Battle of Tarawa 1943 - The Start of the Island Hopping.

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The story of the first American amphibious landing in the central Pacific. For 76 hours, the men of the 2nd Marine Division fought hard against a determined enemy on Betio Island, the largest island of the Tarawa Atoll. This battle will become known in history as the battle of Tarawa.
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@jasonsmith-zh3cb 2 года назад

my grandfather joined the marines at age 16.. he lied to join as he lost 3 older brothers during d-day.. since he was native american.. there was no birth certificate .. he earned dress blues.. won boxing events.. got 3 purple hearts.. worked as a mechanic on the landers.. told me and no one else in my family he got his first purple heart on tarawa after the lander suffered a direct hit killing everone but him and two other mates.. the two other guys seen he was alive but knocked out due to the impact of the mortor shell that hit the lander dragged him to shore.. once upon shore they all decided to split up.. he never saw those men again and somehow survived the initial invasion..god speed to those men who saved my native american grand father.. without you i wouldn't be here.. also on my grandfathers death bed. i asked the marines to pay him a visit.. marines showed up in full dress.. a navy and army guys who were in the hospice with my grandfather complained no one gave them the respect that the marines gave my grandfather.. that was so awesome for my grandfather cuz he knew the marines take care of each other. no one left behind!!

@armyvet8279 2 года назад

PLENTY of Marines were left behind

@mikeyoung9810 2 года назад

D day happened much later than Tarawa, btw. If he was a mechanic on the amphibious tractors he would of been in the navy. The Marines didn't drive them nor did they work on them.

@timmayer8723 2 года назад

My uncle was there, he survived. As a kid I never saw him laugh or smile. When I was five or six years old he told me he didn't like me. He made my aunt play the marine core hymn every day on their piano.

@academyofshem 2 года назад

Wow. Your uncle sounds like a real jerk.

@josephinflorida 2 года назад

@@academyofshem Post traumatic stress disorder as we call it today

@academyofshem 2 года назад

@@josephinflorida Lots of people had PTSD who weren't jerks.

@777rogerf Год назад

@@academyofshem Brain damage from concussion, for example, can cause a behavioral disorders in a people who were formerly well behaved. Have pity on them and those who are harmed by them, especially children. Many veterans and their families deserved more for their sacrifices.

@academyofshem Год назад

@@777rogerf Quit making excuses for jerks. And I'm not into military worship. Military don't make any more sacrifices than anyone else does, so quit putting them on a pedestal. The uncle didn't have PSTD. He was a jerk.

@stephenrivera4382 2 года назад

My uncle, Tony Rivera, fought in that battle, along with many others in the Pacific. Thank God he was one of the lucky ones who survived that horrendous campaign!

@gohibniugoh1668 2 года назад

My dad fought that battle as well, from Guadalcanal to tinian.

@frangarflectar8944 2 года назад

Italiani?

@mar83161 2 года назад

Marine Combat Artist Harry Jackson suffered a head wound on Betio. He survived the war but had flashbacks and fits of rage for the remainder of his life. It certainly affected his later works at his studios in Cody WY and Italy. He was a family friend as he had migrated from Chicago at a young age to cowboy in NW Wyoming on the Pitchfork Ranch, where my granddad was Cow Foreman and where my Mother was born. He was quite a character having several wives including Tina Lear of Lear Jet fame. Semper Fi, Harry.

@paulloya5 2 года назад

Alexander Peña, 3rd Battalion,6th Marine regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian, He was KIA July 30th 1944 on the island of Tinian, the island was declared secured Aug 1st, He almost made it home, R.I.P uncle Alex, the greatest generation of all time,God bless America!!

@mudballs 2 года назад

Yo that is how you do a war doc! Smooth voice, no nonsense and expansive details. Bravo gents

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Thank you very much!!!

@natehayes82 2 года назад

My grandfather's brother landed on red1 or red2. He was a flame thrower and after seeing his co get cut in half by gunfire he dumped his tanks in a bunker and then got shot in the head. When he woke up all his gear was taken because he was presumed dead and had to crawl back to the beach with the help of another marine.

@brianzimmerman4014 2 года назад

My father landed on Red 2 in the third wave. He said his Gator (tracked vehicle) was put out of action at the edge of the reef by Japanese machine gun fire. He had to wade to shore, many times pushing dead Marines in front of him to stop machine gun bullets. He said the machine gun fire was coming from everywhere, the pier, the beach, and the point. He served on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Siapan, and Tinian and it was obvious that Tarawa affected him the most.

