We are so fortunate that this material is permanently available via the internet. This particular documentary is so well produced and the narration is first class. Many thanks to those responsible for this from an 87 year old Englishman February, 2024.
This was very heartbreaking and hard to watch. I was born in 1971 and am EXTREMELY thankful to ALL American soldiers who fought in this and any war that allows me the freedom to do and have the things that I have. If you are fighting soldiers that will kill themselves in order to demolish you, I can surely understand the drastic measures used to end this war! 😭😭😭
It's 70+ years since the war ended. As I watch videos of the war, all I can think of is; we are watching the death's of our Grandfather's and Great Grandfather's. Those who died never saw or knew of their children born to them. Those of us who knew of their ancestors, carry the pride knowing they fought and died to preserve our freedoms.
My Dad's older brother was one of the soldiers killed on Okinawa, while my Dad was a Marine guarding the Panama canal. To this day I will not purchase anything made in Japan.
MY FATHER WAS IN THE VERY 1ST PLATOON TO WALK ONTO THE BEACH AT GUADALCANAL, ON 8/7/1942. AFTER 6 WEEKS HE WAS FELLED BY DENGUE FEVER & COMBAT FATIGUE, FROM LACK OF SLEEP. AFTER NEARLY 2 YEARS, HE RETURNED HOME TO DENVER, COLORADO. HE WAS AWARDED THE NAVY CROSS & THE PURPLE HEART, + A SMALL LIFETIME PENSION. MY FATHER WAS THE BEST MAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN. EVER. --------------MJL, 77 Y/O
In the japanese prisoncamps in Bandung and Jakarta, my mothers, mine and brothers lives were also saved by the bombs. My father survived the Birma railway horror.
@@brianmaitai7685mine survived Harris and Biden that’s worse than anything trump can do how does it feel that he’s your president again and when are you cry babies going to leave to another country we won’t miss you lol no one will
All those who condemn the atomic bombing of Japan need to see this video. It offers a realistic perspective of what America was facing if forced to invade the Japanese mainland. *RIP* brave fighting men who fought and died in that dreadful Pacific war
I doesn't matter if people condemn. Hindsight is always 2020 and any educated person knows that Imperial Japan committed atrocities only second to Germany and ahead of Stalin's Russia.
@@r43640 you’re in no position to judge. When you attack and kill those, you decide are your enemies you don’t get your choice of how they defend themselves. Virtue that costs you nothing isn’t worth what you paid.
The problem with your statement is that the Russians were itching to invade Japan. Also, communication within the Jaoanese high command didn't show much of the concern about atomic weapons like " we better surrender before the Americans drop another one" to conclude that the threat of the atomic bomb was what resulted in Japaneze surrender.
Stunning! All High Schools need to show in History classrooms. I wonder what Japan teaches about WW2. Thank you so much for your hours upon hours of research, planning, and production.
An outstanding three part series on the war in the Pacific. A lot of history in this series. Glad I had the chance to see it. Thanks for sharing. Appreciate your awesome videos. Respectfully herr Dave blackburn
This documentary was one of the best I’ve seen about WWII. May we all learn from history and not so quick to repeat it. War should always be the last resort.
This is so horrible😢. The saying is true, "War is hell for both sides, and there are no winners in war. Some lose more than others, but there are no winners."
This video provides a gripping look into the final stages of the War in the Pacific during World War II. It's a stark portrayal of Japan's determination to fight to the end and America's efforts to break that resolve. The mention of a secret U.S. weapon adds an intriguing element to the story. It's a compelling historical account that keeps me hooked from start to finish
My dad was in the Philippines 42-45. Saw how cruel the Japanese were to prisoners. He said they were tough fighters. America was resolved tho, the attack on Pearl harbor was a catalyst that said all or nothing.
To the Chinese: 80 years ago the USA put a fleet of 400 war ships with 60,000 personnel across the Pacific on the shores of Japan. 80 years ago ! China cannot perform that act today with their population 10 times that of America.
three times the population of America. It was not a quick thing either they had to island hop so they had staging areas. The other thing you have to remember is industrial might. Every time you buy a made in China whatever because it's a bit cheaper you're giving more of our edge away. So when President Trump wanted tariffs this is why. Ever notice that trade agreements rarely mention how much workers should be paid? So the Chinese pay slave wages while we get much better. and eventually They will own us and our GDP will go into the toilet then we will no longer be able to support the military. Basically if we don't smarten up better learn Mandarin.
Your a little late to the party. Companies are fleeing China, there is so much reshoring back to the US its stinning, and much of what can be restored goes to Mexico which benefits the US due to Nafta. I'm not sure what you think has been happening the last three years.
@@TangomanX2008 Trade imbalance with China by year 2022 576 billion 2021 460 billion 2020 355 billion 2019 132 billion 2018 91 billion 2017 215 billion 1989 was the last time the trade balance was in favour of the USA. So I am not sure how you think a growing trade deficit with china means things are changing. The source is macrotrends also the actual USA government census site.
@stanburk7392 without clarification, "trade imbalances" are meaningless. many countries, China being the largest depends on the ability to export because they don't have enough internal consumption. The US has the largest internal consumption in the world so you'll see trade imbalances. Just pointing out trade imbalances doesn't do much. Right now Chinese labor is so high that iChina is losing outsourcing to Mexici, Indonesia Vietnam, and many other countries. The US had pushed out China out of settling high end sectors. Semiconductors and ither high tech manufacturing is coming back to the US. It doesn't mean that China lost its ability to trade, but it's losing its economic edge, both internally and externally.
@@TangomanX2008 It means 500 billion dollars went from USA to China. their GDP is also catching up they are at 18 trillion this year. Their national debt is 77% of their GDP where USA is 128%. I know the signs you are pointing to and I hope you're right this does not change the fact that we have to stop buying cheap made in China crap. I'm Canadian so first thing I look for is made in Canada then USA then Europe. Sadly quite a bit is made in China with no option at this point. Basically I hope you are right and prove me wrong in the long run I really do.
