The Pacific 1x2 REACTION 'Basilone'

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  • @mmmmmduffbeer
    @mmmmmduffbeer 4 года назад +64

    The artillery that was hitting them at night was a naval bombardment from battleships. To compare, the stuff that was thrown at Easy Company during the Battle of the Bulge was 10.5cm diameter and weighed 14.81 kg while the stuff the battleships were shooting were as large as 35.6 cm diameter and weighed 673.5 kg.

    • @frankdrebin1023
      @frankdrebin1023 3 года назад +3

      Can you imagine? Naval bombardment from 20 inch guns. I don't understand how you survive that.

    • @TheGunderian
      @TheGunderian 3 года назад +1

      @@frankdrebin1023 Hiei as an example had these main guns:
      8x 356 mm (14 in)/45 cal guns (4x2) - This was the largest gun class committed to the battle by Japan.
      Yamato/Musashi had the largest guns ever on a BB, which were 18 inch. Our largest were 16 inch on MO class BB63 etc. But it isn't just the size of the dog in the fight, it is also the size of the fight in the dog!

    • @protonneutron9046
      @protonneutron9046 Год назад

      @@frankdrebin1023 more like 15" & 16" guns. No ships carried 20"

  • @bryanfleming5197
    @bryanfleming5197 4 года назад +34

    My brother is a Marine and they still tell John Basilone's story among the troops. He's a legend!

    • @ThaCrustyOne
      @ThaCrustyOne 4 года назад +4

      🔥🔥💯💯❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🍻🍻🍻🍻

    • @helmedon
      @helmedon 4 года назад +5

      I was a Marine machine gunner and yes he is a legend. If I remember correctly MCRD San Diego has a Basilone Drive, or something. Could have been at Pendleton at the MCT/SOI area.

  • @jeffreysayre3884
    @jeffreysayre3884 4 года назад +12

    I seen a what was left of a suicide bomber in Iraq, he tried to drive through the gate when 2 50's lit him up. What was left of his hand was still holding the trigger mechanism duck taped to the steering wheel of the bongo truck, the rest of him was lying barely recognizable just outside the open door. This was my first deployment and it scared the shit out of me. I realized right then I was up against an enemy willing to die to kill me. I can only imagine what these poor guys faced having hundreds wanting to do the same. Thank you so very much for what you did. And you guys are doing great! thanks for the upload.

  • @archersfriend5900
    @archersfriend5900 4 года назад +43

    One of the main differences. Fighting germany, you were in European countries. There were civilians, towns, women. In most of the pacific, they were small islands no civilians, no shelter, aweful heat, tropical diseases like malaria. An enemy who would never surrender who had to be individually removed from their caves and holes and many times no way to bury the dead. The smell alone.

    • @andreraymond6860
      @andreraymond6860 4 года назад +8

      When you read 'With The Old Breed' the descriptions of digging out muddy fox holes in the mountains and reinforcing them with rotting body parts made my stomach turn. They lived in those holes for months. The Japanese usually snuck through the American lines at night to attack and kill unwary marines. It must have been a living hell.

    • @Mondy667
      @Mondy667 3 года назад +1

      No civilians until they started to liberate the Philippines

  • @dylanstudley8445
    @dylanstudley8445 4 года назад +6

    From one of the two soldiers left over with John after the battle concluded: "John had a machine gun on the go for three days and nights without sleep, rest, or food. He was in a good emplacement, and causing the Japanese lots of trouble, not only firing his machine gun, but also using his pistol behind his position when performing ammo runs to resupply us." The enemy had broken past them and therefore were behind their emplacement as well as in front. John had to go in the pitch black, surrounded by enemies, find ammo and bring it back I don't know how many times. An army of soldiers like him could change the course of history

  • @Hawk170122
    @Hawk170122 3 года назад +5

    Eugene Sledge’s book, “With the Old Breed” is considered one of the greatest books about the psychological warfare of the island hopping campaigns. Out of all the books I ever read, there are moments where you are in the foxhole with Eugene and are genuinely feeling true fear! Never had a book effect me that way!

  • @lawrencedockery9032
    @lawrencedockery9032 4 года назад +10

    The campaign on Guadalcanal lasted from August of 1942 until February of 1943 (the longest battle of the entire war). American losses were 7,000 dead plus another 8,000 wounded as well as 29 ships sunk and 600 aircraft destroyed. The Japanese losses were 19,000 dead and 1,000 captured plus 38 ships sunk and 700 aircraft destroyed.

