I worked on an archaeological expedition in the Kuril Islands in 2006 and 2007, and visited Shumshu, Paramushir, and many other islands in the archipelago. They are littered with WWII and Cold War artifacts (along with prehistoric artifacts I was studying). Amazing place not many people get to visit.
@@kenan2156 Lots of military sites and features left by the Japanese - trenches, fox holes, barbed wire, gun emplacements, and on a couple of the larger islands, airstrips and hangers. Unexploded ordinance was found around the larger sites.
My heart is in sorrow ☹️ watching the human remains of WW2 ! How I'd wish to find my grandparents ( to my father side ) remains too during the Bataan march in Philippines 🇵🇭 I am 58 now and I lost my father 50 years ago ! So sad to lost a father at a young age like he was , at 8 years old !
As a Japanese I apologize for the Japanese comments below this and of course our history, honestly makes me sick. I’m sorry about your loss. I’m sure he is with you from a good place.
My great grandfather faught in ww2 and he even lived long enough to see me he died 2 years ago unfortunately may we remember those who faught and died for America during ww2
Identification of the things shown and found would have made this a really worthwhile video! I knew what a lot of them were, having studied the war for many years, but more details would be needed for the less knowledgeable.
Thank you for everyone for taking care of our soldiers when our government or citizens won’t do it themselves. I see some comment complaining but we have no right to complain.
My husband is an ex Australian Army soldier of 20 yrs and as he said, regardless of who fought for what side, even though the Japanese soldier was nasty, my they R.I.P. And you for searching for all the lost soldiers on both sides.
@Sargeant Crocks as a whole though they were a terrible group. Bataan, Nakning , medical experiments, torture, and countless other atrocities. Only Japan, the USSR, Germany, and Turkey have committed war crimes that bad since 1900. No other country even compares.
Stalin had a Jon aggression pact w Japan. On e Germany was defeated he wanted to expand his influence as in easyer Europe, koreA etc. Revisionists question the a bomb. Why never question stalins motives? Seeing tbe aftermath of either side is sobering. The pows I believe never came back....some Germans did.
Stationed on Okinawa in the 70's. We found a Japanese snipers nest complete with The weapon and solders bones inside. The bones were returned to the Japanese government along with all identifiable information to return the bones to the solders family for proper internment. The machine gun was mounted and hung in our CO's command center.
That was back in 1976. Details are fuzzy. We were somewhere in the Northern Training Area north of the base. Covers a good part of the north end of the island.
私は同意します。彼らは勇敢でした。彼らは彼らの国と彼らの皇帝に仕えました I don't speak Japanese. I just used Google translator. Maybe the translation would be incorrect. I apologize for any errors.
Wow !!! Far better than history channel or TCL by far?? May all who sacrificed their and al over from ww2 rest in peace?? Never FORGET!!! History must be preserved so the future can hopefully learn from it???? ( good or bad!!! ) THANK YOU!! For your time to share this vedieo.
I've seen stuff from the pacific islands where grenades are still sitting on the edge of trenches right where someone left them. After the war so many of those islands went back to being humanless
Nice to see an area never seen before excavated. Men still fought here in the last days of the war. Of the 8,500 Japanese soldiers how many were repatriated and how many ended up in the Kolyma Gulag system?
@@opart The Type 94 and Type 98 Shin Gunto koshirae was made by numerous companies to mount everything from pure machine-made arsenal gunto to partially-traditional Showato to highly-rated Gendaito and inherited Koto swords. When you see such mounts, there's really no telling the quality or make of the sword inside without checking.
Os artefatos explosivos encontrados ,são detonados no local?ou são desativados e encaminhados à museus? Grande trabalho de escavação. Abraços do Brasil.
@ 5:14 I thought that I had an episode of X22 Report starting up in the *background......does anyone know whether or not any of the remains and artifacts that were found were ever returned to the surviving families of these soldiers?
The tanks are Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank mostly. More specifically, the ones with the longer barrel (such as the one that's full of water, and the one that lost its turret) are "Shinhoto Chi-Ha" with the newer 47mm high-velocity gun, while the one with the short barrel and the two open hatches in front has the original 57mm low-velocity one. The one that's completely overturned is a bit different; it's a type 95 Ha-go light tank.
