I know, that's what great about this scene. The Director was playing off that iconic moment in Saving Private Ryan to give you a taste of what these Marines actually felt and many expected. The idea is to make us just as surprised as they were that the landing was a cakewalk. It's unfortunate that was the ONLY easy part of the battle, though.
This was also done in the era of several non-WW2 films which included opposed-landings precisely because of Saving Private Ryan, like Troy and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.
Truly a great scene. My first time I watched this part on HBO, I truly thought it was going to be a Saving Private Ryan type bloodbath once they opened the gates of the landing craft. Great comedic relief to see the folks already on the beach.
That's how it really happened. The Marines were expecting fierce resistance the moment the landing craft touched ground. Instead, there was no resistance...initially.
My grandfather fought in the Winter- and Continuation war (Finnish). I'm Norwegian and Finnish. He never talked about the war. My oldest uncle on that side managed to do a bit of research before grandpa ("moffa") died. My "momo" still lives today, 93 years old. I think he was shellshocked on the Mannerheim line, amongst other things. No other place in history (from what we can find from sources) suffered the same intensity of bombardment as here (isolated cases or on a broader spectrum). The Soviet also recieved their share, but yeah. In one example a (Soviet) soldier recollects walking into (after a day of bombardment) what he'd describe as "ghost trenches" - there wouldn't be body parts all over, probably not like they expected either way; even inside covers there were dead people with no visible injuries everywhere... dead from the sheer amount of shockwaves and/or pressure alone.
"hands on the vertical, feet on the horizontal." So THAT'S how you keep people from stepping on your hands on the way down. Jeez. I guess I shoulda listened to the instructions.
"The Pacific" mini series was totally excellent. The character development was well done and the combat scenes were as realistic as in any high budget motion picture. I've watched it a couple times and it's very watchable each time.
I totally agree. Not taking anything away from Band of Brothers, but I felt emotionally and physically drained after watching The Pacific. Excellent miniseries.
Lots of those rope handholds were woven by prisoners in penitentiaries who felt good to be contributing to the war effort also. Amazing how mobilized America became throughout all levels of society.
@@nepnepguythegreatestofall that's pretty large and ignorant statement to say. Not everyone deserves the same punishment as everyone else. At least back then, if you did your time and paid your fees THAT WAS IT. Nowadays your life is scarred forever, unable to get a real job for the rest of your life. It is horrible. Most of the best people I know have had some sort of trouble in the past, 10-20 years ago, and they will never hold a career down.
My father was in USMC in WWII. I in Vietnam. When I was on active duty in 68-70, there were still a few guys around who were on the Canal.---No prisoners, half-starved, malaria, Marines.
Dorman Chasteen Were they high up in enlisted or did some get the battlefield commission? That's late 50s and imagine some of them had to come back into service as someone who already did the training. How did they affect your day-to-day training once in the jungle?
If memory serves, Don Adams (of Get Smart fame) was with the 1st Marines and landed on Guadalcanal. He became so sick from dysentery, Dengue fever and malaria that he was evacuated to New Zealand (he weighed in at around 120 lbs and wasn't expected to make it). Miraculously, he survived, went back to the states and became, get this, a DI.
The hospital that he recovered in still stands and is in use, not as a hospital though - it was built for the US Navy prior to the Marines getting here. There are memorials across the whole capital (Wellington) and every year on memorial day services are held to remember the Marines who came here - over 20,000. We have the American Embassy in Wellington and it is guarded by Marines who take part in all the services. The church (Old St Paul's) down the road from the embassy was used by Marines in WWII and the original flags that they gifted to our city still hang in Old St Paul's church.
My father told me "if you want a war go ask the Japanese. They'll give you all the war you'll ever want." He was in it from Day 1 to Day Last - US Navy, US Asiatic Fleet.
Here a little history: before Hitler invaded Poland and pearl harbor was attack the Chinese were the first people to enter ww2 before it was declared Chinese fought them for five to eight years for their country and later near the war was over the Soviet union headed to China to aid them at the Manchuria line for 2 months they fought. Chinese suffered when the Japanese occupied China famous cities and made into the Asian holocaust.
@@jian5568 all of that was on going on for decades and decades before world war 2, but yeah, the two wars did intermingle in the beginning of ww2 on the pacific front.
Honestly one of the greatest scenes of any war media out there. Most people who've watched the Pacific have watched Saving Private Ryan, and thats what you're expecting. The way it's shot, very close to being a shot for shot remake of the landing craft approaching Omaha beach, you brace yourself for the ramp to lower and the men to be cut down like fish in a barrel. Which doesn't happen. But the tension is made there
I am so glad that this show did not shy away from the feelings and beliefs of that time in world history. I always say brutal honesty is the only thing that lets people improve the world. Can’t fix a problem if you don’t talk about it.
this show does an amazing job at aging the guys. theyre so clean and young looking on that boat before landing but once you get to the airfield episode these guys are traumatized, aged, dirty, and have that crazy experience that changed them forever. watching this as a kid you think its badass etc etc, but man as i get older it really does hit the soul pretty hard.
I love the speech in the beginning. So agressive and supposed to put morale high, works for some, but most are like dying of fear there. Then, when the speech is done, the amazing dramatic music kicks in, just like the adrenaline of the soldiers. The thoughts "okay here we go" "nothing stopping this now, we are going in now" are settling in.
One of the best motivating speeches I've ever heard....and from a Captain! These speeches were usually given by our Gunnys or FirstSgt's. Battle protocol was undoubtedly different in that brutal war. Thank God I didn't have to fight in it.
@@jasonvansteenwyk5984 Come one Jason....its filled with racist vitriol that only simpletons would believe. The Japanese were an incredibly strong efficient fighting force any modern day Jarhead would respect.
@@Bradgilliswhammyman He wasn't, we last see him cowering in a foxhole in completely helpless terror during the first battle and he was relieved and sent home after that.
At the very end of this clip - there's a landing boat coming in that doesn't have a bow ramp - that is how they ALL were at Guadalcanal. The LCVP's with the bow ramps were later. With the earlier ones they had to jump over the side. .
When I first found I was dying, pulmonary fibrosis, I started to get to work very early; couldn't sleep and couldn't stand the traffice during rush. So, never seeing BoBros or The Pacific I'd like to watch the little vignettes on youtube. They were longer back a few yrs, now you can't find hardly any, youtube stoppedit. Greedy feckers! Loved to play the ending credits from Pacific, with all the names anhow they'd turned out. Having that, watching their courage got me thru a pretty crappy time. Still fighting, will not go gently...
@@Kazzman56 2nd gen. All grandparents except one was born on the Island. Near Galway, from all indications, on my dad's side, kind of sketchy, and on my mother's side its from the southern tip. One group, paternal grandfather (and I don't know if it was his maternal or paternal side), my 4-greats-grandmother lived in a cave off the Atlantic. She was the local "witch"- doctor, healer, midwife counselor--confessor, alternative to the priest of the 'Roman Church'. Anyway, that was one of the maaany "legends" of my family; we Irish, ex-Patriated to this continent, here in the states are famous for.