The A Bombs accomplished several things. 1,It expedited the end of WW2,because Japan was force to surrender to the Allies. 2,It prevented the Soviets from occupying Northern Japan and making it a communist nation. 3,It prevented the lost of at least half a million Allied lives and millions of Japanese civilians and military had the US and it's Allies invaded. 4 It quickly ended Japanese militarism and made them shift to Democracy. So for those condeming The A Bombs,read those above and you will realise how wrong you are.
It also saved hundreds of thousands of people throughout Asia from starvation each month that the war continued. Food and supplies could not be sent with a war raging.
The Flag raising on Mt, Suribachi was indeed the second flag raised, but not for a photographer. The first flag was way too small and could not be seen, hence a much larger flag. For Rosenthal, it was his greatest photo.
This is the very Last Day bible prophecied. In what way the Last Day? Time remained for human nations is very short. " God of heaven will set up a kingdom and this kingdom will destroy all human kingdoms and will last forever alone. No more death or pain anymore. No more wars or practicing military drills anymore. Meek ones will inherit the earth and live forever in exquisite delight. God is making all things new"
What I just learned a few weeks ago, and was omitted from this documentary, is that the Japanese had their own Atomic Weapons programs. Competition between the Army and Navy meant that there were actually two programs. Mention of these programs has been carefully avoided and records destroyed. The Memorial to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki talks in detail about the American program to produce nuclear weapons but never once mentions the parallel efforts in Japan. The horrific testing of biological weapons, treatment of civilians in conquered territories is also not dealt with in Japanese culture. We are VERY lucky that it was Americans and not Germans or Japanese who won this race.
There was a very good article in this in Scientific American some years ago. Fortunately, neither Germany or Japan knew what they were doing. The knowledge of the Japanese nuclear programs was suppressed after the war by the USA after the Cold War began. The idea was to have the Japanese on our side on this. It’s also why Hirohito was never tried for war crimes even though many in Japan itself thought he should be. Instead, Tojo agreed to take responsibility.
Suppressed by the US so that they'd be on they'd not side with the Russians during the Cold War?! They'd never have joined with Russia, that was their primary traditional adversary along with China. The choice to destroy the records, not to teach it in schools, not to publicly acknowledge its existence (both the atomic weapons and rape of Nanking...etc) were completely the choice of the Japanese. It is in their culture not to confront what are uncomfortable truths, it also makes it hard to play the victim when you were pursuing the same weapons..@@melgross
@@seaglider844 well, you’re wrong. There’s documentation on this and the excellent Scientific American article about this some years ago points it out. There were a lot of things that were done after the war once the Cold War started that most people who aren’t reading up on it, because there is information about it out there, don’t know about.
I watch uncensored film in 1980 during USMC bootcamp. We need people to see and remember that war is true hell. We need our politicians to not set unrealistic boundaries that tie our hands behind our back when doing operations.
It was learned that the US did have a 3rd Atomic Bomb. It was shipped out to Tinian Island, before the first one was dropped. It was supposed to arrive within days of the second bombing. This one was supposed to be dropped on Toyko. Very few videos on you tube mention this fact. As well as US planes dropping leaflets warning the civilians to leave the target citys. Some did, many didn't. Also why do all these videos leave out the Japanese invasion of Korea? Which at the end of the war was split between the US and Russia.
I think that Kokura was to be a target rather than Tokyo. The USA wanted relatively 'clean' targets and Tokyo was already in ruins. Targets for A bombs were running out.
I'm not sure but a book on world war 2 I read it had a picture of the letter signed by the secretary of defense writing the names of 4 targets (Hiroshima Nagasaki and 2 more) before the bombing. in the letter Tokyo was not in the list
My father was a Naval Medical Officer attached to the Marine Corps in the Pacific during WW2. He survived boots on the ground on Iwo Jima and Okinawa as well as half a dozen other campaigns. He rarely spoke of his experience running from bomb crater to bomb crater but did say while watching a television account critical of using the atomic bombs “ those people weren’t there and don’t know “. He left the room in anger and disgust. That is all I need to know.
Of course American leadership understood that the atomic bomb was immoral, but compared to the other options to end the war (invasion or blockade leading to mass starvation) it was in fact the least immoral option available, costing the least number of deaths, including Japanese civilians.
Really? Calling American leadership immoral? Where is your excoriation of the Empire of Japan's leadership for immorality? Where is your calling out of Japan's immorality for Pearl Harbor, the Nanjing Massacre, conquered female civilians as comfort women f-dolls for Japanese soldiers, &c &c?? No Pearl Harbor means no mushroom clouds over Hiroshima & Nagasaki ---- just like no Ft. Sumter means no pancaking of Atlanta by Sherman ---- so slather paste on the label of immorality to where it started and is merited, Japan's oh-so-smart war masterminds.
Immoral ? Hardly ! In the Philippines, the brutal Palawan Massacre of 139 American soldiers and the Bataan Death March, killing 18,650 American & Filipino POWs. The Rape of Nanking in which the Japanese slaughtered 400,000 innocent Chinese. The Japanese military murdered at least 10 million Asians and POWs during WWII. This doesn’t even begin to count the environmental damage inflicted to water, land and air…in the Pacific Theater. When it came to using a mere two atomic bombs on the Japanese, the word ‘immoral’, simply doesn’t hold water.
@@philipfrazee5661 right on! Hopefully your comment sticks, as it appears that UA-cam deleted my calling out the twaddle-ness of the 'immoral' epithet.
There's one man who was in both Hiroshima and and Nagasaki for both attacks. He was a salesman and was in Hiroshima on a business trip and left shortly after to return home and three days. Later he survived the 2nd attack. And he survived the war
My grandfather was a world war 2 veteran he said the the Japanese are Soo brutal and Soo barbaric... That when they ambuse them they won't let one japanese live.... They know the Japanese soldier won't surrender...
It's a shame that they now select blur or fizz out 'sensitive images that are the very thing needed to drive home the uselessness of war. None of it is pretty but softening the shock effect helps no one.
Well the Japanese started war with the U.S.A and the U.S.A finished it with the A-Bomb. So it was Japan's fault that they suffered in the end. Anyway, it was nearly 80 years ago, and many generations have passed, but have we learned?
