How US Forces Adapted To Fight A Suicidal Enemy | WWII In The Pacific | War Stories
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- When America gained the upper hand in the Pacific, soldiers thought they were halfway to victory. They were wrong. The way that the Japanese forces fought only become harder to combat the closer the US got to Japan. Coming face to face with an army that would fight fanatically to the last man and never surrender was no easy task.
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Why sign up for a "service" that will blur out images and delete large portions of the material? No thanks.
This is a very good presentation, but it said nothing of how U.S. forces adapted to the Kamikazes, merely that they happened. Which makes it total click bait.
@@dallasarnold8615I also checked out History Hit; it's impossible to find something labeled like it is on YT, and the series War Stories, one of the main reasons I would want to JOIN History Hits, isn't ON there.
USA FRY FAKYO MZOR 🇺🇸💩🤢🤮👍⚰️🔥☢️🖐️🎉
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While I applaud the effort in this series, CZcams needs to STOP blurring images! This is REAL and part of human history at its worst. People NEED to not only hear it, but see it!
CZcams is only thinking of unsupervised children who can be emotionally traumatized by these images, because their parents don’t supervise everything they watch. Parents focus their attention on social media, sports, etc. in the evenings when they want to wind down, and that’s when kids do their own things. Based on my very small “experiments,” history documentaries appear to be benign to the parental controls and content managing software. Therefore, CZcams execs can either blur ghastly war footage, or receive endless complaints from parents who don’t, or don’t want to, supervise their children’s’ content. I’m not necessarily blaming them because I can clearly call to mind my exhaustion at the end of the work day when I just wanted to lean back and close my eyes for a bit…..and that’s when children find the stuff they shouldn’t be exposed to. This is my thinking about the situation.
I agree
It’s the presenters who blur the images so their content can remain monetized. CZcams will demonetize any content they deem inappropriate to include accurately portrayed history. I’m with you, history can be ugly, but that’s how history is and that’s how we continue to learn from it - by sometimes being horrified by it.
@@thomasweatherford5125 Technically yes but bottom line caused by youtube
I used to watch the World at War series in the 1970’s which showed uncut war and concentration camp footage. History must be shown in all its horror to learn and avoid a repeat!
stop the visual censorship if I want to watch blurred images I'll take off my glasses
You don't know how CZcams works do you?
Shame on CZcams for blurring history.
My Uncle was on a ship in Leyte Gulf on December 10th, 1944. His ship was hit by a kamikaze. He died of wounds 3 days later. His mother, my Grandmother, never recovered from the news.
That was 78 years ago. He was my Dad’s brother. I never met him but I knew his other 4 brothers. This war still touches me and I wasn’t born until 1959.
Both my mom and dad's family took multiple hits in this war and Korea from which that generation never really recovered.
My uncle was also at Leyte in the navy
Incredible history. He was a brave man.
My Father was on a Hospital Ship after Leyte that was in a Kamikaze attack. All he could think of was what a big target the red cross would make. Fortunately, they missed and I am here typing this now.
My uncle survived the kamikaze attack on the USS comfort during the Okinawa invasion
Be better if some footage wasn’t blurred out, it’s history after all
yt policy
@@samantharay6098: YT should know history is history. We older folks can take it, we are not "snowflakes".
@@jgstargazer I don't disagree, but complaints are better directed at youtube than the history channels forced to do this
I agree .
Sounds like YT wants to stick to PG-13 materials.
Too bad CZcams doesn’t blur-out the ads.
My father was a Marine who was home on leave in August 1945 after having spent two years fighting in the Solomon islands. He almost certainly would have been part of any invasion of Japan itself. As you can imagine he was extremely happy when he heard about the Bomb being dropped. Quite possibly I would not have been born as well.
My Pops witnessed many atrocities against his fellow CB's and their Marine companions. For four years Solomons, New Guinea and Philippines among others. The no prisoner doctrine took only days to become a tremendous morale builder. He adored Harry Truman and laughed at any notion that the bomb was anything but justified. Those looking at history through lenses of irrelevance, should be very slow to pursue its revision. As a Viet Nam era Marine I got a small glance of Pops' frame of mind.
