Europe was bad, but what the Marines in the Pacific went through was a special kind of hell. Rough terrain. Harsh conditions. Tenacious and fanatical enemy. I loved this series and think it's every bit as good as Band of Brothers, but it is bleak. It had to be to tell the story. I get why some people couldn't appreciate it.
They say "Rah" with such conviction. I've only said "Hooah" with a hefty amount of irony. Was always jealous of their esprit d' corps but am reminded of why I went to the Army when I see their living situation. lol
At least the US Marines on Guadalcanal could expect to receive supplies. The Japanese referred to it as Starvation Island and, for those who were evacuated in February, their digestive system was as badly off as a European concentration camp survivor's. Neither could actually digest anything beyond some of the most rudimentary gruel.
@@kemarisite The Japanese are possibly the most dangerous warriors on the planet. The average line infantry IJA soldier was basically a Ghurka in his mental toughness. The types of situations they fought through are unimaginable for the USA soldier much less any civilian. I dont think there exists a more hardline soldier in all of history. Only Marine Raiders or USA POWs faced a similar circumstance as the IJA. Can you imagine being told "this fighting position is untenable but you have to inflict 10:1 casualties" and then starving to death? That was Iwo Jima.... and people wonder why they order Bonzai Charges....
Sledge with much chagrin later realized that he'd wished they'd done better scrubbing those oil drums because they were the same ones used to bring drinking water to them on Peleliu. It was so hot Sledge wrote that he could hold up his legs while laying down and his boots would empty out full of sweat. His buddies asked him if he'd been walking on water.
Fun fact: The bombed out building on the Peleliu airfield is a real building that is still standing, yet also still abandoned, to this day. It is most famous for its appearance in Call of Duty World at War, especially its reuse to make the Nazi Zombies map Nacht Der Untoten. This map would be the catalyst for the global Nazi Zombies sensation.
The real event was pretty twisted. It wasn’t SNAFU who killed the soldier but a BAR gunner. He took his time aiming and mag dump led the soldier to see if he could cut him in half.
@@TheRealHp Eugene Sledge’s “With the Old Breed” the basis what the series is based on. The Memior is wild as fuck, Can’t even make up some of this stuff.
@@TheRealHp absolutely great read, I also recommend Islands of the Damned by R.V. Burgin (Sledges mortar team observer). Burgin gives another perspective of events he and Eugene witnessed.
The scene where they finally get some peaches after so long without proper nutrition and Lecky pukes in response is poetically a comedically framed show of what would happen if the concentration camp prisoners near the end of Band of Brothers had eaten too much too quickly.
“Ain’t nobody going home”. I actually felt that. Also when Bob was at the dinner table and said “ You know what I fought for?” The whole table went silent. Becuase whatever he said they knew had meaning. And the he said “television”, I busted out laughing!
13:13 The thing is ,that once the airstrip was theirs ,there was a HUGE thriving business between the airforce trading alcohol, cash, food and anything else they could use to buy souvenirs. They didnt have to ask. Every plane was loaded with contraband and went back with souvenirs.
The scene with the Moccasins always reminds me of my Uncle bc he was a Marine in Vietnam and he told me about how Marines nvr steal they make due by strategically transporting equipment to alternate locations😅
The most insane reference to The Pacific I've ever seen was a very brief visual gag in a UA-cam Poop of Spongebob where Spongebob's head is replaced with a propaganda caricature of Hirohito and Squidward has devolved into being four heads. Tojo and Fuckface.
@@walnzell9328 Yo dawg I took a look at it, unfortunately there was no tojo and fuckface scene, but there WAS a scene where a caricature of Hirohito and squidward having multiple heads was present ua-cam.com/video/za8UJ2ZsMpQ/v-deo.html I think it's a case of false memory, because there WAS a ww2 scene in that ytp and you must've confused it for Pacific It was a nice watch tho, thanks for making me rediscover coolcat001100 again bud !
12:20 this is the most accurate shit ever. Every gunny/1SG is kinda insane. I was in a makeshift hooch out of sticks and a tarp in europe at like 2 am and I heard twigs snapping outside, turned my light on and it was my 1SG in his hands and knees crawling towards me. He froze in the light for a second, stood up, and said "damn, you got me. I was about to bite your legs off."
