The video title is the original title assigned in the early-1940s. That it would be inappropriate today to refer to Japanese people as "Japs" does not change history. Many historical events are uncomfortable. Confront those events and deal with them. Ignoring them is a recipe for disaster.
My father, a naval aviator referred to his former enemies as japs until the day he died. Fortunately, that was before the pc crowd could screw things up.
As a second generation Marine...my dad WW2 38-46 and myself Nam Vet 68-70, I love to watch anything about the Marines during WW2. I don’t know what my dad did then, he really wouldn’t talk about it but he was in the South Pacific because I saw a few pictures of him then. He passed before I turned 17 and never saw me follow in his footsteps. I think he would have been proud.
While in a Japanese bar back in the late 80’s met a Japanese vet. He said he never smoked until he became a POW. Americans kept offering him a cigarette, he took it cause he was scared to refuse. When he left he gave me his bottle of Whiskey.
Believe it or not they were probably happy to have their war nightmare end. After they were forced into the military and sent to fight by their government just like many other soldiers out there. They had wives , girlfriends and families back home just like US troops did.
@Mister La Don't forget My Lai. They were just following orders too ... right ? I don't even know what you are talking about with that Korean comment. Do you know that they were occupied by Japan since 1910 and during WW2 ? And stating a fact that soldiers just follow orders is not " white washing " history.
@@mizzury54 Historically the Chinese then the Japanese had invaded Korea long before 1910. The Russians and The U.S. were there before 1910 also (Josean). The Koreans were considered a Japanese Colony during WW2 and many guards at POW camps were Koreans. To this day there is hostility between Japan and Korea.
Politicians start wars. Average Citizen does not. But it is Average Citizen who gets forced into fighting them. Weirdly using the money Average Citizen paid in taxes.
Graeme Glen the warrior caste and the politicians were two different entities during WW2. It was the Japanese Army that wanted to expand and the political class went along with it.
At that time they still thought that POW is slave of war (they can do anything to them, give them hard job without paid, no food etc), that's why Japan always avoid to surrender coz they didn't want become slave like they did to the POW
Yea, thats what happens when the cameras are rolling. My grandmother from Okinawa told me how the americans would purposely film the civilians getting treated “fairly” only to completely change right after the cameras went off.
Recently been reading much about US 6th Army taking back Luzon--actually about the same time this was happening. Anyway the author relates how the Japanese were usually low on food due to being cut off etc. That might partially be why several stumbled as they came out.
There is a segment of this film (@5:02) which we previously found in the Marine archive, as a high quality photograph. There is a marine in the background assisting with the removal of the japanese soldiers, whom we believe is our father, Joel G. Key 5th Marine Division. If anyone comes across anymore information about this prisoner extraction from the cave, please share. Dates and personell in particular. Enjoy.
I had a cousin in the 5th Marine Division. James Head. Landed on the third day, D+3. Survived the War and has since passed away recently. Thank you for your Father's service! Semper Fidelis...
Many of the “Japanese” on Iwo Jima, Saipan and other islands who surrendered were NOT Japanese. They were conscripted laborers from Okinawa with a few from Korea and China. They were basically “slave” laborers with no desire to die for an Emperor that they did not recognize.
There were but a few Japanese survivors. Somewhere around 200 Japanese were captured and the remaining 20,000 Japanese defenders perished, either in combat or various acts of suicide.
There are a number of interesting things to be seen in this video. In the first roll, we see P-51s launching from an Iwo Jima airstrip on 10 March 1945. Combat on the island concluded over two weeks later. I noticed a large amount of haze over the airstrip, probably volcanic ash. It must have been a maintenance nightmare keeping those Pratt & Whitney and Merlin engines clear of all that corrosive dust. At 1:03 we see a Taylorcraft L-2 Grasshopper taking off. These planes were primarily used for artillery spotting, short-range recon, and transporting specialist personnel such as translators to the front. With the Japanese fighting from caves and spider holes, one wonders what useful information could be gathered from a light observation plane. The cave smoking sequence is dated D+19, which I take to mean 10 March 1945, the same day the P-51s take off in the earlier sequence, about at the halfway point in the battle. The Japanese soldiers seen emerging from the cave seem happy to surrender (Korean conscripts perhaps?) and the Marines seem to be treating them quite humanely -- remarkable considering the savage fighting still ongoing elsewhere on Iwo Jima that day. The lieutenant giving the Japanese soldiers a hand up out of their cave smiles warmly and doesn't seem worried any of the new POWs will make a grab for the M1911A1 he carries in a shoulder rig. He is seen assisted by another Japanese with POW painted on his back -- evidently a translator there to reassure the new prisoners that they will be well-treated. Considering the astonishing brutality and mistreatment the Japanese customarily meted out to Allied POWs, one supposes those Iwo Jima cave dwellers probably had every reason to fear the Marines would be similarly brutal. During previous island invasions "surrendering" Japanese killed many Americans with hidden weapons -- grenades, mostly, sometimes pistols and knives. On Saipan, the Americans demanded the Japanese strip almost naked before they could advance toward the safety of captivity. In this Iwo Jima film clip, we see the Japanese surrendering fully clothed. The Americans don't seem to be interested in searching their captives for weapons, instead, it's smiles and smokes all around. It must have been hellish to live and fight in those caves. Iwo Jima veterans reported that the sand of the island got hotter the deeper one dug into the ground and not cooler as is generally true. Sometimes the Marines sat on their helmets because the bottoms of their foxholes were so hot. Those caves could only have been hotter still. The last sequence is dated D+16 -- most likely 7 March 1945. The general officers are seen conferring over maps. They're out in the open without any sort of cover, concealment, or camouflage. This must mean Mt. Suribachi has already been thoroughly cleared of the enemy, otherwise, those officers would have been sitting ducks for long-range artillery firing from the mountain.
it is hot because a). it's a volcanic island &, b). most of those are sulphur caves, which are generally steaming hot as the absorb the heat from that island. c). generally if you dig deeper it will be hotter not cooler.
Iwo was literally hell on earth for several weeks. The Japanese prisoners look remarkably fit, considering water was scarce, the temperature in those caves was high, food was scarce, and then there's all the fumes... the sulfuric and other gases in the caves, plus whatever bombs, napalm, and explosives it took to drive the Japanese so deep in to them. As the U.S. military might (naval fleets and armadas of aircraft) surrounded the island, those thousands of Japanese soldiers knew they were living the last days of their lives, and that they would soon end violently... except for these handful of lucky prisoners
On Makin Island, 200 Korean laborers were evacuated by the Japanese to an underground ammunition dump, but when the Marines discovered the ammunition dump, they threw a grenade into it, killing half of them and leaving only 104 survivors.
