My grandfather was in the Bataan death march. He was a Filipino soldier serving in the US Marines. He and a few others managed to escape during the forced march by dropping to the ground and rolling to the deep muddy ditch next to the road (or track) they were marching on. They then waited laying still in the ditch for hours until the entire convoy of PoWs and Japanese soliders have gone by. They then rejoined the uncaptured American & mostly Filipino Army Units and continue to wage guerilla resistance style warfare against the Japanese from 1942 until the Philippines was liberated by the Allies in 1945. Like most men who's been to war, he rarely spoke about his experience. But when he did, it was always the comradery and his genuine admiration he had for his fellow Filipino and American soldiers - their ingenuity, bravery and willingnness to sacrifice, to save one another. I just wished I listened more when he did speak about such things when I was a little boy. Very glad to say my grandfather survived the war and lived well into his 80s, dying peacefully in his sleep. Lest we forget.
My dad married a woman from cebu. Her parents were caught up in the March. When my dad went to phillipines to get married he toured the war cemeteries.told me they were kept pristine to honor American and Filipino who died in the liberation of Philippine islands.
I know you're telling the truth when you said he didn't like talking about it. My dad was a WWII Army vet in Europe. We have his discharge papers now. Five Bronze stars. Normandy, Ardennes (frostbite), Belgium, Central Europe, Rhineland. He never talked about it.
@@schrisdellopoulos9244 Heroes. Real heroes. I don't like using this word too much, as these days it seems it's used willy nilly on a lot of things, but your dad and my grandfather are the true meaning of the word. Thanks for sharing.
my father, PFC. PEDRO ESCOBAR DOCTOLERO, SR. survived the Death March and after release he joined the northern Luzon guerilla movement and after the war he became a farmer, my brothers and I finished college thru USVA assistance, a good provider even in death salute to all veterans!
I toured the USS Alabama in 2010. I purchased a book that was written by a survivor of the Battan Death March. The author of the book was the person who sold it to me. I am truly honored that I met an actual BDM survivor. The name of the book is 'Hell's Guest'. The author: Col. Glen D. Frazier. By the way: it's a great book.
My dads late uncle survived the death march and 3 years as a Japanese prisoner of war. He was nicest man you'd ever meet.never had a bad word about anyone. Except the Japanese. But I think he earned that hatred.
My Grandfather was a high ranking officer under McArthers staff and taken as prisoner refusing to divulge info and was decapitated by the Japanese.. Forever devastating my Grandmother, eventually remarrying and was reminded my entire life of the significance of the sacrifices for our freedom! Makes me sick the the US has forgotten the sacrifices for the freedoms that are so taken for granted! Heartbroken! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! 🇺🇸 🙏
We had a veteran here in Billings, Montana, USA, who was part of the Bataan Death March and spent a couple of years in the concentration camp that waited at the end of the death march. When he came back home, he studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and then came back and taught art. For a long time, he held a lot of anger at the Japanese. He had a student of Japanese descent and realized that he had to deal with his feelings towards the Japanese. It turned out that the student's father had been in an internment camp, due to a bad decision by our government to round up the Japanese Americans and put them in camps. He and the father ended up becoming very close friends. I think that each could understand what the other went through. He learned to forgive. He wrote a book about his experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese.
@NEOSCISSORS JAGUAR Sounds like we have the same interests. I just finished a book called "Living in The Shadow of A Hellship ". I highly recommend it.
The valiant Filipino and American defenders of Bataan and Corregidor was the last to surrender to the Japanese. Gen. Homma was given fifty days to conquer The Philippines. The defenders, consists of mostly Filipino reservist soldiers with inadequate equipment and little training, gave the japanese 4 months. It didn't end there, many escaped capture and fought as guerillas that are mostly commanded by American officers. Salute to all USAFFE troops.
I don't understand how that could be. I mean good lord it's documented to the moon and back. I have friends in Japan and they told me that the government has basically Rewritten and revised history so that Pearl Harbor, Nanking and all the atrocities are now absent as if they were ever present in their literature. At least Germany admitted to the horrors of their war crimes they committed and tried to make reparations and de-Nazify as much as possible.