I was heading back to university after the holiday break, and my parents let me choose what to watch the night before-so I chose one of my all-time favourites. We watched the first few episodes of _The Pacific_ and after I left, my parents messaged me and told me that they continued watching it. They always called me a history nerd for my interest in twentieth-century warfare, so the fact that I got them into _The Pacific_ was a proud moment 👌
The most depressing part of The Pacific has to be Okinawa. Historians say it was the sole Allied landing in Japan proper. The ethnic Yamato Japanese didn't make it seem like it was the way they treated the Okinawans. The island had been theirs since 1879, and they still weren't done committing genocide on the natives. Japan proper. If you pay close attention, you can tell who's Okinawan and who's Japanese. But if you don't know the key cultural differences, then you're as informed as almost all the American troops.
Not to put down Iwo battle…but there are many documented accounts of island hopper Marines who did both Iwo and Peleliu. And they all say Iwo didn’t even compare to Peleliu. Peleliu was the worst fucking thing they experienced out of everything.
The most unhinged reference to The Pacific I've ever seen was in a SpongeBob SquarePants UA-cam Poop. I kid you not. One short visual edit of Squidward and SpongeBob, but Spongebob's head is replaced with a caricature of Emperor Hirohito and Squidward has become a mass of four heads.
HBO didn’t disappoint with BoB and The Pacific. I hope the create a series in Vietnam based on books like The Things they Carried or The Killing Zone. I know they’re probably too scared nowadays but idk.
I never much cared for Snafu. He acts like a hardened, war-weary badass who's seen it all, but at no point does he ever show himself to be any more competent or prepared than anyone else. He talks the kind of shit John Basilone could've talked if John wasn't so humble.
He's just a bro, out there surviving, doing his thing. Lots of country boys have that kind of swagger & disposition, but they don't mean nothing by it.
Nah that’s typical for combat harden infantry Marines, who are senior but not in a leadership billet ‘senior’ lance corporals who fought in Iraq & Afghanistan acted the same way
One terrifying detail about Gunny. He survived World War 1 and it didn't break him. At the end of the Pacific campaign even he was broken. The horrors the Japanese Imperial Army put the world through were in a lot of cases far worse than what Germany ever did.
Ah you cut the scene at 5:35 too soon. Love the bit when one of the soldiers goes to take a shit and says he's dropping the kids off at the pool can I get y'all anything from the bar?
"I have a girlfriend? Lucky me!" 😂
Love that little line
It’s so true man it’s like wait what
self depreciation comebacks are by far the funniest in my opinion. and ironically seem to sting the most
For Some Reason Even Though I Generally Find The Pacific A Bit Corny The Lines In It Are Quiet Funny
Tojo and fuckface were my favorite characters in the entire show im really glad they made it to the end of the series
Someone's theory is that they couldn't come up with a second Japanese name so just put Fuckface on the other dummy.
Yeah, loved em too. They were realy somethin, calm, chilled...
Yeah they were some real STAND UP JAPS.
Tojo and Fuckface, whatever happened there.
😅😅
“You left a trail boy… they gonna find us now” makes me laugh everytime
You see that? Behind the stars, anglin' up?
That's Snafu's pecker!! 😂
Same here.
If it ain't coming out of your mouth it's coming out ya ass 😂
“It looks like your im a Drag race” makes me laugh
I'm surprised another one didn't come out following the trail after the first one
"They poisoned a billion coconuts??" LMFAO🤣
Loved this series. Band of Brothers didnt take you as low as this series did, so those bits of comedy were gold.
Band of Brothers is still king.
@@Elliesbow The Pacific and Band of Brothers are both excellent shows. Historically accurate and well executed.
Band of Brothers and the Pacific are amazing I love them both equally
Europe was bad, but what the Marines in the Pacific went through was a special kind of hell. Rough terrain. Harsh conditions. Tenacious and fanatical enemy. I loved this series and think it's every bit as good as Band of Brothers, but it is bleak. It had to be to tell the story. I get why some people couldn't appreciate it.
Even Stevens
“Better get our money out of that bank” I forgot about that one
cracked me up good
Perfect ending...
The funny thing about Snafu worrying about getting hepatitis is that Sledge actually caught it on Pavuvu after Peleliu.
Got them heebie-jeebies
"WOOF..." most marine shit I've ever heard lol
They say "Rah" with such conviction. I've only said "Hooah" with a hefty amount of irony. Was always jealous of their esprit d' corps but am reminded of why I went to the Army when I see their living situation. lol
When the dude passed out in formation, the guy missed the opportunity to say ”…..Fall out”
"So remind me why we're here again?"
