And that's the end of our Iwo Jima series! I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed producing it. See you next Friday for the release of Parts 1 and 2 of the new 8 part Battle of the Bulge series!
Fun fact: At 5:38, the man mentioned here (Colonel Takeichi Nishi) is a famous horse rider and gold medalist in 1932 Olympics. Just like General Kuribayashi, he was also able to travel to America before the war. In the movie "Letters from Iwo Jima", they are close friends and the tank commander himself is one of the few high ranking officers who trusted the decisions of the General all throughout the campaign. He also took care of a wounded American soldier who was about to be beaten to death by the Japanese (unfortunately, the American died since they also don't have any medicine to treat the prisoner).
His really good, specially the animations and rare sight of showing things from other sides perspective as well. Only minus would be that he goes mostly by "official history" as in one written by the winners of the war, but then again he would be censored and booted out of the internet if he went by actual history, specially when you know who owns the platforms like Jeutube....
It's so interesting to see how the Japanese propensity for banzai charges was so self defeating at times and how even some Japanese commanders recognized how stupid it was.
It worked like a charm against Chinese peasants pushed into service. But against a modern equipped and professionally trained opponent using MGs...eh, not so much.
It is a mystery. But just personal speculation. It may have something to do with the dire supply situation on the Japanese side throughout pretty much the entirety of the war. At some point, it becomes better to send the healthy troops at the enemy rather than see them perish to starvation. There are a lot of anecdotal stories. Navy just dumping supplies off destroyers "near the island", to Indian POW being eaten.
There's two phases to these Banzai Attacks. Early in the war - they were real counter attacks with the goal of defeating the enemy. Towards the end of the war - when the alternative was killing themselves - the Banzai charges were a way of getting themselves killed and maybe killing some Americans. .
Carl Marlantes, in 'What It Is Like To Go To War', has a very interesting perspective on the Japanese tendency towards suicidal military action when facing certain defeat: "We consider this to be fanatical. If an American did this we would consider it heroic."
That was quite a deadly end for a deadly battle. Those officers who disobeyed orders and tried a Banzai really showed how fractured the IJA's command structure was, both on the grand scale and down to the individual officer. It's rather surprising they got as far as they did initially. Talk about really going rogue.
The Japanese military command was pretty much backstabbing each other till the end to the point they even tried stopping the surrender of Japan after being hit by 2 nuclear bombs.
@@arkoa0000 True that. Diehard IJA officers even attempted a coup after the atomic bombings to continue the war by stopping the Emperor's surrender broadcast. Their war in China was started by ruthlessly ambitious officers attacking their own railroad establishment and blaming the Chinese.
@@manuelacosta9463 Thanks for mentioning the Kyujo incident. More people should know this to finally wipe off the "Japanese were willing to surrender" myth.
They put an American or Imperial Japanese flag wherever a soldier. When you zoom out and see hundreds of flags littered all over a relatively small island, it gives you perspective on just how bloody the fight was.
Keep in mind those flags represent casualties (though like another commenter said, its not 1-to-1 for the real battle, its just there to give a sense of the casualties being taken). Casualties means dead AND wounded.
9:50 From Martin’s MOH citation: When four of the infiltrating enemy took possession of an abandoned machine-gun pit and subjected his sector to a barrage of hand grenades, First Lieutenant Martin alone and armed only with a pistol, boldly charged the hostile position and killed all its occupants.
8:02 knowing how noisy one person can get during the silence of the night, and how clanky, creaky and bulky the military gears are, and on a rocky terrain, this is an amazing achievement in itself.
wow, i heared of japanese holdouts even till after the war, I had no idea there were still japenese soldiers fighting/hiding till 6th january 1949, 4+ years after the war ended.. imagine living 4+ years below ground in the tunnel systems..
Hi. Would you consider doing a Korean War series? I'm keen on seeing tactical aspects of battles around northern Korea (Chongchon River & Chosin Reservoir) and the Iron Triangle. (South Korea vs. China battles would be preferred, if possible.)
It would be hard to make these vids especially the ones that US army defeated in NK. Most of his vids with US involved before 90s are from the battles which the US won.
