I commanded a gunboat a couple of decades ago. We had no armour worth speaking of, all we had was speed, firepower and extreme diligence. I once caught myself wishing for muzzle fire, so that we had something to aim at. If we weren't crazy before we went there, we were for sure before we came back. Those of us that came back that is.
MacArthur VS. Rommel I think Rommel is the better. Commander Mac was a showman and loved being in front of cameras what solder wears patent leather shoes wading in surf and rivers - all for show!!!!
Though the efforts of the majority of the soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen during Vietnam, a conflict which I myself was involved in, was stupendous. The fact that it was all brought about from the lie of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, uttered from Johnson's lips but which history has proven never took place (our own government has since admitted that it never took place) makes him nothing short of a murderer employed by the military industrial complex. The fact that over 50,000 young people of my generation had to die to make this collection of scum even richer and change the society that I grew up in forever still, to this day angers me greatly.
@Philip Freeman Thanks for your service ~ but I totally disagree with your skewed view blaming it all on the military/industrial complex . Of course you are free to voice your opinion, as I can voice mine. And I say your opinion stinks ! Nice accolades for those of us who fought in that war ~ YES, I have as much right as you to give my opposing opinion to your lopsided view. I was there also, an 0311 Marine L/Cpl. of Charlie Co.,1 Bn.,1 Regt, 1 MARDIV, What you so conveniently forget is that long before the conflict began, we had treaty agreements with many countries in the world at that time ,as we do today. Like So. Korea, Philippines Republic, and So. Vietnam. North Vietnam's attack on So. Vietnam ensured we would be forced into the war to uphold our treaty, and show the Communists they could not roll over another country without severe consequences. Furthermore, despite a lack of brilliant leadership, WE ~The men and boys of the Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force and Cost Guard, decimated the f***in' Commies, WE were winning ! The war was only lost due to weak-kneed , spineless politicians, and a IRRESPONSIBLE,CALLOUS,BACKSTABBING, UN-AMERICAN MSM who broadcast the war with extreme bias every day and night. If the same constant biased reporting had been used from 1940 t0 1945, even that VERY NECESSARY war would have made American public clamor to pull out ! The major reason for the Vietnam War ending as it did was due to a biased media and meddling politicians ~ for which I still HATE both with a bitter passion to this day !!! (served in USMC, USAF (R), and ARNG, S/Sgt.,Ret.)
I served on the LPH-7, and the CV-62, but my "best" , most favorite time in the USN was as the OIC of what had to be one of the last functioning PBR squadrons in the navy. I loved those little , fast, plastic boats. They were actually "fun" to drive.
no mention of the RN insect class gunboats that fought in almost every continent and two world wars and the last one being sunk as a gunnery exercise :>(
FDR should have told Congress and the American people in 1937 to build up our defenses. We needed to build up our defense capability to defend the Western Hemisphere from naval and air attack. We also needed good infantry divisions to defend our outposts in the Atlantic and the Pacific from ground invasion for enemy bases for further attacks against North America.The United States should have started building a two ocean navy with a dozen carriers, antiaircraft cruisers, fleet submarines, and a large naval aviation corps. The Army should have been built a MILLION MAN ARMY with at least 20 infantry divisions with several motorized transport battalions, trucks for all artillery, and with modern tanks in every division. The Army Air Force should have had a couple thousand fighter planes and many squadrons of bombers with airfields and training facilities for pilots. These amount of troops with a two ocean navy were just to defend the Western Hemisphere with troops, air squadrons, and naval bases in Alaska, Midway island, Hawaii, and the Panama Canal. We also needed more airbases and naval bases in the Caribbean. We needed to work on defensive plans with Brazil, Mexico, and Canada. We needed to work with Australia and New Zealand to protect shipping supply lines.Many Goodyear blimps for the Navy and Coast Guard could have been used to patrol the coasts along with long range aircraft against enemy U-boats on both coasts. Our officers should have studied the last year of the First World War both on the land and naval front for any historical ideas with relevance in the 1930's. The German U-boat campaign in late 1916 was pretty successful in sinking merchant ships. We should have learned that fighting on the surface with fleet submarines at night was a good tactic because the Germans did this often using their deckguns in the First World War. The British set up an excellent field observer system with searchlights and antiaircraft guns coordinated with an information center for analysis, command control, and communications. We could have talked to the British about their Air Force and radar systems and told them, "How can we make these things better"? We should have had the British observer, radar and information centers on our West coast, Alaska, Hawaii and in the Northeast for starters. Just think how many lives could have been saved at Pearl Harbor had we had adequate civil defense, bomb shelters, a trained observer corps, some radar and a command information center with air raid practice drills. No one is saying we could have stopped the Japanese air attack. However, civil defense, bomb shelters and air raid drills could have saved lots of lives. Civil defense would have made us a harder target at minimal cost against surprise enemy naval or air attack. The Brits were doing most of this stuff already. All we needed to do was essentially copy what they were doing after some technical study. The American people can be amazingly stubborn, parochial, and narrow minded when faced with international danger right in front of their faces. German and Italian fascists were on the march in Europe and Africa. The Spanish Civil war was in full gear with fascist Germany and Italy assisting Franco against the Re0ublicans. The Panay incident just underscored the fact that WW2 started in Asia in 1937. The isolationists helped cause at least 100,000 unnecessary American casualties in 1942 from our lack of military preparedness. Nobody likes war and the death or the misery it causes. However, losing a war or suffering many tens of thousands of casualties from surprise attack and military unpreparedness, in the face of an aggressive enemy or enemies, is totally irrational and inexcusable.
