I interviewed a veteran who served in the Southwest Pacific[New Guinea, Bougainville, the Phillipines], he said the thing that nearly drove him crazy was that he was never dry. It might stop pouring rain for a few hours, but in that heat and humidity, you never got dry. He said it was literally a 'green Hell'.
On Cape Goulester New Britain it never stopped raining, it may stop for a couple of hours but that's the most. The Marines clothes rotted off their bodies. My Father told me one day when he wasn't on the front line he set his tent up on some high ground and the next morning he had 3 inches of water in his tent.
@@kennethcaine3402 it was rainy season lived in the Solomons Bougainville it's not always raining they were not there long enough to get used to the heat rain insects etc
@@joelmonkley6177 Oh yea, tell the troops that. "You weren't long enough there to get used to heat, rain, the mossies, clothes rotting off yer limbs. Maybe next time you will get used to it, boys." I'm sure that'll be encouraging
@@Vikingr4Jesus5919 no need to tell them anything slot was learned at Tarawa atoll . Ive been to some of those places in the Pacific as well as the Philippines Thailand Indochina and after while you get used to the heat as for raining non stop that's bullshit yes it rains alot but not for months and months rainy season yes sun comes out also the Aussies were there for alot longer they handle it. So I'm not trying to be a smart arse but conditions change why you so butt hurt another proud American not wanting someone who's gas been in those conditions not under no but still sweating my arse off
@@Tipi83 I was living on Bougainville island 🏝️ for nearly 12 months and I have spent time on other Pacific Islands and been going to south East Asia for the last 30 years at all times of the year so I know the weather very well never had my arse shot at though but I never stated that so I hope that answers your bold statement you been anywhere past the couch ?
You have to take it in context. You spend days in heat, rain, mud, little sleep, eating out of cans, and waiting to the sh*t to start. When it finally kicks off, its almost a relief. Once it starts, it is a rush like absolutely no other. The world will never look the same afterwards.
My grandpa was in New Guinea. After he passed, I found out that he had won three Bronze Stars. He also told me that the men feared the snakes more than they did the Japanese.
@George-vf7ss it was for Tarawa. Lucky there had been New Zealand coast watchers on the island before the Japanese they knew the tides and tidal movements it would of been a lot worse
0:54 That shit is like a horror movie - you can't make out any individual people, just a seething mass of death that's slowly but inexorably crawling towards your front line in between flashes of lightning. Like, you see nothing...and then there's lightning, and the jungle suddenly CRAWLS.
The Japanese were more animal than human when you read about the war. One or two japs would be no big deal. But a hoard of them crawling through the jungle..nightmare fuel
my late neighbor had 5 battle stars in the pacific. one day it started raining and he yells at me across the road " that rain reminds me of Bougainville" He had some good stories to tell!
My dad served in the Pacific and saw heavy action. I have his captured Japanese rifle that still has the emperors crissanthom and other seals and it like him is priceless to me. I miss him so...I will pass it down to my daughter..Also I have a distant relative that's entombed on the USS Arizona. That's another reason my dad enlisted. When I took my family I showed my wife and kids his name. There was a separate group of Japanese tourists close by and they quickly moved away as if I held it against them. I looked over and smiled at them and they relaxed and smiled back .Time heals..
why bother even ending the war if we can’t forgive and learn to live with each other afterwards. thank you for doing your part in moving us forward from that horrible conflict
Got to sit down with a vet of Guam and Okinawa, what a great man! Told of the true horrors of war and how brutal people can be to one another. The pacific campaign was hell!
I worked in a veteran's hospital for several years , one thing I never understood was why veterans of the Pacific War always had a much higher frequency of multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases than those who served in Europe and Africa. I've seen several die from it , and never understood.
@@akaroamale475 I guess we'll see won't we? They're already saying that all the recent myocarditis incidents in young people are caused by "stress" or "the Trump presidency" or even marijuana smoking. Except, the only thing these children have in common, is the fact that they were all freshly "vaccinated". But, by all means, please keep drinking the kool-aid.
As a hammock camper myself, I can tell you, that you feel pretty vulnerable zipped up in a hammock when danger approaches. I haven't had to deal with an approaching army, but when you wake up to the sound up 3 coyotes tearing apart a rabbit a mere 20 yards away, its a little jarring lol.
@@patrickhebdo5423 Yeah. I texted my buddy who was sleeping in back of his truck a few yards away. Once he got up with his shotgun we all checked the area, and went back to sleep.
@@thegreatestkhan uh oh..we got a tuff guy here. Surprised it took so long. No worries pal. I'm sure you're the best of the best and could take on ten coyotes with your bare hands. They attack people all the time. But not you. One sight of you and I'm sure they'll run right out of your mom's basement never to return to your cul-de-sac again. Just one question... can you come camping with me next time.. I could sure use a worthless nobody internet tough guy such as yourself next time I'm in bear country. 😆
I can never understand some ppl camping in the middle of nowhere with only some flimsy synthetic fabric between them and whoever decides to wander up to them in their sleep, some of them even camp without a gun
It happens surprisingly quick. In my unit we had one live fire exercise where I had an officer egging me on to keep firing so he could impress visiting brass with our volume of fire. Too many long bursts had the barrel glowing red hot, at which point I had to tell the CO where to stuff himself because i didnt want to die from my own ammo cooking off in the chamber
It is extremely hard to shoot accurately at night because you cannot line up your sights on your weapon. This is why machine guns fire on fixed lines. In my opinion as a soldier of 18 years all attacks wherever possible should be at night. It's a lot easier said than done of course. But it greatly minimises casualties so it's well worth the extra preparation time and trouble. Time spent on reconnaissance and rehearsal (both essential), is never wasted.
I'm going to assume you served pre-2000's??? Now there are battery powered and fibre/tritium illuminated optics used on conjunction with Night Vision sights and IR lasers. If anything, fighting at night for modernised western forces will be much more advantageous considering the immense advantage we have at night fighting over pretty much all other fighting forces around the world. "We own the night"
@@anemoia2661 There are actually many analysis papers from experts who claim that "we" dont own the night anymore. Good night vision ist available on the world market for almost anyone with a few bucks to spare.
In your opinion, what are the disadvantages of a night attack? I would assume something like "reduced ability to command and control the forces, reduced ability to exploit a breakthrough, greater difficulty in coordinating fire support, etc." but I'm curious as to your views.
flares used to disorientate me very quickly, with the over-bright light switching to a very heavy darkness with no rhyme or rhythm, just as the flare was blown about on its descent - especially in woods. I preferred the dark.
You can't helping wondering how gunners saw anything. In a night action the very first burst from their gun would have wrecked their night-vision and they'd be effectively be firing blind from then on.
That's simple: you just lay down fire based on the T&E mechanism. Many's the time Nguyan of the North hit our NDPs, and if the mortar monkeys couldn't keep flares up, you just lay down long bursts at waist height across your front.
