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Kings and Generals’ historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues with another video. Guadalcanal was one of the most brutal campaigns of the Pacific War, as the US Marines not only had to fight the relentless assaults of the enemy in that jungle hell. Yet after the Battle of Savo Island, the problems were only starting to emerge for the Marines, as they were soon to face a true baptism of fire at Alligator Creek. At the same time, the 2nd Raider Battalion was preparing to launch a deadly raid against the heart of the Gilberts, an attack that would have deadly consequences for the Americans in the future. Join us as we cover the Raid on Makin Island and we also take a look at the Battle of the Tenaru and some other developments in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
Pacific War Podcast: https://thepacificwar.podbean.com
Pacific War #1 – Attack on Pearl Harbor: https://youtu.be/ZzS1ZAulpoY
Pacific War #2 – Japanese Invasion of Malaya: https://youtu.be/mpBGUC8OjE4
Pacific War #3 – Japanese attack Guam, Wake, the Philippines: https://youtu.be/MZ4d7Qeyivk
Pacific War #4 – Japan Continues Attacking: Borneo, Philippines: https://youtu.be/MhQrv82HHn8
Pacific War #5 – Fall of Wake Island: https://youtu.be/tgtagewcqKo
Pacific War #6 – Battle of Kampar: https://youtu.be/AGYaghICqkY
Pacific War #7 – Battle of Slim River: https://youtu.be/meWALqmsXxs
Pacific War #8 – Battle for the Dutch East Indies: https://youtu.be/lBwjgesFsFU
Pacific War #9 – Invasion of New Britain: https://youtu.be/rUL538i8Oms
Pacific War #10 – Fall of Malaya: https://youtu.be/z7KaNtn2sFo
Pacific War #11 – Battle of Makassar Strait: https://youtu.be/XJMxr7ED8tI
Pacific War #12 – Fall of Singapore: https://youtu.be/d_xE4CVG3rY
Pacific War #13 – Invasion of Sumatra: https://youtu.be/DA2HKaeu8w4
Pacific War #14 – Invasion of Timor: https://youtu.be/PID0vt52-vY
Pacific War #15 – Fall of Java: https://youtu.be/QOOJcr2DQSQ
Pacific War #16 – Fall of Rangoon: https://youtu.be/oyu7z7wQNqg
Pacific War #17 – How the US Responded to Pearl Harbor: https://youtu.be/z-0liSYA60M
Pacific War #18 – Hideki Tojo: Bringing Japan Into The Pacific War: https://youtu.be/7FO4o-N2fKk
Pacific War #19 – Japanese Raids in the Indian Ocean: https://youtu.be/E75hxwGbFHE
Pacific War #20 – Fall of Bataan & The Bataan Death March: https://youtu.be/gZsxpgNwxYc
Pacific War #21 – Doolittle Raid: https://youtu.be/TTM2HR3Mtyo
Pacific War #22 – Japanese Advance on Burma Road: https://youtu.be/bdJ_373NyME
Pacific War #24 – Battle of the Coral Sea: https://youtu.be/kMX7Y6Njc9A
Pacific War #25 – Fall of the Philippines: https://youtu.be/AEwH8oQk6H8
Pacific War #26 – Fall of Burma: https://youtu.be/LyHqNY_p27Y
Pacific War #27 – Operation Sei-Go: https://youtu.be/6Ta_eum5hdU
Pacific War #28 – Battle of Midway: https://youtu.be/p1qKon2rdzk
Pacific War #29 – Japanese Invasion of Alaska: https://youtu.be/7ayfLluk-go
Pacific War #30 – Japanese Attack on Sydney: https://youtu.be/ZnYm7P4Oyis
Pacific War #31 – MacArthur and the Philippines Disaster: https://youtu.be/XfWAKZdelrk
Pacific War #32 – Attacks New Guinea: https://youtu.be/D36zkO56bpA
Pacific War #33 – Biological Warfare in China: https://youtu.be/M4wc_sz6XHc
Pacific War #34 – Japan Attacks the Continental United States: https://youtu.be/SxI03tn7V8k
Pacific War #35 – Invasion of Buna-Gona: https://youtu.be/42mm2gUjJzQ
Pacific War #36 – Battle of Kokoda: https://youtu.be/MWan4wEb2Ro
Pacific War #37 – Invasion of Solomon Islands: https://youtu.be/ro7rgxYeK_8
Pacific War #38 – Battle of Savo Island: https://youtu.be/z_gXrpSCrvM
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Pacific War #1 – Attack on Pearl Harbor: https://youtu.be/ZzS1ZAulpoY
Pacific War #2 – Japanese Invasion of Malaya: https://youtu.be/mpBGUC8OjE4
