World War 2 in the Pacific - The Final Decision | Episode 3 | Documentary

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The War in the Pacific is at last start to go America’s way. Yet Japan is more determined than ever to fight to the death. The idea - to defeat as many Americans as possible & test if the United States will have the stomach for a long fight. This way, Japan could come out of the war with something.
The Americans, meanwhile, are doing everything they can to break Japan’s will - including launching the most ruthless aerial fire-bombing campaign the world has ever seen. Will a new secret U.S. weapon offer an even quicker way out & prevent a bloody invasion of Japan?
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  • @PJ-my4mz
    @PJ-my4mzАй бұрын

    This was very heartbreaking and hard to watch. I was born in 1971 and am EXTREMELY thankful to ALL American soldiers who fought in this and any war that allows me the freedom to do and have the things that I have. If you are fighting soldiers that will kill themselves in order to demolish you, I can surely understand the drastic measures used to end this war! 😭😭😭

  • @ronaldstrange8981
    @ronaldstrange89813 ай бұрын

    We are so fortunate that this material is permanently available via the internet. This particular documentary is so well produced and the narration is first class. Many thanks to those responsible for this from an 87 year old Englishman February, 2024.

  • @michaellazzeri2069
    @michaellazzeri20693 ай бұрын

    MY FATHER WAS IN THE VERY 1ST PLATOON TO WALK ONTO THE BEACH AT GUADALCANAL, ON 8/7/1942. AFTER 6 WEEKS HE WAS FELLED BY DENGUE FEVER & COMBAT FATIGUE, FROM LACK OF SLEEP. AFTER NEARLY 2 YEARS, HE RETURNED HOME TO DENVER, COLORADO. HE WAS AWARDED THE NAVY CROSS & THE PURPLE HEART, + A SMALL LIFETIME PENSION. MY FATHER WAS THE BEST MAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN. EVER. --------------MJL, 77 Y/O

  • @d00vinator

    @d00vinator

    22 күн бұрын

    I grew up in Denver. My best friend was named Mike and his father fought in the Pacific. Mine fought in Germany.

  • @sandranatali1260
    @sandranatali12604 ай бұрын

    It's 70+ years since the war ended. As I watch videos of the war, all I can think of is; we are watching the death's of our Grandfather's and Great Grandfather's. Those who died never saw or knew of their children born to them. Those of us who knew of their ancestors, carry the pride knowing they fought and died to preserve our freedoms.

  • @charlespeyersen1955

    @charlespeyersen1955

    4 ай бұрын

    My Dad's older brother was one of the soldiers killed on Okinawa, while my Dad was a Marine guarding the Panama canal. To this day I will not purchase anything made in Japan.

  • @naciremasti

    @naciremasti

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@charlespeyersen1955 you probably own multiple items made in Japan. Stop trying to be woke. You're embarrassing yourself.

  • @SweetChicagoGator

    @SweetChicagoGator

    3 ай бұрын

    Amen & Hallelujah to our fathers and grandfathers who fought for our dear freedom ! ❤

  • @robertbarlow6715

    @robertbarlow6715

    3 ай бұрын

    My mama was the same way she lost a brother in the Philippines a medical pilot flying wounded out. His C-47 was never found.

  • @gaoxiaen1

    @gaoxiaen1

    3 ай бұрын

    @@naciremasti Obviuosly you don't know the definition of the ridiculous term "woke". You're embarrassing yourself.

  • @lumo5691
    @lumo56913 ай бұрын

    The brave men who fought for our country cannot be undersatated....war is absolute hell.😢

  • @gangster3591
    @gangster35914 ай бұрын

    All those who condemn the atomic bombing of Japan need to see this video. It offers a realistic perspective of what America was facing if forced to invade the Japanese mainland. *RIP* brave fighting men who fought and died in that dreadful Pacific war

  • @r43640

    @r43640

    4 ай бұрын

    In war all are criminals

  • @ryanreedgibson

    @ryanreedgibson

    4 ай бұрын

    I doesn't matter if people condemn. Hindsight is always 2020 and any educated person knows that Imperial Japan committed atrocities only second to Germany and ahead of Stalin's Russia.

  • @denvan3143

    @denvan3143

    4 ай бұрын

    @@r43640 you’re in no position to judge. When you attack and kill those, you decide are your enemies you don’t get your choice of how they defend themselves. Virtue that costs you nothing isn’t worth what you paid.

  • @r43640

    @r43640

    4 ай бұрын

    @@ryanreedgibson Dropping a bomb on a civilian population is a massacre and atrocities. Sorry fellow

  • @TangomanX2008

    @TangomanX2008

    4 ай бұрын

    The problem with your statement is that the Russians were itching to invade Japan. Also, communication within the Jaoanese high command didn't show much of the concern about atomic weapons like " we better surrender before the Americans drop another one" to conclude that the threat of the atomic bomb was what resulted in Japaneze surrender.

  • @marcomalo02
    @marcomalo022 ай бұрын

    Oh, to be born to such a challenge. God bless our fathers.

  • @PennelopeWhitmore

    @PennelopeWhitmore

    23 күн бұрын

    We're in End Times. You can be part of a bigger battle! Read your Bible. Jesus is real and HE is coming back!