  • @nicolivoldkif9096
    @nicolivoldkif9096 4 года назад +31

    And they weren't stealing stuff they were "Tactically acquiring supplies for re-purposing".
    And if you want to react to a really emotional movie you should watch "Taking Chance", a movie with Kevin Bacon as the lead.

    • @Hawk170122
      @Hawk170122 3 года назад

      Tactically acquiring is right. “I found it!!”

  • @BlairPeron
    @BlairPeron 4 года назад +24

    The artillery they were getting hit by was navy ship artillery which made it even more brutal.

  • @fasiapulekaufusi6632
    @fasiapulekaufusi6632 4 года назад +67

    As a Pacific Islander, we consider the US army and general McArthur as a hero. If the US did not fight Japan, Japan would have taken the Pacific ocean and commit many atrocities like they did in China and philippines.
    The Japanese did take some islands in Micronesia and Melanesia but never took any islands in Polynesia.

    • @ScarriorIII
      @ScarriorIII 4 года назад +1

      "Mabuhay Macarsar, me."

    • @overthewebb
      @overthewebb 3 года назад +3

      Let's not forget Britain and the commonwealth also fought in the Pacific. It's not being shown in this show, but it wasn't just America. We sent about 100 ships there and plenty of troops/

    • @SA-5247
      @SA-5247 3 года назад +2

      Marines*

    • @fasiapulekaufusi6632
      @fasiapulekaufusi6632 3 года назад +5

      @@overthewebb yes all we are thankful for. Because the honest truth is Polynesia would not stand a chance against Japan. We barely even had small arms let alone tanks, ships and planes.

    • @brycewalker3726
      @brycewalker3726 3 года назад

      @@SA-5247 They were far more soldiers in the Pacific then there was Marines.

  • @Shadowman4710
    @Shadowman4710 4 года назад +54

    "The first episode wasn't that brutal."
    They were just drawing you in...

    • @scarymonsterrs
      @scarymonsterrs 4 года назад +8

      Yeah, Iwo Jima is rough to watch, towards the end of the series.

    • @scarymonsterrs
      @scarymonsterrs 4 года назад +6

      @ Okinawa is on another level, very rough but I'm glad they chose to have it in the series because it is a part of history.

    •  4 года назад

      @@scarymonsterrs Yes, I think watching that episode in particular made some people who opposed the A-bomb rethink their position.

    • @kennethbedwell5188
      @kennethbedwell5188 4 года назад +4

      Pelilu is the worst

    • @MrElis420
      @MrElis420 4 года назад +1

      @ Another comment on this video said General Douglass MacArthur is considered a hero in Polynesia, which is laughable to anyone who knows WW2 history because he abandoned his US Army and Filipino troops on Bataan due to his terrible defense, which lead to the infamous Bataan Death March and the deaths of hundreds of US troops and tens of thousands of Filipinos, to the point where they called him "Dugout Doug". And it's MacArthur who ordered the Marines to take Peleliu in tandem with his Army forces capturing the Phillipines, which got thousands of Marines killed and wounded for no reason, because the airfield they captured wasn't long enough to land B-29 bombers on anyway.

  • @Airsoftinsince2008
    @Airsoftinsince2008 4 года назад +23

    Love going to San Diego and driving down basilone road

  • @Immense1121
    @Immense1121 4 года назад +8

    I knew Sid Phillips personally, he was such a cool, good guy.

  • @los_reyes1872
    @los_reyes1872 4 года назад +33

    The Japanese were well trained they were just given the order to overrun the enemy by running with full force because Honor is what they die for.

    • @41tl
      @41tl 4 года назад +9

      The Japanese on Guadalcanal also underestimated how much firepower the Marines had.

  • @hbio1234
    @hbio1234 4 года назад +40

    Just wait until Eugene Sledge joins the the fight. That's when everyone gets emotional.

    • @Haakonisak
      @Haakonisak 4 года назад +3

      You know that's a spoiler, even though it's not a huge one?

    • @hbio1234
      @hbio1234 4 года назад +5

      @@Haakonisak I dont think it was

  • @kennethbedwell5188
    @kennethbedwell5188 4 года назад +11

    When the 1st Marine division invaded Guadalcanal, they were using weapons from WWI the 1903 bolt action Springfield. The army was better equipped with the M1 semi-auto Garand which used the same round.

  • @MrElis420
    @MrElis420 4 года назад +22

    Around 4 minutes into the video, it wasn't planes they were being bombed by, it was naval gunfire from the Japanese cruisers and battleships shelling them. Not much is more horrifying for a human to go through than being shelled by naval guns.

