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So basically, without China's resistance against Japan, the success of Soviet at Manchuria, and oil embargo of the U.S., Japan would have joined Germany in invading Soviet, securing the oil and energy for its fleets. Indeed, Axis had many chances to win the world war II, but they either made wrong choice or had poor luck.
My grandfather, a 16-year-old boy when the war broke out, served as a scout to the American Allied forces in Leyte later in the war. He told my father that by the time the war ended, he was being persuaded to come to the U.S., but he decided to stay in the Philippines. He was not an official member of the army, but to me he's a hero. 1925-2015.
My grandfather was a part of guerilla forces providing a little bit of resistance to the japanese in northern Luzon. We have a small rusty samurai sword sitting at home that he got from the war as a gift (not from an enemy soldier’s)
Hey my grandfather fought with the guerrillas in Luzon too! We have a solid silver opium pipe that he took off a Imperial Japanese officer in a camp raid. Small world
Fun fact: Before MacArthur planned his return to the Philippines, he and his subordinates officers refused to officially recognize the USAFIP guerrilla formations operating in Luzon and Mindanao, even though the two forces are all commanded by US army officers operating behind enemy lines. His reason was that “he consider, recognizing “those US officers should’ve been KIA in the Philippines” not KIA, damaging to his reputation.” (As if it further suggested he abandoned those men behind) The careers of the two officers commanding the USAFIP were therefore so negatively impacted (consider to be inactive or even surrendered) only after Truman sacked MacArthur during the Korean War they recovered their deserved reputation. Years later, the two men were considered to be the founding fathers of US PSYOPS and US Army Spec Ops. (Wendell Fertig and Russell W Volckmann)
He doesn't recognized but some in the US military did and they give the Filipino-American guerrillas with food, weapons, and intelligence datas to sabotage Japanese positions thru the silent service (submarines) before the Philippines Campaign (1944-45)
@@paulsteaven its true i heard stories from our lolo's thats our place in silago so. Leyte is the dropping zone of supplies of weapons coming from american submarine to Guerellas of leyte.
MacArthur also opposed Jonathan Wainwright’s Medal of Honor proposal at first (he did not oppose it the second time though). MacArthur was kind of an A-hole.
It needs to be noted that Dec 8, 1941 in the Phillipines, Wake, Guam and SE Asia is the same date as Dec 7, 1941 in Hawaii. They on different sides of the international date line and are separated by between 12-18 hours. Nearly all of this happened within a few hours of one another. The initial air attacks over Luzon occurred in what would have been the late afternoon in Hawaii on Dec 7.
My great-grandfather faught in Cebu down south in the Mountains, he survived and still alive today. He joined the guirella forces at the age of 16 and fought against the Japanese. I am very glad that he is still alive because I get to hear his stories...
I've learned these battles way back in high school and through the history channel's series but watching this lay out, it's so much easier to retain the information.
When you see the contrast between the defense of Phillipines and the defense of Wake Island, you start making questions about Mcarthur' s skills to make defensive movements. Mcarthur' was brilliant making offensive movements, but looks like he wasn't very good in defense
I think he is afraid of a preemtive strike. He wants to keep his air force in tact as long as possible but ended up in disaster. He thinks his airforce will be destroyed if it attacked Taiwan.
@@onesource-ph2372 The US prioritized the Pacific War actually. American pre-war plans had Europe as the priority but after Pearl Harbor, American commands were eager to avenge what happened in Pearl(Operation Watchtower occurred before Operation Torch). But without the warships and merchant vessels needed to sustain a military campaign across the largest ocean on Earth, the US had to focus on limited attacks on the Pacific.
Wake was a small island that a single soldier can walk through in a single day. The Philippines, primarily Luzon, was massive. With terrible roads, jungles and mountains. Its impossible to defend the whole coastlines unless you put a single soldier for every kilometer of coast, which violates the military strategy of concentration of force. Its difficult to defend and reinforce every single area.
Thank you for giving the Philippine American and Filipino forces a voice in this series, especially those that took part in the Battle of Bataan, Corregeidor and even the guerilla wars. Please continue to do so. Hope you can really look into the history of the Philippines, similar to your Roman series. We have such a rich history that not many have covered up to now or is limited.
The defense of the Philippines was the longest resistance to the Japanese Imperial Army in the initial stages of World War II. After the Battle of Abucay the Japanese started to withdraw from Bataan, and resumed their attack in April, allowing MacArthur 40 days to prepare Australia as an operational base, the initial resistance in the Philippines allowed Australia crucial time to organize for its defense. Philippine-American resistance against the Japanese up to the fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942, lasted 105 days (3 months and 2 days).
That's of course only if you don't count the 2nd Sino-Japanese War as part of WWII. But then it's not really fair to compare a country like China to a small group of islands like the Philippines.
@@kaltaron1284 agreed. Battle of Shanghai lasted 3 months, 1 week, and 6 days in one static locale. Wuhan campaign lasted 4 - 1/2 months all along the Yangtze. But he isn’t necessarily wrong if he meant the start of WWII which for most of the world is 1941
@@rayray6490 I think most of the world considers 1939 the start of WWII. The USA might consider 1941 and East Asia 1936. It really depends on the definition of "World War" and whether you count wars that directly lead into it or not.
Resistance never stop after MacArthur left.(just he’s reluctant to admit it) USAFIP was one of those larger contingent that continued the war in the jungle.
Ah yes Dec. 1941, when a small group of F4F Wildcats did more damage against the invading Japanese force in Wake Island compared to 100+ of P-40 Warhawk on the Philippine Commonwealth. Right after the Attack on Pearl Harbour, the Japanese were expecting a retaliation attack coming from the Philippines with USAFFE's B-17s bombers and P-40 fighters as its escorts and the Japanese can't launch its fighters and bombers as early as possible since there's a fog during that morning. It goes to show the clusterf*ck that happened in the Philippine during Dec. 8, 1941.
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Love the videos, just a small note about the sponsor. Actually nuclear power plants are one of the most green energies that are available to us right now. The white smoke coming out of the chimneys is water, so I find that the ad is misleading, as the trees around a plant shoulds be affected by it. This is something that a company that dedicates to offset personal carbon emissions should know about.
They are green in the sense that they don't produce much carbondioxide. They are certainly not green if you consider the waste produced and the risks involved.
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Ive been watching this channel for about 2 years I think. And I can honestly say ive never been dissatisfied or disappointed, thats wild. Keep up the great work K&G!
MacArthur's father, Arthur MacArthur, Jr. was a key figure in the Philippine-American War and later became commander of the Philippines. It is an interesting part of history that the son of the man who invaded and tyrannised the Philippines should be thanked for saving it from invasion.
@@alphagamer9505 so let me get this straight so is he saying how Ironic that we thank the son of a man who invaded and tyrannised the Philippines or did I understand it wrong
18:17 ". . . the first Japanese vessel to sink in the Pacific war." That dubious "honor" might, instead, be given to a Japanese midget submarine just outside the entrance to Pearl Harbor. This documentary is a superb presentation, Kings and Generals. Many thanks!
Surface vessel then. ;) I think from the perspective of the video, the view at the time was that the IJN DD was the first, because it wasn't until some 60 years later that the remains of the midget sub were discovered, and the claims of the Ward were realized.
You know, for all the mistakes he made, and the crazy reputation he got given his stance on nuclear war, MacArthur seems to have a fairly positive reputation.
The positive narrative built about MacArthur during the Pacific War has lasted a very long time, but most historians today at the very least will criticism him heavily for his major mistakes during the Pacific War and the large amount of misinformation/lies his personal press entourage did.
He had a very effective PR machine. A lot of the details of his failures only dribbled out later and so once his popularity was built that image stuck for a long time. But yeah, he was over rated before... Brutally inept start to the war on his part.
You've done a beautiful job covering this conflict, its so. . . crisp. A delight to watch and experience. Honestly nothing of this quality exists on any youtube channel. Hats off 👏🙌👌
I'd love to see a mini series showing what life was like in the different Brigade staff offices of the Japanese armed services during this time. Maybe following a lower enlisted/NCO, officer, and Warrant officer as all this was happening. The logistics and comms issues must have been amazing.
Japan's swift victories has been as staggering as the Nazi's blitzkrieg. But the axis' victories are based on speed, not power, and power would eventually caught up with them. - Oversimplified, 2017.
@@gregorjerman973 They have shit logistic and Japan actually have 2 branches working again each other, often undermining their military objective. Axis power are also less coordinate overall compare to the Allies. Soviet and US/UK, despite some dispute and differences, still do their best and even coordinate on offensive time etc. U don't really see those happening for the Axis. Germany micromanage most of the smaller powers and giving them nothing to the the jobs. Not to mentions their resources shortage.
@@789know regardless those blunders the axis could have had the different approach towards the front they are facing. Pearl Harbor oil depot could have been the turning point and could have affected the pacific front if destroyed. Khalkin Gol would have been secured if army and navy joint forces together. The Nazi could make britain kneel if it used their subs to stop all flow of supply and left the RAF alone to starve for fuel. Stalin was in hiding and they targeted the Ural using the reserved Luftwaffe. Russian front would be over if leadership was gone and no factory to produce those t34. If the Axis played their cards well things would be different today.
I never knew coastal guns actually ever did anything. Most battles it seems they don't get used as effectively so nice to see someone was able to sink a ship using coastal artillery.
I never like how MacArthur is featured in Filipino history books. He's featured as a hero and competent general who saved Philippines from Japanese forces in 1944-1945 wherein he's not a hero to the Filipinos nor a competent general. His ego resulted to the destruction of Manila 1945. His eagerness to cover his failures in 1941-42 by returning in the Philippines in 44 does not make any military sense. Arguably the most overrated general in WW2.
Don't forget the never ending; "Give me 10,000 Filipino soldiers and I can conquer the world." BS when he has 100,000+ combined Filipino-American troops in defending the Philippines during Dec. 1941 but failed in defending it.
