What if the RAF had lost the Battle of Britain? Would the Brits have been overrun? Would the Nazis have won the war? Top historians debate one of the biggest what-ifs in history: ruclips.net/video/OaH2-g04cIA/видео.html
The 'Battle of Britain' was an effort by the Germans to force Britain to negotiate an agreement which would leave Britain free to exploit it's empire and Germany free to invade the Soviet Union. Germany could not control the sea crossing and it's army depended on horse transport. After the war, Churchill was heard to say `I think that we killed the wrong pig'.
'Would the Germans have won the war?'. No. They still would have had to invade, a military movement that they were woefully under-prepared for. Wrong equipment, no experience, wrong doctrine. Example: They didn't have heavy lift ability. That means to tanks and no heavy artillery. Infantry only, and even that would have been fed onto the beaches piecemeal where they would have chopped to pieces after having been towed across the channel on barges.
My dad was there (Korea) as a Staff Sergeant, he’d already spent 39’ to 44’ in North Africa and Italy in WW2 , a Brit under US command building roads up and down the hills, and a bit of fighting in between , as he put it, ‘a few hairy moments with the NK and Chinese hoards ‘ he was Mentioned in dispatches ‘Oak Leaves’ for his trouble in one engagement. Respect to all his brothers in arms across the pond .
Was he a Brit who emigrated to the USA and got drafted into the American Army? My father, a surveyor in an Army Engineer Battalion and an NCO served alongside such a man in the Korean War.
My father arrived in Korea in the Spring of 1953...a USMC Sgt. - Machine gun Section Leader in the 1st Marine Division (3rd Bat/5th Marines). Just like the man you see at 42:38, he was stationed on the 38th parallel just as the Armistice was being signed. - No active combat, but he told me many interesting stories of "contact" and some Damn Cold Winter !
My husband's father was a marine at Pusan, Inchon and at the Yalu. When he was wounded and evacuated from the Yalu he was the last of the forty marines that had landed at Pusan that summer.
@@dietermarx5277 Out of all the places I was stationed Korea was the real deal. Had to have your shit tight because you could be at war in the next second. I bet it was very austere when you were there. We had some comforts from home but you knew you were far from home. I have much respect for the Korean people also they are a very honorable people.
Thankfully this channel is licensed to upload these documentaries so we should be seeing a lot more. I was looking for this show in HD for years but it's only ever been available in super low quality until now.
Yeah sound pretty true, exactly how the Chinese fought the Japanese, since the Americans had more fire power they would use manpower to their advantage
A friend's father spent several months in Korea as a Presbyterian missionary. By early June 1950 they heard tanks running on the other side of the border, 3-4+ miles away. They heard small arms fire. This was training and they were told not to be concerned. As Christians would not do well if something happened, they evacuated about a week before the invasion. Everyone was concerned, but the invasion was still a surprise. His father returned to Korea as an infantry man about a year later.
In 1988 I joined the US Army. In 1989 I met a Soldier in my unit who was a Vietnam Veteran. I couldn’t believe he was still in. Not long after that I met another Soldier who was the supply sergeant for our mortar and scout platoon and he was a Korean War Veteran. I really couldn’t believe that he was still in. His name was Gerald Kimbro from West Kentucky. I absolutely loved hearing the old Veterans stories and I cherish what they taught me. I was very privileged to be able to serve with them. They’re gone now but not in my mind. They’re very much alive in my mind and I’ll tell my 6 year old son about them someday and maybe he’ll be able to talk to his children about them someday as well.
When I was in during the late 60's my CSM was a Korean War vet who had received a battle field commission. Didn't think much about it at the time but now looking back I wish I had gotten to know him better. What a man.
@@u.s.militia7682 Could have played a Hollywood badass, but just being himself. About 6'5", broad-shouldered, and muscular. He walked with w deliberate hulking style and rarely smiled, even though he had a great sense of humor. Booming voice that just spoke authority. Never really talked about the war. I got the sense he was just thankful he came back alive and didn't want to relive the experience. Raymond DeMara, an unsung hero in my book.
We will never forget the grace of the U.S. UN Allied War Veterans, Military Materials, and Medical Support Bureau. The love we received through their sacrifice is now conveyed to the world. South Korea will become a warrior who helps and fights together for world freedom and peace. thank you in Busan, South Korea
Ah, from the days when TV documentaries at least existed, even if it was more for entertainment. Dogfights, Tank Battles, Battle 360... they could all use some new modern CGI, but HD of the original is fine too.
Yeah that is pure BS by the narrator... The US military knew it was going to be tough going in the early days due to the tiny forces available for deployment.
The Korean people were fighting for their national Independence against an USA installed puppet Syngman Rhee. They beat the USA and it's puppets to a ceasefire. It was the first 'war' that the USA did not win and the USA is still in a huff over it.
@@robertbennett9949 Oh, for sure. Koreans would MUCH rather be ruled by the Josef Stalin-installed puppet Kim Il Sung and his progeny. Life is soooo much better in Pyongyang. They export all those nice Hyundai cars. . . Oh wait!
@@justanotherrandomfilipino9018 dictatorship is not the reason why the US went to war. There were several dictatprs before and after korea that they ignored or supported. They went to war for communism. True marxism does not imprison you for your viewpoint. But a socialist dictatorship does
@@ericreid8111 "True Marxism" has nothing to do with it. "Different viewpoint" sounds like Biden justifying the treatment of certain minorities in the CCP as nothing more than "different social norms". Read a book, preferably an actual book written by someone who was there.
My uncle was on a troop ship heading towards Korea when McArthur's Inchon landing was announced. There was great rejoicing on board thinking it would all be over by the time they got there. Well....When they landed in Inchon, here came the Chinese and it was total chaos.
He was a Sargeant in control of 28 men from what he told me not alot of em from his unit made it back and sadly he had alot of mental health issues from what he went through was a very angry man
@@MajesticSkywhale I'm sure Korea was a cake walk compared to being a merchant marine in WW2. It was hell for the men on the ground, but I wouldn't think that it would be that bad in the merchant marine. My grandfather served in the U.S. Navy as a nurse during Korea. Other than seeing and taking care of the dead and wounded on the ships, he was never in any danger.
@@420-j7l Your Grandpa went through a lot. I would probably be angry as well. My Grandfather served as a nurse in the U.S. Navy during Korea. He was never in any danger from the enemy, but taking care of the dying and wounded, would take it's toll.
The border shown on the map at 3:30 is the modern border between North and South Korea established at the Korean War Armistice. At the time the border would have been the 38th parallel.
My father was head speaker for the special forces 60th anniversary held in south korea. I never knew till then. Anytime he was awakened he would start making attack moves. That went on for years.
@@rickianlive i just finished playing a match using a M41 walker i was up against tier 8 heavy TD's and heavy tanks i was the only light tank in the match
My uncle Robert Summerfelt served in the USMC during the Korean War. A friend of my father's Harry Whetstien was a tanker in the Korean War. Not sure if Army or a Marine. He never talked about it much other than saying he got frostbite on his feet. Now I know why he never said much about it.😧
If not for the sacrifices of those brave U.N. and Korean soldiers, hundreds of millions of South Koreans would have lived under totalitarian rule, and South Korea would now be ruled by Kim Jong-un. As an American, I feel a close connection to U.S. veterans, but everyone who fought for the freedom of South Korea deserves our gratitude and respect.
