WW2 Iwo Jima Marine Describes Brutal Hand to Hand Combat and Fighting the Fanatical Japanese
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
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Love your patriotism and that what you are doing reminds our youths that freedom is not free in a time when TH-cam won't show bodies in old war footage.🥲
My Dad was at Iwo Jima and never really talked about it. Once he said, “we were on Iwo Jima, the Japanese were in Iwo Jima”
Rest in peace Pops
Channels like this are one of the few good things about modern technology. Thank you for bringing this to the public!
Spot On mate 🇦🇺👌
Rest easy John Gardel, your friend here never forgot about you.
Seen this uploaded clicked instantly
Every single time… right? I watch these videos every night. I’ll listen to the same Veteran five to six times. The greatest generation 🇺🇸
Thank you sir for my freedom, truly an American hero from the greatest generation.
I watch these documentaries all the time and this is the 1st one that I cried. I am so proud of him.🇺🇸❤️thank you.
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He's doing well...for being over 100 years old ;-)
Greatest generation ever!
Semper Fi, thank you Rishi
Thank you Sir for your service and courage ❤ God Bless you 🇺🇸
Sir, I do not know of you will read this, but either way, I want to thank you for our freedoms and I am deeply indebted.
This is one of the most extraordinary personal testimonies I have ever heard. Thank you and God bless you Mr Robert Rickman
Thank you Rishi for what you do. My uncle was a 5th Marine in Iwo as a forward observer. God bless them all
Thanks for uploading these stories! ❤
What an amazing man. Very sharp. Great interview 👏
Man I loved this interview! One of the best I’ve seen yet! Thanks Robert!!!
And thank you Rishi for getting these important historical stories saved on video for the world to see forever!!!
Amazing recall from this hero of the Greatest Generation, and Harry S.Truman IMO made the correct and yet toughest decision of the whole 20th century, which and but for I would not be writing this comment!
The Japanese civilians were starving. There was very little food and most of that went to the soldiers. Plus, the children were being trained into suicide bombers. We saved the lives of 95% of the entire population and hundreds of thousands of Allies lives.
The Germans and Japanese, on the anniversary of VE and VJ day, should get on their knees and thank the Allies for sparing their lives. And not doing to them what they did to the soldiers and civilians of the countries the Nazi's and the Japanese conquered.
@@sjb3460Excellent point! Totally agree
American hero’s. All of them.
Never stop making these. These men should forever be memorialized by their stories. We owe it to them to LEARN about how horrible war is and why we should do everything we can to avoid it.
Unfortunately there isn't many WWII vets left and these interviews are getting scarce. Sad really..
Love this channel and all our vets. Thank you sir
Me toooo
I FEEL SO VERY BLESSED TO BE LISTENING TO THIS HÉROE 7 DAYS AFTER HIS EXPERIENCE WAS UPLOADED 7 DAYS AGO KNOWING HE IS STILL ALIVE THANK YOU VERY MUCH SR FOR SHARING WITH US GOD BLESS YOU!
What a lovely chap with an incredible story ❤
I swear this may be the greatest interview I’ve ever heard. It sounds like he met a time traveler, maybe it was his great relative from the future telling him that he was going to live. Plus the land mine story is absolutely insane! And this has to be the only account of someone accidentally touching the enemy. It’s the only one that I’ve heard anyway.
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I totally believe that he saw that image❤
There are multiple stories I’ve heard told by marines who heard a voice clearly say something like, “You will survive the war.” Eugene Sledge recounts a similar experience in his book “With the Old Breed.” This is the first account I’ve heard of someone seeing someone, however.
@@dalehusak6633Eugene Sledge talked of a Marine stepping on a mine and being atomized!
How could it have been an American land mine though?
Job well done Marine! Amazing recollections!! Thank you Rishi
My father served with these Marines. A special generation of heroes.
Was he one himself or Navy?
God Bless OUR Veteran's - All of Them, and Thank Them Every Day...Greatest Generation Ever...Never Forget...
Amazing experiences. Thank God he survived and has had a long life since then. Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting story told by a great marine of his horrible experiences.
My father got his second purple heart on Iwo Jima. He was wounded several days after the flag raising on Surabachi. He landed with the 4th Division. Before that he was in the 2nd Division at Tarawa and Saipan.
My Dad was 4th Marines. Kwajalien, Roi Namur, Saipan & Tinian.
Horrible action. He didn't speak of it.
I'm a proud son of the Greatest Generation
I'm a proud nephew three uncles
Same here !
Thank you Rishi Sharma, for your interview technique in that you let the interviewee’s tell their stories without constantly interrupting them like some other interviewers do on other channels. Also when you do ask a question it is a well thought out one and pertinent to the topic the interviewee is currently telling. I love the your channel and have subscribed!
6:10 reminds me in “With the Old Breed” when Eugene Sledge randomly heard a voice telling him that he would make it through the war. Weird phenomenon maybe some kind of hallucination?
Or probably other dead soldiers who already passed away and where still there watching over their friends giving them hope
What a great man and great interview. Keep up the great work!
Thanks and GOD BLESS the WWII veterans
You have a better channel than the AVC. Better interviewer. You do a fantastic job bro.
My older cousin was wounded on Iwoa. He definitely suffered from PTSD. He never said much but did tell me one time “we killed everything, men, women, children.
"richardmills8575"= BOT ACCOUNT
Unlikely on Iwo. All civilians were evacuated before the battle.
@@JC-fh6uwno not true family’s hid in caves and Americans killed them by mestake
@@JC-fh6uwand some joined the Japanese army
Why you lying?
My father fought with the 5th Marine Division. He was a machine gunner. Never said much about it when I asked him about it. Must have been horrible.
Semper Fi sir.
