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Thank you for doing a program about Guam. I spent some time there a few lifetimes ago and was always humbled by how nice and genuine the Chamarro people were. When they realized I was part of the process of upgrading their telephone service they always brought us food & drink while we were working.

I wish my dad was alive to see this, as a member of the First Provisional Brigade. He would have been 100 on Agust 15. He had filariasis during this battle. A lot of the guys got that on Eniwetok in the Marshall islands which took place in February of 1944. Nothing would heal according to the old man. They had a lot of dogs that they used, he was always a big dog lover the rest of his life. The dogs could smell and hear the Japanese sneaking up on them at night.

You are living the dream man - thank you for visiting these places and sharing it with the rest of us

it's so amazing you make it possible for people like me who don't have the chance to visit these places themselves to see what it looks like and bring us along. Thank you!

Thank you for making this video documentary. My father was a marine tank commander. He was the second tank on shore. He would have been the first but he got stuck in the sand. He documented everything by taking photographs. He donated all the photographs to the Anvets post when he was a commander.

As a local who was born and raised in the beautiful island of Guam. This video shows how beautiful the island is n the rich history u provide. Love this keep up the amazing work.

As a marine I approve of this video. I just love this kind of stuff it's fascinating and you're keeping history alive

I live on guam, less than a mile from Ga'an point. And it's nice to see someone talking about our history here. I appreciate this. Thank you.

I have seen both your videos of Guam. I had many friends from the island of Guam while I was growing up in Long Beach, Ca. They all knew the name George Tweed. He was the only American on the island during the occupation. Many of the islanders died protecting him. I hope you can do a history of his endeavors while you are there.

Another cave, another knot on JD's head... Thank you for all you do to bring history alive, sir!

I can't say enough about medics. Desmond was an indescribably brave man. My grandfather was a medic with th 29th on Omaha. Some of the things that man saw haunted him to his grave. Mere words cannot describe the bravery of our medics. In my own time, I saw a few medics awarded Bronze start.with 'V' devices all for acting without thinking.

JD, of all the videos of yours, this one had the most personal meaning for me. My father was a member of the 1st Provisional Brigade and was wounded on Guam. When you indicated they were hit hard, in viewing the list of casualties on the Historical Park website of Guam the list for this brigade goes on forever. The photo of the individual operating the flame thrower capped the personification of the video for me. His name was Raymond Weiser.

Fascinating. My father was in the USAF and we were stationed at Andersen AFB in '63-'65, when I was in the 6th & 7th grades - so only 20 years after the liberation. I remember Liberation Day events in some of the local villages. Wish your videos were available back then; I would have done a lot more exploring! Thanks so much.

My Dad served with the 3rd. Guadalcanal, Iwo, Guam and Marshalls. He etched the each campaign in his canteen cup. Thanks for the tour.

Love these videos thanks for doing these. “I can’t go past a Japanese cave without sticking my head in” 😂🤣😂 I’m thinking you may not have survived the invasion 😂🤣😂

I spent 2 weeks in the Mariana last March. Guam to Saipan. As a 37yo that served in the Marines it was humbling visiting these hollowed grounds. Keep up the good work. It's history that should not be forgotten.

These videos of the Pacific campaign are awesome. The Desmond Doss story is so important to the legacy of these brave selfless men. Your videos are so good. Thanks.

My Dad fought with 77th on Guam after he fought with the 27th on Saipan, he told me about all the Marine casualties they encountered when they landed. He was with the 147th engineers construction battalion, he would have been 105 years old this coming December 17th. His final service during the War would be the assault on Okinawa 🇺🇸🙏

My best friend is currently stationed there on Guam. I've been linking these videos over to him. I've been anxiously anticipating this series of videos from you. Its very exciting to watch.

I literally just got done watching The Pacific series on HBO this really brings it full circle and is a stark reminder of the sacrifices that our brave service members had to endure to protect freedom. Again my hat’s off to you for another great video and my hat’s off to our brave service members.🇺🇸

Was stationed at Anderson AFB from 78-80 and did a lot of exploring while there. May historic sites if you can brave the jungle to find them

my son was stationed on guam when he was in the navy 17 yrs ago -- marrying his wife that was born and raised there--a lot of ww2 history on the island --got to see all the sites shown and a whole lot more as he was a navy diver i got to see much history that was below water--some very nice beach sites ,especially the navy one--a shame that not many americans will ever get to experience this historical and beautiful island

Fascinating what the Japanese had accomplished in an effort to defend the Island. Wonderful footage and enjoyed the archival footage inserted as well showing the location during the event. So many brave souls lost. Thank you for another great video!

