yes, beautiful map indeed. I always scouted for a vehicle and cruised along the roads on that island. eventually I got shot in the face by some GI, but that didnt minimise the joy of it for me :D
A soldier on the inland asked a gunner on a Air Force transport plane by the name of Wanaki to deliver his gold watch to his infant son he never meet in the flesh. 2 days later the Japanese took the inland but Wanaki kept his word and after the war delivered the watch to his infant son!
I am so in awe and admiration how Major Devereux lured the Japanese ships in, enduring heavy shell fire, until they grew overconfident and came in close to shore. Then he gave the order "All batteries, open fire!" and unleashed hell on them. It should be noted it was perhaps the first and only time a seaboard invasion in WW2 was repelled by shore batteries. Semper Fi, Marines!
That's highly debatable. Given the Japanese did land and take the island I'd say they didn't drive off the invasion, only one of the attempts. And by that definition they weren't the first to do it either - the Norwegians saw off a much heavier invasion force with only 2 large defensive guns and some ancient land-based torpedoes years before.
The 98 troops that remained on Wake island were later massacred by machine gun fire. Only one escaped briefly, carving a message in rock before being recaptured, and then beheaded via katana.
They've also been doing these type of things in China for 9 years. The reason why Japan didn't complain much of the atomic bombings was because they know they've committed atrocities much worse.
@@gidmichigan1765 Indeed. I consider WWII truly starting in China, those 9 years prior, with the slow crawl building up to the global conflict. The experiences in China, made the Japanese high command brazen, and sometimes outright stupid. Case in point, the Bayonet charge was effective in China due to untrained and undisciplined warlord armies they were fighting. But during the war, they were death traps for the Japanese soldiers. Another point, the Japanese were so used to massacres, that apparently they planned to massacre all surviving POW troops from Wake island, but instead shipped the rest off. The reason they did not end up doing this, and only killed the 98, was due to the realization that there was no way to explain off how the entire garrison of trained men mysteriously disappeared. They obviously can't say they all died fighting due to propaganda issues, but a much smaller number has more leeway.
@Genghis Khan japaenese were brutal. Indonesia got invaded by the netherlands for 350 years. But the 3,5 years with the japanese were even more brutal.
If you are interested in the Pacific, I recommend the book: "The Rising sun: The decline and fall of the Japanese empire". The chapter on the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse is quite sad, especially if you're British... (Allied)
@@jakehall3387 We basically did take control of the world after WWII. The few who now oppose us are very weak (although Russia still has its nuclear arsenal).
@@FreedomFox1 you're right but America could've gone much harder than it did. Instead of truely taking the offensive after ww2 we went for defense and tried to achieve more of a status quo.
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My Great Uncle was a Marine Gunnery Sergeant on Wake, 1st Defense Battalion, 5th Artillery. He was captured, then became a POW shipped on the Nitta Maru to Woosung Prison Camp January-September, then to Osaka Ship Yards from September 1942-September 1945. When he volunteered to join the Marines on June 11, 1941, he weighed 150 pounds, once he was released on September 6, 1945, he weighed 82 pounds.
The Japanese were woefully unprepared for amphibious warfare/landings. Which is surprising considering the amount of islands they planned on conquering. I think in their arrogance they assumed adequate air and naval superiority would result in the land garrisons surrendering without opposing a landing.
That's what they planned for operation Ten-go, should the battleship actually reach Okinawa. To beach itself. Unfortunately for them, the battleship got itself sunk. Oops.
The British ran the an ex-American 4 stack destroyer HMS Campbell ashore in St Nazaire, France. But running ships ashore (except an LST) wasn't a normal WWII tactic.
Great episode! But it is missing one of the most iconic messages from WW2. After driving off forces for days, the Marine's moral was still pretty high, and the last message sent from the island. “Enemy on island. Issue in doubt.” Despite technically losing, this is considered one of the Corps finest moments.
@@falconeshield I don't understand your post. VMA211 (VMF211 back then) were on Wake Island and were overrun by the Japanese early in WWII. Since that time the squadron motto has been "Wake Island Avengers." During the US Vietnam war the squadron was mainly station in Vietnam.
@@falconeshield dumb american🤣we have military units going back to the revolutionary war, I was in Custer's regiment, but didn't have a horse. wtf too bad the smartest 2 countries on the planet lost.
*The VMFA-211 squadron was grossly underappreciated in this video. The surviving aircrew and mechanics managed to keep the four surviving Wildcats flying by salvaging parts from the wrecked Wildcats, sometimes even McGuyvering spare parts from truck parts. After all their Wildcats are destroyed, Major Paul Putnam, Maj. Henry T. Elrod, along with the rest of the surviving air crew personnel, organized themselves into a beach defense unit which repulsed repeated Japanese attacks. Captain Elrod was mortally wounded while protecting his men who were carrying ammunition to a gun emplacement.He was posthumously promoted to major on November 8, 1946, and his widow was presented with the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the defense of Wake Island. Maj. Putnam was taken prisoner. He was held in Japanese POW camps from December 1941 until September 1945, when he was released at the end of the war.*
My uncle jack fenix was one of the 98 that survived the attacks and was later beheaded on the island. I read some letters today between him and his wife and it's quite sad because she didn't find out he was dead u til after the war
He was a brave man and a fierce warrior. Helped hold off a strong Japanese navy for weeks. Hopefully those honorless Japanese soldiers got their comeuppance once the war turned against them.
I was on Wake in 1986 while on a hop from Hawaii to Okinawa on a C-130. It was the longest, most uncomfortable flight I have ever taken. I took in all the sights I could and became a huge history buff on my USMC brethren after that stop.
I knew one of Wake Island defenders. He was a civilian contractor hired to complete construction on the airfield. He was adamant about one thing: The Wake Island defenders refused surrender. They were ordered to lay down their arms not by their commander but from their superiors at Naval Base, Pearl Harbor. He was sent to Japan as forced labor and survived the war. He was a Volunteer at the James A. Haley VA Hospital with the Gideons. I was a Hospital Chaplain at the time he spoke of his experiences.
I've actually been to this island.. It's beautiful. There's still a destroyed tank underwater, a bombed out tank bridge that goes from wake to peale island and some of the coastal guns are still there rusting away along the coast as well as bunkers. There is even WWII era electronics in an abandoned building on Peale Island that is hard to see because of the overgrown vegetation. Wake has a lot of rats though as well as hermit crabs. It was a cool experience to go to an Island that is usually off limits to everyone else for obvious reasons. They actually found human remains from the war while I was there.
@@SilverisDuhas It was a pit stop for me when I was deploying to Japan. I was in the Marine Corps stationed in California so when I deployed to Japan, Wake Island is pretty much en route to Japan. You can take 1 day tours with certain military historical societies but those are rare and usually only for special occasions for certain people.
@@UranusGaseous did the same thing as you and got to climb inside some old bunkers. There was alot of hermit crabs and at night the eels were all along the shoreline. good times semper fi.
Stalingrad was a long campaign and kind of hard to cover in a baz battle video. Unless it was like an hour long and that might take a few years given the video release rate XD
@@nilloc93 Yea Stalingrad was extremely long, also the city changed control numerous times. I just wanted to see what BazBattles could do if they'd decided to do one.
@Jonny B Oh wow, never knew this channel. I watched a large amount of Stalingrad battles from numerous channels, however I want to see how BazBattles can make their Stalingrad videe different than others, as in animation wise.