The greatest generation, we pale in comparison we are so soft ,my dad and uncles were apart of this generation all good blokes and tough men god bless this generation and thanks ,from Australia
@@gnarlax2005 : It was a generation that suffered a lot, regardless the side they were in the war. After the war, people try to heal, to enjoy life a bit, and the current generations have no right to judge them. In free countries like US at least they had a better life, but in a lot of European countries behind the Iron Curtain the pain continued. I know because I came from one of those countries. We respect that generation more than people born here in US.
Had a wonderful R&R from Vietnam in Australia in 1971. Will never forget the kindness and welcome the Aussies gave us on our short one-week stay. Shout out from retired U.S. Navy/Naval Reservist in Oregon, USA.
I'm ex-Army Infantry, so I've got my biases....But then, I get to thinking about it, sometimes....And I want to say: For Belleau Wood, for Guadalcanal, for Iwo Jima, for Chosin Reservoir, for Khe San, for Fallujah.... Hell of a job, boys... Semper Fi...... *"Present Arms"
I like you have my biases (Sgt. USMC 1969 - 1980) but as I have gotten older I have found that it is the individual (soldiers,sailor, airman, and marine) that makes the difference. There is nothing like the warriors spirit.
We now live in an age where many of our politicians, some of our younger generations, mainstream media and so called journalist's would look down their woke noses at the greatest generation...as a veteran of conflicts myself, oh how so many have forgotten how and why they have the rights and freedoms which alarmingly we are losing at a terrifying rate. I salute them all and we will never forget the greatest generation.
Had it not been for the sacrifice of so many, to rid the world of persecution and oppression, we'd all be bowing to Hitler's fourth or fifth generation of offspring. And all these millionaire kneeling football players would be assigned some crappy government job doing minuscule tasks.
Its also crazy how so many forgot or don't care that they were fighting fascists back then, and now today, for some crazy reason, everyone hates anti-fascists.
Much respect to the men of this, the greatest generation, and what they endured to stop Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. Today we must never forget what our grandfathers did, which basically made war on this kind of scale a thing of the past - hopefully forever.
@Derek Mitchell For movies and TV, yeah, a lot is still dubbed, but for things like modern news footage or clips from people's phones, etc., the sound is live. But any of that would have been extremely difficult-to-impossible in the 1940s. David Attenborough, in his autobiography *_Life on Air,_* talks about the difficulty of getting sound for his documentaries in the 1950s and 60s. He was working with 16mm film and according to him at that time there didn't even exist a 16mm camera that had sound capabilities. What little live sound he did get was captured on a separate tape recorder and had to be synced with the film in the studio. Most of it, though, was stock sounds from the BBCs massive sound library. They had to generate a lot themselves too. There was one really amusing chapter where he talked about the sort of things they'd do in the recording studio to get the sound of, say, snow crunching underfoot. He gave special mention to one woman in particular who was a virtuoso when it came to generating sound effects. Good read.
@@WAFFENAMT1 Most sound and voices are dubbed in afterwards, even today. That's why it's called post production. If the director wants to capture both video and audio at the same time, he or she will shoot in a controlled environment. We call it a studio or a sound stage.
Thats amazing footage! To put in perspective the statements of Japanese cruelty. It was taught to them same as what is happening now in our education system. I think thats why schools no longer teach history because certain forces want us to repeat its folly. Also They where our greatest enemy and now our greatest allies.
Notice the lowly, simple metal folding chair, still holding its own after decades of use in gyms, church basements and battlefields on Pacific islands.
I do know that the combat engineers did a lot of "filling holes" after the battle. Some Japanese soldiers were not coming out and would gladly sneak out at night and kill anyone they could. I have read of this happening once and the troops sleeping in tents were not armed. Only sentries carried weapons.
There were actually 3 airstrips on iWo Jima and one of them was unfinished. Motoyama airstrip, and two others so hard to tell but this looks like the one furthest from the landing beaches as Suribachi is wayyyyyyy off in the distance
There is an interesting TV documentary about USMC Combat Cameraman William Genaust, one of the fifty cameramen who covered the fighting on Iwo Jima. He took the famous footage of the flag raising on the summit of Mt Suribachi. Sadly he was killed, when a few days later, he entered a cave that was still occupied by Japanese soldiers. Notable in the footage here is the way that despite the savagery of the previous weeks fighting, the Marines are shown treating their prisoners with decency.
@@zackdeew9757 if you don't then who will is what marines do. They risk themselves and suffered alot on iwo, as did the corpsman. As for treating prisoners with decency, they captured very few on iwo because the only way to capture was usually a guy injured who couldn't fight. An unwritten rule was to execute surrendering Japanese, and it happened alot.
Yes I was wondering at the surprisingly humane treatment myself. I wonder if these prisoners where Korean conscripts and thus accorded better treatment.
Flyboys is great book which lays out the war philosophy of Japanese military leaders. Their troops were sent out to these faraway places and not replenished with food provisions for instance. They were expected get those from the local area. They were known as "spirit warriors". Some of that explains their harsh treatment of civilians and POWs. My uncle was a fighter ace for the Navy in the Pacific Theater and recommended it. Also recounts George HW Bush's experience of being shot down near Iwo Jima. Fascinating .
I am glad to see these people were taken alive after hellish ordeal for prolonged period. Island of Iwo JIma has no water table under the ground. Because of its geology: active volcanic island. Japanese soldiers were constantly suffering thirst there. And I truly appreciated the patience and compassion of these Americans in uniform. Capturing them alive instead of napalming them in the cave. Very relieved to see this heart-warming scene after viewing series of gruesome footage of the combat from the the Pacific and Europe.
My first thought as well. I'm glad they survived. Unfortunately plenty of them were ready to commit suicide and take Americans with them. G.I.s didnt know who they were going to get. Fanatical warrior or simple soldier. Napalm was better than losing more troops. The bravery on either end is unimaginable. Holding a cave/bunker or storming one.
Considering Japanese didn’t surrender and when they did often tried to use it as a ruse, the Americans were brave to take prisoners and put themselves in harms way to do it. I feel as Americans we have lost our compassion. For the enemy, for our political opponents, for our neighbor. We were taught to love our neighbor, and our enemy was the one who needed it most. I pray we can revive that lost lesson of love and compassion.
Well they captured who would surrender burned drowned or asphyxiated the rest. 22,000 Japanese troops at the beginning of the battle only like 1,000 made it out alive.
Awwww, kinda warms the heart watching our boys exercise humanity after smoking out the last of the Japanese garrison near Mt. Suribachi. I cannot imagine the hell that both sides went through during the fighting for that island.
All these people saying this video is staged, I don't think it is. That guy welcoming them out was half Japanese, maybe even three quarter. He was speaking Japanese to them, and if you actually know anything about the history of how they got Japanese soldiers to surrender, you would know that it was not a sudden thing. It took hours if not days of negotiating with them to surrender, and they had to convince the soldiers that it was the legitimate thing to do, you can see that it was a commanding officer who they were negotiating with, and he had his men surrender. They had probably gotten to know each other fairly well through the negotiation process, hence no weapons. The most staged thing would be the actual smoking of the caves, it was done to help those surrendering to save face. Like they had no choice but leave. The Americans were pretty clever and respectful like that, they grew to understand their for very well during the course of the war. The Japanese let their stereotypes control their understanding of the enemy, an assumed understanding. The Americans actually learn't to understand their enemy.
