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In the book Eugene said he cried when he got the letter of his dog passing while shooting and artillery were going off behind him

"We were in the depths of the abyss, the ultimate horror of war. . . Men struggled and fought and bled in an environment so degrading I believed we had been flung into hell's own cesspool " - Eugene Sledge

John Basilone went down like a champion.

There were a lot of friendly fire incidents on all sides in WW2. Over time, more care has been taken and more training put in to avoiding it, but war is chaos. They will never be completely eliminated. Eugene was thinking the spotting round he called in caused the damage to the hut.

Bruh, I KNEW you were gonna bring up Godzilla Minus One when they were talking about kamikazes. I had that feeling. 😂😂😂😂

Your intro was so heartwarming. I know how you feel. My mom shares her bday with John Basilone so I actually always think of him on Nov 4th. As Major Richard M. Gordon said in The Ghosts of Bataan: “Once we go there’s no other voice left behind us.” You’ve become their voice. It’s really beautiful to watch how BoB and The Pacific has positively affected and impacted you because so many young people do not know their history and have become ungrateful, spoiled brats. Major Gordon’s “Horyo: Memoirs of an American POW” isn’t as widely recognized but should be as he is one of the few who tells the true story of Bataan. - In terms of forgiveness, my mom’s uncle who had survived the Death March hated the Japanese and never forgave them for the atrocities committed to him, his comrades, and countrymen (some of our family members were casualties to Japanese war crimes). Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila is such a horrific read but one that should be considered a must-read. The German Cub massacre still haunts me. In the documentary “The Ghosts of Bataan,” the American and Filipino veterans talked about that very issue of forgiveness. Some American & Filipino vets forgave but it wasn’t until 2009 that the Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. finally apologized in person to the surviving 73 Bataan Death March survivors. Lester Tunney was the president of the American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor POWs of the Japanese during World War II and his goal was to get a public apology from the Japanese government. Highly, highly recommend his book, “My Hitch in Hell” - such an amazing read and one of the best accounts about the Death March. ** Also making another pitch for “The War” because you’ll hear more from Sid and his sister in addition to learning more about Eugene Sledge’s story. Glenn Frazier who was a Death March survivor - learning about his story was both heartbreaking and inspiring. The defiant power of the human spirit is extraordinary. Robert J. Mrazek’s “The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs” is one of the great American heroes who exemplified that defiant power. She deserves a movie of her own!

Definitely check out He Has Seen War, a "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" documentary. Have a good one.

At this point I can tell you about the source material without spoiling the end too much. The series was principally based on two memoirs and a biography. The biography was of John Basilone. The memoirs were 'A Helmet For My Pillow' by Robert Leckie and 'With The Old Breed' by Eugene Sledge. So, yeah, they both survived WWII. Sledge waited many decades before writing down his recollections of Pelleliu and Okinawa. Leckie wroye many books in the years after the war, many on the war in the Pacific. Helmet for my Pillow is superb.

Battle deaths on Okinawa were 7000. Add to that the 5000 sailors that died due to kamakasi attacks and the toll for the US death toll was 12,000. Of the 7000 battle death on Okinawa 2500 were in taking Hacksaw Ridge.

When I was growing up in the 1950s, my best friend's father fought in Okinawa. He was on a cruiser antii-aircraft battery that got hit by a kamakazi. He still had sharpnel in his body, but felt lucky to have survived the war.

I've been binge watching a lot of your war film content and I love how you make an effort to pause for input. I don't care if a scene grabs you, don't worry about talking Just let it take you on the journey. I think there's a lot more to be said about no verbal reaction to a well-done scene because it must affect you even more.

That, right there 43:35 is a hell of a scene. Show's humanity isn't fucked

The Okionawans were not part of Japanese culture. They were treated as a conquered people. The Okinawans like the Philippinoes suffered terribly at the hands of the Japanese. Over 100,000 Okinawans died in the battle.

The reason the mortars got wet wasnt because of the seconds of changing tha cape that was covering it but because the soldier changed the new one with the old hole fulled one that he had. Thats why trough the whole episode they have an atitude with the guy who has a girl

I so appreciate your interest in finding true history, especially that which cannot be adequately covered in an hour TV episode.

