133 - Tumbling Capitals - MacArthur on the Run - WW2 - March 13, 1942 

I'm surprised no Eastern Front this week. Guess we'll see more from that next week.

@@marcusbierman5310 here's why: All quiet on the Eastern Front instagram.com/p/CMDd-EfBy9q/

@@WorldWarTwo What was the pope doing during ww2?

@@stoopidphersun7436 here is the link. read it up urself en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City_in_World_War_II

@@stoopidphersun7436 us attempted, unsuccessfully, to dissuade the Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini from joining Hitler in the war.[182] In April 1941, Pius XII granted a private audience to Ante Pavelić, the leader of the newly proclaimed Croatian state (rather than the diplomatic audience Pavelić had wanted).[183] Pius was criticised for his reception of Pavelić: an unattributed British Foreign Office memo on the subject described Pius as "the greatest moral coward of our age".[184] The Vatican did not officially recognise Pavelić's regime. Pius XII did not publicly condemn the expulsions and forced conversions to Catholicism perpetrated on Serbs by Pavelić;[185] however, the Holy See did expressly repudiate the forced conversions in a memorandum dated 25 January 1942, from the Vatican Secretariat of State to the Yugoslavian Legation.[186] The pope was well-informed of Catholic clergy involvement with the Ustaše regime, even possessing a list of clergymembers who had "joined in the slaughter", but decided against condemning the regime or taking action against the clergy involved, fearing that it would lead to schism in the Croatian church or undermine the formation of a future Croatian state.[187] Pius XII would elevate Aloysius Stepinac-a Croatian archbishop convicted of collaborating with the Ustaše by the newly established Yugoslav Communist regime-to the cardinalate in 1953.[188] Phayer agrees that Stepinac's was a "show trial", but states "the charge that he [Pius XII] supported the Ustaša regime was, of course, true, as everyone knew",[189] and that "if Stepinac had responded to the charges against him, his defense would have inevitably unraveled, exposing the Vatican's support of the genocidal Pavelić".[190] Throughout 1942, the Yugoslav government in exile sent letters of protest to Pius XII asking him to use all possible means to stop the massacres against the Serbs in the NDH, however Pius XII did nothing.[191] In 1941, Pius XII interpreted Divini Redemptoris, an encyclical of Pope Pius XI, which forbade Catholics to help communists, as not applying to military assistance to the Soviet Union. This interpretation assuaged American Catholics who had previously opposed Lend-Lease arrangements with the Soviet Union.[192] In March 1942, Pius XII established diplomatic relations with the Japanese Empire and received ambassador Ken Harada, who remained in that position until the end of the war.[193][194] In June 1942, diplomatic relations were established with the Nationalist government of China. This step was envisaged earlier, but delayed due to Japanese pressure to establish relations with the pro-Japanese Wang Jingwei government. The first Chinese Minister to the Vatican, Hsieh Shou-kang, was only able to arrive at the Vatican in January 1943, due to difficulties of travel resulting from the war. He remained in that position until late 1946.[195]

Only because there was nothing about Eastern Front.

I was going to say that I don't think the USSR ever came up... but you're right about that too. Wow.

All quiet on the Eastern Front? Not for long...

@@rlauder7210 not quiet, but more like no advances, lots of death though

@@UrWifiIsSlow Cough, Cough... Rzhev Meatgrinder Cough, Cough

as russians say ''perekura''(smoke break)

Or maybe a vodka break

Why do I smell blue?

My guess is that it's the silence which comes before a thunderstorm....🤔

It wasn't in real life, they are just ignoring it for some reason.

It does help the Allies also that Japanese POWs were often not aware or did not understand the Geneva Conventions, so they were very willing to provide vital information in these cases.

@@gunman47 yep. They were worried they would get tortured, so they talked out of fear to avoid that.

German PoW in WW I were treated very well in Japan.

They also thought they were so "disgraced" that they'd never be allowed to return to Japan when the war ended, so some sought to ingratiate themselves with their captors because they viewed themselves as men without a country. There were also some suicides among Japanese POWs since some did not surrender willingly but had been captured while wounded or incapacitated in some way. In Australia in 1944 over 1,100 Japanese POWs attempted an escape in the Cowra breakout, the largest and bloodiest POW escape attempt during the war. For some of the men death was the goal and some of those that escaped also later committed suicide to avoid recapture.

