This was also done in the era of several non-WW2 films which included opposed-landings precisely because of Saving Private Ryan, like Troy and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

It's also due to the fact that it was also the same director

HamburgerTime For those who do not know history it may have been a surprise

Both Saving Private Ryan and The Pacific are Spielberg movies

i think its bullshit, the army must have known the beach was secure.

At the beginning we all did man

Joe Gregory I know this is based off real life, but considering that this was made by Spielberg and Hanks, I'm sure that's what they were going for.

Same, pal.....

Kevzete fuck off

That's how it really happened. The Marines were expecting fierce resistance the moment the landing craft touched ground. Instead, there was no resistance...initially.

@some lǝᴉuɐp guy I realized it too as I watched this. 35 years too late..lol

That’s smart

God bless him

Thank you to your Grandfather and to your family.

My grandfather fought in the Winter- and Continuation war (Finnish). I'm Norwegian and Finnish. He never talked about the war. My oldest uncle on that side managed to do a bit of research before grandpa ("moffa") died. My "momo" still lives today, 93 years old. I think he was shellshocked on the Mannerheim line, amongst other things. No other place in history (from what we can find from sources) suffered the same intensity of bombardment as here (isolated cases or on a broader spectrum). The Soviet also recieved their share, but yeah. In one example a (Soviet) soldier recollects walking into (after a day of bombardment) what he'd describe as "ghost trenches" - there wouldn't be body parts all over, probably not like they expected either way; even inside covers there were dead people with no visible injuries everywhere... dead from the sheer amount of shockwaves and/or pressure alone.

God bless him and thanks for his service

They call them the Greatest Generation... When you read about what they went through, how can you call them anything else?

***** nice profile pic you have there buddy

+Lt Col Speirs lol I see u everywhere

+Is-It-JokeR lots of people need cigarettes.

lol.. im the one who is everywhere

Not that officer, though. The last we see of him is his cowering helplessly in a foxhole int he first battle, out if his wits with fear.

My father told me "if you want a war go ask the Japanese. They'll give you all the war you'll ever want." He was in it from Day 1 to Day Last - US Navy, US Asiatic Fleet.

@Dan Gurău the Soviets were able to halt their advance. But the Japanese knew that stopping the US was the only way to win.

Here a little history: before Hitler invaded Poland and pearl harbor was attack the Chinese were the first people to enter ww2 before it was declared Chinese fought them for five to eight years for their country and later near the war was over the Soviet union headed to China to aid them at the Manchuria line for 2 months they fought. Chinese suffered when the Japanese occupied China famous cities and made into the Asian holocaust.

@@jian5568 all of that was on going on for decades and decades before world war 2, but yeah, the two wars did intermingle in the beginning of ww2 on the pacific front.

@@tagg946 the battle of the Marco polo incident was the first battle

Funny enough i bought a Vietnam helmet of eBay the other day but mistaken it for a marine helmet ww2 my collection is complete :D

Dorman Chasteen Were they high up in enlisted or did some get the battlefield commission? That's late 50s and imagine some of them had to come back into service as someone who already did the training. How did they affect your day-to-day training once in the jungle?

I meant late 40s my apologies

Dorman Chasteen I could've sat and listened to you guys tell stories all day long. Semper Fi Devil Dog.

Just want to say a Vietnamese is reading this 😆

I totally agree. Not taking anything away from Band of Brothers, but I felt emotionally and physically drained after watching The Pacific. Excellent miniseries.

Hi, I know this comment was two years ago. Any idea where I can rewatch the full episodes?

@@topperbuild So have you gone sailing yet?

@@topperbuild I think they're on Amazon Prime

@@mattbest9095 thank you 🙃

@Bronson Helps your moral a bit as you serve your time, even if it's mandatory

Prison labor is slave labor.

@@hjer731 I mean, who knows what criminal things they had done to be in "slave labor"

@@nepnepguythegreatestofall6032 that's pretty large and ignorant statement to say. Not everyone deserves the same punishment as everyone else. At least back then, if you did your time and paid your fees THAT WAS IT. Nowadays your life is scarred forever, unable to get a real job for the rest of your life. It is horrible. Most of the best people I know have had some sort of trouble in the past, 10-20 years ago, and they will never hold a career down.

@nepnepguy the greatest of all You have too much faith in the criminal justice system.

I just can't imagine being screamed at in boot camp by Maxwell Smart.

@@brucetucker4847 Drill Instructor Gadget...

Adams would check the bullseye on a paper target after rifle practice and say, “Missed it by that much”

The hospital that he recovered in still stands and is in use, not as a hospital though - it was built for the US Navy prior to the Marines getting here. There are memorials across the whole capital (Wellington) and every year on memorial day services are held to remember the Marines who came here - over 20,000. We have the American Embassy in Wellington and it is guarded by Marines who take part in all the services. The church (Old St Paul's) down the road from the embassy was used by Marines in WWII and the original flags that they gifted to our city still hang in Old St Paul's church.