@@albertohusay3002 well that's because MacArthur should have followed and supported Nimitz's plan to go straight to Japan by island hopping. There's no reason to take Philippines in 44-45 military speaking. Once Tokyo surrender, all of Japanese troops in the cities will surrender as well. The retaking of Philippines resulted to the deaths of thousands of Allies soldiers and Filipino civilians needlessly. Philippines should have been bypassed to end the war sooner.
@@animeyahallo3887 You have a point. What Nimitz did not know is that Japan has a powerful Japanese fleet in the Philippines. They could have coordinated with Tokyo to ambush the US Fleet heading to Japan.
First I want to say that I love these videos they are well done and really informative… I am writing today to point out a tiny mistake on the dates. It says 1940 for most of the video from 9:21
Not just the helmet but also their uniform. I think what was used as a representation was a late airborne army ubiform of the us army. Much appreciated it if they have used even a ww1 doughboy infantry as a representation given that the USAFFE equipments was from world war 1.
Though MacArthur was a Lieutenant General, later becoming General in the US Army in December, he was a Field Marshal in the Philippine Commonwealth Army. He is also somewhat beloved to a degree in Philippines.
(Me who's secretly Filipino but also who loves Anime and Japan): Of course, we have a statue of him walking located at Leyte, he was our savior from the Japanese Menace...We won't forget about the "Bataan Death March"...
At this point in McArthur's life he was already more of a politician and less of a military man (being friends and doing favors with people in high places in the Philippine Commonwealth). Though he still has his good moments if not being distracted.
@@YapsiePresents Mac Arthur even considered a nuclear war with the North Koreans, the Chinese, and the Soviets. Despite, President Truman's reluctance to because of the USSR obtaining its own nukes as well.
Beloved to a degree? He's basically an American 'national hero' here in the Philippines. Many places and roads are named after him. His return in 1944 made the Filipinos believe that he kept his word on his "I shall return" promise, that he uttered back in 1942.
@@YapsiePresents Basically if the country would have proclaimed a foreigner to be a national hero, MacArthur would definitely be that person plus the fact that many things are named after here in the Philippines
The thing that's hard to wrap my head around is how Japan had the manpower to consecutively go to war with 3 countries/empires much bigger than them. Yeah, China was a mess, Britain was preoccupied, and the US was caught by surprise, but still Japan lost quite a bit fighting in China. It was an untenable logistical situation in the long term, did they expect the United States to roll over and capitulate?
More of the case that once the war started they stopped exporting essential supplies like oil to Japan, which meant that by ,say, 1944/45, Japan would no longer have fuel left, against any of its enemies. So, while they still had their tanks/planes running adequately, they declared on the US to have an extremely low chance, rather than get declared upon at a later date when they'd inevitably get routed
The Japanese military of the day is highly underrated. They captured more territory than the Germans, will more people in it, and held it more successfully and for longer. They revolutionized communications and the logistics of the attacks that happened just in this episode, are seriously impressive. I believe that Eurocentricism (the people who were in a position to write books about WW2 after the war were Europeans), Soviet Propaganda (they actively peddled that the Russians were the protagonists of the war, and at the heart of the fighting), and Japans shameful willingness to cover up and twist history contributed to this issue.
For the manpower, although Japan being a relatively small country. They actually have 73 million people (only counting Japanese and not counting the colonies), which is actually more than the 68 million German in 1938 (not counting Austria and Sudetenland region). Think about the number of army that Nazi Germany can gather, you can understand why Japan had enough manpower to do so. For declaring the pacific war. Accurately, for them they had limited choice if they want to continue the invasion in China. US and the allies were threating an oil embargo if Japan do not stop their invasion in China. Japan is a country lack of oil, oil embargo will eventually make Japan lost the war within 2-3 years. The purpose of Japan's pacific war was to get all the oil supply and resource from the south east Asia region. What Japan want is to kick US out of West Pacific, making use of the resources(especially oil) gather from the south east Asia islands to made them successfully occupy China. They make a gamble by declaring war to US and allies, it is a bold decision but not a crazy decision at all.
Essentially? Yes. The Japanese military leaders, much like the German Nazi politicians, were convinced of the "racial inferiority" of their foes, especially the Americans. They simply didn't believe that the Americans had the stomach for total war. The British, while much more prestigious militarily, were busy fighting the Germans and Italians in Europe (particularly North Africa), so simply didn't have the resources to contend with the Japanese. That's why such a spectacularly incompetent general like Arthur Percival was in command at Singapore, and why many of the troops and equipment in the Far East were somewhat old. All of that meant that the Americans, whom the Japanese had little regard for, would have to carry the brunt of the fighting in the Pacific. The expectation (and hope) was that the catastrophe at Pearl Harbour and subsequent defeats would force the Americans and British to sue for peace, securing Japanese hegemony in the Pacific. The Japanese dramatically underestimated the American fighting spirit.
One thing to ask. In the ad why do you show nuclear power plants with dead trees, implying them as being an issue? From environmental crisis viewpoint nuclear power plants are much less of a problem than coal and oil power plants. Yet it is still always nuclear power plants that get shown. This just bothers me because this channel is otherwise often very thoughtful on matters.
Yeah Nuclear power is the best. Hydro is decent but could cause wars over rivers, and wind and solar are really inefficient and solar wastes a lot of water keeping them clean.
@@Riftrender Hydro is troublesome from biodiversity perspective (most notably fish). This is why they're undoing dams as well. In general over time I'd rather see local small production over massive centralized grid based production. So small nuclear plants, geothermal, wind, solar... whatever works without pollution or consuming the environment from the other beings that we depend upon. Having diverse means of production is better than relying heavily on one or two. I'd like to have a house someday that secures electricity in three or four different means, needs depending on weather conditions and time of year.
I was only listening, so thanks for picking that up. I can't stand other environmentalists shunning nuclear while we are at dangerous levels or co2 emissions.
Yep as expected K&G presented a well visualized presentation. Appreciate how most of the places in the Philippines were pronounced right even though it was really hard. Another thing is that I would much appreciated it if K&G used a ww1 doughboy infantry as a representation of USAFFE infantry given tha fact that their equipments were from ww1 and post ww1. But overall I have learned so much !
he just got Tuguegarao wrong, but other parts of the video, the narrator said the wrong word that didn't match the captions. there was a point where he called some ships "conquerors" instead of "cruisers" in the captions
@@xXxSkyViperxXx He pronounced Aparri like "A pair e" when it's more "A par e". Trust me, there's a difference. Again, appreciate the effort and it's no big deal. It's very hard to nail the pronunciation, especially languages that are unfamiliar to a person. I just noted it because of the original comment.
@@MrHotBagel yes of course, im also from the philippines to know that difference. i just chalked up his pronunciation for Aparri as some british or american or canadian accent for him, but the Tuguegarao one was clearly misread since he don't understand the spanish orthography that influenced that spelling here in ph. ive just been watching this channel long enough to stomach the many pronunciation mistakes devin makes all the time in the names and placenames of countries hes not familiar with the local languages of. for example, every time this channel makes a video that has to do with china and pronouncing chinese names and placenames, devin always gets it most, if not all, wrong, especially cuz he does not understand how Mandarin Pinyin spelling works and the letters that mandarin pinyin decided to use to for their own logic. Devin understands enough some spanish orthography and orthographies of other european languages tho as his strong suit, like he knows how to pronounce spanish letter J and Ñ, but in other languages outside of europe, he sucks.
| My Uncle Tom Lee was an anti aircraft battery gunner in 200th New Mexico Regiment within the Harbor Defense Force. He and the Regiment later defended Manila against Zero strafing runs in the newly formed 515th New Mexico Regiment. He told my Dad that he could just stretch his hand and feel a Zero bolting overhead. They were damn close...
It's difficult to watch without emotions getting involved, but I would like to say that Kings and Generals treaded that needle with professionalism. World class story telling...
My grandfather was a Filipino guerrilla who fought in the province of Batangas, then later moving to Mindoro. I’m glad this series showed what happened during the Philippine Campaign, and I know sources for that topic is hard to come by but I’m glad K&G was able to do it excellently. All the best to this new series K&G!
I love your visuals! I have been watching your channel every day for months now and I only grow more obsessed! Keep improving and I shall sing praise from every mountain top I ascend!
I remembered this part during my primary and highschool. But not this detailed. Deym, students nowadays arevery fortunate and I hope they watch this content instead of useless nonsense in the internet. 🥰🥰🥰
Hopefully you cover Liberation of Manila in the future. It was always forgotten but Manila was the 2nd most devastated city in WW2 after Warsaw. Manila's history and culture was robbed during that battle yet it was rarely mentioned in every documentary or books about WW2
Even though some people may not like General McArthur action later in the war but Filipinos will always be grateful for what he have done for joining and leading us to victory.
Have you even read accounts of how the Philippines was liberated, especially Manila? The Philippine campaign was just to save the bloated ego of MacArthur. It was an unneccesary battle costing hundreds of thousands of civilian lives. The Americans were unprepared for urban combat, causing needless destruction. They could have just by-passed the Philippines and made the Japanese garrison wither and die. Yamashita was still fighting even after the Japanese formally surrendered. The destruction of Manila, the country's economic hub, was one of the reasons the Philippines' slow post-war recovery.
@@marvinm8343 tell me how the hell were the Americans were unprepared of the urban fighting when they have more advance military equipment and men and they already have the some experience when fighting in ww1 what actually the Americans is unprepared for the resistance of the japanese. The reasons why manila was utterly destroyed was because of of their fierce resistance of the japanese and when they were losing they put their frustration towards the civilians and implementing so much destruction before retreating. So tell me would it make much difference if macarthur didn't return in manila? Even if macarthur didn't fight in manila Americans would still face the fierce resistance of Japanese remember what they japanese did to nanking. The japanese is not going to just give up without fighting.