My great Uncle was a psychiatrist who worked in Los Angeles. He once told me he felt much safer there.
My father was scheduled to be in the first wave to attack the home islands. I would not be writing this if that was the case. They all just cried when they heard the word of the surrender. My father was amongst the first occupation troops in Japan and he said the populous was completely propagandized that we were going to kill all of them so the entire populous would have turned into a giant suicide weapon and thats how they were trained. It would have been an incredible blood bath. It was estimated that one million American soldiers would have died. Thank God for the Atomic Bombs. They saved the lives of these soldiers and their families.
@@shepardsmith3235I believe the estimate was 1 million American casualties, including 250,000 killed. MacArthur estimated Japanese casualties at 2 million killed or wounded.
@@winstonwhiteside9525 sounds more reasonable. 3 million injuries would be flabbergasting. We would never leave Japan if this happened.
I fail to comprehend the former Prime Minister of Australia apolgising to Japan for saving so many Allied lives.
Medals are not won, they are earned.
With blood
Sadly many civilians can't fathom that you don't win a MoH or VC. Sometimes I really believe they think there's a roster where every 15 man gets to choose any medal in the colour of choice.
27 MOH where awarded in this battle
The Flag at Iwo Jima was replaced not restaged. The original was too small to be seen so it was replaced with a larger one. The photographer always recoiled when people accused him of staging that moment.
A typical failure of History Hits :)
And if staged, why weren't they looking at the camera?
How wrong can you be?
My late father was there
Read "Flags of my Father" by PM2 John Bradley USN. He was one of the surviving Flag Raisers.
Japan to Americans: "We are not afraid to die for the glory of our Emperor"!
Americans to Japanese: That's OK, we are not afraid to KILL YOU for the glory of your Emperor"!
It is so nice of you... pls do it...
Done
Russia: this is some quality entertainment.
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Their little weak Emperor was not worth it.
They wouldn't care even if the atom bombs would cause millions of causalities they still would've fought on but the emperor knew that Japan's gambling would result in extinction so called out for peace.
The Japanese sowed the wind, and reaped the whirlwind!
Bomber Harris
@@barryrammer7906 You get a gold star ⭐️
@astralclub5964 he was talking about the Germans, lol
To die for one's country is the greatest glory
The Japanese were expected to die for their country. The Americans were expected to win. In this war both armies accomplished their goal.
Its like being at a gas station, a guy with a gun says give me all your money and nobody dies. The japanese was like "i only have 15 cents but im willing to die for it"
Very intelligent and forceful decision there bub.
@@cdeezy2718that's a really bad analogy
JAPAN NEEDED OIL TO BECOME A IMPERIAL POWER. THEY WANTED TO BE LIKE AMERICA & ALL THE SUPER POWERS OF EUROPE & NOBODY WOULD GIVE THEM A PIECE OF THAT SO THEY WAGED WAR ON AMERICA
You know your enemy was balls out when it took 2 nuclear bombs, for them to surrender.
It would have been more accurate if this video explained that there were approximately 35k Japanese soldiers stationed in Hiroshima, AND most of the workers for Japan's only ship building center lived there. Nagasaki was a secondary bomb choice and only so because it was the location of Japan's largest remaining ball bearing factory. Other than leaving out that information, this video provided a good explanation of why the Japanese were nuked and the true facts that they ignored any calls for peace after the first bomb.
Also that the Japanese had dispersed much of their war production into the homes and neighborhoods of their cities to prevent bombing of centralized factories, and to ease the shortages of transport and fuel getting workers into/out of factories each day.
When the Allies toured the devastated areas of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. amidst the burned remains of many houses were drill presses, mills, other war production equipment.
If war material production was to be reduced, bombing of the production had to happen... it was in the homes of the Japanese. Fair target.
One thing left out was - another reason for the slow responce from Japanese leaders to the nuking of Hiroshima & Nagasaki was the main communications centers also being wiped out. So it took longer than the Americans anticipated for the Japanese to realize what had happened.
