The Complete History Of The Pacific Theater In 2 Hours
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2023
- From 1941 to 1945, America was at War with Japan. It started with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbour and it ended with the detonation of 2 atomic bombs. Between these two events countless soldiers and civilians were killed in some of the most brutal fighting of WW2. This is the definitive story of this conflict.
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Absolutely great documentary. Great narrative and narrator. Even his tonal inflections add to the drama.
Thank you USA from Philippines.
We are as your forever Ally
🤝🤝🤝
Thanks Phillipines...fighting for freedom 1898....
Dear Philippines, Pray for the United States.
My brother 👌🏻
As a young Marine serving in a small jungle camp in the hills above Subic Bay in the mid 60's I can say that my tour in the Philippines was great. The people were beautiful, kind and gracious. My best times in the Marine Corps were serving in the Philippines. Oh, and the food was awesome.
thank you fillipino brethern. love from south carolina usa
During the battle of Midway. My dad was on the USS Indianapolis up in the Aleutians.
Was he still serving at the time of the bomb transfer and when the Indianapolis was sunk?
My grandpa served in the Aleutians more often on Kodiak Island in WW2.
He was in the US Army
My father was the pay masster in the Aleutians. Served in the Army.
@@Jslowbro no. My father was off the Indy before she went down.
He served on the Indy from Feb 42- March 43.
The men who flew in The Doolittle raid ! The courage !! Surely, we owe every one of them, an entire nation's gratitude. They were, THE Greatest Generation, & my Dad was part of them. He walked on to Guadalcanal on 8/7/1942, stated x 6+ weeks, & was evac'd only when taken down by Dengue Fever & Combat Fatigue, from lack of sleep. It took 2 full years to get Dad back home to Denver. He was awarded The Navy Cross, & The Purple Heart. My Dad, was the best man I ever knew, & I miss him every single day.; -----------MJL, 77 y/o
my dad beat me and mum and walked out on us when i was 7,nvr missed him a single day of my life
Calm, down, on, the, commas, man! Jesus!
Dr Doolittle was a great man
Doolittle raid speaks of the damage it deliver to Japan... very little
@@dregasp2467
Before= Untouchable Japan.
Afterwards= VERY TOUCHABLE..and we're coming.
thats not 'very little'
We will always support this channel. Theyre one of the best.
Agreed
This is the best of the best documentary , the details of the history from Pearl harbour to Nagasaki is well documented .Brilliant
no mention of mindanao.
That such content is free is just incredible.
Good stuff.👏
Although I was born in 1947 one of the few issues my family would speak of was the outrage the American people felt after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. I was not aware that Japan also attacked Clark field and other American Assets in the pacific theatre. Five of my uncles enlisted right after these attacks. My father worked at a Steel plant in upstate NY and did not have to go on active duty, he was an enlisted Reserve because he was helping make war materials when the war started. My mother worked in a sewing factory during the war sewing uniforms It was truly a world war. Everyone picked in.
That is absolutely incredible that all those raiders had to bail out, and the footage of the crash landing and the guys jumping out unharmed, amazing!
Thank you for sharing this great documentary, RIP to the everyone who lost their lives, and honor every one who served. And never forget that day, December 7 1941. GOD bless and STAY SAFE. Semper FI 86-91
Semper Fi Marine! 02-22
Thanks to all the marines and navy members for your sacrifice . To the Army grunts thanks for your sacrifice as well - U.S. Army 2008-2012
@thatguy_seabassr1143 hi I'm with the British Royal Marines what does semper fi mean?
@@jamieknight6689 means Always Faithful
My late father was at Leyte. Dad was an Army Air Corps engineer building air strips. Specifically, he operated a bulldozer. He said he saw Gen. MacArthur sometime after the landing.
Good except for blurring out battle scenes. Warning messages can be used instead of doing that.
Thanks for the warning. I'm not going to bother watching this now.
If it's blurred or censored, IT DIDNT HAPPEN!
It's still the best WW2 film on you tube.
7 year old kids should be seeing body mutilation?
Will be blocked by UA-cam cause they are softer than soft
*Matatan 😮 Ribirin H-S*
*Another amazing documentary very well done ✅*
Great complilation...but WHY BLUR SO MANY SCENES? THAT'S TYRANNICAL CENSORSHIP!!!
Stop whining.
@@dr.barrycohn5461 Are you whining about him whining? Sounds like it
Ain't enough cheese for that whine
a good overall view. Great footage. i just watched Kings and Generals Guadalcanal campaign. over 2 hours on that alone. Animated as it is...