So the isolationist US should have mobilized an economy still mired in the depression in 1937 because of some fighting in South Siberia between Asian people that had little impact on most Americans? And you think that would have passed Congress? Fully nationalize the economy, sure no problem. I bet the rest of the world wouldnt have paid any attention, damn the treaties limiting the number of ships the US had. What ground invasion did we need to protect the US from? The American people were going to accept having a large peacetime standing army in the US for the first time because some islands in the Pacific could get capture? Not likely. Throw a couple couple more US Army divisions in the Philippines and it provokes Japan further towards taking offensive action against the US. Japan didnt want a war vs the US at that time but felt provoked by the US and Hitler demanded it of them while providing the securing of occupying the Soviets in war so they wouldnt invade Manchuria. And acting like US Arny leadership was being idle is flawed because Gen Marshall was firing and replacing leaders like crazy because they did not conform to the martial thinking he wanted to US to act with when war started. And who was going to pay for the new military? Tax the hell out of the depression economy? Were we going to turn to the international bond market in all the other countries in the depression? Do you believe that a war bond drive in the US would garner a lot of interest from Anericans at paying for fighter planes because on group of German people (Austria) decided to join another group of German people (Germany) as a country and this posed s threat to America?
FDR was an astute politician who knew trouble was on the horizon. If he could have built up a bigger military he would have done so. He had great difficulty getting the military to the state it was in and the military expansion(draft) was approved by one vote in Congress.
World War Two did not start in Asia in 1937. It started in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles. French Premier Clemenceau even stated "This is not peace. This is a ceasefire for 20 years".
Yes I agree, I would love to know why they didn't rescue General Wainwright & leave that Narcissistic S.O.B. MacArthur. Anyway, besides disliking MacArthur immensely he would have driven the Japanese completely insane as a prisoner & may very well brought about an early surrender, just so they could get rid of the bastard. LOL
It was based on a book written by a Yangtze Patrol sailor. The model for the San Pablo was the Villalobos PG-42, a Spanish-built gunboat that was captured during the Spanish-American War. The time frame of the movie was 1926, long after the Boxer Rebellion, during a time of great unrest in China. The Villalobos was decommissioned and sunk as a target in 1928 after having served with the U.S. Navy for 27 years.
Low Casualties. His preparedness for attack was awful. But, once engaged, his forces fought well and bought time. New Guinea was a meat grinder. After that, he took more, with far less casualties than Nimitz USMC drive through the Central Pacific. That situation was different in topography to say the least. If you like to read try "The American Caesar" by Manchester.
The low casualties attributed to MacArthur is bullshit. The entire island hopping strategy was to hit weakly defended Japanese islands and bypass and isolate the strongly held ones. He held his post because the situation was so bad and US morale so low Roosevelt and General Marshall did not want to damage it further. MacArthur's metal of honor was a political gesture for boosting the nations morale. General Eisenhower objected to it and stated he saw no reason to award the metal to MacArthur who lost the Philippines despite having a force outnumbering the Japanese by over 2 to 1, but his objection was overruled. Furthermore, it was revealed in the 1970's that MacArthur during his tenure as commander of US Army Forces in the Far East took over $500,000 in bribes from the Philippine government. $500,000 in the 1940's would be over $9,100,000 in 2019.
