Would you have preferred to be deployed to the European or Asian theater of World War 2?

@biogamer5629

Ай бұрын

After watching the pacific and hearing the stories I would rather be in the european theater

@corwintipper7317

Ай бұрын

European since I can't really deal with the heat of the Pacific theatre I'd hate fighting against Japan as well

@billmalone9949

Ай бұрын

The more I hear about the Pacific theater, the more I'd choose European theater if I had the choice.

@m2hmghb

Ай бұрын

ETO. Step grandfather was part of a heavy weapons squad in late 44 - missed D-Day. His memories of Europe were a lot different then my grandfather who was a Marine Raider (later 2nd bat 4th Marine Regiment) on Okinawa and other places. Grandpa was discharged in 46 in California and walked home to NJ in about a year's time to get his head on straight.

@matthewruiz5709

Ай бұрын

European theater.

1.2% of all ww2 medal of honor recipient served in that unit. That's impressive

@stalinsoulz7872

Ай бұрын

Damn. 🔥

@redaug4212

Ай бұрын

Wait until you see the 3rd Infantry Division's haul

Guys who served in the 77th talked about the POW thing in a documentary about Desmond Doss. There was a special hatred between the men of the 77th and the Japanese. It stemmed from their early days of the Guam Campaign. One of their patrols was ambushed by the Japanese and the men were stuck in their positions hearing the Japanese torturing their buddies all night. The following morning they advanced and discovered the mutilated corpses. The Japanese had chopped off their privates and put them in their mouths. From then on, Desmond Doss was the only person willing to save a Japanese soldier that was wounded. It is also why the ratio is so much worse on Okinawa. Desmond Doss was actually wounded fairly early on in their campaign.

@Keeli129

Ай бұрын

After looking up Unit 731 I image that might have been the least graphic torture they saw, can also understand the older generations hatred toward Japanese, cause damn.

@joemomma2189

Ай бұрын

Oh believe me, it can get WAY worse if you look at history- it's why I get incensed when I hear other americans say 'the nukes were unnecessary'- I want to say to them to ask the Chinese that.

@KnOnHeavensDoor

Ай бұрын

​​@@joemomma2189I was so pissed at Tucker for saying you are evil if you think dropping nukes on civilians in Japan was the right thing to do . Tucker always seemed so based to me but he has a weak stomach . I wish nukes were not a thing but on the other hand its probably why there have not been a huge full scale WW since they were invented.

@SupersuMC

19 күн бұрын

@@KnOnHeavensDoor As Ahoy said, "A tool of peace, but what a terrible price."

yes, never give a lieutenant the compass and map, EVER, or else you'll end up in Shanghai instead of Paris

@I_Stole_A_BTR-80

Ай бұрын

"Sir, we can't even begin to understand these roadsigns anymore" "Yeah, that's because they're in French"

@FinnJames1468

Ай бұрын

@@I_Stole_A_BTR-80I mean, he ain’t wrong, French is incomprehensible

@benn454

Ай бұрын

Can't spell lost without LT.

@Just4FC

Ай бұрын

@@benn454 true

@Just4FC

Ай бұрын

@@FinnJames1468 Especially foreign légion french

Somethings off...Mr Terry isn't wearing a hat!

@nontrashfire2

Ай бұрын

Fair enough

@johnmccarty8217

Ай бұрын

It probably hurts the sunburn 😂

@josephfoster5593

Ай бұрын

Ha off… good pun

@saltymisfit6566

Ай бұрын

His head might be a little sensitive because it looks like a roasted lobster

@FrogmanAnime

Ай бұрын

We demand an explanation…where’s the army helmet. But he’s sunburnt to the wazu…so I guess teach has a hall pass for today

So likely one of the reasons why the 77th didn't take as many prisoners was because the enemy was already dead by the time they got to the place to take prisoners. Remember, the 77th was noted for having a "higher than average Expert Marksman" number. Japanese solders would probably poke their heads out only to get a .30-06 lobotomy before they were able to do anything. Might also be that they knew (probably from experience) that Japanese soldiers would also fake surrendering to get close enough shove their grenades into American soldiers/Marines, so if a group surrendered and one of them did something stupid (like go for a grenade), they'd just hose the whole group down with bullets (or flames if the Japanese soldiers were unlucky).

