Fall of Buna - Pacific War #58 DOCUMENTARY
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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues. Last week, we took a short detour into the CBI theater to cover some new developments on this front, including the start of the First Arakan Campaign; but today, we return to our two main theaters of the war as of now: New Guinea and Guadalcanal. In the first one, we’ll resume our coverage of the bloody Battle of Buna-Gona, as the Americans and Australians finally join forces to take on the Buna defenders; and on the latter, the recent defeats of the Japanese Empire against the tenacious Allied soldiers finally force their leaders to take a drastic decision that would decisively change the future of the war.
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#1 - Pearl Harbor: • Attack on Pearl Harbor...
#2 - Japanese Invasion of Malaya: • Japanese Invasion of M...
#3 - Japan attacks Guam, Wake, the Philippines: • Japan Attacks Everywhe...
#4 - Japan attacks Borneo, Philippines: • Japan Continues Attack...
#5 - Wake Island: • Fall of Wake Island - ...
#6 - Kampar: • Battle of Kampar - Pac...
#7 - Slim River: • Battle of Slim River -...
#8 - Battle for the Dutch East Indies: • Battle for the Dutch E...
#9 - Invasion of New Britain: • Invasion of New Britai...
#10 - Fall of Malaya: • Fall of Malaya - Pacif...
#11 - Makassar: • Battle of Makassar Str...
#12 - Fall of Singapore: • Fall of Singapore - Pa...
#13 - Invasion of Sumatra: • Japanese Invasion of S...
#14 - Invasion of Timor: • Japanese Invasion of T...
#15 - Fall of Java: • Fall of Java - Pacific...
#16 - Fall of Rangoon: • Fall of Rangoon - Paci...
#17 - US Response to Pearl Harbor: • How the US Responded t...
#18 - Tojo: Bringing Japan Into War: • Hideki Tojo: Bringing ...
#19 - Japanese Raids in the Indian Ocean: • Japanese Raids in the ...
#20 - Fall of Bataan & Death March: • Fall of Bataan & The B...
#21 - Doolittle Raid: • Doolittle Raid: Americ...
#22 - Japanese Advance on Burma Road: • Japanese Advance on Bu...
#23 - Australia's Pearl Harbor: • Australia's Pearl Harb...
#24 - Battle of the Coral Sea: • Battle of the Coral Se...
#25 - Fall of the Philippines: • Fall of the Philippine...
#26 - Fall of Burma: • Fall of Burma - Pacifi...
#27 - Sei-Go: • How Japan Responded to...
#28 - Midway: • Battle of Midway - Pac...
#29 - Japanese Invasion of Alaska: • Japanese Invasion of A...
#30 - Japanese Attack on Sydney: • Japanese Attack on Syd...
#31 - MacArthur and the Philippines Disaster: • How MacArthur Caused t...
#32 - Attacks New Guinea: • Japan Attacks New Guin...
#33 - Biological Warfare in China: • Japanese War Crimes: B...
#34 - Japan Attacks the Continental United States: • Japan Attacks the Cont...
#35 - Invasion of Buna-Gona: • Invasion of Buna-Gona ...
#36 - Kokoda: • Battle of Kokoda - Pac...
#37 - Invasion of Solomon Islands: • Invasion of Solomon Is...
#38 - Savo Island: • Battle of Savo Island ...
#39 - Raid on Makin Island: • Raid on Makin Island -...
#40 - Battle of Eastern Solomons: • Battle of Eastern Solo...
#41 - Isurava: • Australia's Thermopyla...
#42 - Milne Bay: • Battle of Milne Bay - ...
#43 - Bloody Ridge: • Battle of the Bloody R...
#44 - Ioribaiwa: • Battle of the Ioribaiw...
#45 - Matanikau: • Battle of Matanikau - ...
#46 - Cape Esperance: • Battle of Cape Esperan...