God bless every man and woman that have served in our nations great defensive forces. God bless every gold star family that carries that heavy burden. Thank you I will do my best to live my life in a way that honors and appreciates the sacrifices you all have made. Gratefully yours, A patriot
@@jerrycramer4132 Agree. the "history" channel was better before than now because before they really taught history. now they make alien "documentaries" and call them history
some great footage but the damn music, why ? who decides to put the useless music on so you can't hear the commentary? grrrrrrr, anyway thanks for posting, anyway, i just remembered where the volume control is
Camp Moochuck? I can't remember it's official name. Of course most of our time was in the field, but we had our seabags and those 2 minute cold showers at the camp. Semper Fi 3/3 America's Bn Rifle Platoon Commander at that time
The basic flaw in every armored advance is outrunning your supply lines. There are limits to how far you can travel without being vulnerable to hostile forces..Especially in the age of aircraft..
Also, while much of the central and southern part of the peninsula is marginally suitable for tanks, the mountains are not. Infantry, artillery and air support. Helicopters were especially useful and the Korean war was the first place they really shined. A few more advancements and a bigger procurement of them would have been even better, but then again this was all less than a decade after WWII.
It was criminally stupid to send Task Force Smith, not only grossly out- numbered, but with inferior and patently inadequate anti-tank weaponry. I salute those men that nevertheless fought and died.
I agree, but at that time, that was all they could send on such short notice. They had to do something to stem the North Korean advance, and those of TF Smith that stood, fought and died deserves to be remember for their courage and resilience, while fighting a ruthless enemy that were better trained and better equipped.
It was called a stopgap measure and it was necessary they did what they were sent to do they held the peninsula sometimes in war you have to sacrifice men and Equipment you don't have any choice
@@reedsilvesan2197 It also revealed how strong the DPRK Army was, i.e., how much armor and artillery they had, and what they'd committed. Many though the Soviet and the Chicoms made them do with leftover Japanese equipment, but they had at least four regiments of T-34/85s which most of the Soviet Army's tank divisions likewise had. That they were organized along Soviet lines and employing similar tactics (we had German officers that had served on the Eastern Front working for us, and they told us a lot about how the Soviets fought) made it emphatically clear that the Soviets were intimately involved in the DPRK's military planning and logistics. This is what led to the US Army scrounging whatever they could find, including even fixing up Shermans that were used as "gate guardians" and sending them to the Pusan perimeter. This also led to the US Navy, in concert with planning from JCS staffers, coming up with the idea of fast "Ro-Ro" (roll on, roll off" vessels that could rapidly deploy MBTs across the sea. It also indirectly led to the development of USAF heavy lift aircraft, though the true ability to airlift even one tank regiment wouldn't truly happen until the C-5 "Galaxy" went into service in the 1970s.
Like stories of generals ww1, unconcerned with individual soldiers, nor masses of, there was a Monash, concerned with individuals who didn’t act without forethought.
I wish I had seen this video back in 1968 when I was a senior in high school. I was assigned the Korean War in my History class. I had no idea the North Koreans had so many tanks while the South Koreans had zero.
Looking to build a M - 46 PATTON TANK MODEL...watched this video to get some ideas...never did any research on the KOREAN WAR...this was a very interesting episode
If you can't find a purpose-made M46 model, start with an M26 Pershing and an M-47 Patton. the M46 is, basically, the latter's hull and gun with the former's turret.
This geezer in the blue jacket thinks he's so funny. Idk why, he's not even joking in any capacity but just look at his expression, he's absolutely loving this opportunity to tell his story to the cameraman. His eyes light up and get real big, it's cute even
My mother was only 8 years old. Her father killed by North Korean. My grandmother sew American soldiers uniforms. American doctors saved my aunts lives. Thank you so very much for you’ll service.
Your all brave men my grandfather drove a churchill in the second world war he said they were rubbish he told me some crazy stories when he had dementia he didn't talk about it until then an he always had a tear in his eyes telling me if these stories i love my grandfather dearly an wish he was still alive
Fun Fact- the reason the South Koreans were so weak militarily is because the US refused to provide them with any substantial armament. South Korean President Sygman Rhee kept asking for assistance but the US was afraid the South would invade the North if they had any better weapons. This in turn gave the north more confidence to invade.
Sygman Rhee was a worse dictator and an inadequate commander. He started to yelling about the civil war since the day one of the rigged election win....ordered mass execution and purged anyone suspected to be connected with the north. Even the UN commanders despised him. The war was destined to happen when the US and Soviet decided to split the country into two. Kim, Rhee or anyone in charge will try to re-unite his country, splitted by a bunch of foreigners
A point could then probably be made that the big mistake was downsizing the US military so fast and failure to have troops and equipment in key places like South Korea. General Patton was correct all along about who the real enemy of the US was. The enemy he fought and defeated was also the enemy, but the greater enemy was the commies. I don't want anyone to accuse me of giving any of the socialists (national socialists or others) any kind of a pass.
@@paulrevere2379 Back then the US was war weary and wanted to quickly reestablish the peace time economy and honestly I think they gave little to no thought about Korea other than that it was a “back water” country.
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Talking about the North Korean infantry swarming over the tanks reminded me of something I read about British Centurion tanks fighting out there. The British tank crews were swatting them off the same way with MG fire when the crews noticed that the North Korean infantry which were trying to get to the tanks were marching in formation. Not running as you might expect but marching. If they got close to a tank the tank just drove away hosing the infantry down as they did so.
The Brit tanks sat on top of a hill and blasted anything that got within range. The centurions had night fighting equipment so could see the enemy before they were spotted. they could also fire on the move which no other tank in the world could do at that time. Main diff was the Yanks outnumbered the N, Koreans 2 to 1 and still lost. the Brits faced the chinese army and were outnumbered 100 to 1 but held their ground. China threw everything they had at the centurions and couldnt even scratch the paint.
@@cliffbird5016 You're a little bit mistaken. The Centurions did not have night fighting equipment, and the _M4's_ and _M24's_ had stabilization as well. Albeit only in one plane. > *_"Main diff was the Yanks outnumbered the N, Koreans 2 to 1 and still lost. the Brits faced the chinese army and were outnumbered 100 to 1 but held their ground."_* Where exactly are you referring to?
Being outnumbered by enemy's tanks isn't the same situation if or not you have air superiority as the US forces had. In the Blitzkrieg-kampaign of WW II, the German assault was outnumbered in tanks and infantry by French and British forces, but their compound method of air dive bombers in combined operations with tanks and artillery and a modern tank to tank and tank to plane broadcasting maintained the best synchronized combined activity against isolated target groups.
i love watching the men (men just like my grandfather) tell there stories! my grandfather drove the boats and made The landings on the Philippines in world war II in 1944? when we went back to take a Philippines and rest you are men that have been captured
My uncle served in the Air Force in Korea - truly a forgotten war. What continues to baffle me to this day is how the PRC, as a UN signatory, was able to justify armed conflict against... a UN force, without any retribution by this "august" organization (see: Russia v. Ukraine today). And while the US made up the lion's share of personnel and materiel in this war, many grateful thanks to those UN member countries who provided their support!
FYI this channel doesn't produce any of the content it posts, these docs are all (relatively) old. War Stories paid the license fees which allows them to upload these to YT.
I was at Casey in 2014 when 1-15th FA was still there. I've been to the DMZ twice. Each time the north Koreans were not at the border. Only there for these cameras. But the south Koreans are there 8-12 hrs a day in the same position, ready to attack. I didn't see a north korea one both times I went to the DMZ.
It all could have been avoided had Truman allowed the RoK to have antitank guns and tank destroyers. He didn't because he feared that Rhee would invade the North if he had anything even remotely resembling a tank. His Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave Stalin, Mao and Kim the idea that the US wouldn't defend the RoK. All the US had to do was 1) give the Rok the ability to defend istelf, or 2) leave an armored division in the South to deter Communist invasion. But Truman did neither and his SoS practically invited the Commies in.
