My Grandfather was Eleventh Airborne, and he told me about this raid. He didn't say a lot about it, most in the generation never did. When he passed in 2008 a gentleman called and wanted to attend his memorial because he was one of the prisoners in the camp and he wanted to give his thanks. I was the only one in the family that had known he was there. I have his military memorabilia locked away, it's some of my most prized possessions. My grandfather is one of my biggest heroes, and I really enjoyed hearing this story this morning. Rest easy Grandpa.
Thx for the nice write up. Your Grandpa for sure was part of the "Greatest Generation". My dad was in Army Air Corp in N Africa and my Marine Uncle fought on Saipan and other islands. When i was about 13 he showed me two Japanese Samurai swords he had. He never again talked about the war. My dad never once talked about it. And thats ok; they were in hell.
@@larrywalsh5173 they certainly were in hell. Grandpa never slept deeply, or long. His brother was Navy in the Pacific, and his demons beat him. I'm thankful for all of that generation. They tell fantastic stories. Thank you for the kind words.
@@smiththrs03Yeah. What's the chance there would be descendants of hundreds of men who, risked their skins in the operation to free these POWs, and that they would know about facebook? Just absurd, when you think about it! One thing is for sure; you haven't done anything.
My Dad was in the Merchant Marines during the war. He mentioned that his ship was one of the ships that supplied Manila after we re-took it. He said that his ship was in the Lingayen Gulf during this action, and that mortar rounds were falling all around his ship. After the action was over, he was allowed to go ashore to help with logistics. He was an officer, so he had a little leeway to "sight-see". I have a picture of him on a Donkey, and he went through a town square, where he happened upon a G.I. on a dozer. There were MP's EVERYWHERE. He asked one of them what was going on, and he said, "We're burning Money!" The dozer was turning over a big pile of burning money, all of it One Hundred Dollar Bills. The Japanese had made the Philippine's print Tons of counterfeit American money. The wind blew a few of them around his donkey, and he picked one of them up and looked at it...he said that it was so obvious that it was fake that it made him Laugh. One of the many of his stories of the war that I hold dear. I miss my Dad. RIP Dad.
Had two teachers Mech Vets! one missing an arm, had a Hook, Mr Chick, other was kid in occupied Holland and became a Mech as WAR went on and he got Old Enough. Mr Chick was Torpedoed in the Battle of the Atlantic, AND Again in the latter part of the Pacific where he lost his arm. No One Knows what the Mech Dis for US and our Allies! basically? Press Ganged under martial law subject to military regs.
My great grandfather, and his sister were prisoners at Los Baños. They made it out alive, but carried the mental scars for life. It's important to remember, Los Baños was pretty much only civilians. They were literally starved to death by the camp commander.
Other than taking place in the Phillipines during WWII my story has little to do with this. But anytime I see something about WWII in the Phillipines, I am reminded of this. A few years ago I met an old widow. I could tell by the pics in her house that he had been a WWII veteran. I assumed he had been stationed in Japan after the war because there were lots of what looked like far eastern artifacts and pictures of him holding Japanese weapons. The true story was much more interesting. One day she gave me a small book. Only about 200 pages long. It was written by her late husband. Turns out. He was stationed in The Philipines at the start of WWII. He caught malaria right before the American Surrender. Because he was ill,he wasnt forced into the Bataan Death March. He went by abulance. At one point they thought he was going to die so they threw him on the side of the road. He survived several hours before another ambulance picked him up again. He spent 2 years in a prison camp before finally escaping from a ship as they were being transferred to Japan. He spent most of the rest of the war as one of thr leaders of a band of Fillipino guerrilas fighting the Japanese before finally joining up with the returning American forces. The book was incredible. But there was one thing I found funny at first. The way he talked about food. He had long descriptions of the food he ate, what it looked like, what it tasted like. Then it hit me. During his 2 years as a prisoner, the Japanese kept him on the brink of starvation. He said that It kept the prisiners from escaping if they were too weak to run far. When he did get food in the camp, he savored every bite. After he escaped,he was very popular among the locals because he was American and a good fighter. Everywhere he went, villagers gave him and his men food of all sorts and he could recall in great detail all the tastes since he had starved for so long. Unfortunately the book (The sea was my last hope?) is out of print. I eventually let family borrow it and encouraged them to let others read it too just to share the story. I no longer know where it is.