Pacific War #3 – Japanese attack Guam, Wake, the Philippines: https://youtu.be/MZ4d7Qeyivk
Pacific War #4 – Japan Continues Attacking: Borneo, Philippines: https://youtu.be/MhQrv82HHn8
Pacific War #5 – Fall of Wake Island: https://youtu.be/tgtagewcqKo
Pacific War #6 – Battle of Kampar: https://youtu.be/AGYaghICqkY
Pacific War #7 – Battle of Slim River: https://youtu.be/meWALqmsXxs
Pacific War #8 – Battle for the Dutch East Indies: https://youtu.be/lBwjgesFsFU
Pacific War #9 – Invasion of New Britain: https://youtu.be/rUL538i8Oms
Pacific War #10 – Fall of Malaya: https://youtu.be/z7KaNtn2sFo
Pacific War #11 – Battle of Makassar Strait: https://youtu.be/XJMxr7ED8tI
Pacific War #12 – Fall of Singapore: https://youtu.be/d_xE4CVG3rY
Pacific War #13 – Invasion of Sumatra: https://youtu.be/DA2HKaeu8w4
Pacific War #14 – Invasion of Timor: https://youtu.be/PID0vt52-vY
Pacific War #15 – Fall of Java: https://youtu.be/QOOJcr2DQSQ
Pacific War #16 – Fall of Rangoon: https://youtu.be/oyu7z7wQNqg
Pacific War #17 – How the US Responded to Pearl Harbor: https://youtu.be/z-0liSYA60M
Pacific War #18 – Hideki Tojo: Bringing Japan Into The Pacific War: https://youtu.be/7FO4o-N2fKk
Pacific War #19 – Japanese Raids in the Indian Ocean: https://youtu.be/E75hxwGbFHE
Pacific War #20 – Fall of Bataan & The Bataan Death March: https://youtu.be/gZsxpgNwxYc
Pacific War #21 – Doolittle Raid: https://youtu.be/TTM2HR3Mtyo
Pacific War #22 – Japanese Advance on Burma Road: https://youtu.be/bdJ_373NyME
Pacific War #24 – Battle of the Coral Sea: https://youtu.be/kMX7Y6Njc9A
Pacific War #25 – Fall of the Philippines: https://youtu.be/AEwH8oQk6H8
Pacific War #26 – Fall of Burma: https://youtu.be/LyHqNY_p27Y
Pacific War #27 – Operation Sei-Go: https://youtu.be/6Ta_eum5hdU
Pacific War #28 – Battle of Midway: https://youtu.be/p1qKon2rdzk
Pacific War #29 – Japanese Invasion of Alaska: https://youtu.be/7ayfLluk-go
Pacific War #30 – Japanese Attack on Sydney: https://youtu.be/ZnYm7P4Oyis
Pacific War #31 – MacArthur and the Philippines Disaster: https://youtu.be/XfWAKZdelrk
Pacific War #32 – Attacks New Guinea: https://youtu.be/D36zkO56bpA
Pacific War #33 – Biological Warfare in China: https://youtu.be/M4wc_sz6XHc
Pacific War #34 – Japan Attacks the Continental United States: https://youtu.be/SxI03tn7V8k
Pacific War #35 – Invasion of Buna-Gona: https://youtu.be/42mm2gUjJzQ
Pacific War #36 – Battle of Kokoda: https://youtu.be/MWan4wEb2Ro
Pacific War #37 – Invasion of Solomon Islands: https://youtu.be/ro7rgxYeK_8
Pacific War #38 – Battle of Savo Island: https://youtu.be/z_gXrpSCrvM
"Where's the fireworks?"
"Tell me those charges weren't duds!"
"They better not be."
(Japanese weapons depot goes boom!)
That's how you start World at War…
Next week: Enterprise gets hurt… BADLY!
good video
No, the Ichiki Detachment was not "decimated". "Decimated" means it lost only about 10% of its men. In fact its losses were effectively 100%. This is annihilation, not "decimation".
A british guy talking about american history …. doesn't work.
What a great series!
Decimated = every tenth man (latin: "decimal") killed.
Wiped out = everyone killed
120+ survivors out of a 900+ man detachemnt?
"Very heavily hit" or "mauled" are fair decriptions.
"Pounded" & "torn up" are also fair.
Please try for less drama and more precision of language in the future.
Drama is cheap, precision is priceless.
DOUGout
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I notice that Kings and Generals do not do a good job of pronunciation in their videos. They forgot the L in Guadalacanal. They butcher the English language.
August 17 1942
Eighty years ago today
It's time to continue Alexios Komnenos's story and the most successful crusade.
you really need to stop using the word decimated when you mean annihilated…
4:20 only Few survived
I felt an uncomfortable admiration to Ichiki.
