American Attack Was So Well Coordinated That No Japanese Could Fail To Realize What Was Happening
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- (Memoirs of Guadalcanal; Series; Last Part) Delve into the gripping narrative of one of WWII's most crucial campaigns as we uncover the harrowing struggles, heroic deeds, and strategic maneuvers that defined this intense battle for control of the Pacific. Witness the sacrifices and triumphs of soldiers on both sides as we explore this historic turning point. Prepare to be captivated by the epic tale of Guadalcanal in this must-watch exploration of military history.
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So much history and obscure facts of specific battles of ww2. And does anyone else think it's a bit strange that we were allies then in late 1930's-1945, and it was just 160 something years since our War of Independence from the UK in the late Seventeen hundreds thru 1780's? Damn, does time move fast. Brits had German mercenaries as allies, we had France/Spain/~Dutch , and now probably with most former adversaries have been & are still allies/friends with. So in relation to ww2 and the path we took to get us to those points of many past conflicts... and conflicts today- we're once again skating on the thin ice of the Half frozen global-sized-conflict lake. Gotta say it, the very-gone guy and his friends currently "running"(into the ground) Our country are destroying this place, risking loss of many of those allies, friends, & current potential friends are being weakened or ruined by this group/admin. Doing it with smiles on their faces, knowing the purposeful destruction & suffering being caused, every day getting crazier and not done yet. Not a chance things calm down in the coming months. Driving division to get us to fight and destroy eachother. So don't worry, if we don't do a good enough job with eachother, they've brought such a huge mass of people as an insurance policy. How many hundreds or thousands would it take for a not-so-patriotic group to cause deliberate and absolute chaos in towns, a small city or even somewhat large cities across America? How many more large opponents need to have a very bad relation with our group of asylum patient diplomats and Our People? Things look "great" huh, we should just totally keep doing what "we're" doing and not make any changes.....down with these eyes wide shut L 00 /\/attics.
like/love America and are here to become American? How's things looking with all of our former advisaries
How do you call it just a defensive action, a victory IS a victory. Japan was forced to abandon the island.
War is a friction between 2 opposing forces. As they grind away at each other, the one who "wins" is the one best able to make up the loses suffered in this grinding.
People use all sorts of euphemisms to soften the blows received, and to pour salt in the wounds inflicted. The capacity for humans to do this did not suddenly appear in our nature with the advent of the internet.
It's a personal memoir, appreciate it for what it is and that we have that perspective. You don't have to get butt hurt about it
@@johncarey4040 If anyone says anything someone else doesn't like, there is always a douche that has to retort with 'don't be butthurt'.
You are butthurt about him being butthurt.
He said the exact opposite. It was not a defensive action like midway.
"The only value of any portion of any of those islands were for the airfields or potential airfields. There was no other value to them. The Allies should have simply waited until they had achieved naval superiority before attempting to gain control of any of those islands"
You overlook the obvious - there would be NO naval superiority until air superiority had been achieved. The airfields were the key to the whole war.
No, the airfields gave the USA the ability to project heavy bombers. They already had air superiority from the sheer number of carriers.
@mustrumridcully3853 I didn't think we achieved air superiority until 1948, that was mostly do to attrition of the Japanese airman, they still had plenty of planes and the ability to project them they just lost almost all their experienced airman.
@@jaredgilmore3102 Leyte & Marianas were 1944 - by then the USA had already been strategic bombing the Japanese homeland for months. Those Islands gave the ability to project strategic bombing of the Japanese home islands, specifically industrial facilities. Check your history, the dates are easily available.
@@mustrumridcully3853 Air superiority isn't defined by the ability to bomb. The Japanese still had the ability to field an airforce. We bombed the Japanese mainland in 1942 so what. Air superiority is defined by the ability to conduct air operations with little to no resistance from an opposing air force, this was not the case in the pacific theater until 1947.
@@jaredgilmore3102i would suppose we had air superiorty in 1947 since the war had been over since September, 1945.
Interesting fact: the period of August 1942 - February 1943 during which Guadalcanal was fought happened to coincide with another pivotal campaign: Stalingrad. Bad times for the Axis.
And El Alamein and Torch in North Africa. In total, a global reverse from which the Axis never recovered.
