In 1985 I read “With the Old Breed, at Pelilue and Okinawa” , by Eugene Sledge. That book changed my life. I called up the University of Birmingham in Alabama, and spoke with Mr. Sledge for about an hour. He was still teaching there. I told him how much the book effected me. He said that all veterans of WWII just want to be remembered. In the 80’s , I gave about 500 copies of the book to the high schools in Orange County, California. The next year, I went to Japan and Okinawa . I felt that I was going back 40 years in time. It was a great, sobering trip. I started to go to Memorial Day services and have missed One because of rain since then. Maybe this year might miss because of coronavirius. But, Mr Sledge, you will not be forgotten.
I know eugene’s son. He’s a huge civil war buff like myself and we go to mobile once a month for the Mobile CW round table. The sledges are an awesome family.
I have had in my possession for many years a letter written by a marine pastor to my cousin's mother who was killed on Okinawa on May 9. The somber note describes how her son was killed during the battle from a sniper's bullet. Recently I discovered the book "with the old breed" written by Mr. Sledge. On page 231 in my copy he briefly describes the assault against Awacha Ridge by Company K where my cousin was killed and reading that in his book it has connected me with a better concept of the awful, life ruining event. If all those brave men only ask to be respected and remembered, I shall not forget their sacrifice.
A salute to my old friend John Thomas Burns a member of the old breed who fought on Peleliu with the 1st Marines at the age of 17. It was an honor to have known him. RIP old war horse... you were the greatest Patriot I have ever known.
And we show that by wilfully throwing away are freedoms, identity and culture. You should check out why the germans started that war because they said there was an international communist conspiracy to control the world and today we call that the NWO. I am ashamed of all those that suffered in ww2 because apart from the communists all other deaths were in vain.
My Dad is center screen at 6:53. He's the one with the molotov cocktail. What unit was your dad? I can't find a reference to a unit that fought at Tarawa and Pelieu. My Dad also fought at Tarawa.
Nelson Jackson why does he have to be 80? Lmao, his mom could be 10 years younger than her brother, and then didn’t have her kid until she was 30, OP would be like 50’s
The Yamato people are all Japanese, a family connected to Emperor Jimmu. It's proof. Hakko Ichiu means that the world is like a family. This shows the fundamental principle of the international order, and the international order to date has been a weak and strong diet. A strong country exploits a weak country. However, Ichiu, the order of the family, does not mean that the strongest patriarch exploits the weakest family! A home is a system in which strong people work for weak people. The strongest country in the world is the weak country, the system that he does working for the weak people When it is possible, the world will be peaceful for the first time. Japan is the strongest, and The Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Area is united with the heart that gave birth to the heaven and earth. It was a battle to win racist excretion and fair trade Proud Japanese who fought in the Greater East Asia War! The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The indiscriminate bombing of the Hawaii attack Not indiscriminate bombing NO It was a human experiment. America is, You should apologize. That is true It's an alliance
@MeGusta109 ttps://w.atwiki.jp/japanplus/pages/16.html 第二次世界大戦において、日本人は日本のためよりも、むしろ戦争によって利益を得た他の国々のために偉大な歴史を残した。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]On world War II,[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）On World War II, Japan left a great history, not only for Japan, but also for the other countries that got benefits from war.
(第３案）In World War II, Japan contributed a great history to the countries benefited by the war rather than its own country.
【確定】On World War II, Japan achieved a great deal in the history, not of its own, but rather of the other countries benefited by the war.
それらの国々とは、日本の掲げた理想、大東亜共栄圏に含まれた国々である。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）They are the Asian countries that are included in Japan's ideal, "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".
（第二案）These countries includes in the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere which Japan has raised its ideal.
【確定】Those countries were included in the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere that Japan idealized.
アーノルド・J・トインビー[文字列の折り返しの区切り]Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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シンガポール陥落は、白人植民地主義の歴史に終焉をもたらした。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】（第一案）The fall of Singapore brought an end to the history of white people's colonialism.
（第二案）The fall of Singapore brought an end to the history of white race colonialism in Asia.
シャルル・ドゴール[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（仏大統領）[文字列の折り返しの区切り]Charles de Gaulle[文字列の折り返しの区切り](French President)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】(Former French President)
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日本軍により、欧米のアジア支配は粉砕された。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）By the Japanese army, the Asia's domination by Europe and the US was crushed.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）By the Japanese military forces, the Asian domination by the white race has ended.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】By the Japanese army, white domination of Asia was ended.
これはアジアに自信を与えた。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】（第一案）Japan's actions gave confidence to Asia.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）This military actions gave confidence to all Asians.
大戦後 15年以内にアジアの植民地は全て解放された。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案） All colonies of Asia were released within 15 years after the World War II.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）Within 15 years, all the Asian colonies were liberated.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】All colonies in Asia were liberated within 15 years after the World War II
(Singaporean Prime Minister)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）(Prime Minister of Singapore)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】(Former Prime Minister of Singapore)
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我々を白人支配から救い出してくれたのは日本だった[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）The country which saved us from the rules of whites was Japan.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）Japan liberated us from white rules.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】Thanks to Japan, we were liberated from white rule.
我々は大戦終盤に日本を見限ったが、その恩は決して忘れない。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）Although we had abandoned Japan in the end of the World War II, we never forget the Japan's kindness.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）Although we abandoned Japan at the end of the War, we never forget their kindness done to us.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】Although we abandoned Japan in the end of the war, we will never forget the debt of gratitude we owe.
日本ほどアジアに貢献した国はない。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）There is no other country like Japan which has contributed to Asia.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）Japan is the only country which contributed to Asia.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】No other country has ever contributed so much to Asia as Japan.
しかし、日本ほど誤解を受けている国もない。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）However, there is also no country like Japan that has been so misunderstood[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）However, there is no country as Japan that has been misunderstood.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】However, no other country has been misunderstood as seriously as Japan.
My Dad was a 18 year old US Navy Hospital Corpsman on Tarawa and Pelilu.He was involved in all the major battles in the Pacific. Needless to say,he had a very strong dislike for the Japanese until the very end of his days. I grew up hearing his stories and made sure that I never forgot them.
The planers said it was a 2 or 3 day job. Most of the press decided to stay on board the ships. Turns out it took 73 days of extremely hard fighting. The best personal account by far is a book by Eugene Sledge, WITH THE OLD BREED. This is the best account of what it was like to be a young Marine fighting the Japanese. His story was used in the Ken Burns documentary " THE WAR", also his book was used in making the miniseries "THE PACIFIC". A must read for anyone who wants to know what it was really like.
Your response needs no answer if your so ignorant to even ask a question like that. Pray you never have to be in the situation these brave men were in......on both sides.
Yes, you have heard it said that.........and Christ showed a better deed than that. He laid His life down for His enemies. Truly brave and courageous men on both sides.
The army fought many battles in the pacific. Never get any credit for it, seems their role in Europe over shadowed what they accomplished in the pacific
@@romegavadquez6310 true. The Army played a massive role in the Pacific, right alongside the Marines. But the European War took precedence in the eyes of the world.
