Forcing Japan's Surrender: The Key Battles Of The Pacific War | Battles Won & Lost

Forcing Japan's Surrender: The Key Battles Of The Pacific War | Battles Won & Lost | War Stories

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From the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor that began the war, to the Battle of Midway that saw the tide turn in America's favour, and finally to the Battle of Okinawa and the last major conflict of the war. This Battles Won & Lost compilation brings you the pivotal battles and moments that ultimately led to the Allied victory in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
We also look at some of the key battles from the other theatres of the Second World War.
00:00 Pearl Harbor
09:40 Soviet Offensive
22:30 Battle of the Atlantic
29:55 Dieppe Raid
41:20 Guadalcanal Campaign
54:05 Allied Bombing Campaign
01:01:25 Battle of Dakar
01:07:40 Leningrad
01:12:40 Battle of Leyte Gulf
01:19:40 Battle of Crete
01:30:25 Battle of Midway
01:43:00 Case Blue
01:48:05 Operation Longcloth
01:55:15 Operation Bagration
02:05:45 Battle of the Scheldt
02:11:30 Battle of the Bulge
02:19:35 Battle of Okinawa
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@tuco0x 11 ай бұрын

wtf, "The Key Battles of the Pacific War" and 10 minutes into the video and we're talking about the German/Russian front [rolls eyes].

@coldburn9956 10 ай бұрын

I don’t get it, They are like all these different documentaries spliced together..

@frankgleon 3 ай бұрын

Hahahaha I thought the same thing.Still, it's a great documentary.

@stevenschnelz6944 11 ай бұрын

I love the guys moving the map markers. Their expressions are priceless.

@Acer_Maximinus 11 ай бұрын

“…the guys…” That corny BS is what makes these videos unwatchable.🤦‍♂️

@thebigbean8825 10 ай бұрын

@@Acer_Maximinusagreed. Feels like this channel would be better off just showing more footage from the events, like the rest of the video. Don’t understand the need to remove me from the realism by showing me what looks like two dudes playing an intense board game.

@lykpalegic 8 ай бұрын

Right Steve, all you get out of these amazing recreations is the expressions of the actors...what a kook. you must be a teenager!

@user-ix3en1zd7n 10 ай бұрын

the number of humans lost in and around Leningrad and Stalingrad combined its absolutely staggering

@husker_nation 8 ай бұрын

The amount of men and women in WW2 that was lost, on both sides, even more staggering.

@DennisSullivan-om3oo 6 ай бұрын

The saying is the war was won with British intelligence coups, American material production, and Russian Bodies.

@sidgarrett7247 6 ай бұрын

And always count the civilians! Often they are not included in the casualties of the armies.

@jrdsm 5 ай бұрын

It is also a fantastic waste of everyone's time

@DennisSullivan-om3oo 5 ай бұрын

@@jrdsm ?

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

@2:15:00, the historian said that all of the Allied generals were taken by surprise because of the German offensive in the Ardennes, but that’s not true! General Patton “had a feeling” that the Germans were gearing up for something, so he already had his officers setting up 3 different contingency plans to go north, even though his troops were fighting an east-west campaign. That’s why he was able to turn his tanks and other vehicles 90 degrees and get them on the road north-they arrived in 48 hours-and his infantry started the day after the tanks and got there in 72 hours. CRAZY

@skorpion7132 9 ай бұрын

Its even worse, Allied reconnaissance had on several attempts spotted the buildup, but the idea of an offensive was 'foolishly' dismissed on most occasions.

@robertcottam8824 5 ай бұрын

🤣 What utter, delightful nonsense🤣 Thanks for the giggle. 🙏Bless you, poppet.🙏

@emmanuelbuluswarzeng6053 10 ай бұрын

I never get tired watching this documentary /history movies.

@Ickie71 10 ай бұрын

same,been watching them since 1980ish too and never bored!Funny that as with other programs this is impossible but for these History films its very diffrent.

@mohamedaden7125 11 ай бұрын

I love these stories thank you very much

@Saleemsan 6 ай бұрын

England stood alone for two years! it must have been so frightening. I respect them so much

@Craterus123 5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

@raymondyu7933 4 ай бұрын

England Get Very Busy with Hitler's Invade in Euro

@Pawel.K. 10 ай бұрын

Long and great material,thanks for that! Hello from Scotland ✋

@jonathanhughes4465 9 ай бұрын

Misleading title - This video mixes in a great deal of battles from the European theater

@user-sk4xc9st3c 10 ай бұрын

Long and great material,thanks for that!

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

The whole shebang is long, but they only spend 10-20 minutes per battle, or even per offensive, which is _NOTHING._ I know this is going to surprise you, but *the only way anybody learns ANYTHING about a subject as complex as WWII is to READ.*. They could have spent all 2.5 hours on the Battle of Midway, and it wouldn’t have been _nearly_ enough to tell what happened. This is “education” for lazy people.

@reynardlatorre7563 10 ай бұрын

The stories of our great grandfathers will never be forgotten , this is how their stories have gone along , painful memories , deaths , patience , sacrifice to uphold peace and humanity , . we are greatful for this triump because history will only be ONCE

@Talisman1010 10 ай бұрын

Hey whats cooking good looking.