He’s most likely a communist. And that’s just acceptable behavior for that clown. Take heed of what happened then because history has a funny way of repeating itself.
I do not doubt your story one iota. I had professors of history in college so incensed by Ronald Raegan's time in office. that he always seemed to bring everything back around to Raegan... That is all I remember of his Revisionist version of the 20th century... Oh by the way its also all GM's fault according to him...
My Grandpa was in the Philippine Scouts, got caught up in the death march. He told me some of the most horrific stories from his time in the death march.
I find it fascinating that prior to the War that all these future generals and Admirals were all together in History at this moment in time. All the right people at the right time.
For all the men that died from the hands of the Japanese in the Bataan Death March I put most of the blame on General Douglas MacArthur. There was no excuse of him of waiting till 1944 to rescue the men of Bataan
ah yes it was the generals fault for a 'Europe first' policy.... you do know that if it werent for the general the US wouldve bypassed the Philippines.. and wouldve gone straight to fermosa (Taiwan) to stage an attack on the Japanese homeland. MacArthur did everything in his power to fulfil his promise " I shall return " and gadammit he did!
The General managed to miss the surrender - although the islands were going to fall he certainly hastened the defeat - MacArthur was the a prime architect of this disaster....
sure there was. There were plenty of japanese soldiers and naval ships in those areas and there is no way they would have invaded without being almost destroyed. People forget, after jan 1, 1942, we still had the smallest numbers of ships our navy ever had going into a war by comparison. We needed almost 300 ships to invade the Phillippines, we only had 300 at the start of the war
I think it was small-minded of MacArthur to begrudge the Medal of Honor medal to General Wainwright who was left in an untenable position. It was unforgiveable that MacArthur did arrange the evacuation of the Army and Navy nurses. He must have known how terribly the Japanese treated Korean, Chinese and Australian women who were captured. @@johnzeszut3170
Before blaming anyone in 1942 WWII Philippine disaster, you need to study WWII history properly. MacArthur was in NOT charge of American men, weapons and supplies at that time. The U.S. gave the European war against Germany to’ priority so most of American resources go there first. Any leftover will go to the Philippines which actually was none although they made them feel reinforcements were coming.
Let us for their souls and honour their heroic acts because, today is the eighty-first anniversary of Bataan Death March and at the same time, Happy Easter Sunday 2023!?
Yea exactly. I think I'd be happier in those days. Sounds stupid considering it was war time, but atleast you were surrounded by people who really loved our country. Suicides because they couldn't serve, women who wouldn't leave work because one more uniform could be stitched or another bomb could be made...you get my point.lol it's just cool
I don't pay attention to celebrities. I like them for entertainment but they should just keep their mouths shut. Be grateful that you've thrived in our country.
What has this video posting got to do with the brits or indeed Singapore??? Anyway If the Philippines hadn't done the same first of all, also in the same amount of time, the domino effect maybe wouldnt have happened in Singapore?, or maybe allowing enough time for the defences and weopons to be turned 360 and repositioned facing the azimuth of merican held phillipines? remember all the coastal artillery and defence's was pointed out to sea, as Singapore thought that any type of invasion would come from there, as strategically behind them on their sixes was merican held phillipines??, so i think its very, very unfair that merican people, even today scape goat the british at Singapore, at least they admit to their failures and short comings and learn from it, and not suppress or bury the truth, and most certainly dont chuck their supposed close allies and ancestral brethren under the bus, to deflect the heat and mud slinging from theirs... Thanks for being such stoic allies and friends🤔 this will certainly reflect for future events im sure.....
Singapore surrendered on Feb 15, 1942 just 8 days after the start of the fighting. The British who were numerically superior (3 to 1?) concentrated on their coast defense while General Yamashita, the Tiger of Malaya, attacked on land using troops in bicycles. The Japanese outsmarted the British in this battle. It was the worst British defeat in history. The Philippines held till May 6, 1942 upsetting General Homma’s superior 50-day conquer order of the Philippines. He was relieved after the fall of the Philippines.
