It seems so strange to me. I have been watching WWII documentaries since I was ten. Now for the first time in this doc, the movie clips of dead soldiers or injured civilians being treated for their burns- are blurred. the images now too disturbing to view. Really? I didn't realize I had become so fragile to need to be spared these images. It is a disservice to anyone injured or scarred by what they endured. Don't hide the past. This is a good documentary.
One of Japan's ace pilots, Saburō Sakai, said that if someone had told him that bombing two American cities would end the war, they would be crazy not to.
Maybe you watched the eight-part series on Saburo Sakai's experiences on a channel called WW2 Tales? If not, you should check it out. It's an excellent series.
@@bbmtge agreed. However. It wasn't just the 2 cities. History seems to have forgotten the other 85 Japanese cities the Americans fire bombed. America incinerated MILLIONS. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a drop in the bucket.
To this day the Japanese have never admitted their atrocities over other countries. My mother as a child survived the Japanese invasion in China. The Hamas' recent slaughter in Israel pales in comparison to what my mother saw. Like my father, a WW2 veteran, she found it necessary to repress wartime experiences. Peace in this world can never be taken for granted.
@@johndunn8152what you're doing is just trying to shift the blame dude. The U.S has done horrible stuff...and? The issue is japan jfc ppl like you deflect when pressed.
My two great Uncles fought through almost the entire war in the Pacific. They never wanted to talk about it. Both lived good long lives. God bless those who faced these terrible times.
Thank you for your service. 3 uncle's in WW2. Praying to make a difference in this dying world, to bring as many as possible to the Lord. I believe these are the end times. Prophecy is 85 percent fulfilled.
A friend of mine from high school said bombing Hiroshima did not save a single American life. I told him that the US simultaneously prepared an invasion force to take Japan if the nuclear weapons failed or were not used. He laughed and asked me where I heard that. I said, “from my father; he had been moved from Colorado to California and was awaiting deployment to invade Japan when the news of the nuclear attack was released in the States. His fellow soldiers threw a party in the barracks. They woke him up saying’Cooper we aren’t going!’ “ Let historians argue whether it was immoral. That is fair considering how many innocent civilians died, but to claim the attack did not save American lives is demonstrably false. Great video.
@@noemibarrios4056 I wish nuclear weapons had never been used against humans anywhere. A debate on their morality is welcomed and appropriate. What is wrong are people today denying the reality of what was being weighed when the decision was made; the lives of Japanese civilians versus the lives of American soldiers.
I’m from Hiroshima. We don’t consider ourselves victims or want any pity. We don’t claim to be victims or want any sympathy money/funding , tears from anyone. That’s an agenda Obama spread in 2016. Hiroshima has established its own economy and prosperity and continues to reflect on the past. Hiroshima just wants to avoid future nuclear wars.
True, love the new story, I read old books about the Japanese running around killing German priests before the bomb drop, interviews with Japanese people, I think one of the books was called Hiroshima by John hersey, by the way, I love all people of our planet, just wish we can work together
@@albetrosxcore3028 it could happen if we bombed each other back to the Stone Age. But then we will resort back to using sticks and rocks. It seems nothing is ever learned from history
I’m from Gunma japan I’m proud I’m living in one of the most peaceful and safest countries in the world! I’m sorry about what happened in the past but we have to move forward and stay calm and peaceful and kind!
It’s a Christian teaching to forgive those who have wronged you. I have met many Christian missionaries in Japan. One was in the infamous Bataan death march. He barely survived the Japanese cruelty. Still he learned to forgive and became a missionary. It’s just time to forgive old enemies.
@@kennethwiggins4396 You still don't know about the Japanese attitudes toward her neighbors. For her neighboring countries, I don't think they will ever forgive the Japanese cruelty because of their Japanese government. TBH, I think Japan will be invaded by one of its neighboring countries sooner or later..
I was born, in America, in the middle of all this history, on March 8th, 1943. From infancy, I learned of the atrocities both in Europe and in the Pacific. Always safe, here in America, I still could imagine the depth of the misery that all living beings, people and animals, were put through in WW2 because of the depraved greed for power of a handful of leaders and their followers. Yet, we are constantly on the brink of repeating these tragedies. It is heartbreaking.
A friend of mine called the Japanese the Empire of the setting sun, he was fighting in Europe, but was going to be shipped to Japan when Germany surrendered. Thankfully he didn't have to after the bomb was dropped
My grandfather served in Europe. He always said he was thankful he didn't have to fight in the Pacific, and was very thankful the Japanese surrendered before he was redeployed there.
@@SLICE_Full_Doc My father was in the Navy. Murmansk Run and U505. He said they were supposed to go to Japan. He was very happy the war was over. My father-in-law served in New Guinea, the Philipines. He saw what the Japanese did to American soldiers. He was very happy that the war was over.
@@MarioSchlemmer-s5k don't think if I were you to walk into a bar where some ww2 vets were having a beer or two and mouth off to those ole warriors you might get a ride in an ambulance those old grunts prolly ain't forgot how to kick ass when pissed by some smart ass punk
@@SLICE_Full_Doc i just watched this video but i confused about the scence and video. is this video and camera capture real . i cannot believe that it is real
25 years old here seeking out history lessons almost on a daily basis. I will never forget the sacrifices made, on both sides, to get us where we are now. I pray that nobody gets nuked again.
In scripture it says in the end the heavens will roll back and the earth will burn. What does that sound like, especially after watching these documentaries. I constantly pray we have learned from these historical events and the end of this world will not be nuclear war. Two words: "Never again"!
Look up the history of money and the Rothschild central banking system. Japan got nuked two years after they tried to surrender. They got nuked because they tried to be economically independent from the Rothschild central banking system, and as a warning to Russia to not even think about doing something similar. "War is a racket" Strictly about wealth transfer/acquisition. Pretty simple honestly.
National "Leaders" / No Leader can gain, maintain or remain in Power, Without the Support of people / the people (millions of them) .. Hitler (for eg) was "one man" .. Up to 50 million people total, worldwide died / were murdered.. Many Millions did the killing ..
There was no mention of the attempts by the Japanese military command to prevent the Emperor’s concession speech. The military was resistant to the end despite the loss of life.
There was no mention of this, despite later soviet and soviet apologists who wanted a show of force practice bomb, or the fact that Stalin took advantage where he could, and in Japan, he had to accept the Japanese would rather submit to the US, who had dropped two nuclear bombs, rater than to living under Soviet domination.
Exactly. The Japanese military was unmoved by Stalin nor the bomb. And so there was an attempted coup which failed (only barely). As you see the people of Japan were overwhelmingly ready to give their lives for the cause. The Japanese military had no concern for the lives lost to the war. The idea of "civilians" was not something that the Japanese recognized as their brutality and reign in the Asian Pacific demonstrated. All Japanese were mobilized to anticipate and prepare for the home islands invasion with traps and homemade weapons, etc. The Japaneses propaganda had instilled complete fear of the Americans, as you can see by the reaction to the surrender. These lies about Americans fueled the austere resolution of the Japanese to prepare for the home island landings. The Japanese military had already resolved to a war of attrition against America rather than surrender (i.e., Okinawa). The bomb was the answer to this desperate situation preventing any more of our boys from being slaughtered by an enemy that knew no reason and was brutal without regard (just one example being the Nan King massacre) . The only problem was that America had only 2 bombs at the time. We would need time to create more if needed. The Emperor was the only one that understood that the only future Japan would have following the military was annihilation. Only the voice of the Emperor could end the war as all of the Japanese people had been militarized by the years of propaganda. And just so, many of these Japanese military men committed suicide rather than surrender (as did those who attempted the coup). My uncle's life was saved by the bomb and many more of our boys.
Japan's Government was some what dysfunctional. The Emperor was a God as far as the general public was concerned. However the constitution of Japan didn't give the Emperor total power, The Cabinet made policy and the Emperor rubber stamped their decisions. The War was actually controlled by six cabinet ministers, most of who were Military senior officers or ex Military senior officers. The only time the Emperor overruled them was to Surrender after the second Bomb and even then their was a lot of resistance from junior military officers.
My father ,Walter Earl Phoenix , was an Army Coast Artillery Sgt. , stationed , on the Island of Attu , in the Aluteatian Islands. He fought with distinction & honor. My father passed in 1996 miss him everyday. God Bless him & my mother. Kevin Phoenix ✝️
Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the "war to end wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United State patents. They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure". Thus, having stuffed patriotism down their throats, it was decided to make them help pay for the war, too. So, we gave them the large salary of $30 a month! All that they had to do for this munificent sum was to leave their dear ones behind, give up their jobs, lie in swampy trenches, eat canned willy (when they could get it) and kill and kill and kill...and be killed” Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket
Was he attached to 7th ID for the landing? There was a BN of Coast Artillery converted to Anti Air Craft (manning .50 cals) attached to 7th ID for the invasion Operation LANDCRAB.
My 5 uncles all fought in the great WW2.3 in europe,2 in the pacific.Claude was one of the first special forces soldiers and retired a master sargent in 62.Jessie was captured at normandy on the 7th of june 44.Charlie fought from new guniea to the phillipines.Shirley fought with patton from north africa to germany.Howard was on the big E,enterprize aircraft carrier as a chief aircraft machanic.
Jodyeverettpeter, I proudly salute your Mom & Dad. This is the only comment where someone picked up on the emperor’s use of the word CRUEL and mentioned the barbaric treatment of the POW’s in Bataan. You don’t see the videos of that, they’re very scarce for some, reason. An excellent video with some of the Bataan footage on utube “The Third Atomic Bomb Attack- Japan 1945” by Mark Felton explains it all, thank you.
I am from the Philippines which was invaded by Japan during those times. An estimated 527,000 Filipinos, both military and civilians, had been killed from all causes; of these between 131,000 and 164,000 were killed in seventy-two war crime events. Killings were brutal and inhumane. They burned villages and towns. The Japanese forced Filipino women and children to be used as human shields into the front lines to protect Japanese positions. Those who survived were then murdered by the Japanese.
Im glad There is at least one person on here that realizes ow savage the Japanese were during wwII and why we ha to finally drop the 2 Bombs that devestated Japan otherwise MANY MANY more lives would have been lost and Like Germany Japan committed SOOO many war crimes there is NO WAY to count them all. Sad thing is that Japanese leaders got away with the crimes they committed but German leaders paid for their crimes
@@deiniolbythynnwr926 So lets see now By your standards when Japan Attacked us unprovoked in Pearl harbor and Hitler was Killing as many Jews in Europe as he could get his hands on and Attacking Every Allie we had in Europe and Japan was Attacking And Using Civillians as Hostages in the Philipines then We were just supposed to sit there and do NOTHING. Sounds like a DEMONCRAT solution to me, Even when Japan had been WARNED what was going to happen and knew they were out of resources to win they kept on sending KAMAKAZES to Dive bomb their planes into our ships and Military bases killing more and more civilian and military people. The only solution left to bring it to an end WAS THE BOMB. Study the CORRECT HISTORY of what happened before you criticize. I had an uncle there that survived to tell the WHOLE STORY of what Japan did to us
Strike 3: Truman was NOT a timid man. Modest yes but he was a decorated artillery battery commander in WWI and once he’d weighed all the options he never hesitated to drop the 2 bombs.
@larrybaldwin8325 Wait, you cared about Japanese lives? Ahahahaha, did you forget you're racist? Did you forget that logic is still required of english speakers? Or maybe not. Maybe that's why China and everybody else is a dictatorship and yet america is the "leader" of the "free world".
@@larrybaldwin8325 That's right 1m Americans and 10m Japs would've been lost but the atom bombs saved more lives then it took 226k in total as horrific as those bombs were they were used to quickly as possible to end a terrible war against A ruthless enemy who was determined NEVER to surrender putting an end to there reign of terror by forcing them on there knees.
When I was in Korea in 1981, I was talking to an elderly Korean man about WWII. He said when Koreans heard America had destroyed an entire Japanese city with one bomb, Koreans hoped America would drop a hundred more.
My Marine father-in-law fought on Iwo and short stints on other island campaigns before being shot. Upon recovery he was assigned as an MP during Japan occupation. t his death at age 89 he felt extreme hatred for the Japanese because of the horrible tortuous atrocities they committed to American POWs.
My father also fought in New Guinea. I’m not sure if fought else where, as he rarely talked much about the war. He was a line man and would image he would have been great target practice for the Japanese. He also hated them. So very sad. War is such an ugly thing.