@@bigduck6733 The Japanaese had the Sho-plan aka Luzon Jikyou Sakusen Keikaku (Luzon Attrition Plan) to defend the Philippines. Had the Americans by-passed the Philippines entirely, there would be no battle to speak of. No invasion of the Philippines and the planned victory march of MacArthur in Manila. Yamashita planned to attrite the Americans at every possible opportunity. He was well dug in the Sierra Madre mountains and planned to hold Corregidor to the last. Manila harbor was already rendered useless by the Japanese of its strategic value by smashing its vital infrastructure. MacArthur expected the Japanese to abandon Manila in the same manner as he did in 1942 but Iwabuchi didn't give him that pleasure so in that respect MacArthur was not expecting urban combat to retake Manila. Yamashita was so skillful in his defense that the Americans weren't in full control of the Philippines at the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945. That fact alone made the Philippine campaign questionable. Numerous Japanese garrisons were already neutered when by-passed and isolated. Truk, Rabaul, Formosa, parts of Borneo, Penang, and even Singapore. These were holding substantial Japanese garrisons at the time of surrender and were spared of destruction. My point is, if the Americans by-passed the Philippines, more than 300,000 Japanese troops would be stuck doing nothing. The Americans would just have to bomb the airfields located in the Philippines ala Operation Hailstone, and the Japanese would be struck with land troops with no one to fight. They would have even evacuated the Philippines to protect their homeland as the latter was the goal of the Americans. Before you counter with the argument that the IJN was destroyed in Philippine waters. My counter to that the IJN would have been destroyed any other way in some campaign like Okinawa or Iwo Jima.
@@bigduck6733 You speak of the Philippines being a strategic area. There is nothing strategic about the Philippines other than it being an American colony. It's chief export to Japan during its occupation was rice. It was not as strategic as say, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) which has oil which the Japanese sorely needed. Even if you make airfields on Batanes, these would be less than ideal than say, Iwo Jima or Okinawa , in terms of distance to Honshu or Hokkaido.. Please read on the Island-hopping campaign of the Pacific. The American strategic goal was always the invasion of the Japanese home island. This was even before the atomic bomb was made operational. They could afford to leave rear areas teeming with isolated Japanese because of overwhelming air supremacy. Once a Japanese forward base is effectively neutralized by massive air strikes, the Americans can afford to have that said base, regardless of the Japanese personnel present there, isolated because the Japanese can't supply the base. This strategy allows the U.S to conserve forces for the invasion of Japan. If you look at the Philippine campaign, it took the entire American Sixth Army to control the Philippine archipelago. And, they didn't even finish mopping up till after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. You also talk of the risk of Japan destroying the Philippines. But, the scenario is highly unlikely. If MacArthur did not invade. again, the Japanese troops will be stuck fighting no one, other than minor guerilla attacks. They probably won't implement the Three A strategy (Burn All, Loot All, Kill All) as that would also mean their own destruction as they will have no supplies coming from their homeland. Just look at the other places in southeast asia. Did the Japanese burn the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies? No. Did the Japanese raze Singapore to the ground before surrendering? No. It would be the same here in the Philippines with Yamashita. Yamashita, despite his reputation, was one of the more rational Japanese commanders. (It was Iwabuchi who was responsible for the bloodbath in Manila). The Japanese POWs would be used to rebuild infrastructture. Some may even choose assimilation to the Philippine Commonwealth once the latter gained independence. Their intact weapons could be used to re-arm whatever local Philippine military force once the Japanese occupation ends. Those weapons could have been useful in the fight against the rise of communist rebels which started in the 50s.
@@marvinm8343 Taking this stronghold In the Philippines was necessary because troops there could block the entrance of Manila Bay. The Americans needed to establish a major harbor base at Manila Bay to support the expected invasion of Japan, planned to begin on December. So Capturing and secure the Philippine Islands was crucial to japans effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast Asia flank. The Philippine Islands, some 7,000 in number, form a natural barrier between Japan and the rich resources of east and southeast Asia. Philippines is important is to act like a bridge to supply all the ongoing invasion to liberate all the South East asia from the japanese hand. leaving Philippines to the japanese will make the allies struggle for thier campaigns to liberate all the nations under japanese. Like i said McArthur promise to return and liberate our country Philippines is a strategic area whatever shenanigans you think about for some reason. Isn't the point of the American advance to the Pacific is to liberate the countries not leave it alone with thousand of Enemy soldiers stranded on thier homeland and who knows they might kill and steal from the local population to survive you think that if the American did not intervene the japanese occupation on our land would make things better. So your saying after all the planing of Americans your's are better for some reason? How do you think it would play out if the allies leave the Philippine under japanese occupation? Do you actually think that they would not kill or destroy anything if the allies just left them alone? Or their intact weapons could have been used by the communist rebels? Since they already been fighting so if the were not destroyed they were probably going to the hands of the communist probably. Why would the Japanese destroy Singapore if the allies already stopped them same as the east indies. And also Since Singapore is much farther than tokyo why would they destroy it for no reason? Only the Dutch East Indies directly to the south remained in Western hands. Japanese didn't fully have taken control over all of the oil so destroy some of it wouldn't make a difference. The Filipinos already keep fighting the Japanese invasion and they even called 1 Filipino death equal to 100 of a Japanese soldiers they already have been killing and destroying cities raping locals thats why so many Filipino keep on fighting even tho the government already surrendered. So they thought killing and destroying everything would make the Filipinos lose thier morale. Even without the allies invading manila. they would have destroy everything still macarthur promise to return so he did he liberated the population to the harsh brutally of the Japanese.
Containing them to his actions only in the Pacific War, he is certainly a figure that deserves criticism. The Clark Field disaster and his blunder of War Plan Orange-3 alone were quite egregious, but the insult to injury was really how he used his personal press entourage to send misinformation/lies back to the US. The enormous amount of positive press coverage for MacArthur forced Washington on many occasion to bend to its will and allow MacArthur to have more control then he should have in Australia. Yet on the other side of the coin, the man was quite brilliant and made major achievements throughout his life. Its a bit of an older read but "America's Caesar" by William Manchester digs pretty deep into MacArthur personally, and one of my favorite books "Rampage: macarthur, yamashita, and the battle of manila" by james m. scott really gives you a good look at MacArthur while he is making decisions.
@@ThePacificWarChannel In Australia he is remembered as incompetent. My grandfather hated him with a passion haha. Would discredit the diggers work on the one hand while claiming it as his own personal victory on the other.
A general is best described by the quality of their defeats, not their victories. In that regard, MacArthur was really quite abysmal. He's in good company, mind you. Some US Navy admirals of that period were also horrendously imcompetent. Unfortunately, MacArthur's unprofessional media activities only made him worse. He wasn't quite on the level of incompetence of Arthur Percival or Lloyd Fredendall, but he was a far cry from the more capable Allied generals.
We have a mixed opinion about our experience with General MaCarthur in Australia. Although a good strategist he was prone to panic with a limited understanding of tactics. His outburst of abuse towards Australian commanders who understood the actual on ground situation in New Guinea did not endear himself with allied forces. His support of the the Brisbane Line proposal exposed his misunderstanding of his allied objectives who found this completely unacceptable in their view. Unfortunately politics & maneuver was a separate issue to the actual military situation (ie General Mark Clark Italian/Rome campaign).
The scale of Japanese logistics and firepower superiority is unimaginable. To open all such naval fronts, with such coordination and precision far away from their homeland and against joint superpowers of the time. How could they achiev all this within less than a century of thd Miji restorarion? Japan is a very intersting nation indeed.
Japan is like that one player who utilised his resources efficiently and can micromanage extremely well but lose because his opponent got more paper than him
@@aimanasyraf5657 Calling WW2 Japan efficient is just plain stupid. Japan did not account for the simple fact that the oil and rubber of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies would not magically appear in Japan if they conquer those islands. They would still have to be shipped to Japan to feed Japanese industries, and they do not have the shipping to do that, even if they seize local shipping. They also do not have an actual long term goal aside from the nebulous idea that once they have their empire, they could offer the US peace and the US would just accept because it would be such a hassle for them to retake all of those islands(yeah it sounds stupid, but this was the actual Japanese plan). Their training of their naval aviators is also an example of inefficiency. Individually, Japanese pilots are impressive, but modern war does not rely on an individual but a unit. An efficient military would have a detailed plan on how to replace their losses. Japan do not. And the reason why they went to war is just plain idiotic, Japan needed resources to finally defeat China. That's it. Japan went to war with 2 of the worlds largest empires just so they can beat China. And no, you can't justify this by saying that 'the US provoked this because they embargo Japan'. The US only embargoed Japan when Japan occupied Southern Indochina, which doesn't make any sense unless Japan wants to use Southern Indochina as a jumping off point for an invasion of British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. Basically, Japan went into an unwinnable war because they wanted to destroy an already crippled nation, and they didn't pay attention to the details so they ended up getting bombed to oblivion. They're like that one player who would do something extremely stupid to fix a stupid thing they did before without thinking of the consequences.
@@aaroncabatingan5238 Japan occupied Indochina with the permission of the French Government (Vichy Regime which was the American recognized legitimate government of France).
Damn, I'm watching a well-researched history, with quality editing and graphics, for free. Subbing to this channel is one of the best decisions I've done for my life
MacArthur got all the press. But General Walter Krueger should be getting far more credit than he does. He was the one who put a lot of the strategies into practice during the war.
My Grandfather served as a machine gunner on a Sherman during the war. He was a Filipino serving in the US Army and survived the entire war in that Sherman. (He operated that 50cal.) I'm not sure where exactly he fought as he died before I was born, but he died peacefully in the Philippines and as a War hero. His Grave stone even has "US army" written on it.
Hey KnG ... the Japanese had sleeper agents for like 10-30 years. coz my great-great-grandfather was a Japanese married a Filipina here in the PH. and he was a spy, drawn maps, intel gathering, etc. so you can think of as they did it also to other countries such as China, South East Asia and those islands in the pacific. That's why they attack simultaneously as shown in your video. :) Got my story from my grandma.
