The Pacific EP 5 - Peleliu Landing | REACTION | First Time Watching!
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I'm watching The Pacific for the first time ever!
I can't wait to experience this iconic Show for the first time! The Pacific is such a beloved Show by so many people and I can't wait to for you all to watch along with me
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Music composed by: Michael Kamen
Executive producers: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, MORE
Adapted from: Band of Brothers
Created by: Tom Hanks; Steven Spielberg Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson; Richard Loncraine; Mikael Salomon; David Nutter; Tom Hanks; David Leland; David Frankel; Tony To
Hi thanks so much for watching! Just wanted to say that this was edited down from my original edit I tried to upload at first. It went through multiple edits due to not being allowed to post it….this is the final edit that I have been allowed to post so I’m sorry if the text on the screen is bothersome - I get it! 😊 I would also understand if you think the editing is not great or missing certain scenes is annoying - I tried my best! Hope you enjoy it nonetheless ❤
its fine! dont worrry about it.
It's kind of silly since absolutely anyone watching the reaction has seen the series. probably multiple times.
@@signalnine2601 plus since I uploaded I looked at other reactors and they had the scenes in their videos that I wasn’t allowed 🤷🏼♀️ big RUclipsrs with millions of views. I agree it’s very silly
So a few things for this episode. You’ll note the oil drums they were cleaning in the beginning. Someone decided those would be used to transport all of the water for the invasion force. Obviously even a trace amount of oil makes the whole thing undrinkable so there was practically no clean water for the first several days of the battle. The temperature reached 115 degrees (46 degrees Celsius) so you can see how much of a problem it would become very quickly.
In the show Leckie tells Sledge (Leckie and Sledge never actually met each other in reality) that he’s lost his faith in god. However Leckie mentions multiple times in his account that his faith and trust in god is what kept him sane during all this. I think it was simply a creative choice by the writers to show that there were those who lost faith after everything they’d seen and done.
Rami Malek’s character Snafu was a real person and one of Sledge’s best friends. For the show however, they combined several people into Snafu’s character so everything you see him do isn’t necessarily something the real life Snafu did or said. just something to keep in mind for future episodes cuz he does some dark stuff that the real Snafu never did.
The old gruff guy that yelled at the officer at the range is Gunnery sergeant Haney or gunny for short. Haney was a veteran of World War One who volunteered to come back to fight in world war 2. Despite his rank he had no real position of command but he was greatly respected by the men for his experience even if they found him very strange and close to crazy. A lot of what you see him do and say in this episode were real so the guy maybe was a little out of it
For comparison purposes, this was happening at about the same time as Eindhoven (episode 4) in Band of Brothers.
Ooh ok! Thanks for letting me know, it’s actually more interesting thinking about that!
September 15th was the Pelelui landing September 17th was Holland invasion
Marley, one thing I learned about World War II is there are two names when it comes to combat. In the Pacific region is John Basilone and in the European theater it is Audie Murphy. Myself I am partial to Murphy because he is a fellow Texan like me and also I was a member of the third infantry division as well, just not at the same time obviously. Essayons, Sappers lead the way!
No, the real reason is he is being protective of his brother, you never want to see your kid brother go through what you had to go through. Do I know if I'm personal experience? Yes I do but that's another story for another time.
Rock of the Marne
@@alanholck7995 Huaah, Rock of the Marne!
3:29 maybe it isn’t clear but the interviews before these episodes ARE the real people. I find these interviews even more haunting than band of brothers. You can still see the anguish in their eyes.
"Much Darker than I anticipated." Yeah. It gets like that. Semper Fi, Marley.
I from that Island chain called Palau. My family is from Peleliu, that is where i grew up. I then joined the US. military and now I live in England. A lot of the Japanese structures on Peleliu still stand today.
Buckle up. You have now unlocked Eugene Sledge's story- where a naive, young patriot from Alabama slowly descends into Hell to become a war machine carved out of granite
In his later years, Sledge said in an interview that he thought of his life in two parts: before and after the landing on Peleliu. No human being could ever be the same again after an experience like this.
I love your honest empathic response to this series. You combined both head and heart when you said, "I can't believe what these men went through...... It's so scary." Your reactions are pure and I really appreciate them.
