Previously in our series: 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 Pacific War #3 - Japanese attack on Guam, Wake and the Philippines: th-cam.com/video/MZ4d7Qeyivk/w-d-xo.html Pacific War #4 - Japan Continues Attacking: Borneo, Philippines: th-cam.com/video/MhQrv82HHn8/w-d-xo.html Pacific War #5 - Fall of Wake Island: th-cam.com/video/tgtagewcqKo/w-d-xo.html Pacific War #6 - Battle of Kampar: th-cam.com/video/AGYaghICqkY/w-d-xo.html Pacific War #7 - Battle of Slim River: th-cam.com/video/meWALqmsXxs/w-d-xo.html Pacific War #8 - Battle for the Dutch East Indies: th-cam.com/video/lBwjgesFsFU/w-d-xo.html Pacific War #9 - Invasion of New Britain: th-cam.com/video/rUL538i8Oms/w-d-xo.html Pacific War #10 - Fall of Malaya: th-cam.com/video/z7KaNtn2sFo/w-d-xo.html
@@rachmawanatmajiperdana8866 Nino is great, but someway I found his books lack something as historical books. If you ever read Stephen e Ambrose books or pals. You know the differences. And, I'm not even mentioning school books in my comment. Local history books are not the same as school books.
This is by far the most detailed explanation about the battle of points and pockets in Bataan. This was only taught as a small victory but never explained much. Im proud of the organized defense waged by the Fil Am Battling Bastards of Bataan.🙏🙏🙏
This is by far the most detailed explanation of the pacific war of ww2. Love the series, and respect the massive amount of work put into this whole channel.
I love this channel and many,MANY of their AMAZING series, which beat séries on equal themes made by other channels...but on this i disagree...there is literally an entire TH-cam Channel with employées, dedicated ONLY To ww2 (the Channel is literally called World War 2)...that Channel has the most amount of detail
@@alexandreribeiro2014 honestly I feel like they’re pretty even on a video to video basis, but i prefer the mix of time periods kings and generals covers
@@Thunderstar7 absolutely agree about the variety of content in Kings and Generals! The quality they put and the variety of themes is what makes this channel excellent...but the voice of Indy Neidell and his comentary is just pure gold
I had no idea that US and Filipino defense was so tenacious. They were one of the earliest areas attacked yet they are still fighting and wining individual battles.
Agree there are so much to be learned out from the classroom textbooks. We often read and discuss MacArthur's declaration of Manila as an open city and his USAFEE retreat in Bataan and its eventual surrender which led to the Death March. This detailed documentary shed light to the struggles of the defenders.
ya not to mention that the Philippine Army has few regular divisions namely 1st (the actual Philippine Army) and 2nd (Philippine Constabulary) divisions that were trained the rest were just 18 year old kids from the countryside and college kids 3rd commission LTs for your local ROTC corp with rifles bigger than them (Enfield 1917, Springfield 1903s rifles) uniforms to larger for them and limited training (American size) and old weapons from WW1 that can be used not bad they lasted for 6 months before surrendering
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I had no idea about Filipino troops before this series - I suppose I took them for granted but didn’t consider how well they evidently held up against the Japanese. Now I’m seeing Filipino units all over the map.
They would also have one of the larger & more successful resistance movements of the war. By the time US forces would return to the Philippines in 1944, Japan only effectively controlled 12 of the nation's 48 provinces. Guerillas had the rest. They're right up there with the Yugoslavs.
Also, majority of the Philippine Scouts unit with American flags in the video are consists of highly trained Filipinos commanded by American officers. After the surrender of Bataan, many of them were executed by the Japanese because those units inflicted the most heavy casualties to the Japanese. They are really professional soldiers unlike the Philippine Army units who were hastily organized and lacking in training and equipments. It was said that when the scouts arrive to reinforce the front, Philippine Army units get passive boost in morale.
The best explanation about the War by Kings and Generals. I always teared up thinking that, my grandparents and great grandparents, were involved in the war and made me missed them especially when I asked, how was it during the war and they can talk for hours until i fell asleep on the sofa. Also the Holy Trinity of War food which they love to eat until they passed on. Tapioca, Taro and Sweet Potato. Like they can eat it boiled, Mushed, fried etc without seasonimg and they always say, you don't face the difficulties we went through last time that's why you do not appreciate the food.
41st PA Div was headed by BGen Vicente Lim (Filipino) 51st PA Div was headed by BGen Albert Jones (American) 21st PA Div was headed by BGen Mateo Capinpin (Filipino) 1st PA Div was headed by BGen Fidel Segundo (Filipino) 11th PA Div was headed by BGen William Brougher (American) 91st PA Div was headed by Bgen Luther Stevens (American) Almost all American & Filipino troops are green with 6 months reservist training, WW1 rifles, lacking ammunition & food. They gave up after 5 months in Bataan & after 6 months in Corregidor due to lack of ammunition & food. But the Japan strategic war plans have been affected already.
The Japanese loss a lot off men in the jungle of Borneo from Malaria and Cholera then in the real fights. Some units were lost and swallow by the jungle. In North Celebes Japanese builds defensive caves system on the side of the mountain and pill boxes on every beach leading to Langoan Airfield but bypass by Allied Forces.
Another outstanding and detailed video by Kings and Generals! Thanks for inspiring me to pursue my passion in history and start my own history channel! Much love and respect.
I have never in my life been so captivated by world history then I have since I found this channel 💓 thank you so much for your hard work in putting these together!