I would love to see Korean War battles too. Especially 1953, against the Chinese, and just before the armistice. There is very little on UA-cam about this.
For these men, Bansai was the easy way out. Charge the enemy, vent all your hate and sadness on them, and die. That, or face another month of hell. You can see how, while entirely devoted to the letter of the orders, they were looking for any excuse out. Just like any other man.
Great timing coming out with this series only 2 weeks away from the USMC birthday on November 10! History like this is why I joined. I wish I could be even a minuscule amount of man that these men were. These were some great goddamn men. All of them.
This was a very moving conclusion to a brilliant series. You really did justice to the men that fought in this battle. Your channel continually produces the highest quality content and you deserve all the success
This channel and the Intel report have presented the best production i can tell about Iwo Jima, the timelines, the stories, like a briefing from both sides with all the hindsight from the results, the individual actions, facts who many times are overlooked or ignored, so i am greetfull for this.
honestly, you guys should receive much more credits for these quality contents. I mean, both Intel Reports and Operations Room are fantastically going well with each other, you guys helped me to have a full imerson even in tiniest detail of a squad engagement to a full scale picture of pacific threater. Once again ya guys did a great job
Fantastic series! It was really amazing to see an in-depth analysis of the Battle of Iwo Jima and i am very eager to see the series about the Battle of the Bulge. Any chance of doing similar series in the future about Battle of Kursk, the fighting around Caen (after the Normandy landings), Battle of Verdun and/or Battle of Passchendaele?
My neighbor fought with the Marines on Iwo Jima. He was wounded by a Japanese Saber That's how combat got personal. He suffered from the wound as he had a catheter bag to control his urination. He also had PTSD. It was hard to deal with him sometimes. Being a veteran I tried to understand the horror of war.
Lt Harry Martin definitely earned that medal of honor, prevented the camp attack from being a complete catastrophe. So many rose up and defied the odds, they all deserved their honors.
Kuribayashi's final attack is well contrasted to the banzai charge. Dealt twice the casualties the banzai did with less than a third of the force of the charge, and he had a much more sick, more wounded, less fed and more dehydrated force quite likely. It's a wonder how japanese officers that seemed to prize surprise attacks failed to utilize subterfuge for them so often.
The quality and content of these videos still amazes me and I've been watching for a few months. Keep up the good work looking forward to the next series 👍
What an absolute nightmare. No wonder men were "falling" left and right fr battle fatigue/PTSD! It sounds like it was worse than hell itself. I'm so glad I don't know what it was REALLY like...
Excellent series. Love the graphics which really give us readers a perspective of the battle. Just enough detail with several individual side stories is an excellent recipe for success! Subscribed.
On Dad’s side of the family only my grandfather was of age to serve in WW2, and got sent to Alaska and saw no action. However, Mom’s side of the family was much larger and my Grandfather and most of my great uncles were old enough to serve. Grandad and 2 of my great-uncles were in the Pacific. Grandad was on an air base south, central China that could not even get basic supplies much less the cmbat planes that never arrived and they all nearly starved too death. Two great uncles fought on Iwo and Okinawa respectively. The 3rd great uncle was a belly gunner on a B-17 in the 8th AF. All survived the war despite serving in capacities that had some of the worst conditions and casualty rates anywhere. It has always struck me how miraculous that truly is.
Very good series, I've read that during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918 American Soldiers were reluctant to dig trenches after experiences at Petersburg in 1864/65. I'm curious how American/Japanese doctrine in the Second World War was influenced by Victorian ideas of warfare, keeping in mind that both navies employed people who were alive during the Spanish-American War.
I am so excited about the Intel channel, have always wanted to see doc that revealed the relevant intel, how accurate, and how it influenced, for better or worse, operations as they happened.
My heart just sank when I learned about the number of causalities. So many gave so much, for such a small piece of land. They really were the greatest generation, and as Americans, we should never...ever...forget it.
if you don't care about the nationality, their generation also produced Nazi Germany and Imperial Japanese, and don't forget British India and French Colonies... so don't hate your own generation. Just saying. Focus on trying to like what was good about their generation.