While General MacArthur could be portrayed by history as a great strategic thinker, I think it is far safer to remember him for what he really was. An enormously egotistical man who zeal from the beginning of his military career to the end, to be at the forefront caused many of the soldiers he was responsible for to end up being used as nothing more than cannon fodder. He like his European counterpart, General Patton were both military men of a bygone era.
While I myself served as a naval officer, my father was a "grunt", and served in every rank, as an Infantryman, from E-1 to O-6, and commanded everything from a squad to a full Brigade. He disliked MacArthur as a soldier and a man. My dad had THREE Silver Stars, a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star with the "V" device and fought in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. He had a very low opinion of "Dug-Out Doug". I think he had the bona fides to determine who was a good soldier and who was not. MacArthur was an egomaniac that wasted many good soldiers lives so he could play the hero.
@@ThePrader yeah, when he re located his HQ to Australia, Aussie Politicians of the time thought he was arrogant and wanted nothing to do with him. If it wasn't for US Command pushing him on Australia, I believe he would have been forgotten very quickly. The key strategic battle anyway, was the Battle of the Coral Sea, which was won by the USN. But MacArthur even tried o claim credit for that.
The producers could well have skipped most of the clips of carriers, MacArthur and Roosevelt, to give space for the numerous gunboats, such as LCI(G), PG, LCG, and other heavily gunned small craft that were major actors in the amphibious assaults in the Med, Pacific,and Atlantic during WW 2, and worked with the DD's on barrier patrol off Okinawa, giving warning of the kamikaze swarms aiming for the troopships and carriers.
@ 12345sc1 Lighten up, Francis. It was a fair constructive critique of the documentary. Just because someone offers up an opinion that isn't wholly positive doesn't necessarily mean they're whining. Yeesh.
14:37 "The Japanese ...scrambled to come up with an answer to Roosevelt's demands." Wasn't hari kari always their default solution for face saving? It would have saved a lot of lives.
At this period of Japanese history, the militarists lead by those in the Imperial Japanese Army had started to taken control of Japan through intimidation and assassination of those who oppose their imperialists agenda. It would had been suicidal for the few members of the Japanese government who wanted peace to demand the removal or punishment of the Japanese general responsible for the attack on the USS Panay. Even Admiral Yamamoto, who years later planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, did not want war with the US had to be sent to sea to protect him from being assassinated by the Japanese Imperial Army. Yamamoto was one of the few high ranking officers in the Japanese military who opposed the war with China. He personally apologized to the US Secretary of State over the USS Panay attack and warned about the warhawks in the Japanese government. Like General Robert E. Lee, Yamamoto opposed the war but had to fight it. It's ironic that he who admired the US having lived and studied (at Harvard University) in the US was kill in the war by the US.
Barzini later summed up why Mussolini fell: As long as Musso put on a good show, most Italians loved him or at least put up with him. But the show turned bad as soon as he jumped into the war. Bismarck's estimate of Italy turned out to be still very much true: good appetite, but poor teeth.
6:07 *Woodrow* Borah?? Senator *William Edward* Borah, the Lion of Idaho, was an Isolationist--but he was also happy to get the Navy to reline it's battleship cannon in Pocatello, which wasn't much of a seaport the last time I was there. He's maybe most famous for coining the phrase "Phony War", and was prudent enough to die before Hitler proved it was anything but a phony war by conquering Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France in about two months.
General Mac Author's greatest Military maneuver was held in the Washington Mall where he orchestrated the Military to take action against the Soldiers of WW I who were trying to get MONEY OWED to them by our government for participating in WW I, most of them having starving families and lost homes in the Depression. Mac Author used our nations troops to kill and burn out those protestors, he was nothing of a hero. Look up Bonus Army, and find out just our representatives look out for our best interests, MacAuthor Eisenhower and Patton were all involved in the action.
If I recall correctly, another term for the Washington Mall veterans was "Hoxeys Army". You are correct that General McArthur was the coordinator for the assaults agagainst the veterans. At that time MacArthur was Chief of Staff (4 Star rank) for the US Army. He "retired" in 1936 (Possibly forced to retire). I had more respect for General Patton than I did for MacArthur. If I recall correctly, Patton's Third Army had the least amount of casualties out of the four Field Armies (1st, 3rd, 7th, & 9th) that were deployed in France.
