That guy who told Eugene that he'd looked at that woman long enough was wearing spotless clothes and probably had never seen combat, that death look that Sledge gave him.....
@@azazello1784lol this comment is funny asf not gonna lie but like why even say that damn let Pudgey live her life and be happy with the mans Spartan which she clearly loves & is happy with @SpartananandPudgey
Sledge wrote that losing his Captain was the greatest grief he suffered in the war. He said Capt. Haldane was the finest Marine officer he ever knew. He was a young man, not even 30, but was like a father to Sledge. Sledge said Capt. Haldane treated every man under his command like he was a human being, not a cog in the war. Sledge dedicated his book, "With the Old Breed" to Captain Haldane. Captain Haldane is buried at Arlington Cemetery, and I send flowers to his grave every Memorial Day.
Pudgey mentioned the looks and friendliness between Eugene and Cap Haldane. Haldane mentioned his family making the blankets, and Cap Haldanes last moment was getting covered by one of the blankets.
The bunker that they fight at where the flame thrower is used, actually still exists. The hole where the tank hit it, and the flame thrower char marks can still be seen today. The way its portrayed in the show is almost exactly how it looks in real life. There's a channel called outdoor boys that checks it out and films it. The whole island has been pretty much untouched since the war ended. So there's rifles, destroyed tanks, planes, bunkers, everywhere.
Yea, it's one aspect that doesn't come through well. Viewers are naturally conditioned to think they were the same length since both series are 10 episodes. People then think, "Winters was in war for 10 episodes, Leckie only 7; therefore Winters was in combat longer". Also, it's easy to forget the R&R soldiers had in BoB, being closer to "civilization". "Rest" on Pavuvu is different than rest in England or Paris.
I try to mention this as well on reaction channels, Band of Brothers covers D-Day forward, The Pacific covers the whole damn war lol, atleast our entire involvement in it. (“Our” being the US)
One thing to keep in mind is that for that one year the ETO infantry spent more days on the line. Their "Island" stretched from the Atlantic to the Elbe river and while they would be pulled from the line (and definitely had better R&R) it wasn't long before they were pushed back to the front. Officer attrition was brutal. And it's only one year if you don't count North Africa or Italy. The fighting in Italy was very brutal because of the terrain. However the Marines had a higher casualty rate per day. Fighting was brutal in all cases. The bomber crews had the most dangerous job.
@@MrCharon1965 Italy was definitely a defenders paradise. Brutal slog through the Apennines. And Daylight Bombing over Europe was a wood-chipper. Bottomline; the front line as infantry (or in the air), was not a cushy gig.
Fun fact: the scene where Snafu is tossing coral pebbles in the skull of a dead Japanese gunner wasn't just made up. Sledge describes this in his war memoir. Visually the scene is quite accurate to how it's described, but the soldier doing that is not identified as Snafu and it was Ken Caswell, a corpsman, who persuaded Sledge from taking the teeth of the Japanese soldier.
"Doc Caswell says all these dead nips have germs". In a way, it was Ken Caswell that persuaded Sledge from taking the teeth. Snafu was just the vehicle used in the scene.
Just goes to show you how denatured the Navy Corpsmen got fighting and dying alongside their Marine brothers in that war. Our whole Corpsmen culture changed, which is still felt today.
I think Pelelieu is the first battle where Japanese strategy changed. By this stage in the war the Japanese knew they couldn't stop the Americans from taking their defenses down so they decided to inflict as many casualties as they possibly could. Snipers targeted medics and stretcher bearers with increased frequency. At night Japanese soldiers would attempt to sneak into Marine and Army fox holes to kill the occupants. As bad as the first half of the Pacific War was the second half would be worse. 😮 Even on the high seas the Japanese violated every code of conduct set out by the Geneva Convention of 1929. Hospital ships were targeted by Japanese submarines. In May 1943 the Australian Hospital Ship AHS Centaur was attacked by a Japanese submarine killing 268 of the 332 people on board. The ship was clearly marked and had the Green lights that identified it as a hospital ship. Only one nurse survived, Sister Ellen Savage. 😢 Japanese brutality eventually backfired as the U.S. was pushed to using the Atomic Bomb to end the war without an invasion of the mainland.
From WWII veteren Eugene Sledge's autobiography...With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa “To the noncombatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement; but to those who entered the meat grinder itself, the war was a nether world of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning; life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all." "As I looked at the stains on the coral, I recalled some of the eloquent phrases of politicians and newsmen about how "gallant" it is for a man to "shed his blood for his country," and "to give his life's blood as a sacrifice," and so on. The words seemed ridiculous. Only the flies benefited." "To be under a barrage of prolonged shelling simply magnified all the terrible physical and emotional effects of one shell. To me, artillery was an invention of Hell. The onrushing whistle and scream of the big steel package of destruction was the pinnacle of violent fury and the embodiment of pent-up evil. It was the essence of violence and of man’s inhumanity to man. I developed a passionate hatred for shells. To be killed by a bullet seemed so clean and surgical. But shells would not only tear and rip the body, they tortured one’s mind almost beyond the brink of sanity. After each shell I was wrung out, limp and exhausted." "Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it." "As we talked, I noticed a fellow mortarman sitting next to me. He held a handful of coral pebbles in his left hand. With his right hand he idly tossed them into the open skull of the Japanese machine gunner. Each time his pitch was true I heard a little splash of rainwater in the ghastly receptacle. My buddy tossed the coral chunks as casually as a boy casting pebbles into a puddle on some muddy road back home; there was nothing malicious in his action. The war had so brutalized us that it was beyond belief."
"There was nothing malicious in his action" is, in my opinion, the worst part of it all. The fact that a man can be turned into an animal, just like that, by the sheer amount of death he has to face. And I don't mean an "animal" in a derogatory way, I mean simply he was stripped of whatever made him "civilized", which was not his fault, it was the war's.
Snafu was protecting Sledgehammer's humanity or at least what little he had left. Pavuvu was the R&R location for the Marines fighting in the Eastern part of the Pacific. It was a break from combat but that's about it. Soldiers fighting in Europe had liberated cities for their Rest & Relaxation. Leave in places like Paris or Rome gave the men the opportunity to find venues much like home. At least in Europe there were restaurants, bars, and women to seek company from. What was on Pavuvu? Very large land crabs that would get in the men's tents.😮
In his memoir, Sledge goes into great detail how much the men hated Pavuvu. Like you mentioned, no "civilization", no pretty girls. Just swamps, crabs, rats and malaria.