@BackpackZak Not true at all. The average infantry unit in Europe would remain on the front until their campaign or even the war was over. In the Pacific, however, it was not uncommon for units to be rotated out of combat for months on end. The 1st Marine Division, after the Guadalcanal campaign, spent 9 months in Melbourne before shipping out again. There is no such thing as a harder war.
@Colin Richey Hey dude, just out of pure curiosity and since I'm a bit tipsy trying to drown out my Coronavirus sorrows, what do you personally think they were going for? I just figured it was a tribute to SPR, since they had that same shot of multiple landing craft from the almost exact same angle that SS filmed them at in the beginning of the beach landing scene. You think that was just a coincidence or something the shots ended up looking similar? And understand I'm not trying to be a dick or passive aggressive at all, I'm genuinely curious what you think
@Colin Richey Hey, totally fair dude. I just assumed that since Tom Hanks was a producer on this series, and some of the crew was similar between SPR and The Pacific, that there were maybe a few nods or homages to SPR thrown into the Pacific. I just felt the camera movement and shot staging (the camera starting out at the bottom of the screen and moving upwards and out to reveal multiple landing crafts parallel to each other, and shot from the right side) was a bit of a nod to SPR. That being said, there's only so many ways you can film tons of landing crafts at the same time, so it could have just been a coincidence. Have a good night dude and hope you're staying healthy!
When the Marines landed on Guadalcanal, August 7th, 1942, they were NOT armed with the 1903A3 Springfield; they were armed with the WW1 leftovers; the 1903 Springfield. Further, the first landing crafts on Guadalcanal did not have bow ramps that dropped. They were Higgins boats where they had to climb up and jump over the sides. Other than that, The Pacific is a terrific movie.
Was there much difference between the M-1903 Springfield and the M-1903A3 Springfield rifles? I thought that the Springfield rifles were mainly used as sniping rifles, with the M-1 Garand used as the main infantry weapon (with the Thompson smg and the M-3 smgs used by the sergeants and corporals, and the M-1 carbines mostly used by specialists like mortar crews, signallers, drivers, engineers etc).
@@simonyip5978 Some shortcuts to make production easier on the 1903A3, but the rear sights were improved. The M1 rifle wasn't initially issued to the marines but went to the army first. Though there's some cool pictures out there floating around of marines shooting Johnson Rifles, which was designed by Irving Johnson as an alternative to the Garand - didn't get adopted but did get purchased by the Dutch and shipped out East for their colonial holdings. Then the Japanese invaded and crates of these rifles were sitting on the docks in Australia... a bunch of semi-auto military rifles that are designed to reload from an M1903 stripper clip. As you can imagine, a fair number were "liberated" by enterprising marines.
Yeah just like Hirohito said about our navy: I thank the US Navy for falling like dominoes before us. A few weeks after he said that, the Battle of Midway took place. And you got to imagine the amount of stress on our marines having to always be alert mainly through the night because of spontaneous banzai charges. Battling for those islands must've been pure hell.
The war in the pacific was full of irony. The relief of an unopposed landing was merely part of the Japanese strategy to draw the American forces inland. And while fighting in the wettest and most tropical environments, surrounded by ocean, there was virtually no drinkable water. And despite the mighty power of the American war machine, these brave service members were isolated and surrounded by a fanatical enemy that was indifferent to suffering and death. Every American should be eternally thankful for the horrendous sacrifices these fine Marines, Soldiers, and Sailors made for all of us.
On Guadalcanal it wasn't a ruse, the Japanese had no idea the Americans were going to invade and there were few combat troops on the island, mostly construction workers building the airfield.
This was D-Day.... a D Day is literally just the day of deployment, you must be confusing "Deployment Day" with the landings at Omaha Beach during Operation Overlord.
The Arctic Gamer I'd love to see the source for that because that is not what it means. Field orders for missions would read along the lines of "The (enter military unit) will attack at H-Hour on D-Day". The D literally just stands for "Day", with the H standing for "hour". That is why you will see D-Day + (enter number), but for example lets say D-Day + 5, meaning that whatever mission is planned 5 days after D-Day. Now the French insist that the D in D-Day for the Normandy landings stands for Disembarkation, but US Brigadier General Schultz says that it stands for Department date/day. While you are not wrong in saying that this was a D-Day, as EVERY amphibious operation has a D-Day, the most famous D-Day is the Normandy landings, and that is what almost everyone thinks of when you say D-Day. He also made it pretty obvious that he was talking about Omaha Beach. Your're "(he) must be confusing (D-Day)" comment really was unnecessary as he was still talking about D-Day, the most well known and famous D-Day, the Normandy landings. Which are referred to just as D-Day by many historians from many different countries. Don't try to make a smart ass remark on a comment unless you are without a doubt correct.
I always think it’s funny how movies always get the Higgins boat wrong. The only thing that’s metal on them is just the door and the frame, the rest is plywood. I love how people are now correcting this and The Pacific is a perfect example of the correct way. Great show on the historical aspect of WW2 instead of classic Hollywood style. And if you say I’m wrong on the Higgins boat I have seen one in person or if you don’t believe me then search it up.
A actuall thing that happened. Japanese defenses were built on the beach on smaller islands. The bigger major islands had defenses built further inland to increase defense capability.
This is where the Japanese decided to change their devensive strategy. Every other island the invader was met at the beach, this one was just a long, protracted battle. The beginning of Okinawa was similar, they kind of walked ashore and started heading out, but everything in between was brutal at the landing.
The Japanese on Iwo Jima made use of this, by making it look like an easy landing. They waited until the beach filled with men ambling slowly, thinking they were safe, bunched together, then hosed the beach down.
Iwo jima seems to be a very bad spot to be invade, small island with two volcanic hills on each sides, it is highly favorable for defenders but very much challenging for the invaders
My best friend's dad fought in the Pacific and was involved in the battle at Guadalcanal among others. He was a true pacifist after coming back. His brothers and sister spoke of how he changed. When you see and experience that craziness I guess it can change you.
@@andymiller6661 Army Air Corp. His release papers state that he was a heavy bomber mechanic. He was actually in the war a year before it was declared for a total of five years. I learned much about him when the family sent me a bunch of photos and old paperwork.
