My dad was at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and Rendova. He was a Navy Corpsman attached to the fleet Marines. My mother had two of her older brothers both at D-Day in Normandy. My Uncle Luther was in the first wave at Omaha Beach and servived that but was badly wounded in the hedgerow fighting a couple of weeks later and ended up spending the rest of the war in a hospital in the States. My Uncle Enoch was a Pathfinder in the 101st Airborne and he ended up MIA remains never recovered so he didn't make it home.
My Dad and his four brothers all served during WWII. They all survived against all odds. Dad was a chief aboard the Intrepid after surviving Pearl Harbor aboard the St. Louis. Two were on destroyers in the Atlantic and Med. The youngest drove landing craft including Utah beach. The oldest brother was the one they worried about, he was Captain of a merchant marine vessel and crossed the Atlantic several times. I hope I’ve lived up to their expectations.
Keep their memories alive will make them proud. My dad was a Chief on the USS Missouri. My uncle a gunners mate on the USS Columbia. Another uncle was a fighting Seabee.
Watched this as a five year old with my submariner dad. He got so exicited at these episodes and gave me the background to each episode having been a student of the war's history. Real connection to decades gone by as i view from the couch and leave the arm chair to his eternal patrol presence
Both my parents are in WWII. My father Army, 3 Purple Hearts, Silver Star... infantry, D-Day into Germany. My Mother worked for Department of the Navy processing Axis prisoners brought to US. We loved this show. 🇺🇸 Real heroes not draft dodger. 🤬
Shots of Australian sailors standing in line reminds me my late uncle who served on the destroyer HMAS Arunta in and around New Guinea. Thanks for posting - Victory at Sea was compulsory viewing in our house when I was young.
My father was on the HMAS Canberra when it was sunk in the battle of Savo Island. He survived and continued to serve for the remaining 3 years of the war.
My father was both a WWII and Korean War Vet and was in French Indochina. As a kid in 1950s my parents and I along with my brother and sister would sit and watch this show on a 19inch b/w TV.
I lived by the beach for 35 years. When we used to share the surf report with one another, if the waves were blown out from wind chop and white caps, we said, “It’s Victory at Sea out there”, referring to the opening shots of each episode. I grew up watching this series.
An obscure gem, this episode is brilliantly edited for varied pace, and integration with the music. I especially enjoyed the lengthy clips of the Japanese at the beginning. It's interesting how the soldiers and marines of the opposing forces looked and fought somewhat differently, but the opposing navies are started out almost like carbon copies of each other. It was superior manpower, wealth, leadership, and industrial might that made one side victorious. Still the best doc series ever!
I watched this show with my Dad when I was a five year old, and watched the reruns whenever they came up. Today it's easy to see it's pretty much just a victory narrative rather than a documentary, understandable as it was made ten years after we'd won the war and we were still celebrating that victory. But I still have a soft spot for this series and every once in a while I'll trot out my DVDs and run it all the way through from beginning to end, watching every minute and savoring every note of Richard Rogers' score.
My Dad is in episode 13 Melanesian Nightmare... twice! Invasion of the Philippines... The Narrator says " Dawn will bring the test of combat the ordeal of fire! " That's my Dad sleeping on his bunk right before the Navy Salvos open up... Then towards the end it shows a crew heading for a beachhead in a Higgins Boat...my Dad is far right center and looks right up at the camera... yup ✌️
I was VERY lucky to have my Grandfather (a W.W.II Vet) until I was 15 years young before he passed in '79. We watched these together and I tried to learn everything I could from his generation. I just hope he cannot see the state of this country today. When I die I will do my best to find you, Perry, and tell you you were right Sir !!!
Yes, Perry might not recognize it. Yet, much like this video narrations, hope can rise again. We just need leadership and less politicians working to divide us.
This series and The Twentieth Century are two of the seminal programs that attempted to educate us in the b&w days of 3-channel TV without resorting to propaganda.
My older brother, aged 13 and I 10, were allowed to stay up late to watch this fantasticly exciting TV series. It was 1954, on the BBC, shown at 9pm , I loved the music, Written by the Great Richard Roger's', of Roger's & Hammerstein Years later, I bought the sound track, AND the DVD. This award winning series spurred several other war series around the world. I particularly liked the music called'' Beneath the Southern Cross'', which later had lyrics added, and the title became ''No other Love'', which was a world-wide hit.
My father-in-law enlisted in the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor, had one brother who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force before the US entered the war and became a bomber pilot in Europe. That brother was killed in 1944. Two of his brothers joined the Navy and a sister enlisted in the WAVES. That was the greatest generation. My father-in-law endured a voyage of several weeks in a slow troop transport, zig-zagging across the Pacific, and was among the troops landed in New Guinea as a tank unit. I can't help but wonder if his tank was one of those seen in this episode. His joke was that he spent more time at sea, in the US Army, than one of his brothers who had the good luck to be attached to the staff of an Admiral and who flew from island to island. New Guinea left him with a skin disease that scarred his back for the rest of his life. He later participated in the invasion of the Philippines where he also saw combat. In July 1945 his unit was issued new tanks for the invasion of Japan. Needless to say, he had no doubt about the wisdom of the use of the Atomic bomb to end the war.