    • @davidmacy411
      @davidmacy411 4 года назад +2

      Infantry have no hope against it without their own heavy artillery, and the guns on those ships are some of the biggest ever made for regular military use.

  • @AirAssault7
    @AirAssault7 4 года назад +3

    Basilone went above and beyond the call of duty by picking up that machine gun, that's for damn sure.

  •  4 года назад +3

    “You guys are heroes back home.” Leckie wrote that they were too embarrassed to look at each other because their eyes were filled with tears after they heard that.

  • @lucindana
    @lucindana 4 года назад +2

    What really blew my mind was John Basilones real story. Because I didn’t get it, when I first watched this series and i figure it’s hard to bring that point across in a single episode. I thought, that the battle Basilone was fighting in was similar to the one in the first episode. A „Banzai“-Attack, as they called it, a shit load of Japanese Soldiers attacking all at once. But i thought it happened in a single night. It wasn’t a single night. What you see in this series is what John Baseline did for three days and nights. You could read this up, but apparently he fought for three days and nights without food, rest or sleep. His unit was 15 men and they fought and killed about 3000 Japanese Soldiers. Yes, 15 against 3000. For three days. I’m a civilian through and through, never been in the military but I can’t wrap my mind around what this man did. What John Basilone did and his men, they should not be forgotten … it is truly larger than life.

  • @BrianMakesFilms
    @BrianMakesFilms 4 года назад +6

    Episodes 5-7 and 9 are the toughest of the series in my opinion (and my favorite episodes). Looking forward to when you guys get there.

  • @EricPalmerBlog
    @EricPalmerBlog 4 года назад +3

    That night time effort was probably the Japanese battleships Hiei and Kirishima which did bombard the island.

  • @jojoemcgeejoe457
    @jojoemcgeejoe457 4 года назад +2

    The Banzai Charge.
    It worked a charm against the Russians in the Sino Soviet war. It worked a charm against all the western forces as the Japanese expanded into the Pacific taking island after island. It worked a charm against the US forces in the Philippine Islands.
    It first failed going up against the US Marines in Guadalcanal.

  • @philipcoggins9512
    @philipcoggins9512 4 года назад +1

    4:10 On the night of 14 October the battleships KONGO and HARUNA shelled Henderson Field and other American positions on the Island. This was a very successful operation for the IJN as it destroyed most of the aircraft and repair capabilities of the air field for a couple weeks. The Japanese tried this again on the night of 13-14 November but they ran into the USS SOUTH DAKOTA and WASHINGTON, with the WASHINGTON sinking the KIRISHIMA and thwarting the IJN from reinforcing their positions and shelling Henderson Field.

  • @prettylilmiss7109
    @prettylilmiss7109 4 года назад +2

    I like Ellie's reaction when the Cook tells them thier Heroes Back Home

  • @jp1170
    @jp1170 4 года назад +2

    The difference between the two theatres of war is that the guys in Europe eventually got leave where they could take a train to Paris or go back to London for some rest and relaxation where as the guys in the Pacific theatre were stuck on whatever god forsaken island they landed on and had to sleep in the jungle, full of disease. They were also fighting an enemy that would literally fight until every last one of them was dead before admitting defeat. In Europe, the Germans knew when they had lost and for the most part surrendered. War is hell no matter what but those boys in the Pacific had it rough.

  • @jnlaf
    @jnlaf 4 года назад +2

    My father was a medic during WWII in the Pacific theater...he never talked about it much..

  • @lazyidiotofthemonth
    @lazyidiotofthemonth 4 года назад +3

    The Japanese Army had been fighting the various Chinese Cliques for almost a decade at this point, but the Chinese Army was fragmented, and far behind technilogically, so ill advised concepts like banzai charges against prepared machine gun positions took a huge part of the Japanese Army's vanguard away early in the war, and in the battles after the Marines and other Allied soldiers were running into less well trained troops, but much better prepared enemy officers.

  • @hollyheinz2702
    @hollyheinz2702 4 года назад +3

    When Eugene joins it gets emotional trust me

  • @MrSmithla
    @MrSmithla 3 года назад

    After BoB, are you noticing differences between the European Theater and the Pacific Theater? At Bastogne, for instance, the 101st didn’t have winter coats and boots. Now, it wasn’t that these items didn’t exist in Europe, they absolutely did, the rushed nature of the 101st being sent into Bastogne meant the supplies just hadn’t reached the men yet. In the Pacific, however, the men’s clothes and boots literally rotted off of their bodies. ALL war is a dirty, filthy affair, no escaping that. Of the two Theaters, though, the Pacific, given the jungle nature of where they fought, was considered the far more dirty of the two.

