Manny was purely fictional, in real life J.P Morgan and Richard Greer were his closest friends. Greer decided not to sign the release form to be depicted on 'The Pacific', so writers created 'Manny'. John Basilone felt strongly the death of all but two of his squad in the attack, and when he attended Mass before his homecoming parade at Raritan in 1943, he asked the priest to remember his dead squad members in the prayers during the Mass.
@@williamjames648 The best researched and most accurate account of John Basilone at Guadalcanal and his life as a Marine until his death at Iwo Jima is in the book 'The Pacific', by Hugh Ambrose. This was published as the book to accompany the series, the only drawback is that Ambrose writes about six different people, so there is not a continuous section in the book about John Basilone, but short sections, but there is a good index, so you can follow his life chronologically.
Sometimes it's hard to fathom the same hands that held a Garand in this battle held me as a baby. I'm glad my Great Grandfather made it home and found peace.
I love the “what the hell was that!?” The assumption that John has lost is ever loving mind, when actually he is fully aware what needs to be done and why, he’s just in it.
I spent time on Guadalcanal with the Australian Army back in 2003/04 with RAMSI living on Henderson Field and close to Bloody Ridge. Whilst there we went on a battle field tour visiting many of the battle locations seen in the series, including Basilone's MOH action.
Ironically the location shooting in 'The Pacific' was all done in Queensland. This is shown in one of the featurettes on the extras disc in the box set.
Geoffrey Young, the purpose of selecting Guadalcanal was to prevent invasion of Australia? Is it Guadalcanal considered a defensive necessity for you guys still? In other words, if China continues its expansion, is it that a strategic spot for your military to protect?
Thats why soldiers strip and assemble weapons with blind folds on, whilst training for a situation like that. Not to mention knowing the weapon inside and out.
@@timorvet1 You're correct. We did that same with our service rifle, laying on our backs, blindfolded. Disassembled and reassembled the AR on our belly.
When I was a young Paratrooper, I learned to do that with my assigned M60 Machinegun. During a deployment to the NTC I had do disassemble and repair the feed mechanism in the dark; I did so successfully. Later, I became proficient with the M2HB (.50 cal HMG), M240B, and to a lesser degree with the 249 SAW. When I deployed to Iraq, and other locations Post 9-11, I was able to keep my weapon in action during multiple firefights.
This reminds me of two other battles that were described to me. The first was by a Marine cook on Saipan. He was among those that grabbed their weapons and fought off the big Japanese bonzai charge with M1 carbines because that was all they had and they were supposed to be behind lines. He said the last barbed wire fence was where the charge was halted. The Japanese were not equipped to cut the fence and they were close enough to be killed by those little pistol sized carbine cartridges. At night they slept in foxholes and large centipedes crawled across their uncovered faces and stung them and left ugly and painful sores. Others got some kind of tropical fever from the pests in the tall grass. The second one was by the older brother of a co-worker who was a machine gunner when the Chinese entered the war in Korea. He said the Chinese came in waves. And they fired the machine guns until the barrels had to be replaced. They used heavy asbestos gloves on the hot barrels. In between waves, the bodies were piled up so high, they had to run out there and knock them down so they could see to shoot at the next wave. And it was freezing cold.
I'm Canadian and when I was around 13 years old I used to go with my father to see an elderly man who was a member of an association of ex-Canadian military he had almost no be hearing and very poor visibility. He told me a story of how during the Korean war he was part of a Canadian Army group situated in some hillside caves with 50 cal machine guns and the Chinese attacked he told me they fired the machine guns until they were so hot the started to glow red then changed the be barrels
@@cortschumacher7134 Mao told President Truman he was prepared to lose a million men to keep N. Korea. I think the first invasion was done by 300,000 Chinese. The UN forces could hear their footsteps from afar as they marched south.
@@larrytischler570 We pushed to far into N. Korea. The peninsula narrows, we could have held them there and then it's just a matter of supplying enough ammunition.
Machine guns and automatic rifles all have a handle to swap the barrels out. They must not have had that then. But yeah, they get hot pretty fast and can become damaged if you don't swap them. You'll see them turning red hot if it's at night
You can't imagine what it was like unless you were there.Nothing in life prepares you for this. My dad never talked about it except to say "Basilone didn't think he could be killed" My dad was a 2nd lt on Iwo Jima. He was wounded there by a mortar round and evacuated.
According to the book, the scene in the aftermath was so gruesome that battle-hardened marines were puking where they stood. Given the machine-gun fire, grenades and mortars, bodies were blown apart, guts and limbs strewn everywhere. In the tropical heat the stench was unbearable and then the blowfies bred to feast upon the corpses.
With respect, no, they were not. They were just average boys who had a big job to do and did it. I don’t think any of them had a superhero suit in the closet. And when you read with the old breed or helmet for my pillow you see those boys paid and kept on paying for the rest of their lives.
I've read all those books you're right they were young boys who quickly took on the grim business of warfare. Transforming into the hardened combat veterans that accomplished amazing things in the most dire of circumstances. I stand by my statement.
Marines like John Basilone make me grateful that I am an American. 😊 🇺🇸Thank you to all our great service members past and present that keep freedom alive.
Your Welcome my Friend. From an Old Iron Side Soldier. Who was on Station. In Nurumberg West Germany 87-89. Right before the Collapse of the Soviet Iron Curtain. That had been up. Since the end of World War Two.
@@DanielMartinez-fk9qb my grandad before Vietnam was stationed on an airbase in west Berlin. During the Korean war early fifties. He held an m1 and saw a saboteur I guess senaking around. He yelled halt, and the man ran. He raised his rifle to shoot the bastard but those m1 rifles sometimes have a safety that is absolute shit to turn off, so he played with that until the dude was out of sight and he couldn't fire anymore. He was shot down in Vietnam, army air corps, then air force in Vietnam , and was actually picked up by a south Vietnamese patrol. He saw three days of hard combat and saw men die. He was a great man and died new years ave of 2015. Fuck ya yo him, and fuck ya to you sir, good work.
