When I feel like I'm having a tough day I watch these old WW2 films to remind me of what a true tough day looks like.

my former neighbor was on an LST off the coast during this assault... a kamikazi left it's wingtip in his gun turrent during this battle... went between the bulkhead and the crane ... hit the water and blew up... the man had many instances like this during the war... We miss you Theodore...

@eagleeye6691

4 жыл бұрын

Regarding the impact of this experiences of this last world war on the incoming world war , the next war will be very fun , After being stripped DY american forces along with its allied from its heavy fire support assets they will be captured like chickens , you should see them between Iraq and Afghanistan to judge how long they will last in the incoming war .

My father was on the USS Colorado battleship during this invasion. He said they bombarded Okinawa for 30 days straight, 24 hours a day. They were hit by Kamakazi aircraft. It was a horrific battle, so many losses on both sides, but necessary to help end the damn war. Next up was the invasion of Japan proper. Thank God we ended it with those 2 bombs. The loss of life would have been ten fold. Dad made it through and was able to complete his career after the Korean debacle. RIP Dad, thanks to you and so many others I have had a great life.

@putteslaintxtbks5166

4 жыл бұрын

I've heard that it would have been a cost of over a million souls. If the bombs hadn't ended the war, my Dad was to be part of the invasion of Japan. He went on to also be apart of the Korean war. He past on a few months ago at age 93.

@1949rangerrick

4 жыл бұрын

puttesla intxtbks , thanks to your father’s service. We lost dad quite a few years ago. I make it my mission to shake the hand of every WW2 vet that I meet and also the Korean War vets . Of course that’s not happening right now. The youngest WW2 vet is probably 93 years old now. They are passing at a very fast rate. They will probably all be gone in the next 15 to 20 years.

@putteslaintxtbks5166

4 жыл бұрын

@@1949rangerrickSpell check or me? My Dad was to be in some of the first waves if Japan hadn't given up. The cost was high for each and every island. Thank God it ended before an invasion of Japan. They were/are a special generation.

To the Greatest Generation I say "Thank You". And to all vets of every war, again, Thank you for your service and sacrifice for our country. From a retired Navy Sailor.

The sheer chaos and mayhem of the battle is un fathomable to me. God bless all those who served.

My dad was on Okinawa during this war. He was in the Signal Corps of the old Army Air Corps. I miss his stories. Miss you, dad.

@JohnSmith-fb7nz

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like he was a good dad. I had one too. I miss my old man as well, not so much for me I would have liked for him and us to be a long lived grandfather. Still, not to be so lets be thankful for the good man we knew and carry his legacy to our own

@phillipasalisbury7570

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Modeltnick I saw your post please accept my sincere sympathies at the loss of your dad

@Modeltnick

4 жыл бұрын

John Smith . Thanks for your response. We have to cherish the memories that we have of our fathers. We don’t know what we had until it’s gone. Appreciate your kind words.

@Modeltnick

4 жыл бұрын

Phillipa Salisbury . Thanks for your kind words and condolences. I guess we don’t really appreciate our fathers enough while they are still with us. Thanks again!

My dad served on the USS Picking DD685. His destroyer was part of the radar picket line at Okinawa. Those were mighty brave men who fought in the Navy and the Marines and Army on Okinawa itself.

@francisbusa1074

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the Picking... I remember we operated with her. In fact she accompanied us and Henry B. Wilson DDG 7 in February '68 when we deployed to WESTPAC off Vietnam. I was on USS Gridley DLG 21. Picking was still around since the BIG ONE, the "good war".

@francisbusa1074

4 жыл бұрын

BTW, Shalom, my friend.

Keep em coming. These legendary videos should be mandatory in high schools. Man from the music the narrator the engines whining AA guns rocking. Freaking cannons man the rounds impacting. Love it!!

We did this 75 years ago, twice on opposite oceans. The logistics required is mind boggling, especially considering the fact they had no digital computing or storage of any real account. It would be a herculean task even today. Wow, just wow.