@@romegavadquez6310 yes they did, my Father was in the 1st Marine Division and fought along side many Army soldiers on Pelielu and Okinawa. He never had anything bad to say about the Army, he welcomed them as Brothers trying to attain Victory.
These guys were from the generation that grew up tough, because they had to. As kids, they seen the effects of the depression on society, and either became strong or died. I thank every one of these brave men for their commitment to their Country, and they didn't whine as most do today.
Peleliu ~ one of the most Important Battles in history. Peleliu taught the US Marines and Navy A LOT about Island battles. The Japanese fought very differently and showed 'new' techniques and abilities like not before. GOD Bless All who Serve, Served, and their famileis and loved ones! Be Safe out there. Peace & Health ~ Amen
My dad was in the 1st Marine Division he was a forward Observer mortar crew , I have pictures he took September 15th through the 19th 1944 at bloody nose Ridge lost most all his Marine buddies paulu was 125 degrees in the shade he said, there was nowhere safe .one of the pictures he took at a block house where he was evacuating wounded with a marine named red, his friend got killed after my father took the picture. My father then went back up the hill and the corsairs were dropping napalm so close to him the heat burn his eyebrows.. years after the war when he was dying from the mental torment and the shrapnel he carried in his stomach he said put me in Arlington with my buddies . I should have died with them 40 years ago.. that generation of Marines were called the breed ,I hope they will never be forgot.
✌️🇺🇸 Yes ...I do hope and pray that all of the Brave men... That fought for Our Freedom....Will Never Be Forgotten. My Father is also 1st Marine Division....First wave to land at Guadalcanal and then at Okinawa. 1942-46. He passed away in 1996. I am now 73 and I miss him everyday. 💞 Love and Peace to All Our Brave Veterans...Never to Be Forgotten.💞🇺🇸💙✌️
i gave a copy of the book "iwo jima" to my cancer doctor several christmas's ago. he said it was one of the best christmas gifts he has ever received. he was never a marine but he knows, he knows.
Shigeru Mizuki is a Japanese ww2 veteran who sadly passed away. He was a famous comic author and there is a comic that shows his experiences during ww2. He fought somewhere in the New Great Britain campaign
Peleliu was an especially vicious battle. One of my uncles was killed on Peleliu ,15 September, 1944. He was in A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. Family never received any details on how he was killed.
I am grateful for the sacrifice of your uncle. The hell he must have fought in. A huge chunk of our great nation died with those young men who so heroically fought in the Pacific Islands
You all prolly dont give a shit but does someone know a method to get back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb forgot my account password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me.
My Dad was in the 1st Marine Division, 1st Tank Battalion. He was not in a tank at Peleliu but carried a backpack radio. I'm pretty sure he landed at White Beach. There is a quick scene at 3:33 which shows a radio operator, but I'm not sure if it's Dad, maybe someone else. My Mom says he had many nightmares after he returned from the war.
The Yamato people are all Japanese, a family connected to Emperor Jimmu. It's proof. Hakko Ichiu means that the world is like a family. This shows the fundamental principle of the international order, and the international order to date has been a weak and strong diet. A strong country exploits a weak country. However, Ichiu, the order of the family, does not mean that the strongest patriarch exploits the weakest family! A home is a system in which strong people work for weak people. The strongest country in the world is the weak country, the system that he does working for the weak people When it is possible, the world will be peaceful for the first time. Japan is the strongest, and The Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Area is united with the heart that gave birth to the heaven and earth. It was a battle to win racist excretion and fair trade Proud Japanese who fought in the Greater East Asia War! The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The indiscriminate bombing of the Hawaii attack Not indiscriminate bombing NO It was a human experiment. America is, You should apologize. That is true It's an alliance
All battle's are the "bloodiest" and "biggest" conflict in American history. Literally you hear this on every battle of every war and Battles in between
American losses in WWII. Guadalcanal: 7,100 in 6 months Tarawa: 1,700 in 4 days Saipan: 3,430 in 25 days Peleliu: 2,340 in 2.5 months Iwo Jima: 6,825 in 37 days Okinawa: 20,200 in 82 days
A salute to my late friend Joe Boterf who landed on Peleliu in the first wave with 1/5. Which company I don’t know but he was one of five able to walk off the island 24 hrs later. I will not forget.
Always look for Harry pelecioni he stepped on a Japanese grenade to save his friends lost half his foot and that's what got him sent home finally. But not on this day he had a few more islands he had to visit first.
Schools don't have the time to discuss every WWII battle. There were so many battles going on it would take an entire school year just to discuss the war and all the battles in the Pacific. The war in Europe would take another entire school year to cover. World War Two is something people have to learn on their own. Information is out there.....more and more old military footage is being released and it can be purchased. The library is a great source of war information...One should never rely solely on the internet. There have been a great number of books written by marines, soldiers and survivors of WWII and their stories are priceless. You have to take the initiative to find out things for yourself. School is only going to cover a fraction of the war....usually D-Day.
I don't think there was one battle was worse than another in the Pacific theater. Peleliu, Okinawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima...If you made it off any of the islands alive you were one of the lucky ones!
This Battle was in '44--PELELIU is one of several Islands in the Palau Island Group. Adm Halsey tried to talk Nimitz & McArthur into Bypassing this Island. They Said NO.
MacArthur had no say one way or the other. It was the Navy's operation and Nimitz's call. In fact, MacArthur, for his part, heeded Halsey's advice and advanced the invasion date of the Philippines. Nimitz, however, insisted that Operation Stalemate II move forward because he claimed it was too late to call it off; no doubt encouraged by intelligence that Peleliu and Angaur were not heavily defended.
To make matters even worse for the Marines, adequate water rations were not made available. Lots of guys dropped from heat exhaustion and worse- heat stroke. Somebody high ranking in the quartermaster corps should have been court-marshaled.
hans granheim your too right , supply is vital, and water in this part of the world should have been #1 priority, this whole battle kicked off with that most important aspect falling by the way side. This factor also falls on enlisted to push for the resource to be put in place as a main stay through out the operation. We know what is said about the best laid plans, from experience. SALUTE TO THESE MARINES .
@@eglin32 Japanese commanders did this to their troops on Iwo Jima. Japanese defenders ran out of water,food and ammo on that Island. In my opinion the Marines did not win the island of Iwo Jima, the Japanese lost it.
The BAR and M1 in WW2 are both legendary weapons ,the men wielding them are legendary In of themselves Thankyou for you service ,you gruntpas Paved the way for the new grunts
MacArthur had nothing to do with the invasion of Peleliu. Operation Stalemate was devised exclusively by the Navy and was insisted by Nimitz. MacArthur only gets the blame because it became part of the joint Army/Navy plan to liberate the Philippines, but the Palau Islands were going to be invaded regardless of the US strategy in 1944.
While the world focused on McArthur returning to the Philippines, the marines were engaged in some of the bloodiest and most intense fighting in the war. For a riveting no holds barred description of the fighting here and the final islands toward the end of the war, listen to the podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History- Supernova in the East IV
The men at the airfield aren't engineers but U.S. Navy Seabees. This unit was only formed up in Dec of 1942, but they are the one's whom paved the seven road's to Victory. Best kept secret of WW II.