What the heck is a cruiser submarine.
i never knew this much was going on in the pacific war, can't wait the next episode, was keeping me in suspense.
This is a wonderful series, well informed and well presented. I look forward to each episode yet I cringe when the narrator uses the word "decimate". Surely Kings and Generals would know that decimation was a punishment used by the Roman army against their own soldiers, where if a group failed ignominiously the members would be forced to draw lots and kill one in ten of their fellow soldiers. I don't think you mean this?
When i started this series I thought to myself "ill never finish this"
Now im here ahead of schedule patiently waiting for the next installments 😀
That Henderson Field defense, I believe was re-enacted in the HBO series The Pacific
please do a video about the paraguayan war
there is a misspoken word at 5:26: "the American positions would also be boldly shelled by American submarines.."
Ukraine war July update please…
The fact is, that Americans only began seizing the islands well in second half of 1943. By then, the Japanese made strong fortications and underground tunnels on them.
Number of casualties and wounded men started to mount with every day the Americans got closer to Japan.
This is the best documentary series in youtube about pacific war👍
One of the Marine commanders, joking about Calson`s Leftish politics commented "He might have been red but he certainly wasn`t yellow" (so nobody misunderstands, yellow is not meant racially, it was at that time used to designate cowards)
The BATTLE of Tenaru was won by the Artillery fire from units commanded by PEDRO DEL VALLE a Puerto Rican marine officer. they always lie about our people's achievements makes me sick ,,of the lies
Ichiki: I'd rather die fighting.
USMC: Glad to be of assistance.
5:27 is this true or is it an typo in the script, because I don't think American subs and destroyers would intentionally shell their own positions over a few days
People who think of the South Pacific as sandy beaches, coconut palms, and pretty girls in sarongs have no idea what a poisonous swampy malarial hellhole a lot of these islands were/are.
"Decimated" does NOT mean destroyed or wiped out. It means one in ten was killed. If you wish to be taken seriously, use the language correctly.
Whoever is in charge of directing and producing this episode is exactly what makes Kings and Generals one of the very best YT based history channels.
What are these strange measures. Even US soldiers use the metric system.
By this point in time, all that raids not conducted from the air (and even those sometimes) do is show the enemy where they are weak and gives them plenty of time to reinforce the positions. Better to bomb the place and then come back and invade it with fewer casualties.
Those submarines that transported the Marine Raiders did way more than I figured they would as mere transports.
As for the IJA experience with the Ichiki Detachment at Guadalcanal, it's going to get way worse for them. One of the defining features of the Guadalcanal Campaign was piecemeal commitment, which would go on for a long time. But when they got more serious in their numbers committed, logistically they could not support them. The Japanese controlled no ports, wharfs at Guadalcanal. The threat of the Allies navies, land and carrier based air power made it even more dangerous for warships and transports to linger around. When the sun rose, that brought with them Allied air power. This puts a severe strain on what the IJN could viably do to resupply the IJA at Guadalcanal.
Cargo ships as we've seen already were too slow, they'd get caught at daylight and destroyed. This forced the IJA to use Destroyers as fast transports. Offloading a number of their weapons to carry more troops and materiel for Guadalcanal. In ideal conditions, the IJN would quickly sneak in doing these Destroyer / Light Cruiser runs at night, literally throw the cargo off the side of the ship, and pray they float to shore where the IJA would collect them. The rate of supplies actually getting to the troops at Guadalcanal were abysmal. Not only were the rates abysmal, the IJN were also losing ships on these runs. The Americans called these runs the "Tokyo Express" but the IJN themselves called them "Rat Runs" because they felt like rats scurrying at night.
Many USN & IJN battles would be fought over these Tokyo Express / Rat Runs for Guadalcanal.
RAdm Raizo Tanaka would accrue a successful, hard fought experience against the USN and he eventually said to his superiors that Guadalcanal was a lost cause for Japan. The constant losses of men, materiel, ships was not something Japan could sustain and they needed to evacuate everyone out of there ASAP.
However, in saying this, that got Tanaka sacked. He was their most experienced, successful admiral fighting the Americans, and he got fired for saying the truth. The IJN would remove him from command and stuff him in a desk job in BURMA for the rest of the war. The hilarious part is that Imperial General HQ in Tokyo would later agree and plan and execute a highly successful evacuation of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal.
While it would be beneficial to the American cause that Tanaka would no longer be fighting against them, by being stuck in a desk job for the rest of the war would saved his life. The IJN would face several bloody years at sea losing a lot of ships, men, leaders. Tanaka would survive this and live out his days post-war as a farmer until he died in 1969. Post-war, the USN had nothing a lot of praise for Tanaka's combat leadership, particularly at Tassafaronga.