A few of those tanks should be pulled out of there and preserved. Everything else should remain as a memorial. God bless the men who fought and died on that island.
I totally agree, and its not that I wish to know their coordinates at all, just info their finds, with maybe a little bit of elaboration, and history. Imo the music killed it..
thats amazing. Just frozen in time. A battlefield abandoned as the world turned, the times changed and life went on. It tells a story like the war in the 1940s rages on in some dimension in the spaces between.
Or just about anything else would be just fine too. It really is a terrible choice of music. Just about the worst combination of video and audio I've ever seen and heard. Just being honest
How about that samurai sword at 9:30?? Pure artistry and craftsmanship for it to STILL look that good 80 years later. Looked in better shape than everything else in the video.
For me, this is more valuable than you may imagine. It is easy to say “when life gives you lemons make lemonade” .... fine, but easier said than done, the question is how, and you’ve touched on that. Thanks. Hang in there the days are getting longer.
There are so many awe inspiring monuments around the world which hold the names of fallen soldiers and they stand as our collective memory of those who came before us and laid down their lives to protect us. However I know of nothing more able to bring the reality of war home to our hearts than the twisted wreckage it leaves behind.
Compared to the way Western European UK and US react to unexploded ordinance (going apeshit) these Russian diggers in the videos are always extremely casual about this stuff. "Box full of rusty grenades? Just toss it over to the side and we'll dump it on the pile later."
Muito da hora estar aí vendo tudo isto quanto mais acha mais fica interesante muito tempo escondido muita história fico para trás dos nossos conhecimentos
All over the world, tanks are reconstructed. This japanese ones and there are a lot, deserves another fait. Today almost everything can be done, I know that they are not as beautiful as a Tiger or a Panther, but at last, the japanese entusiasts must start working on some projects . . . I think !
There are a lot of Japanese tanks & artillery in parks and on military bases all over the Western U.S. I recall seeing a lot of small Japanese mountain guns with the wheels rotting away around the Presidio in San Francisco in the 1980s. There is a large 120-150 mm Japanese gun on a plinth in front of the Veteran's Hall in San Luis Obispo California. Camp San Luis, the National Guard base has at least one Japanese tank, a smaller one. In Santa Maria there is at least one Renault tank, purchased by the U.S. in WWI.
The tanks are mainly the Type 97 "Chi-Ha," which was the standard Japanese medium tank throughout the war. Effective in the jungle regions for which it was designed, it was totally outclassed by the American M4 Sherman. Some of these in this video are the somewhat improved version introduced late in the war, distinguished by its larger, more rectangular turret, which however remained inadequate, particularly against the Soviet T-34 and other Soviet tanks which they were up against. For those interested Tamiya has issued very good models of both variations...
I worked on an archaeological expedition in the Kuril Islands in 2006 and 2007, and visited Shumshu, Paramushir, and many other islands in the archipelago. They are littered with WWII and Cold War artifacts (along with prehistoric artifacts I was studying). Amazing place not many people get to visit.
What all kinds of prehistoric artifacts did you come across?
@@ballard2212 Pottery, stone tools, animal bones, pit houses- remains of several different cultural periods going back about 5,000 years.
@@ColbyPhillipsPhD What was there about the second world war?
@@kenan2156 Lots of military sites and features left by the Japanese - trenches, fox holes, barbed wire, gun emplacements, and on a couple of the larger islands, airstrips and hangers. Unexploded ordinance was found around the larger sites.
@@ColbyPhillipsPhD My English is not very good, thank you very much for your understanding and reply.
History should never be forgotten, but found .......
You are absolutely right sir
History has it's good and bad.. for some reason people want to bury the bad parts...which of course we can all learn from.
@@zovrol92211 Of Course people cares about WW1
......and sold on ebay
Your all grave robbers people died here
My prayer is that spirits of those who fought and died on that island can now share it in peace and harmony.
Amen
Č
Pčžšp
You are talking to the people in the Soviets
@@moonryan3908 and is something wrong with that?
@@adankmeme651 Do you think there is?
As always great content just wish you would stop with the music
Agree here.
