" THIS IS GUADALCANAL " 1944 U.S. MARINE CORPS DOCUMENTARY FILM 23824
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- This black & white educational film is about the landing of U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal in 1942. This is from 1944.
Opening titles: This is Guadalcanal (:06-:49). Guadalcanal is shown on a map, the Marines took it. A Military officer talks about it (:50-1:51). Marines board a ship. They float by the San Francisco skyline and see the Golden Gate Bridge. The ship at sea. A few ships sail, men wait on the ships. Rough seas as the ships rock. Ships rendezvousing at night. Crews man their stations. August 7, 1942, the Navy Cruiser guns start firing at the shore. Japanese caught off guard as the ships fire a barrage of artillery. Gunnery officers observe (1:52-4:08). An officer looks through binoculars. Men swing over the sides of the ship onto cargo nets and then into rafts. Wave after wave of landing craft as fighter planes were a protective umbrella. The beach is ahead of them, no return fire, no opposition. Soldiers land on the island of Guadalcanal. Soldiers carry food in crates. On the beach, soldiers are ready. Soldiers lay barbed wire and create machine gun nests. Fox holes are made for Marines by Marines. Deserted Japanese camps. A Japanese uniform that is camouflaged is shown (4:09-6:32). Spikes placed on their boots show how they can be used to climb a tree. A Japanese flame thrower is tested. Japanese cannon turned around. Marines test the Japanese weapons and find them inferior to the USA product. A machine gun is tested. August 8, 1942, Marines walk. They take over a Japanese Airfield without resistance. The Marines raise a USA flag. Marines dig. They use Japanese steamrollers. They also use USA tractors and bulldozers. U.S. planes take off, U.S. SBD and Wildcat planes. Pilot exits a plane. The airfield has planes on it (6:33-9:11). A Navy plane lands and brings fuel. Navy Flying Fortresses. U.S. headquarters tent plan out the next operation. Marines walk and take jeeps. Aerial shot of the airfield. Hilltop became known as Bloody Ridge. Marines clear the brush and construct observation posts and foxholes. A Marine drinks, a picture of his girlfriend nearby. A field gun is fired. The guns are fired repeatedly. Binoculars pick up a Japanese plane and they fire at it, they hit it and it crashes into the trees. A flurry of Japanese planes fly by and a machine gun crew fires at them, they get another plane to crash. Japanese planes tore huge craters in the airfield and destroyed buildings. Airfield is smokey and parts lay in ruins (9:12-12:45). U.S. planes on the ground that have crashed or been destroyed. Aerial shot of the airfield. Wounded men placed onto planes to get them to safety. Hospital Station sign. Guadalcanal's one and only refrigerator. Marines bath in the river. Marines make biscuits. Marines eat good. News from home is posted on the board. Japanese POWs. The POWs are behind barbed wire. POWs are given humane treatment. Dead Japanese soldiers strewn about. U.S. Soldiers walk amongst the Japanese dead (12:46-15:46). A captured Japanese flag is displayed.
Admiral Nimitz decorates a few American heroes with medals. Three Marine pilots with Nimitz. Marines salute their fallen and play taps. The U.S. Army shows up to relieve the tired Marines. Army on the sand and on the road. Marines head for the ships to leave. Marines board ships and wave. U.S. flag flies over Guadalcanal
(15:47-17:51). A Military officer talks about taking and holding Guadalcanal (17:52-19:02). End credits (19:03-19:16).
The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction. Reinforcements were funneled to the island as a series of land and sea clashes unfolded, and both sides endured heavy losses to their warship contingents. However, the Japanese suffered a far greater toll of casualties, forcing their withdrawal from Guadalcanal by February 1943.
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These men were the reason i joined the Marines. Oorah and semper fi marines. Thank you for your sacrafices old marines and new. Thank you and thank you all veterans that ever served
My father was a Marine fighting on Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and others in the WWII Pacific Island campaign. He passed away in 2008, but thought he’d once seen himself in an old newsreel. We have photos of him in Uniform, but I’m not sure we could pick him out in an action sequence.