@jehood2241 some folks might say we'll it isn't fair to hate the whole race but I get it completely. It was universally known you did not want to end up captured by the Japanese. As I said to someone else here the Americans treated the Japanese who were their prisoners very well.
my grandfather was also a line man in New Guinea and in the Philippines. he was attached to a gun battery. he didn't care for Japanese men who were his age or older as he figured they were probably responsible for killing some of his buddies. @@jehood2241
"People were suffering in silence, nobody was crying not a single People who died made any noise, even the children were silent" 💔 omg, this is most chilling word's i've ever heard in my entire life 😭😭😭😭
@ZaineKnight You know the EXECUTION ORDER OF ALL PRISONERS was already sent out to all prison camps. That's MILLIONS of Chinese, French, Dutch, Filipino, British, American, Indon-Chinese, Indians, Russians, Canadians, etc. would have been EXECUTED if not for the bombs and the Japanese would lose 20,000,000 or so. Don't forget the 1,000,000+ Americans to die during an invasion.
In his conciliatory speech to his people, the Emperor very specifically spoke (to the effect) 'they have bombs that are devastating and cruel'. We clearly saved A LOT of American lives and THAT was very important. My mother was a WAC assigned to Military Intelligence at Hanford WA. This is where the plutonium for the 'Fat Man'/ Nagasaki was manufactured. Mom wasn't so lucky. She died of leukemia 19 years after her work on the bomb. (20 years is the magic number with plutonium) I was exposed to I-131 also. She had proudly worn the patch of the Manhattan Project and told me from her hospital bed...'Never apologize. They did inhumane things to us like the Bataan Death march. You weren't here...' The emperor said the bombs were a PRIME ISSUE in their surrender.
Japanese refused signing the (after WW I) Geneva convention re POW's. The army truly was inhumanly cruel, but the common citizens always suffer in wars.
Two different bomb designs, two different experiments. Sure they sent a film crew in after, and I wonder why they suppressed that footage? War crimes every way you look at it!@@bobfranke2347
My grandfather was a prisoner of war, he stayed in Japanese POW camp for a year and a half when they were finally rescued. He looked like someone that had walked out of the death camps from Hitler
@@Kongoudesu50 are you telling me the emperor of Japan had no idea of Pearl Harbor? He showed reluctance to go to war with America. But later approved the attack on Pearl Harbor, even though some of his advisors told him not to...look it up...
I'm 95. Went to Japan in 1945 to replace combat troops. Landed in Yokohama to the view of devastation everywhere. I cried throughout the video because the world hasn't learned a freaking thing.. Young American lives lost. Young Japanese lives lost. The hate and animosity was huge. I was offered rank and other stuff to reenlist and go to Korea. I'm glad I didn't because after Korea was Viet Nam, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine (we are up to our ears, there), Gaza, I can still remember WW1 disabled veterans. My brain cannot comprehend the talk I am now hearing of Atomic threat. The scriptures tell of a war in Heaven before people came to earth, It looks like it spilled onto the earth. All that I have mentioned above is kindergarten stuff compared to what can befall us, momentarily. I tenaciously cling to the belief that truth and goodness will triumph in the end. Stop and think for a minute - what else but the return of Jesus Christ can save this earth? Cheers.
Mr. Edward, descanse tranquilo : NADIE se atreverá a " pulsar el botón nuclear " ... Antes de que eso ocurra, quien de la orden no vivirá hasta la medianoche de ese día ... 😎👍🇦🇷
I find it ironic that while General Tojo expected his troops to die rather than surrender, he was hanged as a war criminal. Looks like he didn’t practice what he preached.
None of those barbaric idiots practiced what they preached. Their cities were rubble their people starving but They looked fat & proud didn’t they. It’s too bad it had to come to that but they would have never admitted defeat otherwise. What’s scary is their attitude has Not changed. 🇺🇸
While their land forces were formidable, the Soviets had nothing like the amphibious capability and naval forces the United States had to invade the Japanese home islands. The Japanese had AV gas stockpiled and thousands of airworthy planes to sacrifice in an all out defense of the home islands. It was overwhelming American force that carried the day.
My father was a POW in Mukden, after the first bomb the japs had the POWs dig mass graves but before the executions could happen the second bomb happened and the japs disappeared. The Chinese and Russians came to the camps followed by the Americans. So here I am!!!
O sea, NO ESCARMENTARON con Little Boy ... Iban a ejecutarlos a TODOS ... Y encima siguen insistiendo con el " perdón por los ataques nucleares " ... 😠🇦🇷
My father in law, Comer L. Parks, was liberated from Mukden by the Russians. The prisoners were expecting to be executed, but the Russians arrived before that could happen. When he arrived back in the U.S., he weighed 110 pounds, and spent a year in the hospital. He had spent nearly 4 years in POW camps. He had no hatred toward the Japanese people, saying, "They were good people who had a bad government. They were forced to do what they did by their government."
Man, I couldn’t imagine living in that timeline! Back in high school (early 2000’s) I didn’t give a sh!t about the war or cared to understand it. But now, as a 36 y/o father of 2, I have so much respect and understanding of history that it makes me appreciate each day I am alive ❤
I dont mean that I don't want any one to experience that kind of trauma. I would love for everyone to experience PEACE ,JOY. I APOLOGIZE for saying that.
Ahhh, as I came to the realization, once I entered adulthood and endured the responsibilities that come along with that, I see that I can ill afford to be a liberal. Oh it very easy as a young person still living at home with mommy and daddy paying all the bills and my only concerns were those of getting to school on time and maintaining a decent grade level. From that position we can all easily stand on our perch and tell others how they should live and how they should share their hard earned monies. Spread the bounty if you will. That there shouldn't be no borders, all that Kumba Ya BS.
Had the Japanese the atomic bomb first they would not had a debate on the immorality of using the bomb. They would use it without blinking an eye. You can be sure of that.
No tengas ninguna duda : ni los japoneses, ni los alemanes, ni los rusos ... Ni Churchill, que quería gasear a Alemania cuando empezaron a llegar las V2 ...
It can be argued that Hirohito was actually urging the generals, and the army, who was truly in command of Japan at the time to give up before hand it’s just stuff like that isn’t kept on record when it comes to the emperor, but it was definitely the Japanese army wanting to continue on And break the fighting spirit of the US
@@blodsteelangel Hirohito estaba perfectamente al tanto de lo que ocurría ... Estiró la cuerda tanto como pudo, pero Hiroshima y Nagasaki hicieron que " entrará en razón " ... De hecho, la primera vez en su vida que hablo al país por radio, se hizo bien el tono respecto de SU responsabilidad en el sufrimiento del pueblo japonés ...
My Grandfather fought for the Philippines during the WW2, he was a 13 year old boy when he joined a group which used guerilla tactics. I am amazed how they conducted surprised attacks and they saw Japanese army suffered. They're never been honored for fighting against the invaders. He passed away on August of 2012.
When I was in basic training in the Marine Corps(boot camp) I stood up under great pressure and advocated for the Philippino men and women who fought against the Japanese on their home islands alongside the US forces. I asked a WWII veteran speaking to us when he opened up for questions if he thought the Philippine freedom fighters weren’t deserving of veterans benefits for service. I believe they are and were deserving of military benefits for their service alongside us in the war. And recognition for their sacrifices and gallantry in combat. Those who fought were the greatest generation and I revere and honor them all.
Read: “Baby of Bataan” for further first hand account of that time from a child soldier who fought for the entire duration of the war in the Philippines.
You forget the way your military people treated our soldiers. My great Uncles were treated so badly it was an absolute disgrace. They were starved and beaten 😢
@Susanne: I agree. The Japanese disgust me to this day. They Tortured overworked and starved prisoners and citizens of occupied countries. Never forget Unit 731. Nor the Rape of Nanking. The majority of their soldiers, regardless of rank, perpetrated more. Or at least, as many atrocities as any German soldier. They were not held accountable because MacArthur and the OSS gave the criminals of Unit 731 immunity in return for their "research" materials. Then MacArthur was made governor of occupied Japan and that suited his bloated, ego maniacal personality perfectly. His living situation exceeded the Emporer's, and he loved issuing edicts and pardons. Except for Tojo everyone escaped justice and MacArthur got fat. I despise him as much as I do the Japanese. Who to this day do not teach their children the truth about the war. I hope the Chinese invade them someday.
Tell that to Putin, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houties busy attacking shipping. These are evil people who simply do not want peace, and there are many more, sadly!! 😢
@@davidwithers5102Not true! The hawkish neocons in Washington, the greedy military industrial complex, the CIA and hawkish Israelites are all responsible for bringing the world to the brink of war!
Ironically they saved thousands of Japanese lives too as well as saving Japan from Russian occupation. Had they not surrendered before the planned Russian invasion, Russia would have invaded and to this day would likely still occupy parts of Japan.
@@JamesStreet-tp1vb Yup... Like the United States Army of Occupation, it has 120 Military Bases scattered throughout Japan. In Okinawa we have more than 30,000 soldiers. In fact, we have almost 800 Bases spread throughout the world. How ironic, right?
The Russians invaded Manchuria on the 9th of August the same day the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Americans were not motivated to drop it because Russia had entered the war against Japan. The Russians invaded Manchuria precisely because of the bombing of Hiroshima. They were motivated to keep their part of the Potsdam agreement or lose their spoils. Even after the surrender many Japanese divisions refused to believe that Japan had surrendered and kept on fighting for weeks.
There shouldn't be censoring on this. The graphic nature is history. War is horrific and people need to understand that. That way we come up with better ways of solving those issues
The Japanese public forgot that they were the aggressors that started the war and made themselves into victims….By the way, surrendering to the US was a blessing for Japan and Germany bc with US support they both became a economic power house
It really doesn't matter who was the aggressor it was an atomic bomb dropped in cities full of people who have nothing to do with starting any wars and that is an atrocity that should not be forgotten because it should never happen again.
And Palestine did nothing but allow the Jews in to their space in order for them to survive and then they took the land by force and we're raping and pillaging the Palestinians ever since so every attack that Palestine makes against the zionists it is retaliation against an apartheid it's retaliation against genocide it's retaliation against concentration camps open are prisons whatever you want to call it it is a retaliation
@@AbdullahAzrael yes you are right that it should not happen again. But all Japanese people who lived in Japan was part of the war effort. So they become targets bc they are enemies who are making the weapons and provide fighters.
@@arajoaina Yeah right, it's like Iran these days. The government is the one that is carrying out many attacks, but we should target civilians, after all their efforts come from them. A silly argument if you ask me, targeting civilians was the worst thing USA did with those bombs.
Nuclear bombs are horrible. But at that time, after the atrocities committed by Japan in WW2, there was no other way to get them to surrender. It prob saved millions of American and Japanese lives.
He is saying "probably?" Like that, because it infact saved millions of lives. Also the United States helped rebuild Japan after the war. We helped alot of different nations rebuild after the war, enemy or Ally
There is no debate or question. The bombing saved millions. Unfortunately people lost their lives in the process. But that bomb saved alot ofnpeople for generations. We will probably never see another nuclear bomb that big drop ever again. Mutual assured destruction is a real thing, we understand if one is used, we are all dead
We had no other choice. The Japanese government determined to fight on. President Truman did warn Japan but the senior ranking government leaders chose to fight on no matter what
No other choice to deliberately target women and children with the most destructive weapon mankind has ever created? There was a choice, they chose to commit an atrocity on two entire cities full of innocent women, babies etc.
What would have happened to the members of that government if they had surrendered? What was in it for them on a personal plane? Would Tojo been allowed to step down and retire or would he be hanged regardless? How do you negotiate with someone that execution is the best offer you can give them?
Strike 2: by June 1945, the Japanese army in Manchuria was a shadow occupation force, the cream of its army was either dead or in vietnam or Malaysia or Korea
They had already been used up fighting the US in the Pacific. In Manchuria were their inexperienced troops. Most with no combat experience. Plus, the US had a total blockade on Japan. . The Soviets had almost no Navy, but, they had three times the number of troops. The troops scattered elsewhere, including Manchuria, had no chance of receiving reinforcements, or resupply. The Soviet Invasion of Manchuria, Date 9-20 August 1945, came way too late. Japan surrendered On August 10, 1945, the only condition being that the emperor be allowed to remain the nominal head of state. Aug. 14, 1945. At 7 p.m. on Aug. 14, 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced the unconditional surrender of Japan to reporters gathered at the White House. (There were no conditions, )
they only bombed Pearl Harbor, since then USA Military has been the aggressor in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam, Yemen, Somalia, Bosnia, Syria, Pakistan, Cuba, and yet you do fucking NOTHING when Putin invades Crimea and Ukraine. Selling arms to both sides. See it for what it is.