My Uncle Leon survived this march, but died of Beriberi in Zero Ward at Cabanatuan P.O.W. Camp. HIs remains did not come home until the summer of 1949. 27th Bomb Group Light AAF.
Not much on Bataan - how did the commander manage to lose the American air force on the ground ten hours after Pearl Harbor???? This was a disaster with no one ever held into an accounting......
Is the case where American planes were lined up wing to wing to prevent sabotage and a large number of planes were strafed and put out of commission in an extremely short time?
@@anthonytroisi6682 From what I have read the answer is yes at Pearl Harbor - General Short took the heat for this. On the Philippines air craft were up and flying searching out reports of the Japanese. Most of the fighters landed to refuel and have lunch and got caught on the ground. There was talk of a bomber attack against Japanese air fields on Formosa but Mac said "no" - very poor administration all around the horn.
Most informative Video in Historical coverage with Excellent Hype Quality & Propaganda at that times Created .What occurred In Japan IF this Video allowed to Had been Seen By Japanese People at that times ?! to Compared Their Lower capability confront Huge Capability of USA!!!
Still curious how Filipino and Americans lost bataan on low food and ammunition. Americans and Filipinos should use to their life in Philippines. This history was fixed. Gen Wainrites bio said many Filipinos run. Still think many Filipinos abandon their post how Japanese defeated the defenders line. They need food. Coz Filipinos r resourceful or Ammo since they are armed with biyonet rifles. They can fight even in hand-to-hand combat against the Japanese. My uncle was in Bataan and died fighting while many Filipinos abandoned their post. My father told me many Filipinos run after war claims as Guirelia just to collect military pensions. The American defenders should defeated. Since that was what the US forces in the Philippines were supposed to do, to defend the Pacific forces. It is history now but it was a lie.
Maybe because the US fought on two sides of the war, and because the Philippines is in the far east of the Pacific, help was not easily received due to a lack of supplies and defense strategies during the period of a Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippines. Still, the Philippines and the US have stronger ties and bonds that makes our history relevant up to the present times. PH🤝US
★★★It is so unfair to blame only Japan for some things. For example, the US military cut and boiled the heads of dead Japanese soldiers and brought back their skulls as loot. In the battlefields, 60% of the corpses of Japanese soldiers had their heads amputated. Japanese soldiers did not do such barbaric, brutal and diabolical atrocities. ★★★Read the description titled "American mutilation of Japanese war dead" on Wikipedia ❢❢❢ 😫😖😩😫😖😩
My late father was a USAFFE major who also survived the Bataan Death March. While in Bataan, most Filipino soldiers wanted to fight it out to the death. But American leaders' decision prevailed, so they had to surrender.
