Pacific War Every Day with Army Sizes

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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    The Pacific War was a massive war that lasted from July 7, 1937 - Sep 2, 1945. This enormous war was fought between the Japanese and the Allies and saw almost the entire Asian Continent joining a side in the war eventually. This 8 year conflict involving countless nations costed about 7,500,000 lives and left a horrifying mark on this world for generations to come.
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  • @pigeoninanutshell
    @pigeoninanutshell  Год назад +321

    Thank you for watching the video,
    Now here to address mistakes here that I have already replied to, but it seems like people just comment those mistakes again and again.
    First, yes I know I messed up at Papua campgains and the Indonesian Ones, same with the Okinawa and Iwo Jima landings. So here I address them here, I can't do anything about it but only to address it.
    Second, the Philippines Campgain of 1944-1945 Is shown, it might be cause you can't see it clearly but I done it.
    Third, the Pacific island hopping can't be shown due to the map, it just doesn't show the islands, I would included army sizes and Lines that show pacific control over The Allies and the Japanese, but I can't find any data for it, it only shows data at the near end of the war in 1945 August, and the lines are too complex for me to do in a way that it doesn't overlap with the other shape layers that I do in Editing.
    Now I hope I answered most your questions for what hasn't been done. Thank you for watching once again.
    P.S. Note that if you are looking for the maps I use in my videos, for most of my videos I use Google Earth Studio and take a Snapshot, for this Video I used Google Earth Pro.

    • @megarboh790
      @megarboh790 Год назад +3

      What about the Soviet sponsored anti-ROC Ili rebellion that involved SOV ground troops?

    • @praetor4118
      @praetor4118 Год назад +3

      I wish the music a bit lower so you could hear the broadcasts easier, otherwise nice video.

    • @prodaspas5730
      @prodaspas5730 Год назад +1

      hi

    • @coolgraphicpoland
      @coolgraphicpoland Год назад +1

      😅😊😊😅

    • @enkobo8964
      @enkobo8964 Год назад

      INDONESIA IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! THIS IS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDONESIA !!! THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, WE ALWAYS GIVE RESPECT TO EACH OTHER, THEY CAN WALKING ALONE SAFELY EVERYWHERE AND EVERYTIME IN INDONESIA. ALSO DOESNT HAS POOR PEOPLE!!! WE DONT LIKE TO EAT PAGPAG!!! INDONESIA HAS THE STRONGEST MILITARY IN THE WORLD. WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILED EVERYWHERE. 😭 IDONTKNOW WHY SO MANY POOR PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDONESIA??? 😭

  • @theprofessional155
    @theprofessional155 Год назад +1389

    This video will reach a million views one day. Thank you for covering the pacific . So many people ignore it .

    • @ghostv1999
      @ghostv1999 Год назад +53

      yeah the chinese front is so overshadowed by the western (no offense)

    • @mangoman7234
      @mangoman7234 Год назад +31

      who knew that a GTA youtuber would be such a history buff

    • @Big_Caesar1
      @Big_Caesar1 Год назад

      I'm shocked that people ignore it, Europeans treat it like a sideshow, it was extremely important and without USA intervention those japs would have never been dislodged.

    • @carved6749
      @carved6749 Год назад

      The Professional’s Grandpa won a Medal of Honor for being the secretary of GTA how to Grind videos.
      And you wonder why US logi was so good during the War?
      The Nazis even sent a Oppressor Mark 2 to grief The Professionals grandpa. It ran out of fuel due to Germany’s fuel problem and British and American Radar picked it up because, Germany didn’t have enough Stolen Jewish Money to pay Lester.

    • @123blackvenom
      @123blackvenom Год назад +1

      You were dead wrong

  • @Taczy2023
    @Taczy2023 Год назад +436

    The most underrated and over looked aspect of the war in the Pacific is the near total destruction of Japanese shipping. By the wars end, they were not really even able to evacuate troops from many Islands due to lack of merchant shipping and transports due to allied (mostly American) submarine wolfpacks and allied decryption tactics.

    • @kamikadze076
      @kamikadze076 Год назад +3

    • @sunhee693
      @sunhee693 Год назад +2

      + Mines

    • @亜矢子四栁
      @亜矢子四栁 Год назад +33

      @Taczy2023
      You refer to American submarines destroying Japanese shipping as if it were a military achievement for the United States. Then, do you know "Tragedy of Tsushima Maru"? During the war, Japan mobilized adults, while children were evacuated to regions where they were less likely to be damaged by air raids, as they were the future leaders of Japan. The Tsushima Maru was carrying 1,700 people, including children, women, and the elderly, and headed for the evacuation destination. However, it was attacked and sunk by the American submarine USS Bowfin, killing most of its passengers. Those of you who were victorious in the war may not know this, but in Japan it is still talked about as a tragedy during the war. I think we need to pay more attention to the tragedies caused by wars, not just the victories and defeats of wars.

    • @Taczy2023
      @Taczy2023 Год назад +114

      @@亜矢子四栁 In Japan do they also talk about Imperial soldiers putting babies on spears, or the rape of Nanking, the brutal slavery and starvation of POWs, sexual slavery of woman in the occupied areas, beheading POWs, human experimentation, mass killings, Manila massacre when Japanese soldiers killed 100,000 Philippine civilians, cannibalism of allied soldiers, attacking hospital ships? What about those things. They showed no mercy to the civilians of occupied nations nor the allied POWs. Agreed though, war is a breeding ground of tragedies.

    • @Elmalorum
      @Elmalorum Год назад +18

      ​@@Taczy2023and the human experiments

  • @legend6018
    @legend6018 Год назад +80

    Finally! Thanks for this types of maps, seeing the army sizes is just perfect.

  • @XS-03_Apollo
    @XS-03_Apollo Год назад +136

    9:15 The sheer speed of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria baffles me everytime...

    • @expertbrody9914
      @expertbrody9914 Год назад +44

      well no shit they were practically unopposed.

    • @SlowTheBlack
      @SlowTheBlack Год назад +67

      @@expertbrody9914 in terms of lack of resistance, they were up to 700,000, it's just that Russia was much stronger in all aspects, that's all, they killed up to 100,000 soldiers and the rest were captured after Japan surrendered.

    • @brianlong2334
      @brianlong2334 Год назад +16

      ​@SlowTheBlack The Japanese military waited in their strong points all but a handful were completely avoided by the Soviets, going so fast they literally out ran there suply line's on multiple occasions some units waited 2 to 3 days for resupply of oil to be brought up, if the Japanese had of attempted to resist it would have been a cluster f-up of an oparation for the soviets.
      The Japanese military was talking to the Japanese high command, who ordered them to stay put and basically not move on the soviets as they were in talks with the USA.
      In terms of the Japanese they lost some 22,000 men KIA, out of there 660k men, the Japanese allies the Chinese forces fighting for the Japanese lost the majority of men about 60k estimated of there 200k to 260k men / the deaths are claimed by the Russians, the Japanese admit they don't know as majority deserted.
      The majority of the Japanese surrendered without firing a shot, only about 40,000 Japanese and Soviets even shot at each other, the majority of the Japanese allies deserted before the soviets advanced, most ran home many were rounded up later and executed and put in the death estimates for the soviets forces to look far better then there actually where.
      Edit: For people confused, I'm not talking about the Japanese marching on moscow in 1945, haha!
      Or winning just holding them back for 6 months to a year, the fact that the Japanese basically surrendered and the soviets lucky didn't lose another half million to a million men is the point, the soviets made massive mistakes in this campaign that would have cost them a lot in the first 6 day's luckily the Japanese were talking to the USA about surrender term's.

    • @brianlong2334
      @brianlong2334 Год назад +11

      ​@@expertbrody9914Yeah but don't tell the soviets that they get upset lol!

    • @SlowTheBlack
      @SlowTheBlack Год назад +25

      @@brianlong2334 It doesn't change anything, Japan couldn't do anything against the USSR in 1939, and by 1945 they wouldn't have been able to do anything at all, the USSR had become much stronger and Japan hadn't.

  • @pablogippini
    @pablogippini Год назад +159

    Japan wanted to bee seen for a long time as an Empire that could go toe to toe with the western empires. I think they surely achieved that.

    • @Big_Caesar1
      @Big_Caesar1 Год назад +52

      Japan also crushed the Russian navy in 1905, completely sunk their Baltic fleet during the first modern navy battles, while they were barely a burgeoning power

    • @user-rj4gu5oh3k
      @user-rj4gu5oh3k Год назад +22

      @@Big_Caesar1to be fair the Russian navy was trash lol.
      And Russia was just massive at the time.

    • @Big_Caesar1
      @Big_Caesar1 Год назад +31

      @@user-rj4gu5oh3k That can be said for basically any point in Russian history, but it was a pretty big embarrassment at the time, Japan was viewed as irrelevant, backwards, incapable, not fit to stand with the great powers. Japan didn't ask Russia to sail across the world to get their ass kicked, to be fair.

