Japanese Were Traumatized When 55,000 Japanese Soldiers Lost Their Lives Fighting Americans in WW2
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In 1944, the Japanese Army faced a formidable American army in New Guinea, with 55,000 soldiers left on their own by Imperial General Headquarters. Lt. Gen. Hatazo Adachi, commander of the 18th Army, faced numerous challenges, including malnutrition, illness, and a lack of supplies. Adachi's plan was to launch an attack, aiming to resupply himself with captured materiel. However, the plan relied more on the fighting spirit of the Japanese soldiers than on wise military tactics.
Adachi, born in Tokyo in 1910, was a renowned military officer known for his bravery and physical toughness. He led the South China Area Army and set up headquarters on New Guinea in 1941. However, when Adachi arrived in 1943, he saw the Japanese forces had been vanquished in combat, leaving behind most of their supplies and injured allies. The combined strength of the Japanese combat forces in eastern New Guinea was 60,000 men, but each unit lacked sufficient strength. The Japanese Army and Navy personnel faced numerous challenges, including exposure, starvation, and malaria, which decimated their ranks.
The Lae-Salamaua garrison in New Guinea exposed the challenges of warfare in the region, which was the second-largest island in the world. The island was surrounded by miasmic swamps and tropical rainforests, with heavy rainfall and tropical illnesses. Lt. Gen. Adachi was concerned about an increasing enemy presence and geographical and meteorological difficulties. Japan's Imperial General Headquarters (IGHQ) was compelled to reassess its strategic position in the south due to the shifting tides of war. In March 1944, IGHQ gave command of the 18th Army to Lt. Gen. Korechika Anami's 2nd Area Army. However, the commander of the 18th Army, located thirteen hundred miles east, had a different perspective. Japanese patrols reported signs of an impending Allied invasion of Wewak, and Lt. Gen. Adachi decided to defy orders and protect the Wewak-Hansa Bay area. Army General Douglas MacArthur, the supreme commander of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific Area, used radio interception to alert American forces to Adachi's plans.
The Japanese commanders in New Guinea, led by Lt. Gen. Adachi and his superior, Anami, planned to defeat Allied positions at Aitape and Hollandia. However, their plan did not align with IGHQ's perspective, leading to a strategic withdrawal and subordination of the 18th Army to the Southern Army Headquarters in Singapore. Adachi presented the plan to capture Aitape, codenamed Operation A, on May 5. Around 35,000 Japanese soldiers departed for Aitape in May and June 1944. However, an Allied sea mine and an enemy air strike severely hampered Adachi's campaign. Lt. Gen. Kane Yoshihara had to maintain supplies for the 18th Army, but the supply was insufficient, and the marching units faced difficulties due to the jungle and the devastating summertime rainfall.
The Japanese forces in New Guinea faced a formidable enemy, led by Lt. Gen. Adachi, who had a severe hernia. The Americans, led by Task Force Persecution, prepared for the onslaught of the 18th Army, while Australian signal intercept teams followed the Japanese troops' march across New Guinea. The 18th Army was supposed to attack on June 15, but many American officers suspected the Japanese had already begun their retreat. By July, American troops had lost contact with Adachi's forces along the Driniumor line. Lt. Gen. Adachi pleaded with his commanders to leave now, as their enemy was vulnerable and overextended along the Driniumor. He planned to launch a direct frontal attack on July 10-11, involving elements of the 41st Division and the 20th Division. The attack would involve crossing the Driniumor River and destroying American artillery positions.
General Adachi faced significant challenges in the Battle of the Driniumor in 1944. The Japanese were unaware of the US Army Commander, Maj. Gen. Charles P. Hall, who decided to destroy the 18th Army instead of allowing Adachi's men to massacre themselves. Hall's patrols missed the 18th Army, reducing its combat strength. The attack was launched five minutes ahead of schedule, with an unexpected barrage of artillery fire. The Japanese were unable to overcome barbed wire entanglements and were eventually overrun by Adachi's men. The Americans then planned a counterattack, with five infantry battalions, two cavalry squadrons, and Allied naval vessels, aircraft, and field artillery providing support. The Americans controlled the mouth of the Driniumor, and the 1/128th Infantry headed south to rendezvous with the 112th Cavalry GIs. Despite the loss of many officers and Allied howitzers, the Americans managed to seize back control of the Driniumor and destroy the 18th Army.
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Between AI mispronounced words. Subtitles that don't match what is said. And poor visual content. It just ain't working!! The other day I watched one of your videos, the whole time you talked about war in the Pacific you showed a pic of marching Germans????
I particularly like the subtitle about Japanese patrols finding 'rubber ass' on the beaches. 12:12
Talked about midnight sun. That is the artic. This is stupid.
I'm fed up, too. Sad.
Looking at ONE picture throughout the narration is Mind Numbing. Can't a series of pictures be displayed ..changing to a different one several times a minute?
I've watched several releases and I found them inaccurate. The narration is also less than desirable.
Crappy AI voice, mechanical pacing, many mispronunciations, wonky bad subtitles
The Ghost Mountain Soldiers is an excellent reference for this battle.
There was absolutely nothing heroic about the suicidal strategy the Japanese followed. Their eagerness to sacrifice themselves played right into the enemy’s hands.
