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  • @willisedgecomb7984
    @willisedgecomb7984 6 років тому +221

    I was on Bougainville for one year and I'm lucky to be sitting in a chair in my house at 95

    • @daniellap.stewart6839
      @daniellap.stewart6839 6 років тому +19

      God bless you sir

    • @DennisBell-tz2sb
      @DennisBell-tz2sb 5 років тому +6

      Willis Edgecomb we Leather Necks may walk with canes, walkers or in a chair, we are damn proud of still being Marines.
      Welcome home brother.

    • @jbordonaro1954
      @jbordonaro1954 5 років тому +10

      My dad fought on Bougainville with the 3rd Raider Battalion. He says it rained every day but one when he was there. His feet suffered from trenchfoot the rest of his life.

    • @DennisBell-tz2sb
      @DennisBell-tz2sb 5 років тому +2

      Joe Bordonaro your father honored those of Americans that are living free now. Jar heads from then till now still are willing to put their life on line. Many are gone and they still stand guard for us.

    • @jbordonaro1954
      @jbordonaro1954 5 років тому +3

      Dennis Bell Thank you.

  • @bryanharshman1439
    @bryanharshman1439 4 роки тому +42

    My grandpa was there in the US army 37th infinity division. He was awarded a bronze star and we have a letter of commendation explaining what he did. His platoon was low on ammo and they were resupplied with the wrong ammo and no motor rounds. He ran through enemy Japanese lines, made it back to the supply depot and loaded up a truck with the correct 30 cal ammo and motor rounds and drove it back through enemy lines while truck was shot up. Raymond L Harshman T-sergeant

    • @shotintheface
      @shotintheface 10 місяців тому +3

      Same with my Grandpa, He was in the 37th, their mission was to defend a bridge. He crossed enemy lines, plotted points of attack, and strategically set up machine gun nest. The battle was won. I have his bronze star and the letter.

    • @marilynnfowler1030
      @marilynnfowler1030 10 місяців тому

      so was my father in law.

    • @marilynnfowler1030
      @marilynnfowler1030 10 місяців тому +2

      @@shotintheface 145th Infantry?

    • @shotintheface
      @shotintheface 10 місяців тому +2

      ​@@marilynnfowler1030 yes 145th regiment

    • @Chiefs584
      @Chiefs584 9 місяців тому +3

      Buckeye division???

  • @maxeglinton5093
    @maxeglinton5093 6 років тому +49

    Thanks USA. What you did in the Pacific will not be forgotten by we Australians. We remember them.

    • @MrRezillo
      @MrRezillo 4 роки тому +3

      My father gave me a stuffed koala bear before he'd even seen me for the first time. He traded it for a carton or two of American cigarettes with an Aussie officer, who had his wife send it from Australia. It was my childhood teddy bear! I still have it, threadbare as it is; I can't quite bring myself to throw it out.

    • @eglin32
      @eglin32 3 роки тому

      @michael boultinghouse you sound a little cowardly to me. And I suggest you do some historical research. Then again I don't give a damn.

    • @OverlordGrizzaka
      @OverlordGrizzaka 3 роки тому +2

      Couldn't have done it without the Diggers holding like they did, there's nothing quite like a fighting man from Oceana.

    • @pnclick
      @pnclick 3 роки тому +3

      My father was in Bouganville as a signalman for the Australian Army in 1944-45, he was only 17. He passed away in 1991, but only told me prior of the hatred of war and he wouldn't wish it on anyone, and how on the medical flight out (he broke his leg somehow and was being transported home) another Australian solder shot himself dead in the bed above, such is the effect of the war.

  • @russf6572
    @russf6572 Рік тому +7

    My dad served here as a Marine.
    His discharge papers show him on Bougainville Island 11/6/43 to 12/15/43. From there he was on Guam from 7/21/44 to 2/14/45.
    His last stop was Iwo Jima, from 2/24/45 to 3/28/45.
    He was a radio man but never got a scratch. (externally)

    • @PANCHOSWAY
      @PANCHOSWAY 10 місяців тому +1

      Externally hits hard

  • @michaelgibsontv
    @michaelgibsontv 2 роки тому +11

    My great uncle Tommy Garrett died on Bougainville in November of 1944. He’s listed as KIA/MIA. He was in the army. 182nd infantry 2nd battalion, company b.

