The Nastiest Marines Ever Sent into the Caves of Hell
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- After landing on the jagged Batangan Peninsula, the US Marines inched closer than ever to wiping out the 1st Viet Cong regiment in an irrevocable stroke.
The Marines had relentlessly pursued the rapidly retreating enemy since the white-hot climax of Operation Starlite. Now, at long last, the prey was cornered with no obvious route for escape.
However, this seemingly straightforward task soon revealed its true, complex nature. Despite the smooth landing operation, the Marines stood on the precipice of a daunting labyrinth of subterranean caves, wherein the Viet Cong, ready to fight to their last breath, was ominously lurking.
Descending into the eerie depths of the caves, the Marines stumbled upon a sprawling underground field hospital. As they combed the hospital grounds, they were met with a fierce salvo of enemy fire, echoing ominously from the pitch-black recesses of the caverns.
In a desperate bid to decrease the carnage, the US fighters raised their voices above the din of battle, imploring the enemy to lay down their arms. But the notion of surrender seemed an alien concept to the Viet Cong. If the Marines were to taste victory, they would have to wrench it from the cold depths of the cave system...
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No matter how high tech you are and how much firepower you got...eventually it all comes down to an infantryman closing with and destroying the enemy.
Judging by the war in Ukraine, the future looks bleak for armor, manned aircraft and ships. Infantry stands the best chance for survival on tomorrow's battlefield.
Astonishingly bad take
Tell that to the Russians...
@@kevinboyle538
You don't own the real estate until you put your boots on it.
@@kevinboyle538 The Russkies lost another ship to sea borne drones yesterday, genius. Comment ?
I have been both a Marine and a soldier and I can definitely say there is a significant difference. In my experience ( served 30 yrs between the two) the Marines esprit de corps is beyond compare!
The army does not need to do any cock walking and strutting. The United States Army can. Beat any man in any land at. Any game that he can name for any amount he can count
Thank you for your service, sir.
@@ralphriffle1126 Obviously you are smoking crack because the Army has never won anything except first place in retreating and surrendering.
I was Army armor before I joined th MC, it was certainly different. I didn’t find the Marines much to my liking. But that was from 1977/83. Who knows wtf it’s like now.
@@ralphriffle1126 The only thing that the Army beats is its meat.
Operation Starlite fun fact it's was originally called Operation Starlight. The clerk typed the OP order in the dark by candlelight and misspelled the word. The chain of command kept it Starlite. The NVA Soldily got their asses handed to them. This was the first large scale conventional engagement the US had in the Vietnam War it wasn't The Battle of The Ia Drang which is always assumed . The Marines carried the M-14 as the MBR and I have read several accounts of the grunts making chest and head shots in excess of 500 meters with no optics. The NVA committed Suicide never try to out shoot a Marine Rifle battalion out in the open.
Yes, I made a shot with iron sights a approx 575 yds. Surprised the crap out of me.
Any Marine who was a tunnel rat is a FREAKING HERO. I can honestly say I wouldn't have the courage to do that.
No, but you'd follow orders, because primarily, that's what you're trained to do. Like trench raids in WW1. Who could ever have done it? Guys that followed orders first, thought about it second..if at all.
The 7th Marines were still at it one year later, in Quang Ngai province. My cousin, a 2nd Lt. with the 11th M.A.R., was KIA in Operation Fresno. He was a forward observer, calling in fire support for the 7th. His company fired over 30K shells in one month. He was accompanied by a Naval Gunfire Support detachment, who were directing fire for 5 destroyers, in rotation offshore. That area was a notorious VC stronghold, where years later, the Mai Lai massacre took place.
Thanks for sharing. I joined the marines as an enlisted artillery/ naval gunfire forward observer in 97.
@@TruckaBillysI was curious as to whether the naval gunfire team would have been sailors, or Marines. My cousin was killed when another Marine triggered a daisy-chained IED emplacement.