@frankparriott6776 11 ай бұрын

I had no idea that "The Key Battles Of The Pacific War" took place in the Atlantic, North Africa, and eastern Europe!! I bet Hirohito didn't even know he was beat by generals Montgomery and Zukov. Seriously. I guess the only way we have of dissuading you for using these deceptive titles is to vote the videos down, as I have done and encourage everyone else to do as well.

@ryanreedgibson 11 ай бұрын

It's upsetting, isn't it? They did the same about three years ago. There isn't enough coverage of the Pacific theater on YT. I'd love to see a detailed docu on the Battle of the Philippine Sea! It was only the largest carrier batter in f-ing history!

@ExiledSpiritunderground 10 ай бұрын

Lolz

@devanishant 10 ай бұрын

Have you ever served in an infantry unit? Ever served in a forward area. Ever put your life in another man's hands...ask him to put his life in yours? We follow orders. We follow orders or people die. It's that simple. Are we clear? ARE WE CLEAR?!

@ryanreedgibson 10 ай бұрын

@@devanishant What? How does that further the conversation? I did not serve.

@devanishant 10 ай бұрын

@@ryanreedgibson We live in a world with walls. Those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's going to do it? You Ryan? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. Deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall! You need me on that wall!

@happyhippo4664 11 ай бұрын

Title is misleading.

@ChrisP.Austrian 9 ай бұрын

The Key Battels of the Pacific. Then on the Front of Kiev at the 2WW. Was suprised about that. 😂😂

@jeffersonwright9275 9 ай бұрын

The Dieppe Raid - I had no idea Dickie Mountbatten planned it. That explains EVERTYTHING! And he was only just getting warmed up: once he was in charge of Indian and Pakistani independence, the disaster that was the Partition of India was bound to happen - 15 million displaced people and at a minimum, 1 million massacred.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@jeffersonwright9275 Why always blame Britain. Put blame where blame deserves t be placed -- on the Indians.

@zeronzemesh7718 11 ай бұрын

I basically live to watch 2 old men move poker chips around on a bumber-pool table, while they stare menacingly at one another. Thank you for this.

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

They’re not OLD, you silly person! They’re maybe in their 40s-which you will find out sooner than you think-is NOT old!

@lykpalegic 8 ай бұрын

zero brain!

@iitzfizz 7 ай бұрын

I can't take it seriously because of this lol

@jeffersonwright9275 9 ай бұрын

Minute 1:22 The Battle of Crete - you know the day and the minute your enemy will be flying in paratroops AND STILL YOUR LOSE?????????

@lykpalegic 8 ай бұрын

yep, Jeff...wish you were there to set things right, JOKE!

@robertcottam8824 5 ай бұрын

Aw shucks, bubba. If you think ‘Murcan troops are even a fraction as good as Aussies and Kiwis, you’ve overdosed on McDonalds Lard-burgers (with extra lard and lard dressing). You won’t find many folk outside ‘Murca who’d swap ten of you flubby blubber-lubbers for a single Maori. That’s why you lose so many wars: Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Somalia, Eye-raq, Afghanistan… Pip pip!

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 11 ай бұрын

Super Informative documentary about WW2...with an excellent explanation of specific circumstances of each selected campaign ....thank you for sharing

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

Oh, come on! There is so much left out of each battle covered, with only about 20 minutes to cover each one! That’s next to nothing! One of the historians said that none of the Allied generals were expecting the German offensive because they already thought they were out of the war, so the the Ardenne offensive totally took them by surprise….General Patton _WAS_ thinking Germany was up to something, so before he went to the meeting of the generals to plan who was going to Bastogne, he had told his staff to draw up 3 contingency plans for turning north. That was why he and his troops were able to pull off the unprecedented feat of turning 90 degrees and taking only 2 days for tanks and other mechanized vehicles to get there, and 72 hours for his infantry! Patton relieved Bastogne along with air cover once it stopped snowing, ffs, and his troops did a great deal to turn the German offensive back! This never even get the barest mention in this silly documentaries, and I have no idea why. They make you feel like you’re learning, but you’re not….reading books is the only way to understand this war.

@MrNiceGuyHistory 8 ай бұрын

@@voraciousreader3341 Nothing wrong with a brief overviews of the battles. There are plenty of in-depth documentaries about all of these battles if that is what you are looking for. What is annoying is the constant cutting out to the guys playing some stupid board game.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 A lot of woke nonsense about Harris and Bomber Command.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@@MrNiceGuyHistory Fair point, but there is something wrong with spreading woke nonsense as part of the summary such as when they discuss Harris and Bomber Command.

@andybreglia9431 10 ай бұрын

What irritates me about Guadalcanal documentaries is failure to mention the Army contribution. Dad served with Army Americal Division artillery on Guadalcanal. His battery of six inch long range guns gave artillery support for Marines defending Henderson field and hitting Admiral Tanaka's resupply convoys, AKA the Tokyo Express. Dad explained to me about the coriolis effect where with long range artillery fire, you had to account for the rotation of the Earth during the flight of the artillery shells. This can be demoed at one thousand yards with a rifle.

