MY father had been an alcoholic,when he passed away in 77 we found his 5th Marine Division year book,like clint's movies,the storys in it,in my heart I have forgiven my father after seeing what those young men in their 20s went through.I will never forget,my son and two grandson will never forget,I taught them to hug a lady when first meeting them and to shake a veterans hand and thank them for their freedom. I am sadden by the events that are unfolding now a days ,but my flag always flys high in their memories. TECH Sgt Andy W Anderson jr United States Combat Marine awarded the bronze star,survivor of the Battle Of Iwo Jima and the occupation of the enemy homeland. Sempri fi
War is hell on earth my grandpa was in a german elite recon unit he survived poland, france, stalingrad, kursk and Italy gain a knight cross and never had a serious wound but lost all his family (only one cousin survived the war) he suffered from ptsd all his life never recovered from the thing he saw and did to survive.
My father fought in the Aleutians Islands off Alaska with the 7th Infantry Division and after that fought in the Pacific campaign during WW2. He was wounded by shrapnel along the way but survived the war. He passed away at a ripe old age of 102 in 2019 before COVID. I miss my old man.. RIP dad.
@@eaglesightz There is a Reason why these Men and Women are Called The Greatest Generation. And your Father and Mine are Prefect Examples of that Generation ! 🙏
that's pretty crazy! it was only like a year ago I even knew the japanese made it that far! and i never even realized how big of a battle happened around there!
The eerie quiet just before all hell breaks loose is so much more impactful when watching "Letters from Iwo Jima" where we get to see the Japanese side of the battle, Kuribayashi telling all of his men to hold fire until the Americans are piled up on the beach and moving forward. Clint Eastwood created cinematic history when he went the extra mile to show audiences both sides of the conflict, something we rarely get. Usually it's just one side's view that's shown with the other's only thrown in as an extra for the good side to contrast against.
@@keithyork8226 Letters definitely flows better as a movie. Interesting to see how compared to other japanese military leaders of the time, Kuribayashi showed a lot of humanity. Genuinely cared for his family back home. Felt he had to do his duty for his country, even though he disagreed with the mission and disagreed with the war in general. Was known to regularly visit wounded soldiers and didnt treat his men as expendable. I'm not sure he was a great guy, but the conflict was not completely black and white
It would’ve been a funny easter egg had it been Tom Sizemore instead 😂 yk since he goes around gathering different country’s soils so it would make sense to see him across multiple deployments and theatres.
one thing that is mostly not told is how this war was engineered from within the U.S. that originally scammed Japan into having a war with them, giving them no choice. The U.S. government had traitors working on behalf of the zionists and communists. Lots to be researched...
*I had a great uncle, born in 1926, who went to France in 1944 in the US Army. He sent a letter before he left to my grandmother, his sister, who was only 9 at the time. That was the last time they ever heard from him. His body/dog tags were never recovered and my family never knew what happend to him. He just disappeared into history. My grandmother is still alive and has dementia now, but her long term memories are still intact and she brings him up all the time now. She talks about how her parents were never the same again after that.*
A friend of mine is a professional digging for US-Soldiers in Europe with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, they do find quite a number of these men every year.
Hey man, i live in France and studied history in university, maybe i could help you find some informations about your great uncle. Send me a dm if interested
My Father was a Pilot in the South Pacific Campaign. He flew Supplies and Paratroopers to Needed areas. He was the Second Plane to land in Japan after they Surrendered. He Lived until September 1/st 2014 at 91 years old . He still Drove and took care of everything at his Age . He didn’t talk much about his Experience in the War and I never asked him much about it . He worked till he was 88 , He was Truly a great Man and I Love and miss him Dearly .
No greater bravery. Those men on both sides went through absolute hell but, in particular, the U.S. Marines. Remarkable how well produced and accurate this movie.
Not just and actor and director. He also has an Oscar as a composer too. As a producer and director he is well known for bringing in films ahead of schedule and under budget. I don’t know if the term genius does him justice.
Produced By Steven Spielberg. And Spielberg had purchased the film rights for himself, but when Eastwood expressed interest in the project, he gave Eastwood the directing job.
WTH? Are you serious? Japan started the war, foolishly hoping the US wouldn’t want to fight, knowing they didn’t have the resources to really win. Little silly to complain when you, indeed, lose spectacularly.
I do not want to excuse any japanese atrocity here, but I think we have to admit that Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the japanese general in charge of the defense of Iwo Jima, did an excellent job to prepare the island for the american invasion. He knew from the beginning that he and his troops were doomed, but he did not waste them in useless banzai charges. Holland Smith, a U.S. Marine Corps General, said of Kuribayashi that "Of all our adversaries in the Pacific, Kuribayashi was the most redoubtable." We can understand it by watching the two Clint Eastwood movie about it.
@andrewstackpool4911 everything the japanese army did to civillians and pows in their occupying territories, maybe pay a little bit more attention to your history class then you will know
The gretest generation, never to come again, in our life time, I knew one who landed in the first wave, still gives me chills, to hear him back on the beach.
To my grandfather who served and was in that battle of iwo jima along with each and every veteran, Thank you is not enough ..He lived long life into 90's but I understand now the stories ive been told and reason he never spoke of it untill literallly days from his deatb whenhe knew he was getting called home.....
A man that we hunted with for many years named Bob, was on Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima... He said all the Sergeants that hit the beach were dead within a couple of hours, usually after a half an hour of hitting the beach most likely, he never saw one. Being exposed, giving orders, having to get men moving, he said they were all gone... I forget on what island he got shot but he said he couldn't breathe hardly at all and some Marine rolled him over on his chest and it stopped his sucking chest wound, sometime later he was discovered, still alive and taken to a hospital ship. He said they would knock out a machine gun nest but not be able to advance and the Japanese would run right back into them.. He said nobody would give him anymore grenades, they were like gold. He also said that they didn't take prisoners, it wasn't going to happen, none of them were going to get taken back for questioning, there was no point and no regrets. He was a really good man and we all miss him. God rest his soul.