I like how both sides fought tough and determined. The US General said it would take three days and the Japanese General said invasion will be stopped by end of day. Three weeks later they are still fighting!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Aquilo que era época dos homens pois tinham muitos jovens que completaram 18 anos em plena ação de combate , e quantos daqueles jovem que nunca mais regressaram para casa , ali um copo de água limpa era um privilégio, Deus tenha todos eles em bom lugar .
I spent a year on Angaur in the early 1970s. Landed on that airstrip. It was still in good shape 30 years after it was built. In this video you saw bombs being dropped by F4U Corsairs. I have pictures of one of them on Angaur that had crashed on the northern shore. Still there after all those years. It came in with its prop turning because you can see how the blades are bent back. But even 30 years later on that plane the painted insignia was still legible. Just curious, but where did you get this video? I have seen many, but this one is indeed rare.
Japan is the first human race in Japan at the WW1 Paris conference Racism excretion bill Do you know Hakkou Ichiu? It means that humanity is a family. It is the word of His Majesty the Emperor 2000 years ago. Japan is Asia and Japan is the only independent nation. We are responsible for liberating Asia. Why did the West send troops to Asia? Thank you for answering the question. Thank you for sending the music.
It is rare to hear anything about Angaur…much less to know anyone who’s been there. I lived in Palau for a while (early 90s) and never made it to Angaur so that must have been quite the experience. Your story also reminds me of a Japanese Zero that use to be on a reef on the east side of the archipelago and we use to visit it there on our boat. It is something to see, touch and contemplate on history when you visit these locations. Cheers.
@@losttribe3001 Although its been 45 years since I was there, I think I could tell you where every artifact was, because I spent a whole year exploring the island and its burned into my memory. However, one section of the island went unexplored by me because it is a swamp. I didn't go there. Plus, there is an inland lake that I only saw from afar because it has such steep sides to it. I think it is a crater lake that is filled in by seawater that has seeped in through the porous limestone, plus rainwater. We were told it also has saltwater crocodiles in it. I wasn't going to prove that point! ;)
Respect to these brave young American Marines. Truly a battle that should never been fought. The generals responsible should have been court martialed.
Makes you wonder if the Allies ever tried building a underground Transport? I know it sounds crazy and nonplausable but I am sure the TANK came off as odd at first to but during that era of War Time most of the issues had to do with being pinned down and having to wait for Air Strikes that some times were way to close to friendly positiones but I have always wondered with all the ideas that were placed in a Architects hands during WWI, WWII that came out decades later after the Wars ended their were no prototypes of drill machine Vehicles or any transport vehicle that had to do with drilling under enemy lines, surely they had to have shopped the idea around somewhere and some point. Now dont get me wrong if there was one designed and built it wouldnt of lasted long but I like seeing the crazy vehicle ideas that came out of War Plans, not G.I.JOE/COBRA crazy vehicle designs but designs that mite have worked. I will keep looking but somewhere out there has to have been a Krang transport Drill vehicle somewhere.
I have to remember that these men were fighting for freedom all over the world and so that I could be born free a short time after the war ended! They are all heroes to me! My father’s oldest brother died on the USS Liscombe Bay in the pacific!
This has some great footage forsure. Crazy to think these kids were storming a beach through hellfire, meanwhile kids today get upset over a mean word on social media. Every single pathetic pos taking a knee for the National Anthem should be required to view stuff like this.
They did, they actually shelled further inland as the Marines moved forward. The Japanese had in limestone caves, and tunnels, rendering the shelling useless.
RVA: I think they are throwing WP (white phos grenades.) Molotovs have no explosive content unless they hit a hard surface; and only then no real explosive, just smoke and flame.
Years ago I watched a color video of this battle that ran over 30 miniutes and showed the pocket in color from the air . Have not seen it since Does anybody have that video ??
@@stanstenson8168 I know that the 81st known as the Wildcats fought on both islands.Watch in minute 5, the helmets of the soldiers:The Liberty statue is drawn.
@@anibalcesarnishizk2205 You're right. So that shot isn't at Palau at all. Looking at the island in the background, it doesn't even look like it. Good catch.
Poor brave bastards and the worst thing was there was no need to invade it had no strategic significance after MacArthur invaded the Philippines. Semper fi you American warriors respect from the uk 🇺🇸🇬🇧
A lot of non-Peleliu footage mixed in. Some of the beach clips were genuine. I've been there and you can recognize the southern and northern points that bounded the landing beaches. At the time most of the vegetation had been stripped off by naval gunfire. Today the big Japanese three strip landing field has been reduced to one narrow landing strip by the jungle having swallowed up everything once again. Pre landing pictures taken from submarine did not reveal the interior ridges of the Umbrogol Mountains where the Japanese had most of their defenses. The Marines as usual bulled straight ahead suffering huge casualties. Col Chesty Puller butchered his First Marine Regiment until his men were spent and nearly combat ineffective. He refused to allow an Army regiment afloat as the landing reserve to take over for his unit due to his pride. A lot of men died needlessly because of it. The Amphibious force commander finally had to step in and order the First Marines be relieved. Puller then got kicked stateside and did not have another combat command again until Korea. The whole landing was unnecessary. It was planned to secure the eastern flank of the Philippine Invasion. Which was launched earlier than expected. MacArthur and his commanders recommended that the landing be canceled as no longer necessary. Adm Nimitz and the Marine commanders refused and went ahead anyway resulting in the wrecking of the 1st Marine division. It took months of rebuilding before it was used again in 1945 in the Okinawa landing. In defense of the Navy, an amphibious landing is planned months in advance and convoys and troop deployments are a delicate orchestrated dance. Scrapping the landing would have left ships loaded that were due to be used in other places and troops were embarked with no where to go or return to. So it would have played havoc with other up coming operations. Sad, but a lot of men lost there lives and were maimed and crippled for nothing. The Palau Islands immediately after capture were essentially a backwater. The war moved 700 miles west and was already over 1000 miles north when Saipan was captured three months earlier.
Beach defenses were either way too strong in some areas or generally impossible to say in others. Along several points, most notably on the northern most beach and southern most beach were promontories with several thick-walled concrete bunkers, impossible to see from above and barely visible on the ground level. Other defenses were no more than several machine gunners in ditches, screened by foliage.
FROM A 75 YEAR OLD 0311 MARINE THAT SERVED IN VIETNAM TWICE. THE CORPS IS THE CORPS AND THE CORPS WILL ALWAYS BE THE CORPS! SEMPER FI TO ALL MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT CAME BEFORE ME AND THE MARINES THAT HAVE CAME SINCE!