@20alphabet

4 жыл бұрын

Math was taught in school back then.

@sid2112

4 жыл бұрын

@@20alphabet hehe good point

At last a 3 second acknowledgement that there were other allied forces involved in this conflict !

A great film and a fitting tribute to the US serviceman's fighting spirit and tenacity. It was good to see an acknowledgement that the British navy was also present in these battles. The British public celebrate VE Day believing that the WW2 ended then. The men of the Far East are unfortunately mostly ignored. The soldiers referred to themselves as "The Forgotten Army". Long may our US/UK a;;dance prevail.

@VictorySpeedway

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Our British Allies in the Far East, India, Burma and other hell holes fought magnificently, and seldom receive any credit for their bravery and sacrifice. Our Canadian neighbors are mentioned far too seldom, as well. Never forget Dieppe. To my UK Cousins, Thank You. May we always be friends and allies.

I served on Okinawa from Aug 74-Sep75 with the United States Marine Corps. I remember visiting old concrete shelters to protect Japanese planes. WOW, bullet rounds had hit everywhere in the concrete. Semper Fi

@putteslaintxtbks5166

4 жыл бұрын

Simper fi. Okinawa 1977.

@katherinegates1559

4 жыл бұрын

🇺🇸 Semper Fi .....My father was there at Okinawa and Guadalcanal...1942-46 1st Marine Division. He passed away in 1996 and I miss him everyday. 💞Love and Peace to All Our Brave Veterans always.💞✌️🇺🇸 Thank you ever so much for your service....Love You All. God Bless Our America🇺🇸

@putteslaintxtbks5166

4 жыл бұрын

@@katherinegates1559 My Dad was on Siapan (sp) with the Army and would have been part of the first waves onto Japan mainland (of course behind the Marines, I assume!) Also he was in the Korean war. He past a few months ago. He didn't speak much about it till a few years ago when they made the WW2 memorial, he began going through his photos, got together with some of his Army friends, etc. Would have loved to have gotten him to DC to see it, but then his wife past and so too, his legs. He was 93.

@katherinegates1559

4 жыл бұрын

@@putteslaintxtbks5166 God Bless your Dad.🇺🇸✌️ My dad would never talk to me about the war....My mom did share many stories with me. He got home from the war Feb.14th 1946 and I was born in 47. Thank you for sharing with me...Our Dads were very Brave. All Our Veteran's....Never To Be Forgotten.🇺🇸 Love and Peace to you and your family...always🥰 Please...Stay Safe and Well. ty xo💙

@putteslaintxtbks5166

4 жыл бұрын

@@katherinegates1559 Thank you. I'm sure your father would have had grand stories to tell. I'm also sure they would have brought great painful memories with them. Things nobody should have had to go through. Both of those were horrendous battle grounds! I'm very thankful I didn't see any war during my service with the Marines. The war against the Vietcong had just ended and I heard many stories from fellow Marines who did, that can bring tears to my eye even today when I remember them. Bless your father and all who served and fought for our country and our families futures. God bless you and your family. I don't think it will be long before our Lords return and our reunion with our loved ones who have gone on before us.

When i was in the Navy back in the 80s we were deployed to camp Marvin Shields (Seabees) Okinawa was beautiful and i would love to go back

The final scene in this film gives me the goose bumps !

My "Pop" (Grandfather) was there. He fought in the Navy, in the pacific. He lied about his age at 16 to enter right after Pearl Harbor. I miss him and his war stories.

It was a video like this one of the US Navy landing on Languyan Gulf in the Philippines that msde me understand how my mother's youngest brother got PTSD from exploding ordnance in ships the suicide pilots hit.

*Every American owes a huge debt of gratitude and never-ending perseverance to retain the victory for which The Greatest Generation fought!*

*UK - USA* RIP fallen heroes.

