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Fantastic. One can not comprehend Guadalcanal, the central event of the Pacific War, without understanding the gruesome attrition of ships, airplanes, and men over so many months.
I will be watching this for many months as a sleep aid, the pacing and tone of voice is relaxing as hell. Of course I'll eventually manage to finish it but these videos have infinite replay value.
@@HoH you're not the only one. I've discovered recently we are a bunch of people using certain history channels as lullabies. Keeps our brains something to focus on during our pre-sleep quiet time overdrive i suppose. Drach and the Battlefield series are my go-to channels since they’re ad-free, but your soothing voice does a wonderful job too ! Gotta keep the ads scarce tho 😉
Agree that the campaign was the central pivot of the Pacific war, but I'd define it more broadly by taking the Japanese perspective. From their perspective at Rabaul, the campaign was a two-headed struggle with the Americans on Guadalcanal and the Australians on New Guinea. The attrition was fatal: the Allies could replace losses and the Japanese could not.
Excellent compilation. The Guadalcanal campaign was a turning point but came at quite the cost in the grinding jungle combat. I could be wrong, but I believe this was the first major Pacific War campaign where a significant number of Japanese troops were taken prisoner.
Slightly wrong. Approximately 31,000 Japanese soldiers and sailors served on Guadalcanal. Of that number 20,000 were left by December with 12,000 fit for duty. Over 14,000 were killed and 9000 dieing from disease or hunger with 1000 captured. If you reckon 1000 out of 31,000 "significant" then you are correct. It should be noted that all those prisoners were wounded or otherwise incapacitated.
That's a function of it being the first campaign the Japanese lost-it's kind of hard to take any prisoners when your forces are getting their teeth kicked in and losing every battle and surrendering.
My great uncle served on USS Atlanta during this battle and survived the sinking... He ended up fighting in a fox hole on Guadalcanal with the Marines.
Inflection point in the war. Germany on the eastern front will see a steady but clear decline with the Soviet ascending and the USN getting steadily better in material and tactics.
The USS Helena CL-50 -"The Machine Gun Cruiser", as hailed by the Japanese, they thought these Brooklyn Class Light Cruisers had some kind of New Rapid Firing 6 inch Gun (It kind of did, older guns with a new purpose). Reality, 10,000 Tons, 100,000 HP, w/ 15 fast firing 6 inch Rifles it literally was a War Wagon with Cannon Caliber Machine Guns. I'm Very Proud to be an American
Grest vid. Appreciate your constant use of the term “alloes”. The US did the bulk of the fighting in the Pacific, true, but they were never the only friendly combatant.
@@HoH Thanks. I'm reading Victor Davis Hanson's book, "The Second World Wars", (excellent book) and he references it but doesn't go into detail. It's odd that the Soviets beat the Japanese quiet soundly in '39 yet preformed terribly against the Finns and the Germans in the early stages. As you know, the Japanese army had issues but being a bad army is not one of them.
This was the graduate school for the USN in warfare. USN thought they knew how to conduct a war. IJN taught them otherwise. Hats off to the USN. It is ok to make mistakes. The real sin is to not learn and continue making them.
The Japanese thought the Marines would surrender. They thought a sneak attack would make us surrender, they thought bonzi attacks would frighten us, they thought they could win, they thought their swords were special, as we dropped the sun on them. Twice
US had impressive brave soldiers but very bad command. The soldiers won the Pacific war despite the admirals. You realize that when you see a ship crew still fighting and hitting the enemy after the whole hight command and staff had been decimated. Glorious soldiers.
This is why you dont give incompetence peole command of warships..... Crews should have been trained .... The Captain...or ex-O should have been up and alert instead of sleeping... A picket ....a picket that actually prevents entire fleets of enemy ships from sneaking by instead of what that bullshit was....
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Fantastic. One can not comprehend Guadalcanal, the central event of the Pacific War, without understanding the gruesome attrition of ships, airplanes, and men over so many months.
I will be watching this for many months as a sleep aid, the pacing and tone of voice is relaxing as hell.
Of course I'll eventually manage to finish it but these videos have infinite replay value.
Thank you, I never imagined my videos would be good for that but I'm happy they are!
@@HoH you're not the only one. I've discovered recently we are a bunch of people using certain history channels as lullabies. Keeps our brains something to focus on during our pre-sleep quiet time overdrive i suppose. Drach and the Battlefield series are my go-to channels since they’re ad-free, but your soothing voice does a wonderful job too ! Gotta keep the ads scarce tho 😉
arguably the most important campaign during the Pacific War covered with blow by blow with animation. Thank you for the work.
Agree that the campaign was the central pivot of the Pacific war, but I'd define it more broadly by taking the Japanese perspective. From their perspective at Rabaul, the campaign was a two-headed struggle with the Americans on Guadalcanal and the Australians on New Guinea. The attrition was fatal: the Allies could replace losses and the Japanese could not.