#47 - Kokoda Track Counteroffensive: • Kokoda Track Counterof...
#48 - Henderson Field: • Battle for Henderson F...
#49 - Santa Cruz Islands: • Battle of the Santa Cr...
#50 - Oivi-Gorari: • Battle of Oivi-Gorari ...
#51 - Guadalcanal: • Naval Battle of Guadal...
#52 - Buna-Gona: • Battle of Buna-Gona - ...
#53 - Carlson's Patrol: • Carlson's Long Patrol ...
#54 - Tassafaronga: • Battle of Tassafaronga...
#55 - Fall of Gona: • Fall of Gona - Allied ...
#56 - Battle of Mount Austen: • Battle of Mount Austen...
#57 - First Arakan Campaign: • First Arakan Campaign ...
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Wooter really showed regular us army how it’s done lol
All right, you convinced me.
1 month of asking continue muslim expansion
I know this is a bit late but would you mind covering how each army was organized I am up to the Slim River video and it said the Chinese brought in 9 armies and a quick google search gave me 100,000 to 200,000 soldiers in an army which seemed at odds with the 300,000 number of soldiers which were involved according to wikipedia. Also does anyone know what the stars represent?
A long time ago I worked at a school with an old Math teacher who was in one of the Australian infantry battalions supporting the tank charge. He ended up living on the PNG coast for around 10 years after the war to help rebuild. His version of events was that not a single person involved that push escaped without at least one gunshot wound, and that they only had the victory they did because the Japanese were so demoralized by the appearance of armoured vehicles after surviving everything else that had been thrown at them over weeks beforehand. The reality of what they encountered on the ground was nothing like what they were told to prepare for and he said the Japanese would have been able to hold out for months if the front line hadn't broken upon simply seeing tanks arrive on the scene.
Those Stuarts were a total surprise to the Japanese. The ingenuity and bravery of the Australian officers and the men they led in getting their clumsy 14-ton vehicles from Oro Bay to Hariko, then to the assembly area near the New Strip, all in complete secrecy, really is a story in itself.
The tanks were off-loaded at Oro Bay onto barges. Motor launches then towed these barges through the reefs, with the water lapping a mere 2-inch freeboard, until they were off Hariko. There, the launches, swinging as close inshore as possible, cast the barges off, leaving the tanks to get ashore as best they might. The crews then drove the tanks over the side with a lurch and a splash. Once ashore they followed the beach along to their assembly area with one set of tracks in the sea and the other just above the low water line so that the incoming tide would wash away the marks of their approach.
It should be noted the 2/6th Armoured Regiment, like the rest of the 1st Armoured Division, were originally trained to fight the Germans in the Libyan desert, but never saw action outside the Pacific Theatre.
After the battle, general Eichelberger is recorded to have said: "No more Buna"
When he was put in charge of training after this, and in order to avoid this from happening in the future, Eichelberger initiated a training program that emphazied on fitness, individual initiatives and small unit tactics.
It also lit a fire to up-gun Infantry Divisions dramatically ( at least US ones). Several thousand 37mm M3 AT guns that were in storage ( the TO&E for Pacific units was very low, 36 AT guns per division instead of 78 eleswhere )handed out in mass as direct fire weapons as well as 105mm M1/3 weapons in large numbers(as opposed to 75mm pack guns) for the first time. Although the 37mm was obsolete in the ETO there were excellent light weight bunker busters and were used widely until the end of the war. I guess it helps that the US literally never threw anything away lol.
A very compelling and well-thought documentary in a series that I watch religiously
Bit of a recurring theme, the Australians being able to pass through ground considered impassable.
Yeah... They have cought the Japs by surprise with that flanking tactic.
average day in australia
Considering how inhospitable Australia can be where most roads are just dirt tracks, this seems to be just an ordinary Tuesday for the Aussies.
Kind of how the Japanese took Malaysia from the British. Their own hubris defeated them.