My dad who passed in 2017 at age 92 served on USS Louisville CA 28 from 1943-46: USS LOUISVILLE CA- 28 Heavy Cruiser 1944-45 1 - Extensive shelling Island of Wotje in Marshalls. 2 - Bombardment Roi & Namur Islands. 3 - Led gunfire support Eniwetok Island. 4 - Bombarded Palaus Island. 5 - Bombarded Truk & Sawatan. 6 - 11 days of continued fire support Siapan. 7 - Bombarded Tinian & Guam. 8 - Enter Leyte Gulf - support major allied invasion force & shelled shore installations for 7 straight days. 9 - Battle of Surigao Strait - Flagship for Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf. 10 - Support landings at Lingayen Gulf. Hit by (2) kamikaze & killed Rear Admiral Theodore Chandler & many sailors. 11 - Fire support for Okinawa. Hit by another Kamikaze. 12 - Delivered Bull Halsey’s officers & staff - (150) to USS Missouri. 13 - Continued fire support duties. 14 - War ends. 15 - Escorted surrendered Japanese ships from Tsingato, China to Jinsen, Korea. God Bless our service men and service women - past and present!

Then in 1977, Pres.Carter gave Okinawa back to the Japanese. I was there on that day. We multiplied are watches, thinking the Okinawan people may protest. After all, the Japanese solders didn't treat them well, many starving, I've been told, pre-U.S. liberating them. I also found it strange, that I watch a WW2, Pacific, John Wayne(sp) movie on their local 📺 TV and at the end, it had the Japanese winning the war. All the rest of the movie was unchanged, just the last few seconds, people yelling, that Japan had won. All us Marines watching, began laughing out loud.

@IvanDmitriev1

4 жыл бұрын

The handover of Okinawa was in 1972, actually.

@putteslaintxtbks5166

4 жыл бұрын

@@IvanDmitriev1 The deal may have been made then, but I was there when the handover took place, that was 1977. I lived it real time.

@putteslaintxtbks5166

4 жыл бұрын

@@IvanDmitriev1 There also may have been stages and maybe part of that was 1972?

2:04 "To the South, our British allies were attacking the forepost of Formosa! They were wrecking Sakashima with shells and bombs" Oh, that's why Tsai Ing Wen is wrecking LSE's reputation with her doctoral thesis! Revenge is a dish best served cold indeed. 2:52 "It was the Fourth of July in reverse on Japanese shipping..." which were being attacked by mysterious airdropped Redcoats? 4:29 delivery of everyone's mom's sandwich 10:06 "This is the fleet which came to staaaay 🎵~ and not the fleet which left me and ran awaaaay ~🎵~"

@stephenarling1667

4 жыл бұрын

Ivan, life is short. Don't be a dick.

@PurpleObscuration

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephenarling1667, Ans life is shorter when left behind.

Keep in mind the high kill ratio vs enemy aircraft was credited to RADAR and the unspoken hero here, the VT proximity shell. The VT round has a radar fuse that detonates when in range of an aircraft. Deadly as hell when laid on a target. But the numbers bore the answer to the decision makers to bring fruition the billions of dollars and an unholy amount of resources poured into the Manhattan Project; Split the Atom instead of invading Japan.

@allandavis8201

4 жыл бұрын

Nighthawke70, never heard of a “RADAR” fuse in the Second World War, is that similar to a proximity fuse? How did it work? I didn’t think that RADAR was sophisticated enough or the technology available to make something small enough for a fuse with RADAR at its heart. A very interesting premise for its time, can you explain or leave a link so I can read up on it please. Thanks 😊👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@eagleeye6691