8:53 Needs to add the tents were also home of the 7th Air Force's P-51 Mustangs pilots of the 21st Fighter Group who had arrived weeks earlier. My grandpa was one of them and received the Bronze Star for going from tent to tent and evacuating pilots/men stuck in the tents. His commander died in the attack. The airmen took the brunt of the assault...
As a son of a former Marine Gunnery Sgt (1st Marine Division, 3/5) that was involved in the Korean war...and his older brother, my Uncle being a Marine corporal (rifleman) in the South Pacific, in battles in the Mariana Islands ending at Guam WIA & awarded the bronze star ... ONE THING especially stood out to me here, the Black Marines ... more respectfully, simply American Marines ! There were Many Thousands of Extremely brave & hard-ass Marines, Navy Seamen, Airmen & Soldiers that fought in WW2 and all the other wars. I'm No SJW...But I've been especially amazed as I've learned over the years, at how many Black American Men VOLUNTEERED to join the military and to fight in Korea, WW2 and all other American Wars since our very founding in the Revolutionary War ! While they all knew full well the country that is their home and willing to fight for.... was also Not treating them with equal respect, equal rights and freedoms because of their race. -- Even so, they STILL took pride in the USA and were willing and able to fight and die for their country ! All of those many thousands of Black Americans absolutely deserve an additional level of respect , for that simple fact. Much like the Tuskegee Airmen. *** In 2015, as my Dad laid in ICU recovering from a massive heart attack, his nurse happened to be a Black man....I told the nurse to not let that old Marine give him too much hell, he's a hard ass. The nurse replied, he was also a Marine...that was in Iraq and Afghanistan. My Dad perked up and made an instant connection with the man. That nurse told me and my Dad that he would absolutely give him the best of care, because he was his brother (A fellow Marine). My Dad nodded and shook his hand. Sadly he had another massive heart attack 3 days later and passed away. But he was able to connect with a fellow Marine of several generations apart, during his final days. I sincerely appreciate and respect ALL American and Allied Combat Vets. Shamefully, I never became a Marine as I had planned as a child, but I consider Every U.S. Marine to be something like a cousin .... because I can assure you that growing up with my Dad was very informative about the Marine Corps and in no way a soft/gentle form of parenting. lol I'm thankful for it and for my Dad. Semper Fi Devil Dawgs !
This whole series on Iwo Jima gave me such a sinking feeling, especially when the camera retreats and the swathes of dead soldier marks are actually colouring the gray map. What a terrible time to be a young adult.
So put to sleep and I see operations room what a beautiful day!!!! Loved the whole series and the foot soldier battles that you cover. Keep up the work
It was considering critical due to its airfield and location about halfway on the trip for bombers heading to bomb the Japanese home islands. It probably was necessary to take although some of the other islands like Peleliu may not have been
Would really love this kind of presentation from battles of Finnish winter war or continuation war! Since what i have seen there isint much that presents troop movements and timeline this effectively!
I studied at the Army War College in Carlilse, USA. I have also studied at Moscow State University, and was a tour guide for the "Great patriotic war" museum. You are truly the best- no bias. I wish the war did not happen in Ukraine... you would loose your mind if you saw the museam. Art. culuture, now all hijacked,. One day the war is gonna end, and you better make it to Moscow.
I cannot imagine what it feels to go out, get more than half of your men killed, and then find out you got duped by your officers. Won't say i enjoyed watching men get killed but thank you for putting up these documentaries, war is hell for both sides. Lest we forget
Great detail! I cannot imagine the level of effort to search source docs, then animate and then narrate. Brilliant!! Saddening when you realize a life is gone every time a flag rondel appears 😔
I thought the Intel Report sister videos were going to be a bit nerdy and data focused but they are just as exhilarating as the videos on this channel.
Amazing video as always. Question my buddies and I were trying to identify the ship shown in 11:07 anyone have any ideas currently out two best guesses are it's USS Tuscaloosa or USS Biloxi but we can't tell very well is there a longer clip floating around somewhere or a more enhanced image? Thanks for the help!
