon, as a part of the 32nd American infantry division. He will die in a few weeks from this injury. This was the second ancestor of mine to perish in the war - the other being in September 1939 defending northern Poland. I've always found it very interesting that the two relatives of mine to die in this war were the same nationality, however on completely opposite sides of the world, and time of the war.
I hadn't realized the firebombing of Dresden didn't occur until so late in the war. With the Soviets within reach of Berlin and the Western Allies on the Ruhr it really seems wasteful. Had it been done in Feb 1944 instead of Feb 1945 it seems more justifiable.
During the Yalta Conference on 4 February, the Deputy Chief of the Soviet General Staff, General Aleksei Antonov, raised the issue of hampering the reinforcement of German troops from the western front by paralyzing the junctions of Berlin and Leipzig with aerial bombardment. In response, Portal, who was in Yalta, asked Bottomley to send him a list of objectives to discuss with the Soviets. It was justified in that the Soviets asked the western allies to bomb Dresden and other remaining logistical centers, so that the Red Army would have an easier time fighting its way west.
Yeah, but it was Totalen Krieg…
Wasteful? Look at Germany 20 century history. They tried hard to waste good relations with everyone.
After WWI Germans made up a myth that they were unbeaten on the field and wont pay for what they destroyed in war. They did this cause they had no war on their lands (apart from 1914 Tannenberg quick summer campaign). Occupying even small parts of Germany for a decade (Ruhr) was a nightmare. But after WWII occupying whole of nazi indoctrinated Germany seemed far easier. Cause Germans knew that things like Dresden will happen if hate driven Germany goes to war.
Maybe the germans should not have started the war hey
At this point many bombs have been dropped and the firebombing of Tokyo and the two nukes didnt even bat an eye. It was a very destructive war. Dresden is only painted as an abnormal act so horrible that it has to be propped up and repeated all the time by neo nazis. Its just another day in the war
Wasn’t Dresden important for logistics and communications? If I remember correctly it was in support of the Soviets to stop German reinforcements
Thanks for the episode good to watch it 👍 😀 😊
Ha, I ca see Bataan from my 30th floor balcony facing Manila Bay! Not far away.
_Erratum: I studied at "De La Salle University" (DLSU), the "De" is official TGA! =)_
Hurricane tin-openers still doing the hard yards, even in 1945. Gotta love the old warhorse.
Ok this is the third Saturday that I missed the premiere of WW2 because I was watching past episodes of WW2. That notification just doesn’t get through to me, I gotta set timer.
Now that little hippy in my head is saying “time is just a human construct man!” Get a job little “head hippy”, get a job and buy me a timer.
So that baseball field in "Medal of Honor" wasn't just for show?! 🤯
Apparently not. I never realized it was an actual battle that happened in manilla till now. Never thought much on that map till this episode when I to realized that this is what the map was based on. The more you know
It's called Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium - look it up on maps
That phone call at the beginning ..... I'm thinking he was simply asking for someone to "hold his beer".
Pomeranians conduct a dogged defense... I'll show myself out.
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Nyuk nyuk nyuk..
great video
"Using flame thrower to clear bunkers in left field and machine-guns to clear strong points behind third base"...
That's taking baseball to a whole new level!
It adds new meaning to being picked off at third.
@@steved5495 Lol...
I think there should be a mention of Field Marshal Manekshaw next when talking about the Burma campaign
My Great grandfather was in the 28th marine regiment 3rd battalion and saw combat he was also a Paramarine during the war
My cousin was the first paratrooper to land on Corregidor (right after his captain) in terrible weather and fierce resistance. He lived to tell about it.
I am not sure what you mean by terrible weather. It was clear in the newsreels of the assault. Did you mean high winds? All the paratroopers seemed to land like bags of cement.
@6 - Exactly, high winds. Not a few unfortunate troopers were blown into the sea or smacked into the cliffs. My cousin was already on the ground and had to "hold" until reinforcements arrived, which took some time. They tried amphibious landings, but those also failed.... My cousin was one lucky bastard, lived through the whole war, being dropped all over the bloody place BEFORE Corrigedor. BTW: According to the book I read, all the Navy shelling had reduced the island to a landscape of splintered tree stumps sticking up like "teeth". They had to miss those, too.
@@fredrichenning1367 Yeah, I noticed that in the pics...plus the rubble and broken buildings. Knew a guy once who did a jump. Nice easy green grass dropzone. There was a small industrial park not too far away with a six story building in the middle. The jumpers were specifically enjoined to watch out for that building and stay well clear of it coming down. Guess where he ended up? The air conditioning units broke his fall.
Interesting that i noticed Map holder for several frames of a second after 1:06.
