The Pacific Part 2: Basilone Reaction [First time watching]
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Part 2: Basilone reaction
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I am Adopted, So I have two families, Irish and German, Yugoslavian and Alaskan Native, and I had Family on both sides and both theaters. In Europ on Grandfather was abord the KM Bismarck and then interned in a POW camp in Nothern Ireland. Another was flying B-17s out of England from 43 till the end in 45 and even after helping with the Burlin airlift. My Grampa Joe was a resistance fighter in Yugoslavia. In the pacific My Grandfather was a scout and code talker using his fishing boat to hall troops and supplies. Some incredible stories from all of them and from them I got a love of History, a Respect for what they went through.
John Basilone is a legend in the Marine Corps. That battle was fought for 2 days, and he ran between both machine gun sections, bringing ammo, fixing jams, and fighting the Japanese who broke through the line. After the second day, 3,000 Japanese were dead, and only Basilone and 2 other Marines were left standing, with just pistols and machetes left to fight with.
Yeah theres like 200 things named after him at Pendleton, plus a little park in San Diego
Marines are seaborne infantry, and they are actually a department of the US Navy. You’ll note that, when responding to a senior officer, Marines say “aye aye, sir” which is specifically a navy term.
The Marines never went to the Philippines, that was for the US Army under MacArthur.
The Philippines initial defeat, long-term resistance, and subsequent liberation campaign still needs the big-budget modern telling that Normandy, Easy, and the island campaign got. Hopefully someone with the same credibility eventually gets to it. Definitely wasn't the same type of war as Nimitz and the Marines were fighting, despite the similar climates.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 Couldn't agree more. The entire Philippine story in the War is epic by every measure of the word and deserving of its own series.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 Agreed. The Filipino guerrillas were quite a pain in the ass for the Japanese that by the time MacArthur returned in October 1944, some provinces were already liberated from Japanese forces.
Marines also tend to call their leaders "Skippers" etc etc
@@TheAlkochef The HELL we did.
Banzai charges into gunfire worked when they fought the poorly equipped and untrained Chinese, who ran. The same tactic didn’t work when they attacked the Americans.
Yes, the US started fighting Japan right after Pearl Harbor in 1942. We also fought with our allies against the Germans in Africa in 1942. We did not invade Europe until 1944.
There is always a rivalry between military branches, but they rally together when they have a common enemy.
He vomited from drinking peach juice because his stomach couldn’t take the shock of all that sugar after having only rice for so long.
I also want to add that the US and it’s allies invaded Italy in 1943. Also, the banzai charge did work on the Americans, British and Dutch when they invaded their colonies in the Pacific/Asia. Those forces were poorly led and ill-equipped when they first faced the Japanese, who absolutely obliterated them, often by breaking their lines with Banzai charges. This experience coupled with the fact that western soldiers would surrender instead of fight to the death reinforced the myth that the Japanese were racially superior to the westerners and that arrogance carried over when they went up against the much better trained and equipped US Marines.
@@Perfectly_Cromulent351 True, forgot about Italy. And those Allied forces surrendered, not ran away.
"Why?" In explaination for the puking remember, by this point the Marines had been stranded on Guadalcanal for months living on the meager or no basic supplies (food, medicine, even TP) that was left with them (after the battle of Savo island when the navy was beaten in the night battle See Ep 1) and when those ran out the Marines used the captured stores of Japanese provisions including Rice, Whale Meat, and Saki Rice Wine (which they had to be careful of as reports indicated the Japanese poisoned the Saki). After months of eating nothing but rice and the body adjusting to it suddenly the body is introduced to antioxidents, vitamins, and other long term absent nutrients in the peaches the body rejected it before the system went into shock and hence Leakey earned the name "Peaches" and why runner's ass was spending quality time on the log with the runs. Add to the lack of any nutrition you have Malaria, jungle rot, dengue fever, all sorts of ther tropical diseases, inconsitent non-stop rain, and of course fighting the Japanese.