I seriously doubt that it would have mattered that much,though.Japanese had entire network of tunnels and trenches,not much would have been lost in continuous bombardment.American forces really went Red army like there.Also,so much rushing without too much thinking,despite overwhelming artillery and aircraft superiority.
really learned alot from this channel , never knew civilian contractors(seabees) was already a thing in world war 2 , always thought that civilian contractors were only a recent thing since iraq
I think Iwo Jima and Okinawa both were necessary. If for nothing else than to convince the government, military command, and US populace that what needed to happen next was something as horrific as nuclear weapons. Americans had already been freeing the camps in Europe. Liberating Europeans and Pacific Islands and Asia… but to hit Japan knowing that they wouldn’t surrender in normal battle, it would mean fighting them to the last. I don’t think it was until these final battles that everyone really understood that. There was no victory over Japan without the nukes. They’d hold out. Take any beating. And they would never surrender… but that’s in normal warfare. Not an OP game ender.
There's a good argument that the reason Japan finally surrendered was they didn't want to surrender to the Russians. As soon as Russia looked like they were going to join, the Japanese surrendered to the Americans. 🤷♂️
And that's the end of our Iwo Jima series! I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed producing it. See you next Friday for the release of Parts 1 and 2 of the new 8 part Battle of the Bulge series!
Loved and love all your content! Can’t wait for the battle of the bulge!!!!
Fantastic! Would love to see more multi part series like this one, maybe Okinawa?
NUTS!
You guys are amazing.
Unfortunately we need you more than ever.
"If you want peace, prepare for war." :/
Do you have a cash app?
Fun fact: At 5:38, the man mentioned here (Colonel Takeichi Nishi) is a famous horse rider and gold medalist in 1932 Olympics. Just like General Kuribayashi, he was also able to travel to America before the war. In the movie "Letters from Iwo Jima", they are close friends and the tank commander himself is one of the few high ranking officers who trusted the decisions of the General all throughout the campaign. He also took care of a wounded American soldier who was about to be beaten to death by the Japanese (unfortunately, the American died since they also don't have any medicine to treat the prisoner).
Never knew that
Good background information.
Nishi and Kuribayashi were probably some of the few that knew how futile war would be. Shame they and Yamamoto weren't listened to.
You can see Nishi compete in the Berlin Olympics here, at 1:05.
ua-cam.com/video/vFd2Nd3Lceg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=DanGilmore
@@ackbarfan5556 despite knowing that they are doomed they were not afraid, they accepted the responsibility and as men of character did their duty.
The Operations Room is definitely right at the top of UA-cam's content quality scale.
His really good, specially the animations and rare sight of showing things from other sides perspective as well. Only minus would be that he goes mostly by "official history" as in one written by the winners of the war, but then again he would be censored and booted out of the internet if he went by actual history, specially when you know who owns the platforms like Jeutube....
Second chance has this form Japes point of view
@@Hellsong89 So what happened then according to "actual history"?.....
@@Hellsong89 oh dude, you seriously need help.
It's so interesting to see how the Japanese propensity for banzai charges was so self defeating at times and how even some Japanese commanders recognized how stupid it was.
It worked like a charm against Chinese peasants pushed into service. But against a modern equipped and professionally trained opponent using MGs...eh, not so much.
It is a mystery. But just personal speculation. It may have something to do with the dire supply situation on the Japanese side throughout pretty much the entirety of the war.
At some point, it becomes better to send the healthy troops at the enemy rather than see them perish to starvation.
There are a lot of anecdotal stories. Navy just dumping supplies off destroyers "near the island", to Indian POW being eaten.
They'll do the same thing again on Okinawa. Saved us a lot of lives vs. if they had followed orders and stayed in their bunkers.
There's two phases to these Banzai Attacks.
Early in the war - they were real counter attacks with the goal of defeating the enemy.
Towards the end of the war - when the alternative was killing themselves - the Banzai charges were a way of getting themselves killed and maybe killing some Americans.
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Carl Marlantes, in 'What It Is Like To Go To War', has a very interesting perspective on the Japanese tendency towards suicidal military action when facing certain defeat: "We consider this to be fanatical. If an American did this we would consider it heroic."