Thank you Mike!!! ✨
Impossible to forget that first moment the first time, that split second when realizing that your body is on that ride to an unknown fate, completely and with no control, and mind, conscience, your soul and spirit feel helpless. My stomach shrank. I immediately realized my pals along side, and it helped me. The sun on Sledge's face as the bow ramp lowered, then the track lurching forward bought that back.
That island could’ve been skipped and the Marines could’ve gone to Iwo Jima (which wasn’t defended like it was when we invaded years later since the defenses weren’t built). The reason why we went to the island is because it’s on the way to the Philippines, and because General MacArthur made his promise to come back and retake the island from the Japanese when he was ordered off the island.
There’s a really great documentary called “peleliu 1944 horror in the pacific” which has the some of the men in this show that was in the battle and survived. (You can watch it after the series because I don’t want to spoil who survives) but it gives a great detail about the hell the had to go through.
Thank you! I definitely will watch that documentary!!!
There were many other island landings during the Pacific campaign, some easier, some worse. In November 1943, units of the USMC landed on the islands within Tarawa Atoll. Due to unexpectedly low tides many of the landing craft could not make it over the reef, stranding the marines 500 yards offshore where many would attempt to wade that distance while under intense fire. Thankfully, once ashore, the battle to take the islands only lasted a few days. As a side note, it was at Tarawa Atoll that the actor Eddie Albert (Green Acres, Roman Holiday) acting as the coxswain of a landing craft rescued 40 marines who were marooned offshore and directed the rescue of 37 others, all while under direct machine gun fire. Albert received the bronze star for his actions.
Wow that’s amazing that he saved those marines! I actually don’t know that actor - I haven’t seen those movies but I’d love to now you brought him to my attention!
Excellent comment Lawerence. There was Saipan, where Japanese civilians threw themselves off cliffs rather than be captured. Guam, as you stated, Tarawa. All of these weren't shown Marley because the units the main characters were in were not fighting there. They were though, as Lawrence points out, horrific. The one D-Day everyone knows is June 6th 1944 at Normandy in the ETO (European Theatre of Operations) but there were many D-Days throughout the war. Most of them in the Pacific. Note also as the next two episodes unfold, the change in Japanese tactics away from the wasteful banzai charges to digging in to try to protect themselves from the superior Marine firepower and how this leads to increasingly greater Marine casualties with every invasion. Finally, defenses are set up to be interlocking, one position covering another. Defeating set piece defenses is like pealing an onion. Eventually, you unhinge the defense and get through it, but the cost can be tremendous. Thanks for going through all the effort to post this vs the copyright gnomes. It is an important series to share. The legend of the Marine Corps grew exponentially during WW2, for the reasons you see here.
Thanks! I really liked your response. My father left the safety of Cuba to join the Army right after Pearl Harbor. He nearly lost both his arms. My father-in-law was a waist gunner on a B-24 bomber. My best friend did 2 tours of duty in Vietnam. He died in 1997, a victim of Agent Orange. You are so right, "We can't imagine what men in combat go through." Continue to just be yourself and your channel should grow.
Thank you so much Mike! I really appreciate that! You have a lot of people around you that went through so much! And you too from what you have told me before! I will keep going and I hope you keep enjoying what I make!!!
Mike - after you commented it had me thinking about Vietnam and how I know little about that war. Would you recommend any movies or shows that you know of that you think show a realistic portrayal? I thought I could watch one soon
@@marleysmoviesThere are quite a few movies about the Vietnam war. Most are sensational BS. Two that come to mind are WE WERE SOLDIERS about the early phase of the war and HAMBURGER HILL about the mid phase. The movie PLATOON deals more with the latter stages of the war. Finally there is GOOD MORNING VIETNAM about a radio DJ who gets assigned to Saigon. It stars Robin Williams so you know it's good.
The Vietnam war was unlike any war we had ever fought. Our goal was to stop a communist take over of the South. The only problem was the South Vietnamese government was corrupt to the core, but they were friendly to the West. The war was basically a civil war that we got in the middle of. Vietnam was a colony of France prior to WW2. After the war they decided to take the country back. Ho Chi Minh started a war of Independence against the French. The French were defeated and the country was divided with the promise of elections in 1956. The South refused the elections and the US involvement began. Against advice of many who had experience the US sent military advisors. We were now stuck in a quagmire that became a nightmare for the troops who fought there.