Also the Japanese were training its citizens on the mainland to fight with spears & machetes or to suicide bomb American tanks
And that in the country’s Japan had invaded 25,000 non combatants per month were dying because japans logistics and bureaucracy had long since fallen apart. The bombing accelerated an end to these horrific non combatant deaths.
Doesn't matter if there was only one Japanese soldier there, still a legitimate target so long as he's your target, civilian casualties are incidental, thems the rules of war no matter how big your bomb is 💣
The only way the Americans could have committed a war crime nuking Hiroshima is if they dropped leaflets asking all military and war production personal to leave before they dropped the bomb 😾
Boy you people have found some outstanding footage.
Well done!
I've seen most of this footage before.
Just why are war docos censored on youtube? Gone are the days we saw the true carnage of war..
Another little known fact is that the B-29 program was more expensive than the Manhattan Project.
I always like fact checking:
"The $3 billion cost of design and production (equivalent to $49 billion today), far exceeding the $1.9 billion cost of the Manhattan Project, made the B-29 program the most expensive of the war."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress#:~:text=The%20%243%20billion%20cost%20of,most%20expensive%20of%20the%20war.
How bloody amazing is that and definitely NOT something I was aware of.
Thanks for being that to my attention (and the rest of use who didn't know it either :) :) )
My Dad wasin WWII. ABout the "banzai charge" he said" If the enemy wants to commit suicide the least you can do is provide th ebullets"
The average Japanese soldier was infinitely braver than your father
@@Theman-qs9vw Sounds like the average human is infinitely more intelligent than you and your father combined. Do you even know who he is?
Surrender was unthinkable... it was not an option. Death and thus defeat was. Until the death of Admiral Yamamoto they fought for victory. They were humbled - humiliated - by American victory at Midway and Guadalcanal. The death of Yamamoto snapped all reason and victory was forgotten. Death became the goal. America paid a hight the price but achieved that victory. Our will and our goal had not changed. The Japanese will was changed.
the prospect of total annihilation changed their minds
Well said
The Japanese will only changed because their Emperor's did. Had the the Emperor not surrendered, they would have fought to the death.
Not only do I salute these brave men but also those brave camera men too who were magnificent
Indeed. The Japanese soldiers were some of the bravest men who ever lived.
@@Theman-qs9vwand look where that bravery got them. Dead
LeMay was not trying to look tough by smoking a cigar. I believe that he was struck with palsy on a long flight, which left him slobbering from one side of his mouth. I have read that he employed the cigar to soak up the saliva. Then, it became iconic.
This is absolutely true. General LeMay was stricken with Bell's Palsy, a condition untreatable and sometimes adventitious as well that affects its victims' physiology but not their abilities or intellects. LeMay indeed used the cigar both for its physical functionality as an absorbent and the concomitant concealment it provided.
Didn't know that. Thanks
why are you blurring out some of the scenes for? the horrors of war need to be seen as well.
I highly recommend two books, "Bloody Okinawa" by Joseph Wheelan and "The Fleet at Flood Tide-America at Total War in the Pacific 1944-1945" by James D. Hornfischer. This video skipped over the invasion of Saipan which lasted over a month was the first taste of the fact that the Japanese forces would fight to the death. The Marianas were strategic because they provided a base for the B-29s. Iwo Jima was a great fighter base and an emergency landing base for damaged B-29s returning from raids to the Japanese mainland. Marines paid dearly for that island. But the battle for Okinawa convinced our admirals, generals and the president of the United states that we needed to use the atomic bombs.
Thanks for recommending. I'll check out
My Uncle Larry, [now deceased] was a flame thrower operator with the U.S. Army fighting in the island hoping campaigns.
He described how as a new green soldier ,he saw some U.S. Marines going out on a patrol on one of the Islands and he decided to go out with them.
It saved his life, he claims because the Marines were veterans of a number of island battles, and his Army guys were brand new to the fighting.
When he returned to his outfit after a few days being gone ,he almost got court-martialed by his commander, but he said the training he learned from the Marines, helped him pass the skills to his other soldiers.
My dad was in the U.S. Navy fighting the Japanese in the Pacific as well.
Very cool, you are lucky to have had those men in your family.