I have little sympathy for Japan back then. They were warned repeatedly about the bomb, and refused to surrender. Then, after witnessing what it could do, they still refused to surrender. What were they thinking?
War means killing and killing means dying. A nation doesn’t win a war by worrying about how many of the enemy they can save. When there is victory, then the humanity can begin.
@ron88303 that's not the same as dropping an atomic bomb in a city full of women and children. Obviously, we've learned from our mistakes since then. Even Oppenheim regretted creating the damn thing!
The science of the “Dam Thing” were there to be put together by someone… i’m no fan of women and children dying. But if you told the troops “ hey we got this way of ending the war real soon and saving lots and lots of your lives, but we’re not gonna do it because it would kill women and children”. “ Instead we’re going to invade the country, where dying for the emperor is considered an honor, and lose let’s say about 100,000.. maybe more, of y’all.” That would’ve worked then and that’s not gonna work now…. war is a bad bad and survival is everyone’s goal using whatever you got
@@hannamollo Learned? Maybe, although thousands of nuclear weapons have since been created. Much more powerful weapons, and in many more hands. It may still be too early to say what, if anything, has been learned.
Not really. Many "incidences" in Japans history (and there are a lot of incidences) are due to young officers acting on their own initiative agaist the orders of their superiors. It's called gekokujo: Those below ruling those above.
Most of Those “old men” had already fought in previous wars liberating OTHER Countries. All your comment was missing is “white” old men. Liberals are cringe
Russia would not have been able to invade Japan by sea, and Russia still cannot launch any amphibious actions of any note. They lacked the capability back then and still lack it today. The bombs compelled surrender.
How do you know what Russia is capable of now? America thought Russia would be militarily and financially exhausted after just 3 months into the Ukraine conflict, but here they got it wrong again. The west has no idea what Russia is capable of. And I doubt you do too.
Russia would have lost the war with Germany early on if it had not been for the lend lease program initiated by the US. They had very little to fight with until then.@@michaelyates5976
The Japanese already had most of their cities destroyed by firebombing. The A bombs made no difference to their leaders. It did give a face saving excuse to them though. The Soviet invasion ended Japanese hopes of a negotiated peace. That along with American assurance of the emperor remaining under American supervision were the actual reasons for Japan surrendering when it did. If America simply would have dropped the unconditional demand, Japan would have surrendered earlier.
I'm Japanese/Americans my Father's parents were from Hiroshima, Bachan saw the before and after. My grandparent both sides were in camp during the war. Shigataranai.
The irony - At the 24:21 time code mark, the inside of a heavily damaged classroom in Hiroshima is shown briefly. On the chalkboard is a partial detailed outline of what appears to be the underside of a Boeing B-29 Stratofortress in flight, with main landing gear up - just to the left of the drawing, on the upper corner of the chalkboard, one can see written " B-29 ".
Yeh, and its always young women who have children. And grandmothers who babysit them. And grandfathers that teach children the traditions. Perhaps you think it should be young men sending the old ones to war? Or, perhaps we should just surrender to all foreign threats?
My grandfather deployed as many times as he could. His brother my great uncle died in Pearl Harbor and he would either win or die trying. He said the nukes robbed him of what he wanted but I might only be typing this if they had not fallen. I love the Japanese but they crossed a line. I do feel we stopped them from a self destructive future. I pray it never happens again.
Considering the US efforts and expediture developing the bomb, there was always a strong possibility that they would use it. Japan vacillating over a surrender gave the US a perfect justification. Certainty Trueman had little hesitation.
Thank you. I & I’m sure a lot of others, weren’t aware of the roll the Soviets had in the surrender. My grandfather was a POW in Changi, my mother told us how he was before & after the war. As you could only imagine, he was a shell of his former self.
Unfortunately history is always rewritten. The story of the russian role in japans surrender is rarely told. Same happened when Ken Taylor, the canadian ambassador in Tehran, aided the escape of many American embassy workers. The movie said very little about his actions.
Oh for crying out loud!! It's role, not roll. And the Soviets showing up to take the northern islands, did not make the difference. It was the 2 bombs and 4 years of intense jungle combat by American, Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand troops - not Boris and the gang showing up on August 9th. POS Russian Propaganda. My God.
Nobody write the roll of soviets defeating the nazism. As it said, all nation tell their tale. and uplift , embellish their rules in the events when win. If was not Russia, probably all Europe country would speak Germany.
THIS WAS AN AMAZING DOCUMENTARY!!! MY FATHER WAS IN WWII AND I'VE TRIED TO KEEP UP. WATCHING THIS AND "KNOWING" WHAT HAPPENED IS THE FANTASTIC PART. DON'T TELL ANYONE BUT I DEVELOPED A PSEUDO-HIGH WATCHING THIS. HOWEVER, SO SAD FOR THE LOSS OF LIFE
Why some images , in all these docs now have to be censored , it seems on TH-cam. These videos and clips , photos have been around 70 years +. And it s been watched at schools all over the planet , by millions of school kids for many decades . I remember watching the horrors uncensored when I was 9 years old.. And I probably missed something I didn t see or understand , the repercussion ? Repercussion for who ? What repercussion was explained here ?
@SuperGeert123....TH-cam has gone down into the bottomless pit called " Wokism": rewrite history...sanitize everything....take no chances of offending the "Woke" society....but push Socialism and Communism as good for everyone.
@@randybonner9870 ....Yes, you are absolutely correct...!! And, if it is because the content creator did the blurring, then they are of this same group that you described. That is sad...pathetically sad.
@@PeteChurch-tz7bk This was 24 years ago. We talked mainly about the B-29 aircraft, which he really loved. He did say he could sleep easily after the bombing since he felt that what he did was to bring an end to the war and probably saved many more lives that would have been lost on both sides had Japan been invaded.
The Russian soldiers did not fight for communism, they fought enemies who destroyed their homes and murdered their families. When they returned home they were terrorized by Stalin's secret police, millions of them ended up in the Gulag. They deserve our respect.
You can look at the radiation fall-out maps with the cancer rate overlay and see how many people in the US have been affected by the careless disregard for safety by the atomic weapons programs.
My father and the entire command to which he was assigned, was kick-off Tinian by a Lt. Colonel named Tibbets. To his dying breath in 1989, my father believed that the U.S. should have continued bombing Japan until all of Japan's factories and factory workers were completely destroyed.
This is the documentary that all should watch. Far too many others center only on "certain" aspects of WWII, especially in the Pacific. To all who've made this documentary possible, thank you.
I watched many past documentaries of film of the horror of that war and it wasn’t blurred out. We baby boomers saw it all in clear black and white film including the worst of the death camps in Europe. Nothing was hidden from our eyes and it taught us a lot that we would never forget. We saw the worst of the effects of what the A bomb did to the human body. We needed to see and never forget. We learned and that was important to our parents and shielding our eyes from it was foolish.
Si señor, coincido con Ud ... He visto documentales de la 2° GM adónde se veían todas las atrocidades, producto de los combates. Ahora, parece que hay una " legión moralizante " que entiende mejor que cualquiera de nosotros, lo que nosotros podemos soportar ... 🤦🇦🇷
Stalin was so ruthless with his peoples lives. Being on the winning side after years of brutal warfare wasnt enough. He wanted to fight longer to gain more territory. The americans wanted to end the war asap with as less bloodshed to its own people
TH-cam algorithm removes videos with uncensored real life gore. They do this for advertising purposes (known as the adpocolypse) it's ruined the platform but it is their terms and conditions...
LOL you just elected a misogynist convicted criminal as your president. Nobody respects your country anymore. You’re the epitome of human failure. The us is a bad joke.
I’m an older guy now. But at age 22 I joined the USAF as a nuclear technician. I had issues with that (considering I was supposed to be a refrigeration technician) and I had a heart to heart talk with my boss. He explained that my job was to make sure that our job was to make sure that nuclear war never happens again. It worked. 24 years later I retired from the military and it ends up that he was right! It’s all about deterrence. If you want peace, prepare for war.
My father joined the Navy about a year before Pearl Harbor and fought throughout the war. And missed the wars end calibrations in the US. For he was on the USS Missouri in Tokyo standing Behind his boss William Bull Halsey at the surrender of Japan. And if we had not used the bombs. would the world of known of their power. And someone have used them years later when they were ten times more powerful?
My father served on the USS Massachusetts. They bombarded Okinawa island for a solid 24 hours before the Marines waded ashore. His ship was docked next to the USS Missouri at the signing of the Japanese surrender. Your father and mine were from the generation of Americans who served with honor during difficult times. God bless all those service members.
@@billbaumiester6764 My Father was aboard the Lexington when she went down in the Coral Sea, When the destroyer that fished him out of the water. He was immediately assigned to the Enterprise and participated in the Midway action. And spent the rest of the war aboard US capital ships including the Massachusetts making reports to Halsey and Nimitz on fit and fitness of ships and crew. Before, during and after going into harms way. He was aboard the Yorktown at Okinawa
As an American whose father served the USSAC in the South Pacific, I regret the difficult decision to attack Hiroshima and Nagadaki with nuclear weapons. I regret fire bombings. But, I am a history major. The Empire of Japan shamelessly murdered its way through China, the Indian Ocean and South Pacific until their expanding violence reached Pearl Harbor. That aroused great anger snd hatred among Americas. In their homicidal arrogance, Imperial Japan extended its brutality to American soil. The War against America was a War of hatred begun by Japan. Americans began to embrace that hatred. I doubt President Truman wanted to bomb Japanese cities. I believe he found it repugnant. However, had he declined to use his country's most powerful weapons against a merciless enemy, his countrymen would have condemned him. The family of every serviceman who died as a result of his "weakness" would personally curse Harry Truman. It was regretable, but inevitable.
@@tsunamis82 Nobody wants to mention this truth and Roosevelt wanted a good reason to get into the war with Germany. The Japanese abassador was in conference up to the day before they attacked. The USA did not want to go to war with Germany even though Winston Churchill begged us to.
I have been to Hiroshima. I stood next to the Atomic Dome. I could not imagine that in 1945 for a moment, the very spot I stood on was a Hell on earth. People were vaporized within a millisecond. Not enough time for a body to even register pain. One moment alive, the next non-existence. I wonder if the Japanese military had known what an atomic bomb meant if perhaps they would have sought peace before two cities were destroyed. I tend to feel that they were so deluded with their ethos of bushido and obeisance to the Emperor that they would have continued to believe in fighting to the bitter end to defend the honour of Japan. The vast majority of victims of the bombs were not military personnel. They were ordinary people. In the museum in Hiroshima, one of the saddest things I saw was a carbonized bento box. The accompanying story told of a boy who was looking forward to eating the bento lunch that his mother made. That never happened. A tricycle that was blackened and burnt out is on display too. Sad testament to the horror of that day. Many Americans rejoiced at the news of the destruction of these two cities. They felt the Japanese had it coming because they started the war. They did start the war and the Japanese military were guilty of horrific atrocities. Children riding tricycles and looking forward to eating a delicious lunch made by a loving, doting mother did not deserve their fate. When we read a statistic it is abstract and sort of meaningless in a way. When you connect with the suffering of individuals though, it means a lot and is made clear to you. I understand that Imperial Japan was responsible for much suffering throughout East Asia. Yet, going to the museum and seeing the dome were humbling experiences and I couldn't feel like anyone deserved to be eradicated in a millisecond, suffer burns over their body or walk around begging for water with their skin hanging off their arms.
Because TH-cam has dumbed-down overgrown children making editorial decisions and censoring reality. They are afraid that our younger generation must be lied-to and sheltered from reality.