that is absolutely untrue and Serling himself corrected that falsehood several times. A press agent made that claim. That kind of thing was common for Hollywood stars who served, press agents would exaggerate service. (eg Jason Robards falsely listed as Navy cros). Serling he was HQ staff with 11th and absolutely did not go to Los Banos. There is even a euons about his CIB as regimental staff all got them even if they were not inc ombat. My own dad was 511th of 11th and on los Banos and is listed, as is everyone who went on raid in "Angels" book about the division. Serling is not on that list. My dad actually combat jumped, twice, from, of all things, Cessnas onto small Japanese held jungle positions while with 511 PIR and was awarded a bronze star for it.
The movie was about the raid & rescue of Cabanatuan POW camp. This is the Los Banos raid & rescue in Laguna. Mostly foreign civilians were in this jail camp.
Battlefield Bad Company 2, this is one of the missions in the game. It's a great recounting of a historical operation, that's taken on legendary status.
The beach mentioned is the lake side shoreline of Laguna de bay lake. During the rescue, the Allied forces are not yet in full control of Laguna & Metro Manila areas. The main US forces are stationed on the other side of Laguna lake.
Los Baños, Batangas and Laguna. These three villages paid the price. The prisoners were saved from certain death. The death sentence was passed over to the villagers. Japanese war criminals came after the rescue and murdered over 1500. Be heading, stabbing and burned alive. A token force of Filipino guerillas were left behind as ‘security’. History books forgot to mention that part.
It's hard to believe anyone was dumb enough to stay. Given the treatment they had already received and the fact they had heard what happened to other POWs.
No civilian prisoners were left behind. The guerillas desired the 11th to stay in Los Baños since the diversionary attack from Lecheria was going well, and that the US forces could actually punch through to LB. But the 11th withdrew back to Cabuyao, and brought the prisoners to Bilibid Prison for treatment. The residents who were left behind were the ones massacred. These are on "Raid at Los Baños".
Because people have a nuanced look on historical events? Vietnam isn't exactly your finest hour, neither is doing business with General Noriega in drugs and then invading him when he got too greedy. All countries have light and shade.
I read that their jump was under 500ft. At that height you need not pack a reserve, you would not have time to deploy it. You could not buy a seat on that combat jump. 11th Airborne has been reactivated in Alaska. AATW!
Pop escaped in New Guinea, they had him gathering fire wood when he ran into the jungle & was taken to where to the Australians were hiding out by a local. He knew they only kept prisoners for around 20 days when they became to weak to work & they would hang them saving a bullet.. He said the greatest day in his life was the US dropped nukes on Japan. He said he laughed & partied. Later I understood why, because he witnessed what they did to his mates, showing no mercy, eating their Red Cross meals in front of them, pouring hot water into some of the guys eyes if they looked at them. He was shocked to find out jap prisoner got hot meals at the pow camp at Cowra.
They werent PoWs. They were local townspeople. The PoW Camp was a former University-turned into an interment camp right smack in the middle of town. The townspeople were briefed and asked to vacate Los Baños by the local guerilla unit, PQOG home-guard units before the raid. The TH-camr failed to mention this but the whole town was evacuated except for a couple of thousands who were living in the outskirts of town.
That’s a bit of a stretch. At 500 ft the T 10s will fully deploy, your time under canapé is about 10 to 15 seconds. Now if it fails to deploy or you suffer some malfunction you would not have time to employ a reserve. Then you would become a “dirt dart.” 800 is about the lowest you can jump and still have a fair chance of deploying a reserve.
@@dilligaf8349 They werent PoWs. Yjeu were local townspeople. The PoW Camp was a former University right smack in the middle of town. The townspeople were briefed and asked to vacate Los Baños by the local PQOG home-guard units before the raid. The whole town was evacuated except for a couple of thousand. There will always be people who will refuse to go.
