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I think their bodies reacted badly to the peaches because they are sweet and rich when they'd had bland rations for some time prior.
A friend of my grandfather's spent many years being a stunt pilot, and just after he retired he went for a swim in the ocean and was killed by a shark. That story about the tight rope walker reminded me.
The Japanese actually had better tactics on Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa when they realized those Banzai charges were basically just ineffectual.
The actor playing Eugene Sledge was the little boy in Jurassic Park! He does a great job. You'll see in latter episodes.
the reason he threw the peaches up was because they were on the verge of starvation. He ate too fast and made himself sick.
The banzai charges you see the Japanese use in the night battle was a tactic that brought the Japanese success against the less trained Chinese army and Russian army earlier in the 1900s. But the US military, and later other armies, had to much fire power to make it effective most of the time.
Eugene is the kid from Jurassic Park. Maybe that is where you know him from.
I’ve watched both movies and this series so many times and never connected those two things together. My mind is blown lol.
Jesus you're right OMG I've never noticed that. Thanks for the cool fact
1:50 "Passwords" or Countersigns are used to identify friend from foe among allied troops in zero visibility situations.
The words used are those that the enemy could not say or pronounce properly.
In Band of Brothers, Easy Company use "Thunder" as unlike Americans, Germans have a thick accent when pronouncing "th" thus singling them out.
In the Pacific, Marines use words such as "Lorelei" or "Lilliputia" as the Japanese pronounce "L" as "R".
Passwords were especially important in the Pacific theater since the Japanese favored small and numerous night raids on US positions. In battles like Okinawa they would often dress in US army or Marine gear scavenged from the dead to help sell the act.
The battle of Savo Island is rarely talked about but is important for the events of Guadalcanal. The navy lost several ships and several thousand sailors, after which they withdrew before offloading all the supplies onto the islands for the marines. Because of this those marines were effectively cut off with limited ammunition and food/supplies. That pays off in the final scene when they are in the mess hall on the ship. Those marines felt like they had been forgotten by everyone and had no idea that people back home were hoping for all them to return home.
@5:32 About the peaches, it was a shock effect to Leckie's body. The marines had been stranded on the island without supplies, including proper food and medicine (or toilet paper aka "Asswipe") while exposed to severe jungle conditions as well as constant shelling and combat. Add to this the diet of nothing but rice strewn with maggots, the moment Leckie ate the peaches his body's reaction to the nutrients and flux of vitamins sent his body into such a shock it caused him to vomit. Btw runner was shaking from disentary, the same diet of rice and muddy water pretty much caused everyone to get disentary being stuck on a log for hours on end.
“The Pacific - Historical Intrductions Narrated by Tom Hanks” is where you can get the context of each episode by seeing the Veterans talk about the experiences leading into the episodes as well as Tom Hanks narrating facts about the battles, scenarios, etc.
Richard Tregaskis was a war corespondent on Guadalcanal. He kept the folks back home informed of the fighting. He later wrote the book Guadalcanal Diary, which I first read in the 6th grade.
WWII in HD. Great series has some of his first hand accounts
@@josecambronero9419 Absolutely. I think it was narrated by Gary Sensei (sp?)
GySgt. "Manila John" Basilone, from Raritan, New Jersey. One of America's greatest heroes.
Marine Corp legend
1:49 Passwords let guards know you are friendly. You usually pick words that would be difficult for non-English speakers to say, in case they found out. You’d be able to tell if the person was fluent or not.
On Guadalcanal the Japanese didn't expect an attack and weren't prepared; so they launched a series of attacks after the US landed. Later in the war they did know and were prepared, so those battles went differently - as you'll see.
This is so simplified, it borders on being totally incorrect.
Early in the war (being early in America's [and Australia dont forget us] war with Japan) the Japanese troops were quite prepared to conduct these charges with reckless abandon. Japan had been fighting in China earlier than this and had found that often when they charged the Chinese troops (who were often poorly trained and unready to fight to death) they would scare them so much they could get them to retreat with little fighting. There are many stories of soldiers (even the mean green Marines) shutting down in combat, the Japanese would rely on this on the Island of Guadalcanal to very little effect. Once the Allies showed that they didn't (or often didn't) cower in the face of these suicidal charges, the Japanese used this tactic less so, however the Banzai Charge reflects the Japanese cultural perspective on war, honor and strategy. Its a make or break maneuver either resulting in your enemy fleeing or your whole force being torn to shreds.