The Indonesian place names are actually spelled with the pre-independence Dutch orthography instead of modern Indonesian, which is closer to English pronunciation rules. The pronunciation of the city names remain unchanged. Therefore, "oe" is actually pronounced "u", and "dj" is pronounced "j", and that's the modern Indonesian spelling for these cities. Examples include "Bandjermasin" (Banjarmasin), "Moeara Oeja" (Muara Uja), "Martapoera" (Martapura) and so on.
I lived in Java Island and i really love your narration on explaining the campaign Cant wait to see your next videos! anyways, in the past before the alphabet correction, the word Oe reads U and the word J reads Y, like Soerabaja actually reads Surabaya (Soorabaeea). Keep up the good work!
It was 'the Points' where the US for first time experienced the "death before surrender" attitude of the individual Japanese soldier. The Points was only taken after almost every single Japanese soldier had been killed. Of the 2000 Japanese that were committed at 'the Points', only 43 returned to their lines. And this would not be the last time, where the Japanese showed what they thought of surrender.
I like how detailed K & G describes and mentioned diferent units and their exploits just like the one where Ed Dyess and his men have fought. Well I guess this concludes the failure of the Japanese push in the Bataan which Gen. Homma have boasted it would only take 45 days to defeat the combined Fil-American defenders. Put in mind the only well trained units are the Philippine Scouts and Philippine Constabulary the rest of the conscripts or volunteers didn't have enough training they were even young as 18 years old. Imagine them facing up the well equipped and seasoned Japanese soldiers. They have put up a good fight destroying Japanese myth of invincibility. Battling Bastards of Bataan still holds!
Great detail of the fighting retreat by the Brits, Aussies, Dutch, Filipinos, Indians, Americans and indigent peoples. This fighting has been footnoted in most history texts as minor and hopeless. Thank you so much for increasing my understanding. Any chance of disclosing casualties in these campaigns would be much appreciated.
It amuses me how they have every plane doing bombing making Stuka noises. A diving plane is actually noiseless. Stukas had sirens to give them their characteristic shriek. The movies featuring that sound is a recording of a Stuka and meant to give the scene a feeling of intensity.
East Timor is still sporting a Portuguese flag on your map, but by this time it had already been occupied by a Dutch-Australian force and would be invaded and annexed by the Japanese alongside the rest of Timor soon afterwards.
This is one of my absolute favorite series. When this finishes, please continue this format literally anywhere it will be informative and entertaining.
Hello, Good Sir. I always enjoyed your videos. But, I really appreciate the series on the Pacific War. I am an Indonesian, therefore, I can relate so much to this series.
"Soerabaja" is read "Sue-ra-ba-ya". 'ra' as how you read 'run' but without the n sound. 'ba' as how you read the word 'baba'. 'ya' as how you read them in "yikes" (ya-i-ikx)
Yes, they screwed up the pronunciation of city & island names, I heard since childhood, among my parents, aunts, and uncles. Most of my uncles where in the KNIL (Dutch colonial army), though most of those ended up in POW camps, for the duration of the war. The mispronunciations aren't that bad (compared to other videos), but its good to hear them again, as all my relatives from that era have all passed. I was just a kid when I first heard all these ACTUAL war stories, and I'm now in my 60s.
Thanks K&G, I had been waiting every week to since the first episode, i hope somebody from Hollywood or Netflix came up with this and make a series of this.
Why would you want Hollywood of Netflix to make it a series? They are just money grubbers with no loyalty to history. I trust K&G series, THIS series to be more entertaining and more historically accurate than either of those other two.
Following the defense of the Philippines over the course of this series takes me back to when I was in uni taking an elective in Philippine military history; there I learned in detail about the poor training and inadequate equipment of the Philippine Army prior to the war. Only the 1st and 2nd Divisions were considered professionals soldiers; the rest of the divisions were reservists called for service mere months before the war, many of whom had never fired their rifles until actual combat with the Japanese. Most have heard/read about the tenacious defense of the Filipino and American forces on Bataan, of course, but the way this documentary goes into the details really helps drive home just how desperate their situation was, and just how determined those Philippine Army troops were despite being outmatched in training and equipment. Not to mention how significant of a role the elite Philippine Scouts (US Army units of Filipino soldiers under American officers) had in the defense, constantly plugging gaps, counterattacking, and pushing the Japanese back. The archipelago may have been under the US flag, but it was still their country that the Filipinos were defending. Hope this series will get into the Filipino guerrilla resistance as well. Aside from their contributions fighting against the occupation, they had a significant role in the liberation campaign as well, being organized to fight alongside US invasion forces, and sometimes liberating entire provinces by themselves. Long live the Fighting Filipinos and the Battling Bastards of Bataan!
@@blava3155 They were all beheaded by their Japanese guards. They were brought to the beach, told to get down on their knees on edge of a pit, and had their heads chopped of by a guard wielding a sword, one by one every last one of them. (Mark Felton has made a video on this subject)
@@wolfu597 Several hundred (some 10-20%) of the POWs were executed, supposedly as revenge for a Japanese ship that was sunk shortly prior. The Japanese commander in charge of the massacre eventually hanged for his crimes, though the rear adm who ordered it died in a plane crash and never stood trial.
@@georgebrantley776 No offense but I think you're referring to what happened at Tarakan island, described in ep. 8. The defenders of Ambon didn't have any coastal artillery and therefore no Japanese ships were sunk during the invasion of Ambon.
Thank you KnG for your highly detailed and extensive explanation of the Pacific war! The defense by the Battan Bastards must have contributed to the harsh treatment of the Philipine/American POWs on the Battan death March. When they defeated the Aussies on Ambon, they just slaughtered 180+ POWs; they celebrated while killing them!