@@marleysmoviesThe movies I mentioned, WE WERE SOLDIERS, HAMBURGER HILL, PLATOON, & GOOD MORNING VIETNAM are the best. When I reread my previous comment it sounded like those movies were BS. In my opinion movies like FULL METAL JACKET & APOCALYPSE NOW may have some good accurate scenes but generally these movies are for entertainment purposes only.
@@mikealvarez2322 I will be watching we were soldiers very soon!!!
This is the turning point of the show. The remainder of the series is just nonstop horror.
I can’t even imagine what lays ahead!!!
The atrocities inflicted by both sides are truly disturbing. Digging the gold teeth out of Japanese soldiers was very common. Other soldiers adorned their foxholes with the skulls of the enemy. The horrifying things that happened are barely hinted at in this series. It was much more disturbing than depicted.
My mother’s father was stationed at Pelielu during the war. I never met him, he died before I was born.
The sad thing about Peleliu was that it was totally unnecessary. They could have just by passed the island and just kept the Japanese isolated like we did on other islands. This was Admiral William "Bull" Halsey's recommendation. His carriers had been in the area and noted very little enemy activity. The Japanese airfield would not have presented a threat to General MacArthur's landings on the Philippines.
The reasons and the plans for taking Pelelieu had been determined the year before. Admiral King, head of the Navy Washington DC, Admiral Nimitz, and General MacArthur all insisted on following through with the old plans which included using Pelelieu as a staging area.
So we took Pelelieu, killed thousands of Japanese, and it only cost us several thousand Marine casualties. The Battle for Pelelieu began September 15th and the island was secured November 27th. MacArthur land in the Philippines in the middle of October, while the fighting was still going on. MacArthur used the island of Ulithie as a staging area. There were virtually no Japanese planes on the airfield so Pelelieu did not present a threat to MacArthur's right flank.
Admiral Halsey was 100% correct, Pelelieu should have been by passed.
Wow !!! That’s really sad!!! 😞
Things get really dark from here on out. There are several reasons why the battles get so much more bloody. They are:
1. The Japanese begin to change tactics. Instead of head on suicidal charges, which always led to their demise, they decided to kill as many US soldiers as possible in hopes that we would grow weary of the war and negotiate a peace beneficial to Japan. The Japanese knew they were losing the war.
2. The battlefields we'd be fighting changed to larger coral islands. The Japanese had been fortifying these islands by digging tunnel systems and underground caves to protect themselves from our artillery and bombers. Once the bombing was over, they would come out to set up their defensive positions.
3. As each of the outer rings of the home land's defense fell the Japanese became more desperate. Once Saipan was taken they knew Japan would be the primary target of our long range bombers (B-29 Superfortress). The Battle of Saipan is not shown in this series.
4. The Japanese soldiers had been indoctrinated into the cult of the warrior. They believed their Emperor was a god and that their lives belong to him. There was no greater joy than to die in battle. Surrendering disgraced the entire family.
5. The Japanese did not adhere to the 1907 Hague convention on war, which they signed. Therefore they committed numerous battlefield war crimes like: Killing the wounded, targeting medics, using white flags to get closer to your enemy to kill them, using civilians as shields (hmm seems like this one is still around), etc. You saw some of these in the movie HACKSAW RIDGE.
I was about to reply that some of this was in Hacksaw Ridge! That’s a lot then!!! I guess the show didn’t have time to put everything in. I wonder if they ever planned to add it in but had to cut it
Can't wait for your next Chernobyl drop beautiful 😍
Editing it right now!
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Saving private ryan vibs on the beach landing. Each episode from now on gets worse fyi
I feel like it’s going to be so intense 😢
These reaction videos are proof that we do a terrible job of teaching US/World history in schools.
I agree. Although in the UK we have a lot of British & European history to learn I suppose they only have so much time with the other lessons. Plus in Wales (where I’m from) we learn Welsh and Welsh history. I would of liked to have learnt more about what I’m learning now in these amazing shows. I think if I had chosen history A level and did a degree in history I probably would have learnt more then, especially at degree level I’m pretty sure US history is on a lot of university courses.
This is where the series starts to get bad.
I mean from a fighting perspective.