Very few marines were on Saipan, Tinian, AND Iwo. And all them were in the 4th Marine Division, Bob's division. RIP BOB! and thank you for your anecdote sir
@@anantachonnambat6701 Huh? Oh right....never mind. Clueless idiots of the internet. They think movies are real and actors should never play more than one role!
The Americans are very friendly to Guadalcanal people during the invasion period but they hate the Japanies because they’re cruel and occupied us for no reason,even American Former president JF Kennedy was resque by our local Solomon Islanders.American is our big brother🇺🇸🇸🇧
Indeed, Basilone was an amazing and tragic story to come out of Iwo Jima however, THIS movie was to highlight the story behind the 6 men who raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi
My mother's oldest sister was married to two Marines, her 1st husband, Dave Randall, was on Iwo Jima. I never heard him talk about it, but I was a young kid, at the time. Her 2nd husband, Pete Nazarro, had been on Guadalcanal. From what I heard, all he would say was, basically, if it wasn't from being shelled, every night, by the Japanese Navy, bombed from the air, attacked by the Japanese on the ground, the malaria, the dysentery, " We thought we'd eventually just starve to death"!
Where was it when the Navy sent water ashore for the Marines in 55 gallon fuel drums that hadn't been properly cleaned and all the desperately needed water was tainted and undrinkable?
Pretty sure the average age of a marine on Iwo Jima was like 18 or 20. RIP to all those boys man. Such a frightening feet to accomplish and those lost never got to see it.
You'd see them immediately if another war on this scale began. These men weren't born heroes, they were forced into it by forces greater than themselves.
Always come back to war movies and the history of American fighting men. Almost felt cheated when I served that I never really put my life on the line for an ideal as worthy as America. Now as a man I read the accounts of the soldiers who prayed with every breath for peace and life after war and realize that their sacrifice has granted me a good life in safety, with a full belly and the ability to stress over events that truly do not matter. God bless our fighting men living and dead, may their sacrifice not have been in vain.
Color TV of the 60's I watched this when it was originally on. I was born in 1960. I started my military journey with the Marine Corps in 1978 and ended it in the Army in 1991 after Desert Storm!
Definetly an incredibly scary situation for both sides. You're probably right, I'm sure it was even scarier for the Japanese forces knowing they were gonna have to fight till the last man standing. Good thing we're all friends now
My very loved father was in the south pacific right after iwo jima and the only survivor of his unit..caught malaria and was put on the ship - I think at Tinian. He was my hero - the GREATEST generation
My Great Uncle Pete, 3rd Marine Division combat engineer, fought at Iwo Jima after combat at Bougainville and Guam. I remember him saying that he never ran so much in his life trying to stay alive with everything raining down. Years later he went back to visit Guam, where he had helped liberate the island and people, but had no interest to return to Iwo Jima. The US suffered more casualties, dead, wounded, missing, in the Battle for Iwo Jima than the Japanese did, the only battle like that in the Pacific War.
Produced By Steven Spielberg. And Spielberg had purchased the film rights for himself, but when Eastwood expressed interest in the project, he gave Eastwood the directing job.
It's hard to imagine being that terrified. I remember an interview with a soldier who said that to get through it, he worked on the reasonable assumption that he was dead already; all hope was lost, and that took some of the tension out of the situation. There's no hope, so you needn't bother clinging to any.
1979 on a job I had a Marine WW2 veteran walk up to Me and tell Me of seeing my great uncle Jack while fighting on Iwo . Freakin heroes and men among men
My grandfather was a flamethrower man with the 3rd Marine Division that was sent in several days after the initial landing. If i remember correctly, they were stuck trolling around in LVTs off the coast of Iwo for hours because the beach was so jammed with wounded and destroyed equipment. He fought on Guadalcanal with the 1st as a machinist, then was transferred for some reason to the 3rd, and was voluntold to be a flamethrower operator. He fought on Bougainville, Guam, then Iwo, where he took a bullet to the head. Luckily he was only hit in the very outside corner of his eye. The shot missed his brain and didnt blind him, but was enough of a wound to get him off the island. On a slightly more lighthearted note, my grandpa allegedly carried a chrome plated 45 for most of the war. Flamethrower operators were issued 1911s. his cousin worked in the chroming department of Buick, so he shipped his the upper and lower frame of the 1911 to him to have it chrome plated. After Japan had surrendered my grandpa was on the way back to the US. He was planing on sneaking the chrome 1911 home with him but got nervous and threw it overboard after hearing over the intercom that all bags would be thoroughly checked for contraband. As the story goes, when they went to get their bags checked, all the “inspectors” did was kick them. Its a pretty grand tale, but its too fun for me to not believe. Plus, his cousin really did work in the chroming department of Buick, so its entirely possible. And before any of you say theres no way he could send pieces of a pistol through the mail, TWICE, and not get caught, he sent a whole Japanese type 99 machine gun home in pieces. I know that story is true because we have photos of it before it burned in the house fire. The type 99 was made inert by the local police so it would be legal, and my dad used to run around the neighborhood with it playing war.
Is that all you guys care about?? ' Oh, a actor played a similar role in 2 different WW2 movies!! '. OMG!! WOW, right??? Jackson was cast because he embodied the WW2 fighting man's spirit and did a great job in both flicks. Brave, sharp as a razor and ready to attack and kill our fascist enemies. Get it now
My great uncle Sgt Virgil Scott was in a tracked quartermaster battalion. He was driving and ammunition truck on a pacific island in WW2 and was hit, the truck blew up, his wife was sent his burnt watch and he received the bronze star, what was left of him was buried were he fell and he was re-buried at the Pacific war memorial in Honolulu Hawaii in the 1950’s.