Don't you hate having to live in this age when half the historic images are blurred out so we can't see clearly what happened. Eighty years ago we witnessed it first hand. Today we're not permitted to even view it in film. This is an appalling nanny state.
Wooden decks were lighter so that the ship wasn't too top heavy, and faster to repair. The Yorktown was steaming under its own power and conducting flight operations 90 minutes after suffering severe bomb damage.
Wow, that's really interesting! It's amazing how the design of the flight decks made such a difference in the resilience of the carriers. The metal decks on the RN Carriers definitely proved to be more durable.
Interestingly, not mentioned here is that Nagasaki was a ‘secondary’ target, bombed because the ‘primary’ target, Kokura, was clouded and smoked over that morning.
@@PJ-my4mz wow you think God was there amidst all that suffering by the Japanese and the Americans? I doubt the people in Nagasaki God had anything to do with it.!
It's not perverse, Japan wasn't going to surrender any other way without millions of more dead. Not including Japanese and Allied dead. But the 400k that died every month under Japanese occupation.
Whether it was perverse or not, the nukes did not cause the Japanese to surrender; the invasion of Russia from the north, however, did cause the Japanese to surrender. Perhaps the nukes were necessary to prevent Russia from occupying Hokaido (like they had done in Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and Manchuria) and at least the Northern half of Honshu.
The second flag raising was NOT for the benefit of a photographer. It was to replace a smaller flag with a bigger flag. Please get your facts straight. Semper Fi!
It's easy for people to sit on their high horse all righteous unfortunately they have no idea what war is like let alone being the one who has to make the hard decisions right or wrong, you could say what is wrong today was allowed in the past but no one has the right to condemn anyone from war decisions from 80 plus years ago it's just ridiculous
You of course are 100 % correct. Society has a way of second guessing most of our history from a perch where they can see nothing but their own agenda to destroy the greatness we’ve paid for time and again.
"A war that began in the waters of Hawaii..." It's not like Japan was already at war in China when they attacked Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, etc. Or Shanghai, where US and European forces had already encountered Japanese aggression on multiple occasions.
4 of the 6 soldiers who Race the‘FLAG’ Killed on the that following day … PRAYING NO More WORLD WAR 3. And To All BRAVE‘SOLDIERS’ Who Fought And Killed During The Battle’R.I.P. ‘
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Wish they could take away the blurred segments. I know UA-cam be tripping, isnt there a graphic content warning at the beginning where you could select it? Im not trying to glorify war because its a HORRIBLE business, but i think it takes away from the reality of the savagery of warfare. -Thank you 👇
I'm surprised this article didn't mention that the Japanese had been trying to get the Soviet Union to help them negotiate a better deal with the U.S. They continued this right up until the Soviets declared war on them on August 9th.
Its a shame our school systems neglect exploring this history in depth instead of just explaining certain dates on a calendar briefly... not many of the new gen really know or appreciate what those before us went through or had to deal with as "normal" back then and "back then" is really not that long ago in grand scheme of time... I always wondered what it was like to be alive in this country on Dec 7 but could never grasp that emotion or sentiment on a grand scale of something spectacular that happened in real time until 9/11 and then had a little better understanding of the significance of Dec 7 but todays young have nothing to even reference 9/11 against and thus the significance of those major events eludes them if history is not adequately taught to our young er gen
This os what out schools need to be teaching..not all that crap they try to introduce now in days. THIS IS HISTORY this is what everyone needs to learn all the younger generations how men gave their lives for
Actually there was a 3rd bomb ready to go. It was at the air base in Utah where a secret B-29 group was stationed and where they trained. So the 3rd bomb was ready. One of the pilots gave a detailed interview on the plan....it was classified for many years.
Not invading Japan gave the Japanese the opportunity to rewrite history as the germans did after WW1. Claiming that they were not really defeated and to see themselves as the victims fighting a defensive war and celebrating war criminals as heroes.
What do you make of that 7 seconds in... I first seen this in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne...I know it's real combat video. It looks like they dropped that guy in a defalade on purpose to blow him up...crazy....watch it.very beginning 6-10 seconds in
Now those nukes have too prevent ww3 but first we will have Christmas and 2 days off peace, but not for ppl who are in war, they will push the start button again after Christmas..............................Great video hope humanity will learn from it.
Didn't you go too far by blurring the faces of wounded heroes? What are you ashamed of? This is a true disgrace, the only "good" thing, there is literally no people left alive who could stand behind those wounded heroes.
High death tolls for US forces, despite being miniscule compared to Japanese death tolls. Because everything was always in place to give the Marines the best chance of survival. US logistics, supply and battlefield/base medical were the best of the war. Japan didn't bother with that very much, and didn't have the materials and assets for it anyways. They expected their soldiers to die in battle if they had no hope of winning it. Just to try to kill as many troops in defeat by any way possible, including suicide attacks. I will never understand that logic. The US had established that they were not negotiating, it was surrender or nothing. Although in the end they got to keep the Emperor, but he had no real power.
@@stanburk7392 Yep. The three Axis countries had so many "dreams of empire" and postwar plans, but they often didn't focus on winning the war first. For example, even with all the brilliance, tech, and years of pre-war training/indoctrination in the German military, they simply didn't have the logistics and assets to sustain them in the vast USSR that AH had wanted to take over for years prior, used tons of assets on the obsessions of ethic cleansing and wonder weapons (some weapons worked, some didn't, some no time to complete), had a useless partner in Mussolini/Italian military they had to continually reinforce and/or clean up their messes after defeat, total hubris after early war conquests, they left Britain standing, underestimated the USSR, and the most stupid of all, declared war on the US. Relied on quick strikes to seize major/capital cities, while totally ignoring huge amounts of territory still intact where intact forces, partisans and civilians could organize and harass and sabotage their occupation, and eventually join Allied forces in the liberation of their nations.
Have watched all three episodes. Much of what is presented is BS. Example, it says that Guadalcanal was bombed for seven days before invasion. August 7 was the first day anything exploded there. Poorly done fact wise. Still a decent production.
Stalin and the Russians declare war on the Japanese one week before Japan surrenders mostly because Truman tells Stalin what is coming and mainly because they can take Coastal areas and expand their land mass in the confusion.This will be sort of a underhanded response by them showing the Allies what their "partner" is all about.