@gilliganallmighty3

Ай бұрын

For the WWII War Crime Championship, you have representing the European Theatre: Give it up for CANADA! Representing the Pacific Theatre: Lets hear it for JAPAN!

@user-kt9kj1vn2k

Ай бұрын

A little of all that. My father was in the 77th. He said most of the time you had to physically take them. They had that code where to be captured dishonored ones entire family. Thus the banzai charges and suicides.

That Japanese solder was an Imperial Intelligence Officer. He surrendered when his commander came back to Phillipenes in 1974. I forget his name.

@seanpranieri

Ай бұрын

Hiroo Onada is who you’re thinking of. Dan Carlin did an amazing podcast about him and why Japanese were so willing to die for their country

@cameronbean2052

Ай бұрын

I could be wrong but I believe there was another story of a Japanese soldier that hid out on Guam for years as well. I could be wrong though.

@stalinsoulz7872

Ай бұрын

​@@cameronbean2052one I remember is on Saipan. Named Hiro the Fox. There's a movie about him?

@brandonmann9952

Ай бұрын

​@@stalinsoulz7872there was Hirro Onoda in the Philippines, the movie Onoda was about him.

@1DwtEaUn

Ай бұрын

Private Teruo Nakamura, would finally hand himself in on the 18th of December 1974.

54:00 I believe the Army said he saved 150 and Doss said 50 so they split it at 75. He saved several Japanese soldiers as well.

@benn454

Ай бұрын

Who mysteriously "didn't make it".

58:15 You are probably thinking of Hiroo Onoda, who surrendered 29 years later only after they found his commanding officer and flew him down to relieve him of his duties. Interesting take from Hiroo, he saw the newspapers that people left for him as proof the war wasn't over instead of proof that it was over, because to him if Japan really lost, then Japan would have ceased to exist. So whenever he got newspapers and messages from Japan, he assumed the war was still going on. His diary is wild btw. I really recommend it!

Oh no Mr. Terry, I was a DI, most of the time it's fun, but you get, in every batch of new recruits, those that have no idea how life even works, never mind the military. You'll give them an order and they'll ask "Why"... or say stuff like "I'm just a bit tired today, I'd prefer to rest"... They are horrible to work with. Luckily they don't last long

@benn454

Ай бұрын

Ah yes, running, knife hands, and getting smoked. "Fun" 😂

@saplingthrasher23

24 күн бұрын

​@@benn454The calm/words spoken soflty in your ear knife hands are the scariest.😮

If you are wondering how many casualties they expected invading Japan, when they thought the invasion was coming they started making Purple Hearts. 80 years later every Purple Heart we have given out since WW2 was a Purple Heart made for the invasion. Literally millions of Purple Hearts for Korea, Vietnam, gulf war, GWAT, etc, all from the stash they expected to need. It’s probable that it would have caused tens of millions of deaths on both sides as well as having destroyed a majority of the island through carpet and firebombing.

@robertlombardo8437

10 күн бұрын

Good Lord. I didn't know that...

@Jonathandoeforth

2 күн бұрын

I remember hearing that the expected casualties for the American’s were around 1 million. The civilian and soldier loss for the Japanese were expected to be much, much higher.

This is the reason why POVs matter. I'm from Chile and did 7 years in the army. Our last war wasn't even in the last century, so when you get to train with US army or Marines, they teach you their perspective of combat, of new techniques, on really small stuff that could save you from a bullet. And you also laugh at other things, like, I "un-officially" became the Marine's interpreter, because I was better that the one they have. We have completely different words to say mundane and specific stuff, we've been studied as to why we came to have so many "chilenism". So their interpreters were fluid in mexican-spanish and proper spanish, but not chilean spanish, which as a whole different can of worms. "Bah! The war started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, bah!" Yeah, but the US joined the war in 1941, and they were aware it was already going on. The US was just like "Meh, we had enough with WW1, let the europeans figure this one out".