That was quite a deadly end for a deadly battle. Those officers who disobeyed orders and tried a Banzai really showed how fractured the IJA's command structure was, both on the grand scale and down to the individual officer. It's rather surprising they got as far as they did initially. Talk about really going rogue.
What a bunch of morons.If going rogue,the best way to do that would be surrendering.
The Japanese military command was pretty much backstabbing each other till the end to the point they even tried stopping the surrender of Japan after being hit by 2 nuclear bombs.
@@arkoa0000 not to mention the Army and the Navy hated each others
@@arkoa0000 True that. Diehard IJA officers even attempted a coup after the atomic bombings to continue the war by stopping the Emperor's surrender broadcast. Their war in China was started by ruthlessly ambitious officers attacking their own railroad establishment and blaming the Chinese.
@@manuelacosta9463 Thanks for mentioning the Kyujo incident. More people should know this to finally wipe off the "Japanese were willing to surrender" myth.
They put an American or Imperial Japanese flag wherever a soldier. When you zoom out and see hundreds of flags littered all over a relatively small island, it gives you perspective on just how bloody the fight was.
except than rather than a few hundred flags, it would have been thousands of rotting corpses
Nah, dude. That's a simple representation of what happened. That's not really the exact location and number of deaths on each side.
Keep in mind those flags represent casualties (though like another commenter said, its not 1-to-1 for the real battle, its just there to give a sense of the casualties being taken). Casualties means dead AND wounded.
And even then, each flag is representing 10-50 deaths
Yeah, it so sad, all these deaths and many more
9:50 From Martin’s MOH citation: When four of the infiltrating enemy took possession of an abandoned machine-gun pit and subjected his sector to a barrage of hand grenades, First Lieutenant Martin alone and armed only with a pistol, boldly charged the hostile position and killed all its occupants.
8:02 knowing how noisy one person can get during the silence of the night, and how clanky, creaky and bulky the military gears are, and on a rocky terrain, this is an amazing achievement in itself.
wow, i heared of japanese holdouts even till after the war,
I had no idea there were still japenese soldiers fighting/hiding till 6th january 1949, 4+ years after the war ended..
imagine living 4+ years below ground in the tunnel systems..
There were holdouts elsewhere in the pacific theater, too. The last known holdout didn't surrender until 1974.
I was shocked when i hear it too. i did not know 2 soldiers survive that long in iwo jima
How did they survive that long? No free water, edible vegetation or game.
To my big suprise an hour later i found on the Intel Report channel exactly the story of these two men:
ua-cam.com/video/iFj_JAp-4MI/v-deo.html
@@Cholin3947 cannibalism probably
Hi. Would you consider doing a Korean War series? I'm keen on seeing tactical aspects of battles around northern Korea (Chongchon River & Chosin Reservoir) and the Iron Triangle.
(South Korea vs. China battles would be preferred, if possible.)
Battle of Fox Hill would be cool
Korean war is actually good, would like to see every allied countries who participated there!
It would be hard to make these vids especially the ones that US army defeated in NK. Most of his vids with US involved before 90s are from the battles which the US won.
I would love to see Korean War battles too. Especially 1953, against the Chinese, and just before the armistice. There is very little on UA-cam about this.
@@czhu4646 What are you talking about?
The end of one saga. Can't wait for the next one!
Lt Martin - certified pistol-wielding badass
Fantastic series, so well done. Thank you.🙂
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@TheOperationsRoom Big long time fan, thank you so much for the reply.
It is so good to see the operations room cranking on production thank you for all your patreon supporters that are richer than me
Best 5 bucks a month I have ever spent!
@@jiminyhopkins as a long time audience of this channel I'd like to thank you for your 5 bucks per month
The Medal of Honor recipients did truly selfless and valorous deeds. I hope when I am put to the test, that I can show a mote of their courage.
This is what the mid-2000's history channel wished it was. Great job on this series.
For these men, Bansai was the easy way out. Charge the enemy, vent all your hate and sadness on them, and die. That, or face another month of hell.
You can see how, while entirely devoted to the letter of the orders, they were looking for any excuse out. Just like any other man.
Great timing coming out with this series only 2 weeks away from the USMC birthday on November 10! History like this is why I joined. I wish I could be even a minuscule amount of man that these men were. These were some great goddamn men. All of them.