This series is Soo good already 👌🤩🤩👌 everytime i check, i am hoping the next episode is up! I am so excited to see the next episode every time i finish one. Keep up the amazing work 🙌🏻🙌🏻
You can say what you want but Japan was impressive, considering 80 years prior to WW2, they were 500 years regressed technologically. Yet became advanced enough to compete with the best.
Am liking this aspect of history as the Pacific theater. Fyi/fysa, the timeline in upper right is super useful, but it says 1940 when it should be 1941 for Pearl Harbor and the push for the islands, etc. The "1940" starts at 9:14 and continues until 11:49 ... and then changes to "1941" therafter.
Hi...I really enjoy your presentations, but I want to be part of making them better, so I hope you will not mind a constructive comment...there is an error in the presentation at 17:55. The moving diagram clearly shows Battery A hitting the Japanese ships on their STARBOARD side, and the ships turning to PORT to evade Battery A, but the narration states that the ships are hit on their "port" side and that they turn away to "starboard." One of them is wrong, and either the moving diagram needs to change, or the script for the narration does. Others have noted other errors, so I hope that you folks are using all this as "teachable moments" for the editor(s). 🖖✌
There is a little mistake of the year display. It says 1940 when it should have been 1941. It did correct itself on 12:14 when the dispaly changes to des.8 1941. Just thought i point it out.
This series is great. Love getting a fuller picture of the Pacific Theatre and not just getting glorified American involvement like we get here in America. This kind of stuff should be a part of the curriculum in schools.
Agree about giving the Phillipinos their due. As for the rest of your post, if the only study you make of the Pacific war is watching commercial American television and you tube videos you will remain entirely ignorant of all the documents and books that will teach you about the history you lack. If you don't know much beyond "the "glorified American view" it is your fault and no one else's.
The first picture of McArthur misses the last letter of his rank, later ones seemed to be correct. The Japanese bombers launched from Formosa and returned to Taiwan? That's interesting. At 16:04 I think you meant to the north not south. Great episode again. Very much enjoyed it.
I love your videos but I do have some constructive criticism for this one; there is too much time spent presenting each commander and their forces. We're 9 minutes into the video before anything really moves. Just my opinion, do with it as you wish! It's still high quality content.
If the air plan was executed it would have done nothing. This video was pretty unfair to MacArthur. MacArthur was negotiating with Filipino President Manuel L. Quezon on ways to keep the Philippines out of the war and was never actually told about the requests to launch the air attacks by his chief of staff because the talks with the Filipino President were much more important, he did not just ignore the requests. This happened because even if the US launched the air attacks against Taiwan it would have done nothing to stop the Japanese attacks on the Philippines. The US had first off done no scouting runs of Taiwan to know where to attack on the island. And secondly even if they knew where to attack on the island (which they didn't) it would have done nothing but kill some civilians as the Japanese had already left the island at that point. So had MacArthur ordered the air attack against Taiwan all it would have done is guaranteed there was no chance of keeping the Philippines out of WW2 like President Quezon wanted to try to get MacArthur to do. And the damage done to Taiwan would in no way impact the defense of the Philippines. Lastly it is never mentioned that MacArthur and his force of American and Filipino troops hold out in the Philippines for 5 months which is 4 months longer then they were supposed to have to hold out in the original defense plans for the Philippines. This is because the US Pacific fleet was supposed to be able to get the to Philippines to relieve the force in Bataan .Those months that they held out forced the Japanese to send reinforcements to the island to finish them off rather then sending those forces to New Guinea to capture that island which the Japanese wanted to do. That alone prevented major Japanese bombing of Australia rather then the single air attack that happened in our timeline. MacArthur and his force in the Philippines was the only force the Japanese attacked in their initial surprise attack that held out longer then the Japanese capture time frames called for. In fact most other locations fell much faster then the Japanese were calling for. The bottom line is you can call out all kinds errors that significant generals of WW2 have on their list, but the bottom line is the end result of the Philippines was MacArthur and his force doing much better then ever expected. No matter what MacArthur did the Philippines were going to fall at some point. The positive things MacArthur did in the Philippines campaign far outnumbered the negative which lead to the saving of New Guinea. Lastly, MacArthur's defensive retreat along the island of Luzon to Bataan is still taught in many military schools today as the most proper way to execute a modern fighting retreat (taught in the US, Philippines, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and others to name a some off the top of my head).
They tortured a lot of my fellow Filipinos and their cruelty is so disgusting. There's a story here that American forces completely surrendered Manila to the Japanese Imperial army and navy but they still sacked,burned and bombed our capital.
Filipino here, it was bad. Japanese treated the Filipino population as 2nd class citizens. They put the germans and soviets to shame in the number of atrocities they committed in Asia and Pacific.
Please do some documentary series about the American civil war. After Ken Burn's The Civil War (1990) miniseries,no one did any proper animated documentary series about it.
@@paulsteaven The japanese plan was sound for midway, they wanted to surprise the americans, but the americans already decoded their plans, what would have happen if the americans didnt. The japanese carriers were basically caught with their pants down halfway preparing to bomb the island when they came under attack by air forces with no time to rearm their fighters for air battles.
This might be slightly off topic, but what’s the title of the ominous epic music that plays from 0:12-0:43 when you recap what’s happening so far in the series. I know you guys said your music is from Epidemic Music but what’s the specific title of the track? Thanks.
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Pacific War Podcast: thepacificwar.podbean.com
Pacific War Prelude 0.1 - How Europe Colonized Asia: th-cam.com/video/MEgIHN63ojU/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War Prelude 0.2 - How the Meiji Restoration Turned Japan into an Empire: th-cam.com/video/rHgbG1HsIrY/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War Prelude 0.3 - Rise of Ultranationalism in Japan: th-cam.com/video/7vQ6nxBRGd8/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War Prelude 0.4 - How America Became an Empire: th-cam.com/video/DY2CUazAaaY/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War Prelude 0.5 - China at War: China at War: th-cam.com/video/TnYHe80ZvBw/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War Prelude 0.6 - War in Europe: th-cam.com/video/U4EdDCZ4pCA/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War Prelude 0.7 - Why Japan Attacked America: th-cam.com/video/NacJi_WO3es/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War #1 - Attack on Pearl Harbor: th-cam.com/video/ZzS1ZAulpoY/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War #2 - Japanese Invasion of Malaya: th-cam.com/video/mpBGUC8OjE4/w-d-xo.html
I noticed the year was wrong @ 9:43. It says 1940, but I think you guys meant 1941
So basically, without China's resistance against Japan, the success of Soviet at Manchuria, and oil embargo of the U.S., Japan would have joined Germany in invading Soviet, securing the oil and energy for its fleets. Indeed, Axis had many chances to win the world war II, but they either made wrong choice or had poor luck.
Your time stamp is one year behind.
wars = bankers wars
Good episode. You have the year saying 1940 not 1941 on the top @ 9:00 on
My grandfather, a 16-year-old boy when the war broke out, served as a scout to the American Allied forces in Leyte later in the war. He told my father that by the time the war ended, he was being persuaded to come to the U.S., but he decided to stay in the Philippines. He was not an official member of the army, but to me he's a hero. 1925-2015.
Even as a scout, He is nonetheless Worthy of honour!
Your grandfather is a hero! RIP
We’re grateful for his service. He probably saved dozens of hundreds of lives
Thank you for your kind words@@jtgd!
@@saruman9226 ooon
My grandfather was a part of guerilla forces providing a little bit of resistance to the japanese in northern Luzon. We have a small rusty samurai sword sitting at home that he got from the war as a gift (not from an enemy soldier’s)
Cool 👍
im a filipino and thanks to your grandfather. mabuhay!
Hey my grandfather fought with the guerrillas in Luzon too! We have a solid silver opium pipe that he took off a Imperial Japanese officer in a camp raid. Small world
You should polish that sword and remove the rust. They are often centuries old with a lot of history behind them.
Same, my lolo was also a guerilla during the occupation, he was in da Visayas tho, in Leyte. Pretty much grew up wid stories during dat time.
Fun fact: Before MacArthur planned his return to the Philippines, he and his subordinates officers refused to officially recognize the USAFIP guerrilla formations operating in Luzon and Mindanao, even though the two forces are all commanded by US army officers operating behind enemy lines. His reason was that “he consider, recognizing “those US officers should’ve been KIA in the Philippines” not KIA, damaging to his reputation.” (As if it further suggested he abandoned those men behind)
The careers of the two officers commanding the USAFIP were therefore so negatively impacted (consider to be inactive or even surrendered) only after Truman sacked MacArthur during the Korean War they recovered their deserved reputation. Years later, the two men were considered to be the founding fathers of US PSYOPS and US Army Spec Ops. (Wendell Fertig and Russell W Volckmann)
He doesn't recognized but some in the US military did and they give the Filipino-American guerrillas with food, weapons, and intelligence datas to sabotage Japanese positions thru the silent service (submarines) before the Philippines Campaign (1944-45)
@@paulsteaven its true i heard stories from our lolo's thats our place in silago so. Leyte is the dropping zone of supplies of weapons coming from american submarine to Guerellas of leyte.
MacArthur also opposed Jonathan Wainwright’s Medal of Honor proposal at first (he did not oppose it the second time though).
MacArthur was kind of an A-hole.
Frankly replacing him in Korea with Matthew Ridgway was absolutely the right move.
He was also responsible for the destruction of Manila itself with his egotistic approach on invading back the Philippines. What an asshole.
I'm not jealous of how good a history channel Kings and Generals is or anything...
They make pretty good war videos, but they cant compare to the sheer quality of my content
You forgot, hmph! at the end.
Damn, a historical tsundere.
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It needs to be noted that Dec 8, 1941 in the Phillipines, Wake, Guam and SE Asia is the same date as Dec 7, 1941 in Hawaii. They on different sides of the international date line and are separated by between 12-18 hours. Nearly all of this happened within a few hours of one another. The initial air attacks over Luzon occurred in what would have been the late afternoon in Hawaii on Dec 7.