And even if the individual men
survived they'd sacrificed their youth to become prematurely old as many were so young.(Now I'm pushing 60 anyone in their 20s Are young)
Nobody knew that. Thank you.
Don't forget the battle in New Guinea along the Kokoda Track and Buna Campaign, El Alamein and Operation Torch. So, five pivotal Axis defeats took place during the same time frame.
@@nicholasconder4703 Excellent points, all. People looking for the pivot of the war need look no further than this period.
Thanks for another great series. Keep up the good work.
Wow! Guadalcanal was about an 8:1 kill to death ratio for America! That is a staggering blowout! 24,000 Japanese deaths to 3,000 American.
How sad to hear of so many common soldiers dying on this Island.
Very interesting but would be much better with maps.
I will forever think of Adm Halsey looking like Robert Mitchum pretending to have a rash....
The Guadalcanal operation was necessary to prevent the Japanese airfield being built there from becoming operational and compromising the sea lanes to Australia and jeopardizing the existing American bases in Fiji, Noumea and Santa Cruz
Stick around guys.. wait till Tibbets shows up......
46:56 - At four thirty am, in the afternoon… 😅
Again the Japanese fighting code hurt themselves…. In the entire war they never made a serious successful attack on transports. As the British discovered in the Falklands transport losses could have a huge effect on operations. The Japanese never learned that even though they suffered hugely from American efforts in that direction…. But on the macro scale… the Japanese would have had to isolate Hawaii to be victorious enough for the Americans to even consider an armistice
This was the United States not the whole Continent.
Fog of war
The only value of any portion of any of those islands were for the airfields or potential airfields. There was no other value to them. The Allies should have simply waited until they had achieved naval superiority before attempting to gain control of any of those islands. The Allies, once naval superiority had been established, should have simply surrounded any valuable real estate (based on the value of their airfields or potential airfields) and denied further acces to such areas by any enemy naval forces.
Obviously, without supply, it would have only been a matter of time for the occupying land forces to become nearly powerless. Only THEN should any Allied land forces be dedicated to gaining contol of the island.
Instead, we threw young lives away by the tens of thousands because of political impatience and military myopia.
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You are forgetting two things, the threat to the supply lines to Australia, and the Japanese drive to Port Moresby.
Guadalcanal forced the Japanese to give up on Port Moresby. They were within sight of the lights of the city when the orders came to withdraw because the high command had decided Guadalcanal was more important. General Horii was not happy.
@@mikespangler98 The reason they were forced to abandon Guadalcanal was because their soldiers had no supplies. Japan was extremely vulnerable to supply problems. The United States was going to gain naval superiority in a matter of months. Everybody knew that. It was not a contested expectation.
There was no need to throw away thousands of young lives the way they did. It would have been impossible for the Japanese to keep Port Moresby supplied. The Allies should have allowed Japan to overextend to the maximum of their own shortsightedness. Conversely, the supply lines between Australia and the United States were not critical to either party and were only vulnerable for the first twelve months of the war in any event. Tens of thousands of young lives were wasted because of stupidity and a total lack of imagination. Allied commanders knew well enough the effectiveness of skipping large concentrations of enemy forces on unwanted islands.
The useful islands with useful air fields could have been just as easily gained with a little extra patience.
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the attempt by Japan to contest Guadalcanal was done at enormous logistical cost. Forget the lost of two battleships, various cruiser, destroyers and all those merchant/transports. The big items were skilled pilots and fuel consumed on the resupply.
From their bases to Guadalcanal was the extreme range for the Zero. Flying for several hours at economical cruises speed really saps one strength. Then if you take damage to the plane or worse the pilot, getting back was even more painful/risky.
All that, even with material superiority, until you learn to fight, in part meaning figuring out which commanders knew how to fight, fighting with a big superior force is just going to mean bigger losses.
@@joechang8696 America's strength was the war of attrition. Instead of milking that strength for everything it was worth they threw away our young lives for absolutely no reason.
The total dead or missing were 41,592 for all U.S. Army ground troops in the Pacific and southeast Asia, with another 145,706 wounded. The Marine Corps and attached Navy corpsmen suffered total casualties of 23,160 killed or missing and 67,199 wounded.
Nearly all of those lives could have been spared with intelligent patience which is precisely what the high command was paid to administer.
