Units of History - Marine Raiders (1942): Birth of the USMC Spec Ops DOCUMENTARY
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In this Units of History episode we explore the vaunted story of the US Marine Raiders which emerged in WW2 to act as the tip of the spear for offensives against Japan in the Pacific War.
We begin the episode with an overview of the state of the US Marine Corps following the Great War. It was in these years that the forces slowly came into play which would eventually birth the Marine Raiders. One major factor was the development of Amphibious Operations Doctrine which increasingly called for the use of special first wave units meant to soften enemy defenses prior to a landing. To this end, the Marine Corps would begin allocating time and resources towards this effort as war loomed on the horizon in the Pacific. Key to these efforts would be two commanders who ended up leading the First and Second Raider Battalions, namely Merritt Edson and Evans Carlson.
We spend time familiarizing ourselves with the careers of both these men and how their particular personalities would end up shaping their units. Our history documentary then covers the equipment, training, and tactics of the Marine Raiders as the came into being in the months immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
We then cover the service history of the US Marine Raiders from the raid on Making Island to the Battle of Bloody ridge on Guadalcanal. In part 2 we will continue this story with the long raid and their continued operations through 1943.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:40 Origins
07:41 Merritt Edson
09:07 Evans Carlson
11:52 Creation
17:36 Equipment
20:25 Organization
23:56 Tactics
25:45 Service History
27:55 Makin Island Raid
32:28 Battle of Tulagi
34:04 Battle of Bloody Ridge
38:59 Aftermath
Credits
Research = Eric Myers
Script = Invicta
Narration = Guy Michaels
Art = Penta Limited
#history
#documentary
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As a modern MARSOC Raider this is now my favorite episode. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of the WWII Raiders and hear their amazing stories first hand. Great job and thanks for making this.
MARSOC isn’t even real raiders. 4th bn boat companies are.
Semper fi man
Like, sharted, and watched
@@JohanCody any of the 4th bn boat company Marines always have the opportunity to take the MARSOC Raider selection and school. I would respect their opinion on who the “real” Raiders more after they did so.
I’m interested myself in becoming a Raider after high school. I hear Recon is a good stepping stone
My Great Uncle was a Raider during WW2. Super nice to see them being done justice, thanks!
your great uncle is a brave man,the 1940s japanese best fear his wrath,I wouldn't have been brave enough to fight
Hello, stranger on the internet. My dad grew up on stories of the Marine Raiders as a boy through the 50s and 60s. He volunteered for the Marines in 1972 after completing a year of junior college. He ended up not deploying since the war was winding down and was discharged that same year. However, he told me stories of Evans Carlson and his Raiders as I was growing up. He was inspired by Carlson's training of his battalion and how important it was for his men to know 'why' they fought. A book he often talked about was one called, American Commando, by John Wukovits. You might consider reading it if you haven't already.
What rank was your Great Uncle during WW2 while serving with the Marine Raiders?
My father was a Carlson Raider who was wounded on Okinawa in the Battle of Sugar Loaf Hill.
Semper Fi dude and god bless him
It’s so wild to hear not only of the battles, but the philosophy behind the leadership that enables their tactics, and ability to create opportunities. These heroes were TOUGH
This is easily one of your best videos and it's cool to see more people talk about the Marine raiders, hopefully one day you guys will make a video about MACV-SOG.
It's been fascinating to learn about after having had my head buried in antiquity for so long. This will likely end up being a 2-3 part series and then we will see what people want covered next for modern units. Already working on a Finnish War soldier episode to get another angle on units of the era.
@@InvictaHistory
I know that my idea may be controversial but maybe some japaness,german and italian units from ww2 could be interesting?We dont get many things about them,so it could be interesting to look at them,with or without mentioning the war crimes they comited,your choice.
@@InvictaHistory that's going to be awesome I can't wait to see a video from you guys about the white death the greatest sniper of all time .
@@georgecristiancripcia4819 I’d like that to, only recently I learnt their were some SS who were not war criminals (I know sound bonkers but yes form want little I’ve found are rare)
@@InvictaHistory Are you guys going to more fantasy I’d like it and I like this video ❤
The difference between the organizational philosophies of the two initial branches of the raiders is really fascinating.
