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  • čas přidán 30. 12. 2008
  • Prabhupada: And then, now they have manufactured United Nations. But for the last twenty years or more than that, they are endeavoring to be united, but when I go New York, I see flags are increasing, no united, disunity. You see? And war is going on. Therefore, on this material platform this so-called unity is impossible. Unity is possible only on the spiritual platform.
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  • @jonathanmcniel6483
    @jonathanmcniel6483 Před rokem +31

    Nobody on here can spell peleliu? That's sad.

    • @ChillGamerLad
      @ChillGamerLad Před rokem

      honestly, i struggle to spell it sometimes

    • @redcat9436
      @redcat9436 Před rokem +14

      Palau is correct. That is the name of the archipelago that Peleliu belongs to.

    • @greghilbers4697
      @greghilbers4697 Před rokem +1

      I missed that day in class!

    • @hotrod7934
      @hotrod7934 Před rokem +5

      My grandpa was in the 81st wildcat division and my father and uncles said everytime he would get drunk he would go on and on about peleliu

    • @jedi4049
      @jedi4049 Před rokem +4

      Palau islands.

  • @greghilbers4697
    @greghilbers4697 Před 4 lety +178

    In 1985 I read “With the Old Breed, at Pelilue and Okinawa” , by Eugene Sledge. That book changed my life. I called up the University of Birmingham in Alabama, and spoke with Mr. Sledge for about an hour. He was still teaching there. I told him how much the book effected me. He said that all veterans of WWII just want to be remembered. In the 80’s , I gave about 500 copies of the book to the high schools in Orange County, California. The next year, I went to Japan and Okinawa . I felt that I was going back 40 years in time. It was a great, sobering trip. I started to go to Memorial Day services and have missed One because of rain since then. Maybe this year might miss because of coronavirius. But, Mr Sledge, you will not be forgotten.

    • @s1ck-s1de39
      @s1ck-s1de39 Před 3 lety +8

      Thanks for keeping it alive man, not too far off from OC here

    • @sandilo60
      @sandilo60 Před 3 lety +8

      I read that book, too. It is amazing. It has led me to read other books written by the veterans of the Pacific Campaign.

    • @columbaiona3081
      @columbaiona3081 Před 3 lety +4

      Great book - always wanted 2 read it & finally did.

    • @charlescollins9413
      @charlescollins9413 Před 3 lety +9

      I know eugene’s son. He’s a huge civil war buff like myself and we go to mobile once a month for the Mobile CW round table. The sledges are an awesome family.

    • @Betterifitsfree
      @Betterifitsfree Před 2 lety +8

      I have had in my possession for many years a letter written by a marine pastor to my cousin's mother who was killed on Okinawa on May 9. The somber note describes how her son was killed during the battle from a sniper's bullet. Recently I discovered the book "with the old breed" written by Mr. Sledge. On page 231 in my copy he briefly describes the assault against Awacha Ridge by Company K where my cousin was killed and reading that in his book it has connected me with a better concept of the awful, life ruining event. If all those brave men only ask to be respected and remembered, I shall not forget their sacrifice.

  • @rickb5946
    @rickb5946 Před 4 lety +97

    A salute to my old friend John Thomas Burns a member of the old breed who fought on Peleliu with the 1st Marines at the age of 17. It was an honor to have known him. RIP old war horse... you were the greatest Patriot I have ever known.

  • @redrock3109
    @redrock3109 Před 3 lety +24

    These men are the real deal. We owe them and many others like them a tremendous debt of gratitude.

    • @mra5975
      @mra5975 Před 2 lety

      And we show that by wilfully throwing away are freedoms, identity and culture. You should check out why the germans started that war because they said there was an international communist conspiracy to control the world and today we call that the NWO. I am ashamed of all those that suffered in ww2 because apart from the communists all other deaths were in vain.

  • @sundancer6694
    @sundancer6694 Před 4 lety +39

    My Uncle ... Labin Foster was MIA on the island and never found. God bless you Unc! God bless all of our servicemen!

    • @nelsonjackson5718
      @nelsonjackson5718 Před 3 lety

      Your uncle? How old are you? 80?

    • @torbendinesen7121
      @torbendinesen7121 Před 3 lety +2

      He ended up as sushi

    • @torbendinesen7121
      @torbendinesen7121 Před 3 lety

      @@nelsonjackson5718 👍

    • @PapasTTU
      @PapasTTU Před 3 lety

      Nelson Jackson why does he have to be 80? Lmao, his mom could be 10 years younger than her brother, and then didn’t have her kid until she was 30, OP would be like 50’s

    • @sundancer6694
      @sundancer6694 Před 3 lety +2

      @@nelsonjackson5718 I’m 66 and doing well.

  • @pfhanley1963
    @pfhanley1963 Před 5 lety +87

    My Dad fought here and Tarawa before he turned 20. None of these Marines came home without nightmares.

    • @ozzyoswald7434
      @ozzyoswald7434 Před 5 lety +5

      did he know Jim Hubbard who was at both places with Marines.

    • @pfhanley1963
      @pfhanley1963 Před 5 lety +4

      @@ozzyoswald7434 He could have, Dad passed in '87

    • @butchyshoe
      @butchyshoe Před 4 lety +5

      @Tim Cantrell SO MANY DID IT'S SO SAD

    • @kevinjohnson6911
      @kevinjohnson6911 Před 3 lety +5

      My Dad is center screen at 6:53. He's the one with the molotov cocktail. What unit was your dad? I can't find a reference to a unit that fought at Tarawa and Pelieu. My Dad also fought at Tarawa.

    • @jbevolve2023
      @jbevolve2023 Před 3 lety +5

      I was in the USMC Infantry and served in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. Your dad is a badass.

  • @milowagon
    @milowagon Před 4 lety +55

    Respect to the camera crew. They are in the thick of it at the front line, along with those brave marines.