  • @peterwiebewall5608
    @peterwiebewall56084 ай бұрын

    This is so horrible😢. The saying is true, "War is hell for both sides, and there are no winners in war. Some lose more than others, but there are no winners."

  • @jtaylorb88

    @jtaylorb88

    3 ай бұрын

    Truth...

  • @charlesmoeller-vu9nq
    @charlesmoeller-vu9nq2 ай бұрын

    Stunning! All High Schools need to show in History classrooms. I wonder what Japan teaches about WW2. Thank you so much for your hours upon hours of research, planning, and production.

  • @melgross

    @melgross

    Ай бұрын

    Japan has never accepted responsibility for the war. They have never accepted responsibility for the atrocities they committed in China or elsewhere.

  • @tracybates6347

    @tracybates6347

    20 күн бұрын

    I hads'a History Teacher Ins High School He wassa WW ll VET. He had tapes (His Tapes) Bouts his Battles & So Forth,

  • @larrydiaz4418
    @larrydiaz44182 ай бұрын

    This video is one the best i have ever seen. There are so many things i did not know. God bless that gave their lives for our freedom.

  • @patsmith8523
    @patsmith85233 ай бұрын

    It is important to note that wars are won or lost in the factories. Yamamoto knew this. He also knew Japan could not compete with the US industrial might. He told his government the he could only guarantee six months of victory. That was one of the driving forces behind the Pearl Harbor planning and attack. The Japanese military believed that a successful attack could set the US Navy back up to a year or more. The Japanese could have fortified their holdings and made it even more costly to the Allies. It was fortunate for the US that the carriers were not in port during the attack or the Japanese presumption could have proven correct. Ironically, Yamamoto was proven correct.

  • @MysticChronicles712
    @MysticChronicles7124 ай бұрын

    This video provides a gripping look into the final stages of the War in the Pacific during World War II. It's a stark portrayal of Japan's determination to fight to the end and America's efforts to break that resolve. The mention of a secret U.S. weapon adds an intriguing element to the story. It's a compelling historical account that keeps me hooked from start to finish

  • @rickmiller1429

    @rickmiller1429

    3 ай бұрын

    And anyone who thinks the United States should not have dropped the two atomic bombs should watch this and other videos on the subject.

  • @MysticChronicles712

    @MysticChronicles712

    3 ай бұрын

    @@rickmiller1429 agree!

  • @bigp3006
    @bigp30063 ай бұрын

    My dad was in the Philippines 42-45. Saw how cruel the Japanese were to prisoners. He said they were tough fighters. America was resolved tho, the attack on Pearl harbor was a catalyst that said all or nothing.

  • @joslynscott466
    @joslynscott4662 ай бұрын

    Excellent. A must watch

  • @daveblackburn5393
    @daveblackburn5393Ай бұрын

    An outstanding three part series on the war in the Pacific. A lot of history in this series. Glad I had the chance to see it. Thanks for sharing. Appreciate your awesome videos. Respectfully herr Dave blackburn

  • @0987654321mnbvcxzmor
    @0987654321mnbvcxzmorАй бұрын

    The loss of human life is overwhelming.The world owes a great debt of gratitude to America,God bless America

  • @junpinedajr.8699
    @junpinedajr.86993 ай бұрын

    The A Bombs accomplished several things. 1,It expedited the end of WW2,because Japan was force to surrender to the Allies. 2,It prevented the Soviets from occupying Northern Japan and making it a communist nation. 3,It prevented the lost of at least half a million Allied lives and millions of Japanese civilians and military had the US and it's Allies invaded. 4 It quickly ended Japanese militarism and made them shift to Democracy. So for those condeming The A Bombs,read those above and you will realise how wrong you are.

  • @gaoxiaen1

    @gaoxiaen1

    3 ай бұрын

    It also saved hundreds of thousands of people throughout Asia from starvation each month that the war continued. Food and supplies could not be sent with a war raging.

  • @whatsreal7506

    @whatsreal7506

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you for calling that out.

  • @cpcattin
    @cpcattin4 ай бұрын

    To the Chinese: 80 years ago the USA put a fleet of 400 war ships with 60,000 personnel across the Pacific on the shores of Japan. 80 years ago ! China cannot perform that act today with their population 10 times that of America.

  • @stanburk7392

    @stanburk7392

    4 ай бұрын

    three times the population of America. It was not a quick thing either they had to island hop so they had staging areas. The other thing you have to remember is industrial might. Every time you buy a made in China whatever because it's a bit cheaper you're giving more of our edge away. So when President Trump wanted tariffs this is why. Ever notice that trade agreements rarely mention how much workers should be paid? So the Chinese pay slave wages while we get much better. and eventually They will own us and our GDP will go into the toilet then we will no longer be able to support the military. Basically if we don't smarten up better learn Mandarin.

  • @TangomanX2008

    @TangomanX2008

    4 ай бұрын

    Your a little late to the party. Companies are fleeing China, there is so much reshoring back to the US its stinning, and much of what can be restored goes to Mexico which benefits the US due to Nafta. I'm not sure what you think has been happening the last three years.