My dad was also, he passed in 2004.
My dad had terrible PTSD and didn't talk about the war until after his retirement. Slept with a gun until 83
My father was 82nd Airborne in the Europe; operation Market Garden, Normandy, etc. I have studied WW2 history all of my life. I'm a Navy Vet (70-74), served on a carrier. I have known a few Marines in my life. Never tire of watching actual footage of WW2.
My late Dad was on Guadalcanal as a Corsair pilot with the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Also Espitu Santo.....supporting ground troops.
My great uncle died during the Battle of the Tenaru. I've seen lots of videos, photos, read books and official reports about the campaign. This is a nice wartime encapsulation of it.
I grew up in the 50’s & 60’s. I remember the ‘’old breed’’ they were my friends fathers , my dad my uncles . The greatest generation .
✌️🇺🇸 Semper Fi......@Norm Freilinger...Thank you...Have to say I miss those days...We were all so Strong Together. The hate today breaks my heart. We must always remain United. 💙🇺🇸Stronger Together. Love and Peace always💞
✌️🇺🇸 Watching with tears in my eyes. My Dad was there...He was 1st Marine Division.... Guadalcanal and Okinawa. 1942-46 My Dad would never talk to me about the war so I did not want to insist...My mom did share with me...many stories. I am so grateful to have my dads Book of...The Old Breed...I will always cherish it forever.💞 God Bless Our America🇺🇸 Our Great Military and all our Brave Veteran's.... Past and Future. Love and Peace to all...💞xo
Thank you for your father's service! The greatest generation indeed! God forbid we have another war like that! I fear the young generation we have today Would not compare to your father's!!!
@@nathanduckeorth806🇺🇸🥰 Thank you so much....Greatly appreciated. Please ...Remain safe and well always. 💙✌️ We are all...Stronger Together...💞
And God Bless Your Dad...""👍
Bless your Pop! Mine was also on Guadalcanal from the first day and years later was stopped by serious mortar shrapnel injury on Guam. Our dads are the men of legend. An eternal hero.
My Dad too!
The sailor at 3:18 is my father. He was on shore the first day to set up ship-to-shore communications. He ended up making several trips to the island in the next several months and ended up with a nice case of malaria.
Richard Wichman - When you are taken out by a bug and have dengue, malaria or black water fever, you are as much a casualty as someone who got hit. Back in your dad’s day there was no cure for malaria. Lots of those guys were sick for the rest of their life. They were warriors as much as anyone else. I know, I’ve been down that road and survived.
My father got malaria on guadalcanal also and for the rest of his life ROBERT RAYMOND SCARPA 1DIV 3RD 5TH GUADALCANAL TO CHINA MARINE USMC
@@rascal0175 truth
Salute and respect to your Dad from NZ 👍🇳🇿
Incredible, there was a high possibility my Grandfather (1st Marine) was the one who filmed him and these landing shots as he was a USMC photographer and filmed over 8000' of 16mm film footage of the USMC landings on Guadalcanal, sadly most of the footage went up in smoke an aeroplane crash on Henderson field so footage of the 1st landings are pretty rare as a result. Sergeant Arndt (Monk) pictured in this same video ua-cam.com/video/AYk_RTwk0ow/v-deo.html would go on to fight beside my grandfather in the Ill fated Goettge Patrol on the Matanikau, He, Arndt and Spalding were the only 3 to escape from this ambush.