    • @user-ed8wc1yr8s
      @user-ed8wc1yr8s Před 3 lety

      The Yamato people are all Japanese, a family connected to Emperor Jimmu.
      It's proof. Hakko Ichiu means that the world is like a family.
      This shows the fundamental principle of the international order, and the international order to date has been a weak and strong diet.
      A strong country exploits a weak country. However,
      Ichiu, the order of the family, does not mean that the strongest patriarch exploits the weakest family!
      A home is a system in which strong people work for weak people.
      The strongest country in the world is the weak country, the system that he does working for the weak people
      When it is possible, the world will be peaceful for the first time. Japan is the strongest, and
      The Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Area is united with the heart that gave birth to the heaven and earth.
      It was a battle to win racist excretion and fair trade
      Proud Japanese who fought in the Greater East Asia War!
      The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
      The indiscriminate bombing of the Hawaii attack
      Not indiscriminate bombing NO
      It was a human experiment. America is,
      You should apologize. That is true
      It's an alliance

    • @user-ed8wc1yr8s
      @user-ed8wc1yr8s Před 3 lety

      @MeGusta109 Is Japan
      Contribution to independence from Europe and America
      I'm proud.

    • @user-ed8wc1yr8s
      @user-ed8wc1yr8s Před 3 lety

      @MeGusta109 ttps://w.atwiki.jp/japanplus/pages/16.html
      第二次世界大戦において、日本人は日本のためよりも、むしろ戦争によって利益を得た他の国々のために偉大な歴史を残した。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]On world War II,[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第二案)On World War II, Japan left a great history, not only for Japan, but also for the other countries that got benefits from war.

      (第3案)In World War II, Japan contributed a great history to the countries benefited by the war rather than its own country.

      【確定】On World War II, Japan achieved a great deal in the history, not of its own, but rather of the other countries benefited by the war.

      それらの国々とは、日本の掲げた理想、大東亜共栄圏に含まれた国々である。[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第一案)They are the Asian countries that are included in Japan's ideal, "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".

      (第二案)These countries includes in the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere which Japan has raised its ideal.

      【確定】Those countries were included in the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere that Japan idealized.

      アーノルド・J・トインビー[文字列の折り返しの区切り]Arnold Joseph Toynbee

      図形

      シンガポール陥落は、白人植民地主義の歴史に終焉をもたらした。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】(第一案)The fall of Singapore brought an end to the history of white people's colonialism.

      (第二案)The fall of Singapore brought an end to the history of white race colonialism in Asia.

      シャルル・ドゴール[文字列の折り返しの区切り](仏大統領)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]Charles de Gaulle[文字列の折り返しの区切り](French President)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】(Former French President)

      図形

      日本軍により、欧米のアジア支配は粉砕された。[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第一案)By the Japanese army, the Asia's domination by Europe and the US was crushed.[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第二案)By the Japanese military forces, the Asian domination by the white race has ended.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】By the Japanese army, white domination of Asia was ended.

      これはアジアに自信を与えた。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】(第一案)Japan's actions gave confidence to Asia.[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第二案)This military actions gave confidence to all Asians.

      大戦後 15年以内にアジアの植民地は全て解放された。[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第一案) All colonies of Asia were released within 15 years after the World War II.[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第二案)Within 15 years, all the Asian colonies were liberated.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】All colonies in Asia were liberated within 15 years after the World War II

      ゴー・チョクトン[文字列の折り返しの区切り](シンガポール首相)[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第一案)Goh Chok Tong

      (Singaporean Prime Minister)[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第二案)(Prime Minister of Singapore)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】(Former Prime Minister of Singapore)

      図形

      我々を白人支配から救い出してくれたのは日本だった[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第一案)The country which saved us from the rules of whites was Japan.[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第二案)Japan liberated us from white rules.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】Thanks to Japan, we were liberated from white rule.

      我々は大戦終盤に日本を見限ったが、その恩は決して忘れない。[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第一案)Although we had abandoned Japan in the end of the World War II, we never forget the Japan's kindness.[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第二案)Although we abandoned Japan at the end of the War, we never forget their kindness done to us.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】Although we abandoned Japan in the end of the war, we will never forget the debt of gratitude we owe.

      日本ほどアジアに貢献した国はない。[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第一案)There is no other country like Japan which has contributed to Asia.[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第二案)Japan is the only country which contributed to Asia.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】No other country has ever contributed so much to Asia as Japan.

      しかし、日本ほど誤解を受けている国もない。[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第一案)However, there is also no country like Japan that has been so misunderstood[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第二案)However, there is no country as Japan that has been misunderstood.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】However, no other country has been misunderstood as seriously as Japan.

      バ・モウ[文字列の折り返しの区切り](ビルマ首相)[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第一案)Ba Maw

      ( Burmese Prime Minister )[文字列の折り返しの区切り](第二案)(Prime Minister of Burma)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】(Former Prime Minister of Burma)

  • @MrRexdale71
    @MrRexdale71 Před 3 lety +13

    My Dad was a 18 year old US Navy Hospital Corpsman on Tarawa and Pelilu.He was involved in all the major battles in the Pacific.
    Needless to say,he had a very strong dislike for the Japanese until the very end of his days. I grew up hearing his stories and made sure that I never forgot them.

    • @lk6912
      @lk6912 Před 3 lety +4

      I think the Japanese were the most fanatical and brutal at the time. Even more than the Germans.

    • @fredrickmillstead6397
      @fredrickmillstead6397 Před 3 lety +3

      Corpsmen are gods to marines, I can say that from experience.

    • @josephaulisio9281
      @josephaulisio9281 Před 2 lety

      Impossible for him to hsve been involved in every battle. Bullshtter

  • @MyelinProductions
    @MyelinProductions Před 2 lety +6

    Peleliu ~ one of the most Important Battles in history. Peleliu taught the US Marines and Navy A LOT about Island battles. The Japanese fought very differently and showed 'new' techniques and abilities like not before. GOD Bless All who Serve, Served, and their famileis and loved ones! Be Safe out there. Peace & Health ~ Amen

    • @josephaulisio9281
      @josephaulisio9281 Před rokem +1

      It was actually a totally pointless battle. Do some reading.

    • @MyelinProductions
      @MyelinProductions Před rokem +2

      @@josephaulisio9281 Had to remove the enemy forces on the way to homeland Japan. So, sad, tragic, horrid, but needed. Be Well. Thanks for reply.

  • @asthedaysofnoahliveright8565

    Lord bless you boys, living and dead, no better deed than to lay down your life for your fellow man. We thank you.

    • @Slawan87
      @Slawan87 Před 4 lety

      As the days of Noah Live right stupido!!

    • @errickflesch5565
      @errickflesch5565 Před 4 lety +2

      Your response needs no answer if your so ignorant to even ask a question like that. Pray you never have to be in the situation these brave men were in......on both sides.

    • @errickflesch5565
      @errickflesch5565 Před 4 lety +5

      How disrespectful to call a man stupido and you know nothing about them. Just shows you what you are by your own comment.