And as far as I can tell, first raiders had much better results. The Makin raid could only verify 46 confirmed Japanese causalities, the 180 is a claim by carlson coming from the flying boats. Makin was seen as a disaster and Carlson was relieved of command not long after, and he never led another unit in combat again. By contrast, first raider's commander had a distinguished career and was promoted to commander of the first marine regiment in 1943.
I agree it’s a very interesting part of their history. Especially, with the lead up and with modern thinking, you would assume the 2nd would become the success not the 1st.
@TheSunderingSea CoD World at War told me they were good so I will continue believing that they had an outsized mental effect on the Japanese ☠️ man I miss those servers
My grandfather Robert Ragan was a Marine Raider. Didn't find out till near the end of his life. Thank you for this history as we don't know very much about it.
that's cool! Proud of your grandpa😊
That's great. Anyone in your family keeping the tradition of military service?
@jenniferboyett1546 according to the Raider Roster, our grandfather’s served with each other in D and G Companies. Would happen to have any info about him? I’m putting together a history of this particular unit of Carlson’s Raiders.
I was Army Airborne and would love to see you do a video on the paratroopers, Rangers and Army Special Forces. Respect for the Marine Raider regiment of yesterday and today. My late father was a Korean war vet, and did 3 tours in Vietnam with the Special Forces.Thanks for the video.
The Rangers took part in not just Europe in ww2 they also saved prisoners and with support from Philippine Rebels in the pacific in the Philippines
How are your knees? Jumping like that can’t be healthy for ya cartilage in ya joints.
@@Butter_Warrior99 knees suck man. Socom training doesn't age well!
Amazing video. I was a Reconnaissance Man in the US Marines and when i was a boot they made sure we were very familiar with the Raiders. Even though there are modern Marine Raider units, their lineage can be directly traced to the Recon Marines of today.
Name the units
What a surprise. But a welcome one.
My grandfather was one of the original Carlson’s Raiders (2DHQG) and was at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Bougainville. Some of his NCO’s went on to become pretty famous in their own right, especially at Iwo Jima.
Would you mind sharing his name? Your grandfather probably rubbed shoulders with my childrens Great Grandfather. He was with Carlsons 2nd from inception to disbandment. He was on Midway, the Makin Raid, Long Patrol, Bougainville… after disbanding he was wounded on Iwo Jima which sent him home.
Anyway, there is a fairly good chance your grandfather is mentioned in the memoirs we have. 😎
@@CFarnwidesorry for the late response. His name was Earnest Edward Earl. If they were in the same company it’s entirely possible. Grandpa was transferred out of the 2nd Raiders and like a lot of Carlson’s Raiders (and many Marine Paratroopers, yes it was a thing) ended up as the core of the 5th Marine Division.
What was your children’s great grandfather’s name if you don’t mind me asking?
@@CodytheHun123 Your Grandfathers name sounds familiar. I will have to go back and read the memoirs.
Dean Winters is my childrens great grandfather. He is featured in a couple of photos (before and after) from the Makin Raid, aboard the Nautilus. He also manned the Boys AT Rifle.
@@CFarnwide Really? I've read so much about him! He did a lot of interviews I used for research! That would be amazing!
@@CodytheHun123 TH-cam is a small world sometimes! Amazing how people from the past can connect through a video. 😎
Did your grandfather write any memoirs? I will definitely scour the internet to see if I can find anything in the public domain about him.
As a prior Marine, I didn't know all of that history. So, thank you for the excellent piece!
I was Army, but even I know if you were marine never say was, as you still are Marine.
1st Marine Division right
As a marine i love this, please keep these up. No channel has done a detailed timeline of the marines battles in the pacific in you're top-down tactical animations yet so this would a great video in that playlist.