@@bradleyhoskins1023 My Condolences and Respect to the Memory of your Grandfather. Being part of the Berlin Brigade. Inside East Germany. You really had to be on your toes. I remember seeing or hearing of people. Attempting to escape from East to us in the West. May your Grandfather RIP .
@@DanielMartinez-fk9qb no my respect to you sir, I've done nothing, but you, and grandad, did everything. Wish I could meet u and men like you one day, and share a very strong beer. Sincerely
My dad was right in there he never talk much about it.He was medic purple heart bronze star oak leave Custer save man life he was shot him self . name on world. War 2 memorial John s. Caleca
Marines do not have "medics" as named which is an Army term, but do have the comparable specialty. Instead, @ that time they were Navy Pharmacist Mates ~ after the war ('47?), renamed Navy Hospital Corpsman/Corpsmen (singular/plural).
If you look online the Army's Americal Division 23rd Infantry was on Guadalcanal they lost so many marines my dad told me the corpsmen and him were sharing medical supplies they didn't have enough
@@jcaleca60 Thx for the added info. If I had known about the Army @ Guadalcanal, it had either gone over my head or has been long forgotten. I'm not even sure how I knew about John Basilone before the Pacific series was produced or getting this FB recommendation. Admittedly I'm not proficient in WW2 Pacific history, but do have special interest in American Civil War history. For sure, WW2 Europe got & continues to get more attention than the Pacific. Thx to your Dad for his service.👍
@@stevieRay3211 Yeah did they really die for your freedom though? I thought they died so that America could join WW2 in the fight against Germany via "The backdoor" by goading Japan into war with them. Also America allied with communism to destroy its ancestral homeland Europe. If Anything they fought AGAINST your freedom...
@@kentuckybeararms Their is no degree of wars jus death. I really get the spirit of your content but your actual statement is flawed. When your in combat, fuck politics, you fight for ya brothers on left right front back. Which means seeing your brother blown to bits will bring some type ptsd in any theater of war. And if you think ww2 soilders who fought in Pacific didnt have ptsd is a slight on their tormented struggle . Downing one struggle to praise another seems unnecessary. Respectfully
This is what we are train for,to do what is expected,for our country,our beliefs and to stand for what is right,this is in all Military Branches and the respect to those that go beyond the call to duty.Amen
What was so amazing was that except for the Raiders, the division never got their complete training. They were great for the experience level they had. And they rushed in and defeated hardened Japanese troops without their food and equipment being unloaded from the ships. They literally ate rice captured from the Japanese construction crews. While the Japanese were starving in the malarial swamps. It was one of the greatest US victories of the war.
And I was one year old when the Marines landed on Guadalcanal. I later grew to remember the end of the war in Europe, and the A bombs on Japan and their surrender and many friends and relatives with stories from Pearl Harbor, to Saipan, to Leyte Gulf, to the battle of Manila, to the Battleship Missouri sailing into Tokyo Bay to end the war. Even a Japanese lady who crawled under her bed at Ise in the Japanese southern islands when the B-29's came over to bomb Japan. She was especially glad we dropped the two nuclear bombs because she knew it saved their lives by ending the war.
The Maxxim Gun sounds amazing. So damn terrifying that it makes hold the trigger to keep the enemy back in the trees. He saved all them boys that night.
Pringles Gaming The Browning 1917 and Maxim were both recoil-operated, but that’s about where the similarities end. They were significantly different weapons with the Browning being much lighter and a superior weapon in almost every way. The British Vickers MG was however a close relative of the Maxim.
Klaidi Rubiku navy seals be like. Hey we embezzle government money and kill Marines who find out. Green berets be like ok we have no more direct action units. SAS be like we couldn’t defeat the IRA militarily. Royal Marines be like we lost Helmand Province.
There have been some who died doing my job but it is not a usual thing to happen and usually my life is not in danger. But my job is very busy and stressful. I love watching these movies in my lunch break to give me encouragement to keep plugging away. I don’t think I would be able to do the work these men did.
“I spent 3 months getting turned into a Marine. I spent 21 years living as that Marine. Then they gave me 3 days to learn how to be a civilian again.” -Iceman
" he was 3 years prior army service and transferred to the marines cause he wanted to get in the fight quickly"... No, he re-up in the Marines to get back to the Philippines. He had a Filipina girlfriend (that part of the story was missing).
This bullzhit going on today with socialism and communism has been kept a quiet secret until all the WWII Marine Veterans have died off. Because these corrupt politicians would been destroyed by these Marines. My father who served proudly in the first wave of Marines to land on Gualdalcanal in 1942 told me back in 2004. That the way the politicians have corrupted our society and it's people with their greedy sneaky dirty back door deals. He said if he knew then what knows now. He never would have join and served in the Marines. Because our government politicians today care nothing about serving its people anymore. In my opinion governments wait until a generation like the WWII veterans to dies off enough to not pose a threat to themselves like weasels Bernie and Biden. Once a Generation dies off. And then they screw over and do things like encourage socialism. Because they would be thrown on out of office by WWII MARINES if they did even mention such a anti American thing. . They corrupt politicians have waited this long for that generation to die and be out of their way. . And Trump recognized this and is helping us all to keep our democracy. Trump is also trying to hang onto everything his family owns so socialist cant take over. So he is also fighting for his family as well. VOTE TRUMP 2020
@@jongallant6054 >"Politicians have corrupted our society" > also "VOTE TRUMP 2020" If you're gonna shit talk politicians, at least don't endorse one either. They're all scumbags one way or another.