Even riflemen in their positions have arc markers they set up so you don’t fire outside the zone you’re given. The tripod mounted mgs can be moved left/right/up/down in small amounts to sweep fire as required. Of course nowadays we have ample night vision and thermal imagers but yes muzzle flash still occurs. Flash eliminators do help reduce it. We can fire at night and through smoke at previously recorded targets by use of an optical sight that the no.1 aligns onto the small post each gun has. The crew place a trilux lamp onto it for night use. If not engaging enemies it’s always laid back onto the target recorded as the Final Protected Fire, example X11 (FPF). Same goes for mortars. It’s usually very close to your furthest forward position in case of sneak attacks.
@@kennethcaine3402 There's a world of difference between being scared and breaking. Being scared is a natural human response when you're in a situation where you may die. Breaking is when either the fear and stress of that situation overcome you and your mind can't handle it anymore.
@@kennethcaine3402 With all due respect to your father I was a hospital corpsman with four tours in Iraq and I saw a couple of guys break. Semper Fi is a damn fine thing but there's only so much a man can take and sometimes men do break. Even a Marine. That's why PTSD exists. And that s***'s been around since mankind began wars before there was ever been a Marine Corps or anything else.
My Dad suffered from PTSD's for the first time in his life when he was around 80 years old from the war. My Mom said he never talked about it to her and never showed in ill effects until he got that old. He was also diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease around the same time. It was beyond sad to see the poor guy reliving what he went through when he was 19 years old and thought he had put it behind him. He had his good days mixed with some really bad ones. No one knows the price our soldiers pay. He served in the US Marine Corps.
@suiterd62 Hi, I read about this happening, heard that the soldiers called them Matel 16.s. How long was it before they ironed out the problems of the M16?
@suiterd62 Yup. I put an extra magazine pouch on my web belt when I was in the Army so I could have quick access to cleaning supplies. Any time we stopped, i was brushing out the insides of the weapon with a toothbrush. You get so much as a grain of sand in an M16, especially one that is notlubricated
@@gavincollins9376 It was still pretty bad when i was in from 85 to 89. I cant see that it would be possible to do much to the design to improve it. Contrast this to a time we were given old AK47s so we could play Opfor on an exercise. As part of the exercise my squad was supposed to become POWs for several days. Our captors left our AKs out in the rain, where mine rusted the bolt shut. Couldnt pry it loose by hand, but kicked it open, whereupon with some lube, i could fire like normal. With an M16 you would need a full day of cleaning to make sure there was not a speck of dust in any part before you could even think about being back in action
@suiterd62 WW2 weapons did not have the same quality of steel, nor the same quality of protective coatings, that modern firearms do. Among other things, the inside of the barrels were bare steel, NOT chrome or stellite lined. Regardless of how much care an infantryman takes to "keep rust off their weapons", they WILL rust in a situation as seen during this scene. Rust is nothing more than the oxidation of iron. It is catalyzed by water and hastened by heat. Iron or steel that is heated up extremely hot in open air WILL form a layer of rust. There is a reason that steel mills use flux or oxygen-free environments when they melt steel- if they don't, it will all rust almost immediately during the cooling process. If you take a steel machine gun barrel, heat it up to near-red-hot by firing hundreds of rounds through it in a few minutes, all while rain is pouring on the weapon, it WILL cause a patina of rust to form. Even if the barrel was well-oiled both inside and out, that oil will burn off from the barrel heat, and leave the gun vulnerable to rust. No amount of "infantryness" will prevent that.
You oil liberally "to keep the rust away" in the wet... then it turns all hot and dry and all the dust and shit clog everything up. So you clean it but use less oil. Then it pisses it down so you use more oil and the cycle repeats...
@@adamcheklat7387 if they were that shaded, then the lightening g was no benefit. Just created a bunch of shadows. If it was enough to markedly light the battlefield, it would blind you. Been there.
@@adamcheklat7387 I know this reply is a year old, but there's a easy way to test it yourself Adam. One day, get a powerful flashlight and sit in your house late at night in a room thats completely dark. Let your eyes adjust so that you can see 'somewhat' inside the room. Then quickly 'flash' the flashlight, see how long it takes you to re-gain the ability to somewhat see what is around you in the room. Our eyes may be somewhat fast to adjust to changes of lighting conditions, but they are nowhere near as fast as say, your household cat.
An old Marine in an interview says they were dumbfounded by the logistical tail the Army had. "Then came the doggies bringing everything but the kitchen sink"!
It's unfathomable that my Grandfather enlisted at 19, fought in the Pacific, then came home, joined the FBI and later became an attorney. These guys were MEN.
Every time I watch a war movie on RUclips, there'll always those whose their parents were in that war especially in that particular battle they're showing.
That had to have been nerve wracking for Leckie hoping he doesn't have to pull the pin on that phosphorus grenade. Pulling it meant he'd probably be dead in the next few moments.
My Father who was a Sniper attached to an artillery unit had went with the infantry had taken a hill on Cape Goulester from the Japanese it was a GREAT observation point, but the Japanese wanted to take it back. They had their machine guns set up and the Japanese unleashed a Banzi charge and at the same time they started receiving American artillery on top of them, Chesty Puller stood up cussing and came to my Father and said is that your guns shelling us Daddy said no Sir my guns are in another direction, get me a radio, so Daddys radio man gave Puller his radio and he got on it and told them get that fire stopped using his vocabulary to make the point and in seconds the artillery stopped but the Banzi charges didn't, it was night and the barrels on the machine guns glowed so red he was afraid the barrels would melt. Japanese bodies got piled up so high but the Japanese were climbing over the bodies to continue the charges. Then they would stop and Marines would go out and make sure they were dead and level the bodies so the machine gunners would have a clear range of fire. Later the Japanese would do the same thing and the machine gunners would lay down Deadly Fire, the Japanese would stop and Marines would go out check the bodies and make sure they were good Japs and level the bodies out. I can't remember how many attacks there were that night but at least 4 or five. Then during the next day the bodies would swell and bust and smell terrible with flies covering them. Daddy said he finally got a cup of coffee and a big green blowfly landed on it and he poured it out knowing that fly had been on one of those bodies.it
@@googlemike111 some people lie, my Father didn't lie, I don't know who you have been listening to but I will assure you my Father was a Scout Sniper in the 1st Marine Division during WWII. If you don't believe me it doesn't make one bit of difference to me I know the facts
To us now this is a fun video game level, to them it was probly one of the defining moments of there lives crazy how they did this while all still young men, maybe even still boys really, they will always be the greatest generation
@@hurdygurdyman1905 well the fact that you brought that up almost definitely means YOU are the one with daddy issues and you are projecting them onto me , LOL ! , FUCK AMERICA
I would of prefered to fight the Germans than these troops cornered and willing to die..Like the German -Soviet war the brutality was on another level.