@LillithPlaysSims

Ай бұрын

Fascinating perspective. I think with America a big factor too was the government knowing the American people would absolutely riot about being involved before it got made personal

15:00 there wasn’t just one story like that, there were dozens. One Japanese officer didn’t officially surrender until 1974. His commanding officer during wwii owned a book shop after the war. They had to fly that gentleman to the officer’s position so that the old man could officially relieve the officer from his duties.

18:37 When I went through basic in August 2001, the oldest guy in our company was 31. Dude was a tank of a man, too. Just absolutely massive.

@HoustonJP

Ай бұрын

The oldest guy in my division in boot camp was 33, and they said that 34 was the cutoff age.

@sierramike0913

Ай бұрын

In mine, we had someone 33, 31, 28 (me), and then the next oldest was 20 with the rest being 19-17. We also had a hell of a time keeping the young bucks from getting us all smoked for stupid things like shaving properly.

@arthurmoloch

Ай бұрын

had a guy who was 36 when I went through, and I was old at 28. most of the drill sgt's were 25-28. 1 was 23, and that guy was seriously nuts.

@stalinsoulz7872

Ай бұрын

​@@sierramike0913do they call you "grey beard"? Young bucks often called you old (pun intended) bastards "old breed and mean"

@sierramike0913

Ай бұрын

@@stalinsoulz7872 No, never did get any fun nicknames like that. Though we did get tasked to do things that required more experience than what you'd expect from a young buck. For example, I was tasked to aid others in combatives training due to being a black belt in two different martial arts and having assisted in teaching newer martial arts students.

I have a friend of mine who was an Air Wing Marine, his unit flew over to Iwo Jima for some kind of training mission and for a few Marines re enlistment ceremony. He was able to collect sand and volcanic rock from the beach on Iwo Jima where landings occurred, he gave me some recently and I was overwhelmed with emotion knowing that several thousand of my Brother Marines died on that beach. It sits in a place of honor in my home as a reminder of those who gave all for our freedom. Before anyone get's all up in arms Iwo Jima is not inhabited by anyone it is a military installation of the U.S. It has not been 100% cleared of any unexploded ordinance and it is strongly suggested to the Marines who do have the honor to go there to stay on the foot paths that are available. It is also promoted for the Marines to take some of the sand and rocks from the invasion beach so that feel connected to a piece of history surrounding the Marine Corps. I am truly honored to have some of the sand and rocks from Iwo Jima and I will keep it in a place of honor in my home and pass it on to my surviving family members after I pass away.

To be fair MacArthur was also the one that stopped the M1 Garand from being in .276 Pedersen. While it was a better round having dealt with logistics and politicians he knew how much more important it was to keep 30-06 to standardize on. Also the size of the US Army in 1918 was 4,000,000 men - but 150,000 were deployed to France. My great grandfather was one of them.

I'm not a student anymore but I still love listening to the side notes Mr. Terry adds to the video. I don't care if its an hour long; I knew what I was getting into!

Anything about the Lost Generation is always gonna be hugely popular with GenX. Kindred Generations.

If you get a chance, there is a video of Desmond Doss interview he gave before his death. It goes into stuff that is not in Hacksaw Ridge. A lot of it falls into “truth is stranger than fiction “ category.

@tmac8396

14 күн бұрын

When they were filming the movie about Audie Murphy, starring him as himself, he had them keep stuff out because he thought no one would believe it. Even today, when you read what he actually did, it makes most war and action movies look like wannabes. So yeah, I can totally believe that what Doss did was stranger than any fiction about him, and let's face it, his commitment to his ideals already placed him in that category, but also earned him a great deal of respect from pretty much everyone.