I am one of the lucky ones that went to this island in 1972 , the battle is still alive in the waters all around the island in the waters , everything is still there , I was on my way to Vietnam , the Air Force crew needed to sleep so we explored the island , that was a good day
The guns used on Wake were 5" 51s, not 6" and none of the guns were hit or taken out. They only stopped firing because of ammo shortage or mechanical breakdowns. None of them were manned or fired by only one guy, civilian or military. Read the book Pacific Alamo by John Wukovits
There were no 6 in guns on Wake. The biggest guns they had were 5"51s. None of which were manned or fired by only one guy, civilian or military. Most of them only stoped firing when they ran out of ammo or had a mechanical breakdown. Read the book Pacific Alamo by John Wukovits.
Something to understand about the Imperial Japanese is that many of the commanders were green and inexperienced. A officer's coup had lead to many of the older officers being forced to retire which lead to a huge brain drain for their armed forces. You see many occasions like this by Japanese commanders during the early days of the war, massive casualties in scenario that should have been easy victories.
For anyone interested in learning more about Wake Island, "Pacific Alamo" by Jon Wukovits and "Given Up For Dead" by Bill Sloan are two fantastic books covering the subject. Based upon those, the defenders arguably had the upper hand when the surrender order was given. Cunningham was unaware due to communication difficulties that this was the case, and conceded believing that the battle was lost... I don't think they could have held out forever, but they could have held out long enough for the relief force from Pearl. But then that might have lead to a naval battle of Wake, and who knows how that would have affected the course of the war in the pacific? I love thinking about "what if", especially in relation to WWII. There is a wonderful anecdote in one of the books, about how when a Wake Island Marine walked into a mess hall with other Marines, EVERYONE stood to attention, regardless of rank.
My uncle and his father were civilian construction workers, my uncle spent the entire war in a pow camp in japan, his father was one of the 98 massacred on wake after the surrender
My dad was a Morrison-Knudsen civilian construction worker www.dogberrypatch.com/archives/morrison-knudsen-wake-island-pows/ He was sent to a POW camp in China and later transferred to a POW camp in Japan which was later liberated by the USMC. After WW2, my dad worked as a US Army civilian engineer. In 1962, we flew from Hawaii to Okinawa on a USAF Military Air Transport. The transport plane stopped on Wake Island to refuel. Passengers were bused to a cafeteria, but my dad "disappeared." I don't know where he went or what he did, but I think he spent that time walking around Wake and reflecting on what he and the men on Wake had gone through. My dad never spoke much about his WW2 experience. He was very proud that the Wake Island civilian construction workers were the forerunner of the US Navy SeaBees.
My Father, Lieutenant (can't remember if he was a Butter Bar or First Lt.) Robert Ulmer was a young Army Air Corps officer that developed a plan back at Hickam (Hawaii) to find out how to take Wake Island back from the Japanese. He convinced the brass that four unarmed B-24Rs (R for renaissance) fly from Hawaii to Wake and snap pictures of Japanese defenses. The problem with the plan was that after calculating fuel reserves, the aircraft probably could not quite make it back to Hawaii. Remember, this was before air refueling. However, ships could be stationed so that sea ditched aircraft could be rescued. So...this was an all volunteer mission. My Father was in charge of the mission which riled a few Majors. The B-24Rs came in 90 degrees apart so the Japanese couldn't tell which direction they came from. The planes snapped their pictures and headed back to Hawaii on two engines and everything was thrown out the windows except for the film. All the aircraft made it back to Hawaii, except two aircraft didn't have enough fuel to use the taxiway!! He told me it was probably a world record for flight distances until the B-29 was developed. My Niece in Denver has all of the old citations. Unfortunately, the Brass in the Pacific decided to quarantine Wake rather than retake it. The civilian contractors and military were made slaves and were later butchered on Wake. I'm sure it was a hard decision to make for the Brass, but they didn't want another Saipan or another island hopping fiasco to happen again. The overall mission was to invade Japan proper, and an insignificant island that the Japanese couldn't reinforce was deemed not worthy of invasion.
My mother and her family were some of the only people that lived on wake island in the 1960's until a huge typhoon hit. She was there because of my grandfather who was stationed there. He was a WWII vet on the north African front AND European front for both canada and the US
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At 3:00, an island much farther west than the Wake island is seen as under American control, right south of a line of japanese-controlled islands. After the initial attack on the Wake island, it is seen to have changed hands. What's the story there?
It was Guam. The Japanese invaded the Philippines, Malaysia , Thailand, Hong Kong, Guam, Wake Island, and Pear Harbor all within a month. That same month of December that Japanese also bombed Midway, Johnston and Palmyra islands. Two US ships were also sunk off the coast of California in December 1941.
This was my favorite map for the Pacific theatre on Battlefield 1942. The moral back stateside after Pearl Harbor was grim and Wake changed it when people heard how it can go better like that.
Well done video. The Battle of Wake Island is usually lost in conversations about the start of the Pacific war. Glad to see it given proper respectful treatment here. Great job! Will look forward to further videos from you.
History: Japan attacked wake island Dice: No History: But you can't change history Dice: ........ Community: At least give Japanese some Tanks. Dice:... No.
My great uncle was a civilian construction worker on Wake Island. He was captured by the Japanese and taken to A pow camp near Japan . When repatriated after the war he weighed 98 pounds. He went on to have a long life. During the war the US Navy used Wake as a practice bombing range for new carrier aircraft. This helped lead up to the massacre of the remaining American kept on Wake as slave labor. It was Marines who guarded the island.
The American Commander was ready to fight to the last man. His men were already out of ammunition and were fighting hand to hand in the trenches. He told them to surrender because a radio transmission told him the relief force had been called off because the U.S Navy didn't want to risk their few remaining carriers. The commander ordered the garrison to surrender because he didn't want them to die for a lost cause.
These videos are probably my favorite of all historic youtube videos. I love the direction Baz has taken his channel, from only focusing on battles to giving a longer backstory as well
My great grandfather serviced in the Japanese Navy heavy cruiser "Chikuma", so he participated in "Invasion of Wake Island". he was educated "The U.S soldiers are all mentally weak" by Japanese military headquarters. But the soldiers of Wake Island was unbelievably strong and he said "they were true fighters. so since then, I have become afraid of the U.S. soldiers" I salute the true fighters of those days.
There's a big chance that the Japanese navy fleet pushed forward because they believed that the damage done to the American aircraft was too big. Chances are they would've never approached that close without proper preparations otherwise.
@Genghis KhanOh, it would have mattered. It would have allowed the US garrison to attack and sink the two troop transports amongst the first Japanese assault force, maybe even its light cruiser carrying the IJN admiral. That would have delayed the invasion, and given more time for US reinforcements to arrive.
Actually, yes its true, with all the aircrafts they could have managed to destroy more enemys. But i think that the bomber assault run as always comes without notice(maybe not if you manage to get intel of it). And the 4 on the air were probably an air patrol asigned always as a defensive air screen. So, probably turning possitions between planes and pilots, it was a matter of luck those 4 were not near the attack. Sadly still got shot down, but all defenders did show a good sense of duty.
Briseur De Lance why would it have delayed the attack? The Japanese didn’t think like that, that wasn’t their doctrine. They NEEDED the island for complete hegemony, so they would’ve taken it at any cost
interesting fact: The Japanese troops were actually being pushed back by the marines about the same time the surrender order was given. Had they commanders held back a little bit longer, the U.S. troops might have been able to push them back. Well they still would have lost. The enemy casualties would have been much higher.
@soldier7167 well Adm. Pye inherited Adm. Kimmel's command staff when he took command. The relief mission was already on their way when he did. He was never a strong supporter of the mission and did have valid concerns about the location of the enemy carrier forces. Since they didn't know where they were. Once he received the last message from Wake, He canceled the mission rather than risk the carriers in what would have been a lost cause. Really, it wasn't his fault. Just came in at a bad time. Had Kimmel be able to stay in command a few weeks later, he would have done the same thing.