Looks like the source of this video used old Indonesian (or perhaps old Malay) spelling such as Martapoera = Martapura, Baroe = Baru, Oelin = Ulin etc. OE equal U in old Indonesian spelling, also J equal to Y By the way this video is really detailed, my history lessons doesn't even made 10% of it
I love how much detail I'm getting about the conflict in the East Indies, and I really appreciate how much effort you put into correct pronunciation. I don't know how much more Surabaya will factor into future episodes that you might have already recorded, but it is pronounced like SurabaYA. Dutch spelling at the time uses the Dutch "J" sound which is an English "Y." Just a tip. :)
Looking at the map. I see why the Japanese hated the Filipino and American soldiers so much. Philippines was not the main objective of the campaign but it was sticking out like a sore thumb. Serving as a major obstacle on conquering the Dutch East Indies. They hated the Filipino and American soldiers so much that even when they surrendered, the Japanese committed war crimes during the infamous Bataan Death March
They had less than 0 honor. Most other wars/armies in history respected a brave, defeated enemy. Imperial Japan was a malicious, petty child that punished people for standing up.
@@georgebrantley776 there was a singaporean guy who led his unit to the last man, was an epic last stand. The IJA desecrated his corpse and then his family to. What. Honor. I want to clarify I have nothing but good feelings for modern Japan and Japanese folks if this seems like a crass racial slur. 1940's Japan is not 2020's Japan.
@@fatalshore5068 Germans were more honorable during the DUNKIRK assault few French unit hold the line in order for the British to escape. After the operation the GERMANS give those French unit a military honor for their bravery and they let them go to their LINE in FRANCE for the second phase of the war and the invasion of Paris
@@vantom6194 To the western Allies, maybe...but not on the Eastern Front. 80% of regular German army divisions were involved in war crimes in the Soviet Union, and the majority of Soviet soldiers taken prisoner by the Germans were murdered in captivity. In a fact a Western allied soldier had better odds of surviving Japanese captivity than a Soviet soldier did of surviving German captivity. While Germany often treated Western allied PoWs humanely that also wasn't always the case, and there are still plenty of examples of atrocities, including mass murder.
this series is so great, as an indonesian who live in java island, i can't wait for the javan campaign part. i hope you can continue to the indonesian war of independence part
It's sad how little information there is about the Japanese invasion of the Dutch NEI. It's an interesting campaign I find. Also interesting learning how the locals gradually turned against the Dutch due to the Japanese invasion. Great job on these videos.
My great uncle was one of the 70 men from the 21st persuite squadron who fought under dyess. He survived the battles of Bataan and coriggadore and the death march but later died in the cabatattuan prison camp.
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This the most detail of invasion of dutch east indies/Indonesia, surely the team has conducted thoroughly research or maybe a senior historian expert was involved on this matter.
It is the old Indonesian spelling. Whenever you find "oe" in an Indonesian name, please say "u". For example at 5:46, it's Kota Baru. I really like this series 👍
Fun fact: The future appointed capital of Indonesia is located in the Japanese route from Balikpapan to invade Banjarmasin. Dense tropical forest at that time
You should pronounce the old Dutch spelling of Malay words the right way, i.e. : Baroe = Baru Bangoen = Bangun Tandjoeng = Tanjung Moera = Muara Soerabaja = Surabaya
The primary objective of Japanese invasion to the Dutch East Indies was securing its oil supplies after the US placed embargo. By the time of the Japanese headed towards Java, some top colonial Dutch officials had been relocated to Bandung then to Australia. The notable execption was Tjadra van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, the last governor-general of the colony who remained in Java and eventually was taken prisoner by the Japanese.
It's kinda ironic that Indonesian resistance against the Dutch is almost always in form of guerilla warfare, and here they are doing the same tactic against the Japanese.
Just want to point out that "Soerabaja" is the old spelling of the city, now it's spelled as "Surabaya" and that's also how we pronounce it And also the "oe" and "dj" digraphs(?) are also old spellings, nowadays it's spelled as "u" and "j" respectively and pronounced as such (u is like the oo in boom and j like the j in jungle)
@@seanmac1793 I dont mind with the old spelling thing, i just wanna point out that the pronounciation is off But yeah i think i did worded it like im talking more about the spelling rather than the pronounciation
Dear admin, please provide Indonesian subtitles, because many Indonesian people like this historical video, one of them is me, I hope the admin reads it
I don't know if this would help, but OE is pronounced 'U' in the old Indonesian pronounce. Same goes for TJ that is pronounced 'Ch' sound, DJ is 'J', and J is 'Y'. One of the example is 6:32, 7:16, Moeara Oeja is pronounced as Muara Uya and Kota Baroe is Kota Baru.
Hello Everyone I wish to share my own fair share of war stories. I am 15 right now and I live in the Phillipines I live with my two grandma's which are sisters. They are siblings of 9 my older grandmother was around 9 and the younger one was 6 when the Japanese came to Philippines, I am a history enthusiast since I was a child and I always ask my two grandmothers what their lives was when they were little. They said to me it is all hard, they hid in the mountains to avoid being discovered by the Japanese, when war came to their village they hid on a cave in the mountains to avoid being discovered. They only brought with them very few belongings like food, water, matresses etc. They rarely go out of the cave. I never met other of the siblings but my two grannies said they all survived. They said that not all japanese were bad, even some Japanese will show sympathy and will give food. The rules back in those day they said that if you are a girl don't go out of the house and hid or you will be a comfort women(sex slaves) of Japanese, second is that always avoid the Kempeitai, this people are like civilian police which reports or condemn people who are suspiciously rising a revolt against the Japs. If you were condemned by a Kempeitai they said it is your one way ticket to heaven. My grannies remember so few because when war came they are so young. But the most unforgettable lines that my two grandmother said is that "always bow and show respect even if it is against your own will".