I went into active army at 17 in 2004, oldest guys in my basic were 35,38, and 40. As electron chonker said, i was also one of those who went in at 17 and retired with full pension before 40.

i just imagine a group of junior year high school kids getting jumped by a gang of grown men. These guys probably seemed like monsters

About the japanese soldiers who still fought after the capitulation of Japan, check the stories of Hirō Onoda and Shōichi Yokoi. They are the two most known of these soldiers. They were discovered and brought back only during the 70s.

@MrTerry I remember being on a ship and all those under 25 had to go through a command drunk driving awareness training. Now several of us had just arrived to the ship within the last year and we were ranged 26-30 in age. My work center supervisor, who had to go to his 3rd, was quite upset that we didn't have to go. We ragged on him, while drinking our fresh coffee, with lines like, "Back in our day...", "Back before 'Nam we would...", etc just get get his goat. We paid for it later by having to clean console filters and other BS. We had our few minutes of fun.

The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteburg is the King of the Hill episode for anyone who's curious.

Someone needs to make a video on what exactly Italy did during WW2 because all I ever hear about is what Germany and Japan did. Were they active or did they just sit back and try to get a grade while Germany and Japan did all the work?

@OuPoot999

Ай бұрын

They tried to invade Greece, but got their asses handed to them so badly that Greece invaded them back and then they asked Germany for help. They also successfully invaded Ethopia who was armed with bows and arrows and Italy still lost far more men than they should have.

@Taabituubi

Ай бұрын

What exactly Italy did during WW2? Not a whole lot, much to the dismay of Uncle Adolf.

@marquisdelafayette1929

Ай бұрын

@@Taabituubimore like every time they tried doing something they failed spectacularly like the guy above points out about Greece. Or how Mussolini decided to take Africa, failed and needed the Germans to bail him out yet again. Adolf was furious and had to move troops that he’d have preferred to be fighting in the East.

One of my soldiers joined under my command at the age of 42

@rcslyman8929

Ай бұрын

Yeah, back in '99 when I was going through BMT and tech school, our old guy was a 40 year old ANG enlistee. It's not unheard of, but... definitely not common.

Don't forget about Canada on D day we pushed in further in land then any other landing teams 👌🏽💀

@Suddenly-Eggs

Ай бұрын

Those lumberjacks invented "war crime the first time" in WW1. Everyone knows you're polite on paper but fight like grizzlies.

@thewitchking852

Ай бұрын

Any American who knows his history knows to keep our friendly northern neighbors well...friendly. 1812 didn't go too hot for us. Lets keep fighting on the hockey rink, not the battlefield. Much love from a US Marine

@willarth9186

Ай бұрын

I never forget that Canadians kicked our USA asses TWICE when we tried to invade! Once in the Revolutionary War AND during the War of 1812. I don't think any other group of people can say that. Must be because of the maple syrup...

@robreesor5011

29 күн бұрын

​​@@thewitchking852 1812 was plenty hot enough...we roasted marshmellows over the whitehouse before heading home🤣🤣

@thewitchking852

29 күн бұрын

@@robreesor5011 alright there bud, meet me at center ice and drop gloves. We settle this like men 🤣 (Go Bruins by way. Pasta baby!!!) Give yer balls a tug!

Pop Quiz... name the only country to pay it's Lend Lease debt? To stop the confusion created by my lack of specificity... the only country to pay back ALL of it's lend lease debt was Finland. Other countries paid a portion and had debt forgiven, but that is not the same.

@nontrashfire2

Ай бұрын

definition of the terms that you are pursuing?

@jasonduncan69

Ай бұрын

There are 2. Russia and England both settled their lend lease debt

@nontrashfire2

Ай бұрын

Lend Lease was, in the US, previously known as the Lend Lease Act. It can have different definitions regarding the time frame and the country to which you are referring to in this specific time frame you are referring to.

@MW_Asura

Ай бұрын

Pop quiz: Name the only country that still b*tches about World War 2 because it's the only significant war it fought?

