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@ronalddunne3413

Жыл бұрын

Why sign up for a "service" that will blur out images and delete large portions of the material? No thanks.

@dallasarnold8615

11 ай бұрын

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.

@ex-navyspook

10 ай бұрын

​@@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.

@kmjsjeheh1417

10 ай бұрын

USA FRY FAKYO MZOR 🇺🇸💩🤢🤮👍⚰️🔥☢️🖐️🎉

@user-fw8rh6vs4j

8 ай бұрын

​@@dallasarnold86150:00

While I applaud the effort in this series, KZread 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!

@voraciousreader3341

Жыл бұрын

KZread 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, KZread 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.

@nomcarver4436

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@thomasweatherford5125

Жыл бұрын

It’s the presenters who blur the images so their content can remain monetized. KZread 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.

@jamesferguson2353

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasweatherford5125 Technically yes but bottom line caused by youtube

@astralclub5964

Жыл бұрын

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

@The_Stranger1986

27 күн бұрын

You don't know how KZread works do you?

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.

@lotklear1379

11 ай бұрын

Both my mom and dad's family took multiple hits in this war and Korea from which that generation never really recovered.

@josephmajewski9241

11 ай бұрын

My uncle was also at Leyte in the navy

@jazzdub4958

10 ай бұрын

Incredible history. He was a brave man.

@shepardsmith3235

10 ай бұрын

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.

@lotklear1379

10 ай бұрын

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

@samantharay6098

Жыл бұрын

yt policy

@jgstargazer

Жыл бұрын

@@samantharay6098: YT should know history is history. We older folks can take it, we are not "snowflakes".

@samantharay6098

Жыл бұрын

@@jgstargazer I don't disagree, but complaints are better directed at youtube than the history channels forced to do this

@gus2600

3 ай бұрын

I agree .

@stephengamber7000

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like YT wants to stick to PG-13 materials.

I fail to comprehend the former Prime Minister of Australia apolgising to Japan for saving so many Allied lives.

Shame on KZread for blurring history.

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"!

@stefanbanev

11 ай бұрын

It is so nice of you... pls do it...

@teinh22a

11 ай бұрын

Done

@jeremiahwilliams4016

11 ай бұрын

Russia: this is some quality entertainment. 🍿

@treystephens6166

11 ай бұрын

Their little weak Emperor was not worth it.

@Yk1000-

6 ай бұрын

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.

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.

@chuckwoste2875

11 ай бұрын

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.

@johnlawler4241

11 ай бұрын

My great Uncle was a psychiatrist who worked in Los Angeles. He once told me he felt much safer there.

@shepardsmith3235

11 ай бұрын

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.

@winstonwhiteside9525

10 ай бұрын

​@@shepardsmith3235I believe the estimate was 1 million American casualties, including 250,000 killed. MacArthur estimated Japanese casualties at 2 million killed or wounded.

@shepardsmith3235

10 ай бұрын

@@winstonwhiteside9525 sounds more reasonable. 3 million injuries would be flabbergasting. We would never leave Japan if this happened.

Medals are not won, they are earned.

@stevedavenport1202

11 ай бұрын

With blood

@dave1234aust

9 ай бұрын

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.

Too bad KZread doesn’t blur-out the ads.

The Japanese sowed the wind, and reaped the whirlwind!

@barryrammer7906

11 ай бұрын

Bomber Harris

@astralclub5964

11 ай бұрын

@@barryrammer7906 You get a gold star ⭐️

@barryrammer7906

11 ай бұрын

@astralclub5964 he was talking about the Germans, lol

@Theman-qs9vw

3 ай бұрын

To die for one's country is the greatest glory

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.

@brucermarino

Жыл бұрын

A typical failure of History Hits :)

@TheDustysix

Жыл бұрын

And if staged, why weren't they looking at the camera?

@jorgecruzseda7551

Жыл бұрын

How wrong can you be?

@charlielaudico3523

Жыл бұрын

My late father was there

@TheDustysix

Жыл бұрын

Read "Flags of my Father" by PM2 John Bradley USN. He was one of the surviving Flag Raisers.

The Japanese were expected to die for their country. The Americans were expected to win. In this war both armies accomplished their goal.