In the first episode we saw the Battle of Alligator Creek, where the Japanese not only underestimated the size of the force they were facing but also bravado of the Marines. This is how you get these suicidal charges. The war in the Pacific was way different than in Europe or North Africa, it was in all meanings of the word "dirtier".
The Writer guy is Robert Leckie and he wrote the book "helmet for my pillow" and the skinny guy is Eugene Sledge who wrote the book "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" all these men are based off of real people.
Sledge's "With the Old Breed" is generally considered one of the finest combat memoirs ever written. It is a grim, matter of fact account of his combat experience that you will never forget.
My grandfather got to serve under Chesty in Korea. He said that Chesty was a man he would follow “any fucking place, any fucking time.” My grandfather is now 93, and doesn’t really speak much of his Marine Corps time though.
As a Marine Vet... I would follow Chestys ghost into battle ... he is a Marine Corps legend ... we all know who he is... great leader ...
The naval battle that led to the Marines being abandoned was the Battle of Savo Island. It was the worse defeat of US Navy in its history. Over 1000 sailors were lost.
More sailors were lost at Savo Island than Marines and Soldiers killed during the entire battle.
@@philipcoggins9512There were just over 1000 Sailors killed with approximately 800 wounded. On Guadalcanal the death toll for the US was just over 7000 KIA and I'll have to look up wounded. Japanese deaths were about 20,000 KIAs. The Japanese referred to Guadalcanal as the Island of Death.
And the reason why the marines were eating a lot of rice during this battle is because when they landed on the island they actually came across a big storehouse that was stocked with rice for the Japanese soldiers and the Korean laborers who were building the airfield on Guadalcanal
My grandfather was in the 1st Marines at Guadalcanal. He said at first they didn't want to touch the Japanese food, fearing it might be rotten or poisoned. Then they had no choice since their own supplies were lost at sea, but they tried to pluck the weevils out of the rice. Before long, they just ate the rice, weevils and all.
5:35 The peaches were fine...the Marines were in basically starvation mode, and he ate a lot of very sweet rich food way faster than he should. The sudden amount of food, coupled with the syrupy sweetness of the juice the peaches were likely canned in, was just too much for his stomach to handle all at once, so he got sick.
Larissa, I love your reaction to this series. But more important I absolutely love your interest in history. It is so refreshing to see a young person interested in people who lived long before them. I was born in 1947. My father left Cuba in 1941, right after Pearl Harbor, to join the US army, He was born in Tampa, Florida but raised in Cuba. He had dual citizenship but felt he needed to fight for his place of birth. He was badly injured in a training accident and there after received a medical discharge. After that he decided to stay in the US so worked to bring his young wife from Cuba to the US. Growing up, I got to know quite a few WW2 vets.
Marine and Army casualties within the ground forces amounted to 1,598 killed and 4,709 wounded. Of this total, the number of Marines killed or died from wounds was 1,152 along with 2,799 wounded and 55 listed as missing. Marine aviation losses were 55 dead with 127 wounded and 85 missing.
Even back then a lot of the soldiers believed in the way of the samurai it was dishonourable to suffer the shame of defeat and honourable to die on the battlefield. In a losing situation the would bonzai attack(charge the enemy) to cause as much damage as possible or overrun the position.
Exactly a lot of Japanese soldiers believed in the Bushido code And like you said, they could not bear the shame of surrender or defeat
Eugene is the kid from Jurassic Park
The passwords were used to identify friendly units, especially at night. They did the same thing in band of brother, when they would say 'Flash' and someone else would say 'Thunder'.
If you didn't know or say the password and you tried to enter friendly lines, and you would more than likely get shot.
Fun fact: a lot of the passwords used in the Pacific theater would contain the letter L, because the Japanese had a hard time pronouncing it.
Pay attention to the words of Dr. Sledge. One of the main themes of this show is about men going into hell over and over risking their lives but also their souls.