South korea begging truman to give them the green light to attack the north. Ut giving truman preoccupation in europe refuse to provoke the soviet.it turn out thd north has similiar intention and stalin give the approval to attack the south.
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truman was listening to his aides like harry hopkins. harry was shown , years later , in the vinona papers , to be an agent of stalin. so was alger hiss. so was the brit , kim philby.
Losing the Korean war, or not fighting at all, would have meant squat. Nada. It was simply the east and west flexing their muscles, daring the other to give up first. When some clearer heads were in power (US, USSR), they shut the thing down, and called a truce, right down the middle.
My father fought that war. According to him Truman wanted to bomb one of the bridge leading into N. Korea, but just half the way. Gen. MacArthur heard this and he was surprised that anyone wants to bomb a bridge half the way. The bottom line is Truman really did not wish to expand that war as much as MacArthur. MacArthur really wanted to go all the way into China and hit them with nuclear bombs and finish this war once and for all. This is where politician and military minded individual differs as MacArthur believed "there is no substitute for victory" . As a result, this was one of the reason MacArthur was relieved of his command by Truman at Wake Island. In my view if MacArthur's plan to destroy China that time became successful, along with N. Korea, perhaps we would not be facing terrible consequences today with both of these nations. In any war, it must be fought to the end no matter what and there should be no hesitation, like Truman, otherwise, it would be lost as they say, those hesitates looses.
@@TSUTENKAKU007 if MacArthur went into china, what do you think Russia would do. Ww3 right after ww2? I don't think anyone wanted that. Not even the Russians.
It's crazy. My grandfather was a tank commander of the 104th U.S. Army during the Korean War. He passed in 2016 but never talked about his experiences (I don't blame him. I would think he saw some awful stuff) But I can't seem to find anything about what he did or what he was apart of. And it's driving me nuts. Any ideas where to look?
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The Inchon operation was one of the boldest and most brilliant in all of military history. In contrast, the failure to account for Chinese intervention and capability which compelled the November withdrawal was among the most notable military operational blunders in American history. The same man was responsible for both those things: General Douglas Macarthur. It's also worth noting that US Marines made Inchon possible (amphibious assaults being the most complex in warfare) and they also made history by outfighting the Chinese at Chosen against overwhelming odds. Even American newspapers were expecting a complete unprecedented loss of the entire Marine Division before the battle was over, but the Marines came out intact with all their gear plus the dead and wounded. The same could not be said for all the dead frozen Chinese bodies left behind.
Inchon succeeded due to the fact that Inchon itself was bombed, rocketed and napalmed for days on end before the invasion. There was nobody left to defend it. Nor anybody left to 'liberate'.
You're view of Chosen is the usual American distortion. Let's be clear. A peasent army with no artillery or air support, barely even armed with rifles drove the Marines, a mightily mechanised army, in to the East Sea never to set foot on the DPRK ever again.
@@JakeCole1453 btw, if you actually knew a little history, then you would be more careful in your lies. The Chinese did have artillery. And for peasants barely armed with rifles, they somehow managed to use a superabundance of hand grenades.
@@paulrevere2379 The Chinese couldn't use their artillery because they had no means of getting it in to position due to their trucks freezing en route. Even if they did get it in to position it was irrelevant as it too was useless due to the cold. One of the main objectives of the Chinese volunteers was to seize the entire Chosen facility as intact as possible. For the very same reasons the US wanted it in the first place. Have you ever asked yourself why the US sent in the Marines to seize and hold such a vital facility in the first place? You do know the history of what went on in that part of the world during the Japanese occupation?
@@JakeCole1453 I know that in the bigger picture, the Chinese hoped, not entirely unreasonably, to use their massive numbers to push the UN forces right off the Korean peninsula. It was a given that they would sieze important points along the way. Had the Chinese not taken such heavy losses near the end of 1950, who knows how it would have worked out. They still succeeded in essentially pushing UN forces all the way out of NK territory although not much more (there was a lot of back and forth prior to the armistace). One thing I am curious to learn more about is the North Korean civilians. Many followed in the wake of the Marines and lots of them who boarded the ships presumably went south and left NK behind forever. We're there lots of refugees flying south in 1951 while the Chinese metaphorically rolled up behind? If not, then why not?
My grandfather was in the war but in the Chinese PVA. He fought the Americans and South Koreans although he mostly fought Americans and had to deal with their jets and bombers most of the time. His unit also captured a few GIs and he was assigned to guard them.
My great uncle fought in Korea and was wounded, receiving a Purple Heart. His name was William Perry Rutledge. Story goes that he could smell the Chinese cooking up on the hill they were dug into.
@@StryderK nah the class as a whole never really did something spectacular during the war as to what the t34s did, was instrumental to the offensive of the red army pushed the Germans all the way from the feilds of russia all the way to the center of berlin
@@gawdsuniverse3282 Yes, I get upset when I read about what he did in the Philippines. Total Dereliction of Duty and Insubordination. Thank God that we had Nimitz and the Navy.
@@johnwales4214 American Navy won the Pacific War, survived the initial onslaught, and with on to totally dominate the entire theatre. MacArthur's southern offensive was just a drain on resources that could have been better utilized by Admiral Nimitz. Terrible the harm MacArthur's over-blown ego caused, tragic on every level.
Gen MacArthur was unprepared & surprised again as he was in the Philippines Dec ‘41. Gen Ridgeway saved the Pusan Perimeter defense & morale of our Soldiers. Inchon saved Gen MacArthur’s reputation but then The Chosen Reservoir sealed his career & tarnished his judgement.
I've not heard that before however its believable based on how their loving murderous Mao treated them and how easily some surrendered. Easily explains why many Chinese POWs did NOT want to go back "home".
@@LuvBorderCollies yes a substantial amount of POWs opt to go to taiwan. those who opt to go back to red china suffered a lot until the end of cultural revolution (if they survived the cultural revolution). same case as those russians POW in WWII
@@james_the_darklord, what are you smoking? It must be powerful stuff to make you think the Chinese kicked America's ass. They got lucky in a surprise attack, once. After the initial onslaught was stopped, the Chinese were on the defensive for the rest of the war. Only a lack of political will in Washington kept them from total annihilation on the Korean peninsula.
I had a uncle. John Loghry. Who fought in two wars. WW2 and the Korean War. He made it back home, and had 3 sons and one daughter. I think of him often. SALUTE
If McArthur had a propper reconnaicence and military intelligence, he shoud have known about the chinese troops. He could wait far behind the chinese border and make the chinese troops a warm welcome from a relatively safe amd stable position of his choice. Always a big fault to underestimate your enemy.
korea is badass when it comes to war. if you look at the history, koreans defeated Tang invasions with more than a million solders (back then Tang has the strongest military in the world). Many more. This is why they remained independent country for over 5 thousands years. Don't mess up with them. They fight you to the end.
Way cool i used to talk to my father all the time about korea.he was a marine.never really told me his rank or what he did but told me about all the armament figting that went on
After watching this vid and seeing what he went through it made me respect him on a whole different level.i did do some digging found out he lived in japan after the war for 10years still on active suty as an mp.it makes me very proud to say my father fought for his country in the korean war.thank you for your service aswell sir Vietnam was a brutal war i can only imagine the things tou went through and saw.being in a foreign jungle fighting an enemy that thrives on gorilla tactics..the boobie traps must have been a psychological killer.