My step father served in WWII was captured. Spent two years as POW. Subjected to brutal beatings forced to live on cabbage. Stayed in service and fought in Korean war. after the Korean War, he started drinking and became an alcoholic we didn’t know about post traumatic stress in those days he got no treatment we didn’t understand and sneaked out during the night to get away from him . I lost all my childhood books and clothes, but mom had to get away from him as he was getting violent The last interaction I had with him was at in the backyard of my uncle where he showed up drunk and told my husband that we had slept together. I, at the time didn’t know what he said to my husband, and only found out about it quite a time later. That was my last enter interaction with him. He ended up in a rental, and drank himself to death. I think a lot of vets experience the same thing.
i know, it was such a slog with naval and aviation SUPREMACY (not superiority) and i think this is the only battle where the americans lost more dead than the japanese ? that might be wrong because everything i read - its US casualties vs japanese dead its arguable the landing might not have been possible if the JPN navy and aircraft were able to contest still think the whole pacific war was a curb stomp though, in favour of the USA
@@Terrosaurus There was debate as to the island would have been earlier captured around 1944 had the US Command decided to bypass and isolate Peleliu instead of capturing the it. By then Kuribayashi would have just landed on the island or never manage to get there in time. Even if the IJN forces there heeded quickly to the Japanese assessments and recommendations of sticking to foritified tunnels and bunkers instead of beachhead defenses after the Battle of Saipan, US Marines would endure Peleliu level losses instead of Iwo Jima level losses.
@@Terrosaurus US had more casualties but the Japanese had far more dead. Nearly the entire 21,000 Japanese garrison on the island was completely wiped out while almost 7,000 Americans died. I don't say that proudly or anything, the Japanese fought bravely in a incredibly desperate situation.
@@IdleWorker Um no. Thats just what the liberal globalist left would like everyone to believe. Whom act much more fascistic(tyrannical) in the curtailing of free speech and other intrinsic liberties than any national conservative today.
@Gseward Have some goddamn respect for the victims of actual fascism rather than self-pity for yourself for what…? Abortion being a state issue??. Respectfully, shut it. Or don’t, and sound like a whiny pompous fool. Idc. It is, contrary to your premise, a free country.
Nah you really think ya grandfathers would’ve voted for a black women? They’d also wouldn’t vote for the party that embarrassed us in Afghanistan bro. And no fascism isn’t back calling it the same as nationalism is just crazy brah
My dad was in this invasion, he was in the Navy aboard and LST. He told me about watching the battleships shell the mountain, and how balls of fire would roll down the mountain.
My late Uncle Bill (passed away 12/24/12) was wounded on Iwo during the first hours of the invasion..a severe leg and back wound he nearly died from...I always wondered about the Japanese machine gunner who shot him ...what was his name?...how old was he?...was he married?...where was he from in Japan?...was this his first battle?...how did he die on Iwo?....questions I'll never get an answer to but I'm glad his aim was just a bit off the day his life and my uncle's life intersected for that split second on the morning of Feb 19, 1945.
The real life heroes of WW2 are dying off at an alarming rate, please thank those heroes if you know one in real life. We live in freedom because of the sacrifices of our veterans. God Bless The USA!
They're dying because they're old... an 18 year old that fought on Okinawa or in the Rhine campaign in 1945 would have been born 1926-1927 making them 97-98 years old.
Why are the Amtrak’s backwards when dropping the troops off? Did anyone notice that? Amtrak rolls up, gates in back open, marines roll out, that’s normal. Watch the first couple minutes and the amtraks leaving the beach have clearly done a 180
I respectfully disagree in that BOTH battle scenes bring so much authenticity to light. Each one was filmed with a different intent, Ryan showed the up close personal experience of the beachhead where Flags showed a better overall concept of the initial landing.
This is produced by Steven Spielberg. And Spielberg had purchased the film rights for himself, but when Eastwood expressed interest in the project, he gave Eastwood the directing job.
Although we Marines have always done our part in history since the pacific, no Marine generation since then has or will ever measure up to what these brave men did in the entire pacific. (And) the Army in Europe for that matter..
The US Army did participate in the pacific. As a matter of fact Gen. Douglas McArthur was the supreme commander of the the southern pacific, while Admiral Chester Nimitz commanded the central pacific.
After action reports showed that the Japanese only really feared one weapon and only one weapon was effective at clearing out caves and bunkers: the flamethrower
I’ve heard two stories about flame throwers. One is that it the tank was hit, it’s explode. The other, was that it requires the mixture of two chemicals and an ignition for it to be flammable, so hitting the tank would cause it to depressurize and send the user flying forward like a jet pack
Marion Morrison got booed off the stage by the Marines when he appeared at an event with the USO. Can't remember where the event took place but he was extremely dislike by those Marines.
The sheer amount of discipline that the Japanese troops had to wait for the beach to become clogged with Marines and equipment before firing is impressive.
Is that all you guys care about?? ' Oh, a actor played a similar role in 2 different WW2 movies!! '. OMG!! WOW, right??? Jackson was cast because he embodied the WW2 fighting man's spirit and did a great job in both flicks. Brave, sharp as a razor and ready to attack and kill our fascist enemies. Get it now?
Greatest Generation? Maybe. Or maybe the Founding Fathers were the greatest generation. The important thing is that these guys were without a doubt the toughest generation. Being born into hunger, dust bowl, depression, Spanish flu, and God knows what else, they were survivors and were ready made to do the job that had to be done when the world went crazy. And I’d bet that every one of them would have rather been home with their families.
My grandpa flew a Corsair during the war. After they did an exchange program and hosted a Japanese man, Mr Sato. Stayed in touch with him their whole lives, my grandma filled her bathroom with the stuff he sent. They never said anything racist or bigoted to me, I love them. But when they watched this movie it brought back all the rage at the Japanese, they were even more pissed af watching letters from iwo.
In America we have free speech and the right to listen to any music we want to listen too. It is my thought that America needs to bring back the military draft and give a dose to the young immature media technicians and the so called know nothing media news presenters..
