My Great Grandfather fought in Guadalcanal. He refused to speak about it. I have appreciated this portion of the series most for this reason. For what its worth: Thanks.
@@alansalas1880with a name like Danny Higgins, he obviously fought on the Japanese side! And I'm sure he told him why he refused to speak about it by telling him about it.
amazing conclusion to an epic struggle. much respect to the Japanese forces for saving their men under extremely unfavorable circumstances. i never really understood the scale, scope and significance of the Guadacanal campaign until this series. highest marks for a phenomenal presentation!
You could call the IJN evacuation of Guadalcanal the Japanese Dunkirk. Even though much smaller in scope they were taking huge risks when the American forces were clearly gaining an upper hand in air and sea power when the Americans had established ground force dominance. I was expecting the Americans to deal a crippling blow to their evacuation efforts at any time and was really surprised that it didn't happen. The Guadalcanal campaign was more fiercely contested than I could ever imagine on the ground, sea and air Much respect to the fighting skill on both sides but definitely glad we got the outcome we live with today
Great series! Seeing how fiercely the Japanese fought for these islands hundreds of miles away from home you appreciate how much military planners would have dreaded the invasion of the home Japanese islands and how massive the military casualties would have been.
No Americans got out Philippines except MacArthur his wife and his son and his Chinese maid all American and Filipino defenders were suffering the same as Japanese on Guadalcanal. What was to wait them was infamous Bataan death march.
I love the quote "probably they were happy, but they showed no expression". I can't imagine how much deprivation it took for the men to be that trashed. Edit: I'm curious as to how many of those men were able to fight again.
Most likely very few since the Guadalcanal campaign ended in February 1943 and the war only had only 30 more months. Also most would have been transported back to Rabaul and other than some bombing raids we left that stronghold alone since it did not need to be taken. Plus with so many of these thousands being as bad off as they were it is very likely that many died after the withdraw.
@@Briguy1027 True, they did not have so much of an issue in China since easy to get food and equipment there. But they decided to push out into the Pacific and those islands were not so get since most were jungle terrain. They lacked the needed vision of needing far more ships than they had since 10,000 men on an island need a lot of food, water and other things. They got off easy in 1942 since the torpedoes of the US back then were total crap but the US finally got that issue fixed and it was not really safe to sail after that.
Everyone has said the Battle of Midway was the decisive battle of the Pacific War. Actually I think it was really the Guadalcanal battle that proved decisive as the Japanese had plenty of fight, initiative and potential to beat back the Allies. But afterwards the full initiative was with the Allied forces. I'm glad this channel provided excellent coverage of this battle that too often is overlooked Battle that I think again was THE decisive campaign of the Pacific War.
Even purely from a naval point of view - one thing that's often missed is that he US Navy took far more casualites in the Guadacanal campaign than anywhere else.
I think that is more the fact that at Midway, the Americans showed they could fight and win against the Japanese is Naval Combat, while in Guadalcanal it showed the same but in Land Combat. Therefore, they both complete the American superiority from that point onwards.
Man what an awesome series. I've been doing supplementary reading while watching this series and man I thought I actually knew a lot about the Pacific War in reality I knew nothing and now realize I could probably spend my entire life reading about it and not know everything about it.
You can read all about Guadalcanal in a day, but having it feature in months of weekly videos gives a much better perspective on how this was more like a campaign in its own right.
I enjoyed watching the campaign of Guadalcanal, kinda still wanna watch more, but this is history and all heroic compaigns come to an end eventually. Thank you Kings and Generals for covering this campaign.
Satisfying to know the same Japanese Unit that thrashed the 1st Malay Brigade in Singapore in early February 1942 was the same one who suffered to the American hands in Guadalcanal. Utmost respect to the 1st Marine Division! Salute from Malaysia!!!
*Whew* Thought I missed you this week. This is one of my highlight videos so cool even if it's on a Thursday and not a Tuesday. Kidding, take your time to develop something of this quality.
These videos are outstanding, a real gift to present and future generations. My one request is that now that the Guadalcanal portion is finished you change the US Army and Marine soldier avatars to more accurately show the uniforms and kit. Those currently in use are more in line with uniforms worn by the US Army in NW Europe.