Agree
Agree. So many awesome videos are ruined with music
Dosent your phone have a volume control....
Agree
Those poor men. Fathers, sons, brothers, friends, left to rot alone on an island forgotten by the world.
My Grandfather was on the Bataan death march, talk about feeling alone and left to rot ?
My heart is in sorrow ☹️ watching the human remains of WW2 ! How I'd wish to find my grandparents ( to my father side ) remains too during the Bataan march in Philippines 🇵🇭 I am 58 now and I lost my father 50 years ago ! So sad to lost a father at a young age like he was , at 8 years old !
where did he fight
侵略者
死ぬべきだ
@@阿月渾子-u1f そうだね
As a Japanese I apologize for the Japanese comments below this and of course our history, honestly makes me sick. I’m sorry about your loss. I’m sure he is with you from a good place.
My great grandfather faught in ww2 and he even lived long enough to see me he died 2 years ago unfortunately may we remember those who faught and died for America during ww2
Identification of the things shown and found would have made this a really worthwhile video! I knew what a lot of them were, having studied the war for many years, but more details would be needed for the less knowledgeable.
I would have appreciated some narration.
Thank you for everyone for taking care of our soldiers when our government or citizens won’t do it themselves. I see some comment complaining but we have no right to complain.
Not all of them were our soldiers
My husband is an ex Australian Army soldier of 20 yrs and as he said, regardless of who fought for what side, even though the Japanese soldier was nasty, my they R.I.P. And you for searching for all the lost soldiers on both sides.
Not all Japanese soldiers were nasty.
@Sargeant Crocks as a whole though they were a terrible group. Bataan, Nakning , medical experiments, torture, and countless other atrocities.
Only Japan, the USSR, Germany, and Turkey have committed war crimes that bad since 1900. No other country even compares.
@@obi-wankenobi1750 🤡
@Ligma Balls excellent argument.
If the battle katana found was an officers type 94, there might be a family name on the blade. Would be very cool to return to the family.
ソ連の侵略を命と引換えに食い止めてくださった御英霊に感謝の黙祷を捧げます。
Bansaiiiii
😎
そうだか
Stalin had a Jon aggression pact w Japan. On e Germany was defeated he wanted to expand his influence as in easyer Europe, koreA etc. Revisionists question the a bomb. Why never question stalins motives? Seeing tbe aftermath of either side is sobering. The pows I believe never came back....some Germans did.
Many thanks to those helping return these soldiers to their families.
Glad to see those boys finally going home. Lord knows its been long enough. RIP, men.
I wished I could go places like this, looks very interesting.
It's not cool when you see a mine tho those things will still blow up
I wish i could go back in time to experience These famous WW2 and WW1 Battles, they fascinate me so much.
@@markniall892 no you don't if you are to go back and try to experience those battles you'll most likely die
Almost impossible, cuz it's "special border zone" in Russian Federation.
@2.1万回視聴 totally agree with you
What a Dig! You Finally returned some of the Casualties, what a Privilege.
Outstanding work gentlemen, thank you for your efforts on bringing this history to light.👍❤🇺🇸
But they are Russians tho.
@@phyo1716 so what? You russophobe much?
@@iamsorryforbeingrudebefore1626 Hell yeah.
"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
Plato's words are true. war is never end.
Rest in Peace to all the soldiers who fought in ww2
Except for, you know, the Nazis.
Not all of them are nazis @waggsish
Stationed on Okinawa in the 70's. We found a Japanese snipers nest complete with The weapon and solders bones inside. The bones were returned to the Japanese government along with all identifiable information to return the bones to the solders family for proper internment. The machine gun was mounted and hung in our CO's command center.
@Ironmonkey103 Very interesting, thanks.
That is eery as f*ck you actually saw it?
@@chloekit4861 Seen lots of odd things during my military tour. You get used to it.
Really interesting lives you guys have lived. And really interesting accounts. Thanks.
That was back in 1976. Details are fuzzy. We were somewhere in the Northern Training Area north of the base. Covers a good part of the north end of the island.
命懸けで日本を守って頂いてありがとうございます。
誰が感謝し、誰が彼女を保護しますか？
@@АлексАлекс-х6ы ？
@@АлексАлекс-х6ы ???