4 жыл бұрын

A Very Briefed & Summerized Ideas : Radars helped discover Japanese formations from distances providing some early warning capabilities , but radar technology was still in its infancy and far from ideal , although theoretically the open waters helps radars to work in the absence of obstacles terrains that cluttering the radar waves . But the reasons why our Japanese friends lost the war and they could not benefited from this newly implemented tactics are mostly was organic, e.g they start their attacks on the DY united states very much prematurely ,and when they conduct their blessed attack against pearl harbor , they stopped short from making the operation a half step toward the total victory in all standards and criteria either from combat operational point of view when they did not prioritised destroying the HQs especially human targets and the fuel depots beside the battelships and destroyers or from wider strategic prospect investing in the element of surprise of the raid and with it the overwhelming firepower they employed to occupy the Hawaiian archipelago and thus forcing the main assets of the DY american fleet, especially the american various size kuscraft carriers, and the remnant of the DY american surface combat ships along side its submarines force to ambush in a very well designated killing zone . Where here the KAMIKAZE attacks would had been very useful tactics in sinking the DY american kuscraft carriers especially the main kuscraft carriers ( we know the DY american possess huge kus force and various size kuscraft carriers and it like to use it extensively during war time and keep it warm by playing with it in all oceans across the world ) . With regard to the high rate of shooting down Japanese fighter that the DY americans succeeded in achieving , a major part of which is due to : 1- the density of anti-aircraft weapons utilized onboard the DY americans surface combat shipsand thus the rate of fire per minute per m2 that they can deploy in the air. 2- The DY american employment of the VT proximity fuse, but this issue indicates a large-scale strategic, operational, and most important field tactical intelligence failure on the part of our Japanese friends where with the naked eye it can be seen that the explosive and ballistic characteristic of this munition differ from standard impact fuse munitions. 3- The design of the Japanese combat aircrafts especially the fighters / interceptors comes Within a book of conditions and specifications which priorities technical specifications and performance characteristics at the expense of improving survivability beside our Japanese friends industry was small and lacking the necessary expertise to be flexible in dealing with emerging flaws , like the fragility of the fuel tank that makes the shooting down of Japanese planes an easy task even when it being struck by small caliber aa rounds. 4- The nature of the DY american targets that the Japanese sought to pursue in the oceans and seas with their Holy Winds attacks , where they concentrated the most of their KAMIKAZE attacks on the main combat assets of DY american fleets especially the kuscraft carriers and its combat group including the floating early warning and command & control station the aa destroyers which operate the radar systems ., maybe with some battleships , which made those waves of planes shattered between multiple defensive lines or rings which end by the intensive aaa weapons . But if they had concentrated their attacks on chaising softer targets the large troop transport ships, logistical supply ships e.g : fuel ships , weapon and ammo ships , food and water ships they would have been succeeded in destroying large proportion of the actual combat assets ( landing forces along with tens or hundreds of thousands of weapons and munitions) inflicting huge losses on the DY american in the middle of the ocean , and with it forcing the DY american to redirect a large portion of its combat assets to protect those vital transports and logistcs assets : ( troop transport ships and logistic supply ships ...etc ) without being able to provide effective protection , however, away from DY american exaggerations. The general rate is not bad. About 12 Japanese aircraft lost to every DY american ship that was hit but sinking the ships are generally subject to different physics rules . .... Always And Forever May GOD Bless The Un United States Of HM Shninasios .....

@Nighthawke70

3 жыл бұрын

@@allandavis8201 RADAR was used to spot the incoming threats and vector the interceptors to them, plus alert and maneuver ships to screen the attackers. The VT rounds used radio ranging, a very short range version of RADAR. RADAR was mounted in variants of the Hellcat and Corsair fighters, making them potent in night engagements. Plus the US Navy crews were better trained in gunnery skills.

thank you for this. my dad was in this part as a corpsman on an LST. i served their in NaHa 22 years later. 🙏🏼🇺🇸⚓️

Loved this Video ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Who are the 6 morons that gave this archival film about the quiet generation a thumbs down? I doubt they would have the courage to go into such an intense battle.

@david9783

4 жыл бұрын

They were snowflakes, bet on it.