There's nothing like a good american war film. Infact any WW2 film. Its the one we film that isnt ambiguous. The Allies ARE the good guys and the Axis ARE the bad guys.
My great-uncle, Sgt. Mike Palermo, didn't fight in the Pacific, but in Normandy and Belgium. He talked all the time about what it was like in the war, but everyone listening tacitly understood that we didn't really "get it," despite his candid storytelling. One time, he was talking about the Battle of the Bulge to me and my wife. I'll never forget this one: "Imagine seeing just the head. Nothing else, just the head. Imagine that." 8:46
Is that all you guys care about?? ' Oh, a actor played a similar role in 2 different WW2 movies!! '. OMG!! WOW, right??? Barry Pepper was cast because he embodied the WW2 fighting man's spirit and did a great job in both flicks. Brave, sharp as a razor and ready to attack and kill our fascist enemies. Get it now, lol? Hilarious, isn't the whole subject matter here?
Nice to see Jackson made it out of the bell tower and went straight to the Pacific to get some.
Everything is possible.....
Thought it was him! 'My shield, and he in whom I trust'.
Yes, a true patriot. lol
He and Tom Sizemore are in every American war movie
Even superman wouldn't have made it out of that bell tower..
MY father had been an alcoholic,when he passed away in 77 we found his 5th Marine Division year book,like clint's movies,the storys in it,in my heart I have forgiven my father after seeing what those young men in their 20s went through.I will never forget,my son and two grandson will never forget,I taught them to hug a lady when first meeting them and to shake a veterans hand and thank them for their freedom. I am sadden by the events that are unfolding now a days ,but my flag always flys high in their memories. TECH Sgt Andy W Anderson jr United States Combat Marine awarded the bronze star,survivor of the Battle Of Iwo Jima and the occupation of the enemy homeland. Sempri fi
SEMPER FI from Semper fidelis , BELLEND 🙄🙄👎👎👎👎
You should be very proud
@@CefaCat I am proud and will not vote for a fascist who will destroy American democracy.
War is hell on earth my grandpa was in a german elite recon unit he survived poland, france, stalingrad, kursk and Italy gain a knight cross and never had a serious wound but lost all his family (only one cousin survived the war) he suffered from ptsd all his life never recovered from the thing he saw and did to survive.
Youdidnt have to say he was an alcoholic you should have just respected him
My father fought in the Aleutians Islands off Alaska with the 7th Infantry Division and after that fought in the Pacific campaign during WW2. He was wounded by shrapnel along the way but survived the war. He passed away at a ripe old age of 102 in 2019 before COVID. I miss my old man.. RIP dad.
RIP to your father
@@eaglesightz There is a Reason why these Men and Women are Called The Greatest Generation. And your Father and Mine are Prefect Examples of that Generation ! 🙏
Wow... a Battle of Attu veteran. The scope of WW2 was amazingly vast
@@eaglesightz 🇺🇸
that's pretty crazy! it was only like a year ago I even knew the japanese made it that far! and i never even realized how big of a battle happened around there!
The eerie quiet just before all hell breaks loose is so much more impactful when watching "Letters from Iwo Jima" where we get to see the Japanese side of the battle, Kuribayashi telling all of his men to hold fire until the Americans are piled up on the beach and moving forward. Clint Eastwood created cinematic history when he went the extra mile to show audiences both sides of the conflict, something we rarely get. Usually it's just one side's view that's shown with the other's only thrown in as an extra for the good side to contrast against.
Both flag of our fathers and letters from Iwo jima are among the best world war 2 movies
Yeah, but it's a factual inaccurate view.
@@benjaminkruger420So is anything that's not a documentary.
In my view, “Letters from Iwo Jima” is the superior film.
@@keithyork8226 Letters definitely flows better as a movie. Interesting to see how compared to other japanese military leaders of the time, Kuribayashi showed a lot of humanity. Genuinely cared for his family back home. Felt he had to do his duty for his country, even though he disagreed with the mission and disagreed with the war in general. Was known to regularly visit wounded soldiers and didnt treat his men as expendable. I'm not sure he was a great guy, but the conflict was not completely black and white
Barry Pepper in “Saving Pvt Ryan” “Flags Of Our Fathers”, and “We Were Soldiers.” Iconic!!!
Letters from Iwo Jima, another movie from Japan Empire side
It would’ve been a funny easter egg had it been Tom Sizemore instead 😂 yk since he goes around gathering different country’s soils so it would make sense to see him across multiple deployments and theatres.
Barry Pepper is the Fess Parker of War Movies!
Barry gets around. Make that money.
Ive got "Letter from Iwo Jima." Watching them both back to back is......surreal. Really puts alot of things in perspective.
Outstanding films, both
Yah they were recorded at the same time. same studio
one thing that is mostly not told is how this war was engineered from within the U.S. that originally scammed Japan into having a war with them, giving them no choice.
The U.S. government had traitors working on behalf of the zionists and communists. Lots to be researched...
Hope is the mother of all men.
Me too, every word.
*I had a great uncle, born in 1926, who went to France in 1944 in the US Army. He sent a letter before he left to my grandmother, his sister, who was only 9 at the time. That was the last time they ever heard from him. His body/dog tags were never recovered and my family never knew what happend to him. He just disappeared into history. My grandmother is still alive and has dementia now, but her long term memories are still intact and she brings him up all the time now. She talks about how her parents were never the same again after that.*
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A friend of mine is a professional digging for US-Soldiers in Europe with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, they do find quite a number of these men every year.
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I am very sorry. No parents should ever have to suffer the loss of their child.
Hey man, i live in France and studied history in university, maybe i could help you find some informations about your great uncle. Send me a dm if interested
My Father was a Pilot in the South Pacific Campaign. He flew Supplies and Paratroopers to Needed areas. He was the Second Plane to land in Japan after they Surrendered. He Lived until September 1/st 2014 at 91 years old . He still Drove and took care of everything at his Age . He didn’t talk much about his Experience in the War and I never asked him much about it . He worked till he was 88 , He was Truly a great Man and I Love and miss him Dearly .