Was it a greater generation than that of the Rebellion of 1770-1776, or the Attempt to Take the Colony Back of 1812, or the constant Wars and Invasions of both Mexico and Cuba, or better generation than WW1, or of South Korea, or of Vietnam, or of Gulf One or Gulf Two? USA established 1776 and to the current time, ignoring the so-called "Indian Wars", the invasions of Canada, and the constant warfare against Mexico, the USA has had 23 years of peace. So you have had many generations of "the greatest" to choose from, why the generation closest to yourself? My dad, unlike your family relatives, fought from 1939-1945, none stop against the Nazis. wasn't he part of the GREATEST generations. Fighting from 1939 to 1945 was clearly tougher than fighting from December 1941, but only getting into combat late in 1942, would you not agree?
He was no relative of mine, but in my long-vanished youth I knew Jack Bertram. He was in the 2/2 Independent Rifles on Timor. A smallish, balding man, quietly spoken, mild mannered. My father, who rightly wore his Pacific Star with pride, was driving us home from Jack's funeral when he told us Jack's story. I had no idea. So pass all our heroes, mostly unseen. May he rest in peace forever. So may they all, or there is no justice.
My father was 4F in WWII due to age and a heart murmur. Three of his younger brothers did serve, however. One survived the sinking of his ship in 1944 in the Atlantic, then was transferred to the Pacific. He was killed 25 June 1945. I saw this series on Saturdays back when they were aired on NBC, and have the whole series on DVDs now.
My Father was a B.A.R. man in the 65th Infantry in France, Germany and Austria. Two of his brothers also went to Europe. One was a Pathfinder in the Italian campaign, The other was wounded in France. My Mother sewed Uniforms. We are losing the finast people that ever walked the face of the Earth. Remember Them!!! I hope that if the worst happened, as it did to them, that today's kids would be one-quarter the soldiers, sailors and airmen and women that out parents were.
They are! The problem isn't today's young troops. The problem is the Bush's, Clinton's, and Obama's that have sold our nation out. They have ripped the constitution and the bill of rights to shreds. The sheeple just sit and watch, because they are afraid of the unknown. They get what they deserve. To bad the 5% of people with an IQ have to pay also.
I'll always remember them. My dad was a radarman on the u.s.s . john d. Henley ( dd-553 ). He seen more than his fair share of combat. Never talked about it much until the last few years of his life. "Lest we forget".
you can see almost anything you want on the internet, just get firefox and some apps that block adverts. I don't watch television unless I am on a trip. :)
@@maineoutdoorsman677 So true! I haven't turned my TV on in several years now, why would I, the only things we hear are how we are all going to die unless we obey 'Big Brother' and bow down to them through a fake pandemic and an attempted left-wing rigged election. There is NO WAY Joe Biden won that election, he couldn't even fill a parking lot with his mythical supporters/voters! And since when does the "News" media call elections in America? (By the way, Maine is the most beautiful state in our Union)
My dad served in the South Pacific during World War ii, US Navy aboard the USS light Cruiser montpelier. My dad was 17 when he joined getting his wish to see the world and get into action. The Montpelier was in action from the jump starting down around New Guinea down through the slot, the Philippine sea, she shelled Saipan for several days, Iwo Jima and finally Okinawa and then sailing into Tokyo bay to be part of the occupation Force. Needless to say she was in the thick of it from the jump. At the Battle of the Philippines Sea she took one kamikaze and then became a target for four other incoming kamikazes which didn't do much damage. This was my father's Nightmare and we used to hear him wake up screaming in the wee hours of the morning. There is not a day goes by that I don't miss my father and I'm so very proud of him⚓️🙏💖
My Father's unit, 40th Naval Construction Battalion, is shown in this episode at 10:09. The 40th was actually the first Seabee unit to land about 1 March 1944, and worked on Momote Airstrip on Los Negros, while defending the airfield and preparing fighting positions for the Army and Marines, and had it's first airplane land on 7 March. The field referenced in this episode and the battle to take Manus was well after the nearly ill-fated initial invasion of Los Negros starting on 29 February, where the Japanese outnumbered us 4 to 1.
My Dad was in that invasion of Los Negros! YUP... He said that at one point they got pushed back to the beachead and while regrouping and briefing ( he noticed that the crystal of his watch came off) they headed back out and quickly got into another firefight when Pop took cover he found his watch crystal! YUP ✌️
@@ProperLogicalDebate YES!!! Things are far better now with Joe Biden than they were under trump. Stock market is up, US economy is recovering from the trump recession, and farmers are making money again due to grain prices recovering from the trump Chinese tariffs.
One of my great uncles was in this theater of the war. He served aboard the USS San Francisco (CA-38). He didn't talk about the war, except to say two things... 1) _"All my friends got killed."_ 2) _"If you want to know more, read a book about that ship. Her story is my story."_ I suggest two books: _Guadalcanal; Decision at Sea_ by Eric Hammel. _Neptune's Inferno_ by James D. Hornfischer. Both do an excellent job of detailing the battles around Guadalcanal.
My dad was in the 11th airborne during this time. Ge started in the army as an enlisted man and was given many battlefield promotions. Ge was critically wounded and when he woke up at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco he wore the oak leaves of a major.
You Yanks came down and saved us in our hour of need. You didn't have to-at one stage the logic was 'Germany first'. Thousands of young Americans died saving us. Thank you.