The japanese imperial army did not fear death. they were some adversary for the Americans to take on and win against. A lot of grit and determination.
Documentary also included really interesting details about the australians involvement that most don't mention.
Very well done and informative. Thank you
very sad to see history censored for money on YT.
Yeah the original documentary wouldn’t b like that
Wonderful videos and perspective.
Superb documentary........ such monumental events demand to be archived so well..........
Minus the historical inaccuracies. Excellent videography
Shut up.. ??
@masoncross-omoc I dont think he was dissing anything at all. So much history is condensed into one documentary. This video could be 10 hours long and it still wouldnt have covered everything in perfect detail.
Typical Facebook educated comment
My Uncle Dalton was there for almost the entire journey. In early 1942, he was a U.S. Army Master Sergeant command an anti aircraft artillery battery on the island of Corregidor. When the Rock surrendered, he was made a prisoner of war. He was forced into the Batman Death March. Many Americans and Philippines died of starvation dehydration and exhaustion during the march. Then he was put in a containmentt camp where many more died. Then he was put into a He'll Ship for transport to Japan. Many more died of heat stroke, dehydration and dysentery. When they arrived in japan, they were forced to march through the streets of Nagasaki while civilians and military beat and poked at them with sticks. At the outskirts of the city they we forced to work as slave labor in coal mines with little food, water and no medical trestment. He was in the mine when Boxcar dropped the Plutonium bomb.
He weighed barely 80 lbs when rescued by American troops.
IRONY * While Uncle Dalton was a prisoner, two other uncles were working at Oakridge, Tennessee enriching uranium for the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
My Aunt Maggie was a Navy nurse in the Pacific on a hospital ship. She was wounded when the red cross marked ship was strafed and bombed by Japanese planes.
My cousin was an infantryman fighting Japanese on the Aleutian islands. While bullet entire his fatigues he was not wounded. But, he did suffer from n frost bite as a result of having only summer clotying.
My father was in the OSS in Europe and parachuted into Normandy before June 6. He traveled from France to Holland to Belgium (including Bastogne) and then on into Germany.
I last saw my Uncle Dalton in 1967, after graduating from Fort Poll's Tiger land AIT (Infantry, RVN Oriented). He was still suffering from his bad treatment by the Japanese.
That's pretty damn amazing
🫡🫡🫡🫡
How old are you?
Your family made remarkable contributions to the war effort. But you surely mean the BATAAN Death March. To call it 'Batman' is a howler bordering on plain disrespectful.
Excellent coverage of the Pacific War!
Amazing doco.So sad.😔
Man o man, they were the greatest generation. All my respect, fathers and grandfathers.. we got nuthin like you guys were...
Mac, Chet, "Howlin Mad", Stilwell, "Blood & Guts", Brad, Spruance, Stark, Doolittle, Merrill, Ike, even Franklin... not to mention so many others on down to the grunts, jarheads, swabbies, and all the home-front people without whom it would have been impossible, and who kept the whole business on track...
And while all this was going on, their other arm was fighting Italy and Germany and supplying the British and Russians...
I feel like i watched most of this on other documentaries but some im saw was new
Excellant presentation . Regards .
& respect to all military involved
The new ad system make UA-cam unwatchable
My uncle flew a p-38 in the south pacific and became America's Ace of Aces. Major Richard Ira Bong
Warning. Do not cite this material as fact. Example: There was NO pre-invasion shelling of Guadalcanal. The first shells to land were on August 7, day of invasion. MacArthur was not Supreme Commander. Rather, he was in charge of the Army and the southern and western Pacific. Nimitz was in charge of the central theater. But there are lots of facts, so just enjoy.
It drove me crazy but at least they mentioned Australia…got to get the pluses where you can.
When facts are erroneously passed on , it changes history. A sad state of affairs.
This documentary takes some real big short cuts to over simplify events. Crucial early Australian victories in Papua at Milne Bay and the Kokoda trail are just not there. Nimitz was not part if the fleet at the Coral Sea, the Soviet declaration of war and invasion of Matchukwo was really important, and so on, and so on.
No documentary can include everything. Just stop.
@@hockema56 Of course, everything has to be MeRiCaN, true or not.
good@@KangaJack-ns9gd
@@KangaJack-ns9gdnot. But the point of view was stated at the beginning so it's pointless to point out the things that were left out. And they left out whole heaps even from the US perspective. The documentary was decent but really more of a long winded summary of the whole thing. Leaving out Taffy three contribution at leyti is criminal in my opinion.