Not sure if you're still on here but my grandfather served in Vietnam from 67-72 air cav. He passed due to cancer from the chemical's he got exposed to in the war back in '11. Respect to you as well it was a nasty war from what he told me and you guys never got the respect you deserved when you came home
@@dLimboStick wow, cheers mate, and thanks for your reply. Sounds like it'll be an interesting read, definitely source a copy, thanks again! ps. Cool name btw to :o) peace
Japan is the first human being in the world at the World War I Paris Conference Proposing a bill to eliminate racial discrimination and making Asia a fair trade under the law in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Area Japanese aiming for Asia without racial discrimination Shed blood. The Japanese lost 50,000 lives for the Korean people in the Korean War Do you know Hakko Ichiu? The Japanese, whose family is the world human beings, will not abandon the weak people until the end! Repeated racial persecution in Uighur, Uighur, Tibet and Hong Kong. Stupid! The degree of people is different from that of Chinese people.
I am 13 years old and from Egypt, even though I am not American I still love learning about what those brave men did that day. Over the past 2 years, I have been putting time and effort into learning about the great sacrifice all these men made.
The Marine Corps is currently preparing for a war just like this as we speak. The Marine Corps is restructuring more than any time since WWI from what I've learned.
In this video on Palau and one on Peleliu I saw the same black soldier. Obviously it was cut from a video and not specific to a particular battle. It would have been nice in those days if we would have recognized blacks for their contribution to the war. I wonder if he was there as a medic , stretcher bearer or supply? There were black medics on DDay in France.
Where did the color footage of the Japanese defenders come from? Is it just stock footage of other places used to fill in for example? Did Sony Pictures have a presence there?
Interesting shot of a Black soldier on the front lines ...a rare but documented occurence in the Pacific and European theatre....which on Tarawa and Peleliu happened when the stretcher bearers became targets and fought back .
Los japoneses lucharon 10@1... mostraron valor y profesionalismo, sólo con la bomba atómica lograron una rendición condicional. Saludos desde Argentina.
Nobody on here can spell peleliu? That's sad.
honestly, i struggle to spell it sometimes
Palau is correct. That is the name of the archipelago that Peleliu belongs to.
I missed that day in class!
My grandpa was in the 81st wildcat division and my father and uncles said everytime he would get drunk he would go on and on about peleliu
Palau islands.
In 1985 I read “With the Old Breed, at Pelilue and Okinawa” , by Eugene Sledge. That book changed my life. I called up the University of Birmingham in Alabama, and spoke with Mr. Sledge for about an hour. He was still teaching there. I told him how much the book effected me. He said that all veterans of WWII just want to be remembered. In the 80’s , I gave about 500 copies of the book to the high schools in Orange County, California. The next year, I went to Japan and Okinawa . I felt that I was going back 40 years in time. It was a great, sobering trip. I started to go to Memorial Day services and have missed One because of rain since then. Maybe this year might miss because of coronavirius. But, Mr Sledge, you will not be forgotten.
Thanks for keeping it alive man, not too far off from OC here
I read that book, too. It is amazing. It has led me to read other books written by the veterans of the Pacific Campaign.
Great book - always wanted 2 read it & finally did.
I know eugene’s son. He’s a huge civil war buff like myself and we go to mobile once a month for the Mobile CW round table. The sledges are an awesome family.
I have had in my possession for many years a letter written by a marine pastor to my cousin's mother who was killed on Okinawa on May 9. The somber note describes how her son was killed during the battle from a sniper's bullet. Recently I discovered the book "with the old breed" written by Mr. Sledge. On page 231 in my copy he briefly describes the assault against Awacha Ridge by Company K where my cousin was killed and reading that in his book it has connected me with a better concept of the awful, life ruining event. If all those brave men only ask to be respected and remembered, I shall not forget their sacrifice.
A salute to my old friend John Thomas Burns a member of the old breed who fought on Peleliu with the 1st Marines at the age of 17. It was an honor to have known him. RIP old war horse... you were the greatest Patriot I have ever known.
These men are the real deal. We owe them and many others like them a tremendous debt of gratitude.
And we show that by wilfully throwing away are freedoms, identity and culture. You should check out why the germans started that war because they said there was an international communist conspiracy to control the world and today we call that the NWO. I am ashamed of all those that suffered in ww2 because apart from the communists all other deaths were in vain.
My Dad fought here and Tarawa before he turned 20. None of these Marines came home without nightmares.
did he know Jim Hubbard who was at both places with Marines.
@@ozzyoswald7434 He could have, Dad passed in '87
@Tim Cantrell SO MANY DID IT'S SO SAD
My Dad is center screen at 6:53. He's the one with the molotov cocktail. What unit was your dad? I can't find a reference to a unit that fought at Tarawa and Pelieu. My Dad also fought at Tarawa.
I was in the USMC Infantry and served in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. Your dad is a badass.
My Uncle ... Labin Foster was MIA on the island and never found. God bless you Unc! God bless all of our servicemen!
Your uncle? How old are you? 80?
He ended up as sushi
@@nelsonjackson5718 👍
Nelson Jackson why does he have to be 80? Lmao, his mom could be 10 years younger than her brother, and then didn’t have her kid until she was 30, OP would be like 50’s
@@nelsonjackson5718 I’m 66 and doing well.
Respect to the camera crew. They are in the thick of it at the front line, along with those brave marines.
The Yamato people are all Japanese, a family connected to Emperor Jimmu.
It's proof. Hakko Ichiu means that the world is like a family.
This shows the fundamental principle of the international order, and the international order to date has been a weak and strong diet.
A strong country exploits a weak country. However,
Ichiu, the order of the family, does not mean that the strongest patriarch exploits the weakest family!
A home is a system in which strong people work for weak people.
The strongest country in the world is the weak country, the system that he does working for the weak people
When it is possible, the world will be peaceful for the first time. Japan is the strongest, and
The Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Area is united with the heart that gave birth to the heaven and earth.
It was a battle to win racist excretion and fair trade
Proud Japanese who fought in the Greater East Asia War!
The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The indiscriminate bombing of the Hawaii attack
Not indiscriminate bombing NO
It was a human experiment. America is,
You should apologize. That is true
It's an alliance
@MeGusta109 Is Japan
Contribution to independence from Europe and America
I'm proud.
@MeGusta109 ttps://w.atwiki.jp/japanplus/pages/16.html
第二次世界大戦において、日本人は日本のためよりも、むしろ戦争によって利益を得た他の国々のために偉大な歴史を残した。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]On world War II,[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）On World War II, Japan left a great history, not only for Japan, but also for the other countries that got benefits from war.
(第３案）In World War II, Japan contributed a great history to the countries benefited by the war rather than its own country.
【確定】On World War II, Japan achieved a great deal in the history, not of its own, but rather of the other countries benefited by the war.
それらの国々とは、日本の掲げた理想、大東亜共栄圏に含まれた国々である。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）They are the Asian countries that are included in Japan's ideal, "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".
（第二案）These countries includes in the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere which Japan has raised its ideal.
【確定】Those countries were included in the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere that Japan idealized.
アーノルド・J・トインビー[文字列の折り返しの区切り]Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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シンガポール陥落は、白人植民地主義の歴史に終焉をもたらした。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】（第一案）The fall of Singapore brought an end to the history of white people's colonialism.
