CRUSADE IN THE PACIFIC TV SHOW Episode 14 "THE ROAD BACK" 73032 

Bless our Vets! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

My father Arrived in the New Guinea theater in 1944 with the 13th Army Air Force. As most of the military men of they day he rarely spoke of it. He battled jungle rot for over thirty years afterwards. He described it as Hell on Earth......

I remember reading a U.S. Army report back in the 1960's which explained the details of a study which was undertaken to discover just how and why American Indians were so adept in their awareness of enemy troops presence; often even when they were asleep! One point which was really interesting was that the Army noticed an almost complete elimination of this ability when the American Indian's hair was shorn. Of course I can't recall the precise percentages, however, they were near the minus-80%~ decrease range in their awareness capabilities. The Army concluded that the hair itself was an extension of their nervous system and worked as a kind of early warning system. So, the U.S. Army allowed them to keep their long hair and just had them tuck it under their helmets.

i liked the Australian coastal watch. damn good video

God bless America's greatest generation. Soon they will all be gone.

This series depicts General McArthur's leg of the "Road Back" through two years to recover New Guinea in full. A necessary step prior to recovery of the Philippines. See otherwise, Admiral Nimitz' leg of the Pacific War -- A "road back" made possible only after the USA provided him with sufficient Naval support to deliver a Marine intensive response, air field island to occupied island, closing in on Japan's successive defensive perimeters, across the wide Pacific.

I remember when the last civil war, Spanish american war and WW1 vet died.. In a few years i will see the last WW2 vet..

At 3:51, that looks suspiciously like a RAAF Spitfire. Any ideas?

neat

Forgot Code talkers

Japan is the 51 stated of United stated of America and Gorkhaas died for Americans

I know this film was made in the 1950s when we were not as politically correct as we are today, but I do feel that they could have got the distinction correct on the identity of the Indians, “Indians” come from the very large country of India 🇮🇳, the soldiers referred to as “Indian scouts” are Native Americans, who actually have more right to be called American than anyone else who have ancestors from anywhere else in the world. I don’t think that the narration would be allowed to get away with it today, and to correct it now would actually spoil the historical value of this series. General Clark was a correct in telling his men about the need for restraint from firing their weapons at night, and I am sure the men could never be reminded enough, but the way he said he didn’t expect any of his men to fire at night (unless they had no option) was almost like addressing a bunch of children, and telling the men that they were going to embark on a great adventure was pathetic, I guarantee that the vast majority of the men there was thinking of completely different ways of describing the landings, most likely about their lives being taken away, and not ever seeing home, family and loved ones ever again. Why do the Top Brass try to give their troops pep talks just before a battle, when all they want is to just get on with the attack, not because they were in a rush to die, but just so the tension would be broken and the fear replaced with concentrating on staying alive and keeping their comrades alive as well, I expect it gives the top brass a feeling of being part of the fight, and not sitting around drinking coffee and delegating responsibilities so if the plan goes FUBAR they can blame some snot rag JG Lt straight out of boot camp, and yes I have been on the receiving end of this kind of “motivating “ speech and it was a load of bollocks. Just out of curiosity, is that the same General Clark who failed to capitalise on the beach landings at Anzio and got surrounded by the German counterattack that cost a lot of allied lives? If I am correct then I feel sorry for those men, knowing his track record was not that great.

Lol. This is lame. Notice how 75% of the combat closeups, how neat and clean the uniforms are? And camo too! Yet, in the next shot it shows how the soldiers/marines really looked. Unshaven, hot, tired and going about the nasty business of killing Japanese soldiers.