  • @stanburk7392

    @stanburk7392

    4 ай бұрын

    @@TangomanX2008 Trade imbalance with China by year 2022 576 billion 2021 460 billion 2020 355 billion 2019 132 billion 2018 91 billion 2017 215 billion 1989 was the last time the trade balance was in favour of the USA. So I am not sure how you think a growing trade deficit with china means things are changing. The source is macrotrends also the actual USA government census site.

  • @TangomanX2008

    @TangomanX2008

    4 ай бұрын

    @stanburk7392 without clarification, "trade imbalances" are meaningless. many countries, China being the largest depends on the ability to export because they don't have enough internal consumption. The US has the largest internal consumption in the world so you'll see trade imbalances. Just pointing out trade imbalances doesn't do much. Right now Chinese labor is so high that iChina is losing outsourcing to Mexici, Indonesia Vietnam, and many other countries. The US had pushed out China out of settling high end sectors. Semiconductors and ither high tech manufacturing is coming back to the US. It doesn't mean that China lost its ability to trade, but it's losing its economic edge, both internally and externally.

  • @stanburk7392

    @stanburk7392

    4 ай бұрын

    @@TangomanX2008 It means 500 billion dollars went from USA to China. their GDP is also catching up they are at 18 trillion this year. Their national debt is 77% of their GDP where USA is 128%. I know the signs you are pointing to and I hope you're right this does not change the fact that we have to stop buying cheap made in China crap. I'm Canadian so first thing I look for is made in Canada then USA then Europe. Sadly quite a bit is made in China with no option at this point. Basically I hope you are right and prove me wrong in the long run I really do.

  • @plicketyplunk
    @plicketyplunk2 ай бұрын

    Where has this channel been all my life? Subscribed!!

  • @billmcmullan6142
    @billmcmullan6142Ай бұрын

    Excellent documentary. Top shelf Quality.

  • @andrewbarten7347
    @andrewbarten734720 күн бұрын

    The era of the battleship was over when Yamato launched. If not for aircraft carriers, the Yamato could have ruled the sea. It was a monster.

  • @johnemerson1363
    @johnemerson13633 ай бұрын

    The Flag raising on Mt, Suribachi was indeed the second flag raised, but not for a photographer. The first flag was way too small and could not be seen, hence a much larger flag. For Rosenthal, it was his greatest photo.

  • @user-op6vy3gg2b

    @user-op6vy3gg2b

    3 ай бұрын

    This is the very Last Day bible prophecied. In what way the Last Day? Time remained for human nations is very short. " God of heaven will set up a kingdom and this kingdom will destroy all human kingdoms and will last forever alone. No more death or pain anymore. No more wars or practicing military drills anymore. Meek ones will inherit the earth and live forever in exquisite delight. God is making all things new"

  • @gaoxiaen1

    @gaoxiaen1

    3 ай бұрын

    @@user-op6vy3gg2b Yeah. We've been hearing that story for the last few centuries. Thanks for the warning.

  • @hollisterab
    @hollisterab3 ай бұрын

    great video

  • @jimjenkins2319
    @jimjenkins23193 ай бұрын

    What's with the blurred out images? History requires to be seen in the raw.

  • @glennschemitsch8341

    @glennschemitsch8341

    2 ай бұрын

    you tube wants to filter out violence that is real.

  • @joecpluck2336

    @joecpluck2336

    Ай бұрын

    I watch uncensored film in 1980 during USMC bootcamp. We need people to see and remember that war is true hell. We need our politicians to not set unrealistic boundaries that tie our hands behind our back when doing operations.

  • @danor6812
    @danor68123 ай бұрын

    It was learned that the US did have a 3rd Atomic Bomb. It was shipped out to Tinian Island, before the first one was dropped. It was supposed to arrive within days of the second bombing. This one was supposed to be dropped on Toyko. Very few videos on you tube mention this fact. As well as US planes dropping leaflets warning the civilians to leave the target citys. Some did, many didn't. Also why do all these videos leave out the Japanese invasion of Korea? Which at the end of the war was split between the US and Russia.

  • @glennschemitsch8341

    @glennschemitsch8341

    2 ай бұрын

    I think that Kokura was to be a target rather than Tokyo. The USA wanted relatively 'clean' targets and Tokyo was already in ruins. Targets for A bombs were running out.

  • @melgross

    @melgross

    Ай бұрын

    Korea was a colony of Japan since the early 1900s.

  • @stuartchong1506

    @stuartchong1506

    Ай бұрын

    I'm not sure but a book on world war 2 I read it had a picture of the letter signed by the secretary of defense writing the names of 4 targets (Hiroshima Nagasaki and 2 more) before the bombing. in the letter Tokyo was not in the list

  • @rickschlosser6793
    @rickschlosser67933 ай бұрын

    Interestingly, not mentioned here is that Nagasaki was a ‘secondary’ target, bombed because the ‘primary’ target, Kokura, was clouded and smoked over that morning.

  • @Oneprimal

    @Oneprimal

    3 ай бұрын

    There is a saying of 'Kokura luck', a lucky avoidance of great misfortune. Seems about right...