As a huge history buff and former military man I love this series you are doing.

I’m working on a book about the men and women from my town that served in WWII and one of them was in the 1st Provisional Brigade at Guam and was wounded. So glad that they’re getting the attention and respect they deserve!

Your pacific episodes are officially my favorite series so far

Another excellent episode JD. Thanks for taking the time to explore all of these historical sites to teach all of us what happened during those turbulent times. This series of the Pacific theater is helping me to understand what happened there. It is a part of WWII that is not know a lot about. Keep up the excellent work!🇺🇸

My father was in the 77th division. He was an infantry company commander. He took a machine gun bullet through the thigh about three weeks into the campaign on Guam.

I was stationed in Guam(US Navy) in the late 80s , got to explore some of these pillboxes /caves . Beautiful island , and people .

Dude why the hell do you not have millions of views on all of your videos. I think this is the best channel I’ve ever found dude. And your partnership w Gettysburg museum is stellar. You should have a show on Netflix or something

Another great video on the pacific war my Grandfather fought in the Philipines and on Okinawa thank you Sir for your dedication to the history of the Pacific theater

Another riveting video! I grew up in the city where Doss is buried, so have known about his story for some time, but it was particularly interesting to see where he first saw combat. Love how you're telling these untold or glossed-over stories and bringing them to life. I keep running out of adequate words when trying to describe your channel to my friends and family...the best I've come up with is "a cross between Great Courses and Ken Burns"; love the in-depth knowledge dump + on location aspects of your productions.

It’s amazing how the jungle takes everything back. If you didn’t know those caves and bunkers were there you could walk right by them. Love the preservation of the guns. Beautiful place and another awesome video. TY👍

Love this series as an Australian I have been interested in the Pacific war as family served in the aussie army from kokoda through all the battles aussies fought against the Japanese and survived to return home inspired me to join the aussie army as well I even met a former us ww2 marine who's first battle at 21 yrs of age was iwo jima man his stories where as tho one was there with him on that day he said they were under no illusions that on that day many would never see the end of the day he also said that days end he had become a man much respect I have for those men who fought and died during the war in the Pacific and to those who survived it all a true generation of hero's thank you for telling their stories from the eto to the pto much appreciated at 56 yrs old I believe we need to keep this part of history alive through ppl like your self

I’m stationed on Okinawa and have been to hacksaw ridge many times. It’s really a humbling experience to see. The funny part about the ridge is it’s really not a ridge it’s actually on an castle ruin which gave the Japanese alot better fighting positions. Btw if you end up going to Okinawa let me know and I can show you some of the battle areas

Interesting to see how cultural differences may have shaped military approaches. The design of a Japanese garden is intended to blend in seamlessly with the surrounding landscape.

So awesome to see you exploring and showing the history that happened on Guam. I was stationed there from 1993-1996, did some exploring myself but never had the story behind some of it with the exception of the sign.

My teacher, who went through Guam and the rest of the Marianas as a Marine. He said that they used flame-throwers to clear out the caves before going into the caves.

JD, FYI the 4th Marine Regiment was reconstituted from the original 4th Marines that had served in China pre-war and evacuated to the Philippines in November 1941. The 4th Marines were destroyed defending Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. As a kid, my Dad was stationed in the Philippines (Navy) and I lived there for two years. I was lucky to visit Corregidor and Bataan including hiking 50 miles of the Bataan Death March route on the 30th anniversary (1972) with the Boy Scouts.

Thanks for this awesome video about the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade Guam liberation. My late father was a member of the 22nd Regiment 1st Provisional Marine Brigade. He was wounded in action (shot) on July 28th during the liberation of the Naval Air Station and Marine Barracks on the Orote peninsula. He was not a big talker about his war service so most of what I know about the Guam liberation is from his discharge certificate, an aunt and my own research. Dad suffered from a biologic infection that would flare up on his hand maybe twice a year. It was from a coral reef cut on his hand and it took until 1969 or so for him to finally get ahold of an antibiotic that killed the infection for good. This was also the year he quit smoking, another vestige of the war. I often wonder if his coral reef cut was from Guam. Several of the early wave amtracks were hit by an undetected gun that survived the US Navy shore bombardment prior to beach landing, could have been in that bunker facing the beach that is in the KZfaq video. Many of the guys had to ditch and wade ashore. They faced fierce resistance and pretty significant bonsai charges. The 77th came in later in the Higgins boats and faced the same. After sealing off the entrance to Orote peninsula the 1st Provisional stayed behind to take the peninsula and the 77th joined up with the 3rd Marine Division to head north and clear the island of the Japanese. On the 28th the 1st Provisional was ready to clear the peninsula; come hell or high water they were going to take the Marine barracks from Japanese control. Dad was scouting ahead and dropped his radio from a tree, breaking it. He found a Sherman and was talking on the outside phone when shot at and wounded. There were also Navajo wind talkers there that reported intelligence via their radios back to the ships. I also heard about the Doberman dog units. They were very popular with the guys and valuable members of the operation. I heard Dad, while high on morphine, felt so good he got up from the medical unit and went and found his unit. Luckily, they made sure he got back to the medical unit. He never saw combat again because he was chosen for officer training. He was in the states when the bombs were dropped ending the war. He would be 98 now but passed in 2006. I tip my hat to all the 1st Provisional members that served at Guam and later Okinawa as members of the 6th Marine Division.