Maybe, but then again fatality rates were higher in Europe. The Germans might be less brutal, but if you value your life it would be best to stay out of the infantry in the ETO.
While this is realistic, I don't know why they didn't show the real reality of battle. In the first 30 seconds many machine gunners were killed at the start of the battle. The Japanese targeted machine gunners in particular so they could overwhelm American lines. That is why in later battles there are few machine gunners because we learned that they were the biggest targets.
This are the battles that broke the Japanese Invincibility with confidence of there banzai charge and got bloody nose from the Marine that they develop ptsd against them and now only prepare to battle on inside caves🤣
If I had to go fight in WWII, I would have rather fought in European theater than the South Pacific. From all my years of learning about WWII, the South Pacific was a different kind of beast.......all things considered. All war is hell, but seems like the South Pacific was hell plus plus.
That's how most encounters in the Pacific War played out. Japanese ground forces won several victories in 1942, but they were fighting with outdated tactics and equipment and couldn't stand up to fully modernized USMC/US Army forces.
@@americanatlas3631 yeah I remember my professors going into detail of what happened in the pacific and I met world war 2 veterans as a kid and they said the Japanese army was beyond tough and would push them back as they would advance. The show made it seem as if the American forces just ran through them
Nguyen of the North had the same problem in Vietnam: US air power and artillery. Their only hope was to get in too close for either to come down on them, which meant closing fast at night. I can't count the number of times they hit our NDPs, or we had to roll to bail out some straight-leg outfit or ARVN unit's NDP getting hammered. Problem is, US units could throw out so many rounds, closing that last hundred yards was sheer murder.
Operation Ichi-Go is an operation conducted by the Japanese Army on the Chinese mainland from April 17th to December 10th, 1944 during the Sino-Japanese War. It was the last major offensive of the Japanese Army, which caused the National Revolutionary Army to be hit hard and affected during the Chinese Civil War. However, on the other hand, the United States is also mediating the conclusion of the Double Tenth Agreement with Chiang Kai-shek in order to avoid a civil war. According to a study by Barbara W. Tuchman, the results of this operation had a more significant impact on the subsequent war situation than the Japanese had imagined, and had a decisive impact on Japan's fate. According to it, Franklin Roosevelt has consistently strongly trusted and supported Chiang Kai-shek since the beginning of the war, and encouraged him in the war against Japan so that he would not drop out of the Allies in a single peace with Japan during the Cairo Conference. However, he said that he changed his mind because the front of Chiang Kai-shek collapsed due to this operation. In fact, Chiang Kai-shek has not been invited to important Allied conferences ("Yalta Conference" and "Potsdam Conference") since then. According to the Stilwell document, Roosevelt said, "Can China win?" Stilwell said, "There is no choice but to eliminate Chiang Kai-shek." During the 1944 Hengyang battle, he could not sleep at night and twice. He says he thought about suicide. The American side also planned to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek, and three methods of "poisoning", "aircraft incident", and "pretending to be suicide" were considered, but it was canceled in 1944 due to changes in the international situation such as Burma. The successor that the United States envisioned is Sun Fountain. As Roosevelt's Chief of Staff George Marshall and General Joseph Stilwell have long insisted, Chiang Kai-shek's army is actually a demoralized and corrupt organization that does not form an army. It became clear that he had no desire or ability to fight with the United States and other Allied forces. As a result, President Roosevelt changed the scenario of the operation against Japan from the conventional bombing of Japan and other countries from the air bases of mainland China to the one that MacArthur and others claimed to occupy the islands of the Pacific Ocean one after another. China was dismissed at the Yalta Conference, and the Allied nation's footsteps were disturbed, with angry Chiang Kai-shek presenting a peace plan to Japan against the will of the United States. In the Japan-US negotiations, Japan's allegations were peace by the confluence of Wang Jingwei of the Nanjing government and Chiang Kai-shek of the Chongqing government, and a proposal for defense from communism jointly by Japan and China. The US allegation was the withdrawal of Japanese troops from China, admitting only the Chongqing government. The negotiations broke down and the United States stopped oil, resulting in a war between Japan and the United States. The Japanese Operation Ichi-Go attack left the National Revolutionary Army with 750,000 casualties. This caused the Kuomintang to lose to the Communist Party in the civil war. China would not have been dominated by the dictatorship Communist Party if it had made peace with Japan and cooperated in protecting it from communism.
@@firstnamelastname1760 Boxer Rebellion by China's xenophobia declared war on Europe, the United States and Japan, and China was defeated and an international treaty was signed. The Japanese troops were stationed to protect the Japanese who are staying in China in accordance with the international treaties that Japan and Europe and the United States have signed with China, and the Japanese residents. However, the Chinese army slaughtered Japanese residents and started a war against the Japanese army. The purpose of Japan's war with China was not territorial ambition, but the eradication of the anti-Japanese movement, anti-communism, and the reconciliation of the three countries of Manchuria and China. In the Japan-US negotiations, Japan's allegations were peace by the confluence of Wang Jingwei of the Nanjing government and Chiang Kai-shek of the Chongqing government, and a proposal for defense from communism jointly by Japan and China. The US allegation was the withdrawal of Japanese troops from China, admitting only the Chongqing government. The negotiations broke down and the United States stopped oil, resulting in a war between Japan and the United States. As US diplomat George Kennan said, the US mistakenly eliminated Japan's influence, resulting in the Soviet threat, communism of dictatorships in China and North Korea. The United States rejected Japan's allegations of peace by the confluence of the Nanjing and Chongqing governments, and the joint proposal of Japan and China to defend against communism. The United States accidentally dropped an atomic bomb that violated international law by sticking to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army, resulting in a threat of Soviet communism and a cold war with China's communist dictatorship. As a result of eliminating Japan, the United States fought the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The United States fought the Chinese army in the Korean War. And the Vietnam War also fought. A huge number of communist victims have been killed in China and Cambodia. Japan was also relatively free and democratic, but when it came to total war, it had to be controlled. As a result of the United States and Britain mistakenly cornering Japan, Japan fought for its own self-defense. And it aimed at the liberation of Asia. The Western colonies have collapsed. The collapse of the Western colony by Japan has realized peace through free trade and coexistence and co-prosperity through economic development. But the president of the United States, Nixon Again made a mistake and promoted the threat of the Chinese Communist Party. Currently, the threat of the Chinese Communist Party is threatening the world and Taiwan. The United States, Japan, Europe and Asia are protecting freedom, democracy and peace from the threat of the Chinese Communist Party.
This is some ugly fascist propaganda, but you seem to have gotten basic timelines wrong too. Operation Ichi-Go took place in 1944, three whole years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which took place in 1941.
They did. But defenders can just throw out a wall of fire; attackers have to avoid shooting their own troops in the back, which is very tough in those lighting conditions. Plus the IJA, having missed WW1, still put great great emphasis on closing with the bayonet.
