The show did a good job but not a perfect retelling, for the sake of making an entertaining show but still conveying the point. I think they did as well as they could have. Private First Class Nash Philips, who had his hand blown off during the fight and was one of the three surviving Marines of this battle, had this to say when Basilone visited him while he was in the infirmary, “Basilone had a machine gun on the go for three days and nights without sleep, rest or food. He was barefooted and his eyes were red as fire. His face was dirty black from gunfire and lack of sleep. His shirt sleeves were rolled up to his shoulders. He had a .45 tucked into the waistband of his trousers.” I think if you've seen the show without knowing, you'd expect that they might have exaggerated these kinds of things. The fact is, they couldn't exaggerate this one because they simply didn't have enough bodies or time to show the battle. All day and night, raining the whole way through, these Marines held their ground, bled and died on that hill. Sgt. Basilone and his two machine gun sections were tasked with guarding a flank for an airfield the Marines had captured and named Henderson airfield. Basilone's area was expecting minimal resistance, perhaps a passing Jap patrol or two, and were supplied with that expectation. A Japanese regiment of 2-3000 men were expected via intelligence to be hitting the airfield and the 1st Marine Division directly from the front. Instead, the entirety of that regiment directly hit the flank that Basilone and his men were guarding. At the time then Sergeant Basilone and his machine gun sections came under extremely heavy fire. Heavy machine guns, mortars, grenade attacks, and banzai charges. There was non stop firing for almost the entire battle. Sgt Basilone made repeat 200 yard sprints, carrying almost a hundred pounds of ammo and machine gun between the sections to keep them firing. He even broke one of them down and fixed a major malfunction while under fire. Massive amounts of ammunition were expended and fighting came hand to hand on numerous occasions. Marines were literally shooting the Japanese with their .45s and stabbing them with bayonets and KABARs when ammo ran dry on their primary weapons. Sgt Basilone set up a crossfire of the two sections and absolutely ripped everything that came in-between to shreds. Machine gunners at the time had special gloves, like oven mitts, to pick the gun up by the barrel to move it. Well, unfortunately Basilone's mitt was lost during the fight. He had to pick the gun up bare handed. & he burnt his hand all the way to the fucking bone shooting Japanese on the run between the sections. Eventually one of the two machine gun sections were completely overran, and the men there were killed. After two days of fighting, and holding off an entire Japanese regiment, eventually even a Jap Colonel himself led a banzai charge, was shot up, crawled up to their position, and was shredded. By the time the fighting was done, Sgt Basilone and two more Marines were the only ones left standing. Sgt. Basilone's hand was charred. His face was black with powder from firing his machine gun. Some of us have had a long day at the range and shot hundreds of rounds of ammo. It takes a ton of rounds to just get your hands a little blackened with soot/powder. You have to think how many thousands of rounds were sent downrange into the enemy those days to blacken his face. Keep in mind the men fighting this battle were running off terrible C-Rations and most were sick with malaria and other jungle plights. A pile of dead Japanese stacked several feet high lay in and around their fighting positions. They had been using their bodies to make bridges over the barbed wire at the American position. Hundreds of yards out, their bodies were strewn and torn apart. They had to bring in a fucking bulldozer to dig a pit and shove them all in. Nobody got an official count but it was described as "hundreds" of dead Japanese. Basilone "officially" was confirmed with killing 38 Japanese with his machine gun and his pistol. Obviously he got the Medal of Honor. He had this to say, “Only part of this medal belongs to me. Pieces of it belong to the boys who are still on Guadalcanal. It was rough as hell down there.” Rough as hell is probably the biggest understatement of all time. With his new fame, the military used him to sell war bonds to fund the war. He could have lived out his days in the US in safety. Hard to believe for most people but he wanted nothing more than to go back to war. You have to think though, how can a man like that live amongst civilized people after the things he did and saw. Besides being a human he shared nothing in common with regular folk anymore. He was a warrior through and through. He was offered a commision and denied it. He requested to go back, and was denied multiple times. Eventually they accepted his request. So he went back. He landed on Iwo Jima with his fresh unit, now as a Gunnery Sergeant. His men were struggling to get off the beach and were getting ripped up. He said fuck it, and went up himself and charged a Japanese blockhouse (think pillbox but bigger , reinforced concrete). He tossed grenades and explosives inside and blew it apart by himself. He went back to the beach, guided a stuck tank through a minefield, and then was killed. Either by artillery fire or small arms fire. They aren't sure. He was awarded the Navy Cross. Today, Marine recruits during the crucible event have an event called Basilone's Challenge. They have to run their gear and heavy ammo cans full of sand and rocks up and down a steep hill on Camp Pendleton repeatedly in his honor. It's generally regarded as one of if not the suckiest events of the crucible, and it's only maybe a few hours. Basilone did it for days and worse.
@@danielesti not bullshit all the men in his section that lived attested to Basilone’s actions during the battle. And for Lieutenant General chesty fucking puller who was awarded 5 navy crosses in his own right to personally give his recommendation for Gunnery Sgt basilone. I think that says enough.
My dad was there. 1st D raiders. The story's he told my 5 brothers and I'll never forget them . I still have his Kbar from then and his flag with 48 stars 🌟
I think whoever said “whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword has obviously never encountered automatic fire” was referring to this lone machine gunner
I think whoever said “I think whoever said “whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword has obviously never encountered automatic fire” was referring to this lone machine gunner” was referring to this video about a lone machine gunner.
During a demonstration for the US Army in 1917, Browning's M1917 fired 20,000 rounds with only a few malfunctions that were attributed to low-quality ammunition belts. To drive home its reliability, Browning continued firing until breaking the sear in the trigger group, which occurred at around 39,500 rounds fired (including the initial 20,000). While the Army Ordnance Board was impressed, they were skeptical that this kind of reliability was repeatable across multiple units. Browning then produced a second M1917, which when continuously fed with ammunition, fired non-stop for 48 minutes, 12 seconds (21,000+ rounds).
JMB was a genius. In reality for me, my 1911 cal.45 has never malfunctioned. It can be completely disassembled and reassembled using only a cartridge case.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe when the British changed to NATO ammunition, they fired the rest of their stockpile of .303 British through a single Maxim gun that still met tolerance requirements after the test. About 500,000 rounds
@@jimzeez I doubt that... The British Army had a lot more .303 ammo that that in stock and a lot of operations like Cadet Forces which were still using .303 ammo even after the move to 7.62mm. However, in WW1 a MG platoon with four Vickers water-cooled machine-guns was tasked with providing continuous beaten-fire zone over No Mans Land in front of a trench line. The four guns fired over a million rounds of ammo in total in 24 hours with a supply company kept busy delivering ammo and cooling water to the platoon. The beaten-fire was kept up even as individual guns were taken out for cleaning, repairs, water jacket refills, crew changes etc.
@@robertsneddon731 I'd love to find the source of what I read so I could clarify the details of it more but that would take some time consuming digging. It may have just been the cache of just one base perhaps. I can't recall though
It's crazy because this was my grandparents generation. I used to talk to these men at the diner by Grandpa's house. 101st airborne, marine, cook who fought at the battle of the bulge, polish immigrant who fought in Korea. I wish I would have asked more questions.
@@mcbrians.8508 My Grandpa was in the OSS, his Oldest brother was an Army Cook in the battle of the bulge, the younger brother was in the Navy in WW2 and Marines in Korea, and the baby brother was in Korea! That was just in my family! The guys that my grandpa hung around with were WW2 and Korean vets. They were always talking, about basic training......jump school, how cold/shitty Europe was, how hot/shitty the Pacific was. They just used to shoot the shit and drink coffee at the diner. I live in Missouri, I am sure a lot of guys have stories of spending time with that generation. Some tough SOB's.
@@randomlyentertaining8287 True dat. These guys were old white hairs. I only had one conversation with my grandpa in the 8th grade about WWII and a few more with my dad with Vietnam. Respect. RIP CW Givens and GL Wideman US ARMY of ever honored memory.