    • @raineypeter
      @raineypeter 8 місяців тому +3

      He made the greatest sacrifice for us here in Australia and New Zealand. We thank him dearly for giving us our freedom

  • @kaystansberry8265
    @kaystansberry8265 3 роки тому +14

    My Dad was injured (shot) in the Battle of Bougainville. Surreal to watch this video and thinking he could be among these men.

    • @harrycain5912
      @harrycain5912 2 роки тому +1

      Do you have any photos from his war time? My grandfather could have been the one that helped stitch him up. Unlikely, but you never know :)

    • @marilynnfowler1030
      @marilynnfowler1030 10 місяців тому

      my father in law was there.

    • @k27ism
      @k27ism 3 місяці тому

      ​@harrycain5912
      Bro, my grandmother's older brother got hit at Torokina on the leg. A medic stitched his leg back up the same day. He went on to fight until end of war.

  • @wekapeka3493
    @wekapeka3493 4 роки тому +10

    Well done sir. My father passed through there with the RNZAF, bombed Rabaul flying corsairs with 16 and 22 squadron tours.

  • @pats3071
    @pats3071 7 років тому +39

    A very hard campaign for the Marines and the Australians. A sadly forgotten, but very rough part of the war.

  • @bestwishes5060
    @bestwishes5060 6 років тому +15

    I'm watching this remembering old friends John (Jack) Teeple and Martin E. Shave. ...Salute. .. r.i.p.

  • @ottomueller4425
    @ottomueller4425 5 років тому +19

    My father was on Bougainville Nov 1, 1943 USMC he passed in 1985 he would be 96 if he was still here, I have all his stuff and a bunch of photos too from that time.

    • @johannahpowell7884
      @johannahpowell7884 3 роки тому +1

      my Father William T Miller, (Bill,Billy) , was in the 3rd Marine division..He was very proud to be a Marine.
      wish I had pictures of him there he passed in 2009(. i have one newspaper clipping ...

  • @ryanbruns4974
    @ryanbruns4974 6 років тому +19

    My grandfather was in the 75th battalion here. His name was Robert “Bob” Bruns. He operated a dragline. If anyone knew him please let me know!

  • @MTCasing1
    @MTCasing1 7 років тому +18

    God Bless all the soldiers. My dad was one of them.

  • @dave-hp3rf
    @dave-hp3rf Рік тому +3

    As an Australian Viet Nam veteran and amatuer war historian I take depp umbrage that American film makers in some cases completely leave out the fact that the Australan Army was deeply in volved in New Guinea from Kakoda track,Milne bay the first defeats on the Japanese in ww2.On New GUuinea tthe Australians fought all the way from Buna Gona right up to Wau and on untill the Japanese were defeated,I even heard one commentator to say that the American Gi was going to save Australia in new Guinea,it all becomes a bit insulting and Aussie troops were there in Bouganvillee give us the credit we are due,we are small but in every war we have punched above our weight.

  • @nikkitrigg117
    @nikkitrigg117 6 років тому +8

    My grandfather, hollis 'tume' thornberry served with the 71st naval construction battalion in 1943. He talked of climbing poles to string communication lines under sniper fire

  • @davidroberts5615
    @davidroberts5615 3 роки тому +2

    My grandfather was a marine on the USS McKean when it was torpedoed in Empress Augusta Bay off Bougainville in Nov. 1943. I was lucky that he was able to describe the experience to me in detail, in the 1990s.

  • @ogrekrause
    @ogrekrause 3 роки тому +8

    My grandfather was in the marines there, the Japanese mortared a fuel dump that him and his crew were involved in setting up on the island he tried pulling out the remains of his friends and sustained third degree burns on his body he received citation and a purple heart for this and later went back an island to Vella la vella where a Japanese zero blew him off the deck of a ship into the water rupturing his left ear receiving his second purple heart.

  • @tedbrown7908
    @tedbrown7908 5 років тому +10

    My father was stationed there with the SeaBees and he helped build the airstrips. I have pictures of him and his crew.

    • @sanjayawashington3837
      @sanjayawashington3837 5 років тому +2

      My uncle landed on Bougainville on Dec 10,1943, the day I was born. Conrad Schaper, Seabee, Seaman 1st.