That captain giving the speech, definitely basked in his great moment in launching the American's inaugural assault in the Pacific at Guadalcanal. Unfortunately when it came down to the crunch, he was left wanting at the battle of the Tenaru where the Japanese launched a massive human wave assaults across a sand bank
On Iwo Jima, the Japanese held back. Instead of setting up barbed wire and mines on the beaches, they let the Marines land, and once there, they opened up with machine gun fire and mortars. Source: Flags of our Fathers (the book that is, I have not seen the movie)
By comparison the Second Marine Division got a horrendous shock at Tarawa. I read one of the boat teams ended up with a 30min wade to shore accross the reef under Japanese machine gun fire.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but it was my understanding that while there were front ramp dropping Higgins boats at Guadalcanal, they were still in short supply at that time, and most of the landing craft would have actually been the older Navy LCL, which did not have drop ramps in the front, and required the soldiers and equipment to be offloaded over the sides, in a time consuming process. Every picture I have ever seen of the landing, most of the landing ships seem to be the older LCLs.
*sees troops in landing craft with close ups* Me: *saving Private Ryan flashbacks* Also me: well this can’t end well Me a minute later: oh never mind then *Sees rest of the episode* Me: OH FU-
I like this series because it's based on actual evidence in history, what happen at guadalcanal was that the japanese were sick of getting bombed by planes and navy ships and so they retreated deep into the jungle/island/center of guadalcanal, the marines did not fight any resistance upon landing of the beach at guadalcanal.
Been there done that. Had to roll out of my electric recliner when the power went out like a Marine unassing his landing craft on Tarawa. I laid on my living floor for a few just in case a sniper was out there
Those were Coast Guard driving the landing craft. Douglas Munro the only Coastie to win the MoH, won it here saving Marines by using his Higgans boat as a shield. He is the only non marine listed on the Wall of Hero’s at the National museum of the Marine Corps. Salute.
Little did they know the shitstorm that was waiting for them behind every goddamn bush, tree, and mound of dirt. Guadalcanal was so insane, even a Coastguardsman got a Medal of Honor during it.
@@brucetucker4847 Yeah Stalin installed the Kim dynasty, but it was China that protected North Korea during the Korean War. Without Chinese intervention the UN would have dismantled the North.
every man has their breaking point. on that day it happened to be his day that he broke, but the day after it could be someone else. what he did says nothing about his character or his bravery as a soldier. it's not like you, sitting behind a computer talking shit could do ANY better.
The calm before the storm. My Grandfather was vickers machine gunner with Cheshire reg burma.He lived to 81 in 1997 had a big dislike towards japenese horrors he'd seen.
If you're interested in the Pacific, you should read the two books this series draws heavily from, "Helmet For My Pillow" and "With The Old Breed". You'll never look at the Pacific war the same way again.
***** I love how your comeback is literally repeating what I said. Good job kid, nice try attempting to tell an Asian person what not to consider a slur on his own fucking people jackass.
DarkEgo1000 I was complimenting the show on how many well place slurs it could use. Honestly I don't get offended by slurs because I'm not so prideful that an insult to my race is going to hurt me.
DarkEgo1000 My parents don't trust them; I was born in the US and I like Manga and anime etc. I don't like the way their society works currently but I like their culture because it is interesting. The people are...idk I've only ever met 2 and they were fine.
From Japan. I was very scared to hear that my elementary school friend's grandfather was fighting in Guadalcanal and that about 100 soldiers died overnight and only two people with the captain were left alive.
pretty inaccurate on Guadalcanal they didn't have boats with drops they had to climb over the sides and another thing marines hadn't been issued the m1 grands most were going in with Springfield 03s
You climbed over the side on an LVT. These are higgins boats which were used earlier on in the war. Also, they were using sprinfields until they stole some m1s from the army. PAY ATTENTION.
I believe that in the end in hindsight and how the Marshall plan made absolute sense in the east. The pacific front is largely ignored. The big battles and such aren’t but plenty have died in minor battles and skirmishes
@@bluesbubba7429 the thing is that the USMC is under the navy and we get our budget from a portion of the Navy's so often times we have to wait a few years to get what the army's had for years it's why only Marine infantry and high up use M4s while everyone else still uses M16A4s
@@ismaeljimenez6562 I hope it's not still that way. My son and father served in the Navy. I respect all branches of the service. When I was a teacher our Marine ROTC program received gobs of money from Twenty Nine Palms and it's still a great program. If I had some influence as educator, I would make it mandatory for ALL students to go through, due to our environment, behavior and lack of respect for this country. I'm just saying.
@@bluesbubba7429 it still is that way, and I don't think the ROTC thing is a good idea because that's how we get butter bars that don't know what they're doing
Why did the Higgins have to dump them in the water? It's an amphibious vehicle, it's actually made to drive up the beach as far as it can. The only reason they didn't on D-Day was because of the asparagus mines and hedgehogs blocking the way. Suspense? I think suspense.
There is a reason some become soldiers, and others do not. I would have been shitting myself the entire float. I don't think anything could match the fear of hearing the ramps drop, but man I don't think anything matches the feeling of not getting mowed down.
Good movie, but the LVCP (bow ramp ) was not used. It was another Higgins design landing craft. Forgot the nomenclature, but they were actual short draft boats. The Marines had to exit by jumping over the gun whales.
I worked for a guy in the 90's who served on that island. He lied about his age to join the Marines & turned 17 when he was there. I guess you could still do that back then and get away with it...
Yes my great uncle lied about his age and joined at 17 too. Unfortunately he died on the beach. His brother, my grandfather, served at Guadalcanal. Those were some hard men back then.
Maybe if you picked up a history book, you would know what to expect. Concordo com o que o colega Kevzete disse. Teve muita violência e muito sangue derramado momentos após o desembarque, em prol da liberdade anti a tirania japonesa, pra ficar de comentários baratos, diante de uma realidade histórica tão trágica! Não deixo de lamentar, também tanta vida de japoneses que sofreram - por um líder que ficava em seu palácio de boa! I agree with what Mr Kevzete said. There was a lot of violence and a lot of blood spilled moments after the landing, in favor of freedom against Japanese tyranny, to get cheap comments, in the face of such a tragic historical reality! I still regret, so much life of Japanese that suffered - by a leader who was in his palace of good!
Why the beach crafts open at the front side to receive fire when landing. Didn´t they work like tanks which covering the infentray soldiers when landind on beach.
Because exiting from the front was the fastest, most practical way to deploy large groups of men on the beach as quickly as possible. The tanks (LVTs) you are referring to were different and couldn't deploy men as easily, in fact many forced men to climb over the sides.
My grandfather was in the PT - he told me he was so seasick by the time he went in that, in his words, "I couldn't wait to land, so that the Japs could kill me."
Something like this wrecked the landings at Gallipoli for the British. They landed relatively unopposed and so loitered on the beaches. The heights were theirs for the taking, as they were unoccupied for hours after the landing. In time the Turks recovered and fortified the heights, then rained fire down on the hapless invaders. The British and Australians would spend months trying to unsuccessfully gain control of the heights, and were finally forced to retreat due to excessive casualties.
I see there is no mention of Major Martin Clemens in this series, the British Major who met the Marines on Guadalcanal, with his native Militia? He'd been there for some time as the pre-war Governor/Administrator, and when the Japanese invaded, hid in the Jungle with his native Militia, occasionally raiding the Japanese bases. But then, Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands were actually British Territory, and New Guinea, Bougainville were Australian run territory.
