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Fascinating. I have a few suggestions for future videos: -Corinthian war -Ottoman army -Silesian war -Boshin war -Empire of brazil -Taiping rebellion -Boxer rebellion
I enjoy watching ur videos , they are no doubt the best. I just wanted to say that if u could highlight the name of the city (on the map) when u r mentioning it's name then it would be far more easier to understand where and why those units are moving their, man these IJA commanders seriously made such complex plans and maneuvers 😅😅 .
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For context, Chiang was extreme furious because this region? Zhejiang region, and the town of Fenghua was his home and this was genocidal slaughter was right done in his homeland. The Doolittle Raid caused very little damage to Japan and not much in terms of human tolls. But the reprisal has 1/4 of a million.
@@MaskOfAgamemnon what strategy that led to their defeat? They were going to expand anyways. This was a classic case where American pursuits caused allies to pick up the tab.
@@Springdds it led to japan adopting a strategy focused on expanding its perimeter in the central pacific rather than other theaters. Remember that all the Japanese military were competing for resources, so the Doolittle raid contributed to the Japanese choosing to focus on the Central Pacific and thus, the Battle of Midway resulted.
@@Springdds their failure to defend the Doolittle raid on Tokyo directly caused them to become focused on trying to destroy the American Carriers, which is why Yamamoto had planned what he thought was an elaborate trap at Midway. The battle of Midway was the turning point of the Pacific war, Japan suffered a crushing defeat, after which it basically went on losing all the way until the end of WW2.
@@owenlindkvist5355 Tell me who actively regards them as lesser when given the facts on it? Has anything actually ever said that The losses/events here are lesser?
@@MaskOfAgamemnon Um, no. It literally has nothing to do with race not too sure wtf you're talking about. Obviously you're going to get a region/nation focusing more on studying their nation/ continents history regarding things like WW2. Just like I'm certain Japan & China don't ever teach or even care about WW2 in Europe or care about things like the eastern front, north Africa etc. that doesn't mean people think its lesser or think the losses suffered are lesser to their own. They just assign more attention to said region which they feel more interested in personally. There's probably tons of western historiographers that specialise in eastern history and really give it a deep dive.
@@MaskOfAgamemnon Obviously its not race based you tool. I've just given you many logical fair reasons why its not as well known therefore many people don't pay it attention. Not because they look at it and think "Oh, they aren't the same race as me therefore I don't care." but because they simply are unaware of it. Or if they do know it they might likely feel more interested in other theaters.
China's contribution was far more than their activities in Burma. They held down a very large number of Japanese army divisions and the IJA's air force. Those divisions could have made a huge difference in India or during late-war amphibious operations in the Phillipines and Okinawa.
Not so much in Burma and later India. Logistical problems meant that the Japanese couldn't support a large force there (heck, as history shows, they couldn't even support a smaller force). You're spot on otherwise, though. The Chinese had a gigantic impact on the Pacific War, certainly much more than the British, and comparable in some respects to the Americans.
@Wai man Wong Logistics would have prevented and who will defend Japanese borders if all the IJA went to SEA . Imagine if All the US army went In SEA . The pacific War would have ended in 1942
Japan's strategy could not work in the long run, yes they could gang up and attack different regions of China, Maylasia, Philipinenses, Solomons, etc. but once they did all that they were vulvnerable to the same strategy - they couldn't defend everything. Once they controlled all these areas the allies could then gang up and attack them in all these areas.
After all the Losses and this video the Suffering of the Chinese & the Inhumane Japanese retaliation. The Goosebumps I had after you said "from this point onwards, nothing would be the same" is so strong. Your Videos are so immersive.
What the Japanese did to the Chinese was terrible. I think Chiang had good reason to be upset about it all and how his allies were under-valuing his role in this war. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Sure he could be upset about what the war criminal Japanese were doing to his people, but I bet he was quite happy to have Americans beating the snot out of the Japanese all over the Pacific after that point. No small satisfaction I may add at the thought of Japan being nuked twice to force their unconditional surrender. Zero chance China could have pulled any of that off.
It was Chiang Kai Shek who allowed Japan to invade China to begin with! He refused to fight the Japanese invaders but instead he focused on trying to stop the communists attacking the Japanese troops! Chiang himself had been in Japan and trained by the Japanese military before Japan's invasion of China. He respected Japanese more than his fellow Chinese people!
If anyone is looking for a book recommendation on China's contribution to the war effort, Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter is a good choice.
What China is to Japan is the equivalent of what Russia is to Germany. The axis put a significant amount of resources against these countries that the remaining Allies were able to do what they have to do to end the conflict. In these places, people were just numbers when they die.
@@edwinpoopy This was so true especially the nuke part lmao the nuke probably caused their brains to be radiated which led them to create this cancer called anime
@@edwinpoopy That is official Government education and Government in Japan. I saw a lot of the abuses in China in various Japanese Anime. You are right on the war hawks not the majority of population at this point.
Fascinating video of a much under explained part of the Pacific War. Episodes like this enthrall me because it is a so little covered part of the war. Another great episode! Thank you so much for this brilliant series.
It is worth mentioning that many Japanese divisions are very large in number. Their configuration is basically composed of 15000 to 26000 soldiers, with enhanced motorization and tank reinforcements. These divisions are often called ‘甲种师团'. The number of personnel is comparable to Chinese army but with high experience and better equipped, Chinese troops usually need to deploy several more army to stop their attack.
Thank you for this. It is often forgotten that the Chinese paid a heavy price for the Doolittle Raid. The insanely savage reprisals for the raid, which remember was done by Americans, on the Chinese are absolutely disgusting. A textbook military offensive which was a great military success was followed up with pointless, vicious and just plain incredible atrocities.
@@Halcon_Sierreno it's not left out, did you not see the end scene with the glasses man beaten to a pulp and the Japanese officer holding the American lighter?
@@Halcon_Sierreno So you want them to focus a movie titled "Pearl Harbor" on a story that is a repercussion of an event that isn't even that related to the actually story?
@@95ellington The scene where a Japanese officer held an American lighter was in "Midway" (2019) film, not "Pearl Harbor" (2001). But yes, there were Chinese fighters rescuing the Doolittle Raiders in the 2001 film.
The IJN soldiers were extremely brutal wherever they went. Unfortunately modern Japanese refuse to acknowledge this dark past but play up their own suffering from the 2 atomic bombs. The Chinese, like the Russians, made tremendous sacrifice and felt made used of by their US Allie’s in WW2. Such horrors and sufferings must be reduced if not totally eliminated… only by learning honestly from the past can humankind achieve this.
Sadly, war is looming again on the horizon. With increasing human population and ever depleting resources, not to mention increasing inequalities, it's only a matter of time.
They learned nothing in Japan because their punishment was specially mild after the war, any men under 50 should have been hanged beginning with the entire imperial family to ensure the message hit home, as things are now a re-run of this movie could still happen this century or the next.
the russians? the difference between the chinese and russians was that the Russian leadership was systematically butchering their own people in an effort to win, not defending their homeland. Russia wasn't a forgotten ally, they were a vile occupier that had *betrayed* their allies by siding with the nazis, only for it to backfire, then went on to do the exact things japan was doing in eastern europe
@@Halcon_Sierreno Yes for Britain maybe but not the U.S. U.S. was an economic, technological and manpower powerhouse. U.S. built more war machines than any other nation and were the only ones in possession of the atom bomb during the war. Had Germany or Japan not surrendered, we would likely have seen even more nukes deployed. Just like how it is today in Ukraine, if China did not have the arms support from the U.S., it would have long crumbled before the might of the IJA. China during WW2 was a technological and economical weakling, colonized by all superpowers of the world of old. China only had manpower. However, wars are not won by sheer numbers alone, especially not during WW2. One Japanese machinegunner crew is easily the equivalent of dozens of Chinese saber and pitchfork wielding peasants.