I canot express how much I am enthralled by this series. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!

Wow! What a amazing documentary. I’m glad you get to travel so you can share these places with us.

Desmond Doss , he is someone i have learned a lot about since the first time i had heard of him and even though Hacksaw ridge is a great movie i also recommend The Conscientious Objector made in 2004 . He is one of my favorite heroes of WW2 and of all time as well. Great Man , Great Soldier.

I was stationed in Guam with the Navy and got a chance to visit these places. I just didn't have the full story of each area. Great job again.

Watching this a second time. This is so good. Seeing the camouflage, latrine, interesting..I totally love how you blend actual footage in with the video ~very nice touch! Well done JD!

Wow, talk about a memory bring back. Loved exploring the WW2 sites when I lived there. Haven’t seen all of those in 25 years. One thing I will always remember is going to a crashed Corsair on Orote behind the runway in the jungle, and diving on a crashed Japanese Val. So many cool things there. Thanks for the video! Gonna rummage through some artifacts and some photos now. Lol.

Thanks for the work you guys do to help the country remember our history when the enemy is trying to get rid of it.

My seabee unit was deployed to Guam from Feb 2019-Aug 2019 we did PT at that beach and received a huge history lesson that day and visited many times just so we could get all the history that happened

I love this! I love this channel and live on Guam. Glad you were able to cover this!

Thank you for showing us this battle and landing sites. I never heard or read of the fight for Guam in all of my history studies. You have taught me something new. Thank you so much!

JD,your history series is fabulous. Keep up the great work.

Hello and Hafa Adai friend! I’ve been following your journey through the Northern Mariana Islands and got particularly excited when you found your way to Guam. As a resident of the island since birth I couldn’t help feeling a sense of pride whilst watching you tour the sites. If you’re going to be on island for a little while or you have any questions feel free to reach out and I’d be happy to let you in on some of local secrets.

I know it’s been a year but. Great video. When I was there from 85-88 the one rule of scuba diving was to never ever pick up coal that was four to six inch diameter and about eight to ten inch long. Chances are that’s a grenade but love it there

Love your incorporation of original footage on these videos. Great as usual.

Had to write another comment, I found something interesting: I like to follow your adventures on Google Earth to get a sense of place and scale, and I noticed that all along that coast in certain areas, there are what look like collections of craters just feet off the beach underwater. Makes me wonder if those are remnants of the naval artillery bombarding the coastline, they look organized, they're perfectly circular, and having looked a map of the invasion, they tend to correlate with the landing beaches. Also I was able to locate the latrine structure you pointed out.

Thank you for taking us to these places.

Another great video about stories I have never heard. Nice work JD.

Excellent video JD. You make history interesting again. Hope to see more folks watching. Thanks for taking us along. 👍👍👍👍👍🤕

Another superb episode….have investigated a few “caves”….ala your adventures…in the Truk area. Great stuff! Thx, Andrew

Another great video ! Your videos are very well made , the music, the way you speak, camera shots. As a Marine who recently saw combat I appreciate the quality of stories of what my fellow Marines went through. Thanks for providing such quality. SEMPER FI !

Just a super job JD. Thanks for your great videos.

I'm prior army and a local of guam, never knew Desmond Doss was part of the retaking of Guam. Cool stuff

What a way to end my birthday then a History Underground video, thanks for the cherry on top! It made the day complete with another stellar video.

Great job JD this have to another place on my bucket list. Captivating series.

That was very interesting, enjoy your videos always looking forward to the next one.

What amazes me is how little damage Naval gunfire did.

Awesome!Thanksforsharing!