The US Brutality ◆◆◆ The Great Tokyo Air Raid ◆◆◆ People in the world don't know the enormous atrocities against Japan by the Allies ❢❢❢ Between 1944 and 1945, Allied forces slaughtered approximately 460,000 Japanese civilians in indiscriminate bombing, a clear violation of the laws of war. For example, prior to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the Great Tokyo Air Raid on March 10, 1945 killed more than 100,000 civilians and injured more than one million in a single day. On that day, more than 300 large US bombers appeared over downtown Tokyo and dropped 380,000 rounds of 1,700 tons of incendiary bombs. Because wooden houses were densely built in the downtown area, the fire spread quickly, and the northwesterly winds blew the flames over a wide area. Air-raid shelters, parks, and bridges were engulfed in flames, killing 100,000 people in just one night. From this air raid, the US military changed its strategy from targeting military installations to indiscriminate air raids on residential areas. What was the incendiary bomb attack that turned downtown Tokyo into a burnt field overnight? Those who barely survived testify of their memories as follows. Wooden boards that had been burned by incendiary bombs flew in the air, and everyone was caught in the sparks of the blast and ran away while burning. The baby was burning on its mother's back. Most people fell, burned, and died on the ground. Eventually, after everything had burned down, on the still hot ground, many people lay dead on top of each other, charred like charcoal, and white smoke billowed all around. (Testimony of a woman who was in elementary school at the time) The midnight sky was dyed red with flames, and many B29 US fighter planes were flying low in the sky, firing countless anti-aircraft guns. Many people were running, colliding, and falling in the blast of sparks. At dawn, the unimaginable sight spread out before me. Poisoned by the black smoke, many people with pale faces were lying dead on top of each other. Countless unidentified corpses were buried and interred in pits dug where they died, rather than in their original graves. (Testimony of a man who was a junior high school student at the time) When I looked outside from the air-raid shelter, I could hear the sound of anti-aircraft guns, and the searchlights were illuminating the U.S. military planes in the sky. Those who escaped from the air-raid shelters in fear were fleeing from countless incendiary bombs falling from the sky. Even now, there are many survivors who do not want to remember their terror and deep sorrow. (Testimony of a man who was in elementary school at the time) Every time US military planes attacked in formations of dozens of planes, a tremendous roar could be heard even in the air raid shelter. After 2 hours and 40 minutes of continuous bombing, when I came out of the air-raid shelter, I could see that the whole area had been reduced to a burnt field that I could see far into the distance. Everything was burned and nothing was left on the ground. (Testimony of a man who was in elementary school at the time)
Tell that to my grandma who narrowly escaped becoming the comfort women by the Japanese soldiers in the Philippines. Japan was the invader in World War II. Don't get it twisted. Whatever the Americans did was just a retaliation to the horror the Japs caused.
During the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, the U.S. military ran over Japanese prisoners of war with tanks. After the war, it was published in the American magazine Life. 😫😖😩
My father’s outfit retook Bataan he had an interaction with the indigenous children singing the Yale Whiffinpoof song they learned it from Yale educated missionaries that were taken prisoner. My father learned it building the Merrit Parkway in the late 1930’s from a person from Yale working beside him. He sang that song at the end of every family gathering I could remember “We are poor little lambs that lost are way bah bah bah”
My grandfather was in the Bataan death march. He was a Filipino soldier serving in the US Marines. He and a few others managed to escape during the forced march by dropping to the ground and rolling to the deep muddy ditch next to the road (or track) they were marching on. They then waited laying still in the ditch for hours until the entire convoy of PoWs and Japanese soliders have gone by. They then rejoined the uncaptured American & mostly Filipino Army Units and continue to wage guerilla resistance style warfare against the Japanese from 1942 until the Philippines was liberated by the Allies in 1945. Like most men who's been to war, he rarely spoke about his experience. But when he did, it was always the comradery and his genuine admiration he had for his fellow Filipino and American soldiers - their ingenuity, bravery and willingnness to sacrifice, to save one another. I just wished I listened more when he did speak about such things when I was a little boy. Very glad to say my grandfather survived the war and lived well into his 80s, dying peacefully in his sleep. Lest we forget.
My dad married a woman from cebu. Her parents were caught up in the March. When my dad went to phillipines to get married he toured the war cemeteries.told me they were kept pristine to honor American and Filipino who died in the liberation of Philippine islands.
Bless your grandfather and may he rest in peace.
I know you're telling the truth when you said he didn't like talking about it. My dad was a WWII Army vet in Europe. We have his discharge papers now. Five Bronze stars. Normandy, Ardennes (frostbite), Belgium, Central Europe, Rhineland.
He never talked about it.
@@schrisdellopoulos9244 Heroes. Real heroes. I don't like using this word too much, as these days it seems it's used willy nilly on a lot of things, but your dad and my grandfather are the true meaning of the word. Thanks for sharing.
@@schrisdellopoulos9244 5!
Helluva Grunt!
My father was a survivor of Bataan death march.