GUNBOATS were not fast motor torpedo boats as depicted in this video, the only gunboat in this video is the 1937 one. The gunboat era was basically from the 1850's to the end of WW2, the US as depicted in this video as usual is the only nation to have gunboats, other nations had them to. Not a very good depiction of GUNBOATS does this video describe.
I served on USN PG 92 USS Tacoma in '72 in Vietnam on Operstion Market Time. These boats were fast 40+knts with radar guided guns but that speed was at a cost as the hull was aluminum and superstructure was fiber glass so negligible protection from small arms or rpgs. PG 90 USS Canon was most decorated USN ship during Viet Nam had 18 casualties with only 24 crew when ambushed by VC.
I commanded a gunboat a couple of decades ago.
We had no armour worth speaking of, all we had was speed, firepower and extreme diligence.
I once caught myself wishing for muzzle fire, so that we had something to aim at.
If we weren't crazy before we went there, we were for sure before we came back.
Those of us that came back that is.
Thanks for sharing your experiences! But most of all, I thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service!🇱🇷
MacArthur VS. Rommel
I think Rommel is the better. Commander Mac was a showman and loved being in front of cameras what solder wears patent leather shoes wading in surf and rivers - all for show!!!!
Though the efforts of the majority of the soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen during Vietnam, a conflict which I myself was involved in, was stupendous. The fact that it was all brought about from the lie of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, uttered from Johnson's lips but which history has proven never took place (our own government has since admitted that it never took place) makes him nothing short of a murderer employed by the military industrial complex. The fact that over 50,000 young people of my generation had to die to make this collection of scum even richer and change the society that I grew up in forever still, to this day angers me greatly.
@Philip Freeman Thanks for your service ~ but I totally disagree with your skewed view blaming it all on the military/industrial complex . Of course you are free to voice your opinion, as I can voice mine. And I say your opinion stinks ! Nice accolades for those of us who fought in that war ~ YES, I have as much right as you to give my opposing opinion to your lopsided view. I was there also, an 0311 Marine L/Cpl. of Charlie Co.,1 Bn.,1 Regt, 1 MARDIV, What you so conveniently forget is that long before the conflict began, we had treaty agreements with many countries in the world at that time ,as we do today. Like So. Korea, Philippines Republic, and So. Vietnam. North Vietnam's attack on So. Vietnam ensured we would be forced into the war to uphold our treaty, and show the Communists they could not roll over another country without severe consequences. Furthermore, despite a lack of brilliant leadership, WE ~The men and boys of the Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force and Cost Guard, decimated the f***in' Commies, WE were winning ! The war was only lost due to weak-kneed , spineless politicians, and a IRRESPONSIBLE,CALLOUS,BACKSTABBING, UN-AMERICAN MSM who broadcast the war with extreme bias every day and night. If the same constant biased reporting had been used from 1940 t0 1945, even that VERY NECESSARY war would have made American public clamor to pull out ! The major reason for the Vietnam War ending as it did was due to a biased media and meddling politicians ~ for which I still HATE both with a bitter passion to this day !!! (served in USMC, USAF (R), and ARNG, S/Sgt.,Ret.)
@@brucemorrison2132 Simp.
Blue Water Sailor. Brown Water Navy. A very good book about PBRs.
I served for a bit on an aluminum PB MKll or was it MKlll out of Coronado CA.
I served on the LPH-7, and the CV-62, but my "best" , most favorite time in the USN was as the OIC of what had to be one of the last functioning PBR squadrons in the navy. I loved those little , fast, plastic boats. They were actually "fun" to drive.
no mention of the RN insect class gunboats that fought in almost every continent and two world wars and the last one being sunk as a gunnery exercise :>(
FDR should have told Congress and the American people in 1937 to build up our defenses. We needed to build up our defense capability to defend the Western Hemisphere from naval and air attack. We also needed good infantry divisions to defend our outposts in the Atlantic and the Pacific from ground invasion for enemy bases for further attacks against North America.The United States should have started building a two ocean navy with a dozen carriers, antiaircraft cruisers, fleet submarines, and a large naval aviation corps. The Army should have been built a MILLION MAN ARMY with at least 20 infantry divisions with several motorized transport battalions, trucks for all artillery, and with modern tanks in every division. The Army Air Force should have had a couple thousand fighter planes and many squadrons of bombers with airfields and training facilities for pilots.