The human death toll is the most obvious to feel for. I wonder how much the non human life suffered? The animals that died too. Ugh. My great uncle died from a Japanese bomb taking him out as a radio operator. Direct hit.
All the guns that were in storage on Iwo Jima, four and five pallets high, for an invasion of Japan that did not go off because we nuked them, were put on two ships. One went to Pyongyang and the other to Hanoi. They were sending them the guns to start the next two wars. To find out more look up Col L. Fletcher Prouty.
Cause it isn't worth mentioning lol the USSR lost 23 million with their "we can lose more men than they can" attrition based fighting to Germany and whatever small nations like Finland, Hungary Spain, Vichy sent. Oh, and mighty Italy. Were they going to try to win another battle strictly by attrition numbers and lose millions more? not likely. only got involved as a distraction to divert Japanese forces because they were promised the northern islands in the Japanese chain that Japan was given after WWI back. Stalin tried to make more demands but Truman said no. Stalin knew the US had nuke capabilities, had to be careful. He was four years away.
Please, please get your facts straight on the famous Joe Rosenthal photo on the mountain. First, it WAS NOT STAGED!!! I may misspell names but I believe I have the history generally correct. There were indeed two flags. The first, smaller flag had Marines, Sailers on the support ships, and anyone else who saw the flag go up cheering and blowing ships horns and whistles to mark the taking of that darn overgrown hill. I cannot remember rank but I believe it was a general that wanted that flag and wanted it bad! So……they took it down, gave it to the general and found a second flag to put up. Rosenthal just happened to be in the right place at the right time to take that incredibly famous, iconic photo. Be very very careful before you throw that accusation around my friend, and that goes for anything of course.
Excellent...except...the 2nd flag raising on Suribachi was *not* a "restaging"... The first flag was very small and the battalion commander who owned the flag wanted it back...so a much larger one was sent up to replace it... At the time it was not considered a big deal... It was merely a replacement... Photo certainly not "staged"... Sgt Bill Gneust took color live action film of the whole raising... His film survived the fight on Iwo... He did not... YP
Even with the very justifiable damage and casualties of the nuclear weapons used on Japan, their Unit 731 went unpunished. Human experimentation went unpunished; many thousands of persons were killed experimentally and McArthur and others kept their mouths shut about it because of post-war politics.
We are so fortunate that this material is permanently available via the internet. This particular documentary is so well produced and the narration is first class. Many thanks to those responsible for this from an 87 year old Englishman February, 2024.
This was very heartbreaking and hard to watch. I was born in 1971 and am EXTREMELY thankful to ALL American soldiers who fought in this and any war that allows me the freedom to do and have the things that I have. If you are fighting soldiers that will kill themselves in order to demolish you, I can surely understand the drastic measures used to end this war! 😭😭😭
It's 70+ years since the war ended. As I watch videos of the war, all I can think of is; we are watching the death's of our Grandfather's and Great Grandfather's. Those who died never saw or knew of their children born to them. Those of us who knew of their ancestors, carry the pride knowing they fought and died to preserve our freedoms.
My Dad's older brother was one of the soldiers killed on Okinawa, while my Dad was a Marine guarding the Panama canal. To this day I will not purchase anything made in Japan.
@charlespeyersen1955 you probably own multiple items made in Japan.
Stop trying to be woke. You're embarrassing yourself.
Amen & Hallelujah to our fathers and grandfathers who fought for our dear freedom ! ❤
My mama was the same way she lost a brother in the Philippines a medical pilot flying wounded out. His C-47 was never found.
@@naciremasti Obviuosly you don't know the definition of the ridiculous term "woke". You're embarrassing yourself.
The loss of human life is overwhelming.The world owes a great debt of gratitude to America,God bless America
MY FATHER WAS IN THE VERY 1ST PLATOON TO WALK ONTO THE BEACH AT GUADALCANAL, ON 8/7/1942. AFTER 6 WEEKS HE WAS FELLED BY DENGUE FEVER & COMBAT FATIGUE, FROM LACK OF SLEEP. AFTER NEARLY 2 YEARS, HE RETURNED HOME TO DENVER, COLORADO. HE WAS AWARDED THE NAVY CROSS & THE PURPLE HEART, + A SMALL LIFETIME PENSION. MY FATHER WAS THE BEST MAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN. EVER. --------------MJL, 77 Y/O
I grew up in Denver. My best friend was named Mike and his father fought in the Pacific. Mine fought in Germany.
In the japanese prisoncamps in Bandung and Jakarta, my mothers, mine and brothers lives were also saved by the bombs. My father survived the Birma railway horror.
My father survived Donald Trump's economy......
@@brianmaitai7685mine survived Harris and Biden that’s worse than anything trump can do how does it feel that he’s your president again and when are you cry babies going to leave to another country we won’t miss you lol no one will
Oh, to be born to such a challenge. God bless our fathers.
We're in End Times. You can be part of a bigger battle! Read your Bible. Jesus is real and HE is coming back!
All those who condemn the atomic bombing of Japan need to see this video. It offers a realistic perspective of what America was facing if forced to invade the Japanese mainland. *RIP* brave fighting men who fought and died in that dreadful Pacific war
In war all are criminals
I doesn't matter if people condemn. Hindsight is always 2020 and any educated person knows that Imperial Japan committed atrocities only second to Germany and ahead of Stalin's Russia.
@@r43640 you’re in no position to judge. When you attack and kill those, you decide are your enemies you don’t get your choice of how they defend themselves. Virtue that costs you nothing isn’t worth what you paid.
@@ryanreedgibson Dropping a bomb on a civilian population is a massacre and atrocities. Sorry fellow
The problem with your statement is that the Russians were itching to invade Japan. Also, communication within the Jaoanese high command didn't show much of the concern about atomic weapons like " we better surrender before the Americans drop another one" to conclude that the threat of the atomic bomb was what resulted in Japaneze surrender.
Stunning! All High Schools need to show in History classrooms. I wonder what Japan teaches about WW2. Thank you so much for your hours upon hours of research, planning, and production.