This documentary is one of the few to mention the Battle of the Chongchon River, but it still has shortcomings, such as clearly misleading information about the casualties of the 2nd Infantry Division. in the Korean battle chronology : unit-by-unit United States casualty figures and Medal of Honor citations / Ecker, Richard Et.the book mentions that the 2nd Infantry Division's main combat losses were 4,044 men. the other is Billy C. Mossman's UNITED STATES ARMY IN KOREA, which says:A count rendered on 1 December listed 2d Division battle casualties at 4,940 for the last half of November. Of these, 90 percent, or about 4,500, had been incurred since the 25th. Officer casualties alone numbered 237 and touched most grades and branches. These losses represented one-third of the division's actual strength of 15,000 on 15 November, and when reconciled with nonbattle casualties, replacements, and returnees, left the division 8,662 men short of authorized strength, Equipment losses were equally heavy. In addition to hundreds of trucks and trailers, the major losses included 64 artillery pieces, almost all of the 2d Engineer Combat Battalion's equipment, and between 20 and 40 percent of the signal equipment carried by the various division units. About the tank losses of the 2nd Infantry Division in the Battle of the Cheongchon River. Employment of armor in Korea, volume I, p. 44 Detailed analyses are documented, mostly due to mechanical failures rather than hostile fire.
There is another source,it's mentioned the situation on November 29, that was happened in kunu-ri（kunu-ri to sunchon road）.Korean War 9th Infantry Regiment - History - November 1950 2nd Infantry Division /koreanwar /org It's mentioned here:As a result of the aetion of the day, Tank Co lest six (6) tanks due to enemy action.
I watched a documentary on the History Channel about US tanks in the Korean War and it mentioned they traveled in groups. The North Korean T-3& tanks were easily knocked out and the North Korean soldiers would swarm like locust on the US tanks. Each tank would machine gun their accompanying tank and kill dozens.
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@@thenevadadesertrat2713 the 1st British Airborne was nearly wiped out. 82nd and 101st were sent back to France to be reinforced. Later that year they were sent to the Ardennes to fight in the Battle of the Bulge. 101st defended Bastogne against the Wehrmacht.
@@mikepotter5071I know our official propaganda machine tells us time after time how we never lose and always win. Check the official (U.S.) account of the battle at Hurtgen Forest. U.S. forces broke and ran, pretending to be wounded, refusing to go back into the battle . It got so bad that Eisenhower himself showed up. After that five star general George Marshall made a special trip from the U.S. to look into it. It all happened at almost the same time, Hurtgen, West Wall, Arnhem, Ardennes. Just one after another. The Allies thought the Germans were defeated, Big mistake. It was worse in the east. And then there is "Nam where we ran, and ran,and ran. We ran through the brambles and we ran through the bushes. down the Mekong River to the Gulf of Vietnam.
Marine Brigade with attached air & tank units defeated 3 NK divisions, destroying 2 of them. Gen. W. walker said "If you pull the Marines out of the perimeter ( to go to make the Inchon landing) I can not guarantee that the Pusan perimeter can be held!" they were pulled & made the landing, signalling the turning point of the war in 50!
What if the RAF had lost the Battle of Britain? Would the Brits have been overrun? Would the Nazis have won the war?
Top historians debate one of the biggest what-ifs in history: ruclips.net/video/OaH2-g04cIA/видео.html
It's not "nazis",it's Germany or the Axis.
The 'Battle of Britain' was an effort by the Germans to force Britain to negotiate an agreement which would leave Britain free to exploit it's empire and Germany free to invade the Soviet Union. Germany could not control the sea crossing and it's army depended on horse transport. After the war, Churchill was heard to say `I think that we killed the wrong pig'.
'Would the Germans have won the war?'. No. They still would have had to invade, a military movement that they were woefully under-prepared for. Wrong equipment, no experience, wrong doctrine. Example: They didn't have heavy lift ability. That means to tanks and no heavy artillery. Infantry only, and even that would have been fed onto the beaches piecemeal where they would have chopped to pieces after having been towed across the channel on barges.
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This was a very vicious war which my uncle fought in .This war was so unreported and nearly forgotten , it’s not fair to the veterans.
All that matters is that SOUTH KOREANS appreciate what they did!
My dad was there (Korea) as a Staff Sergeant, he’d already spent 39’ to 44’ in North Africa and Italy in WW2 , a Brit under US command building roads up and down the hills, and a bit of fighting in between , as he put it, ‘a few hairy moments with the NK and Chinese hoards ‘ he was Mentioned in dispatches ‘Oak Leaves’ for his trouble in one engagement. Respect to all his brothers in arms across the pond .
Was he a Brit who emigrated to the USA and got drafted into the American Army?
My father, a surveyor in an Army Engineer Battalion and an NCO served alongside such a man in the Korean War.
God bless your dad 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
My father arrived in Korea in the Spring of 1953...a USMC Sgt. - Machine gun Section Leader in the 1st Marine Division (3rd Bat/5th Marines).
Just like the man you see at 42:38, he was stationed on the 38th parallel just as the Armistice was being signed. - No active combat, but he told me many interesting stories of "contact" and some Damn Cold Winter !
My husband's father was a marine at Pusan, Inchon and at the Yalu.
When he was wounded and evacuated from the Yalu he was the last of the forty marines that had landed at Pusan that summer.
I bet his hands are so dirty.
Stationed at Camp Casey '94-'95 5/20 Infantry. Nothing but respect for the men who fought in the Korean War.
I was at Casey in68-69, loved Korea.
@@dietermarx5277 Out of all the places I was stationed Korea was the real deal. Had to have your shit tight because you could be at war in the next second. I bet it was very austere when you were there. We had some comforts from home but you knew you were far from home. I have much respect for the Korean people also they are a very honorable people.
I was in 2nd Tank 95/96 Aco.
I was an MP, then off to Vietnam for 13 months.
Pusan 1976-77 beautiful contry
We need more HD tank documentary like this.
Agreed!
1/72 armor 1977 Fit ti FIGHT" ...Can Do!!!!!!! Tankers here TDC...
Thankfully this channel is licensed to upload these documentaries so we should be seeing a lot more. I was looking for this show in HD for years but it's only ever been available in super low quality until now.
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I remember my grandpa telling me his stories during the Korean War. He said at one point he had Chinese soldiers crawling on his tank.
Marines where using dead chinese for cover in the battle of the chosin reservoir, so this is pretty believable
Yeah sound pretty true, exactly how the Chinese fought the Japanese, since the Americans had more fire power they would use manpower to their advantage
Heard the same from my Great Uncle Homer Lawson. He was a tank commander in an M4.
Called action
Not a war/ crazy
@@MF-qy9kt my Dad said they stacked Chinese dead in front of their foxholes
A friend's father spent several months in Korea as a Presbyterian missionary. By early June 1950 they heard tanks running on the other side of the border, 3-4+ miles away. They heard small arms fire. This was training and they were told not to be concerned. As Christians would not do well if something happened, they evacuated about a week before the invasion. Everyone was concerned, but the invasion was still a surprise. His father returned to Korea as an infantry man about a year later.
In 1988 I joined the US Army. In 1989 I met a Soldier in my unit who was a Vietnam Veteran. I couldn’t believe he was still in. Not long after that I met another Soldier who was the supply sergeant for our mortar and scout platoon and he was a Korean War Veteran. I really couldn’t believe that he was still in. His name was Gerald Kimbro from West Kentucky. I absolutely loved hearing the old Veterans stories and I cherish what they taught me. I was very privileged to be able to serve with them. They’re gone now but not in my mind. They’re very much alive in my mind and I’ll tell my 6 year old son about them someday and maybe he’ll be able to talk to his children about them someday as well.
OK, you didn't tell anything you learned from those veterans after you had written so much.
When I was in during the late 60's my CSM was a Korean War vet who had received a battle field commission. Didn't think much about it at the time but now looking back I wish I had gotten to know him better. What a man.