@trexx63 9 ай бұрын

Because: Macarther, his ego and his bumbling during the PTO

@MLA56 8 ай бұрын

Americal (23rd Infantry Division) and the 25th Infantry Division (Tropical Lightning) were both involved in heavy fighting on Guadalcanal. This has often been the case -- the USMC has been far better at self-promotion since World War I.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@andybreglia9431 Absolutely correct. But is was the First Marine Division that landed with World War I equipment and minimal supplies. they fought it out with the Japanese for two months before the first Amy units arrived--part of that time on half rations.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@@MLA56 Well the USMC with scarce supplies fought it out with the Japanese for two months before the Army arrived. I think they can be forgiven for a little self promotion.

@Nat-rj4iz 9 ай бұрын

Great Video

@Jim_maco 8 ай бұрын

The turning point in the pacific was when the first bomb fell on Pearl harbor.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@JamesMaccomas Absolutely correct.

@joshualadejobi9073 11 ай бұрын

Hmmmmmm. Very nice documentary.

@achuopeter1889 10 ай бұрын

I love these history stories but I always sleep off I've watched this like 10 times but I always fall asleep and do a rewind and still fall asleep repeatedly

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

So, I guess actually reading about this war would do the same, huh?

@npc2153 10 ай бұрын

6:15 of the twenty aircrafts destroyed the twenty was in the second wave. A Testament to American soldiers who were ready by the second wave. First wave: surprise! second wave: surprise back!

@solrosenberg4529 8 ай бұрын

The first wave was detected on radar but they thought it was a returning flight of B17s, so don’t give them too much credit.

@jameshickey3374 9 ай бұрын

Great Documentary but confused how the title is "key battles of the Pacific War" and multiple battles take place in Atlantic, Mediterranean, and European Theatres.

@ricardoalegria4064 9 ай бұрын

Esto es una buena historia sobre la gerra y batallas del pacífico EEUUU y JAPON en la 2 gerra mundial . Con aprecio Ricardo Alegria zambrano Popayan cauca Colombia .

@HistoryfortheAges 11 ай бұрын

I just made a short video on the Manhattan project and Oppenheimer. At the end of the day it was the decisive event that ended the war in the Pacific

@kennypool 11 ай бұрын

No it wasn't, after Nagasaki Japan didn't surrender. Two days later we flew hundreds of b29s back and forth over Japan. Then they surrendered

@voraciousreader3341 11 ай бұрын

@HistoryfortheAges - Are you saying that you just now figured that out?? Your comment suggests it, but I have news for you….every man in the Allied invasion force being assembled on Okinawa-especially the US Marines who’d borne the brunt of the island hopping Pacific campaign-knew after the bombs were dropped that they were saved. My father was in charge of an amphibious tractor that would have aided in the landings, and the dropping of the bombs was absolutely his favorite part of the war. So you’re 78 years behind the times. I won’t be watching your video.

@HistoryfortheAges 11 ай бұрын

@voraciousreader3341 why do you think I just figurd that out? I actually have spoken to several WWII vets who made it clear that the bomb saved their lives. I was referring to the recent Oppenheimer video I made, not what I have been teaching about for 25 years

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@@kennypool Yes it did. It convinced the Emperor.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@@voraciousreader3341 Absolutely correct. And the bombs saved countless Japanese lives.

@Aenntw 7 ай бұрын

Guadalcanal-Stalingrad: Mirror turning points.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@Aenntw Yes and no. The dimensions of the two battles were radically different.

@robertcottam8824 5 ай бұрын

@@dennisweidner288 Battle of Britain, El Alamein… First RAF 1000 Bomber Raids on Germany… The successful landings on Sword, Juno, Gold and Utah Beaches… The Aussies stop the Japanese in New Guinea… Midway, too. TTFN

@MrMAC8964 9 ай бұрын

British ineptness @ that time . RIP fallen of Dieppe

@johnc7709 2 ай бұрын

3 adds before 6 minute mark... yup BUBYE!

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Ай бұрын

Instead of watching on a phone, tablet or TV , rise above that nonsense and watch it on a computer with an ad blocker installed.... it's like the intenet was 20 years ago. Bliss !!!

@MADNESS084 11 ай бұрын

The winners write history

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@MADNESS084 I suggest t=you look at American historiography after the Civil War.

@peacejohnson699 9 ай бұрын

Don't know how the battle of the bulge is part of the Pacific war 😂

@Uncensored-ep8sf 8 ай бұрын

You should do a feature on Hiroshi Funasaka right now. He is a soldier in the Japanese army, but he is superhuman like the protagonist of a COD or battlefield series campaign.