We all love this channel
Indeed we do.
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This was a very moving conclusion to a brilliant series. You really did justice to the men that fought in this battle. Your channel continually produces the highest quality content and you deserve all the success
This channel and the Intel report have presented the best production i can tell about Iwo Jima, the timelines, the stories, like a briefing from both sides with all the hindsight from the results, the individual actions, facts who many times are overlooked or ignored, so i am greetfull for this.
This videos are just amazing, this is the best channel on youtube when it comes to detailed battles, so glad I found this channel. Thank you.
Glad you enjoy it!
honestly, you guys should receive much more credits for these quality contents. I mean, both Intel Reports and Operations Room are fantastically going well with each other, you guys helped me to have a full imerson even in tiniest detail of a squad engagement to a full scale picture of pacific threater.
Once again ya guys did a great job
Fantastic series!
It was really amazing to see an in-depth analysis of the Battle of Iwo Jima and i am very eager to see the series about the Battle of the Bulge.
Any chance of doing similar series in the future about Battle of Kursk, the fighting around Caen (after the Normandy landings), Battle of Verdun and/or Battle of Passchendaele?
I would absolutely love to see Kursk and/or some WWI battles too
My neighbor fought with the Marines on Iwo Jima. He was wounded by a Japanese Saber
That's how combat got personal.
He suffered from the wound as he had a catheter bag to control his urination. He also had PTSD. It was hard to deal with him sometimes. Being a veteran I tried to understand the horror of war.
Lt Harry Martin definitely earned that medal of honor, prevented the camp attack from being a complete catastrophe.
So many rose up and defied the odds, they all deserved their honors.
Kuribayashi's final attack is well contrasted to the banzai charge.
Dealt twice the casualties the banzai did with less than a third of the force of the charge, and he had a much more sick, more wounded, less fed and more dehydrated force quite likely.
It's a wonder how japanese officers that seemed to prize surprise attacks failed to utilize subterfuge for them so often.
The quality and content of these videos still amazes me and I've been watching for a few months. Keep up the good work looking forward to the next series 👍
What an absolute nightmare. No wonder men were "falling" left and right fr battle fatigue/PTSD! It sounds like it was worse than hell itself. I'm so glad I don't know what it was REALLY like...
Babe wake up, the operations room put out the final part of iwo jima
“Bro I’ll call you later, Operations Room just uploaded a new Iwo Jima video”
What a time to log in. Lunch break and Iwo Jima Pt:4 SWEET!
What a brutal and horrific battle 😢
What an insane battle and then to think that okinawa would be even worse, i hope you could cover that battle aswell one day, great work!
Excellent series. Love the graphics which really give us readers a perspective of the battle. Just enough detail with several individual side stories is an excellent recipe for success! Subscribed.
this is by far the best battle overview channel
On Dad’s side of the family only my grandfather was of age to serve in WW2, and got sent to Alaska and saw no action. However, Mom’s side of the family was much larger and my Grandfather and most of my great uncles were old enough to serve.
Grandad and 2 of my great-uncles were in the Pacific. Grandad was on an air base south, central China that could not even get basic supplies much less the cmbat planes that never arrived and they all nearly starved too death. Two great uncles fought on Iwo and Okinawa respectively. The 3rd great uncle was a belly gunner on a B-17 in the 8th AF. All survived the war despite serving in capacities that had some of the worst conditions and casualty rates anywhere. It has always struck me how miraculous that truly is.
Absolutely brilliant work. Thank you for this.
A complicated battle well, and fairly, described. This is an awesome channel.
You all have some of the best content on UA-cam. It must take a lot of time and hard work and the quality of the videos is evidence of that. Kudos
Very good series, I've read that during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918 American Soldiers were reluctant to dig trenches after experiences at Petersburg in 1864/65. I'm curious how American/Japanese doctrine in the Second World War was influenced by Victorian ideas of warfare, keeping in mind that both navies employed people who were alive during the Spanish-American War.
Really liked how you were able to include Japanese viewpoints
I love the the channel evolves and the materials are appearing more often. Great work!