When the Japanese began their bombing raid on Clark Airbase in Zambales, and Vigan city, the ships at Pearl Harbor were still on fire.
It's almost unreal they could coordinate all these attacks across half the world.
While the war with China was going on. 😳
Correct- meaning McArthur had quite awhile to prepare defense but did almost nothing to “beat them on the beaches” that day
My great-grandfather faught in Cebu down south in the Mountains, he survived and still alive today. He joined the guirella forces at the age of 16 and fought against the Japanese. I am very glad that he is still alive because I get to hear his stories...
Bless your Great Grandfather for his service and sacrifice.
@@richardv9648 a true hero
Your great-grandfather is one of the many heroes who saved the world from the Axis. I salute him.
@@richardv9648 Chad
Your GG did more for the war effort than MacArthur did period. MacArthur was a liability.
I've learned these battles way back in high school and through the history channel's series but watching this lay out, it's so much easier to retain the information.
When you see the contrast between the defense of Phillipines and the defense of Wake Island, you start making questions about Mcarthur' s skills to make defensive movements. Mcarthur' was brilliant making offensive movements, but looks like he wasn't very good in defense
I think he is afraid of a preemtive strike. He wants to keep his air force in tact as long as possible but ended up in disaster. He thinks his airforce will be destroyed if it attacked Taiwan.
Skill and MacArthur is not a naturall combination. Maybe boosting in front off journalists was a skill he excelled at though.
@@PMMagro I think you spelled boasting wrong
@@onesource-ph2372 The US prioritized the Pacific War actually. American pre-war plans had Europe as the priority but after Pearl Harbor, American commands were eager to avenge what happened in Pearl(Operation Watchtower occurred before Operation Torch).
But without the warships and merchant vessels needed to sustain a military campaign across the largest ocean on Earth, the US had to focus on limited attacks on the Pacific.
Wake was a small island that a single soldier can walk through in a single day. The Philippines, primarily Luzon, was massive. With terrible roads, jungles and mountains. Its impossible to defend the whole coastlines unless you put a single soldier for every kilometer of coast, which violates the military strategy of concentration of force.
Its difficult to defend and reinforce every single area.
Thank you for giving the Philippine American and Filipino forces a voice in this series, especially those that took part in the Battle of Bataan, Corregeidor and even the guerilla wars. Please continue to do so. Hope you can really look into the history of the Philippines, similar to your Roman series. We have such a rich history that not many have covered up to now or is limited.
The defense of the Philippines was the longest resistance to the Japanese Imperial Army in the initial stages of World War II. After the Battle of Abucay the Japanese started to withdraw from Bataan, and resumed their attack in April, allowing MacArthur 40 days to prepare Australia as an operational base, the initial resistance in the Philippines allowed Australia crucial time to organize for its defense. Philippine-American resistance against the Japanese up to the fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942, lasted 105 days (3 months and 2 days).
That's of course only if you don't count the 2nd Sino-Japanese War as part of WWII. But then it's not really fair to compare a country like China to a small group of islands like the Philippines.
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The most amazing attribute of the American Defenders was that the majority of the units were National Guard.
@@kaltaron1284 agreed. Battle of Shanghai lasted 3 months, 1 week, and 6 days in one static locale. Wuhan campaign lasted 4 - 1/2 months all along the Yangtze. But he isn’t necessarily wrong if he meant the start of WWII which for most of the world is 1941
@@rayray6490 I think most of the world considers 1939 the start of WWII. The USA might consider 1941 and East Asia 1936.
It really depends on the definition of "World War" and whether you count wars that directly lead into it or not.
Resistance never stop after MacArthur left.(just he’s reluctant to admit it) USAFIP was one of those larger contingent that continued the war in the jungle.
MacArthur was one of the most powerful weapons the Japanese had; awesome in his ability to line up US military resources like pins in a bowling alley.
Doesn't matter, since he looked smashing with his pipe and sunglasses 😎
@@SvenElven rule of cool always wins
😂😂 excellent sense of humor
Ah yes Dec. 1941, when a small group of F4F Wildcats did more damage against the invading Japanese force in Wake Island compared to 100+ of P-40 Warhawk on the Philippine Commonwealth.
Right after the Attack on Pearl Harbour, the Japanese were expecting a retaliation attack coming from the Philippines with USAFFE's B-17s bombers and P-40 fighters as its escorts and the Japanese can't launch its fighters and bombers as early as possible since there's a fog during that morning.
It goes to show the clusterf*ck that happened in the Philippine during Dec. 8, 1941.
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This has been a great series, looking forward to seeing the rest of it.
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Oh yes
Love the videos, just a small note about the sponsor. Actually nuclear power plants are one of the most green energies that are available to us right now. The white smoke coming out of the chimneys is water, so I find that the ad is misleading, as the trees around a plant shoulds be affected by it. This is something that a company that dedicates to offset personal carbon emissions should know about.
They are green in the sense that they don't produce much carbondioxide. They are certainly not green if you consider the waste produced and the risks involved.
Nuclear energy is controversial because it is green 99.9% of the time, but that 0.01% that happens when there is an accident is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.
@@augustosolari7721 Recent developments reduce the probablity of such events greatly (btw i don't think it's even 0.01%)
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Ive been watching this channel for about 2 years I think. And I can honestly say ive never been dissatisfied or disappointed, thats wild. Keep up the great work K&G!
Thanks!
MacArthur's father, Arthur MacArthur, Jr. was a key figure in the Philippine-American War and later became commander of the Philippines. It is an interesting part of history that the son of the man who invaded and tyrannised the Philippines should be thanked for saving it from invasion.
I don't geti it, invasion from who?
@@gkmginger56 Japan, who else
@@alphagamer9505 so let me get this straight so is he saying how Ironic that we thank the son of a man who invaded and tyrannised the Philippines or did I understand it wrong
@@gkmginger56 I think that's it
@@alphagamer9505 appreciate the help
18:17 ". . . the first Japanese vessel to sink in the Pacific war." That dubious "honor" might, instead, be given to a Japanese midget submarine just outside the entrance to Pearl Harbor.
This documentary is a superb presentation, Kings and Generals. Many thanks!
Surface vessel then. ;)
I think from the perspective of the video, the view at the time was that the IJN DD was the first, because it wasn't until some 60 years later that the remains of the midget sub were discovered, and the claims of the Ward were realized.
You know, for all the mistakes he made, and the crazy reputation he got given his stance on nuclear war, MacArthur seems to have a fairly positive reputation.
Really? Current historians are not fans
The positive narrative built about MacArthur during the Pacific War has lasted a very long time, but most historians today at the very least will criticism him heavily for his major mistakes during the Pacific War and the large amount of misinformation/lies his personal press entourage did.
My parents loved MacArthur. Especially because of Inchon.
He had a very effective PR machine. A lot of the details of his failures only dribbled out later and so once his popularity was built that image stuck for a long time. But yeah, he was over rated before... Brutally inept start to the war on his part.
@@KingsandGenerals Well he is still loved in the Philippines.
You've done a beautiful job covering this conflict, its so. . . crisp. A delight to watch and experience. Honestly nothing of this quality exists on any youtube channel. Hats off 👏🙌👌
Try Montemayor
10:00 The date at the top right says 1940; should say 1941. Otherwise, great content as usual.
I'd love to see a mini series showing what life was like in the different Brigade staff offices of the Japanese armed services during this time. Maybe following a lower enlisted/NCO, officer, and Warrant officer as all this was happening. The logistics and comms issues must have been amazing.
Have a go at the japanese movie 'The Human Condition,'. Be warned, it is not a cheerful movie.
Japan's swift victories has been as staggering as the Nazi's blitzkrieg. But the axis' victories are based on speed, not power, and power would eventually caught up with them.
- Oversimplified, 2017.
Axis Powers was doomed from the Start, they have irreplaceable war machines and didn't expect to have a war of attrition.
@@gregorjerman973 They have shit logistic and Japan actually have 2 branches working again each other, often undermining their military objective.
Axis power are also less coordinate overall compare to the Allies. Soviet and US/UK, despite some dispute and differences, still do their best and even coordinate on offensive time etc. U don't really see those happening for the Axis. Germany micromanage most of the smaller powers and giving them nothing to the the jobs.
Not to mentions their resources shortage.
That totally summarizes the Axis' initial successes.
And that's why China waited until it becomes as powerful as the Anglo-Saxons economically.
@@789know regardless those blunders the axis could have had the different approach towards the front they are facing. Pearl Harbor oil depot could have been the turning point and could have affected the pacific front if destroyed. Khalkin Gol would have been secured if army and navy joint forces together. The Nazi could make britain kneel if it used their subs to stop all flow of supply and left the RAF alone to starve for fuel. Stalin was in hiding and they targeted the Ural using the reserved Luftwaffe. Russian front would be over if leadership was gone and no factory to produce those t34. If the Axis played their cards well things would be different today.
@@789know you spelled against wrong
I never knew coastal guns actually ever did anything. Most battles it seems they don't get used as effectively so nice to see someone was able to sink a ship using coastal artillery.
I never like how MacArthur is featured in Filipino history books. He's featured as a hero and competent general who saved Philippines from Japanese forces in 1944-1945 wherein he's not a hero to the Filipinos nor a competent general. His ego resulted to the destruction of Manila 1945. His eagerness to cover his failures in 1941-42 by returning in the Philippines in 44 does not make any military sense. Arguably the most overrated general in WW2.
Don't forget the never ending; "Give me 10,000 Filipino soldiers and I can conquer the world." BS when he has 100,000+ combined Filipino-American troops in defending the Philippines during Dec. 1941 but failed in defending it.
Marawi city will tell you how hard it is to take a city without destroying it.
Manila never really recovered from that
@@albertohusay3002 well that's because MacArthur should have followed and supported Nimitz's plan to go straight to Japan by island hopping. There's no reason to take Philippines in 44-45 military speaking. Once Tokyo surrender, all of Japanese troops in the cities will surrender as well. The retaking of Philippines resulted to the deaths of thousands of Allies soldiers and Filipino civilians needlessly. Philippines should have been bypassed to end the war sooner.