Imagine having as a subordinte the would be chief and twenty years later the Chief getting his payback.

That wasn't pure hell, they got a taste of pure hell on pelelui.

Read Lecki's books too. .

With the old breed is amazing I reccomend Bill Sloan he is a great writer and his books on Peleliu and Okinawa are way good

I could only hear about 2/3ds of the words of that speech, but that's probably realistic.

@@andrewvelonis5940 that makes me love it even more

Both were hell in their own ways.

@@redaug4212 in the pacific theatre while war progressing, they didnt get a chance to fuck a woman at all unlike in europe. LOL

@@lorcansamonte176 fucking a women would of been your least concern in either campaign

​@BackpackZak Not true at all. The average infantry unit in Europe would remain on the front until their campaign or even the war was over. In the Pacific, however, it was not uncommon for units to be rotated out of combat for months on end. The 1st Marine Division, after the Guadalcanal campaign, spent 9 months in Melbourne before shipping out again. There is no such thing as a harder war.

@@lorcansamonte176 Oh really? I would suggest looking into STD rates of US servicemen stationed in Australia lol

Keep fighting. You got this

@@markhogan9169 Thank you. Bless you...

@@paulmartin7535 No problem. Much love from Ireland

@@markhogan9169 2nd gen. All grandparents except one was born on the Island. Near Galway, from all indications, on my dad's side, kind of sketchy, and on my mother's side its from the southern tip. One group, paternal grandfather (and I don't know if it was his maternal or paternal side), my 4-greats-grandmother lived in a cave off the Atlantic. She was the local "witch"- doctor, healer, midwife counselor--confessor, alternative to the priest of the 'Roman Church'. Anyway, that was one of the maaany "legends" of my family; we Irish, ex-Patriated to this continent, here in the states are famous for.

@@paulmartin7535 that's so interesting! Wow, very cool stories to have in the family. Thank you for sharing that 😊

Same lmfao

Um no

Daniel um yes

@Colin Richey Hey dude, just out of pure curiosity and since I'm a bit tipsy trying to drown out my Coronavirus sorrows, what do you personally think they were going for? I just figured it was a tribute to SPR, since they had that same shot of multiple landing craft from the almost exact same angle that SS filmed them at in the beginning of the beach landing scene. You think that was just a coincidence or something the shots ended up looking similar? And understand I'm not trying to be a dick or passive aggressive at all, I'm genuinely curious what you think

@Colin Richey Hey, totally fair dude. I just assumed that since Tom Hanks was a producer on this series, and some of the crew was similar between SPR and The Pacific, that there were maybe a few nods or homages to SPR thrown into the Pacific. I just felt the camera movement and shot staging (the camera starting out at the bottom of the screen and moving upwards and out to reveal multiple landing crafts parallel to each other, and shot from the right side) was a bit of a nod to SPR. That being said, there's only so many ways you can film tons of landing crafts at the same time, so it could have just been a coincidence. Have a good night dude and hope you're staying healthy!

Steven Spielberg and Tom banks helped make this series yes that was a definite ode to saving private Ryan

Not sure if it was motivating.....kind of a racist diatribe, perhaps he as killed by a Japanese soldiers, would have been good karma.

@@Bradgilliswhammyman Shhh. Grown-ups are talking.

@@jasonvansteenwyk5984 Come one Jason....its filled with racist vitriol that only simpletons would believe. The Japanese were an incredibly strong efficient fighting force any modern day Jarhead would respect.

@@Bradgilliswhammyman He wasn't, we last see him cowering in a foxhole in completely helpless terror during the first battle and he was relieved and sent home after that.

@@Bradgilliswhammyman waaaaaaaaaaah racism waaaaah

It really makes you think how they had the drive to keep fighting.

On Guadalcanal it wasn't a ruse, the Japanese had no idea the Americans were going to invade and there were few combat troops on the island, mostly construction workers building the airfield.

Was there much difference between the M-1903 Springfield and the M-1903A3 Springfield rifles? I thought that the Springfield rifles were mainly used as sniping rifles, with the M-1 Garand used as the main infantry weapon (with the Thompson smg and the M-3 smgs used by the sergeants and corporals, and the M-1 carbines mostly used by specialists like mortar crews, signallers, drivers, engineers etc).

@@simonyip5978 Some shortcuts to make production easier on the 1903A3, but the rear sights were improved. The M1 rifle wasn't initially issued to the marines but went to the army first. Though there's some cool pictures out there floating around of marines shooting Johnson Rifles, which was designed by Irving Johnson as an alternative to the Garand - didn't get adopted but did get purchased by the Dutch and shipped out East for their colonial holdings. Then the Japanese invaded and crates of these rifles were sitting on the docks in Australia... a bunch of semi-auto military rifles that are designed to reload from an M1903 stripper clip. As you can imagine, a fair number were "liberated" by enterprising marines.