"If i were given the order of attacking and capturing hell itself i would like to command the australian army." -Erwin Rommel
My late father-in-law took part in this Buna/Gona campaign and privileged me with snapshots of his service there. I think he could talk to me after learning that I I'd journeyed there in the 80s to view this theatre on foot. My experience on the ground left a lifelong respect for ALL combatants in this series of battles. The amount of "war junk" and wreckage was everywhere and profoundly sobering. Ive heard it claimed that this campaign was un-necessary given the change of the tide of war but, the sacrifice , on all sides , altered my preconceived notions to great respect and sadness. Traversing this theatre in peacetime was difficult enough and my sincerest thanks to the local descendants for allowing me to travel there will never diminish. War definitely is hell.I would commend this journey to any student of Conflict. Malaria was a constant companion so .......
A great technique to follow the narrative and ground action is to switch back and forth between google earth and the video. The clarity, right down to dirt roads and bends in the river are so good you can almost feel the movements of squads and patrols. I’ve always read about these campaigns but K&G doing this in chronological order, day-by-day is a treat. Always look forward to new videos on Tuesdays. THANKS!
Yeah that's why I like WW1 and WW2 channels. Day by day for entire wars. Obviously you lose the tactical for the strategic view but still
Just a little observation, you could see how the Australians are so veteran in jungle fighting that they are doing all the frontal assault why the Americans doing the mopping up. Just like a mentor showing hiw it should be done. Mad respect to both the Aussies and Yanks tenacious offensive!
Those Stuarts helped quite a bit. While I'm skeptical of this use of "mopping up" to describe the actions of the Americans in the Warren Force; that phrase is infamously used throughout the Pacific War to describe operations after the main Japanese lines had been penetrated, underselling the tough business of clearing out isolated Japanese pockets from their trenches and bunkers. But it can't be denied that the influx of fresh troops from the 18th Brigade helped in deciding the matter, something the hard-pressed Warren Force was no doubt grateful for. And just in time for Christmas of all things.
It was agreed at a conference between General Herring's staff and Eichelberger's to bring in a platoon of Stuarts from Milne Bay.for a surprise tank attack against Cape Endaiadere, and Brigadier Wooten was to command the Australians. Because he was senior to Colonel Martin, Eichelberger suggested he assume command of the American right flank.
On 18 December, the 3d Bn., 128th Inf. was assigned to mopping-up duties, while the 1st Bn., 128th Inf. swung west to help the Australians near the east end of the New Strip and the 1st Bn., 126th Inf. kept pressures on enemy positions at the west end of the strip.
These are pieces on an electronic map. I notice that in previous episodes the Aussies took ground, then commonly had to give it back at night or the next day. Yes, the American formations were new, but they seem to have instilled an attitude of 'keep what you win' by mopping up. This was probably very difficult, as the common Japanese soldier was a master at laying low for days.
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Amen Bro!
My dad was a US Navy corpsman in the Pacific; he arrives on scene in (44). I'm really enjoying these, looking forward to the appearance of USS New Jersey.
With great teamwork, America and Australia can overcome any foe!
I know it's not possible, but wow I wish these episodes could come more quickly. I am *hooked.* This is amazingly well done, compelling, fascinating, heartbreaking... I could go on and on. Thank you!
Can we appreciate the fact that only one year earlier that the Yanks had a 2nd rate military at the raid on Pearl Harbor, and now were conducting over seas offensives just 12 months later? And the first of the flood of fleet carriers had not even arrived yet, and when I say "flood of carriers", I mean exactly that. The Japanese had not even begun to see the avalanche of American war industry yet.
Also, I have to say that Yanks+Aussies=kick ass blokes. Seriously, it seems like God made those two militaries to work together.
Seriously? I don't see where they deserve praise, neither in defense nor in attack. They were supposed to be masters of modern warfare yet they couldn't match Japanese cunning or resilience. Battle shock indeed. Pah! So all that time America was ordering Japan around, blocking them from gaining any power in the pacific, they were not ready for a fight? It was just a big bluff then! SMH.
