The Japanese attack on Wake Island has been overshadowed by the attacks on Pearl Harbor. However, people forget that Japan attacked over 20 American-held locations at that time. All alone with no reinforcements coming, 450 soldiers had to hold out against the most powerful navy in the world. The story is amazing and needs to be talked about more! Mr. Terry gets to add more history to go along with this story from The Fat Electrician.
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Is that helmet comfortable? I've been wondering for awhile.
every time you skip the end of a TFE video, i'm giving a dislike…your videos are good but you're doing everyone a disservice…sorry
The idea thatthe marines were recruited form prison and insane asylims was actually written by a Japanese commander after having fought against them on several islands.
Japanese AA guns were very notorious for being badly ranged on their air targets they hardly got many kills from there AA guns because of this, and you guy's knew this very well it was only when they were in a massive fleet that the overwhelming firepower would cause deaths and damage to American planes.
There was a naval reunion in the 80s, when someone recognized a marine from Wake Island. He called out, "Wake Island marine on deck!". Every man there, including 2 admirals came over to the marine to salute him and shake his hand. That is how respected those marines were.
The first line in the video is a joke about Japanese propaganda. They absolutely said that. I have a bunch of old magazines and newspapers my grandpa found in Solomon Islands. Headline: USS Enterprise sunk. Imperial navy routes asylum patients the Americans call “Marines”. Out of the China sea. He also found a bunch of letters, and other personal correspondence my dad and I had to take to the University of Oregon to have translated. I even have a Jap armband. I have no idea what it means. There’s a scene in the Pacific were Chesty Puller reads off a translated report thats says pretty much the same thing.
In my Boot Camp schooling, the mistakes of Maj. Devareau are used as a lesson in how not to lead a battle. Situational awareness is paramount, and when he lost that he should have immediately established a system of runners to regain it.
The movie is pretty good actually as in entertaining. However, I would absolutely love to see a modern historical perspective. A 2005 movie called Wake Island: Alamo in the Pacific. I would’ve cast of Bruce Willis as Devereaux and Tom Harding who was a relative no-name at the time, just finished with Band of Brothers would’ve played “Hammering” Hank. Cause that’s my movie. It was made now. I have no clue how to cast it. The one detail I absolutely would’ve included. Would be the proposed mutiny the Marines were planning on the relieve force when they were told they where to turn back.
Sad u didnt react to a bunch of the jokes, sad u dont finish the video to the end of the playbar. Really enjoy the additional history context you add tho. Id highly recommend all the fat electrician videos, along with his second channel the fat files. The aldis video is probably the best start.
US salutes don't show the palm, bud 😂
The sad truth is a massacre in China meant nothing to the west in comparison to a few guys on an island in the middle of nowhere by a potential ally.
The pr of atrocities against American soldiers vs pr of atrocities on Asians are two very different things… sad but true. They even knew it then
World War II? China built up artificial islands in the South China Sea, often in the territorial waters of other countries. At least two of these have been turned from sea mounts barely breaching the water to being large enough to have runways for transports and fighter jets, large radar stations, long-range surface to air missiles, long range anti-ship missiles, close in weapon systems, and a detachment of Chinese Marines or army. Let's just hope these don't become important in World War 3
Don't forget less the AZ, the ships at pearl were raised, repaired and put back into action.
For the record, we sent three aircraft carriers to try to help Wake Island. One of them, USS Saratoga was torpedoed. By the time the other two were in position to do anything, Japan had already landed on the island. We decided not to risk our remaining two carriers for a lost cause.
The Communists were not more effective than the nationalists. They had better PR. The nationalist did most of the fighting and many areas would defeat the Japanese at heavy costs and then have to pull virtually all their forces into another campaign The Communists would then take the town from the Nationalists and claimed that they defeated the Japanese.
This is why I hate FDR more than almost any other president. His policies CAUSED the Great Depression, he was spending government money like it was free paying people to dig ditches and then fill them back in, paying farmers to burn their crops so that they'd drive up the cost of food when people were starving, and NOT UPGRADING THE MILITARY when war was CLEARLY on the horizon. Our tanks, our guns, our ships, our planes were a decade or more old, that's fine, lets pay people to plant trees and overregulate businesses so they can't employ people to work. Let's not train pilots, tankers, sailors, etc., why would we need them? Let's just ship material instead.
Terry you skipped the real end again with the real vets of wake. Shame on you.
Depends on the bunker… if they had steel reinforced concrete bunkers on wake Island than the Marines only issue was Ammo, if they were just make shift basically wooden reinforced Mines built on wake Island than the issue becomes if the opening to the bunkers were hit or not. the Materials used would be a factor cause no one but the Germans could do what America could pull off if America Applied what they could do at a given location. My belief not really digging into what they actually did is they sailed the retired USS Texas to Wake Island and they made a base on the Island by scrapping her and repurposing everything on the Ship to make the Base.
18:50 seems like an expression of a man who's thinking "can we talk about Japanese war crimes please?"
0:30: ⚔️ Japanese military misconception about Marine recruits debunked during World War II.
3:11: ⚔️ Decisive battle as outnumbered Marines face Japanese Naval Detachment at Wake Island.
6:13: ⚔️ US Marines counter Japanese Navy attack with air support, highlighting strategic flaw.
9:02: 💣 Japanese faced significant losses and embarrassment after the successful defense by US Marines at Wake Island.
11:57: ⚔️ Desperate stand of US Marines against Japanese Navy at Wake Island in WWII.
15:24: ⚔️ Intense battle unfolds on Wake Island between US Marines and Japanese forces, with unexpected turn of events.
18:07: 💥 Brutal Japanese plan to execute Wake Island Americans halted due to global attention.
21:52: 🏝️ Dramatic events unfold on Wake Island during World War II, including a surprising twist involving a future president.
24:23: 💥 Unveiling the unexpected encounter with Ma Dong, deadliest human, and the mystery of Chinese rugs.
Timestamps by Tammy AI