@@lycaonpictus9662 Sometimes there were suicides later. At least one came back to the Pacific island as a tourist where he had been captured perhaps 20 years earlier, and then hurled himself off a cliff. His friend, who had also been captured, tried to stop him but failed. Very few captured Japanese left memoirs later - the sense of disgrace persisted.

sure hope he doesn't go back to Tuskegee after the war

I read that in Indys voice

Maybe those guys can show the germans the little tricks they learned.

You mean dropping an A-bomb on Japan?

@@Paciat 😂😂 no no no, not that, the ending of the vid. Nice one tho

I understand your wish and feel with you. Yet...maybe I can give some sort of relief. What he told you was his memory of the event, the event had happened and ended. What he kept were memories and scars. Now you too only have a memory of the story told. Remember it and tell it again with pride for the men

It's gonna be more than just a nasty shock. Edit: Sebuah neraka baru. Neraka imperialisme yang lebih brutal dibandingkan neraka yang dilakukan oleh kolonialisme Belanda selama 350 tahun.

"We're free!" "Oh I wouldn't say free, you're under new management."

@@ethanhatcher5533 That is pretty much the result of every military invasion or revolution.

At worst they may have assumed the line from The Who's Quadrophenia: "meet the new boss; same as the old boss.". Sadly the adage "watch what you wish for" will become painfully apparent.

As an Indian, a tiny part of me really does want to see an alternate history where the Japanese "free" the country from the British and establish an independent Indian state. It is with a LOT of reluctance that I have to admit that this would result in nothing but untold millions of deaths and horrific atrocities, scarring and probably tearing apart the subcontinent even more than in our timeline. I get the Indonesians and Burmese, the European colonisers were absolutely horrific. But wow, the Japanese are going to be even worse. It's a pretty high bar to clear.

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*Grinder starts playing* "lets set up shop" "new construction options" "building" "construction complete" "new construction options"

Plus we see the origins of the US 23rd Americal Division.

The Japanese are so focused on supplies of oil, rubber, and tin that they're ignoring all the tiberium deposits.

That's effectively exactly what happened. Constructed bases and sent in engineers to capture and finish Japanese bases.

For all that he committed his own atrocities, I don't think Sherman had any idea how right the events of the next century would prove him. ("It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." and "You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who [start it] deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.")

The Essex spam build.

And destroyers like omg thr destroyers ... by the end of the war I think we could take on the entire world with just sheer amount of destroyers

Particularly cargo ships.

I won't be surprised if we see a new build up of the US navy as large as it was in WW2 in the modern day soon. With the fact that the Asia Pacific area is getting pretty hot. Some are worried we could see a new war come about over the country of Taiwan.

CARRIER HAS ARRIVED. CARRIER HAS ARRIVED. CARR-

Much respect.

Exactly what I did last month.

Thank you very much for the kind words.

Ah, the good old New Deal. Yes. That and its alphabet soup of agencies.

I work as a park ranger, and almost every park I’ve worked at was improved by the CCC in some way. Many of their structures still stand today.

@@cosmicpaddlefish9748 A major part of my job is trying to maintain the buildings they built, while at the same time trying to make them energy efficient, air tight, and functional in todays environment. The folks at the State Historic Preservation Office, wouldn’t bother me near as much if they actually understood Architectural History enough to know that rep,acing things in kind is preservation, because most of those things only had a 25 to 50-year life, 90-years ago when they were installed. I understand, that it isn’t right to replace milled wood siding with vinyl, or cementitious siding.. But they won’t even let me remove and replace wooden shiplap siding with new shiplap siding milled from the same species, to the same profile. It would irritate me less if I hadn’t read about the restoration work at Monticello, and the milling of new siding for it, and then watched a PBS special that showed it. Monticello is indisputably Historic, and a Forest Service Ranger Station house, on a back street of a small town not so much. I think they continue to confuse old with historic. To be historic they need interpretative value to the general public. Not sure how an old house, in an industrial area gets to Historic.