@Billy Bodyslam Tough SOB's weren't they. Lots of them saw a lot of shit and death. They didn't appear to bring the negative things back with them. I always admired how unshakable their work ethic and resolve was.
1:37 “If you’ve ever picked up your machine gun after a belt dump, and had to peel your melted skin off of it, go ahead and hit that subscribe button.”
@Froggins Jacob The water was meant to cool the barrel and did to some degree, but, as with most “MilSpec” standards, what a thing is designed to do and what it actually DOES do are not always the same thing. I can assure you, those Browning M1917’s would and did cause 3rd degree burns to many a man who made direct contact with one after a belt dump like the one depicted in this scene.
The Japanese sure did love to charge machine guns. There are stories of men who handled Browning automatic rifles and when they were in really outnumbered fire fights they would discard the bi-pod and shoot one shot at a time. Otherwise it might just be banzai time. John is a legend. I once heard a story about him being the only survivor out of two mg teams that were Cross firing the enemy. John hacked his way back with a machete finding his line and asking for a spam sandwich. He ate that sandwich with blood splattered all over him including his hands.
According to the book, Basilone instructed others on effective machine-gun use, telling them to make sure to fire in bursts, rather that spraying all over the place like a garden hose.
These men who survived,lived with flashbacks for entire lives, eugene's wife was frightened to wake him from sleep,till a friend told her to whisper his name in his ear.first.
The one part where Gunny Haney was the Range Officer while the guys were getting in some target practice with the M1’s & 1911’s, after he ordered “Cease Fire” & then he observed the Lt not keeping the 1911 pointed down range he went over & reamed him a new one! We had something similar with an idiot at Range Qualification in civilian L.E., there was a bumble bee 🐝 flying around & he started swatting at it with the pistol in his hand. I hit the deck & the whole line looked like Dominos being knocked over as everyone else hit the deck as well! The Range Officer went over & grabbed him by the shirt collar & dragged his ass off the line & made him sit for the rest of the day. My Mom was a Former Marine, Parris Island 1955, then M.C.A.S. El Toro, ‘55-‘56. Semper Fi.
@@tieroneactual2228 great story. People can act crazy on a rifle or pistol range. People do not do it intentionally but just forget. Usually no 2nd chance. I was in the Marine Corps 5 Oct 73 to 4 Oct 77, was a Sgt when I was discharged. I'm sure you heard all the Marine Corps stories from your Mother. Stay safe and Semper Fi and greetings from Charleston West Virginia.
From a production standpoint, the lighting is just right. It allows everyone to see whats going on, and see the expressions of our Marines as they obliterate the Japanese troops. And honestly, the lighting and effects for the Japanese are quite well done too; we as the audience never see their faces clearly at all during the firefight, and instead we see the outline of them moving in with the intent to kill, which is all the Marines saw as they were in their positions.
@@apokos8871 No, but as someone who's seen and been at the limit of human endurance, you can better tell when someone is or isn't at the limit of their endurence, which the allegedly comfortable kids aren't. Also, understand that the kids would be asking pity and compassion because of slight lack of comfort to a person who sacrificed a lot more comfort and had to tough it out.
You stand no chance charging against MG's as long as your enemy got ammo's, the REAL thing in this scene was when he take his gun with his bare hand and get burned to help another position and when he go to the pile of corpses to clear the view, not the Japaneses that he kills and that anyone would have killed under the same conditions.
yes and no. there are a bunch of Victoria Crosses for charging and taking out machine gun nests. and some of these guys even survived and did it more than once. it was either great luck, mortar smoke cover, when air-cooled machine guns were changing barrels and a few that were moving to cover and using grenades to take it out the nest.
This single frame at 1:15 with the glint of a tear forming at his lower eyelid to me encapsulated so much of what war means. Horrifying beyond your wildest imaginations and a bone chilling, near physically disabling fear that you feel at the sight of such atrocities, and I mean the term generally speaking, that you can’t help but wonder nothing in your mind other than the horror that befalls your very eyes. There it is, the machine that churns death, and you watch as humanity falls before you. The first time I watched this episode I couldn’t sleep correctly that night.
I read that during the Winter War in 1939, between the Soviets and the Finns, some Finnish heavy MG gunners had to be relieved form the front lines after mowing down hundreds of Soviet troops charging them in human wave attacks. The Finns were brave, but the slaughter sicken them so much they couldn't stand to continue killing them like fish in a barrel.
My dad was there. All campaign. He was seventeen. He received 1 silverstar,2 two purple hearts, 1 Bronze Star , had had been bayonet through the side of his head, blown up with a hand grenade Left 4 dead they took down to the beach to send his body home a doctor double checked him over one more time because my dad was his Aid when he was in boot camp in San Diego. They offered him a field commission but he turned it down because he wanted to stay where he could help be the most effective helping the rest of his platoon. When he came back to the states after the war he married my mother for two years well they slept if he heard any gunfire or any car backing up tailpipes exploding he would sometimes jump out of bed get underneath the bed thinking he was in a foxhole. My mom who is still alive she's 95 she said few times I woke up with your dad's hands around my throat thinking she was a Japanese. I've got some great pictures of him while he was getting is silver star from an officer looks like a colonel in Bremerton he was 18 and a sergeant. Growing up we had no option but to do everything correctly. He ruled that house with a big heart and a solid fist. You never screw with his wife and you never ever screwed with his kids It was bad news for sure.PS my dad was also shoot 4 times. Lots of great story's. I was never told these story's I had to dig them out of him. God rest is soul.
Wow ! Thank you for sharing. Your father is a hero and a great man. A very different time compared to today. Its crazy to think that people all over the world just want to to prosper and have fulfilling lives but war yanks you to a distant land and whiteness atrocities that nobody else would understand unless they were there. If you survive, you come back with mental wounds that never heal.
I still can’t believe he just picked up that blazing hot gun barrel with his bare skin and didn’t immediately drop it out of sheer pain. I know it’s water cooled but that doesn’t mean they don’t get really fucking hot, it just means they don’t get hot enough to warp the barrel
That was a beauty of the M1917 a new ammunition belt could be hooked on to the end of the current ammunition belt so you did not have to reload With a water cooled barrel you could keep firing for hours
@@highspy6851 you should watch the series. He actually burned his arm because of that. I imagine that you wouldn't mind touching a hot rod in a situation like that because of adrenaline rush.
@@calvzkeith Idk how one could handle a a scorching hot barrel bare handed even under duress. Unless it's the arctic like Finland and a crew can dump snow and ice down the jacket, I'm not sure how one does that without making that hand a lot less useful after.
That guy was a total savage, he won a Medal of Honor for that too! Apparently he kept firing so long the skin on his hands peeled off due to heat from the GPMG, saved a lot of his battles' lives too.
That’s a Browning M1917. My father used the very same type in Korea - 1953..... in Precisely the same *type unit and rank as Sgt Basilone. No Bull shit. My father’s unit - 1st Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. Gunny Basilone (killed at Iwo Jima) was also 1st Marine Division, whose deeds, my father greatly admired.
The Page Squad Correct. I should’ve clarified.... I was stating my Father’s unit in the 1st Marine division and same unit (Type) within the 1st Division as Gunny Basilone.