    • @user-rj4gu5oh3k
      @user-rj4gu5oh3k Год назад +3

      @@Big_Caesar1 yep the problem too at the time was the Russian tsars did not give a fuck about anything including infrastructure.
      Which would mean they could simply not transport their troops fast enough to the front causing them to be embarrassed by the Japanese.

    • @joshwhalen4976
      @joshwhalen4976 Год назад +6

      ​@@user-rj4gu5oh3kTo be fair, look up pretty much any war that Russia/USSR fought in and they performed extremely poorly.

  • @AbsolvedUndertaker
    @AbsolvedUndertaker Год назад +131

    Having been a Marine, I’ve come to acknowledge the sheer brutality and criminal underappreciation of the Pacific campaign. It was personal and deadly, yet everyone glorifies the European campaign. Thank you for this video and may the souls of my big brothers rest easy in the presence of God.

    • @caspertrog1046
      @caspertrog1046 Год назад +4

      What? It's commonly acknowledged the Pacific theatre was absolutely brutal, for the Americans even more so than in Europe. There is a reason they felt the need to drop two nukes on Japan just to force them to the negotiation table. I'm not sure who is supposed to be underappreciating it.

    • @colinyau5063
      @colinyau5063 Год назад +5

      @@caspertrog1046 The Americans didn't suffer as much as the Europeans, please study your history before making a statement like that. How many casualties did the Americans have?

    • @waldo_9338
      @waldo_9338 Год назад +13

      @@colinyau5063 A lack of American casualties is a bad thing? It just shows America's effectiveness against the Japanese war machine lol.

    • @Qvadratus.
      @Qvadratus. Год назад +6

      @@waldo_9338 it just shows that they weren't that committed. and waited till everything is done by the Soviets to rush to the Berlin.

    • @Qvadratus.
      @Qvadratus. Год назад +14

      @@caspertrog1046 Japan was forced to the negotiation table by the Soviets defeating Kwantung Army what they barely show in the video. the vile terror act of dropping nuclear bombs on civil cities was just a display of power. it was done for another negotiations. the division of the world with USSR.

  • @umtoge
    @umtoge Год назад +81

    My jaw literally dropped at the end as the war was almost over and the Japanese forces are nearly undefeated and still fighting all over Pacific!

    • @Taixvshan
      @Taixvshan Год назад +34

      A war between Asia's only industrial power and an agrarian nation would have been a continuing hellish ordeal for China without Western arms, and when Japan faced the Soviet Union, it was crushed by a Soviet tank cluster。

    • @Zeroneii3
      @Zeroneii3 Год назад +32

      that is precisely why the atomic bombs were used
      too many casualties would've ensued if the war dragged on

    • @rayyy6523
      @rayyy6523 Год назад

      Yes, but on the Chinese mainland Japanese troops were bogged down and confronted with countless Chinese soldiers, and in the Pacific and Indonesia, Japanese soldiers were being killed off by disease and malnourishment

    • @コワルスキー-u8p
      @コワルスキー-u8p Год назад +8

      ​@@Taixvshan違いますよ

    • @Taixvshan
      @Taixvshan Год назад

      @@コワルスキー-u8p 中共が勝ったのは、ソ連軍が撤退したあと、ソ連軍の兵器と日本軍の兵器を使って、250万人の近代的な軍隊をたったの10カ月でつくりあげたからです。
      国軍の上将は回想して、共産軍の火力は私が抗日の時すべて出会ったことがないので、ソ連は全く保留の援助の中共の武器、しかしまた中国を分割したくて、ソ連と米国が予想しなかったのは共産党の壮大な速度が速すぎたのです。中華人民共和国の成立は西洋のゲームで言えば突然のバグです。
      西洋は日本の国を支援して、中国市場を植民地のように徹底して統制することを目的としていたが、日本は西側に依存しながら生意気になって、結局は倒れた。 戦後米国と中華民国が中米友好通商条約に調印したのも、中国を半植民地にしたためだ。 歴史に仮説はない。誰が共産党がいきなり勝ったと思うだろうか。?今の中国人にとっては、国が強くなり、この世代も苦難を経験したことがありません。しかし、わずか50年前の中国人が食事不足だったとは、誰が想像できますか?
      今の中国の文化が孤立主義になっているのは、中国が徹底して外国人を嫌っているからです。私たち中国人の言葉で言えば、残酷な外国は外国人に対する私たちの高潔さを徹底的に破壊しました。

  • @Jodtink
    @Jodtink 4 месяца назад +3

    The Japanese soldiers who fought on Iwo Jima and Okinawa were all junior high school students. The elite of the Japanese Army was in mainland China.

  • @stephenzhang1734
    @stephenzhang1734 10 месяцев назад +12

    Although China soon lost the northeast and North China, but because it was their own country, so their army stubbornly resistance, always stalemate with Japan. In contrast, the areas of Southeast Asia that were occupied by the British, the French, etc., were lost so quickly that they seemed to have no resistance at all. If the Japanese had initially shifted their focus of attack from North China to Southeast Asia with more troops, they would have been in a better position to not lose so much in resources and manpower in China.

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 10 месяцев назад +3

      That is absolutely untrue. Japan never wanted to expand the war, they did not have the capability to do so. Had Shanghai not happened, Japan could have just steamrolled China in the Central Plains. What happened was Chiang expanded the war by attacking the Japanese garrisons in Shanghai, which ended up with Japan sending hundreds of thousands of troops pushing along the Yangtze River Valley. This meant Japan could not utilize their mech advantage and instead of what would have been a more decisive conflict, it turned into a stalemate and war of attrition. After that, everything Japan did was an attempt to cut China off from outside resources, hence capturing of ports, and then French Indochina (Kunming Railroad ran to Hanoi). This greatly alarmed the Western Powers, especially the US who proceeded to embargo Japan of important resources such as oil.

    • @于安-u1f
      @于安-u1f 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@taoliu3949It's untrue. Since 1894 the first Sino Japanese war,Japan has made it's expanding plan that makes the whole east and sourtheast Asia it's own territory.Up to 1895,it annexed Taiwan(a province of Qing dynasty)and fought for the rule in the Northeast China with Russia.After the WWI,it took the rights German in Shandong Province,and prevented the unification of China led by KMT and CCP and had terrible conflict with Chinese Army.In 1931(6 years earlier than the Pacific War),it invaded the Northeast China and definitely made Northeast China it's own territory.On the contrary,it was Chiang that didn't want to fight with Japanese even Japs wanted to destroy China because of his own civil war plan in China with CCP.

  • @SouthernGentleman
    @SouthernGentleman Год назад +26

    It’s just crazy that they started a war with the us and Allie’s when they were in the middle of a very brutal one already. But they needed fuel

    • @joemiller9931
      @joemiller9931 Год назад +1

      A parallel with Nazi Germany.

    • @brianlong2334
      @brianlong2334 Год назад +11

      The USA cut of oil crippling the Japanese, knowing they would act aggressively so that the American population would be mobilised for war.
      The war in the Pacific was Americans doing, the Japanese went after the islands to become self sufficient, the war in China was also about stopping what the USA did to them in the first place kinda iconic.

    • @_blank-_
      @_blank-_ Год назад +4

      @@brianlong2334 ?

    • @brianlong2334
      @brianlong2334 Год назад +2

      @@_blank-_ yo?

    • @belindamorrowking6149
      @belindamorrowking6149 Год назад +3

      @@brianlong2334 Don't know where you find the research to support your idea. Maybe you want to look further. That the US stopped the Japanese seeking oil for self sufficiency is not true. Look again. You have received incorrect information.

  • @asenvelkov301
    @asenvelkov301 Год назад +33

    At 1945 the northern japanese invaders connected with the southern slicing china in 2, they were determined to the end. Great video!

    • @doraemon61377
      @doraemon61377 Год назад +4

      They needed to ship the supplies (most crucially fuel) from southeast Asia back to Japan. Going by sea was not the option since Philippines was captured and the Japanese navy was basically devastated (also the merchant shipping was lost to effective us submarines). By connecting a continuous land corridor from the tip of Malaysia to northern China, they can hope to ship supplies via there. Having the connection of north and south China was vital to that last hope.
      War was fought on supplies.

    • @asenvelkov301
      @asenvelkov301 Год назад +1

      ​@@doraemon61377 good to know ty for the info

    • @doraemon61377
      @doraemon61377 Год назад +1

      @asenvelkov-a.k.a.Mr.Shephard you are welcome. One thing I realised when it comes to war is that there was always a reason (geopolitical or geoeconomic) for grabbing a certain territory. And it was not out of pure fanaticism but real strategic reason. Like why China is obsessing with taking Taiwan (unsinkable aircraft carrier near south China Sea) or why Germany insisted on marching through Ardennes during battle of France. I know this when I play hearts of iron 4.

    • @doraemon61377
      @doraemon61377 Год назад +1

      I also added that the whole pacific war was started simply because japan needed southeast Asia (most importantly the oil from Dutch east indies) to finish the war with China. Since Japan was still winning the massive land war with China, they had that hope till 1945.