Our Marines suffered through horrible conditions in the Pacific. The ETO was a cakewalk comparatively. I don’t wish to take away anything from US Army soldiers in Europe,but they didn’t have insufferable heat,malaria,and a fanatical enemy that would rather die than loose face. The Marines don’t get credit for the sacrifices they endured. God bless every single one of them.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The ETO was no cakewalk, and it's rather disrespectful to put it that way. Casualty rates in Europe were much heavier than in the PTO. And while they didn't contend with tropical diseases, Soldiers in Europe still suffered from rampant trench foot, pneumonia, and jaundice. You don't need to belittle the experiences of those who served in other theaters to affirm the sacrifice of the Marines in the Pacific. It should be enough to say that it was bad for all servicemen involved.
Also, the Army served in the Pacific too.
Plus the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-45 was fought in bitter cold, a foot of snow, sleeping and fighting outside in those conditions, and German tanks and artillery were super powerful, highly accurate and first rate, as were infantry weapons. Germans knew how to cleverly assault to their advantage, or withdraw, maneuver and counterattack, the Japanese knew how to use jungle concealment to their advantage, fortify in caves and tunnels and stand their ground to the death, attack when you least expected it, or swoop down in Banzai "human wave" attacks as a last resort.
@Floyd Vaughn Many units were also rotated to New Zealand and Hawaii for long periods of rest and retraining.
@@redaug4212 Let's not forget North Africa.
The Batan March should never be forgotten.
This unfortunately did not capture the horrific conditions these Marines were faced with. They were on their own fending for themselves for some time and were abandoned by the Navy when they were ordered to leave by the Commander.
Many of the Marines contracted malaria and dysentery and were extremely ill.
The Marines were scarred for the rest of their lives from the devastation they witnessed while fighting for USA.
Hero's forever. God Bless 🙏
Semper Fi! Thank you all, RIP.
The very best ! A big thank you to ALL veterans on this past “Veterans Day” !
I thank God that my dad returned in one piece but his best friend did not make it back, may God watch over and have mercy on the dead !! !!!!!!!
By 44, Guadalcanal was over as an ongoing battle. As Guadalcanal was built up, it acted as a forward base for operations in the South Pacific and eventually, the Philippines.
Marines called it Malaria Island because many of them caught it there.
My Uncle was recovering from malaria in Australia where he met my future Aunt.
They've both since passed but, it shows how our lives are intertwined with the history.
"Uncommon valor was a common virtue" Chester Nimitz, Admiral
Not to split hairs with you Tom Burgess, but Adm Nimitz made that infamous comment about the USMC after the Iwo Jima operation.
@@robnordstrom155 Not to belabor with you Rob Nordstrom, but Nimitz's quote is hopefully justifiably 'famous', but by no stretch of righteous imagination can it be considered 'infamous'. Maybe you intended that term to apply to the strategic decision that committed thousands of American Marines to arguable slaughter on Iwo Jima. A decision that has been second guessed much as to its wisdom and necessariness. Nimitz's full quote: "Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue." 2020 Marks that battle's 75 anniversary. Considered by many to be the fiercest and bloodiest that U.S. Marines ever engaged in. And I'd add, hopefully ever will.
Thank you. The great suffering they lived.
My grandfather was wounded there. Never found out what division/regiment he was with though
note marines hadn't received signature brownside/greenside camo helmet covers yet as of landing on the"canal"
Thank you for this!
My dad fought in Guadalcanal his name was Rufus Martin 12 came back from his whole battalion he was in a parade made staff sergeant 3 years
semper fi!
SF, my hometown. I have a distant relative Marine on my Mother's side who fought at Guadalcanal. The family tie also includes General Chennault.
Charlton Bernard Rogers, III
b. 18 Apr 1907, Louisville, KY
d. 25 Dec 1989, St. Louis, MO
On December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was in Iceland with the 6th Marine Regiment.
Charlton returned to San Diego with his regiment where it was reformed, and he was promoted to Major and transferred from commanding the weapons company to the division staff. However, he requested troop duty and was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines in Guadalcanal. While there, he contracted malaria, Jaundice and dengue fever. He spent three months in the hospital in Wellingham, New Zealand and three more in the Naval Hospital in San Diego. His third overseas duty was as Lieutenant Colonel on corps staff in the Pacific.