Thank you! Nicely done. It is wise to remember this about the US Pacific fleet: it was only half the total US Navy.. Admiral Yamamoto knew the odds he was trying to overcome in at Pearl and Singapore and the Philippines. He sought to make a shield around the Empire. He promised his emperor six months of victory before the inevitable would begin. He was right almost to the day. (6June 1942) No axis power would believe what US industry could do. Japan gambled the US had no fighting spirit.
@jarrod yuki It would have made no difference, it would have extended the war a year or so but, the tremendous amount of material and man-power produced by the US ensured the inevitable.
While loved every minute to this series, and still do, the simple fact is that it was the Australians who prepared and initiated the Guadalcanal campaign.
Guadalcanal was the finale of the turning point in the war. Rabaul was an example of the Allies we’re going to do to the rest of Japans military. “Continue to fight and we will utterly destroy you. Where you gave no quarter to your foes, none shall be given to you.”
Well Kenny, this is the way it should be. Since you are clearly still wet behind the ears, you could not hope to appreciate what it was like to have lived during or right after the war. This means something to us.
I'm a Japanese, US & Allies, guide that do research to know more about WWII 1942 historical history. But I am trying to establish a wide understand between US and it's Allies. As a Solomon Islanders building up of PEACE after WWII with the company everyone peace loving nation now working together to build trust and peace amongst mankind as now 🌎 world needs peace ✌️✌️✌️🕊️🕊️🕊️.
I love it when they talk like they did in 1940 about God and Country talking of a Christian nation, showing Holy Communion and prayer. I like it not forgetting our Christian foundation. If America kicks God off the throne, we could fall as a nation.
Resolved White thank Margaret Sanger and the birth control league. now called planed Parenthood. it inspired the German eugenics program for the master race. now we need Mexican emigration to bring us up to 2.1 kids per family. that's the bare minimum to not implode the population.
America has no State Religion, nor does any Religion possess a privileged position under the Law. Christianity of various denominations have , and still are the majority but can no longer simply assume a cultural dominance.
Watching the footage of Japan at the beginning of the war, it is easy to see why the Japanese were so massively over confident. While watching it I am aware that all those ships and planes would be destroyed and the majority of soldiers and sailors seen in that footage, were dead within two, three, or four years years.
Japan really got caught with its pants down when Commodore Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay. They realized it was modernize, militarize, or end up like China, walked over by everyone. Then Japan kicked Russia's ass around the year 1900, so that was encouraging. Now, why's a small nation like Japan try to take on a large part of the world? Well, it had worked for England, another small nation. Japan needed raw materials and it needed territory. They also honestly thought if the US got "stung" at Pearl Harbor, the US would leave 'em alone. The US had a strong isolationist faction at the time.
My long gone uncle was a See Bee landed on Guadalcanal in August 1942 and finally got relieved in Nov 1942. It was a living hell and he didn't talk much about except to say he was there.
Another of many oversights by the USmilitary, not conducting daily recon over the Japanese held portion of Bougainville, which allowed the enemy to move its artillery in place for the second attack.
My dad served in world war II on board the USS New Mexico battle wagon he was a radar operator he was supposed to go up on a float plane to help spot a Japanese radio but a Kamikaze hit the ship before he could do that my dad and his friend were coming down the counting Tower when the Jeff hit shrapnel flew up through the cutting Tower my Dad's friend caught all but one piece of it my dad caught the other piece needed even though he was hit but he survived the war I'm not too sure about his friend I think his friend that was in front of him was killed with a jet bomb the hospital he was in I'm not sure but I think that's the story my dad told me but the USS New Mexico got hit by that kamikaze and without I can't think of what island it was the USS New Mexico supposed to relieve my dad's ship but the USS New Mexico turned chicken and didn't even come in it didn't want to get hit by a kamikaze like a Kamikaze would have done very much damage to that ship anyhow but to all world war II veterans from a veteran who served from 1978 to 81 in the army I salute you you are all heroes the greatest generation that lived God bless you all
@C. Michael it's always the ones who insult their betters that reveal the lowest levels of semi-mentality. Japan was provoked into attacking China and enjoying the rape and murder of multitudes off Chinese. You say the US should have ignored that? Crawl back under your trash can.
I bt today's 100M+ aircrafts can't land on these "airport" on the fly like these no more. What a shame. Those 40's aircrafts can even land and take off in rice paddies which cost like 100K each can handle lots of shitty airstrips while 100M+ planes nowadays cannot. Lol.
True to that bro.. Not just that...the more expensive the aircraft the less it flies because of high cost maintenance and man hours..these so called hi tech aircraft are as fragile as cheap chinese products.lol
While modern jet fighters can’t land on dirt runways, those old fighters wouldn’t stand a chance against modern fighters. Plus the modern fighters have more accurate bombs, not to mention missiles, that allow one modern fighter do the work of a squadron of old fighters.
Bougainville. Who cares about the 40000 Japanese soldiers left on the island?? That was ignorant to think they weren't going to have to deal with a force like that. And they don't have enough control of the island to see the artillery being put on the island? How do you miss that? Didn't the Japanese do that during the battle of Guadalcanal?
For you to criticize anything that these young men did or did not do disturbs me and makes me think your captain of nothing other than your own delusions.when you point your finger at someone and criticise, you have three fingers pointing straight back at you.☮🍻
Of course these were originally made as US propaganda they are for the most part factually accurate. However, it is humorous to hear the narrator talk about Japan's Imperial aspirations in the Bismarck Archipelago and New Britain.