The Japanese Banzai attacks were a crazy idea. They were basically a way in which Japan lost manpower very quickly at relatively low cost to the US, while at the same time, Japan was in desperate need of manpower. The smart move would have been to evacuate lost positions wherever possible.
its a gamble. They did that because for them, surrender is synonymous to cowardice so they chose to die fighting than live by running away.
Also, they garrisoned islands of any size, escaping through sea is not impossible but costly because US ruled both the sky and the sea.
To bravely die in battle is glorious
@@Theman-qs9vw I'd rather die of old age in a hospital bed. But if I'm ever called up to fight a war, I know who to ask to replace me, though. Thanks!
As I get older, the death toll of war really gets to me. All of the civilians killed in the firebombing is particularly heartbreaking.
There were big cracks in the society as the ordinary people realized they were cannon fodder for the militarists they blindly followed. If it didnt end at the time it did. It is doubtful that the pre war society would have continued It could have been completely superseded if the cataclysm occurred. That included the emperor. Maybe that was a big reason Hirohito ended the war. He knew his position was in a precarious position and he had to do something about it.
Imagine the worlds population if both world wars never happened…
@@francopasta3704 Given that Japan lost 2 million soldiers out of a 70 million population and for US, Britain, and Germany relative figures were in the same ballpark there would be no difference.
You are a good soul
Malcolm Gladwell in "The Bomber Mafia" adds that many thousands of Japanese, if not millions, would have starved to death if there had been a continuace of war.
My uncle was an 18 year old Marine who fought on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. I didn't have an interest in the war in the Pacific so I never got to ask him about his experiences. I asked him in 2009 had he been on Iwo Jima and he said he also fought on Okinawa. He told my mom that he never took off his boots on Iwo Jima for 30 days and when he did, only the tops of his socks were left. Marines could tell how long you had been on Iwo Jima by the color of your uniform. Veterans had washed out uniforms and a recent arrival had a uniform like new. Iwo Jima was a desperate battle that killed thousands of Marines. The only battle where Americans deaths and injured exceeded the number of Japanese on the island at the beginning of the battle.
STOP BLURRING SECTIONS of the VIDEO!!. Leave the sections IN and just give a Warning at the beginning of what's to come!
4,907 Sailors, 4.675 Soldiers and 2.938 Marines were KIA on Okinawa.
The Navy really took a hit in that Battle. Mostly from Kamikazes
My Dad was on Guadalcanal and Okinawa. He was surely to be involved in the mainland invasion. Many many more lives on both sides would have been lost if the bomb had not been dropped.
The Japanese military leaders didn't expect the war to last more than 2 years at most. They were aware of the "Europe first" agenda and thought that the Allies wouldn't commit to full scale war over the Pacific Islands, especially after their uninterrupted string of easy victories in the first 6 months. The Allies would sue for peace under terms very favorable to Japan was the thinking at the time, and that ended up being a miscalculation.
Japan was always hoping for that "decisive battle" against the Americans that never came.
@@jgstargazer Right, a decisive battle that would lead to the Allies suing for peace under terms favorable to the Japanese Empire. A decisive battle that would occur within 18 months, maybe 2 years tops, and allow them to keep all the valuable resources (oil, tin, iron ore, rubber, bauxite, rice, etc.) from the conquered territories. The "decisive battle" strategy worked for them before but they weren't fighting against the combined resources of a multinational alliance. Take care my friend, Semper Fidelis!
@jgstargazer It came at Midway. They lost.
@@lawv804 "It" came at Midway?? What is "IT??" If you mean the end of WW2 in the Pacific then the answer is no "it" did not end at Midway. Guadalcanal (6 grueling months), Betio (aka Tarawa), New Georgia, Bougainville, New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, Peleliu, Philippines, Mariana Islands (Saipan, Guam, Tinian), Iwo Jima, Okinawa. With innumerable naval engagements happening in between and during each campaign. All the above happened AFTER whatever "IT" was...at Midway.
@Chris Nizer "It" is referring to the decisive battle the Japanese were seeking. The Japanese navy chose to attack Midway in hopes of forcing a huge decisive battle between the fleets that would determine the balance of power in the Pacific. They got it, just not the way they planned. They were on the defensive for the rest of the war.