@@MrDavePedHad we held back they would have been very well supplied and any ships approaching would have been attacked by the ground based aircraft there.At that time everybody wanted revenge now and nobody would have had the patience to sit around and do nothing.Even when we went in with superior forces we would not have learned the valuable lessons that we gained by the earlier maulings by all branches of their military I think we would have just been sending lambs to the slaughter .Your arguenent certainally has merit but we cant assume that it would have worked
The Achilles heel of both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was at while at times they could effectively tactically fight battles, like the failures at Stalingrad for the Germans and Guadalcanal for the imperial Japanese, logistics and the ability to keep their soldiers supplied in the field proved to be their undoing in the end!
While being obsessed on winning battles, they failed at the bread and butter and the needs of their men!
Whereas the Americans had developed and mastered the science of logistics as far back as the civil war. The over extension of their supply lines cost them the war!
They never learned that an army can only live off the land for so long
I think your point about the US learning the importance of logistics in the civil war is a good one.
So true . And very well said .
Logistics and keeping troops supplied had been the most fundamental part of warfare since the Bronze Age. The Nazi’s inability to see just how badly they would lose the logistics war is an absolute reflection of their stupidity in the art of war - thinking that victory on the battlefield is victory in war is a total beginner move, and one that Germany had learned many times before.
The bottom line is that they simply were not good at war. Battles are a small part of war. You need to be good at ALL of it - doubly so if you are the aggressor. The Nazi’s stupidity is just that: stupidity.
@@Chris-fn4df: I think the German hubris goes back to their victory over the French in the Franco Prussian war.
Because for Germany it seemed so simple to win by overwhelming their opponents.
In WW1 none of the leaders had the insight of self inflection to understand why they lost, and immediately started to blame the Jews for allegedly stabbing Germany in the back.
In WW2 the want for revenge and the self deception of their own sense of superiority propelled them along to their destruction because the couldn’t imagine that their enemies could fight or out think them at their own game!
Another area where they were absolute idiots was in the area aptly named intelligence, or in the German’s case, lack of it.
The allies early on had broken the enigma code, they had infiltrated the German spy agency and turned the agents against them, and the Allies had developed various superior programs that had kept the Germans guessing all the time.
One of my favorite was when the British turned a manor into a resort for captured German leaders, wining and dining them while at the same time recording all their conversations!
Churchill was furious at first but realized the valuable intel and information acquired!
The Germans were like an evil Sheldon Cooper, but without the personality. They were indeed smart in many ways no doubt about it, or else they wouldn’t have got as far as they did, it’s just that they were blinded by their myopic reason and hubris, often not really learning from their mistakes and thinking the lunatic that was leading them knew what he was doing and had their best interests at heart!
I think it was Napoleon who said that an army marches on its stomach. That is why canned food was invented by the French for the French army.
The air war was clearly won by the Americans, victory.
Dont forget about the marines
It was Guadalcanal that was the death knoll for the best Japanese pilots they were using carrier pilots for for long range sorties that were a death sentence for any pilot with a damaged plane. If the Japanese army would have added some air cover on the newer bases that they built while the battle was still in doubt they might have turned the tide. Their piecemeal application of their superior naval forces didn't help either if they went all out and moved faster they could have won.
A friend of mine, now deceased, was a Marine, serving in both World War II and Korea. He stated that once the beaches were secure, he could not step without stepping on an American serviceman.
Midway helped to neutralize the offensive capability of the Japanese Navy. Guadal canal would have been impossible had those carriers not been destroyed. Despite that. It was a desperate struggle. The Japanese had superior skills and ship to ship surface actions. The United States has superior supply logistics for the forces on guadal canal. The slugfest at Guadalcanal marked the last of the organized naval and air assaults against the allies. The rest of the war was a defensive action for Japan. US submarines decimated Japan's merchant fleet, along with Japan's serious fuel shortage prevented them from matching the US Navy ship for ship after guadalcanal
The AXIS powers underestimated the industrial potential of the United States, period.
True and a prime example of the Axis believing what they wanted to believe. The size of the US steel and auto industries were no secret.