私は同意します。彼らは勇敢でした。彼らは彼らの国と彼らの皇帝に仕えました I don't speak Japanese. I just used Google translator. Maybe the translation would be incorrect. I apologize for any errors.
Wow !!! Far better than history channel or TCL by far?? May all who sacrificed their and al over from ww2 rest in peace?? Never FORGET!!! History must be preserved so the future can hopefully learn from it???? ( good or bad!!! ) THANK YOU!! For your time to share this vedieo.
両祖国の英霊たちに敬意を表します。
aggressor
@@阿月渾子-u1f いや、侵略ではなくない？ちゃんと書面はしているし、君の所借金踏み倒すのはよくないじゃん？
@@scrowbasiri7449 對，中國還欠日本核子武器，應該將債務確實還給東京與京都最好
@@阿月渾子-u1f 何言ってるのかわからない、、青島のことだよ。
幸福？
両祖国の英霊たちに敬意を表します。
このコメントにわざわざ嫌なコメ書く人の神経を疑う(；一_一)
昔の事は確かに忘れちゃダメだし、酷いことをしていた事もあるけど
いつまで韓国も中国もそれを引きずるんだろう、
謝罪してもダメ
敬意を表してもダメ
ずっと怒ってて何がしたいんだろう
そして、何をして欲しいんだろう
英霊達に敬礼。
日本に帰って来れる事を願っています。
i wish one day i would go to japan
Great video as always, stay safe guys and keep up the great work.
Summer grasses
All that remains
Of soldier's visions
from a haiku written in the 17th Century by poet Matsuo Basho
Aren't haiku's 5,7,5 syllables wise? Cos if so that's shit
丁寧に掘り起こしてくれてるし、ありがたい。
この人たちって、見つけた遺骨をどうしてるかを動画にしないから、そんなに優しい想像したらいかん気がするよ。
また埋め戻してるだけかもしれないし。
Some amazing equipment just scattered around the whole island.
この音楽に悲しくなった。
遺物に乗った、記念撮影も、胸が痛くなった。
ここは墓場です。
「宝探し」の遊び場ではありません。
ともだち にほんじん です か。?
戦車の上に乗ったりもそうやけどあのロシア語の落書きが一番イラッと来たわ
彼らも敬意を払ってそれなりに調査してるのだとは思う、何より何十年も放置してる日本政府が悪いのは言うまでもない。そこに埋まってた遺骨を世に知らしめてくれた事は素直に評価するべき。
@@Nullpo08
占守などは日本政府が公的に許可貰って調査させてもらうことに問題があるからできないのでしょう。確か民間レベルではやっている筈。
「ロシアの領土ですけど入れてください」とは言えない苦しさじゃないかな。
遺骨を発掘して埋葬してくれるのはありがたいことだけど、遺品類を発掘ビジネスにされるのは日本人として心苦しい。
この島は、日本が終戦を受け入れた後に武力侵攻され、北海道を守るために多数の日本人が死んだ。
What do you speak?
Amazing vid. Rather have someone narrating then music.
Only problem is that it would be in Russian 🤷♂️🧐
I’m glad soldiers are going home for proper burial. The munitions I would not touch. Great video.
Careful handling those Japanese grenades boys! They have a nasty habit of going off when those 75 year old rubber stoppers and acid fuses let loose.
It would be better than the awful music they play
Imaginé a dead japan soldier nade killing a russian 75 years later. Skeleton would be like "i never surrendered"
@@Luis-bo2uj lol so true
@@rm25088 btw shut up
@@floppi7098 oh sorry
Watching from Philippines
It amazes me that so much of history like this can still be found today. Outstanding Video.
I've seen stuff from the pacific islands where grenades are still sitting on the edge of trenches right where someone left them. After the war so many of those islands went back to being humanless
Nice to see an area never seen before excavated. Men still fought here in the last days of the war. Of the 8,500 Japanese soldiers how many were repatriated and how many ended up in the Kolyma Gulag system?
Hmmmm Warzone player
@@NightMare-cw3yr Gulag is a real thing
speaking of gulags one one remains in pristine condition as a museum out of the thousands. I believe it is in a town called Perm.