I thank him for his service. Great man❤
I salute your father !!
They all tell stories of "positive instentive" yet America commited many crimes herself.
No greater bravery. Those men on both sides went through absolute hell but, in particular, the U.S. Marines. Remarkable how well produced and accurate this movie.
アメリカ海兵隊って第二次世界大戦時全ての戦線に送り込まれてたよね？
@@ugn495 no, eastern front was all Russia vs Germany, though Russia did get a lot of equipment from Americans, that is never mentioned somehow.
@@belladonnahigh9206この時ロシアが敵国になるとも知らずに？
@@ugn495US marines were just in the pacific
Brit here: Clint is one fine American and an absolute hero of mine. What a clever (dare I suggest genius) film maker he is.
Not just and actor and director. He also has an Oscar as a composer too. As a producer and director he is well known for bringing in films ahead of schedule and under budget. I don’t know if the term genius does him justice.
Produced By Steven Spielberg.
And Spielberg had purchased the film rights for himself, but when Eastwood expressed interest in the project, he gave Eastwood the directing job.
True Hero's....the utmost respect to these guys and what they did. No generation will live up to the generation of those days...True Warriors
Heroes.
How the hell these barbaric invadors can become heros?
WTH? Are you serious? Japan started the war, foolishly hoping the US wouldn’t want to fight, knowing they didn’t have the resources to really win. Little silly to complain when you, indeed, lose spectacularly.
Those Japanese soldiers standing up agaisnt corrupt capitalism. Yeah man I agree they are heroes.
@@JG-vz1jhMatthew Perry started Japanese imperialism if anyone is to blame for Japanese aggression it's America. Much like Nazi Germany was Britian.
I do not want to excuse any japanese atrocity here, but I think we have to admit that Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the japanese general in charge of the defense of Iwo Jima, did an excellent job to prepare the island for the american invasion. He knew from the beginning that he and his troops were doomed, but he did not waste them in useless banzai charges.
Holland Smith, a U.S. Marine Corps General, said of Kuribayashi that "Of all our adversaries in the Pacific, Kuribayashi was the most redoubtable." We can understand it by watching the two Clint Eastwood movie about it.
What is the other Clint Eastwood movie you’re referring to?
@@JackTorres217 "Letters from Iwo Jima".
What atrocity?
@@andrewstackpool4911 Agree. It's a war for God's sake.
@andrewstackpool4911 everything the japanese army did to civillians and pows in their occupying territories, maybe pay a little bit more attention to your history class then you will know
The gretest generation, never to come again, in our life time, I knew one who landed in the first wave, still gives me chills, to hear him back on the beach.
To my grandfather who served and was in that battle of iwo jima along with each and every veteran, Thank you is not enough ..He lived long life into 90's but I understand now the stories ive been told and reason he never spoke of it untill literallly days from his deatb whenhe knew he was getting called home.....
A man that we hunted with for many years named Bob, was on Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima... He said all the Sergeants that hit the beach were dead within a couple of hours, usually after a half an hour of hitting the beach most likely, he never saw one. Being exposed, giving orders, having to get men moving, he said they were all gone... I forget on what island he got shot but he said he couldn't breathe hardly at all and some Marine rolled him over on his chest and it stopped his sucking chest wound, sometime later he was discovered, still alive and taken to a hospital ship. He said they would knock out a machine gun nest but not be able to advance and the Japanese would run right back into them.. He said nobody would give him anymore grenades, they were like gold. He also said that they didn't take prisoners, it wasn't going to happen, none of them were going to get taken back for questioning, there was no point and no regrets. He was a really good man and we all miss him. God rest his soul.
Very few marines were on Saipan, Tinian, AND Iwo. And all them were in the 4th Marine Division, Bob's division. RIP BOB! and thank you for your anecdote sir
The U.S learned their lessons with that in Vietnam, never exposing the officers too much.
It must have been terrifying!... we have a USMC memorial near me when they trained here in NZ... history never to be forgotten 🇳🇿
5:06 that bloke gets around D Day in 1944 and Iwo Jima in February 1945.
Dude actually survived that tank's round and wake up just in time to join the marine.
@@anantachonnambat6701 Huh? Oh right....never mind. Clueless idiots of the internet. They think movies are real and actors should never play more than one role!
@@ww2remembered983bro it’s a joke LMAO this same bloke was seen taking war pics as a frontline reporter in Vietnam crazy amirite 🥴
The one thing left out of the movie is john basilone the hero at Guadalcanal was killed here.
He is in well covered in " The Pacific" surely you have this on either DVD or Bluray? Go get it brother.
@@pvtjohntowle4081sure he is well covered there, but it would have been nice to see him get potrayed in this movie
The Americans are very friendly to Guadalcanal people during the invasion period but they hate the Japanies because they’re cruel and occupied us for no reason,even American Former president JF Kennedy was resque by our local Solomon Islanders.American is our big brother🇺🇸🇸🇧
Indeed, Basilone was an amazing and tragic story to come out of Iwo Jima however, THIS movie was to highlight the story behind the 6 men who raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi
My mother's oldest sister was married to two Marines, her 1st husband, Dave Randall, was on Iwo Jima. I never heard him talk about it, but I was a young kid, at the time. Her 2nd husband, Pete Nazarro, had been on Guadalcanal. From what I heard, all he would say was, basically, if it wasn't from being shelled, every night, by the Japanese Navy, bombed from the air, attacked by the Japanese on the ground, the malaria, the dysentery, " We thought we'd eventually just starve to death"!
Where was it when the Navy sent water ashore for the Marines in 55 gallon fuel drums that hadn't been properly cleaned and all the desperately needed water was tainted and undrinkable?