  • @circustime5073
    @circustime5073 4 роки тому +5

    My uncle , Ricks Ambrose served at Bougainville. Also Saipan, G. Canal and others. God bless you men ans woman

  • @evantyler9307
    @evantyler9307 3 роки тому +5

    My grandpa lived to be 92. It's a shame I never asked him about this fight here, or how he lost his bits of his face in combat with these men. I'm proud to be serving my country now though.

    • @shotintheface
      @shotintheface 4 місяці тому

      Except you're serving the corporation not the nation. Thanks for making the rich richer.

  • @americanmade3100
    @americanmade3100 5 років тому +12

    Dad was there with the U.S. 6th Army 37th Division.

  • @onthatrockhewillbuildhisch1510
    @onthatrockhewillbuildhisch1510 5 місяців тому +1

    The title is a misnomer. In 1945 the US troops had been withdrawn and been replaced by the Australian Army (not shown). The US Air Forces were largely replaced by New Zealand and Australian squadrons. The US forces had been satisfied to maintain a perimeter around Torokina but the Australians pushed in 3 directions (N, E and S) to eventually liberate nearly the entire island.

  • @k27ism
    @k27ism 3 місяці тому

    My grandmother's older brother as a native of Malaita, Langalanga Lagoon was fighting in Guadalcanal, then to New Georgia, then to Bouganville. I never knew him because I was born years after he passed away in the late 80s. But luckily his stories were documented in a book that I found. He was part of a commando unit headed by New Zealand officers. In Unit 23 under Lt. Len Barrow when they were in New Georgia and Bouganville. At Guadalcanal he was with Allied marines at Mataniko. He remarked that after they pushed the Japanese back, he reached the top of Mboganavera hill where he found a lot of the marines laying down in foxholes having a smoke. So he asked, hey where's the enemy? And someone said to him, no enemies here, have a cigarette! He remarked that the U.S marines didn't care what they did being in the jungles, and did whatever they want. Unlike the Australians who had respect for their senior officers, the U.S. marines would later talk behind the back of their senior officer that they would put a bullet in their heads. After Guadalcanal, now in New Georgia, they patrolled the island and later brought the fight to the Japanese on Bouganville. He got shot in Torokina. He said that he jumped into a foxhole and when after they were to chsrge he realized that he was hit on the foot. He laid there and didnt want to get taken as Japanese prisoner. He threw a grenade at a Japanese tank and laid quietly in the bush until a U.S tank rolled by, so he shot his pistol in the air, and the U.S soldiers came and saw he was hit. So they hit him in the face to numb him and stitched his foot up the same day. He was okay and fought on. Another time they were hungry as Japs cut off flights dropping supplies, but luckily as natives they found wild yams on Bouganville and survived off the land that way for about three months. There are more stories i can say from what I found in the records, and I like to think he did his part to chase the Japanese invaders away from his country. His name was George Maelalo. Jah bless! Tagiu Rasua, merci beaucoup, vinaka, faftai, thanks for reading.

  • @AlanGorlick
    @AlanGorlick 3 місяці тому

    My father served with the Australian Army on Bougainville from Dec 44 to Dec 45, pushing Japanese forces through "the battle of the swamps" south of Torakina to the Mivo River.
    L R Gorlick, OC 7 Platoon, A Coy, 47 Aust Infantry Btn (Wide Bay Regt), 27 Infantry Bgde, 3 Division, II Corp. The 47 Btn war diary show that he was leading a patrol to clear Lawnes Track near Mivo River Ford on the afternoon of 09th August 1945 after another patrol had suffered casualties in an ambush that morning, the day the second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. On 15th August they heard on the BBC World Service that the war was over but they stayed on Bougainville until December.
    He had served with 47 Infantry Btn from June 1939 to Dec 1945 through Wide Bay, Townsville, Milne Bay, Goodenough Is, Buna, Nassau Bay, Tambu Bay, Commissioned in the field shortly before being WIA on Komiatum Ridge during the advance on Salamaua / Lae. He returned to active service in July 44 for the Bougainville Campaign. RIP and Never Forgotten!

  • @johnkokosz6119
    @johnkokosz6119 10 місяців тому

    Great job guys 😊

  • @klenzgaming
    @klenzgaming 2 дні тому

    my grandfather was a marine here during the big counterattack in march 44.