1st Marine Division comment.
At 5:11... The Landing Craft they are unloading from is Japanese... A Daihatsu. They were what our own Higgins Boats were modeled after. It’s pretty likely that they found several either at Tulagi, or Lunga, and decided to use them, since they made unloading so much easier.
Higgens made the Higgens boat WAY before WWII when he owned a lumber company in Louisiana.
I owed a Rocky, best little jeep copy i ever had, i ran that thing into the ground and it still ran forever
I recently finished reading "Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer". A excellent book and the real true story of the Naval battle for Guadalcanal, the US Navy suffered one of the worst defeats in their history there. In the end though they managed to keep the Japanese from landing more troops there, but unfortunately suffered more casualties than the Marines. My father in law was USN WWII and my brothers father in law was USMC WWII, I feel truly fortunate to have heard some of their stories first hand, we miss you Brownie & Norm. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
The most desperate fight the Americans experienced in WWII. Guadalcanal and the drive up the slot will always be my favorite part of our glorious history. Sad to see the Communist Chinese buildup of power, bribery and political Influence these days in this region we fought so hard to liberate.
obriets What’s really sad is our political leadership selling us out to benefit themselves and their Billionaire donors. They all should be hung as traitors to the American people.
This was the US's biggest failure in WWII. We liberated China from Japan, but unlike Japan we did not stay to rebuild it.
The US is solely to blame for the situation with China. We were there, we had troops and money, but we left the country in tatters.
Compare it to Japan, and Korea countries we did stay to rebuild. These are the thriving jewels in Asia.
@@doyoulikeduckmeat We backed the wrong side; corrupt warlords and a corrupt Chiang. However, I can’t see that we had a real choice at the time. Truman made a lot of geopolitical mistakes. Vietnam and Korea come to mind.
Sad to see buildup of CCP bribery and influence in Washington DC.
It is really amazing that we beat the Japanese. They were a fierce and powerful nation who fought harder and without fear. They believed they were Samurai.
I'd never have believed that These men could Amount to anything.
7:09 An engineer of the Mitsubishi factory was mentioned in the 1993 book by Haruko-Taya Cook "Japan at War: An Oral History", as saying that "(I) broke down crying" and his wife remembered him saying "Now we're finished." when the announcements of the attack against Pearl Harbor came, because most of the precision manufacturing equipment was imported from the US.
It's also made apparent in the later Ian Buruma's book "Wages of war" from 1995
That's cool! I love little snippets of information like that!
Well if that's so they've since fixed that haven't they. My sense is they never really stopped fighting 'the war'... just switched from military to economic/political methods.
My grandfather served on Guadalcanal as a Seabee
My 2 uncles were Seabees on Guadalcanal. I remember one of them had one of those Japanese "souvenir" flags taken from a dead enemy soldier. In the documentary here it appears they had lots of stuff that they gathered up from the dead Japanese soldiers, maybe handing it out to U.S. combatants sort of like participation trophies. Oh, and I remember my grandparents saved all my uncle's letters home from the battle zone. They showed us the letters, and they were all riddled with neat rectangular holes where censors had cut out possibly vital things in case these letters fell into enemy hands.
Never forget!
It's odd that, since this film was released in 1944, no mention is made of John Basilone's Congressional Medal of Honor.
Not really, this is a propaganda piece for the home front and the USMC hardy ever ever mentions a Marine by name. Five or more Marines received the Medal of Honor for actions on that horrid piece of sand.
Basilone was still alive when this was produced so they didn't identify active soldiers or marines unless it was the leaders. They were all hero's .
There's something immensely charming about old war propaganda. I especially loved how they emphasize at every possible opportunity just how superior US equipment is here.
I can only wonder if the Japanese made similar movies to show their factory workers at home. Would be fascinating to see the propaganda from both sides of the same battle.