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Almost 50 per cent of the casualties during the battle were sustained by the men wading ashore from the surrounding reef.

@nickyoung1726 2 года назад

That was mostly on the first day! I can’t even imagine

@jimgomez5396 2 года назад

My dad was on those islands also, he was one of many who had to wade ashore on Tarawa, received his first purple heart there,

@josephaulisio9281 2 года назад

Wow man! Your dad saw the worst that the 2ndMarDiv faced. Unreal.

@paulloya5 2 года назад

Brian, my uncle Alexander Peña fought in those same battles along side your father, he was KIA July 30th 1944 on Tinian, those marines were heroes all of them heroes,Greatest generation of all time!!

@marklettow6610 2 года назад

This video is the best explanation of the Tarawa battle and how it progressed that I have seen. I especially appreciate the accurate and easy to understand information about which units attacked from which direction and when. Well done!

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Thank you!

@eds1057 2 месяца назад

I agree very surprised by the quality. Props to channel.

@jimgomez5396 2 года назад

My dad was there, it was hell on earth.

@nickyoung1726 2 года назад

Yes it was. My father in law and your dad would have a lot to talk about!!

@Szykerseh 2 года назад

It's mindblowing that remains of marines are still being found to this day on that island, I can't even begin to fathom how savage the fighting in this tiny piece of land was, so many thousands of death and wounded during only three days of fighting, damn...

@paulloya5 2 года назад

Brother, I had the Honor of attending the funeral service for Glenn White of Emporia Ks last September 2021, he was one of the ones who's remains were brought home after all those yrs, check his story out online, he was awarded the Silver Star for his bravery, my uncle was also there, later being KIA on Tinian.

@rollotomassi6374 11 месяцев назад

My good friends son in law is one of the men tasked with finding MIAs from WW2 and Vietnam…..it’s September 2023 and he’s over there now, he’s found 37 in the past three years….

@leesherman100 2 года назад

Some 25 + cemetery's were established on Betio creating a confusing collection of Marine/Navy dead that is still being sorted out to this day.

@firstcitytraveler 2 года назад

My Dad was on Tarawa. He just said he was landed on the beach on the 3rd or 4th days and was only a 40 mm Bofors repairman. But I know he saw all the devastation. And we all know that all Marines are rifleman first. Thats all he ever said or wanted to say about Tarawa.

@chiron14pl 2 года назад

My Dad also, though he had less to say on details

@generalbooger9146 2 года назад

@@chiron14pl My Dad beat the sh$t out of me!

@aussiefan354 Год назад

Respect to your father mate. A braver man than me that's for sure

@kilcar 2 года назад

I knew a Marine, a customer,who was in the first wave, he would not ever talk about it, the mention of it brought restlessness and a distressed painful look in his eyes

@nickyoung1726 2 года назад

My father in law was there. Landed on second wave on first day. Was wounded in the hand on the second day

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

There is the book titled "Tarawa - One Square Mile of Hell". I'm sure it was Hell for three days. Your father in law was in Hell for one day.

@nickyoung1726 2 года назад

@@FromtheBattlefields yes he was. Luckily he didn’t loose the use of his hand but lost his knuckle

@nickyoung1726 2 года назад

He died 4 years ago he was 95 and a marine to the end!

@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- 2 года назад

Tarawas interesting because it's one of the only battles where the Japanese garrison was actually well supplied.

@stevedietrich8936 2 года назад

You did a nice job with these Gilbert and Marshall Island videos. It was easy to follow and the included footage was very interesting. Well done.

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Thank you very much! More to come.

@ppumpkin3282 11 месяцев назад

Great report. Thanks for not adding music.

@FromtheBattlefields 11 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it!

@alexanderk7776 2 года назад

welcome to the official „my father was there“ comment section video on youtube

@ag358 4 месяца назад

Dad, a marine 2nd div was there on tarawa then tinian, Saipan and Okinawa. The group of island is called Gilbert islands that's also my father's first name. He survived The war came home and raised 8 kids brought with him a sword and Japanese rifle probably from a bonzai attack. He named his first three sons after a fallen marine on Okinawa. Rarely did he speak of it.

@colleenmonfross4283 10 месяцев назад

Well done! This is the first of many I have seen but the only one with diagrams and an overview of the objective, which helped greatly in my understanding. Thank you!

@FromtheBattlefields 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!!!