Dennis Hill that battlefield commission he got is a pretty damn rare thing. I bet he was a helluva Soldier.
Tell us more about them, please!
@@u.s.militia7682 Could have played a Hollywood badass, but just being himself. About 6'5", broad-shouldered, and muscular. He walked with w deliberate hulking style and rarely smiled, even though he had a great sense of humor. Booming voice that just spoke authority. Never really talked about the war. I got the sense he was just thankful he came back alive and didn't want to relive the experience. Raymond DeMara, an unsung hero in my book.
We will never forget the grace of the U.S. UN Allied War Veterans, Military Materials, and Medical Support Bureau. The love we received through their sacrifice is now conveyed to the world.
South Korea will become a warrior who helps and fights together for world freedom and peace. thank you
in Busan, South Korea
Ah, from the days when TV documentaries at least existed, even if it was more for entertainment. Dogfights, Tank Battles, Battle 360... they could all use some new modern CGI, but HD of the original is fine too.
Historian: GIs thought an Asian army was inferior.
As if none of those GIs had fought or heard stories of fighting the Japanese.
Yeah that is pure BS by the narrator... The US military knew it was going to be tough going in the early days due to the tiny forces available for deployment.
@@CH-pv2rz False
maybe they hadn't been informed of t34's
The Korean people were fighting for their national Independence against an USA installed puppet Syngman Rhee. They beat the USA and it's puppets to a ceasefire. It was the first 'war' that the USA did not win and the USA is still in a huff over it.
@@robertbennett9949 Oh, for sure. Koreans would MUCH rather be ruled by the Josef Stalin-installed puppet Kim Il Sung and his progeny. Life is soooo much better in Pyongyang. They export all those nice Hyundai cars. . . Oh wait!
As old Soldier - I love listening to the stories of these old Army Dogs. These were just Boys then. And survived. Semper Fi!
Love documentaries. I learned alot about all the other wars, but not about the Korean War, definitely gonna watch more of these.
This series is great. It's only about tanks (and tank battles) though. There are a lot of other good docs that cover wars in general.
My Dad and Uncle were both drafted into Army for the Korean war. Dad ended up in a equipment depot in Alaska and my uncle never left the lower 48.
Happy for them. Getting drafted into useless wars to die for a government afraid of a different viewpoint, is a terrible experience, I'm sure.
That "different viewpoint" would also put you in a forced labor camp for *actually* having a different viewpoint, you bootlicker.
@@justanotherrandomfilipino9018 dictatorship is not the reason why the US went to war. There were several dictatprs before and after korea that they ignored or supported.
They went to war for communism. True marxism does not imprison you for your viewpoint. But a socialist dictatorship does
@@ericreid8111 "True Marxism" has nothing to do with it. "Different viewpoint" sounds like Biden justifying the treatment of certain minorities in the CCP as nothing more than "different social norms". Read a book, preferably an actual book written by someone who was there.
@@justanotherrandomfilipino9018 You mean like the ones that existed in South Korea under Syngman Rhee and Park Chung Hee?
I was hoping to see my dad somewhere in this video! I miss him! He passed away from a triple by pass as a civilian.
Wow 1080p version... Yay going to watch all these again.
My uncle was on a troop ship heading towards Korea when McArthur's Inchon landing was announced. There was great rejoicing on board thinking it would all be over by the time they got there. Well....When they landed in Inchon, here came the Chinese and it was total chaos.
My grandpa fought in this war in the British army
Cool! Mine was a merchant marine in wwii and got called back into service for this
He was a Sargeant in control of 28 men from what he told me not alot of em from his unit made it back and sadly he had alot of mental health issues from what he went through was a very angry man
@tacotony24 well respect to your family brother and you
@@MajesticSkywhale I'm sure Korea was a cake walk compared to being a merchant marine in WW2. It was hell for the men on the ground, but I wouldn't think that it would be that bad in the merchant marine.
My grandfather served in the U.S. Navy as a nurse during Korea. Other than seeing and taking care of the dead and wounded on the ships, he was never in any danger.
@@420-j7l Your Grandpa went through a lot. I would probably be angry as well. My Grandfather served as a nurse in the U.S. Navy during Korea. He was never in any danger from the enemy, but taking care of the dying and wounded, would take it's toll.
My great uncle was the gunner for an M26 and his brother was a tank mechanic in the Korean War
During that time, South Korea only has 27 M8 Greyhound. And they used all of the M8 against T34 because that’s the only thing they have...
What about m18 hellcat and m4 sherman, capt. conrado yap was a 10th battalion combat there using tanks against north korean and chinese offensive.
The border shown on the map at 3:30 is the modern border between North and South Korea established at the Korean War Armistice. At the time the border would have been the 38th parallel.
My father was head speaker for the special forces 60th anniversary held in south korea. I never knew till then. Anytime he was awakened he would start making attack moves. That went on for years.
The guys giving their accounts of the fighting are the coolest guys.
Military training & leadership is everything in war!!! Says old vet.
Damn imagine being bonked by a 90mm for trying to swarm a Pershing
Also the Pershing vs T-34-85 is just an uptiered match lol
This is basically WOT in a nutshell😂
Pretty much I get uptiered all the time in warthunder here I think I'm safe in my jumbo than boom a fucken king tiger
@@mariacorazondevelos7178 agree
@@mariacorazondevelos7178 especially wotb
@@rickianlive i just finished playing a match using a M41 walker i was up against tier 8 heavy TD's and heavy tanks i was the only light tank in the match
My uncle Robert Summerfelt served in the USMC during the Korean War. A friend of my father's Harry Whetstien was a tanker in the Korean War. Not sure if Army or a Marine. He never talked about it much other than saying he got frostbite on his feet.
Now I know why he never said much about it.😧
Awesome vid keep these coming.
Good Copy
There weren't many movies about the Korean war during the 50's but one that I remember was " pork chop hill". It scared the crap out of me.
It's been awhile but I also remember that one.
I think South Korea has made a number of films about the war but not many in the west.
Awesome video, keep them coming!!
Thank you for your service fellow warriors
If not for the sacrifices of those brave U.N. and Korean soldiers, hundreds of millions of South Koreans would have lived under totalitarian rule, and South Korea would now be ruled by Kim Jong-un.
As an American, I feel a close connection to U.S. veterans, but everyone who fought for the freedom of South Korea deserves our gratitude and respect.
"hundreds of millions"? Billions! Not counting, of course, millions Sygman Rhee had already killed of his own people.
Thanks
God bless every man and woman that have served in our nations great defensive forces.
God bless every gold star family that carries that heavy burden.
Thank you
I will do my best to live my life in a way that honors and appreciates the sacrifices you all have made.
Gratefully yours,
A patriot
The US didn't save nothing. You are brainwashed.
@@liseperk7752👎👎👎👎 👊👊👊👊
Well done video, but jeeeez, kill the over-loud background music. Struggle to hear the commentary over it.
yes the music is loud and a lot of them
veeery American
Greatest Tank Battles was a TV show on the History channel before the history channel stopped showing history. The uploader didnt create the video
@@jerrycramer4132 Agree. the "history" channel was better before than now because before they really taught history.
now they make alien "documentaries" and call them history
AGREED huh I mean agreed lol.
some great footage but the damn music, why ? who decides to put the useless music on so you can't hear the commentary? grrrrrrr, anyway thanks for posting, anyway, i just remembered where the volume control is
My dad was in one of these U.S. Army tank divisions during the N./S. Korean war/policing action!
Wow thanks for keeping history alive God bless you all
I happen to visit South Korea and took part in " Team Spirit 83 " Pohang and even did some training with some ROK marines .