Brianboru88 oh yeah I know you’re totally right. I think they mention coastwatchers on part 2 but they didn’t mention Clemens specifically. Woulda been cool if they did
If you do not have sympathy for the enemy, then you have lost the peace afterward before it even begins. True change cannot arise from the barrel of a gun, and you cannot kill an idea.
roguishpaladin tell that to the british who were driven out of the U.S. not only politically, but physically as well. did the 13 colonies instate any change by asking great britain nicley? this is but one unimaginably small fragment from the plethora of examples out there
Even the Japanese tactics differed from Island to Island; Guadacanal was pretty big, so the Japanese weren't able to defend all the beaches all the beaches. They responded well after the landing with large scale banzia attacks in the belief that they were so superior to the Americans that they could over run them. They grossly under estimated American fighting ability and courage, not the mention how We could coordinate Air, Artillery, Navy guns and Infantry weapons fire,
Dude fuck that. Currently a Marine squad leader and I pray and train my guys to be able to handle something like this, but I can not imagine pushing my teams through combat like that. Hopefully it never happens but I know that if it does we are ready.
Read the book by E.B. Sledge, “With the old breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa” from which this TV series was based. As good as this series is, the book is better.
I read the book also. Great TV series. These guys were heroes in my book. I'm so proud to be a Marine for life. The Greatest Generation Marines are the best in Marine Corps history. Semper Fi
@MK-6598{} thank you, I always tell people the same... It was an honor to serve our great Nation and beloved Marine Corps. E.B. Sledge was great Marine. They went through some terrible combat. I know all about Okinawa. Sledge and the 5th Marines were there from around April. By April it's hot humid in the summer almost unbearable on Okinawa, I was stationed there Aug74 to Sep75. Stay safe and greetings from an old Leatherneck Sergeant
I know, that's what great about this scene. The Director was playing off that iconic moment in Saving Private Ryan to give you a taste of what these Marines actually felt and many expected. The idea is to make us just as surprised as they were that the landing was a cakewalk. It's unfortunate that was the ONLY easy part of the battle, though.
This was also done in the era of several non-WW2 films which included opposed-landings precisely because of Saving Private Ryan, like Troy and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.
It's also due to the fact that it was also the same director
HamburgerTime For those who do not know history it may have been a surprise
Both Saving Private Ryan and The Pacific are Spielberg movies
i think its bullshit, the army must have known the beach was secure.
Truly a great scene. My first time I watched this part on HBO, I truly thought it was going to be a Saving Private Ryan type bloodbath once they opened the gates of the landing craft. Great comedic relief to see the folks already on the beach.
At the beginning we all did man
Joe Gregory I know this is based off real life, but considering that this was made by Spielberg and Hanks, I'm sure that's what they were going for.
Same, pal.....
Kevzete fuck off
That's how it really happened. The Marines were expecting fierce resistance the moment the landing craft touched ground. Instead, there was no resistance...initially.
That was my grandpas last battle. He was seriously wounded and sent home. He never talked about the war and watching this series, I see why.
God bless him
Thank you to your Grandfather and to your family.
My grandfather fought in the Winter- and Continuation war (Finnish). I'm Norwegian and Finnish.
He never talked about the war.
My oldest uncle on that side managed to do a bit of research before grandpa ("moffa") died. My "momo" still lives today, 93 years old.
I think he was shellshocked on the Mannerheim line, amongst other things.
No other place in history (from what we can find from sources) suffered the same intensity of bombardment as here (isolated cases or on a broader spectrum).
The Soviet also recieved their share, but yeah.
In one example a (Soviet) soldier recollects walking into (after a day of bombardment) what he'd describe as "ghost trenches" - there wouldn't be body parts all over, probably not like they expected either way; even inside covers there were dead people with no visible injuries everywhere... dead from the sheer amount of shockwaves and/or pressure alone.
God bless him and thanks for his service
They call them the Greatest Generation... When you read about what they went through, how can you call them anything else?
"hands on the vertical, feet on the horizontal." So THAT'S how you keep people from stepping on your hands on the way down. Jeez. I guess I shoulda listened to the instructions.
@some lǝᴉuɐp guy I realized it too as I watched this. 35 years too late..lol
That’s smart
"The Pacific" mini series was totally excellent. The character development was well done and the combat scenes were as realistic as in any high budget motion picture. I've watched it a couple times and it's very watchable each time.
I totally agree. Not taking anything away from Band of Brothers, but I felt emotionally and physically drained after watching The Pacific. Excellent miniseries.
Hi, I know this comment was two years ago. Any idea where I can rewatch the full episodes?
@@topperbuild So have you gone sailing yet?
@@topperbuild I think they're on Amazon Prime
@@mattbest9095 thank you 🙃
Lots of those rope handholds were woven by prisoners in penitentiaries who felt good to be contributing to the war effort also. Amazing how mobilized America became throughout all levels of society.
@Bronson Helps your moral a bit as you serve your time, even if it's mandatory
Prison labor is slave labor.
@@hjer731 I mean, who knows what criminal things they had done to be in "slave labor"
@@nepnepguythegreatestofall that's pretty large and ignorant statement to say. Not everyone deserves the same punishment as everyone else. At least back then, if you did your time and paid your fees THAT WAS IT. Nowadays your life is scarred forever, unable to get a real job for the rest of your life. It is horrible. Most of the best people I know have had some sort of trouble in the past, 10-20 years ago, and they will never hold a career down.
@nepnepguy the greatest of all You have too much faith in the criminal justice system.
My father was in USMC in WWII. I in Vietnam. When I was on active duty in 68-70, there were still a few guys around who were on the Canal.---No prisoners, half-starved, malaria, Marines.
Funny enough i bought a Vietnam helmet of eBay the other day but mistaken it for a marine helmet ww2 my collection is complete :D
Dorman Chasteen Were they high up in enlisted or did some get the battlefield commission? That's late 50s and imagine some of them had to come back into service as someone who already did the training. How did they affect your day-to-day training once in the jungle?
I meant late 40s my apologies
Dorman Chasteen I could've sat and listened to you guys tell stories all day long. Semper Fi Devil Dog.
Just want to say a Vietnamese is reading this 😆
If memory serves, Don Adams (of Get Smart fame) was with the 1st Marines and landed on Guadalcanal. He became so sick from dysentery, Dengue fever and malaria that he was evacuated to New Zealand (he weighed in at around 120 lbs and wasn't expected to make it). Miraculously, he survived, went back to the states and became, get this, a DI.
I just can't imagine being screamed at in boot camp by Maxwell Smart.
@@brucetucker4847 Drill Instructor Gadget...