My father fought at Papua. American. He was a line man. How brave all our men and women were during WW2!
Very good, thank you!
Sure enough, in Australia and soon in Hawaii, it's December 7th.
For me it is important, as being a What If/Alternative World History guy, while I do change history up (keeping close to reality), there are some events I kept as they are.
Peral Habour is one I don't charge and most important of that.
Too bad the background music and noise is louder than the narration.
There are many inaccuracies in this video. McArthur did not fly out when he left the Philippines, he left on a PT boat. To say there was nothing he could do is inaccurate, he did everything wrong. The way he tried to defend the Philippines was neglectful and maybe criminal. He disobeyed every prewar plan that was in place.
He also had nothing to do with Guadalcanal. He didn't think that would succeed.
And Pearl Harbor is not on Hawaii it’s on Oahu Island
BUT...HE HAD FRIENDS IN VERY HIGH PLACES 😮
@jasonbennett60 It's IN THE STATE (though not at this time) so WHAT'S YOUR BEEF ?
And Roosevelt didn’t declare war, he asked Congress to declare war.
I've enjoy this documentary awhile crocheting 😊.
Unfortunately, the Australian Prime Minister gave the greenlight to sell steel to Japan during World War II, and we didn’t find out until afterwards and he was rightly, kicked out what he did
We may have helped the Japs into giving them power but when they turned on us we cut off everything and starved them,and when they didn't stop their dumbass got nuked which was revenge and justice for all who suffered at their hands.✊🏾💪🏾
Yay, no AI narration.
Feel like this is an old documentary
What does it matter
Most AI narration still sounds terrible and inhuman
@SharonRymer-ge2mu it's annoying
Great documentary. Some extremely brave men, on both sides. The Japanese were regarded as some of the best soldiers. There was awesome men in every army. Along with tyrants and animals. War brings out both the best and worst in men.
The Guadalcanal Campaign was not led by McArthur. He struck a deal with Admiral King to let the Marines land at Guadalcanal. Also, the Japanese were not waiting for the Americans. They only had a small construction crew there building the airfield. The Japanese reenforced the island a few days after they realized the attack on Guadalcanal was THE Allied main attack.
Not 100% sure but at least 90%, that is Chesty at 59:01. He is front and center and is a Lt. Col. Chesty was a silver leaf at the time.
This is great for bedtime 🌙
MacArthur was not in charge of the Guadalcanal campaign he was not a marine at least be accurate
Wow😮the resielaiants of those boys will never be duplicated
Completely outsmarted and out minuvered 😮
#WarStories let me know when you get real visual from both sides about 2 British General surrender in one battlefield 10th November 1945 Soerabaia city, I’m so proud we had call Hero City.any way thank for all Great War stories. that’s great treasure stories for next generation to take positiv side
My papa was at Pearl Harbor..he survived on the outside and carried the deaths with him until his death.
Thank God for our brothers in arms,from all countrys
frm japan too?
ありがとうございました
Great documentary
On the thumbnail, cover the bottom part of the atomic explosion and tell me that doesn't look like a hot pocket.
This channel is top quality
Thanks
Fdr
Hey Tiffany how you doing I'm not here to judge just here to admire your beauty and your intellect you're awesome
Ngl they had us the first 3 QTRs
Good documentary, but the censorship was ridiculous. I can’t give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down.
I was really interested in watching this, but that loud obnoxious music makes it impossible! Too bad. 😢
General MacArthur didn't fly out of the Philippines he used PT boats
2:21:30 why is the cloud from the explosion looking like 1 of the anonakis
My dad was in the US Navy in world war II on a light aircraft carrier called the Hancock' that was a tough war in the Pacific
So much for the battle of leyte gulf...skip right on past Taffy 3
If you show this show 1:18:53 all. Don't block this flim. 1:18:41
Grognards will have a lot of erroneous details to bemoan, but the documentary covered the overhead view of the Pacific war adequately, and the music throughout was a bonus.
Your damn rite man
All 92,000.00 are cowards afraid to die in fighting but not afraid to die without a fight
Sowwy but had to turn you guys into some Hot Pockets!!!
American manufacturing is not what it was we could not do this again.
The voice isn’t good enough and the back music and sounds are louder!
i love the video but hate how u blurred out some stuff
This documental is wonderful.
Neither Nimitz or Yamamoto were in command at Coral Sea
Frank Jack Fletcher never gets the credit he deserves.
They technically were, but they were large scale theater commanders and not directly in command.