@@animeyahallo3887 You have a point. What Nimitz did not know is that Japan has a powerful Japanese fleet in the Philippines. They could have coordinated with Tokyo to ambush the US Fleet heading to Japan.
First I want to say that I love these videos they are well done and really informative… I am writing today to point out a tiny mistake on the dates. It says 1940 for most of the video from 9:21
The helmet for the USAFFE soldier illustration is anachronistic. The actual helmet they used was the M1917, not the M1.
Not just the helmet but also their uniform. I think what was used as a representation was a late airborne army ubiform of the us army. Much appreciated it if they have used even a ww1 doughboy infantry as a representation given that the USAFFE equipments was from world war 1.
Though MacArthur was a Lieutenant General, later becoming General in the US Army in December, he was a Field Marshal in the Philippine Commonwealth Army.
He is also somewhat beloved to a degree in Philippines.
(Me who's secretly Filipino but also who loves Anime and Japan):
Of course, we have a statue of him walking located at Leyte, he was our savior from the Japanese Menace...We won't forget about the "Bataan Death March"...
At this point in McArthur's life he was already more of a politician and less of a military man (being friends and doing favors with people in high places in the Philippine Commonwealth). Though he still has his good moments if not being distracted.
@@YapsiePresents
Mac Arthur even considered a nuclear war with the North Koreans, the Chinese, and the Soviets.
Despite, President Truman's reluctance to because of the USSR obtaining its own nukes as well.
Beloved to a degree? He's basically an American 'national hero' here in the Philippines. Many places and roads are named after him. His return in 1944 made the Filipinos believe that he kept his word on his "I shall return" promise, that he uttered back in 1942.
@@YapsiePresents Basically if the country would have proclaimed a foreigner to be a national hero, MacArthur would definitely be that person plus the fact that many things are named after here in the Philippines
The thing that's hard to wrap my head around is how Japan had the manpower to consecutively go to war with 3 countries/empires much bigger than them. Yeah, China was a mess, Britain was preoccupied, and the US was caught by surprise, but still Japan lost quite a bit fighting in China. It was an untenable logistical situation in the long term, did they expect the United States to roll over and capitulate?
More of the case that once the war started they stopped exporting essential supplies like oil to Japan, which meant that by ,say, 1944/45, Japan would no longer have fuel left, against any of its enemies. So, while they still had their tanks/planes running adequately, they declared on the US to have an extremely low chance, rather than get declared upon at a later date when they'd inevitably get routed
The Japanese military of the day is highly underrated. They captured more territory than the Germans, will more people in it, and held it more successfully and for longer. They revolutionized communications and the logistics of the attacks that happened just in this episode, are seriously impressive.
I believe that Eurocentricism (the people who were in a position to write books about WW2 after the war were Europeans), Soviet Propaganda (they actively peddled that the Russians were the protagonists of the war, and at the heart of the fighting), and Japans shameful willingness to cover up and twist history contributed to this issue.
For the manpower, although Japan being a relatively small country. They actually have 73 million people (only counting Japanese and not counting the colonies), which is actually more than the 68 million German in 1938 (not counting Austria and Sudetenland region). Think about the number of army that Nazi Germany can gather, you can understand why Japan had enough manpower to do so.
For declaring the pacific war. Accurately, for them they had limited choice if they want to continue the invasion in China. US and the allies were threating an oil embargo if Japan do not stop their invasion in China. Japan is a country lack of oil, oil embargo will eventually make Japan lost the war within 2-3 years. The purpose of Japan's pacific war was to get all the oil supply and resource from the south east Asia region. What Japan want is to kick US out of West Pacific, making use of the resources(especially oil) gather from the south east Asia islands to made them successfully occupy China. They make a gamble by declaring war to US and allies, it is a bold decision but not a crazy decision at all.
@spartan party Prolly also committed just as many war crimes against the Chinese and Koreans tbh
Essentially? Yes. The Japanese military leaders, much like the German Nazi politicians, were convinced of the "racial inferiority" of their foes, especially the Americans. They simply didn't believe that the Americans had the stomach for total war. The British, while much more prestigious militarily, were busy fighting the Germans and Italians in Europe (particularly North Africa), so simply didn't have the resources to contend with the Japanese. That's why such a spectacularly incompetent general like Arthur Percival was in command at Singapore, and why many of the troops and equipment in the Far East were somewhat old.
All of that meant that the Americans, whom the Japanese had little regard for, would have to carry the brunt of the fighting in the Pacific. The expectation (and hope) was that the catastrophe at Pearl Harbour and subsequent defeats would force the Americans and British to sue for peace, securing Japanese hegemony in the Pacific. The Japanese dramatically underestimated the American fighting spirit.
We need a Kings and Generals music playlist! 🎶
I just love the music in these videos! It gets me kind of pumped up! 😅
This is starting to get interesting.
I love how you pronounce our provinces name in the Philippines. I am a Filipino fan of your videos.
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One thing to ask. In the ad why do you show nuclear power plants with dead trees, implying them as being an issue? From environmental crisis viewpoint nuclear power plants are much less of a problem than coal and oil power plants. Yet it is still always nuclear power plants that get shown.
This just bothers me because this channel is otherwise often very thoughtful on matters.
That's the problem with sponsorship unfortunately, it's also like VPN ads..
Yeah Nuclear power is the best. Hydro is decent but could cause wars over rivers, and wind and solar are really inefficient and solar wastes a lot of water keeping them clean.
@@Riftrender Hydro is troublesome from biodiversity perspective (most notably fish). This is why they're undoing dams as well. In general over time I'd rather see local small production over massive centralized grid based production. So small nuclear plants, geothermal, wind, solar... whatever works without pollution or consuming the environment from the other beings that we depend upon. Having diverse means of production is better than relying heavily on one or two.
I'd like to have a house someday that secures electricity in three or four different means, needs depending on weather conditions and time of year.
I mean, coal plant blows up, its pretty alright in the grand scheme of things....not so much with nuclear plants 🤣🤣
I was only listening, so thanks for picking that up. I can't stand other environmentalists shunning nuclear while we are at dangerous levels or co2 emissions.
12:00 The narration refers to losing 2 "colonizers" while the subtitles refer to losing 2 cruisers.
You're really pumping these out! Awesome video:)
Yep as expected K&G presented a well visualized presentation. Appreciate how most of the places in the Philippines were pronounced right even though it was really hard. Another thing is that I would much appreciated it if K&G used a ww1 doughboy infantry as a representation of USAFFE infantry given tha fact that their equipments were from ww1 and post ww1. But overall I have learned so much !
Pronunciation was so-so, but always appreciate the effort
he just got Tuguegarao wrong, but other parts of the video, the narrator said the wrong word that didn't match the captions. there was a point where he called some ships "conquerors" instead of "cruisers" in the captions
@@xXxSkyViperxXx He pronounced Aparri like "A pair e" when it's more "A par e". Trust me, there's a difference.
Again, appreciate the effort and it's no big deal. It's very hard to nail the pronunciation, especially languages that are unfamiliar to a person. I just noted it because of the original comment.
@@MrHotBagel yes of course, im also from the philippines to know that difference. i just chalked up his pronunciation for Aparri as some british or american or canadian accent for him, but the Tuguegarao one was clearly misread since he don't understand the spanish orthography that influenced that spelling here in ph.
ive just been watching this channel long enough to stomach the many pronunciation mistakes devin makes all the time in the names and placenames of countries hes not familiar with the local languages of. for example, every time this channel makes a video that has to do with china and pronouncing chinese names and placenames, devin always gets it most, if not all, wrong, especially cuz he does not understand how Mandarin Pinyin spelling works and the letters that mandarin pinyin decided to use to for their own logic. Devin understands enough some spanish orthography and orthographies of other european languages tho as his strong suit, like he knows how to pronounce spanish letter J and Ñ, but in other languages outside of europe, he sucks.
I have to disagree, pronounciation of about half of the Filipino place names were absolutely shocking. The rest were okay.
just an fyi it says 1940, not 1941 in the 9th and 10th minute. love the work guys keep it up!!!!
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My Uncle Tom Lee was an anti aircraft battery gunner in 200th New Mexico Regiment within the Harbor Defense Force. He and the Regiment later defended Manila against Zero strafing runs in the newly formed 515th New Mexico Regiment. He told my Dad that he could just stretch his hand and feel a Zero bolting overhead. They were damn close...
It's difficult to watch without emotions getting involved, but I would like to say that Kings and Generals treaded that needle with professionalism. World class story telling...
My grandfather was a Filipino guerrilla who fought in the province of Batangas, then later moving to Mindoro. I’m glad this series showed what happened during the Philippine Campaign, and I know sources for that topic is hard to come by but I’m glad K&G was able to do it excellently. All the best to this new series K&G!
I love your visuals! I have been watching your channel every day for months now and I only grow more obsessed! Keep improving and I shall sing praise from every mountain top I ascend!
I remembered this part during my primary and highschool. But not this detailed. Deym, students nowadays arevery fortunate and I hope they watch this content instead of useless nonsense in the internet. 🥰🥰🥰
In a series of amazing videos, these are turning out to be my favorite. Thx, K&G team
My grandfather's older brother was one of the USAFFE troops fought and died in bataan
wow what a waste of life
@@christhomson8924 yea why couldn’t it be you lol
I'm enthralled by the detail and level of entertainment in this pacific war series. good stuff kings and generals
Small note, your year tracker up in the right has the wrong year, it says 1940 when it should say 1941
Beginning to understand why Douglas MacArthur was so hated by many ...... including Eisenhower
Anyway, incredible job K&G
Hopefully you cover Liberation of Manila in the future. It was always forgotten but Manila was the 2nd most devastated city in WW2 after Warsaw. Manila's history and culture was robbed during that battle yet it was rarely mentioned in every documentary or books about WW2
Ye, all because of some Japanese insubordination. Would've been beautiful to visit today if that didn't happen.