  • @davidchristian1613
    @davidchristian1613 Рік тому +2

    My great granduncle was an Australian officer in the Papua New Guinea battalion and was at Bougainville interesting to see something of what he would have seen (Leo Bernard Schweida)

  • @Triumph2024.
    @Triumph2024. 5 років тому +9

    this is where a certain destined-for-fame 1st Lieut of the U.S. Navy was stationed during WW2. History tells us that young American naval officer spent a lot of time playing poker with other his colleages on Bougainville and was so good, he is supposed to have won over $8000 while stationed there, all of which he sent home to California. A few years later this sharp, scrappy young man and WW2 Veteran would use his winnings to finance his first political campaign, a run for Congress. You guessed it, that young naval officer who 'knew when to hold and fold 'em' would later become U.S. President Nixon. And NOW you know, the REST of the story.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  5 років тому

      Great story!

    • @Triumph2024.
      @Triumph2024. 5 років тому +1

      @@PeriscopeFilm Thanks, great video. Just history but history's interesting!

  • @ronbertrand2955
    @ronbertrand2955 2 роки тому

    On Dec 20th, 2021 we lost another Hero!! My good friend Al Kosnar passed away one month from his 98th birthday! He would tell me about the 3rd Marine Division gathering on Guadalcanal, then landing on Bougainville, telling me of the Heat/humidity and the nasty Bugs on the island!!!! He said the bugs were as bad as the Japanese!!! Al was in hand to hand combat on Guam, having been overrun in a Banzai attack, and he was wounded on the 2nd airstrip on Iwo Jima!!!!!! 4 Major battle stars!!!! I miss him dearly!

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  2 роки тому

      God bless Al Kosnar!! Thanks for sharing.

  • @harrycain5912
    @harrycain5912 2 роки тому +1

    My grandfather was a nurse orderly and stretcher bearer in the 17th field ambulance. If anyone has photos or knows much about this unit, let me know!

  • @martinbarrett1892
    @martinbarrett1892 3 роки тому +4

    Love the order of the day.

  • @7hotfuzz7
    @7hotfuzz7 Рік тому

    My grandpa’s brother lost half of his hand here or Tarawa, I can’t remember right now

  • @SPayne-vn5od
    @SPayne-vn5od 3 роки тому +2

    How about moving the time stamp to the middle of the screen. It's not blocking enough of the picture.

    • @Xenophon1
      @Xenophon1 3 роки тому +1

      Critical Obscured Past? LOL!!

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  2 роки тому +2

      Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
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  • @MrRezillo
    @MrRezillo 4 роки тому +1

    My father was stationed there when I was born in 1944

  • @Railhog2102
    @Railhog2102 Рік тому

    The Americal Division was also on Bougainville, They arrived the relieved the Marines there.

  • @terrydavis3474
    @terrydavis3474 6 років тому +3

    Willis Edgecomb Were you by chance associated with Robert or J D Williams? JD was killed on an island near there in March 1944

  • @edwardgilmour9013
    @edwardgilmour9013 4 роки тому +1

    Almost the same footage was used for several Island campaigns
    only the narrative has changed slightly.

    • @esseyduffield2518
      @esseyduffield2518 3 роки тому +2

      How do I put photos on here to show you my dad ( Australian 55/53 battalion) went there in 1943 and was there till wars end

  • @ianb9028
    @ianb9028 3 роки тому +1

    You need a few more ads. I almost saw some of the footage.

  • @ajcobraj
    @ajcobraj 3 роки тому +1

    My Grandfather was a Tek 5 on Bogenville in the US Army

  • @Thomas-gz4ky
    @Thomas-gz4ky Рік тому

    My father was on Bougainville.
    3rd Marines.

  • @robertcolontonio7775
    @robertcolontonio7775 Рік тому

    The narrator pronounced it BOOganvile but my Dad ( was a Marine there) always pronounced BOganville. Not sure which one is right.

  • @edmahl3365
    @edmahl3365 2 роки тому

    The narrator sounds like the actor, Robert Taylor.

  • @farmerdave7965
    @farmerdave7965 3 роки тому +1

    3:05 hit him in the face ! Ouch !

  • @sheilacarns4227
    @sheilacarns4227 5 місяців тому

    My father was there with the 37 Buckeyes

  • @homieog11
    @homieog11 5 років тому +7

    At 3:03 he smacked himself in n the chin with that machine gun 😖😂

    • @calebshonk5838
      @calebshonk5838 5 років тому +2

      One dumbass moment in history, recorded forever for future generations. 😂

    • @PerfectDanceVideos
      @PerfectDanceVideos 5 років тому +1

      I winced when I saw that. Owwee

  • @JordanOwnby
    @JordanOwnby 3 роки тому

    ...*When you look up actual film from WWII to see how they did things in real life to get ideas for how to go about missions in DCS World*...