My grandpa was a Marine during WWII. After I joined the Marines, he told me stories of all the battles he was in, with one exception, he would never talk about Guadalcanal. They were short on ammo, and everything else because the navy got run out and they had all their supplies. If I remember right they spent about 6 months with no navy support. They were starved and out of ammo. I will drink a horn in Valhalla one day with my grandpa. NEVER FORGOTTEN USMC
The Pacific is based on With the Old Breed read that when I was in from 1986 to 1994.
My great grandfather was one of the machine gunners fighting alongside John basilone in this episode he struggled the rest of his life from his time in the pacific
My Grandfather was on the "Canal" whenever he talked about it , it was mostly about the funny moments and food, growing up any time we said we didn't like something and we weren't going to eat it, he would be like When i was on the Canal we were lucky to have maggots in our rice and we ate it cause we were hungry" then he would laugh "but thank God they had plenty of Soy Sauce " he got hooked on that stuff and would put it on everything, when i was older i found his Combat knife when i brought it too him to ask about it, he wasn't happy to see it and told me to put it back, After i enlisted and came back from basic i found it and took it out, this time he sat me down as i pointed out some damage on the skull crusher (bottom of the handle) he opened up talking man to man about how during the night he "had a visitor in his hole" and told me about killing someone in the dark in a hole up close, then the stories just flowed out. i was taken back as all my life i knew him as the most gentle man, always going to church, prayed every day never drank booze or swore. but that night was eye opening on the amount of killing he had done and what he saw. and that was the 1st time i heard him swear and show hate toward anyone "them F .....G JAPS" he would say
Real life was more intense and Basilone's fight was more epic in real life.
Basilone and his unit fought for two days straight until there was only him and two other marines left. Ammo ran so dry that they had to resort to using empty pistols as clubs and machetes till they were left blunt.
The water cooled Browning machine gun ( the gun Basilone used ) was a game changer in the Pacific war. Up until the Japanese ran into the Marines on Guadalcanal they relied on being able to overwhelm enemy defenses by mass charges with infantry. The water cooled Browning MG made it possible to fire the gun endlessly, or at least long enough to kill everyone without melting the barrel. Giving the Marines fire superiority in defensive positions. For the start of the war Japan just ran into it and got hammered. You'll notice the Japanese strategy change in the war later on..
When Leckie's friend was taking a crap caused by dysentery most likely, he probably had to be visible to his squad mates so he won't be killed by a enemy soldier sneaking up on him to quietly kill him. This is war. You do what you have to do to survive. One of the most important thing to survive is know your surrounding.
Love Your Reactions Larissa ! Keep it Up
Basilone was could not be stopped that night. He was pinpoint accurate with that machine gun and cut down several waves of attackers almost single-handedly.
I think mentioned Jacob Vouza in Part 1 reaction but even if I did he bears mentioning again. He was a native of Guadalcanal that was responsible for saving countless Marines after being brutally tortured by the Japanese.
When the call comes, you do what you can. My mother and grandmother were Rosies. I feel for Basilone ... my Italian-American father-in-law was War Dept.
Another good war flick is "We Were Soldiers," which is about the Battle of Ia Drang, Vietnam 1965. It is pretty close to what actually happened in that battle and all characters are actual people that participated in the battle.
Bonsai charges had worked well for the Japanese when fighting against the Chinese or British in Asia. Great Britian was more concerned with the European theater.
The Japanese believed the Americans were afraid of the dark. They underestimated the fighting ability of the American soldier and American weapons. For example the 37mm anti-tank/anti-personnel weapon would kill dozen of Japanese soldiers with one blast. If you underestimate your enemy you are going to get your butt kicked.
The word's "Banzai" not "bonsai" ❤
Larissa, to answer your question about the Japanese tactics it is important to understand their culture and mindset. Soldiers were trained with the code of bushito...code of the warrior.,..the old samurai code. Dying for the Emperor was the greatest joy a soldier could have. They believed the Japanese soldier was the best in the world and through his bravery they would over come any enemy. Their strategy was effective as they defeated the mighty British in Singapore and crushed the Americans at Pearl Harbor. In essence the Japanese saw themselves as superior to all other races and were destined to rule the world. It was in many ways a death cult. We see a similar thing today.