@@rexadebayo3380America "couldn't match Japanese cunning and resilience.".
Um, excuse me, but...*what*??? Tell me: who won the Pacific War, and who lost?
This series is a masterpiece.
Incredible coverage, great job. Can't imagine trying to swim for my life.
Been following his series since the start. My grandfather is living it aswell.
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You are simply the best out here. Looking forward to a new year of great documentaries.
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I said to myself "Meh, I'll watch this video later this week, I have a lot of holidays family events this week, I won't have time" and then realized how these guys' holidays where so I figured they deserved that I know
Your videos are so dense with information that I have to watch each one several times to get all the sidebars and details to really feel I know what is happening. I am in complete awe of the soldiers and marines who fought in these horrific conditions and wonder whether modern humans would be as tough and tenacious? Probably not. I know I would not. Have a great New Year and Thanks again!
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Every generation creates it's own brand of soldiers. Modern battlefields are worse than in WW2. The weaponry has advanced so much, that life expectancy has dimished according to the skill of the drone pilot.
Amen bro!
Ah. My usual Tuesday treat :)
Merry Christmas y'all! Thank you so much for these informative videos
You know what fuck it,I get paid tomorrow,I've watch this channel for the past 5 years, I think it's time to fully support you guys
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Enjoyed it, but it was a whirlwind presentation of a very complex battle.
To improve this video, mention how nasty those bunkers made of coconut logs were. These things were a tribute to Japanese resourcefulness.
The lessons, the senior American officers learned were invaluable in overcoming Japanese resistance in future battles, and, of course, how important jungle combat training was before committing troops to a place like this. Eichelberger's main contribution when taking command was to improve the supply situation which was none too good before his arrival. The Australians were more experienced, so they made better progress than many of the green American GIs. They both had to combat their real enemy of malaria, heat, humidity and dysantry. This battle was set in green hell incarnate. Air support was still in its early learning phase and had only a marginal impact. As your video points out, finding solid ground for the tanks was key to successful assaults of the Japanese positions.
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Thanks!
I do really enjoy this content,love the voice it's perfect for this👍
Excellent research, montage and narration as usual..
Superb stuff, mentioning the distances involved was very helpful!
Finally coverage on the granular details for these campaigns
Amazing content, great work
So much I need to watch multiple times
This is the best history channel on youtube, but the best one too not having the video of history of pashtuns and it's complex origin 😞🥺
Excellent videos. I love the historical details.
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Highly informative specialized history. I have long known of the 32nd Division (Red Arrow) fighting in New Guinea but actual detain were scant. This fills in so many gaps in my knowledge.
Colonel Nicholson: What have I done!
As the film The Bridge On The River Kwai
I should note in my hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin….there is a park called Red Arrow Park in honor of 32nd Division. There a State Highway in Wisconsin~Highway 32. On each of the Highway Signs there is a little Red Arrow from the Division’s shoulder patch.
I had always heard that America was responsible for the Solomons and other smaller Islands, while the Australians did most of the fighting in New Guinea. So it was a surprise to learn that so many Americans fought on New Guinea as well.
I absolutely love this channel
Amazing job as usual!
Hope some day you will do a series about the "smoking snakes" in the italian campaing.
Greetings from Brasil!
Thank you so muchfor this engaging educational content.
After receiving reports on the night of 27 December that the American soldiers on the URBANA front were suffering badly from battle shock, Eichelberger decided to go forward to discover the truth for himself. When he reached the URBANA command post, his operations officer, Bill Bowen, was already receiving telephone messages from line commanders who assured their general they were confident of attaining the beach - and a little over twenty-four hours later they did.