@charleystewart8330

Ай бұрын

@jasonduncan69 having the debt written off is not the same as paying it back. Neither of them paid their lend lease debt.

Mr Terry! He had a post credits scene in this one! I really wish you would have finished it!

@benn454

Ай бұрын

The thought of 15,000 Angry Cops storming a beachhead is horrifying.

What’s fascinating is that while Japan sided with Germany, they didn’t agree with the genocide they were committing. Even so, Unit 731 was committing some of the worst human rights violations, and there is no word in my language that wouldn’t be considered an understatement for that.

The japanese soldier Hiroo Oroda surrendered in 1974. It took his commander to come back to relieve him. The phillipean government pardon him even though he killed 30 civillians because they wanted to put thw past in the past and Oroda believed the war was still happening

According to National WWII Museum, draftees from WWI were not drafted again in WWII.

@iKvetch558

Ай бұрын

True, but they were not prohibited from volunteering...so that is how a WWI veteran could still serve in the 77th ID.

@reidithink

Ай бұрын

​@@iKvetch558preach

@pugh783

Ай бұрын

You said draftees that would not include those who volunteered. Also worth noting is that 41000 Americans Volunteered allied military units French, British, Canadian etc. to fight in ww1. So it is possible that the ww1 vet of the 77th did not fight with the US military in ww1

@charleystewart8330

Ай бұрын

@pugh783 I just looked up the data and sited the source. Just showing that Draftees from WWI were not Drafted again in WWII. Volunteers are not Draftees.

@DemonSliime

Ай бұрын

Mr Terry specifically asked about how many people were *drafted* into both wwi and wwii. The answer is zero for the US.

I understand how, on first glance, those numbers can seem suspect, but they were a front-line devision. They were also the "problem solvers" as he put it. So they were going up against people who had already won one or 2 fights against Americans before. This caused them to be much less likely to surrender. As well, if you do watch hacksaw Ridge again, Desmond Doss was injured by people pretending to surrender. There were other Frontline units with similar prisoners to casuality ratios in the Pacific. I'm sure isolated instances of war crimes did happen, but it wasn't a mass occurrence like the numbers suggested.

The last Japanese soldier to surrender did so in 1972. Don't remember his name. He never believed that Japan surrendered. When they learned who he was they had his commanding officer from WWII shipped from Japan and his commander then ordered him to surrender at which point he did. The story gets even crazier, but I'm not gonna write it all down.

@scottbivins4758

Ай бұрын

I actually want to hear the rest of it.

@OuPoot999

Ай бұрын

@@scottbivins4758 google is a thing

@1DwtEaUn

Ай бұрын

Private Teruo Nakamura, he would finally hand himself in on the 18th of December 1974. He outlasted Hiroo Onada by a few months.

My Great Grandfather was part of the 77th. He was in his 30s when he joined. This is such a great account of the 77th. He fought on Ie Shima and to the end of the Battle of Okinawa. Then in the Philippines. Amazing stories he told to us but still very reserved. Now, I’m retired and Okinawa is home. It’s amazing to live amongst so much amazing history.

The 77th was one of most highly trained outfits in the war. They were one month shy of 2 yrs when they left the mainland US. They were trained in amphibious, winter mountain, and desert warfare. Many of them even had some ranger training. My dad said the training in lousiana sucked. But the dessert training was worse. Adding insult to injury they had to build the desert base before training. It was named camp Hyder.

@willarth9186

Ай бұрын

For anyone wondering why the 77th went through TWO years of training in the States, it's because of the lack of shipping. MANY divisions didn't go overseas until the buildup for D-Day because why ship people to England if they are just going to sit and, in the meantime, you have to use precious cargo ships to feed them there? Keep them in the States while you send all the equipment first so you can mate men to material just before D-Day. Same for the Pacific Theatre... One reason the US soldiers were so good once in combat was because for hundreds of thousands of them they trained, trained, trained for f'ing months and months and months before going overseas.