My Father was a searchlight crewman in the Marines' 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, he spent time on Saipan, Tinian and Guam in 1945. Several times his platoon was attached to a company that was sent off into the jungle searching for the Japanese holdouts. They mostly met isolated Japanese and only once did they have a run in with a sizable group of Japanese, who were all killed. His best friend was killed during one of these ops. He didn't recall ever seeing a natural cave, all were hand dug. I have an Arisaka rifle he picked up during one of these trips, along with the paperwork stating that it was a battlefield pick up.

Keep the videos coming JD! Thanks brother!

Fascinating historical facts, I love these stories and these videos! 👍

Outstanding work JD ❤️ the content

I read on the History Traveller Facebook page recently, that it's not an episode unless JD bumps his head. Well, he bumped his head twice, so this episode must be twice as good!!

Great to see videos about my island. As a I retired history teacher lol, I feel the need to help you with the pronunciation of local place names.

Excellent content!!! Thank you very much.

Very interesting again .. I know a little again about the Pacific war but am still learning more watching you vids and look forward to more !

Love these series. Appreciate it. I wish my Grandpa was still here. He was in WW2 in the Pacific. That's all I know and he got on an island and brought home a little bit of Japanese money. Wish I knew more.

Love your work 😎 Thanks for showing us these amazing places . Hi from Belfast Northern Ireland 😎

another great job, thank you!

Another great video. Thank you for sharing it.

At North Training Area on Okinawa, we were doing a patrol thing and walked up to a Japanese bunker from WWII. We got up to about 10 yards from it before we saw it. The instructor got us away from it right away because of the possibility of hidden munitions that could have been buried near it. They said because of the lack of metal in Japan near the end of the war they used ceramics to build the body of the grenades and were hard to pick up with metal detectors.

Hafa adai and welcome to Guam🤙🏾, thank you again for the vids bro.

Very interesting! This is a very nice way to learn about the Pacific theatre. I am very curious to see what many more cool stuff you have to show us!

It's really great to see each video you do. Covering area's of the Pacific theater is a great idea. Thank you. P.S. get head protection huh.

Just love your videos of WW2 . They are informative beautifully made and you my friend should be on tv the big screen doing this. Your knowledge is amazing and it also helps me to put to gather what my dad went through. I would of loved to hear about the tank battle from behind that attack thought concrete bunkers . My dad was a tank gunner . Great job.

I never comment but if it helps support your channel I will. You're doing incredible work to bring history into as much perspective as possible without having to go there ourselves! Ps, watch your head 😅

People do not realize that Desmond Doss received Battle Citations before his CMH on Okinawa. Thanks for your great Videos.

Thanks HU for an informative and entertaining video FWIW I served in USN '72/73 on a patrol gunboat PG92 that was home ported on Guam. Made many outings on the island exploring WW2 relics also went to Saipan and other Trust Territories when not deployed to patrol duties in Vietnam on Market Time patrols. Not sure if your aware but during that time there was a Japanese soldier holding out in the jungle that was finally repatriated with his homeland IIRC in '74. I hope your given access to the military installations as alot of relics were located there especially around Arote point where bull dozers were used to dump aircraft and other vehicles n the sea. Watch for stone fish if you go in water as they are deadly. I had a 400 Suzuki trail bike and rode all over the island accumulated great memories. Hafai Dai.

In other videos you and Eric show helmets and flags where soldiers display where they fought. Maybe you could do a whole episode telling everyone where all the bumps on your head were inflicted...having watched all of your videos you may need a couple of episodes. Another great video bringing history into our sitting rooms well done.

You do a great job making these videos

Thank you so much!

My dad was stationed at Guam. He could tell some very strange stories about things the took place and that he saw at night on Guam.

Once again epic video thank you sir

Great video great history lesson

Thanks to you, I paid my respects to Doss while at the Chattanooga National Cemetery.

Sadly I don’t think I’ll ever be able to visit those places but like many others, I enjoy being able to virtually tag along in your travels. Whenever you to go Peleliu, depending if you can get on a boat, there is a “secret” refueling cave used for sea planes by the Japanese, which came to a end when the Americans used skip bombs right through the entrance, setting the fuel cans on fire. No idea the death toll but the cans are still there.

Good coverage of Guam ! Cheers from Guam

Great series. Nice work 👍🏼😎

Don’t miss Crown Bakery, YUMMMM😉, great stuff JD👍🏻

Really hits home of the fact that each subsequent invasion just got worse for the PTO. After Guam and Tinian, it was off to Peleiu. Ferocious fighting.