@loonowolf2160 7 ай бұрын

Battle of Midway, ty to the uss nautalis and thr ijn arashi the uss Enterprise and uss Hornet manage to achieve the best pay off from the gable to attack the carriers at their most vulnerable and 3 carrier got taken out, had just 1 bomb hit the 4 carrier yorktown would made it back to pearl 100%

@jfingerskeys 10 ай бұрын

First preparation for Islands to be anguished

@chownful 10 ай бұрын

Almost half of the battles mentioned had no impact on the Pacific War...they've uploaded these same "most important battles of WW2" at least 3 times now O_O

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

This is a very recent series which was on Netflix (I think, maybe other platforms, too), and it aired in order with each battle getting about 20 minutes, and about 60 minutes per DVD, which is horrifically, terribly short….nobody can learn _anything_ by watching documentaries because the war was fought on so many fronts and was so _BLOODY COMPLEX._ But I notice that people think reading is too taxing for their brains. They’ll wish they’d started the habit when they get to age 65 or so! Anyway, this channel keeps uploading the episodes in different combinations to increase views, which I wouldn’t know, but I got really annoyed 3 months ago and in 5 minutes online I had it cinched. This is a _great_ channel for actual WWII footage in the large number of documentaries you can watch, despite this deviousness, so I subscribed!

@dougrobbins5367 3 ай бұрын

Nonsense. American military power had to be split in two for the different theatres, so of course gains and losses in one theatre would affect the other. Did you think the americans had unlimited resources?

@RockMariner 10 ай бұрын

Why is there visual screens showing our history of battles fought ?

@TheDude1980 10 ай бұрын

12:30 A little interesting history involving Vatutin... The SB OUN, as part of the larger Ukrainian Insurgent Army, ended up ambushing Nikolai Vatutin (1st Ukrainian General) in Mikhalkivtsi on February 28, 1944, while he was headed to Slavuta in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast. Both of these area's were well behind enemy lines, but the OUN Security Service must have been keeping close tab's on him, because they killed most of the general's bodyguard, and Vatutin ended up with blood poisoning from his wound's. He died of sepsis in Kiev about 6 weeks later, and was replaced by the more well known Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union. In November 2014, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory included Vatutin on the list of "persons involved in the struggle against Ukraine's independence, the organization of famines, and political repressions." The monument created for him in 1948 located in Mariinskyi Park, Kyiv, Ukraine, was demolished on February 9th, 2023.

@joesevenz3556 10 ай бұрын

@vindobonaification 2 ай бұрын

Can someone please tell me why Battles fought in the mediterrenean sea and eastern europe are "Key battles of the pacific war"???

@FriendChicken 10 ай бұрын

Came to see the Key Battles of the Pacific War. Saw North African, European and Eastern European Theaters. Click bait.

@pekertimulia125 Ай бұрын

Urang mah hungkul manehna mah bukan tutup satu..

@raymondschlichting6778 10 ай бұрын

I have a friend who’s father was at Dieppe. He claims that the Allie’s did in fact capture the ignigma machine.

@devanishant 10 ай бұрын

Nah. I was there. We couldn't find it. We couldn't even spell it.

@tremedar 8 ай бұрын

@@devanishant Such an Enigma that even its correct spelling was a mystery.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@raymondschlichting6778 By1942 capturing an Enigma machine was not all that important, certainly not justifying the enormous casualties. .

@janodjano5828 8 ай бұрын

Having back ground music in the foreground (competing with narrators voice) annoying . shut it off

@Wittmanntodd 8 ай бұрын

The sound editing on this is horrible. There are periodic blasts of a radio type voice. Otherwise, a most wonderful and thorough presentation.

@adambutsch2820 6 ай бұрын

My grandfather flew "the hump" in ww2

@Jakal-pw8yq 10 ай бұрын

I love your channel but what's with the clickbait title? 10 minutes in and were talking about the Russians and the Germans and the fighting in Europe! What's up with that?

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

I guess it’s clickbait of a sort, but not at all malicious….I say this because I really love the huge number of WWII documentaries they have, with very few ads, if any. This is the series “Battlefied,” which began airing on Netflix (I think) about 5 years ago. Each episode very briefly covered *3 different battles* lasting about 20 minutes each; when it was released, they put *3 episodes* on each DVD. This channel has never put the right episode titles when they created uploads, and now it seems they’re mixing episodes up in these 2.5 hour long videos and are giving the title for ONE of the DVDs. Sorry this is long, but if it helps you it may help others!

@Trajan2401 3 ай бұрын

it's ridiculous blurring things out there is a lot worse out there

@jeffhunter407 2 ай бұрын

(2:22) An atomic bomb explosion on Okinawa? *really*?!?!🤣

@brianbrunner7807 8 ай бұрын

Yamamoto didn't make the "sleeping giant" comment.

@acidspit14 8 ай бұрын

100 years from then ,USa still flexing their muscles about PH.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@wheyprotein7134 The world is a lot better place today because America has been flexing its mussels about.

@dougward6590 11 ай бұрын

Why didn't we send aircraft carrier with convoy? All needed in the Pacific?

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

I don’t understand your question…..are you talking about the convoys on the Atlantic?? That would be because aircraft carriers are so much huger than any ship around them, which would make them a really easy target for the German subs. So, if they sank a carrier, it would take quite a long time to replace it (especially early in the war); the US would have lost the incredibly specialized ship’s crew; they would have lost a huge number of extremely experienced pilots and flight crews AND planes; and the US didn’t have any carriers to spare at that time, and especially just after Pearl Harbor. LOTS of excellent reasons! I just hope that was your question, lol!