Ya in Gene Sledge's book "With the old breed" . dont remember which island...
My uncle fought on Iwo Jima and was wounded by mortar frag on D plus 14 he lost his arm to gangrene and passed away at 97 years old.
Whose side was he on
Hahaha!
Was he all right?
@@danhunts2012 Carthaginian, for sure..
Pretty sure the average age of a marine on Iwo Jima was like 18 or 20. RIP to all those boys man. Such a frightening feet to accomplish and those lost never got to see it.
God Bless our military and veterans and us all 🙏❤️🇺🇸
The greatest men that ever lived. Our country will never see brave men like this again. They don't make them any more.
You'd see them immediately if another war on this scale began. These men weren't born heroes, they were forced into it by forces greater than themselves.
That’s some way to offend those who served in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq…
Always come back to war movies and the history of American fighting men.
Almost felt cheated when I served that I never really put my life on the line for an ideal as worthy as America.
Now as a man I read the accounts of the soldiers who prayed with every breath for peace and life after war and realize that their sacrifice has granted me a good life in safety, with a full belly and the ability to stress over events that truly do not matter.
God bless our fighting men living and dead, may their sacrifice not have been in vain.
The greatest generation in the history of mankind. No matter what happens in the future, this will still be the greatest until the end of our time.
日本とアメリカ両軍の戦死者に哀悼の意を示します。
かつて争った国同士であっても同盟国になれたことに感謝します。
We are thankful as well. We express our condolences to all that were lost during this historic era.
Ok j@p
Just admit you did horrible things instead of dodging responsibility whenever this subject comes up.
@@RAD1111able how are they dodging responsibility?
Watched both Clint`s movies back to back, absolutely harrowing tales of reality.
Yeah, good for you. Now, don't forget WHY WW2 was fought, okay?
@@ww2remembered983 Pray tell, why was WW2 fought?
Very good movie along with the Sands of Iwo Jima . Told from the Japanese side .
My full respects to all Marine and Navy men who fought there
Best representation of Iwo Jima that I have yet seen. I’m gonna have to watch this movie now.
Color TV of the 60's I watched this when it was originally on. I was born in 1960. I started my military journey with the Marine Corps in 1978 and ended it in the Army in 1991 after Desert Storm!
日本軍の状況を身において考えると想像を絶する事でしょう。島の周りは敵の艦隊で埋め尽くされ、援護なしの中、残された弾薬、武器、水、食料を持って戦わなければならなかった。日本軍の勇気に感銘を受けます。
Definetly an incredibly scary situation for both sides. You're probably right, I'm sure it was even scarier for the Japanese forces knowing they were gonna have to fight till the last man standing. Good thing we're all friends now
My very loved father was in the south pacific right after iwo jima and the only survivor of his unit..caught malaria and was put on the ship - I think at Tinian. He was my hero - the GREATEST generation
So great war scene ! So close to the reality of the fights in pacific zone !
Amazing depiction of the intense challenges faced at Iwo Jima. The visuals and storytelling really bring history to life!
Barry Pepper was so iconic in Saving Private Ryan that I forgot he played in Flags of our fathers too.
Pvt. Jackson
He's also Joseph L. Galloway in We Were Soldiers
My Great Uncle Pete, 3rd Marine Division combat engineer, fought at Iwo Jima after combat at Bougainville and Guam. I remember him saying that he never ran so much in his life trying to stay alive with everything raining down. Years later he went back to visit Guam, where he had helped liberate the island and people, but had no interest to return to Iwo Jima. The US suffered more casualties, dead, wounded, missing, in the Battle for Iwo Jima than the Japanese did, the only battle like that in the Pacific War.
Apart from ropey CGI a far better depiction of war than the ham filled Midway, Pearle Harborre and Hacksaw Ridge.
This movie and the Japanese perspective is excellent.
Would you feel the same way about the Nazis if there were movies from their perspective? I think not
@@gilbertlopez183 well, then try to watch "Generetion War", a German mini series abaout WW2. It's pretty good though.
Easily on par with Saving Private Ryan!..... both Letters, and Flags are up there with the best of WW2 pacific movies!
Produced By Steven Spielberg.
And Spielberg had purchased the film rights for himself, but when Eastwood expressed interest in the project, he gave Eastwood the directing job.
It's hard to imagine being that terrified.
I remember an interview with a soldier who said that to get through it, he worked on the reasonable assumption that he was dead already; all hope was lost, and that took some of the tension out of the situation. There's no hope, so you needn't bother clinging to any.
Great film on all levels
1979 on a job I had a Marine WW2 veteran walk up to Me and tell Me of seeing my great uncle Jack while fighting on Iwo . Freakin heroes and men among men
My grandfather was a flamethrower man with the 3rd Marine Division that was sent in several days after the initial landing. If i remember correctly, they were stuck trolling around in LVTs off the coast of Iwo for hours because the beach was so jammed with wounded and destroyed equipment. He fought on Guadalcanal with the 1st as a machinist, then was transferred for some reason to the 3rd, and was voluntold to be a flamethrower operator. He fought on Bougainville, Guam, then Iwo, where he took a bullet to the head. Luckily he was only hit in the very outside corner of his eye. The shot missed his brain and didnt blind him, but was enough of a wound to get him off the island.
On a slightly more lighthearted note, my grandpa allegedly carried a chrome plated 45 for most of the war. Flamethrower operators were issued 1911s. his cousin worked in the chroming department of Buick, so he shipped his the upper and lower frame of the 1911 to him to have it chrome plated. After Japan had surrendered my grandpa was on the way back to the US. He was planing on sneaking the chrome 1911 home with him but got nervous and threw it overboard after hearing over the intercom that all bags would be thoroughly checked for contraband. As the story goes, when they went to get their bags checked, all the “inspectors” did was kick them.