    • @errickflesch5565
      @errickflesch5565 Před 4 lety +4

      Yes, you have heard it said that.........and Christ showed a better deed than that. He laid His life down for His enemies. Truly brave and courageous men on both sides.

    • @danielguardia2792
      @danielguardia2792 Před 3 lety

      Hay defile mananasi o no

  • @tbwpiper189
    @tbwpiper189 Před 4 lety +16

    May God Bless all those who served and sacrificed for freedom on that day. All our vets are our guardians of that precious right.

  • @shannonpace9433
    @shannonpace9433 Před 5 lety +24

    The planers said it was a 2 or 3 day job. Most of the press decided to stay on board the ships.
    Turns out it took 73 days of extremely hard fighting. The best personal account by far is a book by Eugene Sledge, WITH THE OLD BREED. This is the best account of what it was like to be a young Marine fighting the Japanese. His story was used in the Ken Burns documentary
    " THE WAR", also his book was used in making the miniseries
    "THE PACIFIC". A must read for anyone who wants to know what it was really like.

  • @geraldmiller8973
    @geraldmiller8973 Před 4 lety +11

    i gave a copy of the book "iwo jima" to my cancer doctor several christmas's ago. he said it was one of the best christmas gifts he has ever received. he was never a marine but he knows, he knows.

  • @carlos31302
    @carlos31302 Před 4 lety +51

    The U.S. Army was there also giving a tremendous support role for the Marines main body. Respect for all.

    • @romegavadquez6310
      @romegavadquez6310 Před 3 lety +11

      The army fought many battles in the pacific. Never get any credit for it, seems their role in Europe over shadowed what they accomplished in the pacific

    • @lk6912
      @lk6912 Před 3 lety +2

      Its really hard to wrap my head around how big WW2 was. There was even fighting in north Africa and the Middle East.

    • @anthonylupino6109
      @anthonylupino6109 Před 3 lety +2

      My grandfather was a member of the 81st, 323rd Infantry, Co. F. What these men went through and saw, can never be fully quantified.

    • @aggimajera
      @aggimajera Před 2 lety +2

      @@romegavadquez6310 true. The Army played a massive role in the Pacific, right alongside the Marines. But the European War took precedence in the eyes of the world.

    • @kennethcaine3402
      @kennethcaine3402 Před 2 lety +1

      @@romegavadquez6310 yes they did, my Father was in the 1st Marine Division and fought along side many Army soldiers on Pelielu and Okinawa. He never had anything bad to say about the Army, he welcomed them as Brothers trying to attain Victory.

  • @slimemyhouse9877
    @slimemyhouse9877 Před 3 lety +11

    Shigeru Mizuki is a Japanese ww2 veteran who sadly passed away. He was a famous comic author and there is a comic that shows his experiences during ww2. He fought somewhere in the New Great Britain campaign

    • @kevinverduci7600
      @kevinverduci7600 Před 2 lety

      yes New Britain was very deadly. RIP to your friend Shigeru Mizuki

  • @SagebrushRebel
    @SagebrushRebel Před 3 lety +15

    My Dad was in the 1st Marine Division, 1st Tank Battalion. He was not in a tank at Peleliu but carried a backpack radio. I'm pretty sure he landed at White Beach. There is a quick scene at 3:33 which shows a radio operator, but I'm not sure if it's Dad, maybe someone else. My Mom says he had many nightmares after he returned from the war.

    • @user-ed8wc1yr8s
      @user-ed8wc1yr8s Před 3 lety

      The Yamato people are all Japanese, a family connected to Emperor Jimmu.
      It's proof. Hakko Ichiu means that the world is like a family.
      This shows the fundamental principle of the international order, and the international order to date has been a weak and strong diet.
      A strong country exploits a weak country. However,
      Ichiu, the order of the family, does not mean that the strongest patriarch exploits the weakest family!
      A home is a system in which strong people work for weak people.
      The strongest country in the world is the weak country, the system that he does working for the weak people
      When it is possible, the world will be peaceful for the first time. Japan is the strongest, and
      The Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Area is united with the heart that gave birth to the heaven and earth.
      It was a battle to win racist excretion and fair trade
      Proud Japanese who fought in the Greater East Asia War!
      The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
      The indiscriminate bombing of the Hawaii attack
      Not indiscriminate bombing NO
      It was a human experiment. America is,
      You should apologize. That is true
      It's an alliance

    • @kkkaaa5967
      @kkkaaa5967 Před 3 lety

      @@user-ed8wc1yr8s ah yes

    • @user-ed8wc1yr8s
      @user-ed8wc1yr8s Před 3 lety

      @@kkkaaa5967 ああそう

  • @kevinanderson2575
    @kevinanderson2575 Před 4 lety +161

    My dad was in the 1st Marine Division he was a forward Observer mortar crew , I have pictures he took September 15th through the 19th 1944 at bloody nose Ridge lost most all his Marine buddies paulu was 125 degrees in the shade he said, there was nowhere safe .one of the pictures he took at a block house where he was evacuating wounded with a marine named red, his friend got killed after my father took the picture. My father then went back up the hill and the corsairs were dropping napalm so close to him the heat burn his eyebrows.. years after the war when he was dying from the mental torment and the shrapnel he carried in his stomach he said put me in Arlington with my buddies . I should have died with them 40 years ago.. that generation of Marines were called the breed ,I hope they will never be forgot.

    • @katherinegates1559
      @katherinegates1559 Před 4 lety +19

      ✌️🇺🇸 Yes ...I do hope and pray that all of the Brave men... That fought for Our Freedom....Will Never Be Forgotten. My Father is also 1st Marine Division....First wave to land at Guadalcanal and then at Okinawa. 1942-46. He passed away in 1996. I am now 73 and I miss him everyday. 💞 Love and Peace to All Our Brave Veterans...Never to Be Forgotten.💞🇺🇸💙✌️

    • @knutdergroe9757
      @knutdergroe9757 Před 4 lety +10

      My Father was also there.
      I don't think he ever really left that island.
      He took his own life in 2005.
      That island was one of the reasons.

    • @kevinanderson2575
      @kevinanderson2575 Před 4 lety +7

      @@knutdergroe9757 I think that every soldier that put a footprint in that sand, remembered the horror their whole life.