Thank you very much for acknowledging this part of history. Russia and China suffered the most in WW2 in resisting the Axis yet little was known by the world. They are the true unsung heroes.
lots of those exist, though the Chinese and Indian perspectives, in particular, tend to be neglected/ little talked about in the English speaking world
@@flyingeagle3898 It wasn't exactly easy to interview the Nationalist fighters, since the Communists were the ones who took over the country; records are spare in any case, as the Japanese and Chinese either didn't make, or didn't preserve, battles in the level of detail that we see on the Western and Pacific fronts. It's also still a _very_ real political issue between China and Taiwan, as the Chinese government keeps trying to pretend that it was the Communists doing most of the fighting, when everyone outside of China knows that was not the case. Like, think, "Churchill and Roosevelt meeting Mao in 1943" levels of distortion.
Doolittle Raid: Causes very little physical damage and relatively few deaths as well (as collateral damage). Japanese Army: intentionally slaughter over 300,000 Chinese Soldiers and Civilians.
After five years bogged down in China, I don't think the Japanese Army actually needs an excuse to take out their frustrations on the native population. They are brutal enough to massacre a village full of peasants just for kicks.
The doolittle raid was also done in responce to an attack on an airfield that killed very few people, and only destroyed a couple of old ships. Which was in response to the USA refusing to send them oil So its all just escallations from fairly petty and small actions
Thank you so much for covering this darkest time in my cultural history. More people need to know the horrors of war and the heavy blood price paid for the peace and prosperities of today.
At last, someone tells the story about the role of China in the WW2. There are many info on all (main) participants of war, and even Netherlands navy action in Pacific. But the China's role in war has not been told. So thank You for this ☺️
Excellent, detailed video of battles not known to western audiences and the incredible bravery and suffering endured by the Chinese nationalists in resisting the Japanese invasion
Thanks again to Kings and Generals for this amazing series. The China war is probably the most underrated aspect of WW2. Most Westerners, American specifically, have no clue the contributions the Chinese had on the War. Being how they had been fighting the Japanese since 1937, longer if the annexation of Manchuria. This episode spotlights the brutality of the Japanese against the Chinese. We Americans think we won the whole thing, but without the Chinese that victory would have been very different. Sure, we came up with the A-bomb but how different things would have been had not most of IJA not been bogged down in China.
I think the USA was bound to win. We had the bigger economy by far and we were going to win a long war as long as we had the political will to do so. It certainly would have been more bloody. And the war in China had no baring on the Manhatan project. So we still get the atomic weapons in 1945. Though I guess maybe if say they make some peace with the Chinese during 1941 and they invaded the Soviet Union bogging down those eastern divisions maybe the Germans win their offensive. I guess its one of those what off those counterfactuals to ponder over. History has an endless supply of them. I really do agree with you that we don't talk just how brutal the Japanese were during this conflict. It really got swept under the rug.
Russia and China were the unsung heroes of the war, sacrificed literally millions of their men to fight barbaric enemies.....only for the West to take credit for victory.
@@js7139 I agree that history is one of those things that has endless possibilities in hindsight. My line of thinking was if China collapsed in say 1939-41 how different would have a Guadalcanal been instead of dribs and drabs but whole divisions. Just note the casualty lists at say Iwo Jima with 20,000 troops defending. A Saipan or even the Philippines with another 10,000-20,000 that were tied up in China. The losses would have been horrific. Seeing how Fatboy and Little Man were to keep from having astronomical losses invading Japan, if those same casualties happened a year before Okinawa. Somehow I don't think the Japanese would have attacked the Soviet Union straight up. The drubbing they got in Mongolia probably put "paid" on those aspirations, but the other stratigic options would have been wide open. An invasion of Australia perhaps or a more concerted effort in S.E. Asia and India. Not to mention having more troops for their Pacific shield. The resources they used in China were astronomical not to mention the majority of the IJA's strength was in China.
We still would have won regardless. It was just a matter of time. Nobody could possibly match the USA's industrial might, especially not Japan. "Woulda coulda shoulda" But it's Japan's fault for overextending themselves. Same with Germany.
@@BlindingGlow Oh I agree. Our manufacturing base outstripped everybody. Not only in weapons, but everything that keeps soldiers in the field. Where would the Soviets have been without "villys and Studebaker". Their words for our jeeps and trucks. Let alone the Brits and Lend Lease. As a former Sgt of Infantry rations were just as important to my people as having rounds in mag. Twice I saw fellows more worried about food than bullets. Grenada we had plenty of rounds, but rations were a little short.(We only loaded 3 rations per man before boarding the transport aircraft and personally I lost 2 full C-Rations because of bad guys bullets. In other words they shot my lunch. LoL. Kinda left them on the DZ too many rounds in the air. Rangers Lead the Way!
The Chinese really suffered the brunt of Japanese brutality, gosh this was hard to watch. Alll the rape and torture against ordinary civilians…who else suffered from that? So much death and pain, yet still the most undervalued ally in the camp.
That cause the real ally of USA, the KMT was kicked out of mainland China by the Chinese Communists (who played comparatively little role in fighting the Japanese) in 1949 to Taiwan. The Communist PRC was soon an enemy of USA, and praising the Chinese quickly became a no-no.
It’s because they didn’t nearly pull enough of their weight as they could have. They literally couldn’t dislodge them IJA out of most of their lands by the wars end. The US was literally drawing up plans for a Japanese homeland invasion and china hadn’t even taken back shanghai despite years of lend lease aid and US military advisors
It wasn't just Chinese. Koreans, Vietnamese, Thai, etc all suffered. Korean POWs that survived the original invasion were used as human meatshield against T-34 divisions.
@@scarletcrusade77 pull weight? lol if China was completely conquered in a year the bulk of IJA troops will be redeployed in the Burma front for a decisive breakthrough against British. Also dont even get it started if Japanese had their way in China they wouldnt even consider opening a front in the Pacific
The Korean city is hell, but the Japanese city is so peaceful I got goosebumps As a Korean, I personally call that 'Independence bomb' I feel sorry for the Japanese civilians who died in that bomb, However people need to see the numbers of civilians that Japanese soldiers killed during that time. I must say that bomb was necessary and it saved at least 10x more lives considering that Imperial Japan never wanted to stop doing Asian holocaust. So I feel sorry for the civilians who died and I thank for the bomb which stopped Asian nazis.
Japan was extremely lucky to be treated so humanly after the war. Wonder what the end would look like if they didn't have the fortune of being attacked by Russia.
How did Russia attacking have any help at all save Russia killing Japanese troops and taking Japanese territory? US occupation policy would be exactly the same. The US had already destroyed way over 100 Japanese cities, and starvation was major the US forces saw a totally destroyed country and a greatly suffering population any desire for revenge certainly gone by seeing this and there was never any desire to commit atrocities on Japanese. Japanese POW's treated well there is no indication US wanted some sort of revenge only War Crime trials of the leadership.
Hearing the Unspeakable Evil that the Japanese Committed against the Chinese in this event of WWII makes me wonder if, in the eyes of Chinese, The Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, from their perspective, 'Retribution' for the Atrocities of Operation Sei-Go... ...We may never know. Fantastic Work on this Episode of The Pacific War. I'm looking forward to 'The Turning Point of the Pacific Theatre' Next Week!
Not just the Chinese, but everyone in South East Asia mostly suffered under the control of Japan. The Imperial Japanese Army is such a brutal animal that no doubt, little pity will be given when Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened. They murdered more people during Rape of Nanjing in December 1937 than the combined death of the 2 atomic bombs.