  • @PJ-my4mz

    @PJ-my4mz

    Ай бұрын

    God works in mysterious ways 🤔

  • @Wassuppples
    @Wassuppples22 күн бұрын

    This documentary was one of the best I’ve seen about WWII. May we all learn from history and not so quick to repeat it. War should always be the last resort.

  • @seaglider844
    @seaglider8442 ай бұрын

    What I just learned a few weeks ago, and was omitted from this documentary, is that the Japanese had their own Atomic Weapons programs. Competition between the Army and Navy meant that there were actually two programs. Mention of these programs has been carefully avoided and records destroyed. The Memorial to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki talks in detail about the American program to produce nuclear weapons but never once mentions the parallel efforts in Japan. The horrific testing of biological weapons, treatment of civilians in conquered territories is also not dealt with in Japanese culture. We are VERY lucky that it was Americans and not Germans or Japanese who won this race.

  • @Paul-zf8ob

    @Paul-zf8ob

    2 ай бұрын

    Japan was advanced in chemical weapons!

  • @melgross

    @melgross

    Ай бұрын

    There was a very good article in this in Scientific American some years ago. Fortunately, neither Germany or Japan knew what they were doing. The knowledge of the Japanese nuclear programs was suppressed after the war by the USA after the Cold War began. The idea was to have the Japanese on our side on this. It’s also why Hirohito was never tried for war crimes even though many in Japan itself thought he should be. Instead, Tojo agreed to take responsibility.

  • @whatsreal7506

    @whatsreal7506

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you for calling that out. History rewrites omit these things

  • @seaglider844

    @seaglider844

    Ай бұрын

    Suppressed by the US so that they'd be on they'd not side with the Russians during the Cold War?! They'd never have joined with Russia, that was their primary traditional adversary along with China. The choice to destroy the records, not to teach it in schools, not to publicly acknowledge its existence (both the atomic weapons and rape of Nanking...etc) were completely the choice of the Japanese. It is in their culture not to confront what are uncomfortable truths, it also makes it hard to play the victim when you were pursuing the same weapons..@@melgross

  • @melgross

    @melgross

    Ай бұрын

    @@seaglider844 well, you’re wrong. There’s documentation on this and the excellent Scientific American article about this some years ago points it out. There were a lot of things that were done after the war once the Cold War started that most people who aren’t reading up on it, because there is information about it out there, don’t know about.

  • @double45band
    @double45band2 ай бұрын

    good show

  • @diannegooding8733
    @diannegooding87333 ай бұрын

    US Carriers had wooden flight decks, which burn viciously! RN Carriers had metal decks, one hit by a Kamikaze was back in operation after two hours!

  • @gaoxiaen1

    @gaoxiaen1

    3 ай бұрын

    Wooden decks were lighter so that the ship wasn't too top heavy, and faster to repair. The Yorktown was steaming under its own power and conducting flight operations 90 minutes after suffering severe bomb damage.

  • @barney_cheng

    @barney_cheng

    Ай бұрын

    Hi Dianne, how’re you doing.

  • @barney_cheng

    @barney_cheng

    Ай бұрын

    Wow, that's really interesting! It's amazing how the design of the flight decks made such a difference in the resilience of the carriers. The metal decks on the RN Carriers definitely proved to be more durable.

  • @jimmypresa9396
    @jimmypresa93964 ай бұрын

    during attack on pearl harbor Japan under estimate the US Japan think US have no appetite for war but Japan made a huge mistake

  • @damienluxford4480
    @damienluxford44803 ай бұрын

    Don't you hate having to live in this age when half the historic images are blurred out so we can't see clearly what happened. Eighty years ago we witnessed it first hand. Today we're not permitted to even view it in film. This is an appalling nanny state.

  • @revilolanza1874
    @revilolanza18743 ай бұрын

    The Filipinos suffered greatly at the hands of the Japanese military so dont condemn the Americans for their retaliatory actions🇺🇸❤

  • @Tony-pk6ql
    @Tony-pk6ql4 ай бұрын

    Of course American leadership understood that the atomic bomb was immoral, but compared to the other options to end the war (invasion or blockade leading to mass starvation) it was in fact the least immoral option available, costing the least number of deaths, including Japanese civilians.

  • @raymondpaller6475

    @raymondpaller6475

    3 ай бұрын

    Really? Calling American leadership immoral? Where is your excoriation of the Empire of Japan's leadership for immorality? Where is your calling out of Japan's immorality for Pearl Harbor, the Nanjing Massacre, conquered female civilians as comfort women f-dolls for Japanese soldiers, &c &c?? No Pearl Harbor means no mushroom clouds over Hiroshima & Nagasaki ---- just like no Ft. Sumter means no pancaking of Atlanta by Sherman ---- so slather paste on the label of immorality to where it started and is merited, Japan's oh-so-smart war masterminds.