Eichelberger later wrote: "Under the terrific pressures of combat, officers and men alike tend to forget that the enemy is hard pressed too. Sometimes just plain stubbornness wins the battle that awareness and wisdom might have lost. That's what happened at Buna. The Japanese morale cracked before ours did."
In that great quote, Eichelberger was channeling his inner US Grant!
As appalling as the Japanese were, in relation to the Geneva convention, they were superb fighters and tenacious. Not many other nations armies would offer such dedication to fighting so far from home.
Thank you and Merry Christmas!
every single tuesday i get home from work and run upstairs to look for the pacific video
great video as always
My Tuesday is made. Finally, Buna falls.
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19:42 i despise the imperial japanese millitary for the atrocities they comitted and the doctrines they lived by, but i must admit its hard not to feel something like sympathy for the individual soldiers at moments like this . not all of them could have been murderers, some must've been just farmer boys that joined up cus everyone else did. rip. war is hell.
They were drafted mostly, so no choice. Keep in mind the vast majority went to China, where they used shock, awe and terror to offset the massive number disparity. Officers commonly cut off prisoner's heads to get themselves up to speed on the 'proper' mental attitude. It was a terrible time for all involved.
Awesome work guys
Thanks for the video
Brilliant video as usual, and
Mention for perhaps no one have pointed it out. IJN VADM Mikawa's Kanji name isn't 三川軍 but 三川軍一
Hope you do special on Ledo road! Building a highway to China through mountain jungles itself was a battle
Oh look, another Christmas present!
Not gonna lie I can’t wait when you guys cover the liberation of the Philippines, always wondered which of like 1 million allied forces landed where and when and which one partook in particular battles. Pretty hard to find books on it
Excellent video
A well-done history on a fascinating part of the war I knew little about.
Woot, new upload!
Going by the animation, did that rear guard at 13:06 actually make it back to its own lines intact? Fascinating if so
Really nice, i wonder when you will complete this series
Well if they keep doing the one week per week progression then i would say it will take until mid ~ end August 2024 ;-)
I am quiet clearly hungry, had to re-read the title as I thought it said "Full of Buna!"
Brilliant series.
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Please enabled the captions !
6:29 so a few Valentines tanks were destroyed in India, but 8 Stuart light tanks were abel to turn the tide at Buna ?
"I'm fkin brilliant" - probably McArthur after fall of Buna and Gona.
The Allies used M3 Stuarts! They're super effective!
Light tanks did great work early in the war. The IJN basically used all the steel the Japanese had so the scraps went to the army for their tanks. They didn't measure up.
Well done
Woohoo! Australia contributed!
Have you been watching? They have been contributing since the start of Papua new Guinea
The Australians were the first to beat the Japanese on land in ww2.
@@paddlesmcbean2366, no, that's definitely the Chinese. The Russians did too.
Love the dramatic background music.what is it?
The bulk of this - certainly the unsavory bits such as “war crimes” - aren’t taught to Japanese kids.
General Vasey commenting "Japanese are not playing by our rules". Yes... Calling medics to lure enemy soldiers into the trap... The bushido way of war maybe...
I personally much prefer the stubborn resistance from the "cadets de la Loire" at Saumur putting the same desperate fight against the Whermacht but behaving significantly much better... Fighting to the last ammo and then standing high with no hands up but in the back... So to say we surrender indeed but we still keep the position nonetheless...
The impressed german general said later in the day "Sie sind Soldaten !" to the cadets...
French way of war... Earning respect from the victors... Being the victors most of the time too... Not this time though...
u know I love that word many It can mean less then 1% or as many as 90%. the records are there tell @'s not words like a few or many.
Excellent
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Great video ❤ when will next early Muslim expansion video come. Excited for the conquest of Hispania video
Gonna make the same joke a 3rd time?
You bet your ass I am!
Look like someone needs to look for Buna
Because Buna Gona
Respect to those 2 japanese commanders who preferred to die fighting rather than trying to escape
Hell yeah we'll be home by Xmas!