@cdeezy2718

10 ай бұрын

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.

@aflow-

9 ай бұрын

​@@cdeezy2718that's a really bad analogy

@CHRISTOPHERWILLIAMS-np3sx

5 ай бұрын

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

Another little known fact is that the B-29 program was more expensive than the Manhattan Project.

@patrickelliott-brennan8960

11 ай бұрын

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 :) :) )

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.

@skippylanoue966

11 ай бұрын

the prospect of total annihilation changed their minds

@petemartinez1375

10 ай бұрын

Well said

@Theman-qs9vw

3 ай бұрын

The Japanese will only changed because their Emperor's did. Had the the Emperor not surrendered, they would have fought to the death.

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.

@farmalmta

Жыл бұрын

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.

@wildbikerbill6530

Жыл бұрын

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.

@KickRox

11 ай бұрын

Also the Japanese were training its citizens on the mainland to fight with spears & machetes or to suicide bomb American tanks

@EvangelistNickGarrett

10 ай бұрын

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.

@barbararice6650

9 ай бұрын

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!

@brucermarino

Жыл бұрын

I've seen most of this footage before.

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"

@Theman-qs9vw

3 ай бұрын

The average Japanese soldier was infinitely braver than your father

@benjaminweston2065

3 ай бұрын

@@Theman-qs9vw Sounds like the average human is infinitely more intelligent than you and your father combined. Do you even know who he is?

Just why are war docos censored on youtube? Gone are the days we saw the true carnage of war..

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.

@jgstargazer

Жыл бұрын

Japan was always hoping for that "decisive battle" against the Americans that never came.

@chrisnizer5702

Жыл бұрын

@@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!

@lawv804

Жыл бұрын

​@jgstargazer It came at Midway. They lost.

@chrisnizer5702

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@lawv804

Жыл бұрын

@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.

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.

@angelsaltamontes7336

Жыл бұрын

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.

@seanstipsky9473

8 ай бұрын

Didn't know that. Thanks

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.

@noemotion7689

5 ай бұрын

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.

@Theman-qs9vw

3 ай бұрын

To bravely die in battle is glorious

@diedertspijkerboer

3 ай бұрын

@@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!

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.

@Orion225

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for recommending. I'll check out

You know your enemy was balls out when it took 2 nuclear bombs, for them to surrender.

STOP BLURRING SECTIONS of the VIDEO!!. Leave the sections IN and just give a Warning at the beginning of what's to come!

Not only do I salute these brave men but also those brave camera men too who were magnificent

@Theman-qs9vw

3 ай бұрын

Indeed. The Japanese soldiers were some of the bravest men who ever lived.

@somehaloguy9372

3 ай бұрын

​@@Theman-qs9vwand look where that bravery got them. Dead

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.

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.

@ThunderStruck94660

5 ай бұрын

Very cool, you are lucky to have had those men in your family.

4,907 Sailors, 4.675 Soldiers and 2.938 Marines were KIA on Okinawa.

@GrrMeister

Жыл бұрын

@douglasturner6153

Жыл бұрын

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.

Thank you to all those who fought to give the liberty we enjoy today.

As I get older, the death toll of war really gets to me. All of the civilians killed in the firebombing is particularly heartbreaking.

@shepardsmith3235

11 ай бұрын

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.

@francopasta3704

11 ай бұрын

Imagine the worlds population if both world wars never happened…

@TomFynn

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@ROTHSTEIN01

10 ай бұрын

You are a good soul

@MHMD.IS.Jesu.3110

8 ай бұрын

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.

why are you blurring out some of the scenes for? the horrors of war need to be seen as well.

Thank you for sharing this great documentry. SEMPER FI 86-91

Thank you America and please continue to do good for the world and mankind.

@tampamax7633

Ай бұрын

❤🤍💙

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.

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.

@aflow-

9 ай бұрын

Liar liar pants on fire. Where's your source?

@charliesmith4072

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@aflow-

9 ай бұрын

@@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. 😂

@charliesmith4072

9 ай бұрын

@@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?

@richyrich7260

8 ай бұрын

@@aflow- Smells like BAIT.

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 .