They sacrificed the Yamato the same way.
My father was on Leyte Gulf and said it was a slaughter. They set up a cross fire to the path the Japs were taking running at a flame thrower tank en masse. This was the one thing they were petrified of. There was no honor being incinerated. The cross fire was Two machine guns. He said there were stacks of bodies that prevented them from going forward yet they came. It was all over quickly. He said that afterwards he was hungry and sat down on the flamethrower tank and ate lunch looking out at a scene out of hell. One guy tried to run at the tank with phosphorus grenades strapped to his mid section. Once they start burning they dont stop. Well the flamethrower tank lit him up and the grenades exploded. My father said his innards were popped out of his body like huge hunks of popcorn. Must have stunk to hell too.
@@shepardsmith3235 You and I are old enough to have known WW2 vets. We are a dying generation. My relatives fought in Europe. Thanks for your story.
@@steveschlackman4503 Scary that you say we are a dying generation. Very scary. Lets keep going for a while and live it up. Not sitting around.
I just turned 80. I certainly am happy to be still around. I never forgot that one of my uncles had his WW2 rifle in his bedroom closet. I believe that he had a terrible war. He never talked about it.
Japan fought WWII on a shoestring! It had no foods, supplies and ammunition for its troops!
And their military was badly divided. The Navy could not stand the Army and vica versa
You’ve got to give up the AI bullsh**. It’s crushing your channel. You need a voice over guy!! There’s many languages that cover the WWII you need someone that is familiar or at least gets close to various languages and pronunciation. I’ll do it! Because otherwise… give it up! Don’t hire me…hire someone! But I’d love the job. Outta passion for the subject matter!
Agreed!
This terrible dosen't anyone listen to these before they are released ?
Sergeants?? Lots of strange errors. The voice spoke about "miasmic swamps". Holy holy Google this. Just weird. At least the voice sounds American. The subtitles were insane. "Persecution covering force". This was used consistently by the voice and subtitles. How about the subtitle "sea rations"?
Nope, just like nobody proofed your post.
@@Bobk857 Apparently this is free software. Some of the episodes are better and some are worse. Whoever is creating these episodes they are doing it as an act of love. At least they got an American voice. The English voice was annoying. Is anything proofed on TH-cam?
Antarctica is the world's largest island and Australia is second. I suspect that Greenland is third. Perhaps you think icecaps are not islands?
AI voice is pretty awful as is mis-spelling of geographical locations.
The history is adequate, but the production lacks.
AI at its best with the computer telling of this script..... RIOTOUS......
Why not pronounce the Gen. not on its abbreviation... Gen as in General😅😅😅
The ended up in emotional counseling aboard the Missouri Sept 2 in Tokyo Bay
Terrible computer generated voice narration. I wonder if the owner of this channel even speaks English?!
At 4min and 41sec, I give up! Teach that AI how to talk.
Australian infantry went ashore at Hollandia, yet like most posts by Americans they dont really tell you this!
The Japanese troops and their families were MORE taumatised when told they would be facing the Australians! There are many Japanese documents that show fighting the Americans was the better of the two oprions, the leap frogging meant the US did NOT need to fight them! The
Midnight sun in the tropics??
If the Japanese had surrendered the Americans would have been duty bound to take care of them which would have cost the Americans a lot. There was a sound military reason the rules of war didn't find surrender unforgiveable.
totally confusing it seems Adachi was fighting himself! very poor
“Every tenant of the Bushido warriors code…”
What? Bushido is now leasing space?
The production is ludicrously bad-so bad that I stopped at 2 minutes and 14 seconds in to leave a Thumbs Down and these remarks, before leaving to find something better to do.
What part did then Australian & other Commonwealth Forces actually play during the conflict & the campaigns in & around Papua-New Guinea & in the Netherlands East Indies (Now, Indonesia 🇮🇩) between 1942-45 in the Second World War??!! Really, isn’t this known already?!!
The Australian Army & Armed Forces are still & never were, especially during the Papua-New Guinea & Netherlands East Indies Campaigns during WW2, a “So-called Ghost Army,” & they should be accorded all their rightfully due recognition & respect of their actions, achievements & their important contributions at that time by contemporary historians & military affairs writers, internationally!!
The Australian Army’s (& also with their NZ neighbours, who participated together in both World Wars & since in the ANZACs!) historical record of performance & the excellent reputation that they had then & had also previously accrued, especially in the SW Pacific during the Second World War was particularly noteworthy & laudable, either operating singularly or when jointly with their US or other Allies there!
The Japanese were beaten when the Australians stopped them in PNG and Pushed them back .
Then along came the Glory Boys when Victory was inevitable.
@@NormGilmore-gr4et : The Aussies certainly stopped them (Imperial Japanese Forces) first at Milne Bay, in Eastern Papua-New Guinea, then on & along the Kakoda Track & later together with General Robert Eichelberger & his US Army units at Buna & Gona on the north coast of Papua-Guinea, where the Imperial Japanese Forces were decisively defeated by these two Allied combined forces at the end of 1942.
Nice video?! NOT
AI sux, figure kit out or your channel will die
The midnight sun in New Guinea.
Awful captions and lousy reading. Terrible sentence structure and pronounciation
Your AI sucks.