A battalion with six maneuver companies is huge. It must have been like our modern CAG or SeAL Teams or DEVGRU. There is a reason a fire team has a team leader and 3 soldiers/Marines, a squad has a squad leader and three teams, a Platoon has the HQ/PL and three squads, a company has the HQ section/CO....see a pattern? Three maneuver elements is the largest number any one leader can control while in a fight. That's still a lot of coordination between the leader his elements, adjacent friendly forces and his command. The reason that when you get larger than a Battalion into a Brigade or higher that they can comprise up to 4 Battalions of Infantry, armor units, LRSD assets, artillery, air defense units, intelligence units to include drone assets, an engineer company, etc, etc is because Brigade commanders and above all have a battle staff that is given a structured outline of what each Infantry battalion is planning to do and the coordination between them and adjacent units, engineer assets and fires are set by staff and it's all run through them. The Brigade commander will have his battle staff in the bde TOC receiving up to the minute updates and the units actions down to the platoon level are tracked on a huge map of the battle space. The commander will not be in the TOC, he will be somewhere on the battlefield where he can move between his maneuver bn while his RTOs are reporting important changes to the battle space to him. The S3 and XO will run the TOC and the S2 will continue to compile the information and push it to the subordinate commanders as the battle develops. Each leader from the newest team leader to each bn commander has a lot of discretion to develop his piece of the fight and take initiative and adapt the plan as long as he maintains he responsibilities of communication with adjacent units and higher while staying within the commander's intent.
Thanks. Always enjoy reading background facts from someone who knows what he's about.
I still remember all their Spawn, Victory, Defeat Themes from COD: World At War. All the factions had great ones.
It's funny you bring up world at war because shuri castle I think that's how you spell it, still gives me nightmares from playing it on veteran.
I Have Been replaying CoD WaW soundtrack lately, mostly while playing enlisted! The soundtrack was amazing on that game, who would Have thought a heavy metal/horror movie soundtrack would fit so well to WW2!
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assualt also had the Makin raid.
My dad was a ww2 marine, 1st marines. I collect usmc ww2 items and have 2 raider uniforms with silk Australian made patches.
Plus my dad's ww2 combat gear, helmet, dungarees. I joined the army instead, 23 yrs Armor! Now my youngest is a marine to honor his grandfather.
what made you join the army instead?
Much thanks to all 3 of you. My Dad, my youngest son and myself all served with our local Army National Guard Unit. Dad was commo. My son and I served on the howitzers. Me 105mm - my son on the 155's.
The book “The Water Beneath the Walls” talks about the Raiders, as well as Rangers and UTD’s origins. It also expands on how the Navy ended up with Seal Teams, which in summary is due to the Army and Marines disbanding Raiders and Rangers after WWII.
Check on your history, the Seals/UDT were created at the insistence of Kennedy. However they originally were UDT.
@@raywhitehead730you should probably read the book. I said how they ended up with the seal teams, which are rooted in UDT. Also, you might want to check your own history. UDT continued to operate after WWII, including in Korea and other actions. Seal Teams were recommended by Arliegh Burke, CNO, in 1961. Kennedy “directed” it a few months later. UDT was the only paramilitary force that was not disbanded after WWII and Korea, hence the least likely branch (Navy) ending up with elite operators of UDT. The first seal teams were filled with members of UDT, and commissioned in 1962.
Would you guys maybe do videos on the Paramarines? They're an even less known group than the Raiders.
Or Alamo Scouts? They were an elite army unit that, despite completing hundreds of incredibly dangerous missions, never lost a man in combat.
Saw the post about thia video so I jumped right over.
Pretty sure I included these guys in a 30-minute presentation I did in history class back in high school. So its cool to see them again in a video with WAY MORE RESEARCH. Couldn't exactly go more without taking up all the class time....
Come on youtube share this video. The historical authenticity and the ammount of work this channel puts in is amazing
The first modern US special forces. I honestly first learned of them playing Medal Of Honor Pacific Assault as a kid. They sure took the fight to the enemy and did so with great gusto.
A video game? I don't think that would help you understand what our lives are really like. Real life is very different from a game.
Semper Fi.
@@davidcruz8667 He said he learned about it as a kid playing a game.