The japanese committed far more terrible atrocities than Sei-Go. It's tragic that the world know more about the nuclear bombings, than what the IJA did in China, due to highly effective japanese post-war propaganda
US destroyed over 100 Japanese Cities. And starvation was significant in Japan. The US had destroyed most of Japan not just two cities. Most people ever killing in a Bombing raid was Tokyo as US use of the Fire Storm make Tokyo and Hiroshima look the same. Only counting lives shortened by cancer maybe from radiation does Hiroshima total maybe get over Tokyo especially as Fire Storms are so hot people are reduced to ash and blown away leaving no trace they existed.
As if it couldn't get any worse, the IJA also employed biological warfare on a large scale during this campaign. Unit 731 intentionally spread Paratyphoid, Anthrax, Cholera, Dysentry and the Plague in critical water supplies and urban areas, effects that lasted for years. Japan should forever be grateful for the mercy they were shown after the war.
...... and You completely " forget " to say , that the very same US government pardoned these Japan criminals AND make a very lucrative deal with them , incorporating unit 731 " research " in the US bioweapons program. Democracy at its finest ....
Thank you for your service. You are pretty much the first popular English history channle who told this story. Almost none in western media care the sac Chinese had made in WWII. I hope ppls in the US understand when today's Japanese gov keep denying or playing down their WWII atrocities these are some of the reasons why Koreans or Chinese are still angry.
The capture of these airfields expedite B-29 Super Fortress project. One of the real secret weapon of the Allied forces besides proximity fuse, machine assisted decryption & radar.
I’m glad you focused on this episode. China’s experience in World War II is almost totally ignored in America. But don’t blame Americans for atrocities the Japanese committed. America only got attacked at Pearl Harbor and subsequently lost 111,000 killed and over 250,000 wounded in the Pacific because Franklin Roosevelt was trying to peacefully stop Japanese aggression against China. (Imposing trade restrictions in 1938 after Japan invaded, terminating a commercial treaty in 1939, imposing export controls on Japan while offering loans and equipment to China, moving the fleet to Pearl Harbor as a deterrent, and imposing a scrap metal embargo in 1940 before freezing Japanese assets and enacting an oil embargo in 1941.) Just as more more Americans should learn what the Chinese endured, more Chinese people should learn that many Americans died because we were trying to help China. (Some people will say FDR was just trying to protect the American colony of the Philippines, but in 1934 FDR signed a law starting a transition to full independence for the Philippines that the Japanese interrupted when they invaded in 1941.)
Yeah, I'm surprised at how much these last few videos have exaggerated animosity between allied US-Chinese relations during WW2. The US became involuntarily embroiled in the war for it's support of China against Japan. Then sent supplies and volunteers to assist China. Then, after the war, supported getting China a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. If we were to believe all the overblown drama the writers have been recently pushing, you'd think they hated each other as much as Japan, which is BS. Sounds like someone was drawing too much from post-war Chicom revisionist propaganda intended for it's own citizens.
Americans covered up the warcrimes afterwards and all the sadistic psychopaths were hired by alphabet agencies. So yes, America is partly to blame for the lack of knowledge the west in general has regarding the japanese atrocities
@@eragonfreedman9228 Most war crimes were not covered up. The US and 10 other nations held war crimes trials in Tokyo right after the war, and there were thousands of convictions. The trials were well publicized. You’re right that some evidence of biological warfare experiments was covered up, sadly. This was similar to the way the US and Soviet Union (Operation Osoaviakhim) sheltered Nazi scientists from prosecution to learn their military secrets.
The pacific war would be much different if Japan managed to defeat China by 1941/1942. All those divisions in China, the best Japan had to offer were in China. So all those extra divisions would be all over the pacific instead.
@@yassinhafez1337 doubt it, the japonese lost badly against the soviets in a small border war in 1938,its why they never attacked the soviets after, made a non aggression pact and went south instead
The problem with Japan was never numbers it was logistics the soldiers in China lived off the land they would never have been able to move or feed all those troops on islands they would have starved like so many of their troops ended up doing.
@Breanne Squires Bull! PRC only advocate never let go of Imperial Japan’s invasion, massacres & even future retaliation, but never regarding which party had more merits🏅in WW2
How to forget such atrocity? The Koreans also did not forget. Now you know why Japanese political leaders visiting the Yasukuni Shrine incited so much anger in China and Korean Peninsula
US Government for better or worse seems to hold less of a grudge probably because it was main parts of USA was not occupied (and tortured) so it was able to move onto the next conflicts ((Cold War/Communism) while working with the countries that it just fought not too long ago.
@@johnl.7754 Given that here in Europe too, we have had more success with a softer approach. But I think it's more related to what side you were on during the Cold War.
The Imperial Japanese Army had also spread cholera, typhoid, plague infected fleas and dysentery pathogens. The Japanese biological warfare Unit 731 brought almost 300 pounds of paratyphoid and anthrax to be left in contaminated food and contaminated wells with the withdrawal of the army from areas around Yushan, Kinhwa and Futsin.
In fact Midway was the crux of Japan’s reaction to the Doolittle raid. Bombs had fallen in the emperor’s garden which meant that the Japanese armed forces had shown themselves to be incapable of safeguarding the person of the emperor. Nothing could be more shameful. The generals and admirals decided to extend their reach east towards US territory and Midway was smack in the middle. The Doolittle raid has often been criticized as being merely for propaganda purposes. But in fact in led to a fundamental, strategic decision. Japan lost the strategic initiative at Midway and never regained it. It may not have been the US’ explicit objective with the Doolittle raid, but it definitely had that effect.
Thanks to detailed great video! You always recall the forgotten fronts. So the another massacre is clear now. Many say "Nips did such brutality, so we can anything to those rats!" And I realized why people blame only Russia. I think would this brilliant series tell us about Axis side civil victims later, or they’d be erased in this story of justice. Probably latter. Anyway fate of Axis people could be just a trivia, doesn't matter to watchers. I really respect K&G team, awesome filmmakers, who give great movies constantly.
Thank you for bringing this content to us. Another exceptional video. Probably more appropriate for the post war period, but even at this stage, had the US (& the West in general) given more attention to the Nationalists, we might not be having to deal with a communist China today - not that anyone could have foreseen what would happen in the fight for China's future.
Gruesome brutality. Probably needs a graphic/distressing type warning before you unload that detail. I already knew of the events but just thinking of trauma survivors out there ❤️
@@3rebornxd true, I'm not saying people need to totally reconcile but apply the "live and let live" ideal. I've met too many Chinese people who want revange against the Japanese, even though the majority of the victims and aggressors are already dead.
How those forces are composed? It's strange to see several armies driven back by single division, so there're obvius nomenclature differences on both sides. Even then, forces seems really small, compared to wastness of China, and what happens at the same time in Russia.
The number of soldiers in one Division of the Japanese army is equivalent to that in three divisions of the Chinese army, and the Japanese army has five times the fighting power of the Chinese army. In theory, China's five armies are as strong as a Japanese division.
the 3rd war fronts forces were dispersed prior to this battle and often had to fight units multiple times its size, because no one expected Japan to throw such a massive temper tantrum.
It is extremely disturbing that Japan paid no real penance for its many war crimes, and that war criminals up and down the ranks were treated as honourable men after the war, even maintaining high-powered positions in the government. All because American business wanted a source of cheap labour. Doubly disturbing is the fact none of this is taught in Japanese schools to this day (honest teachers are sacked, even imprisoned), as they dishonourably paint themselves as victims of the war. Disgraceful.