MacArthur, after Buna and Gona his New Guinea was one of the great military campaigns is United States military history. He was the only allied general who did not enjoy logistical superiority over his Axis enemies in an extended campaign. Yet he constantly outguessed them by the classic employment of the tactic of envelopment. His victories at Holandia and Los Negros were achieved with few casualties. In fact he took more territory and incurred fewer casualties than any other Allied commander.

@@trajan75 McArthur was a complete dill and a military moron. His only real talent was for self promotion. The heavy lifting in this campaign was done by the US navy, to which belongs the real credit. And I read his biography.

More like he had a better appreciation of things than his admirals and generals.

In both Germany and Japan though at different times, some worried about "victory disease" or "conquering ourselves to death". Hirohito might have been expressing the same concern in his own way.

If he was a micromanager of lunch we could have avoided a lot of sadness. "Yes, I will have 317 ml of sake shaken, not stirred."

@@colinmerritt7645 Sacrilege! You don't shake or stir sake, you gently warm it.

With the Germany first policy, maybe so.

made pieces of..., f----d, and fired?

Hopefully they're not pushing too hard and putting their fleet in harm's way. Losing too much of their fleet, especially their carriers, would spell disaster for their Pacific campaign.

BANZAIII.

No peace will be made, we will push back hard and get them to surrender, even if it takes years!

No joking matter.

@@SolidMikeP grow a pair, the joke isn't even at the expense of the victims

@@SolidMikeP I know. IIRC the works codifying Bushitou are Go Rin no Sho (The Book of Five Rings) by Miyamoto Musashi and more importantly Hagakure (Behind the leaves) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo. I haven't read them so I don't know if they say anything about prisoners. Probably not. But to go by another historical referecne: Setting monastaries on fire was done to great success by Oda Nobunaga.

@@FM_1819 Not like you would care about victims with that profile pic

@@kaltaron1284 The Book of Five Rings is mostly about how to use a sword.

The old hell has ended, a more brutal hell has just begun. A hell unseen before in the 350 years of Dutch rule that will have lingering consequences for years to come.

www.madmenart.com/war-propaganda/in-the-grip-of-japanese-co-prosperity-ceylon/ Allied propaganda poster, issued in 1943 or 1944.

White savior retardation

Only to fall back on hell in 1945 after the dutch came back

​@@principalityofbelka6310I don't think this is the first that such cruelty and inhumanity existed.That 'honor'would have to go to the Spanish Conquistadors and their horrible treatment towards African Slaves and native people in South America.They were so brutal that even the Spanish Crown were appalled by their actions.

Wow man that's an old ass reference, I love it

@@64ankka It's even funnier if you imagine FDR and MacArthur talking with those Pepperpot voices

I don’t get it. It sound familiar but I don’t get it

@@jasondouglas6755 It's from Monty Python, the sketch about the penguin on the TV set

Appropriately enough, the last Evangelion movie came out this week!

@@EekChocolate it’s going to be painful, waiting for the subtitled release.

@@EekChocolate This was the last place I ever expected to learn that there is a new Evangelion Movie

@@EekChocolate Damn, you remind me that I don't live in Japan and will have to wait for the English subtitles. Those guys were very lucky to be able see it on March 8th!

Yes yes yes That is the way for us

We have, and although it would be nice to possibly reach more people by publishing the day-by-day posts on the RU-vid community page, some problems arise when we would. First of all, the page would get flooded fairly quickly and stop important announcements from standing out. The community page also pushes the posts quite randomly, which does not go very well with the chronological character of the day-by-day updates. Lastly, those who want to reach with the day-by-day posts, our core audience, already knows of them and is either already following the social media pages or has chosen not to. If you're not a fan of Instagram, we're uploading the same posts to Facebook as well: facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory

We took them to limit the number of routes that the Allies had to send the Nationalists supplies. Without the ports, the only routes were the Burma road, a short airlift over 'The Hump', and eventually the Ledo road.

@@emisat8970 that makes perfect sense. Thank you!

@@kleid12 My pleasure.

There's nothing like be taught WW2 history by a Japanese person with an anime profile picture.