Would have loved to see how the blade of that katana looked after all those years, probably quite in good condition.
These were machine made, and some were made in Germany and even UK before the war. Look up "shōwatō"... so likely its in pretty bad shape.
@@opart Also known as a Shin Gunto
ANY steel object would be in horrible shape after being so long in the soil.
@@opart The Type 94 and Type 98 Shin Gunto koshirae was made by numerous companies to mount everything from pure machine-made arsenal gunto to partially-traditional Showato to highly-rated Gendaito and inherited Koto swords. When you see such mounts, there's really no telling the quality or make of the sword inside without checking.
Os artefatos explosivos encontrados ,são detonados no local?ou são desativados e encaminhados à museus?
Grande trabalho de escavação.
Abraços do Brasil.
Cool finding..👍 but could bring back the dead body of soldiers to family members in Japan 🇯🇵?
我が先人にして英霊の方々に深き感謝を
どうか安らかに
My condolences to the Japanese people.
@ 5:14 I thought that I had an episode of X22 Report starting up in the *background......does anyone know whether or not any of the remains and artifacts that were found were ever returned to the surviving families of these soldiers?
Great video, but would like identification of the various equipment, tanks and planes please.
The tanks are Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank mostly. More specifically, the ones with the longer barrel (such as the one that's full of water, and the one that lost its turret) are "Shinhoto Chi-Ha" with the newer 47mm high-velocity gun, while the one with the short barrel and the two open hatches in front has the original 57mm low-velocity one. The one that's completely overturned is a bit different; it's a type 95 Ha-go light tank.
@@Stripedbottom Thank you!
まさか……占守島?
先人達の魂に安寧をm(_ _;)m
A few of those tanks should be pulled out of there and preserved. Everything else should remain as a memorial. God bless the men who fought and died on that island.
I totally agree, and its not that I wish to know their coordinates at all, just info their finds, with maybe a little bit of elaboration, and history. Imo the music killed it..
thats amazing. Just frozen in time. A battlefield abandoned as the world turned, the times changed and life went on. It tells a story like the war in the 1940s rages on in some dimension in the spaces between.
I agree with JB. The music is uneccessary.Would rather hear the sound of the wind at the olcation.
Or just about anything else would be just fine too. It really is a terrible choice of music. Just about the worst combination of video and audio I've ever seen and heard. Just being honest
Thanks for the video guys!!!! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
Keep bringing them home ❤️
so haunting ,everything is in place as is when the person died. The tank sits as it did at the point it was taken out
I salute you for tha work you are doing. Would that all the soldiers, of any nation could be returned to their families and nations
Amazing video. But I don't know if I would be handling those grenades even after all this time. ...actually, especially after all this time!
You should get an english speaking narrarator. It would be better.
黙祷を捧げます
From Malaysia 🇲🇾
How about that samurai sword at 9:30?? Pure artistry and craftsmanship for it to STILL look that good 80 years later. Looked in better shape than everything else in the video.
That is the shinGunto the japanese Army sword not the samurai sword
Excellent video.Well done.
成田山と書いてあった木札は、お守りですね。
aggressor
@@阿月渾子-u1f what's up? Chinese who slaughtered Uighurs and Tibetans
@@阿月渾子-u1f 過去の日本を非難して今の自分の政府を知らない
Video is great but it is greater if there is no background music.
Fascinating, beautiful, interesting and amazing!!!!!
Awesome video
日本国政府はやらないであろう事をやっていただき、ありがとうございます。
Translation: " Thank you for doing something that the government of japan would not do."
@@patrickmccleary1144 Thank you for translation.
What a great discovery of potential restoration projects you found there on the island
It's not unknown
For me, this is more valuable than you may imagine. It is easy to say “when life gives you lemons make lemonade” .... fine, but easier said than done, the question is how, and you’ve touched on that. Thanks. Hang in there the days are getting longer.
There are so many awe inspiring monuments around the world which hold the names of fallen soldiers and they stand as our collective memory of those who came before us and laid down their lives to protect us. However I know of nothing more able to bring the reality of war home to our hearts than the twisted wreckage it leaves behind.