All the nations occupied by Japan and Germany suffered horrendously. The history will show different numbers of people killed or placed in camps or tortured or made homeless, depending on which country we are talking about. But the fact remains that thousand upon thousands and even into the millions were subjected to atrocities. Almost 60 million people, both soldiers and civilians on both sides were killed. Countless more wounded and invalided. Again both soldiers and civilians. Either way you prefer to see it, concentrating on the country you live in yourself, or acknowledge the atrocities in the other countries as well, the fact will always be that evil triumphed and good men did nothing until the war became a reality. And the axis powers became true symbols of evil and destruction and greed for power and dominance. And the people in the nations occupied and even many civilians and soldiers in their own countries were the ones who paid the price of their evil. We cannot keep on viewing this war from a standpoint of just one country. It was a war which engulfed the world. It was a war which affected the people of this world. The individual battles and atrocities must be told to serve as examples of what happened and why, and they must especially be told to pay tribute and remembrance to the people who lived through them and suffered horrifically doing so. Even many years after hostilities ended. But we cannot keep on pretending that our individual countries were the ones that deserve special treatment in history. It was a shared history by all countries and all people living in hem at the time. And that is the testimony of this war. A testimony that must be remembered by all of us. Otherwise it will happen again. Even with 2 world wars in our history which should have been enough to even contemplate further wars of conquest and oppression as we see some countries try to gain new territory once again on a continuous basis since the end of WWII.
Propaganda, but NOT History, has led us to believe that the Empire of Japan began its territorial expansion in the 1930’s, invading China, creating the puppet State of Manchukuo and “Provoking” the war with the Western Powers. But, Was this really, how events happened? Did Japan invade China and South East Asia? It seems so. However, the Propaganda does NOT say that for centuries, all Asia was invaded by Western Powers. England occupied India, Burma (Myanmar); Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Malaysia and China (Hong Kong, Nanking, Shanghai, etc). France dominated all Indochina. The Netherlands intervened by the Force of its Arms, to all of Indonesia. And Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and of course, also the United States were in South East Asia cuz, for example this country, the US, occupied the Philippines since 1898. (Spanish-American War). Thus the panorama in the 30's, the Empire of Japan, when defeating to the Tsarist Russian Empire, it also decided to "Grow" by invading its neighbors. In those years, all European nations had colonies in Africa, India, the Middle East, Asia and America. (England came to occupy almost ¼ part of the planet). For its part, the US, in 113 years of existence as a nation in those years, had "Grown" 711 the size of its territory from its original 13 colonies. Now is the picture clear? Japan for its part, had fought on the side of the winners in World War I (1914-1918), and they, the Japanese, not awarded any "Gain". The western victors of WWI divided the world. Japan was excluded. Thus, Japan's motives for attacking and expanding as the Europeans and the US did seem clearer, right? Then they, the Japanese, attacked China in 1931, which was occupied by 6 Western Powers for almost a century. None of the Western Powers occupying China at this time, OPPOSED or fought Japan for Invading China. NONE! Then, 11 years later after having occupied the territory of China and coexisted without any problem with the Western Powers within China, they, the Japanese, attacked Hawaii, which in turn, this Island had been occupied and annexed by the US in 1898. (In 1900-01, Hawaii became US territory and Hawaii ceased to be an independent nation after more than 630 years of sovereignty. By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had just completed the 40th anniversary of the military occupation and annexation of Hawaii). They, the Japanese, attacked Singapore, which was then a Colony of England. They, the Japanese, attacked the Philippines, which were occupied by the US and whose Gov’r, Douglas MacArthur reined as Emperor. Yup… Truly like an Absolute Autocrat. Therefore, the Japanese did NOT attack (In the 40’s), Singapore, Burma, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, Timor, the Philippines, etc. In reality, the Japanese attacked England, France, Belgium, Holland, the US, etc. That is, the Japanese attacked the Western Powers invading all of Asia. That is the verifiable truth. The Empire of Japan didn’t invade. Japan fought against the Invaders. But, Propaganda has made us believe that the good guys were us, the US. And of course… Nanking was a horrendous Genocide committed by Japan, but, it was no more horrendous than the 12 Genocides committed by the United States in his History and all over the world. Nor was it less horrendous than the Genocide committed by King Leopold II of Belgium, in Central Africa. Nor was Nanking more or less horrendous than the Genocides that the British Empire committed in America, Africa, Australia, Middle East, India and also in China too. In the Philippines (1898-1902), the US Army produced a Genocide of One Million people dead. And now, the Japanese are our friends and allies... Yup… But, to fight against China, AGAIN!!! Well… No More. No More British Malaya nor British Borneo nor British wherever. No More French Indochina. No more Dutch Indies. No More Portugese Domains. No More US Domain here. Asia is for Asians and “The China Sea” belongs to CHINA. Westerns powers have nothing to do in Asia. NOTHING!!!
@@randybonner9870 Yes did it, an year earlier, the U.S.S. Arizona monument is harrowing, the begining of the end for Hiroshima. May the souls of the entombed sailors rest in eternal peace.
Did you visit the American Cementary on Okinawa? Just months before the nuclear bombs were dropped, thousands of our young died on the first island of the Japanese homeland. I almost ended up fighting with our taxi driver when I said this death on both sides was mercifully ended by the two nukes and the night raid on Tokyo that killed more than the nukes. I regret that I there because I was a pilot on leave during the Viet Nam war, a war that was started on a lie by LBJ. If you want to argue about the Tonkin incident, review the lastest info.
I have listened to history ever since my great grandmother has passed away, because she lived the Great Depression and World War Two after, when America entered it after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. America was weak when it entered the war, but it grew stronger after Pearl Harbor, and we dropped the two bombs that attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 1945. Yes, many lives died in those nuclear attacks, but it was a time of war why many Americans believed it was necessary to end the war. But of course, we didn't know the horrors of what came after the nuclear attacks until the American occupation forces came to Japan after the war, and it should never happen again today.
LOL, they don't care. The Japanese postwar economic miracle was largely led by Class A war criminals. Their PM Kishi alone, circa 1960, was a prolific rapist and killer who ran slave factories in Manchuria.
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It seems so strange to me. I have been watching WWII documentaries since I was ten. Now for the first time in this doc, the movie clips of dead soldiers or injured civilians being treated for their burns- are blurred. the images now too disturbing to view. Really? I didn't realize I had become so fragile to need to be spared these images. It is a disservice to anyone injured or scarred by what they endured. Don't hide the past. This is a good documentary.
It's a new Utube rule to protect the lightweights from getting their sensitive sensibilities upset !
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@@billotto602 Ditto!!!
It is a very woke documentary...very woke. Know the difference.
It's only about advertising money.
Totally agree
One of Japan's ace pilots, Saburō Sakai, said that if someone had told him that bombing two American cities would end the war, they would be crazy not to.
BS
Maybe you watched the eight-part series on Saburo Sakai's experiences on a channel called WW2 Tales? If not, you should check it out. It's an excellent series.
@@bbmtge agreed. However. It wasn't just the 2 cities. History seems to have forgotten the other 85 Japanese cities the Americans fire bombed. America incinerated MILLIONS.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a drop in the bucket.
@johnhause7150 How long would the war have continued without the firebombing campaign?
Are you sure that's what he said, or what you wished he had said?
To this day the Japanese have never admitted their atrocities over other countries. My mother as a child survived the Japanese invasion in China. The Hamas' recent slaughter in Israel pales in comparison to what my mother saw. Like my father, a WW2 veteran, she found it necessary to repress wartime experiences. Peace in this world can never be taken for granted.
America was no better even in today standards look what they do
@@johndunn8152what you're doing is just trying to shift the blame dude. The U.S has done horrible stuff...and? The issue is japan jfc ppl like you deflect when pressed.
@@johndunn8152look up Rape of Nanking…
The human condition is such that many never heed the mistakes and atrocities of the past. Power corrupts and this will be always the be case.
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My two great Uncles fought through almost the entire war in the Pacific. They never wanted to talk about it. Both lived good long lives. God bless those who faced these terrible times.
Thank you for your service.
3 uncle's in WW2.
Praying to make a difference in this dying world, to bring as many as possible to the Lord. I believe these are the end times. Prophecy is 85 percent fulfilled.
My grandfather fought on the front lines in sipan he never talked about it
A friend of mine from high school said bombing Hiroshima did not save a single American life. I told him that the US simultaneously prepared an invasion force to take Japan if the nuclear weapons failed or were not used. He laughed and asked me where I heard that.
I said, “from my father; he had been moved from Colorado to California and was awaiting deployment to invade Japan when the news of the nuclear attack was released in the States. His fellow soldiers threw a party in the barracks. They woke him up saying’Cooper we aren’t going!’ “
Let historians argue whether it was immoral. That is fair considering how many innocent civilians died, but to claim the attack did not save American lives is demonstrably false.
Great video.
that’s up for debate
@@noemibarrios4056 I wish nuclear weapons had never been used against humans anywhere. A debate on their morality is welcomed and appropriate. What is wrong are people today denying the reality of what was being weighed when the decision was made; the lives of Japanese civilians versus the lives of American soldiers.
By hastening the end of the war, it saved Japanese lives as well.@@tibbar1000
Some friend
@@noneofurbusiness5223 well…we were good friends until years of drugs changed his attitude on everything
I’m from Hiroshima. We don’t consider ourselves victims or want any pity. We don’t claim to be victims or want any sympathy money/funding , tears from anyone. That’s an agenda Obama spread in 2016. Hiroshima has established its own economy and prosperity and continues to reflect on the past. Hiroshima just wants to avoid future nuclear wars.
I believe you and am sorry Obama had to try and make an issue.
Obama is a national embarrassment
Have you heard about the Epstein list? Guess who is on it.
True, love the new story, I read old books about the Japanese running around killing German priests before the bomb drop, interviews with Japanese people, I think one of the books was called Hiroshima by John hersey, by the way, I love all people of our planet, just wish we can work together
Well …. Your not black and blame everybody else on the planet from your problems.
I wish one day there will be no war . every country should treat their own people with dignity and respect and respect of others.
Never gunna happen my friend
Not until rapture. It's in our nature since the fall of man
@@albetrosxcore3028 it could happen if we bombed each other back to the Stone Age. But then we will resort back to using sticks and rocks. It seems nothing is ever learned from history
In an ideal world mate. Unfortunately it's not an ideal world, because humans get in the way. ✌️
It was a greek philosopher who said "war is over only for the dead"
I’m from Gunma japan I’m proud I’m living in one of the most peaceful and safest countries in the world! I’m sorry about what happened in the past but we have to move forward and stay calm and peaceful and kind!
Without US protecting you, you’re screwed.
@@57113 you are very much welcome here in japan 🇯🇵
Yeah, but you should say that to your government cabinet members. They still think they have done nothing wrong.
It’s a Christian teaching to forgive those who have wronged you. I have met many Christian missionaries in Japan. One was in the infamous Bataan death march. He barely survived the Japanese cruelty. Still he learned to forgive and became a missionary. It’s just time to forgive old enemies.
@@kennethwiggins4396 You still don't know about the Japanese attitudes toward her neighbors. For her neighboring countries, I don't think they will ever forgive the Japanese cruelty because of their Japanese government. TBH, I think Japan will be invaded by one of its neighboring countries sooner or later..
I was born, in America, in the middle of all this history, on March 8th, 1943. From infancy, I learned of the atrocities both in Europe and in the Pacific. Always safe, here in America, I still could imagine the depth of the misery that all living beings, people and animals, were put through in WW2 because of the depraved greed for power of a handful of leaders and their followers. Yet, we are constantly on the brink of repeating these tragedies. It is heartbreaking.
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Do you talk with a stutter or something?
That's life. Humans will always war. Get used to it.
The question we need to ask ourselves with the world powers as they are today. What have we learned from this tragic event?
@@nancymarshall6014 We have learned nothing. Humans will always war.
A friend of mine called the Japanese the Empire of the setting sun, he was fighting in Europe, but was going to be shipped to Japan when Germany surrendered. Thankfully he didn't have to after the bomb was dropped
Thank you for sharing this with us, hope you enjoyed the documentary
My grandfather served in Europe. He always said he was thankful he didn't have to fight in the Pacific, and was very thankful the Japanese surrendered before he was redeployed there.
@@SLICE_Full_Doc My father was in the Navy. Murmansk Run and U505. He said they were supposed to go to Japan. He was very happy the war was over. My father-in-law served in New Guinea, the Philipines. He saw what the Japanese did to American soldiers. He was very happy that the war was over.