Japan has never accepted responsibility for the war. They have never accepted responsibility for the atrocities they committed in China or elsewhere.
I hads'a History Teacher Ins High School He wassa WW ll VET. He had tapes (His Tapes) Bouts his Battles & So Forth,
Yes. You are right.@@melgross
This video is one the best i have ever seen. There are so many things i did not know. God bless that gave their lives for our freedom.
An outstanding three part series on the war in the Pacific. A lot of history in this series. Glad I had the chance to see it. Thanks for sharing. Appreciate your awesome videos. Respectfully herr Dave blackburn
Excellent. A must watch
This documentary was one of the best I’ve seen about WWII. May we all learn from history and not so quick to repeat it. War should always be the last resort.
The brave men who fought for our country cannot be undersatated....war is absolute hell.😢
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The era of the battleship was over when Yamato launched. If not for aircraft carriers, the Yamato could have ruled the sea. It was a monster.
This is so horrible😢. The saying is true, "War is hell for both sides, and there are no winners in war. Some lose more than others, but there are no winners."
Truth...
This video provides a gripping look into the final stages of the War in the Pacific during World War II. It's a stark portrayal of Japan's determination to fight to the end and America's efforts to break that resolve. The mention of a secret U.S. weapon adds an intriguing element to the story. It's a compelling historical account that keeps me hooked from start to finish
And anyone who thinks the United States should not have dropped the two atomic bombs should watch this and other videos on the subject.
@@rickmiller1429 agree!
My dad was in the Philippines 42-45. Saw how cruel the Japanese were to prisoners. He said they were tough fighters. America was resolved tho, the attack on Pearl harbor was a catalyst that said all or nothing.
To the Chinese: 80 years ago the USA put a fleet of 400 war ships with 60,000 personnel across the Pacific on the shores of Japan. 80 years ago ! China cannot perform that act today with their population 10 times that of America.
three times the population of America. It was not a quick thing either they had to island hop so they had staging areas. The other thing you have to remember is industrial might. Every time you buy a made in China whatever because it's a bit cheaper you're giving more of our edge away. So when President Trump wanted tariffs this is why. Ever notice that trade agreements rarely mention how much workers should be paid? So the Chinese pay slave wages while we get much better. and eventually They will own us and our GDP will go into the toilet then we will no longer be able to support the military. Basically if we don't smarten up better learn Mandarin.
Your a little late to the party. Companies are fleeing China, there is so much reshoring back to the US its stinning, and much of what can be restored goes to Mexico which benefits the US due to Nafta. I'm not sure what you think has been happening the last three years.
@@TangomanX2008
Trade imbalance with China by year
2022 576 billion
2021 460 billion
2020 355 billion
2019 132 billion
2018 91 billion
2017 215 billion
1989 was the last time the trade balance was in favour of the USA. So I am not sure how you think a growing trade deficit with china means things are changing.
The source is macrotrends also the actual USA government census site.
@stanburk7392 without clarification, "trade imbalances" are meaningless. many countries, China being the largest depends on the ability to export because they don't have enough internal consumption. The US has the largest internal consumption in the world so you'll see trade imbalances. Just pointing out trade imbalances doesn't do much.
Right now Chinese labor is so high that iChina is losing outsourcing to Mexici, Indonesia Vietnam, and many other countries. The US had pushed out China out of settling high end sectors. Semiconductors and ither high tech manufacturing is coming back to the US. It doesn't mean that China lost its ability to trade, but it's losing its economic edge, both internally and externally.
@@TangomanX2008 It means 500 billion dollars went from USA to China. their GDP is also catching up they are at 18 trillion this year. Their national debt is 77% of their GDP where USA is 128%.
I know the signs you are pointing to and I hope you're right this does not change the fact that we have to stop buying cheap made in China crap. I'm Canadian so first thing I look for is made in Canada then USA then Europe. Sadly quite a bit is made in China with no option at this point. Basically I hope you are right and prove me wrong in the long run I really do.
The A Bombs accomplished several things.
1,It expedited the end of WW2,because Japan was force to surrender to the Allies.
2,It prevented the Soviets from occupying Northern Japan and making it a communist nation.
3,It prevented the lost of at least half a million Allied lives and millions of Japanese civilians and military had the US and it's Allies invaded.
4 It quickly ended Japanese militarism and made them shift to Democracy.
So for those condeming The A
Bombs,read those above and you will realise how wrong you are.
It also saved hundreds of thousands of people throughout Asia from starvation each month that the war continued. Food and supplies could not be sent with a war raging.
Thank you for calling that out.
Excellent documentary. Top shelf Quality.
The Flag raising on Mt, Suribachi was indeed the second flag raised, but not for a photographer. The first flag was way too small and could not be seen, hence a much larger flag. For Rosenthal, it was his greatest photo.
This is the very Last Day bible prophecied.
In what way the Last Day? Time remained for human nations is very short.
" God of heaven will set up a kingdom and this kingdom will destroy all human kingdoms and will last forever alone.
No more death or pain anymore. No more wars or practicing military drills anymore.
Meek ones will inherit the earth and live forever in exquisite delight.
God is making all things new"
@@망히-z9z Yeah. We've been hearing that story for the last few centuries. Thanks for the warning.
What I just learned a few weeks ago, and was omitted from this documentary, is that the Japanese had their own Atomic Weapons programs. Competition between the Army and Navy meant that there were actually two programs. Mention of these programs has been carefully avoided and records destroyed. The Memorial to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki talks in detail about the American program to produce nuclear weapons but never once mentions the parallel efforts in Japan. The horrific testing of biological weapons, treatment of civilians in conquered territories is also not dealt with in Japanese culture. We are VERY lucky that it was Americans and not Germans or Japanese who won this race.
Japan was advanced in chemical weapons!
There was a very good article in this in Scientific American some years ago. Fortunately, neither Germany or Japan knew what they were doing. The knowledge of the Japanese nuclear programs was suppressed after the war by the USA after the Cold War began. The idea was to have the Japanese on our side on this. It’s also why Hirohito was never tried for war crimes even though many in Japan itself thought he should be. Instead, Tojo agreed to take responsibility.