The only product the US was worried about was rubber as natural rubber came from south east Asia. The US had large stocks of rubber although this would soon be exhausted. A program to build a large number of artificial rubber plants would take time. The US implemented a recycling scheme and the civilian population was requested to take anything made of rubber to collection points (slap the Japs with your rubber scraps) and together with the reopening of the Amazonian wild rubber industry and the wild rubber industry in the Congo where a large vine, in the jungles, produces an inferior, but still useful, rubber product. These 3 sources helped maintain enough production of rubber products until the rubber factories reached full production.
Robot can't tell day from night.
its not a robot its a british very educated historian
Fyi, Efate is pronounced Eh-Fah-Teh. Rabaoul is pronounced Rah-Bool. Good content. My grandmother's older brother from Malaita also helped fight along with Allied against Japan first in Guadalcanal then New Georgia and Bouganville.
At 430 AM in the afternoon ??|||
Please add maps.
Guadalcanal was hardly Tinaka's fault. Once you find yourself supplying troops with submarines and destroyers at night you are already fighting a losing war, Yamamoto banished Tinaka and Mikawa both to the boondocks for not winning battles good enough and replaced them with commanders that couldn't win a battle at all. Both had to consider risking national assets that weren't going to be replaced based on what they knew at the time . . . Or didn't know in Mikawa 's case pertaining to the whereabouts of our carriers. Hindsight is 20/20 but stripping the IJN of their best commanders works to our advantage.
Could have added a few detail maps to emphasize the narrative. Still a very well presented story.
About the disproportion in aircraft in the area - numbers were part of the problem, not all.
Japan put their best pilots at the lead until they were shot out of the sky. The US rotated experienced pilots back to train the next wave in the strategies currently working. The result was a continual crop of pilots far better trained as the war progressed, against progressively greener pilots on the Japanese side.
I don't know if it's intentional or what but there is a very low frequency component through out the video.
Sounds like someone played thumping rap music outside your room while you recorded your voice.
Apologies sir
@@WW2Tales np, thanks for the great video. Just wanted to point this out.
Many years ago, I saw an unusual post war comparison between Japan and America. The experts doing the comparison added up the total weight of every piece of war material. In other words, they took the weight of a single cartridge round plus the weight of every battleship and everything in between. That figure was divided by the number of men in uniform. They did the same thing for the Japanese military. They came to the conclusion that the average Japanese member of the military was supported by several hundred pounds of industrial might. The average American was supported by hundreds of tons of industrial might. Consider the manufacturing of the Japanese machine guns, for instance. They were manufactured in small numbers by small groups of people. It was literally a cottage industry. This was due to the fact that their industrial might was being bombed once our planes could reach the homeland. America could produce more machine guns in a few days than the Japanese cottage industries could produce in a year. Yamamoto realize that fact, since he had spent time in America before the war. He accurately predicted that Japan had six months, at the most, to bring the Americans to the negotiating table or all was lost. When the Americans landed in North Africa, Rommel said, "Germany has lost the war. My tankers destroy one Sherman tank and the Americans send 10 more to take its place." It is amazing the wisdom of the military leaders of these countries, yet they fought bravely to the end.
Boring Graphics!
you need to listen to this educational speaker not just fleeting images on a screen
In my view, of the many actions Halsey was involved in during WWII, his finest period of command was when he commanded the forces in and around Guadalcanal. Halsey had some difficult moments with Typhoons and the IJN around the Leyte Gulf battle, but his fighting spirit and ability was never on better display than at Guadalcanal.
I wish this series would give dates in their titles!!! It would make it so much easier to work (chronologically) through WW2 in the Pacific!!
Defeat from the jaws of defeat
Just remember that Midway was six months after Pearl Harbor. Midway was the turning point because four Japanese carriers were destroyed, and their sea power decimated. Six months. The Americans had broken the Japanese code and could place themselves in strategic areas.
Weeks before the Pearl harbor attack, Russia began their first Winter counter attacks, driving the German army back hundreds of miles, one more winter season and Russia was not threatened. They didn't our help
the US airforce and Navy were a bunch of clowns
The U.S. Navy outclassed the Japanese navy by leaps and bounds over the course of the war in the Pacific. The Japanese never had ANY admirals in the same class as Nimitz, Spruance, etc. Yamamoto was way overrated. The Japanese navy was more concerned with fighting its greatest enemy; the Japanese Army.
An idiot speaks
Troll.