The Pacific Part Three 'Melbourne' First Time Watching! TV Reaction!!
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- The Pacific | Part Three - Melbourne
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An interesting episode that steps back from the war! Even removed from battle, the Marines lives are pulled in different directions!
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_Band of Brothers_ was based on Steven Ambrose's book about E Company, so it was a story about a group of men going through the war together. Hanks & Spielberg didn't have an equivalent for _The Pacific,_ so they used several memoirs, and wove them together. I'm not sure if Leckie, Sledge, Basilone, etc. were ever all in the same place at the same time, or even _knew_ each other.
The marines victory at Guadalcanal literally saved Australia from Japanese invasion. Aussies were so grateful.
thank god america helped us in that war
I still think that The Aussie’s would have had a good plan to deal with the Japanese if worst case scenario of Invasion would happen. Just pull everything to the south and let them trek through the outback with a Scorched earth policy on top of that.
It definitely made the difference, think Aus would have beat them though if they invaded
@@Residentanimalz The problem is at what cost? Last I checked most of the Australian population live near the coast so it would be putting them in the line of fire with few places they could go... They just cant ship everyone inland as we could in the US because at the time they didn't have the basic infrastructure needed to keep that many people alive in the more barren parts...
@@Residentanimalz The Japanese were just a different breed back then. Australia had the support of the Royal Navy but given that Britain was fighting in all Fronts with its navy to protect itself and its colonies, I doubt they could’ve held off The Imperial Japanese Navy without US support.
Most if not all of the Japanese Army were also battle hardened from their war in China, so a ground invasion of Australia would’ve been costly but they would’ve taken most the of populated centers.
I hope you guys know that Chesty Puller is a legend in Marine Corps history just as Basilone is. This series is what made me join. Glad to see your reactions!
@Ramen My Grandfather fought under Chesty in Japan and when he became a Gunny in Korea he served directly beneath Chesty (Who was now promoted). We have a framed photo of Chesty Puller signed with a note to my Grandpa wishing him well on retirement. - We also have a first edition of Chesty's book that is signed and noted personally to my grandfather. First Sgt. John "Striker" Laneski.
He didn't fight in ww1 he was fighting in the Banana wars. He fought in the banana wars which started in 1898 and ended in 1934. Then he fought in ww2 and Korea. 5 Navy crosses throughout his career.
Yeah, the Medal of Honor is rare. The Medal of Honor being awarded to someone that is still alive is VERY rare. It is complicated because often the men awarded the Medal of Honor are so severely damaged that they can't go back into combat. There are exceptions.
The Congressional Medal of Honor. Not that there's a different Medal of Honor.
13:02 - "I hope nothing goes bad." 13:15 - "That could not have gone worse." lol
They basically wanted John back stateside as PR to raise War Bonds to help fund the war effort. Same thing they did with the Marines and Sailor in the famous Iwo Jima photograph from "Flags of Our Fathers."
His name should be John "Badass" Basilone. He is a true American hero. Men like him should be who our children look up to. He is the epitome of Duty, Honor, Courage.
I would like to wholeheartedly agree with that comment about John Basilone. I put him up there with Sergeant York and Audie Murphy. Truly fascinating individuals, all " American Heroes", each in their own way. I recommend reading up on John Basilone, or the other two as well.
@@slayre I know of York and Murphy and they too are in the category of Great American Heroes. These are exemplary individuals and should be honored every day by our citizens. Every day I honor all my military brethren for their unselfish service to this great nation we live in.
The scabs were not just from walking. It was cause they were issued new boots before the march and the boots were of terrible quality.
Dang! I would be excited for new gear but didn’t think about poor quality or breaking them in!
Yeah. Marines tended to wear softer footwear than army soldiers, and the new boots they were issued were way harder than what they were used to (and as you say, not broken in!). Many of the men were pretty much incapacitated after the march, so the higher-ups made sure that they didn't make that mistake again!
@@Daveyboy100880 no I specifically remember that the boots were poorly and locally.