@@MarioSchlemmer-s5k don't think if I were you to walk into a bar where some ww2 vets were having a beer or two and mouth off to those ole warriors you might get a ride in an ambulance those old grunts prolly ain't forgot how to kick ass when pissed by some smart ass punk
@@SLICE_Full_Doc i just watched this video but i confused about the scence and video. is this video and camera capture real . i cannot believe that it is real
25 years old here seeking out history lessons almost on a daily basis. I will never forget the sacrifices made, on both sides, to get us where we are now. I pray that nobody gets nuked again.
Let's pray, we the younger generation must prevent it. 🙏
@@TheReturn26 I;m the oldest generation and I pray every night.
In scripture it says in the end the heavens will roll back and the earth will burn. What does that sound like, especially after watching these documentaries. I constantly pray we have learned from these historical events and the end of this world will not be nuclear war. Two words: "Never again"!
DON'T Nuke the planet, NURTURE THE PLANET!
Look up the history of money and the Rothschild central banking system. Japan got nuked two years after they tried to surrender. They got nuked because they tried to be economically independent from the Rothschild central banking system, and as a warning to Russia to not even think about doing something similar.
"War is a racket"
Strictly about wealth transfer/acquisition. Pretty simple honestly.
The sad part is the leaders of these Countries Who start wars the innocent always pay the price
National "Leaders" / No Leader can gain, maintain or remain in Power, Without the Support of people / the people (millions of them) .. Hitler (for eg) was "one man" .. Up to 50 million people total, worldwide died / were murdered.. Many Millions did the killing ..
The Japanese started war by invading Manchuria n even before that, had been harressin china.
Best comment I’ve read
So sad, like what's happening between Israel and Palestine.
Pride isn't something to chase. It definitely isn't worth the cost of even one life.
There was no mention of the attempts by the Japanese military command to prevent the Emperor’s concession speech. The military was resistant to the end despite the loss of life.
That attempt came from mid level officers, not the high command.
@@CharlesOdell-i2y those mid level officers tried to convince their higher ups but they refused since the emperor already made his decision
The emperor made the decision because half the high command wanted to continue the war, the sides were even after two bombings
There was no mention of this, despite later soviet and soviet apologists who wanted a show of force practice bomb, or the fact that Stalin took advantage where he could, and in Japan, he had to accept the Japanese would rather submit to the US, who had dropped two nuclear bombs, rater than to living under Soviet domination.
Exactly. The Japanese military was unmoved by Stalin nor the bomb. And so there was an attempted coup which failed (only barely). As you see the people of Japan were overwhelmingly ready to give their lives for the cause. The Japanese military had no concern for the lives lost to the war. The idea of "civilians" was not something that the Japanese recognized as their brutality and reign in the Asian Pacific demonstrated. All Japanese were mobilized to anticipate and prepare for the home islands invasion with traps and homemade weapons, etc. The Japaneses propaganda had instilled complete fear of the Americans, as you can see by the reaction to the surrender. These lies about Americans fueled the austere resolution of the Japanese to prepare for the home island landings. The Japanese military had already resolved to a war of attrition against America rather than surrender (i.e., Okinawa). The bomb was the answer to this desperate situation preventing any more of our boys from being slaughtered by an enemy that knew no reason and was brutal without regard (just one example being the Nan King massacre) . The only problem was that America had only 2 bombs at the time. We would need time to create more if needed. The Emperor was the only one that understood that the only future Japan would have following the military was annihilation. Only the voice of the Emperor could end the war as all of the Japanese people had been militarized by the years of propaganda. And just so, many of these Japanese military men committed suicide rather than surrender (as did those who attempted the coup). My uncle's life was saved by the bomb and many more of our boys.
The Japanese believed their emperor was god. Turns out, he was not.
On January 1, 1946, Emperor Hirohito declared that he was not a living god and that the concept of the Emperor's divinity was not true.
@mrswimmyboy WTF LMFAO
@@antoniofuller2331 Thats what happens when you lose a really big war
Japan's Government was some what dysfunctional. The Emperor was a God as far as the general public was concerned. However the constitution of Japan didn't give the Emperor total power, The Cabinet made policy and the Emperor rubber stamped their decisions. The War was actually controlled by six cabinet ministers, most of who were Military senior officers or ex Military senior officers. The only time the Emperor overruled them was to Surrender after the second Bomb and even then their was a lot of resistance from junior military officers.
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My father ,Walter Earl Phoenix , was an Army Coast Artillery Sgt. , stationed , on
the Island of Attu , in the Aluteatian Islands.
He fought with distinction & honor.
My father passed in 1996
miss him everyday.
God Bless him & my mother.
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Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the "war to end wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for
democracy." No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and
their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers
here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United State patents. They were
just told it was to be a "glorious adventure".
Thus, having stuffed patriotism down their throats, it was decided to make them help pay for the war, too. So, we gave them the large salary of $30
a month!
All that they had to do for this munificent sum was to leave their dear ones behind, give up their jobs, lie in swampy trenches, eat canned willy
(when they could get it) and kill and kill and kill...and be killed”
Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket
God bless our Lord and savior. Those that are believers will be together in paradise. It sounds that you will be there with your family for eternity.
@@markmunozpastorandersontri7807 JESUS IS NOT GOD BRO
my dad was there too. though the Aleutian campaign is rarely mentioned.
Was he attached to 7th ID for the landing? There was a BN of Coast Artillery converted to Anti Air Craft (manning .50 cals) attached to 7th ID for the invasion Operation LANDCRAB.
My 5 uncles all fought in the great WW2.3 in europe,2 in the pacific.Claude was one of the first special forces soldiers and retired a master sargent in 62.Jessie was captured at normandy on the 7th of june 44.Charlie fought from new guniea to the phillipines.Shirley fought with patton from north africa to germany.Howard was on the big E,enterprize aircraft carrier as a chief aircraft machanic.
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Jodyeverettpeter, I proudly salute your Mom & Dad. This is the only comment where someone picked up on the emperor’s use of the word CRUEL and mentioned the barbaric treatment of the POW’s in Bataan. You don’t see the videos of that, they’re very scarce for some, reason. An excellent video with some of the Bataan footage on utube “The Third Atomic Bomb Attack- Japan 1945” by Mark Felton explains it all, thank you.
WW2 was never referred to as the great war! This distinction is reserved alone for WW1!
@Linda-w1s More people dies in WW2 than any other conflict on earth,so yes,that was the great war.
I am from the Philippines which was invaded by Japan during those times. An estimated 527,000 Filipinos, both military and civilians, had been killed from all causes; of these between 131,000 and 164,000 were killed in seventy-two war crime events. Killings were brutal and inhumane. They burned villages and towns. The Japanese forced Filipino women and children to be used as human shields into the front lines to protect Japanese positions. Those who survived were then murdered by the Japanese.
Im glad There is at least one person on here that realizes ow savage the Japanese were during wwII and why we ha to finally drop the 2 Bombs that devestated Japan otherwise MANY MANY more lives would have been lost and Like Germany Japan committed SOOO many war crimes there is NO WAY to count them all. Sad thing is that Japanese leaders got away with the crimes they committed but German leaders paid for their crimes
that's unforgivvable. I find it hard to believe the sociopathic tendencies of the Japanese are completely gone after 3 or 4 generations
This is f up
One war crime does not justify another.
@@deiniolbythynnwr926 So lets see now By your standards when Japan Attacked us unprovoked in Pearl harbor and Hitler was Killing as many Jews in Europe as he could get his hands on and Attacking Every Allie we had in Europe and Japan was Attacking And Using Civillians as Hostages in the Philipines then We were just supposed to sit there and do NOTHING. Sounds like a DEMONCRAT solution to me, Even when Japan had been WARNED what was going to happen and knew they were out of resources to win they kept on sending KAMAKAZES to Dive bomb their planes into our ships and Military bases killing more and more civilian and military people. The only solution left to bring it to an end WAS THE BOMB. Study the CORRECT HISTORY of what happened before you criticize. I had an uncle there that survived to tell the WHOLE STORY of what Japan did to us
Strike 3: Truman was NOT a timid man. Modest yes but he was a decorated artillery battery commander in WWI and once he’d weighed all the options he never hesitated to drop the 2 bombs.
You are right.
Lol, weighed all the options? Name the options you're speaking of.
@aaabbb-py5xd , Invading Japan itself, would have cost Millions of Japanese and American Lives
@larrybaldwin8325 Wait, you cared about Japanese lives? Ahahahaha, did you forget you're racist? Did you forget that logic is still required of english speakers? Or maybe not. Maybe that's why China and everybody else is a dictatorship and yet america is the "leader" of the "free world".
@@larrybaldwin8325 That's right 1m Americans and 10m Japs would've been lost but the atom bombs saved more lives then it took 226k in total as horrific as those bombs were they were used to quickly as possible to end a terrible war against A ruthless enemy who was determined NEVER to surrender putting an end to there reign of terror by forcing them on there knees.
When I was in Korea in 1981, I was talking to an elderly Korean man about WWII. He said when Koreans heard America had destroyed an entire Japanese city with one bomb, Koreans hoped America would drop a hundred more.
My Lord. What are we doing to ourselves.
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Damn....smh. that's savage as f--k. Smh. That's a whole different level of disdain
@@joshuaattractsmoney no need for crude language here Cletus
My dad went from war in Europe to the Philippines to prepare for the invasion of Japan. Dropping the Atom bombs ended the war in the Pacific.
My Marine father-in-law fought on Iwo and short stints on other island campaigns before being shot. Upon recovery he was assigned as an MP during Japan occupation. t his death at age 89 he felt extreme hatred for the Japanese because of the horrible tortuous atrocities they committed to American POWs.
My father also fought in New Guinea. I’m not sure if fought else where, as he rarely talked much about the war. He was a line man and would image he would have been great target practice for the Japanese. He also hated them. So very sad. War is such an ugly thing.
I actually totally understand that. Conversely the Americans treated their Japanese prisoners very well.
@jehood2241 some folks might say we'll it isn't fair to hate the whole race but I get it completely. It was universally known you did not want to end up captured by the Japanese. As I said to someone else here the Americans treated the Japanese who were their prisoners very well.
my grandfather was also a line man in New Guinea and in the Philippines. he was attached to a gun battery. he didn't care for Japanese men who were his age or older as he figured they were probably responsible for killing some of his buddies. @@jehood2241
My grandfather's to
"People were suffering in silence, nobody was crying not a single People who died made any noise, even the children were silent" 💔 omg, this is most chilling word's i've ever heard in my entire life 😭😭😭😭
@ZaineKnight You know the EXECUTION ORDER OF ALL PRISONERS was already sent out to all prison camps. That's MILLIONS of Chinese, French, Dutch, Filipino, British, American, Indon-Chinese, Indians, Russians, Canadians, etc. would have been EXECUTED if not for the bombs and the Japanese would lose 20,000,000 or so. Don't forget the 1,000,000+ Americans to die during an invasion.
@@deemika - you're the naive one
@@majorrgeek 😂
@@deemika you using pictographs is stupid
@@majorrgeek 🤣
Prime example of 'don't start none and there won't be none'
That’s just about every war.
In his conciliatory speech to his people, the Emperor very specifically spoke (to the effect) 'they have bombs that are devastating and cruel'. We clearly saved A LOT of American lives and THAT was very important. My mother was a WAC assigned to Military Intelligence at Hanford WA. This is where the plutonium for the 'Fat Man'/ Nagasaki was manufactured. Mom wasn't so lucky. She died of leukemia 19 years after her work on the bomb. (20 years is the magic number with plutonium) I was exposed to I-131 also. She had proudly worn the patch of the Manhattan Project and told me from her hospital bed...'Never apologize. They did inhumane things to us like the Bataan Death march. You weren't here...' The emperor said the bombs were a PRIME ISSUE in their surrender.
nope
Japanese refused signing the (after WW I) Geneva convention re POW's. The army truly was inhumanly cruel, but the common citizens always suffer in wars.
Too, there WAS a 3rd bomb being prepped stateside had Japan not surrendered. Truman was a real wartime leader.
Two different bomb designs, two different experiments. Sure they sent a film crew in after, and I wonder why they suppressed that footage? War crimes every way you look at it!@@bobfranke2347
@@badgermeatwtf do you mean...nope?? You foolish imp.
My grandfather was a prisoner of war, he stayed in Japanese POW camp for a year and a half when they were finally rescued. He looked like someone that had walked out of the death camps from Hitler
Hirohito was worse than Hitler..it just isn't advertised in the History books. Your Grandfather was a Heroic survivor.