@@WillUSMC0321 Okay. It's just that there are too many references to video games. It cheapens what is a serious matter, kids think they can receive multiple hits and just need to pick up a health packet, and you can go back over and over again until they can win an entire military encounter singlehandedly. I'm so tired of it.
Our lives are difficult, mostly boring, we've lost a lot of good buddies, it carries the consequences of real life and real physics and you only have a limited supply of logistics, you are sometimes sick as a dog and just wanna stay in your rack or your poncho liner, but you get up and do it because someone has to do the dirty work, and that's us. We don't want thanks for it, it isn't glamorous, and the sense of pride and responsibility are real. We can't just hit "pause" and go have a sandwich and take a shit. We kill real human beings, civilians also get hurt, and it messes with your character. Only strong men can get past this and finish the mission.
Semper Fi.
The Marine Raiders also fought with the Army on New Georgia and Rendova, Also there was future president John F Kennedy who was PT boat Captain
You're projecting a whole lot of shit he didn't say because you clearly have your own preconceived biases. He just said he learned about this aspect of history (surely that's a good thing?) from playing the game, jesus get over yourself Rambo.
This documentary is amazing. Could you make another documentary about navy seal, green berret, and delta force? Those units are the role model in modern military.
Thank you for making this, Invicta! Semper Fi!
My Grandfather was a Raider. 2 service stars on Guadalcanal, 1 on Bougainville, and a Presidential Unit Citation.
Shoutout to Armchair History for sharing this amazing video
really appreciate his help on this one as it was quite the project : )
I've heard lots of great things about this unit. Can't wait for the next video on them.
I like this Modern Infantry history...
Props to the whole team♥️
Great video and production as always! Your work is highly appreciated by all of us history and military enthusiasts!
Really hoping you guys continue this series!
I hope so as well, we will likely have to reduce the resource investment in light of the views but will definitely plan to continue
HOLY SHIT!!! How did invicta upload and me not hear about it??? I LOVE this stuff. It’s everything that History Channel wanted to be, but didn’t have the balls to spend less than $500,000 per episode.
Shout out to The Armchair Historian for the heads up about this video. I’m really excited about this video and TH-cam algorithm be damned for not allowing easy access to this video. It’s so well done and really should be more widely viewable. Well done!
Seen the post from The Armchair Historian, and man I’m impressed with this video!
Algorithm comment. From an avid viewer of the Armchair Historian. My brother watches a ton of your content and speaks highly of it. I watch your content when it is in the subject range that I’m looking for and I love it. The fact that YT is suppressing you is no accident in my opinion. Keep doing what you do. Subbed.
Would love to see a similar video about the Vietcong/NVA, I feel like that would be a really entertaining video given the amount of equipment from various nations they had
This was so exciting to watch this morning. Thanks for creating.
Thank you for posting. My grandfather was Raider 1st D company under Edson and this was very emotional for me.
Such high level content with excellent narration should always stand out! HEAR THAT TH-cam ALGORITHM?! 🤬🤬
Love working on these but especially this and the upcoming True Size. Thanks for all your great work as usual #ww2 #marines #usmarines #warhistory
Outstanding work, one of the best videos of this type you have made yet. Thank you!
I can’t believe how informative and beautiful your documentaries are. It is criminal that TH-cam would ever refuse to push them out!
I want to add marine raider aren't the first special operations units in the U.S.military. That belongs with the US army ranger, in 1777, this force commanded by Daniel Morgan, was known as The Corps of Rangers.
This has been an incredibly valuable video of knowledge. I thought I previously had a fairly decent understanding of what and how the USMC were both organized and trained during WW2. But this video showed me an absolute immense amount of newly gained knowledge.
I do also want to add that it is incredibly upsetting to see that TH-cam clearly does not care about some of its own communities. Since more and more groups are getting restricted or complete demonetization. And not for a good and valid reason either.
