Battle of Iwo Jima - Complete Animated Documentary 

This is awesome. Thank You!

I remember watching a documentary 30 years ago. They briefly mentioned the USAAF bombed a US division for 3 straight days in Italy. I have never been able to find it again. The gunhos killed far more than we are told?

Oh wow nice

It wasn't nice for US army. Against the Wermacht and their own medal hunters who thought they were the Wermacht.

@@rayw3294 It was their first war and they did not exist yet so cut them some slack.

Wow. Cool.

My entire life I've been enamored with WW2 history. I'm a first generation American but have many friends who had grandfathers who fought during WW2 on the ground or in the air. The stories I've read, watched, and have been told in 1st or 2nd hand accounts still never cease to amaze me. The men and women who sacrificed and rallied together in unity will never fail to remind me how humans with conviction could make sure Good would triumph over Evil when the time called. There is without doubt that they should be remembered as the Greatest Generation.

Thanks, now I shall never forget too

And now, unfortunately the Communists are winning at home.@@chinqlinq89

You should watch Shaun Ryan's interview with an Iwo Jima flamethrower, Don Graves, 36 days on the island and was the only one out of the 300 flamethrowers in his unit that survived. Its hard to listen to to 3 hour interviews all in one shot, but I can't remember the last time, if ever at all, I was glued to a 3 hour RU-vid interview like that. 98 years old as sharp as ever, and part of the greatest generation that will ever live

He probably beat the shit out him

You don’t wanna know. It’s one thing to see a dead body, and see someone killed, like me… It’s a whole nother animal to take a life, something I have not done, and pray I never have to.

Ironically @@Beau-wp9yi that same friend and I joined the Army in the mid 80's. He even went airborne. We both earned national defense medals and lost friends in desert storm but it was nothing like Iwo Jima.

​@brianhagmeier8065 thank you, Sir for your service.

If someone is foolish enough to try to take out a US Marine they will not escape the whirlwind

I am a Marine, and i wonder the same thing.

@@alexfloate2420 You will know once you feet hit the sand, even if you take a volley maybe it will help one of your brothers get to cover.

Crazy to think most of them were kids. 18 and 19 year olds

@@alexfloate2420Everyone in WW2 had balls of steel. I'm a Marine as well 2008-2012 and just felt like an imposter. Couldn't imagine being put on an AAV after just completing boot camp some never going at all. And knowing death was basically iminent.. greatest generation was just built different.

I have a feeling amphetamines and alcohol helped and made this war particularly brutal.

How were you able to get there ? Who offers tours ?

@@bettinaripperger4159 If I remember right a few years ago the Marines went back to do a honorary hike up the mountain side.

That wasn't a cheap trip........... It must have been special.

Did you see a bunch of shell casings and other remnants of the battles? I’d like to visit that island one day. Rest in Peace to all who fought there. 🙏🏻

Thank you for your service, and thank God for men like them and yourself.

#sycophant

Still seeing 971,000 subs.. must be a glitch?

"12 days of shelling might waste too many shells.. let's cut it back to 3 days, with a further cutback to 1.5 days. Better to waste Marine's lives than waste shells." -The Navy, back then.

@@74KU 972k subs is what I see.. why? What's the real number? I even see 972k when I go to their main RU-vid account page

I second that!!!

They truly don't make them like they used to. I mean, I'm 27, and I can't imagine going through half of the things they went through, at an even younger age.

@@DonVigaDeFierro in Marine Corps boot, during the Crucible, we have a challenge called the Basilone Challenge. it an ammo and water plus casualty run up a 50yeard hill at 40-45% incline. it fucking sucks but you find yourself wanting to do it again after the first time. i believe my squad did it 3 times.

Every generation of Americans is the greatest generation.

looks like someone forgot to take their meds@@JOECURR1488

To say that WW2 vets are the greatest generation is a slap in the face of every combat vet. Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, the gulf War. Iraq Afghanistan each generation has it's hero's.

All i recall (I am 44 now and he has been dead of old age for awhile) is that he was in the second wave of the landings and wounded by a grenade. I remember him mentioning it was his job to secure the airfield. He had pieces of shrapnel from the grenade that would work it's way out of his leg till the day he died at 60+

Mine great grandfather was on one of the crashing b-29s he had to kick out a fire bomb over the open bomb bay while plummeting towards the island

1.2.3..my grandad lol

@@ME-ke7qc ?