  • @LWilliams-yj2mf
    @LWilliams-yj2mf 3 месяца назад +3

    I can understand what the Chinese we’re going through, but thank thankfully the Chinese didn’t even give up

  • @user-pn3im5sm7k
    @user-pn3im5sm7k Год назад +73

    What people forget is that the Japanese empire's expansion has been the greatest of its kind in modern history, in only 6 months the Japanese empire had amassed the largest amount of land from powerful foes who had the technological parity and numerical superiority to Japan. For contrast, the British and French empires were the only two other empires at the time larger in land mass but took centuries to reach peak whilst fighting Tribal people...
    To add on, in the four years Japan fought the USA (World's strongest military and economic might, outproducing Japan 20x), China (10x bigger than Japan), British Empire (World's largest empire), French Empire, Dutch Empire, Australia (Technologically on par foe), and the USSR. How Japan managed to fight as long as it did is a case of sheer willpower and tenacity considering the Japanese fuel shortage was crippling the entire mechanized, air, and naval forces. Japanese battles were almost entirely them fighting a numerically superior foe and still winning a big chunk of those.
    The Japanese empire had also caused the worst defeats in the US, Chinese, and British military histories...Malaya, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Burma, Philippines, Savo Island, etc....
    As a former USAF pilot I am just glad that the Japanese will be on our side this time around. I have flown with the JASDF and they are extremely skilled pilots even to this day. 🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵

    • @andrzejszpak688
      @andrzejszpak688 Год назад +6

      The Japanese won battles by speed and surprise, the US won battles by might and power. Japan never stood a chance.

    • @diollinebranderson6553
      @diollinebranderson6553 Год назад +10

      France and Britain didn't take many land because of 4 main things:
      1. The world wasn't fully mapped for a long period of time and Europeans were still exploring
      2. They pick lands that would strategically benefit them instead of taking unnecessary land at cost of their soldiers lives
      3. Other European powers also control land overseas, thus others would have to be careful picking land
      4. The speed of travelling wasn't as fast and communication was really slow

    • @tryomama
      @tryomama Год назад +5

      Greatest for whom again? Definitely not the territory you guys took and force the civilians to work to death on your damn Burma railroad

    • @かわけー
      @かわけー Год назад +7

      日本は外交的に追い詰められたので、連合軍に真珠湾で壊滅的打撃を与えることで外交的に有利な状況での講和を狙った。
      それは失敗した。

    • @user-pn3im5sm7k
      @user-pn3im5sm7k Год назад +1

      @@tryomama Looks like you did not read the entire thing. Common for those with a shut-in mindset. Re-read the last part.

  • @TheOneAndOnlyDonut
    @TheOneAndOnlyDonut 7 месяцев назад +6

    China just does not get enough credit during ww2. They fought for the longest out of any country in the war, while lacking equipment, they never gave up, even after losing its capital multiple times. They wiped out 1/2 of the Japanese army, while losing over 20 million people, some people suffered more than what the Germans did in the concentration camps. Even after all of this, some people still recognize countries like France over China in terms of recognition. They are way too underrated.

    • @TessaroNiki
      @TessaroNiki 7 месяцев назад

      Looks like underrating Nazi Germany’s concentrations camps?

  • @三民-g6c
    @三民-g6c Год назад +16

    My great-grandfather served in the Kwantung Army of Manchukuo. However, he was discharged due to injury in 1940. He said that the Manchurians were a ragtag group.

  • @kingsimba9513
    @kingsimba9513 Месяц назад

    Those Australian and American forces in Papua are severely underrated. Outnumbered during the entire war by multitudes, and yet they managed to hold the line and push back. Respect.

  • @daboos6353
    @daboos6353 7 месяцев назад +4

    This map really doesn’t represent the reality of the situation, China didn’t have one unified army, it was in the midst of a civil war and extremely disorganised

  • @akhripasta2670
    @akhripasta2670 8 месяцев назад +2

    5:13 British Malaya Army gone
    5:33 British Burma Army gone
    6:57 British _spams_ Kumars (2.1 million volunteers force British Indian Army)

  • @RavenReyes-z6t
    @RavenReyes-z6t Год назад +37

    Some serious errors from 1944-1945, you completely forgot the island hopping, the American invasion of the phillipines and Okinawa etc

    • @pigeoninanutshell
      @pigeoninanutshell  Год назад +7

      The american invasion of phillipines is shown.

    • @abbfilmann3735
      @abbfilmann3735 Год назад +5

      ​@@pigeoninanutshellNo it isn’t
      AMERICAN not japanese in 1944
      Is not shown at all

    • @estelle-ningfoo3346
      @estelle-ningfoo3346 Год назад +6

      ​@abbfilmann3735 if you look closely he actually showed the liberation of the Philippines but the color is very similar to the ocean.

    • @Nico20243
      @Nico20243 Год назад +1

      ​@@abbfilmann3735the liberation of philliphies is shown look closely man

  • @morefiction3264
    @morefiction3264 Год назад +2

    The islands we fought over were so small that you can't even seen them at this scale. It looks like Japan is doing great and then it's over.

  • @thenotifier572
    @thenotifier572 Год назад +6

    Great work!!

  • @毛毛-s9t
    @毛毛-s9t Год назад +6

    痛苦的回忆。 希望世界和平。

    • @Yourmom-kz7wm
      @Yourmom-kz7wm 10 месяцев назад +1

      你有什么痛苦的回忆?你经历过战争?笑死人了 文革才50年也没看你痛苦 890年前的事倒是让你很痛苦🤣

    • @progamer-pd2ji
      @progamer-pd2ji 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@Yourmom-kz7wmyour point is right and wrong same time

    • @蛙又破防
      @蛙又破防 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@Yourmom-kz7wm 应激护主了是吧。

  • @syntaxed2
    @syntaxed2 7 месяцев назад +7

    Not accurate...the southern islands were all taken by the americans and even as far north as iwo jima.

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 6 месяцев назад +1

      Not all islands were taken. The US had an island hopping strategy and only took the islands they needed on their way to Japan. Everything else was blockaded and left to starve.

  • @AlanWallace-p1z
    @AlanWallace-p1z 7 месяцев назад +1

    That nuke shut em up real quick

  • @pilotmanpaul
    @pilotmanpaul Год назад +5

    Just goes to show numbers can only take you so far when you don't have the proper tactics and commanders in charge.

  • @ケツドライヤー猫
    @ケツドライヤー猫 11 месяцев назад +2

    多分どこの国がやってもアメリカと中国にこの時代勝てる国はいないと思う。それはそれとしてまたこのような悲惨な戦いを繰り返してはならない。

  • @ClickBeetleTV
    @ClickBeetleTV Год назад +5

    That's a better quality rendering of that music than you get in Hearts of Iron 3, even!

  • @johndearstyne1845
    @johndearstyne1845 3 месяца назад

    Only me like "Hey that's the same footage in Axis and Allies!"

  • @法学徒-l6y
    @法学徒-l6y Год назад +2

    戦争がなくなる日がすぐに来ることを望みます。
    I hope the time will soon come when there would be no more war.

  • @VilyReCan76
    @VilyReCan76 5 месяцев назад +1

    Underrated wars? Since when this underrated? 😂😂😂

  • @ngockhoanguyen2886
    @ngockhoanguyen2886 Год назад

    Japan: WHY WONT YOU CAPITULATE?!
    China: *MANPOWER SON!*

  • @Cesarito2303
    @Cesarito2303 Год назад +1

    I really need this, thanks brooo

  • @togobrum3586
    @togobrum3586 Год назад

    Amazing video man!

  • @ahma702d
    @ahma702d 7 месяцев назад

    9:15 The invention of the nuclear weapon was a turning point in the history of humanity in terms of wars, and this continues to the present. Countries with nuclear weapons can no longer confront each other directly as before.

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 7 месяцев назад

      That's not true. Pakistan, India, and the PRC has all clashed militarily after obtaining nuclear weapons.
      The entire Cold War doctrine was developed with nukes in mind.

  • @mattybmattyb
    @mattybmattyb 7 месяцев назад +2

    The British had India and Burma long before 1937 🤷‍♂️

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 7 месяцев назад +1

      They weren't involved until 1941.

    • @mattybmattyb
      @mattybmattyb 7 месяцев назад

      @@taoliu3949 🤔

  • @bullrun44
    @bullrun44 11 месяцев назад +2

    well done!!

  • @scp_3008_
    @scp_3008_ 3 месяца назад +2

    Память всем кто защищал свой дом от Германии, Японии, Италии

  • @perfectmazda3538
    @perfectmazda3538 Год назад +11

    damn, japan was winning one vs 15 countries at that time, if only they didn't go for hawaii....

    • @cy-cb8rs
      @cy-cb8rs Год назад

      History has no 'what ifs.' Your way of thinking is very dangerous.

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 Год назад

      Attacking Hawaii was the only way for Japan to possibly win a war against the US.