Thank you for sharing this great documentry. SEMPER FI 86-91
Why is everything blurred out that has to do with casualties of war?
CZcams demonetizes content deemed to be inappropriate or objectionable.
Thank you to all those who fought to give the liberty we enjoy today.
There are certain errors, though relatively minor ones. For example, the video states that the U.S. had no more atomic bombs. In fact the third bomb, a plutonium bomb, was on its way to Tinian Island when Japan surrendered. We had the capacity at that time to produce at least three a month, one uranium bomb and two plutonium bombs.
Liar liar pants on fire. Where's your source?
@@aflow- "Manhattan District History, Vol.4", the official history of the project published 1947. Given your level of ignorance, you might want to start with the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
The section of the article styled "Production Process" details in the last paragraph the production capacity of plutonium in July, 1945. There are a lot of big words you probably can't read. Ask your Mommy to read it to you.
@@charliesmith4072 Oh, please, you're breaking my heart with your historical accuracy. I guess we should all just bow down to your encyclopedic knowledge. 🙄
Imagine still thinking that Wikipedia is a reliable source in 2023. 😂
@@aflow- I don't. Wikipedia is for arrogant snobs like yourself who are as ignorant as they are pompous. I gave you the real source first. How many volumes have you read so far?
@@aflow- Smells like BAIT.
Thank you America and please continue to do good for the world and mankind.
❤🤍💙
The most surprising fact to me was that 55k army soldiers were killed in the Pacific theater out of 100k deaths. I was also surprised that there were more Naval deaths than Marines. I assumed…. Wrongly that the Marines had the most deaths due to the amphibious landings .
The 8th Army Air Corp deployed in Europe had more killed, wounded, and missing than any other branch fighting in WW 2…
@@francopasta3704 technically yes….. the Army/Air Corp death totals include 55k US airmen who died in the European theater. However, included in that total were hundreds of thousands of infantry that died in Europe and represent the highest total.
@@jimgaul67 no infantry was included in the air loses…that was a separate stat..
@@francopasta3704 show me the source of this data…. It’s erroneous!
If you Google this you will find numerous sources that indicate that the US infantry suffered the most deaths in the European theater.
Well there were more soldiers than marines in the Pacific.
I cant wait until their is a better platform for videos so that our content will not be censored
CZcams doesn't seem to yet censor truths like the fact that WW2 was fake and that there are no such thing as associate with one red button. They do, however, have algorithms that instantly remove any truths about the fiction of covidiusmaximus.
Almost 2,500 damaged B-29s, each with a crew of 10 airmen, made emergency landings on Iwo Jima before war's end.
One landed on the airstrip immediately after it had been cleared of Japanese, while the battle was still raging. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Field_(Iwo_Jima)
Those numbers are exaggerated. Yes, about 2,500 B-29s landed on Iwo Jima, but only 16% of bombers that landed on Iwo Jima were recorded with having battle damage or engine issues. The vast majority landed on Iwo Jima to refuel in order to extend flight ranges over Japan.
A friend of mine was a B-29 bombardier and he said prior to Iwo Jima being taken they expected to die if their plane was unable to return to Saipan.
Best documentary channel!
The Marines didn’t fight the Japanese on Iwo Jima. The Marines fought the Japanese IN Iwo Jima
Both, I would say.
The last group of Japanese soldiers to surrender on Iwo Jima did so in 1949.
14:01 It only took losing 3,000 airmen for Curtis Lemay to stumble upon the idea of taking Iwo Jima. Brilliant!
Why blur certain images ?
CZcams law. Can't show images of dead people, people being hurt (on purpose) etc. channels will be closed.
You keep censoring these documentaries. Stop it.
Shout out to the cameramen!
Ya
First of all, if you want to blur the images, it could be done partially. Why do you have to blur the whole picture screen?
My Dad fought on Okinawa. He was in the 6th Division, first battalion of the 29th regiment of the Marines. He survived but had horrifying memories. He was training for the invasion of Japan when the war ended.