@charlesfiscus4235 4 месяца назад

Those Marines who fought with Maj. Ryan were to be forever know as Ryan's orphans

@eds1057 2 месяца назад

Good channel. Love the detail of the battle, from the surrounding context, the use of maps from the campaign to the battle, markers on the map of troop movements and points of interest, the overarching strategy of the American side. Don't know what else, but it made me look past the voice. Subscribed!

@FromtheBattlefields 2 месяца назад

Thanks!!!

@svaphrodite Год назад

"Artillery is well known to produce more noise than damage." Great line!

@FromtheBattlefields Год назад

Thanks!

@svaphrodite Год назад

I just finished listening to "Utmost Savagery", this video really helped my understanding of the battle.

@mgunny05 2 года назад

Well done and excellent graphics. 👏👏🍺🍺🍺!

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Thank you!

@jusztinnemeti6380 2 года назад

Excellent work.

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Thank you so much 😀

@brucefranklin1317 2 года назад

I tell you i love chester nimitz these ww2 guys were tough paper makes me proud.

@JamesSavik 2 года назад

If you want to know more, I suggest a book called "Utmost Savagery: the Three Days of Tarawa" by Colonel Joseph H. Alexander, USMC. It has been made into an audiobook available on Audible.

@paulloya5 2 года назад

Also, One Square mile of hell by John Wukovits,i highly recommend it, goes into great detail leading up to the battle,following different marines who fought in the battle, my uncle was there, check it out.

@truthkmgmailcom Год назад

@rollotomassi6374 11 месяцев назад

My dad was a first day lander, 2nd Marines Red Beach 2……wounded on day three……very dangerous day, god bless the USMC.

@sabrecatsmiladon7380 2 года назад

Magnificent video!!

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Thank you very much!

@FoolishPrankster Год назад

My Dad, 2nn Marine Divison Battle of Tarawa 1943

@covertops19Z 8 месяцев назад

Today is the 80th Anniversary of this monumental fight. I highly recommend, UTMOST SAVAGERY, The Three Days of Tarawa, by Colonel Joseph H. Alexander USMC (Ret.). It's a fabulous read.

@mikeyoung9810 2 года назад

There were almost 5,000 on the island many were not Japanese soldiers but conscripted laborers. There are several informative books written about this battle including information on the other Medal of Honor recipients of which there were 4. The "pocket" was a set of 3 bunkers at the border of red 1 and red 2 that remained until nearly the end of the battle. I'm just curious if you created this video or it's one from the past you uploaded.

@kaletovhangar 2 года назад

No wonder this chapter of Medal of Honor Pacific assault (PC game) was so brutal and hard to complete. Game throws you into shoes of private Tommy Conlin landing with his trusty squad on Red 2,first clearing pier and not mentioned beached cargo ship near it,then over the airfield towards the bunkers and gun installations.

@jrnymn14 Год назад

Thank God for All the Heros

@alanstevens1296 Год назад

Really weird to see Betio today totally developed into housing and residential areas.

@professorwoland3181 Год назад

Is this the voice of Mark Felton? Only there’s something with the recording equipment.

@thatguyinelnorte 2 года назад

Good info; but robovoice is distracting.

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

I'm trying to manipulate the voice as best I can. However, he is speaking better than I. My English is broken, and I sound like a Russian mobster from the cheap action movies.

@davidforbes7772 2 года назад

@@FromtheBattlefields You do a great job. Thanks.

@josephaulisio9281 2 года назад

Hey that can be a great voice too!!

@ppumpkin3282 11 месяцев назад

Doesn't sound like a robovoice to me. Sounds great.

@TheDustysix Месяц назад

Betio Island is smaller than Central Park Manhatten. Death in a small place.

@freedomfirst5557 2 года назад

I still don't know why isolated Islands like this were not sorrounded and left over to be bombed or until they starved to death, the only reason I see is that the generals and or the president wanted the war to end soon. So lives were expendable in exchange for a faster end to the war.

@mikeyoung9810 2 года назад

The narrator explained why they had to take Tarawa. You couldn't leave a base with a runway on the flank when started this island hopping campaign. They did leave many occupied islands alone later on which was done to save lives. It wasn't about ending the war faster but winning the war which was heavily in doubt at the time.

@gabrielmayorga1920 2 года назад

@@mikeyoung9810 they could have cut off the island by blocking any ships and bombarding it. And Eventually win. But they wanted to experiment in the island hopping process. That being said, the battke was poorly planned. The Air Raids were delayed then ended much to oon.

@sabrecatsmiladon7380 2 года назад

The Ewoks and Chewie arrived at precisely the perfect moment to turn the tide of battle against Lord Voldemort and his Flying Circus comedy troup! When you can laugh at bad memories, you are free =)

@georgej.dorner3262 2 года назад

Why a Limey narrator for a USMC BATTLE?