I can hardly make out M1903 sights in daylight against a light background; the notch for the battle sight is ridiculously small. I have no idea how US Marines used them in a jungle at night.
The movie theater at Treasure Island Naval Station back in the day was named after Basilone, Basilone Theater. Upon entering there was the famous painting of him with holding the .30 cal! Semper Fi.
A real American hero who would roll over in his grave if he saw what the radical left is doing to America today...God Bless you John Basilone and thank you for your sacrifice.
They would also roll over if they saw what that lieing sack of💩 , wrinkled orange turd has done to our country and how far into the gutter he has taken us, and that's coming from a combat veteran.
@@badmonkey2222 Typical pointless nonsense. But, hey, vet, let's have the DETAILS, huh? You don't speak for all the vets that support Trump, so let's have details on why you're so correct with your vague democrat talking points. I'll hold my breath......
Whenever I think about basilone I also think of Lt speirs they both are the best examples of soldiers who never let fear of death stop them from fighting and protecting theirs fellow brothers in the heat of intense combat
He just looking the carnage that was happen after that one hell of night battle. Now he knew what could a Machine gunner can do in a single defensive position, a total carnage.
Is it just me or does it seem like the Japanese abandoned strategy sometimes? The bonsai charges seem to have uselessly expended their men. Did they underestimate 18 year-olds? Maybe that was it. Japan at war fot more than a decade, thinking it would be the Globetrotters vs. The Washington Generals. I know dick about the military, but it seems they just thought the could overwhelm and scare their opponents like they did civilians.
The banzai charges worked well against the Chinese. They underestimated the Americans thinking their line will break by throwing sheer numbers at them. The marines were a lot more disciplined then the Chinese farmers they had been fighting in Manchuria for years already.
There are enfield 1917s in this scene for sure the Marines had use those as well as the 03 Springfields only the army had M1 garands I do believe the enfield 1917s were even more abundant in WW1 than the 03s
Both were used in both theaters until the end of the war. Why? No idea. I'd only take one if it had a scope on it. I have a 3-- no way I would want a bolt action.
he who makes the most noise in war wins...you know looking back I know they were still testing the atomic bomb but imagine they dropped 1 on that piece of dirt
The main character is inspired by John Basilone, his nickname is 'Shanghai Jack' and he receives the MOH and is sent back to the USA to sell war bonds. However the field commission is taken from Mitchell Paige's story. Paige was a platoon sergeant in charge of a machine gun section like Basilone, and when the Japanese attacked again on the following night (25-6 October), he with his squad, like Basilone heroically resisted and successfully held the line. 'Chesty' Puller, their CO, recommended them both for the MOH, but in addition gave Paige a field commission as a second lieutenant, as in the film. In the well known photo of of the MOH award ceremony, John Basilone is standing next to Mitchell Paige. Like the main character in 'The First to Fight' Paige survived the war, and had a successful career as an officer in the Corps, retiring as a Colonel. He wrote an interesting memoir called 'A Marine named Mitch'. Incidentally he had met John Basilone in Manila, when Basilone was in the Army, hence when they met again on Guadalcanal he called him 'Doggie Manila John' and Basilone called Paige 'Cavite Mitch'.
HBO edited out the Matanikau sequences in which the Marines attacked dug-in Japanese across a sandspit on 27 September, and got slaughtered much in the same way the Japanese were in this sequence. I don't think Americans are quite yet ready for THAT much historical accuracy.
Trained to kill. without emotional Feelings during the Action. Genious. Pure. That's what it takes to fight your enemy. I know what I'm Talking about. These lads were Nothing but HEROS.
@@RenMagnum4057 That only applies in the varying degrees of scale of conflict, if it's a blatant invasion...like a jab banzi charge....absolutly, but i police actions and peacekeeping, no-way...you would be lucky to get a green light.
Of course they feel emotions...they're human beings. They feel fear, sorrow, love for their fellow Marines, and hatred for their enemies. They're not killing machines...they are just people.
That 30 machine gun was favorite over the .50 because it was lighter and excellent on about everything the Japanese had . Even there Zeros with no armor. You have to have quater inch plating and the 3006 would buckle and bash even that to hell . 3006 in AP would eat it up !
Madness by the Japanese warlords. Madness they were serving God in their emperor. Madness. Sitting back home giving orders is way more convenient than participating in a doomed banzai charge. Madness.
Um no. Japanese don't have warlords in WW2. Banzai chargers were ordered by officers on the island. They are not giving that order from mainland Japan. You stupid?
No, you got your history wrong. Simple. Leaders back home approved every one of these charges because it was standard operating procedure for the entire army. You seemed to have caught the lack of civility going around.
This is a global effort to wipe out masculinity. Europe is no problem thanks to ww1 and 2 wiping nearly all of the alpha males. The United states is a different story and that is why they have to use the school system, and media to try eradicate masculinity
@@texas3284 Totally agree, even the corporate world is selling out with their male feminizing commercials. The global elites have to diminish America to succeed in their quest for global domination. Another reason why the left is doing everything in their power to destroy the first and second amendments.
The Japanese would charge under the cover of darkness. This tactic would work if the defenders were not veterans. The Germans did the same with good results against green American soldiers in the Ardennes. The soldiers would break and retreat. It wasn't until they went against veteran troops did they have heavy casualties. The Soviets did the same against the Germans and they also had heavy casualties.
True, but I'm sure a lot of those Japanese soldiers would've opted for peace. There are plenty of accounts of them leaving letters on the occasion of their death stating they would rather be home.