Okinawa is 100x bigger in size than Iwo Jima or Pelelieu, so much easier to lose bearings and misread maps. Especially as roads and villages were steadily obliterated in crossfire. You might learn an area briefly, but then it looks different after a battle sweeps through and you're lost.

A life wasted? No way. A true hero has not wasted a moment. He made every second count for something! He used his life to fight for freedom. Nothing wasted...rather well spent.

The difference between Vietnam and WW2 is approximately 200 days. The average soldier in WW2 spent an average of 40 days in combat. The average number of combat days for a soldier in Vietnam was 240 days.

Not necessarily for a reaction, but if you want more about WWII I HIGHLY recommend you check out "The War" by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. It's a seven-part documentary that talks to a lot of veterans and recreates stories from the letters of other veterans. For that matter, check out Ken Burns' documentaries on the American Civil War and Vietnam as well.

For 6 weeks, 500 yards away, you are hacking them with shovels, shooting them, burning them alive, burning them alive. And then suddenly you're on a trail and you're not supposed to touch them. Wow!

One of the most brutal episodes

24:14 about 5-10% of casualties are friendly fire in war

you should definitely react to the third and final HBO war miniseries, GENERATION KILL. as someone who served in the invasion and following war that it takes place in i can tell you with certainty that its factual, realistic and fantastic

Killing it bro! Episode 10 is amazing. At 8:40, Most every veteran hated the Japanese with a passion after the war, due to the sheer brutality and sadistic nature of the IJN and IJA, not to mention what they did to all civilians they came across. The total tally of Japan for their genocide of civilians was 31 million in Asia. I think they tried to get Japanese and American vets to meet 60 years later, and tons refused (though not the case of every marine some forgave). I always like to think Europe was a gentleman’s war, as brutal as it was, but the Pacific was an entire different level of hate for one another

Conscription and the draft are the SAME thing!! Being, not volunteer but in the draft it's done by numbers!! Each individual has a number and if your number comes up you're drafted, you have to go into the service!! That was in effect until right about the end of the Vietnam War and I don't think we have had a draft SINCE then!!!

This is bad. But the last episode closes the family circle and is good ;-)

To answer your question about forgiveness and reconciliation between Japanese and Americans you might want to check some of the shows on KZfaq that have veterans of both nations reuniting on the battlefields where they fought. There is also a true movie about an American POW who was mistreated and tortured by the Japanese who after the war went back to Japan to forgive the very guards who mistreated him. I believe the name of the movie is UNDEFEATED.

The Marine Corps is a strictly volunteer organization. The few, the proud, the Marines. All elite units like Marines, Rangers, and Airborne are all voluntary. That said. So many Marines were being put out of action. The government had to start drafting qualified men into the Corps. Regular volunteer Marines kinda looked down on them.

"Conscripted" Yes, the majority of US soldiers in WWII were drafted----2/3 of all soldiers were drafted. It's a widespread KZfaq myth that "There were plenty of volunteers", but that is simply wrong. Some services--like the Marines and Air Force--were almost all volunteers. The Army was full of conscripted men.

Damn man you dressed up rn, it cold on that side of the pacific rn?

I thought the show went downhill after Glen was killed.

Please consider the movie UNBROKEN not Undefeated.

I doubt there would be much of a positive feeling possible for Japanese soldiers while the War was on. They behaved barbarically---insanely fearless, but utterly without compassion time and time again. The things they did to captured Allied soldiers and to any and all civilians in their way--from Nanking to Manila--were murderous and extremely sadistic.

can you react to the movie “Lone Survivor” ? you would love it!

do you really need to be wearing a snow jacket and toque in Australia? I know it's your winter now, where it's our summer, but cmon, it cant possibly be cold enough for that attire.

The pipe Eugene is smoking in the show is the real pipe that the real Eugene Sledge carried with him. The Sledge family allowed the actor to use it for the show.

Say, will you do Generation Kill after this?

What you Aussies went through on Buna and Borneo wasn't much different.