@5:53 Chesty is known as "the marines, Marine" he served liquor to the men on the frontline at frozen chosen during the Korean war when they were completely surrounded and cut off from Chinese troops. one phrase he called the men under his command "old man" when addressing them at times. even found a private once asleep while on guard duty and had every right as a officer to throw him in the brig or worse and he didn't, showing compassion in a position where sternness and no mercy for mistakes is expected. Truly and outstanding leader and earned the status of a legend in the USMC that anyone would follow into hell and back. There is a book that on the "jocko podcast" here on RUclips they covered a auto biography of Chesty Puller and his experiences and the things he did in the marines, that podcast left me speechless and in aw of chesty. Love the reactions to band of brothers and loving the Pacific reactions as well. Can't wait for the next one!
Great reaction here and on Patreon. Did you notice that when John Basilone was wearing the Medal of Honor the general who bestowed it on him saluted him first? It’s a tradition that all salute the MOH recipient first, even those who outrank him.
Hoosier with the blanket, went to sleep because he had malaria. Out of its 16,000 men, 8,500 of the First Marine Division had malaria, dysentery and hepatitis after leaving Guadalcanal. They needed rest and rebuilding. That 100 mile March was miserable because they had new boots which killed their feet.
Ooo wow I didn’t notice but that is super fascinating! Thanks for letting us know all this great information!
Similar thing happened in England with American soldiers , I remember a julie Andrews movie ( the Americanisation of Emily) black and white 60s. Most Australian troops were in north Africa or Sicily and Italy, or on the islands near Australia
Not quite correct.
Australians didn't serve in the Sicily and Italy campaigns, although New Zealanders did. But you're fundamentally correct: the war against Japan caught Australia with its pants down and most of the Australian army halfway across the world, playing quite a crucial role in the desert war in North Africa.
That was Chesty Puller who awarded John Basilone with the Medal of Honor. He was every Marine's Marine, all his men and every Marine since then looks up to Chesty as a Legend, not only because of his leadership and exploits, but because he was both an enlisted and commissioned officer, what Marines call a Mustang. He cared more about his Marines and them getting the job done more than how they looked. Chesty is the most decorated Marine ever, served in 4 wars. He once said "Take me to the brig, I want to see the real Marines." Of course he was never gonna chew out John Basilone.
Enjoy this episode. It's going to get darker and more brutal from here on out.
I was afraid of that!
That’s putting it lightly
@@TBRSchmitt the first 2 episodes were light hearted compared to what’s coming
Especially for sledge and ack ack on Okinawa. Not to mention basilone on iwo jima
If anybody didn't know this. The actor who plays Gibson, the guy who shoots the cow form the train, is Australian....No reason told, just felt like sharing that.
Hahaha thanks though!
Most of the actors are actually Australian, mainly bc the entire series was shot there.
@@Perfectly_Cromulent351 You don't find many ww2 movies or series where Americans are played by actual Americans.
@@zachbocchino5501 Saving Private Ryan, Hacksaw Ridge, Flags of Our Fathers, Midway (1976), etc
@@NguyenMinh-vs1vm there’s about 2 Americans in hacksaw ridge ffs , would have taken you 2 minutes to look at the cast
I few years ago I took a 3 hour walk every day for 8 months straight, never a day off. I can attest to the blistering :). Although any small pain quickly went away when walking, from I'm guessing overwhelming the nerves, any big pain or new pain I found Vaseline worked for me.
Dang that’s a cool commitment and goal! Any specific reason why?!
When I was in basic training I got a pretty bad blister in my right heel. My drill Sgt gave me some pantyhose to put on under my socks, which kept the friction from being too bad. It really helped & I used it when I would do road marches with friends later on, when I was at my permanent duty station.
I really enjoy your guys' reactions on everything.
Keep em commin
Awesome! Thanks so much for the support!
John basilone got that Medal of Honor because he had 37 confirmed kills that night at Guadalcanal....
The arena is called the Melbourne Cricket Ground or MCG for short, a 100k seat stadium still very much in use today. Hosted the 1956 Olympic Games.
I love this episode, one of my favorite from BoB and the Pacific. I feel BoB missed out on this aspect; being "dropped into heaven" yet their own Sword of Damocles, their inevitable return to battle, is always forefront in their mind. A war series doesn't need to always be episodes of training, battle, battle, battle.
More of Basilone's story is coming later in the series. This episode was an emotional breather before the dark & intense ones coming up next.
It is much better to use a Medal of Honor winner as a fundraiser. The home front likes to see valiant heroes. On the other hand, you make a big deal out of a Medal of Honor winner, and then he gets killed in the next meatgrinder, it is a morale killer.
Exactly correct.