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Another fantastic video team. Can't wait for the next one. Massive love from Australia.
I am so excited about the Intel channel, have always wanted to see doc that revealed the relevant intel, how accurate, and how it influenced, for better or worse, operations as they happened.
I literally stop what I'm doing to watch this channel.
This series was some of your best work yet
Another great video! Looking forward to the Battle of the Bulge ones coming
Loved this series. Fascinating stuff man.
Would be great if you could do a video on Canadian First World War battles such as Vimy Ridge!
Amazing work, very interesting. I can't wait for the next series ! .
My heart just sank when I learned about the number of causalities. So many gave so much, for such a small piece of land. They really were the greatest generation, and as Americans, we should never...ever...forget it.
if you don't care about the nationality, their generation also produced Nazi Germany and Imperial Japanese, and don't forget British India and French Colonies... so don't hate your own generation. Just saying. Focus on trying to like what was good about their generation.
8:53 Needs to add the tents were also home of the 7th Air Force's P-51 Mustangs pilots of the 21st Fighter Group who had arrived weeks earlier. My grandpa was one of them and received the Bronze Star for going from tent to tent and evacuating pilots/men stuck in the tents. His commander died in the attack. The airmen took the brunt of the assault...
These videos are so good. Thank you for all your efforts!
As a son of a former Marine Gunnery Sgt (1st Marine Division, 3/5) that was involved in the Korean war...and his older brother, my Uncle being a Marine corporal (rifleman) in the South Pacific, in battles in the Mariana Islands ending at Guam WIA & awarded the bronze star ... ONE THING especially stood out to me here, the Black Marines ... more respectfully, simply American Marines !
There were Many Thousands of Extremely brave & hard-ass Marines, Navy Seamen, Airmen & Soldiers that fought in WW2 and all the other wars.
I'm No SJW...But I've been especially amazed as I've learned over the years, at how many Black American Men VOLUNTEERED to join the military and to fight in Korea, WW2 and all other American Wars since our very founding in the Revolutionary War !
While they all knew full well the country that is their home and willing to fight for.... was also Not treating them with equal respect, equal rights and freedoms because of their race. -- Even so, they STILL took pride in the USA and were willing and able to fight and die for their country !
All of those many thousands of Black Americans absolutely deserve an additional level of respect , for that simple fact.
Much like the Tuskegee Airmen.
*** In 2015, as my Dad laid in ICU recovering from a massive heart attack, his nurse happened to be a Black man....I told the nurse to not let that old Marine give him too much hell, he's a hard ass. The nurse replied, he was also a Marine...that was in Iraq and Afghanistan. My Dad perked up and made an instant connection with the man.
That nurse told me and my Dad that he would absolutely give him the best of care, because he was his brother (A fellow Marine). My Dad nodded and shook his hand. Sadly he had another massive heart attack 3 days later and passed away. But he was able to connect with a fellow Marine of several generations apart, during his final days.
I sincerely appreciate and respect ALL American and Allied Combat Vets.
Shamefully, I never became a Marine as I had planned as a child, but I consider Every U.S. Marine to be something like a cousin .... because I can assure you that growing up with my Dad was very informative about the Marine Corps and in no way a soft/gentle form of parenting. lol I'm thankful for it and for my Dad.
Semper Fi Devil Dawgs !
What an excellent series of videos. Great work
Never knew Iwo Jima was this ferocious
And to know the battle of Okinawa is worse than this…
This whole series on Iwo Jima gave me such a sinking feeling, especially when the camera retreats and the swathes of dead soldier marks are actually colouring the gray map. What a terrible time to be a young adult.
So put to sleep and I see operations room what a beautiful day!!!! Loved the whole series and the foot soldier battles that you cover. Keep up the work
You have respect an enemy that fought like this. Glad we call them friends now.
We owe everything to the sacrifices our forefathers made, Everyman a hero
I've only recently found this channel but damn the quality is insane and the videos are very informative keep up the good work
This series was one of my favorite vids on UA-cam, ty
Great work. I wonder if this rock could have been taken another way or just bypassed altogether?