That is not what happened at all. The issue of penalizing the Japanese further (such as removing the Emperor) would have caused a push towards communism in Japan. The United States was focusing on a realist point of view that while Japan deserved to be punished, the last thing they wanted was a communist bloc of USSR, China (1949), and now Japan.
As much of a weeb as I am, I never considered Japan a victim from the atomic bombings or the fire bombings. It's like the Roman general who burned down Carthage had the realization that what he did could happen to Rome one day, Japan should've expected that for all their atrocity they committed, they too can receive similar reprisal, they really had no justification to complain especially when they were the aggressors.
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everyone always talking about how terrible the nuclear bombings were, but in fact it would have been a far more preferable way to go than at the hands of the japanese
Fascinating video thanks for shedding light on china’s contributions to the war effort but I’d like to ask why weren’t the American missionaries attacked I mean the Japanese aren’t known for their following of international laws and you’d think they would be on the top of the Japan’s hit list of their help for the American airmen and also their American nationality
@@muhammadfarhun1197 can you clarify what is this so called ‘allied propaganda’ and also the Chinese were united albeit there was tensions at times no doubt that Chinese peasants did suffer during the war and viewed each belligerent with contempt the Japanese were successful in the war especially at the start with their capture of Wuhan and Shanghai and even now with them still being able to launch massive offensives even while fighting on multiple fronts but the Chinese stood their ground most nations would collapse and capitulate after the capture of their capitals the fact china still fought on is testament to their strength and the Chinese we all know has a massive population now and then so this means they could recruit massive amounts of men to fight and the Chinese outnumbered their foes throughout the war and in key battles like the battle of Shanghai though in this engagement they were defeated because of Japanese superiority in tactics and firepower the consequence of the was the rape of nanking
great video. you know, the stupidest part about the nanjing massacare is that the japanese soldiers actually destroyed the very things they needed from china; the food. someone should have been in charge of that
I doubt they were planning on holding the territory long enough to reap any harvests. The intention from the start was a punitive raid. I'm sure any looting was limited to precious stones and metals, where the value to volume ratio leaned to the former.
@@aidanjt that's not an excuse. And here's an idea: instead of killing off a potential workforce, use them for harvesting and collection of said food so that this shit is not wasted. Now I hate slavery but that just makes sense, considering Japan's economic state at the time
@@timothyhiggins8934 Who said it's an excuse? They intended to inflict maximum punishment, so they did. Thus scorched Earth it was. Killing plants and animals was the very least of their war crimes.
@@aidanjt still stupid. That's waste that could have been used in Japan. Like, I know they didn't conduct such a military operation just to get to Nanjing and start raping, killing and destroying, for the sole benefit of just that. That's too much time and material wasted.
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Japan was forced to keep more fighter planes at home, more troops and a lot more Equipment. The raid cost Japan millions of dollars, time, fuel and face. These things could have been used in other theaters of OPERATION . It was Brilliant and carried out by men who are winners forever in history , in all lands.
It’s unclear though why a Japanese attack always meant a retreat from the Chinese or the british in China Burma etc. Was it air superiority? Cant help but think, why didn’t a few regiments stand and fight
The reason often given in historical military literature I've read, for Japan's early steamrolling successes on land, was due to their unexpected speed. Moving through jungle and tropical terrain quickly and, likewise, following up successful attacks more quickly than their opponents could deal with. Underestimating that speed, specifically.
US Government for better or worse seems to hold less of a grudge (then South Korea/China…) probably because it was main parts of USA was not occupied (and tortured) so it was able to move onto the next conflicts (Cold War/Communism) while working with the countries that it just fought not too long ago. I lived a few years in China part of me am not sure if justified or just propaganda or both.
Both. Countries which were invaded and brutalized tend to have a long memory of their humiliation. France after Verdun was one example, and China after Imperial Japan, another. That such sentiments are kept alive for political purposes rather than moral ones, however, is no secret.
. Wondering if episode #23 is going to be made? I know there was an issue that caused it to be delayed, but 4 other episodes have been posted since and it's starting to seem like #23 may not see the light of day. I just don't want to miss it (or perhaps I already have).
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Fascinating.
I have a few suggestions for future videos:
-Corinthian war
-Ottoman army
-Silesian war
-Boshin war
-Empire of brazil
-Taiping rebellion
-Boxer rebellion
I enjoy watching ur videos , they are no doubt the best. I just wanted to say that if u could highlight the name of the city (on the map) when u r mentioning it's name then it would be far more easier to understand where and why those units are moving their, man these IJA commanders seriously made such complex plans and maneuvers 😅😅 .
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@@lukahrastar1562 The Corinthian War...?
@Kings and generals can u do a documentary about Alexander's battle of hydaspes ?
For context, Chiang was extreme furious because this region? Zhejiang region, and the town of Fenghua was his home and this was genocidal slaughter was right done in his homeland. The Doolittle Raid caused very little damage to Japan and not much in terms of human tolls. But the reprisal has 1/4 of a million.
@@Biggestkidyouknow but every one of those Chinese people is better at math than you....
@@Biggestkidyouknow You a funny dude
@@MaskOfAgamemnon what strategy that led to their defeat? They were going to expand anyways. This was a classic case where American pursuits caused allies to pick up the tab.
@@Springdds it led to japan adopting a strategy focused on expanding its perimeter in the central pacific rather than other theaters. Remember that all the Japanese military were competing for resources, so the Doolittle raid contributed to the Japanese choosing to focus on the Central Pacific and thus, the Battle of Midway resulted.
@@Springdds their failure to defend the Doolittle raid on Tokyo directly caused them to become focused on trying to destroy the American Carriers, which is why Yamamoto had planned what he thought was an elaborate trap at Midway. The battle of Midway was the turning point of the Pacific war, Japan suffered a crushing defeat, after which it basically went on losing all the way until the end of WW2.
"From this point onwards, nothing would be the same"
You can say that again. Can't wait for the episode coming up next week.
that sentence gives me a goose bump.
For the Chinese tho remained pretty much the same apparently
Thank you for returning to the often forgotten China scenario of WW2
@@owenlindkvist5355 Tell me who actively regards them as lesser when given the facts on it? Has anything actually ever said that The losses/events here are lesser?
@@scarletcrusade77 nope. No one has.
@@patrickhenry6695 So Owens comment is a lie. Just weird BS people say to do some pity guilt trip thing to virtue signal.
@@MaskOfAgamemnon Um, no. It literally has nothing to do with race not too sure wtf you're talking about. Obviously you're going to get a region/nation focusing more on studying their nation/ continents history regarding things like WW2. Just like I'm certain Japan & China don't ever teach or even care about WW2 in Europe or care about things like the eastern front, north Africa etc. that doesn't mean people think its lesser or think the losses suffered are lesser to their own. They just assign more attention to said region which they feel more interested in personally. There's probably tons of western historiographers that specialise in eastern history and really give it a deep dive.
@@MaskOfAgamemnon Obviously its not race based you tool. I've just given you many logical fair reasons why its not as well known therefore many people don't pay it attention. Not because they look at it and think "Oh, they aren't the same race as me therefore I don't care." but because they simply are unaware of it. Or if they do know it they might likely feel more interested in other theaters.
China's contribution was far more than their activities in Burma. They held down a very large number of Japanese army divisions and the IJA's air force. Those divisions could have made a huge difference in India or during late-war amphibious operations in the Phillipines and Okinawa.
It India the most important part.
Not so much in Burma and later India. Logistical problems meant that the Japanese couldn't support a large force there (heck, as history shows, they couldn't even support a smaller force). You're spot on otherwise, though. The Chinese had a gigantic impact on the Pacific War, certainly much more than the British, and comparable in some respects to the Americans.