Nice content. I'm subscribed to The Fat Electrician and watched that video a few day's ago. I watched the whole thing over on your channel and enjoyed the extra commentary and points of view very much

Hey Mr. Terry you should go on the unsubscribe podcast, The Fat patrician is a host to it

@MrTerry

Ай бұрын

He invited me to come on if I can find my way to Texas. Maybe one day!

@canaangrap4110

Ай бұрын

@@MrTerry hopefully sometime soon and thats super cool cause i love unsub and i love your vids

@Eric-mc5to

Ай бұрын

VTH MrTerry and TFE on Unsub

@scottbivins4758

Ай бұрын

​@@MrTerryWould love to see you on there with eli an donut operator angrycops and hopefully future congressman Brandon Herria an the fat electrician 😂😂 id definitely would tune in for that that would a must watch an see podcast. I

@aidenhall9832

Ай бұрын

@@MrTerryyou need to find your way! Summer break is coming up! I’d love to see you on the podcast!

Mr. Terry, the long videos are awesome. I certainly don’t expect them all to be long, but I think a few more every once in a while would be fantastic!! (Best history teacher I’ve ever had/not had irl).

It's worth noting what was seen in WW2 was not samurai culture. It was a newly constructed "bushido" that was meant in the late 1890s to create a generation of soldiers that would be effective in letting Japan take its place as a peer to colonial powers. It referenced samurai culture, but it was revisionist history intended to make Japanese citizens ideologically militant. That's not to say id DID make them ideologically militant. It certainly encouraged aggression in war, but many of the "never surrender" things we hear about are grossly overstated. Japanese soldiers did surrender, and the surviving kamikaze pilots made it very clear that their volunteerism was heavily coerced rather than truly voluntary, with significantly higher survival rates than you would expect, given their mission profile.

On my first deployment there was a 42 y.o. Private who joined after his daughter joined. This was in 2008/2009, during the military’s “any warm body” phase.

Having previously served in the 96th sustainment brigade (the reincarnated 96 ID), they worked with the 77th hand in hand. I spent 4 years in Okinawa where the 96th landed and built their beachhead. There are still turret bunkers lining the beaches because they were carved out of the rocks. Just incredible to have been there, and insane how every storm washed up more and more grenades (pineapple grenades, water logged for 60-70 years.)

"#1 seed in the tournament gets a bye" is a GOATed line lmao

@MrTerry I looked up WW1 and the average age killed in the war was 26. However; by far the most killed were 19 years old.

I'm 70 years old. WWII was my father's generation. My classmates and I knew a little about where our fathers had been and where some of our friends' fathers had been. None of them told us much. One Sunday school teacher, as part of a lesson about military Chaplains, mentioned Christmas in Bastogne. I had heard of Bastogne. Another family friend who we sometimes visited, they had two daughters about my age, when I was about thirteen years old the man showed us a Japanese rifle and a couple of swords and told a couple of stories about being "a Lance Corporal doing the job of a Lieutenant" on Iwo Jima. I knew what Iwo Jima was and had some idea of how many men had to die to leave a Lance Corporal in charge.

You should react to the first ever recorded medal of honor. i believe it was during the war in the middle east.

When I was going through basic and AIT during the late 1990's it seemed that they actually learned from the 77th ID and got those life lessons out of the way in the first two or three weeks of basic. At the time we thought it was harsh, being 17 and 18 year old kids just out of high school, but as a guy in my 40's and member of the E-4 Mafia I now understand the wisdom of wanting to get that shit done up quickly.

You need to check out his other videos there is one about a submarine that took out a flipping train as far as I'm aware that's the only submarine that has a train badge for kill and a similar comment was made that as far as I know that's the only submarine that took out a land-based vehicle

12,920,400 men were drafted in ww1 and ww2 combined. WW1: 2,810, 296 WW2: 10,110,104 On top of that by 1945 at the end of WW2 it’s said that over 50 million had registered for the draft. By the end of WW1 72% of American troops were draftees. I did my homework lol 😂

14:00 YT is literally gonna change his name to that with their censorship of him

Mr. Terry i would have loved to have you as a teacher back in the day, granted we didn't have the tech we do today. Teachers like you are why i love learning about history

1 hour of my guy Mr T!!!!!💚💚💚

To add onto 9:03 - The USA had an arguably bad habit of building up a military to engage with a conflict only to almost immediately stop funding the military and cut back down on recruitment, which would then cause long term ripple effects in the economy, the world stage, military readiness (obviously), etc. This basically happened up until WW2 if I am not mistaken and the government finally made the military a consistent investment and stable recruitment numbers.