*checks date*
I stand by what I said
Excellent video 📹
The Japanese never gives up?
They just regroup?
No, they never surrendered. They had to be killed, one by one.
Nice video 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Does anybody know what the average Australian Brigade/Divisions weapons kit was??( im trying to set up some gaming scenarios). I can literally find almost every ww2 combatants(except India) equipped suit but not Australia, very strange. Any help on sources would be most appreciated. Excellent video its very helpful on orginization!!!
I've seen this at the War Memorial many times. I searched for kokoda soldiers kit and found some reasonable results. Try that.
As each Division was sent from Australia kit varied to the next sent from leasons learn't. Many units retrained after the Middle East with Jungle Training which earlier units didn't have.(My grandfather unit (9th Division had alot more Training before sent North) My Grandfathers unit gained alot of heavier weapons from Amercians from Gambling,finding etc.
There was an official to but it was really what ever the various commanders could find in the supply chain and move forward. TO could be separated into where fought and time period. Also when US transport aircraft and landing crafts became available. For PNG Australian Brigade look at battle of Milne Bay. That's where the transport and terrain was most cooperative.
I guess this episode will have about 100 videos
Why there is nothing a subtitle available??
The system is slow for some reason. Readded now.
YT takes 30% of paid memberships.
Patreon is 5-12 percent.
You're helping YT while YT is screwing you over......
Would love to have a music free version of every episode. The constant rolling background music doesn't add anything positive.
Why don't they bring the Grant tank combine with the M3 Stuart?.
Too heavy, and the battlefield was incredibly inaccessible. Getting just the Stuarts in there took some extraordinary ingenuity.
No captions?
The system is slow for some reason. Readded now.
@@KingsandGenerals Thank youu, love your content
The Buna campaign included other that the US, lets talk about the Solomons, Guadalcanal. anything that only uses US forces instead.
"If i were given the order of attacking and capturing hell itself i would like to command the australian army." -Erwin Rommel
Why tanks are not obsolete:
There is no impassable when Australians can cross on it! -unknown Australian soldier
I suppose what is often overlooked is that the IJN Marines numbering so little held up many times that number of Allied soldiers. From a war perspective if they were not already stretched so thin overall, from economy to war materiel to manpower, if you can keep a vastly more numerous opponent locked up in combat with fewer troops you can be free to move/attack/reposition elsewhere. At this stage the Japanese were unable to capitalize on the fact that their fighters could lock up so many allied forces. So it went, but the IJN Marines deserve respect for their tenacity and fighting capacity, well beyond the "demoralized" allied forces arrayed against them. At some point I get a sensation that the Allied advances was characterized by the "Russian" concept of throw troops at them till you win. 250, starved, sick, and surrounded men held off multiple regiments. Yeah. That's something. A lot of something.
The IJN didn't have marines actually. SNLF troops were mostly made up of IJN reservists and auxiliary personnel assigned as provisional infantry. They were sailors with rifles, in other words, and were often ill-suited for combat compared to the IJA. The tenacity displayed at Buna had less to do with the Japanese garrison being IJN infantry and more to do with tenacity being the trademark of all Imperial Japanese forces during the war. The Japanese, whether it's IJN or IJA, always inevitably locked up larger Allied units because that's simply the nature of fighting an enemy who refuses to surrender and has nowhere to retreat.
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Not a very savvy understander of battle technology. Why was Naval assets not able to shell the coastal areas?????
Its odd how the Japanese get kudos for executing a successful defensive battle, yet their combat losses were 2:1 with respect to the allies, according to wikipedia anyway. An attacking force nominally takes 3:1 casualties compared to the defense, so the Japanese fail to reach that nominal amount by a factor of 6.
They were exhausted, diseased and starving. What they did was nothing short of incredible. That's what indoctrination can do for you.
Where did the Japanese get the fuel for their ships and aircraft?
Where's the punic wars!!