Excellent compilation. The Guadalcanal campaign was a turning point but came at quite the cost in the grinding jungle combat. I could be wrong, but I believe this was the first major Pacific War campaign where a significant number of Japanese troops were taken prisoner.
Slightly wrong. Approximately 31,000 Japanese soldiers and sailors served on Guadalcanal. Of that number 20,000 were left by December with 12,000 fit for duty. Over 14,000 were killed and 9000 dieing from disease or hunger with 1000 captured. If you reckon 1000 out of 31,000 "significant" then you are correct. It should be noted that all those prisoners were wounded or otherwise incapacitated.
That's a function of it being the first campaign the Japanese lost-it's kind of hard to take any prisoners when your forces are getting their teeth kicked in and losing every battle and surrendering.
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My great uncle served on USS Atlanta during this battle and survived the sinking... He ended up fighting in a fox hole on Guadalcanal with the Marines.
Thanks for your hard work HOH! love these naval battles series!
That’s one heck of a job well done sir !
These videos should be REQUIRED VIEWING for Naval Officers like myself back in college.
Inflection point in the war. Germany on the eastern front will see a steady but clear decline with the Soviet ascending and the USN getting steadily better in material and tactics.
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This video is incredible
Wonderful historical coverage long time video shared by an amazing ( House of History) channel....thanks for sharing
Watching IJN carriers cruising in reverse is kinda weird.
The USS Helena CL-50 -"The Machine Gun Cruiser", as hailed by the Japanese, they thought these Brooklyn Class Light Cruisers had some kind of New Rapid Firing 6 inch Gun (It kind of did, older guns with a new purpose). Reality, 10,000 Tons, 100,000 HP, w/ 15 fast firing 6 inch Rifles it literally was a War Wagon with Cannon Caliber Machine Guns. I'm Very Proud to be an American
Grest vid. Appreciate your constant use of the term “alloes”. The US did the bulk of the fighting in the Pacific, true, but they were never the only friendly combatant.
How was it possible the Northern Force didnt ssend out a warning message?
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House of history, what sources do you use for the battle of Tigranocerta? Great video.
I can recommend Matyszak's books to begin with!
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Outstanding as always. Here's a video topic for you to consider. The Soviet Union and the Japanese short war in the summer of 1939.
Good idea!
@@HoH Thanks. I'm reading Victor Davis Hanson's book, "The Second World Wars", (excellent book) and he references it but doesn't go into detail. It's odd that the Soviets beat the Japanese quiet soundly in '39 yet preformed terribly against the Finns and the Germans in the early stages. As you know, the Japanese army had issues but being a bad army is not one of them.
A seldom heard tribute to the USN; who suffered 4X more causulities than the US marines fighting for the Solomon islands.
The first picture of fletcher is not fletcher. I think its gormley
Why even mention US torpedos? They are not going to detonate. And I think you should mention why they all suck
Drachinifel's videos to that topic are hilarious. "Failure is like onions"
Great Job on this breakdown… It’s hard to believe the Allied won the war.. Admiral’s were inept .. Wright should have been made a Ships Cook
The turning point was Milne Bay. The first major defeat of Japan
I wouldn't trust Wright to command a rubber ducky in a bathtub
In the video you say N. Scott was killed by IJN gunfire.. Wasn’t he killed by friendly fire from USS San Francisco?
It's something that's quite hotly debated in most sources, but I should have provided both accounts for sure.
ah, gotcha! Thanks for the reply😊 And a Merry Christmas to you all! this video has been wonderful "infotainment" during gift wrapping this year🎁
@@ballefrans1156 Thank you - merry Christmas to you as well!
Slightly offputting how Canberra is misspelt for all of the battle of Savo Island
This was the graduate school for the USN in warfare. USN thought they knew how to conduct a war. IJN taught them otherwise. Hats off to the USN. It is ok to make mistakes. The real sin is to not learn and continue making them.
The Japanese thought the Marines would surrender. They thought a sneak attack would make us surrender, they thought bonzi attacks would frighten us, they thought they could win, they thought their swords were special, as we dropped the sun on them. Twice
US had impressive brave soldiers but very bad command. The soldiers won the Pacific war despite the admirals. You realize that when you see a ship crew still fighting and hitting the enemy after the whole hight command and staff had been decimated. Glorious soldiers.
D3A "Val" dive bombers can only carry a 550 lb.(250kg.) bomb. No 1,000 lb. bombs.
movie perfect
This is why you dont give incompetence peole command of warships..... Crews should have been trained .... The Captain...or ex-O should have been up and alert instead of sleeping... A picket ....a picket that actually prevents entire fleets of enemy ships from sneaking by instead of what that bullshit was....
Talking about a Betty and showing a zero… 🤦♂
Worst American defeat radar useless