It’s the same logic someone could use to say that Admiral King was in command of every American naval action during WW2. That is technically true, but really missing the picture.
So the Japanese were spotted but were brushed off right? Whoever said to ignore it, were they punished?
The wrong folks unfortunately were. Like everyone else in this war. Scapegoats abounded
Propaganda, but NOT History, has led us to believe that the Empire of Japan began its territorial expansion in the 1930’s, invading China, creating the puppet State of Manchukuo and “Provoking” the war with the Western Powers. But, Was this really, how events happened? Did Japan invade China and South East Asia? It seems so. However, the Propaganda does NOT say that for centuries, all Asia was invaded by Western Powers. England occupied India, Burma (Myanmar); Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Malaysia and China (Hong Kong, Nanking, Shanghai, etc). France dominated all Indochina. The Netherlands intervened by the Force of its Arms, to all of Indonesia. And Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and of course, also the United States were in South East Asia cuz, for example this country, the US, occupied the Philippines since 1898. (Spanish-American War). Thus the panorama in the 30's, the Empire of Japan, when defeating to the Tsarist Russian Empire, it also decided to "Grow" by invading its neighbors. In those years, all European nations had colonies in Africa, India, the Middle East, Australia, Asia and America. (England came to occupy almost ¼ part of the planet). For its part, the US, in 113 years of existence as a nation in those years, had "Grown" 711 the size of its territory from its original 13 colonies. Now is the picture clear? Japan for its part, had fought on the side of the winners in World War I (1914-1918), and they, the Japanese, not awarded any "Gain". The western victors of WWI divided the world. Japan was excluded. Thus, Japan's motives for attacking and expanding as the Europeans and the US did seem clearer, right? Then they, the Japanese, attacked China in 1931, which was occupied by 6 Western Powers for almost a century. None of the Western Powers occupying China at this time, OPPOSED or fought Japan for Invading China. NONE! Then, 11 years later after having occupied the territory of China and coexisted without any problem with the Western Powers within China, they, the Japanese, attacked Hawaii, which in turn, this Island had been occupied and annexed by the US in 1898. (In 1900-01, Hawaii became US territory and Hawaii ceased to be an independent nation after more than 630 years of sovereignty. By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had just completed the 40th anniversary of the military occupation and annexation of Hawaii). They, the Japanese, attacked Singapore, which was then a Colony of England. They, the Japanese, attacked the Philippines, which were occupied by the US and whose Gov’r, Douglas MacArthur reined as Emperor. Yup… Truly like an Absolute Autocrat. Therefore, the Japanese did NOT attack (In the 40’s), Singapore, Burma, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, Timor, the Philippines, etc. In reality, the Japanese attacked England, France, Holland, the US, the UK, etc. That is, the Japanese attacked the Western Powers invading all of Asia. That is the verifiable truth. The Empire of Japan didn’t invade. Japan fought against the Invaders. But, Propaganda has made us believe that the good guys were us, the US. And of course… Nanking was a horrendous Genocide committed by Japan, but, it was no more horrendous than the 12 Genocides committed by the United States in his History and all over the world. Nor was it less horrendous than the Genocide committed by King Leopold II of Belgium, in Central Africa. Nor was Nanking more or less horrendous than the Genocides that the British Empire committed in America, Africa, Australia, Middle East, India and also in China too. In the Philippines (1898-1902), the US Army produced a Genocide of One Million people dead. ONE MILLION. And now, the Japanese are our friends and allies... Yup… But, to fight against China, AGAIN!!! Well… No More. No More British Malaya nor British Borneo nor British wherever. No More French Indochina. No more Dutch Indies. No More Portugese Domains. No More US Domain here. Asia is for Asians and “The China Sea” belongs to CHINA. Westerns powers have nothing to do in Asia. NOTHING!!!
Where can we watch these docs without the blurred out yt censorship? Who watches a war doc then freaks out because they’re showing carnage? F the yt censors
We can’t even mention the Japanese attack on Nanking that caused the break in relations that led to Pearl Harbor. Why? Because it is called R-word of Nanking.
I would really like to watch this, but the music is driving me crazy!
My father-in-law, who fought in the Pacific told me once in his home opinion it was one of the biggest mistakes any country made during World War II
Hey UA-cam, thanks for turning every decent documentary into a flippin audiobook due to your censorship guidlines...
Don't think much of your blurred screen.
How many joined to fight the japanese and ended up fighting Germany 🤔
😂😂😂😂
Probably a lot of the time depended on if you were drafted by the marines or the army 😅
403, 543, 000.
