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Allen, Robert E. The First Battalion of the 28th Marines on Iwo Jima: A Day-by-day History from Personal Accounts and Official Reports, with Complete Muster Rolls. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2004.
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Bartley, Whitman S. "HyperWar: Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic [USMC Historical Monograph]." Ibiblio. Last modified 1954. www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-IwoJima/index.html.
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I like the way you attached some of the screams of the men in the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan (pardon my English)
I love your channel man
Wait how did you get the helmets?
Please you must do a video now on the battle of Okinawa it’s only right
Marin3r p.s you never stood a chance... I’m a survivor of the MK ultra program...
Lets not forget the roughly 7,000 marines that gave their life saved roughly 24,000 airmen.
We considered using gas . It was a pure military target. 28,000 casualties and most defenders dead anyway.
You got sponsored by the same sponsor that sponsored OverSimplified, too?
6:38 i wonder what would happend if they invaded Japan☠
The main reason for attacking Iwo was to aid the B-29s attacking Japanese industrial factories. BUT, the factories were no longer in operation. The navy submarines and B-24s and B-25 operating out of China had destroyed the Japanese oil tankers, which eliminated the factories from operating. No oil, no factories, so the attack on Iwo was near useless. Since the bombing of the factories was useless, the US Airforce started a genocide bombing campaign against Japanese cites. Over one million Japanese old people, women, children and babies were burned to death in the fire bombings of the mostly wooden houses. The fire bombings of the Japanese civilian population was one of the great war crimes of WW2.
That's not what genocide means...
What is with video put out a such a low volume that the dialog.becormes unintelligible . How do you produce a video and not even Quaity controls you conversation teak lever lacks. Love the show just haven’t to go
My kids great grandpa lost his leg in this battle. My grandkids will need to see this. Thanks for all you do!
I never get when Europeans talk about how they'd have won the war without us but never mention we had a theater almost entirely to ourselves.
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My great father was protecting this island. He was a machine gunner and in his letter, it said that Iwo Jima was hell He was killed when a marine threw a grenade in his bunker
27 Medals of Honor awarded in this battle. 22 Marines, 5 Sailors. A lot of them were kids. Just 18, 19, 20 yrs. old. War is Hell. Warriors never die.
Japanese plans actually weren't supposed to be smart and actually weren't . the reason the Japanese didn't defend the beaches was because of the U.S. rocket ships . these ships were capable of destroying any defenses the Japanese laid on the beach including the Japanese bunkers witch every one thought were invincible . so they fell there defenses back out of range of these rocket ships , and this resulted in the us gaining a massive beachhead thus making the island easier to take.
Without iwo jima the war in Europe wouldve been lost
My dad was there..
I like how “the armchair historian” has a chair with no arm rests.
This guy has the same name as a tiktok star Edit: I know this because I looked up Griffin Johnson
It would have been fitting to include the tragic fact that only half the flag raisers on Mt. Suribachi survived the battle. That's how brutal this fight was.
Is there a current Discord link somewhere? The one in the description says invalid. I would love to add the Armchair Historian server!!!
Iwo Jima: hey Captian the ground is talking Japanese Vietnam: hey Captian the trees are speaking vietnamese
ugh... it's the "Naval Construction Battalion also knowns as Seabees", not the otherway around.
Battle field 5 player : I was a veteran
I loved this systematic explanation of the battle in Iwo Jima. As a Marine myself and having stood on those black sands I can say that it is really sobering to know all the lives lost on that tiny place.
My great grandad was a Sea-Bee, and fought in the Island hopping campaign. Funny thing about him was that he worked on the USS Arizona but was dropped off in California on it's last stop before it's fatal voyage
A carnage.
Crazy Fact: Two Imperial Japanese Navy machine gunners would not surrender on Iwo Jima until January 6, 1949. Around four years after the battle had ended.
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For John Basilone! A hero at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima
I just want you to know I'm a huge fan of free and creative education and will totally watch it in your videos but the youtube ads suck cock. You should make a animated history video on the creation of the internet and when it became a corporation bitch.
And thats why we do firewatch nowdays lol
The importance of Iwo Jima was to provide an emergency landing field for returning, damaged B-29s, and as a staging point for the invasion of main land Japan.
Did we won the war?
I’ve wanted to say this for so long Hi griffin Johnson the armchair historian, I’m dad
The japanese only did the banzai charge when all men had no more ammunition. Plus the rifles they used were accurate to shot but it stood no chance against the American standard weapons when they were close range to mid range. Our navy pop shots from the ocean and airforce from the skies to soften up the enemy defenses. Good strategy but the japanese commander already knew this was the American strategy throughout the pacific islands invasion success. So he build those tunnels and defenses and improved where all the other japanese commanders have failed in the pacific islands. So many people died on a tiny island. Thousands of men just shooting at each other. I can't imagine that. God bless their souls
America,s greatest victorious compared to eastern front is kindergarten
Does he talk about John Basilone the only Canadian to most likely fight on Iwo Jima
Can you make one about Yarmuk battle?
Who else is watching this on they way to school
Amazing story! I didnt know 1/3 of marine losses of the war take place in this battle!
Enjoyed slaying people here with Steve #BFV
The reason why Japan lost in WWII? They can infiltrate American lines without being noticed only to shout "BANZAI" throwing themselves to the heavy firepower of the Americans 😂
Gramdpa didnt talk much about iwo jima mom said he lost all his friends that guy was tough!
Of course not the year but the day
I was born on the day when the flag on mount serabachi was raised
Shout out to Nord VPN - keeping us safe. Was island hoping getting tougher the closer we got to the mainland - Okanowa among the worst.
Rest In Peace to John Basilone MOH recipient who went back to finish the fight
5:50 so wait your trying to tell me that the Navy Sea bees have been around since World War Two?!
There was only 1 hundred crafts
Anyone think that if the Japanese didn’t use bonzai charges, they would’ve done better?
Man, Banzai charge seems like a really effective way to get all of your troops killed while also inflicting light dmg. Whoever came up with it is truely genius.
How do you get the United States to declare war on a country and ultimately curb stomp them into next generation? You sink one or two of their ships.
9:47 rising storm lol
This battle alone had more casualties than D-Day
21k on that island. CRAZY!
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What did historians think of the movie Flags of our fathers
US after the war: well, guerrilla tactics and tunnels almost ruined my plan, but it will never happen again! North Vietnam, 2 decades later : did somebody said tunnels? Afghanistan: hey, can I copy your homework, man?
More like long die the emperor
me wondering how his voice change throughout the video:┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
Nice video. One thing you left out that I thought you should have mentioned. Was that Iwo Jima saw the longest round the clock carrier ops of the war. 174 hours of attacks on enemy airfields and shipping by USS Enterprise supported the marines with air support from February 23-March 2. Only to be interrupted by bad weather. The next day operations resumed till March 9 when the USAAF arrived and started using the captured airfields.
8821 american soldiers ware killed at the battle
I can just imagine Stalin sending a telegram to F.D.R. saying “plz help us we’re gonna die” and then F.D.R replies saying “it’s okay, we’ve got Iwo Jima, we’re driving past the Urals we’ll be there in 6 months.”
FDR: "Also we have Papa New Guinea, don't worry Stalin we got you"
trvision.net/detail/video-znXQE4_YKmQ.html It's about Bangladesh's economic miracle, do check
*bang bang pew pew pew* oh noes ahhhhh
What a liar his chair doesn’t have arms
We call this island IWOTOU not IWOJIMA in JAPAN．
Sounds like Kuribayashi had the Kobayashi Maru.