It was a series of its time.I remember watching it in the late 50s when I was a kid with my family,it gave everyone the feel good factor.They wouldn’t dream of making a documentary series like this today.
Oh sure. At the outbreak of war, the US was totally unprepared. Almost no ships, far behind on aircraft and tanks, and our soldiers used cars with cardboard tank cutouts and brooms as rifles for training. Now, we can move an army far into enemy territory at the roof of the world and defeat an enemy that stopped the Soviets in a short couple of weeks. Remember, this was before the drones, which has upset everything in a few short years.
I used to love watching these when I was a little kid Then I found out the truth about pearl harbor That so called sleeping giant was actually a wide awake monster fishing for war WW2 was a colossal waste of skill flesh and finance
Irony indeed at the start complaining about Japan ‘over stepping it’s boundaries’ and 'trying to be bring 700 million people under its rule' Meanwhile the USA had the Phillipijes as a colony before the war, Britain: Malaya, HK, Singapore, Borneo and Burma , France: Indo-China and the Netherlands: Indonesia. Got to love people falling for Propaganda without blinking an eye.
It may look like propaganda from a long way away in time. But this was a series that explained to the people who lived it, what happened, where, and when. It is a documentary.
I think it is more a celebration of how America overcame the Nazis and Japanese. It was a narration of something that was over, and designed to be watched by the veterans of the war. It was the 1950's. It was wonderful to watch.
Wish they would not have blown our brains out with all that overbearing music. I came to see history, not listen to the symphony with the volume cranked up.
Richard Rodgers' music was so vital to the beauty of this series.
My father a veteran of WW2 and I watched Victory at Sea every Sunday afternoon. Never missed an episode.
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@@davidschaadt3460 The same for my father and I. He served in the Pacific in the Marines in WW II.
My Dad (a WW2 veteran) and I watched it too...
My dad was at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and Rendova. He was a Navy Corpsman attached to the fleet Marines. My mother had two of her older brothers both at D-Day in Normandy. My Uncle Luther was in the first wave at Omaha Beach and servived that but was badly wounded in the hedgerow fighting a couple of weeks later and ended up spending the rest of the war in a hospital in the States. My Uncle Enoch was a Pathfinder in the 101st Airborne and he ended up MIA remains never recovered so he didn't make it home.
Watched these with my dad. Great shows. My stepdad was in Europe. Pilot of a B17. Shot down on 23 mission. He had it bad but came home.
"Victory At Sea"--one of the greatest TV documentary series ever produced.
My Dad and his four brothers all served during WWII. They all survived against all odds. Dad was a chief aboard the Intrepid after surviving Pearl Harbor aboard the St. Louis. Two were on destroyers in the Atlantic and Med. The youngest drove landing craft including Utah beach. The oldest brother was the one they worried about, he was Captain of a merchant marine vessel and crossed the Atlantic several times. I hope I’ve lived up to their expectations.
God bless them
Keep their memories alive will make them proud. My dad was a Chief on the USS Missouri. My uncle a gunners mate on the USS Columbia. Another uncle was a fighting Seabee.
Great story! So many people don’t realize some of the most dangerous jobs during WW2 were the sailors of the merchant marine in the Atlantic
@@martinnuman1097 24 years Army, Attack Helicopters.
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Watched this as a five year old with my submariner dad. He got so exicited at these episodes and gave me the background to each episode having been a student of the war's history. Real connection to decades gone by as i view from the couch and leave the arm chair to his eternal patrol presence
I too watch this with my parents as a young kid definitely left a lasting impression
Both my parents are in WWII. My father Army, 3 Purple Hearts, Silver Star... infantry, D-Day into Germany.
My Mother worked for Department of the Navy processing Axis prisoners brought to US.
We loved this show. 🇺🇸
Real heroes not draft dodger. 🤬
Shots of Australian sailors standing in line reminds me my late uncle who served on the destroyer HMAS Arunta in and around New Guinea. Thanks for posting - Victory at Sea was compulsory viewing in our house when I was young.
My father was on the HMAS Canberra when it was sunk in the battle of Savo Island.
He survived and continued to serve for the remaining 3 years of the war.
My father was both a WWII and Korean War Vet and was in French Indochina. As a kid in 1950s my parents and I along with my brother and sister would sit and watch this show on a 19inch b/w TV.
I lived by the beach for 35 years. When we used to share the surf report with one another, if the waves were blown out from wind chop and white caps, we said, “It’s Victory at Sea out there”, referring to the opening shots of each episode. I grew up watching this series.
An obscure gem, this episode is brilliantly edited for varied pace, and integration with the music. I especially enjoyed the lengthy clips of the Japanese at the beginning. It's interesting how the soldiers and marines of the opposing forces looked and fought somewhat differently, but the opposing navies are started out almost like carbon copies of each other. It was superior manpower, wealth, leadership, and industrial might that made one side victorious. Still the best doc series ever!
I watched this show with my Dad when I was a five year old, and watched the reruns whenever they came up. Today it's easy to see it's pretty much just a victory narrative rather than a documentary, understandable as it was made ten years after we'd won the war and we were still celebrating that victory. But I still have a soft spot for this series and every once in a while I'll trot out my DVDs and run it all the way through from beginning to end, watching every minute and savoring every note of Richard Rogers' score.