Camp Moochuck?
I can't remember it's official name.
Of course most of our time was in the field, but we had our seabags and those 2 minute cold showers at the camp.
Semper Fi
3/3 America's Bn
Rifle Platoon Commander at that time
The basic flaw in every armored advance is outrunning your supply lines. There are limits to how far you can travel without being vulnerable to hostile forces..Especially in the age of aircraft..
Also, while much of the central and southern part of the peninsula is marginally suitable for tanks, the mountains are not. Infantry, artillery and air support.
Helicopters were especially useful and the Korean war was the first place they really shined. A few more advancements and a bigger procurement of them would have been even better, but then again this was all less than a decade after WWII.
Yahh same with Hitler's Barbarossa..in every advsnce dire to have secured points/station were they can leave provisions ammos&fuel..
It was criminally stupid to send Task Force Smith, not only grossly out- numbered, but with inferior and patently inadequate anti-tank weaponry. I salute those men that nevertheless fought and died.
I agree, but at that time, that was all they could send on such short notice. They had to do something to stem the North Korean advance, and those of TF Smith that stood, fought and died deserves to be remember for their courage and resilience, while fighting a ruthless enemy that were better trained and better equipped.
It was called a stopgap measure and it was necessary they did what they were sent to do they held the peninsula sometimes in war you have to sacrifice men and Equipment you don't have any choice
@@reedsilvesan2197 It also revealed how strong the DPRK Army was, i.e., how much armor and artillery they had, and what they'd committed. Many though the Soviet and the Chicoms made them do with leftover Japanese equipment, but they had at least four regiments of T-34/85s which most of the Soviet Army's tank divisions likewise had. That they were organized along Soviet lines and employing similar tactics (we had German officers that had served on the Eastern Front working for us, and they told us a lot about how the Soviets fought) made it emphatically clear that the Soviets were intimately involved in the DPRK's military planning and logistics. This is what led to the US Army scrounging whatever they could find, including even fixing up Shermans that were used as "gate guardians" and sending them to the Pusan perimeter. This also led to the US Navy, in concert with planning from JCS staffers, coming up with the idea of fast "Ro-Ro" (roll on, roll off" vessels that could rapidly deploy MBTs across the sea. It also indirectly led to the development of USAF heavy lift aircraft, though the true ability to airlift even one tank regiment wouldn't truly happen until the C-5 "Galaxy" went into service in the 1970s.
McArthur always underestimated asian militaries. He always assumed giving the order to go win would make it happen.
Like stories of generals ww1, unconcerned with individual soldiers, nor masses of, there was a Monash, concerned with individuals who didn’t act without forethought.
Im PFC Bey 2 ID,a 92S currently stationed at Camp Humphreys, I have all respect for the men who fought the North.
Damn bruh please don’t dox yourself, but thank you for your service
Yeah...Thank you for your service as many can’t do what you do but it’s RUclips not a military conference😂🤟
@@Homiesapian LOL I'm no longer in south Korea
Spectacular!thank you for another lesson on world history.
I wish I had seen this video back in 1968 when I was a senior in high school. I was assigned the Korean War in my History class. I had no idea the North Koreans had so many tanks while the South Koreans had zero.
Looking to build a M - 46 PATTON TANK MODEL...watched this video to get some ideas...never did any research on the KOREAN WAR...this was a very interesting episode
If you can't find a purpose-made M46 model, start with an M26 Pershing and an M-47 Patton. the M46 is, basically, the latter's hull and gun with the former's turret.
This geezer in the blue jacket thinks he's so funny. Idk why, he's not even joking in any capacity but just look at his expression, he's absolutely loving this opportunity to tell his story to the cameraman. His eyes light up and get real big, it's cute even
min/sec mark
My mother was only 8 years old. Her father killed by North Korean. My grandmother sew American soldiers uniforms. American doctors saved my aunts lives. Thank you so very much for you’ll service.
Long live Kim Il Sung!!!
My uncle died in this war he was the youngest soldier, he had lied about his age and joined at 16. Paul Cornell
I Salute your uncle Michael.
Darwin striked again
@Zurain Tamur kind of weird bro.
My father fought in the Korean war he's 90 in March !
The Springboks were also there. During the Korean conflict the Flying Cheetah squadron flew a grand total of 12,067 sorties.
Your all brave men my grandfather drove a churchill in the second world war he said they were rubbish he told me some crazy stories when he had dementia he didn't talk about it until then an he always had a tear in his eyes telling me if these stories i love my grandfather dearly an wish he was still alive
Agree about the sound - take it down and reload it wihout. Meantime I'll watch something else.
Fun Fact- the reason the South Koreans were so weak militarily is because the US refused to provide them with any substantial armament. South Korean President Sygman Rhee kept asking for assistance but the US was afraid the South would invade the North if they had any better weapons.
This in turn gave the north more confidence to invade.
Sygman Rhee was a worse dictator and an inadequate commander. He started to yelling about the civil war since the day one of the rigged election win....ordered mass execution and purged anyone suspected to be connected with the north. Even the UN commanders despised him. The war was destined to happen when the US and Soviet decided to split the country into two. Kim, Rhee or anyone in charge will try to re-unite his country, splitted by a bunch of foreigners
@@billyhe2724 I’m not disagreeing. Just adding more context to this documentary.
A point could then probably be made that the big mistake was downsizing the US military so fast and failure to have troops and equipment in key places like South Korea. General Patton was correct all along about who the real enemy of the US was. The enemy he fought and defeated was also the enemy, but the greater enemy was the commies. I don't want anyone to accuse me of giving any of the socialists (national socialists or others) any kind of a pass.
@@paulrevere2379 Back then the US was war weary and wanted to quickly reestablish the peace time economy and honestly I think they gave little to no thought about Korea other than that it was a “back water” country.
@Darling Where did you get that twisted version of history? From Pyongyang?
A thousand greetings, great respect and admiration for your esteemed and wonderful channel, which provided accurate and useful information. I wish you lasting success. A wonderful work and a great effort that deserves pride, appreciation and pride. My utmost respect and appreciation to you
hearing first hand accounts from men who were there makes these videos excellent
Talking about the North Korean infantry swarming over the tanks reminded me of something I read about British Centurion tanks fighting out there. The British tank crews were swatting them off the same way with MG fire when the crews noticed that the North Korean infantry which were trying to get to the tanks were marching in formation. Not running as you might expect but marching. If they got close to a tank the tank just drove away hosing the infantry down as they did so.
The horrors of war
The Brit tanks sat on top of a hill and blasted anything that got within range. The centurions had night fighting equipment so could see the enemy before they were spotted. they could also fire on the move which no other tank in the world could do at that time.
Main diff was the Yanks outnumbered the N, Koreans 2 to 1 and still lost. the Brits faced the chinese army and were outnumbered 100 to 1 but held their ground.
China threw everything they had at the centurions and couldnt even scratch the paint.
@@cliffbird5016 Tanks a lot for the interesting info
@@cliffbird5016 You're a little bit mistaken. The Centurions did not have night fighting equipment, and the _M4's_ and _M24's_ had stabilization as well. Albeit only in one plane.
> *_"Main diff was the Yanks outnumbered the N, Koreans 2 to 1 and still lost. the Brits faced the chinese army and were outnumbered 100 to 1 but held their ground."_*
Where exactly are you referring to?
Your post reminds me of Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”.
Being outnumbered by enemy's tanks isn't the same situation if or not you have air superiority as the US forces had.