There is an correction for some of the language naming the cities in the D.E.I. Here in Indonesia, there are a type of alphabets called “ejaan lama” which basically means old alphabets. Now the ejaan lama were no longer used these days but it was still used back then until somewhere around Soeharto New Order's era. For example in 6:32 Moeara Deja is spelled (as well as today written) as “Muara Deya” as well as 7:15 Kota Baroe is spelled “Kota Baru” Hope that would help for the upcomming episodes :)
@@realhomosapien yeah it must feel a bit werid being in touch with the local region in the modern day but it's a consistent convention across history. It's the battle of Stalingrad and all histories about the battle refer to the city as Stalingrad as apposed to Volgagrad.
@@pritsingh9766 why do you think I hate the idea of Asians being successful? I'm Vietnamese and the MVPs I mentioned contributed more to liberate Asia than the rest of the Allies
in the video Borneo still looks green, but now everything has changed, there is no dense forest. Human possession destroys the forest more severely than during war
This time the Japanese Army respected the tenacious of Filipino and Americans. The Japanese totally believe that Americans are weak as Adolf Hitler describe. The FILIPINOs in the other hand are just stubborn and has a very high ego. Even in other wars in Korea Filipinos shown this stubbornness against the Chinese communist. The Battle of Yoldong were the Fighting FILIPINOs repel the great spring offensive of Chinese and North Korean troops. The FILIPINOs is like somewhat an animal the more it gets wounded the more it gets madder it's like a wild dogs. The Japanese also astonish when the FILIPINOs choose to be beheaded than to leak information to the Japanese. After the fall of Bataan the Third republic of the Philippines was established by the Japanese. Giving the FILIPINOs somewhat freedom and independence in 1943. But the new government of the Philippines didn't really cooperate to the Japanese. Jose P. laurel the guy who was being choose by the Japanese to be the president. Refuse to the Japanese request to declare war to the U.S as laurel said to the Japanese. There's no reason for the Filipinos to declare war to United States especially they Filipinos consider the Americans as a close freind. That's why during the 3rd republic of the Philippines which established by the Japanese Government. Didn't get the support of the Philippines the fact that theres no Filipino that inlist in the Japanese Army. The Japanese really wanted to have Filipino in the army but the new President refuse to do so. .
Previously in our series: 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
Pacific War #3 - Japanese attack on Guam, Wake and the Philippines: th-cam.com/video/MZ4d7Qeyivk/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War #4 - Japan Continues Attacking: Borneo, Philippines: th-cam.com/video/MhQrv82HHn8/w-d-xo.html Pacific War #5 - Fall of Wake Island: th-cam.com/video/tgtagewcqKo/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War #6 - Battle of Kampar: th-cam.com/video/AGYaghICqkY/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War #7 - Battle of Slim River: th-cam.com/video/meWALqmsXxs/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War #8 - Battle for the Dutch East Indies: th-cam.com/video/lBwjgesFsFU/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War #9 - Invasion of New Britain: th-cam.com/video/rUL538i8Oms/w-d-xo.html
Pacific War #10 - Fall of Malaya: th-cam.com/video/z7KaNtn2sFo/w-d-xo.html
will there be videos for the front in China again
will there be videos for the front in China again
Your titles link 404s btw
Scale. There needs to be a scale ina corner: km/miles. Something that shows how vast the area is.
it's actually pronounce as Bata-an
As Indonesian, we never heard this much detail of Japenese operation in East Indiche. Even from our local history books. Great and awesome content.
kalo buku sejarah sekolahan ya jangan harap.
harus ngambil sumber2 lain misalnya buku karangan nino oktorino
Wkwkw samain Ama buku sekolah 😂
@@walid8981 local history books are not the same as "school books".
@@rachmawanatmajiperdana8866 Nino is great, but someway I found his books lack something as historical books. If you ever read Stephen e Ambrose books or pals. You know the differences. And, I'm not even mentioning school books in my comment. Local history books are not the same as school books.
jadi intinya nyari academic atau buku populer?
This is by far the most detailed explanation about the battle of points and pockets in Bataan. This was only taught as a small victory but never explained much. Im proud of the organized defense waged by the Fil Am Battling Bastards of Bataan.🙏🙏🙏
Battle of the pockets hasnr been covered yet
This is by far the most detailed explanation of the pacific war of ww2. Love the series, and respect the massive amount of work put into this whole channel.
*Totally agreed. Your comment needs to be pinned. :)*
I love this channel and many,MANY of their AMAZING series, which beat séries on equal themes made by other channels...but on this i disagree...there is literally an entire TH-cam Channel with employées, dedicated ONLY To ww2 (the Channel is literally called World War 2)...that Channel has the most amount of detail
@@alexandreribeiro2014 honestly I feel like they’re pretty even on a video to video basis, but i prefer the mix of time periods kings and generals covers
@@Thunderstar7 absolutely agree about the variety of content in Kings and Generals! The quality they put and the variety of themes is what makes this channel excellent...but the voice of Indy Neidell and his comentary is just pure gold
Most coverage we see is from the US perspective. This is far more objective & detailed.
I had no idea that US and Filipino defense was so tenacious. They were one of the earliest areas attacked yet they are still fighting and wining individual battles.
Agree there are so much to be learned out from the classroom textbooks. We often read and discuss MacArthur's declaration of Manila as an open city and his USAFEE retreat in Bataan and its eventual surrender which led to the Death March. This detailed documentary shed light to the struggles of the defenders.