@daviddoran3673 2 года назад

Britain did win the war...

@williampoppell5189 Год назад

I'd prefer to listen to him than you.

@777rogerf Год назад

It is their language, and we could learn a thing or two from a real voice. Robots are questionable (but they won't answer).

@neiljasonvillanueva1864 2 года назад

Is this the island were a famous clip of an officer yelling " get up there and move that way"?

@paulloya5 2 года назад

I've saw that and believe that was Saipan, that was also the 2nd marine division, many 2nd division marines who survived Tarawa were KIA landing on Saipan, that was also a bloodbath,my uncle Alexander Peña fought there and was later KIA on Tinian.

@oldguy8177able 5 месяцев назад

general macarthur ?

@paulshaw5119 2 года назад

Tarawawa??????

@mikefromflorida8357 2 года назад

Actually a pretty good video by all accounts. I don’t why we must listen to a Brit tell us this, but all-in-all an above-average effort despite having to listen to the standard British mispronunciation of sooo many words and imposing metric measures and distances on us. We could really do without all of that. Thank you.

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Thank you!

@williampoppell5189 Год назад

America's problem. The rest of the world has gone metric but you whiners are still stuck in the past with your Imperial measurement. Why?

@jonmassey8124 2 года назад

Only 5 minutes in and US (intelligence) 😂 have already doomed the Marines to a unforgiving onslaught

@mikeyoung9810 2 года назад

They had only what was available at the time and as this was the first amphibious landing no one had experience with it. It wasn't a failing of intelligence but more not having access to the tide information they needed since what happened was a rare tidal condition that locals could not of foreseen.

@OEFvet0311 Год назад

Fuck yeah, 1/6 saves the day!!!!

@baileystack1486 2 года назад

Teh ruh wuh …tear ra wa. Not ta ra wa

@eoyguy 2 года назад

Tar-A-wa, not Tarawawawawa. Is this a computer voice???

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Is anything else wrong?

@SkylersRants 2 года назад

Definitely a computer, written by someone with a non-native command of English. Note it refers to “the Betio island, Technology is pretty good, but it’s still a machine.

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

@@SkylersRants Good job detective. Like I'm hiding these facts.

@SkylersRants 2 года назад

@@FromtheBattlefields I answered the question. Go suck an egg, computer.

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

@@SkylersRants I'm sorry if I sounded harsh. It was not my intention.

@extrasolar213 2 года назад

@adamwright9741 2 года назад

Damn, please don't say "Tarah!!-wa" anymore, ok!!?

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

I'm not saying anything 😀

@AquaTeenHungerForce_4_Life Год назад

Tear-Ah-Wa or Tar-Ah-Wa he is putting to many r’s in it. Just listed to an audiobook and the narrator got it wrong every time.

@FromtheBattlefields Год назад

The narrator is, after all, a robot, and it is excellent if it can be understood.

@AquaTeenHungerForce_4_Life Год назад

@@FromtheBattlefields I did not know that. 🤯 That probably means that that book was read by a robot as well. Either way it’s a fantastic series and I apologize if it was taken as a jab.

@FromtheBattlefields Год назад

No need for apologies. I just wanted to clarify. 😀

@13stalag13 2 года назад

Good video, hate the robo voice.

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Well, this is the best I can do at this moment.

@robertsmith2227 2 года назад

The speech is perfect, anyone can understand every word. I don't understand the negativity over a perfectly spoken perfectly understandable voice. Is it because the video has no flaws so they have to complain about something? I think that's exactly what it is. The time you spend responding to spoiled brats could be used to make another 5 star video, like maybe a Papua new guinea series?

@generalbooger9146 2 года назад

Kinda Butchering every single name in this................ That alone is where I lost interest in this. I was pretty psyched that I found this channel. I couldn't take this seriously with the Johnny Five Narrator.

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

Is it really so hard to listen to this? I'm not a native English speaker so I cannot judge it.

@robertsmith2227 2 года назад

There is nothing negative about your site. Do not change 1 thing, including the voice. The way your going you will be #1 on you tube.

@FromtheBattlefields 2 года назад

@@robertsmith2227 Thank you very much. Do not worry if you will be the only person to watch my videos; I will continue to produce them with delight just for you alone.

@williampoppell5189 Год назад

Well don't watch them General Bugger.

@generalbooger9146 Год назад

@@williampoppell5189 I don't. These Video's suck.