Adams would check the bullseye on a paper target after rifle practice and say, “Missed it by that much”
The hospital that he recovered in still stands and is in use, not as a hospital though - it was built for the US Navy prior to the Marines getting here. There are memorials across the whole capital (Wellington) and every year on memorial day services are held to remember the Marines who came here - over 20,000. We have the American Embassy in Wellington and it is guarded by Marines who take part in all the services. The church (Old St Paul's) down the road from the embassy was used by Marines in WWII and the original flags that they gifted to our city still hang in Old St Paul's church.
Imagine having as a subordinte the would be chief and twenty years later the Chief getting his payback.
They went through hell. Even one marine said; "You don't know the true horrors of war until you fight the Japanese."
My father told me "if you want a war go ask the Japanese. They'll give you all the war you'll ever want." He was in it from Day 1 to Day Last - US Navy, US Asiatic Fleet.
@Dan Gurău the Soviets were able to halt their advance. But the Japanese knew that stopping the US was the only way to win.
Here a little history: before Hitler invaded Poland and pearl harbor was attack the Chinese were the first people to enter ww2 before it was declared Chinese fought them for five to eight years for their country and later near the war was over the Soviet union headed to China to aid them at the Manchuria line for 2 months they fought. Chinese suffered when the Japanese occupied China famous cities and made into the Asian holocaust.
@@jian5568 all of that was on going on for decades and decades before world war 2, but yeah, the two wars did intermingle in the beginning of ww2 on the pacific front.
@@tagg946 the battle of the Marco polo incident was the first battle
"hands on the vertical, feet on the horizontal."
1:15 you had one job, Leckie
i like how the video actually ends at 3:22, and the rest of the video are just plane black images with no sound whatsoever. Great editing.
Honestly one of the greatest scenes of any war media out there. Most people who've watched the Pacific have watched Saving Private Ryan, and thats what you're expecting. The way it's shot, very close to being a shot for shot remake of the landing craft approaching Omaha beach, you brace yourself for the ramp to lower and the men to be cut down like fish in a barrel. Which doesn't happen. But the tension is made there
"The treacherous bastards may have started this war, but I promise you we will finish it!"
***** nice profile pic you have there buddy
+Lt Col Speirs lol I see u everywhere
+Is-It-JokeR lots of people need cigarettes.
lol.. im the one who is everywhere
Not that officer, though. The last we see of him is his cowering helplessly in a foxhole int he first battle, out if his wits with fear.
I read Sledges' book "With the Old Breed". That's how I got here to "The Pacific" on UA-cam.
Read Lecki's books too.
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With the old breed is amazing I reccomend Bill Sloan he is a great writer and his books on Peleliu and Okinawa are way good
I am so glad that this show did not shy away from the feelings and beliefs of that time in world history. I always say brutal honesty is the only thing that lets people improve the world. Can’t fix a problem if you don’t talk about it.
this show does an amazing job at aging the guys. theyre so clean and young looking on that boat before landing but once you get to the airfield episode these guys are traumatized, aged, dirty, and have that crazy experience that changed them forever. watching this as a kid you think its badass etc etc, but man as i get older it really does hit the soul pretty hard.
I love the speech in the beginning. So agressive and supposed to put morale high, works for some, but most are like dying of fear there. Then, when the speech is done, the amazing dramatic music kicks in, just like the adrenaline of the soldiers. The thoughts "okay here we go" "nothing stopping this now, we are going in now" are settling in.
I could only hear about 2/3ds of the words of that speech, but that's probably realistic.
@@andrewvelonis5940 that makes me love it even more
One of the best motivating speeches I've ever heard....and from a Captain! These speeches were usually given by our Gunnys or FirstSgt's. Battle protocol was undoubtedly different in that brutal war. Thank God I didn't have to fight in it.
Not sure if it was motivating.....kind of a racist diatribe, perhaps he as killed by a Japanese soldiers, would have been good karma.
@@Bradgilliswhammyman Shhh. Grown-ups are talking.
@@jasonvansteenwyk5984 Come one Jason....its filled with racist vitriol that only simpletons would believe. The Japanese were an incredibly strong efficient fighting force any modern day Jarhead would respect.
@@Bradgilliswhammyman He wasn't, we last see him cowering in a foxhole in completely helpless terror during the first battle and he was relieved and sent home after that.
@@Bradgilliswhammyman waaaaaaaaaaah racism waaaaah
At the very end of this clip - there's a landing boat coming in that doesn't have a bow ramp - that is how they ALL were at Guadalcanal. The LCVP's with the bow ramps were later. With the earlier ones they had to jump over the side.
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When I first found I was dying, pulmonary fibrosis, I started to get to work very early; couldn't sleep and couldn't stand the traffice during rush. So, never seeing BoBros or The Pacific I'd like to watch the little vignettes on youtube. They were longer back a few yrs, now you can't find hardly any, youtube stoppedit. Greedy feckers! Loved to play the ending credits from Pacific, with all the names anhow they'd turned out. Having that, watching their courage got me thru a pretty crappy time. Still fighting, will not go gently...
Keep fighting. You got this
@@Kazzman56 Thank you. Bless you...
@@paulmartin7535 No problem. Much love from Ireland
@@Kazzman56 2nd gen. All grandparents except one was born on the Island. Near Galway, from all indications, on my dad's side, kind of sketchy, and on my mother's side its from the southern tip. One group, paternal grandfather (and I don't know if it was his maternal or paternal side), my 4-greats-grandmother lived in a cave off the Atlantic. She was the local "witch"- doctor, healer, midwife counselor--confessor, alternative to the priest of the 'Roman Church'. Anyway, that was one of the maaany "legends" of my family; we Irish, ex-Patriated to this continent, here in the states are famous for.
@@paulmartin7535 that's so interesting! Wow, very cool stories to have in the family. Thank you for sharing that 😊
WW2 veteran: "We went to war in Europe"
Another WW2 veteran: "We went to hell in Pacific"
Both were hell in their own ways.
@@redaug4212 in the pacific theatre while war progressing, they didnt get a chance to fuck a woman at all unlike in europe. LOL
@@lorcansamonte176 fucking a women would of been your least concern in either campaign
@BackpackZak Not true at all. The average infantry unit in Europe would remain on the front until their campaign or even the war was over. In the Pacific, however, it was not uncommon for units to be rotated out of combat for months on end. The 1st Marine Division, after the Guadalcanal campaign, spent 9 months in Melbourne before shipping out again. There is no such thing as a harder war.
@@lorcansamonte176 Oh really? I would suggest looking into STD rates of US servicemen stationed in Australia lol
2:06 AWESOME tribute to Saving Private Ryan! I would recognize that camera shot anywhere!