It's a water cooled machine gun and the Japanese were given absolutely no respite by Basilone as there was really no need to change barrels. If it were an air cooled MG like today's versions or even the M1919A4, the Japanese relentless banzai charges would exploit that moment of barrel change to overwhelm the lines.
not exactly. both are limited by the lenght of ammo belt. m1919 have a much, much thicker, heavier barrel that could sustain heavy fire for brief period of time. modern gpmg have quick chnage barrels. every mg team have 2-3 spare barrels with them which means that for every belt there will be cool barrel
A water cooled MG is always going to completely outperform an air cooled version. The 1919A4 should change barrels every 200 rounds to conserve the life of the barrel and also to prevent failure in firing the weapon. As for the water cooled barrel, the weapon system can fire thousands of rounds because the barrel temperature hardly increases due to the water cooling. The only draw back is the requirement for the cumbersome water tank and tripod. Basilone however in this video did not connect the barrel to a water tank at times to get a better firing position or to move the MG to another location. That's where a support MG crew member will carry the necessary equipment to support the MG gunner to wherever he deploys and get him ready to throw lead down range as quickly as possible Given where the Japanese were absolutely relentless in their banzai attacks, they were waiting for a reload or a change of barrel to increase the tempo. But there wasn't because the gunner assistant can extend the belt of ammo easily and the water cooled machine gun wouldn't stop for a reload. If it were a 1919, there would be pauses of firing which the enemy will notice and they would conserve their attacks until that change of barrel to strike at their position with increased numbers and ferocity. Even with 2 barrels, they would have been red hot looking at how Basilone was firing and that would mean a much slower rpm of fire making the Americans position untenable under the ferocious ww1 style charges in waves and at night at close distances
@@ConstantineJoseph No. The 1919a4 barrel is not changed every 200 rounds. Hell, the standard ammo belt is 250 rnds. The heavy barrel of the a4 allows longer firing BUT burst fire is recommended. The mg42 and mg34 were the mgs that specified barrel change at 200-250 rnds but they had much thinner barrels and were quick change type.
kirk stinson the burst fire is not going to save you in Basilone's situation. Despite how much you defend the 1919's sustainability, it has to change barrels every few hundred rounds. In no time both barrels would be red hot and you are going to experience jamming which is a death sentence. What some last ditch measure are, is to have the assistant gunner urinate on the barrels and this happens very often in really terrible firefights that meant life or death. Eg. Monte Cassini etc... the amount of danger these infantrymen faced in WW2 is unheard of to modern experts. So Basilone definitely had the right weapon to Ensure continuous fire to decimate wave upon wave of Japanese charges at close range in the night.
The makers of 'The Pacific' had condense a night's fighting into a five minute sequence, so important details of machine gun operation were omitted. On one of the three trips John Basilone made for more ammo he also brought back water to cool the machine gun barrels. At one stage he did tell his squad to use their urine if they had no water. When he went with one of his to find out why the right machine gun emplacement was silent, he repaired the guns and about every fifteen minutes switched from one gun to another, while the other Marine cleaned any mud of the ammo and reloaded the guns. These details all come from various books on Guadalcanal or John Basilone.
Una de las escenas más impactantes de esta serie en recrear una de las batallas más feroces de la segunda guerra en el frente del Pacífico. Naciendo así la leyenda del sargento John "Manila" Basilone.
Impossible to tell if this guys vids are genuine or just fan made edits, he always kills that many people, haha. Also, just realised the only reason he repositions at the end is because the mound of bodies is so tall he can no longer see over it.
This video actually cuts out the middle part when he's relocating to JP's section (curly haired man watching him in the end). Carrying the 200 degree F (95 C) machine gun barehanded running through the dark jungle, bumps into some of the enemy and hip fires it in desperation. Even then it's truncated because in reality this battle took 3 days, he spent much of it dragging ammo to the line. The reality is crazier than the show in this case.
@A Pacifist Machine Gunner If we can no longer comprehend it them we are far more likely to repeat the mistakes. To pretend that society is completely different now to how it was then is arrogant in the extreme and does not acknowledge the fact that in every human there is the capacity for both great good and great evil. Times change, people don't.
By the time those Japanese made it through training they were basically brainwashed to be racist arrogant assholes who would've spat on Basilone and his friends and family. Japan was in a dark place leading up to that war, the whole society was militarized and harsh. Sad thing, that, because under other circumstances those chaps mostly would've been cool to drink a beer with.
If the Japanese had used Western infantry tactics, they'd have been unbeatable. Charging machine guns had been proved pointless and stupid in ww 1, a million times over. A lot of their weapons were actually quite useful and well suited to jungle warfare.
Overall Japanese fought well, but thing in island warfare is that on some point you will run out of supplies and you have 2 options, to surrender or do the last push and Japanese rather died on attack than surrendered.
well Id say thats a bit of a cultural and technological element to it. Japan was a pretty competent military power In Asia. When it came to western powers it still needed some time to actually refine those edges. Tank program was lacking, air program while decent was still pretty small, Ships took the priority but even then can't keep pace with the industrial might that was the US. Also since the oil embargo threatened to stall their campaign in China. They pretty much thought they either back down or fight it out. So obviously instead of waiting they decided to use what they had.
Its crazy some countries still use human wave tactics. Most recent I can think of was the Iran Iraq war. I'm not sure changing entrenched machine gun posistions has ever been successful.
I had someone tell me once “oh the marines only defeated the japanese on Guadalcanal because they had M1 rifles and the japanese were still using bolt actions. When I told him the marines were still being issued the 1903s Springfields (not even the 03A3 yet in most cases) and the older 1917 machine guns he started to stammer, and give me the “but but” treatment and “what aboutisms.” Kid firmly couldn’t grasp that the Japanese army had been defeated tactically at Guadalcanal and not just technologically.
@@mcbrians.8508 still gotta hand it to those marines. I was talking with a coworker several years ago at my old job. He was a Marine in Vietnam and survived the opening of the Tet offensive. We got to talking about this show and he told me he had to stop watching for a bit when this scene came up, he said he could feel that “animalistic” feeling he felt that he has the first night of the tet offensive. That was only the second time of the two times he talked about his service in vietnam. When he would meet other vietnam era vets he would always tell them he was a marine during the war but would never go into detail about it. The first time he told me about his time in country was during a long lull when we both worked Memorial Day, when we got to talking he told me he had joined up with two of his classmates when they graduated high school, and he was the only one that made it out of Vietnam alive. His enlistment ended not long after the tet offensive kicked off and they literally ripped him out of a foxhole, threw him on a truck and barely three days later was waking down loading ramp at an airport in California during a protest and got hit in the face with a used baby diaper. He and another coworker are some of the only two Vietnam era vets I have known that served in combat, and neither of them readily talked about their experiences outside of just the “yeah I was in during Vietnam” The other coworker was a navy surgical technician and his story was (and he never told me what year) but he was sorting supplies in the sick bay of his ship when his CO walked in, tossed him a bag and said, “grab your gear. Doctor at a Firebase has been killed and you’re up. You have 20 minutes.” A few hours later the chopper landed at the base, under VC mortar fire, and he was pushed out the helicopter and almost had a concussion.
Motivating! I can tell my heart beat changed after watching this scene. That must’ve been some sight…even after all the shit they’ve already experienced.
Those were Banzai charges, which were successful against Chinese troops with bolt action rifles. Thankfully for us, it didn't work out so well for them versus machine guns.
Not really. Banzai charges begun during battle of Saipan. In Guadal Canal, the Japanese troops charges in dense formation largely because of their ignorance about the Juggle terrain and also that the Japanese troops on the island was extremely hungry (literal means of it, Tokyo expresses only deliver men but not food, they ran out of food and start to eat American captives)
@@arbeiterz8491 Banzai charges were certainly a thing even before Guadalcanal. Matter of factly, large scale Banzai charges basically *ended* with what happened at the battle of Saipan since in that battle, they'd launched one with over 4,000 troops and eventually lost. They were completely banned by September of 1944 as well with the start of Peleliu and weren't used very much after that.
@@liltoaster7308 Nope it's not. Banzai charges happened mostly in Okinawa, and theres going to be more in Japan Island (good thing dropped the nukes). The early battles with elite Japanese divisions have no Banzai charges, it's just the Japanese troops were constantly in extremely bad conditions and ended up massed up all the coordination and seems like suicidal charges
@@arbeiterz8491 The Banzai charges on Okinawa we're mostly out of desperation since by this point they were using not only regular infantry, but Okinawans themselves and highschool age Japanese kids, fighting under the worst of conditions and lacking in ammunition, morale, food etc. Banzai charges were numerous at Guadalcanal, were (at least at first) the Japanese were relatively well supplied. At the same time, their were accounts of them happening with the Japanese garrison at Makin atoll in 1942, and at Bougainville and Cape Gloucester in 1943. The Japanese forces were as per usual without resupply and didn't hold much supremacy to any degree in these conflicts, but chose to use Banzai tactics anyway. At Peleliu however, the Premier of Japan ordered Kunio Nakagawa to specifically outlaw Banzai charges from occuring at all, and made it basically mandatory that either each Japanese troop kill at least 10 Americans, and If all else failed that they should kill themselves. This was also implemented on a larger scale at Iwo Jima, but a coordinated attack across one of the airfields on the island was considered a Banzai charge by some historians. By the time the allies reached Okinawa, the Japanese were both launching coordinated attacks were available and launching uncoordinated banzai suicide attacks when their supplies would run out. What you're saying isn't wrong however, as the scenario you presented mostly happened in Burma and to some degree in the Philippines.
