The Pacific Episode 1
Added 2023-10-31 15:39:04 +0000 UTCComments
It was watching your reaction on Youtube to this episode, especially the scene where Bob Leckie is looking at the photo of the Japanese soldier and his family, that made me come to support you on Patreon. During the first part of the War in the Pacific the US Marines were not only outnumbered but were using obsolete rifles and machineguns (the Browning model 1917) left over from World War I. For more information and an entertaining analysis about why the Marines were sent to Guadalcanal and the naval battle seen in this episode I highly recommend watching Montemayor's 'Battle of Savo Island 1942: America's Worst Naval Defeat' https://youtu.be/lICRQPIduFc?si=3ZMrJnQzrXpg61p7 and on the Battle of Coral Sea https://youtu.be/NB5hH3ksvKE?si=N3SQORiDMSRAoON4 While not a battle in the South Pacific, Montemayor has a 3 part series on another important Naval battle, the Battle of Midway, do not watch that movie, it is an insult. However, the most complete analysis of this battle see https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLeOB_bZlkeZUj_gD_ACWGK6geCl-LMZx&si=wv4M1U_QJOTk39Cq
Andrew Morris
2024-01-13 22:21:46 +0000 UTCThe Pacific is 10 times more brutal than Western front in Europe. It was absolutely nasty. Marines don't take prisoners and the Japs don't surrender. 90 percent death rates. Japan's atrocities were equal to the Nazis. Japanese killed the most people in ww2, 17-20 million people. 5-7 million Chinese. Mostly civilians. The US and Australian forces HATED them for the things they did. My Grandpa never stopped hating the Japanese. Then they tried playing the victim at the end of the war because they got bombed. No accountability. Japanese don't even know anything about what they did in ww2
John Flack
2023-11-04 15:37:59 +0000 UTCWhen this came out I bought it on blu-ray. It has an audio commentary track that has either the actual Marines, the family members or a historian giving the story. It was impactful.
Alan Smith
2023-11-03 08:21:24 +0000 UTCAs far as destroying the dates and addresses there was a fear that the Japanese in the US would feel loyal to Japan and attack the US from the inside because there was a decent amount of Japanese in the US at the time and they were a very imperialistic/patriotic people, plus obviously the US got dragged into fighting Japan (or at the very least had to fight them sooner than expected) in Dec 1941 because Japan decided to attack Pearl Harbor which was/is a massive naval station in Hawaii and even though at the time I don't think Hawaii was officially part of the US yet I believe it was still considered kind of a homeland attack and it killed a lot of people. The insider threat fear resulted the Japanese within the US being placed in internment camps which were kind of like POW camps in a way I believe but I'm not well versed in that aspect of the war. As far as I know there were almost no incidents involving an insider attack by the Japanese in the US, the only thing I remember hearing about was maybe 1 or 2 really minor ones but I can't remember the details and I want to say it wasn't even really an attack and rather just random incidents
Dean
2023-11-02 23:10:33 +0000 UTCAs far as destroying the dates and addresses there was a fear that the Japanese in the US would feel loyal to Japan and attack the US from the inside because there was a decent amount of Japanese in the US at the time they were a very imperialistic/patriotic people. It resulted the Japanese within the US being placed in internment camps which were kind of like POW camps in a way I believe but I'm not well versed in that aspect of the war. As far as I know there were almost no incidents involving an insider attack by the Japanese in the US, the only thing I remember hearing about was maybe 1 or 2 really minor ones but I can't remember the details and I want to say it wasn't even really an attack and rather just random incidents
Dean
2023-11-02 23:10:30 +0000 UTCAlso as far as understanding things go I can promise you're always smarter and/or better informed than 95% of reactors especially american reactors and I say that as an american. Plus you don't go all dramatic and shit which when someone says something slightly racist or messed up but contextually accurate or justified unlike literally every other reactor I've seen which drives myself and probably most people insane. You just act normal (-the milk hate, gotta get you to do a milk tasting woman) with a touch of seemingly genuine quirkiness which hopefully will never change
Dean
2023-11-02 22:43:42 +0000 UTCA "stiff one" is referring to a stiff drink meaning a strong alcoholic drink
Dean
2023-11-02 22:27:54 +0000 UTCShots fired.
Joe
2023-11-01 06:39:46 +0000 UTCThe actor's name is Jon Bernthal. Was also in Ford v. Ferrari, Sicario, and Fury.
Rob Schofield
2023-11-01 06:31:05 +0000 UTC2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IB9-eS44A_8&pp=ygUabXJiYWxsZW4gY3JvY29kaWxlIGlzbGFuZCA%3D
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 22:20:40 +0000 UTC1. Starts 04:55 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiOyKVcDODo&pp=ygUfY3JvY29kaWxlIGF0dGFja3Mgd3cyIG1yIGJhbGxlbg%3D%3D
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 22:20:15 +0000 UTCHere are 2 real life rare horror stories that took place in the Pacific in WWII
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 22:17:57 +0000 UTCYEESSSS
Biss Reactions
2023-10-31 21:54:35 +0000 UTCThe slang the Japanese used for Americans and white people in general were..... Joe or round eye. Foreign Devil ~ kichiku beiei Yankee ~ Ame-ko
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 21:02:25 +0000 UTCBISS you know the actor from WIND RIVER. He played the boyfriend who died defending his girlfriend from those 4 drunk cowards.
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 20:55:38 +0000 UTCThe rape of NAN KING
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 20:31:34 +0000 UTCThe Imperial Japanese committed crimes against humanity more evil and vile then any I've ever heard of.
RandomFrog
2023-10-31 20:20:21 +0000 UTCBISS yes there are rules to war and they are human beings but by that point in WWII they had lost all of their humanity and whatever miss treatment they received they deserved it and earned and more. The one Japanese guy did a brave thing by standing out in the open begging to be killed but what all japanese soldiers did prior to that event that guy got off easy.
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 17:46:40 +0000 UTCHeart murmur ~ Sound of blood flowing through the heart, due to anything from healthy heart exertion during exercise to a diseased heart valve or other abnormality.
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 17:40:23 +0000 UTCSmoking lamps are a status in which marines can or cannot smoke at that time.
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 17:10:00 +0000 UTCStiff one = Liquor
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 16:56:52 +0000 UTCAt the dinner table the father held his sons hand at the end of the scene. The other 2 guys in uniform are his sons friends.
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 16:49:13 +0000 UTCThe Pacific War was a gritty and barbaric fight, and it only gets much, much worse!
Roger C Griffith
2023-10-31 16:43:19 +0000 UTCThis is going to be a rough ride BISS hold on tight.
Michael Aalgaard
2023-10-31 16:37:28 +0000 UTCAmazing! Will look forward to see this one with you! Hope you enjoy it a lot as well, later on in 2024 " Masters of the air " will have its first episode, which is third of this kind. :D
Adde Karlsson
2023-10-31 16:36:11 +0000 UTCLet's go!! Great series, but much darker than Band of Brothers
Nick Andress
2023-10-31 15:52:11 +0000 UTC