    • @arcaipekyun4232
      @arcaipekyun4232 Год назад +1

      they would have lost.
      There is a reason they went for Hawaii, its called "resources". Western powers held many islands and lands in the region that contained resources that Japan desperately needed to sustain its war in China. But if they just attacked, the US Navy would have come from Pearl Harbor and opposed the Japanese fleet. So they decided to first strike the US fleet, immobilise it and then go for the landings.
      It worked only for the first half a year or so. The US industrial effort kicked in and absolutely destroyed the Japanese, just look at the production summaries of the war.
      Also, again, Japan was not "winning" anymore after Midway (that half a year after Pearl Harbor) much of the Japanese war effort by then was extended over the Pacific Islands and the US was destroying them there. Its just that those campaigns, although extremely important, aren't shown in this video.

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 11 месяцев назад

      @@arcaipekyun4232 They lost in "hindsight". That said, Japan knew they'd probably lose, but at least they had a chance compared to the alternative, which was to essentially watch their military collapse from the lack of oil due to the American embargo. In other words, it was either
      1. Don't go to war and lose everything including their conquests in China, or
      2. Go to war against the US and hope that everything goes well and have that slimmer of hope that they may be able to end up in a situation better than a complete military collapse/keep some of their colonies.

  • @worldheraldry
    @worldheraldry Год назад +1

    Great video!

  • @vataroku
    @vataroku 2 месяца назад

    Dissapointed because there's no battle of shanghai soundtrack

  • @Wow-673
    @Wow-673 Год назад +2

    There’s a lot of mistakes here especially in the southern pacific…. Henderson field? Guadalcanal? The retaking of the Philippines?

    • @IrnestCOD
      @IrnestCOD Год назад

      You can see the liberation of the Philippines.

  • @Doxxieeee
    @Doxxieeee Год назад +2

    go on bro :)

  • @barebp
    @barebp 7 месяцев назад

    Anyone watching this video should listen to Dan carlins hardcore history podcast: supernova in the east. Excellent rundown of the pacific war starting from its inception. As he says, Japan invading China was a snake trying to eat an elephant

  • @tomazak
    @tomazak 4 месяца назад +1

    The Japanese were defeated by American troops, not Soviet ones! ))) Undoubtedly! The Americans tried to win for many years, and Soviet troops defeated Japan in a few days. It doesn't count that way! )))

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 4 месяца назад

      ~90% of the IJA was still intact when Japan surrendered.

  • @Lifeless-jk1ez
    @Lifeless-jk1ez Год назад +2847

    Seeing a 5 to 1 ratio in the Chinese-Japenese war is insane, The Japenese forces were extremely powerful against the Chinese ones, in which that taught me alot.

    • @NeoWish
      @NeoWish Год назад +227

      And Japan is still pushing

    • @PurpleDoritos666
      @PurpleDoritos666 Год назад +602

      It also helps that Japan was taking advantage of the Chinese civil war

    • @itsquoogy
      @itsquoogy Год назад +43

      Drugs

    • @haolin8292
      @haolin8292 Год назад +434

      China’s weapon at that time was far behind the world. When Japanese soldiers are using modern weapons, Chinese soldiers probably still using weapons like muskets etc

    • @Hys-01
      @Hys-01 Год назад

      I think people forget china was literally having a civil war at the time
      And the Japanese soldiers were fascist monsters, and their brutality is fsvourable in war as seen with Germany

  • @Joggi98
    @Joggi98 10 месяцев назад +737

    I never realized how little conquered territory Japan had lost at the time of its surrender, especially when compared to Germany, which was almost completely overrun by the time they finally gave up.

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 9 месяцев назад +173

      Japan lost a lot of "sea". Midway to Okinawa is over 1000mi

    • @Ricky911_
      @Ricky911_ 9 месяцев назад +110

      Japan made a massive mistake during its colonisation period. Instead of naturalising the citizens of the empire, they often mistreated the local populations (especially the Japanese army, which was more brutal than the Japanese navy). In doing so, barely any soldiers of the empire were not Japanese thanks to Japan's mistrust towards non-Japanese people. This created a massive problem by the end of the war since there were not many soldiers left to fight, even though hundreds of thousands of Koreans had applied for jobs in the military in the previous years. The Mongolian Empire, on the other hand, mostly recruited people from conquered lands, which was possible thanks to the Mongols'inclusiveness (Khan's tolerance towards religions, for example, is very well documented) and that's how it spread so far. Had Japan treated Korea and China the same way they treated Taiwan, the empire would have been a lot more stable. Had they recruited people from those lands as well, they would have been in an even better position. At that point, the allies wouldn't just have been fighting Japan bust all of East Asia. Germany could have never done the same thing because its expansion was a results of aggression from neighbouring countries and a severe superiority complex. Japan, on the other hand, could have chosen to unify the East for real. But, it sadly didn't. What's also important to note is that Japan is an island while Germany isn't. To defeat Germany, an invasion of Europe by the allies was obligatory. On the other hand, to defeat Japan, the allies needed to either force Japan to surrender by bombing them (which they did) or invade the homeland, which would have been a horrible idea given the Japanese's devotion towards their country. An invasion of China, Korea or the South-East would have given the allies no benefits

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 9 месяцев назад +18

      @@Ricky911_ WTF are you talking about, Japan conscripted heavily in Korea, first for labor and later for military. Also, Taiwanese participation in the IJA/IJN was hardly any better than Korean participation.
      Japanese holdings in China weren't a part of Japan, they were ruled as a series of puppet states. The issue is that Chinese troops had loyalty and reliability issues, but they were useful for internal security and that's how they were utilized. As for other puppet states, you're talking about states that's only existed for 2~3 years. State building has barely begun, let alone building a working military.

    • @Ricky911_
      @Ricky911_ 9 месяцев назад +55

      @@taoliu3949 Between 1938 and 1943, 800k Koreans applied for military applications but only a little over 17k were enlisted. You could have literally just done a Google search before saying that. The fact that they conscripted for labour isn't something I talked about because it's true. Japan was looking for cheap labour and there was no shortage of it by the end of the war. What they were lacking, was soldiers. Most of China was made up of puppet states but not all of China. Manchuria, for example, had been taken in 1931, 6 years before they invaded the rest of China yet they still hesitated to naturalise them into the empire. I suggest you read about Kishi Nobusuke, the Japanese PM between 1957 and 1960. He oversaw the industrialisation of Manchuria between 1936 and 1941, committing a lot of crime against humanity in the process. Japan could have easily had loyal soldiers from Manchuria as well as other parts of China if they had treated the people there well. Massacring 300k people at Nanjing certainly didn't help with their image

    • @Makeyourselfbig
      @Makeyourselfbig 9 месяцев назад +13

      @@Ricky911_ That's how us British did it with our empire. We recruited locally but made sure the officers were mostly British for the "white" nations Canada, NZ, Australia and South Africa. They were "our sort". The non-white nations were not. The British army itself was very small. In the 1930's it barely existed at all. Most defence spending in those days went on the Royal Navy and airforce. It was only the threat of war with Germany in the late 1930's that forced the government to increase defence spending.

  • @Mattpatt3
    @Mattpatt3 Год назад +185

    Never knew how far Japan got into modern day Myanmar, wish the pacific theater was covered more often

    • @themelonman4303
      @themelonman4303 Год назад +47

      In 1944 they even got into far eastern India

    • @user-pn3im5sm7k
      @user-pn3im5sm7k Год назад +6

      @@themelonman4303While having practically no supplies...oil...food... And being outnumbered. Quite literally Japanese willpower and late-war last ditch Arisaka rifles against the British empire and their Indian slaves+Chinese support

    • @madtechnocrat9234
      @madtechnocrat9234 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/mTkRBg2Dwz0/видео.html
      this video of the war imo shows it all better

    • @polishlithuaniainanutshell5146
      @polishlithuaniainanutshell5146 7 месяцев назад +7

      It is covered more often. You're just living in the United States.

    • @aghomidaniel1937
      @aghomidaniel1937 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@polishlithuaniainanutshell5146it is covered a lot in the unitedvstates lol. The country won the pacific war

  • @ranger24ff
    @ranger24ff Год назад +411

    Food for thought. Most of the major battles fought by the US in the pacific on the ground were fought on bits of rock that can barely be seen on a map of the region. These battles at the same time would be no less ferocious or critical than those elsewhere even if the amount of land mass ultimately taken was tiny.

    • @dudermcdudeface3674
      @dudermcdudeface3674 Год назад +51

      Island hopping maximized the value of the naval advantage the US had developed (the same logic by which Japan had taken the islands in the first place, when the advantage was theirs).

    • @supergamergrill7734
      @supergamergrill7734 Год назад +13

      Yeah. The Japanese fought like rabid dogs for every conquered land they gained. It would be admirable if the government and army (For Japan ww2 is one and the same) weren’t ferocious monsters

    • @Jay-gx8co
      @Jay-gx8co Год назад +28

      ​@@dudermcdudeface3674Not only that, but islands like Pelileu and Iwo Jima were critical as their capture meant US bombers were finally in range of the Japanese mainland.

    • @SergyMilitaryRankings
      @SergyMilitaryRankings 9 месяцев назад

      Was cake walk compared to eastern front

    • @lgjm5562
      @lgjm5562 8 месяцев назад +8

      This video should have used flags instead of tiny colored pixels for islands so we could see the island hopping.