    • @matsmith3215
      @matsmith3215 Před 4 lety +8

      @@knutdergroe9757 so sorry to hear,he won't be forgotten for his contribution brother!Thankyou from Australia!

    • @thomasfoss9963
      @thomasfoss9963 Před 4 lety +7

      @@katherinegates1559 Do you know what regiment? My ol man was at all the above battles also...

  • @frankalley5181
    @frankalley5181 Před 2 lety +5

    A salute to my late friend Joe Boterf who landed on Peleliu in the first wave with 1/5. Which company I don’t know but he was one of five able to walk off the island 24 hrs later. I will not forget.

    • @scottpetty9249
      @scottpetty9249 Před rokem

      My uncle was in A/1/5. Lost his life, 15 Sept. 1944. Your friend had an angel in his pocket.

    • @frankalley5181
      @frankalley5181 Před rokem

      His company commander wrote a little known and out of print book called Coral Comes High. You can get most anything printed now

  • @scottpetty9249
    @scottpetty9249 Před 3 lety +58

    Peleliu was an especially vicious battle. One of my uncles was killed on Peleliu ,15 September, 1944. He was in A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. Family never received any details on how he was killed.

    • @richardlew3667
      @richardlew3667 Před 3 lety +5

      That must be brutal

    • @jduff59
      @jduff59 Před 3 lety +10

      His NCO and 1st LT probably died as well, so no one left to explain what happened. Brutal fighting.

    • @anthonylupino6109
      @anthonylupino6109 Před 3 lety +6

      My grandfather fought there as well, with the Army's 81st Wildcats.

    • @johnsabatini2897
      @johnsabatini2897 Před 3 lety +9

      I am grateful for the sacrifice of your uncle. The hell he must have fought in. A huge chunk of our great nation died with those young men who so heroically fought in the Pacific Islands

    • @valentinojordy2185
      @valentinojordy2185 Před 2 lety

      You all prolly dont give a shit but does someone know a method to get back into an Instagram account..?
      I was dumb forgot my account password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me.

  • @dukeman7595
    @dukeman7595 Před 5 lety +28

    These guys were from the generation that grew up tough, because they had to. As kids, they seen the effects of the depression on society, and either became strong or died. I thank every one of these brave men for their
    commitment to their Country, and they didn't whine as most do today.

    • @davidhoward437
      @davidhoward437 Před 3 lety +1

      True patriots will send Republican traitors to the gas chamber.Trump and his minions collaborated with Russia to kill American troops in Afghaniatsn.

    • @dukeman7595
      @dukeman7595 Před 3 lety +1

      @@davidhoward437 Are you a trouble make spreading lies like your counterparts. Take a hike..

    • @jenniferlarson6426
      @jenniferlarson6426 Před 3 lety +1

      @@davidhoward437 You are out of your mind. Trump never did any such thing. Stop making up lies. You must work for the fake media....CNN perhaps.

  • @dasUberputer
    @dasUberputer Před 5 lety +13

    I've watched a lot of documentaries about beach landings in WW II in the Pacific and in Europe, and they always seem to tell the sme basic story - the allies use air craft with bombs and machine guns, they shell for days before the landings with ships and / or artillery, and then the landings get off to a bad start because all of the preparatory shelling and bombing was mainly ineffective.

    • @liltoaster7308
      @liltoaster7308 Před 4 lety +4

      Different reasons entirely for these two theaters though. In Europe, pre-landing bombardments were obscured by typical western European weather patterns, and bombers who missed open targets. In the Pacific, they relied MUCH more on the Navy and Marine pilots. Their bombardments were executed excellently, but the Japanese hid underground, so anything thrown at them would not be able to break through.

  • @dal9704
    @dal9704 Před 2 lety +3

    Mcaurther should have been court martialed for insisting for this, we had complete air superiority and could have by-passed this like other islands!

    • @redaug4212
      @redaug4212 Před rokem

      MacArthur had nothing to do with the invasion of Peleliu. Operation Stalemate was devised exclusively by the Navy and was insisted by Nimitz. MacArthur only gets the blame because it became part of the joint Army/Navy plan to liberate the Philippines, but the Palau Islands were going to be invaded regardless of the US strategy in 1944.

  • @lofton2558
    @lofton2558 Před 6 lety +23

    My grandfather was aboard a hospital ship, the Samaritan, which came into Pelau to collect injured.

  • @BenMcneil-hk8xv
    @BenMcneil-hk8xv Před 4 lety +11

    Always look for Harry pelecioni he stepped on a Japanese grenade to save his friends lost half his foot and that's what got him sent home finally. But not on this day he had a few more islands he had to visit first.

  • @troybanger5168
    @troybanger5168 Před 4 lety +11

    If u think you've got ball's..... these guys had ball's of steel

  • @billyrock8305
    @billyrock8305 Před 5 lety +43

    The bravery and sacrifice on both sides is immeasurable. The only good war is NO war.

    • @nufsaid80
      @nufsaid80 Před 5 lety +7

      Sooooo, how would you have defeated Nazis or slavery. Negotiate.? Treaty? League of Nations? U.N.

    • @TheAmericanInfidel
      @TheAmericanInfidel Před 4 lety

      Well this country wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for a war.

    • @jenniferlarson6426
      @jenniferlarson6426 Před 3 lety

      @@TheAmericanInfidel No country would exist if not for war.

  • @terrydemoss5064
    @terrydemoss5064 Před 8 lety +44

    My great great uncle Claude served here!

  • @longbeachvet3107
    @longbeachvet3107 Před 3 lety +4

    The BAR and M1 in WW2 are both legendary weapons ,the men wielding them are legendary In of themselves
    Thankyou for you service ,you gruntpas
    Paved the way for the new grunts

  • @davidmaynard2408
    @davidmaynard2408 Před 4 lety +8

    I don't think there was one battle was worse than another in the Pacific theater. Peleliu, Okinawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima...If you made it off any of the islands alive you were one of the lucky ones!

    • @redaug4212
      @redaug4212 Před 4 lety +1

      To be fair, there were "easy" battles in the Pacific. You just don't hear about them because the bigger battles will always produce more casualties.

    • @josephaulisio9281
      @josephaulisio9281 Před rokem

      You should read more.

  • @Liva0771
    @Liva0771 Před 4 lety +30

    It’s sad how we don’t hear about this in school history. This was the bloodiest battle.