SALUTE to all men and women in uniform!
my father, PFC. PEDRO ESCOBAR DOCTOLERO, SR. survived the Death March and after release he joined the northern Luzon guerilla movement and after the war he became a farmer, my brothers and I finished college thru USVA assistance, a good provider even in death salute to all veterans!
I can't even begin to imagine what that was like. God bless him. 🫡 🇺🇸
I toured the USS Alabama in 2010. I purchased a book that was written by a survivor of the Battan Death March. The author of the book was the person who sold it to me. I am truly honored that I met an actual BDM survivor. The name of the book is 'Hell's Guest'. The author: Col. Glen D. Frazier.
By the way: it's a great book.
My dads late uncle survived the death march and 3 years as a Japanese prisoner of war. He was nicest man you'd ever meet.never had a bad word about anyone. Except the Japanese. But I think he earned that hatred.
I want to read it now.
@@generationclash5004 It's still available on eBay and Amazon, maybe a few others.
Yeah he was saying how he survived without food for almost a week!
Thanks for the info. Already looking for it.
My Grandfather was a high ranking officer under McArthers staff and taken as prisoner refusing to divulge info and was decapitated by the Japanese.. Forever devastating my Grandmother, eventually remarrying and was reminded my entire life of the significance of the sacrifices for our freedom! Makes me sick the the US has forgotten the sacrifices for the freedoms that are so taken for granted! Heartbroken! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! 🇺🇸 🙏
We had a veteran here in Billings, Montana, USA, who was part of the Bataan Death March and spent a couple of years in the concentration camp that waited at the end of the death march. When he came back home, he studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and then came back and taught art. For a long time, he held a lot of anger at the Japanese. He had a student of Japanese descent and realized that he had to deal with his feelings towards the Japanese. It turned out that the student's father had been in an internment camp, due to a bad decision by our government to round up the Japanese Americans and put them in camps. He and the father ended up becoming very close friends. I think that each could understand what the other went through. He learned to forgive. He wrote a book about his experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese.
thats incredible. what is the book called?
What's the book called?
MA'AM , WE WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IF WE HAVE HIS BOOK'S TITLE PLEASE...
@NEOSCISSORS JAGUAR Sounds like we have the same interests. I just finished a book called "Living in The Shadow of A Hellship ". I highly recommend it.
@@jeffgreer198613 THANKS SIR, ILL LOOK IT UP!!!
The valiant Filipino and American defenders of Bataan and Corregidor was the last to surrender to the Japanese. Gen. Homma was given fifty days to conquer The Philippines. The defenders, consists of mostly Filipino reservist soldiers with inadequate equipment and little training, gave the japanese 4 months. It didn't end there, many escaped capture and fought as guerillas that are mostly commanded by American officers. Salute to all USAFFE troops.
The title is completely misleading. It barely cover the Bataan march
Feel a little cheated too. But then, not lots of cameramen covering the march.
now i wonder we have a special strong bond🇵🇭🇺🇸
In college I wrote a paper on Japanese atrocities (Bataan, Nanking, etc.) before and during WW2. My prof was totally unaware of Japanese brutality.
Your prof should be ashamed.
I don't understand how that could be. I mean good lord it's documented to the moon and back. I have friends in Japan and they told me that the government has basically Rewritten and revised history so that Pearl Harbor, Nanking and all the atrocities are now absent as if they were ever present in their literature. At least Germany admitted to the horrors of their war crimes they committed and tried to make reparations and de-Nazify as much as possible.
He’s most likely a communist. And that’s just acceptable behavior for that clown. Take heed of what happened then because history has a funny way of repeating itself.
I do not doubt your story one iota. I had professors of history in college so incensed by Ronald Raegan's time in office. that he always seemed to bring everything back around to Raegan... That is all I remember of his Revisionist version of the 20th century... Oh by the way its also all GM's fault according to him...
There was plenty of Amerisan brutality to Japanese soldiers, as well.
Arthur Akullian, Corregidor,Battan,Camp McDonald, Shipped to Japan, camp,Kawasaki, President of Battan Marchers Association, CEMENT CROSS!