They had a true worrior in their souls
I love you
Bakas ng nakaraang pangalawang or 2nd world war salute from Philippines 🇵🇭
Great what they are doing for the deceased, just TOO casual with that unexplored ordnance for me!!!
obviously they had never been to Guam!
Compared to the way Western European UK and US react to unexploded ordinance (going apeshit) these Russian diggers in the videos are always extremely casual about this stuff. "Box full of rusty grenades? Just toss it over to the side and we'll dump it on the pile later."
I love WWII !!!!
Muito da hora estar aí vendo tudo isto quanto mais acha mais fica interesante muito tempo escondido muita história fico para trás dos nossos conhecimentos
安らかに眠ってください。
帝國陸軍第91師団に敬意を表します。
特に半数以上の士官を失いながらも敵に吶喊した戦車第十一連隊には深く感謝をします。
故郷に還してあげて欲しいな。
Good video . Que descansen en paz
Thank you for treating Japanese bones carefully.
Great work...again!
Great channel! Just wish you explain the finds...
Sençacional o trabalho.
Paulo José, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
mais um mineiro kkkk
cool
Muito interessante ver isto parabéns
Something I would to see...WW2....thank you so much
遺骨だけでも日本に帰ってきて欲しい
領土も返してもらわねば
条約期間はすでに過ぎている
Love this video!!!
6:17 мин-P-39 Aircobra.10:24 мин- P-63 Kingcobra.
Do you continue to attack Japan?
Great find. Every pieces of history and people from ww1-2 should be found and never be forgotten.
最後に成田山の お札かな？？？ 有りましたね。あの辺人ですかね・・・
씨발 고자전차 쓰래기
my dad worked in the solomon islands for a bit and has some amazing pics of finds left totally untouched over there
Strange choice of music...as if this was some kind of safari.
AMAZING 🤯👌💥
成田山新勝寺の、お守りかな、😭たぶん？、日本に、帰りたかっただろうね
ビデオの最後で見つけた彫刻と布製バッグについて話しているのですか？それはかなりよく保存されていて、すべてが考慮されました。それの重要性は何ですか、そしてそれが返されたらなぜそれが最善でしょうか？
aggressor
@@阿月渾子-u1f what's up? Chinese who slaughtered Uighurs and Tibetans
Sort of wish there was a narrator present to talk about some of these things.
All over the world, tanks are reconstructed. This japanese ones and there are a lot, deserves another fait.
Today almost everything can be done, I know that they are not as beautiful as a Tiger or a Panther, but at last, the japanese entusiasts must start working on some projects . . . I think !
There are a lot of Japanese tanks & artillery in parks and on military bases all over the Western U.S. I recall seeing a lot of small Japanese mountain guns with the wheels rotting away around the Presidio in San Francisco in the 1980s. There is a large 120-150 mm Japanese gun on a plinth in front of the Veteran's Hall in San Luis Obispo California. Camp San Luis, the National Guard base has at least one Japanese tank, a smaller one. In Santa Maria there is at least one Renault tank, purchased by the U.S. in WWI.
Wow! Too much. War is so ugly. So glad you go to find the remnants and remains of the fallen soldiers so they can finally go home!
一部は日本の博物館に寄贈してほしい
丁重にご遺体を扱って頂いてる
ありがとうございます
ここは･･･占守島か･･･
なるほど、だから日本兵の遺骨を触ってる訳だ
Thanks.
It's the small personal items that bring it home. The pair of round spectacles for instance was a poignant moment.
Top!!
結構後期型の戦車も多かったし末期の戦場かなーとは思ってたけどまさかの占守島…
悲しいなぁ
Imagine returning that sword to the family.
The tanks are mainly the Type 97 "Chi-Ha," which was the standard Japanese medium tank throughout the war. Effective in the jungle regions for which it was designed, it was totally outclassed by the American M4 Sherman. Some of these in this video are the somewhat improved version introduced late in the war, distinguished by its larger, more rectangular turret, which however remained inadequate, particularly against the Soviet T-34 and other Soviet tanks which they were up against. For those interested Tamiya has issued very good models of both variations...
You had a lot of work to do if the Sherman outclassed your tank. That thing was a rolling death trap.
Việt Nam tôi cũng có chiến tranh và tôi hiểu những đau thương và ác liệt