Um no
Daniel um yes
@Colin Richey Hey dude, just out of pure curiosity and since I'm a bit tipsy trying to drown out my Coronavirus sorrows, what do you personally think they were going for? I just figured it was a tribute to SPR, since they had that same shot of multiple landing craft from the almost exact same angle that SS filmed them at in the beginning of the beach landing scene. You think that was just a coincidence or something the shots ended up looking similar? And understand I'm not trying to be a dick or passive aggressive at all, I'm genuinely curious what you think
@Colin Richey Hey, totally fair dude. I just assumed that since Tom Hanks was a producer on this series, and some of the crew was similar between SPR and The Pacific, that there were maybe a few nods or homages to SPR thrown into the Pacific. I just felt the camera movement and shot staging (the camera starting out at the bottom of the screen and moving upwards and out to reveal multiple landing crafts parallel to each other, and shot from the right side) was a bit of a nod to SPR. That being said, there's only so many ways you can film tons of landing crafts at the same time, so it could have just been a coincidence. Have a good night dude and hope you're staying healthy!
Steven Spielberg and Tom banks helped make this series yes that was a definite ode to saving private Ryan
What we expected from battlefield 5: 1:18
When we saw what we got: 2:48
When the Marines landed on Guadalcanal, August 7th, 1942, they were NOT armed with the 1903A3 Springfield; they were armed with the WW1 leftovers; the 1903 Springfield. Further, the first landing crafts on Guadalcanal did not have bow ramps that dropped. They were Higgins boats where they had to climb up and jump over the sides. Other than that, The Pacific is a terrific movie.
Was there much difference between the M-1903 Springfield and the M-1903A3 Springfield rifles?
I thought that the Springfield rifles were mainly used as sniping rifles, with the M-1 Garand used as the main infantry weapon (with the Thompson smg and the M-3 smgs used by the sergeants and corporals, and the M-1 carbines mostly used by specialists like mortar crews, signallers, drivers, engineers etc).
@@simonyip5978 Some shortcuts to make production easier on the 1903A3, but the rear sights were improved. The M1 rifle wasn't initially issued to the marines but went to the army first. Though there's some cool pictures out there floating around of marines shooting Johnson Rifles, which was designed by Irving Johnson as an alternative to the Garand - didn't get adopted but did get purchased by the Dutch and shipped out East for their colonial holdings. Then the Japanese invaded and crates of these rifles were sitting on the docks in Australia... a bunch of semi-auto military rifles that are designed to reload from an M1903 stripper clip. As you can imagine, a fair number were "liberated" by enterprising marines.
I can only admire the depth of your knowlege and your eye for detail (not sarcastic)
Movie?
Yeah just like Hirohito said about our navy: I thank the US Navy for falling like dominoes before us. A few weeks after he said that, the Battle of Midway took place. And you got to imagine the amount of stress on our marines having to always be alert mainly through the night because of spontaneous banzai charges. Battling for those islands must've been pure hell.
That wasn't pure hell, they got a taste of pure hell on pelelui.
The war in the pacific was full of irony. The relief of an unopposed landing was merely part of the Japanese strategy to draw the American forces inland. And while fighting in the wettest and most tropical environments, surrounded by ocean, there was virtually no drinkable water. And despite the mighty power of the American war machine, these brave service members were isolated and surrounded by a fanatical enemy that was indifferent to suffering and death. Every American should be eternally thankful for the horrendous sacrifices these fine Marines, Soldiers, and Sailors made for all of us.
It really makes you think how they had the drive to keep fighting.
On Guadalcanal it wasn't a ruse, the Japanese had no idea the Americans were going to invade and there were few combat troops on the island, mostly construction workers building the airfield.
at least they didnt get mowed down right away when they landed, like at d-day.
Leon Wi. Good thing the marines got there first
This was D-Day.... a D Day is literally just the day of deployment, you must be confusing "Deployment Day" with the landings at Omaha Beach during Operation Overlord.
The Arctic Gamer I'd love to see the source for that because that is not what it means. Field orders for missions would read along the lines of "The (enter military unit) will attack at H-Hour on D-Day". The D literally just stands for "Day", with the H standing for "hour". That is why you will see D-Day + (enter number), but for example lets say D-Day + 5, meaning that whatever mission is planned 5 days after D-Day. Now the French insist that the D in D-Day for the Normandy landings stands for Disembarkation, but US Brigadier General Schultz says that it stands for Department date/day.
While you are not wrong in saying that this was a D-Day, as EVERY amphibious operation has a D-Day, the most famous D-Day is the Normandy landings, and that is what almost everyone thinks of when you say D-Day. He also made it pretty obvious that he was talking about Omaha Beach.
Your're "(he) must be confusing (D-Day)" comment really was unnecessary as he was still talking about D-Day, the most well known and famous D-Day, the Normandy landings. Which are referred to just as D-Day by many historians from many different countries. Don't try to make a smart ass remark on a comment unless you are without a doubt correct.
At Guadalcanal 3×more sailors died than marines
@@goldenhedgehog9 you say that what he said was wrong then continue to explain why he was right.... okay kid lol
I always think it’s funny how movies always get the Higgins boat wrong. The only thing that’s metal on them is just the door and the frame, the rest is plywood. I love how people are now correcting this and The Pacific is a perfect example of the correct way. Great show on the historical aspect of WW2 instead of classic Hollywood style. And if you say I’m wrong on the Higgins boat I have seen one in person or if you don’t believe me then search it up.
A actuall thing that happened. Japanese defenses were built on the beach on smaller islands. The bigger major islands had defenses built further inland to increase defense capability.
This is where the Japanese decided to change their devensive strategy. Every other island the invader was met at the beach, this one was just a long, protracted battle. The beginning of Okinawa was similar, they kind of walked ashore and started heading out, but everything in between was brutal at the landing.
The area Japanese forces on Guadalcanal had been driven off by the aerial and ship bombardment.
The Japanese on Iwo Jima made use of this, by making it look like an easy landing. They waited until the beach filled with men ambling slowly, thinking they were safe, bunched together, then hosed the beach down.
Or had mines
The Japanese used artillery to shell the beach.
Iwo jima seems to be a very bad spot to be invade, small island with two volcanic hills on each sides, it is highly favorable for defenders but very much challenging for the invaders
@@reieben886 It had to be done.
They'll go round eyed when...
Lolled
Same lmfao
Quite a different welcoming scene on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France June 6th, 1944.
They are very nervous . .but when they reach the shore. .they're faces turns to HAAAAAAAAA OHHHHH ..
Next they go to jungle and HAAAA OHHH feeling is gone.
My best friend's dad fought in the Pacific and was involved in the battle at Guadalcanal among others. He was a true pacifist after coming back. His brothers and sister spoke of how he changed. When you see and experience that craziness I guess it can change you.
What branch was he in?
@@andymiller6661 Army Air Corp. His release papers state that he was a heavy bomber mechanic. He was actually in the war a year before it was declared for a total of five years. I learned much about him when the family sent me a bunch of photos and old paperwork.
That captain giving the speech, definitely basked in his great moment in launching the American's inaugural assault in the Pacific at Guadalcanal.