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ya not to mention that the Philippine Army has few regular divisions namely 1st (the actual Philippine Army) and 2nd (Philippine Constabulary) divisions that were trained the rest were just 18 year old kids from the countryside and college kids 3rd commission LTs for your local ROTC corp with rifles bigger than them (Enfield 1917, Springfield 1903s rifles) uniforms to larger for them and limited training (American size) and old weapons from WW1 that can be used not bad they lasted for 6 months before surrendering
They didn't end up surrendering until around the time of Coral Sea.
Bataan didn't fall due to enemy actions. It fell due to hunger.
Your Dutch East Indies series has been great so far. I can see you put a lot of researchs in your videos
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I had no idea about Filipino troops before this series - I suppose I took them for granted but didn’t consider how well they evidently held up against the Japanese.
Now I’m seeing Filipino units all over the map.
They would also have one of the larger & more successful resistance movements of the war. By the time US forces would return to the Philippines in 1944, Japan only effectively controlled 12 of the nation's 48 provinces. Guerillas had the rest.
They're right up there with the Yugoslavs.
Yup, one of the toughest resistance populations during the war. Bless them. Fiercely tough and gave the Japanese bloody noses in many encounters.
Also, majority of the Philippine Scouts unit with American flags in the video are consists of highly trained Filipinos commanded by American officers. After the surrender of Bataan, many of them were executed by the Japanese because those units inflicted the most heavy casualties to the Japanese. They are really professional soldiers unlike the Philippine Army units who were hastily organized and lacking in training and equipments. It was said that when the scouts arrive to reinforce the front, Philippine Army units get passive boost in morale.
The best explanation about the War by Kings and Generals. I always teared up thinking that, my grandparents and great grandparents, were involved in the war and made me missed them especially when I asked, how was it during the war and they can talk for hours until i fell asleep on the sofa.
Also the Holy Trinity of War food which they love to eat until they passed on. Tapioca, Taro and Sweet Potato. Like they can eat it boiled, Mushed, fried etc without seasonimg and they always say, you don't face the difficulties we went through last time that's why you do not appreciate the food.
41st PA Div was headed by BGen Vicente Lim (Filipino)
51st PA Div was headed by BGen Albert Jones (American)
21st PA Div was headed by BGen Mateo Capinpin (Filipino)
1st PA Div was headed by BGen Fidel Segundo (Filipino)
11th PA Div was headed by BGen William Brougher (American)
91st PA Div was headed by Bgen Luther Stevens (American)
Almost all American & Filipino troops are green with 6 months reservist training, WW1 rifles, lacking ammunition & food. They gave up after 5 months in Bataan & after 6 months in Corregidor due to lack of ammunition & food. But the Japan strategic war plans have been affected already.
Imagine the landscape of Borneo in 1940s. Swamps and forests everywhere! It must be a rough campaign!
The Japanese loss a lot off men in the jungle of Borneo from Malaria and Cholera then in the real fights. Some units were lost and swallow by the jungle. In North Celebes Japanese builds defensive caves system on the side of the mountain and pill boxes on every beach leading to Langoan Airfield but bypass by Allied Forces.
No palm oil plantations and plenty of wild life...
“Battling Bastards if Bataan” sounds like a Tarantino film.
The Inglorious Bastards of Bataan
Another outstanding and detailed video by Kings and Generals! Thanks for inspiring me to pursue my passion in history and start my own history channel! Much love and respect.
You actually have a good history channel. There’s lots of potential to grow. Just keep the hard work up!
@@sethkoch7921Thank you!
I have never in my life been so captivated by world history then I have since I found this channel 💓 thank you so much for your hard work in putting these together!
The Indonesian place names are actually spelled with the pre-independence Dutch orthography instead of modern Indonesian, which is closer to English pronunciation rules. The pronunciation of the city names remain unchanged.
Therefore, "oe" is actually pronounced "u", and "dj" is pronounced "j", and that's the modern Indonesian spelling for these cities.
Examples include "Bandjermasin" (Banjarmasin), "Moeara Oeja" (Muara Uja), "Martapoera" (Martapura) and so on.
isn't it muara uya?
Yup as for “j” is pronounced as “y”. Jogjakarta should be pronounced Yogyakarta instead, but Jogja just sounds better than Yogya.
I believe this is done because most sources use the colonial names and keeping continuity with our accounts is a priority.
In my opinion this is the best series about this topic anywhere on the internet, real time and extremely detailed.
the problem here is lack of animation. armchair historian has no match on it.
Moeara Oeya, Kandangan, Martapura dan Oelin airfield. I never heard this in school lesson before. Great description about Japan military plan
Malaya and DEI: Falling to the Japanese each episode.
Philippines: We drove them back?
I lived in Java Island and i really love your narration on explaining the campaign
Cant wait to see your next videos!
anyways, in the past before the alphabet correction, the word Oe reads U and the word J reads Y, like Soerabaja actually reads Surabaya (Soorabaeea). Keep up the good work!
Every episode i watch i`m surprised by the richness of details and care editing the video. Congratulations from Brasil!!
It was 'the Points' where the US for first time experienced the "death before surrender" attitude of the individual Japanese soldier. The Points was only taken after almost every single Japanese soldier had been killed. Of the 2000 Japanese that were committed at 'the Points', only 43 returned to their lines. And this would not be the last time, where the Japanese showed what they thought of surrender.
This series keeps getting better n better. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
I like how detailed K & G describes and mentioned diferent units and their exploits just like the one where Ed Dyess and his men have fought. Well I guess this concludes the failure of the Japanese push in the Bataan which Gen. Homma have boasted it would only take 45 days to defeat the combined Fil-American defenders. Put in mind the only well trained units are the Philippine Scouts and Philippine Constabulary the rest of the conscripts or volunteers didn't have enough training they were even young as 18 years old. Imagine them facing up the well equipped and seasoned Japanese soldiers. They have put up a good fight destroying Japanese myth of invincibility. Battling Bastards of Bataan still holds!