@@ME-ke7qc Yes.....I am...44.....My Mom is now.....I think around 70....my grandad...you know...her dad....died at 60+. Not sure why the math is that hard....

These videos are both incredible graphically but the content is 10/10 as well. Hands down my favorite military history videos

Yes. I love these guys. And they tell the truth. Our stupid channels try to be nice. But, being telling the truth is real. And we get it from Deutchers and Ruskies. Tell the truth and let everyone know. It was fucking evil.

Yes, they did a much better job than the dumbass navy barrages! They had one job from point blank range and still could not manage it! Useless.

Right? So much attention to detail, very easy to follow and understand, just great storytelling.

Lessons etched in blood for the future

Welcome to the 1940s. They can't exactly send a text zoomer.

@@tappytibbons735 except not having today's technology has nothing to do with it, boomer. did you watch the video? none of these miscommunications were due to a lack of reliable tech, they were all human error.

@@tappytibbons735I’m surprised you even know what a text is. You’ve spent so much time replying random angry comments to people on this video that I thought it was your first time ever being on the internet. Do better bro, we can all see the drivel you type.

That stuff affects everybody differently. Most kids don't ask and the fathers don't think they're really interested. Iwo Jima was the 4th landing my father made with the 4th Marine Div, first wave. He was lightly wounded on the beach on Saipan by a Japanese 70mm knee mortar. If I asked him about the war he would tell me. Looking back I'm sure the war affected him with some form of PTSD though.

Why do many American commentators on these types of WW2 videos always bang on about God blessing each other, were you all heavily indoctrinated in your formative years by religious nonsense. 🤔

@@beachcomber1able It used to be a much religious country back then. It fact is was a Christian country for all intents and purposes. Just how far back does your memory go?

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Back to the days when Christian mobs would regularly lynch black people from the nearest tree and the USA operated an evil apartheid system.

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Back to the days when Christian mobs would lynch black people and the USA operated a brutal segregation policy.

That's awesome! 🪖

I thank him for his service!

Neat living piece of history!

All of these stories need to be told anywhere they can. I feel a lot of insight to these battles is being lost because no one shares them enough.

I BET HE WENT TO TOKYO AND DROWNED HIMSELF IN TOKYO LOLI PUSSIES

You can obtain his record of service. Contact the Veteran’s Agent for your city or town. If they do not exist in your state contact the DAV or a military recruiting office. The process starts with a standard form; SF 180.

Some will talk about it and some won't. My father made 4 landings in the Central Pacific with the 4th Marine Division , including Iwo Jima (Yellow Beach 2 first wave) and if I asked him he would answer me. I could be wrong but I think it has a lot to do with those combat vets realizing that most young people don't care about that stuff nor do they have any understanding of history or war. It's totally foreign to them. They're just wrapped up in their own worlds. It's only years or decades later that their children (sometimes) realize that they have no idea what their father's did in the war and wish that they had asked so they could tell their children.

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217While that could be a reason in some cases. I think watching dozens of men get mown down by mg fire and killed by random mortar blasts not knowing if every crevice was looking back at you. Plus seeing the enemy get melted alive would maybe make you unforthcoming in all the gruesome detail. Some people can look back on trauma objectively in detail without digging up all the emotions with it some can’t.

People react differently, that's all I'm saying. The first Jap(anese) my father killed was with his combat knife (I never heard him say "Kabar" though it may well have been one. @@dylanmorgan2752

would have LOVED these back in 2015 when I was in highschool

Take teacher's permission first 😉

Educate your history class on Jewish expulsions

@@outofturn331I’m guessing he is the teacher

You do that my brother. Show them all of the relevant ones. Ops Room is absolutely high-quality stuff. I learnt more history from these Brits than I did at uni.

My dad was a Seabee and went from North Africa to France,then on to the Pacific, to build more airstrips, never wounded by bullets but would never go to a movie or talk about the war, until I enlisted in the USN 1961-65,, and then, said WE all bleed the same color blood, alcohol wouldbring him down after only 61 years on thisFzzzz89ked world

What is seebee

@@ioance3526 It is the construction arm of the Navy. The SeaBee is a nickname for the letters “CB” which is short for “construction battalion”.