At the start of the video it was mentioned that the Japanese defeat at the Battle of Guadalcanal finally forced Japan to take a defensive stance for the remainder of the war. That may be true for the war in the Pacific theater, however it may give a false impression that Japan was always on the defensive after the battle. The fact is that Japan carried out offensive battles and campaigns in the greater Asia-Pacific War (which is a more accurate phrase than "The Pacic War") after Guadalcanal - their invasion of India in 1944 and their 1945 offensive in China are just two examples that contradict the impression that Japan was always in defensive mode after Guadalcanal.
At the start of the Guadalcanal Campaign it was clear that the IJN was the superior force. By the conclusion of the Solomon Island Campaign “31 Knot” Burke taught the IJN that the Student had become the Master.
@@jeffreyestahl totally agree. The interesting thing about the Solomon Island campaign is at the end the USN/Marines/AAF lost nearly the same amount as Japanese forces
I don't know any similar channel that makes so qualitative videos and i thank you for your work and dedication 👏 Also can you make video for the balkan wars I
“Col George moved his forces to the vicinity of Titi, something that was worrisome for the Japanese…” Without context, this would’ve been a different plot.
Extraordinary how IJN and IJA decided to rescue the 17th Army from total destruction, insane how those ragged survivors of so many encounters lived to see another day.
It's interesting that the flagships for the destroyer forces in Operation KE were destroyers. The IJN had organized destroyer squadrons with light cruisers as the flags. I wonder if this was an intentional organizational change or if the number number of available light cruisers forced this as an adaptation.
Yes and no. The forces used needed to quick, had an escort / AA defense of the newest destroyers and the destroyer crew were the cream of IJN. The CL not so, and at this point were SBD magnets for the Cactus airfield (Yura, Jinstu, Isuzu). The old 5.500 ton light cruisers could potentially slow them down, and had limited AA fire. Nagara(DesRon 4) and Jinstu (DesRon2) were escorting the destroyers in the main Body, brand new Agano (DesRon 10), the carriers. Sendai (DesRon 3) was escorting Mikawa 8th Fleets Chokai and Kumano. So they were all busy at sea as well escorting fleet elements so were potentially available.
The IJN had used DDs for most of the reinforcement runs as well, the few times CLs were present, they were escorting BBs or CAs while bombarding Henderson field, leaving out Savo with CruDiv 18 and Yubari (DesRon 6 flagship)
@@Wayne.J, IJN CLs seem to have been pretty fast (ignoring wear and possibly fouling of their hulls), but being 1920s designs and in 1942, their AA capabilities were probably not very good by IJN standards. Good point!
@@petestorz172 I vaguely remember Hara in his destroyer captain book, that they DesRon 3 wanted to keep Sendai at Rabaul in 3rd quarter of 1943 because it wasn't up to rigours of war and worn out.
Even those who don't like the Americans have to admit that the fact that they were able to fight in three theaters of war at once is nothing short of amazing.
It kills me anytime people talk about how the rest of the Allies did just as much fighting as the Americans. the USA was fighting in Africa, Europe, and pretty much solo'd the Pacific theater (no hate Aussies).
The scale and logistics of the Pacific theatre is mind boggling and not only did they fight all over the place they were supplying Russia and the UK at the same time and making massive amounts of planes, tanks, artillery and small arms along with food,oil and millions of bullets and shells not to mention an entire new Pacific fleet, a huge one.
Brilliant movie as usual! Although people must ridicule me Im still proud that thousands of Japanese soldiers had run from "Island of Death" or "Island of Hunger." They were prepared to die and in the end survived
Read a book about WWII surface combat in the Pacific, between the IJN and the Allies. The gist of it was that surface ships, not carrier battles, were the main cause of Japan's defeat (this includes submarine warfare). This goes against everything we 'know' about the Pacific War, but there is something to be said for the cumulative affect of dozens of small engagements. A part of that discussion is the so-called fanaticism of the Japanese, including suicidal choices. But a broader view shows the Allies making similar choices until about mid-1943. Consider the small nighttime engagements with the obviously superior IJN, which usually resulted in thousands of Allied deaths and the loss of more warship tonnage. One idea was that US officers, in transferring over large areas of industrial home soil, saw the massive material and ship constructions, understanding that what was at the tip of the spear represented a small fraction of what was coming. This allowed them to bet long odds, like a poker player with a large stack of chips. The Japanese command saw the opposite: damaged ships waiting in ports for repairs that would never start, hunger and fuel shortages, enemies at all points of the compass plus the Soviet hammer ready to fall at any moment, while stuck in an unbeatable China. Despite their Bushido code and desire for a Good Death, these were calculating people, who often held back from total commitment of the last reserve, waiting to fight in a (hopefully) better position tomorrow.