Those divisions could not have been transferred to India even if they could logistical issues would make them combat ineffective
@Wai man Wong Logistics would have prevented and who will defend Japanese borders if all the IJA went to SEA . Imagine if All the US army went In SEA . The pacific War would have ended in 1942
Japan's strategy could not work in the long run, yes they could gang up and attack different regions of China, Maylasia, Philipinenses, Solomons, etc. but once they did all that they were vulvnerable to the same strategy - they couldn't defend everything. Once they controlled all these areas the allies could then gang up and attack them in all these areas.
After all the Losses and this video the Suffering of the Chinese & the Inhumane Japanese retaliation. The Goosebumps I had after you said "from this point onwards, nothing would be the same" is so strong. Your Videos are so immersive.
What the Japanese did to the Chinese was terrible. I think Chiang had good reason to be upset about it all and how his allies were under-valuing his role in this war. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Sure he could be upset about what the war criminal Japanese were doing to his people, but I bet he was quite happy to have Americans beating the snot out of the Japanese all over the Pacific after that point. No small satisfaction I may add at the thought of Japan being nuked twice to force their unconditional surrender. Zero chance China could have pulled any of that off.
@@wnchstrmanthen the communists won
The Japanese couldn't have pushed either tho it would have just been a lasting stalemate due to the horrendous terrain and supply@@wnchstrman
It was Chiang Kai Shek who allowed Japan to invade China to begin with! He refused to fight the Japanese invaders but instead he focused on trying to stop the communists attacking the Japanese troops!
Chiang himself had been in Japan and trained by the Japanese military before Japan's invasion of China. He respected Japanese more than his fellow Chinese people!
If anyone is looking for a book recommendation on China's contribution to the war effort, Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter is a good choice.
Thank you!
What China is to Japan is the equivalent of what Russia is to Germany. The axis put a significant amount of resources against these countries that the remaining Allies were able to do what they have to do to end the conflict. In these places, people were just numbers when they die.
In Germany yes.. but not in Japan as the main Resources focus for them is The Navy not the army.
@@edwinpoopy This was so true especially the nuke part lmao the nuke probably caused their brains to be radiated which led them to create this cancer called anime
@@edwinpoopy That is official Government education and Government in Japan. I saw a lot of the abuses in China in various Japanese Anime. You are right on the war hawks not the majority of population at this point.
Fascinating video of a much under explained part of the Pacific War. Episodes like this enthrall me because it is a so little covered part of the war. Another great episode! Thank you so much for this brilliant series.
It is worth mentioning that many Japanese divisions are very large in number. Their configuration is basically composed of 15000 to 26000 soldiers, with enhanced motorization and tank reinforcements. These divisions are often called ‘甲种师团'. The number of personnel is comparable to Chinese army but with high experience and better equipped, Chinese troops usually need to deploy several more army to stop their attack.
Army was an incorrect translation in this video. 军 is corps, not army. Army is 集团军
Thank you for this. It is often forgotten that the Chinese paid a heavy price for the Doolittle Raid. The insanely savage reprisals for the raid, which remember was done by Americans, on the Chinese are absolutely disgusting.
A textbook military offensive which was a great military success was followed up with pointless, vicious and just plain incredible atrocities.
@@Halcon_Sierreno What does this have to do with Pearl Harbor?
they definitely deserved those nukes, wasn't enough tbh for the atrocities comitted
@@Halcon_Sierreno it's not left out, did you not see the end scene with the glasses man beaten to a pulp and the Japanese officer holding the American lighter?
@@Halcon_Sierreno So you want them to focus a movie titled "Pearl Harbor" on a story that is a repercussion of an event that isn't even that related to the actually story?
@@95ellington The scene where a Japanese officer held an American lighter was in "Midway" (2019) film, not "Pearl Harbor" (2001). But yes, there were Chinese fighters rescuing the Doolittle Raiders in the 2001 film.
The IJN soldiers were extremely brutal wherever they went. Unfortunately modern Japanese refuse to acknowledge this dark past but play up their own suffering from the 2 atomic bombs. The Chinese, like the Russians, made tremendous sacrifice and felt made used of by their US Allie’s in WW2. Such horrors and sufferings must be reduced if not totally eliminated… only by learning honestly from the past can humankind achieve this.
The more I hear of the atrocities committed by the Japanese military, the less I feel like the USA was the only monster for the atomic bombs.
Sadly, war is looming again on the horizon. With increasing human population and ever depleting resources, not to mention increasing inequalities, it's only a matter of time.
They learned nothing in Japan because their punishment was specially mild after the war, any men under 50 should have been hanged beginning with the entire imperial family to ensure the message hit home, as things are now a re-run of this movie could still happen this century or the next.
the russians? the difference between the chinese and russians was that the Russian leadership was systematically butchering their own people in an effort to win, not defending their homeland. Russia wasn't a forgotten ally, they were a vile occupier that had *betrayed* their allies by siding with the nazis, only for it to backfire, then went on to do the exact things japan was doing in eastern europe
@@Halcon_Sierreno Yes for Britain maybe but not the U.S.
U.S. was an economic, technological and manpower powerhouse.
U.S. built more war machines than any other nation and were the only ones in possession of the atom bomb during the war. Had Germany or Japan not surrendered, we would likely have seen even more nukes deployed.
Just like how it is today in Ukraine, if China did not have the arms support from the U.S., it would have long crumbled before the might of the IJA.
China during WW2 was a technological and economical weakling, colonized by all superpowers of the world of old.
China only had manpower. However, wars are not won by sheer numbers alone, especially not during WW2.
One Japanese machinegunner crew is easily the equivalent of dozens of Chinese saber and pitchfork wielding peasants.
Thank you very much for acknowledging this part of history. Russia and China suffered the most in WW2 in resisting the Axis yet little was known by the world. They are the true unsung heroes.
This makes me think that the Pacific War should have a series made from it. Told from multiple perspectives.
The World wars by history channel came close tho...
lots of those exist, though the Chinese and Indian perspectives, in particular, tend to be neglected/ little talked about in the English speaking world
I believe the movie midway covers the massacres committed by the IJA in response to the dolittle raids.
@@Rottooth it does but in a very limited way
@@flyingeagle3898 It wasn't exactly easy to interview the Nationalist fighters, since the Communists were the ones who took over the country; records are spare in any case, as the Japanese and Chinese either didn't make, or didn't preserve, battles in the level of detail that we see on the Western and Pacific fronts.
It's also still a _very_ real political issue between China and Taiwan, as the Chinese government keeps trying to pretend that it was the Communists doing most of the fighting, when everyone outside of China knows that was not the case. Like, think, "Churchill and Roosevelt meeting Mao in 1943" levels of distortion.
Love the animations and illustrations. I'm very familiar with that B-25 scene which came from the movie Thirty seconds over Tokyo.
also they used that on movie battle of midway the old one in 1976 the opening scene
I wait all week for your videos and I truly enjoy them thank you for your hard work
Doolittle Raid: Causes very little physical damage and relatively few deaths as well (as collateral damage).
Japanese Army: intentionally slaughter over 300,000 Chinese Soldiers and Civilians.
After five years bogged down in China, I don't think the Japanese Army actually needs an excuse to take out their frustrations on the native population. They are brutal enough to massacre a village full of peasants just for kicks.
Totally stupidly.
The doolittle raid was also done in responce to an attack on an airfield that killed very few people, and only destroyed a couple of old ships.
Which was in response to the USA refusing to send them oil
So its all just escallations from fairly petty and small actions
For reference, Pearl Harbor killed 2,403.