    • @thomasfoss9963
      @thomasfoss9963 Před 4 lety

      Pelelui and Okinawa

    • @danielguardia2792
      @danielguardia2792 Před 3 lety

      Hay defile

    • @jenniferlarson6426
      @jenniferlarson6426 Před 3 lety +1

      Schools don't have the time to discuss every WWII battle. There were so many battles going on it would take an entire school year just to discuss the war and all the battles in the Pacific. The war in Europe would take another entire school year to cover. World War Two is something people have to learn on their own. Information is out there.....more and more old military footage is being released and it can be purchased. The library is a great source of war information...One should never rely solely on the internet. There have been a great number of books written by marines, soldiers and survivors of WWII and their stories are priceless. You have to take the initiative to find out things for yourself. School is only going to cover a fraction of the war....usually D-Day.

  • @Carterproductions22
    @Carterproductions22 Před rokem +2

    My great grandpa fought on peleliu, R.I.P papa

  • @olly2515
    @olly2515 Před 4 lety +26

    rip sledge and all of the old breed

  • @robmitchell801
    @robmitchell801 Před 7 lety +88

    Peleliu......one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific.

    • @deez420nuts69
      @deez420nuts69 Před 5 lety +7

      A pointless one too

    • @chuckjohnson2564
      @chuckjohnson2564 Před 4 lety +1

      What happen to Tarawa atoll ?

    • @xXxGordO241xXx
      @xXxGordO241xXx Před 4 lety +3

      All battle's are the "bloodiest" and "biggest" conflict in American history.
      Literally you hear this on every battle of every war and Battles in between

    • @schnozberries98
      @schnozberries98 Před 4 lety +6

      American losses in WWII.
      Guadalcanal: 7,100 in 6 months
      Tarawa: 1,700 in 4 days
      Saipan: 3,430 in 25 days
      Peleliu: 2,340 in 2.5 months
      Iwo Jima: 6,825 in 37 days
      Okinawa: 20,200 in 82 days

    • @johncataloni8552
      @johncataloni8552 Před 3 lety

      @AGENT 47 Peleliu is is the Palau Island chain

  • @garyraines7511
    @garyraines7511 Před 3 lety +3

    This Battle was in '44--PELELIU is one of several Islands in the Palau Island Group. Adm Halsey tried to talk Nimitz & McArthur into Bypassing this Island. They Said NO.

    • @fifthbusiness1678
      @fifthbusiness1678 Před 3 lety +1

      Actually, Nimitz wanted to give it a miss.

    • @redaug4212
      @redaug4212 Před rokem

      MacArthur had no say one way or the other. It was the Navy's operation and Nimitz's call. In fact, MacArthur, for his part, heeded Halsey's advice and advanced the invasion date of the Philippines. Nimitz, however, insisted that Operation Stalemate II move forward because he claimed it was too late to call it off; no doubt encouraged by intelligence that Peleliu and Angaur were not heavily defended.

  • @hansg6336
    @hansg6336 Před 5 lety +57

    To make matters even worse for the Marines, adequate water rations were not made available. Lots of guys dropped from heat exhaustion and worse- heat stroke. Somebody high ranking in the quartermaster corps should have been court-marshaled.

    • @rooftopcat1785
      @rooftopcat1785 Před 5 lety +5

      hans granheim your too right , supply is vital, and water in this part of the world should have been #1 priority, this whole battle kicked off with that most important aspect falling by the way side. This factor also falls on enlisted to push for the resource to be put in place as a main stay through out the operation. We know what is said about the best laid plans, from experience. SALUTE TO THESE MARINES .

    • @JohnnyReb
      @JohnnyReb Před 5 lety +4

      No whoever was to blame should've been shot.

    • @MrBuddylove50
      @MrBuddylove50 Před 5 lety +6

      Agreed. Fuck up on the food. Fuck up on the first aid. He'll, even fuck up on the ammo.
      Never fuck up on the water.
      Ever.

    • @eglin32
      @eglin32 Před 4 lety +5

      Marines said their water came in old petrol drums and was toxic. Behind the lines heroes always take revenge on the brave ones.

    • @gregorysinicrope947
      @gregorysinicrope947 Před 4 lety

      @@eglin32 Japanese commanders did this to their troops on Iwo Jima. Japanese defenders ran out of water,food and ammo on that Island.
      In my opinion the Marines did not win the island of Iwo Jima, the Japanese lost it.

  • @jamesmusisca8442
    @jamesmusisca8442 Před 5 lety +11

    engineers you got to love them

  • @Militarycollector
    @Militarycollector Před rokem +2

    Most people don’t know it but these same Marines that fight on Peleliu we’re also those sent to fight on Okinawa.. One blood bath after another..!!!

  • @loganporter7044
    @loganporter7044 Před 25 dny +1

    My great grandfather was a Marine who fought in this, and also spent time in the occupation of China.

  • @moodberry
    @moodberry Před 3 lety +16

    I spent a year on Angaur in the early 1970s. Landed on that airstrip. It was still in good shape 30 years after it was built. In this video you saw bombs being dropped by F4U Corsairs. I have pictures of one of them on Angaur that had crashed on the northern shore. Still there after all those years. It came in with its prop turning because you can see how the blades are bent back. But even 30 years later on that plane the painted insignia was still legible.
    Just curious, but where did you get this video? I have seen many, but this one is indeed rare.

    • @user-ed8wc1yr8s
      @user-ed8wc1yr8s Před 3 lety

      Japan is the first human race in Japan at the WW1 Paris conference
      Racism excretion bill
      Do you know Hakkou Ichiu?
      It means that humanity is a family.
      It is the word of His Majesty the Emperor 2000 years ago.
      Japan is Asia and Japan is the only independent nation.
      We are responsible for liberating Asia.
      Why did the West send troops to Asia?
      Thank you for answering the question. Thank you for sending the music.

    • @losttribe3001
      @losttribe3001 Před 3 lety +2

      It is rare to hear anything about Angaur…much less to know anyone who’s been there. I lived in Palau for a while (early 90s) and never made it to Angaur so that must have been quite the experience. Your story also reminds me of a Japanese Zero that use to be on a reef on the east side of the archipelago and we use to visit it there on our boat. It is something to see, touch and contemplate on history when you visit these locations. Cheers.

    • @losttribe3001
      @losttribe3001 Před 3 lety +1

      @@user-ed8wc1yr8s Are you saying the Japanese race is superior to all other races?

    • @user-ed8wc1yr8s
      @user-ed8wc1yr8s Před 3 lety

      @@losttribe3001 Would you like it in Japanese?