"Cuz they touched the boats."
“I don’t smoke” “yea??” Snafu was thinking not yet you don’t
The same way my friends used to say it to me when we'd first start drinking Friday nights, he's got a lot better reason too then I did tho
I mean, that's precisely the convo Lipton and Luz had in a foxhole in "Band of Brothers"
It's inevitable lmfao
Don't look at me, lieutenant. The gunny's right.
*"How f*ck we are now, at Guadalcanal"*
Bro that's totally fits for rap songs 😂
At least the US Marines on Guadalcanal could expect to receive supplies. The Japanese referred to it as Starvation Island and, for those who were evacuated in February, their digestive system was as badly off as a European concentration camp survivor's. Neither could actually digest anything beyond some of the most rudimentary gruel.
@kemarisite That's really what saves Marines they're Supply Lines able to replenish and fight on
@@kemarisite The Japanese are possibly the most dangerous warriors on the planet. The average line infantry IJA soldier was basically a Ghurka in his mental toughness.
The types of situations they fought through are unimaginable for the USA soldier much less any civilian. I dont think there exists a more hardline soldier in all of history.
Only Marine Raiders or USA POWs faced a similar circumstance as the IJA. Can you imagine being told "this fighting position is untenable but you have to inflict 10:1 casualties" and then starving to death? That was Iwo Jima.... and people wonder why they order Bonzai Charges....
Sledge with much chagrin later realized that he'd wished they'd done better scrubbing those oil drums because they were the same ones used to bring drinking water to them on Peleliu. It was so hot Sledge wrote that he could hold up his legs while laying down and his boots would empty out full of sweat. His buddies asked him if he'd been walking on water.
“I was askin’ sledgehammer… Woof” -Gunny
When runner was almost falling down his knees at 4:27 from tiredness was so spot on. Thats great acting
SNAFU representing my south LA. “You gotta get mean, boo” love it!
Boot**
Fun fact: The bombed out building on the Peleliu airfield is a real building that is still standing, yet also still abandoned, to this day.
It is most famous for its appearance in Call of Duty World at War, especially its reuse to make the Nazi Zombies map Nacht Der Untoten. This map would be the catalyst for the global Nazi Zombies sensation.
You wrote this like an article tf
I believe I also saw it in Medal Of Honor: Pacific Assault
That's precisely what came to mind when I rewatched it this past week
14:49 sheldon was lowkey so real for this one
The real event was pretty twisted. It wasn’t SNAFU who killed the soldier but a BAR gunner. He took his time aiming and mag dump led the soldier to see if he could cut him in half.
@@griz312 sources? or are you cooked
@@TheRealHp Eugene Sledge’s “With the Old Breed” the basis what the series is based on. The Memior is wild as fuck, Can’t even make up some of this stuff.
@@griz312 ill have to get it a read thanks
@@TheRealHp absolutely great read, I also recommend Islands of the Damned by R.V. Burgin (Sledges mortar team observer). Burgin gives another perspective of events he and Eugene witnessed.
"I'm gonna call you peaches."
"Well I'm gonna call you Old Faithful."
snafu actually get to be one of my favorite characters throughout the show
The scene where they finally get some peaches after so long without proper nutrition and Lecky pukes in response is poetically a comedically framed show of what would happen if the concentration camp prisoners near the end of Band of Brothers had eaten too much too quickly.
Refeeding Syndrome yessss
Same can happen with water when dehydrated. It’s not a good thing
“Ain’t nobody going home”. I actually felt that.
Also when Bob was at the dinner table and said “ You know what I fought for?” The whole table went silent. Becuase whatever he said they knew had meaning. And the he said “television”, I busted out laughing!
13:13
The thing is ,that once the airstrip was theirs ,there was a HUGE thriving business between the airforce trading alcohol, cash, food and anything else they could use to buy souvenirs.
They didnt have to ask.
Every plane was loaded with contraband and went back with souvenirs.
4:00 In case anyone forgot they were still in the Marine Corps.
"I have a girlfriend? look at me" 😂
try again
Lucky me
@@BananaPhoPhilly Ah damn, thanks!
“Woof!”
The scene with the Moccasins always reminds me of my Uncle bc he was a Marine in Vietnam and he told me about how Marines nvr steal they make due by strategically transporting equipment to alternate locations😅
18:02 rip the dude's at the back.