Most Nipponese equipment was very reliable and was already war proven in China, etc. They’re saying American equipment was better here to keep the American public proud and involved.
Yes, Nipponese did in fact make similar films, all countries did really, to help keep up morale at home.
@@joachimguderian4048 _"They’re saying American equipment was better here to keep the American public proud and involved."_
I know. That's why I called it propaganda.
Of COURSE this is propaganda! This was made in 1944, we were still at war on two sides of the world! The US had to keep up the spirits of the Home Front to keep production going and to keep the spirits up of those whose loved ones (of all races) were serving in those war theaters....many never coming back.
If you actually believe that WWII Japanese arms were equal to or better than US arms you're not in touch with reality... but then my sense is given your apparent adolescence that's likely the case. With a few notable exceptions, by comparison, their arms were low quality shit, like most everything else coming out of their nation at the time. That only really changed circa 1950 with William Edwards Deming, an American engineer, statistician and QC guru. But you wouldn't know anything about that either would you. Quit spewing nonsense and do some legit research, you might actually learn something real, and useful. Edit: Well, if you ever had/have any interest in such....
@@emansnas from what I've read, the only exceptions were the zero fighter and the torpedoes, but both only at the beginning. Other than that, US American equipment was always superior. Japan didn't even have proper radar.
Still, quite admirable for a non-western nation at that time to even design and manufacture their own modern stuff (based on western models, but still). Unlike other independent non-western countries at that time, like China, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia etc who relied on western imports for anything modern at that time
Anyone wanting to know more about this battle should read the book Strong Men Armed.
And at 10:38 they show something else that is “odd” for Guadalcanal... M1 Garands. The Marines had none when they landed, and would continue to have none until November of 1942, kinda after the major fighting around Henderson Field and Edson’s/Bloody Ridge.
Matthew Bailey army brought them
I know that the Army brought them. But the Army only began to arrive on Guadalcanal on Oct. 13, 1942, with a few Battalions of the 132nd Infantry and 164th Infantry, and the entire 182nd Infantry Regiment.
And this was also when the first M1 Garands reached ANY Units in the Pacific in a Combat Area (The M1 Garand was first issued to Marines who were in rear-echelon duty, and as far as the PTO went, that meant: Australia, Noumea, and Espiritu Santo, Efate, American Samoa, New Zealand, Pearl Harbor, Midway, Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, and the Marines of the “Fleet Marine Force” of Marine contingents stationed on the various Aircraft Carriers, Battleships, Cruisers, etc.).
And the “Battle of Edson’s Ridge” (Bloody Ridge) occurred in September 7, 1942, before ANY Garands reached Guadalcanal.
There were a few Johnson M1941 Rifles, as well as Johnson’s LMG, built off the action/receiver of the M1941, used primarily by the Paramarines. But given that BOTH Edson’s 1st Raider Battalion AND the Paramarines were given the job of taking Tulagi, Gavutu-Tanambogo Islands... He very well could have managed to snag a Company’s worth of M1941 and Johnson LMGs.
And... The Garrison Marines that took-over Tulagi from the First Echelon Attacking forces (Edson’s 1st Raiders, 1st Paramarines Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, and 2nd Battalion 2nd Marines) would probably also have been issued Garands...
So the POSSIBILITY exists that a few Marines could have traded their M1903s for M1 Garands with some of the garrison Marines on Tulagi/Gavutu-Tanambogo before being redeployed to Guadalcanal at the end of August.
But the Marines on Guadalcanal, as a rule, did not see their M1903s begin to be OFFICIALLY replaced until Nov. 1942...
So... It still remains VERY UNLIKELY that any of the Marines on Edson’s Ridge on Sept 7, 1942 (the Night of the Battle that gave the ridge its name), while in Oct. at the Battle of Henderson Field, proper, there is a bit larger possibility that Marines on Guadalcanal May have had Garands, as the Army had already landed at the time of that Battle.