I knew Gen Douglas MacAthur's personal secretary while he served in the Philippines. She was left behind and witnessed the Japanese invasion. That lady hated Japanese people, my boss at the time (Produce manager at Ralphs Grocery) was of Japanese decent and one day she saw his picture on the wall and gave it the evil eye. I will never forget the way she even looked at his picture. The stories she told me I will never forget.
@@KeshHarp Yup... I remember them, from my growing up in L.A. and hearing stories from my school classmates at Virgil Jr. High and John Marshall High, some of whose fathers joined up from Manzanar and other camps and went to fight in Italy. Shout out from retired U.S. Navy/Naval Reservist retired in Oregon (service in Vietnam, Philippines, Japan, and other locales).
I spent 5 of my 22 years wearing the EGA stationed in Okinawa. In 1995 I had about 89 Okinawans that worked for me, some were alive when the battle for Okinawa took place. I asked a guy named Misawa what his family did during the battle. He nonchalantly replied “we were here in Chatan (a village) and we went over there to a cave”...that was all he said about it.
Btw. four officers in the end of the video are generals Holland M. Smith (Fleet Marine Force Pacific), Clifton B. Cates (4th Marine Division), Harry Schmidt (V Amphibious Corps) and Franklin A. Hart (deputy to Cates)
What is notable is that neither the Marine crews doing the smoke machine ops nor those staffers milling around the DCG were wearing side arms or carrying weapons. Only the general was wearing a hard helmet. And this was only D+16, which meant the Banzai charge at the tip of the island that ended ground fighting was only days before. I never would have imagined the Marines would have been that relaxed after what they went through.
If the people whining about the title had been there they wouldn’t be complaining. I wouldn’t think of using that term to describe a Japanese person today. The Japanese people those Marines fought were very different people. Amazing footage. Thanks for posting.
As if: Hey! There below? Which do you prefer: acid smoke that suffocates the heart, burns the lungs and stings the eyes? Or smoke from Lucky Strike or Marlboro cigarettes? Japanese: stubborn commanders are dead, ammunition has run out, there is nothing to eat and the emperor is far away, that is, the smoke from cigarettes is much better. From the author: I have quit smoking and therefore do not promote smoking. So just in case.
My father was an Army Combat Engineer and was in a lot of cave fighting on Guam and Okinawa. He only mentioned it a couple times but it seemed to bring out the worst reaction in him. Apparently that cave fighting was some nasty stuff.
This is obviously footage from iwo jima right after the marines took it over! It became a fighter base for P51s that was escorting B29s that were based in the Marianas to bomb the mainland of Japan!
I’ll admit that I was surprised at how calm the Marines escorting the Japanese troops out of the caves seemed in this video. I know from reading personal accounts of Marine battles in the Pacific that some Japanese soldiers would surrender but then attack with hidden grenades or otherwise try to harm you. Obviously this behavior is not indicative of all Japanese troops, but I would have thought the Marines would be well aware of these tendencies. I was surprised at how seemingly unconcerned the Marines seemed
The events were officially filmed for the record. So what do you do when you wish something to be filmed for the record? You take your best looking, friendliest men to star and you probably also select the best Japanese POWs to star in it. For all I know the film footage was a re-enactment a short time after the real events took place. Have you ever seen film footage of actual combat conditions. A lot of camera shake, weird angles and you don't see a lot on film either. Because the cameramen were also trying to survive.
@@sportosp-0158yeah it’s just to document what happened I’m sure the actual surrender more than likely was the Japanese came out of the cave facing a whole bunch of rifles. They were then probably stripped down and searched and only after that did they do this.
@@robertmorris8997 Unfortunately we will always have that Bastard around, the guy with the cow worked hard for it, the lazy man thinks the guy with the cow is evil for not giving it to him, so goes history!
Met Hershel W. "Woody" Williams at a fund raiser. He is still a fire plug of a guy. I hope I have that much energy when I'm 92. Also met another Iwo Vet. His family was taking him to Luby's, I held the door for them and thanked him for saving the world. Because that's what they did. They said he was 95 or so.
The exception to be sure. A Japanese soldier had as much to fear from his superiors for merely suggesting surrender as he did from fighting the enemy. These guys must have made a pact to surrender instead of committing suicide together, as most of their comrades did when the situation became hopeless.
My great grandfather was in WW2. He only told me the story only because I just joined the army at 18. He captured a Japanese officer and made him beg for his life in front of his men. He spoke English. My Great Grandfather made him tell his men “ This was for Pear Harbor” he was shot in the legs and made to suffer a few minutes. Then he was shot in the face. I could only just listen. Later I was like. “ Great grandpa was a bad ass...
A war crime remains a war crime - no matter who commits it. Damming the war crimes of the other side and celebrating the war crimes of your own people is a little hypocrite, isn´t it?
The situation looks so friendly, they laugh and smoke together. Does not fit with what I heard and read, notable of 21.000 japanese, 20.000 where killed. Many fought fanatically, with last ditch suicide attacks.
Could imagine what it would have been like to have done this, for mainland Japan?!? Anyone who says we shouldn't have dropped the bomb doesn't know history. My step Dad's unit had just wrapped up the liberation of Berlin (US Britain France portion) and had to wrap his head around being shipped out for the invasion of Japan, the trip alone would have taken months...the war would have stretched onto for years and millions would have died.
Absolutely! The number of Japanese prisoners from the Battle of Okinawa is astoundingly low. They were told that they would be tortured beyond imagination and actually eaten by the Americans if they surrendered. Multitudes of both military and civilian alike committed suicide on Okinawa instead of surrendering.
Seems many of surrender japanese guy are actually not really japanese, they might be a forced labor or defence force came from many part of conquered southeast asia under japanese empire or from korean and china
@D Sullivan No, he was one who had already surrendered and was talking the others out, the young American by the entrance is, I think an interpreter or knows some Japanese and is able to communicate with them.
@@underhorse5367 yes they forced to fight by japanese, but when their master defeated they given the choice to fight to death or suicide but the choose to surrender, and in the chaos of war like that they didnt had much time to kill all of them. Remember when japanese force many okinawan to suicide but they can force all of them but many already died for that cause
My grandfather fought on iwojima he was a radar operator and was thrown onto the beach with a knife and sat in foxholes for 4 days. He said at night he would here a Japanese soldier come up and execute someone in a foxhole nearby. Following that was escorted off the beach by a flamethrower batallion. Then he watched people burnt alive. I cant even imagine.
My Uncle was on Iwo, these dudes were the lucky ones, after 20,000 Marines were wounded and 5,000 killed, he said they didn't take too many prisoners, even if they did want to surrender!