Fantastic content as always Gentlemen and Ladies. I am looking forward to paying attention every Tuesday for the next 3.5 years.
Imagine the phillipine divisions yelling "Mabuhay" after repelling japanese attacks. Just epic
Great detail of the fighting retreat by the Brits, Aussies, Dutch, Filipinos, Indians, Americans and indigent peoples. This fighting has been footnoted in most history texts as minor and hopeless. Thank you so much for increasing my understanding. Any chance of disclosing casualties in these campaigns would be much appreciated.
Excited on how KnG will tackle on HUKBALAHAP participation.
It amuses me how they have every plane doing bombing making Stuka noises. A diving plane is actually noiseless. Stukas had sirens to give them their characteristic shriek. The movies featuring that sound is a recording of a Stuka and meant to give the scene a feeling of intensity.
East Timor is still sporting a Portuguese flag on your map, but by this time it had already been occupied by a Dutch-Australian force and would be invaded and annexed by the Japanese alongside the rest of Timor soon afterwards.
@@nicholasconder4703 they are the japanese, what can you expect?
Now I am fan of you..
You mention my hometown Borneo exactly Samarinda..
I never know about the bettle in detail.. But you make it
This is one of my absolute favorite series. When this finishes, please continue this format literally anywhere it will be informative and entertaining.
Hello, Good Sir. I always enjoyed your videos. But, I really appreciate the series on the Pacific War. I am an Indonesian, therefore, I can relate so much to this series.
Battling Bastards of Bataan... what a great name
"Soerabaja" is read "Sue-ra-ba-ya". 'ra' as how you read 'run' but without the n sound. 'ba' as how you read the word 'baba'. 'ya' as how you read them in "yikes" (ya-i-ikx)
Yes, they screwed up the pronunciation of city & island names, I heard since childhood, among my parents, aunts, and uncles. Most of my uncles where in the KNIL (Dutch colonial army), though most of those ended up in POW camps, for the duration of the war. The mispronunciations aren't that bad (compared to other videos), but its good to hear them again, as all my relatives from that era have all passed. I was just a kid when I first heard all these ACTUAL war stories, and I'm now in my 60s.
That's correct, "it's Old Spelling" of Indonesia language that J be read as Y and oe = u.
it is so good to see the Pacific Theater getting focus as it gets so often overshadowed by Europe.
I love this animated series, breaks down battles masterfully. Well done!
I'm from Samarinda, born and live here, this is a good story of hostory, thank you sir
Thanks K&G, I had been waiting every week to since the first episode, i hope somebody from Hollywood or Netflix came up with this and make a series of this.
Why would you want Hollywood of Netflix to make it a series? They are just money grubbers with no loyalty to history. I trust K&G series, THIS series to be more entertaining and more historically accurate than either of those other two.
Ah another episode so excited
Terrific installment in a great series!👍🙏
Following the defense of the Philippines over the course of this series takes me back to when I was in uni taking an elective in Philippine military history; there I learned in detail about the poor training and inadequate equipment of the Philippine Army prior to the war. Only the 1st and 2nd Divisions were considered professionals soldiers; the rest of the divisions were reservists called for service mere months before the war, many of whom had never fired their rifles until actual combat with the Japanese. Most have heard/read about the tenacious defense of the Filipino and American forces on Bataan, of course, but the way this documentary goes into the details really helps drive home just how desperate their situation was, and just how determined those Philippine Army troops were despite being outmatched in training and equipment. Not to mention how significant of a role the elite Philippine Scouts (US Army units of Filipino soldiers under American officers) had in the defense, constantly plugging gaps, counterattacking, and pushing the Japanese back.
The archipelago may have been under the US flag, but it was still their country that the Filipinos were defending. Hope this series will get into the Filipino guerrilla resistance as well. Aside from their contributions fighting against the occupation, they had a significant role in the liberation campaign as well, being organized to fight alongside US invasion forces, and sometimes liberating entire provinces by themselves. Long live the Fighting Filipinos and the Battling Bastards of Bataan!
When the scouts arrive to reinforce the front, the Philippine Army gets a passive boost in morale.
loving the series!
Nice i'm from martapura😊
I love your videos! Keep them coming, Definitely beats the history channel by miles.
If the Australians of "Gull Force" had known what was in store for them, they would've fought to the bitter end.
What happened to them?
@@blava3155 They were all beheaded by their Japanese guards.
They were brought to the beach, told to get down on their knees on edge of a pit, and had their heads chopped of by a guard wielding a sword, one by one every last one of them.
(Mark Felton has made a video on this subject)
@@wolfu597 Several hundred (some 10-20%) of the POWs were executed, supposedly as revenge for a Japanese ship that was sunk shortly prior. The Japanese commander in charge of the massacre eventually hanged for his crimes, though the rear adm who ordered it died in a plane crash and never stood trial.
@@georgebrantley776 No offense but I think you're referring to what happened at Tarakan island, described in ep. 8.
The defenders of Ambon didn't have any coastal artillery and therefore no Japanese ships were sunk during the invasion of Ambon.
Love this series!
Thank you KnG for your highly detailed and extensive explanation of the Pacific war! The defense by the Battan Bastards must have contributed to the harsh treatment of the Philipine/American POWs on the Battan death March. When they defeated the Aussies on Ambon, they just slaughtered 180+ POWs; they celebrated while killing them!
I personally think I'm glad to see my country in your videos. keep up your good work
My native language is not English so don't insult me...