Geneva POW convention, Japan never heard of it
That may be part of the reason they got an extra sunrise twice in Aug of 45
Of course the Japanese had heard of the Geneva Convention, they were just not a signatury to it.
My Grandpa was in the Philippine Scouts, got caught up in the death march. He told me some of the most horrific stories from his time in the death march.
Japan was a great invaders.
The Pilipinos were great soldiers, The American the greatest defender. - Oraculum
What the Japanese did in 1941-45, the Americans did to the Philippines back in 1899-1902.
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I find it fascinating that prior to the War that all these future generals and Admirals were all together in History at this moment in time. All the right people at the right time.
Back in the day when America's industrial might is awesome.
Rail traffic must have been a sight in those days
This is awesome. Thanks!
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Thank you for sharing .
For all the men that died from the hands of the Japanese in the Bataan Death March I put most of the blame on General Douglas MacArthur. There was no excuse of him of waiting till 1944 to rescue the men of Bataan
ah yes it was the generals fault for a 'Europe first' policy.... you do know that if it werent for the general the US wouldve bypassed the Philippines.. and wouldve gone straight to fermosa (Taiwan) to stage an attack on the Japanese homeland. MacArthur did everything in his power to fulfil his promise " I shall return " and gadammit he did!
The General managed to miss the surrender - although the islands were going to fall he certainly hastened the defeat - MacArthur was the a prime architect of this disaster....
sure there was. There were plenty of japanese soldiers and naval ships in those areas and there is no way they would have invaded without being almost destroyed. People forget, after jan 1, 1942, we still had the smallest numbers of ships our navy ever had going into a war by comparison. We needed almost 300 ships to invade the Phillippines, we only had 300 at the start of the war
I think it was small-minded of MacArthur to begrudge the Medal of Honor medal to General Wainwright who was left in an untenable position. It was unforgiveable that MacArthur did arrange the evacuation of the Army and Navy nurses. He must have known how terribly the Japanese treated Korean, Chinese and Australian women who were captured. @@johnzeszut3170
Before blaming anyone in 1942 WWII Philippine disaster, you need to study WWII history properly.
MacArthur was in NOT charge of American men, weapons and supplies at that time.
The U.S. gave the European war against Germany to’ priority so most of American resources go there first.
Any leftover will go to the Philippines which actually was none although they made them feel reinforcements were coming.
Let us for their souls and honour their heroic acts because, today is the eighty-first anniversary of Bataan Death March and at the same time, Happy Easter Sunday 2023!?
Great combat and action
It's weird seeing celebrities that stand with their country. But those days are long gone now. What a pity.
Yea exactly. I think I'd be happier in those days. Sounds stupid considering it was war time, but atleast you were surrounded by people who really loved our country. Suicides because they couldn't serve, women who wouldn't leave work because one more uniform could be stitched or another bomb could be made...you get my point.lol it's just cool
Now some celebrities want to destroy the USA as we know it
Yeah, you won't see that today, that's for sure. Those men and women back then were truly the greatest generation
I don't pay attention to celebrities. I like them for entertainment but they should just keep their mouths shut. Be grateful that you've thrived in our country.
The British in Singapore surrendered in 8 days and outnumbered the Japanese almost 3-1. Gen. Percival didn't fair good after the war.
What has this video posting got to do with the brits or indeed Singapore??? Anyway If the Philippines hadn't done the same first of all, also in the same amount of time, the domino effect maybe wouldnt have happened in Singapore?, or maybe allowing enough time for the defences and weopons to be turned 360 and repositioned facing the azimuth of merican held phillipines? remember all the coastal artillery and defence's was pointed out to sea, as Singapore thought that any type of invasion would come from there, as strategically behind them on their sixes was merican held phillipines??, so i think its very, very unfair that merican people, even today scape goat the british at Singapore, at least they admit to their failures and short comings and learn from it, and not suppress or bury the truth, and most certainly dont chuck their supposed close allies and ancestral brethren under the bus, to deflect the heat and mud slinging from theirs... Thanks for being such stoic allies and friends🤔 this will certainly reflect for future events im sure.....