The horror those POW'S went through are unimaginable
@@bradrook3919 It wasn't Hirohito who started the war, it was the Army and Navy
@@Kongoudesu50 are you telling me the emperor of Japan had no idea of Pearl Harbor?
He showed reluctance to go to war with America. But later approved the attack on Pearl Harbor, even though some of his advisors told him not to...look it up...
@@bradrook3919 How was he worse than Hitler?
I'm 95. Went to Japan in 1945 to replace combat troops. Landed in Yokohama to the view of devastation everywhere. I cried throughout the video because the world hasn't learned a freaking thing.. Young American lives lost. Young Japanese lives lost. The hate and animosity was huge. I was offered rank and other stuff to reenlist and go to Korea. I'm glad I didn't because after Korea was Viet Nam, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine (we are up to our ears, there), Gaza, I can still remember WW1 disabled veterans. My brain cannot comprehend the talk I am now hearing of Atomic threat. The scriptures tell of a war in Heaven before people came to earth, It looks like it spilled onto the earth. All that I have mentioned above is kindergarten stuff compared to what can befall us, momentarily. I tenaciously cling to the belief that truth and goodness will triumph in the end. Stop and think for a minute - what else but the return of Jesus Christ can save this earth? Cheers.
Mr. Edward, descanse tranquilo : NADIE se atreverá a " pulsar el botón nuclear " ...
Antes de que eso ocurra, quien de la orden no vivirá hasta la medianoche de ese día ...
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@@donramonramirez5141 I wish I could translate your comment.
So true
95. Wow, God Bless you.
Thank you for your service 🫡
I find it ironic that while General Tojo expected his troops to die rather than surrender, he was hanged as a war criminal. Looks like he didn’t practice what he preached.
If I recall correctly, Tojo did attempt suicide as they came to arrest him, shooting himself. It didn't work.
None of those barbaric idiots practiced what they preached. Their cities were rubble their people starving but They looked fat & proud didn’t they. It’s too bad it had to come to that but they would have never admitted defeat otherwise. What’s scary is their attitude has Not changed. 🇺🇸
And if I remember many did. They called hari-kiri. Saw it in many hollywood propaganda films.
Maybe that's why he wasn't at the front fighting. He couldn't even deliver a kill to himself from 6 inches away
@@ManDuderGuyHe stabbed himself with his imperial sword.
While their land forces were formidable, the Soviets had nothing like the amphibious capability and naval forces the United States had to invade the Japanese home islands. The Japanese had AV gas stockpiled and thousands of airworthy planes to sacrifice in an all out defense of the home islands. It was overwhelming American force that carried the day.
My father was a POW in Mukden, after the first bomb the japs had the POWs dig mass graves but before the executions could happen the second bomb happened and the japs disappeared. The Chinese and Russians came to the camps followed by the Americans. So here I am!!!
O sea, NO ESCARMENTARON con Little Boy ...
Iban a ejecutarlos a TODOS ...
Y encima siguen insistiendo con el " perdón por los ataques nucleares " ... 😠🇦🇷
So the story goes...
My father in law, Comer L. Parks, was liberated from Mukden by the Russians. The prisoners were expecting to be executed, but the Russians arrived before that could happen. When he arrived back in the U.S., he weighed 110 pounds, and spent a year in the hospital. He had spent nearly 4 years in POW camps. He had no hatred toward the Japanese people, saying, "They were good people who had a bad government. They were forced to do what they did by their government."
Man, I couldn’t imagine living in that timeline! Back in high school (early 2000’s) I didn’t give a sh!t about the war or cared to understand it. But now, as a 36 y/o father of 2, I have so much respect and understanding of history that it makes me appreciate each day I am alive ❤
funny how we pay "teachers" to turn our children off to their history. that's gonna bite us bad some day.
@@FishingWithAlexS I so wished others could see it
I dont mean that I don't want any one to experience that kind of trauma. I would love for everyone to experience PEACE ,JOY. I APOLOGIZE for saying that.
Ahhh, as I came to the realization, once I entered adulthood and endured the responsibilities that come along with that, I see that I can ill afford to be a liberal. Oh it very easy as a young person still living at home with mommy and daddy paying all the bills and my only concerns were those of getting to school on time and maintaining a decent grade level. From that position we can all easily stand on our perch and tell others how they should live and how they should share their hard earned monies. Spread the bounty if you will. That there shouldn't be no borders, all that Kumba Ya BS.
Yep, never send your kids to us army. Its not worth to be a murderer for a living.
Had the Japanese the atomic bomb first they would not had a debate on the immorality of using the bomb. They would use it without blinking an eye. You can be sure of that.
I agree, they were warned 3 times, beginning with Potsdam.Hirohito is to blame.
The same can be said of Hitler! If the Nazis had the atomic bomb, you can rest assured that they would have used it!
No tengas ninguna duda : ni los japoneses, ni los alemanes, ni los rusos ... Ni Churchill, que quería gasear a Alemania cuando empezaron a llegar las V2 ...
It can be argued that Hirohito was actually urging the generals, and the army, who was truly in command of Japan at the time to give up before hand it’s just stuff like that isn’t kept on record when it comes to the emperor, but it was definitely the Japanese army wanting to continue on And break the fighting spirit of the US
@@blodsteelangel Hirohito estaba perfectamente al tanto de lo que ocurría ... Estiró la cuerda tanto como pudo, pero Hiroshima y Nagasaki hicieron que " entrará en razón " ...
De hecho, la primera vez en su vida que hablo al país por radio, se hizo bien el tono respecto de SU responsabilidad en el sufrimiento del pueblo japonés ...
My job is pretty much watching military documentaries. THIS is how you make a military documentary. Thank you.
My Grandfather fought for the Philippines during the WW2, he was a 13 year old boy when he joined a group which used guerilla tactics. I am amazed how they conducted surprised attacks and they saw Japanese army suffered. They're never been honored for fighting against the invaders. He passed away on August of 2012.
When I was in basic training in the Marine Corps(boot camp) I stood up under great pressure and advocated for the Philippino men and women who fought against the Japanese on their home islands alongside the US forces. I asked a WWII veteran speaking to us when he opened up for questions if he thought the Philippine freedom fighters weren’t deserving of veterans benefits for service.
I believe they are and were deserving of military benefits for their service alongside us in the war. And recognition for their sacrifices and gallantry in combat.
Those who fought were the greatest generation and I revere and honor them all.
Read: “Baby of Bataan” for further first hand account of that time from a child soldier who fought for the entire duration of the war in the Philippines.
@gerardo-qm4qf - your comment is entirely irrelevant to the topic of Hiroshima
The bomb tamed them for an eternity. Has Japan engaged in any acts of war or aggression since then? Not even so much as a sneeze.
This documentary brought a tear to my eyes. A very rare event in my lifetime. 😢
Why?
@@theccpisaparasite8813 - its a rendition of one of the worse war crimes of the 20C that's why
@@majorrgeekwrong
You forget the way your military people treated our soldiers. My great Uncles were treated so badly it was an absolute disgrace. They were starved and beaten 😢
@Susanne: I agree. The Japanese disgust me to this day. They Tortured overworked and starved prisoners and citizens of occupied countries. Never forget Unit 731. Nor the Rape of Nanking. The majority of their soldiers, regardless of rank, perpetrated more. Or at least, as many atrocities as any German soldier. They were not held accountable because MacArthur and the OSS gave the criminals of Unit 731 immunity in return for their "research" materials. Then MacArthur was made governor of occupied Japan and that suited his bloated, ego maniacal personality perfectly. His living situation exceeded the Emporer's, and he loved issuing edicts and pardons. Except for Tojo everyone escaped justice and MacArthur got fat. I despise him as much as I do the Japanese. Who to this day do not teach their children the truth about the war. I hope the Chinese invade them someday.
Think the americans were innocent?
There was bad behavior on both sides
But, the US by the greater % kept the terms of the Geneva Convention concerning POWs
The Japanese, did not
Absolutely correct, the Japanese were inhumane monsters!
@@ScootsMcPoot they started it attacking Pearl Harbor we ended the war
THE ONLY THING I COULD SAY WOULD BE I WISH ALL THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD COME TOGETHER AND EVERY ONE GET ALONG AND WORK ( TOGETHER ) ....
Tell that to the Chinese Gov't in China.
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Tell that to Putin, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houties busy attacking shipping. These are evil people who simply do not want peace, and there are many more, sadly!! 😢
The CIA, Military Industrial Complex and neocons in Washington, please note and heed!
@@davidwithers5102Not true! The hawkish neocons in Washington, the greedy military industrial complex, the CIA and hawkish Israelites are all responsible for bringing the world to the brink of war!
It was President Truman that sent me to fight in Korea I was a corporal in the military I served at Tokyo,Seoul,and Pusan 1951-53 !
Since no one else has said it, I will.... Thank you from the bottom of my ❤ for your service to our country and our freedoms.
God bless you 🙏🙏
God bless you
Thank you and God bless you for your service!
Thank you for your service.
Well you could blame your president or you can blame yourself for signing the contract.
Great documentary. My father fought in the Pacific theater, said the bombs saved countless American GI's lives.
Ironically they saved thousands of Japanese lives too as well as saving Japan from Russian occupation. Had they not surrendered before the planned Russian invasion, Russia would have invaded and to this day would likely still occupy parts of Japan.
@@JamesStreet-tp1vb Yup... Like the United States Army of Occupation, it has 120 Military Bases scattered throughout Japan. In Okinawa we have more than 30,000 soldiers. In fact, we have almost 800 Bases spread throughout the world. How ironic, right?
@@salvadorvizcarra769occupation by Russia is just a little different then having US bases
but there was no need to drop the atomic bombs. The war was already over for Japan. Japan should have been allowed to surrender
@@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse utter bs. Japan had zero intention of surrender. You don't attempt a coup on GOD when you wish to surrender
The Russians invaded Manchuria on the 9th of August the same day the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Americans were not motivated to drop it because Russia had entered the war against Japan.
The Russians invaded Manchuria precisely because of the bombing of Hiroshima. They were motivated to keep their part of the Potsdam agreement or lose their spoils.
Even after the surrender many Japanese divisions refused to believe that Japan had surrendered and kept on fighting for weeks.
Yes, they Russians invaded earlier than they planned, because of the bombs. They wanted to try and grab some land.
What spoils, 1945 still in modern age, not in Stone Age, where the warrior carry spoil from wining.
There shouldn't be censoring on this.
The graphic nature is history.
War is horrific and people need to understand that.
That way we come up with better ways of solving those issues
The Japanese public forgot that they were the aggressors that started the war and made themselves into victims….By the way, surrendering to the US was a blessing for Japan and Germany bc with US support they both became a economic power house
Sounds like Palestine. They always seem to forget what they did
It really doesn't matter who was the aggressor it was an atomic bomb dropped in cities full of people who have nothing to do with starting any wars and that is an atrocity that should not be forgotten because it should never happen again.
And Palestine did nothing but allow the Jews in to their space in order for them to survive and then they took the land by force and we're raping and pillaging the Palestinians ever since so every attack that Palestine makes against the zionists it is retaliation against an apartheid it's retaliation against genocide it's retaliation against concentration camps open are prisons whatever you want to call it it is a retaliation
@@AbdullahAzrael yes you are right that it should not happen again. But all Japanese people who lived in Japan was part of the war effort. So they become targets bc they are enemies who are making the weapons and provide fighters.
@@arajoaina Yeah right, it's like Iran these days. The government is the one that is carrying out many attacks, but we should target civilians, after all their efforts come from them. A silly argument if you ask me, targeting civilians was the worst thing USA did with those bombs.
Excellent and very informative film. Thank you very much.
Nuclear bombs are horrible. But at that time, after the atrocities committed by Japan in WW2, there was no other way to get them to surrender. It prob saved millions of American and Japanese lives.
Probably?
@@thethrillofpattaya8404 That’ll always be the question.
@@thethrillofpattaya8404SHUT UP FOOL 😠
He is saying "probably?" Like that, because it infact saved millions of lives. Also the United States helped rebuild Japan after the war. We helped alot of different nations rebuild after the war, enemy or Ally
There is no debate or question. The bombing saved millions. Unfortunately people lost their lives in the process. But that bomb saved alot ofnpeople for generations. We will probably never see another nuclear bomb that big drop ever again. Mutual assured destruction is a real thing, we understand if one is used, we are all dead
We had no other choice. The Japanese government determined to fight on. President Truman did warn Japan but the senior ranking government leaders chose to fight on no matter what
No other choice to deliberately target women and children with the most destructive weapon mankind has ever created? There was a choice, they chose to commit an atrocity on two entire cities full of innocent women, babies etc.