That's an 1917 model Browning, which is water-cooled, using a jacket around the barrel like a Maxim gun. However, that doesn't mean it never gets hot. Water boils after sustained firing. The point is not to keep it completely cold (Therefore it would be like holding a freshly boiled kettle) but to keep the maximum temperature of the barrel around 100 degrees, so it'll never overheat. This means the barrel doesn't have to be changed in firefights, only when it's worn out from a high round count. The water does have to be frequently topped up during prolonged period of intense firing as it'll evaporate into steam, hence you will often see the hose venting into the can beside the gun (Not seen here as they aren't using it).
R.I.P TO THOSE WHO PERISHED ON BOTH SIDES,SOLDIERS WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRYS BELIEF REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY'VE FOUGHT FOR!! SOLDIERS PROTECTED THEIR LEADERS INTERESTS,THEY ARE HEROES @ THEIR OWN RIGHTS,TO COUNTRYS THEY BELONG!! THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN WAR ONLY LOST SOULS!!! GOD HAVE MERCY ON THEM AND THEIR VICTIMS UNDER THIS CIRCUMSTANCES! MAY GOD FORGIVE THEM WHO EVER WAS @ FAULT!!
What went through my my mind when I had M-240 Bravo firing. Also, look HBO, a night scene where we see what's actually happening....just like that battle of Black Water. GoT fan's never forget.
Imperial Japanese Army: “No! You can’t just render our banzai charge ineffective via sustained machine gun fire!” Basilone: “haha….M1917 Browning go rat-tat-tat-tat!”
Can we just talk for a sec how utterly fanatic the Japanese must have been to warrant this scenario? An average human being would look at a sight like 1:04, where you commrades are either falling like dominos or lying ripped to shreds by gunfire, and rather than doing literally any other sane thing (take cover, hit the deck, retreat), they instead kept charging? Absolute madmen...
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The show did a good job but not a perfect retelling, for the sake of making an entertaining show but still conveying the point. I think they did as well as they could have.
Private First Class Nash Philips, who had his hand blown off during the fight and was one of the three surviving Marines of this battle, had this to say when Basilone visited him while he was in the infirmary, “Basilone had a machine gun on the go for three days and nights without sleep, rest or food. He was barefooted and his eyes were red as fire. His face was dirty black from gunfire and lack of sleep. His shirt sleeves were rolled up to his shoulders. He had a .45 tucked into the waistband of his trousers.”
I think if you've seen the show without knowing, you'd expect that they might have exaggerated these kinds of things. The fact is, they couldn't exaggerate this one because they simply didn't have enough bodies or time to show the battle. All day and night, raining the whole way through, these Marines held their ground, bled and died on that hill.
Sgt. Basilone and his two machine gun sections were tasked with guarding a flank for an airfield the Marines had captured and named Henderson airfield. Basilone's area was expecting minimal resistance, perhaps a passing Jap patrol or two, and were supplied with that expectation.
A Japanese regiment of 2-3000 men were expected via intelligence to be hitting the airfield and the 1st Marine Division directly from the front. Instead, the entirety of that regiment directly hit the flank that Basilone and his men were guarding.
At the time then Sergeant Basilone and his machine gun sections came under extremely heavy fire. Heavy machine guns, mortars, grenade attacks, and banzai charges. There was non stop firing for almost the entire battle. Sgt Basilone made repeat 200 yard sprints, carrying almost a hundred pounds of ammo and machine gun between the sections to keep them firing. He even broke one of them down and fixed a major malfunction while under fire. Massive amounts of ammunition were expended and fighting came hand to hand on numerous occasions. Marines were literally shooting the Japanese with their .45s and stabbing them with bayonets and KABARs when ammo ran dry on their primary weapons. Sgt Basilone set up a crossfire of the two sections and absolutely ripped everything that came in-between to shreds.
Machine gunners at the time had special gloves, like oven mitts, to pick the gun up by the barrel to move it. Well, unfortunately Basilone's mitt was lost during the fight. He had to pick the gun up bare handed. & he burnt his hand all the way to the fucking bone shooting Japanese on the run between the sections.
Eventually one of the two machine gun sections were completely overran, and the men there were killed.
After two days of fighting, and holding off an entire Japanese regiment, eventually even a Jap Colonel himself led a banzai charge, was shot up, crawled up to their position, and was shredded.
By the time the fighting was done, Sgt Basilone and two more Marines were the only ones left standing.
Sgt. Basilone's hand was charred. His face was black with powder from firing his machine gun. Some of us have had a long day at the range and shot hundreds of rounds of ammo. It takes a ton of rounds to just get your hands a little blackened with soot/powder. You have to think how many thousands of rounds were sent downrange into the enemy those days to blacken his face.
Keep in mind the men fighting this battle were running off terrible C-Rations and most were sick with malaria and other jungle plights.
A pile of dead Japanese stacked several feet high lay in and around their fighting positions. They had been using their bodies to make bridges over the barbed wire at the American position. Hundreds of yards out, their bodies were strewn and torn apart. They had to bring in a fucking bulldozer to dig a pit and shove them all in. Nobody got an official count but it was described as "hundreds" of dead Japanese. Basilone "officially" was confirmed with killing 38 Japanese with his machine gun and his pistol.
Obviously he got the Medal of Honor. He had this to say, “Only part of this medal belongs to me. Pieces of it belong to the boys who are still on Guadalcanal. It was rough as hell down there.”
Rough as hell is probably the biggest understatement of all time.
With his new fame, the military used him to sell war bonds to fund the war. He could have lived out his days in the US in safety. Hard to believe for most people but he wanted nothing more than to go back to war. You have to think though, how can a man like that live amongst civilized people after the things he did and saw. Besides being a human he shared nothing in common with regular folk anymore. He was a warrior through and through. He was offered a commision and denied it. He requested to go back, and was denied multiple times. Eventually they accepted his request.
So he went back. He landed on Iwo Jima with his fresh unit, now as a Gunnery Sergeant. His men were struggling to get off the beach and were getting ripped up. He said fuck it, and went up himself and charged a Japanese blockhouse (think pillbox but bigger , reinforced concrete). He tossed grenades and explosives inside and blew it apart by himself. He went back to the beach, guided a stuck tank through a minefield, and then was killed. Either by artillery fire or small arms fire. They aren't sure. He was awarded the Navy Cross.
Today, Marine recruits during the crucible event have an event called Basilone's Challenge. They have to run their gear and heavy ammo cans full of sand and rocks up and down a steep hill on Camp Pendleton repeatedly in his honor. It's generally regarded as one of if not the suckiest events of the crucible, and it's only maybe a few hours. Basilone did it for days and worse.
That was a great read, thanks for taking the time to put that story down
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@@danielesti not bullshit all the men in his section that lived attested to Basilone’s actions during the battle. And for Lieutenant General chesty fucking puller who was awarded 5 navy crosses in his own right to personally give his recommendation for Gunnery Sgt basilone. I think that says enough.
You are correct. We had to sit and learn the story of Gysgt Basilone during the crucible. A true Marine Corps Legend. TEUFEL HUNDEN
@@Girard-it2wt my favorite event during the crucible. That night movement course was awesome
Japanese Infantry: Exists
Gunny Basilone: And I took that personally
It is literally Night and Day, take it from me.... I lived it.