（第二案）The fall of Singapore brought an end to the history of white race colonialism in Asia.
シャルル・ドゴール[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（仏大統領）[文字列の折り返しの区切り]Charles de Gaulle[文字列の折り返しの区切り](French President)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】(Former French President)
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日本軍により、欧米のアジア支配は粉砕された。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）By the Japanese army, the Asia's domination by Europe and the US was crushed.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）By the Japanese military forces, the Asian domination by the white race has ended.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】By the Japanese army, white domination of Asia was ended.
これはアジアに自信を与えた。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】（第一案）Japan's actions gave confidence to Asia.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）This military actions gave confidence to all Asians.
大戦後 15年以内にアジアの植民地は全て解放された。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案） All colonies of Asia were released within 15 years after the World War II.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）Within 15 years, all the Asian colonies were liberated.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】All colonies in Asia were liberated within 15 years after the World War II
ゴー・チョクトン[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（シンガポール首相）[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）Goh Chok Tong
(Singaporean Prime Minister)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）(Prime Minister of Singapore)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】(Former Prime Minister of Singapore)
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我々を白人支配から救い出してくれたのは日本だった[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）The country which saved us from the rules of whites was Japan.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）Japan liberated us from white rules.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】Thanks to Japan, we were liberated from white rule.
我々は大戦終盤に日本を見限ったが、その恩は決して忘れない。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）Although we had abandoned Japan in the end of the World War II, we never forget the Japan's kindness.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）Although we abandoned Japan at the end of the War, we never forget their kindness done to us.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】Although we abandoned Japan in the end of the war, we will never forget the debt of gratitude we owe.
日本ほどアジアに貢献した国はない。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）There is no other country like Japan which has contributed to Asia.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）Japan is the only country which contributed to Asia.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】No other country has ever contributed so much to Asia as Japan.
しかし、日本ほど誤解を受けている国もない。[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）However, there is also no country like Japan that has been so misunderstood[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）However, there is no country as Japan that has been misunderstood.[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】However, no other country has been misunderstood as seriously as Japan.
バ・モウ[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（ビルマ首相）[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第一案）Ba Maw
( Burmese Prime Minister )[文字列の折り返しの区切り]（第二案）(Prime Minister of Burma)[文字列の折り返しの区切り]【確定】(Former Prime Minister of Burma)
My Dad was a 18 year old US Navy Hospital Corpsman on Tarawa and Pelilu.He was involved in all the major battles in the Pacific.
Needless to say,he had a very strong dislike for the Japanese until the very end of his days. I grew up hearing his stories and made sure that I never forgot them.
I think the Japanese were the most fanatical and brutal at the time. Even more than the Germans.
Corpsmen are gods to marines, I can say that from experience.
Impossible for him to hsve been involved in every battle. Bullshtter
May God Bless all those who served and sacrificed for freedom on that day. All our vets are our guardians of that precious right.
The planers said it was a 2 or 3 day job. Most of the press decided to stay on board the ships.
Turns out it took 73 days of extremely hard fighting. The best personal account by far is a book by Eugene Sledge, WITH THE OLD BREED. This is the best account of what it was like to be a young Marine fighting the Japanese. His story was used in the Ken Burns documentary
" THE WAR", also his book was used in making the miniseries
"THE PACIFIC". A must read for anyone who wants to know what it was really like.
I'm reading it now, 1st day, just landed.
Lord bless you boys, living and dead, no better deed than to lay down your life for your fellow man. We thank you.
As the days of Noah Live right stupido!!
Your response needs no answer if your so ignorant to even ask a question like that. Pray you never have to be in the situation these brave men were in......on both sides.
How disrespectful to call a man stupido and you know nothing about them. Just shows you what you are by your own comment.
Yes, you have heard it said that.........and Christ showed a better deed than that. He laid His life down for His enemies. Truly brave and courageous men on both sides.
sailor soul 👈🏼 Another piece of trash.
The U.S. Army was there also giving a tremendous support role for the Marines main body. Respect for all.
The army fought many battles in the pacific. Never get any credit for it, seems their role in Europe over shadowed what they accomplished in the pacific
Its really hard to wrap my head around how big WW2 was. There was even fighting in north Africa and the Middle East.
My grandfather was a member of the 81st, 323rd Infantry, Co. F. What these men went through and saw, can never be fully quantified.
@@romegavadquez6310 true. The Army played a massive role in the Pacific, right alongside the Marines. But the European War took precedence in the eyes of the world.
@@romegavadquez6310 yes they did, my Father was in the 1st Marine Division and fought along side many Army soldiers on Pelielu and Okinawa. He never had anything bad to say about the Army, he welcomed them as Brothers trying to attain Victory.
These guys were from the generation that grew up tough, because they had to. As kids, they seen the effects of the depression on society, and either became strong or died. I thank every one of these brave men for their
commitment to their Country, and they didn't whine as most do today.
True patriots will send Republican traitors to the gas chamber.Trump and his minions collaborated with Russia to kill American troops in Afghaniatsn.
@@davidhoward437 Are you a trouble make spreading lies like your counterparts. Take a hike..
@@davidhoward437 You are out of your mind. Trump never did any such thing. Stop making up lies. You must work for the fake media....CNN perhaps.
Peleliu ~ one of the most Important Battles in history. Peleliu taught the US Marines and Navy A LOT about Island battles. The Japanese fought very differently and showed 'new' techniques and abilities like not before. GOD Bless All who Serve, Served, and their famileis and loved ones! Be Safe out there. Peace & Health ~ Amen
It was actually a totally pointless battle. Do some reading.
@@josephaulisio9281 Had to remove the enemy forces on the way to homeland Japan. So, sad, tragic, horrid, but needed. Be Well. Thanks for reply.
My dad was in the 1st Marine Division he was a forward Observer mortar crew , I have pictures he took September 15th through the 19th 1944 at bloody nose Ridge lost most all his Marine buddies paulu was 125 degrees in the shade he said, there was nowhere safe .one of the pictures he took at a block house where he was evacuating wounded with a marine named red, his friend got killed after my father took the picture. My father then went back up the hill and the corsairs were dropping napalm so close to him the heat burn his eyebrows.. years after the war when he was dying from the mental torment and the shrapnel he carried in his stomach he said put me in Arlington with my buddies . I should have died with them 40 years ago.. that generation of Marines were called the breed ,I hope they will never be forgot.
✌️🇺🇸 Yes ...I do hope and pray that all of the Brave men... That fought for Our Freedom....Will Never Be Forgotten. My Father is also 1st Marine Division....First wave to land at Guadalcanal and then at Okinawa. 1942-46. He passed away in 1996. I am now 73 and I miss him everyday. 💞 Love and Peace to All Our Brave Veterans...Never to Be Forgotten.💞🇺🇸💙✌️
My Father was also there.
I don't think he ever really left that island.
He took his own life in 2005.
That island was one of the reasons.
@@knutdergroe9757 I think that every soldier that put a footprint in that sand, remembered the horror their whole life.
@@knutdergroe9757 so sorry to hear,he won't be forgotten for his contribution brother!Thankyou from Australia!