"Assault in the night?" That would be the "Tokyo express" where the Japanese navy would bombard the marines in the night (whom were trained and experienced in night ops). They couldn't control the island and the seas in daylight but at night the Japanese could bombard the Americans in an attempt to weaken them.
I'm sure they weren't too eager to get to the Phillipines in 1942 as it was still under Japanese control at that time lol.
Guadalcanal was the first offensive action for the United States and 1st Marine Division was the first to fight, having taken and fended off the Japanese Army without food or other supplies instilled the Marine Corps lore of 1st Marines.
General Lewis "Chesty" Puller is a Marine Corps legend as well. I believe he is still the most highly decorated Marine in US history. Only Marine to receive 5 Navy Crosses and is second in US military history to WWI fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker for awards of the nation's 2nd highest military award for valor. Also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Legion of Merit with combat "V" device (valor) twice, Bronze Star with "V" device, Air Medal 3 times, Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation 4 times, Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal w/bronze star, Haitian Campaign Medal, Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal, China Service Medal, American Defense Service Medal w/bronze star, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/4 bronze stars, Korean Service Medal w/silver star, Haitian Médaille militaire, Nicaraguan Presidential Medal of Merit w/gold star, Nicaraguan Cross of Valor w/Diploma, Korean Order of Military Merit "Eulji Cordon Medal", Republic of China Order of the Cloud and Banner w/Special Cravat, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, United Nations Service Medal for Korea. He enlisted near the end of WWI. Served in the "Banana Wars" (Central America), WWII and the Korean War.
14:41 the talk he had with his son was my favorite scene in the series. Powerful stuff.
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They entered the war officially in 1941 after Pearl Harbor. Guadalcanal was their first offensive into Japanese territory. They didn’t enter Europe until 1944. Keep up the good work on the channel!
They invaded Italy in 1943.
The US Army Air Corps started bombing Europe from bases in England in 1942 the same year Operation Torch started in Africa. Once the Italians were pushed out of Africa the battle was taken to Italy in 1943. Keep in mind the US Army was ranked 17th behind Portugal at the start of the war it takes time to build a military that can fight a two front war.
The first ground offensive against the Japanese. We bombed Tokyo earlier on one occasion called the "Doolittle Raid"...
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The original historical background segments that introduced each episode are available on RUclips. They provide key background information and are meant to be watched before the episodes like the interviews in Band of Brothers. Here are the two you've missed so far:
Part 1: ruclips.net/video/ucSXu0vdZ3M/видео.html
Part 2: ruclips.net/video/bodBnGn1gRQ/видео.html
Regarding the seemingly reckless Japanese infantry tactics: they had served the Imperial Japanese Army well early in the war. They worked in China against a disorganized enemy, and were able to push back the unprepared Americans and British during their surprise offensive across the Pacific. Allied troops surrendered en masse as their garrisons fell, and the Japanese expected more of the same. However, starting in 1942 they ran into well-trained, well-armed, well-motivated troops that had crossed the pacific to fight them. Those troops stood their ground and things did not go well for the IJA. It took the Japanese a while to adjust to that new reality. They kept implementing their once-successful bayonet assaults with ruinous consequences until it become painfully obvious that they needed to change tactics.
Also, the Philippines was a U.S. Army show. No U.S. Marine divisions fought to liberate the Philippines so those islands won't be featured in this series. The Great Raid is the only movie I can think of to feature the Philippines Campaign...at least since they started making them in color! (Make sure to watch the unrated director's cut if you ever choose to check it out.)
"On 1 December 1945, three months after the official surrender of Japan" ... the last Japanese unit on Saipan island, led by Captain Oba, which had resisted capture 512 days under American occupation. Only when his former commander, now back in Japan, personally ordered him to surrender, did he do so. There were individual Japanese soldiers as late as1974 that hid in the jungle.