These amount of troops with a two ocean navy were just to defend the Western Hemisphere with troops, air squadrons, and naval bases in Alaska, Midway island, Hawaii, and the Panama Canal. We also needed more airbases and naval bases in the Caribbean. We needed to work on defensive plans with Brazil, Mexico, and Canada. We needed to work with Australia and New Zealand to protect shipping supply lines.Many Goodyear blimps for the Navy and Coast Guard could have been used to patrol the coasts along with long range aircraft against enemy U-boats on both coasts. Our officers should have studied the last year of the First World War both on the land and naval front for any historical ideas with relevance in the 1930's. The German U-boat campaign in late 1916 was pretty successful in sinking merchant ships. We should have learned that fighting on the surface with fleet submarines at night was a good tactic because the Germans did this often using their deckguns in the First World War. The British set up an excellent field observer system with searchlights and antiaircraft guns coordinated with an information center for analysis, command control, and communications. We could have talked to the British about their Air Force and radar systems and told them, "How can we make these things better"? We should have had the British observer, radar and information centers on our West coast, Alaska, Hawaii and in the Northeast for starters. Just think how many lives could have been saved at Pearl Harbor had we had adequate civil defense, bomb shelters, a trained observer corps, some radar and a command information center with air raid practice drills. No one is saying we could have stopped the Japanese air attack. However, civil defense, bomb shelters and air raid drills could have saved lots of lives. Civil defense would have made us a harder target at minimal cost against surprise enemy naval or air attack. The Brits were doing most of this stuff already. All we needed to do was essentially copy what they were doing after some technical study.
The American people can be amazingly stubborn, parochial, and narrow minded when faced with international danger right in front of their faces. German and Italian fascists were on the march in Europe and Africa. The Spanish Civil war was in full gear with fascist Germany and Italy assisting Franco against the Re0ublicans. The Panay incident just underscored the fact that WW2 started in Asia in 1937. The isolationists helped cause at least 100,000 unnecessary American casualties in 1942 from our lack of military preparedness. Nobody likes war and the death or the misery it causes. However, losing a war or suffering many tens of thousands of casualties from surprise attack and military unpreparedness, in the face of an aggressive enemy or enemies, is totally irrational and inexcusable.
So the isolationist US should have mobilized an economy still mired in the depression in 1937 because of some fighting in South Siberia between Asian people that had little impact on most Americans? And you think that would have passed Congress? Fully nationalize the economy, sure no problem. I bet the rest of the world wouldnt have paid any attention, damn the treaties limiting the number of ships the US had.
What ground invasion did we need to protect the US from? The American people were going to accept having a large peacetime standing army in the US for the first time because some islands in the Pacific could get capture? Not likely. Throw a couple couple more US Army divisions in the Philippines and it provokes Japan further towards taking offensive action against the US. Japan didnt want a war vs the US at that time but felt provoked by the US and Hitler demanded it of them while providing the securing of occupying the Soviets in war so
they wouldnt invade Manchuria.
And acting like US Arny leadership was being idle is flawed because Gen Marshall was firing and replacing leaders like crazy because they did not conform to the martial thinking he wanted to US to act with when war started.
And who was going to pay for the new military? Tax the hell out of the depression economy? Were we going to turn to the international bond market in all the other countries in the depression? Do you believe that a war bond drive in the US would garner a lot of interest from Anericans at paying for fighter planes because on group of German people (Austria) decided to join another group of German people (Germany) as a country and this posed s threat to America?
FDR was an astute politician who knew trouble was on the horizon. If he could have built up a bigger military he would have done so. He had great difficulty getting the military to the state it was in and the military expansion(draft) was approved by one vote in Congress.
World War Two did not start in Asia in 1937.
It started in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles.
French Premier Clemenceau even stated "This is not peace. This is a ceasefire for 20 years".
The US has always started every war we fought, from behind. We have never been ready for any one of them, even when we knew they were coming.
a documentary of PT-35's passengers and crew escape to Australia would be interesting.
Yes I agree, I would love to know why they didn't rescue General Wainwright & leave that Narcissistic S.O.B. MacArthur.