One thing that people miss, is the conversation that Eugene had with the Skipper about the blankets and uniforms being made by his father's company back in the states, and when Eugene sees him on the stretcher he's covered up by a blanket making his conversation about the skippers father come full circle.
Sledges description of Haldanes death is heartbreaking. Basically the same level of admiration as Winters or Spiers had. The show kept his death cleaner, but the parade back through the lines took place.
@@Rams4life94 A hypersonic bullet penetrating a human head does make quite a mess. Jackie Kennedy can be seen retrieving pieces of Jack's brain and skull immediately after he was assassinated.
World War 2, my grandfather fought in the Philippines when the US and our Allies were taking it back. 44-45. The war ended with him in January of 2019 when he passed. Sgt. B. Maurin. 1st Filipino infantry regiment, United States Army.
Having Capt. Haldane's death occur off-screen is a Greek device. In ancient Greek theatre, violence was not seen onstage. The audience would hear about it through a messenger. This makes the scene more like Classical tragedy.
The tooth collection scene when the guy was still alive was one of the most brutal things I've read in a book... "He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off and sank deep into the victims mouth. The marine cursed him and with a slash, cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his boot on the sufferers lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured from the soldiers mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly."
Eugene’s, King Company 3rd Battalion 5th Marine regiiment landed with 235 men and took 64% casualties and they left with around 80-89. My grandfathers landed with 244 I believe and left with the same amount of attrition. The battle of Pelelui was a forgotten battle and with this show people know men like my grandfather fought on it.
The sad thing is that on the day we landed on Peleliu, there were only about 5K Japanese on Iwo Jima, mostly construction laborers. Nimitz's and King's insistence on taking that useless and miserable rock against both MacArthur's and Halsey's recommendations is just about the only thing they got wrong during the war. Iwo Jima would have been a lot less bloody had the 1st Marines landed there instead of Peleliu. The 1st Marines were utterly destroyed and were only kept on the line as long as they were because the Marine commander refused to use the Army division he had in any heavy combat role until the Marines had a 60% casualty rate.
@ I’m sure you know why he refused to use them until it was held at 60% but in case people don’t the Marines despised the army’s lack of discipline and ability to hold lines bc earlier in the war they weren’t as effective. However it wasn’t until the 77th division (The Old Bastards) entered theater the perception of the army started to change.
The Blanket scene always gets me! The "Skipper's" Dad had a hand in making those blankets! Also their conversation about their ancestors! Billy Yank and Johnny Reb coming together!
Peleliu was absolutely brutal. Even without all of the combat going on, the average temperature during the whole operation was about 115F/ 46C, on top of the limited amount of water they had. Despite this, the final Japanese holdouts on Peleliu wouldn't surrender until 1947.
I'd say that there are 3 main characters in this show - Bob Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge. The story just kind of jumps back and forth between the three instead of following them continuously. Band of Brothers had a bigger ensemble cast, since you were following Easy Company itself moreso than any few main characters, but even there it had the format of tending to focus on the POVs of different guys in each episode.
Spartan and Pudgy did an excellent analysis of this episode. I love the fact that both differentiated between movies that were fictional and those that represented real people and real events.❤❤
Losing Ack Ack would have been like losing Winters... Imagine how many young soldiers he became a "Father Figure" for. If he died it would have DEVESTATED that entire company. Plus Hillbilly died right before that who was the Second in Command and Gunny... Would have been like losing Winters (Ack Ack, the Fatherly Leader), Speirs (Gunny, the Unbreakable Leader), and Lipton (Hillbilly, the Peer Leader) all back to back... But yes, this battle is what convinced Basilone to come back. His unit (that you saw at the beginning) suffered HORRENDOUS loses during this campaign. He was being kept out of the war because he was "more valuable" as a marketing item than a soldier to the Higher Ups so his requests to return kept being denied because they didn't want headlines saying "Medal of Honor Award Winner Killed in * Insert Battle *"... Eventually he went in and basically said, you're either going to have to risk me dying or there WILL be a headline saying "Medal of Honor Award Winner in Prison for Assaulting Officer. You pick."
This episode stuck with me when I first seen it, especially that unchecked bunker with snafu machine gunning the burning Japanese soldier screaming F’ing die while Eugene watches on. Great reaction
Eugene's son actually took a trip to Peleliu and found that exact bunker that his dad helped to take out in this episode. There are some videos of his interviews on youtube
18:31 the same blanket that Covers Captain Haldane is the same blanket that he mentioned his father makes back at home. I just think that little detail is just so perfect. Also, there’s a documentary called “1944 peleliu horror in the pacific” that actually have some of the men in this series but actually them in the documentary. I won’t say who’s in it to spoil it if you want to watch but it’s really great.
Fun Fact: Initially in the war, Navy Corpsmen would transport the Stretchers, this was even seen in an early episode, when Leckie was looking for a Corpsman and found two carrying a wounded Marine on a Stretcher back. But, specifically on Peleliu, the USMC and Corpsmen saw some of the worst targeting of medical personnel up until this point in the war. The Japanese would specifically target Stretchers knowing that at least one Corpsman would be with them. Casualties were so bad that they stopped letting corpsman advance all together, keeping them back with the Officers, and Marines were used as stretcher bearers instead, despite protest of many corpsmen who didn’t want to put Marines in harms way anymore than they already were. As such, being a stretcher bearer became one of the most dangerous jobs of the war. Hence the look between the Skipper and Sledge when he realized Sledge was up with the next group of stretcher bearers.
Part of why he was staring at the nurse is because he was thinking about what Sid told him about what war was like. Now Sledge has experienced war firsthand and then he's immediately met with a beautiful woman. One end to the other like Sid said.
Another Fun Fact: The CO, XO, and Gunny had been fighting together since Gudacanal if I remember right, and the Older Gunny had even served in WW1. The Skipper gave the XO a battlefield commission back on Guadalcanal. I know the episodes don’t explain too well, but Ack Ack (Skipper), Hillbilly (XO), and the old Gunny had been fighting together and had survived together for 2 years of fighting. So when the lost Hillbilly, it hurt Ack Ack immensely and finally broke Gunny, who had seen too much.