In the Blitzkrieg-kampaign of WW II, the German assault was outnumbered in tanks and infantry by French and British forces, but their compound method of air dive bombers in combined operations with tanks and artillery and a modern tank to tank and tank to plane broadcasting maintained the best synchronized combined activity against isolated target groups.
i love watching the men (men just like my grandfather) tell there stories! my grandfather drove the boats and made The landings on the Philippines in world war II in 1944? when we went back to take a Philippines and rest you are men that have been captured
My uncle served in the Air Force in Korea - truly a forgotten war. What continues to baffle me to this day is how the PRC, as a UN signatory, was able to justify armed conflict against... a UN force, without any retribution by this "august" organization (see: Russia v. Ukraine today). And while the US made up the lion's share of personnel and materiel in this war, many grateful thanks to those UN member countries who provided their support!
Another Great Documentary. Thanks.
I fucking love your videos man, keep it up this is becoming one of my favorite channels
FYI this channel doesn't produce any of the content it posts, these docs are all (relatively) old. War Stories paid the license fees which allows them to upload these to YT.
10:28 war thunder experience against soviet tanks in a nutshell
add me on war thunder i will teach you how to fight, and show you how to learn QSE Quarren
I was at Casey in 2014 when 1-15th FA was still there. I've been to the DMZ twice. Each time the north Koreans were not at the border. Only there for these cameras. But the south Koreans are there 8-12 hrs a day in the same position, ready to attack. I didn't see a north korea one both times I went to the DMZ.
cause we're the bad guys bro
You not seeing them doesn't mean they weren't there
It all could have been avoided had Truman allowed the RoK to have antitank guns and tank destroyers. He didn't because he feared that Rhee would invade the North if he had anything even remotely resembling a tank.
His Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave Stalin, Mao and Kim the idea that the US wouldn't defend the RoK. All the US had to do was 1) give the Rok the ability to defend istelf, or 2) leave an armored division in the South to deter Communist invasion. But Truman did neither and his SoS practically invited the Commies in.
South korea begging truman to give them the green light to attack the north. Ut giving truman preoccupation in europe refuse to provoke the soviet.it turn out thd north has similiar intention and stalin give the approval to attack the south.
truman was listening to his aides like harry hopkins. harry was shown , years later , in the vinona papers , to be an agent of stalin. so was alger hiss. so was the brit , kim philby.
Losing the Korean war, or not fighting at all, would have meant squat. Nada. It was simply the east and west flexing their muscles, daring the other to give up first. When some clearer heads were in power (US, USSR), they shut the thing down, and called a truce, right down the middle.
My father fought that war. According to him Truman wanted to bomb one of the bridge leading into N. Korea, but just half the way. Gen. MacArthur heard this and he was surprised that anyone wants to bomb a bridge half the way. The bottom line is Truman really did not wish to expand that war as much as MacArthur. MacArthur really wanted to go all the way into China and hit them with nuclear bombs and finish this war once and for all. This is where politician and military minded individual differs as MacArthur believed "there is no substitute for victory" . As a result, this was one of the reason MacArthur was relieved of his command by Truman at Wake Island. In my view if MacArthur's plan to destroy China that time became successful, along with N. Korea, perhaps we would not be facing terrible consequences today with both of these nations. In any war, it must be fought to the end no matter what and there should be no hesitation, like Truman, otherwise, it would be lost as they say, those hesitates looses.
@@TSUTENKAKU007 if MacArthur went into china, what do you think Russia would do.
Ww3 right after ww2?
I don't think anyone wanted that. Not even the Russians.
It's crazy. My grandfather was a tank commander of the 104th U.S. Army during the Korean War. He passed in 2016 but never talked about his experiences (I don't blame him. I would think he saw some awful stuff)
But I can't seem to find anything about what he did or what he was apart of. And it's driving me nuts. Any ideas where to look?
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The Inchon operation was one of the boldest and most brilliant in all of military history.
In contrast, the failure to account for Chinese intervention and capability which compelled the November withdrawal was among the most notable military operational blunders in American history.
The same man was responsible for both those things: General Douglas Macarthur.
It's also worth noting that US Marines made Inchon possible (amphibious assaults being the most complex in warfare) and they also made history by outfighting the Chinese at Chosen against overwhelming odds. Even American newspapers were expecting a complete unprecedented loss of the entire Marine Division before the battle was over, but the Marines came out intact with all their gear plus the dead and wounded. The same could not be said for all the dead frozen Chinese bodies left behind.
Inchon succeeded due to the fact that Inchon itself was bombed, rocketed and napalmed for days on end before the invasion. There was nobody left to defend it.
Nor anybody left to 'liberate'.
You're view of Chosen is the usual American distortion. Let's be clear. A peasent army with no artillery or air support, barely even armed with rifles drove the Marines, a mightily mechanised army, in to the East Sea never to set foot on the DPRK ever again.
@@JakeCole1453 btw, if you actually knew a little history, then you would be more careful in your lies. The Chinese did have artillery. And for peasants barely armed with rifles, they somehow managed to use a superabundance of hand grenades.
@@paulrevere2379 The Chinese couldn't use their artillery because they had no means of getting it in to position due to their trucks freezing en route. Even if they did get it in to position it was irrelevant as it too was useless due to the cold.
One of the main objectives of the Chinese volunteers was to seize the entire Chosen facility as intact as possible. For the very same reasons the US wanted it in the first place. Have you ever asked yourself why the US sent in the Marines to seize and hold such a vital facility in the first place?
You do know the history of what went on in that part of the world during the Japanese occupation?
@@JakeCole1453 I know that in the bigger picture, the Chinese hoped, not entirely unreasonably, to use their massive numbers to push the UN forces right off the Korean peninsula. It was a given that they would sieze important points along the way.
Had the Chinese not taken such heavy losses near the end of 1950, who knows how it would have worked out. They still succeeded in essentially pushing UN forces all the way out of NK territory although not much more (there was a lot of back and forth prior to the armistace).
One thing I am curious to learn more about is the North Korean civilians. Many followed in the wake of the Marines and lots of them who boarded the ships presumably went south and left NK behind forever. We're there lots of refugees flying south in 1951 while the Chinese metaphorically rolled up behind?
If not, then why not?
Bunch of total badasses!! Imagine waiting to fight and you cant see and the enemy crashes into you?!
Oh thank God an HD version of one of my favorite series good bye 360p and hello 1080p
Thank you for you’ll serve. God bless you all.🙏🥰🇺🇸God bless America.
“Mini blitzkreig”
Germany: Oh? You dare to challenge me?
Lightning war you numpty fast tank assault followed by swift infantry mop up.
Blessed these men. I could hear them talk all day
Love the uses of tires filled with dirt as a defense barrier 43:06.
Beautiful documentary.
My grandfather was in the war but in the Chinese PVA. He fought the Americans and South Koreans although he mostly fought Americans and had to deal with their jets and bombers most of the time. His unit also captured a few GIs and he was assigned to guard them.
I have some gnarly b&w photos from this war... God bless you gramps.... I wish I had known you, all I have is pics....
Loved it so little said about this war close run thing
My great uncle fought in Korea and was wounded, receiving a Purple Heart. His name was William Perry Rutledge. Story goes that he could smell the Chinese cooking up on the hill they were dug into.
my dad served the whole war us air force. he said the Chinese were brutal, a formidable enemy and they died by the thousands.
The M4E8 actually had a working gyro scope just most the crews didn't know how to use em
The M4A3E8 was actually superior in many ways to the T-34/85.
@@StryderK M4's generally have had an undeserving bad rep.
@@StryderK nah the class as a whole never really did something spectacular during the war as to what the t34s did, was instrumental to the offensive of the red army pushed the Germans all the way from the feilds of russia all the way to the center of berlin
McArther shoulda never pushed so close to the Chinese border, Truman should have sent more troops.