@joshuacheung6518

Ай бұрын

Had? You mean has.

The soldier you mean is Hiro Onoda who surrender in 1973 i believe after they brought his old commanding officer to him and reliefing him of duty

My grandpa was on the Pacific Front during ww2, and he compared those islands to ant hills. SOO much more was going on below the surface than above for the Japanese. This slow grind inch by inch paved in blood.

Now the modern 30 year old men are Special Forces lol.

I know that the Chieftan has done some videos on what WWII era wargames looked like.

Im getting flashbacks to my schooling days with that smirk and "I gave you homework"

My grandfather was on Okinawa during this battle as a engineer building airfields

Cotton Hill and the WWII vets vs the Vietam vets. Great episode!

I had my 28th birthday at basic training. In an all active duty flight. I was the oldest. (but there were a few other older guys and I was only 2 years older than the next oldest) Bunch of the guys called me grandpa.

Non ironically. You and him are my two favorite, historical KZreadrs.

It took you forever to figure out about old age and treachery. But the biggest thing is that they did this. Compare this with all of the kids in that day in battle? They had a job to do, fight, don't die, get revenge, win.

In the era of the Great Depression these guys were probably expert wildlife hunters because it you can’t kill you don’t eat. I envision these guys scoping out the tiniest crack and sticking a kill shot because they saw a blade of grass move in an unnatural pattern. These guys would have been hunters for 20 plus years

The USSR would've died (merely from lack of food and resources, not even counting equipment or training) without American aid. Also, FDR (and those in power that thought like him) was the main reason the Great Depression lasted as long as it did. Not a coincidence that it lasted his entire administration. (And no, despite the common myth, WWII did not end the GD. If anything it prolonged it. There was still rationing until the war ended.) Geography was what helped the US (by being isolated and retaining it's industrial infrastructure intact).

Great react! You missed the ending with “ Angry Cops”.

The teenagers from the paintball episode of King of the Hill were voiced by Green Day, Mostly Tre Cool.

Hey Mr. terry, you've probably had comments about this or even done this, but have you thought of playing Call of Duty World at War? Apologies if im commenting this, and you've already done this. Awesome content, btw! Keep it up!

My Grandad served in Europe at 26 in 1944 and spent 2 years in the Phillippines until 47. Mind you, he was a CJ-2 Army Medic in Europe, a MP in the PA

The phrase 'textbook a** whooping' needs to enter the vernacular immediately.

Apparently the number of people Doss saved that day being 75 was splitting the difference between Doss' own report of I believe 20 - 30 men and every one else in his unit saying it was well over 100

Now I want videos of Mr. Terry watching these with his dad😂

"It often makes you wonder In strength who has the edge The longest steel beam structure That spans the highest ridge For the men that built the bridge For the bridge came tumbling down And nineteen men were drowned But the other men came back again To lay the new beams down" - Stompin Tom "Call them spiders call them chokers Call them all a bunch of fish. Call them cowboys of the skies brother call them what you wish. But if the measure of a man is in the things he leaves behind I’ll take an iron working man everytime." Ron Hynes

I think the actual number Doss saved was around 150, however he tried to be modest and said 50 so they settled in the middle so yea what a beast

Just saw this video, great history in that one.

I don’t have data but my great-grandfather was in both WWs and there’s a picture of him with my Pap-Paw in their uniforms.

The 77ths Divisional patch heritage goes back to the Liberty Division of WW1 AKA the lost Battalion.