There's quite a few of you historical channels that I know spend an incredible amount of time and energy into these kinds of videos. Depending on the topic they do vary in length. But undoubtedly you have both skillful researchers and scriptwriters along with some top tier animators and editors. And it breaks my heart to see you pour this much effort into a video that because it's an informative and educational video about something with wartime history. It will be branded by some algorithm that it's not "good". Be it good for marketing purposes or good for family friendly content. It doesn't matter, what matters is that TH-cam clearly puts less effort, care and money into making sure that the creators of videos that are easily on par with many documentaries known for their quality and authenticity. Instead they rather push for channels that target larger audiences with a more "trendy" content.
I don't know what the upper echelons of TH-cam and Google are thinking of or about. But clearly they are not understanding just how valuable videos like yours truly are. There are so many channels with content focused on informing or educating. And they do such a great job of doing it. There's already plenty of material out there that's regularly used to help people in many different academic endeavors. Be it in the higher tiers of advanced university courses to basic knowledge for general education.
It's just tragic to see all of this talent wasted. But I suppose at the end of the day. That is just how the corporate world operates. And it will be just a question of time until they've chased off enough creators that TH-cam as a platform will no longer be seen as a "main entertainment" platform.
Would be really cool and interesting if y'all were to make one of your 3D depictions of the armies of the last 200 years!
Working on one for the American Infantry of WW2. The original plan was to do a whole Battalion but the complexity involved means we are just doing a Rifle Company first
@@InvictaHistory Leets Gooooo!
The two different philosophies are incredibly intriguing.
My great uncle was in Carlson's raiders, i remember my grandpa talking about his experiences. He didn't share much given the intensity of the fighting, but we knew he was at Guadalcanal during those fateful first engagements
A subject I know nothing about, really cool thanks as usual
Great video! Such a shame that TH-cam is hiding it...
Wrong time to do be advertising War thunder😅.Great channel btw.
Great video i hope it gets the views it deserves 🤞🤞
This was amazing! I loved the organization portion of the video helping me understand the structure of the 4 battalions.
This video is outstanding! Always love learning about elite units of history. This is hardcore!!
There were many inside the Marine Corps who were deeply against the Marine Raiders.
Marine Corps brass, and even some junior officers and enlisted men, resented the "elite" status of Raiders. Being better than everyone else in the branch that already proclaims to be the best didn't earn them many friends.
@@redaug4212 January 8, 1944 the Raider Battalions were folded into regular Marine units and the concept of Raiders ended
In 2014 the Marine Special Operations Regiment was renamed the Marine Raiders Regiment.
@@redaug4212 well I dont think they were trying to be the best.
You can fight a war in a almost endless amount of ways. You can defend, or be offensive. In this case, extra offensive.
Raiders first, everyone else second. Raiders leave to raid another island, then everyone else follows.
Rinse, repeat.
@@FezMooseLive Oh I'm not saying that I agree with _big_ USMC (I actually do, but that's aside from the point). I'm just saying that inter-service rivalry inhibited the development of specialized units within the Marine Corps. It's probably why the paramarines were axed as well.
Great video bro. My pop's was a Marine in 1965. He was so proud of being a Marine.
Somebody shared this on their feed and I'm here to help . Great Vid !
Just discovered this channel and WOW! Amazing production. PLEASE do more WWII Special Forces units!
This is an excellent video. Really hope you continue the series.
Come on TH-cam support the history of these brave soldiers!!
my Dad was with the raider battalions and retired after 20 years. Also in Korea. He used to tell me stories and i wish i could have recorded them.
if you met him you would never imagine, he was so unassuming.
i was with 173rd in viet nam.
Bad ass mother F******
Amazing learning about what these men did and what they went through, thank you for shining a spotlight on this amazing part of American military history
Excellent Video. Thank you for covering this unit
Thank you for the excellent video. Very informative and entertaining to watch!! P.S. if you’re doing modern units, it would be great to watch one of these on the French Foreign Legion!
An older buddy of mine was a Navy LST driver and delivered Raiders to the Beach on several Islands. He said they were as tough as men come.
Came from a share from The Armchair Historian and am not disappointed. Loved the video, had never heard of these guys before!
Saw your community tab post, so came back to comment on the video.
You guys did a great Job.