  • @kmmediafactory
    @kmmediafactory Год назад +659

    I'm glad you made the chinese front in such good detail, it's a very overlooked part of the war. Hell, I was half-expecting you to just start in 1941, but I was pleasantly surprised.

    • @JeremyY.
      @JeremyY. Год назад +2

      Me too!

    • @chickenmadness1732
      @chickenmadness1732 Год назад +22

      The British too. Americans think they won the war on their own but they just arrived late kicking and screaming as usual.

    • @plorabare
      @plorabare Год назад +42

      ​@@chickenmadness1732Okay what did you guys do; sink Japanese ships near Sri Lanka, and defend India because that's what you guys did.

    • @faridconde6591
      @faridconde6591 Год назад

      @@chickenmadness1732 to be fair even if the war in China was pretty much in a stalemate, Japan was progressing dangerously in the Pacific.
      The US was critical in the IIWW when supplying the "free" world with their superior and untouched industrial complex and depriving the axis of those same goods.
      And if the US did anything important (militarily) in the war was in the Pacific theater, were they effectively turned the tie. Even with that, only the Soviet intervention convinced the Japanese that they no longer could keep their empire and the days of a Major World Power were over.
      Why? Because the war of the Soviets was the same as the war of the Japanese, sacrificing as many men as necessary. Japan's strategy was to tire the Americans psychologically, because they were convinced that being a democracy, with the wounds of the civil war just closed and having next to no experience in big wars, that could be done regardless of Japanese casualties.
      And the Russians... Well, you see that Germany proved the world that they couldn't be tired and had to be exterminated, something Japan never could have done.

    • @Drew-ub2qu
      @Drew-ub2qu Год назад +45

      @@plorabare Lol now Brits are trying to take credit for the Pacific, doesn't get any more delusional

  • @joemiller9931
    @joemiller9931 Год назад +409

    Technically, on land, WWII started and ended in Manchuria (Manchukuo). Invaded by the Japanese in 1931, and by the Russians in August of 1945.

    • @doraemon61377
      @doraemon61377 Год назад +10

      Good thinking haha

    • @lubitel_tankov.
      @lubitel_tankov. Год назад +39

      Не захвачен, а освобождён от японцев.

    • @Masterchief_Tito
      @Masterchief_Tito Год назад +31

      It was just a normal war. Definetly not a worldwar. During the polish invasion, way more countries were involved. Including the french and british colonies.

    • @Supopyfy
      @Supopyfy Год назад +11

      @@lubitel_tankov.it's just a way of expression

    • @RickyVis
      @RickyVis Год назад

      World war 2 started when the British and French empires declared war on Germany. A world war means that many countries or regions of most or all continents are at war.

  • @CHIPSSALTY
    @CHIPSSALTY Год назад +59

    "They got tanks, they got planes, and we got nothing. What are we going to do?"
    "The answer is obvious. If you don't want to be slaves, let us build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood!"

  • @global.things
    @global.things Год назад +50

    This is awesome! Great visuals bro

  • @Dark-cq1sj
    @Dark-cq1sj Год назад +43

    one of the only mistakes i saw was that the US didn't control okinawa or iwo jima

    • @yar_-fd6qy
      @yar_-fd6qy 5 месяцев назад +3

      And the Solomon Islands

    • @awesomemantm2000
      @awesomemantm2000 3 месяца назад

      I thought the soviets had overrun most of Hokkaido by the end of

  • @yufish6576
    @yufish6576 4 месяца назад +62

    Only Chinese can undersand how hard the situiation was in 1931 to 1945 for China. We did not give up. Thanks for the help from USA. Salute to the 20 million Chinese who lost their life in WWII. ❤

    • @あふりか-s4w
      @あふりか-s4w 3 месяца назад

      日本と中国の対立と憎悪は、作られたものです。どうせ中国も日本も戦費(国債)を同じところから調達しているでしょう。日中の両者を戦争させて、莫大な借金をさせて、両方から利息を稼ぐ仕組みです。一生懸命に反日映画を中国のテレビで垂れ流しているのは、そのためですよ。いつでもおかわりを狙えるように。
      日本が降伏する形で終戦したにもかかわらず、ドイツと異なりなぜか日本は存続したのは、借金返済する人に消えてもらっては困るからね。中国共産党ですらその仕組みための道具に過ぎないことでしょう。

    • @Shagolduvdnd
      @Shagolduvdnd 3 месяца назад +1

      What does the USA have to do with it?

    • @yufish6576
      @yufish6576 3 месяца назад +11

      @@ShagolduvdndThey helped us by sending volunteer air forces and military supply. We.were.allies

    • @darylharmon4598
      @darylharmon4598 3 месяца назад +2

      @@ShagolduvdndDid you see the map at the end? By 1945 the Chinese were still losing land and the Japanese isolated half the country. The only reason China got out alive was Japan surrendering to the Allies.

    • @Kraken9911
      @Kraken9911 3 месяца назад +4

      ​@@ShagolduvdndAmericans were volunteering in China to fight the Japanese including roles such as pilots. America already knew what was next given the current times of fascist Europe rising to extreme levels and Japan already tooled up for conquest.
      Do more history research America helped China a lot to survive.

  • @soundonly7392
    @soundonly7392 Год назад +355

    This video does a good job at displaying the hopelessness of the japanese situation.
    by 1938 the japanese army was already in a stalemate fighting a force numbering twice their manpower. It's pretty clear that by this point, japan was already fighting its very own soviet union failure we see with the nazis.
    people often wonder what drove the japanese to attack the u.s and other european powers in the region, seeing it as a mistake on their part. The reality is that japan was fighting its last ditch efforts by 1941. They were at this point of the war already outnumbered 4-1 in manpower. Adding to that, the chinese were being provided with weapons and resources by the allied nations, meanwhile they were already running low on the resources they needed to drive their way through china.
    It was clear to the japanese that if this continued there was no hope they could possibly outlast the chinese who continued to grow by the day. This is the reason why the japanese decided to attack the u.s and allies, so that they could cut off all their supplies to the chinese mainland and acquire the resources from their colonies in the pacific to fuel their war. The hope was that they would be able to hold off the allies long enough in the pacific to finalize their efforts in the chinese mainland. We can see that by 1944 the plan had worked somewhat and some progress in their invasion had been made, but by then it was too little too late and the japanese were already losing to american forces in the pacific.

    • @hoyintse2454
      @hoyintse2454 Год назад

      Thats because this was an unjust war to steal another country's territory and resources. As a result, the Japanese government wasnt able to call a full mobilization to conscript all male citizens until they declare war to the allies in 1941. Same thing that went for Nazi Germany in ww2, Germany wasn't able to call a full mobilization until 1943 by minister Speer. Most people are not stupid, they understand to fight as a soldier meaning possibly dying in battle. They simply refuse if there is not a good reason.

    • @dimushka383
      @dimushka383 Год назад +19

      Do not be so critical, the United States at that time fought on the side of Japan, supplied resources, and military specialists and intelligence were at the front in China, at the headquarters of Japan. Have you heard of Detachment 731? In those years, they often lectured in the United States as invited experts. It was the gap in US aid to Japan that forced Japan to attack and it was in 41. Let me remind you that the Japanese-Chinese war began at 37. 4 years difference.

    • @astronova3508
      @astronova3508 Год назад +70

      @@dimushka383USA did not fight on the side of japan wtf

    • @dimushka383
      @dimushka383 Год назад +20

      @@astronova3508 not openly.
      I said something else.
      They supplied resources, technologies and military specialists there, as well as provided intelligence.
      The contact was very tight.
      But the main thing I wanted to say is that in 1938 Japan had no problems, on the contrary, they were going to success, the problems began in 1941, just at that time the United States turned away from them, and the US military specialists crossed the front line and began to work already for China , moreover, funny, from the side of Japan they took out maps with the location of troops and the directions of the planned strikes.
      And so that you have no doubts about how tight the contact between the USA and Japan was, take an interest in the fate of the 731 detachment of Japan, do you know what kind of detachment it is? What is he famous for and what awaited them if they were defeated in the war? So, with the already expected defeat of Japan and the threat of their capture by the Russians and the Chinese and the imminent execution for crimes, the entire elite was evacuated to the USA, where they received positions as professors and group leaders at US universities and laboratories.
      Look who interceded for group leader Shiro Ishii, US generals and admirals, and his non-prosecution was guaranteed on behalf of the country.

    • @Ren3gaid
      @Ren3gaid Год назад +39

      @@dimushka383 duuuuude grab a history book or something

  • @Economic_History_YT
    @Economic_History_YT Год назад +67

    Great Video! The numbers really put the China front into-perspective.
    I learnt so much from a war I previously knew so little about - thanks.