That’s our OG captain America right there
Such a legend, and a great leader, all of them are heroes ❤
with an New Yorkers Accent
My dad was there. 1st D raiders. The story's he told my 5 brothers and I'll never forget them . I still have his Kbar from then and his flag with 48 stars 🌟
Did he fought in Makin?
@@mcbrians.8508 yes
@@patrickrose8903 lucky him. He didn’t get marooned like the others who got beheaded when the Japanese reinforcements arrived
My dad spoke about that.
I'd love to hear his stories if you want to share!
I think whoever said “whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword has obviously never encountered automatic fire” was referring to this lone machine gunner
Word on the block
the penis mightier
That's Douglas McArthur
A few pencils started this war about 25 years prior.
I think whoever said “I think whoever said “whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword has obviously never encountered automatic fire” was referring to this lone machine gunner” was referring to this video about a lone machine gunner.
During a demonstration for the US Army in 1917, Browning's M1917 fired 20,000 rounds with only a few malfunctions that were attributed to low-quality ammunition belts. To drive home its reliability, Browning continued firing until breaking the sear in the trigger group, which occurred at around 39,500 rounds fired (including the initial 20,000).
While the Army Ordnance Board was impressed, they were skeptical that this kind of reliability was repeatable across multiple units. Browning then produced a second M1917, which when continuously fed with ammunition, fired non-stop for 48 minutes, 12 seconds (21,000+ rounds).
JMB was a genius. In reality for me, my 1911 cal.45 has never malfunctioned. It can be completely disassembled and reassembled using only a cartridge case.
JMB was a genius. Our grandchildren might see another like him.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe when the British changed to NATO ammunition, they fired the rest of their stockpile of .303 British through a single Maxim gun that still met tolerance requirements after the test. About 500,000 rounds
@@jimzeez I doubt that... The British Army had a lot more .303 ammo that that in stock and a lot of operations like Cadet Forces which were still using .303 ammo even after the move to 7.62mm.
However, in WW1 a MG platoon with four Vickers water-cooled machine-guns was tasked with providing continuous beaten-fire zone over No Mans Land in front of a trench line. The four guns fired over a million rounds of ammo in total in 24 hours with a supply company kept busy delivering ammo and cooling water to the platoon. The beaten-fire was kept up even as individual guns were taken out for cleaning, repairs, water jacket refills, crew changes etc.
@@robertsneddon731 I'd love to find the source of what I read so I could clarify the details of it more but that would take some time consuming digging. It may have just been the cache of just one base perhaps. I can't recall though
It's crazy because this was my grandparents generation. I used to talk to these men at the diner by Grandpa's house. 101st airborne, marine, cook who fought at the battle of the bulge, polish immigrant who fought in Korea. I wish I would have asked more questions.
Esquire Esquire that’s rare man! All of these valiant men in your pop’s house?!
@@mcbrians.8508 My Grandpa was in the OSS, his Oldest brother was an Army Cook in the battle of the bulge, the younger brother was in the Navy in WW2 and Marines in Korea, and the baby brother was in Korea! That was just in my family! The guys that my grandpa hung around with were WW2 and Korean vets. They were always talking, about basic training......jump school, how cold/shitty Europe was, how hot/shitty the Pacific was. They just used to shoot the shit and drink coffee at the diner. I live in Missouri, I am sure a lot of guys have stories of spending time with that generation. Some tough SOB's.
You never really know who you're with until its too late.
@@randomlyentertaining8287 True dat. These guys were old white hairs. I only had one conversation with my grandpa in the 8th grade about WWII and a few more with my dad with Vietnam. Respect. RIP CW Givens and GL Wideman US ARMY of ever honored memory.
@Billy Bodyslam Tough SOB's weren't they. Lots of them saw a lot of shit and death. They didn't appear to bring the negative things back with them. I always admired how unshakable their work ethic and resolve was.
Achievement unlocked: Medal of Honor
*earned
This made my ears ring sympathetically
The burns he got from carrying that big bastard
You have a choice burn your hand or get bayonetted
I would take the burns
His giant balls or the gun?
@@jamesricker3997 He could have stayed in one spot and easily protected himself, but he didn't do that.
Pretty sure that's a water cooled barrel
@@destoyah7w122 But it still gets hot. Water boils.
1:37 “If you’ve ever picked up your machine gun after a belt dump, and had to peel your melted skin off of it, go ahead and hit that subscribe button.”
@Froggins Jacob actually the barrel was searing hot and burned his hand down to the bone
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@Froggins Jacob The water was meant to cool the barrel and did to some degree, but, as with most “MilSpec” standards, what a thing is designed to do and what it actually DOES do are not always the same thing.
I can assure you, those Browning M1917’s would and did cause 3rd degree burns to many a man who made direct contact with one after a belt dump like the one depicted in this scene.
Decent “Garand Thumb” channel reference…
The water kept the barrel at the boiling point of water; which is way below melting for metal; but the jacket is still hot as a stove lol.
God bless John Basilone...and, John Moses Browning!
Amen!
and all the Marines that fought in the Pacific
Pah! All suckers and losers just like Trump said! Dead suckers don't win wars.
& the .30-06 round!
@@nonein5957 except that trump didn't say it. That line is taken, word for word, out of the godfather. A movie that the "reporter" is a huge fan of.
banzai attacks: **exists**
MG Basilone: anyways i started blasting
The Japanese sure did love to charge machine guns. There are stories of men who handled Browning automatic rifles and when they were in really outnumbered fire fights they would discard the bi-pod and shoot one shot at a time. Otherwise it might just be banzai time. John is a legend. I once heard a story about him being the only survivor out of two mg teams that were Cross firing the enemy. John hacked his way back with a machete finding his line and asking for a spam sandwich. He ate that sandwich with blood splattered all over him including his hands.
According to the book, Basilone instructed others on effective machine-gun use, telling them to make sure to fire in bursts, rather that spraying all over the place like a garden hose.
Well, he learned that probably in this battle
When ur teammate is covering a choke point with an mg, and u and your team just sit there and save some ammo
The other guys are looking in awe... Like what the hell is wrong with you man!!?
His buddy was like “Hey man, there are some people here who want to score some japs”.
You do your job.
It never gets any easier.
These men who survived,lived with flashbacks for entire lives, eugene's wife was frightened to wake him from sleep,till a friend told her to whisper his name in his ear.first.
@@2steelshells in eugene sledge book “with the old breed”. It was the filth and lack of sleep that causes long term ptsd on veterans.
Great Series. I bought the whole box set. I've watched every episode over a 100 times. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant.
The book is awesome.
The one part where Gunny Haney was the Range Officer while the guys were getting in some target practice with the M1’s & 1911’s, after he ordered “Cease Fire” & then he observed the Lt not keeping the 1911 pointed down range he went over & reamed him a new one! We had something similar with an idiot at Range Qualification in civilian L.E., there was a bumble bee 🐝 flying around & he started swatting at it with the pistol in his hand. I hit the deck & the whole line looked like Dominos being knocked over as everyone else hit the deck as well! The Range Officer went over & grabbed him by the shirt collar & dragged his ass off the line & made him sit for the rest of the day. My Mom was a Former Marine, Parris Island 1955, then M.C.A.S. El Toro, ‘55-‘56. Semper Fi.
@@tieroneactual2228 great story. People can act crazy on a rifle or pistol range. People do not do it intentionally but just forget. Usually no 2nd chance. I was in the Marine Corps 5 Oct 73 to 4 Oct 77, was a Sgt when I was discharged. I'm sure you heard all the Marine Corps stories from your Mother. Stay safe and Semper Fi and greetings from Charleston West Virginia.
From a production standpoint, the lighting is just right. It allows everyone to see whats going on, and see the expressions of our Marines as they obliterate the Japanese troops. And honestly, the lighting and effects for the Japanese are quite well done too; we as the audience never see their faces clearly at all during the firefight, and instead we see the outline of them moving in with the intent to kill, which is all the Marines saw as they were in their positions.