I am a tour guide here in Hawaii on the battleship Missouri. The date of the surrender was September 2, 1945 not September 1
Visited the naval museum there a few years ago (live in Australia). Absolutely loved it.
Very well done to everyone!
History Hit and CZcams: Stop altering these videos! We can handle it--it's war dammit!
My father was in the invasion of Okinawa. His ship, LST 728, was there on April lst 1945. He participated in shooting down 3 Kamikaze planes aiming for his ship the 1st few days of the invasion. Some of his friends got called back into Naval service for the Korean War. Luckily, he didn't. He never spoke about 'the war'. He was onboard his LST from October 1944 until May 1946. My parents married 2 months later. I was born about 15 months later. I was drafted in December 1967 during the Vietnam War. I opted to enlist in the Air Force 2 weeks before having to report to the Army (during the Tet Offensive). I trained for 1 year as a Morse Code intercept operator and spent 3 years overseas intercepting enemy communications. Wars seem to never end. The lack of appreciation for veteran's also seem to never end.
I understand you need to remain monetized and guidelines and all that. Where can I find an uncensored version of this?
WOW. This was an incredible documentary. So pathetically sad. So well done. One of the best I have ever saw. Thank you.
The Japanese general on Okinawa used a complex system called the "Shuri Line" where they attack-retreat and establish a new line. So he used the same tactics as every competent leader in the history of war. Although most generals didn't allow 98% of their soldiers to be killed, so the Japanese general's military brilliance really showed.
Yeah that strategy was gg'd a long time ago. The US military is such a brute/strategic force no amount of shuri lak whatever was going to stop it.
I live on Okinawa as a dependent child in 1954-57. I was 11 yrs old when we arrived. Our housing development was along the Suri Line . On our second day , my brothers 4 and 6 , played in the garden with their Tonka trucks and dug up a white phosphorus bomb , right outside our back door !!! The bomb disposal units were busy !
@@cdeezy2718 OH really? Ask General Giap for his opinion
Gen. Giap benefited from the severe restrictions placed on the American campaign in Vietnam, meaning the no go zones and public objections to the war in general. Nothing like that in WWII.@@MarkAndreYapching
Most generals would have let all their soldiers die if they could, the difference with Japan is that the soldiers were willing to die.
Ideological language explained:
Enemy that fights to the last man: fanaticism.
Your guys who fight to the last man: utmost heroism.
A mention of the entry of the USSR into the war on the same day as the bombing of Hiroshima would have helped explain the reasons why the Japanese finally surrendered. Your description of the flag change at Iwo Jima was incorrect. It was redone with a larger flag, but with the same Marines. Tragically, three of them died after the event. Your explanation of the firebombing campaign and the reason for taking Iwo Jima was excellent.
Fake. The Emperor's speech did not even mention the USSR. The surrender was decided before rumors arrived of Russians attacking Manchukuo. The USSR did not have the resources to reach Japan. Russian tanks do not cross the sea.
Falso. El discurso del Emperador ni siquiera menciono a la URSS. La rendicion se decidio antes de que llegaran los rumores de unos rusos atacando Manchukuo. La URSS no tenia recursos para llegar a Japon. Los tanque rusos no cruzan el mar.
@@fueronporquetenianelsaturn9632 The emperor's speech included "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest." He then went on to talk about "a new and most cruel bomb" The entry of the USSR is implied in the first part of the speech.
@@bigbrowntau _"The entry of the USSR is implied in the first part of the speech."_ *THAT IS YOUR FAKE*
Please go to Wikipedia >>> *Hirohito Surrender Broadcast* <
@@fueronporquetenianelsaturn9632 He also never uses the word "surrender". That dosen't mean that's not what he meant. Right?
"the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest. "
What do you think the general trends are since he does specifically reference the bomb in a separate paragraph?
The soviet invasion of manchuria made the japanese want to surrender to the americans. The Sovjets would kill hirohito.
Kokura was the intended target for the 2nd Atomic Bomb but the skies over it had become overcast so Nagasaki which was the alternate city to attack was also the bomb was detonated over a valley limiting some of the damage it would have done as opposed to being detonated directly over the city
Periods are a thing you know.