  • @philipfrazee5661

    @philipfrazee5661

    2 ай бұрын

    Immoral ? Hardly ! In the Philippines, the brutal Palawan Massacre of 139 American soldiers and the Bataan Death March, killing 18,650 American & Filipino POWs. The Rape of Nanking in which the Japanese slaughtered 400,000 innocent Chinese. The Japanese military murdered at least 10 million Asians and POWs during WWII. This doesn’t even begin to count the environmental damage inflicted to water, land and air…in the Pacific Theater. When it came to using a mere two atomic bombs on the Japanese, the word ‘immoral’, simply doesn’t hold water.

  • @raymondpaller6475

    @raymondpaller6475

    2 ай бұрын

    @@philipfrazee5661 right on! Hopefully your comment sticks, as it appears that KZread deleted my calling out the twaddle-ness of the 'immoral' epithet.

  • @whatsreal7506

    @whatsreal7506

    Ай бұрын

    That is absurdly incorrect. Smh

  • @nemo6686
    @nemo66864 ай бұрын

    "A war that began in the waters of Hawaii..." It's not like Japan was already at war in China when they attacked Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, etc. Or Shanghai, where US and European forces had already encountered Japanese aggression on multiple occasions.

  • @effscottfitz-gee2024

    @effscottfitz-gee2024

    4 ай бұрын

    You clearly don’t understand perspective.

  • @nemo6686

    @nemo6686

    4 ай бұрын

    @@effscottfitz-gee2024 You're clearly too lazy and ignorant to address the point I made.

  • @tedthesailor172
    @tedthesailor1724 ай бұрын

    Is there really anyone out there still perverse enough to insist that the nukes were unnecessary...?

  • @scottkrater2131

    @scottkrater2131

    4 ай бұрын

    It's not perverse, Japan wasn't going to surrender any other way without millions of more dead. Not including Japanese and Allied dead. But the 400k that died every month under Japanese occupation.

  • @tedthesailor172

    @tedthesailor172

    4 ай бұрын

    @@scottkrater2131Er, I think you've misread my comment...

  • @scottkrater2131

    @scottkrater2131

    4 ай бұрын

    @@tedthesailor172 me bad, sorry missed the un part, didn't have my reading glasses on.

  • @martthesling

    @martthesling

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah, idiots that don't know history.

  • @realrhetoric

    @realrhetoric

    4 ай бұрын

    Whether it was perverse or not, the nukes did not cause the Japanese to surrender; the invasion of Russia from the north, however, did cause the Japanese to surrender. Perhaps the nukes were necessary to prevent Russia from occupying Hokaido (like they had done in Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and Manchuria) and at least the Northern half of Honshu.

  • @TheGeezzer
    @TheGeezzer4 ай бұрын

    Well the Japanese started war with the U.S.A and the U.S.A finished it with the A-Bomb. So it was Japan's fault that they suffered in the end. Anyway, it was nearly 80 years ago, and many generations have passed, but have we learned?

  • @user-nz4si7kp3m
    @user-nz4si7kp3m4 ай бұрын

    Wish they could take away the blurred segments. I know KZread be tripping, isnt there a graphic content warning at the beginning where you could select it? Im not trying to glorify war because its a HORRIBLE business, but i think it takes away from the reality of the savagery of warfare. -Thank you 👇

  • @michaelvincent4280
    @michaelvincent42803 ай бұрын

    It's a shame that they now select blur or fizz out 'sensitive images that are the very thing needed to drive home the uselessness of war. None of it is pretty but softening the shock effect helps no one.

  • @melgross

    @melgross

    Ай бұрын

    It’s KZread that requires that.

  • @Mikemonoa-hz2rz
    @Mikemonoa-hz2rz2 ай бұрын

    When they say the Americans don't have the stomach to fight on im pretty sure it's the other way round lol 😅😂

  • @rolfsinkgraven
    @rolfsinkgraven4 ай бұрын

    Now those nukes have too prevent ww3 but first we will have Christmas and 2 days off peace, but not for ppl who are in war, they will push the start button again after Christmas..............................Great video hope humanity will learn from it.

  • @gaoxiaen1

    @gaoxiaen1

    3 ай бұрын

    ??

  • @adorable6385
    @adorable6385Ай бұрын

    I have no options about right or wrong because of the lack of honesty and forthright information from all . I question the need for WAR itself.

  • @astralclub5964
    @astralclub5964Ай бұрын

    The flamethrower was the most feared weapon by the enemy! Crispy Critters!

  • @chawezichipeta5326
    @chawezichipeta5326Ай бұрын

    It's sad that we still have wars going on we humans don't learn from history

  • @Wolvieonepunch
    @Wolvieonepunch4 ай бұрын

    It's easy for people to sit on their high horse all righteous unfortunately they have no idea what war is like let alone being the one who has to make the hard decisions right or wrong, you could say what is wrong today was allowed in the past but no one has the right to condemn anyone from war decisions from 80 plus years ago it's just ridiculous

  • @philipfrazee5661

    @philipfrazee5661

    2 ай бұрын

    The next winner of the longest run-on sentence. 😅

  • @tommywingate7186

    @tommywingate7186

    Ай бұрын

    You of course are 100 % correct. Society has a way of second guessing most of our history from a perch where they can see nothing but their own agenda to destroy the greatness we’ve paid for time and again.

