Battlefield - The Battle of Leyte Gulf
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2019
- Battlefield is an American documentary series that debuted in 1994 on PBS that explores the most important battles fought primarily during the Second World War and the Vietnam War. The series employs a novel approach in which history is described by detailed accounts of major battles together with background and contextual information. The sixth and final series of the program was broadcast in 2002.
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Written by: Dave Flitton
Directed by: Dave Flitton
Theme music composer: David Galbraith
Producers: Andy Aitken, Justin McCarthy
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My uncle died on the invasion, he was a captain in the army, he got his third purple heart and was awarded the bronze star and silver star posthumously. War is hell, his death crushed my grandparents because he was the oldest son and the future for them. My mother hated the Japanese until her death.
My one grandpa was in the Pacific (the other in Europe) he kept a Remember Pearl Harbor - Buy American! sticker on his Oldsmobile forever
A salute to the heroes of the Battle of Samar. Taffy 3 ships, The Gambier Bay, The Hoel, The Johnston, and The Samuel B Roberts. They made the ultimate sacrifice to save Mcarther's landing force. The giants of this Battle.
Halsey should’ve faced an inquiry and relieved of command. He’s lucky Sprague and TF38 fought as hard as they did, otherwise his reputation would be entirely different. He left station to attack a decoy force, that was explicitly intended to draw him in; left no word with Kincaid, left no force to guard the straight, ignored pleas from Kincaid for assistance for hours and rebuffed Nimitz questions as to where he was and why … after this, he should’ve been retired.
@michaelmclaren7373 I can't disagree. How well did the Japanese know Halsey's personality. He took their bait hook, line, and sinker.
The landing force had already landed days ago by the time Samar happened. The landings began on Oct. 20; Samar was Oct. 25, and by that time all the troops and even the majority of the supplies were already ashore.
The idea Taffy 3 saved the landings is the result of poor historiography in secondary sources, possibly because of MacArthur bitching about the situation even though in reality his army wasn’t under much of a threat.
Fun Fact- The Samuel B Roberts is the deepest underwater shipwreck ever found .
22,600ft vs Titanic's 12,500ft.
@@michaelmclaren7373 l recommend you, brother.
Ahhh. Back when the History Channel still showed history
This ran on PBS, about 1994, 95 in the US. If the History Channel had it too good on them. They too were quite a resource in the early 2000s. I bought the first release of this on DVD in 2010.
In my opinion, superior training, support, moral, and the Grace of God won the war for the U.S. May God have mercy on us, today.
Excellent series narrated by the late Tim Piggot-Smith!
USS Wolverine at 43:41 was built as a luxury cruise ship for the Great Lakes, acquired by the Navy in March 1942, and converted into an aircraft carrier, including the addition of the all-important 550-foot flight deck. According to the Chicago Navy Memorial, over 18,000 pilots trained to take off from and land on Wolverine and her sister USS Sable deep in the heart of the United States on Lake Michigan.
Every time I watch this episode, I think of how *few* people know about this. (I didn't know about Sable.)
@USS-SNAKE-ISLAND , am a Boomer from Minnesota and only heard about the Great Lakes' aircraft carriers in the last year. A story more people should know.
And they are still nearly perfectly preserved on the bottom of Lake Michigan. The Navy prohibits any diving on them. I'd like to see a professional explorer team examine and document it like they did the Samuel B. Roberts
Excellent documentary, thank you all who made this.
Coral sea: Draw. Midway: Win. Leyte Gulf: CRUSHING ROUT
I love these old documentarys
Thank you for posting.
God bless all these brave souls
More credit should be given to Taffy 3 . USS Johnston and Commander Ernest. E Evans. He was the only destroyer skipper to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
General Patton, also was instrumental in winning in Europe❤
Amazing. Thank you!
Wonderful viewing
It’s so strange that the Japanese admirals held on to their dream of a massive battle against American battleships, even as they seemed to embrace the knowledge that aircraft carriers were critical to the survival of their navy. Both Japan and Germany poured so many vital non-renewable resources they couldn’t afford to squander into their freaking huge battleships which were essentially useless in battle, just as both countries doomed their air forces to premature and suicidal extinction by their excessively shortsighted and downright stupid policy of allowing all of the expertise their pilots possessed to die with them. Thank God for their utter lack of pragmatic vision through which they hamstrung and helped defeat themselves!
True
But as for Air Forces Japan and Germany were just beaten by simple math .
When the enemy out produces you in planes by 6 to 1 you have to lose the air war no matter what. Even if Japan and Germany made no mistakes .
@@Crashed131963 Don't forget also, even if they did build the things they had no fuel for the ships or planes or tanks. Japanese Pilots late in the war were not even trained because there was no fuel for training aircraft. That is if there was a training aircraft. They didn't use their battleships because they couldn't put fuel in them.
The last 40 minutes or longer of this video was a great battle for both sides .the Americans were determined to fight to the end .. the Japanese kamikaze pilots were more deadly than Japanese battle ships! Amazing videos!!
The late father was there as a Air Corps engineer. My dad operated a bulldozer. He told me he saw MacArthur.
No politicians were harmed during the making of this video.
I Really Liked Battlefield - The Battle of Midway Episode.
Essex class carriers weren't the largest. The Saratoga( CV-3) at 33, 000 tons built on a battlecruiser hull was the largest, its sistership Lexington(CV-2) was sunk in 1942 during the Coral Sea battle.
My father was there Probably on a destroyer or a destroyer escort. Wish he was still here to ask.
damn shame that this story as told has left out some of the most important details = the ships and men that charged, and the pilot that found an air strip to land and rearm to return to fight, the extraordinary fight of the taffy 3 is glossed over or as I would say "the punch line of this 2 hour long story is missing".
Roger that. British producers hate to give American forces too many accolades in their telling of this story. Ernest Evans, his peers, and the men who served under them were bad asses. True shining examples of the 'Greatest Generation'.
Correct me if I'm wrong George HW Bush was part of the liberation of Phils all of 18 at that time.
Bush on USS San Jacinto was a member of Air Group 51, flew a Grumman TBF Avenger.
Essex Class Armament 12 X 15 inch guns? 38:36 into the video.
how many times does this bloke say 'however' ? !
No mention by name of the Johnston and others? A shameful omission on the producers part. Halsey was more of a danger to his men than the enemy.
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If the battle was as slow as this documentary, they probably all died of boredom
Sad; another Millenial with the attention span of a bee?
This was on PBS in the states
I was one (among many I'm sure) waited a long time (Dec 2010) for the DVD. From my memory PBS run it only once. Perhaps it didn't gather good audience reaction?