"He says superchargers are worthless"
"Out here I have to agree" 😂
The most insane reference to The Pacific I've ever seen was a very brief visual gag in a UA-cam Poop of Spongebob where Spongebob's head is replaced with a propaganda caricature of Hirohito and Squidward has devolved into being four heads.
Tojo and Fuckface.
Bro you must tell me what that ytp's name is
@@WHOARETHEPATRIOTS475 I can't remember. I'll try looking for it.
I think it's called Krubby Krab Avenges Pearl Harbor.
@@walnzell9328 Yo dawg I took a look at it, unfortunately there was no tojo and fuckface scene, but there WAS a scene where a caricature of Hirohito and squidward having multiple heads was present
ua-cam.com/video/za8UJ2ZsMpQ/v-deo.html
I think it's a case of false memory, because there WAS a ww2 scene in that ytp and you must've confused it for Pacific
It was a nice watch tho, thanks for making me rediscover coolcat001100 again bud !
@@WHOARETHEPATRIOTS475 I never said it had The Pacific footage.
Peaches, your new name is peaches as Lekke laughs and gags😂
Trying not to inhale your vomit while laughing and puking is so fuckin funny
An excellent production.
A ghastly war, a violent enemy and battles in a part of the world against enemy, disease, heat and elements of nature.
1:35 Man that was a silky smooth burn
"Out here i have to agree with him"
Ack Ack fuckin slaps
12:20 this is the most accurate shit ever. Every gunny/1SG is kinda insane.
I was in a makeshift hooch out of sticks and a tarp in europe at like 2 am and I heard twigs snapping outside, turned my light on and it was my 1SG in his hands and knees crawling towards me. He froze in the light for a second, stood up, and said "damn, you got me. I was about to bite your legs off."
😭😂😂 first sergeant sounds hilarious
4:28 me when I have to wake up before 10am.
I was heading back to university after the holiday break, and my parents let me choose what to watch the night before-so I chose one of my all-time favourites. We watched the first few episodes of _The Pacific_ and after I left, my parents messaged me and told me that they continued watching it. They always called me a history nerd for my interest in twentieth-century warfare, so the fact that I got them into _The Pacific_ was a proud moment 👌
I wish I could get my parents into the series
My family couldn't handle it
I cry every time I watch. I cannot even IMAGINE what these guys went through so that WE can be here, now.
I love you, Uncle Larry, USMC.
“Looks like Hawaii…..No it doesn’t” LOL
2:25
bro that guy in the background be like: 'What the f~'
Ive been saying ball peen hammer like Snafu for the past decade because of that scene
Based on the book "With The Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge.
These are the kind of Marines I wish I had served with when I was in.
Try using your head, Chuckler. It's big and rock-like!
“They got that right” to the comment about being recruited for bloodlust is my personal fav
The most depressing part of The Pacific has to be Okinawa. Historians say it was the sole Allied landing in Japan proper.
The ethnic Yamato Japanese didn't make it seem like it was the way they treated the Okinawans. The island had been theirs since 1879, and they still weren't done committing genocide on the natives.
Japan proper.
If you pay close attention, you can tell who's Okinawan and who's Japanese. But if you don't know the key cultural differences, then you're as informed as almost all the American troops.
Japan proper
Not to put down Iwo battle…but there are many documented accounts of island hopper Marines who did both Iwo and Peleliu. And they all say Iwo didn’t even compare to Peleliu. Peleliu was the worst fucking thing they experienced out of everything.
The most unhinged reference to The Pacific I've ever seen was in a SpongeBob SquarePants UA-cam Poop. I kid you not.
One short visual edit of Squidward and SpongeBob, but Spongebob's head is replaced with a caricature of Emperor Hirohito and Squidward has become a mass of four heads.
had a tough day, 4:42 really made me laugh. thanks for making this compilation
Why do i feel like every funny moment is with snafu🤣🤣🤣
1:33
“I have a girlfriend? Lucky me.”
HBO didn’t disappoint with BoB and The Pacific. I hope the create a series in Vietnam based on books like The Things they Carried or The Killing Zone. I know they’re probably too scared nowadays but idk.
Too woke nowadays
That's not HBO, that's Spielberg and Hanks at the first place
HBO did disappoint me with Masters of the Air, I don't why. I didn't get past Episode 1
@@frost3193 episode 1 wasn't promising, but the rest was great. It was like Peaky Blinders, but in WWII setting, and I don't even like Peaky Blinders
"They poisoned a billion coconuts" 🤣🤣🤣
This made me laugh. Thank you.