@@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid I wouldn't read so much into it. The video was filmed in 1944, so they had the Garand when it was filmed.
Also I am not saying this is what happened, but it is at least possible it was traded or issued as a one off. The Army was in the pacific since 41 and they certainly had the Garand.
That said I think my former statement is the most likely.
All war is so dam horrific but I find that watching any of this old ww2 footage in black n white give a totally different perspective than when it has been re digitalised in colour..especially the Pacific theatre
Their map of Guadalcanal dates to about 1870/80... It would not get an “official” new military map until after the war.
Note the times on the wall clock
Bolt action Springfield 30.06, WWl weapons. Accurate at long range, low rate of fire. Uncle Chuck my godfather was there.
Right, M1 Garands only issued to Army when they arrived.
The marines didn’t get the M1’s until later in the war. Of course they usually get the new stuff last.
A Quote from THE PACIFIC hbo series...
“ you guys are hero’s ... you’re in all the papers “
"Destination Unknown". Some of you Silver Backs/ Nam Vets will remember the adage, "Anywhere in the World, no questions asked"! De Oppresso Liber.
🇺🇸....so once the island was safely secured the Marines handed it over to the Army....
Love to hear the "pleasantries" exchanged between the 2 organizations....
😏 😮 😅
I'm waiting for This Is Afghanistan.
We can only thank these Heroes for giving us our Freedoms !
The BEST Generation this Planet will ever have !
Get a taste and watch Pride of the Marines with John Garfield as Al Schmid true story
There is the film 'Guadalcanal Diary', with Lloyd Nolan and Anthony Quinn, released in 1943. It is based on Richard Tregaskis' book of the same name.
Lest we forget🇳🇿
Wow. Not one word about the US Navy, who expended 24 warships and over 5,000 men.
Go back to about the 3 minute mark.
Plenty of specific articles and clips about the Naval battles in the Campaign. This is about the land fighting.
Oh my God my dad's war. Eastern SOLOMON ISLAND'S
Yes , the Chinese build up is worrying. History repeats itself on a regular basis and our young folk are saddled with sorting it out.
I thought that flag looked odd. Our flag only had 48 stars in 1944 lol
What the hell flag are you referring to... if the one at 17:48, it clearly has 48 stars, you know 6x8... or do you....
Cant fight the unseen with guns
That tends to apply to the enemy within as well, unfortunately
I’m not an American - but I believe this battle and the battles around the Solomons / New Britain were far more pivotal to the war than the much more vaunted Bastogne, etc. Especially, Guadal Canal was critical - as the Japanese had the upper hand in the war then and so did the Germans. Moreover, if they had won in this area, it would have been very difficult to come back. Hence, the US Marines really played a such a key role. As did other elites troops of the US and British - Commonwealth. Highest respect to them. Can we now in the West respect their sacrifice by defending again the freedom, Constitution, Bill of Rights, way of life, culture, western civilization and the Reformation of Jesus Christ? We must in those men’s honour.
Where did you guys find 5000 videos?
My dad said the women were topless on these islands. And he gave a child his Christmas pie.
No politicians were harmed in the making of this film.......only the poor.
No mention of malaria, disease of those types.
15:01 That bearded dude is IJN Landing Forces; while the others are not en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy_Land_Forces , moreover beard wasn't accepted for ensigns/seamen, so he's an officer.
A good propaganda film. You notice how they don't say anything about the u.s. navy running away from the fight and leaving the 1st and 5th marines with almost nothing. I noticed that they never mentioned that after months of fighting that it was still up in the air as to the fact that the Marines would be able to hold the islands. It was not till the Japanese evacuation of there soldiers that it was guaranteed.
I'd have been seasick all the way across the Pacific. 😄
SALUTE
it's creepy how he just can't look into the camera. Wouldn't want to follow this desk jockey into battle.
I think it was to make it look like he was speaking to the crowd in front of the screen not just one single person🤷♂️
!944 film about a 1942 battle.