Los Baños held mostly civilian internees, Cabanatuan held soldiers from the Bataan Campaign. Different prison camps, different operations, both successful.
Thats it, I unsubscribed, they have made countless documentaries and a few movies about this raid but you decide to insult your viewers with this title, great work Einstein!!!
That was the great raid (name of the movie) Cabanatuan POW camp. This is a different camp, planned, based on the success of the first...nearly or most of the prisoners at Los Banos camp were civilians, and the only military POWs were nurses. I am a war buff, knew all about the first, didn't know about this...just saying. Plus if you saw those docs and movies, the Americans had no amphibious tanks the first time, he even mentioned not to get the two confused at the start of the doc. think you owe him an apology.
One should explain to me how this great general who from mid 1941 received repetedly warnings of a possible/impending Japanese attack on the Philippines he had the responsibility to defend... why was he COMPLETELY caught with his pants down when it happened in December 1941 ! You wouldn't believe... but less than 9 years later (1950) he was again, similarly caught with his pants down when North Korea attacked South Korea he was responsible to defend ! He never saw anything coming... and his only response was to use the atomic bomb 😂 (before Truman wisely retired him)
Because the US Government wasn't prepared anywhere for a Japanese attack. If it were to happen. They believed the Japanese would file a formal declaration of war before the started anything. Which would have been days or months after the declaration was delivered. The Attack on Pearl Harbor started at 7 am local time. That was 1 pm in Washington DC. The Japanese ambassador did not deliver the declaration of war until two hours after the Pearl Harbor Attack. At 8:30 am in the Philippines the Japanese landed troops on the northern most island. By 6:30 PM Dec 7th Hawaii time it was 12:30 PM Dec 8th in the Philippines. When the Japanese attacked the main US military bases by air. Even though it's a day difference by the international date line. It all happened on the same day. they didn't have international telephones back then. Everything overseas was sent by telegraph, and it wasn't a direct line. It was relayed from telegraph office to telegraph office until it reached the Philippines and vice versa to the War department in Washington DC. So the news took time to reach Mcauther, it took even longer to verify what he was told. Which he had to do. He couldn't do much without conformation. By the time he got the conformation he was already under attack. Also they did not have modern weapons in the Philippines. All their arms and ammunition were from WWI. He was to be resupplied with newer equipment. But the US Government kept putting it off thinking it wasn't really necessary.
@@danor6812 That was the official version the US government gave for 35 years... before admitting America had deciphered some of the many codes used by the Japanese Navy and though US didn't know precisely where and how the attack would be conducted... they knew about the preparation of an attack... hense the several warning memos McArthur received ! We have proof of that !
Arnold Wazzahnegguh may have co-opted the phrase, and it's known as his signature line.., but General Douglas MacArthur said it first! "Aah'll be baahk!" were his actual words, though the fussy, nerds in the Military Bureaucracy thought, "I shall return!" sounded classier.., more refined.., dignified... Yep, PR was a thing, --even-- especially during the Double-ya, Double-ya, Dueces... We were, after all, allied with the 'Stiff-Upper-Lippers," -- the Jolley-Ol' Chaps o' Britain... Oxford and Cambridge, don'-cha know? Can't be sounding like a hick from Texas, now can he? (Just because he came from Texas)
They werent PoWs. They were local townspeople. The PoW Camp was a former University-turned into an interment camp right smack in the middle of town. The townspeople were briefed and asked to vacate Los Baños by the local guerilla unit, PQOG home-guard units before the raid. The whole town was evacuated except for a couple of thousand. There will always be people who will refuse to go.
Damn! I have a Zippo lighter that was a gift from Sen Ralph Swing to a "Cowboy Actor" Joe (?)- I forget his last name, I'll have to locate the lighter again- I wonder if Senator Swing was related to Joseph Swing? San Bernardino California's Swing Auditorium was named for Ralph Swing.