Especially since no one was expecting that level of carnage.

65 million other people showed us the same thing...

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 If 65 million people "instantly" died it would have been a fairly short war. Please read posts before typing for likes please.

What are you on about? I don't care if nobody likes what I post, I really couldn't care less.@@47streetcop96

BTW, it's totally true or do you dispute that? People die in war, lots of them. How is pointing that out fishing for likes? Make a real point to someone who cares what you think!

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 /sigh

Doubtful Story

Explain more... fascinating yet true life story...pls continue whenever possible...PLUS, hope all is GOOD on UR side of the World🤕🤟🤟

And heart wrenching 😢 but I second the request.

I don't know if or if it is still being broadcast, but Netflix had a Medal of Honor series. Might want to check that out if still on the network.

Thank you for sharing

Wow... a truly small world isnt it

Well, Michiganders couldn’t very well purchase something in a class named after a city in Ohio, could you? Lol.

@@jamespike5161It's the principal of the matter, Indiana stole the ship Flint paid for. It's also not the first time something that belongs to Michigan is inside Ohioan state borders. ***looks at Toledo***

I'm a sub class of flint called Battle Creek😁

@@MiishaKorvian We got the UP for Toledo. We got the better end of the deal. For those interested, there's actually is a 3rd peninsula to Michigan. It's located in Lake Erie just Northeast of Toledo.

@@timothydonlan9112 we might have gotten a concession, but it's still Michigan's rightful clay :P

They are very high gallantry medals.

They did late in the war. The stories were not as heroic as medal of honor stories.

I read a book a long time ago that touched quite a bit on him, if I remember correctly he was an ambassador to America before the war, or he went to a military academy maybe, I’m not sure. I wanna say it was similar to Yamamoto in that regards, but I digress. All I know is he didn’t do the retarded shit the Japanese usually did, like wasting men by using human waves that maybe cause 8% casualty’s while taking 100% causality’s yourself. He mounted a serious defense, and he would have kept it up for a lot longer if his subordinates didn’t disregard direct orders. He would have made a fine military commander for America or for any other country where the military was more United and not two competing factions like the IJN and IJA.

@@agentmueller the most hilarious was alligator creek where 900 freshly deployed, fully supplied troops were ordered to banzai charge and only inflicted 40 wounded and like 3 dead. Only two got stabbed while all the rest were hit by grenades. They all got mowed down by mgs and blasted by the 3 field guns

@@jason200912idk if men that were lied to, and died as a result, in order for the insubordinate leadership to fail anyways is necessarily funny but ok.

​@@jason200912you are so right , 100's of dead? That's so funny! Let's all laugh at their suffering! That's not disgusting or anything

You say "I am friends", does that mean he's still alive? There are so few left, that would be amazing.

Dragon or Godzilla..

​@outofturn331 no Godzilla till they had atomic weapons.

and how is it "cocky"? They never thought it would be a "piece of cake". They threw everything they had at the island. Of course they knew they'd win because you can only hold out so long in a siege type battle. "cocky" though? Japan, at this point in the war was loosing badly. They were still using 1930's tech. There was no advancements militarily. It was a matter of time for them. Resources were dwindling, completely unable to continue a global war campaign.

@@MrSneaksful It's just a characteristic of the mythology about Iwo Jima; the US' global superpower status in geopolitics was only being defined at the time, it doesn't actually say much about the actual men and women involved in the campaign. It's metaphor.

What was the sand like ? 🏝️

You suck

Retarded comment from the worst bot on youtube

Or worse we hit him from behind

But of course they wouldn't. They would lie and say that he died heroically, because they don't have the guts to face parents with the truth. They don't even have the guts to WRITE the truth - let alone speak it in person. They hide behind propaganda...just like every other group of spineless cowards we call "politicians".

..and it happened multiple times for the Marines; Navy screwing them over strategically that is.