It was considering critical due to its airfield and location about halfway on the trip for bombers heading to bomb the Japanese home islands. It probably was necessary to take although some of the other islands like Peleliu may not have been
Would really love this kind of presentation from battles of Finnish winter war or continuation war! Since what i have seen there isint much that presents troop movements and timeline this effectively!
I studied at the Army War College in Carlilse, USA. I have also studied at Moscow State University, and was a tour guide for the "Great patriotic war" museum. You are truly the best- no bias. I wish the war did not happen in Ukraine... you would loose your mind if you saw the museam. Art. culuture, now all hijacked,. One day the war is gonna end, and you better make it to Moscow.
Wasn’t expecting another video so soon! Nice bonus.
Brilliant as always.
Well done TOR! Enjoyed the series.
So glad I subscribed to this channel the past week
Hey. If you see this, when you do your Battle of the Bulge series, do not forget to include Operation: Bodenplatte.
I cannot imagine what it feels to go out, get more than half of your men killed, and then find out you got duped by your officers. Won't say i enjoyed watching men get killed but thank you for putting up these documentaries, war is hell for both sides. Lest we forget
Will you be covering the battle of Okinawa?
Great detail! I cannot imagine the level of effort to search source docs, then animate and then narrate. Brilliant!!
Saddening when you realize a life is gone every time a flag rondel appears 😔
Charging a 30 cal machine gun with a pistol?!?! Yep, that’ll get the CMOH. Wow!!
History teachers should use these videos. They are that good. Amazing work!!
With simple history
I thought the Intel Report sister videos were going to be a bit nerdy and data focused but they are just as exhilarating as the videos on this channel.
Excellent video! Cant wait for the next series!
Coming soon!
I love the operations rooms videos
Loved it! Can't wait for the next one.
A great end to the first series featuring the intel report
This Series is epic!!! Seeing really forward to Crossroads...
This was a fascinating series.
This has been absolutely amazing!
Excellent series! Thank you.
Really enjoyed these videos. Keep up the good work
Great information and insight what happend during the Iwo Jima conflict. I see it so different now. Thanks for the series.
This has been a great series ! Thanks you so much for great content 👍🏽
Thank you for all you do
Speechless - what a tremendous job!
Amazing video as always. Question my buddies and I were trying to identify the ship shown in 11:07 anyone have any ideas currently out two best guesses are it's USS Tuscaloosa or USS Biloxi but we can't tell very well is there a longer clip floating around somewhere or a more enhanced image? Thanks for the help!
Man I love these videos
Awesome series!!! Do Okinawa next!
27,000 against whatever reason the admirals had in disagreeing with a longer bombardment.
I seriously doubt that it would have mattered that much,though.Japanese had entire network of tunnels and trenches,not much would have been lost in continuous bombardment.American forces really went Red army like there.Also,so much rushing without too much thinking,despite overwhelming artillery and aircraft superiority.
If anything it certainly would’ve weakened them by burning an extra week of food and water stores
Thank you so much for your work. Absolutely top shelf captains cupboard level content.
Keep up the good work m8! Good day when the Operations Room uploads
Marines. No better fighting force in the world! The bravery and commitment these men had is unfathomable.
Army is better. Marines are cool, but the Army wins the war.
Would love to see The Falklands War at this quality. This was an awesome 4 part series on Iwo Jima
really learned alot from this channel , never knew civilian contractors(seabees) was already a thing in world war 2 , always thought that civilian contractors were only a recent thing since iraq
I think Iwo Jima and Okinawa both were necessary. If for nothing else than to convince the government, military command, and US populace that what needed to happen next was something as horrific as nuclear weapons. Americans had already been freeing the camps in Europe. Liberating Europeans and Pacific Islands and Asia… but to hit Japan knowing that they wouldn’t surrender in normal battle, it would mean fighting them to the last. I don’t think it was until these final battles that everyone really understood that. There was no victory over Japan without the nukes. They’d hold out. Take any beating. And they would never surrender… but that’s in normal warfare. Not an OP game ender.
There's a good argument that the reason Japan finally surrendered was they didn't want to surrender to the Russians. As soon as Russia looked like they were going to join, the Japanese surrendered to the Americans. 🤷♂️