Last I heard, the US guys stopped taking prisoners long before this. Must've been the camera guy needing some propaganda footage. The Japanese had a habit of booby traps on their dead and wounded.
Amazing footage.. You can really see the humans in the japanese soldiers. Very relieved that their hell was over. These japanese survivors suffered more than anyone ever should
Sure, but that's the whole point right? America should be setting the standards. No matter how much/often an adversary treats us badly, we should always strive to be the better side.
The video title is the original title assigned in the early-1940s. That it would be inappropriate today to refer to Japanese people as "Japs" does not change history. Many historical events are uncomfortable. Confront those events and deal with them. Ignoring them is a recipe for disaster.
It wouldn’t
My father, a naval aviator referred to his former enemies as japs until the day he died. Fortunately, that was before the pc crowd could screw things up.
To be politically correct you can only refer to them as “Nips”
today.
Thanks for keeping it real. I’m tired of the censorship.
Thanks for clearing that up!
As a second generation Marine...my dad WW2 38-46 and myself Nam Vet 68-70, I love to watch anything about the Marines during WW2. I don’t know what my dad did then, he really wouldn’t talk about it but he was in the South Pacific because I saw a few pictures of him then. He passed before I turned 17 and never saw me follow in his footsteps. I think he would have been proud.
I think so too Phil
He would have been proud of you jarhead. You did outstanding so did he.
Yes. He is proud of you. And so am i . air force veteran and 3 years 7 months in Iraq.
Not only is he proud, but the whole world is proud of your sacrifice
Phil Brown knowing what war could do to a man I don't think he would want you following his foot steps
While in a Japanese bar back in the late 80’s met a Japanese vet. He said he never smoked until he became a POW. Americans kept offering him a cigarette, he took it cause he was scared to refuse. When he left he gave me his bottle of Whiskey.
Its actually a part of Japanese culture not to refuse a persons offer or gift because that would be respectless and dishonourable
@@DrHydra47 - Absolutely, this is true.
Too bad it was cigarettes!
Yet the Japanese smoke like crazy in Japan.
@@SpearFisher85 the old timers and 40 year olds do
@@SpearFisher85 cigarettes are like a culture over there
LOL THEY LOOKED FRIENDLY ENOUGH WHEN THEY CAME OUT!!
WHAT KIND OF SMOKE DID THEY BLOW DOWN THROUGH THE CAVES?? MARIJUANA??
A bit of almond scented carbon monoxide... 😆
No they shot Marijuana juice down in the caves
Believe it or not they were probably happy to have their war nightmare end. After they were forced into the military and sent to fight by their government just like many other soldiers out there. They had wives , girlfriends and families back home just like US troops did.
lmao!
They got drunk on Saki before exiting the cave not knowing what fate would befall them.
In the end, at last, we are all just a bunch of guys.
It was the Japanese Warlords grab for power. Soldiers are just following orders.
@Mister La Don't forget My Lai. They were just following orders too ... right ? I don't even know what you are talking about with that Korean comment. Do you know that they were occupied by Japan since 1910 and during WW2 ? And stating a fact that soldiers just follow orders is not " white washing " history.
@@mizzury54 Historically the Chinese then the Japanese had invaded Korea long before 1910. The Russians and The U.S. were there before 1910 also (Josean). The Koreans were considered a Japanese Colony during WW2 and many guards at POW camps were Koreans. To this day there is hostility between Japan and Korea.
Politicians start wars. Average Citizen does not. But it is Average Citizen who gets forced into fighting them. Weirdly using the money Average Citizen paid in taxes.
Graeme Glen the warrior caste and the politicians were two different entities during WW2. It was the Japanese Army that wanted to expand and the political class went along with it.
They were treated so humanely compared to the march of death and what the had done to the US pows in the Philippines.
At that time they still thought that POW is slave of war (they can do anything to them, give them hard job without paid, no food etc), that's why Japan always avoid to surrender coz they didn't want become slave like they did to the POW
Well there were cameras rolling after all.
Yea, thats what happens when the cameras are rolling. My grandmother from Okinawa told me how the americans would purposely film the civilians getting treated “fairly” only to completely change right after the cameras went off.
@@kn2549 My Uncle was castrated by the Japanese while in captivity.
Where was your Grandma then?
Snowflake!
@@gopherstate777 lol what. The Japanese were exceptionally cruel but that doesn't mean the Americans didn't commit war crimes.
I notice how most of them coming out those caves look up at the sky immediately, many probably haven't seen true daylight in months.
Probably also couldn’t believe the American AirPower flying over his head either 🤷🏼♂️
They are probably saying, " Damn! Where did all these white boys come from!"
The most forbidden documentary in history...
“Europa The Last Battle” at archive dot org
Recently been reading much about US 6th Army taking back Luzon--actually about the same time this was happening. Anyway the author relates how the Japanese were usually low on food due to being cut off etc.
That might partially be why several stumbled as they came out.
@@28282222 I believe hypoxia is a more likely cause in this situation.
Just been smoked out of a cave: 'Here is your cigarette'.
That's what my roommate told me as I was coming out of my mancave after a 48 hour long gaming session.
Love that part,,,Americans are awesome
First thing I noticed. Tobacco addiction so strong a one-lunged cancer patient can't put 'em down, but weed's the real demon. Wow.
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Hell, they treated them better than a McDonalds customer.
There is a segment of this film (@5:02) which we previously found in the Marine archive, as a high quality photograph. There is a marine in the background assisting with the removal of the japanese soldiers, whom we believe is our father, Joel G. Key 5th Marine Division. If anyone comes across anymore information about this prisoner extraction from the cave, please share. Dates and personell in particular. Enjoy.
I had a cousin in the 5th Marine Division.
James Head.
Landed on the third day, D+3.
Survived the War and has since passed away recently.
Thank you for your Father's service!
Semper Fidelis...
How neat would it be if this is your Dad. This generation is amazing. And breaks my heart to know. That we are loosing them so quickly .
It’ is sad they’re going, but they’ve more than earned their eternal rest. God bless
Find anymore info?
Did your dad survive the war
That was my grandfathers unit. He was seriously wounded 3 times before leaving the island via stretcher. God Bless the USMC.
My Grandfather, William Savidge, was a fighter pilot in WWII and was in Iwo Jima. Papa,I love and miss you.
My papa and a lot of his friends were on a boat going to land in Japan. Thankfully the war ended and I'm here today
Many of the “Japanese” on Iwo Jima, Saipan and other islands who surrendered were NOT Japanese. They were conscripted laborers from Okinawa with a few from Korea and China. They were basically “slave” laborers with no desire to die for an Emperor that they did not recognize.
@Elizabeth Brower right.
@Skippy Carlson look up jfk's brother, he died flying two unmanned "drone" aircaft over germany or japan or some shit
By the way they fought and held their positions in those battles, it's hard to know what their motivations were.