People have no real idea how important the pacific war was to win and the trauma that the combatants endured on both sides. Thanks to the American forces, we Aussies would have been in a tough spot
The Australians 🇦🇺 were influential in helping with the Guadalcanal victory by defeating about 20k in New Guinea, who would otherwise have been transferred to Guadalcanal. A good double allied victory.
I'll cover it. We thought we could win, the British came, we camped out in the post office, and we got bombarded, surrounded, and surrendered. All our leaders were murdered which led to micky collins
@@JW-jd6sn You're explaining history I already know ma chara lol thanks for the recap anyway. However we didn't just establish a base in the GPO, the biscuit factory, local brewery and linen factories. Would love to see the perspectives of Kings and Generals, especially the maps and how the leaders were executed.
Finally, Guadalcanal is over. Hopefully, the Japanese will have learned of the folly of in deep defense in this scenario, seeing the waste of resources and men it is, and the rest of island hoping US American invasions will go much smoother. With a much lesser loss of lifes and destruction. Right? ... ... Right?
for how much has happened so far in the pacific front one would think that the 4-5 years of the pacific war actually took place across like a 20-30 year period. crazy
The success of Operation KE was primarily due to the failure of Allied intelligence to decipher the new Japanese radio communication codes implemented on 1 January, 1943. Based on its misinterpretation of the Japanese force buildup, on 26 January the Allied Pacific Command's intelligence section Informed Allied forces in the Pacific that the Japanese were preparing for a new offensive in either the Solomons or New Guinea. This had a major impact on the outcome of the operation, as both Patch and Halsey were bluffed into adopting a "wait-and-see" posture and not taking advantage of their ground, aerial, and naval superiority to prevent the successful Japanese evacuation.
Thanks for the great videos; hindsight being 20 /20, people today don't realize how real people were thinking at the particular moment in time and the limited information they actually had to act on; we know now this was a turning point for Japan but at the time who knew????
Imagine, surviving months of starvation, aggressive warfare, debilitating sickness, and a culture that celebrates suicide, to be rescued by a destroyer at the end of it all, just to have it hit a mine on the way out. Give me a break!
Excellent video 📹 ESCAPE FROM HELL The Japanese make the greatest escape in history. ( ..with 1940 Dunkirk) Brilliantly executed, excellent discipline. In contrast to the German abandoned 6th Army of Stalingrad.
@16:32 when we see the list of the evacuated soldiers, when I add all the numbers presented I get 6926 men, but the total on the bottom of the screen says "Total IJN & IJA: 10660 Men. Am I missing something? Where does this discrepancy of 3734 men come from?
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This series just keeps getting better and better 👏
Magellan tv is awesome too!¡ I got it cause of kings & generals
Japanese troops already Conquest wake island right?! When American troops Will take back wake island?
I mean recapture wake island. And also Guam island.
@@matty2309 That's awesome! You just made our day!
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Very excited about leaving Guadalcanal...
I'm sure everyone was, what a hellscape to be on.
End of the holiday
Unfortunately Lae, Salamawa, Shaggy Ridge, Bougainville, the Marshalls, and New Georgia await
Indeed. More Jungle to swathe thru
But how many of them recovered and fought for another days?
Your coverage of the Guadalcanal and new guinea campaign has been magnificent,fleshing out both campaigns of these war changing the Pacific war,
Agreed, except the narrator's pronunciation is often off for Pacific names
My Great Grandfather fought in Guadalcanal. He refused to speak about it. I have appreciated this portion of the series most for this reason. For what its worth: Thanks.
Mine served there as well.
which side he fought and he told you why he refuse to speak about it?
@@alansalas1880with a name like Danny Higgins, he obviously fought on the Japanese side! And I'm sure he told him why he refused to speak about it by telling him about it.