@@user-uw8bm1jv8k, By design a company commander will have his field advisers (if you will) called the FST 👊Fire Support Team. It should have a Pilot on the ground, an artillery/ naval guns fire support team officer (FO), enlisted (FO), enlisted (RO) dispatched from an artillery battery plus a mortar (FO) from that grunt company. Of course the more those guys cross train the better. It is a bonus for everybody on the team to be able to call in any asset available. I didn’t get much practice calling in air strikes, but it is the coolest. I will always remember the ditty used to help a new guy remember the 9 elements of a 9 line brief (How you call the strike). The ditty is “I hate drinking everyday like my friend Ed” 😂
Anyway… Anytime you talk to them they are up there flying around with that clip board attached to their leg taking all your information, and when they talk they are always cool as a jewel. 😂
As an artillery guy you could be running a mission at the same time… you could be calling fire 🔥 in on an anti air gun, so he is more worried about being alive, and less interested in shooting down planes. More commonly though… we would practice calling in a “mark”. If there is a certain target 🎯 that we want the plane to take out the arty FO will try to hit it with a white phosphorus round. (Makes a beautiful white smoke) Then when the pilot comes in, and then pulls up he turns himself upside down, and we will have him look for the smoke, 💨 we can talk him onto target then.
GROUND “Target 300 meters south of mark”…
PILOT“Roger, copy 300 meters south. wings level”
The movie Maverick showed the basic maneuver well… In the movie they had that mountain to make
sure they pulled up pretty stiff.
Anyway.. I guess i could have just told you that marines have arty school for 8 weeks, and then they go on to naval gunfire school for 2 weeks, but i got carried away. lol
Sorry about your loss!
a 2nd Lt is not going to be a forward observer
@@richardrose9943 Why not?
US command forgot the Vietnamese had been at war for 1000 years. That breeds some tough boys.
This channel has come a long, long way. I have been following since subs were under 1k. Great work being done.
I am 23 sub
There is like five channel dark docs dark skies dark tec dark sience dark seas
You must like being misinformed with dribble and mispronounced words.
Yeah my dad's first Tour of Duty in Vietnam was with the 25th ID and he told me about the tunnels of Cu Chi.
god bless your fathger hope he sleeps well or did
Who told him ?
@@jindalee4471your mom did!
The Royal Australian Regiments & RAAF Squadrons involved after the Australians were initially brought in (The AATTV in 1962) by the American command as jungle warfare experts to train the US forces, deserves more discussion here. The later ANZAC teams were merciless in patrolling and jungle combat but the Vietnamese population trusted the "Uc del loi" (Australians & Kiwis) as decent and humane soldiers. The Commander of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), Colonel Ted Serong, arrived in Saigon, South Vietnam, on 31 July 1962. The 15 officers and 15 senior NCOs (warrant officers/sergeants) that made up “The Team” arrived in Saigon on 3 August 1962. The AATTV was sent to Vietnam in a training and advisory capacity, as part of the US Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV). Members served 12 to 18-month tours of duty. They were sent to Vietnam singly or in drafts, as the unit did not exist outside Vietnam.
Thats where my father was stationed. Chu Lai. Andersen, gunnery Sargent. Was there in 68-70. If anybody reading happens to have served in the same time frame and same area, if you happen to remember him id love to talk. Get in touch. Would really love to talk. Thanks
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video of US marine assaults behind Vetcong lines. Amphibians operations in 1965 .
MARINES ALWAYS FIRST TO FIGHT 🇺🇲
Is that why the peasants had to flee?
After USASOC
First to go, last to know
@@riceflatpicking4954first in, last out.
no shit. that's not what the saying means.@@alanjones-vz8ec
The real truth of dead on both sides will never be told and on both side they had their heroes allso the ones who start the wars never fight in them .
Like most everything in the Vietnam war it was too little too late. Bureaucracy prevented us from winning. We lost the war here on US soil.
There is absolutely no way anybody can resist this title
So destructive! God bless the Vietnam vets!
Admit it. You photoshopped that centipede. That thing belongs in Jurassic Park.
That’s why I got love for my white countrymen. Cuz my black ass couldn’t handle nasty shit like that!!!😬😬😬
They can be this big. Something like 1ft centipedes exists so I wouldn’t be surprised if this was real.
It's not photoshopped, but it IS forced perspective. The pic got put up on Reddit and apparently it's held up with fishing line and closer to the camera.
That said it was supposedly still 10" long, which is still a whole lot of nope to find in your face.