He was ordered out. Not to save him. But to save the moral of the country. Having a 3 star general captured or killed that early in the war wouldn't have been too good.
It’s inconceivable to imagine our current hollowed out shells of real soldiers attempting this feat today. They might misgender each other on the way to the camp. Can you imagine a being shot during the assault and relying on a trans man to hoist you on his back to carry you out?
Just devils advocating here, but if they are trained to the military standards then it doesn’t matter what their gender is? Though I will agree there is a biological advantage with Men on average for upper body strength, but everyone is different and as said if trained to military standards then they can surely carry a person quite some distance. And it depends on the environment too how quickly that is done! :)
You should play dumbass advocate. Anyone with good sense, and the refusal to lie to themselves, and the spine to call a lie, a lie, and has spent time in ossama hussainnie obama queer military know that these queers, or the women are given pass marks for simply showing up. I spent 21 1/2 years in the Army, I know like hell how the system gets in line to comply with this shit. I also know about the pure shit about the next comment about women being in ranger units, these women may be more fit than the average women, than does NOT mean that the decision to declare them ranger qualified was made long before they got through the process. NO ONE in the chain was going to dare disagree, as usual those with a rfew years to go til retirement, or those trying to get another promotion will absolutely kiss any ugly ass to get along. Believe a lie an be damned..
@@sssleon3320 Women have lower standers they need to pass to get in and remain in the military. If they had to pass the same physical test that men do. Then I would agree with you, but the fact is they don't. As for a transgender. Hell their not even man enough to compete in mens sports.
My Grandfather was Eleventh Airborne, and he told me about this raid. He didn't say a lot about it, most in the generation never did. When he passed in 2008 a gentleman called and wanted to attend his memorial because he was one of the prisoners in the camp and he wanted to give his thanks. I was the only one in the family that had known he was there. I have his military memorabilia locked away, it's some of my most prized possessions. My grandfather is one of my biggest heroes, and I really enjoyed hearing this story this morning. Rest easy Grandpa.
Thx for the nice write up. Your Grandpa for sure was part of the "Greatest Generation". My dad was in Army Air Corp in N Africa and my Marine Uncle fought on Saipan and other islands. When i was about 13 he showed me two Japanese Samurai swords he had. He never again talked about the war. My dad never once talked about it. And thats ok; they were in hell.
@@larrywalsh5173 they certainly were in hell. Grandpa never slept deeply, or long. His brother was Navy in the Pacific, and his demons beat him. I'm thankful for all of that generation. They tell fantastic stories. Thank you for the kind words.
He likely never did a thing.
My great grandfather, and his sister were prisoners there. Both made it out alive, thanks to this rescue.
@@smiththrs03Yeah. What's the chance there would be descendants of hundreds of men who, risked their skins in the operation to free these POWs, and that they would know about facebook? Just absurd, when you think about it!
One thing is for sure; you haven't done anything.
My Dad was in the Merchant Marines during the war. He mentioned that his ship was one of the ships that supplied Manila after we re-took it.
He said that his ship was in the Lingayen Gulf during this action, and that mortar rounds were falling all around his ship. After the action was over,
he was allowed to go ashore to help with logistics. He was an officer, so he had a little leeway to "sight-see". I have a picture of him on a Donkey,
and he went through a town square, where he happened upon a G.I. on a dozer. There were MP's EVERYWHERE. He asked one of them what was going
on, and he said, "We're burning Money!" The dozer was turning over a big pile of burning money, all of it One Hundred Dollar Bills. The Japanese had
made the Philippine's print Tons of counterfeit American money. The wind blew a few of them around his donkey, and he picked one of them up and
looked at it...he said that it was so obvious that it was fake that it made him Laugh. One of the many of his stories of the war that I hold dear.
I miss my Dad. RIP Dad.
Had two teachers Mech Vets! one missing an arm, had a Hook, Mr Chick, other was kid in occupied Holland and became a Mech as WAR went on and he got Old Enough. Mr Chick was Torpedoed in the Battle of the Atlantic, AND Again in the latter part of the Pacific where he lost his arm.