Thank you for calling that out. History rewrites omit these things
Suppressed by the US so that they'd be on they'd not side with the Russians during the Cold War?! They'd never have joined with Russia, that was their primary traditional adversary along with China. The choice to destroy the records, not to teach it in schools, not to publicly acknowledge its existence (both the atomic weapons and rape of Nanking...etc) were completely the choice of the Japanese. It is in their culture not to confront what are uncomfortable truths, it also makes it hard to play the victim when you were pursuing the same weapons..@@melgross
@@seaglider844 well, you’re wrong. There’s documentation on this and the excellent Scientific American article about this some years ago points it out. There were a lot of things that were done after the war once the Cold War started that most people who aren’t reading up on it, because there is information about it out there, don’t know about.
What's with the blurred out images? History requires to be seen in the raw.
you tube wants to filter out violence that is real.
I watch uncensored film in 1980 during USMC bootcamp. We need people to see and remember that war is true hell. We need our politicians to not set unrealistic boundaries that tie our hands behind our back when doing operations.
After seeing the Japanese and their no surrender way of life
I am very grateful that they are now on our side
It was learned that the US did have a 3rd Atomic Bomb. It was shipped out to Tinian Island, before the first one was dropped. It was supposed to arrive within days of the second bombing. This one was supposed to be dropped on Toyko. Very few videos on you tube mention this fact. As well as US planes dropping leaflets warning the civilians to leave the target citys. Some did, many didn't. Also why do all these videos leave out the Japanese invasion of Korea? Which at the end of the war was split between the US and Russia.
I think that Kokura was to be a target rather than Tokyo. The USA wanted relatively 'clean' targets and Tokyo was already in ruins. Targets for A bombs were running out.
Korea was a colony of Japan since the early 1900s.
I'm not sure but a book on world war 2 I read it had a picture of the letter signed by the secretary of defense writing the names of 4 targets (Hiroshima Nagasaki and 2 more) before the bombing. in the letter Tokyo was not in the list
My father was a Naval Medical Officer attached to the Marine Corps in the Pacific during WW2. He survived boots on the ground on Iwo Jima and Okinawa as well as half a dozen other campaigns. He rarely spoke of his experience running from bomb crater to bomb crater but did say while watching a television account critical of using the atomic bombs “ those people weren’t there and don’t know “. He left the room in anger and disgust. That is all I need to know.
Of course American leadership understood that the atomic bomb was immoral, but compared to the other options to end the war (invasion or blockade leading to mass starvation) it was in fact the least immoral option available, costing the least number of deaths, including Japanese civilians.
Really? Calling American leadership immoral? Where is your excoriation of the Empire of Japan's leadership for immorality? Where is your calling out of Japan's immorality for Pearl Harbor, the Nanjing Massacre, conquered female civilians as comfort women f-dolls for Japanese soldiers, &c &c?? No Pearl Harbor means no mushroom clouds over Hiroshima & Nagasaki ---- just like no Ft. Sumter means no pancaking of Atlanta by Sherman ---- so slather paste on the label of immorality to where it started and is merited, Japan's oh-so-smart war masterminds.
Immoral ?
Hardly !
In the Philippines, the brutal Palawan Massacre of 139 American soldiers and the Bataan Death March, killing 18,650 American & Filipino POWs.
The Rape of Nanking in which the Japanese slaughtered 400,000 innocent Chinese.
The Japanese military murdered at least 10 million Asians and POWs during WWII.
This doesn’t even begin to count the environmental damage inflicted to water, land and air…in the Pacific Theater.
When it came to using a mere two atomic bombs on the Japanese, the word ‘immoral’,
simply doesn’t hold water.
@@philipfrazee5661 right on! Hopefully your comment sticks, as it appears that UA-cam deleted my calling out the twaddle-ness of the 'immoral' epithet.
That is absurdly incorrect. Smh
great video
There's one man who was in both Hiroshima and and Nagasaki for both attacks. He was a salesman and was in Hiroshima on a business trip and left shortly after to return home and three days. Later he survived the 2nd attack. And he survived the war
My grandfather was a world war 2 veteran he said the the Japanese are Soo brutal and Soo barbaric... That when they ambuse them they won't let one japanese live.... They know the Japanese soldier won't surrender...
It's a shame that they now select blur or fizz out 'sensitive images that are the very thing needed to drive home the uselessness of war. None of it is pretty but softening the shock effect helps no one.
It’s UA-cam that requires that.
Well the Japanese started war with the U.S.A and the U.S.A finished it with the A-Bomb. So it was Japan's fault that they suffered in the end. Anyway, it was nearly 80 years ago, and many generations have passed, but have we learned?
Don't you hate having to live in this age when half the historic images are blurred out so we can't see clearly what happened. Eighty years ago we witnessed it first hand. Today we're not permitted to even view it in film. This is an appalling nanny state.
The Filipinos suffered greatly at the hands of the Japanese military so dont condemn the Americans for their retaliatory actions🇺🇸❤
during attack on pearl harbor Japan under estimate the US Japan think US have no appetite for war but Japan made a huge mistake
US Carriers had wooden flight decks, which burn viciously! RN Carriers had metal decks, one hit by a Kamikaze was back in operation after two hours!
Wooden decks were lighter so that the ship wasn't too top heavy, and faster to repair. The Yorktown was steaming under its own power and conducting flight operations 90 minutes after suffering severe bomb damage.
Hi Dianne, how’re you doing.
Wow, that's really interesting! It's amazing how the design of the flight decks made such a difference in the resilience of the carriers. The metal decks on the RN Carriers definitely proved to be more durable.
Interestingly, not mentioned here is that Nagasaki was a ‘secondary’ target, bombed because the ‘primary’ target, Kokura, was clouded and smoked over that morning.
There is a saying of 'Kokura luck', a lucky avoidance of great misfortune. Seems about right...
God works in mysterious ways 🤔
@@PJ-my4mz wow you think God was there amidst all that suffering by the Japanese and the Americans? I doubt the people in Nagasaki God had anything to do with it.!
@@jerrodg7768 You think how and what you want and I surely will think how and what I want.