I experienced an enemy assault. Running up behind 122 mm rocket explosions. Outside wire defense positions. I was tasked to reinforce a back-up trench if the line defense was breached. I watched and waited to shoot dead any hostiles.
I can't imagine how today's weak GenZ wimps would fare if put in this situation. We would lose in 2 weeks. Bless the Greatest Generation for fighting for our freedom.
fighting in the tropical environment is literally nightmare in all aspect, I live in Vietnam and I know how unmerciful tropical climate can be. I think the war in the pacific is horrendous than any other theatre in ww2, anyone who say eastern front is worse is pure russian-ass-kissing bullshit
@@streetgato9697 I don't normally watch WW2 or in this case any war related stuff as much but The Pacific is great too only that unlike Band Of Brothers it's far more gritter and disturbing
Band of Brothers is one of the greatest series I have ever seen. And The Pacific is just as good if not better. One reason why I prefer The Pacific is that my Father was there, the only invasion he missed was Guadalcanal Canal. But he met up with those Heroes in Australia and went on to invaded Cape Goulester New Britain and Pelielu and Okinawa and was sent to China after the war was over. This is why I like the Pacific more. I love them both.
Band of Brothers did a better job with story and characters. It benefited from focusing on a single company from beginning to end, while The Pacific focused on three seperate characters in three seperate regiments, which meant you essentially had three seperate unconnected storylines and it was more difficult for many viewers to get to know the charcters, compared to Band of Brothers. The Pacific on the other hand is much, much better at portraying the reality of the Second World War. The Pacific benefitted from being adapted by accounts from actual veterans, so it never feels sentimental or romaticized. BoB on the other hand was based on a book by a historian that was slightly enamored with his subjects, so it does at times feel a little too sentimental and veers into Greatest Generation hagiography. In contrast the scenes depicting the war in the Pacific are more like something out of a horror movie, there is not a shred of romance to found. Instead it is frightening and depressing. Despite it's weaknesses, I prefer The Pacific for that reason. It's a more "real" look at the war, despite the narrative flaws.
My father was a Marine and my Uncle fought at Anzio. You see how the Ukrainians have stepped up to the plate, and then you hear our current youth saying they would not fight for our country. My uncle was 17 when he joined the army. My dad 20 when he joined the Marines. Being blinded in one eye kept me from joining the service, but many of my contemporaries did. The ones joining the service now are boys from flyover country and children of recent immigrants. My daughter's fiance is a first generation afghan who is an newly commissioned officer in the navy. As for my kids contemporaries, they went off to college, voted democrat and expect us to pay off their student loans. God help us.
I interviewed a veteran who served in the Southwest Pacific[New Guinea, Bougainville, the Phillipines], he said the thing that nearly drove him crazy was that he was never dry. It might stop pouring rain for a few hours, but in that heat and humidity, you never got dry. He said it was literally a 'green Hell'.
On Cape Goulester New Britain it never stopped raining, it may stop for a couple of hours but that's the most. The Marines clothes rotted off their bodies. My Father told me one day when he wasn't on the front line he set his tent up on some high ground and the next morning he had 3 inches of water in his tent.
@@kennethcaine3402 it was rainy season lived in the Solomons Bougainville it's not always raining they were not there long enough to get used to the heat rain insects etc
@@joelmonkley6177 Oh yea, tell the troops that. "You weren't long enough there to get used to heat, rain, the mossies, clothes rotting off yer limbs. Maybe next time you will get used to it, boys." I'm sure that'll be encouraging
@@Vikingr4Jesus5919 no need to tell them anything slot was learned at Tarawa atoll . Ive been to some of those places in the Pacific as well as the Philippines Thailand Indochina and after while you get used to the heat as for raining non stop that's bullshit yes it rains alot but not for months and months rainy season yes sun comes out also the Aussies were there for alot longer they handle it. So I'm not trying to be a smart arse but conditions change why you so butt hurt another proud American not wanting someone who's gas been in those conditions not under no but still sweating my arse off
@@Tipi83 I was living on Bougainville island 🏝️ for nearly 12 months and I have spent time on other Pacific Islands and been going to south East Asia for the last 30 years at all times of the year so I know the weather very well never had my arse shot at though but I never stated that so I hope that answers your bold statement you been anywhere past the couch ?
It will always be insane to me that people far younger than myself actually did this stuff without completely losing their shit
People as young as 16 have been fighting wars far longer than they haven’t in our races history
@@jd-rm4ez I did mean species but race also works but it’s not as precise
You have to take it in context. You spend days in heat, rain, mud, little sleep, eating out of cans, and waiting to the sh*t to start. When it finally kicks off, its almost a relief. Once it starts, it is a rush like absolutely no other. The world will never look the same afterwards.
They lost their shit
@@jdsmith542 That is 10000% correct broski. The world most definitely changes.
My dad was in the 2nd Marines. Guadalcanal, 1st wave in on Tarawa, and Siapan.
The guy was fearless. Although he hated snakes.
I'd bet on him against any snake. My dad was 1st Marine Division in Korea. He was also on Midway.
My grandpa was in New Guinea. After he passed, I found out that he had won three Bronze Stars. He also told me that the men feared the snakes more than they did the Japanese.
Did he train in New Zealand 🇳🇿 for Tarawa
@@joelmonkley6177 He was definitely in New Zealand, but i don't remember if the training was for Guadalcanal or Tarawa.
@George-vf7ss it was for Tarawa. Lucky there had been New Zealand coast watchers on the island before the Japanese they knew the tides and tidal movements it would of been a lot worse
0:54 That shit is like a horror movie - you can't make out any individual people, just a seething mass of death that's slowly but inexorably crawling towards your front line in between flashes of lightning.
Like, you see nothing...and then there's lightning, and the jungle suddenly CRAWLS.
The Japanese were more animal than human when you read about the war. One or two japs would be no big deal. But a hoard of them crawling through the jungle..nightmare fuel
They used flares by the dozens which really sucks if you are the one charging forward.
my late neighbor had 5 battle stars in the pacific. one day it started raining and he yells at me across the road " that rain reminds me of Bougainville" He had some good stories to tell!
That's.... not how battle stars work.
My Dad mentioned Bouganville once. Talked about the centipedes and snakes.
My Father was there 1st Marine Division. He went on to serve on Pelielu and Okinawa.
FUCK AMERICA
Your father was a badass. My respects to him.
@@ANZACS100 that's been tried before with bad results for the ones who tried, growup and try to deal with your anger.
@@sirpepeofhousekek6741 thanks for your reply, he turned 23 years old on Okinawa after the War was over.