    • @moodberry
      @moodberry Před 3 lety +2

      @@losttribe3001 Although its been 45 years since I was there, I think I could tell you where every artifact was, because I spent a whole year exploring the island and its burned into my memory. However, one section of the island went unexplored by me because it is a swamp. I didn't go there. Plus, there is an inland lake that I only saw from afar because it has such steep sides to it. I think it is a crater lake that is filled in by seawater that has seeped in through the porous limestone, plus rainwater. We were told it also has saltwater crocodiles in it. I wasn't going to prove that point! ;)

  • @johnsabatini2897
    @johnsabatini2897 Před 3 lety +2

    While the world focused on McArthur returning to the Philippines, the marines were engaged in some of the bloodiest and most intense fighting in the war. For a riveting no holds barred description of the fighting here and the final islands toward the end of the war, listen to the podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History- Supernova in the East IV

  • @robpelick7460
    @robpelick7460 Před rokem +1

    Respect to these brave young American Marines. Truly a battle that should never been fought. The generals responsible should have been court martialed.

  • @chuckjohnson2564
    @chuckjohnson2564 Před 4 lety +7

    The men at the airfield aren't engineers but U.S. Navy Seabees. This unit was only formed up in Dec of 1942, but they are the one's whom paved the seven road's to Victory. Best kept secret of WW II.

  • @mridza1193
    @mridza1193 Před 3 lety +6

    Damned brave young men..

  • @richardstephens9647
    @richardstephens9647 Před rokem +2

    My Dad was 321st RCT 81st Inf Div Wildcats. What hell they went through.

    • @stanstenson8168
      @stanstenson8168 Před rokem +1

      Have you read Victory at Peleliu? It's about the Wildcats.

  • @jmc0075
    @jmc0075 Před 4 lety +8

    Brave souls. Total respect

  • @elimarks819
    @elimarks819 Před 3 lety +6

    The tv show The Pacific has given me a real appreciation of what these guys want through. God bless America and God bless the armed Force's

  • @enriquet2562
    @enriquet2562 Před 2 lety +1

    I like how both sides fought tough and determined. The US General said it would take three days and the Japanese General said invasion will be stopped by end of day. Three weeks later they are still fighting!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @lexor521
    @lexor521 Před 4 lety +3

    i remember this guys commentators voice when i was a child iam 48 now deja vu

  • @wtpence4731
    @wtpence4731 Před 3 lety +2

    GOD Bless Them EVERY ONE !

  • @johnhaggart9376
    @johnhaggart9376 Před 5 lety +5

    My Dad served on the USS Palau

  • @kenc9236
    @kenc9236 Před 3 lety

    Great video.

  • @dontask8596
    @dontask8596 Před 4 lety +7

    i salute to the camera man 👌👊

  • @fonzieskatesurf
    @fonzieskatesurf Před rokem +1

    I'm from Peleliu, Palau 🇵🇼🙏

  • @stevenforman3044
    @stevenforman3044 Před 5 lety

    great. Thanks for this. :)

  • @renesten2980
    @renesten2980 Před 17 dny

    Did a tour of the battle sites on Peleliu, how they ever got off those landing beaches amazes me.

  • @ketamld3450
    @ketamld3450 Před 4 lety +8

    0:58 "shut up!! Move that way" he said

  • @MrAmir-kc7yk
    @MrAmir-kc7yk Před 11 měsíci

    I am from sudan. One of my ancestors fought for the british imperial forces in myanmar against the japanese. He never came back

  • @AudioAndroid
    @AudioAndroid Před 4 lety +3

    Makes you wonder if the Allies ever tried building a underground Transport? I know it sounds crazy and nonplausable but I am sure the TANK came off as odd at first to but during that era of War Time most of the issues had to do with being pinned down and having to wait for Air Strikes that some times were way to close to friendly positiones but I have always wondered with all the ideas that were placed in a Architects hands during WWI, WWII that came out decades later after the Wars ended their were no prototypes of drill machine Vehicles or any transport vehicle that had to do with drilling under enemy lines, surely they had to have shopped the idea around somewhere and some point. Now dont get me wrong if there was one designed and built it wouldnt of lasted long but I like seeing the crazy vehicle ideas that came out of War Plans, not G.I.JOE/COBRA crazy vehicle designs but designs that mite have worked. I will keep looking but somewhere out there has to have been a Krang transport Drill vehicle somewhere.

  • @kneedeepinbluebells5538
    @kneedeepinbluebells5538 Před 5 lety +6

    0:53 Dear God I Can Hardly Watch A Poor Dead Marine ... SO Young AND SO Many More To Die In The Effort

    • @jerrywhite4497
      @jerrywhite4497 Před 4 lety +1

      @Fred Flintstone Soooo....... you're anti-Semitic!? Time to come out of the Stone Age Fred.

  • @walterjoseteixeira7682
    @walterjoseteixeira7682 Před 4 lety +2

    Aquilo que era época dos homens pois tinham muitos jovens que completaram 18 anos em plena ação de combate , e quantos daqueles jovem que nunca mais regressaram para casa , ali um copo de água limpa era um privilégio, Deus tenha todos eles em bom lugar .

  • @tommythompsonsurfer
    @tommythompsonsurfer Před 3 lety +3

    MY DAD ON GRAUDUAGAL ...1943 =1944.............NOT EVEN 18 YEARS! GREAT AMERICAN PATRIOTS!!!!!

  • @brandonwagner4719
    @brandonwagner4719 Před 4 lety

    Cool

  • @MrKen-wy5dk
    @MrKen-wy5dk Před 3 lety

    Where did the color footage of the Japanese defenders come from? Is it just stock footage of other places used to fill in for example? Did Sony Pictures have a presence there?

  • @poolbarjimranger3242
    @poolbarjimranger3242 Před 4 lety

    I’m making a documentary about a man who fought in the Philippines. Been looking all over for footage like this? Where did you find it? Is it public domain? Thanks!!

  • @birdsoup777
    @birdsoup777 Před rokem +1

    God bless the Marines. Toughest soldiers in the world

  • @overopensights
    @overopensights Před 14 lety +4

    RVA: I think they are throwing WP (white phos grenades.) Molotovs have no explosive content unless they hit a hard surface; and only then no real explosive, just smoke and flame.