@@PJ-my4mz I bet the people in Nagasaki don’t think that!
Is there really anyone out there still perverse enough to insist that the nukes were unnecessary...?
It's not perverse, Japan wasn't going to surrender any other way without millions of more dead. Not including Japanese and Allied dead. But the 400k that died every month under Japanese occupation.
@@scottkrater2131Er, I think you've misread my comment...
@@tedthesailor172 me bad, sorry missed the un part, didn't have my reading glasses on.
Yeah, idiots that don't know history.
Whether it was perverse or not, the nukes did not cause the Japanese to surrender; the invasion of Russia from the north, however, did cause the Japanese to surrender. Perhaps the nukes were necessary to prevent Russia from occupying Hokaido (like they had done in Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and Manchuria) and at least the Northern half of Honshu.
The second flag raising was NOT for the benefit of a photographer. It was to replace a smaller flag with a bigger flag. Please get your facts straight. Semper Fi!
Fighting marines. We owe them.
It's easy for people to sit on their high horse all righteous unfortunately they have no idea what war is like let alone being the one who has to make the hard decisions right or wrong, you could say what is wrong today was allowed in the past but no one has the right to condemn anyone from war decisions from 80 plus years ago it's just ridiculous
The next winner of the longest run-on sentence. 😅
You of course are 100 % correct. Society has a way of second guessing most of our history from a perch where they can see nothing but their own agenda to destroy the greatness we’ve paid for time and again.
"A war that began in the waters of Hawaii..."
It's not like Japan was already at war in China when they attacked Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, etc. Or Shanghai, where US and European forces had already encountered Japanese aggression on multiple occasions.
You clearly don’t understand perspective.
@@effscottfitz-gee2024 You're clearly too lazy and ignorant to address the point I made.
It's sad that we still have wars going on we humans don't learn from history
4 of the 6 soldiers who Race the‘FLAG’ Killed on the that following day … PRAYING NO More WORLD WAR 3. And To All BRAVE‘SOLDIERS’ Who Fought And Killed During The Battle’R.I.P. ‘
As the completion of the repairs, repainting, and refitting of the USS Texas, Battleship Texas, BB-35 draws closer, is there anything your channel can do to spotlight this excellent legendary warship?
The channel Battleship New Jersey does good work on that.
good show
Wish they could take away the blurred segments. I know UA-cam be tripping, isnt there a graphic content warning at the beginning where you could select it?
Im not trying to glorify war because its a HORRIBLE business, but i think it takes away from the reality of the savagery of warfare.
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I'm surprised this article didn't mention that the Japanese had been trying to get the Soviet Union to help them negotiate a better deal with the U.S. They continued this right up until the Soviets declared war on them on August 9th.
You mean where Japan gets to keep China and Korea as part of her Empire? Nope, sorry, Samurai. Here's two suns.
Actually that is another reason why Japan agreed to surrender
Its a shame our school systems neglect exploring this history in depth instead of just explaining certain dates on a calendar briefly... not many of the new gen really know or appreciate what those before us went through or had to deal with as "normal" back then and "back then" is really not that long ago in grand scheme of time... I always wondered what it was like to be alive in this country on Dec 7 but could never grasp that emotion or sentiment on a grand scale of something spectacular that happened in real time until 9/11 and then had a little better understanding of the significance of Dec 7 but todays young have nothing to even reference 9/11 against and thus the significance of those major events eludes them if history is not adequately taught to our young er gen
Who is narrating? - He's the best.
I'm pretty sure it's a guy called Jonathan Booth. But I may be wrong.
When they say the Americans don't have the stomach to fight on im pretty sure it's the other way round lol 😅😂
The flamethrower was the most feared weapon by the enemy! Crispy Critters!
This os what out schools need to be teaching..not all that crap they try to introduce now in days. THIS IS HISTORY this is what everyone needs to learn all the younger generations how men gave their lives for
Actually there was a 3rd bomb ready to go. It was at the air base in Utah where a secret B-29 group was stationed and where they trained. So the 3rd bomb was ready. One of the pilots gave a detailed interview on the plan....it was classified for many years.
I have no options about right or wrong because of the lack of honesty and forthright information from all . I question the need for WAR itself.
Tell that to the survivors of Pearl harbor.
Not invading Japan gave the Japanese the opportunity to rewrite history as the germans did after WW1. Claiming that they were not really defeated and to see themselves as the victims fighting a defensive war and celebrating war criminals as heroes.
It was a defensive war for Japan from when they lost at Midway. They just avoid the fact that they started it.
@@gaoxiaen1Exactly 👍
We humans are crazy.
Yeah.... Sad isn't it?
46:20...Coming down the stairs of the plane General MacArthur looks like he got some sweetness aka George Michael in him
I've seen most of the footage in this documentary many times without the stupid blurring.
And still today as people,,, we have learned not to kill ourselves!
Background noise / music way too loud. Hard to understand
What do you make of that 7 seconds in... I first seen this in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne...I know it's real combat video. It looks like they dropped that guy in a defalade on purpose to blow him up...crazy....watch it.very beginning 6-10 seconds in
Fight Until Death (no surrender).
Just imagine how brave did Japanese Army fought against US Army.?
Hat's Off to the Japanese Army..😢
Unacceptable
Rape of Nanking. Sook Ching. Battle of Manila. Ianfu. Bataan. Brave? No. Blind obedience? Yes.
It's America industrial might that made him win
I wonder why the imperial palace wasnt targeted?
"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
The Rader's were the tip of the Soward!
Now those nukes have too prevent ww3 but first we will have Christmas and 2 days off peace, but not for ppl who are in war, they will push the start button again after Christmas..............................Great video hope humanity will learn from it.
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Didn't you go too far by blurring the faces of wounded heroes? What are you ashamed of? This is a true disgrace, the only "good" thing, there is literally no people left alive who could stand behind those wounded heroes.
War in the oacific
War in the oacific
More than 19 thousand Marines died in the Pacific, this narrator was wrong..... Iwo Jima and Okinawa alone was nearly 20 thousand?!?!
The number is right. KIA was 19K, 12 at Okinawa and 7 at Iwo. You might be thinking casualties.