What would have happened to the members of that government if they had surrendered? What was in it for them on a personal plane? Would Tojo been allowed to step down and retire or would he be hanged regardless? How do you negotiate with someone that execution is the best offer you can give them?
Strike 2: by June 1945, the Japanese army in Manchuria was a shadow occupation force, the cream of its army was either dead or in vietnam or Malaysia or Korea
They had already been used up fighting the US in the Pacific.
In Manchuria were their inexperienced troops. Most with no combat experience.
Plus, the US had a total blockade on Japan. . The Soviets had almost no Navy, but, they had three times the number of troops.
The troops scattered elsewhere, including Manchuria, had no chance of receiving reinforcements, or resupply.
The Soviet Invasion of Manchuria, Date 9-20 August 1945, came way too late.
Japan surrendered On August 10, 1945, the only condition being that the emperor be allowed to remain the nominal head of state.
Aug. 14, 1945. At 7 p.m. on Aug. 14, 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced the unconditional surrender of Japan to reporters gathered at the White House. (There were no conditions, )
The worst part is Little Boy and Fat man were nothing. Childrens toys in comparison to what was to come.
Thank you, American troops, for keeping us safe.
they only bombed Pearl Harbor, since then USA Military has been the aggressor in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam, Yemen, Somalia, Bosnia, Syria, Pakistan, Cuba, and yet you do fucking NOTHING when Putin invades Crimea and Ukraine. Selling arms to both sides. See it for what it is.
I have little sympathy for Japan back then. They were warned repeatedly about the bomb, and refused to surrender. Then, after witnessing what it could do, they still refused to surrender. What were they thinking?
War means killing and killing means dying. A nation doesn’t win a war by worrying about how many of the enemy they can save. When there is victory, then the humanity can begin.
Civilians aren't the "enemy" thankfully this old way of thinking is dying out.
@@hannamollo No; it's not dying out. As long as there are civilians in a war zone, there will be civilian casulaties.
@ron88303 that's not the same as dropping an atomic bomb in a city full of women and children. Obviously, we've learned from our mistakes since then. Even Oppenheim regretted creating the damn thing!
The science of the “Dam Thing” were there to be put together by someone… i’m no fan of women and children dying. But if you told the troops “ hey we got this way of ending the war real soon and saving lots and lots of your lives, but we’re not gonna do it because it would kill women and children”. “ Instead we’re going to invade the country, where dying for the emperor is considered an honor, and lose let’s say about 100,000.. maybe more, of y’all.” That would’ve worked then and that’s not gonna work now…. war is a bad bad and survival is everyone’s goal using whatever you got
@@hannamollo Learned? Maybe, although thousands of nuclear weapons have since been created. Much more powerful weapons, and in many more hands. It may still be too early to say what, if anything, has been learned.
2023 nothing has changed, OLD MEN led young men to death.
Not really. Many "incidences" in Japans history (and there are a lot of incidences) are due to young officers acting on their own initiative agaist the orders of their superiors. It's called gekokujo: Those below ruling those above.
Most of Those “old men” had already fought in previous wars liberating OTHER Countries. All your comment was missing is “white” old men. Liberals are cringe
I've been saying this for a long time.not even letting the young men luck first n war after.
Nothing to do with age, has all to do with power.
Russia would not have been able to invade Japan by sea, and Russia still cannot launch any amphibious actions of any note. They lacked the capability back then and still lack it today. The bombs compelled surrender.
How do you know what Russia is capable of now? America thought Russia would be militarily and financially exhausted after just 3 months into the Ukraine conflict, but here they got it wrong again. The west has no idea what Russia is capable of. And I doubt you do too.
Russia would have lost the war with Germany early on if it had not been for the lend lease program initiated by the US. They had very little to fight with until then.@@michaelyates5976
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@@friendsgroup470 Exactly, just what I thought.
The Japanese already had most of their cities destroyed by firebombing. The A bombs made no difference to their leaders. It did give a face saving excuse to them though. The Soviet invasion ended Japanese hopes of a negotiated peace. That along with American assurance of the emperor remaining under American supervision were the actual reasons for Japan surrendering when it did. If America simply would have dropped the unconditional demand, Japan would have surrendered earlier.
I'm Japanese/Americans my Father's parents were from Hiroshima, Bachan saw the before and after. My grandparent both sides were in camp during the war. Shigataranai.
The irony - At the 24:21 time code mark, the inside of a heavily damaged classroom in Hiroshima is shown briefly. On the chalkboard is a partial detailed outline of what appears to be the underside of a Boeing B-29 Stratofortress in flight, with main landing gear up - just to the left of the drawing, on the upper corner of the chalkboard, one can see written " B-29 ".
It's always the old men who dream of wars, and it will always be young men who will sacrifice their lives to see it through.
Yeh, and its always young women who have children. And grandmothers who babysit them. And grandfathers that teach children the traditions. Perhaps you think it should be young men sending the old ones to war? Or, perhaps we should just surrender to all foreign threats?
Nothing but a slogan and a false one. If that's the best you can do...try to sound smart through utter foolishness, good for you.
@@cooganalaska3249Or men could stop creating wars for their own power and ego. If women ruled there would be no wars. This will be the future.
Alot of those old men fought in wars themselves
The tragedy lies in the fact that it is the cannon fodder that glorifies the war.
Americans remember Pearl Harbor.
What about Pearl Harbour?
Open a book. You’ve obviously never learned about the Japanese sneak attack on Americans on December 7, 1941.
@@tomlepski8306booooooooooo
What about Pearl Harbor? He who attacks, shall be attacked. @@tomlepski8306
Pearl Harbor was nothing. So many more Japanese died under the brutal bombings and occupation by the imperialist Americans
My grandfather deployed as many times as he could. His brother my great uncle died in Pearl Harbor and he would either win or die trying. He said the nukes robbed him of what he wanted but I might only be typing this if they had not fallen. I love the Japanese but they crossed a line. I do feel we stopped them from a self destructive future. I pray it never happens again.
Excellent historical video!
Excellent documentary. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for watching ;)
@@SLICE_Full_Docexcellent work done by your team.
@@SLICE_Full_Doc😅
Considering the US efforts and expediture developing the bomb, there was always a strong possibility that they would use it. Japan vacillating over a surrender gave the US a perfect justification. Certainty Trueman had little hesitation.
Thank you. I & I’m sure a lot of others, weren’t aware of the roll the Soviets had in the surrender. My grandfather was a POW in Changi, my mother told us how he was before & after the war. As you could only imagine, he was a shell of his former self.
Unfortunately history is always rewritten. The story of the russian role in japans surrender is rarely told. Same happened when Ken Taylor, the canadian ambassador in Tehran, aided the escape of many American embassy workers. The movie said very little about his actions.
@@allanhill4398 the Russians had no role in japans surrender.........it sounds like you are the one trying to rewrite history.......
Oh for crying out loud!! It's role, not roll. And the Soviets showing up to take the northern islands, did not make the difference. It was the 2 bombs and 4 years of intense jungle combat by American, Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand troops - not Boris and the gang showing up on August 9th. POS Russian Propaganda. My God.
Nobody write the roll of soviets defeating the nazism. As it said, all nation tell their tale. and uplift , embellish their rules in the events when win. If was not Russia, probably all Europe country would speak Germany.
We requested a surrender multiple times. Apparently 'honor' prevailed within Japan's wartime leadership, preventing that from happening.
You requested nothing. The president at the time did.
THIS WAS AN AMAZING DOCUMENTARY!!! MY FATHER WAS IN WWII AND I'VE TRIED TO KEEP UP. WATCHING THIS AND "KNOWING" WHAT HAPPENED IS THE FANTASTIC PART. DON'T TELL ANYONE BUT I DEVELOPED A PSEUDO-HIGH WATCHING THIS. HOWEVER, SO SAD FOR THE LOSS OF LIFE
That's not pseudo. That's real chemicals in your brain.
Why some images , in all these docs now have to be censored , it seems on TH-cam. These videos and clips , photos have been around 70 years +. And it s been watched at schools all over the planet , by millions of school kids for many decades . I remember watching the horrors uncensored when I was 9 years old..
And I probably missed something I didn t see or understand , the repercussion ? Repercussion for who ? What repercussion was explained here ?
@SuperGeert123....TH-cam has gone down into the bottomless pit called " Wokism": rewrite history...sanitize everything....take no chances of offending the "Woke" society....but push Socialism and Communism as good for everyone.
It is not YT, it is the creator. Many documentaries on YT are not blurred.
Because it's this generation that is so damn sensitive and must be coddled and protected. Blurring
gives them their much needed safe spaces .
@@randybonner9870 ....Yes, you are absolutely correct...!! And, if it is because the content creator did the blurring, then they are of this same group that you described. That is sad...pathetically sad.
Because TH-cam is a leftist
Un-American globalist anti-Republic platform, that’s why
As a broadcast journalist, I had the honor of interviewing General Paul Tibbets 25 years ago when he was 84 years old.
I can't believe you have not received one reply on this post. Can you share what he shared with you? Very interesting
@@PeteChurch-tz7bk This was 24 years ago. We talked mainly about the B-29 aircraft, which he really loved. He did say he could sleep easily after the bombing since he felt that what he did was to bring an end to the war and probably saved many more lives that would have been lost on both sides had Japan been invaded.
@@floridaactor that is just amazing.
The soviet invasion wasn't "decisive". It was a factor, but it wasn't decisive. The writers are giving their fellow communists too much credit.
Fellow communists? Are you on glue? You’ve been listening to trump 😡😡😡
lol I looked up who produce this and some French dude … the French !!! The guys that had hardly any fight in ww2 talking about us history
The Russian soldiers did not fight for communism, they fought enemies who destroyed their homes and murdered their families. When they returned home they were terrorized by Stalin's secret police, millions of them ended up in the Gulag. They deserve our respect.
@@dral9971 ok.
My very good dear friend she was born in New Mexico and she says their are people that have radiation poison and also died before Hiroshima.
You can look at the radiation fall-out maps with the cancer rate overlay and see how many people in the US have been affected by the careless disregard for safety by the atomic weapons programs.
We need a new platform... When you can't even show history, something aint right.
Thank you very much I've learned Soo much from this documentary
My father and the entire command to which he was assigned, was kick-off Tinian by a Lt. Colonel named Tibbets. To his dying breath in 1989, my father believed that the U.S. should have continued bombing Japan until all of Japan's factories and factory workers were completely destroyed.
I wonder what the Japanese Ambassador and Pres. Roosevelt talked about the day before Pearl Harbor. No one ever recorded the conversation.
This is the documentary that all should watch. Far too many others center only on "certain" aspects of WWII, especially in the Pacific.
To all who've made this documentary possible, thank you.
This is a very well made video, and very accurate.
Not really tbh
I watched many past documentaries of film of the horror of that war and it wasn’t blurred out. We baby boomers saw it all in clear black and white film including the worst of the death camps in Europe. Nothing was hidden from our eyes and it taught us a lot that we would never forget. We saw the worst of the effects of what the A bomb did to the human body. We needed to see and never forget. We learned and that was important to our parents and shielding our eyes from it was foolish.
Maybe a copyright thing ..
Yes what was Learned was do not wake the sleeping giant
Si señor, coincido con Ud ... He visto documentales de la 2° GM adónde se veían todas las atrocidades, producto de los combates.
Ahora, parece que hay una " legión moralizante " que entiende mejor que cualquiera de nosotros, lo que nosotros podemos soportar ... 🤦🇦🇷
Some take the risk of not blurring out but some won't because yt will take it down...
You know what they're like nowadays!!!
@@enzos711It’s a TH-cam thing.
You can’t show death or injury.
Excellent video.
Thank you for your hard work brother.
Good job on documentary video shows historical days
The Reprocussions of not giving up was the atomic bombs!
Stalin was so ruthless with his peoples lives. Being on the winning side after years of brutal warfare wasnt enough. He wanted to fight longer to gain more territory. The americans wanted to end the war asap with as less bloodshed to its own people
You blur out the historic films but not the violent video games that kids play killing. That is sick.
TH-cam algorithm removes videos with uncensored real life gore. They do this for advertising purposes (known as the adpocolypse) it's ruined the platform but it is their terms and conditions...