@@geoffreychadwick9229 Apparently they pack a hell of sting. I agree, however big it was its still an absolute hell no. 🫣
It's actually the spinal cord of an unlucky NVA soldier, badass.
THANK AGAIN BROTHER 💪
Thanks. ✌🏻👊🏼
Ha ha some one got their feathers ruffled
That thumbnail with a Marine holding the freakin super-sized centipede looked like something from an 80's sci-fi movie!
Thank you :)
M-50 Ontos outstanding!!
Damn, those are a lot of soldiers
are you sad now you don't have soldiers like them?
Spotted some Kiwi´s or Aussies in the reels
Mercenaries
@@jindalee4471 No, the mercenaries were Asian, South Korean and Montagnards. The guys in the reel are wearing slouch hats and are white or maori
See some M1 carbines there too.
Who was supplying the nva information so they can with draw from the battle zone
It is more than a guess on the nvas part
You see, thats a big fukn problem right there in the thumbnail aint no way😂😂 I know the real picture I am just saying how aint no way I would be in Nam with that alien looking space centipede
Real picture.. but the pede is hung close to the camera to exagerrate the size. Photoshop in 1970 was a different thing.
The Vietnam War started during the Civil Rights movement and racial tension between whites and blacks all across America. Several members in the US government were segregationist and they had their eyes dumping their Blacks problem on Vietnam with the chaos that was happening in Vietnam at that time between Communist North Vietnam and Democratic South Vietnam. At that time, the South Vietnamese had 250,000 troops and North Vietnamese had 60,000 troops and the DMZ line had already been establish at the 17th parallel. Many Vietnamese peoples from both North and South did Not support going to War and killing each other over the idea of Communist. Even though several North and South leaders believe Vietnam should Not be divided and try to distrupt one another. But they couldn't rally enough support among the Vietnamese peoples in Vietnam to support going to War. Until Nov. 2, 1963 When JF Kennedy and LB Johnson order their CIA to stage a military coup assination on a catholic South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. This give America the power to do what ever they want to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese peoples. And they appointed an ex-Vietminh soldiers, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as their puppet South Vietnamese President. The South Vietnamese President who cause the lives of 500,000 South Vietnamese troops killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and with their communist allies The Pathet Lao army and the Communist Khmer Rouge army of Cambodia when he order them to be station and patrol in Kampuchea. And who told Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to do so? The United States fear more Americans troops will be killed in Kampuchea. 22 days after the military coup assination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. US President JF Kennedy was assinated in Dallas, TX on Nov 22, 1963 and LB Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President. On Aug 10, 1963, US President LB Johnson declare US military action to Vietnam over an alleged attack on a US destroyer, Maddox that was on patrol past the 17th parallel near Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. While supporting the Democratic South Vietnam. 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% of those US troops that were sent to fight in Vietnam were adult blacks male along with high school drop out white male, non-college white male, trouble teen white male, and white convict whites male were all sent to fight in Vietnam. And when these US troops arrive in Vietnam and they did their "Search and Destroyed mission." The Communist North Vietnam gain mass support for their cause and their army grew from 60,000 troops to over 1,000,000 troops. In 1975, the Democrats control congress cuts all US promise military aids to South Vietnam causing the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Thus began a mass flow of Vietnamese refugee fleeing out of Vietnam. 10 of thousands of Vietnamese refugee died at sea from hunger, thirst, illness, Thai pirates, and Chinese warships. Today 10 of thousands young South Vietnamese childrens are born of birth defect from the US toxic biological chemical, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forest of South Vietnam. 3,000,000 innocent Vietnamese civilians of women, childrens, and old peoples had to die in their country. The Vietnam War is the worse United States War Crime in history. From Truman, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson were all were WWI and WWII veteran who sent the next young American men to become killers.
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CLICKBAIT! That thumbnail was clickbait!
And thank god it was. I can take a lot of things, but if I came across a centipede that big... Hand grenade....
Gaza tunnels enter the chat...
More like New York tunnels filled with soiled mattresses 😅
Billions of dollars later....still lost the war, but.....
ANYBODY UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND EVER THINK OF JUST KNOCKING ON THE DOOR AND ASKING TO COME IN, OR DID NONE OF THEM HAVE THE BALLS?