Singapore surrendered on Feb 15, 1942 just 8 days after the start of the fighting.
The British who were numerically superior (3 to 1?) concentrated on their coast defense
while General Yamashita, the Tiger of Malaya, attacked on land using troops in bicycles.
The Japanese outsmarted the British in this battle.
It was the worst British defeat in history.
The Philippines held till May 6, 1942 upsetting General Homma’s superior 50-day conquer order of the Philippines.
He was relieved after the fall of the Philippines.
Aerial combat and the anti aircraft guns highly accurate
The horses in NY.at 26:00. Who said the old west was dead? LOL
I can not understand why Not enough war criminals brought in Justice. Bataan war crimers died peacefully
Thank you for your service 🇺🇸🇵🇭💙❤️👍✌️👊💚🕵️♂️🌄🙏
My Uncle Leon survived this march, but died of Beriberi in Zero Ward at Cabanatuan P.O.W. Camp. HIs remains did not come home until the summer of 1949. 27th Bomb Group Light AAF.
Not much on Bataan - how did the commander manage to lose the American air force on the ground ten hours after Pearl Harbor???? This was a disaster with no one ever held into an accounting......
Is the case where American planes were lined up wing to wing to prevent sabotage and a large number of planes were strafed and put out of commission in an extremely short time?
@@anthonytroisi6682 From what I have read the answer is yes at Pearl Harbor - General Short took the heat for this. On the Philippines air craft were up and flying searching out reports of the Japanese. Most of the fighters landed to refuel and have lunch and got caught on the ground. There was talk of a bomber attack against Japanese air fields on Formosa but Mac said "no" - very poor administration all around the horn.
MacArthur made several unwise decisions in the Phillipines. The worst was not evacuating the nurses before his departure. @@johnzeszut3170
Most informative Video in Historical coverage with Excellent Hype Quality & Propaganda at that times Created .What occurred In Japan IF this Video allowed to Had been Seen By Japanese People at that times ?! to Compared Their Lower capability confront Huge Capability of USA!!!
Oohh, we got ours back for all their sadistic cruelty. And then some!
God bless the USA!!!!! ✝️🇺🇸✝️
10:56 12:36
Still curious how Filipino and Americans lost bataan on low food and ammunition. Americans and Filipinos should use to their life in Philippines. This history was fixed. Gen Wainrites bio said many Filipinos run. Still think many Filipinos abandon their post how Japanese defeated the defenders line. They need food. Coz Filipinos r resourceful or Ammo since they are armed with biyonet rifles. They can fight even in hand-to-hand combat against the Japanese. My uncle was in Bataan and died fighting while many Filipinos abandoned their post. My father told me many Filipinos run after war claims as Guirelia just to collect military pensions. The American defenders should defeated. Since that was what the US forces in the Philippines were supposed to do, to defend the Pacific forces. It is history now but it was a lie.
Maybe because the US fought on two sides of the war, and because the Philippines is in the far east of the Pacific, help was not easily received due to a lack of supplies and defense strategies during the period of a Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippines. Still, the Philippines and the US have stronger ties and bonds that makes our history relevant up to the present times. PH🤝US
Shane Gillis brought me here. Shout out to the bull and shout out to all the MSSP Dawgs
We should have let Japan keep China
You hardly ever hear about any American defeats
★★★It is so unfair to blame only Japan for some things. For example, the US military cut and boiled the heads of dead Japanese soldiers and brought back their skulls as loot. In the battlefields, 60% of the corpses of Japanese soldiers had their heads amputated. Japanese soldiers did not do such barbaric, brutal and diabolical atrocities. ★★★Read the description titled "American mutilation of Japanese war dead" on Wikipedia ❢❢❢ 😫😖😩😫😖😩
Lol
My late father was a USAFFE major who also survived the Bataan Death March. While in Bataan, most Filipino soldiers wanted to fight it out to the death. But American leaders' decision prevailed, so they had to surrender.