Anyway, besides disliking MacArthur immensely he would have driven the Japanese completely insane as a prisoner &
may very well brought about an early surrender, just so they could get rid of the bastard. LOL
Before the Yangtze River event American gunboats were in China. Steve McQueen said so in the movie Sand Pebbles
Afew boats did get our but got wasted by the abda cololation
It was based on a book written by a Yangtze Patrol sailor. The model for the San Pablo was the Villalobos PG-42, a Spanish-built gunboat that was captured during the Spanish-American War. The time frame of the movie was 1926, long after the Boxer Rebellion, during a time of great unrest in China. The Villalobos was decommissioned and sunk as a target in 1928 after having served with the U.S. Navy for 27 years.
originally 'gunboats' were Monitors - more guns than boats
Mccarther must have had pictures of someone high up in a very compromising position with a sheep. How else did he hold his post?
Low Casualties. His preparedness for attack was awful. But, once engaged, his forces fought well and bought time. New Guinea was a meat grinder. After that, he took more, with far less casualties than Nimitz USMC drive through the Central Pacific. That situation was different in topography to say the least. If you like to read try "The American Caesar" by Manchester.
The low casualties attributed to MacArthur is bullshit. The entire island hopping strategy was to hit weakly defended Japanese islands and bypass and isolate the strongly held ones. He held his post because the situation was so bad and US morale so low Roosevelt and General Marshall did not want to damage it further. MacArthur's metal of honor was a political gesture for boosting the nations morale. General Eisenhower objected to it and stated he saw no reason to award the metal to MacArthur who lost the Philippines despite having a force outnumbering the Japanese by over 2 to 1, but his objection was overruled. Furthermore, it was revealed in the 1970's that MacArthur during his tenure as commander of US Army Forces in the Far East took over $500,000 in bribes from the Philippine government. $500,000 in the 1940's would be over $9,100,000 in 2019.
I always wanted to be on a Patrol Boat, but the RAN sent me to a Frigate instead. Dammit.
While General MacArthur could be portrayed by history as a great strategic thinker, I think it is far safer to remember him for what he really was. An enormously egotistical man who zeal from the beginning of his military career to the end, to be at the forefront caused many of the soldiers he was responsible for to end up being used as nothing more than cannon fodder. He like his European counterpart, General Patton were both military men of a bygone era.
While I myself served as a naval officer, my father was a "grunt", and served in every rank, as an Infantryman, from E-1 to O-6, and commanded everything from a squad to a full Brigade. He disliked MacArthur as a soldier and a man. My dad had THREE Silver Stars, a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star with the "V" device and fought in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. He had a very low opinion of "Dug-Out Doug". I think he had the bona fides to determine who was a good soldier and who was not. MacArthur was an egomaniac that wasted many good soldiers lives so he could play the hero.
@@ThePrader yeah, when he re located his HQ to Australia, Aussie Politicians of the time thought he was arrogant and wanted nothing to do with him. If it wasn't for US Command pushing him on Australia, I believe he would have been forgotten very quickly.
The key strategic battle anyway, was the Battle of the Coral Sea, which was won by the USN. But MacArthur even tried o claim credit for that.
The producers could well have skipped most of the clips of carriers, MacArthur and Roosevelt, to give space for the numerous gunboats, such as LCI(G), PG, LCG, and other heavily gunned small craft that were major actors in the amphibious assaults in the Med, Pacific,and Atlantic during WW 2, and worked with the DD's on barrier patrol off Okinawa, giving warning of the kamikaze swarms aiming for the troopships and carriers.
Gee if you didn't like it then produce your own. Nobody and I mean NOBODY likes a crying little crap like you.
@ 12345sc1 Lighten up, Francis. It was a fair constructive critique of the documentary. Just because someone offers up an opinion that isn't wholly positive doesn't necessarily mean they're whining. Yeesh.
PT boats don't really fit into the same category as gunboats.
they forgot the floating tanks used by the USSR Navy and the US PGM boats to
DE were used a picket ships. My grandmother's brother on the U.S.S. EMMONS was killed off Okinawa.
14:37 "The Japanese ...scrambled to come up with an answer to Roosevelt's demands." Wasn't hari kari always their default solution for face saving? It would have saved a lot of lives.
Sure would've.