No One Knows what the Mech Dis for US and our Allies! basically? Press Ganged under martial law subject to military regs.
Thank you millions of times. All those souls in just one war and those that miss them or loved them. Should be honored.
My great grandfather, and his sister were prisoners at Los Baños. They made it out alive, but carried the mental scars for life. It's important to remember, Los Baños was pretty much only civilians. They were literally starved to death by the camp commander.
"The Great Raid"
Different POW camp.
Other than taking place in the Phillipines during WWII my story has little to do with this. But anytime I see something about WWII in the Phillipines, I am reminded of this.
A few years ago I met an old widow. I could tell by the pics in her house that he had been a WWII veteran. I assumed he had been stationed in Japan after the war because there were lots of what looked like far eastern artifacts and pictures of him holding Japanese weapons. The true story was much more interesting.
One day she gave me a small book. Only about 200 pages long. It was written by her late husband. Turns out. He was stationed in The Philipines at the start of WWII. He caught malaria right before the American Surrender. Because he was ill,he wasnt forced into the Bataan Death March. He went by abulance. At one point they thought he was going to die so they threw him on the side of the road. He survived several hours before another ambulance picked him up again.
He spent 2 years in a prison camp before finally escaping from a ship as they were being transferred to Japan. He spent most of the rest of the war as one of thr leaders of a band of Fillipino guerrilas fighting the Japanese before finally joining up with the returning American forces.
The book was incredible. But there was one thing I found funny at first. The way he talked about food. He had long descriptions of the food he ate, what it looked like, what it tasted like.
Then it hit me. During his 2 years as a prisoner, the Japanese kept him on the brink of starvation. He said that It kept the prisiners from escaping if they were too weak to run far. When he did get food in the camp, he savored every bite. After he escaped,he was very popular among the locals because he was American and a good fighter. Everywhere he went, villagers gave him and his men food of all sorts and he could recall in great detail all the tastes since he had starved for so long.
Unfortunately the book (The sea was my last hope?) is out of print. I eventually let family borrow it and encouraged them to let others read it too just to share the story. I no longer know where it is.
Rod Serling was one of the paratroopers that jumped into Los Banos.
He's also narrating this video
@@MeyerBen27uh no he’s not narrating.
that is absolutely untrue and Serling himself corrected that falsehood several times. A press agent made that claim. That kind of thing was common for Hollywood stars who served, press agents would exaggerate service. (eg Jason Robards falsely listed as Navy cros). Serling he was HQ staff with 11th and absolutely did not go to Los Banos. There is even a euons about his CIB as regimental staff all got them even if they were not inc ombat. My own dad was 511th of 11th and on los Banos and is listed, as is everyone who went on raid in "Angels" book about the division. Serling is not on that list. My dad actually combat jumped, twice, from, of all things, Cessnas onto small Japanese held jungle positions while with 511 PIR and was awarded a bronze star for it.
@@kellyharper8072Meyer is being sarcastic
Wow!
Those 101st Airborne troopers pictured gearing up for June 6,1944
D-day jump into Normandy weren’t part of this Pacific theatre mission…
You caught that too.
💯🤔G-14 classified.😮
Indeed. That was Jake McNeice and the filthy thirteen getting all mohawked up.
@@johnbraggHe deserves a video of his own! The Fat Electron did one over a year ago.
@@steveb6103 I have seen it and it was very good.
This is an interesting documentary. I love your videos!
Filipino here. I must say your pronunciation of Tagalog words is on point!
Heen-dee koh ah-lam, ang see-no sah-bay mo - today you tell me something, tomorrow I don't know!
You need to watch the movie
The great raid
It was base on the liberation of pow on a japanese prison camp..
I seen this movie a few years ago. Benjamin Pratt played the commander
@@christophersilsby7829 I don't know the name of the actor. But it was a great movie to watch.
@@christophersilsby7829I SAW this movie.
The movie was about the raid & rescue of Cabanatuan POW camp.
This is the Los Banos raid & rescue in Laguna. Mostly foreign civilians were in this jail camp.