I surrendered to the extraordinary, extravagant verbiage somewhere around crescendo.
The writer is not one to be stuck in a plane with.
Imagine if ‘alien concept of surrender’ was really just uneducated civilians turned combatants not able to understand English 😅
That or they knew they’d be killed anyway. But yes yes definitely uneducated
Does homie have a discord server by chance if so does anyone have the link I would be very grateful or what we gotta do to join the server if he has one???
In place of search-and-destroy, substitute the phrase sweep-and-clear. 😄
Whoever did this script went ham with the thesaurus haha. Pretty sure it was ChatGPT tho.
HEY! I didn't see no damn giant centipede in this video!
What strikes me about this sort of documentary is the use of visuals, that are often repeated. What are we actually seeing and how relevant is it to the story? We blindly assume it is relevant but the repeated use of film brings that into doubt. Don’t use such video as padding, describe it, show it’s relevant, and if you need to pad, use maps or other visuals to describe the story
Is this the first time you’ve seen a war docco? Anyway , you’ve sort of stumbled across something that I suggest you could look into. Check out the idea that war is controlled demolition and strategic relocation
Very good content with a story that needs to be told, and kept as a matter of history. But why on earth does this channel continue to use Clickbait photos to gain attention? You’re better than that
Isn't that what the French said in Vietnam, the Russians said in Afghanistan? We have boots on the ground. We own this land. 😢
The enema of the jungle
Start to negative gains.
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By the way at 2:22 is that the Bazooka-Tank 😂😂😂 I admit I never ever heard of anything like this in my life tell I saw a video of it recently which I was blown away and even looked it up myself and did a lot of research because I didn’t believe it 😂😂😂 and tell this day I still can’t believe about the Bat-Bombs is actually a real story both of them are which is very scary when u think about it…
M-50 Ontos! 105 mm recoillness rifles!!
Complimentary algorithm enhancement comment!😊
Who won this war!
The military industrial complex.... That Eisenhower warned about.
The Marines raised their voices above the noise so that they could ask their enemy to surrender. Unfortunately, the Vietnam don't speak American the.
Norman sworthizkoft,who was a butter bar lutienant stepped on a mine in this area.Tjese islands were completely covered with mines and Lt. Swortskoft was trying to help a fellow soldier who had stepped on a mine when he also stepped on a mine.Many years later now 4 star general swortskoft went back with Dan Rather to look the place over and told Dan what had happened there.
Are you addled? The bone head was a battalion commander at the time of his screw up. The men had a bounty on his head
@garypiont6114 NO he wasnt.He returned from Vietnam a major.He was a captain when he stepped on a mine.
@@markpaul-ym5wg read friendly fire. A book on his tainted combat service.
@@markpaul-ym5wg he never ever stepped on a mine. His soldier did . He was only hit by soft dirt. The guy that hit the mine was crippled for life you doldrum
Help yourself
If it wasnt for softening up the enemy, infantry would be worthless
No notice again
Yeah, YT is not on the ball.
wow lets all be proud about being mean and nasty.
Apologies, but from some reading the positive nature of these clips is misleading. Blundering, friendly fire and valuable lives lost due to poor planning is a theme. Casting these major offensives as efficient, well planned operations is simply misleading. It sounds like the public statement released in the 1960's, the same as given to press TV back then is read out but what actually happened is hidden in propaganda. If you think an operation by these brave soldiers went as planned and as described by the video then you are mistaken. Dont forget USA and supporting countries like mine (Australia) lost the war in vietnam. This was not a success.
Please do not reefer to soldier as marines. This is offensive to us.
Didn’t like this video for some reason ? It’s too all over the map 😮 photo editing is …. Too much random filler 😊
3rd 😃😃
Prefer a little less poetic prose in my war doc's
1ST
Great? You want some attention?
@@JSFGuyDon't be an asshole
Corny asf.
I was very disappointed to see the Dark Docs is using a photo shopped pic. The G.I. holding an overly enlarged centipede...Why? And before you people say something stupid like, "that's not fake!", yes. Yes it is. It's not needed. You guys are rapidly going downhill. I can understand the unflattering comments now.