  • @kilcar
    @kilcar 2 года назад

    FYI, I met a man who was there in 1992. He was a Marine from first Marine Division. He wouldn't talk about it. I met also a Marine Vet fr Tarawa Still, he wouldn't talk about it. My father was US Navy Seabee on Guadalcanal, Russell Islands Munda, , Saipan. He would rarely speak of it except if he met someone else who was a Marine or Seabee who was there. It tormented him from time to time for the rest of his life.

  • @jtcash2005
    @jtcash2005 4 года назад +2

    The Japanese changed their tactics after losing at Guadalcanal.
    American planes sort of controlled the area at day because they had the airfield. At night, the Japanese Navy ruled and could shell the Marines, at least until Americans built more ships and refloated some of those lost at Pearl Harbor.

  • @emilynelson5985
    @emilynelson5985 4 года назад +4

    16:10 That’s a really good impression of a machine gun.

  • @aaronrivas7977
    @aaronrivas7977 4 года назад +6

    Yeah the Japanese charges were crazy. Hundreds of men would charge at a time

  • @MyBullet01
    @MyBullet01 4 года назад +2

    you guys mentioned medics so now you have no choice but to watch Hacksaw Ridge a WWII film about a famous medic who never fired a shot and saved a lot of lives.

  • @jewman303
    @jewman303 4 года назад +12

    “The first part wasn’t that brutal.” Oh boy lol.

  • @jameswg13
    @jameswg13 4 года назад +3

    the pacific gets brutal very fast and very quickly but also addresses a lot of tough issues as well. id say episode 3 easiest to watch though

  • @danielpicciotti2473
    @danielpicciotti2473 3 года назад

    This show is highlighting multiple companies, It follows Robert Leckie and Eugene Sledge's books on the war. Band of Brothers only follows Easy Company really.

  • @cavscout888
    @cavscout888 3 года назад

    'They're not in the cold months after months...'
    Oh no, the Pavuvu episode will be a shocker...

  • @MaliciousGrim05
    @MaliciousGrim05 4 года назад

    The Japanese soldiers in WWII were probably terrifying to face. They committed tons of atrocities, mostly refused to surrender, and weren't really afraid to die. They would effectively brainwash the civilians living on the islands into believing the US soldiers would do all kinds of horrible things if they found them alive. The islanders would be so brainwashed that some of them would jump and throw their kids to their deaths on the rocks below the island in the shallows when it seemed like the US forces would win.
    My father used to work for an old WWII marine many years ago (before I was born) and I recall him telling me a story that this guy had told him. He'd been captured by the Japanese forces along with a group of other Americans. They marched them something like 50+ miles with no food, water, or breaks and then started executing the PoWs. The guy my dad worked for and one other managed to escape by hiding among the dead bodies and slowly moving away little by little while the Japanese soldiers weren't paying attention.

  • @dbking4194
    @dbking4194 4 года назад +1

    The Pacific theatre was brutal. The Japanese would fight to the last man and no quarter was given.

  • @MrSmithla
    @MrSmithla 3 года назад

    I’m so proud of you two for being able to suffer through these terrible scenes. I feel a bit guilty asking you to add to it, but you MUST check out and review ‘Fury.’ Absolutely brilliant war drama

  • @WaywardVet
    @WaywardVet 2 года назад

    That machine gun fire that's non-stop. That's called cyclic rate of fire. You're literally destroying your weapon by overheating it. I was Top Gun machine gunner in my squadron, and lemme tell ya, that's only used when there's no tomorrow promised to you.

  • @rickchollett
    @rickchollett 3 года назад

    1. She is absolutely beautiful.
    2. Until you've been to war you will never know the reality of it.
    3. Most of us don't talk about it and don't want to.

  • @Tonyblack261
    @Tonyblack261 3 года назад +1

    I find that The Pacific isn't as compelling as Band of Brothers. Although I'm not complaining. My father fought the Japanese, so I have an idea what these guys went through.

  • @karlmoles6530
    @karlmoles6530 3 года назад +1

    Nope, the night bombardment was coming from the Japanese Navy, naval guns.

  • @MrSmithla
    @MrSmithla 3 года назад

    From your reactions to this, BoB & Ryan and others, are you appreciating how survival in combat, life or death, is, quite literally, a matter of inches and seconds? Stick your head up just an inch too high? Dead. One second too quickly leaving cover or too slow finding cover? Dead!