Different POW camp.
Battlefield Bad Company 2, this is one of the missions in the game. It's a great recounting of a historical operation, that's taken on legendary status.
The beach mentioned is the lake side shoreline of Laguna de bay lake. During the rescue, the Allied forces are not yet in full control of Laguna & Metro Manila areas. The main US forces are stationed on the other side of Laguna lake.
Los Baños, Batangas and Laguna. These three villages paid the price. The prisoners were saved from certain death. The death sentence was passed over to the villagers. Japanese war criminals came after the rescue and murdered over 1500. Be heading, stabbing and burned alive. A token force of Filipino guerillas were left behind as ‘security’. History books forgot to mention that part.
Never heard this before and it's a great war story.
It's hard to believe anyone was dumb enough to stay. Given the treatment they had already received and the fact they had heard what happened to other POWs.
No civilian prisoners were left behind. The guerillas desired the 11th to stay in Los Baños since the diversionary attack from Lecheria was going well, and that the US forces could actually punch through to LB. But the 11th withdrew back to Cabuyao, and brought the prisoners to Bilibid Prison for treatment.
The residents who were left behind were the ones massacred.
These are on "Raid at Los Baños".
I enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Awesome. How can anyone not be proud to be an American? We've done so much badassery.
Because people have a nuanced look on historical events?
Vietnam isn't exactly your finest hour, neither is doing business with General Noriega in drugs and then invading him when he got too greedy.
All countries have light and shade.
The rest of the allied forces, were in it longer. By size, put more into it.
Chilly February morning in the Philippines?!!!!😂 The temp there in February would be 75° to 80° Fahrenheit!!!
That made me laugh too! 40 in Feb is a chilly morning
I read that their jump was under 500ft. At that height you need not pack a reserve, you would not have time to deploy it. You could not buy a seat on that combat jump. 11th Airborne has been reactivated in Alaska. AATW!
i love your accent when mentioning philippines provinces and cities
Pop escaped in New Guinea, they had him gathering fire wood when he ran into the jungle & was taken to where to the Australians were hiding out by a local. He knew they only kept prisoners for around 20 days when they became to weak to work & they would hang them saving a bullet.. He said the greatest day in his life was the US dropped nukes on Japan. He said he laughed & partied. Later I understood why, because he witnessed what they did to his mates, showing no mercy, eating their Red Cross meals in front of them, pouring hot water into some of the guys eyes if they looked at them. He was shocked to find out jap prisoner got hot meals at the pow camp at Cowra.
This would make a great movie!
Bad choice for those 1,500 who stayed behind. I'm sure they were warned about how the Japanese would treat them.
They werent PoWs. They were local townspeople. The PoW Camp was a former University-turned into an interment camp right smack in the middle of town. The townspeople were briefed and asked to vacate Los Baños by the local guerilla unit, PQOG home-guard units before the raid. The TH-camr failed to mention this but the whole town was evacuated except for a couple of thousands who were living in the outskirts of town.
That may be so but the ground troops are the ones who risk theirs necks no matter what type of insertion that was selected
I have never heard of this operation. Just brilliant, well done America.
There's a great movie about it
what's it called?@@williamwaits
@@copferthat the great raid, several years old so should be easy to get.
Cheers pal
How is this not a movie already? I can guess.
Them paratroopers just bounced off the ground, that parachute did nothing lol
That’s a bit of a stretch. At 500 ft the T 10s will fully deploy, your time under canapé is about 10 to 15 seconds. Now if it fails to deploy or you suffer some malfunction you would not have time to employ a reserve. Then you would become a “dirt dart.” 800 is about the lowest you can jump and still have a fair chance of deploying a reserve.
had no ideea of this op,gr8 wrk
Correction : nearly or most of the prisoners at Los Banos were cvilians, the only military POW were nurses.
Interesting, I wondered why such a large portion wanted to stay and not try to get back amongst it or head home.
