Japan Attacks Everywhere Simultaneously - Pacific War #3 DOCUMENTARY 

I noticed the year was wrong @ 9:43. It says 1940, but I think you guys meant 1941

So basically, without China's resistance against Japan, the success of Soviet at Manchuria, and oil embargo of the U.S., Japan would have joined Germany in invading Soviet, securing the oil and energy for its fleets. Indeed, Axis had many chances to win the world war II, but they either made wrong choice or had poor luck.

Your time stamp is one year behind.

wars = bankers wars

Good episode. You have the year saying 1940 not 1941 on the top @ 9:00 on

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im a filipino and thanks to your grandfather. mabuhay!

Hey my grandfather fought with the guerrillas in Luzon too! We have a solid silver opium pipe that he took off a Imperial Japanese officer in a camp raid. Small world

You should polish that sword and remove the rust. They are often centuries old with a lot of history behind them.

Same, my lolo was also a guerilla during the occupation, he was in da Visayas tho, in Leyte. Pretty much grew up wid stories during dat time.

He doesn't recognized but some in the US military did and they give the Filipino-American guerrillas with food, weapons, and intelligence datas to sabotage Japanese positions thru the silent service (submarines) before the Philippines Campaign (1944-45)

@@paulsteaven its true i heard stories from our lolo's thats our place in silago so. Leyte is the dropping zone of supplies of weapons coming from american submarine to Guerellas of leyte.

MacArthur also opposed Jonathan Wainwright’s Medal of Honor proposal at first (he did not oppose it the second time though). MacArthur was kind of an A-hole.

Frankly replacing him in Korea with Matthew Ridgway was absolutely the right move.

He was also responsible for the destruction of Manila itself with his egotistic approach on invading back the Philippines. What an asshole.

Even as a scout, He is nonetheless Worthy of honour!

Your grandfather is a hero! RIP

We’re grateful for his service. He probably saved dozens of hundreds of lives

Thank you for your kind words@@jtgd!

@@saruman9226 ooon

Doesn't matter, since he looked smashing with his pipe and sunglasses 😎

​@@Mikebumpful rule of cool always wins

😂😂 excellent sense of humor

They make pretty good war videos, but they cant compare to the sheer quality of my content

You forgot, hmph! at the end.

Damn, a historical tsundere.

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When the Japanese began their bombing raid on Clark Airbase in Zambales, and Vigan city, the ships at Pearl Harbor were still on fire.

It's almost unreal they could coordinate all these attacks across half the world. While the war with China was going on. 😳

Correct- meaning McArthur had quite awhile to prepare defense but did almost nothing to “beat them on the beaches” that day

Bless your Great Grandfather for his service and sacrifice.

@@richardv9648 a true hero

Your great-grandfather is one of the many heroes who saved the world from the Axis. I salute him.

@@richardv9648 Chad

Your GG did more for the war effort than MacArthur did period. MacArthur was a liability.

I think he is afraid of a preemtive strike. He wants to keep his air force in tact as long as possible but ended up in disaster. He thinks his airforce will be destroyed if it attacked Taiwan.

Skill and MacArthur is not a naturall combination. Maybe boosting in front off journalists was a skill he excelled at though.

@@PMMagro I think you spelled boasting wrong

@@onesource-ph2372 The US prioritized the Pacific War actually. American pre-war plans had Europe as the priority but after Pearl Harbor, American commands were eager to avenge what happened in Pearl(Operation Watchtower occurred before Operation Torch). But without the warships and merchant vessels needed to sustain a military campaign across the largest ocean on Earth, the US had to focus on limited attacks on the Pacific.

Wake was a small island that a single soldier can walk through in a single day. The Philippines, primarily Luzon, was massive. With terrible roads, jungles and mountains. Its impossible to defend the whole coastlines unless you put a single soldier for every kilometer of coast, which violates the military strategy of concentration of force. Its difficult to defend and reinforce every single area.

That's of course only if you don't count the 2nd Sino-Japanese War as part of WWII. But then it's not really fair to compare a country like China to a small group of islands like the Philippines.

| The most amazing attribute of the American Defenders was that the majority of the units were National Guard.

@@kaltaron1284 agreed. Battle of Shanghai lasted 3 months, 1 week, and 6 days in one static locale. Wuhan campaign lasted 4 - 1/2 months all along the Yangtze. But he isn’t necessarily wrong if he meant the start of WWII which for most of the world is 1941

@@rayray6490 I think most of the world considers 1939 the start of WWII. The USA might consider 1941 and East Asia 1936. It really depends on the definition of "World War" and whether you count wars that directly lead into it or not.

Resistance never stop after MacArthur left.(just he’s reluctant to admit it) USAFIP was one of those larger contingent that continued the war in the jungle.

I don't geti it, invasion from who?

@@gkmginger56 Japan, who else

@@alphagamer9505 so let me get this straight so is he saying how Ironic that we thank the son of a man who invaded and tyrannised the Philippines or did I understand it wrong

@@gkmginger56 I think that's it

@@alphagamer9505 appreciate the help

Really? Current historians are not fans

The positive narrative built about MacArthur during the Pacific War has lasted a very long time, but most historians today at the very least will criticism him heavily for his major mistakes during the Pacific War and the large amount of misinformation/lies his personal press entourage did.

My parents loved MacArthur. Especially because of Inchon.

He had a very effective PR machine. A lot of the details of his failures only dribbled out later and so once his popularity was built that image stuck for a long time. But yeah, he was over rated before... Brutally inept start to the war on his part.

@@KingsandGenerals Well he is still loved in the Philippines.

