Battle of Iwo Jima - The Pacific

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John deserved to pass away an old man in his hometown. Not on that volcanic hell rock.

Crazy

This battle actually took place in 1944

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It's strange how we went from enemies to allies of Japan and Germany. Now they would be helping us against China, Russia and Norks.

this scene isn't diverse enough. Maybe if we could include some african-american tanks and some non-trinary landing vechiles, then MAYBE we could have an accurate representation of the diversity of death that day.

In Sledge's memoir he talked about him and his buddies listening to the news of Iwo Jima on radio during this time. One of them said "It sounds like an even BIGGER Peleliu" And he was right. It was by far the bloodiest battle in the Pacific to that point only surpassed by Okinawa half a year later.

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I notice artillery/mortar shells are exploding very close the the soldiers, wouldn't the shrapnel shred them?

War is terrible, I wish it never existed, but that’s the world that we’ve created, and we have to live in that world. But only soldiers actually have to fight it, put themselves through an experience so incredible and terrifying that you can’t really know unless you lived it. It’s so alien to civilians in first world countries that never get touched by war. But soldiers have to dive right into it at full force, and then if they survive, go on living a “normal” life with the rest of us, to move on from all this and just be a human, after coming face to face with the things that the majority of people fear so much: violent injury and death, or having to destroy another soul, over and over. And then have to come back from that and still try to make sense of the world and live a good life. It just blows my mind, what soldiers have to to.

I miss new Hollywood war movies which continue the Saving Private Ryan and BoB realism...

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My grandfather fought in Iwo jima.....love you grandpa!! I'm so sorry these politicians these days have taken advantage of American citizens and I'm so sorry American citizens are so lost these days constantly blaming each other for their problem's. Its not our fault! Its the fuckin assholes in charge of this place and their souls consumed with GREED !

I think before this scene Basilone told his new wife he was being shipped out since he was returning to duty. Turns out he was shipping out to-what was one of the bloodiest battles the Pacific Theater had.

Another white man taking credit

Después de la escena del desembarco en Saving private Ryan, ésta escena es otra de mis favoritas

Nome do filme?

Physically in Iwo-Jima right now as I watch this video, which is wild because I never thought I’d be here. The signs of destruction are still here, even walking around base you find bullets in the sand and destroyed bunkers

Pls film name?

Absolutely hero’s every single one of them.

Cameraman: 🗿

I bet this is worse than how the movie showed it. It's not as shocking unless you know it's not edited and it's real. Especially when you see with your very own eyes.

I'll defuse the disillusion imagine fighting someone who refuses to give up after Hiroshima was bombed. Yeah maybe European Germans and it's axis maybe cruel but Asians are just bunches of do or die human beings

I got to live on the island back in 1976 for 3 months and 2 days. I was TAD to the Coast Guard LORAN station. There is no where on the island that doesn't show the carnage of that battle. Total on the whole island there were 35 coastlines and about 20 Japanese defense force individuals and the place was so serene and quite. I spent days wandering around exploring the place.

Now you see why the bombs were dropped

The Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with a dense network of bunkers, hidden artillery positions, and 18 km (11 mi) of tunnels. The American ground forces were supported by extensive naval artillery and had complete air supremacy provided by U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aviators throughout the battle. The five-week battle saw some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the Pacific War.

The Japanese combat deaths numbered three times the number of American deaths, but uniquely among Pacific War Marine battles, the American total casualties (dead and wounded) exceeded those of the Japanese. Of the 21,000 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima at the beginning of the battle, only 216 were taken prisoner, some of whom were captured only because they had been knocked unconscious or otherwise disabled. Most of the remainder were killed in action, but it has been estimated that as many as 3,000 continued to resist within the various cave systems for many days afterward until they eventually succumbed to their injuries or surrendered weeks later. Despite the fighting and severe casualties on both sides, the American victory was assured from the start. Overwhelming American superiority in numbers and arms, air supremacy, the impossibility of Japanese retreat or reinforcement, and sparse food and supplies for the Japanese, permitted no plausible circumstance in which the Japanese could have won the battle.

The action was controversial, with retired Chief of Naval Operations William V. Pratt stating that the island was useless to the Army as a staging base, and useless to the Navy as a fleet base. The Japanese continued to have early-warning radar from Rota island, which was never invaded, and Iwo Jima's captured airfield was barely used. Experiences with previous Pacific island battles suggested that the island would be well-defended and thus casualties would be significant. Joe Rosenthal's Associated Press photograph of the raising of the U.S. flag at the top of the 169 m (554 ft) Mount Suribachi by five U.S. Marines and one Navy corpsman became a famous image of the battle and the American war effort in the Pacific.

Any Marine that can say “ you tell that tank to follow me” has my vote for president!

THE END OF 1944 HUH

This, the landing at peleliu from one of the previous episodes, and the d day landing from saving private Ryan are probably the 3 best/most intense combat scenes in film/tv history. I truly couldn’t imagine the adrenaline and fear going through these soldiers heads in real life.

May all these brave men rest in peace on both sides

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Bro D DAY on IWO JIMA bro that’s a whole other theater

I see many people see the Americans as the protagonist and probably some of them don't realise most of the Japanese don't want to fight in this war that much

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My Uncle Manuel fought in that fight. Thank God he made it through

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the usa always went to war where they have overwhelming supereiority in weapons and material. this wont be the case against russian/china

Those guys had balls. Both sides.

This is why the bomb was needed to end the war.

I watched this whole series but I think I’m gonna have to rewatch it a few dozen more times. As a 21 year old male watching this… I honestly don’t have much to say. The older I get, the more I understand these situations, the less I seem to truly grasp at a human level what it would mean to live and see things like this. It just seems impossible. It seems unreal, like it could not possibly happen. And yet, and yet…

I feel like this is how soldiers attack when its zombie Apocalypse when the zombies uses guns

My grandfather fought on Iwo Jima. If we had won, the world would be a much better place today. No globalist tyranny, no Communist China, no North Korea, no vietnam war, no elites demanding your sons cut their dicks off to call themselves girls. Much better place for all

If only they had let him take a one man browning instead of a rifle that's like giving a sniper a Thompson

The thing about the battle of Iwo Jima is that the Japanese actually waited until after the Americans had landed and began unloading their equipment to begin firing, so as to catch them off guard and “with their pants down”, so to speak.

My great uncle was in the 4th marines and fought on Iwo Jima crazy to see what they went through. Would be nice to know more about his service.

This battle ended in the death of both sides.America won, but at a high cost.7,000 US Marines died and 18,000 were injured on this tiny island.