12:40 they probably did actually clear the bunker, but by this point in the war the Japanese strategy changed to defensive fortresses to inflict as many casualties as possible. So the bunkers were often linked together with tunnel systems so even if you clear out a bunker, 10 minutes later there might be more soldiers in it because they came through the tunnels. This was significantly more prevalent on Iwo Jima.
Of course this show is an historical film, and I think that the transition with like new main characters in the end compared to the start, is due to this theater of war taking a lot more time then the one in band of brothers. The first episode is like before the men from band of brothers start training so about 2 years before invasion of France. And the last episode here is after the war in Europe has ended. It was rare that a soldier would fought in all campaigns
The sad realization is that the series didn't go overboard with the graphic depictions of the book(With The Old Breed.) If anything they toned down some of it for tv. The amount of violence and depravity that was inflicted on the Allies(Aussie's included) has really been over shadowed by the Holocaust. The Japanese were an absolutely brutal enemy that had abandoned the Bonzai charges at the start and begin just a war of absolute attrition to kill as many American's, British, and Australian's as possible to delay their defeat. I won't even get into the s**t they did to the Chinese, Korean's or any other occupied territories. **edit** It gets worse at Okinawa and will make you realize why the American's factored their potential losses invading Japan when they dropped the atomic bombs. It wasn't just to showcase their new weapon of mass destruction(although that was a reason too.)
Not too many people notice but when Ack Ack’s body pauses in front of Sledge someone covers him with a green blanket, the same ones he mentions earlier that gives him comfort because they could be the ones his dad makes . I tear up every time. Losing Ack Ack would be like losing Winters in band of brothers
Yes seeing the nurses in their pristine white, all delicate and smiling had to be a shocking contrast from what they had left. That's all it was. It wasn't sexual. I thought that was a very powerful scene. To leave that hell and then walk upon the nurses had to be jarring to the conscience. Those nurses represented civilization, normality and they didn't fit the inhumanity they just left.
You are right, as I recall he was upset, not attracted, but even if there had been a attraction element to his look, it should be hard to be to judgy about it if you really put yourself in his position. A 20 or 21 year old guy who has even seen a woman in how long is going to notice one when he does see one.
Another Another Fun Fact: The 1st Marine Division was combat ineffective due to the insane number of casualties that were taken. The invasion was supposed to last only 4 days, and the island would be used by McArthur to assist in the Invasion of the Philippines, the airfield, and to also eliminate the enemy force to keep them from assisting the Japanese in the Philippines. However, it would last 3 months. To give a hint of the amount of Casualties being sustained, K Company of 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, captured a place known as the point, but then had to hold off 4 counterattacks, resorting to hand to hand combat in the end. Reinforcements arrived to find a successfully defended “Point”, but K Company had 18 people left, suffering 157 casualties trying to hold the point against repeated Japanese attacks. The battle for Peleliu was brutal, and even though Sledge and many of the 1st Marine Division pulled out, the 81st division of the Army and the remainder of Marines continued to fight for one more month on that island, continuing to suffer heavy casualties. Eventually the Island was secured, but McArthur decided not to use the Island, and just form a Naval blockade of the rest of Palau, basically making the whole Invasion of Peleliu pointless to the war effort.
Yes, at least I remember when I was in the army, if you had the chance to take a 20-minute nap, you just couldn't care what kind of ground you had under you when you were lying down or how much noise was going on around you.
I too remember this in many a clime and place. This channel reminds me of the outback near Darwin specifically. Our training was so condensed over 2 weeks that we just had a large tarp staked into the ground amongst the giant termite mounds to pass out on in between and during training missions whenever we could. Then on another deployment we had 3 weeks of nonstop rain while training on the Gold Coast after a years long drought. Good times.
Did you know the taking of Peleliu was totally unnecessary? MacArthur didn't know that Ulithi, an important cog in the "Invasion of the Philippines" was unoccupied, and therefore no need for US air emplacements on Peleliu.
Eugene Sledge: "What’s it like? The war?" Sidney Phillips: "Well... I slept with a girl in Melbourne. Not to brag, just... to tell you one end of it. Over there" (points down the beach) "is the other end of it. Something you can’t even imagine."
Leckey started combat in Aug 1942. He went home on account of wounds in late 44. Band of Brothers guys did not enter the war till June 44 and the war ended May 45 so they were in comabt zone less time than Leckey. The Marines got to go home generally after 3 major campagnes. Leckey was at Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and then Pelelieu. He probably would have gone home even if he did not get wounded.
In reference to your question about Captain Haldane and Sledge with the lingering looks, it was because the Captain was sending him out into that shitstorm and there was a very good chance that Sledge was gonna go down, and they both knew it.
In Sledge’s book he acknowledged that Snafu was trying to prevent him from completely losing his humanity by telling him not to cross that line by removing gold from the teeth.
The 1st marine division got the short end of the stick when it came to rest areas. The 2nd Marine division was sent to New Zealand & Hawaii for their rest.
Taking teeth, ears, and insignia was endemic to the Pacific. My Grandpa (4th Marines) talked about one guy in his squad had a necklace of ears, some so old and dried they looked like jerky. He never took body parts, but he had a collection of rank insignia he'd cut from guys he'd killed.
If you were a combat veteran, Marine or Army, you looked forward to food, water, and a place where someone isn't trying to kill you. By the time the Okinawa campaign began, many veteran Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, were sure they wouldn't live to see the end of the war. That had a serious effect on morale.
I think they didn’t show captain haldanes death because of how brutal it really was. In sledges novel he states that ack ack peeked over a rock and a sniper round just blew his head to pieces. They had to really tone it down which is saying something for how graphic this show already is
The Pacific theater of WW2 was so vast, and so many American soldiers either lost their lives or were severely injured, it is expected there would be few that started this war in Guatamala who lived on to fight in countries close to the Japanese coast. Attrition was the order of the day, for both the Japanese and the Americans/Allies.
12:30 It's not that the Americans didn't clear the bunker properly or at all. The Japanese retook the bunker from a hidden or overseen entrance to a network of underground tunnels that they made all over the island. That's what made them hard to root out because they can appear almost anywhere which kept a lot of the Marines on edge.