  • @briancooper2112
    @briancooper2112 3 роки тому +1

    Have a cold beer drink on me sir!

  • @sheilacarns4227
    @sheilacarns4227 5 місяців тому

    My father was there !

  • @rickadams7667
    @rickadams7667 4 роки тому +4

    A lot of well done Yank propaganda made for home viewers . Allies are easily forgotten and dont exist .

  • @raymondparnell439
    @raymondparnell439 5 місяців тому

    Great footage ... thanks ......never again

  • @mrheimdall
    @mrheimdall 4 місяці тому

    Dad fought here.

  • @louiswager2629
    @louiswager2629 5 років тому +1

    hardly No volume

  • @williamlawson8511
    @williamlawson8511 2 роки тому

    Did you smell the Bougainvillea?

  • @shanemossmoss
    @shanemossmoss 5 місяців тому +2

    You seem to have forgotten the Australians. Typical of the yanks

    • @patsteelmon3941
      @patsteelmon3941 3 місяці тому

      I assure you the Marines who were there never forgot that the Australian’s were there with them. I know cause my Dad was one of those Marines and he would talk about it and how well they fought.

  • @FlgOff044038
    @FlgOff044038 3 роки тому +4

    what no Australians?

    • @harrycain5912
      @harrycain5912 2 роки тому +3

      @@pamelakinnane1863 My grandfather also spent time at Torokina in the Australian Medical Corps.

  • @iamleeimako
    @iamleeimako 5 місяців тому

    I wonder if the Japanese and American authorities ever came back to claim the bodies buried.

  • @stephenbrien548
    @stephenbrien548 2 роки тому +3

    HOW AMERICA TOOK BOUGAINVILLE?WHAT ABOUT THE AUSSIES?

    • @tekajikuyalkrul5111
      @tekajikuyalkrul5111 2 роки тому

      True, most people don't know that John F Kennedy fought in WW2 and his boat was sunk by the japs and a group of PNG natives and Aussie sailors who were a part of the coast watchers were the ones who saved him

    • @gearz2570
      @gearz2570 Рік тому

      the aussies are very clearly mentioned in this documentary as being "the finest jungle fighters in the world". their contribution certainly wasn't forgotten in this documentary

  • @downandoutinparadisepanama1936
    @downandoutinparadisepanama1936 5 років тому +2

    That time stamp makes this unwatchable.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  5 років тому +4

      Here's the issue: this film and others like it may have been made by taxpayers, but the U.S. Government in its infinite wisdom, threw it away. Tens of thousands of films were destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like this on online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
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    • @Patjonesmusic
      @Patjonesmusic 3 роки тому +1

      @@PeriscopeFilm Once again, a very informative and inspiring piece of history! I have watched many of your publications and found them to be an accurate viewpoint to history as well as the psyche of the American and Allied peoples at the time of the events. I was looking for some advice, however, into who to contact regarding the amoubt and length of commercials in a few, 9not all) of the pieces. this on had a commercial 1:45 into the piece that was 6:00 long and easily 2 to 3 times louder. I know they're free and hope to be able to afford the commercial free version of youtube, but is there anyone or anything i can do to try to get the ads to be a little more palatable?

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      @martinbarrett1892 3 роки тому

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  • @bobcarroll6649
    @bobcarroll6649 4 роки тому +1

    "known only to god"

  • @orangequant
    @orangequant 10 місяців тому

    Racism of that period on full display. Not one Black soldier visible that I could see. But my dad was there with an all-Black artillery unit. The narrator credits artillery as a key tool. My dad should've gotten a purple heart but the ship carrying his records was sunk and military claimed they had no way to verify what he did. All the joes there deserve a lot of credit- but not even one image of a Black soldier? smh. 🤔

  • @porlacallenimeasomo
    @porlacallenimeasomo 2 роки тому

    piratas asesinos! todo vuelve en vida

  • @anthonyeaton5153
    @anthonyeaton5153 10 місяців тому

    I s

  • @cashjones1440
    @cashjones1440 3 роки тому

    B