    • @model-man7802
      @model-man7802 Před 5 lety +6

      Flames pull the oxygen out of Bunkers and suffocate the occupants.Ask the Germans.

  • @johnchambers2996
    @johnchambers2996 Před 2 lety +1

    Amazing what young men are required to do for presidents, emperors, and fuhrers. The recruiters never told us about this.

  • @johnmarlin4661
    @johnmarlin4661 Před rokem

    Years ago I watched a color video of this battle that ran over 30 miniutes and showed the pocket in color from the air . Have not seen it since
    Does anybody have that video ??

  • @zom6335
    @zom6335 Před 5 lety +7

    1st mar div baby

  • @alberthendershot3134
    @alberthendershot3134 Před 5 lety +11

    This was worse than Vietnam , I thought it was bad but war is war people killing each other and we haven't learned a single thing...........

  • @morokolli8700
    @morokolli8700 Před 2 lety +1

    7:22 "Move that way"!!.

  • @didimean
    @didimean Před 2 lety +2

    This has some great footage forsure. Crazy to think these kids were storming a beach through hellfire, meanwhile kids today get upset over a mean word on social media. Every single pathetic pos taking a knee for the National Anthem should be required to view stuff like this.

  • @morokolli8700
    @morokolli8700 Před 2 lety +2

    I have DVD Box set on pasific tv series🙂⚔🇫🇮

  • @jameshigh5050
    @jameshigh5050 Před 3 lety +4

    I’ve watched some of the identical scenes from the invasion of Saipan.

  • @toryu88
    @toryu88 Před 5 lety +6

    A lot of non-Peleliu footage mixed in. Some of the beach clips were genuine. I've been there and you can recognize the southern and northern points that bounded the landing beaches. At the time most of the vegetation had been stripped off by naval gunfire. Today the big Japanese three strip landing field has been reduced to one narrow landing strip by the jungle having swallowed up everything once again. Pre landing pictures taken from submarine did not reveal the interior ridges of the Umbrogol Mountains where the Japanese had most of their defenses. The Marines as usual bulled straight ahead suffering huge casualties. Col Chesty Puller butchered his First Marine Regiment until his men were spent and nearly combat ineffective. He refused to allow an Army regiment afloat as the landing reserve to take over for his unit due to his pride. A lot of men died needlessly because of it. The Amphibious force commander finally had to step in and order the First Marines be relieved. Puller then got kicked stateside and did not have another combat command again until Korea.
    The whole landing was unnecessary. It was planned to secure the eastern flank of the Philippine Invasion. Which was launched earlier than expected. MacArthur and his commanders recommended that the landing be canceled as no longer necessary. Adm Nimitz and the Marine commanders refused and went ahead anyway resulting in the wrecking of the 1st Marine division. It took months of rebuilding before it was used again in 1945 in the Okinawa landing.
    In defense of the Navy, an amphibious landing is planned months in advance and convoys and troop deployments are a delicate orchestrated dance. Scrapping the landing would have left ships loaded that were due to be used in other places and troops were embarked with no where to go or return to. So it would have played havoc with other up coming operations. Sad, but a lot of men lost there lives and were maimed and crippled for nothing. The Palau Islands immediately after capture were essentially a backwater. The war moved 700 miles west and was already over 1000 miles north when Saipan was captured three months earlier.

  • @marine4lyfe85
    @marine4lyfe85 Před rokem

    At 00:58 you can clearly see that Marine yelling "Get up and move that way!"

  • @itacryan
    @itacryan Před 4 lety +1

    How did the camera survive?

  • @garyteague3406
    @garyteague3406 Před 5 lety +9

    always wondered why that they didn’t keep shelling from the ships until the soldiers landed

    • @therealmccoy4674
      @therealmccoy4674 Před 5 lety +1

      they tried that in WW1 it does not work

    • @detrogamus2619
      @detrogamus2619 Před 5 lety +3

      They tried but the Japanese hid underground

    • @liltoaster7308
      @liltoaster7308 Před 4 lety +2

      They did, they actually shelled further inland as the Marines moved forward. The Japanese had in limestone caves, and tunnels, rendering the shelling useless.

    • @rutabagasteu
      @rutabagasteu Před 4 lety +1

      We didn't have bunker busters back then.

    • @frankverdino477
      @frankverdino477 Před 4 lety +3

      "Danger Close" with a 16" shell is about a mile.

  • @GrrMeister
    @GrrMeister Před 2 lety

    *Lest we forget.*

  • @K3VIN21
    @K3VIN21 Před 9 měsíci

    Imagine all the story’s we never get to here because they died on the island 🏝️!

  • @johnplaid648
    @johnplaid648 Před rokem

    The Japanese fired artillery from the opposite side of the hills and mountains and measured everything so they wouldn't have to do it during battle.

  • @johngibson2884
    @johngibson2884 Před 5 lety

    Interesting shot of a Black soldier on the front lines ...a rare but documented occurence in the Pacific and European theatre....which on Tarawa and Peleliu happened when the stretcher bearers became targets and fought back .

    • @dustofuniverse1829
      @dustofuniverse1829 Před 4 lety +1

      they made them front.a japanese surviver said.his name is Hirosi Funasaka.

  • @ericmailander3361
    @ericmailander3361 Před 2 lety

    Much of that footage is NOT Peleliu. Mainly Saipan, Guam and other areas.

  • @55giantsfan22
    @55giantsfan22 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Thats a different kind of horror than d day

  • @RBG-tr9ce
    @RBG-tr9ce Před rokem

    In this video on Palau and one on Peleliu I saw the same black soldier. Obviously it was cut from a video and not specific to a particular battle. It would have been nice in those days if we would have recognized blacks for their contribution to the war. I wonder if he was there as a medic , stretcher bearer or supply? There were black medics on DDay in France.

  • @pauldirac808
    @pauldirac808 Před 3 lety +1

    Poor brave bastards and the worst thing was there was no need to invade it had no strategic significance after MacArthur invaded the Philippines. Semper fi you American warriors respect from the uk 🇺🇸🇬🇧

  • @TheMoodyLoners
    @TheMoodyLoners Před 5 lety

    Minor technical point: this is not a "rare" color film. This footage was all shot in B&W and was digitally colorized in the early 1990's.

  • @jonathanboerema2872
    @jonathanboerema2872 Před 3 lety +1

    I know no one cares about things like this now a days, but I was showing how to hunt and trap, because of one of these man.