The US Brutality ◆◆◆ The Great Tokyo Air Raid ◆◆◆
People in the world don't know the enormous atrocities against Japan by the Allies ❢❢❢ Between 1944 and 1945, Allied forces slaughtered approximately 460,000 Japanese civilians in indiscriminate bombing, a clear violation of the laws of war. For example, prior to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the Great Tokyo Air Raid on March 10, 1945 killed more than 100,000 civilians and injured more than one million in a single day. On that day, more than 300 large US bombers appeared over downtown Tokyo and dropped 380,000 rounds of 1,700 tons of incendiary bombs. Because wooden houses were densely built in the downtown area, the fire spread quickly, and the northwesterly winds blew the flames over a wide area. Air-raid shelters, parks, and bridges were engulfed in flames, killing 100,000 people in just one night. From this air raid, the US military changed its strategy from targeting military installations to indiscriminate air raids on residential areas. What was the incendiary bomb attack that turned downtown Tokyo into a burnt field overnight? Those who barely survived testify of their memories as follows.
Wooden boards that had been burned by incendiary bombs flew in the air, and everyone was caught in the sparks of the blast and ran away while burning. The baby was burning on its mother's back. Most people fell, burned, and died on the ground. Eventually, after everything had burned down, on the still hot ground, many people lay dead on top of each other, charred like charcoal, and white smoke billowed all around. (Testimony of a woman who was in elementary school at the time)
The midnight sky was dyed red with flames, and many B29 US fighter planes were flying low in the sky, firing countless anti-aircraft guns. Many people were running, colliding, and falling in the blast of sparks. At dawn, the unimaginable sight spread out before me. Poisoned by the black smoke, many people with pale faces were lying dead on top of each other. Countless unidentified corpses were buried and interred in pits dug where they died, rather than in their original graves. (Testimony of a man who was a junior high school student at the time)
When I looked outside from the air-raid shelter, I could hear the sound of anti-aircraft guns, and the searchlights were illuminating the U.S. military planes in the sky. Those who escaped from the air-raid shelters in fear were fleeing from countless incendiary bombs falling from the sky. Even now, there are many survivors who do not want to remember their terror and deep sorrow. (Testimony of a man who was in elementary school at the time)
Every time US military planes attacked in formations of dozens of planes, a tremendous roar could be heard even in the air raid shelter. After 2 hours and 40 minutes of continuous bombing, when I came out of the air-raid shelter, I could see that the whole area had been reduced to a burnt field that I could see far into the distance. Everything was burned and nothing was left on the ground. (Testimony of a man who was in elementary school at the time)
Tell that to my grandma who narrowly escaped becoming the comfort women by the Japanese soldiers in the Philippines. Japan was the invader in World War II. Don't get it twisted. Whatever the Americans did was just a retaliation to the horror the Japs caused.
I myself do not see
A huge deal
Poor Philippines! Didn't do anything wrong but then always involve in the war.😂
All ASEAN, China and Taiwan were invaded by Japanese during WW2 in case you dont know..
Where is Steve Rogers aka Captain America?
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Good old USA hey what about bikini island who you supposedly saved from the Japanese but then kept for your selfs and tested your nukes on the people.
I'm impressed by how ignorant people desire to be. :)
A very well made WW2 propaganda film.
During the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, the U.S. military ran over Japanese prisoners of war with tanks. After the war, it was published in the American magazine Life. 😫😖😩
To surrender was a shame to code of bushido
Also gurkhas have same code
Should have used them to garrison
These asian fortresses hongkong
Singapore!
My father’s outfit retook Bataan he had an interaction with the indigenous children singing the Yale Whiffinpoof song they learned it from Yale educated missionaries that were taken prisoner. My father learned it building the Merrit Parkway in the late 1930’s from a person from Yale working beside him. He sang that song at the end of every family gathering I could remember
“We are poor little lambs that lost are way bah bah bah”
tell me how to do the RUclips business