    • @justit1074
      @justit1074 Год назад +5

      manpower was the only thing really going for china, they lacked everything else, chinese were operating on a constant shortage of guns and artillery, training in most units was poor at best, plus there were internal politics with chiang trying to keep the warlords united as well as dealings with the communists

    • @DarkDaxter-ex7pi
      @DarkDaxter-ex7pi Год назад +5

      ​@@justit1074yes, the Chinese were badly equipped, badly trained, and has been embroiled in civil war and industrialization was kinda difficult for the country

  • @reubster529
    @reubster529 Год назад +300

    My grandad fought for the US in this theater, he was in Saipan didn’t really talk about it much at all he came back to a country that still didn’t treat his people well either as a second generation immigrant from the Caribbean , but he used his GI bill to go to university I’m so proud of him and may he rest in peace.

    • @AGTaNGrA.
      @AGTaNGrA. 9 месяцев назад

      U shouldnt be proud of soldiers. Nor of politicians. A lesson i hope u learn in life.

    • @PainThunder_War
      @PainThunder_War 7 месяцев назад +10

      @@AGTaNGrA.u r lost 😂😂😂

    • @YulYal
      @YulYal 14 дней назад

      My Great Grandfather fought in both World Wars in the Eastern fronts and the Russian Civil War

  • @Therewillalwaysbearussia
    @Therewillalwaysbearussia Год назад +86

    FINALLY!! I've been waiting for a pacific war like this amazing one! Keep it up!
    Also, how do you make an island be colored by a shape layer?

  • @user-ox7de1tj1y
    @user-ox7de1tj1y 9 месяцев назад +23

    向國軍致敬,保衛國家,永不投降,中華民國萬歲🇹🇼🇹🇼

  • @jaydoneash2098
    @jaydoneash2098 Год назад +75

    Here before this explodes, I’ve always wanted to see one of these army sizes every day pacific theater and now we finally have one. Awesome video dude!

    • @kayckin
      @kayckin Год назад +2

      funny joke ngl

    • @jaydoneash2098
      @jaydoneash2098 11 месяцев назад

      @@kayckinwait what do you mean?

    • @kewltony
      @kewltony 4 месяца назад

      TERRIBRU RESOLVE

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 4 месяца назад

      I actually wanted to see the sea battles, as it's the only reason Japan lost. The land forces had of course more soldiers involved but were comparatively less significant.

  • @poplar6658
    @poplar6658 Год назад +22

    The US should have helped China before it was too late 🇺🇸🇹🇼

    • @brianyang5075
      @brianyang5075 Год назад

      I doubt it would have help knowing how corrupt the KMT was

    • @edgardobaldomar8825
      @edgardobaldomar8825 Год назад

      Usa already helping China by suplus and military training

  • @Matt_Alaric
    @Matt_Alaric Год назад +99

    The number of people in the comments who think the campaigns against Japan were all American is mind numbing. On the mainland the majority of fighting was done by the millions of Chinese and hundreds of thousands of British and Indian troops, and at sea the British navy made up about 25% of the American naval forces, with heavy input from ANZAC forces in PNG. Americans DID make up the majority of the island hopping forces and were the decisive force in the Pacific campaign, but they were far from alone.

    • @crkcrk702
      @crkcrk702 Год назад +6

      And don't forgetthe native islanders resistance

    • @mitjed
      @mitjed Год назад +16

      So imagine Japan, fighting all of them! and winning during the early stage of WW2, thats how strong Japan was.

    • @doctorferdinand1003
      @doctorferdinand1003 Год назад +12

      @@mitjed Japan really was a mid tier power in WW2. The British defenses were dilapidated, under supplied and understaffed as Britain focused on Germany. The United States entered the war with a tiny standing military and sent 90% of the war effort toward the "Germany first" policy. The only country that brought their full force to fight Japan was China. And ofc, China was coming off a century of stagnation, revolution, fragmentation and civil war.

    • @mitjed
      @mitjed Год назад +18

      @@doctorferdinand1003 That's probably what the Colonists (Dutch, US, British empire and France) where thinking lol mid tier power. Japan was just a mid tier power. When in reality, Japan pre WW2 has one of the strongest army and navy in the world. Disciplined and fearless. Their army are able to defeat a more numerical armies of the west and China, fighting at the same time in a different lands. Nobody in history has ever wage war at the same time in East Asia, Aleutian Islands, South East Asia and Pacific Islands before.

    • @Leantenant
      @Leantenant Год назад

      @@mitjed Yea, like danish.

  • @Choppy_0922
    @Choppy_0922 11 месяцев назад +10

    周りの国全て敵という絶望的状況。

    • @ffm2764
      @ffm2764 10 месяцев назад +14

      今も大して変わらん()

    • @anonymous-tl7rf
      @anonymous-tl7rf 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yea that’s what happened when u invade every single one of your surrounded countries.

  • @magnus4945
    @magnus4945 Год назад +123

    the japanese operations in south china during the final year of the war are very impressive, considering the circumstance

    • @brianlong2334
      @brianlong2334 Год назад +54

      The Japanese weren't totally out of the war like most believe. They were on their last legs, but it wasn't going down without fighting, the plan from day one was to.
      The Japanese home islands still received 8 million tons of supplies in 1945 to put into perspective that's what the USA used to fight on the western front from North Africa to Europe.
      The Japanese military was still massive 6 million strong with over 1million allies/ pupets when it surrendered, it still posesed 20,000 to 50,000 aircraft the majority were held back for defence operations of the home islands, majority were to be used for kamikaze attacks if the USA landed or attempted to land on Japan.
      They also called up over 31million men woman and children as young as 8 armed with just bamboo spears for mass kamikaze attacks and construction why waiting for the invasion.
      They also had thousands of speedboat for again kamikaze attacks and divers, it would have been unlike anything we had seen in ww2 had the invasion gone ahead.

    • @christian9125abd
      @christian9125abd Год назад +10

      @@brianlong2334 the biggest blow to them was how fast the soviets took them out in mandshuria.

    • @dimushka383
      @dimushka383 Год назад +21

      @@brianlong2334 On the other hand, they were doomed, because the Soviets defeated all the ground forces on the mainland, taking only more than 600 thousand soldiers (consider no reinforcements), and captured the northern islands with landing forces. Opening your way already in the heart of Japan. The Japanese were squeezed on the islands, forcing them to defend themselves from all sides, dispersing their forces against much stronger enemies, it is impossible to create a strong defense everywhere. OK. From the north, the threat of landing on Hokaido from the USSR, from the south, the landing of the allies on Kyushu. But these are already the sacred islands of Japan itself, where both the population and industry are concentrated. A hit on them immediately removes all opportunities for further resistance, no matter what spirit you have.

    • @kewltony
      @kewltony Год назад +1

      They always had mobility and organization to do that but it didn't serve any strategic purpose

    • @softdrink-0
      @softdrink-0 Год назад +8

      @@dimushka383the Soviet’s could not have invaded Hokkaido 😂

  • @definitelymetagaming
    @definitelymetagaming Год назад +27

    it would've been nice if you showed control over the Pacific itself too (maybe with a line to show which is Japanese and which is Allied?)

  • @Nico20243
    @Nico20243 Год назад +53

    Rest in peace 29 million Soldier and civilian died during the worst asia era ever,and thank you pigeon for covering the pacific war i appreciate 😢

    • @TheGuyFrom7Hubble
      @TheGuyFrom7Hubble Год назад +1

      WW1 was kinda worse tbh

    • @definitelynormal6678
      @definitelynormal6678 Год назад +32

      ​@@TheGuyFrom7Hubbleno it wasn't. No genocides or as many deaths as WW2 even the Pacific Front alone

    • @everburn
      @everburn Год назад

      ​@@definitelynormal6678there were definitely genocides in ww1

    • @QWERTY-gp8fd
      @QWERTY-gp8fd Год назад +10

      @@definitelynormal6678 laughs in armenian genocide, Greek genocide, Assyrian genocide

    • @magmavonkarma
      @magmavonkarma Год назад

      ​@@QWERTY-gp8fdHolocaust was way scarier, there are about 6-7 million victims of the Holocaust at least

  • @이재명각하만세
    @이재명각하만세 Год назад +6

    chinese weak asf 😂😂

    • @zombiexdgamer2777
      @zombiexdgamer2777 10 месяцев назад

      They were constant turmoil since the fall of Qing Dynasty and their military have really poor quality but they got the high quality equipment from allies when Japanese were defeated at northern burma

  • @mikeharris7780
    @mikeharris7780 Год назад +8

    The front doesn't move in New Guinea, Philippines or Borneo late in the war. How many American and Australian troops were deployed that this video doesn't mention?

  • @dimateadriaanm.1194
    @dimateadriaanm.1194 Год назад +93

    this does NOT show the island battles, which are crucial to the war effort. Would be cool if the battles are shown with arrows that change colors depending on territorial control ratio instead of just none.
    Speaking of the video, I'm astonished with the 5:1 ratio of the chinese v japanese armies. Sad to say that Kuomintang corruption led their demise.

    • @pigeoninanutshell
      @pigeoninanutshell  Год назад +39

      That was my original idea but the islands are not visible on my map cause i got it off google earth, i would of included army sizes but i lacked information.