@@katherinegates1559 Do you know what regiment? My ol man was at all the above battles also...
i gave a copy of the book "iwo jima" to my cancer doctor several christmas's ago. he said it was one of the best christmas gifts he has ever received. he was never a marine but he knows, he knows.
Shigeru Mizuki is a Japanese ww2 veteran who sadly passed away. He was a famous comic author and there is a comic that shows his experiences during ww2. He fought somewhere in the New Great Britain campaign
yes New Britain was very deadly. RIP to your friend Shigeru Mizuki
Peleliu was an especially vicious battle. One of my uncles was killed on Peleliu ,15 September, 1944. He was in A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. Family never received any details on how he was killed.
That must be brutal
His NCO and 1st LT probably died as well, so no one left to explain what happened. Brutal fighting.
My grandfather fought there as well, with the Army's 81st Wildcats.
I am grateful for the sacrifice of your uncle. The hell he must have fought in. A huge chunk of our great nation died with those young men who so heroically fought in the Pacific Islands
You all prolly dont give a shit but does someone know a method to get back into an Instagram account..?
I was dumb forgot my account password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me.
My Dad was in the 1st Marine Division, 1st Tank Battalion. He was not in a tank at Peleliu but carried a backpack radio. I'm pretty sure he landed at White Beach. There is a quick scene at 3:33 which shows a radio operator, but I'm not sure if it's Dad, maybe someone else. My Mom says he had many nightmares after he returned from the war.
The Yamato people are all Japanese, a family connected to Emperor Jimmu.
It's proof. Hakko Ichiu means that the world is like a family.
This shows the fundamental principle of the international order, and the international order to date has been a weak and strong diet.
A strong country exploits a weak country. However,
Ichiu, the order of the family, does not mean that the strongest patriarch exploits the weakest family!
A home is a system in which strong people work for weak people.
The strongest country in the world is the weak country, the system that he does working for the weak people
When it is possible, the world will be peaceful for the first time. Japan is the strongest, and
The Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Area is united with the heart that gave birth to the heaven and earth.
It was a battle to win racist excretion and fair trade
Proud Japanese who fought in the Greater East Asia War!
The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The indiscriminate bombing of the Hawaii attack
Not indiscriminate bombing NO
It was a human experiment. America is,
You should apologize. That is true
It's an alliance
@@ヤマトウズメ-r1o ah yes
@@kkkaaa5967 ああそう
Peleliu......one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific.
A pointless one too
What happen to Tarawa atoll ?
All battle's are the "bloodiest" and "biggest" conflict in American history.
Literally you hear this on every battle of every war and Battles in between
American losses in WWII.
Guadalcanal: 7,100 in 6 months
Tarawa: 1,700 in 4 days
Saipan: 3,430 in 25 days
Peleliu: 2,340 in 2.5 months
Iwo Jima: 6,825 in 37 days
Okinawa: 20,200 in 82 days
@AGENT 47 Peleliu is is the Palau Island chain
My grandfather was aboard a hospital ship, the Samaritan, which came into Pelau to collect injured.
A salute to my late friend Joe Boterf who landed on Peleliu in the first wave with 1/5. Which company I don’t know but he was one of five able to walk off the island 24 hrs later. I will not forget.
My uncle was in A/1/5. Lost his life, 15 Sept. 1944. Your friend had an angel in his pocket.
His company commander wrote a little known and out of print book called Coral Comes High. You can get most anything printed now
Always look for Harry pelecioni he stepped on a Japanese grenade to save his friends lost half his foot and that's what got him sent home finally. But not on this day he had a few more islands he had to visit first.
It’s sad how we don’t hear about this in school history. This was the bloodiest battle.
Pelelui and Okinawa
Hay defile
Schools don't have the time to discuss every WWII battle. There were so many battles going on it would take an entire school year just to discuss the war and all the battles in the Pacific. The war in Europe would take another entire school year to cover. World War Two is something people have to learn on their own. Information is out there.....more and more old military footage is being released and it can be purchased. The library is a great source of war information...One should never rely solely on the internet. There have been a great number of books written by marines, soldiers and survivors of WWII and their stories are priceless. You have to take the initiative to find out things for yourself. School is only going to cover a fraction of the war....usually D-Day.
If u think you've got ball's..... these guys had ball's of steel
I don't think there was one battle was worse than another in the Pacific theater. Peleliu, Okinawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima...If you made it off any of the islands alive you were one of the lucky ones!
To be fair, there were "easy" battles in the Pacific. You just don't hear about them because the bigger battles will always produce more casualties.
You should read more.
The bravery and sacrifice on both sides is immeasurable. The only good war is NO war.
Sooooo, how would you have defeated Nazis or slavery. Negotiate.? Treaty? League of Nations? U.N.
Well this country wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for a war.
@@TheAmericanInfidel No country would exist if not for war.
Most people don’t know it but these same Marines that fight on Peleliu we’re also those sent to fight on Okinawa.. One blood bath after another..!!!
This Battle was in '44--PELELIU is one of several Islands in the Palau Island Group. Adm Halsey tried to talk Nimitz & McArthur into Bypassing this Island. They Said NO.
Actually, Nimitz wanted to give it a miss.
MacArthur had no say one way or the other. It was the Navy's operation and Nimitz's call. In fact, MacArthur, for his part, heeded Halsey's advice and advanced the invasion date of the Philippines. Nimitz, however, insisted that Operation Stalemate II move forward because he claimed it was too late to call it off; no doubt encouraged by intelligence that Peleliu and Angaur were not heavily defended.
My great grandfather was a Marine who fought in this, and also spent time in the occupation of China.
To make matters even worse for the Marines, adequate water rations were not made available. Lots of guys dropped from heat exhaustion and worse- heat stroke. Somebody high ranking in the quartermaster corps should have been court-marshaled.
hans granheim your too right , supply is vital, and water in this part of the world should have been #1 priority, this whole battle kicked off with that most important aspect falling by the way side. This factor also falls on enlisted to push for the resource to be put in place as a main stay through out the operation. We know what is said about the best laid plans, from experience. SALUTE TO THESE MARINES .
No whoever was to blame should've been shot.
Agreed. Fuck up on the food. Fuck up on the first aid. He'll, even fuck up on the ammo.
Never fuck up on the water.
Ever.
Marines said their water came in old petrol drums and was toxic. Behind the lines heroes always take revenge on the brave ones.
@@eglin32 Japanese commanders did this to their troops on Iwo Jima. Japanese defenders ran out of water,food and ammo on that Island.
In my opinion the Marines did not win the island of Iwo Jima, the Japanese lost it.
My Dad was 321st RCT 81st Inf Div Wildcats. What hell they went through.
Have you read Victory at Peleliu? It's about the Wildcats.
My great great uncle Claude served here!
@sailor soul 😂
The BAR and M1 in WW2 are both legendary weapons ,the men wielding them are legendary In of themselves
Thankyou for you service ,you gruntpas
Paved the way for the new grunts
Mcaurther should have been court martialed for insisting for this, we had complete air superiority and could have by-passed this like other islands!