"Woof" Only word needed for the whole series!
I Thought The Acting In This The Pacific Was Rubbish Absolute Pants Especially Compared To Band Of Brothers
Is nobody going to talk about the Christmas present? That's the best joke in the entire series for me.
Your zoom ins were on point!
Sledges voice. Good. and Snafu.
24:20
The best one lmao
As a Marine myself I’m glad to see gunny’s have been crazy since WW2 😂😂😂
"Down range!" Gunny is absolutely correct!
There could have been Banzai attack versus Banzai attack match if Sobel's Easy Company was sent to the Pacific.
I picked up "shaved tail" as an unflattering description from Gunny at 8:44, and can't resist SNAFU's stoner vibe.
4:40 "Company dismissed"
They should have a spinoff series about Tojo and F**k Face. Seem like a very dynamic duo.
It's a huge production
Snafu is probably the most likable character among the three ww2 series
Probably Undoubtedly The Most Hilarious And Most Funniest
You gotta write vera about this 😂
I never much cared for Snafu. He acts like a hardened, war-weary badass who's seen it all, but at no point does he ever show himself to be any more competent or prepared than anyone else. He talks the kind of shit John Basilone could've talked if John wasn't so humble.
Hmm……. Interesting
He's just a bro, out there surviving, doing his thing. Lots of country boys have that kind of swagger & disposition, but they don't mean nothing by it.
Fuck that, he scrubs drums for no man
Yeah that's what Snafu means
Nah that’s typical for combat harden infantry Marines, who are senior but not in a leadership billet ‘senior’ lance corporals who fought in Iraq & Afghanistan acted the same way
The way Bill Leyden looks at Gunny Haney when he first gets to pavuvu💀
5:25 love it
>Ain't nobody goin' home.
You get this, you get it.
0:19 Such a fucking bar.
Easily one of my favorite quotes.
What the heck is freddy mercury doing in the pacific theater??😂
Serving together with Deaky, John Deacon to you, as you can see...
Leckie got a nice case of sugar burn and barfed.
One terrifying detail about Gunny. He survived World War 1 and it didn't break him. At the end of the Pacific campaign even he was broken. The horrors the Japanese Imperial Army put the world through were in a lot of cases far worse than what Germany ever did.
They haven't eaten properly for so long the body rejected just peach juice, plus dysentery
22:22 - Damn man my boy Garrus got shot down real hard.
Ah you cut the scene at 5:35 too soon. Love the bit when one of the soldiers goes to take a shit and says he's dropping the kids off at the pool can I get y'all anything from the bar?
he like we gotta stop feeding him smoke he mourming again
'Without a Sign, his Sword the brave Man draws, And asks no Omen but his Country's Cause'. Homer (Translated by Pope)
..... gimme back my cigarette
"If you think I'm gonna stand at the altar and lose Mary Houston to the likes of you... WELL HELL YES!" That's Brotherhood.
All dressed up for Sunday school haven't heard that or done it in over 47 years
"I'll catch a fever, then turn inside out through my asshole like Carson in Love Company."
Snafu just has such a way with words
The woof always gets me
I had no idea there's a fandom for The Pacific until I read the description. But, I kinda get it lol
Yeah But Band Of Brothers Still Much Better
Idc care if this was a flop for HBO i loved it
Tojo and fuckface are the best character names
BoB is awesome but this show is underrated imo
It Dosent Hold A Can To Band Of Brothers
Snafu catched HEPATITTIES
CREAMED SPINACH?!
I agree with Mr. Leckie. Creamed spinach sucks.
‘Oh for god sake coffee is the one good thing we have out here and we want to enjoy it in peace, you either kill Larkin or shut the fuck up’ 10/10
12:51
HEY
PRIVATE
HEY
YOU NOT SEE AT THERE WRITE NO SMOKING
Lekie got the job done 👍
Why did he vomit? That scene bugged for so long
Malnutrition, he likely hasn’t eaten adequate food for a while and drinking the juice rich with sugar can cause that.
Your body can’t digest what you’re not used to. Similar thing will happen now if you eat too much fiber and you don’t usually eat it.
Tojo and Fuckface were the best characters on the show. They could have soloed the US if given the right equipment
they CREAMED the spinach !?
Sledgehammer. O Marretada em pt_BR.
A hammer may build, a sledgehammer just destrói.
"WOOF"
Yup. Gunny is right 👍