MacArthur should have been sacked in 1941 for his incompetence in the Philippines. Many of Americans died due his blunders.
@@johnwales4214 definitely, one of the most over-rated Generals of all time.
@@gawdsuniverse3282 Yes, I get upset when I read about what he did in the Philippines.
Total Dereliction of Duty and Insubordination.
Thank God that we had Nimitz and the Navy.
@@johnwales4214 American Navy won the Pacific War, survived the initial onslaught, and with on to totally dominate the entire theatre. MacArthur's southern offensive was just a drain on resources that could have been better utilized by Admiral Nimitz. Terrible the harm MacArthur's over-blown ego caused, tragic on every level.
@@gawdsuniverse3282 Absolutely. A man who know the true history of the Pacific in WW2.
Gen MacArthur was unprepared & surprised again as he was in the Philippines Dec ‘41. Gen Ridgeway saved the Pusan Perimeter defense & morale of our Soldiers. Inchon saved Gen MacArthur’s reputation but then The Chosen Reservoir sealed his career & tarnished his judgement.
My dad was in the Korean War, but since he died when I was a kid I don’t know much about his service. He was an Air Force bomb loader.
That's really sad
@@tristanholland1 sad how he's father participated in carpet bombing civilian populations
the music does penetrate a T34 better than a shell of a sherman :-)
I was born in 51 and have always been interested in what happened in the Korean War. Thnx for the info.
If you want to see how South Korea feels today about US troops coming to their aid see trip videos at www.heroesremembered.net. Cheers....
One of the main problems that plagued Task Force Smith was old 1945 era ammunition that often didn't work.
Thank you soldiers.
You are the Best in this nation.
Thank you.
They should have known this home by Christmas stuff never works
Many of the 300 000 Chinese "volunteers" were POWs from the Nationalist Kuomintang army.
I've not heard that before however its believable based on how their loving murderous Mao treated them and how easily some surrendered. Easily explains why many Chinese POWs did NOT want to go back "home".
@@LuvBorderCollies Exactly, why take care of your former enemies, when they can die on battlefield for you!
That's why the Chinese are potent in war and kicked the asses of the USA
@@LuvBorderCollies yes a substantial amount of POWs opt to go to taiwan. those who opt to go back to red china suffered a lot until the end of cultural revolution (if they survived the cultural revolution). same case as those russians POW in WWII
@@james_the_darklord, what are you smoking? It must be powerful stuff to make you think the Chinese kicked America's ass. They got lucky in a surprise attack, once. After the initial onslaught was stopped, the Chinese were on the defensive for the rest of the war. Only a lack of political will in Washington kept them from total annihilation on the Korean peninsula.
That 17 mile gauntlet sounds like the highway of death in the Gulf war.
I had a uncle. John Loghry. Who fought in two wars. WW2 and the Korean War. He made it back home, and had 3 sons and one daughter. I think of him often. SALUTE
Hail Victory to his memory
thank you 🙏
If McArthur had a propper reconnaicence and military intelligence, he shoud have known about the chinese troops. He could wait far behind the chinese border and make the chinese troops a warm welcome from a relatively safe amd stable position of his choice. Always a big fault to underestimate your enemy.
He didn't care. He thought he was a god.
McArthur was a total fuckup....
korea is badass when it comes to war. if you look at the history, koreans defeated Tang invasions with more than a million solders (back then Tang has the strongest military in the world). Many more. This is why they remained independent country for over 5 thousands years. Don't mess up with them. They fight you to the end.
Japan crushed them for decades and huge parts of china and indochina..
Dankie/ Merci War Stories. South Africa was part of the South Korean/ UN / American Team.
yeah I'm gonna sub now
Way cool i used to talk to my father all the time about korea.he was a marine.never really told me his rank or what he did but told me about all the armament figting that went on
Maybe you should dig deep into his past, maybe, might be interesting, Nam, '66-'67.
After watching this vid and seeing what he went through it made me respect him on a whole different level.i did do some digging found out he lived in japan after the war for 10years still on active suty as an mp.it makes me very proud to say my father fought for his country in the korean war.thank you for your service aswell sir Vietnam was a brutal war i can only imagine the things tou went through and saw.being in a foreign jungle fighting an enemy that thrives on gorilla tactics..the boobie traps must have been a psychological killer.
This documentary is one of the few to mention the Battle of the Chongchon River, but it still has shortcomings, such as clearly misleading information about the casualties of the 2nd Infantry Division.
in the Korean battle chronology : unit-by-unit United States casualty figures and Medal of Honor citations /
Ecker, Richard Et.the book mentions that the 2nd Infantry Division's main combat losses were 4,044 men. the other is Billy C. Mossman's UNITED STATES ARMY IN KOREA, which says:A count rendered on 1 December listed 2d Division battle casualties at 4,940 for the last half of November. Of these, 90 percent, or about 4,500, had been incurred since the 25th. Officer casualties alone numbered 237 and touched most grades and branches. These losses represented one-third of the division's actual strength of 15,000 on 15 November, and when reconciled with nonbattle casualties, replacements, and returnees, left the division 8,662 men short of authorized strength, Equipment losses were equally heavy. In addition to hundreds of trucks and trailers, the major losses included 64 artillery pieces, almost all of the 2d Engineer Combat Battalion's equipment, and between 20 and 40 percent of the signal equipment carried by the various division units. About the tank losses of the 2nd Infantry Division in the Battle of the Cheongchon River. Employment of armor in Korea, volume I, p. 44 Detailed analyses are documented, mostly due to mechanical failures rather than hostile fire.
There is another source,it's mentioned the situation on November 29, that was happened in kunu-ri（kunu-ri to sunchon road）.Korean War 9th Infantry Regiment - History - November 1950 2nd Infantry Division /koreanwar /org It's mentioned here:As a result of the aetion of the day, Tank Co lest six (6) tanks due to enemy action.
I watched a documentary on the History Channel about US tanks in the Korean War and it mentioned they traveled in groups.
The North Korean T-3& tanks were easily knocked out and the North Korean soldiers would swarm like locust on the US tanks.
Each tank would machine gun their accompanying tank and kill dozens.
Scratching each other’s backs sure helped.
Yup, not wanting to admit blunder
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My grandfather served with 101st airborne in Korea
When he served in Korea?
I was under the impression the 101st and 82nd were wiped out at Market Garden. They ran into the SS. What brought them back?
@@thenevadadesertrat2713 the 1st British Airborne was nearly wiped out.
82nd and 101st were sent back to France to be reinforced.
Later that year they were sent to the Ardennes to fight in the Battle of the Bulge.
101st defended Bastogne against the Wehrmacht.
@@mikepotter5071I know our official propaganda machine tells us time after time how we never lose and always win. Check the official (U.S.) account of the battle at Hurtgen Forest. U.S. forces broke and ran, pretending to be wounded, refusing to go back into the battle . It got so bad that Eisenhower himself showed up. After that five star general George Marshall made a special trip from the U.S. to look into it. It all happened at almost the same time, Hurtgen, West Wall, Arnhem, Ardennes. Just one after another. The Allies thought the Germans were defeated, Big mistake. It was worse in the east. And then there is "Nam where we ran, and ran,and ran. We ran through the brambles and we ran through the bushes. down the Mekong River to the Gulf of Vietnam.
Marine Brigade with attached air & tank units defeated 3 NK divisions, destroying 2 of them. Gen. W. walker said "If you pull the Marines out of the perimeter ( to go to make the Inchon landing) I can not guarantee that the Pusan perimeter can be held!" they were pulled & made the landing, signalling the turning point of the war in 50!