My Dad is in episode 13 Melanesian Nightmare... twice!
Invasion of the Philippines...
The Narrator says " Dawn will bring the test of combat the ordeal of fire! " That's my Dad sleeping on his bunk right before the Navy Salvos open up...
Then towards the end it shows a crew heading for a beachhead in a Higgins Boat...my Dad is far right center and looks right up at the camera... yup ✌️
What a voice-Leonard Graves. What a gold mine they found in this guy!...Maurice H
I was VERY lucky to have my Grandfather (a W.W.II Vet) until I was 15 years young before he passed in '79. We watched these together and I tried to learn everything I could from his generation. I just hope he cannot see the state of this country today. When I die I will do my best to find you, Perry, and tell you you were right Sir !!!
Yes, Perry might not recognize it. Yet, much like this video narrations, hope can rise again. We just need leadership and less politicians working to divide us.
This series and The Twentieth Century are two of the seminal programs that attempted to educate us in the b&w days of 3-channel TV without resorting to propaganda.
Excellent documentary ! Never forget the past .
My family watched this every night it was on. My uncle was wounded at Okinawa in the USN. My dad and uncle were wounded in France (dad 3x , uncle 1x).
My older brother, aged 13 and I 10, were allowed to stay up late to watch this fantasticly exciting TV series. It was 1954, on the BBC, shown at 9pm , I loved the music, Written by the Great Richard Roger's', of Roger's & Hammerstein Years later, I bought the sound track, AND the DVD. This award winning series spurred several other war series around the world. I particularly liked the music called'' Beneath the Southern Cross'', which later had lyrics added, and the title became ''No other Love'', which was a world-wide hit.
My father-in-law enlisted in the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor, had one brother who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force before the US entered the war and became a bomber pilot in Europe. That brother was killed in 1944. Two of his brothers joined the Navy and a sister enlisted in the WAVES. That was the greatest generation.
My father-in-law endured a voyage of several weeks in a slow troop transport, zig-zagging across the Pacific, and was among the troops landed in New Guinea as a tank unit. I can't help but wonder if his tank was one of those seen in this episode.
His joke was that he spent more time at sea, in the US Army, than one of his brothers who had the good luck to be attached to the staff of an Admiral and who flew from island to island. New Guinea left him with a skin disease that scarred his back for the rest of his life. He later participated in the invasion of the Philippines where he also saw combat. In July 1945 his unit was issued new tanks for the invasion of Japan. Needless to say, he had no doubt about the wisdom of the use of the Atomic bomb to end the war.
Was it a greater generation than that of the Rebellion of 1770-1776, or the Attempt to Take the Colony Back of 1812, or the constant Wars and Invasions of both Mexico and Cuba, or better generation than WW1, or of South Korea, or of Vietnam, or of Gulf One or Gulf Two? USA established 1776 and to the current time, ignoring the so-called "Indian Wars", the invasions of Canada, and the constant warfare against Mexico, the USA has had 23 years of peace. So you have had many generations of "the greatest" to choose from, why the generation closest to yourself?
My dad, unlike your family relatives, fought from 1939-1945, none stop against the Nazis. wasn't he part of the GREATEST generations. Fighting from 1939 to 1945 was clearly tougher than fighting from December 1941, but only getting into combat late in 1942, would you not agree?
He was no relative of mine, but in my long-vanished youth I knew Jack Bertram. He was in the 2/2 Independent Rifles on Timor. A smallish, balding man, quietly spoken, mild mannered. My father, who rightly wore his Pacific Star with pride, was driving us home from Jack's funeral when he told us Jack's story. I had no idea. So pass all our heroes, mostly unseen. May he rest in peace forever. So may they all, or there is no justice.
Us remembering their sacrifice is an honor and something we all should never forget, that’s how we honor them.
Thanks for sharing.
My father was 4F in WWII due to age and a heart murmur. Three of his younger brothers did serve, however. One survived the sinking of his ship in 1944 in the Atlantic, then was transferred to the Pacific. He was killed 25 June 1945. I saw this series on Saturdays back when they were aired on NBC, and have the whole series on DVDs now.
My Father was a B.A.R. man in the 65th Infantry in France, Germany and Austria. Two of his brothers also went to Europe. One was a Pathfinder in the Italian campaign, The other was wounded in France. My Mother sewed Uniforms. We are losing the finast people that ever walked the face of the Earth.
Remember Them!!!
I hope that if the worst happened, as it did to them, that today's kids would be one-quarter the soldiers, sailors and airmen and women that out parents were.
@88Gibson LesPaul Don't forget the surrender summit - the guy celebrating a victory was V Putin - game, set, match.
They are! The problem isn't today's young troops. The problem is the Bush's, Clinton's, and Obama's that have sold our nation out. They have ripped the constitution and the bill of rights to shreds. The sheeple just sit and watch, because they are afraid of the unknown. They get what they deserve. To bad the 5% of people with an IQ have to pay also.
I'll always remember them. My dad was a radarman on the u.s.s . john d. Henley ( dd-553 ). He seen more than his fair share of combat. Never talked about it much until the last few years of his life. "Lest we forget".
My dad and I used to watch this, brings back memories
I grew up with Victory At Sea. Saw it every week. About 10 years ago I found the box set for like, $20.