Seems that you didn't studied well bro, look at your comment, how come you said okinawa is not japan? go learn something
@@danieldimos123 ... he died when his bomber exploded.
The Japanese soldiers coming out of the cave look happy and relieved. For them, the war is over, and they are alive.
There were but a few Japanese survivors. Somewhere around 200 Japanese were captured and the remaining 20,000 Japanese defenders perished, either in combat or various acts of suicide.
Just glad they were not getting shot. Yet.
Think they were koreans
Glad that they decided to surrender and live to see their families and friends again. Sad that many didn't...
There are a number of interesting things to be seen in this video. In the first roll, we see P-51s launching from an Iwo Jima airstrip on 10 March 1945. Combat on the island concluded over two weeks later. I noticed a large amount of haze over the airstrip, probably volcanic ash. It must have been a maintenance nightmare keeping those Pratt & Whitney and Merlin engines clear of all that corrosive dust. At 1:03 we see a Taylorcraft L-2 Grasshopper taking off. These planes were primarily used for artillery spotting, short-range recon, and transporting specialist personnel such as translators to the front. With the Japanese fighting from caves and spider holes, one wonders what useful information could be gathered from a light observation plane.
The cave smoking sequence is dated D+19, which I take to mean 10 March 1945, the same day the P-51s take off in the earlier sequence, about at the halfway point in the battle. The Japanese soldiers seen emerging from the cave seem happy to surrender (Korean conscripts perhaps?) and the Marines seem to be treating them quite humanely -- remarkable considering the savage fighting still ongoing elsewhere on Iwo Jima that day. The lieutenant giving the Japanese soldiers a hand up out of their cave smiles warmly and doesn't seem worried any of the new POWs will make a grab for the M1911A1 he carries in a shoulder rig. He is seen assisted by another Japanese with POW painted on his back -- evidently a translator there to reassure the new prisoners that they will be well-treated. Considering the astonishing brutality and mistreatment the Japanese customarily meted out to Allied POWs, one supposes those Iwo Jima cave dwellers probably had every reason to fear the Marines would be similarly brutal.
During previous island invasions "surrendering" Japanese killed many Americans with hidden weapons -- grenades, mostly, sometimes pistols and knives. On Saipan, the Americans demanded the Japanese strip almost naked before they could advance toward the safety of captivity. In this Iwo Jima film clip, we see the Japanese surrendering fully clothed. The Americans don't seem to be interested in searching their captives for weapons, instead, it's smiles and smokes all around.
It must have been hellish to live and fight in those caves. Iwo Jima veterans reported that the sand of the island got hotter the deeper one dug into the ground and not cooler as is generally true. Sometimes the Marines sat on their helmets because the bottoms of their foxholes were so hot. Those caves could only have been hotter still.
The last sequence is dated D+16 -- most likely 7 March 1945. The general officers are seen conferring over maps. They're out in the open without any sort of cover, concealment, or camouflage. This must mean Mt. Suribachi has already been thoroughly cleared of the enemy, otherwise, those officers would have been sitting ducks for long-range artillery firing from the mountain.
it is hot because
a). it's a volcanic island &,
b). most of those are sulphur caves, which are generally steaming hot as the absorb the heat from that island.
c). generally if you dig deeper it will be hotter not cooler.
That’s a Stinson L5, and they were used for many things other than spotting ie: moving critically wounded to carriers, dropping surrender leaflets……
Iwo was literally hell on earth for several weeks. The Japanese prisoners look remarkably fit, considering water was scarce, the temperature in those caves was high, food was scarce, and then there's all the fumes... the sulfuric and other gases in the caves, plus whatever bombs, napalm, and explosives it took to drive the Japanese so deep in to them. As the U.S. military might (naval fleets and armadas of aircraft) surrounded the island, those thousands of Japanese soldiers knew they were living the last days of their lives, and that they would soon end violently... except for these handful of lucky prisoners
Thank you for writing what everyone saw. Mind-numbing.
On Makin Island, 200 Korean laborers were evacuated by the Japanese to an underground ammunition dump, but when the Marines discovered the ammunition dump, they threw a grenade into it, killing half of them and leaving only 104 survivors.
The greatest generation, we pale in comparison we are so soft ,my dad and uncles were apart of this generation all good blokes and tough men god bless this generation and thanks ,from Australia
@@gnarlax2005 : It was a generation that suffered a lot, regardless the side they were in the war. After the war, people try to heal, to enjoy life a bit, and the current generations have no right to judge them. In free countries like US at least they had a better life, but in a lot of European countries behind the Iron Curtain the pain continued. I know because I came from one of those countries. We respect that generation more than people born here in US.
@Clark Hull : Well said.
@Clark Hull Another "antifa" sheep speaks out.
Had a wonderful R&R from Vietnam in Australia in 1971. Will never forget the kindness and welcome the Aussies gave us on our short one-week stay. Shout out from retired U.S. Navy/Naval Reservist in Oregon, USA.
@@johnc2438 cheers mate
I'm ex-Army Infantry, so I've got my biases....But then, I get to thinking about it, sometimes....And I want to say: For Belleau Wood, for Guadalcanal, for Iwo Jima, for Chosin Reservoir, for Khe San, for Fallujah....
Hell of a job, boys... Semper Fi......
*"Present Arms"
I like you have my biases (Sgt. USMC 1969 - 1980) but as I have gotten older I have found that it is the individual (soldiers,sailor, airman, and marine) that makes the difference. There is nothing like the warriors spirit.
We now live in an age where many of our politicians, some of our younger generations, mainstream media and so called journalist's would look down their woke noses at the greatest generation...as a veteran of conflicts myself, oh how so many have forgotten how and why they have the rights and freedoms which alarmingly we are losing at a terrifying rate. I salute them all and we will never forget the greatest generation.
Oh the irony that they defended our nation from from a fascist German regime that our current administration emulates.
Had it not been for the sacrifice of so many, to rid the world of persecution and oppression, we'd all be bowing to Hitler's fourth or fifth generation of offspring. And all these millionaire kneeling football players would be assigned some crappy government job doing minuscule tasks.
Its also crazy how so many forgot or don't care that they were fighting fascists back then, and now today, for some crazy reason, everyone hates anti-fascists.
@@napoleonbonerfart278 That's because anti-fascists ARE fascists.
"as a veteran of conflicts myself..." Coming home drunk and getting yelled at by your wife doesn't count.
Semper Fi and total respect for everyone who puts on a uniform to server our country,; past, present and future.
Much respect to the men of this, the greatest generation, and what they endured to stop Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. Today we must never forget what our grandfathers did, which basically made war on this kind of scale a thing of the past - hopefully forever.
A lot of people don't realize almost all live film footage from before the 1950s was silent. Any sound you hear was dubbed in later.
@Derek Mitchell For movies and TV, yeah, a lot is still dubbed, but for things like modern news footage or clips from people's phones, etc., the sound is live. But any of that would have been extremely difficult-to-impossible in the 1940s.