John Basilone wasn't actually awarded his Medal of Honor at the MCG. The ceremony was held at Balcombe Camp Mount Martha at what is now an oval where kid's play sport about 5 minutes from my house.
John Basilone was almost ashamed of receiving the Medal of Honor. He said that there were plenty of guys that did the same as he did and that you fight to survive. There were a lot of guys that did not survive. He was just lucky, that's all. He did NOT want to be Stateside! He wanted to remain with his unit!
its interesting to note that the Maires and the US were seen as hero's not only for fighting the Japanese but the JP empire had a hold on the Indonesian island chain and was actually bombing northern Australia. Just a little tidbit of the war not many people know, the aussies hated the Japanese as much as the US
The Medal of Honor is so rare that it would be common to sort of protect living recipients from being killed in further combat, but in this case there was also truly a need to put a face to the war to raise money. It is so difficult to earn this medal that roughly 60% of all Medals of Honor are awarded posthumously. In other words, more of then than not, you literally die in the process of qualifying for it. How rare is it? Consider that the United States has been in almost perpetual war since 1941 (WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Somalia, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc), and yet there are only 70 people alive today who have earned the medal.
Great Video! Can't wait for you guys to see more of Eugene's story
Can't wait for the next one, love your reactions. Keep it up
This actually watered down what John Basilone did in combat on Guadalcanal. When he was fighting with those third degree burns on his arms, it went on and on and on for two days, and out of the two machine sections he led, only he and two other Marines survived. The main road at the Marine base at Camp Pendleton in California is named Basilone Road in his honor.
They were stationed at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Looks completely different today.
They tried to show how we felt about the American soldiers in Australia and there were a lot of brawls. There was the Battle of Brisbane were civilians and Australian soldiers attacked US military personal over multiple disputes (US soldiers were given preferential treatment, PDA was offensive at the time, differences in pay, and, ironically, views on race). Our soldiers didn't like how the US military treated African American soldiers at the time. There was even a story where the US had a game of Baseball or Basketball between the Black and White soldiers and all the Aussies rocked up to support the Black soldiers.
I don’t know about that but I think they just can’t get along but many young Australians never knew this tho imma have to look it up
Being host to one of the 4 Grand Slam tennis tournaments in the world Melbourne had a lot of tennis balls, and many Aussie women wrote their phone numbers on or put hotel keys inside a tennis ball and threw it onto the visiting US ship.
Great watch guys, i watched some of the filming of this from my work in melb, it was pretty great!
This episode is a welcome relief from things to come...
Dang...
Thanks guys
No talk shows back then but troops sent home for the war bond effort did speak in front of very large crowds in stadiums, theaters & such.
Such a good series
Yeah we love it so far!
The purpose of selling war bonds wasn't actually to pay for the war. Then as now, the government creates the money it spends as it spends it, through the Federal Reserve. It's just a matter of putting numbers into the accounts. But because much of the economy was turned over to war production, while employment and wages were at an all time high, there was a need to soak up people's excess income while goods for the home front were scarce so as to hold down inflation. So selling government bonds encouraged people to save that money rather than trying to spend it and driving up prices in such a way that war production and people's lives would have been affected. The alternative would have been to raise income tax on low and average incomes, which would have been more unpopular and might have stimulated strikes and other work stoppages. The war spending was creating a lopsided and delayed boom which had to be managed to keep the war effort running smoothly.
Jon Seda (Sgt. Basilone) has been in a few HBO movies and series. He was also in Oz, which you should check out. Think that was one of HBO’s first real dramatic series.
He was a jerk of an internal affairs investigator in an episode of the Hawaii 50 reboot. Great show
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”.
I'll take care of my men first. Frozen troops can't fight. If we run out of ammunition, we'll go to the bayonet.
"I want you to do one thing for me - write your people back home and tell 'em there's one hell of a damned war on out here, and that the raggedy-tailed North Koreans have been whipping a lot of so-called good American troops, and may do it again. Tell 'em there's no secret weapon for our country but to get hard, to get in there and fight.
I want you to make 'em understand: Our country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any America - because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race".
When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written
the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22
enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty
ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the
process. An enemy division is 16500+ men while a Marine division is 12500 men.
“There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go”
Chesty Puller was a hell of a man...
Not sure why.
But a lot of Aussie's pronounce Melbourne as Mell-ben.
The word, Australia we pronounce as Aus-straya.