*Then* the Doolittle Raid killed 12.
*Then* the Japanese killed 250,000.
Thank you so much for covering this darkest time in my cultural history. More people need to know the horrors of war and the heavy blood price paid for the peace and prosperities of today.
At last, someone tells the story about the role of China in the WW2. There are many info on all (main) participants of war, and even Netherlands navy action in Pacific. But the China's role in war has not been told. So thank You for this ☺️
I am loving this series. I really hope Kings and Generals goes further into the history of the Chinese Civil War (1927-1945).
Can't wait for Midway in June. I want to learn about more about relationship between fletcher and spurance affected the battle.
Excellent, detailed video of battles not known to western audiences and the incredible bravery and suffering endured by the Chinese nationalists in resisting the Japanese invasion
These videos r a nice way to relax during my exam preparation
It's nice to see that you are not forgetting China when talking about the Pacific War.
Thanks again to Kings and Generals for this amazing series. The China war is probably the most underrated aspect of WW2. Most Westerners, American specifically, have no clue the contributions the Chinese had on the War. Being how they had been fighting the Japanese since 1937, longer if the annexation of Manchuria. This episode spotlights the brutality of the Japanese against the Chinese. We Americans think we won the whole thing, but without the Chinese that victory would have been very different. Sure, we came up with the A-bomb but how different things would have been had not most of IJA not been bogged down in China.
I think the USA was bound to win. We had the bigger economy by far and we were going to win a long war as long as we had the political will to do so. It certainly would have been more bloody. And the war in China had no baring on the Manhatan project. So we still get the atomic weapons in 1945. Though I guess maybe if say they make some peace with the Chinese during 1941 and they invaded the Soviet Union bogging down those eastern divisions maybe the Germans win their offensive. I guess its one of those what off those counterfactuals to ponder over. History has an endless supply of them.
I really do agree with you that we don't talk just how brutal the Japanese were during this conflict. It really got swept under the rug.
Russia and China were the unsung heroes of the war, sacrificed literally millions of their men to fight barbaric enemies.....only for the West to take credit for victory.
@@js7139 I agree that history is one of those things that has endless possibilities in hindsight.
My line of thinking was if China collapsed in say 1939-41 how different would have a Guadalcanal been instead of dribs and drabs but whole divisions. Just note the casualty lists at say Iwo Jima with 20,000 troops defending. A Saipan or even the Philippines with another 10,000-20,000 that were tied up in China. The losses would have been horrific. Seeing how Fatboy and Little Man were to keep from having astronomical losses invading Japan, if those same casualties happened a year before Okinawa.
Somehow I don't think the Japanese would have attacked the Soviet Union straight up. The drubbing they got in Mongolia probably put "paid" on those aspirations, but the other stratigic options would have been wide open. An invasion of Australia perhaps or a more concerted effort in S.E. Asia and India. Not to mention having more troops for their Pacific shield. The resources they used in China were astronomical not to mention the majority of the IJA's strength was in China.
We still would have won regardless. It was just a matter of time. Nobody could possibly match the USA's industrial might, especially not Japan.
"Woulda coulda shoulda" But it's Japan's fault for overextending themselves. Same with Germany.
@@BlindingGlow Oh I agree. Our manufacturing base outstripped everybody. Not only in weapons, but everything that keeps soldiers in the field. Where would the Soviets have been without "villys and Studebaker". Their words for our jeeps and trucks. Let alone the Brits and Lend Lease. As a former Sgt of Infantry rations were just as important to my people as having rounds in mag. Twice I saw fellows more worried about food than bullets. Grenada we had plenty of rounds, but rations were a little short.(We only loaded 3 rations per man before boarding the transport aircraft and personally I lost 2 full C-Rations because of bad guys bullets. In other words they shot my lunch. LoL. Kinda left them on the DZ too many rounds in the air. Rangers Lead the Way!
I absolutely love the map artwork, and the dramatic music instead of silly modern anime TH-cam music.
Who's using silly modern anime music to discuss the Pacific War?
The Chinese really suffered the brunt of Japanese brutality, gosh this was hard to watch. Alll the rape and torture against ordinary civilians…who else suffered from that?
So much death and pain, yet still the most undervalued ally in the camp.
Not only there. Practically the Chinese in other countries too. Now, they're condemning Russia. But war is war, and humans will never learn.
That cause the real ally of USA, the KMT was kicked out of mainland China by the Chinese Communists (who played comparatively little role in fighting the Japanese) in 1949 to Taiwan. The Communist PRC was soon an enemy of USA, and praising the Chinese quickly became a no-no.
It’s because they didn’t nearly pull enough of their weight as they could have. They literally couldn’t dislodge them IJA out of most of their lands by the wars end. The US was literally drawing up plans for a Japanese homeland invasion and china hadn’t even taken back shanghai despite years of lend lease aid and US military advisors
It wasn't just Chinese. Koreans, Vietnamese, Thai, etc all suffered. Korean POWs that survived the original invasion were used as human meatshield against T-34 divisions.
@@scarletcrusade77 pull weight? lol if China was completely conquered in a year the bulk of IJA troops will be redeployed in the Burma front for a decisive breakthrough against British. Also dont even get it started if Japanese had their way in China they wouldnt even consider opening a front in the Pacific
The japanese had NO chill
Some allied air raids were like a mosquito bite to Japan, which would unfold in a colossal response
Very good documentary
The Korean city is hell, but the Japanese city is so peaceful I got goosebumps
As a Korean, I personally call that 'Independence bomb'
I feel sorry for the Japanese civilians who died in that bomb, However people need to see the numbers of civilians that Japanese soldiers killed during that time. I must say that bomb was necessary and it saved at least 10x more lives considering that Imperial Japan never wanted to stop doing Asian holocaust.
So I feel sorry for the civilians who died and I thank for the bomb which stopped Asian nazis.
Japan was extremely lucky to be treated so humanly after the war. Wonder what the end would look like if they didn't have the fortune of being attacked by Russia.
Read Decisive Darkness, an Alternate history novel centered around that...
also nuked
@@arvidboestad4923 best thing that happened to them, the most humane
How did Russia attacking have any help at all save Russia killing Japanese troops and taking Japanese territory? US occupation policy would be exactly the same.
The US had already destroyed way over 100 Japanese cities, and starvation was major the US forces saw a totally destroyed country and a greatly suffering population any desire for revenge certainly gone by seeing this and there was never any desire to commit atrocities on Japanese. Japanese POW's treated well there is no indication US wanted some sort of revenge only War Crime trials of the leadership.
@@Dan-sw8tg big facts, honestly should've been nuked one more time for good measure for the r@pings and genocide
Thanks for all the information in this video 👍🏻
Hearing the Unspeakable Evil that the Japanese Committed against the Chinese in this event of WWII makes me wonder if, in the eyes of Chinese, The Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, from their perspective, 'Retribution' for the Atrocities of Operation Sei-Go...
...We may never know.
Fantastic Work on this Episode of The Pacific War. I'm looking forward to 'The Turning Point of the Pacific Theatre' Next Week!
Not just the Chinese, but everyone in South East Asia mostly suffered under the control of Japan. The Imperial Japanese Army is such a brutal animal that no doubt, little pity will be given when Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened. They murdered more people during Rape of Nanjing in December 1937 than the combined death of the 2 atomic bombs.
The japanese committed far more terrible atrocities than Sei-Go. It's tragic that the world know more about the nuclear bombings, than what the IJA did in China, due to highly effective japanese post-war propaganda
what do you mean retribution? Way too humane and easy way out for Japan
US destroyed over 100 Japanese Cities. And starvation was significant in Japan. The US had destroyed most of Japan not just two cities.