@@CarrotConsumer Is there a problem?

I believe the quote was "I will return"

Can't help but read that in Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice from the Terminator movie series. Pretty sure MacArthur will come back one day to the Philippines like Arnold's T-800 cyborg does too!

@@stevethegeck0 I now, I was trying to quote the line from Terminator

*puts his sunglasses on, and grabs his pipe*

He will ram more than a truck back to the Philippines👍

Musashi's teachings also emphasized flexibility on the battlefield. A stark contrast to the Japanese military that is always plagued with inflexibility in operations and planning as well as very poor coordination between the army and navy.

Indeed, the last real proponents of genuine Edo-era bushido were the final rebellious samurai of the Satsuma Rebellion led by Saigo Takamori. When they were crushed by the Imperial Army, this was the true death of the samurai warrior ethos and its future bastardisation by the new military regime, though it is also important to remember their rebellion was as much an economic and status-based one as it was ideological. This isn't to say bushido couldn't be brutally fierce at times, or justify what we consider today to be terribly violent acts, or that indeed all samurai ever followed it to the letter (it was of course largely cooked up after the end of the Warring States Period proper) but the kind of values Musashi undergirded his warriors philosophy with - discipline, patience, acceptance, desirelessness itself etc, as drawing heavily from Zen Buddhism, was most certainly lost on most of the rapacious and narrow-minded ambitions of the Japanese Imperial leaders, who in their efforts to parrot the empires of Western nations had long left their real traditions behind.

It is nearly over, they got all they wanted, easily. All that is left is to present the peace terms to the West, threaten them with further expansion and a long war on yet another front (with Germeny and Italy on the other side) and surely the West will jump at the chance for peace.

The Japanese military government actually thought the West would agree to peace and let bygones be bygones.

Don't worry they migh take some random island amidst the Pacific to threaten Pearl Harbor and the US will surrender... oh wait

Yeah, and they said China would take a month.

@@lorensims4846 and the nazis said they'd conquer russia in 4 months. Don't think the axis powers can tell time...

Thank you!

My pleasure!

Mark Felton is a plagiarist crook

Thank you so much for your support!

Vinegar Joe

where can I find more info on this? It seems interesting :D

@@Wawrzon161 All the info i have found on this subject are in french so unless you can read french it may not be very useful to you unfortunately.

@@oOkenzoOo I can't, but info on free french camapign in the deserts and mountains of Sahara is really niche, same goes for LRDG operations in areas like Jebel Sharif or Jebel Uweinat

@@Wawrzon161 True. More events will happen with Bir Hakeim and the 2nd Fezzan campaign (in which LRDG troops participated) and i'll be sure to post about them as well.

Both sides exhausted. Planning for Fall Blau beginns in April, action begins June 28 1942. Battle for Rzhev begins July 30, 1942

I know the Japanese were the most brutal people during the war, but people act like we didn’t also let these things happen, my great great grandpa went all over the pacific as a heavy equipment operator and sometimes a rifleman when need be, and he said for every fucked up thing the Japanese did they would do something back to them. He knew a group of guys that set three wounded Japanese guys on fire, because they had manned a machine gun nest that killed quite a few of their friends and the Japanese never took prisoners without torturing them before killing them, they had been severely wounded by a grenade. My pops said it was appalling but he understood that people wanted their revenge because they were hurting inside.

I am always glad when people share their family story here since so many people in the west find it impossible to imagine that the US troops killed basically all wounded Japanese they came across and desecrated the corpses of many fallen Japanese soldiers. It taints their image of a just war and makes reality too complex too handle for them. The Empire of Japan did horrific things and was without a doubt the bad guy in Asia but that doesn’t mean the US soldiers didn’t commit large scale atrocities and racial hate propaganda played a large part in it.

@@bingobongo1615 Steve Burns did a multipart series on the war back in the early 2000's. Anyway, he interviewed veterans and one guy stuck out. He was a marine who fought in the south Pacific. He talked about how the H Japanese had captured his friend. They cut the friends genitals off and shoved them in the man's mouth. The veteran said after that he hunted the Japanese. He would go out at night by himself and use a bolo knife to kill them and decapitate them. He would line their heads up and disappear into the jungle.