By the time this episode airs, I watched "The Fat Electrician" latest you tube video it is about and tells the whole story of "John Basilone" you probably have completed the Pacific series by now, the video is worth watching. An emotional reaction by Pudgey with commentay by both of you.
12:24 using grenades to clear that blockhouse would likely have been ineffective. Many fortifications like that would have had measures built in to prevent major losses from grenades. The Japanese also frequently had hidden tunnels into fortifications so they could reinforce previously “cleared” fortifications. As for the comment about the smell, Peleliu was a coral atoll with little to no soil, so burying dead bodies was out of the question, as was burying any waste. 🤢
Sledge wrote that he stared at the woman because his brain couldn’t compute how shitty the island was before and after all the combat suddenly seeing a pretty woman and having a cold drink
Some people don’t like Snafu but he always looked out for Sledgehammer. Snafu knew that Sledgehammer was a good person and did not want to see him lose that.
*Yes the Pacific has a horror feel to it compared to Band of Brothers. All war is hell but the war in the pacific was a special type of torment. Great reaction*
The "Japanese people" didn't know much, they were pretty much kept in the dark as to what was happening. To this day, many people in Japan have been taught from a young age that "for some reason" the United States fought Japan, with no mention of Japanese aggression or atrocities. The Japanese soldiers fought for the Emperor whom they considered a god,and believed dying for the emperor was the ultimate reward. Even after 2 atomic bombs , many in the military command structure wanted to keep fighting and some actually tried to take over the government when they decided to surrender. Civilians openly wept when the surrender was announced, even though their cities were being turned to rubble and they were beginning to starve. More people died in the fire bombings of Tokyo than died in both atomic bombings. One last thing, and to most people it seems petty, but Marines are "Marines", not soldiers. Soldiers are in the army, and its a matter of pride. It would sort of be like calling you guys "Kiwi's" because, well, sorta kinda the same thing...
The part where the guy was removing teeth from the still alive soldier was actually way more brutal in reality. No1 put the soldier out of his misery like in the show. Sledge said the guy slashed both his cheeks open and stepped on his lower jaw opening his mouth fully while the soldier gurgled on his own blood until he bled to death. Truly horrific. Many Marines actually had sacks full of teeth. It was kinda a regular thing. That wasn't even the worst the Marines were doing to Japanese wounded/dead. There was some truly evil things Marines were doing.
@@MateusSoar its not about being racist.. Russia is killing pow's and cutting heads off in Ukraine and they are the same race. It's a hatred that builds up over time from seeing so much death and after awhile you don't even see the enemy as human anymore.
Thinking that to this day... War didn't end. This sucks, and still happening today somewhere in the middle east or in Ukraine. War: the young die while old men talk.
I never have understood why Gen. Rupertus kept insisting on preventing the Army's 81st Infantry Division from assisting the Marines on Pelelieu. The 1st Marine Division suffered 6200 casualties, which was over 1/3 of their fighting strength. Marine General Roy Geiger finally called in the Army to assist the Marines on Pelelieu. Did Rupertus suffer from that much pride that he wouldn't let the Army help? After all Chesty Puller's unit had suffered 70% casualties on Bloody Nose Ridge.🤔
@@baltimore4life34akallswerv3 Much love to MD and 'Balmore'. Loved spending time there many years ago and randomly recognizing locations from The Wire, which is as we all know, the 2nd best if not best show ever made.
another "NO WAY" reaction you guys need to learn some new words. lol From 751 videos you got in the channel there are only 27 videos that you guys dont say "NO WAY"... it unbelievable.
Gunny Haney was broken because that particular dead soldier was his son. Seeing him instantly go from badass Gunny to frail old man is one of the most powerful images of this series.
No he wasn't his son. That "dead soldier" was not a soldier. He was a Marine named Lt. Edward "Hillbilly" Jones. Gunny Haney had great affection for him, however.
I've watched you for some time and i love both of you and your content so much, keep it up🙏❤️ Also, movie recommendation and a wish; could you watch "The Thing -82" and the first "Alien" at some point if you haven't seen them? They are both some of my favourite movies 😅
such a sad episode..feels like we're losing everyone
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That guy who told Eugene that he'd looked at that woman long enough was wearing spotless clothes and probably had never seen combat, that death look that Sledge gave him.....
Pudgey when are you breaking up with this parody of a man?
@@azazello1784lol this comment is funny asf not gonna lie but like why even say that damn let Pudgey live her life and be happy with the mans Spartan which she clearly loves & is happy with @SpartananandPudgey
Sledge wrote that losing his Captain was the greatest grief he suffered in the war. He said Capt. Haldane was the finest Marine officer he ever knew. He was a young man, not even 30, but was like a father to Sledge. Sledge said Capt. Haldane treated every man under his command like he was a human being, not a cog in the war. Sledge dedicated his book, "With the Old Breed" to Captain Haldane. Captain Haldane is buried at Arlington Cemetery, and I send flowers to his grave every Memorial Day.
In his book, “With the Old Breed”, Sledge wrote that nearly 40 years had passed since Captain Haldane was killed, and time had not lessened his grief.
Pudgey mentioned the looks and friendliness between Eugene and Cap Haldane. Haldane mentioned his family making the blankets, and Cap Haldanes last moment was getting covered by one of the blankets.
The bunker that they fight at where the flame thrower is used, actually still exists. The hole where the tank hit it, and the flame thrower char marks can still be seen today. The way its portrayed in the show is almost exactly how it looks in real life. There's a channel called outdoor boys that checks it out and films it. The whole island has been pretty much untouched since the war ended. So there's rifles, destroyed tanks, planes, bunkers, everywhere.
I was about to comment the same!
I just watched that video a week or so ago
AMAZING to see the real bunker today
Leckie's combat spanned 2 years, while Band of Brothers was less than 1 year (D-Day, June '44 - German surrender, May '45).
Yea, it's one aspect that doesn't come through well. Viewers are naturally conditioned to think they were the same length since both series are 10 episodes. People then think, "Winters was in war for 10 episodes, Leckie only 7; therefore Winters was in combat longer".
Also, it's easy to forget the R&R soldiers had in BoB, being closer to "civilization". "Rest" on Pavuvu is different than rest in England or Paris.
I try to mention this as well on reaction channels, Band of Brothers covers D-Day forward, The Pacific covers the whole damn war lol, atleast our entire involvement in it.