You could hear the joy in Indy's voice when he described the action by 1st Cav at the baseball field in Manila. Not unlike my own joy when a new episode of Watch Sunday Baseball used to drop back in the day. ⚾⚾⚾
"... using flamethrowers to clear bunkers in left field and machine guns to clear strong points behind third base"
I don't know much about baseball, but I think that's against the rules
And people think Fenway is a tough home team park
Something you did not mention about the Canadian advance through this region is that the 3rd Canadian Division used LVT-4 Buffalos, aka US Amphibious Amtracs, to conduct flanking maneuvers through the flooded landscape to force the German troops out of their defensive positions.
With that description of Iwo Jima, I can only imagine the dread the US commanders must have felt at the prospect of taking it. It's like the island was purpose-built to be defended.
The police station Indy mentioned in 16:37 is the current Manila Police District headquarters. So is the church and the university mentioned, they were repaired/rebuilt and they are still used as such to this day.
Would love to see a special episode about the Battle of Manila
Indy, please end one of the upcoming telephone segments with "Love you too"
Will do! I just wrote a reminder on the notes for one of the April episodes (I've shot March already). Great idea!
ROFL!
I say, steady on!
Small correction: Although the bombing of german cities can be criticised, Dresden was very much a military target in Feburary 1945. It was the major rail and logistic hub for axis forces on the Eastern Front.
I didn’t realize they were using napalm in 1945. I had only really heard it being used 25 years later in Vietnam. I didn’t think it was even an option in WW2
It was used extensively in the Korean War.
@@caryblack5985 At the end of the war, North Korean POWs who had napalm burns and were repatriated were filmed and photographed by propaganda units as particular examples of US imperialist brutality.
It made its way into the war in (I believe) early 1945. Hint : General LeMay REALLY liked it.
First use of Napalm was in March 1944 in USAAF air raid on Berlin. So basically entire last year of WW2 was literally fire from the sky.
When 1st Cavalry enters the La Salle University baseball field, they find out Who's on first, What's on second, and I Don't Know's on third. 1st Cavalry uses flamethrowers to clear Why in left field and machine guns to clear I Don't Know behind third base.
So happy that when Americans and Japanese fight on a baseball field nowadays people aren’t dying
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch sounds like a fictional Anime villain.
Hitler: "Just beat the Russians the way your Prussian ancestors beat Napoleon."
Germans: "By waiting to be saved by... the Russians?"
4:24 Side note: vehicles did not have seat belts in 1945, the first attempts came at the end of the 1940s (47 and 49, lap belts in two vehicles that were commercial failures) and would not become more common until 1959 and later.
So falling asleep at the wheel was even more dangerous than today.
1:06 I saw that map holder
Boy baseball is tough in Manila
Otto Wohler looks looks suspiciously like Indy 🤔
In a previous episode, a battle that took place across a tennis court was mentioned. That being said, attacking a baseball stadium with a tank seems more surreal/bizarre/unexpected place for a battle.
Seing the title, once again I ask myself "What's the worst that could happen?"
In Dresden at the time of the bombing a 22 year old Kurt Vonnegut hid in a slaughter house with other American POWs. He would later go on to write an insignificant book about it.
So it Goes
He had been in the 106th Division, and was one of the thousands of soldiers in it captured at the Bulge in December 1944.
Never realized the title was literal...
What is Kim Il Sung doing? We heard nothing of him in this war yet.
I have seen a photo of him and others in a North Korean publication, undated, but everyone in the photo is wearing Red Army uniform greatcoats (a little too large for several of them). It is generally reckoned that he served in the Red Army in WW2 though precisely where and what he did is unclear.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88th_Separate_Rifle_Brigade#/media/File:1943-10-05-%EC%A0%9C88%EC%97%AC%EB%8B%A8_%EB%8C%80%EC%9B%90.jpg This is not the photo I saw, which looked like it was taken in the winter months. A special brigade in the Red Army was apparently created in the Soviet Far East, consisting of Koreans, Chinese and some members of Soviet Central Asian nationalities, and Kim Il Sung is visible in this photo, apparently taken in summer 1943.
He is in exiled Korean red army under the soviets. They will cooperate with the Chinese communists when the war ends.
I did not know Corregidor was also attacked with paratroops. Thanks for the info.
It’s over now. Germany can’t win against Peru
Japanese troops at the baseball stadium were commanded by General Who.
General I don't know was on third.
What? I thought that was a TV show that I have never seen and not a commander in the Japanese military.
See, they made a big mistake putting Walter White in charge of an army group...
Maps are getting better 🎉
Thank you very much. Glad you noticed 😃 😊