Excellent video 📹
Wait for next one
Looks like the source of this video used old Indonesian (or perhaps old Malay) spelling such as Martapoera = Martapura, Baroe = Baru, Oelin = Ulin etc.
OE equal U in old Indonesian spelling, also J equal to Y
By the way this video is really detailed, my history lessons doesn't even made 10% of it
I love how much detail I'm getting about the conflict in the East Indies, and I really appreciate how much effort you put into correct pronunciation.
I don't know how much more Surabaya will factor into future episodes that you might have already recorded, but it is pronounced like SurabaYA. Dutch spelling at the time uses the Dutch "J" sound which is an English "Y." Just a tip. :)
Looking at the map. I see why the Japanese hated the Filipino and American soldiers so much. Philippines was not the main objective of the campaign but it was sticking out like a sore thumb. Serving as a major obstacle on conquering the Dutch East Indies. They hated the Filipino and American soldiers so much that even when they surrendered, the Japanese committed war crimes during the infamous Bataan Death March
They had less than 0 honor. Most other wars/armies in history respected a brave, defeated enemy. Imperial Japan was a malicious, petty child that punished people for standing up.
@@fatalshore5068 Honor meant not surrendering. They expected you to fight to the last man
@@georgebrantley776 there was a singaporean guy who led his unit to the last man, was an epic last stand. The IJA desecrated his corpse and then his family to. What. Honor.
I want to clarify I have nothing but good feelings for modern Japan and Japanese folks if this seems like a crass racial slur. 1940's Japan is not 2020's Japan.
@@fatalshore5068 Germans were more honorable during the DUNKIRK assault few French unit hold the line in order for the British to escape. After the operation the GERMANS give those French unit a military honor for their bravery and they let them go to their LINE in FRANCE for the second phase of the war and the invasion of Paris
@@vantom6194 To the western Allies, maybe...but not on the Eastern Front. 80% of regular German army divisions were involved in war crimes in the Soviet Union, and the majority of Soviet soldiers taken prisoner by the Germans were murdered in captivity. In a fact a Western allied soldier had better odds of surviving Japanese captivity than a Soviet soldier did of surviving German captivity.
While Germany often treated Western allied PoWs humanely that also wasn't always the case, and there are still plenty of examples of atrocities, including mass murder.
A scale would make this series even better.
My absolute favorite yt channel.Amazing videos visually memorable and a great use of vocabulary!!!!👏👏
this series is so great, as an indonesian who live in java island, i can't wait for the javan campaign part. i hope you can continue to the indonesian war of independence part
Quick tip for any future Indonesian video that hasn't been made, spell 'oe' as 'u' because back that Indonesia didn't had the letter 'u'
Also "j" spelled as "y", and "dj" spelled As "j"
It's sad how little information there is about the Japanese invasion of the Dutch NEI. It's an interesting campaign I find. Also interesting learning how the locals gradually turned against the Dutch due to the Japanese invasion. Great job on these videos.
My great uncle was one of the 70 men from the 21st persuite squadron who fought under dyess. He survived the battles of Bataan and coriggadore and the death march but later died in the cabatattuan prison camp.
Tokyo headquaters to Gen. Homma: "Shamefurr Dispray!"
love this very much
This series is amazing 🎉
Aside from the impressive knowledge here.
That lords title, ... i've dont know it really is one, what a smart and brilliant move you got a title and a small land while you help create a green area in the future. Nice
Thanks for making this y'all
This the most detail of invasion of dutch east indies/Indonesia, surely the team has conducted thoroughly research or maybe a senior historian expert was involved on this matter.
After watching defeat after defeat across the board for these past weeks, it seems almost insane to me that the Japanese got stopped at Baatan
It is the old Indonesian spelling. Whenever you find "oe" in an Indonesian name, please say "u". For example at 5:46, it's Kota Baru. I really like this series 👍
Fun fact: The future appointed capital of Indonesia is located in the Japanese route from Balikpapan to invade Banjarmasin. Dense tropical forest at that time
I was hoping another episode was released last Tuesday but ok ill wait
You should pronounce the old Dutch spelling of Malay words the right way, i.e. :
Baroe = Baru
Bangoen = Bangun
Tandjoeng = Tanjung
Moera = Muara
Soerabaja = Surabaya
@@g7enn89 Bangun in malay mean get up or wake up
@@g7enn89 bangun in Malay means get up, wake up, to build, to develop.
@@g7enn89 Yep, Malayo-Polynesian languages share a lot of similar word origins~
Ini baru chanel berkelas bukannya chanel abal2 👍
Thank you , K&G .
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The primary objective of Japanese invasion to the Dutch East Indies was securing its oil supplies after the US placed embargo.
By the time of the Japanese headed towards Java, some top colonial Dutch officials had been relocated to Bandung then to Australia. The notable execption was Tjadra van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, the last governor-general of the colony who remained in Java and eventually was taken prisoner by the Japanese.
Great job! Could you make a serie about the spanish civil war as well? Cheers!
sir . Please do a series about french revolutionary wars.
very good video
I really enjoy this series! Is there going to be an episode this week?
It's kinda ironic that Indonesian resistance against the Dutch is almost always in form of guerilla warfare, and here they are doing the same tactic against the Japanese.
The Dutch also learned how to fight guerrilla style during the Atjeh war
When is the next episode coming up?