Why was the film dedicated to the factory workers? To make them happy with lower wages?
Otherwise I can't see why it's not dedicated to those who actually fought.
Or maybe to show the workers not to be lousy with their work and just get it done as fast as possible, because quality mattered
Jan, your last sentence pretty well nails it. This film was most probably intended to boost morale in Stateside war production plants, such as shipyards, aircraft factories, weapons manufacturing centers and so on. I've read anecdotal stories about low morale and piss-poor attitudes being prevalent among workers in those war production plants. They were not exactly all a bunch of happy, industrious "Rosie Riveters" like we've been led to believe. Wartime factories were sharply stratified into layers and levels of disparate groups based on education, experience, sex, race, ethnic background, and so on. It was an insufferable hierarchy. As such, not everything went smoothly on the home front. Workers weren't happy. Quality suffered. This film was probably meant as a subtle rap on the head for just those workers.
@@wasserdagger thanks for the details. Interesting
Historically, Marines were the depended upon to snipe [shoot from the rigging, usually the opponent's officers] and keep order on board ship; they weren't crew and didn't have the same outlook as crew. Marines have always been small-unit combatants, as evidenced by the small wars in the Carribean and the Philippines. Marines were among the first to develop and refine combined arms; air support of ground forces [close-air support] was a Marine development during the "Banana Wars". Marines employed the concept of vertical envelopment with helicopters; the US Army does it with a lot more people and a lot more helicopters, as evidenced by battalion-sized air assaults in Vietnam. It also gives some history of why Marines have their own air support. Even in World War 2, there was significant difference between the US Army and the US Marine Corps in tactics and overall perception of how battles were fought. The US Army had to learn lessons in the Pacific theater that the Marine Corps had been refining for two decades before the war, [and sometimes merely adopted what the Marines had been doing in equipment and deployment.] During the Cold War and into Southwest Asia [Iraq], the Marines could be identified by their emphasis on seaborne/airborne assault and lack of emphasis on "nation-building". Today, the Marines are more lightly equipped [no tanks] than before and emphasis remains in littoral warfare. Marines are a package of air and ground assets, moved by air and sea, built as an integrated team, and used wherever the President of the United States chooses to use them.
Marines are amazingly free-thinking across a wide range of topics; I offer as evidence Smedley D. Butler's "War Is A Racket" as one example.
@@davidkirk2499 wow thanks, that was actually a very nice answer to one of my other questions somewhere else (why not just put army soldiers on ships when needed) .
It is true, whenever you specialize a part of sth, it will inevitably be better. Seen it with air forces, seen it with navies, military police, sappers and engineers, tunnelers, artillery, elite guards, knights and gendarmes, mercenaries, auxiliaries and foreign legions etc etc. And not just in the military.
The drawback might be unnecessary internal rivalries and too high entry requirements leading to difficult replenishment. Do you agree?
Sounds like they were in vacation
They were not on vacation ,7200 marines lost ,32800 japanese ,monsoon rains mud up to the eyeballs. Definitely no holiday.
✌️🇺🇸 @Kansas Man 36....Sounds like...You are Ungrateful. Shame on You.
Kansas Man 36 - What I want to know is how you got two thumbs (at this time) for such a pathetically stupid comment....
No mention of the Australian troops who were fighting on Gaudalcanal long before the yanks got there!
I know of, and remember the Australians
@@earlwright9715 One of my Uncles fought on Gaudalcanal! It seems only the Americans were involved and saved the day!
I in no way want to diminish the Australian's role in the capture and defense of Guadalcanal, for they were there at the start of the invasion in August 1942. However, Australians did not fight the Japanese directly on Guadalcanal before then. Rather, they served as coast watchers who sought to avoid contact with the enemy and instead provide intelligence via radio as to what the Japanese were doing. This was an essential job, and also difficult and dangerous.