Another great reaction! The battle of Guadalcanal, where Leckie and Basilone fight, was the turning point in the pacific campaign. It literally saved Australia from being invaded by the Japanese and started the Allied counterattack at the same time as Europe! 👍🏻
I also found it took me longer to get into The Pacific than BoB. The early episodes are higher action, but less personal. The next episode you'll see is the opposite, essentially a war themed soap opera. The second half of the series though. . .wow, it hits hard. Watching the story arc/character development of Sledge is something else, man.
Band of Brothers was a book, and the series followed that book closely. Pacific follows like 3 different books, so it's not like you're watching a single comprehensive story arc. It definitely feels more jumbled and chaotic.
The Japanese controlled the waters around Guadalcanal at night, when Army and Navy planes couldn't fly. As a result, they were send their ships down from Rabaul to shell Henderson Field by night...
Timeline check: Easy Company, Second Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division might no longer have been running Currahee during this period, but they were still in training at the time.
Here's a link to a list of Japanese holdouts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout
The Marines never fought in Japan. We fought on most of the Japanese controlled islands but never landed on the mainland of Japan. We were trying to avoid it after Okinawa and Iwo Jima.
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I think my man here is confusing America’s involvement in WW1, which only lasted a year, with WW2. Fun fact - the US joined the war only 6 months after the Soviet Union was invaded.
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
-Japanese Admiral Yamamoto after the Pearl Harbor attack.
Marine medics are called "Corpsman" and are Navy personnel.
to the Japanese the most honorable thing to do in battle is die, and the most dishonorable was to surrender. thats why so many of the Japanese soldiers in the show are depicted with little regard for their life.
This and sadly there disdain for allied POWs
Feudal psychology with modern weaponry. Very dangerous. The ideology of serving the Emperor was absolute, and far more deeply rooted than the relatively recent political innovations in 1930s/40s Germany. So absolute that the US didn't even consider it worth the trouble to really end it. Just to swallow it whole into the Western alliance after the war. Hence the Japanese royal family still being a thing, and still totally taboo to criticize or demean in any way.
The inequity continues today. Army is supplied first. The marines on Guadalcanal were armed with WWI bolt action Springfield rifles, while the Army had the new M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle.
I hope that you guys react to 1917, War Horse ,and Dunkirk as your next War movies.
Thank you for the suggestions 😊
The Japanese were a lot smarter in their tactics than the first episode showed, there defensive abilities were well shown in new Guinea and other area's.
"Marines Make Do"! The US Army had better gear but Marines like telling everyone how hard done by they are, even today 😁. Marines come under the Department of the Navy.
The Americans entered WWII when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese December 7, 1941.
The marines before this war, where severely underfunded so they made do with what they had, wasn’t till after this campaign they started receiving new gear. So unlike the army the marines are under the department of the navy, Japanese underestimate the American resolve and morale, being used to overrunning Chinese nationalist with these charges wouldn’t be until later in the war they became more defensive and let the marines come to them
We still are and still do. We still get new gear much later than other branches and quite often it's used. I remember in my company we only had a few brand new M240 machineguns after they finally phased out the M60, which we used for several years while the Army had the newer model. It's a little better more recently since we've been in active conflict. But, Marines are usually last to get new gear.
@@helmedon oh I know, being in the navy I see how it is, but the real branch that gets shafted for new gear is the coast guard, almost most of there cutters are from 70s/80s and if they are new it’s still taking forever to get the the new ones
THey won't end up in the Phillipines, the Army Liberated, mostly because McCarthur was an Army General and managed to designate Phillipines as an Army operation.
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The Japanese had met only with success. They had never faced any force like the Marines.
Still waiting...
Hoping that J walker Red was a better scotch than the J Walker Red of today, that is some nasty stuff.
Funny thing about the bombardment where they're all hiding in the dugouts, or a strange thing I should say, is that it only killed 43 American soldiers when there were 20,000 on the island at that time. It's still nerve-shattering, but the show gives you the impression it was much worse.
How many wounded?
New BATMAN trailer reaction please!
Watch. The man in the high Castle.
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Yeah, that is a great show!
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