Its a pretty grand tale, but its too fun for me to not believe. Plus, his cousin really did work in the chroming department of Buick, so its entirely possible. And before any of you say theres no way he could send pieces of a pistol through the mail, TWICE, and not get caught, he sent a whole Japanese type 99 machine gun home in pieces. I know that story is true because we have photos of it before it burned in the house fire. The type 99 was made inert by the local police so it would be legal, and my dad used to run around the neighborhood with it playing war.
Barry Pepper fought the Germans and the Japanese!
Is that all you guys care about?? ' Oh, a actor played a similar role in 2 different WW2 movies!! '. OMG!! WOW, right??? Jackson was cast because he embodied the WW2 fighting man's spirit and did a great job in both flicks. Brave, sharp as a razor and ready to attack and kill our fascist enemies. Get it now
My great uncle Sgt Virgil Scott was in a tracked quartermaster battalion. He was driving and ammunition truck on a pacific island in WW2 and was hit, the truck blew up, his wife was sent his burnt watch and he received the bronze star, what was left of him was buried were he fell and he was re-buried at the Pacific war memorial in Honolulu Hawaii in the 1950’s.
My step father served in WWII was captured. Spent two years as POW. Subjected to brutal beatings forced to live on cabbage. Stayed in service and fought in Korean war. after the Korean War, he started drinking and became an alcoholic we didn’t know about post traumatic stress in those days he got no treatment we didn’t understand and sneaked out during the night to get away from him . I lost all my childhood books and clothes, but mom had to get away from him as he was getting violent The last interaction I had with him was at in the backyard of my uncle where he showed up drunk and told my husband that we had slept together. I, at the time didn’t know what he said to my husband, and only found out about it quite a time later. That was my last enter interaction with him. He ended up in a rental, and drank himself to death. I think a lot of vets experience the same thing.
Overwhelmed by the brutality, God bless our veterans!
Remember, the Japanese had 2-3 yrs to get ready and imagine if they would had air and naval resources 😮
i know, it was such a slog with naval and aviation SUPREMACY (not superiority) and i think this is the only battle where the americans lost more dead than the japanese ? that might be wrong because everything i read - its US casualties vs japanese dead
its arguable the landing might not have been possible if the JPN navy and aircraft were able to contest
still think the whole pacific war was a curb stomp though, in favour of the USA
@@Terrosaurus There was debate as to the island would have been earlier captured around 1944 had the US Command decided to bypass and isolate Peleliu instead of capturing the it. By then Kuribayashi would have just landed on the island or never manage to get there in time. Even if the IJN forces there heeded quickly to the Japanese assessments and recommendations of sticking to foritified tunnels and bunkers instead of beachhead defenses after the Battle of Saipan, US Marines would endure Peleliu level losses instead of Iwo Jima level losses.
@@Terrosaurus US had more casualties but the Japanese had far more dead. Nearly the entire 21,000 Japanese garrison on the island was completely wiped out while almost 7,000 Americans died. I don't say that proudly or anything, the Japanese fought bravely in a incredibly desperate situation.
bro Private Jackson went from serving in the Army during D-Day to serving the Marines in Iwo Jima
Our grandfathers fought so hard to end fascism. And their children, boomers, brought it alllll back.
Thats because they didnt understand back then that fascism was just conservative nationalism. It never left.
We'll never learn the lessons of the past. We came so close, but history repeats.
@@IdleWorker Um no. Thats just what the liberal globalist left would like everyone to believe. Whom act much more fascistic(tyrannical) in the curtailing of free speech and other intrinsic liberties than any national conservative today.
@Gseward
Have some goddamn respect for the victims of actual fascism rather than self-pity for yourself for what…? Abortion being a state issue??. Respectfully, shut it. Or don’t, and sound like a whiny pompous fool. Idc. It is, contrary to your premise, a free country.
Nah you really think ya grandfathers would’ve voted for a black women? They’d also wouldn’t vote for the party that embarrassed us in Afghanistan bro. And no fascism isn’t back calling it the same as nationalism is just crazy brah
God bless our troops🦅🇺🇸
Lol. Commited countless crimes ie: killing pows, erasing history because they "won"
My dad was in this invasion, he was in the Navy aboard and LST. He told me about watching the battleships shell the mountain, and how balls of fire would roll down the mountain.
I see Pvt Jackson, I'm clicking.
Loved the Corsair action :)
Napalm was invented for the Pacific war.
I've never understood why Iwo Jima wasn't coated in it ahead of the landings, especially the shoreline.
The Japanese were all underground
And that my friends is why you always pray to our lord and savior. He saved our hero Jackson here
My great uncle Greda served in the pacific on a b-25 , his body was never recovered when his plane was shot down
great movie, my hearing was shot for a week after
My papa was a ww2 pilot. Never really looked into it or got to ask him about it cuz i was like 6 when he passed away. His name was Elmer Hemby.
My late Uncle Bill (passed away 12/24/12) was wounded on Iwo during the first hours of the invasion..a severe leg and back wound he nearly died from...I always wondered about the Japanese machine gunner who shot him ...what was his name?...how old was he?...was he married?...where was he from in Japan?...was this his first battle?...how did he die on Iwo?....questions I'll never get an answer to but I'm glad his aim was just a bit off the day his life and my uncle's life intersected for that split second on the morning of Feb 19, 1945.
日本人として、あなたが生まれたこと、あなたの叔父が家族と過ごせたことに感謝させてください。
現在、日米両国が良好な関係でいられることはなによりの喜びです。
あの時代に硫黄島で戦ったすべての将兵とその家族に、魂の安らぎがあることを願います。
日本語で申し訳ありません。
The real life heroes of WW2 are dying off at an alarming rate, please thank those heroes if you know one in real life. We live in freedom because of the sacrifices of our veterans. God Bless The USA!
Not really alarming, the ones still with us are 100+ years old. Still, I agree with your general message.
They're dying because they're old... an 18 year old that fought on Okinawa or in the Rhine campaign in 1945 would have been born 1926-1927 making them 97-98 years old.