Most people ever killing in a Bombing raid was Tokyo as US use of the Fire Storm make Tokyo and Hiroshima look the same. Only counting lives shortened by cancer maybe from radiation does Hiroshima total maybe get over Tokyo especially as Fire Storms are so hot people are reduced to ash and blown away leaving no trace they existed.
@@RedRocket4000 compared to what the Japanese did to their enemies, it is nothing..
As if it couldn't get any worse, the IJA also employed biological warfare on a large scale during this campaign. Unit 731 intentionally spread Paratyphoid, Anthrax, Cholera, Dysentry and the Plague in critical water supplies and urban areas, effects that lasted for years. Japan should forever be grateful for the mercy they were shown after the war.
...... and You completely " forget " to say , that the very same US government pardoned these Japan criminals AND make a very lucrative deal with them , incorporating unit 731 " research " in the US bioweapons program. Democracy at its finest ....
@@georggellen9920 Exactly. Hypocritical Americans.
Thank you for your service. You are pretty much the first popular English history channle who told this story. Almost none in western media care the sac Chinese had made in WWII. I hope ppls in the US understand when today's Japanese gov keep denying or playing down their WWII atrocities these are some of the reasons why Koreans or Chinese are still angry.
U guys r great, thank you for all u do ❤️
Terrific video! I can't wait til Midway! 🙏 🇺🇸 🇯🇵
The capture of these airfields expedite B-29 Super Fortress project. One of the real secret weapon of the Allied forces besides proximity fuse, machine assisted decryption & radar.
I’m glad you focused on this episode. China’s experience in World War II is almost totally ignored in America. But don’t blame Americans for atrocities the Japanese committed. America only got attacked at Pearl Harbor and subsequently lost 111,000 killed and over 250,000 wounded in the Pacific because Franklin Roosevelt was trying to peacefully stop Japanese aggression against China. (Imposing trade restrictions in 1938 after Japan invaded, terminating a commercial treaty in 1939, imposing export controls on Japan while offering loans and equipment to China, moving the fleet to Pearl Harbor as a deterrent, and imposing a scrap metal embargo in 1940 before freezing Japanese assets and enacting an oil embargo in 1941.) Just as more more Americans should learn what the Chinese endured, more Chinese people should learn that many Americans died because we were trying to help China. (Some people will say FDR was just trying to protect the American colony of the Philippines, but in 1934 FDR signed a law starting a transition to full independence for the Philippines that the Japanese interrupted when they invaded in 1941.)
^^ More well put together, factual information than in all the rest of this platform. Too bad it's wasted here.
Yeah, I'm surprised at how much these last few videos have exaggerated animosity between allied US-Chinese relations during WW2. The US became involuntarily embroiled in the war for it's support of China against Japan. Then sent supplies and volunteers to assist China. Then, after the war, supported getting China a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. If we were to believe all the overblown drama the writers have been recently pushing, you'd think they hated each other as much as Japan, which is BS.
Sounds like someone was drawing too much from post-war Chicom revisionist propaganda intended for it's own citizens.
Americans covered up the warcrimes afterwards and all the sadistic psychopaths were hired by alphabet agencies. So yes, America is partly to blame for the lack of knowledge the west in general has regarding the japanese atrocities
@@eragonfreedman9228 Most war crimes were not covered up. The US and 10 other nations held war crimes trials in Tokyo right after the war, and there were thousands of convictions. The trials were well publicized. You’re right that some evidence of biological warfare experiments was covered up, sadly. This was similar to the way the US and Soviet Union (Operation Osoaviakhim) sheltered Nazi scientists from prosecution to learn their military secrets.
Oh boi, the Battle of Midway next. Can't wait.
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
The pacific war would be much different if Japan managed to defeat China by 1941/1942.
All those divisions in China, the best Japan had to offer were in China.
So all those extra divisions would be all over the pacific instead.
@@yassinhafez1337 doubt it, the japonese lost badly against the soviets in a small border war in 1938,its why they never attacked the soviets after, made a non aggression pact and went south instead
The problem with Japan was never numbers it was logistics the soldiers in China lived off the land they would never have been able to move or feed all those troops on islands they would have starved like so many of their troops ended up doing.
@@yassinhafez1337 they would go to India and Australia
They were army divisions, not naval. They would have helped in amphibious assaults, but not in the decisive fleet battles.
How do you get these historically maps and how are you able to get detailed information about the war?
when armies are being chased by divisions, sometimes battalions
Thank you , K&G .
Thank you very much for the video :)
King and generals with history Marche as it's add wow
It is probably not forgotten by the 1.5 billion Chinese
the ccp would say it was them tho, not the nationalists lol.
@Breanne Squires Bull! PRC only advocate never let go of Imperial Japan’s invasion, massacres & even future retaliation, but never regarding which party had more merits🏅in WW2
How to forget such atrocity? The Koreans also did not forget. Now you know why Japanese political leaders visiting the Yasukuni Shrine incited so much anger in China and Korean Peninsula
US Government for better or worse seems to hold less of a grudge probably because it was main parts of USA was not occupied (and tortured) so it was able to move onto the next conflicts ((Cold War/Communism) while working with the countries that it just fought not too long ago.
@@johnl.7754 Given that here in Europe too, we have had more success with a softer approach. But I think it's more related to what side you were on during the Cold War.
I'm sure the people actually fighting alongside the Chinese had plenty of respect for them
of course, they are those who know real history and know the bravery and tragedy of the chinese struggle.
So, an AD popped up for history marsh when I started the video. That's a really surprising coincidence. lol
The Imperial Japanese Army had also spread cholera, typhoid, plague infected fleas and dysentery pathogens. The Japanese biological warfare Unit 731 brought almost 300 pounds of paratyphoid and anthrax to be left in contaminated food and contaminated wells with the withdrawal of the army from areas around Yushan, Kinhwa and Futsin.
Did the Japanese Army share (or use) the same (or similar) communication codes as the Japanese Navy at this time, which seems to be pre-Midway.?🤔
Just got a historymarche ad on a kings and generals vid Lmaoooo
In fact Midway was the crux of Japan’s reaction to the Doolittle raid. Bombs had fallen in the emperor’s garden which meant that the Japanese armed forces had shown themselves to be incapable of safeguarding the person of the emperor. Nothing could be more shameful.
The generals and admirals decided to extend their reach east towards US territory and Midway was smack in the middle.
The Doolittle raid has often been criticized as being merely for propaganda purposes. But in fact in led to a fundamental, strategic decision. Japan lost the strategic initiative at Midway and never regained it. It may not have been the US’ explicit objective with the Doolittle raid, but it definitely had that effect.
so sad the story, I hope war crimes like this don't happen again
While It's not happening on quite the same scale, Russia is definitely pulling from the WW2 Japanese playbook in their ongoing war against Ukraine.
@@briantarigan7685
Yeah?
if Japan didn't hide their warcrimes, the chances of this happening again would be a lot slimmer
Nice video
I remember hearing about an aircraft carrier submarine that carried like 3-6 aircraft
Wow. Evil on a monumental stage. Good thing to remember the past.
Please make a long video about the Battle of Actium (the final war)
6:20 Zhen means Town in Chinese.
Nothing would be the same!!! Love it❤️
Thanks to detailed great video!
You always recall the forgotten fronts.
So the another massacre is clear now.
Many say "Nips did such brutality, so we can anything to those rats!"
And I realized why people blame only Russia.
I think would this brilliant series tell us about Axis side civil victims later, or they’d be erased in this story of justice.
Probably latter.
Anyway fate of Axis people could be just a trivia, doesn't matter to watchers.