I actually never heard about the marine raiders before, and it was fascinating hearing from you guys about them.
I love that the history behind gung ho mean to work together.
The United States' first objective in WW2 was NOT to stop the spread of Japan's territory in the Pacific. Our first objective was the European war, the Pacific was second.
Outstanding !. Every Clime and Place. You will always find us on the job. The World's Finest US Marines. Semper Fi
I got recommended by yt. Great documentary. You should be getting more views.
This was so GOOD
Epic fight Marine Raider vs Kamen Rider
Who?
@@Mygg_Jeager
They are what we got the Power Rangers from. They are from Japan, kinda like how we got some very popular game shows from the Brits.
@@GenStallion
Nope!
Power Rangers are from Super Sentai.
Kamen Rider was formed on riding on the coattails of the Yuusha (Superheroe) boom of Ultraman. What makes it unique is the element of J-Horror. However, anime weeb don’t like it because the 1971 is too political and actually acknowledging Japanese war crimes.
@@GenStallion ahhhh. Them. Lol
Amazing documentary and thank you.
Great video! would love this series to continue with more modern units
Like and watch your videos casually and this is definitely a video I'm interested. I use TH-cam probably 1-3 hours a day and haven't seen this video in my recommended and have been thinking there is a lack of video in my recommended that I actually wanted to watch. Lot to say TH-cam sucks and I'm subbing
This documentary is really well done! Keep it up!
Great video without watching cuz TH-cam would not recommend despite this being exactly my recommended content. I've been subscribed. Love the algorithm
I’m sorry you guys are having troubles but your videos really are great, I love listening the them all, I really hope you guys get some good feedback and support, best wishes and thanks for the awesome content!!
Awesome video and the graphics are really cool. Bravo.
It's a great video man I never leave comments but wanted u to no I appreciate ur work brother
My grandfather was a Raider. He was shot in the back less than 1 inch from his heart while fighting in Guam. Crazy to think my very existance came down to a slight aiming discrepancy by some Japanese soldier. Sadly he passed before I was born, but my father still has the bullet... a reminder of how different things could have been.
Best Invicta video yet!!!!!
A superb video, which was very competent. Well illustrated and narrated. "GREAT JOB."
Wow this video was amazing, I really hope you do more videos like this. And sorry about the algorithm
Hope u get ur visibility back! 💪🏻
Great video
These guys were Supermen in my opinion! They say that BUDS is the toughest training in the military but from other documentaries reported the training to be a raider es enough to break several brave men
0:15 After the fall of Singapore, the only British forces in Australia were a boat load of SOE operatives that ended up assisting in the formation of Z Force. Commonwealth would have been a better term to use.
Having had my grump, that was excellent. Ta muchly.
I really appreciate these types of videos, just wish they would populate on my feed more.
The animations are amazing
I'm in the loop, time to push this out of the loop.
This is crazy to watch. This is the first ever time I've even heard of their existence. Very interesting stuff.
It isn't really bad having one unit specialising in another. Like a useful multitool.
Great video, well researched! Rah!
Why TH-cam pushed this good video down!? I really enjoy it and others will enjoy it too!
So humble and proud to have followed in their footsteps…
They were true BADASSES !
Semper Fi…the fewer…the prouder…
A RECON Marine!🇺🇸❤️
As a history buff and US Marine fan, I salute and thank you for this ❤❤❤
Comment for algorithm. Very nice video, I enjoyed it very much. I've been a bit out of touch with your channel, but I will be changing that. Well done!
Amazed to finally see mention of the "Gung Ho knife" I have compared one to an original bowie knife and they are identical. The most accurate reproduction is the Case brand Bowie knife.
I know it going over the raiders but seeing marines in the same playlist as the sliver shields, the Spartans and Varangian guard chokes me up a little
Those guys are absolutely amazing. Thanks for this
Great documentary.
Great video as always!
Always nice to find a documentary video i can sit and watch in the down time at work without volume.
Not the best time for a war thunder sponsor tbh though
Thanks for the great video
This particular video was awesome and one of your best - which is saying a lot! Thank you and good luck with TH-cam