@@dilligaf8349 They werent PoWs. Yjeu were local townspeople. The PoW Camp was a former University right smack in the middle of town. The townspeople were briefed and asked to vacate Los Baños by the local PQOG home-guard units before the raid. The whole town was evacuated except for a couple of thousand. There will always be people who will refuse to go.
Including some of my family who survived, thanks to this raid.
Los Baños held mostly civilian internees, Cabanatuan held soldiers from the Bataan Campaign. Different prison camps, different operations, both successful.
M1A1 Carbine?
Yes. The only difference between the M1 Carbine and the M1A1 Carbine was the stock. The A1 had the folding stock.
My Grandfather fought for the Axis side in Russia🇪🇸And I serve the Great United States! 🇺🇸
Do the Cowra breakout?..
9 minutes in and TH-cam has forced 6 ads in your video and I don't think they can do that with you being a sponcerd channel
Why would the POW’s refuse to leave?? 🤔🤔
Thats it, I unsubscribed, they have made countless documentaries and a few movies about this raid but you decide to insult your viewers with this title, great work Einstein!!!
That was the great raid (name of the movie) Cabanatuan POW camp. This is a different camp, planned, based on the success of the first...nearly or most of the prisoners at Los Banos camp were civilians, and the only military POWs were nurses. I am a war buff, knew all about the first, didn't know about this...just saying. Plus if you saw those docs and movies, the Americans had no amphibious tanks the first time, he even mentioned not to get the two confused at the start of the doc. think you owe him an apology.
One should explain to me how this great general who from mid 1941 received repetedly warnings of a possible/impending Japanese attack on the Philippines he had the responsibility to defend... why was he COMPLETELY caught with his pants down when it happened in December 1941 !
You wouldn't believe... but less than 9 years later (1950) he was again, similarly caught with his pants down when North Korea attacked South Korea he was responsible to defend !
He never saw anything coming... and his only response was to use the atomic bomb 😂 (before Truman wisely retired him)
It's easy to look smart after the fa t. You think you're smarter than MacArthur?
Because the US Government wasn't prepared anywhere for a Japanese attack. If it were to happen. They believed the Japanese would file a formal declaration of war before the started anything. Which would have been days or months after the declaration was delivered. The Attack on Pearl Harbor started at 7 am local time. That was 1 pm in Washington DC. The Japanese ambassador did not deliver the declaration of war until two hours after the Pearl Harbor Attack. At 8:30 am in the Philippines the Japanese landed troops on the northern most island. By 6:30 PM Dec 7th Hawaii time it was 12:30 PM Dec 8th in the Philippines. When the Japanese attacked the main US military bases by air. Even though it's a day difference by the international date line. It all happened on the same day. they didn't have international telephones back then. Everything overseas was sent by telegraph, and it wasn't a direct line. It was relayed from telegraph office to telegraph office until it reached the Philippines and vice versa to the War department in Washington DC. So the news took time to reach Mcauther, it took even longer to verify what he was told. Which he had to do. He couldn't do much without conformation. By the time he got the conformation he was already under attack. Also they did not have modern weapons in the Philippines. All their arms and ammunition were from WWI. He was to be resupplied with newer equipment. But the US Government kept putting it off thinking it wasn't really necessary.
@@danor6812 Shouldn't 1 a.m. be 1 p.m.? Washington D.C. is hours later than Hawaii.
@@mitchmiller7204 You're right. I had to read what I wrote. I changed it to pm
@@danor6812 That was the official version the US government gave for 35 years... before admitting America had deciphered some of the many codes used by the Japanese Navy and though US didn't know precisely where and how the attack would be conducted... they knew about the preparation of an attack... hense the several warning memos McArthur received ! We have proof of that !
Maps would have been nice.
Find a place to watch the History Channel documentary “Rescue at Dawn The Los Banos Raid” it’s very detailed.
*People of the Philippines! I have returned* - Gen. Douglas MacArthur
And the population, en masse, cried "WTF, WHY?"
Arnold Wazzahnegguh may have co-opted the phrase, and it's known as his signature line.., but General Douglas MacArthur said it first!