Mine was to wounded by a Japanese mortar shell fragment.
amazing conclusion to an epic struggle. much respect to the Japanese forces for saving their men under extremely unfavorable circumstances. i never really understood the scale, scope and significance of the Guadacanal campaign until this series. highest marks for a phenomenal presentation!
Midway gets all the glory, but Guadalcanal was the real turning point of the Pacific War.
You could call the IJN evacuation of Guadalcanal the Japanese Dunkirk. Even though much smaller in scope they were taking huge risks when the American forces were clearly gaining an upper hand in air and sea power when the Americans had established ground force dominance.
I was expecting the Americans to deal a crippling blow to their evacuation efforts at any time and was really surprised that it didn't happen.
The Guadalcanal campaign was more fiercely contested than I could ever imagine on the ground, sea and air
Much respect to the fighting skill on both sides but definitely glad we got the outcome we live with today
Of course I have heard and read about Guadalcanal battle but never realized the complexity of the whole until this series. Nice job!
Great series! Seeing how fiercely the Japanese fought for these islands hundreds of miles away from home you appreciate how much military planners would have dreaded the invasion of the home Japanese islands and how massive the military casualties would have been.
This execution was even more dramatic than the Philippines withdrawal about a year earlier. Literally on the edge of my seat!
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No Americans got out Philippines except MacArthur his wife and his son and his Chinese maid all American and Filipino defenders were suffering the same as Japanese on Guadalcanal. What was to wait them was infamous Bataan death march.
I love the quote "probably they were happy, but they showed no expression". I can't imagine how much deprivation it took for the men to be that trashed. Edit: I'm curious as to how many of those men were able to fight again.
I also am curious how many of the men they saved were able to fight again.
@@jameshannagan4256 okinawa maybe
Most likely very few since the Guadalcanal campaign ended in February 1943 and the war only had only 30 more months. Also most would have been transported back to Rabaul and other than some bombing raids we left that stronghold alone since it did not need to be taken. Plus with so many of these thousands being as bad off as they were it is very likely that many died after the withdraw.
@@chestersleezer8821Terrible way to treat your soldiers. In some ways the Japanese were their own worst enemies, scaling back on logistics.
@@Briguy1027 True, they did not have so much of an issue in China since easy to get food and equipment there. But they decided to push out into the Pacific and those islands were not so get since most were jungle terrain. They lacked the needed vision of needing far more ships than they had since 10,000 men on an island need a lot of food, water and other things. They got off easy in 1942 since the torpedoes of the US back then were total crap but the US finally got that issue fixed and it was not really safe to sail after that.
Everyone has said the Battle of Midway was the decisive battle of the Pacific War. Actually I think it was really the Guadalcanal battle that proved decisive as the Japanese had plenty of fight, initiative and potential to beat back the Allies. But afterwards the full initiative was with the Allied forces. I'm glad this channel provided excellent coverage of this battle that too often is overlooked Battle that I think again was THE decisive campaign of the Pacific War.
You are right! After Midway Imperial Navy still had a superiority in aircraft carriers and surface ships.
Even purely from a naval point of view - one thing that's often missed is that he US Navy took far more casualites in the Guadacanal campaign than anywhere else.
Imo, the attack on Pearl Harbor was the battle that determined the outcome of the war. When Japan dropped that first bomb, their fate was sealed.
I dont think you can dismiss the loss of 4 aicraft carrierss through. Had they had a few of those left, wouldn't guadalcanal have gone differently ?
I think that is more the fact that at Midway, the Americans showed they could fight and win against the Japanese is Naval Combat, while in Guadalcanal it showed the same but in Land Combat. Therefore, they both complete the American superiority from that point onwards.
I played this video at .75% speed. The information given is massive. Excellent work K&G.
First time I am hearing this :-) thanks!
@@KingsandGenerals Could you make a video on the Greco-Turkish war of 1923 or the 1897 one? It would be much appreciated!
Man what an awesome series. I've been doing supplementary reading while watching this series and man I thought I actually knew a lot about the Pacific War in reality I knew nothing and now realize I could probably spend my entire life reading about it and not know everything about it.
The sheer scale and logistics are mind boggling for these actions and if you have not read Neptunes Inferno yet do so it was great.
Congratulations for a great comprehensive series on one of the most important battles of the Pacific theater. Thank you!