My father was a WWII Combat Vet. We kids learned early never to tell dad you were cold, hot, wet or hungry.
lol I can picture it.
Kid: Dad, I'm cold!
Dad: Oh you're cold, really? Well, let me tell you a story...
Kid: It's okay, never mind.
that's just bad parenting. you shouldnt expect your kids to behave a certain way just because you had been through a lot
@@apokos8871 No, but as someone who's seen and been at the limit of human endurance, you can better tell when someone is or isn't at the limit of their endurence, which the allegedly comfortable kids aren't. Also, understand that the kids would be asking pity and compassion because of slight lack of comfort to a person who sacrificed a lot more comfort and had to tough it out.
@@jonathanallard2128 expecting a mile from your kids just because you did is a mark of terrible parenting, and can and does cause parental alienation.
@@Aden_III Quite possibly.
You stand no chance charging against MG's as long as your enemy got ammo's, the REAL thing in this scene was when he take his gun with his bare hand and get burned to help another position and when he go to the pile of corpses to clear the view, not the Japaneses that he kills and that anyone would have killed under the same conditions.
yes and no. there are a bunch of Victoria Crosses for charging and taking out machine gun nests. and some of these guys even survived and did it more than once. it was either great luck, mortar smoke cover, when air-cooled machine guns were changing barrels and a few that were moving to cover and using grenades to take it out the nest.
The Japanese massively outnumbered the marines and had the upper hand.
Is it weird that I like these type of videos? They’re just so badass
Everyone loves watching the enemy get mowed down
This single frame at 1:15 with the glint of a tear forming at his lower eyelid to me encapsulated so much of what war means. Horrifying beyond your wildest imaginations and a bone chilling, near physically disabling fear that you feel at the sight of such atrocities, and I mean the term generally speaking, that you can’t help but wonder nothing in your mind other than the horror that befalls your very eyes. There it is, the machine that churns death, and you watch as humanity falls before you.
The first time I watched this episode I couldn’t sleep correctly that night.
I read that during the Winter War in 1939, between the Soviets and the Finns, some Finnish heavy MG gunners had to be relieved form the front lines after mowing down hundreds of Soviet troops charging them in human wave attacks. The Finns were brave, but the slaughter sicken them so much they couldn't stand to continue killing them like fish in a barrel.
That ladies and gentlemen is called a Wet Dream buy Machine gunners. Never had one thank god.
He was rockin' and rollin', as the next generation would call it.
@A Pacifist Machine Gunner fucking 249s.
“Would you like to continue firing?” 😆
The M1917 as long as you had water to cool the barrel and ammo would fire forever.
@@roguelead72 It truely is the best gun in the world. During a government test in 1917, the M1917 MG fired for 47 minutes straight before it stopped.
My dad was there. All campaign. He was seventeen. He received 1 silverstar,2 two purple hearts, 1 Bronze Star , had had been bayonet through the side of his head, blown up with a hand grenade Left 4 dead they took down to the beach to send his body home a doctor double checked him over one more time because my dad was his Aid when he was in boot camp in San Diego. They offered him a field commission but he turned it down because he wanted to stay where he could help be the most effective helping the rest of his platoon. When he came back to the states after the war he married my mother for two years well they slept if he heard any gunfire or any car backing up tailpipes exploding he would sometimes jump out of bed get underneath the bed thinking he was in a foxhole. My mom who is still alive she's 95 she said few times I woke up with your dad's hands around my throat thinking she was a Japanese. I've got some great pictures of him while he was getting is silver star from an officer looks like a colonel in Bremerton he was 18 and a sergeant. Growing up we had no option but to do everything correctly. He ruled that house with a big heart and a solid fist. You never screw with his wife and you never ever screwed with his kids It was bad news for sure.PS my dad was also shoot 4 times. Lots of great story's. I was never told these story's I had to dig them out of him. God rest is soul.
He’s a hero for sure. Men like that are tough to find now a days!! Reminds me of when my dad tells me stories from the army!!
why would you lie?
@@despot2180 who
@@despot2180 all truth. If I could send you a picture of his medical records and metals you'd pull your foot out of your mouth.
Wow ! Thank you for sharing. Your father is a hero and a great man. A very different time compared to today. Its crazy to think that people all over the world just want to to prosper and have fulfilling lives but war yanks you to a distant land and whiteness atrocities that nobody else would understand unless they were there. If you survive, you come back with mental wounds that never heal.
Now that's what I call a "Romantic" scene.
Just lovely!
If I’m a Gun designer. I would name my gun “Basilone MG-2020”
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yo apoyo la moción con toda violencia jpg
Americans start with M examples
M191 Browing
M1917 Machine gun like that there
M1 Helmet
M4 Shean
M26 Perishing
@@zoom.69 la M es la designación de modelo por ese motivo tiene siempre la letra M
@@leandromartinezyagy8487 ? Speak english?
Damn did John just straight up fold an entire platoon?😂 the other guys looked at him like “damn John wick. Leave some for us”
Longest belt of ammunition ever created.
250 rounds
I still can’t believe he just picked up that blazing hot gun barrel with his bare skin and didn’t immediately drop it out of sheer pain. I know it’s water cooled but that doesn’t mean they don’t get really fucking hot, it just means they don’t get hot enough to warp the barrel
That was a beauty of the M1917 a new ammunition belt could be hooked on to the end of the current ammunition belt so you did not have to reload
With a water cooled barrel you could keep firing for hours
@@highspy6851 you should watch the series. He actually burned his arm because of that. I imagine that you wouldn't mind touching a hot rod in a situation like that because of adrenaline rush.
@@calvzkeith Idk how one could handle a a scorching hot barrel bare handed even under duress. Unless it's the arctic like Finland and a crew can dump snow and ice down the jacket, I'm not sure how one does that without making that hand a lot less useful after.
Sarge: PUMP THEM FULL OF LEAD
Basilone: Say no more sarge
Some artists use a brush... John Basilone used a machine gun.
John Basilone " The hero of Guadalcanal"
That guy was a total savage, he won a Medal of Honor for that too! Apparently he kept firing so long the skin on his hands peeled off due to heat from the GPMG, saved a lot of his battles' lives too.
The scary part is the The Pacific actually TONED DOWN Basilone's achievements.
M1917 sounds pretty cool.
Maybe is a vickers not m1917 browning
@@quellochepensaprimadiparla6101 no it's definitely a M1917 Browning MG
That’s a Browning M1917. My father used the very same type in Korea - 1953..... in Precisely the same *type unit and rank as Sgt Basilone. No Bull shit.
My father’s unit - 1st Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment.
Gunny Basilone (killed at Iwo Jima) was also 1st Marine Division, whose deeds, my father greatly admired.
@@Alan-in-Bama Gunny Basilone was in 1/7 before switching to 1/27.
The Page Squad Correct. I should’ve clarified.... I was stating my Father’s unit in the 1st Marine division and same unit (Type) within the 1st Division as Gunny Basilone.
Finally an HD clip of the Pacific. They're always in 240p
A glorious streak, and a fine testament to John Moses Browning's genius!! :)
Basilone must be related to that one nameless tank commander in Band of Brothers, considering how badass they looks firing an MG.
Which episode? I wanna go take a look
@@Jack-cd5dj BoB episode 3, when the armored reinforcements arrived
Was his cousin from NY. Armato Basilone.
@@garmenlin5990 ah yeah I know which one you mean, the part where the guy says “you beautiful babies you!”😂
It's a water cooled machine gun and the Japanese were given absolutely no respite by Basilone as there was really no need to change barrels. If it were an air cooled MG like today's versions or even the M1919A4, the Japanese relentless banzai charges would exploit that moment of barrel change to overwhelm the lines.
not exactly. both are limited by the lenght of ammo belt. m1919 have a much, much thicker, heavier barrel that could sustain heavy fire for brief period of time. modern gpmg have quick chnage barrels. every mg team have 2-3 spare barrels with them which means that for every belt there will be cool barrel
A water cooled MG is always going to completely outperform an air cooled version. The 1919A4 should change barrels every 200 rounds to conserve the life of the barrel and also to prevent failure in firing the weapon.