Really ? I used a question mark so you wouldn't get confused
20:12 Of the 6 Marines that raised our Flag, 3 did not survive the battle. Semper Fi. My Uncle Vince was 4Th MarDiv.
Great video. An amazing story to retell.
I used to work for Boeing in the photo department. The differences and improvements between a B-17 and a B-29 were quite dramatic.
What horrors would have befallen Japan once Lemay had access to the additional air assets transferred from Europe. The atomic bombs saved Allied and Japanese lives.
Military is supposed to hit military assets, not civilians and their houses.
My Dad was in the USAAF in training to be a B-17 pilot, and was almost finished with the training in August 1945. If the war lasted into 1946 he would have been deployed to the invasion of Japan.
The second raising was not "re-staged." After the initial flag was raised various "powers that be" decided they needed a bigger flag. The second flag was from a naval vessel. And of course the Marines wanted the original flag that was raised on a Japanese home island. Ironically fitting that the most iconic image was Marines who had fought their way to the top of a volcanic peak are raising a very large Naval flag. But Hey, that's kinda the definition of a Marine.
The second flag raising was not to put up a bigger flag, but to keep the Secretary of the Navy from getting the original. Nobody even noticed the second raising and since photographers were present for the second, it was for all intents 'staged'.
Tennōheika Banzai jarhead.
@@crazymixture57Sucks
That's a really verbose way of saying it was restaged
@@Theman-qs9vw You're correct. It was replaced.
- Samurai Moto: "Duty is heavy like a mountain, Death is lighter than a feather", explains why the Japanese fought the way they did.
Super wonderful quality documentary shared by war stories channel....with informative coverage and obvious explanations...thank you
The constant blurring out of scenes is making this documentary almost unwatchable. I don't think I'll be watching any more of these.
chill out snowflake
Great documentary
Excellent subject.
How? Fight fire with fire! Congratulations, captain, your destroyer has been volunteered for radar picket duty! 😊
Your voice-over of the embedded stock-footage documentary is flawless. Why not invest in a Yeti or Shure professional mic for your intros? The room tone ambience in your amateur audio detracts from the quality programming.
CZcams STOP BLURRING THE VIDEOS. STOP ACTING LIKE A CHILD WE ARE ALL ADULTS HERE.
Them young Japanese warriors really lived 'Death before dishonor'. I'm a proud American, but gotta give respect where it's due for better or for worse...
Great video. I would like to see an in-depth look at the Japanese point of view when knowing defeat is certain before the a bombs of course
I've always wondered why the Army Air Corps did not firebomb the Imperial Palace.
MacArthur knew that saving it would be an essential symbolic act in winning the Japanese people over. It worked, as we in Japan admire his decision and abhor the Japanese leaders who perpetrated the horrors of war on the rest of the world. We deeply regret that it is an indelible part of our history, to our shame.
@@mikeu5380I work with a girl from China 🇨🇳 and she hates Japan 🇯🇵❌🤬
If you decapitate the regime, who gives the order to surrender.?
Ironically it was the Emperor who ordered Japan's surrender after all, had he been killed the generals likely would have fought on regardless of how many nukes were dropped
Shipped based 5” inch guns cause lots of damage!😮
The Japanese thought that if they raised the cost of victory high enough the allies would opt to negotiate for a settlement of the war. The Allies decided that they were not going to accept the enormous casualties that would result from an invasion of the Japanese home islands. Instead they chose to spare their troops from the slaughter and dropped the atomic bombs. The Japanese strategy completely fell apart and they had to surrender or be anihilated by air with no chance to inflict massive casualties on the allies.
Actually it was the fact that Russia declared war on Japan that swayed the Japanese into surrendering.
@@CrazyCranker Sure, that’s why they surrendered just after the second atomic bomb was dropped.
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It's surprising how many things this documentary gets wrong. I wonder what or who their sources were ,if they even bothered with such trivial things.
Many times small Fax are made for become revealed daily to some of the letters archives and lost Video. I don’t think people realize how much Video that really is of the second world war.
Provide your enemy the opportunity to die for their country. You first, I insist.