Man, the production value of these videos never ceases to amaze me. 👍💪
You can read all about Guadalcanal in a day, but having it feature in months of weekly videos gives a much better perspective on how this was more like a campaign in its own right.
Yeah I like this _real time_ format they are using for the Pacific War series.
It really puts it into perspective.
Great series. All we learn from school is that the war in the pacific was a slog through islands but they never went into details.
I enjoyed watching the campaign of Guadalcanal, kinda still wanna watch more, but this is history and all heroic compaigns come to an end eventually. Thank you Kings and Generals for covering this campaign.
Just a fantastic series. So we'll researched and presented. Thank you.
Satisfying to know the same Japanese Unit that thrashed the 1st Malay Brigade in Singapore in early February 1942 was the same one who suffered to the American hands in Guadalcanal. Utmost respect to the 1st Marine Division! Salute from Malaysia!!!
A great look at an underappreciated part of the war.
*Whew* Thought I missed you this week. This is one of my highlight videos so cool even if it's on a Thursday and not a Tuesday. Kidding, take your time to develop something of this quality.
Amazing top notch work, thanks Kings and Generals!
Remarkable series....I wait week to week for the next episode...thanks so such for creating these unique videos
Extremely excited and enjoy every minutes of this series. Now let’s wait for the next week!
Outstanding Series and detailed coverage of an episode of the battle forgotten by most... great read is John Tolands "War without Mercy"..
This series is amazing
Love the series no complaints. Hope I do not have to wait till Thursday for the next one.
Wow! Big respect to my Grandfather's enemy at the end of this epic.
Love this series. Looking forward to it each week.
Great Video. Generations of future commanders will be studying your works in the future.
Good job mates! It reminds me why I love history so much. I look forward to the rest of the documentaries.
Really well done! A great series, that I am enjoying more with each episode.
So great seeing battles in the air, at sea and on land.
These videos are outstanding, a real gift to present and future generations. My one request is that now that the Guadalcanal portion is finished you change the US Army and Marine soldier avatars to more accurately show the uniforms and kit. Those currently in use are more in line with uniforms worn by the US Army in NW Europe.
I have been really enjoying this series.
Another great video in this series, awesome work!
Every episode is detailed and entertaining. I love this series.
Finally my fav series ever in all of youtube
Ur the king please never stop! Go king!
At the start of the video it was mentioned that the Japanese defeat at the Battle of Guadalcanal finally forced Japan to take a defensive stance for the remainder of the war. That may be true for the war in the Pacific theater, however it may give a false impression that Japan was always on the defensive after the battle. The fact is that Japan carried out offensive battles and campaigns in the greater Asia-Pacific War (which is a more accurate phrase than "The Pacic War") after Guadalcanal - their invasion of India in 1944 and their 1945 offensive in China are just two examples that contradict the impression that Japan was always in defensive mode after Guadalcanal.
I would like to point out "atempted" invasion of India :-) !
This was a missed opportunity for the Americans but they were not being stupid. Great series.
At the start of the Guadalcanal Campaign it was clear that the IJN was the superior force. By the conclusion of the Solomon Island Campaign “31 Knot” Burke taught the IJN that the Student had become the Master.
This is why I usually state that it was the Solomon's Campaign, not Midway, that represented the true turning point in the Pacific War.
@@jeffreyestahl totally agree. The interesting thing about the Solomon Island campaign is at the end the USN/Marines/AAF lost nearly the same amount as Japanese forces
Thanks for the video 👍
Excellent coverage.
Wonderful! I'm loving this series!😎🔥🙏
I don't know any similar channel that makes so qualitative videos and i thank you for your work and dedication 👏 Also can you make video for the balkan wars I
Another good video a lot of people don't know about this.
“Col George moved his forces to the vicinity of Titi, something that was worrisome for the Japanese…”
Without context, this would’ve been a different plot.
Extraordinary how IJN and IJA decided to rescue the 17th Army from total destruction, insane how those ragged survivors of so many encounters lived to see another day.
Thanks for the entertaining history lesson
It's interesting that the flagships for the destroyer forces in Operation KE were destroyers. The IJN had organized destroyer squadrons with light cruisers as the flags. I wonder if this was an intentional organizational change or if the number number of available light cruisers forced this as an adaptation.
Yes and no.