@@artmoss6889 My Uncle was a Coast Watcher.He even met the famous Navajo Code Talkers!
@@allananderson1906 Your uncle was a brave man, for coast watchers, if captured, faced torture and summary execution. They had to survive on very little in a challenging environment. He and his fellows provided intelligence that frustrated the Japanese on the sea and in the air.
Only less people know that Admiral Chester Nimitz had German roots and he spoke fluent German.
And was from Fredericksburg texas, where german immigrants settled in the early 1840s and 50s. The hotel is shaped like a ship.
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@@PeteR-ed9nd Jepp and thank you for your comment !......:) Greetings from Germany my American friends !
General Eisenhower had German roots too - as in Eisenhauser. But Ike was 100% American, as were many Japanese who were born in Western countries.
@@thedeepbluesea5415 Almost 60% of today's Americans have German roots due to the large waves of emigration in the middle and late 19th century.
I personally feel very close to the Americans, despite the sad past we had but that's another topic.
And look you Amercans celebrate every year the "Steuben Parade" that goes back to the freedom wars 1776 if I'm not wrong.
General von Steuben was one of the most important people around George Washington !! Sorry for my creepy grammar.......LOL....:)
Can somebody explain to me in all honesty why armed forced need dedicated marines? Can't the army do exactly the same job?
Strange enough question. The marines are trained differently, equipped differently and the mission is different. They are the land, air based fighting arm of the Navy. That’s almost like asking why we have an Air Force when they had the Army Air corps. Different missions.
@@michaelangelo7511 I just know they landed on Guadalcanal in an amphibious operation, stayed there for six months, on land, and only then they moved on while the army replaced them as garrison.
During D-Day, it was the army that landed in an amphibious operation, stayed there for two months, and then moved on to Paris and Germany.
Exactly the same thing.
You know, the navy could simply coordinate with the army and borrow soldiers for land combat when they need
@@jankutac9753 You are possibly correct. Thanks for your civility.👍🏻
@@michaelangelo7511 I'm really just wondering :-D
I take offense of you calling them”japs!” Japanese soldiers is politically correct
Nice propaganda piece avoids the death by aerial naval bombardment the starvation malaria and other tropical disease that the marines endured. The Army miffed that their role to buttress the marines were secondary. An epic battle of my father’s generation respect to all that fought especially the Allied and Japanese navies.
Simply not enough combat footage! Man this was screened hard and only shows a pin 📌 head of what actually went on there ! It's well done but definitely showed less actual combat footage then the name suggests there's complete battles caught on video from combat cameramen who served in the pacific they have it! Bonzai charges blazing in with swords drawn at a line of BARs, M1 garands , m1 carbines and 30 cal browning lmgs it doesn't even seem real but it is and there was a guy standing with a small portable camera catching all of it! And some bullets too! Imagine if they had too show it for what it really was ! Would people have a better concept 🤔 of war if they had too see the stuff they cherry picked out of there? Or would they freak out and react with even more hatred for war and all the destruction it causes. Man! They have killer footage hours of jungle combat!
Humans slaughtering each other... how entertaining!
This universe is a sim. And this is the source of nearly all problems.
Physicists have already found some of the underlying sim programming code. The proof that this universe is a sim already exists.
Simbot... simulation-generated biological robot that mindlessly perpetuates the universe sim agenda and status quo. No matter how stupid and wrongful the universe sim agenda and status quo might be.
Kids, just say no to being used, abused, and victimized.
Kids, just say no to being simbots.
Your slaughter is someone else's extremely sicko sadistic "entertainment". So far, humans been very accommodating to being used as lab rat playtoys.
Your namesake ,or the name of your channel says it all, your namesake loves humans killing one another!
This sucks. I didn`t see 1 jar head get wasted.
Why don't you try it out on one of US and see what happens in return! OORAH!
Jack Dooley you are a complete asshole. The least of us is better than you will ever be.