  • @GregDaniels-yo4od
    @GregDaniels-yo4od4 ай бұрын

    I'm surprised this article didn't mention that the Japanese had been trying to get the Soviet Union to help them negotiate a better deal with the U.S. They continued this right up until the Soviets declared war on them on August 9th.

  • @martthesling

    @martthesling

    4 ай бұрын

    You mean where Japan gets to keep China and Korea as part of her Empire? Nope, sorry, Samurai. Here's two suns.

  • @samkohen4589

    @samkohen4589

    4 ай бұрын

    Actually that is another reason why Japan agreed to surrender

  • @user-fv5ms4sz8e
    @user-fv5ms4sz8e2 ай бұрын

    As the completion of the repairs, repainting, and refitting of the USS Texas, Battleship Texas, BB-35 draws closer, is there anything your channel can do to spotlight this excellent legendary warship?

  • @melgross

    @melgross

    Ай бұрын

    The channel Battleship New Jersey does good work on that.

  • @JamesGoetzke
    @JamesGoetzkeАй бұрын

    Actually there was a 3rd bomb ready to go. It was at the air base in Utah where a secret B-29 group was stationed and where they trained. So the 3rd bomb was ready. One of the pilots gave a detailed interview on the plan....it was classified for many years.

  • @user-xh8ii2hj6r
    @user-xh8ii2hj6r3 ай бұрын

    What do you make of that 7 seconds in... I first seen this in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne...I know it's real combat video. It looks like they dropped that guy in a defalade on purpose to blow him up...crazy....watch it.very beginning 6-10 seconds in

  • @ronlipsius
    @ronlipsius3 ай бұрын

    Who is narrating? - He's the best.

  • @paulreilly3904

    @paulreilly3904

    3 ай бұрын

    I'm pretty sure it's a guy called Jonathan Booth. But I may be wrong.

  • @Sean94875
    @Sean948752 күн бұрын

    "Only the dead have seen the end of war"

  • @kennylund3821
    @kennylund38214 ай бұрын

    The blurring out the truth doesn't respect the solders!

  • @eddiechi1
    @eddiechi116 күн бұрын

    Its a shame our school systems neglect exploring this history in depth instead of just explaining certain dates on a calendar briefly... not many of the new gen really know or appreciate what those before us went through or had to deal with as "normal" back then and "back then" is really not that long ago in grand scheme of time... I always wondered what it was like to be alive in this country on Dec 7 but could never grasp that emotion or sentiment on a grand scale of something spectacular that happened in real time until 9/11 and then had a little better understanding of the significance of Dec 7 but todays young have nothing to even reference 9/11 against and thus the significance of those major events eludes them if history is not adequately taught to our young er gen

  • @robertpaul6257
    @robertpaul625719 күн бұрын

    And still today as people,,, we have learned not to kill ourselves!

  • @user-hb8ju1ux5b
    @user-hb8ju1ux5b2 ай бұрын

    It's America industrial might that made him win

  • @minpuedits2798
    @minpuedits2798Ай бұрын

    Fight Until Death (no surrender). Just imagine how brave did Japanese Army fought against US Army.? Hat's Off to the Japanese Army..😢

  • @whatsreal7506

    @whatsreal7506

    Ай бұрын

    Unacceptable

  • @paulstieler4468
    @paulstieler44684 ай бұрын

    English 101 / Holy Cluster Flock Cholley / Must Get to The Missouri / Surrender Sword

  • @AJTrucking24
    @AJTrucking2424 күн бұрын

    This os what out schools need to be teaching..not all that crap they try to introduce now in days. THIS IS HISTORY this is what everyone needs to learn all the younger generations how men gave their lives for

  • @gaoxiaen1
    @gaoxiaen13 ай бұрын

    I've seen most of the footage in this documentary many times without the stupid blurring.

  • @adamfunk4519
    @adamfunk45193 ай бұрын

    Imagine if they had go pro's SMH,very brave men .

  • @garryschaffer5265
    @garryschaffer52653 ай бұрын

    Have watched all three episodes. Much of what is presented is BS. Example, it says that Guadalcanal was bombed for seven days before invasion. August 7 was the first day anything exploded there. Poorly done fact wise. Still a decent production.

  • @hansloos3284
    @hansloos32844 ай бұрын

    Background noise / music way too loud. Hard to understand

  • @DanielMulloy-bg6gw
    @DanielMulloy-bg6gw4 ай бұрын

    More than 19 thousand Marines died in the Pacific, this narrator was wrong..... Iwo Jima and Okinawa alone was nearly 20 thousand?!?!

  • @henrymorgan3420

    @henrymorgan3420

    4 ай бұрын

    The number is right. KIA was 19K, 12 at Okinawa and 7 at Iwo. You might be thinking casualties.

  • @C77-C77

    @C77-C77

    4 ай бұрын

    High death tolls for US forces, despite being miniscule compared to Japanese death tolls. Because everything was always in place to give the Marines the best chance of survival. US logistics, supply and battlefield/base medical were the best of the war. Japan didn't bother with that very much, and didn't have the materials and assets for it anyways. They expected their soldiers to die in battle if they had no hope of winning it. Just to try to kill as many troops in defeat by any way possible, including suicide attacks. I will never understand that logic. The US had established that they were not negotiating, it was surrender or nothing. Although in the end they got to keep the Emperor, but he had no real power.