@tremedar 8 ай бұрын

@@voraciousreader3341 We had carriers with the convoys, just not fleet carriers. Ranger in particular was repurposed for anti-submarine work and all the various escort carrier classes were designed around that, absolutely did convoy protection.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@@voraciousreader3341 Absolutely correct which the Royal Navy learned early in the War. This led to the development of jeep carriers.

@alexl5660 11 ай бұрын

Terrible war! Have mercy Lord Jesus!

@user-xd6gu9ki4d 8 ай бұрын

This video is insane. What is the connection between an event in December 1941 and a Russo/German battle in Ukraine in 1943?

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@user-xd6gu9ki4d Actually there is a connection. America entering the War set the American Arsenal of Democracy in motion. Not only did Lend Lease help supply the Red Army, but over half of German industrial production went to wage the war in the West, diverting needed resources from the Ostheer.

@dougrobbins5367 3 ай бұрын

All the events of WW2 are connected, fundamentally and critically. The video is not insane, your question is ridiculous.

@Jd-fors 11 ай бұрын

Great channel but please do away with the map plotting…it really adds nothing with two guys standing there moving chips around and trying to look menacing!

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

*The “War Stories” channel does not produce content…..they upload DVDs from documentaries.* In this documentary, the producers decided to use this very format. So if you don’t like it, don’t watch it….nothing can be done about it now. And there a lot of people like me who enjoy having a visual orientation for troop emplacements.

@ezekielalkhabeer7084 9 ай бұрын

1:26:10

@jfingerskeys 10 ай бұрын

It's sleeping giant was awakened

@silversniper1725 3 ай бұрын

A valid documentary is the sharing of information in video format. That's it. The information doesn't need to be true. If that were the case, we wouldn't have a documentary on dragons. Documentaries about history? The information needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Because history is written by the winners, and doesn't mean that it's all fact about what happened.

@dougrobbins5367 3 ай бұрын

All the people who keep saying that history is written by the victors, never come up with any evidence that the allies distorted or lied about anything, in terms of history. No evidence. Nothing. The Axis nations were the only ones who tried to keep unfolding events a secret from their own populations.

@marcoeire44 5 ай бұрын

I wanted to watch a Pacific Theatre documentary? If i wanted Western Front, I would click a Western Front documentary...

@hlubtshaajtxujsa494 8 ай бұрын

@jfingerskeys 10 ай бұрын

But you left out the ardenne forest

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

It’s there, under “The Battle of the Bulge” (this is what the Western Allies called it), starting at 2:11:30.

@frankkoslowski6917 8 ай бұрын

What about the bombing of Hannover? I know for sure that Hannover was also considered a prime target because of its industry. In particular, the Pelican Fountain Pen Ink Factory where Grandmother was employed on days when she wasn't turning grenades at the other end of town. Knowing that the pen could be more powerful than the sword. At least on days when British bombs weren't religiously punctually falling. 😧

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@frankkoslowski6917 What about it. Germany started the War and began bombing Polish towns and cities on the first day. Harris was absolutely correct. "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put that rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."

@davidcarroll2451 11 ай бұрын

And you wonde why Gen Patto n had a bad attitude against the Brits.

@Jakal-pw8yq 10 ай бұрын

They should have switched positions between Montgomery and Patton. Market Garden would never have fallen on its face if it's even had taken place. Patton was the best general of the war in my opinion

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@davidcarroll2451 America and Britain had issues, but the Anglo-American alliance was the greatest military alliance in history.

@jeffhunter407 2 ай бұрын

*Really*? The Japanese NEVER had 4 engine bombers at Pearl Harbor. If you're going to go to all this effort to recreate, should at least do it realistically...

@userTJ39780 8 ай бұрын

Too bad some of these are out of order; Midway was far before Leyte Gulf.

@lordshaxx4693 9 ай бұрын

The famous Pacific Battle of El Alimain

@lykpalegic 8 ай бұрын

oh, lord please forgive us...another joke from a teenager

@Unseen_Hejcior 8 ай бұрын

"...the red army blast and batters the german barbarians to the east.." - later history showed who was the real barbarian and occupant. All western countries should, to this day, feel embarissed and ashamed for Yalta conference and betrayal of their allies.

@tremedar 8 ай бұрын

There was no 'real' barbarian, they *both* were, but the nazis bit off way more than they could chew and it was them who got beat down.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@Unseen_Hejcior That is unfair. Yalta had its faults. But the post-War situation was determined by the fact that the Red Army controlled Eastern Europe. Yalta did not turn it oer to them. They won it on the battlefield at great cost. Yalta simply recognized this reality.

@primetime8717 11 ай бұрын

Second

@goldenreaperjtx 6 ай бұрын

If the Japanese war cabinet hadn't been absolute A-holes, they would have sued for peace after Midway. The Japanese war plan called for something they called "Kito Buki" or some such which meant facing down the enemy in one huge decisive fleet battle, as they had done with Russia in 1905. Well, MIdway WAS that "decisive battle" just with aircraft carriers not battleships, and they lost, Big Time.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 5 ай бұрын

Do you mean the "Kidō Butai"? That was the Japanese name for its combined carrier strike force.