MacArthur had nothing to do with the invasion of Peleliu. Operation Stalemate was devised exclusively by the Navy and was insisted by Nimitz. MacArthur only gets the blame because it became part of the joint Army/Navy plan to liberate the Philippines, but the Palau Islands were going to be invaded regardless of the US strategy in 1944.
While the world focused on McArthur returning to the Philippines, the marines were engaged in some of the bloodiest and most intense fighting in the war. For a riveting no holds barred description of the fighting here and the final islands toward the end of the war, listen to the podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History- Supernova in the East IV
The tv show The Pacific has given me a real appreciation of what these guys want through. God bless America and God bless the armed Force's
I'm from Peleliu, Palau 🇵🇼🙏
My great grandpa fought on peleliu, R.I.P papa
rip sledge and all of the old breed
The men at the airfield aren't engineers but U.S. Navy Seabees. This unit was only formed up in Dec of 1942, but they are the one's whom paved the seven road's to Victory. Best kept secret of WW II.
I like how both sides fought tough and determined. The US General said it would take three days and the Japanese General said invasion will be stopped by end of day. Three weeks later they are still fighting!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
engineers you got to love them
Aquilo que era época dos homens pois tinham muitos jovens que completaram 18 anos em plena ação de combate , e quantos daqueles jovem que nunca mais regressaram para casa , ali um copo de água limpa era um privilégio, Deus tenha todos eles em bom lugar .
Damned brave young men..
Dude at 58-59 seconds yells “Get up and move that way!”
I spent a year on Angaur in the early 1970s. Landed on that airstrip. It was still in good shape 30 years after it was built. In this video you saw bombs being dropped by F4U Corsairs. I have pictures of one of them on Angaur that had crashed on the northern shore. Still there after all those years. It came in with its prop turning because you can see how the blades are bent back. But even 30 years later on that plane the painted insignia was still legible.
Just curious, but where did you get this video? I have seen many, but this one is indeed rare.
Japan is the first human race in Japan at the WW1 Paris conference
Racism excretion bill
Do you know Hakkou Ichiu?
It means that humanity is a family.
It is the word of His Majesty the Emperor 2000 years ago.
Japan is Asia and Japan is the only independent nation.
We are responsible for liberating Asia.
Why did the West send troops to Asia?
Thank you for answering the question. Thank you for sending the music.
It is rare to hear anything about Angaur…much less to know anyone who’s been there. I lived in Palau for a while (early 90s) and never made it to Angaur so that must have been quite the experience. Your story also reminds me of a Japanese Zero that use to be on a reef on the east side of the archipelago and we use to visit it there on our boat. It is something to see, touch and contemplate on history when you visit these locations. Cheers.
@@ヤマトウズメ-r1o Are you saying the Japanese race is superior to all other races?
@@losttribe3001 Would you like it in Japanese?
@@losttribe3001 Although its been 45 years since I was there, I think I could tell you where every artifact was, because I spent a whole year exploring the island and its burned into my memory. However, one section of the island went unexplored by me because it is a swamp. I didn't go there. Plus, there is an inland lake that I only saw from afar because it has such steep sides to it. I think it is a crater lake that is filled in by seawater that has seeped in through the porous limestone, plus rainwater. We were told it also has saltwater crocodiles in it. I wasn't going to prove that point! ;)
MY DAD ON GRAUDUAGAL ...1943 =1944.............NOT EVEN 18 YEARS! GREAT AMERICAN PATRIOTS!!!!!
0:53 Dear God I Can Hardly Watch A Poor Dead Marine ... SO Young AND SO Many More To Die In The Effort
@Fred Flintstone Soooo....... you're anti-Semitic!? Time to come out of the Stone Age Fred.
Respect to these brave young American Marines. Truly a battle that should never been fought. The generals responsible should have been court martialed.
Makes you wonder if the Allies ever tried building a underground Transport? I know it sounds crazy and nonplausable but I am sure the TANK came off as odd at first to but during that era of War Time most of the issues had to do with being pinned down and having to wait for Air Strikes that some times were way to close to friendly positiones but I have always wondered with all the ideas that were placed in a Architects hands during WWI, WWII that came out decades later after the Wars ended their were no prototypes of drill machine Vehicles or any transport vehicle that had to do with drilling under enemy lines, surely they had to have shopped the idea around somewhere and some point. Now dont get me wrong if there was one designed and built it wouldnt of lasted long but I like seeing the crazy vehicle ideas that came out of War Plans, not G.I.JOE/COBRA crazy vehicle designs but designs that mite have worked. I will keep looking but somewhere out there has to have been a Krang transport Drill vehicle somewhere.
I have to remember that these men were fighting for freedom all over the world and so that I could be born free a short time after the war ended! They are all heroes to me! My father’s oldest brother died on the USS Liscombe Bay in the pacific!
GOD Bless Them EVERY ONE !
Brave souls. Total respect
This has some great footage forsure. Crazy to think these kids were storming a beach through hellfire, meanwhile kids today get upset over a mean word on social media. Every single pathetic pos taking a knee for the National Anthem should be required to view stuff like this.
always wondered why that they didn’t keep shelling from the ships until the soldiers landed
they tried that in WW1 it does not work
They tried but the Japanese hid underground
They did, they actually shelled further inland as the Marines moved forward. The Japanese had in limestone caves, and tunnels, rendering the shelling useless.
We didn't have bunker busters back then.
"Danger Close" with a 16" shell is about a mile.
0:58 "shut up!! Move that way" he said
No Sir, he said "Get up" and move that way.
Oh
My Dad served on the USS Palau
Are you sure
I have DVD Box set on pasific tv series🙂⚔🇫🇮
i remember this guys commentators voice when i was a child iam 48 now deja vu
RVA: I think they are throwing WP (white phos grenades.) Molotovs have no explosive content unless they hit a hard surface; and only then no real explosive, just smoke and flame.
Flames pull the oxygen out of Bunkers and suffocate the occupants.Ask the Germans.
Amazing what young men are required to do for presidents, emperors, and fuhrers. The recruiters never told us about this.
i salute to the camera man 👌👊
Did a tour of the battle sites on Peleliu, how they ever got off those landing beaches amazes me.
Years ago I watched a color video of this battle that ran over 30 miniutes and showed the pocket in color from the air . Have not seen it since
Does anybody have that video ??
5:00; 77th inf.division.
The 81st were the ones that fought on Anguar and Peleliu.
@@stanstenson8168
I know that the 81st known as the Wildcats fought on both islands.Watch in minute 5, the helmets of the soldiers:The Liberty statue is drawn.
@@anibalcesarnishizk2205 You're right. So that shot isn't at Palau at all. Looking at the island in the background, it doesn't even look like it. Good catch.