(“Our” being the US)
One thing to keep in mind is that for that one year the ETO infantry spent more days on the line. Their "Island" stretched from the Atlantic to the Elbe river and while they would be pulled from the line (and definitely had better R&R) it wasn't long before they were pushed back to the front. Officer attrition was brutal. And it's only one year if you don't count North Africa or Italy. The fighting in Italy was very brutal because of the terrain. However the Marines had a higher casualty rate per day. Fighting was brutal in all cases. The bomber crews had the most dangerous job.
Don't diminish what all of them did.
@@MrCharon1965 Italy was definitely a defenders paradise. Brutal slog through the Apennines. And Daylight Bombing over Europe was a wood-chipper.
Bottomline; the front line as infantry (or in the air), was not a cushy gig.
Fun fact: the scene where Snafu is tossing coral pebbles in the skull of a dead Japanese gunner wasn't just made up. Sledge describes this in his war memoir. Visually the scene is quite accurate to how it's described, but the soldier doing that is not identified as Snafu and it was Ken Caswell, a corpsman, who persuaded Sledge from taking the teeth of the Japanese soldier.
"Doc Caswell says all these dead nips have germs".
In a way, it was Ken Caswell that persuaded Sledge from taking the teeth.
Snafu was just the vehicle used in the scene.
"Fun Fact" does not seem appropriate. I read the book 20 years ago and that incident is one I will always remember.
@@KurtG-nn2cz same, I read his book and reading that part is more detailed and graphic than in the episode.
Just goes to show you how denatured the Navy Corpsmen got fighting and dying alongside their Marine brothers in that war. Our whole Corpsmen culture changed, which is still felt today.
I think Pelelieu is the first battle where Japanese strategy changed. By this stage in the war the Japanese knew they couldn't stop the Americans from taking their defenses down so they decided to inflict as many casualties as they possibly could. Snipers targeted medics and stretcher bearers with increased frequency. At night Japanese soldiers would attempt to sneak into Marine and Army fox holes to kill the occupants. As bad as the first half of the Pacific War was the second half would be worse. 😮
Even on the high seas the Japanese violated every code of conduct set out by the Geneva Convention of 1929. Hospital ships were targeted by Japanese submarines. In May 1943 the Australian Hospital Ship AHS Centaur was attacked by a Japanese submarine killing 268 of the 332 people on board. The ship was clearly marked and had the Green lights that identified it as a hospital ship. Only one nurse survived, Sister Ellen Savage. 😢
Japanese brutality eventually backfired as the U.S. was pushed to using the Atomic Bomb to end the war without an invasion of the mainland.
From WWII veteren Eugene Sledge's autobiography...With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
“To the noncombatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement; but to those who entered the meat grinder itself, the war was a nether world of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning; life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all." "As I looked at the stains on the coral, I recalled some of the eloquent phrases of politicians and newsmen about how "gallant" it is for a man to "shed his blood for his country," and "to give his life's blood as a sacrifice," and so on. The words seemed ridiculous. Only the flies benefited." "To be under a barrage of prolonged shelling simply magnified all the terrible physical and emotional effects of one shell. To me, artillery was an invention of Hell. The onrushing whistle and scream of the big steel package of destruction was the pinnacle of violent fury and the embodiment of pent-up evil. It was the essence of violence and of man’s inhumanity to man. I developed a passionate hatred for shells. To be killed by a bullet seemed so clean and surgical. But shells would not only tear and rip the body, they tortured one’s mind almost beyond the brink of sanity. After each shell I was wrung out, limp and exhausted." "Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it." "As we talked, I noticed a fellow mortarman sitting next to me. He held a handful of coral pebbles in his left hand. With his right hand he idly tossed them into the open skull of the Japanese machine gunner. Each time his pitch was true I heard a little splash of rainwater in the ghastly receptacle. My buddy tossed the coral chunks as casually as a boy casting pebbles into a puddle on some muddy road back home; there was nothing malicious in his action. The war had so brutalized us that it was beyond belief."
"There was nothing malicious in his action" is, in my opinion, the worst part of it all. The fact that a man can be turned into an animal, just like that, by the sheer amount of death he has to face. And I don't mean an "animal" in a derogatory way, I mean simply he was stripped of whatever made him "civilized", which was not his fault, it was the war's.
Snafu was protecting Sledgehammer's humanity or at least what little he had left.
Pavuvu was the R&R location for the Marines fighting in the Eastern part of the Pacific. It was a break from combat but that's about it. Soldiers fighting in Europe had liberated cities for their Rest & Relaxation. Leave in places like Paris or Rome gave the men the opportunity to find venues much like home. At least in Europe there were restaurants, bars, and women to seek company from. What was on Pavuvu? Very large land crabs that would get in the men's tents.😮
In his memoir, Sledge goes into great detail how much the men hated Pavuvu. Like you mentioned, no "civilization", no pretty girls. Just swamps, crabs, rats and malaria.
One thing that people miss, is the conversation that Eugene had with the Skipper about the blankets and uniforms being made by his father's company back in the states, and when Eugene sees him on the stretcher he's covered up by a blanket making his conversation about the skippers father come full circle.
Sledges description of Haldanes death is heartbreaking. Basically the same level of admiration as Winters or Spiers had. The show kept his death cleaner, but the parade back through the lines took place.
Yeah if I remember correctly, the sniper essentially blew his head off
@Rams4life94 yes it was said he was almost unrecognisable. I left that out of the og comment on purpose.
@@Rams4life94 A hypersonic bullet penetrating a human head does make quite a mess. Jackie Kennedy can be seen retrieving pieces of Jack's brain and skull immediately after he was assassinated.
World War 2, my grandfather fought in the Philippines when the US and our Allies were taking it back. 44-45. The war ended with him in January of 2019 when he passed. Sgt. B. Maurin. 1st Filipino infantry regiment, United States Army.
Having Capt. Haldane's death occur off-screen is a Greek device. In ancient Greek theatre, violence was not seen onstage. The audience would hear about it through a messenger. This makes the scene more like Classical tragedy.
The tooth collection scene when the guy was still alive was one of the most brutal things I've read in a book...
"He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off and sank deep into the victims mouth. The marine cursed him and with a slash, cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his boot on the sufferers lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured from the soldiers mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly."