"Aah'll be baahk!" were his actual words, though the fussy, nerds in the Military Bureaucracy thought, "I shall return!" sounded classier.., more refined.., dignified...
Yep, PR was a thing, --even-- especially during the Double-ya, Double-ya, Dueces...
We were, after all, allied with the 'Stiff-Upper-Lippers," -- the Jolley-Ol' Chaps o' Britain...
Oxford and Cambridge, don'-cha know?
Can't be sounding like a hick from Texas, now can he?
(Just because he came from Texas)
It must really p1ss some Americans off that the British founded America
Why would some of the P.O.W.'s not want to leave?
They werent PoWs. They were local townspeople. The PoW Camp was a former University-turned into an interment camp right smack in the middle of town. The townspeople were briefed and asked to vacate Los Baños by the local guerilla unit, PQOG home-guard units before the raid. The whole town was evacuated except for a couple of thousand. There will always be people who will refuse to go.
Never heard of? They made a Hollywood movie about it.
Different POW camp.
All those tens of thousands of lives deleted thanks to the hubris of one -man- general. 😫
It's ironic how skorzeny ended up working for mossad
Except he didn't.
Lo que es irónico es que no lo ahorcaran por criminal de guerra.
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The general didn't rescue anyone. A bunch of soldiers did. MacArthur just allowed them to.
The boss always gets the credit
He could have said No.
The brass gets the credit while the ground pounders take the risk and do the real work
MacArthur's support was key. If you read history of airborne troops it was Eisenhower and Bradley who never wanted to use them
I’m a VERY dirty fighter!
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Damn! I have a Zippo lighter that was a gift from Sen Ralph Swing to a "Cowboy Actor" Joe (?)- I forget his last name, I'll have to locate the lighter again- I wonder if Senator Swing was related to Joseph Swing?
San Bernardino California's Swing Auditorium was named for Ralph Swing.
MacArther ran away and left his men behind.
LOL, NO.
Dugout Doug was his nick name, given by those who were left behind
@@teo2975 -- check your history, that’s what he did after blowing the defence of the islands.
@@DesMen-i9z -- such a great commander, leave your guys behind while you tuck tail and run.
He was ordered out. Not to save him. But to save the moral of the country. Having a 3 star general captured or killed that early in the war wouldn't have been too good.
Sounds like it's all about Macarthur's ego. What a surprise.
MacArthur was one of top five strategists in US military history. and all the best generals had ego.
It’s inconceivable to imagine our current hollowed out shells of real soldiers attempting this feat today. They might misgender each other on the way to the camp. Can you imagine a being shot during the assault and relying on a trans man to hoist you on his back to carry you out?
Just devils advocating here, but if they are trained to the military standards then it doesn’t matter what their gender is? Though I will agree there is a biological advantage with Men on average for upper body strength, but everyone is different and as said if trained to military standards then they can surely carry a person quite some distance. And it depends on the environment too how quickly that is done! :)
There are currently ten women serving in the US Army who have completed the full Ranger training course. There is an overlap in physical abilities.
You should play dumbass advocate. Anyone with good sense, and the refusal to lie to themselves, and the spine to call a lie, a lie, and has spent time in ossama hussainnie obama queer military know that these queers, or the women are given pass marks for simply showing up. I spent 21 1/2 years in the Army, I know like hell how the system gets in line to comply with this shit. I also know about the pure shit about the next comment about women being in ranger units, these women may be more fit than the average women, than does NOT mean that the decision to declare them ranger qualified was made long before they got through the process. NO ONE in the chain was going to dare disagree, as usual those with a rfew years to go til retirement, or those trying to get another promotion will absolutely kiss any ugly ass to get along. Believe a lie an be damned..
@@sssleon3320 Women have lower standers they need to pass to get in and remain in the military. If they had to pass the same physical test that men do. Then I would agree with you, but the fact is they don't. As for a transgender. Hell their not even man enough to compete in mens sports.
@@allangibson8494if you think those females really had the same standards to complete the ranger course you are misinformed
Probably should have stayed in the truck
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