@earlshaner4441 11 ай бұрын

True American heroes

@robertcottam8824 5 ай бұрын

What all of ‘em who fought the Axis powers were Yanks? Someone should tell the Brits, Aussies, Indians, Canadians, Chinese, Poles… Cut out the “Big Hat ‘n’ Banjo” garbage, son.

@earlshaner4441 5 ай бұрын

All is good my friend

@dougrobbins5367 3 ай бұрын

He didn't suggest that all who fought the axis were yanks. Get a basic course in reading comprehension. Another rude, empty, garbage comment, "son"@@robertcottam8824

@donbrashsux 11 ай бұрын

Would Japan be where it is today if it hadn’t gone to war ?

@DennisSullivan-om3oo 11 ай бұрын

Are you suggesting that the war was good for Japan?

@martytrueblood5902 11 ай бұрын

a third world nation with a silkworm... instead it slapped USA in the face took its markets took the US war dept and made US a vassal it was the best race war for Japan.. USA is mass cult of TV morons now and homeless... sheesh at least it has learned respect for Japan though

@mrpotato4441 11 ай бұрын

@@DennisSullivan-om3ooI love war. War with Japan, that’s my favorite war

@DennisSullivan-om3oo 11 ай бұрын

@donbrashsux That's an alternate history question. The first step is to imagine how that could happen. A peace faction in the military, backed by the emperor would need to predominate. They would instruct their diplomats in the US to do what was necessary end the embargo, and to avoid war. They would be willing to give up claims to mainland China.

@martytrueblood5902 11 ай бұрын

@@DennisSullivan-om3oo USA is relentless imperialist that would have invaded anyway USA was dealing drugs in China and India thank god Japan shut them down USA is the vassal now

@jacobdiller8140 9 ай бұрын

great that they use meaninglessly colored pieces on the war map. Really make it clear who is who.

@robertgreenwald2811 11 ай бұрын

10 minutes in, I stopped watching, when this switched to the European theater, which is counter to the title! Do this again and I'll unsubscribe!!!

@npc2153 10 ай бұрын

7:20 💀 this is by far one of the worst pearl harbor documentaries ive watched.

@alexedwards413 10 ай бұрын

So the last 8 mins are about the Pacific the rest is Europe

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

That’s the channel’s fault….this is a really great and quite recent series which I believe was on Netflix, and they covered three 20 minute videos for each episodes, and three episodes in one DVD, if people wanted to buy them. This is _really_ a fabulous channel if you’re interested in WWII with great videos, but I think they’re re-uploading the battles in different combinations to increase views.

@booboo8577 11 ай бұрын

If y'all keep putting misleading titles on your videos I'm gonna stop watching them.

@oldskool731 11 ай бұрын

Still good though

@chucks_88 11 ай бұрын

Bye bye 👋

@aaron-uj5qs 11 ай бұрын

Like anyone cares bout your crying self

@aaron-uj5qs 11 ай бұрын

Peace out then. You won't be missed

@garyrunnalls7714 11 ай бұрын

Agreed

@jamespriest2723 8 ай бұрын

Ukraine will win this conflict!!! They will pay the price of freedom.

@richardharrison7283 3 ай бұрын

Incorrect title its all about germany NOT Japanese!!!

@thomasmulley4524 9 ай бұрын

once again history hit has blurred images. i shall not history hit again.

@GrandPoggers 4 ай бұрын

Wtf less than 10 minutes in and talking about the European theatre? Im done with channel posting click bait titles and splicing the same cable docs together

@MarkHarrison733 7 ай бұрын

We should have allied with the Axis against the real threat.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@MarkHarrison733 Nonsense. As bad as the Soviets were, they were not committed to genocide and the industrial killing of tens of millions of people. I suggest you read about Generalplan Ost.

@MarkHarrison733 7 ай бұрын

@@dennisweidner288 That never happened.

@MarkHarrison733 7 ай бұрын

@@dennisweidner288 Ost was wonderful.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@@MarkHarrison733 If you are a Holocaust denier, crawl back under the rock you came from.

@MarkHarrison733 7 ай бұрын

@@dennisweidner288 Franco told the truth about it in 1945.

@angusmackaskill3035 9 ай бұрын

Dropping weapons of mass destruction on innocent civilians with no strategic military gain.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@angusmackaskill3035 Who are all these innocent civilians. Are workers building Zero fighters innocent civilians? Or are civilians receiving military instruction as part of the Ketsugo program innocent civilians?. I would agree with you if Japan was not bombing innocent civilians, but they began bombing civilians in 1931 and killing huge numbers of civilians, especially in China, Once a country bombs other countries and uses WMDs than America has every right, actually a moral responsibility to respond. The Japanese killed some 20 million Asians BEFORE we dropped the atomic bombs and zero Asians AFTER the bombs fell. In fact the use of the atomic bombs saved countless Japanese lives. It is easy to make woke criticisms. Just how would you have ended the War in a more humane' fashion?

@robertcottam8824 5 ай бұрын

Hmmm. The A-bombs kept the Russians out of Japan. The ‘Murcans had to end it quickly before Ivan invaded. The Russians took more territory from the Japanese in four days than the Americans had in four years.