David Attenborough, in his autobiography *_Life on Air,_* talks about the difficulty of getting sound for his documentaries in the 1950s and 60s. He was working with 16mm film and according to him at that time there didn't even exist a 16mm camera that had sound capabilities. What little live sound he did get was captured on a separate tape recorder and had to be synced with the film in the studio. Most of it, though, was stock sounds from the BBCs massive sound library. They had to generate a lot themselves too. There was one really amusing chapter where he talked about the sort of things they'd do in the recording studio to get the sound of, say, snow crunching underfoot. He gave special mention to one woman in particular who was a virtuoso when it came to generating sound effects. Good read.
@@Guitcad1 So basically created the Foley artist profession.
A lot later than the 50's most private film was still silent even until the 70's, this was no longer the case by the 80's...
@@WAFFENAMT1 Most sound and voices are dubbed in afterwards, even today. That's why it's called post production.
If the director wants to capture both video and audio at the same time, he or she will shoot in a controlled environment.
We call it a studio or a sound stage.
did their phones not have mics?
They thought they would treated the way they treated Prisoners of war.
they look happy- like someone who just won the lottery. i guess when you are one who survived out of thousands who died you kinda did.
Exactly and they received just the opposite ... humanity!!
yeah, they looked really happy to be done with all that nonsense
Thats amazing footage! To put in perspective the statements of Japanese cruelty. It was taught to them same as what is happening now in our education system. I think thats why schools no longer teach history because certain forces want us to repeat its folly. Also They where our greatest enemy and now our greatest allies.
@@mr.gabriel382 That's sometimes how it goes. Drop a big bully one day, and they might become your best friend.
Notice the lowly, simple metal folding chair, still holding its own after decades of use in gyms, church basements and battlefields on Pacific islands.
Thomas T........and wrestling!
Pretty interesting how peace makes men realize their common humanity.
getting the first Japanese soldier out was the hardest. After that, you just get him to shout "they have cigarettes..."
painstruck01 *Japanese soldier Comes out of cave to see LT.Spiers offering the cigarettes*
I disagree. I think it is war that make men realize their common humanity.
Actually the Japanese seem quite happy for finally coming out alive from that horrific cave.
Ironic considering the state of the western world ngl
I do know that the combat engineers did a lot of "filling holes" after the battle. Some Japanese soldiers were not coming out and would gladly sneak out at night and kill anyone they could. I have read of this happening once and the troops sleeping in tents were not armed. Only sentries carried weapons.
My wife's cousin was killed in action taking that air strip.
@liebstandarte jagermeister Sure, Libtardarte.
@liebstandarte jagermeister the soldier who has been dead for decades is more of a badass than you could be in 10 lifetimes. Go drink some antifreeze.
There were actually 3 airstrips on iWo Jima and one of them was unfinished. Motoyama airstrip, and two others so hard to tell but this looks like the one furthest from the landing beaches as Suribachi is wayyyyyyy off in the distance
There is an interesting TV documentary about USMC Combat Cameraman William Genaust, one of the fifty cameramen who covered the fighting on Iwo Jima. He took the famous footage of the flag raising on the summit of Mt Suribachi. Sadly he was killed, when a few days later, he entered a cave that was still occupied by Japanese soldiers.
Notable in the footage here is the way that despite the savagery of the previous weeks fighting, the Marines are shown treating their prisoners with decency.
I suspect the "friendly" Marines in the spanking clean uniforms did not fight.
and they never recover the body. sad.
my question is why would he enter suspicious cave??
@@zackdeew9757 if you don't then who will is what marines do. They risk themselves and suffered alot on iwo, as did the corpsman. As for treating prisoners with decency, they captured very few on iwo because the only way to capture was usually a guy injured who couldn't fight. An unwritten rule was to execute surrendering Japanese, and it happened alot.
Yes I was wondering at the surprisingly humane treatment myself. I wonder if these prisoners where Korean conscripts and thus accorded better treatment.
Those guys must’ve smashed the last of the Saki thinking they weren’t gonna make it out alive.....homeboys are fuggin Lit!
Nisei, but you were close! Refers to second generation Japanese-Americans or -Canadians
Both uncle's fought there ,it was bad.Both came back .Bless the all on both sides.
Thank you America
Flyboys is great book which lays out the war philosophy of Japanese military leaders. Their troops were sent out to these faraway places and not replenished with food provisions for instance. They were expected get those from the local area. They were known as "spirit warriors". Some of that explains their harsh treatment of civilians and POWs. My uncle was a fighter ace for the Navy in the Pacific Theater and recommended it. Also recounts George HW Bush's experience of being shot down near Iwo Jima. Fascinating .
Excellent book. The cannibalism was quite disturbing.
I am glad to see these people were taken alive after hellish ordeal for prolonged period. Island of Iwo JIma has no water table under the ground. Because of its geology: active volcanic island. Japanese soldiers were constantly suffering thirst there. And I truly appreciated the patience and compassion of these Americans in uniform. Capturing them alive instead of napalming them in the cave. Very relieved to see this heart-warming scene after viewing series of gruesome footage of the combat from the the Pacific and Europe.
My first thought as well. I'm glad they survived. Unfortunately plenty of them were ready to commit suicide and take Americans with them. G.I.s didnt know who they were going to get. Fanatical warrior or simple soldier. Napalm was better than losing more troops. The bravery on either end is unimaginable. Holding a cave/bunker or storming one.
Considering Japanese didn’t surrender and when they did often tried to use it as a ruse, the Americans were brave to take prisoners and put themselves in harms way to do it. I feel as Americans we have lost our compassion. For the enemy, for our political opponents, for our neighbor. We were taught to love our neighbor, and our enemy was the one who needed it most. I pray we can revive that lost lesson of love and compassion.
Well they captured who would surrender burned drowned or asphyxiated the rest. 22,000 Japanese troops at the beginning of the battle only like 1,000 made it out alive.
Probably Koreans. My guess.
History to be never forgotten , never forget the sacrifices from all sides
To very honest, I am not sure I have any sympathy for the Japanese
@@peterwalton1502 Same, but many were indoctrinated. We're all human after all
Never forget,, Never forgive...
@@peterwalton1502 I wish they did all those things to your family instead
"Hi Yoshi , I'm Fred, would you like a smoke? ". They come out from smoking and they are offered smokes at the exit. YOU gotta be kidding me
Awwww, kinda warms the heart watching our boys exercise humanity after smoking out the last of the Japanese garrison near Mt. Suribachi. I cannot imagine the hell that both sides went through during the fighting for that island.
Real strength?....when you got somebody by the balls...but still choose compassion and caring....SEMPER FI!!!!!
Absolutely love this channel
Probably the Smartest Japanese soldiers of the War
Marines are treating these guys pretty good, I doubt it would be the same if the marines had to surrender!
Japanese soldier: well yes, but actually, no
Don't be that naive. In front of the camera everything is good, until the camera shuts sown.