@francopasta3704

11 ай бұрын

The 8th Army Air Corp deployed in Europe had more killed, wounded, and missing than any other branch fighting in WW 2…

@jimgaul67

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@francopasta3704

11 ай бұрын

@@jimgaul67 no infantry was included in the air loses…that was a separate stat..

@jimgaul67

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@EnigmaEnginseer

8 ай бұрын

Well there were more soldiers than marines in the Pacific.

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.

Almost 2,500 damaged B-29s, each with a crew of 10 airmen, made emergency landings on Iwo Jima before war's end.

@farmalmta

Жыл бұрын

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)

@redaug4212

Жыл бұрын

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.

@rgeraldalexander4278

7 ай бұрын

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.

The Marines didn’t fight the Japanese on Iwo Jima. The Marines fought the Japanese IN Iwo Jima

@bw3240

Жыл бұрын

Both, I would say.

@Theman-qs9vw

3 ай бұрын

The last group of Japanese soldiers to surrender on Iwo Jima did so in 1949.

I cant wait until their is a better platform for videos so that our content will not be censored

@pointzerotwo

Жыл бұрын

KZread 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.

Ideological language explained: Enemy that fights to the last man: fanaticism. Your guys who fight to the last man: utmost heroism.

14:01 It only took losing 3,000 airmen for Curtis Lemay to stumble upon the idea of taking Iwo Jima. Brilliant!

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.

@fueronporquetenianelsaturn9632

6 ай бұрын

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.

@bigbrowntau

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@fueronporquetenianelsaturn9632

6 ай бұрын

@@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* <

@lamoe4175

5 ай бұрын

@@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?

@davidtartagni6536

2 ай бұрын

The soviet invasion of manchuria made the japanese want to surrender to the americans. The Sovjets would kill hirohito.

History Hit and KZread: Stop altering these videos! We can handle it--it's war dammit!

Best documentary channel!

Why is everything blurred out that has to do with casualties of war?

@lauracarrolldebolt9233

Жыл бұрын

KZread demonetizes content deemed to be inappropriate or objectionable.

You keep censoring these documentaries. Stop it.

I understand you need to remain monetized and guidelines and all that. Where can I find an uncensored version of this?

I am a tour guide here in Hawaii on the battleship Missouri. The date of the surrender was September 2, 1945 not September 1

@patrickelliott-brennan8960

11 ай бұрын

Visited the naval museum there a few years ago (live in Australia). Absolutely loved it. Very well done to everyone!

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.

@cdeezy2718

10 ай бұрын

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.

@pamelacoles4634

9 ай бұрын

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 !

@MarkAndreYapching

8 ай бұрын

@@cdeezy2718 OH really? Ask General Giap for his opinion

@MrRobfarr343

8 ай бұрын

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

@Theman-qs9vw

3 ай бұрын

Most generals would have let all their soldiers die if they could, the difference with Japan is that the soldiers were willing to die.

- Samurai Moto: "Duty is heavy like a mountain, Death is lighter than a feather", explains why the Japanese fought the way they did.

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.

Great video. An amazing story to retell.

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.

@ROTHSTEIN01

10 ай бұрын

Military is supposed to hit military assets, not civilians and their houses.

The constant blurring out of scenes is making this documentary almost unwatchable. I don't think I'll be watching any more of these.

@pedroburnsy7798

2 ай бұрын

chill out snowflake

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.

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?

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.

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.

@scottkrater2131

Жыл бұрын

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'.

@crazymixture57

Жыл бұрын

Tennōheika Banzai jarhead.

@EnigmaEnginseer

8 ай бұрын

@@crazymixture57Sucks

@Theman-qs9vw

3 ай бұрын

That's a really verbose way of saying it was restaged

@JohnSmith-dh4gw

3 ай бұрын

@@Theman-qs9vw You're correct. It was replaced.

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...

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.

Shout out to the cameramen!

@Jbkeditz

11 ай бұрын

Ya

Why blur certain images ?

@Horseymama1

11 ай бұрын

KZread law. Can't show images of dead people, people being hurt (on purpose) etc. channels will be closed.

WOW. This was an incredible documentary. So pathetically sad. So well done. One of the best I have ever saw. Thank you.