Eugene’s, King Company 3rd Battalion 5th Marine regiiment landed with 235 men and took 64% casualties and they left with around 80-89. My grandfathers landed with 244 I believe and left with the same amount of attrition. The battle of Pelelui was a forgotten battle and with this show people know men like my grandfather fought on it.
The sad thing is that on the day we landed on Peleliu, there were only about 5K Japanese on Iwo Jima, mostly construction laborers. Nimitz's and King's insistence on taking that useless and miserable rock against both MacArthur's and Halsey's recommendations is just about the only thing they got wrong during the war. Iwo Jima would have been a lot less bloody had the 1st Marines landed there instead of Peleliu. The 1st Marines were utterly destroyed and were only kept on the line as long as they were because the Marine commander refused to use the Army division he had in any heavy combat role until the Marines had a 60% casualty rate.
@ I’m sure you know why he refused to use them until it was held at 60% but in case people don’t the Marines despised the army’s lack of discipline and ability to hold lines bc earlier in the war they weren’t as effective. However it wasn’t until the 77th division (The Old Bastards) entered theater the perception of the army started to change.
I think the beach scene at the end was a cleansing from what they'd been through more than just a swim.
The Blanket scene always gets me! The "Skipper's" Dad had a hand in making those blankets! Also their conversation about their ancestors! Billy Yank and Johnny Reb coming together!
Peleliu was absolutely brutal. Even without all of the combat going on, the average temperature during the whole operation was about 115F/ 46C, on top of the limited amount of water they had. Despite this, the final Japanese holdouts on Peleliu wouldn't surrender until 1947.
I'd say that there are 3 main characters in this show - Bob Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge. The story just kind of jumps back and forth between the three instead of following them continuously. Band of Brothers had a bigger ensemble cast, since you were following Easy Company itself moreso than any few main characters, but even there it had the format of tending to focus on the POVs of different guys in each episode.
Spartan and Pudgy did an excellent analysis of this episode. I love the fact that both differentiated between movies that were fictional and those that represented real people and real events.❤❤
Losing Ack Ack would have been like losing Winters... Imagine how many young soldiers he became a "Father Figure" for. If he died it would have DEVESTATED that entire company. Plus Hillbilly died right before that who was the Second in Command and Gunny... Would have been like losing Winters (Ack Ack, the Fatherly Leader), Speirs (Gunny, the Unbreakable Leader), and Lipton (Hillbilly, the Peer Leader) all back to back...
But yes, this battle is what convinced Basilone to come back. His unit (that you saw at the beginning) suffered HORRENDOUS loses during this campaign. He was being kept out of the war because he was "more valuable" as a marketing item than a soldier to the Higher Ups so his requests to return kept being denied because they didn't want headlines saying "Medal of Honor Award Winner Killed in * Insert Battle *"... Eventually he went in and basically said, you're either going to have to risk me dying or there WILL be a headline saying "Medal of Honor Award Winner in Prison for Assaulting Officer. You pick."
I love that team included Red Womack in the series. He was beloved by many of the marines. And more importantly he was a Bad M’fer
Red Womack was a bad ass. He was born and raised in McComb, Mississippi.
This episode stuck with me when I first seen it, especially that unchecked bunker with snafu machine gunning the burning Japanese soldier screaming F’ing die while Eugene watches on. Great reaction
Eugene's son actually took a trip to Peleliu and found that exact bunker that his dad helped to take out in this episode. There are some videos of his interviews on youtube
Joseph Mazzello (Eugene) does such an amazing job. Watching the soul leave his eyes as time goes by is so heartbreaking.
I know right? first he survives a 10000v electric fence shock, then he fends off a raptor. And only now he loses his soul.
18:31 the same blanket that Covers Captain Haldane is the same blanket that he mentioned his father makes back at home. I just think that little detail is just so perfect.
Also, there’s a documentary called “1944 peleliu horror in the pacific” that actually have some of the men in this series but actually them in the documentary. I won’t say who’s in it to spoil it if you want to watch but it’s really great.
Fun Fact: Initially in the war, Navy Corpsmen would transport the Stretchers, this was even seen in an early episode, when Leckie was looking for a Corpsman and found two carrying a wounded Marine on a Stretcher back. But, specifically on Peleliu, the USMC and Corpsmen saw some of the worst targeting of medical personnel up until this point in the war. The Japanese would specifically target Stretchers knowing that at least one Corpsman would be with them. Casualties were so bad that they stopped letting corpsman advance all together, keeping them back with the Officers, and Marines were used as stretcher bearers instead, despite protest of many corpsmen who didn’t want to put Marines in harms way anymore than they already were. As such, being a stretcher bearer became one of the most dangerous jobs of the war. Hence the look between the Skipper and Sledge when he realized Sledge was up with the next group of stretcher bearers.
Part of why he was staring at the nurse is because he was thinking about what Sid told him about what war was like. Now Sledge has experienced war firsthand and then he's immediately met with a beautiful woman. One end to the other like Sid said.
As you see below, Eugene Sledge wrote about his war experiences. So did Robert Leckie. He wrote "A Helmet For My Pillow".
I was proud to find Captain Haldane was not only from my home state of Massachusetts, but from the hometown of my wife's family. RIP
Another Fun Fact: The CO, XO, and Gunny had been fighting together since Gudacanal if I remember right, and the Older Gunny had even served in WW1. The Skipper gave the XO a battlefield commission back on Guadalcanal. I know the episodes don’t explain too well, but Ack Ack (Skipper), Hillbilly (XO), and the old Gunny had been fighting together and had survived together for 2 years of fighting. So when the lost Hillbilly, it hurt Ack Ack immensely and finally broke Gunny, who had seen too much.
12:40 they probably did actually clear the bunker, but by this point in the war the Japanese strategy changed to defensive fortresses to inflict as many casualties as possible.
So the bunkers were often linked together with tunnel systems so even if you clear out a bunker, 10 minutes later there might be more soldiers in it because they came through the tunnels.
This was significantly more prevalent on Iwo Jima.