@@kennethcaine3402 HAHAHA you have lost just about every war since WW2 and even then we did most of the work LOL
My dad served in the Pacific and saw heavy action. I have his captured Japanese rifle that still has the emperors crissanthom and other seals and it like him is priceless to me. I miss him so...I will pass it down to my daughter..Also I have a distant relative that's entombed on the USS Arizona. That's another reason my dad enlisted. When I took my family I showed my wife and kids his name. There was a separate group of Japanese tourists close by and they quickly moved away as if I held it against them. I looked over and smiled at them and they relaxed and smiled back .Time heals..
My friends family has a Kar98 captured in France by an Uncle, still with the swastikas and original serials 😬
why bother even ending the war if we can’t forgive and learn to live with each other afterwards. thank you for doing your part in moving us forward from that horrible conflict
My uncle was a marine fighter pilot in ww2 korea and vietnam he will always be in my heart
fuck your unce like other murican soldiers
Fighter pilot in WW2 AND Vietnam?! I don't think there were a ton of 50+ year old fighter pilots in Nam, but maybe I'm wrong.
@@John-sr2hr Robin Olds was a fighter pilot in both WW2 and Vietnam, but he was in his 40s when he was shooting down planes in Vietnam.
Salute dude
Got to sit down with a vet of Guam and Okinawa, what a great man! Told of the true horrors of war and how brutal people can be to one another. The pacific campaign was hell!
I worked in a veteran's hospital for several years , one thing I never understood was why veterans of the Pacific War always had a much higher frequency of multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases than those who served in Europe and Africa. I've seen several die from it , and never understood.
Now thats an interesting fact, something that should be looked into I think.
Brain amoebas or untreated viral infections. The same will start happening about 5 years from now due to the mrna "vaccine".
@@christianpervert525 Unsubstiated, uninformed, ignorant bollocks.
@@akaroamale475 I guess we'll see won't we?
They're already saying that all the recent myocarditis incidents in young people are caused by "stress" or "the Trump presidency" or even marijuana smoking.
Except, the only thing these children have in common, is the fact that they were all freshly "vaccinated".
But, by all means, please keep drinking the kool-aid.
@@christianpervert525 LOL what crock
I love the detail of the rain water cooling/evaporating on their gun barrels
As a hammock camper myself, I can tell you, that you feel pretty vulnerable zipped up in a hammock when danger approaches. I haven't had to deal with an approaching army, but when you wake up to the sound up 3 coyotes tearing apart a rabbit a mere 20 yards away, its a little jarring lol.
did you ever fall asleep after that?
@@patrickhebdo5423 Yeah. I texted my buddy who was sleeping in back of his truck a few yards away. Once he got up with his shotgun we all checked the area, and went back to sleep.
@@TheOutdoorDude y’all scared of coyotes lmao
@@thegreatestkhan uh oh..we got a tuff guy here. Surprised it took so long. No worries pal. I'm sure you're the best of the best and could take on ten coyotes with your bare hands. They attack people all the time. But not you. One sight of you and I'm sure they'll run right out of your mom's basement never to return to your cul-de-sac again. Just one question... can you come camping with me next time.. I could sure use a worthless nobody internet tough guy such as yourself next time I'm in bear country. 😆
I can never understand some ppl camping in the middle of nowhere with only some flimsy synthetic fabric between them and whoever decides to wander up to them in their sleep, some of them even camp without a gun
This scene actually shown the overheating of the machine gun
We don't see details like that in movies that often anymore
It helps that it's raining so the water striking the hot barrel produces a lot of visible steam
It happens surprisingly quick. In my unit we had one live fire exercise where I had an officer egging me on to keep firing so he could impress visiting brass with our volume of fire. Too many long bursts had the barrel glowing red hot, at which point I had to tell the CO where to stuff himself because i didnt want to die from my own ammo cooking off in the chamber
@@jamesbutler8821 Sure you did.
They had to since Basilone (I think) burns his hand picking up one by the barrel. Wouldn’t be consistent otherwise
That 1919 would have run all night with the rain cooling the barrel same as the 1917 without the water jacket
It is extremely hard to shoot accurately at night because you cannot line up your sights on your weapon. This is why machine guns fire on fixed lines. In my opinion as a soldier of 18 years all attacks wherever possible should be at night. It's a lot easier said than done of course. But it greatly minimises casualties so it's well worth the extra preparation time and trouble. Time spent on reconnaissance and rehearsal (both essential), is never wasted.
I'm going to assume you served pre-2000's??? Now there are battery powered and fibre/tritium illuminated optics used on conjunction with Night Vision sights and IR lasers. If anything, fighting at night for modernised western forces will be much more advantageous considering the immense advantage we have at night fighting over pretty much all other fighting forces around the world. "We own the night"
@@anemoia2661 There are actually many analysis papers from experts who claim that "we" dont own the night anymore. Good night vision ist available on the world market for almost anyone with a few bucks to spare.
In your opinion, what are the disadvantages of a night attack? I would assume something like "reduced ability to command and control the forces, reduced ability to exploit a breakthrough, greater difficulty in coordinating fire support, etc." but I'm curious as to your views.
If night attacks were so good, everybody would attack only at night.
flares used to disorientate me very quickly, with the over-bright light switching to a very heavy darkness with no rhyme or rhythm, just as the flare was blown about on its descent - especially in woods. I preferred the dark.
You can't helping wondering how gunners saw anything. In a night action the very first burst from their gun would have wrecked their night-vision and they'd be effectively be firing blind from then on.
That's simple: you just lay down fire based on the T&E mechanism. Many's the time Nguyan of the North hit our NDPs, and if the mortar monkeys couldn't keep flares up, you just lay down long bursts at waist height across your front.
@@jdsmith542 Thanks for the insight JD.
Even riflemen in their positions have arc markers they set up so you don’t fire outside the zone you’re given. The tripod mounted mgs can be moved left/right/up/down in small amounts to sweep fire as required. Of course nowadays we have ample night vision and thermal imagers but yes muzzle flash still occurs. Flash eliminators do help reduce it.
We can fire at night and through smoke at previously recorded targets by use of an optical sight that the no.1 aligns onto the small post each gun has. The crew place a trilux lamp onto it for night use.
If not engaging enemies it’s always laid back onto the target recorded as the Final Protected Fire, example X11 (FPF). Same goes for mortars. It’s usually very close to your furthest forward position in case of sneak attacks.
Gunners use tracer rounds every 5 rounds in a belt to guide their fire.
As Lecky himself would say in Granite Mountain Hotshots when you're scared shitless that's when you know it's real
Not really, my Father served in the 1st Marine Division and their were few who broke, I feel sorry for the Private, but Semper Fi says it all.
FUCK AMERICA
@@kennethcaine3402 There's a world of difference between being scared and breaking. Being scared is a natural human response when you're in a situation where you may die. Breaking is when either the fear and stress of that situation overcome you and your mind can't handle it anymore.
Yep. He would be right about that.