Unfortunately when it came down to the crunch, he was left wanting at the battle of the Tenaru where the Japanese launched a massive human wave assaults across a sand bank
On Iwo Jima, the Japanese held back. Instead of setting up barbed wire and mines on the beaches, they let the Marines land, and once there, they opened up with machine gun fire and mortars. Source: Flags of our Fathers (the book that is, I have not seen the movie)
By comparison the Second Marine Division got a horrendous shock at Tarawa. I read one of the boat teams ended up with a 30min wade to shore accross the reef under Japanese machine gun fire.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but it was my understanding that while there were front ramp dropping Higgins boats at Guadalcanal, they were still in short supply at that time, and most of the landing craft would have actually been the older Navy LCL, which did not have drop ramps in the front, and required the soldiers and equipment to be offloaded over the sides, in a time consuming process. Every picture I have ever seen of the landing, most of the landing ships seem to be the older LCLs.
You are correct, sir!
Marines on Midway Island were Edson's Raiders during the battle of Midway.
*sees troops in landing craft with close ups*
Me: *saving Private Ryan flashbacks*
Also me: well this can’t end well
Me a minute later: oh never mind then
*Sees rest of the episode*
Me: OH FU-
I like this series because it's based on actual evidence in history, what happen at guadalcanal was that the japanese were sick of getting bombed by planes and navy ships and so they retreated deep into the jungle/island/center of guadalcanal, the marines did not fight any resistance upon landing of the beach at guadalcanal.
I don't think there were any Japanese combat troops there at the time of the marines landing, just construction workers.
Just finishing 'With the Old Breed' and currently at third D-Day for Sledgehammer and USMC. Best account I've read. Next up 'Helmet for a Pillow'.
Been there done that. Had to roll out of my electric recliner when the power went out like a Marine unassing his landing craft on Tarawa. I laid on my living floor for a few just in case a sniper was out there
best part starts at 3:25
Yes
I'm from the future and I can confirm that it is indeed the best part.
Those were Coast Guard driving the landing craft. Douglas Munro the only Coastie to win the MoH, won it here saving Marines by using his Higgans boat as a shield. He is the only non marine listed on the Wall of Hero’s at the National museum of the Marine Corps. Salute.
What a speech from the Captain
Little did they know the shitstorm that was waiting for them behind every goddamn bush, tree, and mound of dirt.
Guadalcanal was so insane, even a Coastguardsman got a Medal of Honor during it.
they independence the koreA and i'm really thank for them
Only half of Korea, sadly. The other half suffers under one of the worst governments in the history of humanity. Thanks for that, Stalin.
@@brucetucker4847 Yeah Stalin installed the Kim dynasty, but it was China that protected North Korea during the Korean War. Without Chinese intervention the UN would have dismantled the North.
Loved how their Commanding Officer was talking all the shit but when the shells started flying, he was the one cowering in the fetal position.
every man has their breaking point. on that day it happened to be his day that he broke, but the day after it could be someone else. what he did says nothing about his character or his bravery as a soldier. it's not like you, sitting behind a computer talking shit could do ANY better.
@@longboi8540 best cure for bravado is gun fire
That was a different character not this captain
The calm before the storm. My Grandfather was vickers machine gunner with Cheshire reg burma.He lived to 81 in 1997 had a big dislike towards japenese horrors he'd seen.
Does anybody have a clue where I would watch this ?? Cant find this program anywhere :/
If you're interested in the Pacific, you should read the two books this series draws heavily from, "Helmet For My Pillow" and "With The Old Breed". You'll never look at the Pacific war the same way again.
gah damn lol As an asian the level of racial slurs here are just SUPERB lol It was like a rap hahaha
***** I love how your comeback is literally repeating what I said. Good job kid, nice try attempting to tell an Asian person what not to consider a slur on his own fucking people jackass.
一山田 My point exactly; war never changes. There are no "good guys" there are only survivors. Nobody should be proud of war.
DarkEgo1000 I was complimenting the show on how many well place slurs it could use. Honestly I don't get offended by slurs because I'm not so prideful that an insult to my race is going to hurt me.
DarkEgo1000 Chinese
DarkEgo1000 My parents don't trust them; I was born in the US and I like Manga and anime etc. I don't like the way their society works currently but I like their culture because it is interesting. The people are...idk I've only ever met 2 and they were fine.
From Japan.
I was very scared to hear that my elementary school friend's grandfather was fighting in Guadalcanal and that about 100 soldiers died overnight and only two people with the captain were left alive.
Died fighting? or died from starvation and disease because Japan couldn't supply its own troops during the war.
pretty inaccurate on Guadalcanal they didn't have boats with drops they had to climb over the sides and another thing marines hadn't been issued the m1 grands most were going in with Springfield 03s
Sam Harris EITHER YOU WERE BLIND OR YOU HAVENT SEEN THAT NONE OF THEM CARIED AN M1 GARAND,pay more attention.
You climbed over the side on an LVT. These are higgins boats which were used earlier on in the war. Also, they were using sprinfields until they stole some m1s from the army. PAY ATTENTION.
I believe that in the end in hindsight and how the Marshall plan made absolute sense in the east. The pacific front is largely ignored. The big battles and such aren’t but plenty have died in minor battles and skirmishes
Big question I have was why the Japanese just leave food behind like that before the US Marines landed on the beach?
Catherine I always thought it was bizarre and a creepy scene but thanks for clearing it up
on the east side of the island, the North Dakota Army NG was coming ashore
God bless you marines semper fi brothers!
Seeing their faces after they just landed has to be funniest part of the entire show
When those fighters make a low pass overhead, awesome.
I don't get it, why are they using 03A3 or 1903 bolt action rifles rather than M1 Garands. Is that a movie flaw?
Marines didn't get garands till later in the war
@@ismaeljimenez6562 Bummer. They were our first line of defense. They should have had everything just like the Army.
@@bluesbubba7429 the thing is that the USMC is under the navy and we get our budget from a portion of the Navy's so often times we have to wait a few years to get what the army's had for years it's why only Marine infantry and high up use M4s while everyone else still uses M16A4s
@@ismaeljimenez6562 I hope it's not still that way. My son and father served in the Navy.
I respect all branches of the service. When I was a teacher our Marine ROTC program received gobs of money from Twenty Nine Palms and it's still a great program. If I had some influence as educator, I would make it mandatory for ALL students to go through, due to our environment, behavior and lack of respect for this country. I'm just saying.
@@bluesbubba7429 it still is that way, and I don't think the ROTC thing is a good idea because that's how we get butter bars that don't know what they're doing
Man I thought they were gonna get mowed down by enemy fire once the ramp dropped.
I thought it was suspicious that there were no mortars dropping around them on their approach, nor any MG or rifle fire incoming.