The forces used needed to quick, had an escort / AA defense of the newest destroyers and the destroyer crew were the cream of IJN. The CL not so, and at this point were SBD magnets for the Cactus airfield (Yura, Jinstu, Isuzu).
The old 5.500 ton light cruisers could potentially slow them down, and had limited AA fire. Nagara(DesRon 4) and Jinstu (DesRon2) were escorting the destroyers in the main Body, brand new Agano (DesRon 10), the carriers.
Sendai (DesRon 3) was escorting Mikawa 8th Fleets Chokai and Kumano. So they were all busy at sea as well escorting fleet elements so were potentially available.
The IJN had used DDs for most of the reinforcement runs as well, the few times CLs were present, they were escorting BBs or CAs while bombarding Henderson field, leaving out Savo with CruDiv 18 and Yubari (DesRon 6 flagship)
@@Wayne.J, IJN CLs seem to have been pretty fast (ignoring wear and possibly fouling of their hulls), but being 1920s designs and in 1942, their AA capabilities were probably not very good by IJN standards. Good point!
@@petestorz172
I vaguely remember Hara in his destroyer captain book, that they DesRon 3 wanted to keep Sendai at Rabaul in 3rd quarter of 1943 because it wasn't up to rigours of war and worn out.
Thank you , K&G .
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Even those who don't like the Americans have to admit that the fact that they were able to fight in three theaters of war at once is nothing short of amazing.
The US war machine was built to fight 2 major conflicts simultaneously, on opposite sides of the world, and win both
Good logistics was the key.
Also, the Japanese were very spread out themselves as well.
It kills me anytime people talk about how the rest of the Allies did just as much fighting as the Americans. the USA was fighting in Africa, Europe, and pretty much solo'd the Pacific theater (no hate Aussies).
The scale and logistics of the Pacific theatre is mind boggling and not only did they fight all over the place they were supplying Russia and the UK at the same time and making massive amounts of planes, tanks, artillery and small arms along with food,oil and millions of bullets and shells not to mention an entire new Pacific fleet, a huge one.
Incredible!
IJA: "We are looking for a decisive battle!"
US Army: "There ya go!"
IJA: "No, not like that!"
Another really good video.
Watching this video while installing my type 38 sling onto my 1938/1939 made t38 arisaka
Fantastic video, I’m sure so much research has gone into it and I really appreciate how specific and detailed it is
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
Good Job!
Great informative video on guadalcanal, keep up the good work 👍👍👍
I love this series! I'm looking forward to seeing how the Allies take advantage of the victory on Guadalcanal.
Damn, great video and evacuation
This really shows how logistics can be greater than strategy and tactics in modern warfare.
Well, no. Because keeping the enemy in the dark is also a tactic.
Disruption of Logistics is also a tactic, and a very common one.
Brilliant movie as usual!
Although people must ridicule me Im still proud that thousands of Japanese soldiers had run from "Island of Death" or "Island of Hunger." They were prepared to die and in the end survived
I would love to know if any of these poor men had to fight on or they were in such poor shape that they never fought again.
Read a book about WWII surface combat in the Pacific, between the IJN and the Allies. The gist of it was that surface ships, not carrier battles, were the main cause of Japan's defeat (this includes submarine warfare). This goes against everything we 'know' about the Pacific War, but there is something to be said for the cumulative affect of dozens of small engagements. A part of that discussion is the so-called fanaticism of the Japanese, including suicidal choices. But a broader view shows the Allies making similar choices until about mid-1943. Consider the small nighttime engagements with the obviously superior IJN, which usually resulted in thousands of Allied deaths and the loss of more warship tonnage. One idea was that US officers, in transferring over large areas of industrial home soil, saw the massive material and ship constructions, understanding that what was at the tip of the spear represented a small fraction of what was coming. This allowed them to bet long odds, like a poker player with a large stack of chips. The Japanese command saw the opposite: damaged ships waiting in ports for repairs that would never start, hunger and fuel shortages, enemies at all points of the compass plus the Soviet hammer ready to fall at any moment, while stuck in an unbeatable China. Despite their Bushido code and desire for a Good Death, these were calculating people, who often held back from total commitment of the last reserve, waiting to fight in a (hopefully) better position tomorrow.