Truly the greatest generation.
Why are the Amtrak’s backwards when dropping the troops off? Did anyone notice that?
Amtrak rolls up, gates in back open, marines roll out, that’s normal. Watch the first couple minutes and the amtraks leaving the beach have clearly done a 180
Still trying to process memory...Clint Eastwood directed this movie!!
That was much more realistic than Saving Private Ryan. Helluva scene.
When saving private Ryan was made it was the most realistic so far , so you are talking bollocks
Well Private Jackson made it out the of European theatre to serve in the Pacific theatre.
I respectfully disagree in that BOTH battle scenes bring so much authenticity to light. Each one was filmed with a different intent, Ryan showed the up close personal experience of the beachhead where Flags showed a better overall concept of the initial landing.
This is produced by Steven Spielberg. And Spielberg had purchased the film rights for himself, but when Eastwood expressed interest in the project, he gave Eastwood the directing job.
Although we Marines have always done our part in history since the pacific, no Marine generation since then has or will ever measure up to what these brave men did in the entire pacific. (And) the Army in Europe for that matter..
Did the US Army not participate in the PTO then?
The US Army did participate in the pacific. As a matter of fact Gen. Douglas McArthur was the supreme commander of the the southern pacific, while Admiral Chester Nimitz commanded the central pacific.
5:06 Isn't that Pvt. Jackson from Saving Private Ryan? He was a left handed sniper in that movie. Here, he's right handed with an M1 Carbine.
4:20 move move off the beach take cover. Someone lost their freshly trained 2nd LT.
I think Admiral Chester Nimitz said it best "Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue".
After action reports showed that the Japanese only really feared one weapon and only one weapon was effective at clearing out caves and bunkers: the flamethrower
As a millennial i am sorry, i am sorry for the state of the nation and what my generation has turned into. May we always honor these men!
Barry Pepper - SOLDIER
"Each day we learned of new ways to die" Iwo was hell on earth.
I’ve heard two stories about flame throwers. One is that it the tank was hit, it’s explode. The other, was that it requires the mixture of two chemicals and an ignition for it to be flammable, so hitting the tank would cause it to depressurize and send the user flying forward like a jet pack
I love Clint’s two movies from the American and Japanese perspective 😮😢 , but I still loved 🥰 John Wayne sands of iwojima
Marion Morrison got booed off the stage by the Marines when he appeared at an event with the USO. Can't remember where the event took place but he was extremely dislike by those Marines.
@@josephking6515Did Morrison make the “Sands of” movie?
jackson and pvt ben yah made it in iwo jima
The sheer amount of discipline that the Japanese troops had to wait for the beach to become clogged with Marines and equipment before firing is impressive.
Don Graves recollection of the battle in every one of his interviews. I imagine this is what he remembers.
Many of the extras acting as U.S. Marines here are Icelanders.
These 2 movies would get more recognition if it wasn't for the spellburg hanks collaboration.
Film perang kesukaanku..❤
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such a underrated movie
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BRUTAL...!
Dang, Pvt. Jackson was a ranger in europe & marine in the pacific around the same time
Is that all you guys care about?? ' Oh, a actor played a similar role in 2 different WW2 movies!! '. OMG!! WOW, right??? Jackson was cast because he embodied the WW2 fighting man's spirit and did a great job in both flicks. Brave, sharp as a razor and ready to attack and kill our fascist enemies. Get it now?
@@ww2remembered983 go back to the replacement depot, Pvt. Killjoy
i pray i get a chance to serve like these men in my lifetime. 8yrs of AD and all i have to show for it is a lost Afghanistan campaign...
Greatest Generation? Maybe. Or maybe the Founding Fathers were the greatest generation. The important thing is that these guys were without a doubt the toughest generation. Being born into hunger, dust bowl, depression, Spanish flu, and God knows what else, they were survivors and were ready made to do the job that had to be done when the world went crazy. And I’d bet that every one of them would have rather been home with their families.
7:32 the Navajo guys still alive to Iwo Jima...
Saving Private Ryan part II is awesome
My grandpa flew a Corsair during the war. After they did an exchange program and hosted a Japanese man, Mr Sato. Stayed in touch with him their whole lives, my grandma filled her bathroom with the stuff he sent. They never said anything racist or bigoted to me, I love them. But when they watched this movie it brought back all the rage at the Japanese, they were even more pissed af watching letters from iwo.
Great battlefield map
In America we have free speech and the right to listen to any music we want to listen too. It is my thought that America needs to bring back the military draft and give a dose to the young immature media technicians and the so called know nothing media news presenters..
We all have dumb thoughts sometimes
isn’t that the actor from saving private ryan? 5:07
❤Jackson❤
I served in the Navy with a guy whose grandfather was the Doc.
There's nothing like a good american war film. Infact any WW2 film. Its the one we film that isnt ambiguous. The Allies ARE the good guys and the Axis ARE the bad guys.
3:50 When the .50s are being used for plunging fire, you just _know_ how bad the situation is.
My great-uncle, Sgt. Mike Palermo, didn't fight in the Pacific, but in Normandy and Belgium. He talked all the time about what it was like in the war, but everyone listening tacitly understood that we didn't really "get it," despite his candid storytelling.
One time, he was talking about the Battle of the Bulge to me and my wife. I'll never forget this one: "Imagine seeing just the head. Nothing else, just the head. Imagine that."
8:46
Barry Pepper in Saving Private Ryan & this?lol
Is that all you guys care about?? ' Oh, a actor played a similar role in 2 different WW2 movies!! '. OMG!! WOW, right??? Barry Pepper was cast because he embodied the WW2 fighting man's spirit and did a great job in both flicks. Brave, sharp as a razor and ready to attack and kill our fascist enemies. Get it now, lol? Hilarious, isn't the whole subject matter here?
9:04
@@ww2remembered983you good man?
Amen 🙏