  • @ryanreedgibson

    @ryanreedgibson

    4 ай бұрын

    Casualties isn't just death but solider who can no longer fight.

  • @stanburk7392

    @stanburk7392

    4 ай бұрын

    @@C77-C77 General Bradly said it best. "Armatures think strategy professionals think logistics."

  • @C77-C77

    @C77-C77

    4 ай бұрын

    @@stanburk7392 Yep. The three Axis countries had so many "dreams of empire" and postwar plans, but they often didn't focus on winning the war first. For example, even with all the brilliance, tech, and years of pre-war training/indoctrination in the German military, they simply didn't have the logistics and assets to sustain them in the vast USSR that AH had wanted to take over for years prior, used tons of assets on the obsessions of ethic cleansing and wonder weapons (some weapons worked, some didn't, some no time to complete), had a useless partner in Mussolini/Italian military they had to continually reinforce and/or clean up their messes after defeat, total hubris after early war conquests, they left Britain standing, underestimated the USSR, and the most stupid of all, declared war on the US. Relied on quick strikes to seize major/capital cities, while totally ignoring huge amounts of territory still intact where intact forces, partisans and civilians could organize and harass and sabotage their occupation, and eventually join Allied forces in the liberation of their nations.

  • @richardhaynes6934
    @richardhaynes69343 ай бұрын

    Please, please get your facts straight on the famous Joe Rosenthal photo on the mountain. First, it WAS NOT STAGED!!! I may misspell names but I believe I have the history generally correct. There were indeed two flags. The first, smaller flag had Marines, Sailers on the support ships, and anyone else who saw the flag go up cheering and blowing ships horns and whistles to mark the taking of that darn overgrown hill. I cannot remember rank but I believe it was a general that wanted that flag and wanted it bad! So……they took it down, gave it to the general and found a second flag to put up. Rosenthal just happened to be in the right place at the right time to take that incredibly famous, iconic photo. Be very very careful before you throw that accusation around my friend, and that goes for anything of course.

  • @danor6812

    @danor6812

    3 ай бұрын

    That General was in command of the Marines. He wanted that first flag for the USMC. He wanted it before someone from the Navy or Army got to it.

  • @nomdeguerre7265
    @nomdeguerre72654 ай бұрын

    I don't see the part where the UNWRA was whining about getting supplies to the suffering Japanese civilians. Guess I missed that.

  • @janetteterbeeke1393
    @janetteterbeeke13933 ай бұрын

  • @barney_cheng

    @barney_cheng

    Ай бұрын

    Hi Janette, how’s everything going on your end ?

  • @damienluxford4480
    @damienluxford44803 ай бұрын

    They messed with Texas, and paid the price.

  • @geoffoliver1239
    @geoffoliver12392 ай бұрын

    Not invading Japan gave the Japanese the opportunity to rewrite history as the germans did after WW1. Claiming that they were not really defeated and to see themselves as the victims fighting a defensive war and celebrating war criminals as heroes.

  • @gaoxiaen1

    @gaoxiaen1

    2 ай бұрын

    It was a defensive war for Japan from when they lost at Midway. They just avoid the fact that they started it.

  • @PennelopeWhitmore
    @PennelopeWhitmore23 күн бұрын

    The Fat Electrician just dropped an awesome video about the Old Bastards. Thats where the movie Hacksaw Ridge came from. So I interesting.

  • @justinholoviak5357
    @justinholoviak53574 ай бұрын

    The human death toll is the most obvious to feel for. I wonder how much the non human life suffered? The animals that died too. Ugh. My great uncle died from a Japanese bomb taking him out as a radio operator. Direct hit.

  • @user-yc3mn1fj2w
    @user-yc3mn1fj2w3 ай бұрын

    Sejen Tresna duel..Ara..hahaha..Udin.

  • @brucepoole8552
    @brucepoole85522 ай бұрын

    I wonder why the imperial palace wasnt targeted?

  • @sony5244
    @sony5244Ай бұрын

    We humans are crazy.

  • @whatsreal7506

    @whatsreal7506

    Ай бұрын

    Yeah.... Sad isn't it?

  • @websitemartian
    @websitemartian5 күн бұрын

    24:14 b29 guns

  • @yankeepapa304
    @yankeepapa3042 ай бұрын

    Excellent...except...the 2nd flag raising on Suribachi was *not* a "restaging"... The first flag was very small and the battalion commander who owned the flag wanted it back...so a much larger one was sent up to replace it... At the time it was not considered a big deal... It was merely a replacement... Photo certainly not "staged"... Sgt Bill Gneust took color live action film of the whole raising... His film survived the fight on Iwo... He did not... YP

  • @ladyponfarr5479
    @ladyponfarr54794 ай бұрын

    Who is narrating this? His voice sounds familar.

  • @berlinkozyreva
    @berlinkozyreva4 ай бұрын

    America had the chance to take iwo Jima barely withour a fight after Saipan in 1944 but Mac Arthur wanted to invade the Phillipines.