A Bad Ass American Hero!
I care deeply about preserving these histories.As someone who had relatives on both sides in WW2. History must be preserved.
51:34 I think was a Nambu pistol, not a Luger. They look very similar at first glance. Anyway, thanks for sharing your story and for your fearless service in WWII
Yea the only real difference is is that the nambu has a bigger trigger guard.
@@roderickstockdale1678 Well sort of. Luger had a toggle lock action and the Nambu doesn't. Also they used two different cartridges.
I was thinking Nambu also….
As is said: War is War!!!
The truth is the truth!!!
Reminds me of my own marine father , Semper fucking fi
As always, it was an outstanding interview.
SEMPER FIDELIS to you, MARINE.
THANK YOU SIR FOR YOUR STORY MR RISHI AMEN 🙏 SIR
I put this on for background stimulation while I edit my resume... I didn't get much work done. I don't know why but Iwo Jima is incredibly fascinating to me. Thank you for my freedom sir.
My uncle was there ❤
Ty rishi
Thank you Rishi for documenting this history. You are doing very important work sir!
Man he reminds me of my Grandfather. Makes me want to cry 😭 RIP to all Pacific heros
R.s- i heard about your docs way back - u sir are the best our nation has left- when ur ready for next phase my life started in 99- - spent 22 yrs most in gwot
The german lugar was a nambu.
Semper Fi Sir
Amazing work sir.
No quarter was asked none was given after the Japanese tortured and killed US forces.
I wish my grandfather could have done this. He was a world war two veteran. He served on Leyte and Okinawa and Iwo, jima. Sadly, he passed away in 2011
Thank you and God Bless
Just can't imagine the horror of that chap...great work keep it up mate.✌️
What an amazing story. I especially like the story of the man who promised him he’d be safe
Much respect for these veteran's my father was on Saipan never talked about it
Your a good man Rishi!
God bless you sir
Decades ago I was talking to the starter while waiting in a long line at the first tee of Jaworski's course in Pa. He told me how he took one of the few prisoners at Iwo. The guy kept pointing to the cup hanging on the gunny's belt. He poured some water into the cup and gave it to him. As the PW tilted his head back, gunney shot him through the cup with his M1. I asked him if he felt bad about that and he said, " Hell yeah, I needed that cup".
Thank you for your service.
Thanks!
Unbievable story omg 😢
Thank you
What a lovely guy. Very graceful.
Thank you for doing what you do, God bless🙏🏻
BAR always goes hard
Thanks and GOD BLESS
Two books I highly recommend:
Red Blood, Black Sand by Chuck Tatum and With The Old Breed by Eugene Sledge.
For a minute, I thought it was the "man" in the brown shirt calling out when he was going back to his unit. Angelo passed in 1999.
Wonder what this Marine thought when Johnson gave the island back...
He probably didn't care. The island served it's intended purpose as an emergency landing strip for returning B-29s. The Japanese were probably the best, most sensible defeated nation we ever fought. They accepted their losses and worked hard to restore their country so it could thrive as it does today as one of America's best allies.
That was almost 25 years before, time treads waters man.
He probably didn't notice it in the news when it happened. Those islands are integral parts of Japan. I agree with the other poster. Iwo Jima was another stepping stone. Johnson was a big-time traitor and criminal but for other reasons. Think of November 1963
@@marcwinfield1541 exactly…
I just watched a video on Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota. Stolen Valor and a coward of the highest order. Then watched this brave man Robert Reichman and am in awe. He was met by an Angel before climbing down the rope ladder and winessed horrors, he has lived a long healthy life as predicted.
Take your bs and hate elsewhere. This is not the place.
Can you please be sure to always put the date or at least the year that the conversation takes place as well as the age of the subject? It’s very important honestly. Thanks.
The photo was taken on the second try.
Wait Garret Bolles the LT for the broncos? What a cool way to give back to charity.
nice head of hair on that 100 year old
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War one of 5he most horrible experiences that one could have
prob beyond the scope of your mission but getting other nation veterans interviews translated to english would be great value. And I mean not the western allies but other countries.
This man reminds of what Waylon Jennings would look like as an old man.
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Did he meet John Basilone?
Martinez Charles Brown Steven Hall Robert
Young Barbara Walker Matthew White Gary
Lopez Ruth Brown Gary Lee Michelle
Jackson Patricia Young Matthew Lewis Kimberly
I wonder if that Stars and Stripes change this good man witnessed was the fake flag raising on Mt Suribachi that was done for the cover of Life Magazine?
Please take the emphasis off of you. Good job documenting these stories though. Bravo.
How is the emphasis on me? The emphasis is on the need to capture these veteran stories. What are you doing to honor and document these WWII veterans instead of just criticizing people who are actually doing something? Thanks and GOD BLESS
Nobody ever heard of these places in the Pacific. Geography class back in the 30s must have been terrible. ha
You know you're a good person when you're standing in literal HELL and an angel comes to you saying don't worry you'll live to be old and healthy. God bless this man. He and the ones like him are the real life super heros.
I completely believe that man that told him he would live to be a old, healthy man, that knew his name, was real, my thoughts are that he was a immortal, they have presented themselves as men many times in the Bible! That's a incredible idea and statement, what else could it be!?? Amazing 😮😅
🎚️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 under fire 35 days
..ive heard some from Great uncles,aunts grandparents but nothing like what ive heard on YTUBE..thank you AMERICAN SOLDIER 🎚️🇺🇸THE GREATEST GENERATION
God bless America and all of our soldiers and their families and all Americans who came together as 1 people and defeated the enemies of the world in that turbulent time! We probably wouldn't be here if we hadn't won that world wide conflict!
Wow....
Thanks!
Thanks!