Why did the Higgins have to dump them in the water? It's an amphibious vehicle, it's actually made to drive up the beach as far as it can. The only reason they didn't on D-Day was because of the asparagus mines and hedgehogs blocking the way. Suspense? I think suspense.
Higgins boats aren't amphibious, they are flat bottomed boats. They will just run a ground in the sand each time and get stuck there.
There is a reason some become soldiers, and others do not. I would have been shitting myself the entire float. I don't think anything could match the fear of hearing the ramps drop, but man I don't think anything matches the feeling of not getting mowed down.
There's no soldiers in this show.
Good movie, but the LVCP (bow ramp ) was not used. It was another Higgins design landing craft. Forgot the nomenclature, but they were actual short draft boats. The Marines had to exit by jumping over the gun whales.
This isn't a movie.
I worked for a guy in the 90's who served on that island. He lied about his age to join the Marines & turned 17 when he was there. I guess you could still do that back then and get away with it...
Yes my great uncle lied about his age and joined at 17 too. Unfortunately he died on the beach. His brother, my grandfather, served at Guadalcanal. Those were some hard men back then.
Some guys did the same thing during Vietnam.
Maybe if you picked up a history book, you would know what to expect. Concordo com o que o colega Kevzete disse. Teve muita violência e muito sangue derramado momentos após o desembarque, em prol da liberdade anti a tirania japonesa, pra ficar de comentários baratos, diante de uma realidade histórica tão trágica! Não deixo de lamentar, também tanta vida de japoneses que sofreram - por um líder que ficava em seu palácio de boa! I agree with what Mr Kevzete said. There was a lot of violence and a lot of blood spilled moments after the landing, in favor of freedom against Japanese tyranny, to get cheap comments, in the face of such a tragic historical reality! I still regret, so much life of Japanese that suffered - by a leader who was in his palace of good!
Why the beach crafts open at the front side to receive fire when landing. Didn´t they work like tanks which covering the infentray soldiers when landind on beach.
Because exiting from the front was the fastest, most practical way to deploy large groups of men on the beach as quickly as possible. The tanks (LVTs) you are referring to were different and couldn't deploy men as easily, in fact many forced men to climb over the sides.
My grandfather was in the PT - he told me he was so seasick by the time he went in that, in his words, "I couldn't wait to land, so that the Japs could kill me."
lol they thought that they were going to see some action
Oh, they did. This is day one of about 182 of the battle.
The only guys who want to see action are the ones who had never seen action yet.
Damn....this is the best comment ever seen. Well Done!
Semper Fi !
Good luck 👍
guess the producers couldn't find any of the actual rampless landing craft. Higgins boats weren't available yet.
Grandpop climb them nets with all his gear a hell of a lot and couldn’t swim.. a lot of beach landing .. was hell
Something like this wrecked the landings at Gallipoli for the British. They landed relatively unopposed and so loitered on the beaches. The heights were theirs for the taking, as they were unoccupied for hours after the landing. In time the Turks recovered and fortified the heights, then rained fire down on the hapless invaders. The British and Australians would spend months trying to unsuccessfully gain control of the heights, and were finally forced to retreat due to excessive casualties.
true heroes, real life heroes
Kid: Mom, can we have a beach assault?
Mom: No we have beach assault at home.
Beach assault at home:
Is it bad that I laugh way too hard, every time I watch the opening speech?
Hell no! hahahaha
What are the battleships firing at?
Areas where they expected japanese positions
WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?!
Is that officer wearing knee high boots? Or are his leggings just dark brown?
FyllingenOy Knee high boots
“Yeahhh” well that was inspiring!! Lol
2:07 love how they are moving so fast yet the flags aren't moving great detail
The flags would be soaked, and those landing craft aren't as fast as you'd think.
Did they have higgins boats at Gudacanal ??????????????????????
All I can always say is THANK YOU ALL💪🤗🙏❤
And to think my great uncle was there...it's weird knowing someone you know was there.
I see there is no mention of Major Martin Clemens in this series, the British Major who met the Marines on Guadalcanal, with his native Militia?
He'd been there for some time as the pre-war Governor/Administrator, and when the Japanese invaded, hid in the Jungle with his native Militia, occasionally raiding the Japanese bases.
But then, Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands were actually British Territory, and New Guinea, Bougainville were Australian run territory.
It would’ve been a cool mention but I don’t think he ever came across any of the main characters
@@ih6601 in reality, General Vandegrift knew of him well in advance and valued his advice greatly..
Brianboru88 oh yeah I know you’re totally right. I think they mention coastwatchers on part 2 but they didn’t mention Clemens specifically. Woulda been cool if they did
i think one of them was featured in thin red line as an extra
If you have sympathy for the enemy then you have lost the war before it even begins
+New Western Atlantic NO SUN TZU YOU
Tell that to Jesus.
The sad reality of war
If you do not have sympathy for the enemy, then you have lost the peace afterward before it even begins. True change cannot arise from the barrel of a gun, and you cannot kill an idea.
roguishpaladin tell that to the british who were driven out of the U.S. not only politically, but physically as well. did the 13 colonies instate any change by asking great britain nicley? this is but one unimaginably small fragment from the plethora of examples out there
Standing on the strand gawking while the Higgins boats were roaring in behind them. Ouch!
whats the red and yellow flag on the landing craft
So what were the ships firing at if the island was taken already? Or was it just the beach that was taken?
Did leckie not write about his actions? O read sledges book and it was great but I would love to read a book by leckie who loved writing
He wrote a memoir called "Helmet for my Pillow".
Even the Japanese tactics differed from Island to Island; Guadacanal was pretty big, so the Japanese weren't able to defend all the beaches all the beaches. They responded well after the landing with large scale banzia attacks in the belief that they were so superior to the Americans that they could over run them. They grossly under estimated American fighting ability and courage, not the mention how We could coordinate Air, Artillery, Navy guns and Infantry weapons fire,
Dude fuck that. Currently a Marine squad leader and I pray and train my guys to be able to handle something like this, but I can not imagine pushing my teams through combat like that. Hopefully it never happens but I know that if it does we are ready.
But where's the canal?
What planes are those?
Hard to spot but most likely SBD Dauntless that were carrier based bombers used by US navy at the time
@@haskapaska Thanks bro
Respect.
Read the book by E.B. Sledge, “With the old breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa” from which this TV series was based. As good as this series is, the book is better.
I read the book also. Great TV series. These guys were heroes in my book. I'm so proud to be a Marine for life. The Greatest Generation Marines are the best in Marine Corps history. Semper Fi
Thank you for your service! All the best for you!
@MK-6598{} thank you, I always tell people the same... It was an honor to serve our great Nation and beloved Marine Corps. E.B. Sledge was great Marine. They went through some terrible combat. I know all about Okinawa. Sledge and the 5th Marines were there from around April. By April it's hot humid in the summer almost unbearable on Okinawa, I was stationed there Aug74 to Sep75. Stay safe and greetings from an old Leatherneck Sergeant