Me too
I have it on DVD.I put it on while I wash dishes and housework.
I am right there with you. My dad watched it every Sunday. I got my love of history from that.
My dad was there. Catalinas. Some real adventures happened out there in the night.
Those guys in the dive bombers had some balls ! Diving straight down to bomb a ship must have been a hell of a ride !
It was good enough for George HW Bush.
@@alexcarter8807 He flew a torpedo bomber.
@@DunedinMultimedia2 Not that that was a cake walk, either.
The torpedo bombers were even worse off because they were so damn slow. And their torpedoes were crap.
Nice to be able to have watched TV back in the day with barely 4 minutes of commercials in a half hour. TV is almost unwatchable now.
you can see almost anything you want on the internet, just get firefox and some apps that block adverts. I don't watch television unless I am on a trip. :)
@Leopard Boas Oh, giggle! 👀
sheavepin it is unwatchable now leftest propaganda bullshit
@@maineoutdoorsman677 So true! I haven't turned my TV on in several years now, why would I, the only things we hear are how we are all going to die unless we obey 'Big Brother' and bow down to them through a fake pandemic and an attempted left-wing rigged election. There is NO WAY Joe Biden won that election, he couldn't even fill a parking lot with his mythical supporters/voters! And since when does the "News" media call elections in America? (By the way, Maine is the most beautiful state in our Union)
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Inappropriate comment for this site. When did you do your military time?
Loved the NBC orchestra.
My dad served in the South Pacific during World War ii, US Navy aboard the USS light Cruiser montpelier. My dad was 17 when he joined getting his wish to see the world and get into action. The Montpelier was in action from the jump starting down around New Guinea down through the slot, the Philippine sea, she shelled Saipan for several days, Iwo Jima and finally Okinawa and then sailing into Tokyo bay to be part of the occupation Force. Needless to say she was in the thick of it from the jump. At the Battle of the Philippines Sea she took one kamikaze and then became a target for four other incoming kamikazes which didn't do much damage. This was my father's Nightmare and we used to hear him wake up screaming in the wee hours of the morning. There is not a day goes by that I don't miss my father and I'm so very proud of him⚓️🙏💖
My Father's unit, 40th Naval Construction Battalion, is shown in this episode at 10:09. The 40th was actually the first Seabee unit to land about 1 March 1944, and worked on Momote Airstrip on Los Negros, while defending the airfield and preparing fighting positions for the Army and Marines, and had it's first airplane land on 7 March. The field referenced in this episode and the battle to take Manus was well after the nearly ill-fated initial invasion of Los Negros starting on 29 February, where the Japanese outnumbered us 4 to 1.
God bless the SEABEE,S
My Dad was in that invasion of Los Negros! YUP...
He said that at one point they got pushed back to the beachead and while regrouping and briefing ( he noticed that the crystal of his watch came off) they headed back out and quickly got into another firefight when Pop took cover he found his watch crystal! YUP ✌️
Wonderful - Series is the " Oldies but Goodies " . Thanks.
My grandfather had the entire collection, watched them as a kid growing up. This country is now full of cupcakes.
Things are getting much better though now that we got rid of that idiot trump.
@@GermanShepherd1983 Biden is better?
@@ProperLogicalDebate YES!!! Things are far better now with Joe Biden than they were under trump. Stock market is up, US economy is recovering from the trump recession, and farmers are making money again due to grain prices recovering from the trump Chinese tariffs.
@@GermanShepherd1983 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Where did you get the Kool-aid?
@@donklesa6040 I speak the truth. Too bad you trumpies can't accept it.
One of my great uncles was in this theater of the war. He served aboard the USS San Francisco (CA-38). He didn't talk about the war, except to say two things...
1) _"All my friends got killed."_
2) _"If you want to know more, read a book about that ship. Her story is my story."_
I suggest two books:
_Guadalcanal; Decision at Sea_ by Eric Hammel.
_Neptune's Inferno_ by James D. Hornfischer.
Both do an excellent job of detailing the battles around Guadalcanal.
My dad was in the 11th airborne during this time. Ge started in the army as an enlisted man and was given many battlefield promotions. Ge was critically wounded and when he woke up at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco he wore the oak leaves of a major.
A shout out to the indispensable Aussie and Kiwi allies from back then and now.
Cheers mate my granddad fought at Guadalcanal..☮🍻
You Yanks came down and saved us in our hour of need. You didn't have to-at one stage the logic was 'Germany first'. Thousands of young Americans died saving us. Thank you.
@@rogerpattube good neighbors do what good neighbors do
Thank you! Nicely done.
It is wise to remember this about the US Pacific fleet: it was only half the total US Navy.. Admiral Yamamoto knew the odds he was trying to overcome in at Pearl and Singapore and the Philippines. He sought to make a shield around the Empire. He promised his emperor six months of victory before the inevitable would begin. He was right almost to the day. (6June 1942)
No axis power would believe what US industry could do. Japan gambled the US had no fighting spirit.
@jarrod yuki It would have made no difference, it would have extended the war a year or so but, the tremendous amount of material and man-power produced by the US ensured the inevitable.
While loved every minute to this series, and still do, the simple fact is that it was the Australians who prepared and initiated the Guadalcanal campaign.