I am from sudan. One of my ancestors fought for the british imperial forces in myanmar against the japanese. He never came back
Poor brave bastards and the worst thing was there was no need to invade it had no strategic significance after MacArthur invaded the Philippines. Semper fi you American warriors respect from the uk 🇺🇸🇬🇧
A lot of non-Peleliu footage mixed in. Some of the beach clips were genuine. I've been there and you can recognize the southern and northern points that bounded the landing beaches. At the time most of the vegetation had been stripped off by naval gunfire. Today the big Japanese three strip landing field has been reduced to one narrow landing strip by the jungle having swallowed up everything once again. Pre landing pictures taken from submarine did not reveal the interior ridges of the Umbrogol Mountains where the Japanese had most of their defenses. The Marines as usual bulled straight ahead suffering huge casualties. Col Chesty Puller butchered his First Marine Regiment until his men were spent and nearly combat ineffective. He refused to allow an Army regiment afloat as the landing reserve to take over for his unit due to his pride. A lot of men died needlessly because of it. The Amphibious force commander finally had to step in and order the First Marines be relieved. Puller then got kicked stateside and did not have another combat command again until Korea.
The whole landing was unnecessary. It was planned to secure the eastern flank of the Philippine Invasion. Which was launched earlier than expected. MacArthur and his commanders recommended that the landing be canceled as no longer necessary. Adm Nimitz and the Marine commanders refused and went ahead anyway resulting in the wrecking of the 1st Marine division. It took months of rebuilding before it was used again in 1945 in the Okinawa landing.
In defense of the Navy, an amphibious landing is planned months in advance and convoys and troop deployments are a delicate orchestrated dance. Scrapping the landing would have left ships loaded that were due to be used in other places and troops were embarked with no where to go or return to. So it would have played havoc with other up coming operations. Sad, but a lot of men lost there lives and were maimed and crippled for nothing. The Palau Islands immediately after capture were essentially a backwater. The war moved 700 miles west and was already over 1000 miles north when Saipan was captured three months earlier.
Thats a different kind of horror than d day
Why couldn’t the air power remove the beach threat before marines landed?
Fortifications were too strong.
Beach defenses were either way too strong in some areas or generally impossible to say in others. Along several points, most notably on the northern most beach and southern most beach were promontories with several thick-walled concrete bunkers, impossible to see from above and barely visible on the ground level. Other defenses were no more than several machine gunners in ditches, screened by foliage.
Great video.
At 00:58 you can clearly see that Marine yelling "Get up and move that way!"
Not all of this is color film. There is allot of black & white that has been "colorized", made to look like color.
Much of that footage is NOT Peleliu. Mainly Saipan, Guam and other areas.
This was worse than Vietnam , I thought it was bad but war is war people killing each other and we haven't learned a single thing...........
FROM A 75 YEAR OLD 0311 MARINE THAT SERVED IN VIETNAM TWICE. THE CORPS IS THE CORPS AND THE CORPS WILL ALWAYS BE THE CORPS! SEMPER FI TO ALL MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT CAME BEFORE ME AND THE MARINES THAT HAVE CAME SINCE!
Semper Fi Devildog!
🇺🇸💙✌️ Semper FI ....Love and Peace To All Of Our Brave Veteran's.💞 Never to Be Forgotten. Thank you for your Service to Our Country.🇺🇸✌️
Not sure if you're still on here but my grandfather served in Vietnam from 67-72 air cav. He passed due to cancer from the chemical's he got exposed to in the war back in '11. Respect to you as well it was a nasty war from what he told me and you guys never got the respect you deserved when you came home
Nelson Jackson I’m sorry for your loss 🙏🏻❤️
CORPS WILL KEEP BRINGING "DEMOCRACY"
Anyone know of books regarding Peleliu or other pacific conflict?
"With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" by Eugene Sledge. It was source material for the mini series "The Pacific".
@@dLimboStick wow, cheers mate, and thanks for your reply. Sounds like it'll be an interesting read, definitely source a copy, thanks again!
ps. Cool name btw to :o) peace
Japan is the first human being in the world at the World War I Paris Conference Proposing a bill to eliminate racial discrimination and making Asia a fair trade under the law in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Area Japanese aiming for Asia without racial discrimination Shed blood. The Japanese lost 50,000 lives for the Korean people in the Korean War Do you know Hakko Ichiu? The Japanese, whose family is the world human beings, will not abandon the weak people until the end! Repeated racial persecution in Uighur, Uighur, Tibet and Hong Kong. Stupid! The degree of people is different from that of Chinese people.
@@ヤマトウズメ-r1o umm... okay...
@@trje246 大丈夫～だ！
How did the camera survive?
I know no one cares about things like this now a days, but I was showing how to hunt and trap, because of one of these man.
I am 13 years old and from Egypt, even though I am not American I still love learning about what those brave men did that day. Over the past 2 years, I have been putting time and effort into learning about the great sacrifice all these men made.
God bless the Marines. Toughest soldiers in the world
7:22 "Move that way"!!.
6:50: Where the Marines throwing molotov coctails?
Probably from the petrol drums that should have had water!
Yes. Cocktails, flamethrowers, and napalm were the mainstay in this hell hole
There may never be a war like this again. Hopefully.
The Marine Corps is currently preparing for a war just like this as we speak. The Marine Corps is restructuring more than any time since WWI from what I've learned.
No war will ever be fought like this again...not with today's weaponry. A few buttons to press...and, it's game over.
In this video on Palau and one on Peleliu I saw the same black soldier. Obviously it was cut from a video and not specific to a particular battle. It would have been nice in those days if we would have recognized blacks for their contribution to the war. I wonder if he was there as a medic , stretcher bearer or supply? There were black medics on DDay in France.
I’ve watched some of the identical scenes from the invasion of Saipan.
Where did the color footage of the Japanese defenders come from? Is it just stock footage of other places used to fill in for example? Did Sony Pictures have a presence there?
The Japanese fired artillery from the opposite side of the hills and mountains and measured everything so they wouldn't have to do it during battle.
This is not color this is colorized.
Interesting shot of a Black soldier on the front lines ...a rare but documented occurence in the Pacific and European theatre....which on Tarawa and Peleliu happened when the stretcher bearers became targets and fought back .
they made them front.a japanese surviver said.his name is Hirosi Funasaka.
great. Thanks for this. :)
Minor technical point: this is not a "rare" color film. This footage was all shot in B&W and was digitally colorized in the early 1990's.
1:13 the man was shot at the back. Rare footage of ww2 seeing a man being actually shot.
El Arab Y. Mirati lol no
not very rare i have seen better just keep watching documentaries
B&W colourised. The target was unnecessary and optimistic ...as if nothing had been learned on Guadalcanal & New Guinea..
Energa bomb fired of the top of the m rifle right on the Lased scene. Grenade
*Lest we forget.*
Los japoneses lucharon 10@1... mostraron valor y profesionalismo, sólo con la bomba atómica lograron una rendición condicional. Saludos desde Argentina.
Imagine all the story’s we never get to here because they died on the island 🏝️!
2:08 was a very sad sight, he could be his friend, somebody he joked with or shared a smoke with minutes ago.
Never seen footage of a black ww2 marine before 7:10. Were they in segregated units?
Yes. On Peleliu there were 16th Depot Company and 7th Ammunition Company. They suffered one killed and 22 wounded.