Fantastic s detailed stories of History. I’m going to tell everyone about you. 🤸🏻♀️
Just want to point out that "Soerabaja" is the old spelling of the city, now it's spelled as "Surabaya" and that's also how we pronounce it
And also the "oe" and "dj" digraphs(?) are also old spellings, nowadays it's spelled as "u" and "j" respectively and pronounced as such (u is like the oo in boom and j like the j in jungle)
I believe this a deliberate choice to keep in line with previous English scholarship on the subject that uses the Colonial names
@@seanmac1793 I dont mind with the old spelling thing, i just wanna point out that the pronounciation is off
But yeah i think i did worded it like im talking more about the spelling rather than the pronounciation
Can someone tell me the name of the music in the opening sequence?
10:47 Uh... Might wanna get that corrected because that's actually Mt Samat...
There is no such thing as a Mt Bataan, where'd y'all get that from?...
The J letter on "Soerabaja" is read "y" like when you said "Yes"
Dear admin, please provide Indonesian subtitles, because many Indonesian people like this historical video, one of them is me, I hope the admin reads it
You can ask the admin to give you access to the videos, to enable you subtitle it yourself
I don't know if this would help, but OE is pronounced 'U' in the old Indonesian pronounce. Same goes for TJ that is pronounced 'Ch' sound, DJ is 'J', and J is 'Y'. One of the example is 6:32, 7:16, Moeara Oeja is pronounced as Muara Uya and Kota Baroe is Kota Baru.
Please bring back the Old entry sound. It makes what you are about to say more interesting!
Can u pls make a video on the Liberation War of Bangladesh 1971
At this stage in this series, I Like the vid before watching!
Awesome
Waiting for today's edition.
Hello Everyone I wish to share my own fair share of war stories.
I am 15 right now and I live in the Phillipines I live with my two grandma's which are sisters. They are siblings of 9 my older grandmother was around 9 and the younger one was 6 when the Japanese came to Philippines, I am a history enthusiast since I was a child and I always ask my two grandmothers what their lives was when they were little. They said to me it is all hard, they hid in the mountains to avoid being discovered by the Japanese, when war came to their village they hid on a cave in the mountains to avoid being discovered. They only brought with them very few belongings like food, water, matresses etc. They rarely go out of the cave. I never met other of the siblings but my two grannies said they all survived. They said that not all japanese were bad, even some Japanese will show sympathy and will give food. The rules back in those day they said that if you are a girl don't go out of the house and hid or you will be a comfort women(sex slaves) of Japanese, second is that always avoid the Kempeitai, this people are like civilian police which reports or condemn people who are suspiciously rising a revolt against the Japs. If you were condemned by a Kempeitai they said it is your one way ticket to heaven. My grannies remember so few because when war came they are so young. But the most unforgettable lines that my two grandmother said is that "always bow and show respect even if it is against your own will".
which town in philippines were they living ?
They were living in Ilo-Ilo in visayas but now they are in Luzon at cavite
There is an correction for some of the language naming the cities in the D.E.I. Here in Indonesia, there are a type of alphabets called “ejaan lama” which basically means old alphabets. Now the ejaan lama were no longer used these days but it was still used back then until somewhere around Soeharto New Order's era.
For example in 6:32 Moeara Deja is spelled (as well as today written) as “Muara Deya” as well as 7:15 Kota Baroe is spelled “Kota Baru”
Hope that would help for the upcomming episodes :)
I believe this is a deliberate choice to keep in line with previous English sources which us the colonial names
@@seanmac1793 i see
@@realhomosapien yeah it must feel a bit werid being in touch with the local region in the modern day but it's a consistent convention across history. It's the battle of Stalingrad and all histories about the battle refer to the city as Stalingrad as apposed to Volgagrad.
Good video 👍🏻
admin why not make about the battle of Kendari??
respect the effort!
The MVP's of this video were the Americans and the Australians for their stubborn resistance.
You forgot the Filipinos mate but thats alright👍.
@@krieg2759 Filipinos were considered Americans before independence
@@theawesomeman9821 Yeah Filipino Americans
@@pritsingh9766 If the Japanese weren't so brutal and actually abided by the laws of war, I might have cheered for them
@@pritsingh9766 why do you think I hate the idea of Asians being successful? I'm Vietnamese and the MVPs I mentioned contributed more to liberate Asia than the rest of the Allies
no video this week for Pacific war?
in the video Borneo still looks green, but now everything has changed, there is no dense forest. Human possession destroys the forest more severely than during war
Please make a Kokoda Trail video.
Many Filipinos wanted to fight. Unfortunately McArthur does not have enough rifles.
This time the Japanese Army respected the tenacious of Filipino and Americans. The Japanese totally believe that Americans are weak as Adolf Hitler describe.
The FILIPINOs in the other hand are just stubborn and has a very high ego. Even in other wars in Korea Filipinos shown this stubbornness against the Chinese communist.
The Battle of Yoldong were the Fighting FILIPINOs repel the great spring offensive of Chinese and North Korean troops.
The FILIPINOs is like somewhat an animal the more it gets wounded the more it gets madder it's like a wild dogs.
The Japanese also astonish when the FILIPINOs choose to be beheaded than to leak information to the Japanese.
After the fall of Bataan the Third republic of the Philippines was established by the Japanese. Giving the FILIPINOs somewhat freedom and independence in 1943.
But the new government of the Philippines didn't really cooperate to the Japanese. Jose P. laurel the guy who was being choose by the Japanese to be the president.
Refuse to the Japanese request to declare war to the U.S as laurel said to the Japanese. There's no reason for the Filipinos to declare war to United States especially they Filipinos consider the Americans as a close freind. That's why during the 3rd republic of the Philippines which established by the Japanese Government. Didn't get the support of the Philippines the fact that theres no Filipino that inlist in the Japanese Army. The Japanese really wanted to have Filipino in the army but the new President refuse to do so.
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Second Republic not the 3rd thats comes after
Hello does anyone know the music at 14:34 ?