As for the water cooled barrel, the weapon system can fire thousands of rounds because the barrel temperature hardly increases due to the water cooling. The only draw back is the requirement for the cumbersome water tank and tripod.
Basilone however in this video did not connect the barrel to a water tank at times to get a better firing position or to move the MG to another location. That's where a support MG crew member will carry the necessary equipment to support the MG gunner to wherever he deploys and get him ready to throw lead down range as quickly as possible
Given where the Japanese were absolutely relentless in their banzai attacks, they were waiting for a reload or a change of barrel to increase the tempo. But there wasn't because the gunner assistant can extend the belt of ammo easily and the water cooled machine gun wouldn't stop for a reload.
If it were a 1919, there would be pauses of firing which the enemy will notice and they would conserve their attacks until that change of barrel to strike at their position with increased numbers and ferocity. Even with 2 barrels, they would have been red hot looking at how Basilone was firing and that would mean a much slower rpm of fire making the Americans position untenable under the ferocious ww1 style charges in waves and at night at close distances
@@ConstantineJoseph
No. The 1919a4 barrel is not changed every 200 rounds. Hell, the standard ammo belt is 250 rnds. The heavy barrel of the a4 allows longer firing BUT burst fire is recommended. The mg42 and mg34 were the mgs that specified barrel change at 200-250 rnds but they had much thinner barrels and were quick change type.
kirk stinson the burst fire is not going to save you in Basilone's situation. Despite how much you defend the 1919's sustainability, it has to change barrels every few hundred rounds. In no time both barrels would be red hot and you are going to experience jamming which is a death sentence. What some last ditch measure are, is to have the assistant gunner urinate on the barrels and this happens very often in really terrible firefights that meant life or death. Eg. Monte Cassini etc... the amount of danger these infantrymen faced in WW2 is unheard of to modern experts.
So Basilone definitely had the right weapon to Ensure continuous fire to decimate wave upon wave of Japanese charges at close range in the night.
The makers of 'The Pacific' had condense a night's fighting into a five minute sequence, so important details of machine gun operation were omitted. On one of the three trips John Basilone made for more ammo he also brought back water to cool the machine gun barrels. At one stage he did tell his squad to use their urine if they had no water. When he went with one of his to find out why the right machine gun emplacement was silent, he repaired the guns and about every fifteen minutes switched from one gun to another, while the other Marine cleaned any mud of the ammo and reloaded the guns. These details all come from various books on Guadalcanal or John Basilone.
Basilone was also a NJ native from Raritan, God bless him and the millions of other young men who gave their all.
When shila says she's got a new friendly coworker who offered helping with the renovation.
Una de las escenas más impactantes de esta serie en recrear una de las batallas más feroces de la segunda guerra en el frente del Pacífico. Naciendo así la leyenda del sargento John "Manila" Basilone.
E a de Stalingrado?
You gotta love the sound of a .30 cal Firing.
I bet those other Marines sure loved that sound!
When you speed this upto 2, the Browning M1917 turns into an MG42.
Thank you sir. Much needed experience.
@@MilwaukeeNorth418 You are very welcome :)
Omg it's true, bahaha.
Holy shit
I love how the fellow Marines are just in awe of what they're witnessing!
Impossible to tell if this guys vids are genuine or just fan made edits, he always kills that many people, haha. Also, just realised the only reason he repositions at the end is because the mound of bodies is so tall he can no longer see over it.
Supposedly in the real battle their was bodies stacked 10 feet high.
This video actually cuts out the middle part when he's relocating to JP's section (curly haired man watching him in the end). Carrying the 200 degree F (95 C) machine gun barehanded running through the dark jungle, bumps into some of the enemy and hip fires it in desperation. Even then it's truncated because in reality this battle took 3 days, he spent much of it dragging ammo to the line. The reality is crazier than the show in this case.
1:17 I guess desmond doss has finally fired a gun now 😂
Now I can't unsee it
Why do you think it would be Andrew Garfield
John Basilone, the man who bagged Play of The Game before it was even invented.
Holy shit. He's really mowing them down!
I guess it’s safe to say that the 2 bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Gunny Basilone’s killstreaks
Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some have greatness thrust upon them.
Thanks, Bill.
The one guy who probably disliked this is the sole Japanese survivor of this battle
mcbryan saga lol XD OK buddy
Legend said that he still shooting until now
I love how he just grabbed a hold of that hot barrel and picked it up
Adrenaline is a hell of a painkiller
I guarantee you that he would have cheerfully had a beer with everyone he killed if it hadn't been politics involved
War is the violent attempt to achieve economic objectives upon the failure of political means
@A Pacifist Machine Gunner If we can no longer comprehend it them we are far more likely to repeat the mistakes. To pretend that society is completely different now to how it was then is arrogant in the extreme and does not acknowledge the fact that in every human there is the capacity for both great good and great evil. Times change, people don't.
By the time those Japanese made it through training they were basically brainwashed to be racist arrogant assholes who would've spat on Basilone and his friends and family. Japan was in a dark place leading up to that war, the whole society was militarized and harsh. Sad thing, that, because under other circumstances those chaps mostly would've been cool to drink a beer with.
Lol no
@@750suzuki And then there's cannibalism
John: don't worry, it's water cooled. Doesn't get hot
Indeed! But you’re not supposed to notice that.
No it does when theres no water cause it all evaporated. He got some really bad burns from this.
lol it was a joke
This guy is the mvp
And he still picks it up by the hot ass barrel with his bare hand after already burning the shit out of it. A fucking legend
My G-D, he stopped a flanking maneuver all by himself...
If the Japanese had used Western infantry tactics, they'd have been unbeatable. Charging machine guns had been proved pointless and stupid in ww 1, a million times over. A lot of their weapons were actually quite useful and well suited to jungle warfare.
Overall Japanese fought well, but thing in island warfare is that on some point you will run out of supplies and you have 2 options, to surrender or do the last push and Japanese rather died on attack than surrendered.
well Id say thats a bit of a cultural and technological element to it. Japan was a pretty competent military power In Asia. When it came to western powers it still needed some time to actually refine those edges. Tank program was lacking, air program while decent was still pretty small, Ships took the priority but even then can't keep pace with the industrial might that was the US. Also since the oil embargo threatened to stall their campaign in China. They pretty much thought they either back down or fight it out. So obviously instead of waiting they decided to use what they had.
Ok internet historian, you are 100% correct Japanese and Soviets always frontally attacked machine guns.
They were defeated by the Australian militia...
Its crazy some countries still use human wave tactics. Most recent I can think of was the Iran Iraq war. I'm not sure changing entrenched machine gun posistions has ever been successful.
Semper Fidelis, Gunny. THATS what legends are made of and why America will ALWAYS have a Marine Corps!
3 Yankee Americans walk into a bar... John Basilone, Ronald Spiers and Andy Haldane...... Germans stop and slink away... God bless you American heroes
Somewhere a voice said "maximum carnage" in the background. Lol
He stoling our kills
I had someone tell me once “oh the marines only defeated the japanese on Guadalcanal because they had M1 rifles and the japanese were still using bolt actions. When I told him the marines were still being issued the 1903s Springfields (not even the 03A3 yet in most cases) and the older 1917 machine guns he started to stammer, and give me the “but but” treatment and “what aboutisms.” Kid firmly couldn’t grasp that the Japanese army had been defeated tactically at Guadalcanal and not just technologically.
i heard the japs could have won edson’s ridge and therefore guadalcanal, if their one and only regimental field gun hadn’t jammed.