Yeah it's widely admitted that Marines took no prisoners in later campaigns.
Well no shit they are being filmed. Would you like to be filmed treating other people like dogs?
Power of the propaganda machine, bud. 👍
The 4 engine planes are B-29's, not "D-29", starting at 30 seconds. Semper fi!
Those engines are the sound of history. Ever hear them in person? Wright Cyclones.
All these people saying this video is staged, I don't think it is. That guy welcoming them out was half Japanese, maybe even three quarter. He was speaking Japanese to them, and if you actually know anything about the history of how they got Japanese soldiers to surrender, you would know that it was not a sudden thing. It took hours if not days of negotiating with them to surrender, and they had to convince the soldiers that it was the legitimate thing to do, you can see that it was a commanding officer who they were negotiating with, and he had his men surrender. They had probably gotten to know each other fairly well through the negotiation process, hence no weapons. The most staged thing would be the actual smoking of the caves, it was done to help those surrendering to save face. Like they had no choice but leave. The Americans were pretty clever and respectful like that, they grew to understand their for very well during the course of the war. The Japanese let their stereotypes control their understanding of the enemy, an assumed understanding. The Americans actually learn't to understand their enemy.
I knew Gen Douglas MacAthur's personal secretary while he served in the Philippines. She was left behind and witnessed the Japanese invasion. That lady hated Japanese people, my boss at the time (Produce manager at Ralphs Grocery) was of Japanese decent and one day she saw his picture on the wall and gave it the evil eye. I will never forget the way she even looked at his picture. The stories she told me I will never forget.
Remember the 442nd RCT!
@@KeshHarp Yup... I remember them, from my growing up in L.A. and hearing stories from my school classmates at Virgil Jr. High and John Marshall High, some of whose fathers joined up from Manzanar and other camps and went to fight in Italy. Shout out from retired U.S. Navy/Naval Reservist retired in Oregon (service in Vietnam, Philippines, Japan, and other locales).
Very moving to see such compassion in the savagery of war.
The senior officers studying the map are General “Howling Mad” Smith and possibly Chesty Puller.
Watching a round-up of the Yellow Peril is always fun!
I spent 5 of my 22 years wearing the EGA stationed in Okinawa. In 1995 I had about 89 Okinawans that worked for me, some were alive when the battle for Okinawa took place. I asked a guy named Misawa what his family did during the battle. He nonchalantly replied “we were here in Chatan (a village) and we went over there to a cave”...that was all he said about it.
Btw. four officers in the end of the video are generals Holland M. Smith (Fleet Marine Force Pacific), Clifton B. Cates (4th Marine Division), Harry Schmidt (V Amphibious Corps) and Franklin A. Hart (deputy to Cates)
What is notable is that neither the Marine crews doing the smoke machine ops nor those staffers milling around the DCG were wearing side arms or carrying weapons. Only the general was wearing a hard helmet. And this was only D+16, which meant the Banzai charge at the tip of the island that ended ground fighting was only days before. I never would have imagined the Marines would have been that relaxed after what they went through.
This was probably a re-enactment a few days after the real events took place.
@AudieHolland that's was my immediate thought when the Japanese soldier came out of the cave with POW already stencilled on his back.
If the people whining about the title had been there they wouldn’t be complaining. I wouldn’t think of using that term to describe a Japanese person today. The Japanese people those Marines fought were very different people. Amazing footage. Thanks for posting.
None of the guys around the smoke generator was carrying a weapon.....?!
I noticed that too.
Me also
Not needed. They could shoot the camera at whatever they wanted to.
notice there was a guy with POW written on his back, he had gone in the hole to get the others out.
either that or all of it is staged.
I know, they were taking an awful risk which could have ended badly.
As if: Hey! There below? Which do you prefer: acid smoke that suffocates the heart, burns the lungs and stings the eyes? Or smoke from Lucky Strike or Marlboro cigarettes?
Japanese: stubborn commanders are dead, ammunition has run out, there is nothing to eat and the emperor is far away, that is, the smoke from cigarettes is much better.
From the author: I have quit smoking and therefore do not promote smoking. So just in case.
Japanese have never acknowledged anything to date. In Japan young generations have know clue what happened during WW2 🙄🙄
I realize the hug sacrifice made to take Iwo . Still, it must have been shit duty ! Look at the place! Makes Dougway look like the garden of Eden.
My father was an Army Combat Engineer and was in a lot of cave fighting on Guam and Okinawa. He only mentioned it a couple times but it seemed to bring out the worst reaction in him. Apparently that cave fighting was some nasty stuff.
Your dad is part of the Greatest Generation! Men like him saved us!
That US interpreter at the cave entrance was having a good day...a day without bloodshed, but peace and civilised contact.
This is obviously footage from iwo jima right after the marines took it over! It became a fighter base for P51s that was escorting B29s that were based in the Marianas to bomb the mainland of Japan!
5:30 Amidst the hellish carnage, it's amazing there are still smiles, banter, handshakes and cigarettes as the soldiers exit the caves.
I’ll admit that I was surprised at how calm the Marines escorting the Japanese troops out of the caves seemed in this video. I know from reading personal accounts of Marine battles in the Pacific that some Japanese soldiers would surrender but then attack with hidden grenades or otherwise try to harm you. Obviously this behavior is not indicative of all Japanese troops, but I would have thought the Marines would be well aware of these tendencies. I was surprised at how seemingly unconcerned the Marines seemed
It seems rather contrived to me also.
The events were officially filmed for the record.
So what do you do when you wish something to be filmed for the record?
You take your best looking, friendliest men to star and you probably also select the best Japanese POWs to star in it.
For all I know the film footage was a re-enactment a short time after the real events took place.
Have you ever seen film footage of actual combat conditions.
A lot of camera shake, weird angles and you don't see a lot on film either.
Because the cameramen were also trying to survive.
@@AudieHolland Most definitely staged for the cameras. The guy coming out of the cave was already bandaged up and had "POW" written on his back.
@@sportosp-0158yeah it’s just to document what happened I’m sure the actual surrender more than likely was the Japanese came out of the cave facing a whole bunch of rifles. They were then probably stripped down and searched and only after that did they do this.
@@AudieHollandthat makes perfect sense Audie , I was just thinking the same thing myself
Thank you for not putting one of those atrocious watermarks in the dead center of the screen.
People would get along pretty well, or at least leave each other be, if it wasn‘t for freaking politics.
What about the guy that covets the neighbor's cow?
@@robertmorris8997 Unfortunately we will always have that Bastard around, the guy with the cow worked hard for it, the lazy man thinks the guy with the cow is evil for not giving it to him, so goes history!
Met Hershel W. "Woody" Williams at a fund raiser. He is still a fire plug of a guy. I hope I have that much energy when I'm 92.
Also met another Iwo Vet. His family was taking him to Luby's, I held the door for them and thanked him for saving the world. Because that's what they did. They said he was 95 or so.