  • @tedzehnder961
    @tedzehnder9614 ай бұрын

    Stalin and the Russians declare war on the Japanese one week before Japan surrenders mostly because Truman tells Stalin what is coming and mainly because they can take Coastal areas and expand their land mass in the confusion.This will be sort of a underhanded response by them showing the Allies what their "partner" is all about.

  • @jamesbetker6862
    @jamesbetker68623 ай бұрын

    All the guns that were in storage on Iwo Jima, four and five pallets high, for an invasion of Japan that did not go off because we nuked them, were put on two ships. One went to Pyongyang and the other to Hanoi. They were sending them the guns to start the next two wars. To find out more look up Col L. Fletcher Prouty.

  • @robertbarlow6715

    @robertbarlow6715

    3 ай бұрын

    Didn't know that.

  • @gaoxiaen1

    @gaoxiaen1

    3 ай бұрын

    @@robertbarlow6715 Still don't. I want proof, or at least convincing evidence.

  • @alanwwm
    @alanwwm4 ай бұрын

    End game. Japanese must be taught a lesson they and their future generations will not forget.

  • @user-pt7eo1ug4f
    @user-pt7eo1ug4f4 ай бұрын

    Yeah nw I understand that Japan started it and the Americans wanted to finish it and they did that

  • @alexko2877
    @alexko28774 ай бұрын

    Didn't you go too far by blurring the faces of wounded heroes? What are you ashamed of? This is a true disgrace, the only "good" thing, there is literally no people left alive who could stand behind those wounded heroes.

  • @simonbower9722

    @simonbower9722

    4 ай бұрын

    War in the oacific

  • @simonbower9722

    @simonbower9722

    4 ай бұрын

    War in the oacific

  • @Softail77us
    @Softail77us4 ай бұрын

    "The orange glow could be seen for miles. Curtis LeMay does it again firebombing 67 cities" Horrific!

  • @DonLuc23
    @DonLuc233 ай бұрын

    The background noise is too loud and annoying

  • @uberrox452
    @uberrox45216 күн бұрын

    I don't agree with nukes. I just don't. Although I do understand the need to do this bc of a fanatical government.

  • @FairwayJack
    @FairwayJack4 ай бұрын

    like

  • @jeffersonwright6249
    @jeffersonwright62494 ай бұрын

    Minute 21 et al: wish KZread wouldn’t censor the gory scene of the wounded and the dead. That is exactly what war is about. Don’t try to sanitise it!

  • @rapodejko
    @rapodejko2 ай бұрын

    Watch Fat electrician-Bat bomb

  • @geraldhagen2989
    @geraldhagen29894 ай бұрын

    Why has the USA flag only have 48 stars?

  • @robertbarlow6715

    @robertbarlow6715

    3 ай бұрын

    At that time we only had 48 states.

  • @DAVIDJOHNSON-pp3ke
    @DAVIDJOHNSON-pp3ke2 ай бұрын

    great video,please fact check the Nagasaki bomb image.

  • @bradnixon6220
    @bradnixon6220Ай бұрын

    Blame Hirohito

  • @TheLittlered1961
    @TheLittlered19618 күн бұрын

    Screw tube sucks I can not play this video. Rumble is my choice

  • @kayschmitz1155
    @kayschmitz11553 ай бұрын

    pity the indians could not say that

  • @paulugljesa-sm4kt
    @paulugljesa-sm4ktАй бұрын

    All I can say the master killer devil Satan lucifer his time is coming too face the God of univers and ansvar for every lost life his time is up Lord Jesus is coming soon

  • @eileencollins2536
    @eileencollins25363 ай бұрын

    Oppenheimer was a genius, the question I have, is... was he an evil one? Yes, his bomb stopped the war. Yet it started so much more....

  • @realrhetoric
    @realrhetoric4 ай бұрын

    You might have mentioned that it was the Russian invasion which caused the Japanese to surrender, but then again it was the Americans who defeated the Axis in Europe, wasn't it?

  • @seanlander9321

    @seanlander9321

    4 ай бұрын

    Twaddle

  • @charlesreid3482

    @charlesreid3482

    4 ай бұрын

    No it was Russia

  • @seanlander9321

    @seanlander9321

    4 ай бұрын

    @@charlesreid3482 How? Russia was financed by the USA and equipped by Britain and the USA, without them the Soviets were defeated. Consider one element of the American donations to the Soviets, which was a trillion bullets and that was not the greatest part of the assistance that allowed the Soviets to be anything other than corpses.

  • @user-dg2gj9nh6v
    @user-dg2gj9nh6v4 ай бұрын

    Toruman , why did you use atomic bomb over Japanese piragoes? I suppose he wanted to show up American ability to Starrine, Russia manipulating Japan. Toruman is Jues or not, he is very cruel and cold heart representative for typical Anglo Saxon, American.

  • @PacoOtis
    @PacoOtisАй бұрын

    The intrusive inappropriate makes this video appear to have been accomplished by a juvenile! Rather pitiful!

  • @itshim917
    @itshim9174 ай бұрын

    1ummah

  • @itshim917
    @itshim9174 ай бұрын

    #1UMMAH

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