Devereux was ingenious. It took all those men alot of brass to take that bombardment unanswered. Waiting patiently, opening up the shore batteries only when they would be most affective.
The battles of Tinian and Saipan islands are seldom talked about but were the key to defeating Japan. I would love to see a breakdown of those battles.
7:03 "Let's go, our sector is under artillery barrage" "The enemy is preparing for artillery barrage, repeat, the enemy is preparing for artillery barrage"
As bitter as it is to say, the US Navy made the right decision to recall the Saratoga's task force when they got word of the landings on Wake Island. With the battlefleet smashed and the demonstrated potential of carrier air power at Pearl Harbor, Saratoga was a far more valuable strategic, operational, and tactical asset to her country than Wake Island or its defenders. To continue the relief mission would've put her at major risk, especially given the local superiority Japanese naval forces enjoyed and the demonstrated expertise of the IJN carrier ops, which outstripped every other navy in the war's early years. Sending the lone US carrier up against the Second Carrier Division in 1941 would've been equivalent to the USN feeding a critical strategic asset into Japan's mouth. And even if the Americans waited until the Japanese fleet was gone and swooped in to retake Wake, it wouldn't have improved their situation in the western Pacific. Wake didn't actually protect anything or have much strategic value, and the United States wouldn't have the logistical strength to keep Wake supplied and supported until late-1942 at the earliest. It would be trivial for the IJN to cut off Wake from supply and reinforcement or just retake the island. Even worse, retaking Wake would expose the invasion fleet to the possibility of a devastating counterattack by the IJN's carriers. Such a risk simply wasn't worth taking. So yeah, as much as my heart goes out to the poor Marines on Wake who had to fight a doomed battle and endure Imperial Japanese captivity, I believe the USN did the right thing by turning Saratoga's task force around. At best they would've accomplished nothing of value; at worst they would've lost a critical asset that couldn't be replaced until 1943 when the Essexes began pumping out of the shipyards.
Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to comment. These little nuggets in the comment section are always worth the scroll to find them. All the best.
There was some bitter recriminations in the aftermath of the aborted relief effort; when Vice Admiral William Pye ordered the relief force to turn back, President Roosevelt never forgave him. Admiral Fletcher was also bitterly condemned, despite the fact it was not his decision (he was furious at the recall).
It's harsh but in reality they should've never put a garrison on a remote island they never could've held. The relief force would have to have faced an island that now had 4000 japanese troops on it plus the Japanese fleet that was roaming the area, which had two aircraft carriers in tow.
@@MinusTheRogue Don't forget Wake Island was also well within range of Japanese land based bombers as well. The sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse should have been a wake up call to US Admirals regarding the vulnerability of ships to air attack. (Unlike the US BBs, the British ships were fully alerted and out at sea.) As for the garrison, it should be noted that US commanders did not see Wake as being in immediate danger. The carrier attacks, however, changed this belief. In addition, the USN was learning the hard way that fuel expenditures for ships at sea were far higher in wartime than in peacetime; this seriously complicated any relief efforts.
4:08 Admiral Zoolander: "What is this?....A NAVAL BASE FOR ANTS???" U.S. Military: "What?" Admiral Zoolander: "This garrison needs to be at least....FOUR times bigger!"
Done well. The Japanese after taking the island wanted to know who manned the 5 inch guns that sank their ship. To tell them meant their swift death. No mention of the Pan American sea plane base at Wake was mentioned here.
Uh, perhaps you should've mentioned what happened to those 98 American POW's when the Japanese thought they were going to lose control of the island? They were marched to a corner of the island and massacred as per the proud tradition of the Imperial Japanese military.
@General Bismarck literally noone is pushing that narrative lmao. In the western world its the other way around. Reality is there are no good guys in war.
@@blkrn6185 I don't know what planet you live on. But I have travelled all over Europe, and there are places we were told not to wear our uniforms, because people hate us so much they might attack us on the street.
Liam Regan the battle for Manila was brutal. The Cory was utterly destroyed. The battle in the pacific and especially the Phillipines doesn’t get enough attention
@Águila701 No one here is talking about the Alamo Seige. I just that the battle itself is comparable to some of the battles in the pacific and it hasn't really been brought up since... You don't seem to be on the same page as us.
Im not gonna request any video. Im happy to see your videos at all. I honestly dont care if its about WWII or ancient greece, your videos are always awesome & informative.👌 Keep up the excellent work.👍
It wasn’t just the soldiers. There were civilian workers who took up arms during the invasion of the island. My grandfather, who moved to America from China looking for gold, was a cook on wake island when it was attacked. Someone grabbed him, gave him a gun, and told him to shoot at whatever comes ashore. He was lucky and got captured and shipped as a POW to China. My dad told me he had a strange habit of eating burnt rice and it wasn’t until later that he figured out that my grandpa would beg for the burnt rice of his Japanese captors. He would then share it with the other prisoners. Later when he returned to the United States, he ran straight home. It wasn’t until a few years ago did someone from the military found him and told him that he could receive benefits for being a veteran (he didn’t have any benefits for serving prior). The person who found him was a POW who my grandfather had shared the burnt rice with and had been looking for my grandpa for a long time. Sadly my grandpa passed away a couple of years ago and He understandably wouldn’t talk about his time in ww2, but his memory always makes me proud.
I am 3rd generation Navy, 2nd generation submarine veteran. My grandfather was at the battle of Midway on the USS Enterprise and my other one was a Marine and was at this battle. He was a POW; he passed away before I was born in the 60's. My grandmother told me that he was a big man and when he was released he looked like death. I wish I could have met him. 😎
"America might join the war, we must secure the East!" _launches an attack on American forces_ _America _*_effectively_*_ joins the war_ well done Japan!
triple D Japan had quite a few options. In the late 30s and early 40s the American citizenry had no interest in sending their sons to die to defend European countries let alone their colonial holdings in far flung areas in the Pacific. Had Japan simply attacked the British, French, and Dutch holdings leaving the Americans alone there would have been no casus belli. America’s response would have been economic just like it was when Japan invaded Manchuria.
@@scottl9660 what i am saying is that before all the ww2 stuff broke out they could either 1. Invade soviets(not realisticaly possible) 2. Try to reintegrate into the international community(wouldnt end well for the military, wich basicaly ran japan) 3.every thing in the south is invaded(if the U.S continues a prolonged war Japan loses) 4. 3 but minus pearl harbor/philipines( Japan has less options in expansion as there are less territories wich they can own an the u.s might still declare war)
triple D I think you hit it on the head with the Philippines and the military. Any other combination has a good chance of not ending in a strike on Pearl. This is why couterfactuals are so interesting though. It’s good to chat with someone who’s knowledgeable about the subject.
I've been to wake Island. it is incredibly hot and has some intense rain storms. they have a memorial for those who died defending the island right by the airfield.
Alix your either lying or playing in really weird lobbies because the attackers win 90 percent of the time, they can get like 8 tanks and completely overwhelm everything
Keep making modern naval battles! I love it. And I always send your videos to my friends. Makes historical conversations so much easier. And there is a lot more to cover!
@@bobplanderlinde329 at this point whoever is still playing this "WW2" battlefield game probably dont know much or care about WW2, so DICE did what they did here. I commented on whether DICE is serious that americans are assaulting wake island in one of Westie's video and was told to get a history lesson by a DICE fanboy that was so confident that wake is just the same as the canal, peleliu, tarawa, saipan, iwo jima or okinawa
About 10 years ago I had a work assignment on Wake Island and got to see many of the beach pill box enplacements. They have also have very large coconut crabs there with a body about 1 ft long. Amazing beautiful little Island.