@Stl10699 2 ай бұрын

The two guys playing on the board is so cringy lol

@broderickkelly1465 9 ай бұрын

If you continue to add more and more and more ads I will stop using KZfaq just to let you know it’s getting a bit repetitive

@GArnkvist 28 күн бұрын

Sometimes they break the ads blocks for some films if you don't blink with your eyes.

@TheEuqramer 10 ай бұрын

Misleading Title 👎

@loganlau2191 10 ай бұрын

the battle of lake changjin top office box world war 2 original color footage with song is better watch withe your head phone on you yes you war stories go and go washing feed for that guy take off the second party face and voice add better sound

@billmcdonald9115 10 ай бұрын

The two guys smirking at each other over a bland map table is stupid and a waste of film.

@alexl5660 10 ай бұрын

Terrible HEART BREAKING WAR. GOD ALMIGHTY. LORD JESUS CHRIST HAVE MERCY. LORD JESUS CHRIST SAVE SOULS. LORD JESUS CHRIST GIVE PEOPLE POWER TO REPENT TO CALL UPON YOU FATHER GOD TO PRAY TO YOU AND ASK YOU FOR HELP AND PRECIOUS LOVE UPON EACH PEOPLE. PROTECT THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND MEN. HELP THEM SEEK YOU PRECIOUS LORD JESUS, FORGIVE THEM FOR THEIR SINS THEY DONT KNOW WHAT THEY DO.

@user-io6pj8bz8h 10 ай бұрын

Talk about clickbait

@loganlau2191 10 ай бұрын

no grade 10 drop out in 2023

@NoureddineFtouhi 9 ай бұрын

وهرگ مجبور یتاو معکم کوتعن معیوب نهدلکم موزبلت دهل بترهل ولکن مشمسلمن عسبتهتر منجهو لهوعم

@JMac-md3vj Ай бұрын

The guys playing with toys is dumB! Just give information!

@klszwarc 9 ай бұрын

There really should be subtitles for people who can't speak or are simply elderly.

@Acer_Maximinus 11 ай бұрын

Please just do the strategic visual with a computer, and ditch this corny staring match BS. I don’t watch these video types specifically because of this ridiculous format.

@michaelmiddleton578 11 ай бұрын

And yet - here you are...lol..seriously though, if you don't like them (videos) for whatever reason --> then don't watch them..

@jaywolfdesigns 11 ай бұрын

Your right, i dont watch the bs either

@Acer_Maximinus 11 ай бұрын

@@michaelmiddleton578 “And yet…then don’t” What part of “I don’t watch these video types” do you not understand. Not all of their videos are like this. I don’t watch these, and I told them why. If you’re entertained by this simplistic BS that’s fine, I’m not. FYI, This is KZfaq “Comments” not “Positive Comments Only,” a.k.a. echo chamber.

@michaelmiddleton578 11 ай бұрын

@Acer_Maximinus ...and yet - I could care less what videos you like...lol..again - if you don't like a video -> then just don't watch it...your comment about how you don't like someone's content will get you laughed at because you are still watching it....

@michaelmiddleton578 11 ай бұрын

@jaywolfdesigns ....ok...but no one really cares..just as much as caring for those that do. Lol

@kayschmitz1155 10 ай бұрын

u not up 2 date. pearl habour was knowen about long before it happend. keep on ruminating

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@kayschmitz1155 Nonsense. I suggest you read a few real history books. Richard Frank's books would be a good start.

@robertcottam8824 5 ай бұрын

That simply isn’t true, poppet. Stop spreading conspiracy nonsense. It makes you seem silly.

@egocyclic 11 ай бұрын

This video should be re-titled “Australia in WWII”. I wouldn’t have started watching it, because what I wanted to watch/listen to was specifically the Pacific Theatre of Operations. I would have watched a video titled “Australia in WWII’s PTO & India/Burma”. But now I’m just irritated. Also, any “serious” historian who treats the Yamamoto quote about a sleeping giant as factual automatically gets dismissed in my book. It’s superficial at best; less graciously I would describe such an academic as lazy. In a word, this video has been “disappointing”.

@Jakal-pw8yq 10 ай бұрын

How do you know that Yamamoto quote wasn't in fact? It certainly sounds like something a high-ranking military official would have said. I have no reason to doubt it because I ran it for years, doesn't necessarily mean it's true but nonetheless. Do you have any links or any proof of this?

@TheArcWelder 10 ай бұрын

You like bringing that yamamoto quote critique not because you care about factual info & professionalism in hisitortians that portray our past as close to reality without the propaganda & zeal for king & country. Just facts. None of that matters. You bring it up because you are deeply wounded seeing others discuss topics you grew up loving. Not only just to enjoy but you made it part of your personality to discuss & 'know' these hyper specific thigns about military history. i cant imagine being that hurt by seeing others enjoy what you also enjoy, AND seeing them potentially make a good living off it. Its okay to be envious but the second folks like you get mean? You need be chastised its super pathetic

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

@@Jakal-pw8yq There is no written evidence that Yamamoto said it, but the director and producer of the film, “Tora! Tora! Tora!” said that the phrase either came from Yamamoto’s personal diary or a letter he wrote. The phrase could not be definitively tracked down, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t say it. He was very prescient, however, because he DID say, “In the first six months of a war with the United States and Great Britain, I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.” He was right, almost to the day.