Canberra sounds like Can-Bear-A.
Cut words in half or shorten them or give an object or location a nick names.
Etc.
American / Canada?
Let's go to the gas station and swing by MacDonald's and get some food. And on the way home let's stop by Trevor's place. Ok?
Australian/ New Zealand?
Lets head to the servo and swing by Macca's for a feed.
We should stop by Trevor's place if he's home.
Yeah? Nah?
In the last 150 years, since the inception of the Medal of Honor as an award, only 3,500 have ever been awarded! Many recipients are awarded the medal only after they've died as the effort took their lives.
The next one to get it should be Donald Trump
Next episode you'll meet gunny Haines. Looking forward to that!
You guys should watch flags of our fathers
Marines are perpetually hungover. That's why they're always angry, rough & tough.
Semper Fi.
In Leckies book the story of Stella plays out so diffrent she was actually married.
His feet were a mess, due to the footwear!! The Marines were trying out Aussie footwear! As you see, it did NOT go well. The LARGE circles on the "Brig fatigues" are targets for the guards, in case of escape.
In that year in Australia there was a lot of babies making 😂
In keeping with the ww2 theme, you guys could do "the great war of archimedes" featuring the terrifying yamato
I would like to recommend a movie. Lilya 4-Ever, loosely based on a true story and it will affect you. If you absolutely can't find it on any site, it is free on RUclips but then it is in 480p, but it is pretty ok.
The boots that they were issued weren't for the US military. That was the first and last time they issued them
you don't expected what happened with the next episodes
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@@JakeM794 I remember my mom showing me this movie
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Where are you watching this to get these intros. My DVD set doesn't have them at the start of the episodes.
HBO Max!
@@samantha_schmitt nice
Love your guys content, was wondering if you could watch the movie true romance, it’s an excellent movie written by tarentino
When you get a chance you should react to “Generation Kill” it is an HBO miniseries that follows the Marine Recon unit during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
I guess the real story about the girl is. He slept over there a few times and he did like her but when they broke up he wasnt all that hurt about it. Doesn't make for good show drama
The conflict between the Australian and US troops in this episode is actually underplayed, tbh - Australian soldiers HATED the Americans. US troops were always much more well-paid and better supplied than Australians (not to mention, much more exotic and worldly) so Australian women would practically throw themselves at the Americans. Naturally, this didn't go down too well with Australian men.
Fun fact: the tension between American and Australian soldiers got so bad at one point that a full-blown riot broke out in Queen Street Mall one night, resulting in 1 man dead and hundreds of soldiers wounded. Allegedly, the brawling was so bad that the entire 500m stretch of the promenade was filled, standing-room only, with soldiers assaulting each other. It became known as "The Battle of Brisbane" and for obvious reasons, it's not something that either government is very fond of remembering.
Every American serviceman or servicewoman must salute the U.S. President since POTUS out-ranks everyone as Commander-in-Chief. However, all military personnel (including the President!) are encouraged** to instead salute Medal of Honor winners! **I believe the US Air Force requires it, and the other branches only encourage it, but I could be wrong
Read about Chesty, read about John. Read about the Marines in the Pacific.
Just from walking? Someone never did walk/run more than 20 miles.
Watch Alien movies and predator movies oh and alien vs predator
I'm Australian...and that episode was laughable :) I mean, a conservative Greek family (at that time especially) and their daughter brings home a US solider she's only just met and sleeps with him with the parents in the next room, hahahahaaa.......yeah, and Eisenhower was a gay Egyptian belly dancer
But was a very important storyline to summarise the experiences and issues of the people there at the time. Shows the highs and lows in one go even if it is made up.
I just got done with this series a while ago and it goes to a dark depressing place
I’m sure it will be a realistic viewpoint of the effects of war
Seeing the bar fight reminds me of what my father (I'm a Brit by the way) had told me was said about the American soldiers when they were in the UK, which was, "Over paid, over sexed and over here!" This tends to sum up how some Australians felt as well.
Envy is a character weakness.
Can you guys please react to Lovecraft Country?
Thanks for the suggestion! We have not seen that yet but it looks great!
Schindlers list please 😊😊👌
You two totally screwed it up
The Pacific is mediocre compared to Band of Brothers
Read up on Chesty Puller (William Sandler’s character) when you get the chance. He’s an absolute legend in the Marine Corps.