Our family friend, Richard, a civilian contractor, volunteered with either the Marines or Army, and was sworn in on the spot. He hauled ammunition to the coast artillery emplacements. This action was gallant, for sure, but saved his life. His fellow construction workers were worked and brutalized, then mutilated, butchered with swords and bayonets. Richard was treated as a combatant, transfered to Japan where he dug coal till liberation in 1945. He was a very quiet sweet guy.
This has a real education. You are doing a great job in popularising history. Your videos are simple, yet unbelievly compex. Facts are interesting and compelling. You are telling the history as stories, not as boring facts and u are doing it verry well. You are doing great great great job.
In January 1964 my flight made a fuel stop at Wake Is. on my way to Guam, my next home port. Wake was a solemn reminder of the Attack on Wake Island, December 8, 1941. The date is due to the International Date Line. Before the end of 1964 my ship USS Brister DER 327 would have cruised or patrolled the Marianas Islands, Caroline Islands, Bonin Islands, Solomon Islands and visited Japan.
it's a great read ,never gets old . I remember that after the island was surrendered the Japanese demanded to know where the big guns were hidden couldn't believe they had got a whipping from such a lightly armed force , lol ….god bless all the souls who gave there upmost on Wake island
In my journey to Vietnam in 1972 we made a stop for the Air Force crew to sleep on Wake Island , they gave us bicycles and let us explore the island , it was amazing , it is all still there since the last battles now it is just a landing strip for cargo jets in the military
They ran their old destroyers aground on the island to land the Japanese troops?! HOLY SMOKES! Why hasn't someone made a movie about that? That would look really epic in a movie scene.
I'm liking the modern battles! Beautiful animation.
That's one of the best thing about this channel, it's always gorgeous.
You should also make such videos
I agree
Big same
Which software is used for this animation?
That was one of the most popular maps on Battlefield 1942. I never knew the backstory
Wake Island 2007, Battlefield 2 :)
Major flashbacks to that game right now. Probably why I play Rising Storm 2 Vietnam
Scrolled down to the comments just to find a Battlefield reference :)
yes, beautiful map indeed. I always scouted for a vehicle and cruised along the roads on that island. eventually I got shot in the face by some GI, but that didnt minimise the joy of it for me :D
It's remade in every BF game, 2112 had one too
This is like playing Risk and you invade with 12 people against their 1 guy and they roll 5 sixes in a row
Oh piss...
Yea, just like that...........(sarcasm)
G4M Betty in Wake island.
0:40.
Ikr lmfao
@@tsherman393 Dude chill lol
A soldier on the inland asked a gunner on a Air Force transport plane by the name of Wanaki to deliver his gold watch to his infant son he never meet in the flesh. 2 days later the Japanese took the inland but Wanaki kept his word and after the war delivered the watch to his infant son!
He also put it up his ass just to see how it feels like
lame soldat Wtf xD
I heard about another one where this guy kept his dead buddies watch up his bum for 4 years in prison camp. Delivered the watch at wars end.
He hid that uncomfortable hunk of metal up his ass. Two years!
You’d need two promotions to be an idiot. A lot of great people died so you could troll for likes. GFY
I am so in awe and admiration how Major Devereux lured the Japanese ships in, enduring heavy shell fire, until they grew overconfident and came in close to shore. Then he gave the order "All batteries, open fire!" and unleashed hell on them. It should be noted it was perhaps the first and only time a seaboard invasion in WW2 was repelled by shore batteries. Semper Fi, Marines!
The great success of that maneuver was probably noted down and subsequent admirals were advised not to repeat the over-confidence and close the gap.
Reminds me of the out-of-box thinking by Lieutenant "Mush" Morton of the USS Wahoo... Sometimes you need to throw he playbook out and improvise.
That's highly debatable. Given the Japanese did land and take the island I'd say they didn't drive off the invasion, only one of the attempts. And by that definition they weren't the first to do it either - the Norwegians saw off a much heavier invasion force with only 2 large defensive guns and some ancient land-based torpedoes years before.
The 98 troops that remained on Wake island were later massacred by machine gun fire. Only one escaped briefly, carving a message in rock before being recaptured, and then beheaded via katana.
@Genghis Khan "98 US PW 5-10-43"
98 being the number of US POW on the island, the date being the massacre.
I was kinda surprised that wasn't mentioned in the video.
They've also been doing these type of things in China for 9 years. The reason why Japan didn't complain much of the atomic bombings was because they know they've committed atrocities much worse.
@@gidmichigan1765 Indeed. I consider WWII truly starting in China, those 9 years prior, with the slow crawl building up to the global conflict. The experiences in China, made the Japanese high command brazen, and sometimes outright stupid.
Case in point, the Bayonet charge was effective in China due to untrained and undisciplined warlord armies they were fighting. But during the war, they were death traps for the Japanese soldiers.
Another point, the Japanese were so used to massacres, that apparently they planned to massacre all surviving POW troops from Wake island, but instead shipped the rest off. The reason they did not end up doing this, and only killed the 98, was due to the realization that there was no way to explain off how the entire garrison of trained men mysteriously disappeared. They obviously can't say they all died fighting due to propaganda issues, but a much smaller number has more leeway.
@Genghis Khan japaenese were brutal. Indonesia got invaded by the netherlands for 350 years. But the 3,5 years with the japanese were even more brutal.
I actually really liked this one. I feel like I genuinely learned alot about the Pacific theater.
@Majco We hella fucked up lol. Shoulda just taken control of everything after WW2.
If you are interested in the Pacific, I recommend the book: "The Rising sun: The decline and fall of the Japanese empire".
The chapter on the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse is quite sad, especially if you're British... (Allied)
@@jakehall3387 We basically did take control of the world after WWII. The few who now oppose us are very weak (although Russia still has its nuclear arsenal).
@@a05odst62 I'll probably check that out thanks.
@@FreedomFox1 you're right but America could've gone much harder than it did. Instead of truely taking the offensive after ww2 we went for defense and tried to achieve more of a status quo.
Man,
Baz has awakened!
They have launched their push for youtube dominance.
Yes. When will Baz produce the Battle of RUclips? Oh ... never mind then ...
"It was the Tenth of March 2019. BazBattles, at just over 417,000 strong, attempted to oust Pewdiepie and T-series hegemony over the RUclips user base at nearly 200 Million strong between them."
“They come for our blood, but drown in their own! URA!” - Pewdiepie
“We should throw these animals over the edge!” - Pvt. Chernov from the 3rd Shock army, led by General Markiplier.
My Great Uncle was a Marine Gunnery Sergeant on Wake, 1st Defense Battalion, 5th Artillery. He was captured, then became a POW shipped on the Nitta Maru to Woosung Prison Camp January-September, then to Osaka Ship Yards from September 1942-September 1945. When he volunteered to join the Marines on June 11, 1941, he weighed 150 pounds, once he was released on September 6, 1945, he weighed 82 pounds.
Running the japanese ships ashore in Battlefield 1942 wasn't so historically inaccurate afterall.
Just dammed annoying.
The Japanese were woefully unprepared for amphibious warfare/landings. Which is surprising considering the amount of islands they planned on conquering. I think in their arrogance they assumed adequate air and naval superiority would result in the land garrisons surrendering without opposing a landing.
That's what they planned for operation Ten-go, should the battleship actually reach Okinawa. To beach itself. Unfortunately for them, the battleship got itself sunk. Oops.
The British ran the an ex-American 4 stack destroyer HMS Campbell ashore in St Nazaire, France. But running ships ashore (except an LST) wasn't a normal WWII tactic.
G4M Betty in Wake island.