37:14 - Damn
Command of the Guadalcanal campaign was disputed but ultimately cammand was given to Admiral Nimitz and the Navy, not McCarther. Admiral Fletcher commanded the overall expaditionary force while Admiral Turner commanded amphibius forces with Vandergrift leading the 16k ground troops. Yall should fix that, especially considering most Marines cant stand McCarther. The only time we've had to surrender was because he surrendered us then abandoned us.
The worst defeat was bataan when the soliders were running out of supplies why didn't reinforcements arrive cause that's how the japs overwhelmed and defeated the allies?🤔
Oh now I know it's because with the Navy decimated by attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, there were no ships capable of delivering reinforcements to Bataan and that's why the Japs became the first Asian country to not only suffer the largest air raid bombardment but the first to be nuked the air raid from 1942 to 5 killed 900k and the atom bombs killed 236k so it was revenge and justice for all✊🏾 including the Chinese and Koreans who were the first to suffer at there hands.
MacArthur was despised by almost all the troops under him, but he was the
One who devised the island hopping
Campaign in the Pacific theatre. It's true he was a prima Donna and over
Estimated the defenses of the Philippines, but at that point in time,
The IJA was a juggernaut that steamrolled everything in front of it. But as the fighting intensified, and their losses mounted, they couldn't
Sustain their offensive attacks. Amd add in the manpower and materiel
Production advantages we had it was only a matter of time till they were forced to capitulate ending the war in the Pacific and bringing the war to a close.
@BrucePerkins-mc3hp Lt. Col. Pete Ellis USMC developed the island hopping strategy in 1921. "Operations Plan 712-H: Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia" McCarther was doing what he did best, stealing credit to gain glory.
At least spell McArthur correctly if you are going to be an expert on the topic.
Why are there so many blurred-out scenes?
People r soft and can't look at anything slightly offensive including dead bodies
Tojo should have listened to Yamamotos prophecy
I can't believe they just glazed over the naval battle of Leyte with the destroyers and escort carriers so quick but there is limited time. Great book for it is the Tin Can Sailors Save the Day
They didn't mention the threat of Soviet Invasion, which definitely played a major role on Japanese surrender
being on deck while the big guns went boom... you can stuff ur ears with all the protection you want. those were 16'ers. you're lucky to be within 5 feet and not get broken ribs or a concussion. and these people did it over and over.
It is insane how many facts this documentary messes up. For example they messed up Taffy 3 and that is a famous historical David and Goliath story. It is a great looking piece (outside of the yt censorship).
This is for all those who don't know war to see what it is like to be in a war situation, unfortunately humanity never learn a lesson we keep on making weapons of mass destruction and advocating for war, which is very sad
Para Bellum.... 😷😷😷😷
At 1:00:15 the tank shown is a M3 Stuart know as a "Satan" one of the models that been outfitted with a flame thrower.
At the start of the war with Japan the M3 Stuart was the tank the Marines worked with before the M4 Sherman came along. Compared to the two the M3 was better due to its small size and light weight, due to the nature of the islands.
I really like this channel.. but you gotta have an option to mute the music. It’s ridiculously overdramatised.. don’t put music to bombing and executions . It doesn’t work. I just want the info.. cause your history and analysis is great.
1:33:00 the thrilla in manilla
Fi Asiallinen filmi.
Why did Japan use wood for its aircraft carrier decks?
We used wooden carrier bc it was cheaper than steel, and easier to
Repair in the middle of a war. And another thing is that we needed to
Our carriers at sea not in a drydock
Under going repairs. So it made sense to the military to do it that way. And it worked, we could have
A 6 week turnaround, whereas if it
Was steel decking the turnaround time would've been twice as long.
So it was a combination of both those factors that led to the use of
Wooden carrier decks being used.
@BrucePerkins-mc3hp downside something small as a molotov cocktail could decommission a Japanese carrier
Cheaper
It happens
F around and find out🇺🇸✌️
This documentary is rife with inaccuracies, it consistently gets major points of history wrong and in so doing does a disservice to the sacrifices that those who served made. Get it right next time.
Whats the bloody point is showing a blured out screen.
It's the UA-cam TOS. Pretty ridiculous sometimes.
So many commercials you can't sit back and watch too bad good stuff otherwise
You on pc?
This might have been a good documentary had the narrator not whispered and the background been loud. I did not watch it and I am likely no worse off! I wanted to watch it.
How about no soundtrack to make this watchable?
You have more advertisements than content, it's disgusting
Agreed. It’s often overwhelming to the point of just turning it off.