Of course this show is an historical film, and I think that the transition with like new main characters in the end compared to the start, is due to this theater of war taking a lot more time then the one in band of brothers. The first episode is like before the men from band of brothers start training so about 2 years before invasion of France. And the last episode here is after the war in Europe has ended. It was rare that a soldier would fought in all campaigns
The sad realization is that the series didn't go overboard with the graphic depictions of the book(With The Old Breed.) If anything they toned down some of it for tv. The amount of violence and depravity that was inflicted on the Allies(Aussie's included) has really been over shadowed by the Holocaust. The Japanese were an absolutely brutal enemy that had abandoned the Bonzai charges at the start and begin just a war of absolute attrition to kill as many American's, British, and Australian's as possible to delay their defeat. I won't even get into the s**t they did to the Chinese, Korean's or any other occupied territories.
**edit** It gets worse at Okinawa and will make you realize why the American's factored their potential losses invading Japan when they dropped the atomic bombs. It wasn't just to showcase their new weapon of mass destruction(although that was a reason too.)
These shows are so impactful. Puts our everyday stresses and life in general in perspective.
Not too many people notice but when Ack Ack’s body pauses in front of Sledge someone covers him with a green blanket, the same ones he mentions earlier that gives him comfort because they could be the ones his dad makes . I tear up every time. Losing Ack Ack would be like losing Winters in band of brothers
Yes seeing the nurses in their pristine white, all delicate and smiling had to be a shocking contrast from what they had left. That's all it was. It wasn't sexual. I thought that was a very powerful scene. To leave that hell and then walk upon the nurses had to be jarring to the conscience. Those nurses represented civilization, normality and they didn't fit the inhumanity they just left.
If I remember correctly from the book, it pissed sledge off. He didnt think they should be there.
@@johnwayne9828 True, Sledge wrote that they had no more business there than a politician did.
You are right, as I recall he was upset, not attracted, but even if there had been a attraction element to his look, it should be hard to be to judgy about it if you really put yourself in his position. A 20 or 21 year old guy who has even seen a woman in how long is going to notice one when he does see one.
Another Another Fun Fact: The 1st Marine Division was combat ineffective due to the insane number of casualties that were taken. The invasion was supposed to last only 4 days, and the island would be used by McArthur to assist in the Invasion of the Philippines, the airfield, and to also eliminate the enemy force to keep them from assisting the Japanese in the Philippines. However, it would last 3 months. To give a hint of the amount of Casualties being sustained, K Company of 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, captured a place known as the point, but then had to hold off 4 counterattacks, resorting to hand to hand combat in the end. Reinforcements arrived to find a successfully defended “Point”, but K Company had 18 people left, suffering 157 casualties trying to hold the point against repeated Japanese attacks.
The battle for Peleliu was brutal, and even though Sledge and many of the 1st Marine Division pulled out, the 81st division of the Army and the remainder of Marines continued to fight for one more month on that island, continuing to suffer heavy casualties. Eventually the Island was secured, but McArthur decided not to use the Island, and just form a Naval blockade of the rest of Palau, basically making the whole Invasion of Peleliu pointless to the war effort.
Yes, at least I remember when I was in the army, if you had the chance to take a 20-minute nap, you just couldn't care what kind of ground you had under you when you were lying down or how much noise was going on around you.
I too remember this in many a clime and place. This channel reminds me of the outback near Darwin specifically. Our training was so condensed over 2 weeks that we just had a large tarp staked into the ground amongst the giant termite mounds to pass out on in between and during training missions whenever we could. Then on another deployment we had 3 weeks of nonstop rain while training on the Gold Coast after a years long drought. Good times.
The Japanese often routinely targeted stretcher bearers and medics. They had no mercy on them at all.
"Sniper Got The Skipper" ...( I think of famous poem ).. "Oh Captain, My Captain. "
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Did you know the taking of Peleliu was totally unnecessary? MacArthur didn't know that Ulithi, an important cog in the "Invasion of the Philippines" was unoccupied, and therefore no need for US air emplacements on Peleliu.
Eugene Sledge: "What’s it like? The war?"
Sidney Phillips: "Well... I slept with a girl in Melbourne. Not to brag, just... to tell you one end of it. Over there" (points down the beach) "is the other end of it. Something you can’t even imagine."
Leckey started combat in Aug 1942. He went home on account of wounds in late 44. Band of Brothers guys did not enter the war till June 44 and the war ended May 45 so they were in comabt zone less time than Leckey. The Marines got to go home generally after 3 major campagnes. Leckey was at Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and then Pelelieu. He probably would have gone home even if he did not get wounded.
In reference to your question about Captain Haldane and Sledge with the lingering looks, it was because the Captain was sending him out into that shitstorm and there was a very good chance that Sledge was gonna go down, and they both knew it.
In Sledge’s book he acknowledged that Snafu was trying to prevent him from completely losing his humanity by telling him not to cross that line by removing gold from the teeth.
One of the few reaction channels where I am interested in the commentary at the end. Well done!
we appreciate that! thanks
All war is brutal, the enemy and the conditions in the Pacific made it beyond that
The 1st marine division got the short end of the stick when it came to rest areas. The 2nd Marine division was sent to New Zealand & Hawaii for their rest.
Taking teeth, ears, and insignia was endemic to the Pacific. My Grandpa (4th Marines) talked about one guy in his squad had a necklace of ears, some so old and dried they looked like jerky. He never took body parts, but he had a collection of rank insignia he'd cut from guys he'd killed.
Again it's 4:30 am and I'm thinking of packing it in...and I get this notification.
Wtf are you doing at 4:30 am
@@AcidicJazz1999 Drinking alone while watching Spartan and Pudgey reactions of course.
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The book Sledge wrote after the war is much more brutal than the series. Hard to imagine.
If you were a combat veteran, Marine or Army, you looked forward to food, water, and a place where someone isn't trying to kill you. By the time the Okinawa campaign began, many veteran Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, were sure they wouldn't live to see the end of the war. That had a serious effect on morale.
I think they didn’t show captain haldanes death because of how brutal it really was. In sledges novel he states that ack ack peeked over a rock and a sniper round just blew his head to pieces. They had to really tone it down which is saying something for how graphic this show already is
The Pacific theater of WW2 was so vast, and so many American soldiers either lost their lives or were severely injured, it is expected there would be few that started this war in Guatamala who lived on to fight in countries close to the Japanese coast. Attrition was the order of the day, for both the Japanese and the Americans/Allies.
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It's not that the Americans didn't clear the bunker properly or at all. The Japanese retook the bunker from a hidden or overseen entrance to a network of underground tunnels that they made all over the island.