0:40.
Great episode! But it is missing one of the most iconic messages from WW2. After driving off forces for days, the Marine's moral was still pretty high, and the last message sent from the island. “Enemy on island. Issue in doubt.”
Despite technically losing, this is considered one of the Corps finest moments.
I was an avionics tech assigned to VMA 211 during Vietnam, the squadron's motto was Wake Island Avengers.
@@tomschmidt381 Japanese aren't Vietnamese, wtf
@@falconeshield I don't understand your post. VMA211 (VMF211 back then) were on Wake Island and were overrun by the Japanese early in WWII. Since that time the squadron motto has been "Wake Island Avengers." During the US Vietnam war the squadron was mainly station in Vietnam.
@@falconeshield dumb american🤣we have military units going back to the revolutionary war, I was in Custer's regiment, but didn't have a horse. wtf too bad the smartest 2 countries on the planet lost.
*The VMFA-211 squadron was grossly underappreciated in this video. The surviving aircrew and mechanics managed to keep the four surviving Wildcats flying by salvaging parts from the wrecked Wildcats, sometimes even McGuyvering spare parts from truck parts. After all their Wildcats are destroyed, Major Paul Putnam, Maj. Henry T. Elrod, along with the rest of the surviving air crew personnel, organized themselves into a beach defense unit which repulsed repeated Japanese attacks. Captain Elrod was mortally wounded while protecting his men who were carrying ammunition to a gun emplacement.He was posthumously promoted to major on November 8, 1946, and his widow was presented with the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the defense of Wake Island. Maj. Putnam was taken prisoner. He was held in Japanese POW camps from December 1941 until September 1945, when he was released at the end of the war.*
This was always the part of the story I heard! and was waiting for the video to mention it ….
My uncle jack fenix was one of the 98 that survived the attacks and was later beheaded on the island. I read some letters today between him and his wife and it's quite sad because she didn't find out he was dead u til after the war
He was a brave man and a fierce warrior. Helped hold off a strong Japanese navy for weeks. Hopefully those honorless Japanese soldiers got their comeuppance once the war turned against them.
Are you sure? All the details I found online said the escapee that was later beheaded, that their I.D. was never known?
@@tricatfilms6136 He was not the only person beheaded
I was on Wake in 1986 while on a hop from Hawaii to Okinawa on a C-130. It was the longest, most uncomfortable flight I have ever taken. I took in all the sights I could and became a huge history buff on my USMC brethren after that stop.
I knew one of Wake Island defenders. He was a civilian contractor hired to complete construction on the airfield. He was adamant about one thing: The Wake Island defenders refused surrender. They were ordered to lay down their arms not by their commander but from their superiors at Naval Base, Pearl Harbor. He was sent to Japan as forced labor and survived the war. He was a Volunteer at the James A. Haley VA Hospital with the Gideons. I was a Hospital Chaplain at the time he spoke of his experiences.
I've actually been to this island.. It's beautiful. There's still a destroyed tank underwater, a bombed out tank bridge that goes from wake to peale island and some of the coastal guns are still there rusting away along the coast as well as bunkers. There is even WWII era electronics in an abandoned building on Peale Island that is hard to see because of the overgrown vegetation. Wake has a lot of rats though as well as hermit crabs. It was a cool experience to go to an Island that is usually off limits to everyone else for obvious reasons. They actually found human remains from the war while I was there.
How did you get there? Do you need any special permission to visit?
@@SilverisDuhas It was a pit stop for me when I was deploying to Japan. I was in the Marine Corps stationed in California so when I deployed to Japan, Wake Island is pretty much en route to Japan. You can take 1 day tours with certain military historical societies but those are rare and usually only for special occasions for certain people.
Was there in 1950. The Pacific was at eye level all around the Island. Was still an airstop for PanAm! Bad Food!!
@@UranusGaseous did the same thing as you and got to climb inside some old bunkers. There was alot of hermit crabs and at night the eels were all along the shoreline. good times semper fi.
Really enjoying these WW2 videos, would love to see the battle of Stalingrad.
Check out Kings and Generals. They did a really good Stalingrad.
Stalingrad was a long campaign and kind of hard to cover in a baz battle video. Unless it was like an hour long and that might take a few years given the video release rate XD
@@nilloc93 Yea Stalingrad was extremely long, also the city changed control numerous times. I just wanted to see what BazBattles could do if they'd decided to do one.
@Jonny B Oh wow, never knew this channel. I watched a large amount of Stalingrad battles from numerous channels, however I want to see how BazBattles can make their Stalingrad videe different than others, as in animation wise.
@@slickwillie7598 I'm already subbed to them on Patreon, you'll find my name on the right hand side, under "Captain" : )
I actually like how you mention "Hawaiian territory" as this makes a good recognition that during World War 2, Hawaii was not yet a state.
G4M Betty in Wake island.
0:40.
American soil none the less.
@@weirdsearchhistory5876 Was not building a military. base there not against post WWI agreements about bases in the Pacific. generally?
Great video and narration. My Grandfather was a Marine on Wake Island during this attack. Survived the war as a POW.
I am one of the lucky ones that went to this island in 1972 , the battle is still alive in the waters all around the island in the waters , everything is still there , I was on my way to Vietnam , the Air Force crew needed to sleep so we explored the island , that was a good day
Read up on the civilian who had to man one of the 6 inch guns by himself after the crew had been killed. An amazing story of courage and terror.
The guns used on Wake were 5" 51s, not 6" and none of the guns were hit or taken out. They only stopped firing because of ammo shortage or mechanical breakdowns. None of them were manned or fired by only one guy, civilian or military. Read the book Pacific Alamo by John Wukovits
There were no 6 in guns on Wake. The biggest guns they had were 5"51s. None of which were manned or fired by only one guy, civilian or military. Most of them only stoped firing when they ran out of ammo or had a mechanical breakdown. Read the book Pacific Alamo by John Wukovits.
Imagine being the Japanese commander and thinking this'll be a quick and easy mission then loosing 5 ships and 1000 men
The Japanese learned the hard way not to Underestimate the U.S. Marines.
@Zachary Thomas The 2 destroyers and he mentioned a they lost 3 more in the second assault
I knew there’d be a salty American somewhere 😂😂😂
@@StewysGameplay where?
Something to understand about the Imperial Japanese is that many of the commanders were green and inexperienced. A officer's coup had lead to many of the older officers being forced to retire which lead to a huge brain drain for their armed forces. You see many occasions like this by Japanese commanders during the early days of the war, massive casualties in scenario that should have been easy victories.
Honestly, you should do more World War 2 Naval videos. Your freaking great at it.
So the captured US were kinda like slaves after surrender?
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“What the hell did you expect, anyway?” CMC Major General Holcomb, commenting on the Marines amazing defence of Wake Island.
When you lose 4 ships 10 planes and 1000 men on easy mode.
A shamefull display.
*shamefurr dispray
Easy mode?
david czapla yeah, they were attacking a tiny island, *how hard would it be*
NKVD Comrade Orion, LMFAO
At least they didn't run from the battlefield.
For anyone interested in learning more about Wake Island, "Pacific Alamo" by Jon Wukovits and "Given Up For Dead" by Bill Sloan are two fantastic books covering the subject. Based upon those, the defenders arguably had the upper hand when the surrender order was given. Cunningham was unaware due to communication difficulties that this was the case, and conceded believing that the battle was lost...
I don't think they could have held out forever, but they could have held out long enough for the relief force from Pearl. But then that might have lead to a naval battle of Wake, and who knows how that would have affected the course of the war in the pacific? I love thinking about "what if", especially in relation to WWII.