Well according to this video that guy was a liar

@@rc5924not necessarily just because the airfield was safe when that first plane landed doesn’t mean it was always, especially since Japanese infiltrators would break through american lines in small groups constantly. Even after the battle was “ officially over”, the US kept an infantry regiment on the island to clear out holdouts from caves, tunnels, and bunkers which still took 3 months after the end of the battle. Also it could’ve been that these airmen were not used to machine gun bullets at such a range and were more scared than a marine who would be more used to the distance.

@@rc5924 The video's depth and representation of the battle is extensive, however it's FAR from depicting every soldier's location and where they would have been. Let's not forget that fact, it's detailed but it's also a best guess to fill in the gaps of documented information which is scarce. Furthermore Planes are extremely easy to see and all you would need to fire on it from a great distance would be a slight hill, something they had plenty of.. I don't doubt for a second that guns would've been firing at the first plane, which according to the video did land during the battle...

Expected some of the top comments to mention this!

some battles in wwii had up to 10% of US casualties due to friendly fire. that happens when you combine mobile warfare with lots of artillery and lots of ground attack aircraft bombing.

@@user-gl5yk5ys5b Proof that the only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

@@user-gl5yk5ys5band then there is Kiska island where the USA suffered a load of casualties against zero Japanese soldiers due mostly to friendly fire but also to booby traps left behind by the Japanese.

Recorded history

"Also, the unit doing most of this work was the exact same as the one targeted in that final mission, coincidence?" First; Bulldozing is a common tactic against trenches and tunnels. There is nothing special about that; when people are dug in the easiest way of killing them is to bury them alive. It's not nice, but neither are flametanks, napalm, nuclesar bombs and stealth bombers. There is no civilized way if killing a person. Second: You need to be much much less gullible: "The story was they knew when all the entrances had been filled when they started hearing and feeling the 'thumps' of grenades underground" The japanese were dug in so deeply that even the mighty 19" shells from battleships could not reach them and still you believbe that the pathetic pop of a handgrenade would be detectable on the surface? And why would the japanese not simoply try to dig their way out? The US army didn't even find most of the entrances at all, that's how the japanese kept popping up. Be... less... gullible. Next you'll be telling me that the japanese surrendered when they saw a flametank coming. This is another myth. The japanese carried out suicide missions flygin their airplanes into a wall of flak, they did not care about your flametank at all, they welcomed a warrior's death.

@@vinny142 You should watch the video. The whole last segment is how most of the remaining force not only left their bunkers but conducted a night land navigation without being detected by nearby Marine units, and focused on this engineer camp. They bypassed thousands of marines to target this camp. You should really learn to read and listen critically.

​@@fortusvictus8297you sound like you drank the kool aid lmao

The more angry and confident a comment is, especially a correction, the more likely it is to be nonsense. Especially when you realize the angry poster above thinks sounds can't travel well through rock because shells couldn't penetrate it ... Yeah, I know. Just wait till he learns about tank kills without penetration. Like, just think of water ... shells can't go fast in it at all, but the sound of a hand grenade going off travels for miles. That's bc sound has little to nothing to do with penetration. He's not a historian, or an expert, you can see from his other comments. He just thought "shells can't get in, grenade can't get out" and in doing so spat on the honest testimony of dozens of heroes. There's lots of evidence to the contrary in the very video he's ignoring! He outright states in another comment his Anti-America Bias. He's a idealogue here to publically grind an axe. Just truly sad behavior. And I'm sure he was proud of that embarrassing shit.

​@@fortusvictus8297Well said. The crazies will be crazy, but I see you.

My Father was on both islands in the 4th Marine Division. He always told me that for him Saipan was the worst of the four landings that he made, including Iwo Jima. I guess it depends when and where you are in any given battle.

Do you know what regiment and company he was in? The only record for corpsman was the battalion they were assigned to and he was in the 1st battalion 2nd Marine Regiment. From the limited stories he told I'm pretty sure he was assigned to a rifle company but don't know which one.

We'll, there are four Companies in a USMC Battalion so 1st Battalion, 2nd Regt should be enough information to get you a fairly small list of names... from the US Government at least if you order his service record. It's not rocket science and since you're his son it shouldn't cost you much if anything at all to get them sent to you.@@mikewhite965

That was at the Philippines