And that's why we are bound to repeat history. Starts with hiding it.
don't forget that rock music!
it makes kids satanic!
War will always accompany mankind, and peace is only intermittent. Cherish the brief good days without war.
ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. BEWARE ‼️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲💪
LOL you just elected a misogynist convicted criminal as your president. Nobody respects your country anymore. You’re the epitome of human failure. The us is a bad joke.
*Excellent.👍. documentary very well done*
No, it was anti american propaganda.
I’m an older guy now. But at age 22 I joined the USAF as a nuclear technician. I had issues with that (considering I was supposed to be a refrigeration technician) and I had a heart to heart talk with my boss. He explained that my job was to make sure that our job was to make sure that nuclear war never happens again. It worked. 24 years later I retired from the military and it ends up that he was right!
It’s all about deterrence.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
What a wonderful documentary of a horrible situation. I truly learned so much.
Thanks for watching!
My father joined the Navy about a year before Pearl Harbor and fought throughout the war. And missed the wars end calibrations in the US. For he was on the USS Missouri in Tokyo standing Behind his boss William Bull Halsey at the surrender of Japan. And if we had not used the bombs. would the world of known of their power. And someone have used them years later when they were ten times more powerful?
My grandfather also fought in the war before moving to South Africa.
My father served on the USS Massachusetts. They bombarded Okinawa island for a solid 24 hours before the Marines waded ashore. His ship was docked next to the USS Missouri at the signing of the Japanese surrender. Your father and mine were from the generation of Americans who served with honor during difficult times. God bless all those service members.
@@billbaumiester6764 My Father was aboard the Lexington when she went down in the Coral Sea, When the destroyer that fished him out of the water. He was immediately assigned to the Enterprise and participated in the Midway action. And spent the rest of the war aboard US capital ships including the Massachusetts making reports to Halsey and Nimitz on fit and fitness of ships and crew. Before, during and after going into harms way. He was aboard the Yorktown at Okinawa
My brother served on USS Missouri during the first Gulf War
Charles, you must not think much of the human race since you are a member of it , & contributed so little to the betterment of it, amen.
Excellent documentary
Never forgive and forget what the Japanese did to us in PEARL HARBOR 😢😢😢
Pearl Habour was a military facility. Nothing compared to the warcrime of nuking to cities.
I remember seeing the way japan treated pows in the deathmarch was horrific .
Barbaric & Inhuman !
Awful just made me furious!
my great uncle was a pow in Japan. It was inhumane.
As an American whose father served the USSAC in the South Pacific, I regret the difficult decision to attack Hiroshima and Nagadaki with nuclear weapons. I regret fire bombings. But, I am a history major. The Empire of Japan shamelessly murdered its way through China, the Indian Ocean and South Pacific until their expanding violence reached Pearl Harbor. That aroused great anger snd hatred among Americas. In their homicidal arrogance, Imperial Japan extended its brutality to American soil. The War against America was a War of hatred begun by Japan. Americans began to embrace that hatred. I doubt President Truman wanted to bomb Japanese cities. I believe he found it repugnant. However, had he declined to use his country's most powerful weapons against a merciless enemy, his countrymen would have condemned him. The family of every serviceman who died as a result of his "weakness" would personally curse Harry Truman. It was regretable, but inevitable.
I understood that because of the sanctions Japan had no supplies coming in, including fuel. This was the reason for Pearl Harbour.
@@tsunamis82 Nobody wants to mention this truth and Roosevelt wanted a good reason to get into the war with Germany. The Japanese abassador was in conference up to the day before they attacked. The USA did not want to go to war with Germany even though Winston Churchill begged us to.
I have been to Hiroshima. I stood next to the Atomic Dome. I could not imagine that in 1945 for a moment, the very spot I stood on was a Hell on earth. People were vaporized within a millisecond. Not enough time for a body to even register pain. One moment alive, the next non-existence. I wonder if the Japanese military had known what an atomic bomb meant if perhaps they would have sought peace before two cities were destroyed. I tend to feel that they were so deluded with their ethos of bushido and obeisance to the Emperor that they would have continued to believe in fighting to the bitter end to defend the honour of Japan. The vast majority of victims of the bombs were not military personnel. They were ordinary people. In the museum in Hiroshima, one of the saddest things I saw was a carbonized bento box. The accompanying story told of a boy who was looking forward to eating the bento lunch that his mother made. That never happened. A tricycle that was blackened and burnt out is on display too. Sad testament to the horror of that day. Many Americans rejoiced at the news of the destruction of these two cities. They felt the Japanese had it coming because they started the war. They did start the war and the Japanese military were guilty of horrific atrocities. Children riding tricycles and looking forward to eating a delicious lunch made by a loving, doting mother did not deserve their fate. When we read a statistic it is abstract and sort of meaningless in a way. When you connect with the suffering of individuals though, it means a lot and is made clear to you. I understand that Imperial Japan was responsible for much suffering throughout East Asia. Yet, going to the museum and seeing the dome were humbling experiences and I couldn't feel like anyone deserved to be eradicated in a millisecond, suffer burns over their body or walk around begging for water with their skin hanging off their arms.
Why are the horrors of war being blurred out?
We had to blur those images for TH-cam policies.
The TH-cam political correctness enforcement goons have decreed that history IS NOT to be known!
Because TH-cam has dumbed-down overgrown children making editorial decisions and censoring reality. They are afraid that our younger generation must be lied-to and sheltered from reality.
Blurring images doesn't help. Another attempt to erase history
@@mariacook8540blame youtube
Why no mention of the fact that the U.S. dropped leaflets warning citizens before the bombing?
Another amazing doc.😮
Philippines suffered a lot from Japanese invasion.
All the nations occupied by Japan and Germany suffered horrendously. The history will show different numbers of people killed or placed in camps or tortured or made homeless, depending on which country we are talking about. But the fact remains that thousand upon thousands and even into the millions were subjected to atrocities. Almost 60 million people, both soldiers and civilians on both sides were killed. Countless more wounded and invalided. Again both soldiers and civilians.
Either way you prefer to see it, concentrating on the country you live in yourself, or acknowledge the atrocities in the other countries as well, the fact will always be that evil triumphed and good men did nothing until the war became a reality. And the axis powers became true symbols of evil and destruction and greed for power and dominance. And the people in the nations occupied and even many civilians and soldiers in their own countries were the ones who paid the price of their evil.
We cannot keep on viewing this war from a standpoint of just one country. It was a war which engulfed the world. It was a war which affected the people of this world. The individual battles and atrocities must be told to serve as examples of what happened and why, and they must especially be told to pay tribute and remembrance to the people who lived through them and suffered horrifically doing so. Even many years after hostilities ended. But we cannot keep on pretending that our individual countries were the ones that deserve special treatment in history. It was a shared history by all countries and all people living in hem at the time. And that is the testimony of this war. A testimony that must be remembered by all of us. Otherwise it will happen again. Even with 2 world wars in our history which should have been enough to even contemplate further wars of conquest and oppression as we see some countries try to gain new territory once again on a continuous basis since the end of WWII.
Propaganda, but NOT History, has led us to believe that the Empire of Japan began its territorial expansion in the 1930’s, invading China, creating the puppet State of Manchukuo and “Provoking” the war with the Western Powers. But, Was this really, how events happened? Did Japan invade China and South East Asia? It seems so. However, the Propaganda does NOT say that for centuries, all Asia was invaded by Western Powers. England occupied India, Burma (Myanmar); Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Malaysia and China (Hong Kong, Nanking, Shanghai, etc). France dominated all Indochina. The Netherlands intervened by the Force of its Arms, to all of Indonesia. And Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and of course, also the United States were in South East Asia cuz, for example this country, the US, occupied the Philippines since 1898. (Spanish-American War). Thus the panorama in the 30's, the Empire of Japan, when defeating to the Tsarist Russian Empire, it also decided to "Grow" by invading its neighbors. In those years, all European nations had colonies in Africa, India, the Middle East, Asia and America. (England came to occupy almost ¼ part of the planet). For its part, the US, in 113 years of existence as a nation in those years, had "Grown" 711 the size of its territory from its original 13 colonies. Now is the picture clear? Japan for its part, had fought on the side of the winners in World War I (1914-1918), and they, the Japanese, not awarded any "Gain". The western victors of WWI divided the world. Japan was excluded. Thus, Japan's motives for attacking and expanding as the Europeans and the US did seem clearer, right? Then they, the Japanese, attacked China in 1931, which was occupied by 6 Western Powers for almost a century. None of the Western Powers occupying China at this time, OPPOSED or fought Japan for Invading China. NONE! Then, 11 years later after having occupied the territory of China and coexisted without any problem with the Western Powers within China, they, the Japanese, attacked Hawaii, which in turn, this Island had been occupied and annexed by the US in 1898. (In 1900-01, Hawaii became US territory and Hawaii ceased to be an independent nation after more than 630 years of sovereignty. By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had just completed the 40th anniversary of the military occupation and annexation of Hawaii). They, the Japanese, attacked Singapore, which was then a Colony of England. They, the Japanese, attacked the Philippines, which were occupied by the US and whose Gov’r, Douglas MacArthur reined as Emperor. Yup… Truly like an Absolute Autocrat. Therefore, the Japanese did NOT attack (In the 40’s), Singapore, Burma, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, Timor, the Philippines, etc. In reality, the Japanese attacked England, France, Belgium, Holland, the US, etc. That is, the Japanese attacked the Western Powers invading all of Asia. That is the verifiable truth. The Empire of Japan didn’t invade. Japan fought against the Invaders. But, Propaganda has made us believe that the good guys were us, the US. And of course… Nanking was a horrendous Genocide committed by Japan, but, it was no more horrendous than the 12 Genocides committed by the United States in his History and all over the world. Nor was it less horrendous than the Genocide committed by King Leopold II of Belgium, in Central Africa. Nor was Nanking more or less horrendous than the Genocides that the British Empire committed in America, Africa, Australia, Middle East, India and also in China too. In the Philippines (1898-1902), the US Army produced a Genocide of One Million people dead. And now, the Japanese are our friends and allies... Yup… But, to fight against China, AGAIN!!! Well… No More. No More British Malaya nor British Borneo nor British wherever. No More French Indochina. No more Dutch Indies. No More Portugese Domains. No More US Domain here. Asia is for Asians and “The China Sea” belongs to CHINA. Westerns powers have nothing to do in Asia. NOTHING!!!
Thank you for a very enthraling documentary. I visited the Hiroshima Memorial in 2016 and it was quite a moving experience.
Don't forget Pearl Harbor
@@mrjohn5496 True. Pearl Harbour was the reason for Hiroshima.
Hopefully you stopped by Pearl harbor first before you went to the Hiroshima memorial?
@@randybonner9870 Yes did it, an year earlier, the U.S.S. Arizona monument is harrowing, the begining of the end for Hiroshima. May the souls of the entombed sailors rest in eternal peace.
Did you visit the American Cementary on Okinawa? Just months before the nuclear bombs were dropped, thousands of our young died on the first island of the Japanese homeland. I almost ended up fighting with our taxi driver when I said this death on both sides was mercifully ended by the two nukes and the night raid on Tokyo that killed more than the nukes. I regret that I there because I was a pilot on leave during the Viet Nam war, a war that was started on a lie by LBJ. If you want to argue about the Tonkin incident, review the lastest info.
I have listened to history ever since my great grandmother has passed away, because she lived the Great Depression and World War Two after, when America entered it after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. America was weak when it entered the war, but it grew stronger after Pearl Harbor, and we dropped the two bombs that attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 1945. Yes, many lives died in those nuclear attacks, but it was a time of war why many Americans believed it was necessary to end the war. But of course, we didn't know the horrors of what came after the nuclear attacks until the American occupation forces came to Japan after the war, and it should never happen again today.
Thank you so much for showing us the real happenings during the WW2 I was not born yet.
Don't the producers of these documentaries watch them? Why is the unnecessary music louder than the narrators voice!!!
You may want to get your hearing checked for Loss of certain frequencies
Amazing they can face their people after what they did to them.
LOL, they don't care. The Japanese postwar economic miracle was largely led by Class A war criminals. Their PM Kishi alone, circa 1960, was a prolific rapist and killer who ran slave factories in Manchuria.
Actions have consequences. After all the atrocities committed to innocent people by Japan, the two bombs were just.