The show pulls scenes directly from eugene sledge's and robert leckie's memoirs
The Japanese had used massed frontal attacks with success in China during the 1930s. They continued to use them in early WWII. Later the Banzai attacks (Shattered Jewels, honorable suicide) were used when it was deemed that all hope in battle was lost.
The Japanese forces also wanted to attack with heavy artillery and tanks, but advancing through the jungle was difficult.
A way to bypass the jungle was done in the Battle of Edson Ridge, but it failed due to lack of coordination.
Therefore, they used tanks and heavy artillery as a decoys.
The results are as you can see.
One of the best series out there
Guadalcanal was the true turning point of the Pacific War, and probably the last chance the Japanese had to achieve a negotiated settlement that they initially wanted. At the end of the campaign, most of our pre-war navy that wasn’t sunk at Pearl Harbor was either in the yards or littering the bottoms around Savo Island. So desperate was the US Navy for ships we had to borrow a carrier from the Royal Navy and there wasn’t another major fleet engagement until June 1944.
The troops holding Henderson Field were subject to Japanese army artillery, bombing and strafing by their air force, and shelling from ships.
Those mass (banzai) charges were one of the masin reasons the US Marines were able to hold on to Henderson Field. It was a costly tactical error by Japan.
The reason for the password is simple. It's for their safety.
These guys are tired, sleepy, sick, thirsty, hungry and the sun is cooking them alive. There's trees, high grass, smoke preventing them from seeing. One of them spots somebody at a distance. Somebody with a helmet, uniform and a rifle, but he can't tell which type. So he yells "Password". If that person doesn't responde they will shoot him. You can't let somebody come right at you until you have visual confirmation on who he is. They would get slauthered if they did.
The best password to choose is something that a Japanese person can't say even if he knows it.
Something with a lot of "R's" would be my choice 😅.
Something like "Herrera".
The Japanese did not go to France in 1918. We did, and we learned about the power of machine guns and barbed wire. The Japanese tactics were simply obsolete. They did train for night fighting (as did their navy) and so used that as much as they could.
"Why do they have this little ammo ?" Remember they only have what was unloaded on the beach, and the Navy pulled out before the unloading was done. Of course the Navy came back in strength, but for a while the Marines had to fight with what they had with no way to get more, and no way to get off the island. so things got pretty desperate.
On another question that's been raised in the comments : the Pacific was actually two theaters. The Southwest Pacific was commanded by General MacArthur and most Army troops were assigned there (along with Australians). The Central Pacific was commanded by Admiral Nimitz and for the first two years or so most of the ground fighting was done by Marines (although Army troops did fight on Guadalcanal). Also this series is based on memoirs written by Marines, especially Leckie and Sledge) so of course the series emphasizes them.
There was nothing Wrong with the Peach's, It's that they have not been Eating Very Much and there Systems could not Handle them
This tactic of charging the enemy, worked in china, where the armies of the different warlords were often ill equipped and the morale low. The japanese bombarded the area and charged, routing the chinese. They won a lot of times with low casualties. So, with the experience of success, they did the same with the americans. And failed. But generals are often slow to adapt to new tactics, if they got promoted because of nobility or other relationships and not skill. And so they continued this outdated medieval frontal assault. Like many generals the european and american armies, too. The greeks were famous for singing, while charging north korean and chinese positions in frontal assaults. The russians wasted 10 million men in frontal assaults during WWII. The chinese wasted almost as many as the russians.
Well, the russians still do it like that.
I know it seems like the Japanese troops are just running to their certain deaths, but you have to think about the entire situation. Remember the US marines just landed on the beach and their ships were destroyed. They have nowhere to run and no backup and are completely surrounded in enemy territory. They know help will be coming for the US troops eventually, but if they are defeated now they will be nearly completely wiped out. Also this is the first real offensive the US has made against the Japanese and one of the first times the Japanese have fought against a crack company of marines, so they probably were not expecting such a tenacious defense.
They’re starving. Sudden high sugar intake will cause a ‘kickback’ from the stomach. Kinda when you eat carb after a month of keto diet… happened to me
You must watch Hacksaw Ridge as you watch the last 2 episodes of the Pacific. Hacksaw Ridge is about Desmond Doss, the only man awarded the Medal of Honor who did not fire a single shot. Hacksaw Ridge takes place on Okinawa, the longest and bloodiest battle of the war against Japan.