20:12 Of the 6 Marines that raised our Flag, 3 did not survive the battle. Semper Fi. My Uncle Vince was 4Th MarDiv.

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

@This_is_my_face

8 ай бұрын

Periods are a thing you know.

@MarcG7424

8 ай бұрын

Really ? I used a question mark so you wouldn't get confused

Super wonderful quality documentary shared by war stories channel....with informative coverage and obvious explanations...thank you

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!)

KZread STOP BLURRING THE VIDEOS. STOP ACTING LIKE A CHILD WE ARE ALL ADULTS HERE.

Great documentary

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.

@CrazyCranker

10 ай бұрын

Actually it was the fact that Russia declared war on Japan that swayed the Japanese into surrendering.

@fernandoamy8278

10 ай бұрын

@@CrazyCranker Sure, that’s why they surrendered just after the second atomic bomb was dropped.

@CrazyCranker

10 ай бұрын

@@fernandoamy8278 This is an interesting documentary on this often controversy and overlooked topic: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iX6BsKaSpMXIprA.html

How? Fight fire with fire! Congratulations, captain, your destroyer has been volunteered for radar picket duty! 😊

Excellent subject.

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

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

Provide your enemy the opportunity to die for their country. You first, I insist.

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!! 🛑🎯🎯🛑

@jyy9624

8 ай бұрын

I wouldn't call the kamikaze mentality for everything fighting well but individuals are another matter

@lewinkri6861

8 ай бұрын

Vietnam war......

I've always wondered why the Army Air Corps did not firebomb the Imperial Palace.

@mikeu5380

11 ай бұрын

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.

@treystephens6166

11 ай бұрын

@@mikeu5380I work with a girl from China 🇨🇳 and she hates Japan 🇯🇵❌🤬

@jaman878

5 ай бұрын

If you decapitate the regime, who gives the order to surrender.?

@Theman-qs9vw

3 ай бұрын

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

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.

@Liferestart6969

2 ай бұрын

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.

Shipped based 5” inch guns cause lots of damage!😮

Nagasaki wasn't the original target... Hence the Japanese say" the luck of Kokura."

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?

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.

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.

When a select few have temper tantrums, MILLIONS of ordinary folk pay!

@ 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.

@jeffreydevon5665

Жыл бұрын

I believe it was to show the Japanese people America had unmolested access to bombardment this would surely Let them know the truth !

@skippylanoue966

11 ай бұрын

the war in the Pacific was fought on a shoestring budget....fighting a two front war was more expensive than estimated

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 !

Your coverage is brilliant. The only thing that is very wrong is your bluring out the death and dead warrior's. How are the young growing and learning going to understand that war is not pretty? You are preforming a huge disservice to those gallant men who gave their all ❤ For those who gave any. Thank you for your service and our freedom ❤️ Lest we forget! You are not offending anyone other than the fallen. This is not right at all. Let their sacrifice be known and not distorted .Do not continue hiding what needs to be shown. Put a warning up for those whom it might upset. We should all be upset! War is moronic! So please let the history be learnt with all the facts. Cheers Mic

After watching hundreds of documentaries and having read many books on WW2 over fifty years, the Pacific theater of war was harder than the European theater, but gets less credit and attention.

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.

@johnlawler4241

11 ай бұрын

My Uncles step father stayed behind as he was in leave in Texas.

@hellomoto2084

9 ай бұрын

Are you also a marine veteran comrade .

Outstanding.

I love this channel

Look at the effort the world put together for this war and imagine that same uniting force for other things but war

I always thought it was odd that they put up the flag but the battle was not over.

@JaegerMatthias

2 ай бұрын

Not odd at all. Propaganda has value.

Deepest gratitude to America and all Americans who fought in WW2, especially the men and women from the Manhattan Project. The world we know today won't exist if Japan had won the war. America had shown too much mercy to Japan for the unspeakable atrocities committed in China and SE Asia.

Both my father and my wife’s father were in the military in WWII and set to go to the Pacific theater when the bombs A-bombs were dropped. If they had not been, neither of us might have been born. Millions of other people, both Allied and Japanese, would never have been born either. The Japanese were training children with sharpened sticks. Fanaticism broken only by the excuse of the bombs.