@@kennethcaine3402 With all due respect to your father I was a hospital corpsman with four tours in Iraq and I saw a couple of guys break.
Semper Fi is a damn fine thing but there's only so much a man can take and sometimes men do break. Even a Marine.
That's why PTSD exists. And that s***'s been around since mankind began wars before there was ever been a Marine Corps or anything else.
My Dad suffered from PTSD's for the first time in his life when he was around 80 years old from the war. My Mom said he never talked about it to her and never showed in ill effects until he got that old. He was also diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease around the same time. It was beyond sad to see the poor guy reliving what he went through when he was 19 years old and thought he had put it behind him. He had his good days mixed with some really bad ones. No one knows the price our soldiers pay. He served in the US Marine Corps.
Imagine the rust on those weapons
@suiterd62 Hi, I read about this happening, heard that the soldiers called them Matel 16.s. How long was it before they ironed out the problems of the M16?
@suiterd62 Yup. I put an extra magazine pouch on my web belt when I was in the Army so I could have quick access to cleaning supplies. Any time we stopped, i was brushing out the insides of the weapon with a toothbrush. You get so much as a grain of sand in an M16, especially one that is notlubricated
@@gavincollins9376 It was still pretty bad when i was in from 85 to 89. I cant see that it would be possible to do much to the design to improve it. Contrast this to a time we were given old AK47s so we could play Opfor on an exercise. As part of the exercise my squad was supposed to become POWs for several days. Our captors left our AKs out in the rain, where mine rusted the bolt shut. Couldnt pry it loose by hand, but kicked it open, whereupon with some lube, i could fire like normal. With an M16 you would need a full day of cleaning to make sure there was not a speck of dust in any part before you could even think about being back in action
@suiterd62 WW2 weapons did not have the same quality of steel, nor the same quality of protective coatings, that modern firearms do. Among other things, the inside of the barrels were bare steel, NOT chrome or stellite lined.
Regardless of how much care an infantryman takes to "keep rust off their weapons", they WILL rust in a situation as seen during this scene. Rust is nothing more than the oxidation of iron. It is catalyzed by water and hastened by heat. Iron or steel that is heated up extremely hot in open air WILL form a layer of rust. There is a reason that steel mills use flux or oxygen-free environments when they melt steel- if they don't, it will all rust almost immediately during the cooling process.
If you take a steel machine gun barrel, heat it up to near-red-hot by firing hundreds of rounds through it in a few minutes, all while rain is pouring on the weapon, it WILL cause a patina of rust to form. Even if the barrel was well-oiled both inside and out, that oil will burn off from the barrel heat, and leave the gun vulnerable to rust.
No amount of "infantryness" will prevent that.
You oil liberally "to keep the rust away" in the wet... then it turns all hot and dry and all the dust and shit clog everything up. So you clean it but use less oil. Then it pisses it down so you use more oil and the cycle repeats...
I think that the thunder and lightning acted somewhat of a natural flare for the Americans to see the Japanese.
The opposite. It ruins your night vision. After each flash you're blind. So you see for an instant, but you're blind for several seconds.
Frank Verdino But they were in a tropical forest, and they were protected by the canopy.
Adam Cheklat their concealment went right out the window once they started yelling at a Banzai charge lol
@@adamcheklat7387 if they were that shaded, then the lightening g was no benefit. Just created a bunch of shadows. If it was enough to markedly light the battlefield, it would blind you. Been there.
@@adamcheklat7387 I know this reply is a year old, but there's a easy way to test it yourself Adam.
One day, get a powerful flashlight and sit in your house late at night in a room thats completely dark. Let your eyes adjust so that you can see 'somewhat' inside the room.
Then quickly 'flash' the flashlight, see how long it takes you to re-gain the ability to somewhat see what is around you in the room.
Our eyes may be somewhat fast to adjust to changes of lighting conditions, but they are nowhere near as fast as say, your household cat.
An old Marine in an interview says they were dumbfounded by the logistical tail the Army had. "Then came the doggies bringing everything but the kitchen sink"!
I think Marines forget sometimes that an army is supposed to have more responsibilities aside from killing heh
It's unfathomable that my Grandfather enlisted at 19, fought in the Pacific, then came home, joined the FBI and later became an attorney. These guys were MEN.
Man, the way the jungle explodes into motion as the Japanese advance is terrifying!
0:54 fuck that's terrifying, especially at night
My dad, brother, sister, mother, uncle, aunt, both grandparents and a few nephews and nieces were there.😉
Every time I watch a war movie on RUclips, there'll always those whose their parents were in that war especially in that particular battle they're showing.
Same lmao
Well if my family was a part of history I’d watch something about it lol I’m sure not all are true but still
That had to have been nerve wracking for Leckie hoping he doesn't have to pull the pin on that phosphorus grenade. Pulling it meant he'd probably be dead in the next few moments.
Thanks,I couldn't figure out what that was.
Been to Cape Gloucester, still see landing craft in the water and bullets on the beach in 2018
Brass balls? This is how you got them! Salute, Marines!
My Father who was a Sniper attached to an artillery unit had went with the infantry had taken a hill on Cape Goulester from the Japanese it was a GREAT observation point, but the Japanese wanted to take it back. They had their machine guns set up and the Japanese unleashed a Banzi charge and at the same time they started receiving American artillery on top of them, Chesty Puller stood up cussing and came to my Father and said is that your guns shelling us Daddy said no Sir my guns are in another direction, get me a radio, so Daddys radio man gave Puller his radio and he got on it and told them get that fire stopped using his vocabulary to make the point and in seconds the artillery stopped but the Banzi charges didn't, it was night and the barrels on the machine guns glowed so red he was afraid the barrels would melt. Japanese bodies got piled up so high but the Japanese were climbing over the bodies to continue the charges. Then they would stop and Marines would go out and make sure they were dead and level the bodies so the machine gunners would have a clear range of fire. Later the Japanese would do the same thing and the machine gunners would lay down Deadly Fire, the Japanese would stop and Marines would go out check the bodies and make sure they were good Japs and level the bodies out. I can't remember how many attacks there were that night but at least 4 or five. Then during the next day the bodies would swell and bust and smell terrible with flies covering them. Daddy said he finally got a cup of coffee and a big green blowfly landed on it and he poured it out knowing that fly had been on one of those bodies.it
Wowo!
everyone says their a scout sniper.
@@googlemike111 some people lie, my Father didn't lie, I don't know who you have been listening to but I will assure you my Father was a Scout Sniper in the 1st Marine Division during WWII. If you don't believe me it doesn't make one bit of difference to me I know the facts
@@googlemike111 some people correctly spell. (They’re)
Sounds like a few books I read. (Clears throat)
Another reason they were called the greatest generation
Wow, that’s a massacre there. Good thing it’s raining. Keeps the barrels from burning red hot.
Night battles have to be extremely terrifying and confusing
Especially in Thick Jungle and forest or super rocky hilly area.