He just died woody
@@5552-d8b I know.
Miss all my marine friends. Best fighting force in the world.
Those poor men in those caves
Thank you for helping them
War is terrible
son of survivor of two Jima. the only part of his service record he didn't talk about.
The exception to be sure. A Japanese soldier had as much to fear from his superiors for merely suggesting surrender as he did from fighting the enemy.
These guys must have made a pact to surrender instead of committing suicide together, as most of their comrades did when the situation became hopeless.
My great grandfather was in WW2. He only told me the story only because I just joined the army at 18. He captured a Japanese officer and made him beg for his life in front of his men. He spoke English. My Great Grandfather made him tell his men “ This was for Pear Harbor” he was shot in the legs and made to suffer a few minutes. Then he was shot in the face. I could only just listen. Later I was like. “ Great grandpa was a bad ass...
grandpa was a war criminal
That's nothing to be proud of.
A war crime remains a war crime - no matter who commits it. Damming the war crimes of the other side and celebrating the war crimes of your own people is a little hypocrite, isn´t it?
@@richardb6609So you're ok with the Bataan Death march there DICKB?
After reading the vitriol posted, thanks for posting the films.
no matter if you were American or Japanese, for the average soldier who fought and lived through this you're a BADASS in my book.
The Japanese military had zero ethics. I disagree with you✌️
Coming out of a Smoke Filled Cave..first thing you do is smoke a cigarette 🚬 😮😮😮😮😮
The situation looks so friendly, they laugh and smoke together. Does not fit with what I heard and read, notable of 21.000 japanese, 20.000 where killed. Many fought fanatically, with last ditch suicide attacks.
This was filmed after the battle. Smoking out the ones still hiding.
Captured Allied forces were not treated so well. Shows of humanity
I feel i must watch these, sojetimes i cant.
I have id my father on pelielu....
Yes, you must watch these. We ALL must watch these.
The misspelling of “Smoking” is hilarious and fitting
So thats how they got em out interesting . I wonder how long it took to set all that equipment up
Could imagine what it would have been like to have done this, for mainland Japan?!? Anyone who says we shouldn't have dropped the bomb doesn't know history. My step Dad's unit had just wrapped up the liberation of Berlin (US Britain France portion) and had to wrap his head around being shipped out for the invasion of Japan, the trip alone would have taken months...the war would have stretched onto for years and millions would have died.
Thanks so much, that was awesome. It must have been rare to capture on film the surrender of Japanese troops. Didn't they mostly fight to the death?
Absolutely! The number of Japanese prisoners from the Battle of Okinawa is astoundingly low.
They were told that they would be tortured beyond imagination and actually eaten by the Americans if they surrendered.
Multitudes of both military and civilian alike committed suicide on Okinawa instead of surrendering.
@@timg2088 And also were forced to.
Especially if they were from Okinawa and other regions, conscripted into the battle.
Most Japanese captured were injured so bad they couldn't resist being captured.
Good Ole Chesty Puller 10:42 with his hands in his pockets. Most decorated Marine standing right there before your eyes.
Chesty on Iwo?
@@JamesinAZ Who knows where and when that frame of the film was shot. But, you can clearly see Chesty in that frame.
Crazy to see them being so friendly all the vets on jockos podcast seemed to be fighting demons
I love watching these interactions
Seems many of surrender japanese guy are actually not really japanese, they might be a forced labor or defence force came from many part of conquered southeast asia under japanese empire or from korean and china
if they were force labor they will be shot to death before Americans came, and they all wear uniforms
yes, very few Japanese looking Asian's in these prisoners.
@@underhorse5367 Nope, there were a few thousand on Iwo that survived.
@D Sullivan No, he was one who had already surrendered and was talking the others out, the young American by the entrance is, I think an interpreter or knows some Japanese and is able to communicate with them.
@@underhorse5367 yes they forced to fight by japanese, but when their master defeated they given the choice to fight to death or suicide but the choose to surrender, and in the chaos of war like that they didnt had much time to kill all of them. Remember when japanese force many okinawan to suicide but they can force all of them but many already died for that cause
Smoke them out of the cave, and the first thing they do 5:38 is give them a cigarette LOL!!
since this video doesn't have any sound. I was wondering, is the man with the black cap a Japanese speaking G.I?
I think there was an interpreter there. I didn't take note of his hat.
He may have been the company’s chaplain.
My grandfather fought on iwojima he was a radar operator and was thrown onto the beach with a knife and sat in foxholes for 4 days. He said at night he would here a Japanese soldier come up and execute someone in a foxhole nearby. Following that was escorted off the beach by a flamethrower batallion. Then he watched people burnt alive. I cant even imagine.
This looks like staged footage after the real battle? Im having a hard time beleiving how calm (and weaponless) everyone in this footage is.
My Uncle was on Iwo, these dudes were the lucky ones, after 20,000 Marines were wounded and 5,000 killed, he said they didn't take too many prisoners, even if they did want to surrender!
I got a hundred bucks that says those were luck strikes.
Dare you would lose that bet .Lucky strikes were very short cigarettes like camels probably Pall Malls
big bear hugebear yep...
Soldiers are like, thank god this bullshit is over!
If you were a Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima and wanted to surrender, best to do it when the cameras are running....
Fascinating footage of the unglamorous aspects of war.
This was uploaded 2019 and they could not find a more appropriate title? "Japs"? Seriously?
If I ever have to get smoked from a cave, I hope its by Willie Nelson and not the marines
The lt. gets a sword
When they came running out on fire the Marines called that," HOT FOOTIN IT".
Last I heard, the US guys stopped taking prisoners long before this. Must've been the camera guy needing some propaganda footage. The Japanese had a habit of booby traps on their dead and wounded.
Those people were trapped like fish in a bowl yet wouldn’t give up until the bitter end.
I wonder if that 1st Lt., in a clean uniform, did any fighting? Way too friendly from the few men I knew as a kid who fought there.
Hi Tom. Maybe he was Japanese-American and could speak Japanese; an interpreter/intelligence guy rather than a combat guy.
maybe a replacement.
Tom Perkins , I knew one who served in the Solomon’s, wouldn’t buy Japanese the rest of his life, forgive if you must but never forget.
@@hobmoor2042 Or public relations, they tended to travel with the combat photographers.
@@Coach3loli And you are exactly right, sir.
Hell yeah he is proud,and so am I never give up.
All politicians must have their children send to t front line including the emperors before going to war
Amazing footage.. You can really see the humans in the japanese soldiers. Very relieved that their hell was over. These japanese survivors suffered more than anyone ever should
Wonder what would have happened if the roles were reversed don’t think they would have been handing out cigarettes
R u sure abt tht?
Sure, but that's the whole point right? America should be setting the standards. No matter how much/often an adversary treats us badly, we should always strive to be the better side.
This footage looks like it’s after the end of the war it seems too relaxed! Incredible footage though