I would like to see how effective the radar guided 40mm guns were in stopping the japanese airwar
I wonder if Tojo was killed instead of Yamamoto would the date of surrender changed. The fanatics seemed to be thick on the Japanese land forces (IJA) side.
My stepfather was a plankholder of the 6th Marine Tank Battalion on Okinawa. His platoon was involved in the final assault against the hill called Sugarloaf on the Western end of the Shuri Line.
My Uncles step father stayed behind as he was in leave in Texas.
Are you also a marine veteran comrade .
I don't want to belittle the US (or Japanese) losses in the Pacific, but the total loss of life for the Soviet Union in WW2 (including civilians) was around 27 million. Polish losses were 6 million and Chinese deaths totalled around 20 million, to name a few.
Overall, the US suffered much fewer deaths than many other countries,especially when compared with its population size. The total number, including civilians, is about 420 thousand.
I'm Dutch myself and we lost 301 thousand, including about 110,000 Jews, while in the Dutch East Indies, some 3.5 million people died.
The most lethal war for the US has always been the Civil War.
Note that estimates vary by source, due to lack of accurate historical sources.
Look at the effort the world put together for this war and imagine that same uniting force for other things but war
08:37 "Each B-29 will drop its payload of eight 500-pound high explosive bombs..." Now, I'm not the greatest at math, but that looks like a lot more than only 8 bombs falling from each plane. (OK....OK... Just kidding!)
Outstanding.
That's a very impressive what the marines, army, and air force had done
Nagasaki wasn't the original target...
Hence the Japanese say" the luck of Kokura."
I always thought it was odd that they put up the flag but the battle was not over.
Not odd at all. Propaganda has value.
May God bless everyone. Have a good day.
U2..✌💯👍⚖
4:45 the iconic short video of the man chewing gum and shooting his AA gun...proud should be his family,, we've all seen him so many times in documentaries , a prime example of americas best young men who went to war
When a select few have temper tantrums, MILLIONS of ordinary folk pay!
For people so ready to die for the god of Japan ,they went on a rampage to stop his recording announcement of surrender ? What a contradiction !
Very good video coverage! Japanese fought back well.. they just had to learn the American forces were just to powerful! Americans always found a way to improve military forces! The tactical plans worked well after making some mistakes.. the Japanese were trained very well and eventually learned that American powers were more advanced... Japanese and Germany had to be stopped because of the atrocities they committed were unthinkable!! 🛑🎯🎯🛑
I wouldn't call the kamikaze mentality for everything fighting well but individuals are another matter
Vietnam war......
I love this channel
A suicidal enemy requires extreme responses. Flame throwers, napalm, mass EXTERMINATION via nuclear weapons WERE WHAT IT TOOK. And after 2 atomics many were not ready to surrender! Can you imagine?
@ 16:33 "prolonged and concerted bombardments of the war". While air power may have been wearing at Japanese resources for weeks, Howling Mad wanted ten days of naval bombardment, got an agreement for three that became barely 24 hours of shelling. It's tough to say based on the depth of Japanese construction what effect more shells would have done yet it certainly wasn't the greatest bombardment of the war.
I believe it was to show the Japanese people America had unmolested access to bombardment this would surely
Let them know the truth !
the war in the Pacific was fought on a shoestring budget....fighting a two front war was more expensive than estimated
Why the blurring out? I don't approve.
At about 20 minutes in, the narrator describes the two flag raisings on Surabachi with the second one he said as "staged for the photographer Joe Rosenthal". Joe himself had to battle that misconception. He went with the platoon who had been ordered up the volcano to put up a bigger flag. He caught the iconic moment purely by the grace of providence.
The men struggled to get the flag up due to the weight of the pole used and the whipping wind. None of the men were facing the camera, and in fact, one of them was misidentified. It was a moment of time captured for eternity and secured a place for the Marine Corps as a permanent member of the armed forces of the United States... besides the fact one of the men was a naval corpsman. God bless them all and all who sacrificed their blood for us.
The second raising of the American Flag on Mount Suribachi was not staged for the benefit of Joe Rosenthal. It was done to replace (with a larger Flag) the original American Flag. Read "Flags of our Fathers", it explains what happened.