At this period of Japanese history, the militarists lead by those in the Imperial Japanese Army had started to taken control of Japan through intimidation and assassination of those who oppose their imperialists agenda. It would had been suicidal for the few members of the Japanese government who wanted peace to demand the removal or punishment of the Japanese general responsible for the attack on the USS Panay. Even Admiral Yamamoto, who years later planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, did not want war with the US had to be sent to sea to protect him from being assassinated by the Japanese Imperial Army. Yamamoto was one of the few high ranking officers in the Japanese military who opposed the war with China. He personally apologized to the US Secretary of State over the USS Panay attack and warned about the warhawks in the Japanese government. Like General Robert E. Lee, Yamamoto opposed the war but had to fight it. It's ironic that he who admired the US having lived and studied (at Harvard University) in the US was kill in the war by the US.
History repeats. Anti ship missile's are the new threat
Luckily, it woke up the defense department.
~9:00 Forgot to mention the most famous person aboard, Luigi Barzini, who wrote a memorable description of the attack.
Luigi Barzini was a fascist and the ghost writer of The Autobiography of Benito Mussolini.
That may be why he is left out of this documentary.
Fascists deserve to be forgotten by history.
We shall only remember their crimes to humanity.
Barzini later summed up why Mussolini fell: As long as Musso put on a good show, most Italians loved him or at least put up with him. But the show turned bad as soon as he jumped into the war. Bismarck's estimate of Italy turned out to be still very much true: good appetite, but poor teeth.
"Good appetite, but poor teeth."
I didn't know that one, but I will remember it 😎
6:07 *Woodrow* Borah?? Senator *William Edward* Borah, the Lion of Idaho, was an Isolationist--but he was also happy to get the Navy to reline it's battleship cannon in Pocatello, which wasn't much of a seaport the last time I was there. He's maybe most famous for coining the phrase "Phony War", and was prudent enough to die before Hitler proved it was anything but a phony war by conquering Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France in about two months.
Has any one looked for the resting place of the Pinay ?
i would say the chinese scrapped it as it would be a navigation hazard along with the tankers that went down.
a japanese colonialist that hated colonialists lol.
We had a lot better leaders in WW2 than Gen. Doug.
I would like to find any videos or info about US Navy Junk Force operations in the Vietnam War.
Oldest war documentary
Saito should have been shot on sight. Oops thought he was reaching for a gun.
Phillipenes? Didn't we get those in Spanish war? Remember the main! False flag, like gulf of tonkin. Funny?
General Mac Author's greatest Military maneuver was held in the Washington Mall where he orchestrated the Military to take action against the Soldiers of WW I who were trying to get MONEY OWED to them by our government for participating in WW I, most of them having starving families and lost homes in the Depression. Mac Author used our nations troops to kill and burn out those protestors, he was nothing of a hero. Look up Bonus Army, and find out just our representatives look out for our best interests, MacAuthor Eisenhower and Patton were all involved in the action.
If I recall correctly, another term for the Washington Mall veterans was "Hoxeys Army". You are correct that General McArthur was the coordinator for the assaults agagainst the veterans. At that time MacArthur was Chief of Staff (4 Star rank) for the US Army. He "retired" in 1936 (Possibly forced to retire). I had more respect for General Patton than I did for MacArthur. If I recall correctly, Patton's Third Army had the least amount of casualties out of the four Field Armies (1st, 3rd, 7th, & 9th) that were deployed in France.
Yet one more reason I wholeheartedly support the decision made to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as if Pearl Harbor wasn’t enough!
GUNBOATS were not fast motor torpedo boats as depicted in this video, the only gunboat in this video is the 1937 one. The gunboat era was basically from the 1850's to the end of WW2, the US as depicted in this video as usual is the only nation to have gunboats, other nations had them to. Not a very good depiction of GUNBOATS does this video describe.
I served on USN PG 92 USS Tacoma in '72 in Vietnam on Operstion Market Time. These boats were fast 40+knts with radar guided guns but that speed was at a cost as the hull was aluminum and superstructure was fiber glass so negligible protection from small arms or rpgs. PG 90 USS Canon was most decorated USN ship during Viet Nam had 18 casualties with only 24 crew when ambushed by VC.
When do the Philippines get their independence?
mrsillywalk as of this date, Philippines never get the independence, the Filipino people are still colonized.
Every time I call my satellite dish provider I talk to someone in the Philippines. I'll ask.
July 4,1946
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When did they get their independence*
Officially, shortly after World War 2.
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