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

@egocyclic - This is not only about Australia…..it’s episodes containing the Battles of Midway and Leyte Gulf, the Battle of the Bulge, Battle of the Scheldt, the Bagration Offensive (USSR), Case Blue (Germans in Greece), Battles of Crete and Stalingrad, plus more, but I don’t want to do your work for you. And regarding the attribution of the Yamamoto quote, it has _never_ been officially discounted; as I said in the response above, the director and producer of the movie where the quote first appeared about the Pearl Harbor attack said it was from a letter Yamamoto wrote, or his personal diary, but neither source has been found since. That doesn’t mean Yamamoto didn’t say it, and until this is proven definitively, it can’t be totally disputed.

@egocyclic 10 ай бұрын

The Battle of the Bulge was a “key battle in the Pacific”? I mean, I guess you could try to make a contorted argument that it forced “the surrender of Japan”, but that argument was not articulated in the video. I said that the title does not match the actual content, and it doesn’t. And the Yamamoto quote: people only talk about it because it sounded good in the movie. There are no documented sources other than the word of the movie’s creators. Lack of proof does not equal authenticity. The screenplay was based off books written by western historians in a time before Japanese historians themselves had really started publishing more sober and objective accounts of the war years. Recent western historians like J Parshall & A Tully have had a lot to say about that issue. I stand by my assertion that using the Tora! Tora! Tora! quote to thematically surmise the Pacific war is a merely a way to repackage the movie’s drama as a documentary. It is lazy and brings nothing new to the discussion.

@erikdayne5429 11 ай бұрын

6:42 it says a lot about the cowardice of the Japanese that they retreated after their own surprise attack

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

That’s the whole point of a surprise attack! And it isn’t totally cowardly, but it was foolhardy. I find the psychology of the situation extremely interesting, especially as regards Admiral Yamamoto….he had stated definitely and repeatedly that the attack on Pearl Harbor was foolish, because he got his degree at Harvard, he’d traveled widely in the US, and he’d even worked as a naval attaché in Washington. He knew our size, our factories and natural resources, and he even studied aircraft carriers which resulted in the Japanese navy adopting them and creating the Zero. The army thought that when the US Navy was destroyed, the government would be so disheartened that they’d sue for peace (which actually happened previously with Imperial Russia). Yamamoto knew better, but eventually he accepted that it was going to happen, he couldn’t stop it, so he let his loyalty to his country triumph over his common sense. Cool, huh? That’s what you get when you read books! 😊

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@@voraciousreader3341 Yamamoto did not have a Harvard degree. When you are in the military, you follow orders. And the orders were war with America. Expecting America to make peace after such an attack shows that Yamamoto despite his time in America did not understand the American character--at least the American character in 1941.

@robertcottam8824 5 ай бұрын

@@voraciousreader3341 The Japanese and Brits had carriers before the USA did, poppet. Seems like you’ve been reading the “Billy Big Hat ‘N’ Banjo Bumper Book O’ ‘Murcan Bullsh*t”. Toodlepip.

@dougrobbins5367 3 ай бұрын

Were it not for the "Murcans" you would not exist. To disrespect those who saved your existence with silly attempts at insult is a habit of the most ignorant and unenlightened among us@@robertcottam8824

@sodium9920 10 ай бұрын

Why is it most commentators don't have eye brows , most weird thing.

@voraciousreader3341 10 ай бұрын

Are you serious?? What a bizarre issue. My advice: Avoid any channel involving learning, and stick to the fake people you’re used to.

@kennypool 9 ай бұрын

Churchill was a drunken disaster. The greatest Britain, what a joke.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

@kennypool The only joke is your ignorant woke comment. The fact that you can so freely display your ignorance is in part due to the role Churchill played in saving Western Civilization.

@robertcottam8824 5 ай бұрын

Slightly more accomplished speller than you though poppet: drunk or sober. Pip pip.

@kennypool 5 ай бұрын

@@robertcottam8824 Gallipoli, cheers. Norway cheers Dunkirk cheers Holland cheers.

@robertcottam8824 5 ай бұрын

@@kennypool But Churchill wasn’t PM at the time of the launching of the Norway operation, poppet. He was First Lord of the Admiralty and as such responsible solely for the naval operations which were really quite successful. It was the army that sent poor-quality troops with poor equipment. If by Holland, you’re referring to ‘Market Garden’, he wasn’t involved in the planning at all. That would have been (chiefly) Eisenhower, Montgomery and Brereton. And are you saying that Churchill was responsible for the Fall of France that led to the Dunkirk evacuation? That’s plain silly. So that leaves you Gallipoli, really. I’m no big fan of Churchill and he was guilty of ‘the grand gesture’ but saddling him with every defeat - whilst ignoring his every achievement - does you a disservice. Great spelling, by the way.

@kennypool 5 ай бұрын

@@robertcottam8824 Operation market garden , a pipe dream by Churchill and Monty. Another drunken disaster