@@ElkaPME The great loss of cultural and architectural heritage in Manila is such a tragedy.
@@ElkaPME Ah right
Iirc it's blamed on Yamashita but the guy didn't order it but his subordinate destroyed it nevertheless
Love this series! My God you guys do some awesome work!
Even though some people may not like General McArthur action later in the war but Filipinos will always be grateful for what he have done for joining and leading us to victory.
Have you even read accounts of how the Philippines was liberated, especially Manila? The Philippine campaign was just to save the bloated ego of MacArthur. It was an unneccesary battle costing hundreds of thousands of civilian lives. The Americans were unprepared for urban combat, causing needless destruction. They could have just by-passed the Philippines and made the Japanese garrison wither and die. Yamashita was still fighting even after the Japanese formally surrendered.
The destruction of Manila, the country's economic hub, was one of the reasons the Philippines' slow post-war recovery.
@@marvinm8343 tell me how the hell were the Americans were unprepared of the urban fighting when they have more advance military equipment and men and they already have the some experience when fighting in ww1 what actually the Americans is unprepared for the resistance of the japanese. The reasons why manila was utterly destroyed was because of of their fierce resistance of the japanese and when they were losing they put their frustration towards the civilians and implementing so much destruction before retreating. So tell me would it make much difference if macarthur didn't return in manila? Even if macarthur didn't fight in manila Americans would still face the fierce resistance of Japanese remember what they japanese did to nanking. The japanese is not going to just give up without fighting.
@@bigduck6733 The Japanaese had the Sho-plan aka Luzon Jikyou Sakusen Keikaku (Luzon Attrition Plan) to defend the Philippines. Had the Americans by-passed the Philippines entirely, there would be no battle to speak of. No invasion of the Philippines and the planned victory march of MacArthur in Manila. Yamashita planned to attrite the Americans at every possible opportunity. He was well dug in the Sierra Madre mountains and planned to hold Corregidor to the last. Manila harbor was already rendered useless by the Japanese of its strategic value by smashing its vital infrastructure. MacArthur expected the Japanese to abandon Manila in the same manner as he did in 1942 but Iwabuchi didn't give him that pleasure so in that respect MacArthur was not expecting urban combat to retake Manila. Yamashita was so skillful in his defense that the Americans weren't in full control of the Philippines at the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945. That fact alone made the Philippine campaign questionable.
Numerous Japanese garrisons were already neutered when by-passed and isolated. Truk, Rabaul, Formosa, parts of Borneo, Penang, and even Singapore. These were holding substantial Japanese garrisons at the time of surrender and were spared of destruction. My point is, if the Americans by-passed the Philippines, more than 300,000 Japanese troops would be stuck doing nothing. The Americans would just have to bomb the airfields located in the Philippines ala Operation Hailstone, and the Japanese would be struck with land troops with no one to fight. They would have even evacuated the Philippines to protect their homeland as the latter was the goal of the Americans.
Before you counter with the argument that the IJN was destroyed in Philippine waters. My counter to that the IJN would have been destroyed any other way in some campaign like Okinawa or Iwo Jima.
@@bigduck6733 You speak of the Philippines being a strategic area. There is nothing strategic about the Philippines other than it being an American colony. It's chief export to Japan during its occupation was rice. It was not as strategic as say, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) which has oil which the Japanese sorely needed. Even if you make airfields on Batanes, these would be less than ideal than say, Iwo Jima or Okinawa , in terms of distance to Honshu or Hokkaido.. Please read on the Island-hopping campaign of the Pacific. The American strategic goal was always the invasion of the Japanese home island. This was even before the atomic bomb was made operational. They could afford to leave rear areas teeming with isolated Japanese because of overwhelming air supremacy. Once a Japanese forward base is effectively neutralized by massive air strikes, the Americans can afford to have that said base, regardless of the Japanese personnel present there, isolated because the Japanese can't supply the base. This strategy allows the U.S to conserve forces for the invasion of Japan. If you look at the Philippine campaign, it took the entire American Sixth Army to control the Philippine archipelago. And, they didn't even finish mopping up till after the Japanese surrendered in 1945.
You also talk of the risk of Japan destroying the Philippines. But, the scenario is highly unlikely. If MacArthur did not invade. again, the Japanese troops will be stuck fighting no one, other than minor guerilla attacks. They probably won't implement the Three A strategy (Burn All, Loot All, Kill All) as that would also mean their own destruction as they will have no supplies coming from their homeland. Just look at the other places in southeast asia. Did the Japanese burn the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies? No. Did the Japanese raze Singapore to the ground before surrendering? No. It would be the same here in the Philippines with Yamashita. Yamashita, despite his reputation, was one of the more rational Japanese commanders. (It was Iwabuchi who was responsible for the bloodbath in Manila). The Japanese POWs would be used to rebuild infrastructture. Some may even choose assimilation to the Philippine Commonwealth once the latter gained independence. Their intact weapons could be used to re-arm whatever local Philippine military force once the Japanese occupation ends. Those weapons could have been useful in the fight against the rise of communist rebels which started in the 50s.
@@marvinm8343 Taking this stronghold In the Philippines was necessary because troops there could block the entrance of Manila Bay. The Americans needed to establish a major harbor base at Manila Bay to support the expected invasion of Japan, planned to begin on December. So Capturing and secure the Philippine Islands was crucial to japans effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast Asia flank. The Philippine Islands, some 7,000 in number, form a natural barrier between Japan and the rich resources of east and southeast Asia. Philippines is important is to act like a bridge to supply all the ongoing invasion to liberate all the South East asia from the japanese hand. leaving Philippines to the japanese will make the allies struggle for thier campaigns to liberate all the nations under japanese. Like i said McArthur promise to return and liberate our country Philippines is a strategic area whatever shenanigans you think about for some reason. Isn't the point of the American advance to the Pacific is to liberate the countries not leave it alone with thousand of Enemy soldiers stranded on thier homeland and who knows they might kill and steal from the local population to survive you think that if the American did not intervene the japanese occupation on our land would make things better.
So your saying after all the planing of Americans your's are better for some reason? How do you think it would play out if the allies leave the Philippine under japanese occupation? Do you actually think that they would not kill or destroy anything if the allies just left them alone? Or their intact weapons could have been used by the communist rebels? Since they already been fighting so if the were not destroyed they were probably going to the hands of the communist probably. Why would the Japanese destroy Singapore if the allies already stopped them same as the east indies. And also Since Singapore is much farther than tokyo why would they destroy it for no reason? Only the Dutch East Indies directly to the south remained in Western hands. Japanese didn't fully have taken control over all of the oil so destroy some of it wouldn't make a difference. The Filipinos already keep fighting the Japanese invasion and they even called 1 Filipino death equal to 100 of a Japanese soldiers they already have been killing and destroying cities raping locals thats why so many Filipino keep on fighting even tho the government already surrendered. So they thought killing and destroying everything would make the Filipinos lose thier morale. Even without the allies invading manila. they would have destroy everything still macarthur promise to return so he did he liberated the population to the harsh brutally of the Japanese.
I have been waiting for this for weeks
Can you guys do the Filipino-American war?? Its info is very little so it might be not possible...
Great video! All the lesser known combat all of a sudden seems really important! Kudos
What are your opinions on McArthur?
Let's ask Craig :-)
Containing them to his actions only in the Pacific War, he is certainly a figure that deserves criticism. The Clark Field disaster and his blunder of War Plan Orange-3 alone were quite egregious, but the insult to injury was really how he used his personal press entourage to send misinformation/lies back to the US. The enormous amount of positive press coverage for MacArthur forced Washington on many occasion to bend to its will and allow MacArthur to have more control then he should have in Australia. Yet on the other side of the coin, the man was quite brilliant and made major achievements throughout his life. Its a bit of an older read but "America's Caesar" by William Manchester digs pretty deep into MacArthur personally, and one of my favorite books "Rampage: macarthur, yamashita, and the battle of manila" by james m. scott really gives you a good look at MacArthur while he is making decisions.
He is viewed as an American 'national hero' by the Filipinos who survived the war.
@@ThePacificWarChannel In Australia he is remembered as incompetent. My grandfather hated him with a passion haha. Would discredit the diggers work on the one hand while claiming it as his own personal victory on the other.
A general is best described by the quality of their defeats, not their victories. In that regard, MacArthur was really quite abysmal. He's in good company, mind you. Some US Navy admirals of that period were also horrendously imcompetent. Unfortunately, MacArthur's unprofessional media activities only made him worse. He wasn't quite on the level of incompetence of Arthur Percival or Lloyd Fredendall, but he was a far cry from the more capable Allied generals.
I'm a Filipino from the Philippines, Thanks for covering this😅🥰. I always watch kings &generals vids, thanks for covering this one
As a Filipino, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EPISODE.
It's a classic masterpiece ❤️
The amount of detail visually shown is amazing. Old history channel has nothing on this
We have a mixed opinion about our experience with General MaCarthur in Australia. Although a good strategist he was prone to panic with a limited understanding of tactics. His outburst of abuse towards Australian commanders who understood the actual on ground situation in New Guinea did not endear himself with allied forces. His support of the the Brisbane Line proposal exposed his misunderstanding of his allied objectives who found this completely unacceptable in their view. Unfortunately politics & maneuver was a separate issue to the actual military situation (ie General Mark Clark Italian/Rome campaign).
how I wished we had this channel during my History Classes 20+yrs back, much greatly appreciated the visuals..
I am pretty impressed by the Japanese prowess. History in school didn't provide this much detail.
Loving the series. Thanks for the great content!
The scale of Japanese logistics and firepower superiority is unimaginable. To open all such naval fronts, with such coordination and precision far away from their homeland and against joint superpowers of the time. How could they achiev all this within less than a century of thd Miji restorarion? Japan is a very intersting nation indeed.
Japan is like that one player who utilised his resources efficiently and can micromanage extremely well but lose because his opponent got more paper than him
@@aimanasyraf5657 Calling WW2 Japan efficient is just plain stupid.