There is a wonderful anecdote in one of the books, about how when a Wake Island Marine walked into a mess hall with other Marines, EVERYONE stood to attention, regardless of rank.
Starts hearing Battlefield theme faded in the background...
Da da da da DA DA
I can hear it so clearly. My childhood, my heart. I will always love Battlefield 1942.
My uncle and his father were civilian construction workers, my uncle spent the entire war in a pow camp in japan, his father was one of the 98 massacred on wake after the surrender
Dam, your grandad was one of the 98!!!! Sy dude.
My dad was a Morrison-Knudsen civilian construction worker www.dogberrypatch.com/archives/morrison-knudsen-wake-island-pows/ He was sent to a POW camp in China and later transferred to a POW camp in Japan which was later liberated by the USMC. After WW2, my dad worked as a US Army civilian engineer. In 1962, we flew from Hawaii to Okinawa on a USAF Military Air Transport. The transport plane stopped on Wake Island to refuel. Passengers were bused to a cafeteria, but my dad "disappeared." I don't know where he went or what he did, but I think he spent that time walking around Wake and reflecting on what he and the men on Wake had gone through. My dad never spoke much about his WW2 experience. He was very proud that the Wake Island civilian construction workers were the forerunner of the US Navy SeaBees.
My Father, Lieutenant (can't remember if he was a Butter Bar or First Lt.) Robert Ulmer was a young Army Air Corps officer that developed a plan back at Hickam (Hawaii) to find out how to take Wake Island back from the Japanese. He convinced the brass that four unarmed B-24Rs (R for renaissance) fly from Hawaii to Wake and snap pictures of Japanese defenses. The problem with the plan was that after calculating fuel reserves, the aircraft probably could not quite make it back to Hawaii. Remember, this was before air refueling. However, ships could be stationed so that sea ditched aircraft could be rescued. So...this was an all volunteer mission. My Father was in charge of the mission which riled a few Majors.
The B-24Rs came in 90 degrees apart so the Japanese couldn't tell which direction they came from. The planes snapped their pictures and headed back to Hawaii on two engines and everything was thrown out the windows except for the film. All the aircraft made it back to Hawaii, except two aircraft didn't have enough fuel to use the taxiway!! He told me it was probably a world record for flight distances until the B-29 was developed.
My Niece in Denver has all of the old citations. Unfortunately, the Brass in the Pacific decided to quarantine Wake rather than retake it. The civilian contractors and military were made slaves and were later butchered on Wake. I'm sure it was a hard decision to make for the Brass, but they didn't want another Saipan or another island hopping fiasco to happen again. The overall mission was to invade Japan proper, and an insignificant island that the Japanese couldn't reinforce was deemed not worthy of invasion.
My mother and her family were some of the only people that lived on wake island in the 1960's until a huge typhoon hit. She was there because of my grandfather who was stationed there. He was a WWII vet on the north African front AND European front for both canada and the US
Please please please do midway, it's one of the most amazing naval battles in history!
If this video is going to be part of a series (I hope so!), The Coral Sea and Midway battles would be in this chain.
Hey Chim, if you really want to see midway battle in this same style then check out this History channel video -> ruclips.net/video/kipF5zoCGAk/видео.html
Chim....If you want to see the Battle of Midway, you must watch youtube channel by Montemayor... ruclips.net/video/Bd8_vO5zrjo/видео.html, this guy is excellent at presenting battle timelines and the decisions made by the US and Japanese commanders.
@@jamesdillinger5038 I agree, that was a very well done production from a different perspective.
Montemayor has possibly one of the best videos on it I have ever seen.
At 3:00, an island much farther west than the Wake island is seen as under American control, right south of a line of japanese-controlled islands. After the initial attack on the Wake island, it is seen to have changed hands. What's the story there?
@Genghis Khan thank you
Yeah, it's Guam.
It was Guam. The Japanese invaded the Philippines, Malaysia
, Thailand, Hong Kong, Guam, Wake Island, and Pear Harbor all within a month. That same month of December that Japanese also bombed Midway, Johnston and Palmyra islands. Two US ships were also sunk off the coast of California in December 1941.
This was my favorite map for the Pacific theatre on Battlefield 1942. The moral back stateside after Pearl Harbor was grim and Wake changed it when people heard how it can go better like that.
That game was the best back in the day!
Well done video. The Battle of Wake Island is usually lost in conversations about the start of the Pacific war. Glad to see it given proper respectful treatment here. Great job! Will look forward to further videos from you.
History: Japan attacked wake island
Dice: No
History: But you can't change history
Dice: ........
Community: At least give Japanese some Tanks.
Dice:... No.
They do have tanks
itS JuSt A gaMe!!!!!!
@General Goldy
After Japan surrender.
@Sam Cooper The US never invaded Wake Island, it was liberated due the surrender of Japan.
@@lokisg3 but they still fought
I felt my morale going up as those ships blew up. I can only imagine how they felt. A true display of courage against insurmountable odds
My great uncle was a civilian construction worker on Wake Island. He was captured by the Japanese and taken to A pow camp near Japan . When repatriated after the war he weighed 98 pounds. He went on to have a long life. During the war the US Navy used Wake as a practice bombing range for new carrier aircraft. This helped lead up to the massacre of the remaining American kept on Wake as slave labor. It was Marines who guarded the island.
The American Commander was ready to fight to the last man. His men were already out of ammunition and were fighting hand to hand in the trenches. He told them to surrender because a radio transmission told him the relief force had been called off because the U.S Navy didn't want to risk their few remaining carriers. The commander ordered the garrison to surrender because he didn't want them to die for a lost cause.
They still all died so that was pretty stupid of him
These videos are probably my favorite of all historic youtube videos. I love the direction Baz has taken his channel, from only focusing on battles to giving a longer backstory as well
My great grandfather serviced in the Japanese Navy heavy cruiser "Chikuma", so he participated in "Invasion of Wake Island". he was educated "The U.S soldiers are all mentally weak" by Japanese military headquarters. But the soldiers of Wake Island was unbelievably strong and he said "they were true fighters. so since then, I have become afraid of the U.S. soldiers"
I salute the true fighters of those days.
Why do you think the IJN didn’t use battleships and fire from further distance.
If only the island didn't lose their 8 fighters on that first raid...
Wouldn't have mattered, they were outnumbered and couldn't be reinforced in time.
There's a big chance that the Japanese navy fleet pushed forward because they believed that the damage done to the American aircraft was too big. Chances are they would've never approached that close without proper preparations otherwise.
@Genghis KhanOh, it would have mattered. It would have allowed the US garrison to attack and sink the two troop transports amongst the first Japanese assault force, maybe even its light cruiser carrying the IJN admiral.
That would have delayed the invasion, and given more time for US reinforcements to arrive.
Actually, yes its true, with all the aircrafts they could have managed to destroy more enemys.
But i think that the bomber assault run as always comes without notice(maybe not if you manage to get intel of it). And the 4 on the air were probably an air patrol asigned always as a defensive air screen. So, probably turning possitions between planes and pilots, it was a matter of luck those 4 were not near the attack. Sadly still got shot down, but all defenders did show a good sense of duty.
Briseur De Lance why would it have delayed the attack? The Japanese didn’t think like that, that wasn’t their doctrine. They NEEDED the island for complete hegemony, so they would’ve taken it at any cost
interesting fact: The Japanese troops were actually being pushed back by the marines about the same time the surrender order was given. Had they commanders held back a little bit longer, the U.S. troops might have been able to push them back. Well they still would have lost. The enemy casualties would have been much higher.
True.