Guadalcanal was the finale of the turning point in the war. Rabaul was an example of the Allies we’re going to do to the rest of Japans military. “Continue to fight and we will utterly destroy you. Where you gave no quarter to your foes, none shall be given to you.”
We called them ' the greatest generation'
I think I may have seen every episode so this will be a "blast from the past".
VICTORY AT SEA ALWAYS CHEERS ME UP...
My dad and three uncles served during wwll. Dad was Army Air Corp! He trained bomber pilots.
The bomber shot down @ 25:02. I always thought that was footage taken from the European theater....lol.
Had 3 uncles , in the 1st , 2nd , and 4th Marine Corp Div. From Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima .
Great series.
I would love to see this series cleaned up and presented as it should be.
Well Kenny, this is the way it should be. Since you are clearly still wet behind the ears, you could not hope to appreciate what it was like to have lived during or right after the war. This means something to us.
Ken Rattenne well Ken perhaps you should watch the British documentary series The world at war,arguably the best WWII documentary ever made.
@C. Michael We destroyed the Nazis, thank goodness. Or most of them!
@C. Michael Oh ouch. I got my PhD in history 30 years ago. I don't recall the History Channel in the course syllabus.
Cleaned up? You want history Cleaned up? How would you like it presented? Sugar coated? War is He** whether you like it or not
I'm a Japanese, US & Allies, guide that do research to know more about WWII 1942 historical history. But I am trying to establish a wide understand between US and it's Allies. As a Solomon Islanders building up of PEACE after WWII with the company everyone peace loving nation now working together to build trust and peace amongst mankind as now 🌎 world needs peace ✌️✌️✌️🕊️🕊️🕊️.
I had an uncle who was an MP at a large hospital in England who came home.
"I Sure Would" Love to learn More of the SEA BEES!
Wonderful soundtrack to go along with the excellent documentary...
Too loud, not subtle enough.
I love it when they talk like they did in 1940 about God and Country talking of a Christian nation, showing Holy Communion and prayer. I like it not forgetting our Christian foundation. If America kicks God off the throne, we could fall as a nation.
Resolved White thank Margaret Sanger and the birth control league. now called planed Parenthood. it inspired the German eugenics program for the master race. now we need Mexican emigration to bring us up to 2.1 kids per family. that's the bare minimum to not implode the population.
desusa true nazis
America has no State Religion, nor does any Religion possess a privileged position under the Law. Christianity of various denominations have , and still are the majority but can no longer simply assume a cultural dominance.
this was a protestant view - this is why we had catholic schools rise. we also had a lot of anti-semitic feeling here, some still here
God is not real!
I love this theme music. It's perfect.
Gotta hand it to the Marine pilots. Those Corsairs look like a nightmare to land.
Watching the footage of Japan at the beginning of the war, it is easy to see why the Japanese were so massively over confident. While watching it I am aware that all those ships and planes would be destroyed and the majority of soldiers and sailors seen in that footage, were dead within two, three, or four years years.
Japan really got caught with its pants down when Commodore Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay. They realized it was modernize, militarize, or end up like China, walked over by everyone. Then Japan kicked Russia's ass around the year 1900, so that was encouraging. Now, why's a small nation like Japan try to take on a large part of the world? Well, it had worked for England, another small nation. Japan needed raw materials and it needed territory. They also honestly thought if the US got "stung" at Pearl Harbor, the US would leave 'em alone. The US had a strong isolationist faction at the time.
Love the music.
I love this.
The Sea Bees: "The difficult we do immediately. The impossible will take a little longer."
My long gone uncle was a See Bee landed on Guadalcanal in August 1942 and finally got relieved in Nov 1942. It was a living hell and he didn't talk much about except to say he was there.
At 10:40 that Corsair pilot looked like he was searching for a wire to hook. Terrible landing.
Victory at Sea is unique. Because it shows films taken by JAPANESE cameramen. The other don't.
I have the complete set of tapes on VHS I use a VCR to watch them
if you go on my channle I have all 21 episodes
fuck you
I too have them, got them as a Christmas present one year.
I have them on DVD. I watch them fairly often.
Just wondering how they'd look on 4K.
Another of many oversights by the USmilitary, not conducting daily recon over the Japanese held portion of Bougainville, which allowed the enemy to move its artillery in place for the second attack.
Yeah they oversighted all the way to Japan
@@kenneth9874 Point well taken.
What was a battlefield yesterday will be an airstrip tomorrow
Father was in WWII Germany and uncle WW11 south Pacific God bless America
We kicked their asses who thought they were invincible, first mistake, 2nd.mistake, waking up a sleeping giant after a sneak attack on Peal Harbor!
This was the America I knew. Where the men who proudly served, married women, were her legally, it was a much better time and country.
Dee Donner Ramone
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Dee Donner I agree with your observation, America has changed a lot.
My dad served in world war II on board the USS New Mexico battle wagon he was a radar operator he was supposed to go up on a float plane to help spot a Japanese radio but a Kamikaze hit the ship before he could do that my dad and his friend were coming down the counting Tower when the Jeff hit shrapnel flew up through the cutting Tower my Dad's friend caught all but one piece of it my dad caught the other piece needed even though he was hit but he survived the war I'm not too sure about his friend I think his friend that was in front of him was killed with a jet bomb the hospital he was in I'm not sure but I think that's the story my dad told me but the USS New Mexico got hit by that kamikaze and without I can't think of what island it was the USS New Mexico supposed to relieve my dad's ship but the USS New Mexico turned chicken and didn't even come in it didn't want to get hit by a kamikaze like a Kamikaze would have done very much damage to that ship anyhow but to all world war II veterans from a veteran who served from 1978 to 81 in the army I salute you you are all heroes the greatest generation that lived God bless you all
Minute 16:30. Those cats were Australian
it is difficult for me to comprehend the number of minus figures here- these people were never part of those of us who experienced ww2.