I can only admire the depth of your knowlege and your eye for detail (not sarcastic)

Movie?

Next they go to jungle and HAAAA OHHH feeling is gone.

Leon Wi. Good thing the marines got there first

This was D-Day.... a D Day is literally just the day of deployment, you must be confusing "Deployment Day" with the landings at Omaha Beach during Operation Overlord.

The Arctic Gamer I'd love to see the source for that because that is not what it means. Field orders for missions would read along the lines of "The (enter military unit) will attack at H-Hour on D-Day". The D literally just stands for "Day", with the H standing for "hour". That is why you will see D-Day + (enter number), but for example lets say D-Day + 5, meaning that whatever mission is planned 5 days after D-Day. Now the French insist that the D in D-Day for the Normandy landings stands for Disembarkation, but US Brigadier General Schultz says that it stands for Department date/day. While you are not wrong in saying that this was a D-Day, as EVERY amphibious operation has a D-Day, the most famous D-Day is the Normandy landings, and that is what almost everyone thinks of when you say D-Day. He also made it pretty obvious that he was talking about Omaha Beach. Your're "(he) must be confusing (D-Day)" comment really was unnecessary as he was still talking about D-Day, the most well known and famous D-Day, the Normandy landings. Which are referred to just as D-Day by many historians from many different countries. Don't try to make a smart ass remark on a comment unless you are without a doubt correct.

At Guadalcanal 3×more sailors died than marines

@@goldenhedgehog9 you say that what he said was wrong then continue to explain why he was right.... okay kid lol

Yes

I'm from the future and I can confirm that it is indeed the best part.

Or had mines

The Japanese used artillery to shell the beach.

Iwo jima seems to be a very bad spot to be invade, small island with two volcanic hills on each sides, it is highly favorable for defenders but very much challenging for the invaders

@@reieben886 It had to be done.

The area Japanese forces on Guadalcanal had been driven off by the aerial and ship bombardment.

Only half of Korea, sadly. The other half suffers under one of the worst governments in the history of humanity. Thanks for that, Stalin.

@@brucetucker4847 Yeah Stalin installed the Kim dynasty, but it was China that protected North Korea during the Korean War. Without Chinese intervention the UN would have dismantled the North.

I don't think there were any Japanese combat troops there at the time of the marines landing, just construction workers.

What branch was he in?

@@andymiller6661 Army Air Corp. His release papers state that he was a heavy bomber mechanic. He was actually in the war a year before it was declared for a total of five years. I learned much about him when the family sent me a bunch of photos and old paperwork.

I thought it was suspicious that there were no mortars dropping around them on their approach, nor any MG or rifle fire incoming.

Oh, they did. This is day one of about 182 of the battle.

The only guys who want to see action are the ones who had never seen action yet.

every man has their breaking point. on that day it happened to be his day that he broke, but the day after it could be someone else. what he did says nothing about his character or his bravery as a soldier. it's not like you, sitting behind a computer talking shit could do ANY better.

@@longboi8540 best cure for bravado is gun fire

That was a different character not this captain

You are correct, sir!

Hell no! hahahaha

The flags would be soaked, and those landing craft aren't as fast as you'd think.

***** I love how your comeback is literally repeating what I said. Good job kid, nice try attempting to tell an Asian person what not to consider a slur on his own fucking people jackass.

一山田 My point exactly; war never changes. There are no "good guys" there are only survivors. Nobody should be proud of war.

DarkEgo1000 I was complimenting the show on how many well place slurs it could use. Honestly I don't get offended by slurs because I'm not so prideful that an insult to my race is going to hurt me.

DarkEgo1000 Chinese

DarkEgo1000 My parents don't trust them; I was born in the US and I like Manga and anime etc. I don't like the way their society works currently but I like their culture because it is interesting. The people are...idk I've only ever met 2 and they were fine.

Leckie did not paint a very impressive picture of officers in general.

They suffered so much, the fleet had to retreat and left em with little supplies.

Catherine I always thought it was bizarre and a creepy scene but thanks for clearing it up

There's no soldiers in this show.

This is youtube

Because exiting from the front was the fastest, most practical way to deploy large groups of men on the beach as quickly as possible. The tanks (LVTs) you are referring to were different and couldn't deploy men as easily, in fact many forced men to climb over the sides.

Yes my great uncle lied about his age and joined at 17 too. Unfortunately he died on the beach. His brother, my grandfather, served at Guadalcanal. Those were some hard men back then.

Some guys did the same thing during Vietnam.

Died fighting? or died from starvation and disease because Japan couldn't supply its own troops during the war.