@soldier7167 well Adm. Pye inherited Adm. Kimmel's command staff when he took command. The relief mission was already on their way when he did. He was never a strong supporter of the mission and did have valid concerns about the location of the enemy carrier forces. Since they didn't know where they were. Once he received the last message from Wake, He canceled the mission rather than risk the carriers in what would have been a lost cause. Really, it wasn't his fault. Just came in at a bad time. Had Kimmel be able to stay in command a few weeks later, he would have done the same thing.
Devereux was ingenious.
It took all those men alot of brass to take that bombardment unanswered.
Waiting patiently, opening up the shore batteries only when they would be most affective.
My only note would be that it may have been better to focus fire on the transports, in the hope of drowning many of the would be invaders.
@@Tom--Ace -- The troop ships were probably still out of range, waiting for the cruiser and destroyers to finish bombarding the island.
The battles of Tinian and Saipan islands are seldom talked about but were the key to defeating Japan.
I would love to see a breakdown of those battles.
And Rota - and Guam
One of the most honorable defeats in US military history. A shame it's almost never talked about
It's talked about fervently in the USMC !!
There is a movie made back then. William Bendix was one of the stars in it.
@@rutabagasteu one of the survivors said the movie was wrong ruclips.net/video/em7uQx9b9NA/видео.html
7:03 "Let's go, our sector is under artillery barrage"
"The enemy is preparing for artillery barrage, repeat, the enemy is preparing for artillery barrage"
As bitter as it is to say, the US Navy made the right decision to recall the Saratoga's task force when they got word of the landings on Wake Island. With the battlefleet smashed and the demonstrated potential of carrier air power at Pearl Harbor, Saratoga was a far more valuable strategic, operational, and tactical asset to her country than Wake Island or its defenders. To continue the relief mission would've put her at major risk, especially given the local superiority Japanese naval forces enjoyed and the demonstrated expertise of the IJN carrier ops, which outstripped every other navy in the war's early years. Sending the lone US carrier up against the Second Carrier Division in 1941 would've been equivalent to the USN feeding a critical strategic asset into Japan's mouth.
And even if the Americans waited until the Japanese fleet was gone and swooped in to retake Wake, it wouldn't have improved their situation in the western Pacific. Wake didn't actually protect anything or have much strategic value, and the United States wouldn't have the logistical strength to keep Wake supplied and supported until late-1942 at the earliest. It would be trivial for the IJN to cut off Wake from supply and reinforcement or just retake the island. Even worse, retaking Wake would expose the invasion fleet to the possibility of a devastating counterattack by the IJN's carriers. Such a risk simply wasn't worth taking.
So yeah, as much as my heart goes out to the poor Marines on Wake who had to fight a doomed battle and endure Imperial Japanese captivity, I believe the USN did the right thing by turning Saratoga's task force around. At best they would've accomplished nothing of value; at worst they would've lost a critical asset that couldn't be replaced until 1943 when the Essexes began pumping out of the shipyards.
Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to comment. These little nuggets in the comment section are always worth the scroll to find them. All the best.
There was some bitter recriminations in the aftermath of the aborted relief effort; when Vice Admiral William Pye ordered the relief force to turn back, President Roosevelt never forgave him. Admiral Fletcher was also bitterly condemned, despite the fact it was not his decision (he was furious at the recall).
It's harsh but in reality they should've never put a garrison on a remote island they never could've held. The relief force would have to have faced an island that now had 4000 japanese troops on it plus the Japanese fleet that was roaming the area, which had two aircraft carriers in tow.
@@MinusTheRogue Don't forget Wake Island was also well within range of Japanese land based bombers as well. The sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse should have been a wake up call to US Admirals regarding the vulnerability of ships to air attack. (Unlike the US BBs, the British ships were fully alerted and out at sea.)
As for the garrison, it should be noted that US commanders did not see Wake as being in immediate danger. The carrier attacks, however, changed this belief. In addition, the USN was learning the hard way that fuel expenditures for ships at sea were far higher in wartime than in peacetime; this seriously complicated any relief efforts.
A legendary last stand for the Marines.
4:08
Admiral Zoolander: "What is this?....A NAVAL BASE FOR ANTS???"
U.S. Military: "What?"
Admiral Zoolander: "This garrison needs to be at least....FOUR times bigger!"
My Grandfather was there, Hollis Edwin Bledsoe. I was shocked when I learned this at 30 or so after being a history nut all my life.
nobody cares
bobsagget823 nobody cares about your bullshit, get lost you cretin!
bobsagget823
Done well. The Japanese after taking the island wanted to know who manned the 5 inch guns that sank their ship. To tell them meant their swift death. No mention of the Pan American sea plane base at Wake was mentioned here.
Uh, perhaps you should've mentioned what happened to those 98 American POW's when the Japanese thought they were going to lose control of the island? They were marched to a corner of the island and massacred as per the proud tradition of the Imperial Japanese military.
Hail Hydra.
@General Bismarck literally noone is pushing that narrative lmao. In the western world its the other way around. Reality is there are no good guys in war.
@@blkrn6185 I don't know what planet you live on. But I have travelled all over Europe, and there are places we were told not to wear our uniforms, because people hate us so much they might attack us on the street.
@@patrickkenyon2326 And which uniform would that be?
@@patrickkenyon2326 Also noone thinks japan was innocent lmao
The alamo of the Pacific
I’d consider the fall of the Philippines the Alamo of the pacific but Guam and wake were just as terrifying to be on probably
Liam Regan the battle for Manila was brutal. The Cory was utterly destroyed. The battle in the pacific and especially the Phillipines doesn’t get enough attention
@@liamregan4975 I can see that. That was a vicious battle
@Águila701 No one here is talking about the Alamo Seige. I just that the battle itself is comparable to some of the battles in the pacific and it hasn't really been brought up since... You don't seem to be on the same page as us.
Im not gonna request any video.
Im happy to see your videos at all.
I honestly dont care if its about WWII or ancient greece, your videos are always awesome & informative.👌
Keep up the excellent work.👍
It wasn’t just the soldiers. There were civilian workers who took up arms during the invasion of the island. My grandfather, who moved to America from China looking for gold, was a cook on wake island when it was attacked. Someone grabbed him, gave him a gun, and told him to shoot at whatever comes ashore. He was lucky and got captured and shipped as a POW to China. My dad told me he had a strange habit of eating burnt rice and it wasn’t until later that he figured out that my grandpa would beg for the burnt rice of his Japanese captors. He would then share it with the other prisoners. Later when he returned to the United States, he ran straight home. It wasn’t until a few years ago did someone from the military found him and told him that he could receive benefits for being a veteran (he didn’t have any benefits for serving prior). The person who found him was a POW who my grandfather had shared the burnt rice with and had been looking for my grandpa for a long time. Sadly my grandpa passed away a couple of years ago and He understandably wouldn’t talk about his time in ww2, but his memory always makes me proud.
I feel like Buster Bluth when looking at the map at 2 minutes in.
"The blue part is obviously land."
I read the accounts of mister Cunningham, a valiant effort that one put up.
It's war Mr. Lahey!
The shit hawks... have come- Mr. Lahey
I'm mowin' the air Rand!
Can you hear it? The sounds of the Whispering winds of shit?
Never trust a man with no shirt on.
@@thomassaldana2465 haha.
I've been there. Knowing what happened, and seeing the memorial plaque, it's a very ominous place.
I am 3rd generation Navy, 2nd generation submarine veteran. My grandfather was at the battle of Midway on the USS Enterprise and my other one was a Marine and was at this battle. He was a POW; he passed away before I was born in the 60's. My grandmother told me that he was a big man and when he was released he looked like death. I wish I could have met him. 😎
This is but a summation of the events. I encourage you all to read up on the specifics. it is truly a heroic fated defense.
Your voice is so calming
Nice clear accent.