Did you see the rain turn to steam when they ceased fire? OMG!
sure wish ya could watch a version of this series without the shaky, constant scene switching of the ADDHD/parkinsons cameraman.
WWII was a rough way to grow up. That generation paid a high price for our freedom.
my father was a gunner in a Sherman
What does he say at 1:10?
Nobody 'verbs' this tent!
"Go to the intelligence tent. If we get overrun, burn it."
Because of the codes and such.
Why even post a video in 480p?
Because I'm a boomer
To us now this is a fun video game level, to them it was probly one of the defining moments of there lives crazy how they did this while all still young men, maybe even still boys really, they will always be the greatest generation
New Guinea and Mindanao were the worst places to be
No. They were all terrible. In different ways.
FUCK AMERICA
@@ANZACS100 Snore. Sorry little troll. Your daddy didn't give you much attention, did he?
@@hurdygurdyman1905 well the fact that you brought that up almost definitely means YOU are the one with daddy issues and you are projecting them onto me , LOL ! , FUCK AMERICA
@@ANZACS100 Little troll needs attention. I will give it to him.
Damn peep sights are almost useless in conditions like that.
Oddly these men in Guadalcanal were using weapons and equipment left over from World War 1
Ich singe gegen den Regen, der Regen hört nicht auf mich aufzuregen...
A more or less black screen from 0:00 to 2:37
I like looking on Google Earth at these battle sotes
Must've been fun being an extra during this "shoot"!
Wobbly camera makes me feel dizzy. Cant wait till movie makers come up with a better technique.
Mr Moto?😳
Jman
I would of prefered to fight the Germans than these troops cornered and willing to die..Like the
German -Soviet war the brutality was on another level.
Maybe, but then again fatality rates were higher in Europe. The Germans might be less brutal, but if you value your life it would be best to stay out of the infantry in the ETO.
Girls: History is so boring!
History: *AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GET SOOOOMMMMMMEREEEE!!!!*
While this is realistic, I don't know why they didn't show the real reality of battle. In the first 30 seconds many machine gunners were killed at the start of the battle. The Japanese targeted machine gunners in particular so they could overwhelm American lines. That is why in later battles there are few machine gunners because we learned that they were the biggest targets.
War.. old men talking..young men dying, been there, done that
What waste. So sad it actually happened. They fought very bravely, whatever they believed in.
*Warning - you need a Torch to watch this !*
I thought torches were racist.
This are the battles that broke the Japanese Invincibility with confidence of there banzai charge and got bloody nose from the Marine that they develop ptsd against them and now only prepare to battle on inside caves🤣
White phosphorus grenade
Cool but very lethal
So its halfway of 2024!
Does anybody around the whole world anywhere think world war 2 II was a long time ago or somehow not that long ago?
If I had to go fight in WWII, I would have rather fought in European theater than the South Pacific. From all my years of learning about WWII, the South Pacific was a different kind of beast.......all things considered. All war is hell, but seems like the South Pacific was hell plus plus.
Western front was definitely the least bad place to be in WW2
This show made the Japanese look incompetent did they even win one skirmish in this mini series?
That's how most encounters in the Pacific War played out. Japanese ground forces won several victories in 1942, but they were fighting with outdated tactics and equipment and couldn't stand up to fully modernized USMC/US Army forces.
@@americanatlas3631 yeah I remember my professors going into detail of what happened in the pacific and I met world war 2 veterans as a kid and they said the Japanese army was beyond tough and would push them back as they would advance. The show made it seem as if the American forces just ran through them
@@hectorbustamante8310 The Peleliu episodes are where the Marines start taking serious losses.
Nguyen of the North had the same problem in Vietnam: US air power and artillery. Their only hope was to get in too close for either to come down on them, which meant closing fast at night. I can't count the number of times they hit our NDPs, or we had to roll to bail out some straight-leg outfit or ARVN unit's NDP getting hammered. Problem is, US units could throw out so many rounds, closing that last hundred yards was sheer murder.
They did inflict catastrophic losses in Peleliu and Iwo Jima episodes.
Operation Ichi-Go is an operation conducted by the Japanese Army on the Chinese mainland from April 17th to December 10th, 1944 during the Sino-Japanese War.
It was the last major offensive of the Japanese Army, which caused the National Revolutionary Army to be hit hard and affected during the Chinese Civil War.
However, on the other hand, the United States is also mediating the conclusion of the Double Tenth Agreement with Chiang Kai-shek in order to avoid a civil war.
According to a study by Barbara W. Tuchman, the results of this operation had a more significant impact on the subsequent war situation than the Japanese had imagined, and had a decisive impact on Japan's fate.
According to it, Franklin Roosevelt has consistently strongly trusted and supported Chiang Kai-shek since the beginning of the war, and encouraged him in the war against Japan so that he would not drop out of the Allies in a single peace with Japan during the Cairo Conference.
However, he said that he changed his mind because the front of Chiang Kai-shek collapsed due to this operation. In fact, Chiang Kai-shek has not been invited to important Allied conferences ("Yalta Conference" and "Potsdam Conference") since then.
According to the Stilwell document, Roosevelt said, "Can China win?" Stilwell said, "There is no choice but to eliminate Chiang Kai-shek." During the 1944 Hengyang battle, he could not sleep at night and twice.
He says he thought about suicide. The American side also planned to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek, and three methods of "poisoning", "aircraft incident", and "pretending to be suicide" were considered, but it was canceled in 1944 due to changes in the international situation such as Burma. The successor that the United States envisioned is Sun Fountain.
As Roosevelt's Chief of Staff George Marshall and General Joseph Stilwell have long insisted, Chiang Kai-shek's army is actually a demoralized and corrupt organization that does not form an army. It became clear that he had no desire or ability to fight with the United States and other Allied forces.
As a result, President Roosevelt changed the scenario of the operation against Japan from the conventional bombing of Japan and other countries from the air bases of mainland China to the one that MacArthur and others claimed to occupy the islands of the Pacific Ocean one after another.
China was dismissed at the Yalta Conference, and the Allied nation's footsteps were disturbed, with angry Chiang Kai-shek presenting a peace plan to Japan against the will of the United States.
In the Japan-US negotiations, Japan's allegations were peace by the confluence of Wang Jingwei of the Nanjing government and Chiang Kai-shek of the Chongqing government, and a proposal for defense from communism jointly by Japan and China. The US allegation was the withdrawal of Japanese troops from China, admitting only the Chongqing government. The negotiations broke down and the United States stopped oil, resulting in a war between Japan and the United States.
The Japanese Operation Ichi-Go attack left the National Revolutionary Army with 750,000 casualties. This caused the Kuomintang to lose to the Communist Party in the civil war. China would not have been dominated by the dictatorship Communist Party if it had made peace with Japan and cooperated in protecting it from communism.