@@mcbrians.8508 still gotta hand it to those marines. I was talking with a coworker several years ago at my old job. He was a Marine in Vietnam and survived the opening of the Tet offensive. We got to talking about this show and he told me he had to stop watching for a bit when this scene came up, he said he could feel that “animalistic” feeling he felt that he has the first night of the tet offensive. That was only the second time of the two times he talked about his service in vietnam. When he would meet other vietnam era vets he would always tell them he was a marine during the war but would never go into detail about it. The first time he told me about his time in country was during a long lull when we both worked Memorial Day, when we got to talking he told me he had joined up with two of his classmates when they graduated high school, and he was the only one that made it out of Vietnam alive. His enlistment ended not long after the tet offensive kicked off and they literally ripped him out of a foxhole, threw him on a truck and barely three days later was waking down loading ramp at an airport in California during a protest and got hit in the face with a used baby diaper. He and another coworker are some of the only two Vietnam era vets I have known that served in combat, and neither of them readily talked about their experiences outside of just the “yeah I was in during Vietnam”
The other coworker was a navy surgical technician and his story was (and he never told me what year) but he was sorting supplies in the sick bay of his ship when his CO walked in, tossed him a bag and said, “grab your gear. Doctor at a Firebase has been killed and you’re up. You have 20 minutes.” A few hours later the chopper landed at the base, under VC mortar fire, and he was pushed out the helicopter and almost had a concussion.
@@Ben_not_10 about the diaper thing, that sucks. Straight out of Rambo film.
Motivating! I can tell my heart beat changed after watching this scene. That must’ve been some sight…even after all the shit they’ve already experienced.
Those were Banzai charges, which were successful against Chinese troops with bolt action rifles. Thankfully for us, it didn't work out so well for them versus machine guns.
Not really. Banzai charges begun during battle of Saipan. In Guadal Canal, the Japanese troops charges in dense formation largely because of their ignorance about the Juggle terrain and also that the Japanese troops on the island was extremely hungry (literal means of it, Tokyo expresses only deliver men but not food, they ran out of food and start to eat American captives)
The idea was to overwhelm more than anything else.
@@arbeiterz8491 Banzai charges were certainly a thing even before Guadalcanal. Matter of factly, large scale Banzai charges basically *ended* with what happened at the battle of Saipan since in that battle, they'd launched one with over 4,000 troops and eventually lost. They were completely banned by September of 1944 as well with the start of Peleliu and weren't used very much after that.
@@liltoaster7308 Nope it's not. Banzai charges happened mostly in Okinawa, and theres going to be more in Japan Island (good thing dropped the nukes). The early battles with elite Japanese divisions have no Banzai charges, it's just the Japanese troops were constantly in extremely bad conditions and ended up massed up all the coordination and seems like suicidal charges
@@arbeiterz8491 The Banzai charges on Okinawa we're mostly out of desperation since by this point they were using not only regular infantry, but Okinawans themselves and highschool age Japanese kids, fighting under the worst of conditions and lacking in ammunition, morale, food etc. Banzai charges were numerous at Guadalcanal, were (at least at first) the Japanese were relatively well supplied. At the same time, their were accounts of them happening with the Japanese garrison at Makin atoll in 1942, and at Bougainville and Cape Gloucester in 1943. The Japanese forces were as per usual without resupply and didn't hold much supremacy to any degree in these conflicts, but chose to use Banzai tactics anyway. At Peleliu however, the Premier of Japan ordered Kunio Nakagawa to specifically outlaw Banzai charges from occuring at all, and made it basically mandatory that either each Japanese troop kill at least 10 Americans, and If all else failed that they should kill themselves. This was also implemented on a larger scale at Iwo Jima, but a coordinated attack across one of the airfields on the island was considered a Banzai charge by some historians. By the time the allies reached Okinawa, the Japanese were both launching coordinated attacks were available and launching uncoordinated banzai suicide attacks when their supplies would run out. What you're saying isn't wrong however, as the scenario you presented mostly happened in Burma and to some degree in the Philippines.
USS John Basilone (DDG 122) Christened 18 June 2022. The greatest honor the Navy can give is to have a ship named after someone. He earned it.
That's an 1917 model Browning, which is water-cooled, using a jacket around the barrel like a Maxim gun.
However, that doesn't mean it never gets hot. Water boils after sustained firing. The point is not to keep it
completely cold (Therefore it would be like holding a freshly boiled kettle) but to keep the maximum temperature
of the barrel around 100 degrees, so it'll never overheat. This means the barrel doesn't have to be changed in
firefights, only when it's worn out from a high round count. The water does have to be frequently topped up
during prolonged period of intense firing as it'll evaporate into steam, hence you will often see the hose
venting into the can beside the gun (Not seen here as they aren't using it).
R.I.P TO THOSE WHO PERISHED ON BOTH SIDES,SOLDIERS WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRYS BELIEF REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY'VE FOUGHT FOR!!
SOLDIERS PROTECTED THEIR LEADERS INTERESTS,THEY ARE HEROES @ THEIR OWN RIGHTS,TO COUNTRYS THEY BELONG!!
THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN WAR ONLY LOST SOULS!!!
GOD HAVE MERCY ON THEM AND THEIR VICTIMS UNDER THIS CIRCUMSTANCES!
MAY GOD FORGIVE THEM WHO EVER WAS @ FAULT!!
Straight marking everybody looked at him like good Dammn you good
This scene from the TV show The Pacific really shows the power plus the Damage of a WW2 Machine gun
John Basiline has activated God Mode.
What went through my my mind when I had M-240 Bravo firing.
Also, look HBO, a night scene where we see what's actually happening....just like that battle of Black Water. GoT fan's never forget.
Imperial Japanese Army: “No! You can’t just render our banzai charge ineffective via sustained machine gun fire!”
Basilone: “haha….M1917 Browning go rat-tat-tat-tat!”
Rest in peace to all the heroes lost in war ✌️.
Basilone is a hero to all Marine Grunts. Semper Fi \m/
Girls in roblox:adopt me royal high meep city
Boys in roblox:
Holy christ.....all i can say. The devastating effects he had with that weapon. Unreal...
Now that’s Medal of Honor performance!
Kinda how I'm feeling every Monday morning before entering the office.
The soldiers were like: 😳...
Am I the only one who sees "Desmond Doss" using a shotgun? Or at least the actor?
No, that wasnt Andrew Garfield
Beautiful! ❤️
When you dont have grenade and smoke grenade
Respect to the ones before us and after us, once a soldier always a soldier.
Everyone reload your last mag
"Max Ammo"
They are just running into that fire, not even trying to avoid it. The Japanese were fierce as hell.
More like stupid.
That's Banzai Charge
@@Crozarius asf lol
My dad fought in Korea.... Said Chinese were the same way. They just keep coming at you and coming at you and coming at you.
They were probably high on methamphetamine
The Japanese Army routinely gave it to their troops to improve their fighting spirit
These men had to deal with the thickest shit known to any marine regiment. This was truly hell.
This is the shit people scream "Hollywood propaganda" until you point out it actually happened.
average samurai spirit fan
: "BANZAIIIIIII!!!!!!"
average m1919 enjoyer
:
The last thing they ever need is artillery support but consider danger close
저녁먹으면서 이거보니깐 꿀맛이네 ㅋㅋㅋ
일본의 황국신민이 이러면 되나..
Legend has it that his finger is still on the trigger.
Can we just talk for a sec how utterly fanatic the Japanese must have been to warrant this scenario?
An average human being would look at a sight like 1:04, where you commrades are either falling like dominos or lying ripped to shreds by gunfire, and rather than doing literally any other sane thing (take cover, hit the deck, retreat), they instead kept charging?
Absolute madmen...
This Machine Gun scene from the Pacific TV show is amazing, like the Japanese soldiers didn't stand a chance against the Machine Gun
Now that how you build a machine gun that don't over heat...
I think its a watercooled MG.
We talking about the one he used? He burned his hand picking it up
So beautiful and clear footage
Nice collection, piled high there... now strap them to the front of your jeeps Patton style...
Reminds me of that scene in Platoon where that machine gunner in the helicopter kept yelling "get some...get some...GET SOME".
That's in Full Metal Jacket. And that door gunner was shooting harmless civilians, hardly comparable to what Basilone did here.
Thank you for our many freedoms Marines!!!
Heeeyyyyy hey hey hey hey heeeeeyyyyyyy nice shooting Tex!