People have no real idea how important the pacific war was to win and the trauma that the combatants endured on both sides. Thanks to the American forces, we Aussies would have been in a tough spot
The Australians 🇦🇺 were influential in helping with the Guadalcanal victory by defeating about 20k in New Guinea, who would otherwise have been transferred to Guadalcanal. A good double allied victory.
Great videos
Well done.
This series was a major legacy in my life I believe I've learned so much and felt so much pain for the loss of The Americans
Would love if you could cover the 1916 Irish Easter raising.
Good choice not even Irish myself. Another cool one would be the Spanish civil war.
I'll cover it. We thought we could win, the British came, we camped out in the post office, and we got bombarded, surrounded, and surrendered. All our leaders were murdered which led to micky collins
@@JW-jd6sn You're explaining history I already know ma chara lol thanks for the recap anyway. However we didn't just establish a base in the GPO, the biscuit factory, local brewery and linen factories. Would love to see the perspectives of Kings and Generals, especially the maps and how the leaders were executed.
And this is it. From this point on, the tide of war has turned against Japan. It's all downhill from here.
I love The vid Always ! 😁
Love it
It turns out the IJA and IJN made a remarkably good team when they weren't scheming and backstabbing each other.
Finally, Guadalcanal is over. Hopefully, the Japanese will have learned of the folly of in deep defense in this scenario, seeing the waste of resources and men it is, and the rest of island hoping US American invasions will go much smoother. With a much lesser loss of lifes and destruction. Right?
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... Right?
I never realized how long this campaign actually was-
Great series, thank you for emphasising the human side of it all. Can't help thinking though that it was all a huge waste.
so good
F'ing fantastic....
You could have released this video before evacuation from Afghanistan. Had some good lessons
I could watch Kings and Generals read the yellow pages.
for how much has happened so far in the pacific front one would think that the 4-5 years of the pacific war actually took place across like a 20-30 year period. crazy
Even as an American I found myself rooting for those abused Japanese grunts to get off that god forsaken island.
This video states that the USS De Haven is an Allen B Sumner Class Destroyer, but in reality it was a Fletcher class.
Great.
2.99M subs... So close!
Wow. They got all the rest of their men off that island.
If HOI4 taught all of us anything, it is that destroying transport ships once boarded or not yet disembarked is preferable.
Surprised that the Japanese were able to evacuate with so little losses given that the earlier reinforcements of the island was not very successful.
The success of Operation KE was primarily due to the failure of Allied intelligence to decipher the new Japanese radio communication codes implemented on 1 January, 1943. Based on its misinterpretation of the Japanese force buildup, on 26 January the Allied Pacific Command's intelligence section Informed Allied forces in the Pacific that the Japanese were preparing for a new offensive in either the Solomons or New Guinea. This had a major impact on the outcome of the operation, as both Patch and Halsey were bluffed into adopting a "wait-and-see" posture and not taking advantage of their ground, aerial, and naval superiority to prevent the successful Japanese evacuation.
@@n1k2jfan96 Interesting to find out reason why
It was a intel failure for the most part.
No disrespect meant, however when I hear "General Patch's" I always imaging a pet dressed up in military uniform.
Thanks for the great videos; hindsight being 20 /20, people today don't realize how real people were thinking at the particular moment in time and the limited information they actually had to act on; we know now this was a turning point for Japan but at the time who knew????
Watching this while playing War Thunder naval battle.
Guadalcanal resembled Dunkirk in a curious way
Can't wait until Philippine liberation
That should be a couple more years, as K&G is presenting the Pacific War in pretty close to real time.
Imagine, surviving months of starvation, aggressive warfare, debilitating sickness, and a culture that celebrates suicide, to be rescued by a destroyer at the end of it all, just to have it hit a mine on the way out. Give me a break!
Excellent video 📹
ESCAPE FROM HELL
The Japanese make the greatest escape in history. ( ..with 1940 Dunkirk)
Brilliantly executed, excellent discipline.
In contrast to the German abandoned 6th Army of Stalingrad.
@16:32 when we see the list of the evacuated soldiers, when I add all the numbers presented I get 6926 men, but the total on the bottom of the screen says "Total IJN & IJA: 10660 Men. Am I missing something? Where does this discrepancy of 3734 men come from?
nice
it's not Dunkirk but it's impressive