Very insightful and sad, thanks for sharing :)
@@firstnamelastname1760 Boxer Rebellion by China's xenophobia declared war on Europe, the United States and Japan, and China was defeated and an international treaty was signed. The Japanese troops were stationed to protect the Japanese who are staying in China in accordance with the international treaties that Japan and Europe and the United States have signed with China, and the Japanese residents. However, the Chinese army slaughtered Japanese residents and started a war against the Japanese army. The purpose of Japan's war with China was not territorial ambition, but the eradication of the anti-Japanese movement, anti-communism, and the reconciliation of the three countries of Manchuria and China.
In the Japan-US negotiations, Japan's allegations were peace by the confluence of Wang Jingwei of the Nanjing government and Chiang Kai-shek of the Chongqing government, and a proposal for defense from communism jointly by Japan and China. The US allegation was the withdrawal of Japanese troops from China, admitting only the Chongqing government. The negotiations broke down and the United States stopped oil, resulting in a war between Japan and the United States.
As US diplomat George Kennan said, the US mistakenly eliminated Japan's influence, resulting in the Soviet threat, communism of dictatorships in China and North Korea.
The United States rejected Japan's allegations of peace by the confluence of the Nanjing and Chongqing governments, and the joint proposal of Japan and China to defend against communism. The United States accidentally dropped an atomic bomb that violated international law by sticking to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army, resulting in a threat of Soviet communism and a cold war with China's communist dictatorship. As a result of eliminating Japan, the United States fought the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The United States fought the Chinese army in the Korean War. And the Vietnam War also fought. A huge number of communist victims have been killed in China and Cambodia.
Japan was also relatively free and democratic, but when it came to total war, it had to be controlled. As a result of the United States and Britain mistakenly cornering Japan, Japan fought for its own self-defense. And it aimed at the liberation of Asia. The Western colonies have collapsed. The collapse of the Western colony by Japan has realized peace through free trade and coexistence and co-prosperity through economic development.
But the president of the United States, Nixon
Again made a mistake and promoted the threat of the Chinese Communist Party. Currently, the threat of the Chinese Communist Party is threatening the world and Taiwan. The United States, Japan, Europe and Asia are protecting freedom, democracy and peace from the threat of the Chinese Communist Party.
This is some ugly fascist propaganda, but you seem to have gotten basic timelines wrong too. Operation Ichi-Go took place in 1944, three whole years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which took place in 1941.
@@popj-xg4to Really? From what right wing propaganda website did you get that gem of wisdom?
Imagine if they had 10 mini guns.
or japanese have nuke bomb
If they had A10 warthogs or something, they'd have won the war in a year
@@jaffa3717 or less!!
The editing of this is as bad as a music video.
don't hold a camera angle for longer than half a second.
Why don't the Japanese have machine guns?
Aside from crew served weapons, they didn't produce many automatic guns for individual soldiers.
@@americanatlas3631 Then it was not strange that the japanese lose the war.
@@roysenum7083 i dont think that was the only reason they lost the war
They did. But defenders can just throw out a wall of fire; attackers have to avoid shooting their own troops in the back, which is very tough in those lighting conditions. Plus the IJA, having missed WW1, still put great great emphasis on closing with the bayonet.
@@roysenum7083 battle of midway usa can destroy 4 japanese aircraft carrier.
I experienced an enemy assault. Running up behind 122 mm rocket explosions.
Outside wire defense positions. I was tasked to reinforce a back-up trench if
the line defense was breached. I watched and waited to shoot dead any hostiles.
such a lame attempt at attention seeking
Yea ! It was those bats that fly next to you and suck your blood so when you get hungry later , it taste like Chicken !
I can't imagine how today's weak GenZ wimps would fare if put in this situation. We would lose in 2 weeks. Bless the Greatest Generation for fighting for our freedom.
fighting in the tropical environment is literally nightmare in all aspect, I live in Vietnam and I know how unmerciful tropical climate can be. I think the war in the pacific is horrendous than any other theatre in ww2, anyone who say eastern front is worse is pure russian-ass-kissing bullshit
Pacific was only half as good as band of brothers but when your half as good as a masterpiece that's still way up there
The Pacific is just as good as BofB, it just didn't have that feel-good elements about it like BofB.
@@streetgato9697 I don't normally watch WW2 or in this case any war related stuff as much but The Pacific is great too only that unlike Band Of Brothers it's far more gritter and disturbing
Band of Brothers is one of the greatest series I have ever seen. And The Pacific is just as good if not better. One reason why I prefer The Pacific is that my Father was there, the only invasion he missed was Guadalcanal Canal. But he met up with those Heroes in Australia and went on to invaded Cape Goulester New Britain and Pelielu and Okinawa and was sent to China after the war was over. This is why I like the Pacific more. I love them both.
@@kennethcaine3402 same
Band of Brothers did a better job with story and characters. It benefited from focusing on a single company from beginning to end, while The Pacific focused on three seperate characters in three seperate regiments, which meant you essentially had three seperate unconnected storylines and it was more difficult for many viewers to get to know the charcters, compared to Band of Brothers.
The Pacific on the other hand is much, much better at portraying the reality of the Second World War. The Pacific benefitted from being adapted by accounts from actual veterans, so it never feels sentimental or romaticized. BoB on the other hand was based on a book by a historian that was slightly enamored with his subjects, so it does at times feel a little too sentimental and veers into Greatest Generation hagiography. In contrast the scenes depicting the war in the Pacific are more like something out of a horror movie, there is not a shred of romance to found. Instead it is frightening and depressing.
Despite it's weaknesses, I prefer The Pacific for that reason. It's a more "real" look at the war, despite the narrative flaws.
Hold the position....
Simper Fi
WW2 vietnam.
My father was a Marine and my Uncle fought at Anzio. You see how the Ukrainians have stepped up to the plate, and then you hear our current youth saying they would not fight for our country. My uncle was 17 when he joined the army. My dad 20 when he joined the Marines. Being blinded in one eye kept me from joining the service, but many of my contemporaries did. The ones joining the service now are boys from flyover country and children of recent immigrants. My daughter's fiance is a first generation afghan who is an newly commissioned officer in the navy. As for my kids contemporaries, they went off to college, voted democrat and expect us to pay off their student loans. God help us.
Im 30 and shipping out and the end of this month
All the "current youth" I know are exceptionally pro-military.
You don't like democrats because you're anti American. We need to deport people like you who support the orange criminals.
You need repentance JESUS CHRIST really coming soon
Jesus Loves You
Does not exist, so cant love anything
First lel
No one gives a shit!
Mr.Lincoln.. I see you everywhere lol. Your on alot of videos.
@@RrealHumdingerR but how can you tell its the same account ? might be multiple spam accounts ?
I always thought Abe Lincoln was more nice.
God loves you come to him and repent
fuck your god
14 up close kills Nam 66 67