  • @kilcar
    @kilcar 2 года назад

    Those who REALLY sacrifice like this rarely speak of their actions.

  • @MrEd8846
    @MrEd8846 4 года назад +3

    It gets darker and more grim. Idk it's hard to really compare the 2 series

  • @ystava686
    @ystava686 3 года назад +1

    The Japanese up until this point had crushed every force they'd faced. It's true they did not respect American marines at first.

  • @Sir_Alex
    @Sir_Alex 4 года назад

    At the start that was the japanes navy shelling the beach.

  • @omalleycaboose5937
    @omalleycaboose5937 4 года назад +2

    I think in Japan it was worse than not caring... they specifically aimed for the medics

    • @TheGunderian
      @TheGunderian 3 года назад

      Correct. Japan had withdrawn from every international agreement in the between war years.Their military run govt took pride in brutality toward the enemy and toward their own troops. The IJN (Imp. Japanese Navy) was a bit more rational and hated the IJA (Army) but this was more about competition for war budgets than human dignity concerns. Japan also treated civilians horribly, with organized rape of entire areas as both reward to the troops and punishment to the local govt. I have lived in Japan for a year in 1996. These are now wonderful people with much better morals, but any group of people can be turned into animals in a short time by corrupt leaders. I am looking at you Joe and Kamala.

  • @Eruthian
    @Eruthian 4 года назад +1

    The hard part of the series is still about to come.

  • @barryfletcher7136
    @barryfletcher7136 4 года назад

    Documentary about the Banzi attack to which you are reacting: ruclips.net/video/74rqIWy6kkA/видео.html
    The scenes of hand-to-hand combat toward the end are from other films.

  • @VIPER-mh9qk
    @VIPER-mh9qk 4 года назад

    "I will use my fuckings hands if is necesary"

  • @EricPalmerBlog
    @EricPalmerBlog 4 года назад

    The Peleliu episode will be difficult. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Peleliu

  • @JBASH2011
    @JBASH2011 4 года назад +4

    It's going to get much worse. Enjoy these first 3 episodes- they are pretty "light".

  • @mariodlc7024
    @mariodlc7024 4 года назад +1

    Heads up to the young lady,,, it is going to get brutal come episodes 5-9.

  • @BogeyDopeYT
    @BogeyDopeYT 4 года назад

    Don’t worry. By episode 9 your emotions will be crushed.

  • @prettylilmiss7109
    @prettylilmiss7109 4 года назад

    Just wait.. the future episodes will shock you

  • @jaimelatorre992
    @jaimelatorre992 4 года назад

    The tokyo express....shell from the imperial navy.

  • @drarkagensurg
    @drarkagensurg 4 года назад +1

    Wait till they reach 8th episode😭

  • @justinm4497
    @justinm4497 4 года назад +2

    yep, japanese don't surrender like germans did.

  • @sclips798
    @sclips798 4 года назад

    sounded like we are the comies

  • @misamone
    @misamone 4 года назад +1

    Just wait and see.... It will become more brutal... soon... Enjoy what you have right now...
    Banzai!!

  • @juanvargaschavarria8772
    @juanvargaschavarria8772 4 года назад

    Latins presents and world war two pride

  • @Beserker-dw4ic
    @Beserker-dw4ic 4 года назад

    Lol you're in for an awakening

  • @obersmith
    @obersmith 4 года назад

    careful what you wish for Ellie :)

  • @zekestone
    @zekestone 3 года назад

    Please react to letters from Iwo Jima plz

  • @richardlong3745
    @richardlong3745 4 года назад

    None of the theaters of war were good, North Africa had it unique problems along with the European but the Pacific was brutal and complete foreign in scope and nature
    to the American G.I.'s fight it. Small far flung islands and open ocean battlefields against troops who were complete alien in how they fought and thought war is fought and won.

  • @leighmait48
    @leighmait48 4 года назад

    ❤❤❤

  • @davemeyer1423
    @davemeyer1423 4 года назад

    Gets really brutal in episode 5.

  • @BudhagRizzo
    @BudhagRizzo 4 года назад

    Believe me, it gets worse!

  • @kubakawulka7532
    @kubakawulka7532 4 года назад

    Hello Homies, I have an idea.
    How about reacting to Brooklyn 9-9 clips? It will certainly bring you a lot of views.

  • @longshot8052
    @longshot8052 4 года назад

    its gonna get worse this series is the most mind twisting series out the 2 series