Quintessential British accent
"America might join the war, we must secure the East!"
_launches an attack on American forces_
_America _*_effectively_*_ joins the war_
well done Japan!
They had 3 options
1. Get rekt
2. Get rekt
3. probably get rekt(pearl harbor bombing)
triple D Japan had quite a few options. In the late 30s and early 40s the American citizenry had no interest in sending their sons to die to defend European countries let alone their colonial holdings in far flung areas in the Pacific. Had Japan simply attacked the British, French, and Dutch holdings leaving the Americans alone there would have been no casus belli. America’s response would have been economic just like it was when Japan invaded Manchuria.
@@scottl9660 what i am saying is that before all the ww2 stuff broke out they could either 1. Invade soviets(not realisticaly possible)
2. Try to reintegrate into the international community(wouldnt end well for the military, wich basicaly ran japan)
3.every thing in the south is invaded(if the U.S continues a prolonged war Japan loses)
4. 3 but minus pearl harbor/philipines( Japan has less options in expansion as there are less territories wich they can own an the u.s might still declare war)
triple D I think you hit it on the head with the Philippines and the military. Any other combination has a good chance of not ending in a strike on Pearl. This is why couterfactuals are so interesting though. It’s good to chat with someone who’s knowledgeable about the subject.
God bless those men and the greatest generation that this country has ever seen
IMO, BB arguably does the best job on such re-enactments. In particular, he shines in setting the critical backdrop and drawing out cause-effect.
I've been to wake Island. it is incredibly hot and has some intense rain storms. they have a memorial for those who died defending the island right by the airfield.
@Southy us navy. flew on kc130t type c130s. wake Island,Majuro and kwajalein all still have active enough airfields.
Never stop making these cause they should be in Military History classes.
And kids nowadays are taught "appropriation" bullshit classes instead of real U.S. history.
@@tricatfilms6136 Real history isn't pretty, but knowing about it can help prevent history from repeating itself.
Who is here after another DICEs, fabrication of history.
It’s probably taking place after Japan took control on the island.
Yes. Praise.
@@idknotsure9620 they just didnt want to build japanses landing craft and other necessary assets
@@idknotsure9620 i think so too. the recapture of Woke Island 2019.
even the US Fighter plane are F4U Corsair not the early F4F Wildcat...
+ the US supposed to be the defender and NOT the invader..(sigh)
“No no , you got it wrong, the AMERICANS attack wake NOT the Japanese”
Dice developers watching this video
Fahad Al-Otaishan You can’t even win as the Japanese , you get stormed with tanks and as the Japanese you get 1 tank .
Faszysta Nazista When I play, the Japanese always win. I haven't played a match where the Americans win.
Alix your either lying or playing in really weird lobbies because the attackers win 90 percent of the time, they can get like 8 tanks and completely overwhelm everything
They attack it because the Japanese liberated them
But Iwo Jima was American until the Japanese took it
Keep making modern naval battles! I love it. And I always send your videos to my friends. Makes historical conversations so much easier.
And there is a lot more to cover!
The animation quality of these videos is second to none. Amazing content, mate!
Hey Baz fellows would you plase make an overview of the Italian Defense of Bir-El-Gobi :) its a battle often overlooked
I concur to this. I vouch for this.
The animations are incredible
someone needs to send this to DICE
I'm pretty sure they just didn't want to bother with making new ship models and stuff
@@bobplanderlinde329 at this point whoever is still playing this "WW2" battlefield game probably dont know much or care about WW2, so DICE did what they did here. I commented on whether DICE is serious that americans are assaulting wake island in one of Westie's video and was told to get a history lesson by a DICE fanboy that was so confident that wake is just the same as the canal, peleliu, tarawa, saipan, iwo jima or okinawa
@@timothy1949 I agree with you man it's ridiculous
I think it's the reconquest of wake island made by Americans in 1945, i presume it's the only explecation why Japanese are defending..
Alberto yeah i think so to
About 10 years ago I had a work assignment on Wake Island and got to see many of the beach pill box enplacements. They have also have very large coconut crabs there with a body about 1 ft long. Amazing beautiful little Island.
More "sea battles"!!!!!!!!!! These are literally the best sea battle videos on youtube and IMO the best BazBattles videos!!! LOVE the visualization
Norman Invasions of Sicily deserve some sort of attention especially something like the Battle of Cerami.
Or just in general the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy
Hell yea more Baz Battles
I didn't knew that the American president was a Sith Lord.
EXECUTE ORDER 8682!
@@LocalHeretic-ck1kd It will be done.
Our family friend, Richard, a civilian contractor, volunteered with either the Marines or Army, and was sworn in on the spot. He hauled ammunition to the coast artillery emplacements. This action was gallant, for sure, but saved his life. His fellow construction workers were worked and brutalized, then mutilated, butchered with swords and bayonets. Richard was treated as a combatant, transfered to Japan where he dug coal till liberation in 1945. He was a very quiet sweet guy.
I was lucky to spend a day on Wake Island , it is a magical place , all around the island , in the water , is the aftermath of this great battle
1941: The Battle of Wake Island
2019: The Battle of Woke Island
Narayuga P.S Finally someone said that;) when you capture the Woke Island, you take no POWs)
W o k e
we are getting wake island in December
Can’t wait!
What's funny is that the woke crowd probably has 0 understanding of history in general
Wargaming: sponsors video on Kriegsmarine
Gaijin: sponsors video on Wake Island
Wargaming: 😮
Wargaming is utter SHIT.
damn just imagine what they could have done if properly supplied
This has a real education. You are doing a great job in popularising history. Your videos are simple, yet unbelievly compex. Facts are interesting and compelling. You are telling the history as stories, not as boring facts and u are doing it verry well. You are doing great great great job.
This was an incredible video. Great narration, too. Please keep them coming.
The men at wake island fought hard, they will never be forgotten
Indeed
Was supposed to sleep one Kings and Generals and this BazBattle’s video ago woops
How many version of wake island you want to add to ur game
DICE: *YES*
James Devereaux, the commander of the Marine detachment, wrote a good book about it, "The Story of Wake Island."
Grain of salt to go with book!
In January 1964 my flight made a fuel stop at Wake Is. on my way to Guam, my next home port. Wake was a solemn reminder of the Attack on Wake Island, December 8, 1941. The date is due to the International Date Line. Before the end of 1964 my ship USS Brister DER 327 would have cruised or patrolled the Marianas Islands, Caroline Islands, Bonin Islands, Solomon Islands and visited Japan.
WONDERFULL JOB!! Can you do about the Graff Spee??
4 seconds in and I've already subbed. New RUclips record. Impressive.
i chuckled a bit when i hear "authentic physics"
it's a great read ,never gets old . I remember that after the island was surrendered the Japanese demanded to know where the big guns were hidden couldn't believe they had got a whipping from such a lightly armed force , lol ….god bless all the souls who gave there upmost on Wake island
In my journey to Vietnam in 1972 we made a stop for the Air Force crew to sleep on Wake Island , they gave us bicycles and let us explore the island , it was amazing , it is all still there since the last battles now it is just a landing strip for cargo jets in the military
How about an Ancient Greece series focused on the Greco-Persian Wars?
I cant wait for this to come out on Battlefield V next month.
It will be a last stand to the bitter end
Too bad its shit.
Playing battlefield 1942 and watching History channel is the only reason why I know of this island
I never play that game but I know of the island from history channel and the game Axis and allies
The animations and editing here really add to the video; I like the style. Keep it up.
They ran their old destroyers aground on the island to land the Japanese troops?! HOLY SMOKES! Why hasn't someone made a movie about that? That would look really epic in a movie scene.