deep ravine has those bodies in there. what a horrific terrifying way to go out.

Just over two and a half years after Custer's defeat, the British army lost some 800 men in an even bigger no one survived massacre. Any plans for Isandlwana?

Before I looked into this I always thought Benteen and Reno were just bystanders who could have saved Custer, but in fact the were just as much in the action as he was but had time to create a defensible position, which Custer could not. This video makes it clear what was happening.

They could also hear the screams of the tortured captured soldiers that night. They were tortured and burnt alive in the Scalp Dance. A couple of these victims were from Reno's charge and a couple were from Custer's charge at ford B. there decapitated and scalped heads were later put on pikes. 4 heads were found in the village. yay for history.

Fun fact. Dorman had a 16"x2" strip of "leather" cut from his back and the natives kept it as a war trophy for decades. The only black man to die in the battle was horribly tortured and mutilated. His skin is now in the North Dakota state museum archive

I think the timeline here is bad. If going off of what John Martin said. Custer was attacking in Ford B of medicine tail coulee within 5 minutes of Reno's first skirmish line. That put's him north and on the river way earlier than you have here. It is also thought he took his whole force down there with him. But was repulsed and it all started going to poo-poo for them very shortly after that. Multiple casualties and horses lost there at the first attempted ford. Native accounts corroborate this too. A bucksin wearing officer was shot there too. Recent speculation by Ranger Donahue has that officer as Kough. A few of the wounded were caught hiding at this ford at night and tortured in the camp during the Scalp dance ceremony. They had bloody knifes head on a damned stick- among others. Gaul was happy to see. After his family had been murdered...

Someone said there was a problem for Custar crossing the river - a beaver dam. It wasn't his lucky day for sure.

It seems like the intentions of the cavalry were at odds with winning the battle. It is usual to make the enemy flee but here they were desperate to keep them from dispersing.

My dad was on Peleliu in 1MarDiv.

Most if not all of the islands in the “hopping” campaign are nothing but large graves… 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Horrible video,,, Go Navy!

God be good to them poor lads on that ship....

Ok the 17 Coastwatchers who you say were British were actually New Zealanders, The Coastwatchers stationed around the Pacific Islands were employees of the New Zealand Post Office, Some of the Coastwatchers got away and were rescued by US Forces, They gave the US command relative information INCLUDING Tide charts, The US command were advised not to go in at low tide due to the nature of the Island but go in at High tide where they would land directly onto the beach, They chose to go in at low tide and the Marines where mown down by the Japanese as they had to wade in quite a way, You can still see the remains of landing craft stuck on the reef, Many US lives would have been saved it the command had used their brains and listened to people who had been stationed there, I did work there for an electrical company and when they came across human remains when they dug trenches for cables they had to GPS log it for authorities to exhume later to find out if they were local, Japanese or US servicemen MIA.

Willis Caywood was my wife's Grandfather. He told me was driving the boats that delivered the marines to these islands. He was a bad Mofo.

USS Portland (CA-33) in close to the beach at 1:13 and 5:53

A great President and great naval leader. A new PT.109 movie is definitely needed.

My dad, James Robert Chittum, was UDT in WWII. He served in the Pacific and was on the USS Dickerson.

How have they not found the burial pit of the coast watchers yet? The the Japanese build fortifications over it? Many of the coast watchers were kiwis. Lest we forget

Alligator Creek is a double misnomer. There are no alligators in the Solomons and the body of water is a tidal lagoon.

Ron was a kid that the navy caught asleep on duty being underage they smacked his hands in ww2 came back to Korea a different man UDT can’t say what all he did but was in Reno Police Dept on loan to Arizona when he had an accident that claimed his life somehow they found him with a hatchet in his head Years of surgery n brain infection Ron Haskell miss you my Uncle

I think a Helldiver at 11:07? Really cool film! Thank You

My grandfather was a gunner on a landing craft ship, he once said about the look on some of the kids waiting to load and go to the beachs, he talked a bit about the kamikaze, and how he would need to hold the gun on the plane until it would hit the water, as some tried to trick being out of control and come right in at low altitude. The weather was an enemy as well. 42' to 46' Then came home to working 3 jobs raising a family...in awe of that generation, and its selflessness..Lest we forget 🇺🇸🎗

So Terry Norman became Ray Epps.

Cool

Haven't been there since graduating OSUT in 2013.

Next thing you know, they all just start moving

Where is that museum?

Michael Irvin REMAINS the 22nd best player in NFL history.

It feels kinda weird to see that knowing that I once wore that uniform, the iotv, the ach.

Where is the red button

You at the NIM?

Is that real gear and Mic 2000's on the displayed soldiers?! Thats cool as hell!!

So what do the people do here for a living?

You make it complicated..Custer took a force, hit an enemy camp, pulled back to a hillside and got overrun 🇺🇸

Erm

The troopers were employees of their government…They did nothing wrong but get stuck following a moron🇺🇸💪

My dad landed on Tarawa on either the third or fourth day of the battle. The only thing he would tell me that he was a 40 mm Bofors repairman. I know there were probably no US Bofors guns on the beach during the battle to be repaired. We know that all Marines were infantry first then their specialty MOS. That's all he would ever say about Tarawa. Thank you for the excellent video. I have only seen a few photos of the battle. I do have Dad's 2nd Marine Division History Book published right after the war. It is my only source of what Dad didn't tell me. Again, thank you for the video.

My Dad was in the 321st RCT 81st Div The Wildcats that were assigned to the USMC for this operation. Gen Rupertus cost a lot of good Marines their lives and was replaced. 1st Marine Div had been rendered combat ineffective and were suffering from dehydration in the heat when command for the operation was handed to the 81st. Today 7-1-2024 a USMC C-130 landed on the renewed runway there as US prepares for a war in the Pacific again.

Into the mouth of the dragon.

Thanks for posting. My dad was zero wave. 1st Marines amphibious tank driver

Go get em Yanks!!!

Excellent video. I have always wondered how many relics of this battle remain.

great video thank you. its crazy how a jungle has become a city in just 70 years. very few of the acutal battle sites are left now, all under suburbia sadly

Are they Cruisers doing the shore bombardment as well as Battleships?

No need for the added dramatic music. Its dramatic enough.

Americans at their greatest. The Japanese and Germans wanted war... they got it.

Jesus Loves You

DEEP RESPECT . Thank you to those who served.

Sorry no. My story was from 1970…Jim

Could you please do a video about the naval side of the Tarawa operation? Specifically about the USS Liscombe Bay !