*Not to take away anything here but !* Historically, as far as i know, the Marine rifelmen were only issued M1 Garands ? I see in this segment they are using the M 1917 bolt action !
early in the war Marines in the Pacific still only had 1917 Springfield the garand had not made it to all front-line units yet if you look also they're also using 1897 Winchester pump-action shotguns instead of the later-model Winchester model 12. The Marines were understaffed and under-equipped throughout the majority of 42 and into 43it is amazing they were able to do what they were able to do with what little they had.
. but they had balls of steel and were the bravest of the brave and fought like madmen in every engagement in the Pacific, it's not all about the weapons although they really were not hurting for firepower.
also the M1903A1 and M1903A3 "Springfield" Rifles were common in the USMC, and some Army units until 1943. The M1903A3 was used as a Grenade Launcher, and custom models were used as Sniper Rifles into the late 1960's in Vietnam.
After his wife became a widow, she never remarried. When asked why, she simply said "I was married to the Best. I will never settle for less".
Amen.
Wait what?
Wow what a women
She was truly Semper Fi.
One Hell of a Woman.
What gets me most in this series is John finding Manny's body after the fight. Manny saved his life a few hours before.
Manny was purely fictional, in real life J.P Morgan and Richard Greer were his closest friends. Greer decided not to sign the release form to be depicted on 'The Pacific', so writers created 'Manny'. John Basilone felt strongly the death of all but two of his squad in the attack, and when he attended Mass before his homecoming parade at Raritan in 1943, he asked the priest to remember his dead squad members in the prayers during the Mass.
@@patrickhows1482 where did you find that out i like this and band of brothers but would like the true story as well
@@williamjames648
The best researched and most accurate account of John Basilone at Guadalcanal and his life as a Marine until his death at Iwo Jima is in the book 'The Pacific', by Hugh Ambrose. This was published as the book to accompany the series, the only drawback is that Ambrose writes about six different people, so there is not a continuous section in the book about John Basilone, but short sections, but there is a good index, so you can follow his life chronologically.
@@williamjames648 band of Brothers was basically as close to true as you'd get. Richard winters had a bunch of interviews about it.
Sometimes it's hard to fathom the same hands that held a Garand in this battle held me as a baby. I'm glad my Great Grandfather made it home and found peace.
I love the “what the hell was that!?” The assumption that John has lost is ever loving mind, when actually he is fully aware what needs to be done and why, he’s just in it.
I spent time on Guadalcanal with the Australian Army back in 2003/04 with RAMSI living on Henderson Field and close to Bloody Ridge. Whilst there we went on a battle field tour visiting many of the battle locations seen in the series, including Basilone's MOH action.
how was it?
Ironically the location shooting in 'The Pacific' was all done in Queensland. This is shown in one of the featurettes on the extras disc in the box set.
@@patrickhows1482 Same with the "Thin Red Line", and some location shots as well on Guadalcanal.
Geoffrey Young, the purpose of selecting Guadalcanal was to prevent invasion of Australia? Is it Guadalcanal considered a defensive necessity for you guys still? In other words, if China continues its expansion, is it that a strategic spot for your military to protect?
My dad told me the story about Henderson field named after the guy who died there sad stories
I read that it was too dark to see well enough, so John Basilone fixed some malfunctioning machine guns "By Feel", saving more American lives.
Thats why soldiers strip and assemble weapons with blind folds on, whilst training for a situation like that. Not to mention knowing the weapon inside and out.
@@timorvet1 You're correct. We did that same with our service rifle, laying on our backs, blindfolded. Disassembled and reassembled the AR on our belly.
@elviade the Marines have done it since they're inception.
When I was a young Paratrooper, I learned to do that with my assigned M60 Machinegun. During a deployment to the NTC I had do disassemble and repair the feed mechanism in the dark; I did so successfully.
Later, I became proficient with the M2HB (.50 cal HMG), M240B, and to a lesser degree with the 249 SAW. When I deployed to Iraq, and other locations Post 9-11, I was able to keep my weapon in action during multiple firefights.
@@paladinsix9285 ty for your training and your service 🇺🇸
This reminds me of two other battles that were described to me. The first was by a Marine cook on Saipan. He was among those that grabbed their weapons and fought off the big Japanese bonzai charge with M1 carbines because that was all they had and they were supposed to be behind lines. He said the last barbed wire fence was where the charge was halted. The Japanese were not equipped to cut the fence and they were close enough to be killed by those little pistol sized carbine cartridges. At night they slept in foxholes and large centipedes crawled across their uncovered faces and stung them and left ugly and painful sores. Others got some kind of tropical fever from the pests in the tall grass.
The second one was by the older brother of a co-worker who was a machine gunner when the Chinese entered the war in Korea. He said the Chinese came in waves. And they fired the machine guns until the barrels had to be replaced. They used heavy asbestos gloves on the hot barrels. In between waves, the bodies were piled up so high, they had to run out there and knock them down so they could see to shoot at the next wave. And it was freezing cold.
I'm Canadian and when I was around 13 years old I used to go with my father to see an elderly man who was a member of an association of ex-Canadian military he had almost no be hearing and very poor visibility. He told me a story of how during the Korean war he was part of a Canadian Army group situated in some hillside caves with 50 cal machine guns and the Chinese attacked he told me they fired the machine guns until they were so hot the started to glow red then changed the be barrels
@@cortschumacher7134 Mao told President Truman he was prepared to lose a million men to keep N. Korea. I think the first invasion was done by 300,000 Chinese. The UN forces could hear their footsteps from afar as they marched south.
@@larrytischler570 We pushed to far into N. Korea. The peninsula narrows, we could have held them there and then it's just a matter of supplying enough ammunition.
Machine guns and automatic rifles all have a handle to swap the barrels out. They must not have had that then. But yeah, they get hot pretty fast and can become damaged if you don't swap them. You'll see them turning red hot if it's at night
You can't imagine what it was like unless you were there.Nothing in life prepares you for this. My dad never talked about it except to say "Basilone didn't think he could be killed" My dad was a 2nd lt on Iwo Jima. He was wounded there by a mortar round and evacuated.