Hacksaw Ridge is a horrible piece of crap movie. Just watch The Pacific.
@@Theakker3BAccording to who, you? It's rated 8.1 on IMDb and 84% on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is not historically accurate because no one would believe the real story of Desmond Doss. Mel Gibson had to leave out much of what Doss did because his story is so incredible. Let me take a wild guess. You don't like the film because it's based on a man with very deep religious beliefs; i.e., a devout Christian. EVERYONE and I do mean EVERYONE who has watched this film has been left speechless with emotion. So I'll ask, who died and made you God?
@@mikealvarez2322 It's not historically accurate because no one would believe the story of Desmond Doss? According to who, you? That's ridiculous. Any story can be done well, but Hacksaw Ridge is a bombastic, over-the-top, action-extravaganza that depicts combat in the most cartoonish way. Mel Gibson is a lunatic who loves violence. The combat is so over-done it just becomes stupid. And for a film about a pacificist, the movie sure does stray away from his story just to focus on the ultra-ridiculous battle scenes.
@@Theakker3B You are entitled to your opinions but not your own facts. I've watched the documentaries where Doss's fellow soldiers speak of his heroism. He earned two bronze stars with a V for valor at Guam and the Philippine campaign. To add icing on the cake, I met a man at Sam's club who fought at Guam, the Philippines, and Okinawa. I asked him if he ever heard of Desmond Doss. His answer, everyone who fought there heard of Doss. So as for the over the top scenes in the movie, my main objection was how flame throwers are used. As for the gruesome battle scenes, excluding the flame throwers, they are as close to real as they come.
@@Theakker3BHere are some facts about the battle for Hacksaw:
1. The battle took place over 11 days with heavy casualties on both sides
2. It took place on the 400 ft. Maedas Escarpment.
3. Approximately 2,500 Americans lost their lives and 5,000 Japanese soldiers.
4. Doss was the only one left on Hacksaw saving Americans and treating Japanese wounded. He even lowered some Japanese soldiers ACCORDING TO US MILITARY RECORDS.
What are the FACTS you have to support your opinion.
When one's stomach is mainky emoty from not properly easting snd he drinks sweet juice of peaches or tother ruits he will vomit.
C'mon man use the speller you sound like a freaking 2nd grader just learning to spell it's not that hard, just take a moment to proofread, holy crap.
Note the events on Guadalcanal would have been taking place the year before the training part in episode 1 of Band of Brothers and several months after the victory at Midway.
I mean it's like my granfather and great uncle finished Vietnam War came home and my great uncle ended up getting ran over by a drunk woman the day after they finally got home ...u never know when u Goin to go or how
As far as I understand the Japanese were kind of like religious nuts(nothing against believers) with a very strong and strict honour code, being captured or surrendering was not an option for a lot of them, your either won or you died trying, banzai charges was a thing, they even used suicide pilots(kamikaze) to fly aircraft into warships.
It wasn't unusual for servicemen to take in stray dogs. Petting a dog can reduce stress for some people.
My last statement was supposed to be a response to Theakker3B.
These are real stories. Of real people. Sledge. there all based on real people
Another good and true movie you should watch about WW2 in the pacific is Windtalkers.
Sunscribed, you are a jem!
Larissa, don't listen to the person that wrote, "Hacksaw Ridge is crap." Read my reply to him. Ask anyone who has seen the movie what they think. It's rated 8.1 on IMDb and 84% Rotten Tomatoes. It's a great movie and tells the story of a very unique human being.
Read my replies to him as well, Larissa.
Non of them are Heroes as you will learn. The heroes are there dead buddies. They never wanted to be called Heroes when they got back State side
Do you realize how arrogant you come across. Larissa is probably the most intelligent person doing these reactions. She not only knew about the battle of Yorktown but was within a year of date when it was fought and she is not even an American. That impressed me to no end. I wish my fellow Americans had half her knowledge. I'm willing to bet she knows a hell of a lot more about the US than you know about the Netherlands.
Larissa, your picture is way to big relative to the actual content.
Also, lose the nasil fixture, its completely useless and irritating.
Personally, I enjoyed The Pacific more than Band of Brothers. Semper Fi.