I watched this on his channel twice. Wanted to watch your reaction. To your question about soldiers serving in both wars I do not know, but I do no all of our senior officers had served in WW1 and I think that is a major contribution to our Victories on both fronts.

When you salute, try turning your hand so that your pinky is below your thumb

Desmond Daws saved 75 people the day before he got wounded.

when i was tech school at lowry, room mate was a guardsman @ 33. we called him father time

I don't know if this is true but allegedly every purple heart that has been handed out since ww2 was made in 1945 in anticipation for how many casualties the US would take during a mainland invasion of Japan

2 decades it was 1974 For Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, the war was finally over. He was the second to last Japanese soldier to surrender. The last man standing, Private Teruo Nakamura, would finally hand himself in on the 18th of December 1974.

A channel you might find a bit interesting is "Tasting History" The host recreates recipes from history going way back and covers history around the food and what was going on at that time in history.

One thing people never bring up is the American public buying war bonds that was the real weapon we brought to the war, our bond market. In total through all of WW2 about 300 billion dollars was spent by the US, 185 of those were raised with US war bond sales. This 185 billion was about the total spent by the whole world during WW1.

For a second, I thought you were gonna say you didn’t know who like Uncle Iroh or Master Roshi was and I was finna cry 😂 Also better sunblock brother gotta protect that skin!

His name was Hiro Onoda and it took his old Commanding Officer to get him to come down and officially release him from duty in 1974.

Funfact: the 77th inf division, was known as the liberty division. Because their unit patch had the statue of liberty on it.

One amazing story!

I think one of the reasons the Pacific had such high KIA was the Pearl Harbor attack. Most Americans from this era hated the Japanese because of Pearl Harbor.

"British Pathe" is an awesome youtube channel for historical war footage.

Yours and XMC had the best reactions to this, high compliment from me I assure you.

I wonder if their reputation is based on fighting the fiercest resistance, the Japanese least likely to surrender?

WWI : Draftees, approximately 24 million men registered for the draft. Of the total U.S. troops sent to Europe, 2.8 million men had been drafted, and 2 million men had volunteered. Selective Service Act required all males from 21 to 30 go to their election precinct polling place to register in early June 1917. Subsequently, men were expected to appear when they turned 21 years old In 1918 draft ages were expanded to include those aged 18 to 45.

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After the United States entered World War II, amendments to the Selective Training and Service Act on December 20, 1941, made all men between the ages of 20 and 44 liable for military service, and required all men between the ages of 18 and 64 to register.

Never thought that we did it all ourselves. We were forced into it.

I'm 33 years old, I played paintball today and now my body hates me. I couldn't imagine going through military training at this point in my life... yes I know, I'm a puss.

If they were anything like my instructor, POWs are paperwork and they ain't into that.

Well 50 bmg used to be an anti tank round like 50 bmg led to the development of thungs like 27mm riffles that were designed with back blast to stop the weapons from exploding while firing but armor became to strong and it got harder and harder to build effective riffles that could be fielded by a single infantry man and now it's considered the smaller end of anti material rounds made for unarmored and light armored targets under like 20 mm and 30 mm auto canons they strap on planes and secondary weapons tanks and large artillery pieces and started fielding more high explosive stuff for removing the heavy armor eventually we'll have good enough rail guns where we'll be chucking tree trunk sized depleted uranium tipped solids tungsten logs through underground bunkers on Jupiter but untill then we get the booms

Following the war the prisoners were repatriated to Japan, though the United States and Britain retained thousands until 1946 and 1947 respectively and the Soviet Union continued to hold hundreds of thousands of Japanese POWs until the early 1950s.

Experience is the best teacher, and those who utilize the wisdom it entails…yeah, wouldn’t have ever been one to talk smack at the old timers. We’ve all seen videos of old grandpa combat vets kicking ass against young violent punks. But a man in prime age who saw the terrors of the Great War? And was tough enough to survive to make it home? Push him into a fight and may god take mercy on you.