Your father served in the same unit as Sgt Basilone??
It’d been a long time since he was a sgt by the time he got to Iwo Jima
Good fuckin work da
Semper Fi.
According to the book, the scene in the aftermath was so gruesome that battle-hardened marines were puking where they stood. Given the machine-gun fire, grenades and mortars, bodies were blown apart, guts and limbs strewn everywhere. In the tropical heat the stench was unbearable and then the blowfies bred to feast upon the corpses.
John basilone and all those marines were absolute machines hard as a coffin nail
With respect, no, they were not. They were just average boys who had a big job to do and did it. I don’t think any of them had a superhero suit in the closet. And when you read with the old breed or helmet for my pillow you see those boys paid and kept on paying for the rest of their lives.
I've read all those books you're right they were young boys who quickly took on the grim business of warfare. Transforming into the hardened combat veterans that accomplished amazing things in the most dire of circumstances. I stand by my statement.
Marines like John Basilone make me grateful that I am an American. 😊 🇺🇸Thank you to all our great service members past and present that keep freedom alive.
Your Welcome my Friend. From an Old Iron Side Soldier. Who was on Station. In Nurumberg West Germany 87-89. Right before the Collapse of the Soviet Iron Curtain. That had been up. Since the end of World War Two.
@@DanielMartinez-fk9qb my grandad before Vietnam was stationed on an airbase in west Berlin. During the Korean war early fifties. He held an m1 and saw a saboteur I guess senaking around. He yelled halt, and the man ran. He raised his rifle to shoot the bastard but those m1 rifles sometimes have a safety that is absolute shit to turn off, so he played with that until the dude was out of sight and he couldn't fire anymore. He was shot down in Vietnam, army air corps, then air force in Vietnam , and was actually picked up by a south Vietnamese patrol. He saw three days of hard combat and saw men die. He was a great man and died new years ave of 2015. Fuck ya yo him, and fuck ya to you sir, good work.
@@DanielMartinez-fk9qb on guard duty at the time he saw the saboteur
@@bradleyhoskins1023 My Condolences and Respect to the Memory of your Grandfather. Being part of the Berlin Brigade. Inside East Germany. You really had to be on your toes. I remember seeing or hearing of people. Attempting to escape from East to us in the West. May your Grandfather RIP .
@@DanielMartinez-fk9qb no my respect to you sir, I've done nothing, but you, and grandad, did everything. Wish I could meet u and men like you one day, and share a very strong beer. Sincerely
before there was john rambo, there was john basilone..
COMPLETE BADASS!!!
Id bet thats why they called him "John"
@Richard Johnson the actor who plays John Rambo is Sylvester Stallone, who was born in 1946, after the war ended...
Read the book Pacific. I am horrified that john keep writing home for more money to buy booze
there were many badass soldiers in ww2 not just basilone.
@@m3gusta17 he meant as in sitting out the actual vietnam war, which John Rambo supposedly took part in.. Which make sense in his case
Interesting that he was 3 years prior army service and transferred to the marines cause he wanted to get in the fight quickly
Chesty Puller did too
Yep those motivators knew who faught like devils.
@RonnyDonny13 A colonel doesn't just pop out of thin air. You gotta put in some work to get there
ironically he was in the Philippians and if he wanted to get in combat quick that would have been the place
@@MrChickennugget360 yeah but if he was he would have been a pow for the whole war
My dad was right in there he never talk much about it.He was medic purple heart bronze star oak leave Custer save man life he was shot him self . name on world. War 2 memorial John s. Caleca
@Mister La thank you
Marines do not have "medics" as named which is an Army term, but do have the comparable specialty. Instead, @ that time they were Navy Pharmacist Mates ~ after the war ('47?), renamed Navy Hospital Corpsman/Corpsmen (singular/plural).
If you look online the Army's Americal Division 23rd Infantry was on Guadalcanal they lost so many marines my dad told me the corpsmen and him were sharing medical supplies they didn't have enough
I know all about it the Marines go under the jurisdiction of the Navy
@@jcaleca60
Thx for the added info.
If I had known about the Army @ Guadalcanal, it had either gone over my head or has been long forgotten. I'm not even sure how I knew about John Basilone before the Pacific series was produced or getting this FB recommendation. Admittedly I'm not proficient in WW2 Pacific history, but do have special interest in American Civil War history. For sure, WW2 Europe got & continues to get more attention than the Pacific.
Thx to your Dad for his service.👍
I see now why they're called the greatest generation. Ingrates today have no idea what these guys did for us. Love the Marines!
To be fair, Japan thought Americans were a bunch of "playboys" too. If push comes to shove, perhaps America's youth might surprise people after all
“Greatest generation” also has the highest amount of racism.
We have a demographic expert among us I see. At least you're enjoying the freedom of speech that these guys died to give to you.
@@stevieRay3211 Yeah did they really die for your freedom though? I thought they died so that America could join WW2 in the fight against Germany via "The backdoor" by goading Japan into war with them. Also America allied with communism to destroy its ancestral homeland Europe. If Anything they fought AGAINST your freedom...
@@kentuckybeararms Their is no degree of wars jus death. I really get the spirit of your content but your actual statement is flawed. When your in combat, fuck politics, you fight for ya brothers on left right front back. Which means seeing your brother blown to bits will bring some type ptsd in any theater of war. And if you think ww2 soilders who fought in Pacific didnt have ptsd is a slight on their tormented struggle . Downing one struggle to praise another seems unnecessary. Respectfully
The crowning jewel of Jon Seda's career.