    • @notmostafa9507
      @notmostafa9507 Před 3 lety +5

      I am 13 years old and from Egypt, even though I am not American I still love learning about what those brave men did that day. Over the past 2 years, I have been putting time and effort into learning about the great sacrifice all these men made.

  • @barebp
    @barebp Před 4 lety +2

    There may never be a war like this again. Hopefully.

    • @GradyPhilpott
      @GradyPhilpott Před 4 lety

      The Marine Corps is currently preparing for a war just like this as we speak. The Marine Corps is restructuring more than any time since WWI from what I've learned.

    • @jenniferlarson6426
      @jenniferlarson6426 Před 3 lety

      No war will ever be fought like this again...not with today's weaponry. A few buttons to press...and, it's game over.

  • @chrisnnh
    @chrisnnh Před 4 lety +2

    One of the most devastating battles of WW ll and we were never told that it happened. My opinion and no disrespect to any service person, but this makes the Battle Of The Bulge look like a training exercise. The crime is this landing wasn’t even necessary. To satisfy the ego of the Generals, Americans were literally sacrificed at the alter. “What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.” ROBERT E. LEE

    • @redaug4212
      @redaug4212 Před 4 lety

      The Battle of the Bulge was no training exercise. Entire regiments were surrounded and annihilated in that offensive. Peleliu was shot-for-shot battle of attrition. Fighting in the Ardennes was sheer survival against an armored onslaught. The two can't be compared.

    • @jenniferlarson6426
      @jenniferlarson6426 Před 3 lety

      I can tell you that the battle of the Bulge was no training exercise. Read up on it.....it was hell like no other.

    • @chrisnnh
      @chrisnnh Před 3 lety

      @@jenniferlarson6426 Correct, and everybody has heard about “Nuts” and the Battle of the Bulge and the 101st not needing to be rescued.
      When did you first hear of the Battle Of Palau. Is my point.

    • @jenniferlarson6426
      @jenniferlarson6426 Před 3 lety

      @@chrisnnh When I was in High School...many, many, many years ago. My Social Studies teacher was a WWII Veteran. He told us about it in class.....how scared he was...and how he felt the first time he had to shoot and kill a human being (japanese). I asked him how long he was in the war...he told me "too long". There are so many battles that were going on, it would take months, if not years to explain every battle to a student. No teacher has the time.

    • @chrisnnh
      @chrisnnh Před 3 lety

      @@jenniferlarson6426 You are making my point for me. Thanks.

  • @jimkeddy7905
    @jimkeddy7905 Před 4 lety

    Energa bomb fired of the top of the m rifle right on the Lased scene. Grenade

  • @rva1945
    @rva1945 Před 14 lety +7

    6:50: Where the Marines throwing molotov coctails?

    • @dazmac159
      @dazmac159 Před 4 lety +1

      Probably from the petrol drums that should have had water!

    • @welcomethewurst9433
      @welcomethewurst9433 Před 4 lety +1

      Yes. Cocktails, flamethrowers, and napalm were the mainstay in this hell hole

  • @leoinchiostro7421
    @leoinchiostro7421 Před 4 lety

    Los japoneses lucharon 10@1... mostraron valor y profesionalismo, sólo con la bomba atómica lograron una rendición condicional. Saludos desde Argentina.

  • @josephaulisio9281
    @josephaulisio9281 Před rokem +1

    Dude at 58-59 seconds yells “Get up and move that way!”

  • @lindanwfirefighter4973
    @lindanwfirefighter4973 Před 3 lety +1

    This is not color this is colorized.

  • @robertmchugh4639
    @robertmchugh4639 Před rokem +1

    Not all of this is color film. There is allot of black & white that has been "colorized", made to look like color.

  • @colinsmith1176
    @colinsmith1176 Před 5 lety +10

    Sad, considering Peleliu was of dubious strategic value.

    • @tommypetraglia4688
      @tommypetraglia4688 Před 3 lety +2

      Another one of MacArthur's hard-ons for being routed from Manilla.
      A lot of American young blood was spilled all in the name of his massive ego.

    • @williamw9120
      @williamw9120 Před 3 lety

      @Tim Cantrell Russia has entered the chat.

  • @grguy793
    @grguy793 Před 4 lety +2

    Why couldn’t the air power remove the beach threat before marines landed?

    • @americanatlas3631
      @americanatlas3631 Před 4 lety +3

      Fortifications were too strong.

    • @liltoaster7308
      @liltoaster7308 Před 4 lety +1

      Beach defenses were either way too strong in some areas or generally impossible to say in others. Along several points, most notably on the northern most beach and southern most beach were promontories with several thick-walled concrete bunkers, impossible to see from above and barely visible on the ground level. Other defenses were no more than several machine gunners in ditches, screened by foliage.

  • @justeliashere
    @justeliashere Před rokem

    Never seen footage of a black ww2 marine before 7:10. Were they in segregated units?

    • @redcat9436
      @redcat9436 Před rokem +2

      Yes. On Peleliu there were 16th Depot Company and 7th Ammunition Company. They suffered one killed and 22 wounded.

  • @danjones1997
    @danjones1997 Před 5 lety +37

    FROM A 75 YEAR OLD 0311 MARINE THAT SERVED IN VIETNAM TWICE. THE CORPS IS THE CORPS AND THE CORPS WILL ALWAYS BE THE CORPS! SEMPER FI TO ALL MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT CAME BEFORE ME AND THE MARINES THAT HAVE CAME SINCE!

    • @devildog3246
      @devildog3246 Před 4 lety +3

      Semper Fi Devildog!

    • @katherinegates1559
      @katherinegates1559 Před 4 lety +2

      🇺🇸💙✌️ Semper FI ....Love and Peace To All Of Our Brave Veteran's.💞 Never to Be Forgotten. Thank you for your Service to Our Country.🇺🇸✌️

    • @nelsonjackson5718
      @nelsonjackson5718 Před 3 lety +2

      Not sure if you're still on here but my grandfather served in Vietnam from 67-72 air cav. He passed due to cancer from the chemical's he got exposed to in the war back in '11. Respect to you as well it was a nasty war from what he told me and you guys never got the respect you deserved when you came home

    • @ih6601
      @ih6601 Před 3 lety +1

      Nelson Jackson I’m sorry for your loss 🙏🏻❤️

    • @Berkay-xl4hu
      @Berkay-xl4hu Před 3 lety

      CORPS WILL KEEP BRINGING "DEMOCRACY"