That's what made them hard to root out because they can appear almost anywhere which kept a lot of the Marines on edge.
The Skipper's death really hit Pudgy hard.😢 I guess it hits everyone hard.
By the time this episode airs, I watched "The Fat Electrician" latest you tube video it is about and tells the whole story of "John Basilone" you probably have completed the Pacific series by now, the video is worth watching. An emotional reaction by Pudgey with commentay by both of you.
Much appreciated what you're doing 🙂
12:24 using grenades to clear that blockhouse would likely have been ineffective. Many fortifications like that would have had measures built in to prevent major losses from grenades.
The Japanese also frequently had hidden tunnels into fortifications so they could reinforce previously “cleared” fortifications.
As for the comment about the smell, Peleliu was a coral atoll with little to no soil, so burying dead bodies was out of the question, as was burying any waste. 🤢
JP (John’s friend) was killed in 1950 fighting in Korea
Captain Haldane's death would be like losing Captain Winters mid battle. tuffff
Sledge wrote that he stared at the woman because his brain couldn’t compute how shitty the island was before and after all the combat suddenly seeing a pretty woman and having a cold drink
Some people don’t like Snafu but he always looked out for Sledgehammer. Snafu knew that Sledgehammer was a good person and did not want to see him lose that.
Sledge son reacted to this he has the journal amd flag and sword . He was theown off by them handing out lemonade after everything they been thru.
I find Spartan's tee shirt kind of ironic as he watches this show. 😁
*Yes the Pacific has a horror feel to it compared to Band of Brothers. All war is hell but the war in the pacific was a special type of torment. Great reaction*
I wish they'd do Masters of the Air.
You two NEED to watch Hacksaw Ridge after finishing The Pacific!
I know this episode was hard but hang in there, the worst is yet to come.
The "Japanese people" didn't know much, they were pretty much kept in the dark as to what was happening. To this day, many people in Japan have been taught from a young age that "for some reason" the United States fought Japan, with no mention of Japanese aggression or atrocities. The Japanese soldiers fought for the Emperor whom they considered a god,and believed dying for the emperor was the ultimate reward. Even after 2 atomic bombs , many in the military command structure wanted to keep fighting and some actually tried to take over the government when they decided to surrender. Civilians openly wept when the surrender was announced, even though their cities were being turned to rubble and they were beginning to starve. More people died in the fire bombings of Tokyo than died in both atomic bombings. One last thing, and to most people it seems petty, but Marines are "Marines", not soldiers. Soldiers are in the army, and its a matter of pride. It would sort of be like calling you guys "Kiwi's" because, well, sorta kinda the same thing...
Will you guys do Jurassic World?
The part where the guy was removing teeth from the still alive soldier was actually way more brutal in reality. No1 put the soldier out of his misery like in the show. Sledge said the guy slashed both his cheeks open and stepped on his lower jaw opening his mouth fully while the soldier gurgled on his own blood until he bled to death. Truly horrific. Many Marines actually had sacks full of teeth. It was kinda a regular thing. That wasn't even the worst the Marines were doing to Japanese wounded/dead. There was some truly evil things Marines were doing.
😭🤮 damn that's brutal
of course they would make a light version, cant show that veteran of ww2 was racist and violent just as much as the enemy
@@MateusSoar its not about being racist.. Russia is killing pow's and cutting heads off in Ukraine and they are the same race. It's a hatred that builds up over time from seeing so much death and after awhile you don't even see the enemy as human anymore.
It gets dark for Eugene after the death of hillbilly and the skipper!
gotta finish HBO's war series with GENERATION KILL after you finish the pacific
Great reaction.
Hang in there. There is a good ending. We win!
Thinking that to this day... War didn't end. This sucks, and still happening today somewhere in the middle east or in Ukraine. War: the young die while old men talk.
Could see and feel how much this one hit you two, especially in the after episode discussion that was very hurt and low
Where did your severance reactions go? Am I being crazy or are you guys watching it?
we haven't seen Severance yet. it's on our list for the future
@ Ok might be losing it then. Can’t wait for that, you guys will love it!!
Episode 9 is going to break pudgy heart
Think of one day y'all will soon start personal TH-cam channels 🔥✨
I never have understood why Gen. Rupertus kept insisting on preventing the Army's 81st Infantry Division from assisting the Marines on Pelelieu.
The 1st Marine Division suffered 6200 casualties, which was over 1/3 of their fighting strength. Marine General Roy Geiger finally called in the Army to assist the Marines on Pelelieu. Did Rupertus suffer from that much pride that he wouldn't let the Army help? After all Chesty Puller's unit had suffered 70% casualties on Bloody Nose Ridge.🤔
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Hiya. I'm guessin' you're from the south...or Baltimore
@hbothanti Baltimore
@@baltimore4life34akallswerv3 Much love to MD and 'Balmore'. Loved spending time there many years ago and randomly recognizing locations from The Wire, which is as we all know, the 2nd best if not best show ever made.
I thought your name was all about the halo Spartans
Just like ep 7 in BoB this one is a harsh watch, getting into the nitty gritty also losing Skip as well as losing the last bit of innocence.
Please react to hacksaw ridge
Still no new Better Call Saul??
This and the next are the worst episodes for losing men by far. That’s place was absolute hell
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another "NO WAY" reaction you guys need to learn some new words. lol From 751 videos you got in the channel there are only 27 videos that you guys dont say "NO WAY"... it unbelievable.
You should watch Braveheart. Every reaction channel needs to do Braveheart
Okinawa is the one that is really tough. To put in to perspective how bad it was, nearly 5,000 Americans were killed just on the ships from Kamikazis.
Gunny Haney was broken because that particular dead soldier was his son. Seeing him instantly go from badass Gunny to frail old man is one of the most powerful images of this series.
No he wasn't his son. That "dead soldier" was not a soldier. He was a Marine named Lt. Edward "Hillbilly" Jones. Gunny Haney had great affection for him, however.
@catherinelw9365 thought I read somewhere that Haney lost his son, maybe it was just said that he was like a son to him or something.
@@ciaranconlon84 That might be it.
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Also, movie recommendation and a wish; could you watch "The Thing -82" and the first "Alien" at some point if you haven't seen them? They are both some of my favourite movies 😅