This video quality was so awesome, I could almost see what was happening part of the time.
And still probably twice as better than what they saw that night
thank you all for your service
This is what we are train for,to do what is expected,for our country,our beliefs and to stand for what is right,this is in all Military Branches and the respect to those that go beyond the call to duty.Amen
What was so amazing was that except for the Raiders, the division never got their complete training. They were great for the experience level they had. And they rushed in and defeated hardened Japanese troops without their food and equipment being unloaded from the ships. They literally ate rice captured from the Japanese construction crews. While the Japanese were starving in the malarial swamps. It was one of the greatest US victories of the war.
It's weird to think that I was about to graduate high school when this was uploaded
And I was one year old when the Marines landed on Guadalcanal. I later grew to remember the end of the war in Europe, and the A bombs on Japan and their surrender and many friends and relatives with stories from Pearl Harbor, to Saipan, to Leyte Gulf, to the battle of Manila, to the Battleship Missouri sailing into Tokyo Bay to end the war. Even a Japanese lady who crawled under her bed at Ise in the Japanese southern islands when the B-29's came over to bomb Japan. She was especially glad we dropped the two nuclear bombs because she knew it saved their lives by ending the war.
As a former 0331 in the Corps. This speaks to me. John is Legend
@@mephi71101 as a Christian I can confirm
The Maxxim Gun sounds amazing. So damn terrifying that it makes hold the trigger to keep the enemy back in the trees. He saved all them boys that night.
@E.A. CORRAL most WW1 era MGs are based heavily on the maxim design if I recall
Pringles Gaming The Browning 1917 and Maxim were both recoil-operated, but that’s about where the similarities end. They were significantly different weapons with the Browning being much lighter and a superior weapon in almost every way. The British Vickers MG was however a close relative of the Maxim.
Not a Maxim. .30 cal watercooled Browning.
@@jaykay8570 I spoke too soon. Impulse reaction. You know how it goes.😜
Most dangerous weapon in the world : A pissed-off US Marine.
Or, a pissed off Finnish farmer. :) finland-at-war.blogspot.com/2018/04/heroes-of-finland-viljam-pylkas.html
Never mess with a Finn and his rain deer
Klaidi Rubiku navy seals be like. Hey we embezzle government money and kill Marines who find out. Green berets be like ok we have no more direct action units. SAS be like we couldn’t defeat the IRA militarily. Royal Marines be like we lost Helmand Province.
@@Tipi83 Kippis
Klaidi Rubiku ur right. They were highly more efficient and worrisome to the British government.
Story says he even killed dudes with a machete during that battle. Balls of steel. Keep your mind focus and beats some ass
There have been some who died doing my job but it is not a usual thing to happen and usually my life is not in danger. But my job is very busy and stressful. I love watching these movies in my lunch break to give me encouragement to keep plugging away. I don’t think I would be able to do the work these men did.
After a few years of this you go home, get a life and act normal...no wonder guys would drink!
there’s a point in the fight where they all stop shooting. they just look a the machine gunner as he takes the lives of at least 50 men.
“I spent 3 months getting turned into a Marine. I spent 21 years living as that Marine. Then they gave me 3 days to learn how to be a civilian again.” -Iceman
" he was 3 years prior army service and transferred to the marines cause he wanted to get in the fight quickly"... No, he re-up in the Marines to get back to the Philippines. He had a Filipina girlfriend (that part of the story was missing).
His nickname in the Marines was John "Manila John" Basilone... www.cmohs.org/recipients/john-manila-john-basilone
All those marine's salt of the earth back bone of america
This bullzhit going on today with socialism and communism has been kept a quiet secret until all the WWII Marine Veterans have died off. Because these corrupt politicians would been destroyed by these Marines. My father who served proudly in the first wave of Marines to land on Gualdalcanal in 1942 told me back in 2004. That the way the politicians have corrupted our society and it's people with their greedy sneaky dirty back door deals. He said if he knew then what knows now. He never would have join and served in the Marines. Because our government politicians today care nothing about serving its people anymore. In my opinion governments wait until a generation like the WWII veterans to dies off enough to not pose a threat to themselves like weasels Bernie and Biden. Once a Generation dies off. And then they screw over and do things like encourage socialism. Because they would be thrown on out of office by WWII MARINES if they did even mention such a anti American thing. . They corrupt politicians have waited this long for that generation to die and be out of their way. . And Trump recognized this and is helping us all to keep our democracy. Trump is also trying to hang onto everything his family owns so socialist cant take over. So he is also fighting for his family as well. VOTE TRUMP 2020
@@jongallant6054
>"Politicians have corrupted our society"
> also "VOTE TRUMP 2020"
If you're gonna shit talk politicians, at least don't endorse one either. They're all scumbags one way or another.
@Zachary Nix facts
@Zachary Nix maybe, but still a lying manipulator
@@jongallant6054 dude, take your meds and go back to sleep, the orange turd will be kicking rocks come November by the way.
An amazing man in a company of heroes !
I can hardly make out M1903 sights in daylight against a light background; the notch for the battle sight is ridiculously small. I have no idea how US Marines used them in a jungle at night.
Trusted to luck. I have a Springfield and Enfield. You can't hit anything accurately at night, even with parachute flares.
Man, I would have loved so much a crossover with Speirs and John
My grandfather fought in Guadalcanal (and many others) on PT boats. JFK was his instructor earlier in the war.
The movie theater at Treasure Island Naval Station back in the day was named after Basilone, Basilone Theater. Upon entering there was the famous painting of him with holding the .30 cal! Semper Fi.
What a fucking legend! RIP John Basilone
I believe also the first ever raider marines fought the entire guadalcanal campaign.
everybody needs to go read johns wikipedia page and read what he did. amazing soldier.