High death tolls for US forces, despite being miniscule compared to Japanese death tolls. Because everything was always in place to give the Marines the best chance of survival. US logistics, supply and battlefield/base medical were the best of the war. Japan didn't bother with that very much, and didn't have the materials and assets for it anyways. They expected their soldiers to die in battle if they had no hope of winning it. Just to try to kill as many troops in defeat by any way possible, including suicide attacks. I will never understand that logic. The US had established that they were not negotiating, it was surrender or nothing. Although in the end they got to keep the Emperor, but he had no real power.
Casualties isn't just death but solider who can no longer fight.
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General Bradly said it best. "Armatures think strategy professionals think logistics."
@@stanburk7392 Yep. The three Axis countries had so many "dreams of empire" and postwar plans, but they often didn't focus on winning the war first. For example, even with all the brilliance, tech, and years of pre-war training/indoctrination in the German military, they simply didn't have the logistics and assets to sustain them in the vast USSR that AH had wanted to take over for years prior, used tons of assets on the obsessions of ethic cleansing and wonder weapons (some weapons worked, some didn't, some no time to complete), had a useless partner in Mussolini/Italian military they had to continually reinforce and/or clean up their messes after defeat, total hubris after early war conquests, they left Britain standing, underestimated the USSR, and the most stupid of all, declared war on the US. Relied on quick strikes to seize major/capital cities, while totally ignoring huge amounts of territory still intact where intact forces, partisans and civilians could organize and harass and sabotage their occupation, and eventually join Allied forces in the liberation of their nations.
The arrogance of the Japanese emperor! Cost how many unnecessary lives?!
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46:50 That was Sept. 2, 1945
A great documentary about WWII History . Hopefully politicians learn to put diplomacy before ever resorting to war , very informative & accurate !!!
Who is narrating this? His voice sounds familar.
Have watched all three episodes. Much of what is presented is BS. Example, it says that Guadalcanal was bombed for seven days before invasion. August 7 was the first day anything exploded there. Poorly done fact wise. Still a decent production.
Stalin and the Russians declare war on the Japanese one week before Japan surrenders mostly because Truman tells Stalin what is coming and mainly because they can take Coastal areas and expand their land mass in the confusion.This will be sort of a underhanded response by them showing the Allies what their "partner" is all about.
The human death toll is the most obvious to feel for. I wonder how much the non human life suffered? The animals that died too. Ugh. My great uncle died from a Japanese bomb taking him out as a radio operator. Direct hit.
All the guns that were in storage on Iwo Jima, four and five pallets high, for an invasion of Japan that did not go off because we nuked them, were put on two ships. One went to Pyongyang and the other to Hanoi. They were sending them the guns to start the next two wars. To find out more look up Col L. Fletcher Prouty.
Didn't know that.
@@robertbarlow6715 Still don't. I want proof, or at least convincing evidence.
I don't see the part where the UNWRA was whining about getting supplies to the suffering Japanese civilians. Guess I missed that.
There seems to be no mention of the USSR invasion of Manchuria
Cause it isn't worth mentioning lol the USSR lost 23 million with their "we can lose more men than they can" attrition based fighting to Germany and whatever small nations like Finland, Hungary Spain, Vichy sent. Oh, and mighty Italy. Were they going to try to win another battle strictly by attrition numbers and lose millions more? not likely. only got involved as a distraction to divert Japanese forces because they were promised the northern islands in the Japanese chain that Japan was given after WWI back. Stalin tried to make more demands but Truman said no. Stalin knew the US had nuke capabilities, had to be careful. He was four years away.
They messed with Texas, and paid the price.
MOH IS not won it's AWARDED
Please, please get your facts straight on the famous Joe Rosenthal photo on the mountain. First, it WAS NOT STAGED!!! I may misspell names but I believe I have the history generally correct. There were indeed two flags. The first, smaller flag had Marines, Sailers on the support ships, and anyone else who saw the flag go up cheering and blowing ships horns and whistles to mark the taking of that darn overgrown hill. I cannot remember rank but I believe it was a general that wanted that flag and wanted it bad! So……they took it down, gave it to the general and found a second flag to put up. Rosenthal just happened to be in the right place at the right time to take that incredibly famous, iconic photo. Be very very careful before you throw that accusation around my friend, and that goes for anything of course.
That General was in command of the Marines. He wanted that first flag for the USMC. He wanted it before someone from the Navy or Army got to it.
Wow
English 101 / Holy Cluster Flock Cholley / Must Get to The Missouri / Surrender Sword
24:14 b29 guns
Excellent...except...the 2nd flag raising on Suribachi was *not* a "restaging"... The first flag was very small and the battalion commander who owned the flag wanted it back...so a much larger one was sent up to replace it... At the time it was not considered a big deal... It was merely a replacement... Photo certainly not "staged"... Sgt Bill Gneust took color live action film of the whole raising... His film survived the fight on Iwo... He did not... YP
Imagine if they had go pro's SMH,very brave men .
Sejen Tresna duel..Ara..hahaha..Udin.
Kokura was the primary target and Nagasaki the secondary target. Clouds and smoke decided Nagasaki's fate.
Even with the very justifiable damage and casualties of the nuclear weapons used on Japan, their Unit 731 went unpunished. Human experimentation went unpunished; many thousands of persons were killed experimentally and McArthur and others kept their mouths shut about it because of post-war politics.
Yeah nw I understand that Japan started it and the Americans wanted to finish it and they did that
America had the chance to take iwo Jima barely withour a fight after Saipan in 1944 but Mac Arthur wanted to invade the Phillipines.
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Hi Janette, how’s everything going on your end ?
"The orange glow could be seen for miles. Curtis LeMay does it again firebombing 67 cities" Horrific!
End game. Japanese must be taught a lesson they and their future generations will not forget.
The background noise is too loud and annoying
Minute 21 et al: wish UA-cam wouldn’t censor the gory scene of the wounded and the dead. That is exactly what war is about. Don’t try to sanitise it!
The Fat Electrician just dropped an awesome video about the Old Bastards. Thats where the movie Hacksaw Ridge came from. So I interesting.