Japan did not account for the simple fact that the oil and rubber of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies would not magically appear in Japan if they conquer those islands. They would still have to be shipped to Japan to feed Japanese industries, and they do not have the shipping to do that, even if they seize local shipping.
They also do not have an actual long term goal aside from the nebulous idea that once they have their empire, they could offer the US peace and the US would just accept because it would be such a hassle for them to retake all of those islands(yeah it sounds stupid, but this was the actual Japanese plan).
Their training of their naval aviators is also an example of inefficiency. Individually, Japanese pilots are impressive, but modern war does not rely on an individual but a unit. An efficient military would have a detailed plan on how to replace their losses. Japan do not.
And the reason why they went to war is just plain idiotic, Japan needed resources to finally defeat China. That's it. Japan went to war with 2 of the worlds largest empires just so they can beat China. And no, you can't justify this by saying that 'the US provoked this because they embargo Japan'. The US only embargoed Japan when Japan occupied Southern Indochina, which doesn't make any sense unless Japan wants to use Southern Indochina as a jumping off point for an invasion of British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.
Basically, Japan went into an unwinnable war because they wanted to destroy an already crippled nation, and they didn't pay attention to the details so they ended up getting bombed to oblivion.
They're like that one player who would do something extremely stupid to fix a stupid thing they did before without thinking of the consequences.
@@aaroncabatingan5238 Japan occupied Indochina with the permission of the French Government (Vichy Regime which was the American recognized legitimate government of France).
@@aaroncabatingan5238 that part hurt them later. They eventually ran out of "good" pilots, like literally.
Damn, I'm watching a well-researched history, with quality editing and graphics, for free. Subbing to this channel is one of the best decisions I've done for my life
MacArthur got all the press. But General Walter Krueger should be getting far more credit than he does. He was the one who put a lot of the strategies into practice during the war.
It's great to hear Devan's voice! Love his channel!
Here before Manila got declared as an open city
Am I mishearing stuff or did I hear "2 of it's 4 colonisers" at 12:06?
My Grandfather served as a machine gunner on a Sherman during the war. He was a Filipino serving in the US Army and survived the entire war in that Sherman. (He operated that 50cal.)
I'm not sure where exactly he fought as he died before I was born, but he died peacefully in the Philippines and as a War hero. His Grave stone even has "US army" written on it.
It is men like your grandfather who won WW2 not MacArthur. Tank corp had very high casualties.
@@ricgunn1439 Why thank you, friend.
Yes another awesome historical video😌
Hey KnG ... the Japanese had sleeper agents for like 10-30 years. coz my great-great-grandfather was a Japanese married a Filipina here in the PH. and he was a spy, drawn maps, intel gathering, etc. so you can think of as they did it also to other countries such as China, South East Asia and those islands in the pacific. That's why they attack simultaneously as shown in your video. :)
Got my story from my grandma.
Was he ever caught and put on trial?
@@rayray6490 no... as i just said. They were sleeper agents. All they do is intel gathering etc.
This series is Soo good already 👌🤩🤩👌 everytime i check, i am hoping the next episode is up! I am so excited to see the next episode every time i finish one. Keep up the amazing work 🙌🏻🙌🏻
You can say what you want but Japan was impressive, considering 80 years prior to WW2, they were 500 years regressed technologically. Yet became advanced enough to compete with the best.
Am liking this aspect of history as the Pacific theater.
Fyi/fysa, the timeline in upper right is super useful, but it says 1940 when it should be 1941 for Pearl Harbor and the push for the islands, etc.
The "1940" starts at 9:14 and continues until 11:49 ... and then changes to "1941" therafter.
This video just makes me want to play Hoi4 as The Philippines.
Awesome jobs kings and generals
Hi...I really enjoy your presentations, but I want to be part of making them better, so I hope you will not mind a constructive comment...there is an error in the presentation at 17:55. The moving diagram clearly shows Battery A hitting the Japanese ships on their STARBOARD side, and the ships turning to PORT to evade Battery A, but the narration states that the ships are hit on their "port" side and that they turn away to "starboard." One of them is wrong, and either the moving diagram needs to change, or the script for the narration does. Others have noted other errors, so I hope that you folks are using all this as "teachable moments" for the editor(s). 🖖✌
There is a little mistake of the year display. It says 1940 when it should have been 1941. It did correct itself on 12:14 when the dispaly changes to des.8 1941. Just thought i point it out.
I noticed that too! Such an important detail to overlook....
Actually. Captain Juan Pajota. He Filipino American. Fighting Against Japanese.
Three videos in one week? That’s impressive!
Thai polish: hold both the Japanese and British in the same time
Thai navy: look! I'm invisible woooo
can't wait for the episode on dutch east indies campaign! as an indonesian i'm really excited for this
This series is great. Love getting a fuller picture of the Pacific Theatre and not just getting glorified American involvement like we get here in America. This kind of stuff should be a part of the curriculum in schools.
Thank you for your very intelligent comment,, the positive fruits of the internet
Agree about giving the Phillipinos their due.
As for the rest of your post, if the only study you make of the Pacific war is watching commercial American television and you tube videos you will remain entirely ignorant of all the documents and books that will teach you about the history you lack.
If you don't know much beyond "the "glorified American view" it is your fault and no one else's.
You guys cover all history, best channel ever
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The first picture of McArthur misses the last letter of his rank, later ones seemed to be correct.
The Japanese bombers launched from Formosa and returned to Taiwan? That's interesting.
At 16:04 I think you meant to the north not south.
Great episode again. Very much enjoyed it.
I love your videos but I do have some constructive criticism for this one; there is too much time spent presenting each commander and their forces. We're 9 minutes into the video before anything really moves. Just my opinion, do with it as you wish! It's still high quality content.
Love these keep em up!
I am so early that Spanish are still converting pops at Philippines
Great documentary, thank you Kings and Generals Team.
If the air plan was executed it would have done nothing. This video was pretty unfair to MacArthur. MacArthur was negotiating with Filipino President Manuel L. Quezon on ways to keep the Philippines out of the war and was never actually told about the requests to launch the air attacks by his chief of staff because the talks with the Filipino President were much more important, he did not just ignore the requests. This happened because even if the US launched the air attacks against Taiwan it would have done nothing to stop the Japanese attacks on the Philippines. The US had first off done no scouting runs of Taiwan to know where to attack on the island. And secondly even if they knew where to attack on the island (which they didn't) it would have done nothing but kill some civilians as the Japanese had already left the island at that point.
So had MacArthur ordered the air attack against Taiwan all it would have done is guaranteed there was no chance of keeping the Philippines out of WW2 like President Quezon wanted to try to get MacArthur to do. And the damage done to Taiwan would in no way impact the defense of the Philippines.
Lastly it is never mentioned that MacArthur and his force of American and Filipino troops hold out in the Philippines for 5 months which is 4 months longer then they were supposed to have to hold out in the original defense plans for the Philippines. This is because the US Pacific fleet was supposed to be able to get the to Philippines to relieve the force in Bataan .Those months that they held out forced the Japanese to send reinforcements to the island to finish them off rather then sending those forces to New Guinea to capture that island which the Japanese wanted to do. That alone prevented major Japanese bombing of Australia rather then the single air attack that happened in our timeline. MacArthur and his force in the Philippines was the only force the Japanese attacked in their initial surprise attack that held out longer then the Japanese capture time frames called for. In fact most other locations fell much faster then the Japanese were calling for.
The bottom line is you can call out all kinds errors that significant generals of WW2 have on their list, but the bottom line is the end result of the Philippines was MacArthur and his force doing much better then ever expected. No matter what MacArthur did the Philippines were going to fall at some point. The positive things MacArthur did in the Philippines campaign far outnumbered the negative which lead to the saving of New Guinea. Lastly, MacArthur's defensive retreat along the island of Luzon to Bataan is still taught in many military schools today as the most proper way to execute a modern fighting retreat (taught in the US, Philippines, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and others to name a some off the top of my head).
What you are doing is more important than you would think. People are forgetting things that need to be remembered. 🏆
I wonder how local Polynesians and Filipino felt about the Japanese invasion. Good or Bad?
We felt bad
As you can see from the replies
Bad, the Japanese soldiers tossed babies up in the air and then stab them with their katana the give it back to the horrified mother
Like most countries they invaded, the imperial Japanese soldiers also used Filipina comfort women for their own disgusting sexual desires
They tortured a lot of my fellow Filipinos and their cruelty is so disgusting. There's a story here that American forces completely surrendered Manila to the Japanese Imperial army and navy but they still sacked,burned and bombed our capital.
Filipino here, it was bad. Japanese treated the Filipino population as 2nd class citizens. They put the germans and soviets to shame in the number of atrocities they committed in Asia and Pacific.
Great video
Please do some documentary series about the American civil war. After Ken Burn's The Civil War (1990) miniseries,no one did any proper animated documentary series about it.
Thank you , K&G .
Japan was called yellow peril at that time but today japanese man suffering from the lack of hormons.😄😄
Anime lol
Huh?
To be fair the Japanese are good at executing a grand battle plan.
They are but those plans were complicated AF like the Japanese plan during the Battle of Midway.
@@paulsteaven The japanese plan was sound for midway, they wanted to surprise the americans, but the americans already decoded their plans, what would have happen if the americans didnt. The japanese carriers were basically caught with their pants down halfway preparing to bomb the island when they came under attack by air forces with no time to rearm their fighters for air battles.
This might be slightly off topic, but what’s the title of the ominous epic music that plays from 0:12-0:43 when you recap what’s happening so far in the series. I know you guys said your music is from Epidemic Music but what’s the specific title of the track? Thanks.
In the Philippines we were taught that MacArthur was a great general seeing this makes me realize that was hyperbole better yet a lie
He sucks in defending the Philippines during 1941, and he made blunders during the latter years of WWII and during the Korean War.
@@paulsteaven true tales about the hukbalahap conducting guerrilla warfare and then they get neglected and all the praise went to the Americans