Check out this guy, Finnish counterpart to Basilone. :) finland-at-war.blogspot.com/2018/04/heroes-of-finland-viljam-pylkas.html
King Kable......amazing MARINE, not soldier.
@ gOoD tHinG yOu piLeD oN cAtHrInE
@@surferdude44444 technically he was in the army before he joined the marines
Or realize how the makers of Rambo ripped off his identity.
During those early days of the war in the Pacific all the marines had were old WWI weapons. Only later did they receive better armaments.
The 164th infantry brought the first M1s to Guadalcanal and used them to great effect against another Japanese mass assault in October 1942
First night after watching this episode i couldnt sleep well for two days
Before there was Rambo, there was John Basilone.
One shot, One kill. Lord have mercy. Thank God for men like John Basilone. RIP
I see shit like this and thank my lucky stars that in 9 years of military service we weren't in a shooting war.
A real American hero who would roll over in his grave if he saw what the radical left is doing to America today...God Bless you John Basilone and thank you for your sacrifice.
They would also roll over if they saw what that lieing sack of💩 , wrinkled orange turd has done to our country and how far into the gutter he has taken us, and that's coming from a combat veteran.
The cancer set in long before trump came to power
@@badmonkey2222 Typical pointless nonsense. But, hey, vet, let's have the DETAILS, huh? You don't speak for all the vets that support Trump, so let's have details on why you're so correct with your vague democrat talking points. I'll hold my breath......
Whenever I think about basilone I also think of Lt speirs they both are the best examples of soldiers who never let fear of death stop them from fighting and protecting theirs fellow brothers in the heat of intense combat
I go to school with Basilone’s great nephew
so sad that the punisher died in the war
While I was stationed at camp Pendleton our barracks were right off basilone road.
What got me the most was when lena brought the purple heart to the basilone family house.
It wasn't the purple heart, it was his congressional medal of honor.
ronald speirs and john basilone had balls of steel
Basilone was italoamerican from Campania region (South of Italy, not far from Naples), like myself :)
He just looking the carnage that was happen after that one hell of night battle. Now he knew what could a Machine gunner can do in a single defensive position, a total carnage.
Is it just me or does it seem like the Japanese abandoned strategy sometimes? The bonsai charges seem to have uselessly expended their men. Did they underestimate 18 year-olds? Maybe that was it. Japan at war fot more than a decade, thinking it would be the Globetrotters vs. The Washington Generals. I know dick about the military, but it seems they just thought the could overwhelm and scare their opponents like they did civilians.
Err.... Its banzai charges. Bonsai are the miniature cultivated trees.
The banzai charges worked well against the Chinese. They underestimated the Americans thinking their line will break by throwing sheer numbers at them. The marines were a lot more disciplined then the Chinese farmers they had been fighting in Manchuria for years already.
I heard a ledged that JohnnyB looked at Rodriguez and said, "Punish everyone that deserves is."
And this is why we have a Basilone road on Camp Pendleton.
Job well done Bro Basilone. You made the organization proud. SFMF.
Basil one never died.the greatest 0331 ever
Goodnight Chesty wherever you are!
There are enfield 1917s in this scene for sure the Marines had use those as well as the 03 Springfields only the army had M1 garands I do believe the enfield 1917s were even more abundant in WW1 than the 03s
Both were used in both theaters until the end of the war. Why? No idea. I'd only take one if it had a scope on it. I have a 3-- no way I would want a bolt action.
Would the Marines have had the M1903A3? I thought they had M1903s and M1903 Mark 1s?
And remember no fucking ear plugs like damn I can barley shoot a 45 with out going death
What movie is this ? Thanks. Is this ‘The Pacific’ ?
Tv series
he who makes the most noise in war wins...you know looking back I know they were still testing the atomic bomb but imagine they dropped 1 on that piece of dirt
The pride of Raritan, N.J.
I think the story goes that he burned his arm firing the machine gun from his hip and didn't realize it until afterwards.
This is What the War Movie "First to Fight" Did in the First Scene. Good War Movie.
The main character is inspired by John Basilone, his nickname is 'Shanghai Jack' and he receives the MOH and is sent back to the USA to sell war bonds. However the field commission is taken from Mitchell Paige's story. Paige was a platoon sergeant in charge of a machine gun section like Basilone, and when the Japanese attacked again on the following night (25-6 October), he with his squad, like Basilone heroically resisted and successfully held the line. 'Chesty' Puller, their CO, recommended them both for the MOH, but in addition gave Paige a field commission as a second lieutenant, as in the film. In the well known photo of of the MOH award ceremony, John Basilone is standing next to Mitchell Paige. Like the main character in 'The First to Fight' Paige survived the war, and had a successful career as an officer in the Corps, retiring as a Colonel. He wrote an interesting memoir called 'A Marine named Mitch'. Incidentally he had met John Basilone in Manila, when Basilone was in the Army, hence when they met again on Guadalcanal he called him 'Doggie Manila John' and Basilone called Paige 'Cavite Mitch'.
I like how they all just stop and watch.
because he almost kill all banzai for them.
@@khoroshoigra8388 Uh ya I got that thanks....
legendary..........my goodness
I'm speechless.
Heaven is for Heroes, Semper-Fi, Guys.
HBO edited out the Matanikau sequences in which the Marines attacked dug-in Japanese across a sandspit on 27 September, and got slaughtered much in the same way the Japanese were in this sequence. I don't think Americans are quite yet ready for THAT much historical accuracy.
The series is based off of 2 books by Marines who served during the war. In the end it doesn't matter, cause Marines won Guadalcanal not the Japanese.
@@ZombieRedeemer Read them both, and thought they were excellent. Whether it mattered is relative.
@@prashanthnayak7567 but if the series was based on the books why would they include it?