@@ronkledonkanusmoncher564 The act of killing another human being is not that difficult when properly motivated.. living with the fact you killed someone, now that is a different story

Most likely doing marine biology. He was actually really competent at that field of science.

@@vksasdgaming9472 Didn't know that. Thanks. 🙂

You are assuming that Japan has a plan. Japan doesn't have a plan. Japan has the navy yelling at the army and trying to grab resources to take random islands and the army yelling at the navy and trying to take resources to get more random parts of China.

@@404Dannyboy that’s why i said that any conquests means consolidation. Failure to consolidate equal failure of conquest

@@andmos1001 Bro, I was agreeing with you haha

@@404Dannyboy They have a plan... they just changed it midway from "lording them over like colonies" to "desperately trying to convince them they are better than Westerners"...

The kachins will form the OSs 101st detachment and be a major thorn in the side of the Japanese.

Haha, I’m thinking to the tune of Fox on the Run by the Sweet

_Dear Sabaton,_ _..._

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There is fighting but little movement. Planning for Fall Blau in April 1942. Action begins on this June 28. Battle of Rzhev begins July 30'

@@WorldWarTwo Yeah but I don't do instagram.

@@Davey-Boyd Then you miss out, sorry for your luck?

@@amandahammond2691 Well yes I miss out, but it is not luck though. I just don't want it. I don't even have a mobile phone, I don't do facebook or any other such platforms. (I have never owned either a car or a television either)! So my fault really!

Midway's what I'm waiting for and in a few years Anzio. I had a relative that died there. But yes, we'll meet at Midway. Naval war.

The scale might not be as big as it was for Pearl but yes we have something planned.

The Volkhov front also saw a certain amount of trench warfare.

@@stevekaczynski3793 Oh yes, and the Crimean Front. They talked about the Volkov front though, so I do expect them to say a few more things the coming week.

I think he mentioned it in a previous episode: his maternal grandfather was at Egypt working for the British.

His grandfather was at suez canal when France and britain powers declined that's why he hate those countries now

@@ShubhamMishrabro hate? That seems a too harsh word

@@leowilly29 ok love then

@@ShubhamMishrabro its just that i dont see where he shows hâte toward those nations

Thanks Darian!

as japanese who receive normal school education I think it never happen all of war crime list on text. It will cost on school program we meant to learn both of two, whole world history and japanese history.

I am sure not - Japanese are already landing on Salomon Islands and for sure they will take it swiftly as they did with other bigger territories... ;)

I'm hearing the word "Tainan" over and over again.

@@principalityofbelka6310 I used to know this family with that surname. Mom & dad were Betty and Jake. Kids were Zeke, Val & Kate. And of course granddad & grandma Claude and Nell.

@@Perkelenaattori That's interesting. Are there any Tony, Oscar or Emily in that family?

@@principalityofbelka6310 Those are the cousins. Then there's aunt Grace too. It's a big family.

Were not nuns, the picture shown was of UK Army nurses.

Japan never had the merchant naval size to invade and hold Australia.

Thanks!

That's what I like about Indy Niedell, he isn't too Eurocentric.

Planning for Fall Blau will begin soon and the action begins June 28 1942

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@@WorldWarTwo quiet is a bit of an understatement, dont you think? A lot of fighting, not a lot advancing

@@UrWifiIsSlow for the standards of the Eastern Front, this is armistice.

HOI4 begs to differ.

I am afraid the competition for the title is fierce... Allied and Axis...

They were very effective to their size and delivered lots of material for exciting tales of derring-do and adventure in exotic locations like Philippines, Gualdacanal and Missisippi Delta.

@@vksasdgaming9472---They were most famous in the Pacific theater. But they were also deployed to other theaters of war.

@CKS1949 We'll see what the future holds for us...

Operation Barbarossa ended in December 1941 in failure. Now there is an ongoing battle at Rzhev.

@@dragosstanciu9866 I know I just couldn't think of a better way to say what I wanted to say

@@Johnnylemoni You can say the eastern front or the Soviet front.

@@dragosstanciu9866 ok thanks

Thank you for sharing a bit about him, Edmund. Never forget