@C. Michael it's always the ones who insult their betters that reveal the lowest levels of semi-mentality. Japan was provoked into attacking China and enjoying the rape and murder of multitudes off Chinese. You say the US should have ignored that? Crawl back under your trash can.
They found Japanese military film and it?! Great!
I'll watch it his in five days.
(Date: August 3rd, 2021)
I bt today's 100M+ aircrafts can't land on these "airport" on the fly like these no more. What a shame. Those 40's aircrafts can even land and take off in rice paddies which cost like 100K each can handle lots of shitty airstrips while 100M+ planes nowadays cannot. Lol.
True to that bro..
Not just that...the more expensive the aircraft the less it flies because of high cost maintenance and man hours..these so called hi tech aircraft are as fragile as cheap chinese products.lol
While modern jet fighters can’t land on dirt runways, those old fighters wouldn’t stand a chance against modern fighters. Plus the modern fighters have more accurate bombs, not to mention missiles, that allow one modern fighter do the work of a squadron of old fighters.
Romantic music about killing each other 😂
3:39 the emperor reviews his fleet.....WAZZZZZZUPPPP????!!!!???
13:00. The lighter side of heavy bombing.
Bougainville. Who cares about the 40000 Japanese soldiers left on the island?? That was ignorant to think they weren't going to have to deal with a force like that. And they don't have enough control of the island to see the artillery being put on the island? How do you miss that? Didn't the Japanese do that during the battle of Guadalcanal?
1 trash duty 2. laundry 3 floors and 4 circuit breaker!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One thing that we did not need was Macarthur
The Solomons must have had some of the worst field living conditions of the war.
1. trash duty 2. laudnry 3. floors and 4. circuit breaker!!!!!!!!!!!!1
B 24 crash is over Romanian oil fields.
Black sheep dealt with them all the time.
That was the worst landing of a Marine F4U Corsair I've ever seen
For you to criticize anything that these young men did or did not do disturbs me and makes me think your captain of nothing other than your own delusions.when you point your finger at someone and criticise, you have three fingers pointing straight back at you.☮🍻
Yeah, really bouncy!
You see, that Corsair pilot was trying to figure out if there was a wire to hook.
I bet today's brats don't know shit about this.
If today's brass knew about this, he should be or near to be on his death bed.
PETALS, not "LEAVES".
Good action shots destroyed with stupid music.
Speech on action, target etc would have been more in line detailing the goals etc of these soldiers.
Of course these were originally made as US propaganda they are for the most part factually accurate. However, it is humorous to hear the narrator talk about Japan's Imperial aspirations in the Bismarck Archipelago and New Britain.
It was a series of its time.I remember watching it in the late 50s when I was a kid with my family,it gave everyone the feel good factor.They wouldn’t dream of making a documentary series like this today.
The music almost ruins this.
Oh sure. At the outbreak of war, the US was totally unprepared. Almost no ships, far behind on aircraft and tanks, and our soldiers used cars with cardboard tank cutouts and brooms as rifles for training. Now, we can move an army far into enemy territory at the roof of the world and defeat an enemy that stopped the Soviets in a short couple of weeks. Remember, this was before the drones, which has upset everything in a few short years.
I hope the one Japanese guy survived. I like the bow wave on the Japanese cruiser.
I used to love watching these when I was a little kid
Then I found out the truth about pearl harbor
That so called sleeping giant was actually a wide awake monster fishing for war WW2 was a colossal waste of skill flesh and finance
Irony indeed at the start complaining about Japan ‘over stepping it’s boundaries’ and 'trying to be bring 700 million people under its rule'
Meanwhile the USA had the Phillipijes as a colony before the war, Britain: Malaya, HK, Singapore, Borneo and Burma , France: Indo-China and the Netherlands: Indonesia. Got to love people falling for Propaganda without blinking an eye.
Great Series. The music is wildly overdone, a phrase for every scene ultimately unbearable
I can't hack the musk
They're playing Bugs Bunny music while the horrors of WWII unfold?
Jim Jefferies calls this propaganda.
Jim is an idiot
I like to watch this, but if you think it's not propaganda, you're the idiot
It may look like propaganda from a long way away in time. But this was a series that explained to the people who lived it, what happened, where, and when. It is a documentary.
I think it is more a celebration of how America overcame the Nazis and Japanese. It was a narration of something that was over, and designed to be watched by the veterans of the war. It was the 1950's. It was wonderful to watch.
@@firstlast5862You have to call it what it really is,… propaganda. I knew it when I watched it in Boot Camp.
Fascinating documentary; I really don’t like the background music though......
Enough of the dad stuff! We all had one who served. Let us talk about this great documentary!
young men killing each other while college football-type music plays. War was, is, and will always be hell.
Wish they would not have blown our brains out with all that overbearing music. I came to see history, not listen to the symphony with the volume cranked up.