Basilone, one Marine for 200+ Japanese lives...still not a fair trade
Truly one of the bravest Americans of all time.
they should tell all the new marines what basilone did so they can repeat it. basilone was where they got the name 'badass".
I'm pretty sure they do, he's got a lot of stuff named after him at various marine training camps.
I learned about him in bootcamp but that was a little bit ago
gerald miller ain’t no doubt about that
Greatest generation,
I love this movie bcause it true story
Súng máy bắn xong ko biết chuyển sang chỗ khác, lỡ nó quăng lựu đạn vô thì sao,
Trained to kill. without emotional Feelings during the Action. Genious. Pure. That's what it takes to fight your enemy. I know what I'm Talking about. These lads were Nothing but HEROS.
Bullshit...if a soldier doesnt feel hes no better than a phychopath.They just hide it better
Stop it, you don't know...fear is a weapon.
Well there's a saying, "turn subject to object " so they're basically not considering their enemies as human. Well, at least some of them
@@RenMagnum4057 That only applies in the varying degrees of scale of conflict, if it's a blatant invasion...like a jab banzi charge....absolutly, but i police actions and peacekeeping, no-way...you would be lucky to get a green light.
Of course they feel emotions...they're human beings.
They feel fear, sorrow, love for their fellow Marines, and hatred for their enemies.
They're not killing machines...they are just people.
He kilt em all.
I think if they were able to show his real actions they would have been more impressive
I bet chinese people watch this every NewYear
And to think this was all over the Island....not just Japan and America but philippianios
It’s fucking demoralizing to chew up dudes running at you and THEY don’t even care. I can’t imagine
And the really sad part where his looking for his buddy the next morning and he’s MIA so he goes out to find him and he does but he’s been killed....
Yells cover me *Doesn't cover him* then yells grenade instead of frag out.
Even in 2012, 240p is pitiful.
Me in 'Hell Let Loose' with the mg42
That 30 machine gun was favorite over the .50 because it was lighter and excellent on about everything the Japanese had . Even there Zeros with no armor. You have to have quater inch plating and the 3006 would buckle and bash even that to hell . 3006 in AP would eat it up !
Why we FIGHT ?
Hate to be critical... But anyone else notice at the end part, in the daylight, the belt of ammo he is carrying clearly doesnt have a single primer?
That is because when they make films they dont kill the actors including the japanese who are also actors. so they are all inert rounds.
Upload full movie plz
Madness by the Japanese warlords. Madness they were serving God in their emperor. Madness. Sitting back home giving orders is way more convenient than participating in a doomed banzai charge. Madness.
dude it't just movie
Um no. Japanese don't have warlords in WW2. Banzai chargers were ordered by officers on the island. They are not giving that order from mainland Japan. You stupid?
@@framekefun3889 it's not even a movie.
No, you got your history wrong. Simple. Leaders back home approved every one of these charges because it was standard operating procedure for the entire army. You seemed to have caught the lack of civility going around.
@@davidwinter6148 says the guy who got it entirely wrong
Why don’t they have m1 garands? Or Tommy’s?
By that time I believe that the Marine Corp had M18 carbines and they were in process of replacing the Thompson with the grease gun
Because that wouldn't have been sporting. They wanted to give the Japanese a chance.
This is the masculinity the Left wants to destroy in the USA, forever.
This is a global effort to wipe out masculinity. Europe is no problem thanks to ww1 and 2 wiping nearly all of the alpha males. The United states is a different story and that is why they have to use the school system, and media to try eradicate masculinity
@@texas3284 Totally agree, even the corporate world is selling out with their male feminizing commercials. The global elites have to diminish America to succeed in their quest for global domination. Another reason why the left is doing everything in their power to destroy the first and second amendments.
fuck off asshole, u know shit
You're a fucking idiot.....
look up all the Soviet heroes of WWII
The Japanese would charge under the cover of darkness. This tactic would work if the defenders were not veterans. The Germans did the same with good results against green American soldiers in the Ardennes. The soldiers would break and retreat. It wasn't until they went against veteran troops did they have heavy casualties. The Soviets did the same against the Germans and they also had heavy casualties.
I can almost see what's going on.
I don't think that bolt action rifle is historically accurate 0:33 ...Garand was gas operated
What are you talking about?
The marine that year did not yet recieve m1 garand, the army first issued m1 garand.
Raritan, NJ...
THANK GOD FOR JOHN M BROWNING
Who designed the M1917 30 caliber Machine Gun....!!!
The Allies won the battle but the Japanese won the war after John fell for Yoko.
Which pixel is John Basilone?
Awful that the best human qualities are manifested by the absolute worst thing they can do to each other.
True, but I'm sure a lot of those Japanese soldiers would've opted for peace. There are plenty of accounts of them leaving letters on the occasion of their death stating they would rather be home.
cody mendes Then why did they commit atrocities?
@Richard Johnson Nope. Guess that makes two of us.
*Not to take away anything here but !*
Historically, as far as i know, the Marine rifelmen were only issued M1 Garands ?
I see in this segment they are using the M 1917 bolt action !
early in the war Marines in the Pacific still only had 1917 Springfield the garand had not made it to all front-line units yet if you look also they're also using 1897 Winchester pump-action shotguns instead of the later-model Winchester model 12. The Marines were understaffed and under-equipped throughout the majority of 42 and into 43it is amazing they were able to do what they were able to do with what little they had.
. but they had balls of steel and were the bravest of the brave and fought like madmen in every engagement in the Pacific, it's not all about the weapons although they really were not hurting for firepower.
also the M1903A1 and M1903A3 "Springfield" Rifles were common in the USMC, and some Army units until 1943. The M1903A3 was used as a Grenade Launcher, and custom models were used as Sniper Rifles into the late 1960's in Vietnam.