@istvansipos9940

4 жыл бұрын

you don't know whether they would have that courage. neither do they. although they have a better chance to judge that, for they probably know themselves a little. And maybe the clicked dislike simply because they did not like the video. How dare they not like what we like? come on

@warrenpuckett4203

4 жыл бұрын

A veteran is not afraid of dying in battle. He is afraid of living. That is because the a battle may be over but the war is not. The bad part is when the battles continue after the war has ceased. I never understood why my uncles never said much more than than "That Battle of the Bulge. That was something." That is until it was my turn. Sometimes watching a movie brings it all back.

That was wicked.

Wow, an American newsreel that acknowledges the presence and contributions of the British, commonwealth and allied forces in the Pacific war, well smack me stupid with a kipper, wonders will never cease, in fact, twice in a row, just watched the film about General Stilwell, and that included acknowledgement of the rest of the world (except Russia), high praise indeed, thanks America, and Periscope Films. 😀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍/10 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Okinawa was a bloodbath that didn’t need to happen, I hope those who sent those young Kamikaze pilots, and the allied forces that died because of them, rot in hell. RIP Lest We Forget .

My father was there in 1945 and he said he would have been killed in any further invasion of Japan.

50000 shots of battleships firing

Hve always wondered how many of those defensive rounds fired impacted nearby ships and caused injuries or deaths.

Happy V Jay Day! 😲🤦‍♂️ Oops. Should have said VJ Day. 😉

My Grandpa fought the Battle of Okinawa. Then 41 years later, as a young Marine in 1986, I was sent there for my first duty station. Funny how life works out.

@PeriscopeFilm

2 жыл бұрын

God bless your grampa.

@marine4lyfe85

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeriscopeFilm Thanks very much. And thank you for all the historical films. I'm a big fan.

@PeriscopeFilm

2 жыл бұрын

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спасибо супер

是一場慘烈但是偉大光榮的戰役，為那群壯烈犧牲的美國勇士們致敬，他們英勇的行為永刻吾心！

Banzaii

the bravest and greatest generation ever....i could not imagine the idiots of today (2020) doing this ...the sissy would be crying...”whats the government going to do for me” ....i stand and salute the flag....i thank and respect all veterans past, present and future

Very Briefly : It was very unfortunate that the KAMIKAZE attacks were very much disorganized and came in the final stages of the war as a desperate measure on the part of our Japanese friends while the tactical and operational employments did not mature to produce an effective outcome on the ground , same things goes for the banzai charges . If they had enough time to devolpe it as organic tactic within the operational plan of the battle in the midway, the outcome of the war would have been completely different , and I disagree with the notion said that Donkey united states were beyond defeat in ww2 due to its industrial capabilities , in the end DY americans was involved in comprehensive war on two front and across the 4 continent against enemies who possess great combat efficiency that exceeds the fighting skills and capabilities of the DY americans at the operational and tactical levels while strategically , the industrial output and the access to raw materials and oil beside the maturity of the industrial complex what determined the outcome of the war . In my opinion, the mistakes of the Nazis are enormous, and Hitler's first sin is to wage war on the miserable Bolshevik Union before resolving the English question, with an emphasis on England the DY united states would be dragged to this war and with it , the project DY america ( or hunting this buffalo ) could have been shared between the Japanese empire and F germany . But they had to work to create a comprehensive coordination mechanism instead of sporadic bilateral cooperation , while I think project american and due to its geographic continental size would had been ended with the super weapon or the nuclear from behalf of F germany and Japan , although defeating the DY american naval forces were an achievable task especially after conquering england , that necessitated the conquest of ireland , Iceland and greenland to cut the english supply route coming from DY america and the english colony canada and with it isolate england from its colonies around the world , all of it were achievable tasks .

@brianjonker510

4 жыл бұрын

What is a DY America?

@eagleeye6691

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianjonker510 DY from donkey only they will delete my comment

I would imagine that the japanese on the recieving end of all that must of thought... What the Hell have we done !