    • @dimateadriaanm.1194
      @dimateadriaanm.1194 Год назад +7

      @@pigeoninanutshell yeah that was a problem too, there's a problem with the army sizes for each island battle. however arrows with different colors could do the job of mapping the islands

    • @dimushka383
      @dimushka383 Год назад +1

      Kuomintang corruption =)
      The Kuomintang, the only one who really fought in China for China.
      Corruption is more likely among those who hid in Taiwan after the war. They fought the Kuomintang more than the Japanese.

    • @moseshamlett3887
      @moseshamlett3887 Год назад +2

      Yeah, there were plenty of islands visible on this map and they just stayed red until the end. Kinda dissapointing.

    • @yzfwing7439
      @yzfwing7439 Год назад +4

      工业水平和资源和军队素质日本那时候都有优势

  • @sirencesocery
    @sirencesocery Год назад +6

    日本が降伏する前にもっと色々あった様な気がする。中国戦線は凝っている。ちょっと珍しいかも。

  • @adelaidesngan604
    @adelaidesngan604 Год назад +54

    The Americans only faced 20% of the Japanese army

    • @grandcanyon-d4d
      @grandcanyon-d4d Год назад +3

      Context?

    • @adelaidesngan604
      @adelaidesngan604 10 месяцев назад +21

      @@grandcanyon-d4d The Americans made the whole world believe that they were the ones who won the war alone.

    • @grandcanyon-d4d
      @grandcanyon-d4d 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@adelaidesngan604 context!

    • @grandcanyon-d4d
      @grandcanyon-d4d 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@adelaidesngan604 I know us didn't and couldn't win alone, but how they were fighting only 20%?

    • @eduardoibanez1503
      @eduardoibanez1503 9 месяцев назад +2

      And a majority of the IJN, the Pacific theater was fought by everyone but lead by the US

  • @doncomuna378
    @doncomuna378 Год назад +89

    Wait, didn't Japan lose several islands in the pacific before surrendering? Sorry, but I think your map was a little inaccurate, friend... no offense or diminish your work!

    • @pigeoninanutshell
      @pigeoninanutshell  Год назад +63

      I forgot to color Okinawa as blue during the Editing time, and some landings in the Indonesian Islands. But thank you for speaking out for this mistake.

    • @tobikbobik6064
      @tobikbobik6064 Год назад +4

      ​@@pigeoninanutshellwhat about philipinee?

    • @tobikbobik6064
      @tobikbobik6064 Год назад +3

      Philipines

    • @F.R.E.D.D2986
      @F.R.E.D.D2986 Год назад +3

      ​@@tobikbobik6064the Philippines were erased 😞

    • @EmperorHirohito-ub7ct
      @EmperorHirohito-ub7ct Год назад

      @@pigeoninanutshell The Editing time? Do you mean that the surrender of Japan is the beginning of the American occupation of Japan? While other countries are nothing to you.

  • @Tony-ssj769
    @Tony-ssj769 Месяц назад +1

    In all reality those atomic bombs saved Japan's culture, if the mainland had been invaded by the Russians and Chinese, they would have been a split nation or communist all together.

  • @Nagata_Boxing
    @Nagata_Boxing 16 дней назад +1

    Although the Japanese army had fewer people than the Chinese army, they were very powerful to advance so far. The Japanese army has individual strengths. They deserve to be the strongest.

    • @pf-edits
      @pf-edits 7 дней назад

      and now look at them

  • @norbisanubus
    @norbisanubus Год назад +19

    As someone who studies ww2 in, excellent work.

  • @speedwaytypist4633
    @speedwaytypist4633 Год назад +17

    Thank you! I’ve always wanted to see this

  • @RTINGT
    @RTINGT Год назад +5

    This video has had 10,000 views and 400 likes in bilibili (Chinese video app)🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @chasealexander2774
    @chasealexander2774 Год назад +7

    Japanese were outnumber many times over yet continued to make gains. Shows how important training and equipment are in war.

    • @morrisongao852
      @morrisongao852 8 месяцев назад

      This is why the Japanese no longer dare to invade modern China

  • @chibble3591
    @chibble3591 Год назад +63

    It’s truly amazing how much Chinese territory the Japanese took. Although they were more advanced in weaponry, occupying a country with about 8 times your population is impressive.

    • @cy-cb8rs
      @cy-cb8rs Год назад +24

      Yes, because China was an agricultural country at that time and had not industrialized yet.

    • @chibble3591
      @chibble3591 Год назад

      @@cy-cb8rs oh really?

    • @factorerivative
      @factorerivative Год назад +12

      @@chibble3591and it was population of 1:4 not 1:8

    • @factorerivative
      @factorerivative Год назад +4

      @@chibble3591with naval and aerial and equipment superiority the difference is really large, even though, Chinese United front and the river incident is important for holding the Japanese, else if China is not United against Japan the same would happen as how the qing dynasty Manchuria worked out, Japanese were out of oil so they had no choice but to attack Allie’s to get oil in rest of asia

    • @factorerivative
      @factorerivative Год назад +2

      @@chibble3591n fact: before around 1939,1940 the Chinese actually had hundreds of tanks from Germany while Japan had none

  • @Latestnewsdispatches
    @Latestnewsdispatches Год назад +11

    Japan still had a lot of territory at the time of surrender. It also seemed like they were not going to surrender in China any time soon.

    • @theemirofjaffa2266
      @theemirofjaffa2266 Год назад

      Hence the nukes. The perfect example of why they were necessary.

    • @supereero9
      @supereero9 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@theemirofjaffa2266
      The Soviets would have taken the whole of Japan too

    • @Keiko_Kyoto
      @Keiko_Kyoto 6 месяцев назад

      @@supereero9 No? They literally cancelled an operation that would’ve taken half of Hokkaido because they didn’t have enough available landing craft and the availability of Japanese kamikaze and other stiff resistance they’d face

    • @Keiko_Kyoto
      @Keiko_Kyoto 6 месяцев назад

      @@theemirofjaffa2266the Japanese armies in China by this point was largely disintegrating and exhausted, they were facing constant hassle in the rural parts of the country by guerrilla forces and supply shortages, but yeah justify crimes against humanity that’s fine

    • @theemirofjaffa2266
      @theemirofjaffa2266 6 месяцев назад

      @Keiko-rb8lf crimes against humanity? You talking about crimes against humanity? 😆 🤣 😂

  • @ElielSolomon-c2p
    @ElielSolomon-c2p Месяц назад +3

    How did china with 5,7M not win agenst the japanese with only 1M

    • @darkrieshunter6670
      @darkrieshunter6670 Месяц назад

      Badly divided between different factions, poorly supplied, majority of manufacturing cities were located in the coast which were captured, corrupt leadership, infighting in the higher up, and the professional soldier were already dead in the initial fighting.
      Prior to the Japanese invasion China was divided between numerous fraction fighting for supremacy in the civil war with the major being the Communist and Nationalist, when the Japanese invaded they still kept fighting between each other infact several higher up had to kidnap Chiang Kai Shek and force him into a ceasefire with the communist and create an United Chinese front against the Japanese. He later had these officers who kidnapped him executed, even though they were allied they didn’t trust each other and would fight against each other. The best soldier which were trained by the Germans were exhausted and dead from the initial fighting and were actually able to match the Japanese soldier and were later replaced by conscripts who were poorly trained. Honestly the entire Chinese army was a mess and the constant infighting didn’t help

    • @蔡徐坤-u1s
      @蔡徐坤-u1s Месяц назад

      @@darkrieshunter6670是的,的确如此,我是一名来自中国的中学生,了解过中国近现代史,书上写的是蒋介石认为“攘外必先安内”,想要独揽中国大权后再抗日,于是下令围剿共产党员,不过后来被国民党官员绑架威胁才与共产党共同抵抗侵略

    • @神可汗
      @神可汗 28 дней назад +1

      There was no industry, and the factions were divided. Most of the troops did not have heavy weapons and sufficient ammunition supplies. China relied on external (US and Soviet) assistance for all its weapons at the time.

  • @dylangtech
    @dylangtech Год назад +95

    Most of WWII in Asia amounted to the world’s most powerful Iron Age civilization fighting Asia’s biggest Steal Age powers.
    Shanghai and Nanjing must have been a terrifying wake up call to the Chinese. Manpower alone could not stop Japan.

    • @Snoopy9675
      @Snoopy9675 Год назад +9

      “Iron Age” and “steal age” ?????

    • @WarriorofChrist612
      @WarriorofChrist612 Год назад

      Clearly it did lol

    • @davout5775
      @davout5775 Год назад +15

      @@Snoopy9675 I believe he expressed the ecenturies of differences between the Japanese and the Chinese.

    • @lolasdm6959
      @lolasdm6959 Год назад +5

      What the hell do you mean? That China didn't realize guns are powerful weapons? You don't just want industrialization for industralization to happen.