I really respect K&G team, awesome filmmakers, who give great movies constantly.
I love this channel, please, we want an Arabic translation
All I can think listening to all the bad things done is “here comes the sun do do dodo.”
Thank you for bringing this content to us. Another exceptional video.
Probably more appropriate for the post war period, but even at this stage, had the US (& the West in general) given more attention to the Nationalists, we might not be having to deal with a communist China today - not that anyone could have foreseen what would happen in the fight for China's future.
"Warcrimes? I dont listen to hip-hop"- IJA probably
Freakin Established Titles
Gruesome brutality. Probably needs a graphic/distressing type warning before you unload that detail. I already knew of the events but just thinking of trauma survivors out there ❤️
Yes, but the raid took attention away from the other areas where Allied forces needed time to reenforce or regroup. WIN -WIN
Even though these autrocities happened, I hope people are able to forgive and forget. We don't need more excuses to hate but to reconcile.
Not easy if your family was apart of the attrocities committed...
@@3rebornxd true, I'm not saying people need to totally reconcile but apply the "live and let live" ideal. I've met too many Chinese people who want revange against the Japanese, even though the majority of the victims and aggressors are already dead.
Forgive but never forget. Forgive and forget is the worst bullshit ever
@@aa2339 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️ Good Lord.
"What's their target?"
"People are target"
How those forces are composed? It's strange to see several armies driven back by single division, so there're obvius nomenclature differences on both sides. Even then, forces seems really small, compared to wastness of China, and what happens at the same time in Russia.
The number of soldiers in one Division of the Japanese army is equivalent to that in three divisions of the Chinese army, and the Japanese army has five times the fighting power of the Chinese army. In theory, China's five armies are as strong as a Japanese division.
the 3rd war fronts forces were dispersed prior to this battle and often had to fight units multiple times its size, because no one expected Japan to throw such a massive temper tantrum.
Bought a plot, would do it again.
Says video was uploaded 11 minutes ago, yet comments from 11hr, 4hrs and more. Lol. TH-cam never fails to have mistakes.
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It is extremely disturbing that Japan paid no real penance for its many war crimes, and that war criminals up and down the ranks were treated as honourable men after the war, even maintaining high-powered positions in the government. All because American business wanted a source of cheap labour. Doubly disturbing is the fact none of this is taught in Japanese schools to this day (honest teachers are sacked, even imprisoned), as they dishonourably paint themselves as victims of the war. Disgraceful.
That is not what happened at all. The issue of penalizing the Japanese further (such as removing the Emperor) would have caused a push towards communism in Japan. The United States was focusing on a realist point of view that while Japan deserved to be punished, the last thing they wanted was a communist bloc of USSR, China (1949), and now Japan.
Great series - but where is episode 23??
It was a special we planned, but a couple of team members got Covid, so we pushed it to another date.
As much of a weeb as I am, I never considered Japan a victim from the atomic bombings or the fire bombings. It's like the Roman general who burned down Carthage had the realization that what he did could happen to Rome one day, Japan should've expected that for all their atrocity they committed, they too can receive similar reprisal, they really had no justification to complain especially when they were the aggressors.
Video starts at 2:02
Established Titles is NOT a real, you don't get anything at all, the Laird title is limited to ONE per property and cannot be divided like that, more importantly, your "souvenir plots" can't be registered due to a prohibition as per Land Registration (Scotland) Act 2012, s 50 (2).
everyone always talking about how terrible the nuclear bombings were, but in fact it would have been a far more preferable way to go than at the hands of the japanese
Everybody has blood on their hands, for some it is but speckles but others are soaked in the sanguine liquid.
Plots of woodland in Scotland?? ...seriously?? Planning to sell parts of the Brooklyn Bridge in the future?
Certainly a lot of place names to keep up with. LOL
Shit like this is why u wont find a single American that feels bad about dropping the sun on Japan. Twice.
Fascinating video thanks for shedding light on china’s contributions to the war effort but I’d like to ask why weren’t the American missionaries attacked I mean the Japanese aren’t known for their following of international laws and you’d think they would be on the top of the Japan’s hit list of their help for the American airmen and also their American nationality
@@muhammadfarhun1197 can you clarify what is this so called ‘allied propaganda’ and also the Chinese were united albeit there was tensions at times no doubt that Chinese peasants did suffer during the war and viewed each belligerent with contempt the Japanese were successful in the war especially at the start with their capture of Wuhan and Shanghai and even now with them still being able to launch massive offensives even while fighting on multiple fronts but the Chinese stood their ground most nations would collapse and capitulate after the capture of their capitals the fact china still fought on is testament to their strength and the Chinese we all know has a massive population now and then so this means they could recruit massive amounts of men to fight and the Chinese outnumbered their foes throughout the war and in key battles like the battle of Shanghai though in this engagement they were defeated because of Japanese superiority in tactics and firepower the consequence of the was the rape of nanking
No episode today?
Thursday
great video. you know, the stupidest part about the nanjing massacare is that the japanese soldiers actually destroyed the very things they needed from china; the food. someone should have been in charge of that
I doubt they were planning on holding the territory long enough to reap any harvests. The intention from the start was a punitive raid. I'm sure any looting was limited to precious stones and metals, where the value to volume ratio leaned to the former.
@@aidanjt that's not an excuse. And here's an idea: instead of killing off a potential workforce, use them for harvesting and collection of said food so that this shit is not wasted. Now I hate slavery but that just makes sense, considering Japan's economic state at the time
@@timothyhiggins8934 Who said it's an excuse? They intended to inflict maximum punishment, so they did. Thus scorched Earth it was. Killing plants and animals was the very least of their war crimes.
@@aidanjt still stupid. That's waste that could have been used in Japan. Like, I know they didn't conduct such a military operation just to get to Nanjing and start raping, killing and destroying, for the sole benefit of just that. That's too much time and material wasted.
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Japan was forced to keep more fighter planes at home, more troops and a lot more Equipment. The raid cost Japan millions of dollars, time, fuel and face. These things could have been used in other theaters of OPERATION . It was Brilliant and carried out by men who are winners forever in history , in all lands.
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It’s unclear though why a Japanese attack always meant a retreat from the Chinese or the british in China Burma etc.
Was it air superiority? Cant help but think, why didn’t a few regiments stand and fight
yes.
Air superiority, superior equipment and training of ground troops.
The reason often given in historical military literature I've read, for Japan's early steamrolling successes on land, was due to their unexpected speed. Moving through jungle and tropical terrain quickly and, likewise, following up successful attacks more quickly than their opponents could deal with. Underestimating that speed, specifically.
US Government for better or worse seems to hold less of a grudge (then South Korea/China…) probably because it was main parts of USA was not occupied (and tortured) so it was able to move onto the next conflicts (Cold War/Communism) while working with the countries that it just fought not too long ago. I lived a few years in China part of me am not sure if justified or just propaganda or both.
Both.
Countries which were invaded and brutalized tend to have a long memory of their humiliation. France after Verdun was one example, and China after Imperial Japan, another. That such sentiments are kept alive for political purposes rather than moral ones, however, is no secret.
I want see how kings and generals explained atomic bomb in hiroshima and nagasaki and great fire bomb in tokyo , i”ll waited
Japan got off lightly after the war. Such genocide, such barbarity, and still it’s not taught at schools?
. Wondering if episode #23 is going to be made? I know there was an issue that caused it to be delayed, but 4 other episodes have been posted since and it's starting to seem like #23 may not see the light of day. I just don't want to miss it (or perhaps I already have).
It's finally out, and added into the playlist. Hope you were able to catch it :)
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Yeah, I saw it. Thanx.
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Siege of Kut 1916 ?