    • @WarriorofChrist612
      @WarriorofChrist612 Год назад

      @@Snoopy9675 Man lives in Terra

  • @Ivanpiscis
    @Ivanpiscis 8 месяцев назад +3

    glad that China never surrendered , most of you never realize how disaster to the whole world if China surrendered and capitulated to Japan before 1943

  • @bicopgameryttm7266
    @bicopgameryttm7266 Год назад +19

    Considering at one point the Chinese had 0 tanks and at another half the army was armed with swords because of lack of guns they did alright, imagine if it was a unified country with proper military at the time

    • @xk6828
      @xk6828 Год назад +1

      I conquer the world with that in hoi4😂

    • @J-Balberan.
      @J-Balberan. 3 месяца назад

      If they had proper military at that time Chinese would probably still struggle but it would completely Make Japan Fear ROC.

    • @LancerIHR
      @LancerIHR 2 месяца назад

      ​@@J-Balberan.Nah. Considering China's population, if they had a proper military, Japan would have kissed any hopes of victory goodbye

  • @elocriativa
    @elocriativa 10 месяцев назад +66

    One very unfair thing that always comes out when people talk about ww2 is how, in the West, the Chinese are represented as helpless lambs, who were being wrecked by Japan until America came to the rescue.
    Actually, the Chinese fought so bravely that they bogged down most of the Japanese army in a war of attrition for longer than ww2 lasted. Japan only took the European colonies in Southeast Asia and attacked the USA because the Chinese were turning the tide on them.
    Chinese war effort should receive much more recognition.

    • @squish2108
      @squish2108 9 месяцев назад +5

      I wouldn't say they're portrayed as helpless, but most people I've ever seen mention the Pacific front just barely mention it as "where Japan was in the first couple years"

    • @flatl1ne
      @flatl1ne 8 месяцев назад +3

      Nope, the most unfair thing is that ussr destroyed japan half million forces in almost 1 week, but nobody tells about it. Not nuclear weapon made japan accept the defeat, but ussr forces did.

    • @maynardburger
      @maynardburger 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@flatl1ne I mean, nobody talks about it cuz it's a ridiculous, untrue claim. lol Russia did not 'destroy' half a million forces in a week. There's simply no such thing. But going by your talking points, I'm guessing you're Russian yourself? Slava Ukraini. Get fucked.

    • @диманич
      @диманич 7 месяцев назад

      потому что это называется "американская пропаганда". Американцы сделали во второй мировой войне от силы 5% вклада, но превозносят это так, будто они круче всех и вообще это они "победили".

    • @cmdrgarbage1895
      @cmdrgarbage1895 7 месяцев назад

      ​@flatl1ne There is this delusional idea that it was one singular reason the Japs must have surrendered instead of taking a more nuanced look at the subject. It was a combination of factors that led the capitulation, the Soviet invasion and atomic bombs are just 2 of them.

  • @glazeproductions7500
    @glazeproductions7500 Год назад +48

    Even tho the Japanese Army sizes are smaller than the Chinese Army sizes, It shows how powerful they were in the beginning because they were still winning

    • @jeremiahmatthew526
      @jeremiahmatthew526 Год назад +1

      Germany almost defeated Soviet union who has 2 times more troops than germany
      But China has 5 times more troops than japan and japan still pushing

    • @RandomInternetUser_24
      @RandomInternetUser_24 Год назад +29

      Top 2 reasons china was struggling against Japan:
      1. Chinese civil war
      2. Small industry

    • @_blank-_
      @_blank-_ Год назад +21

      I'm rather impressed by how the Chinese were able to resist considering how backwards their military/industry was.

    • @Big_Caesar1
      @Big_Caesar1 Год назад +21

      ​​@@_blank-_t's not surprising at all, look at how many men they mobilized, at those numbers, each Japanese soldier would have had to kill 20 Chinese each. The numbers were completely against Japan

    • @glazeproductions7500
      @glazeproductions7500 Год назад +1

      @@RandomInternetUser_24 yea

  • @paullunsford8921
    @paullunsford8921 7 месяцев назад +2

    Japan is, to my knowledge, the only nation to conquer all of Southeast Asia. There will probably never be another power to do so given the enormous difficulties involved. The horrible atrocities committed aside, it was an unbelievable military accomplishment.

  • @daber2000
    @daber2000 3 месяца назад +3

    i had no idea that japan was never formally defeated in china. thanks to the US' atomic weapon japan had to give up, otherwise there would have been many more years and countless lives, and the outcome might have favored japan. although once finished with Germany, the ussr might have gone against japan next, or they might have even forged an alliance, even if temporary due to essential ideological differences

    • @scarlet_squadron
      @scarlet_squadron 3 месяца назад

      いや負けてますよ。
      ポツダム宣言には中華民国も参加しています。
      確かに中国戦線では戦術的な大敗はありませんでしたが、結局日本は中国を打ち負かすことができず、戦略的に敗北しています。

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 3 месяца назад +2

      USSR did goto war against Japan. It was agreed during Yalta that the USSR would declare war within 3 months of the Germany War ending.
      Nor would outcome really have favored Japan if nukes were not used. Japan was going to lose all their possessions one way or the other (they were losing on all fronts). If anything Allied treatment of Japan would have probably been more harsh than IRL. The only exception would be if Operation Olympic fails, then there may be a chance the Allies agree to an Armistice, which at most would just be the non-occupation of Japan, but you're talking about a Japan that's probably even worse off than IRL.

    • @daber2000
      @daber2000 3 месяца назад

      @@taoliu3949 you are right, i did further reading and the soviet Japanese front had brutal pockets of fighting too, albeit the rapid soviet advance

  • @Ren3gaid
    @Ren3gaid Год назад +5

    "Pacific War" - shows mainly the progress in Indonesia and Asian mainland

    • @MarcoTheHague
      @MarcoTheHague 8 месяцев назад

      Dutch east indies. Indonesia spawned from republican collaborators that caused the death of some 6million people in the DEI.

  • @barkermjb
    @barkermjb 6 месяцев назад +2

    The last five seconds of this video clearly shows why the decision to employ the two atomic bombs was the right thing to do. The pacific war would have gone on longer and cost far more lives without their use. In the video you see and hear “boom boom” and then total surrender. RIP to all, both allies and axis, who lost their lives in such a foolish endeavor by power hungry and evil men.

  • @yichaosun360
    @yichaosun360 Год назад +5

    The video had some mistake, what I known is that by March 1945, American troops had landed in the Philippines

    • @IrnestCOD
      @IrnestCOD Год назад

      You can see it.

    • @MultiSr71blackbird
      @MultiSr71blackbird 8 месяцев назад +2

      They landed in October 1944. Video doesn't show any of it. Neither the other important campaigns like Tarawa, Marshall islands, Mariannas, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Miserable failure.

    • @maynardburger
      @maynardburger 8 месяцев назад

      @@MultiSr71blackbird The initial landings took place on very small portions of Philippines, ffs and took a little while before US could expand from it. Also calling it a 'miserable failure' cuz it didn't color in tiny little hardly-even-visible islands only shows how utterly miserable people like you are, trashing on somebody's hard work cuz it's not perfect while you haven't done shit. smh

  • @KaiserMapper
    @KaiserMapper Год назад +20

    My great grandfather fought against the Japanese Empire.

    • @DarkDaxter-ex7pi
      @DarkDaxter-ex7pi Год назад +10

      Respect for your Grandfather, such a brave man

    • @KaiserMapper
      @KaiserMapper Год назад +10

      @@DarkDaxter-ex7piYeah, he was a soldier of the NRA(China).

    • @boycottnok1466
      @boycottnok1466 Год назад

      You grandfather is a criminal.

  • @theskycavedin
    @theskycavedin Год назад +3

    You completely ignored the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea campaigns. Didn't see any movement in those areas whatsoever.

  • @joecha9746
    @joecha9746 7 месяцев назад +3

    It’s crazy how dominating japans military was when seeing the size of their military vs. China.

    • @SquidMonke4
      @SquidMonke4 7 месяцев назад +1

      China were a bunch of 1914 gunmen with no support vehicles Japan was modernized. You can see how moa go to popular with his “great leap forward” even if it didnt work

    • @richardstephens5570
      @richardstephens5570 4 месяца назад

      Many of the Chinese troops were poorly trained and equipped,

  • @FrenchMapper.
    @FrenchMapper. Год назад +6

    5m vs 1m💀👌

  • @WaterFallingDown
    @WaterFallingDown 10 месяцев назад +3

    Remember, we Taiwanese is not a part of China. We are Japanese Army in that time.

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 9 месяцев назад +3

      There were many Taiwanese who served in the NRA. Not to mention the current government in Taiwan WAS the regime in China at the time.

    • @Gmlscf
      @Gmlscf 24 дня назад +1

      no,you are dogs of them ,not Japanese

  • @legendneverdiegaminglndg4136
    @legendneverdiegaminglndg4136 6 месяцев назад +2

    European people don't know that Asian wars are far greater😅

  • @teemum.9023
    @teemum.9023 9 месяцев назад +2

    5:05 By Dec 1941 I was like can Japanese even hold the incompetent and fragmentary line in China and then Japan opened up the US front. Wrong answer!

  • @markusbradley7730
    @markusbradley7730 10 месяцев назад +3

    its crazy to see how much the japanese still owned by the war's end. They really would have kept going if we didn't send two nukes. They owned pretty much all of asia.