Surface vessel then. ;) I think from the perspective of the video, the view at the time was that the IJN DD was the first, because it wasn't until some 60 years later that the remains of the midget sub were discovered, and the claims of the Ward were realized.

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Oh yes

They are green in the sense that they don't produce much carbondioxide. They are certainly not green if you consider the waste produced and the risks involved.

Nuclear energy is controversial because it is green 99.9% of the time, but that 0.01% that happens when there is an accident is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

@@augustosolari7721 Recent developments reduce the probablity of such events greatly (btw i don't think it's even 0.01%)

@@kaltaron1284 They don't produce any CO2 (during it's working time). And in regards of waste, yes, that's its major problem and something that needs to be solved. As of now we can only store it, but it's not that much considering the energy they can produce. The risks can be minimized, and newly built plants don't really have much risks at all. In the future we may rely only in renewables but as of now nuclear energy is the most convenient energy source. Waaay better than coal and gas.

@@NeOnfuII I agree, but this depends on the right funding and correct procedures, something that not all of the so-called developing economies can provide.

Not just the helmet but also their uniform. I think what was used as a representation was a late airborne army ubiform of the us army. Much appreciated it if they have used even a ww1 doughboy infantry as a representation given that the USAFFE equipments was from world war 1.

(Me who's secretly Filipino but also who loves Anime and Japan): Of course, we have a statue of him walking located at Leyte, he was our savior from the Japanese Menace...We won't forget about the "Bataan Death March"...

At this point in McArthur's life he was already more of a politician and less of a military man (being friends and doing favors with people in high places in the Philippine Commonwealth). Though he still has his good moments if not being distracted.

@@Rayan2Musikahan Mac Arthur even considered a nuclear war with the North Koreans, the Chinese, and the Soviets. Despite, President Truman's reluctance to because of the USSR obtaining its own nukes as well.

Beloved to a degree? He's basically an American 'national hero' here in the Philippines. Many places and roads are named after him. His return in 1944 made the Filipinos believe that he kept his word on his "I shall return" promise, that he uttered back in 1942.

@@Rayan2Musikahan Basically if the country would have proclaimed a foreigner to be a national hero, MacArthur would definitely be that person plus the fact that many things are named after here in the Philippines

Axis Powers was doomed from the Start, they have irreplaceable war machines and didn't expect to have a war of attrition.

@@gregorjerman973 They have shit logistic and Japan actually have 2 branches working again each other, often undermining their military objective. Axis power are also less coordinate overall compare to the Allies. Soviet and US/UK, despite some dispute and differences, still do their best and even coordinate on offensive time etc. U don't really see those happening for the Axis. Germany micromanage most of the smaller powers and giving them nothing to the the jobs. Not to mentions their resources shortage.

That totally summarizes the Axis' initial successes. And that's why China waited until it becomes as powerful as the Anglo-Saxons economically.

@@789know regardless those blunders the axis could have had the different approach towards the front they are facing. Pearl Harbor oil depot could have been the turning point and could have affected the pacific front if destroyed. Khalkin Gol would have been secured if army and navy joint forces together. The Nazi could make britain kneel if it used their subs to stop all flow of supply and left the RAF alone to starve for fuel. Stalin was in hiding and they targeted the Ural using the reserved Luftwaffe. Russian front would be over if leadership was gone and no factory to produce those t34. If the Axis played their cards well things would be different today.

@@789know you spelled against wrong

Try Montemayor

Have a go at the japanese movie 'The Human Condition,'. Be warned, it is not a cheerful movie.

More of the case that once the war started they stopped exporting essential supplies like oil to Japan, which meant that by ,say, 1944/45, Japan would no longer have fuel left, against any of its enemies. So, while they still had their tanks/planes running adequately, they declared on the US to have an extremely low chance, rather than get declared upon at a later date when they'd inevitably get routed

The Japanese military of the day is highly underrated. They captured more territory than the Germans, will more people in it, and held it more successfully and for longer. They revolutionized communications and the logistics of the attacks that happened just in this episode, are seriously impressive. I believe that Eurocentricism (the people who were in a position to write books about WW2 after the war were Europeans), Soviet Propaganda (they actively peddled that the Russians were the protagonists of the war, and at the heart of the fighting), and Japans shameful willingness to cover up and twist history contributed to this issue.

For the manpower, although Japan being a relatively small country. They actually have 73 million people (only counting Japanese and not counting the colonies), which is actually more than the 68 million German in 1938 (not counting Austria and Sudetenland region). Think about the number of army that Nazi Germany can gather, you can understand why Japan had enough manpower to do so. For declaring the pacific war. Accurately, for them they had limited choice if they want to continue the invasion in China. US and the allies were threating an oil embargo if Japan do not stop their invasion in China. Japan is a country lack of oil, oil embargo will eventually make Japan lost the war within 2-3 years. The purpose of Japan's pacific war was to get all the oil supply and resource from the south east Asia region. What Japan want is to kick US out of West Pacific, making use of the resources(especially oil) gather from the south east Asia islands to made them successfully occupy China. They make a gamble by declaring war to US and allies, it is a bold decision but not a crazy decision at all.

@spartan party Prolly also committed just as many war crimes against the Chinese and Koreans tbh

Essentially? Yes. The Japanese military leaders, much like the German Nazi politicians, were convinced of the "racial inferiority" of their foes, especially the Americans. They simply didn't believe that the Americans had the stomach for total war. The British, while much more prestigious militarily, were busy fighting the Germans and Italians in Europe (particularly North Africa), so simply didn't have the resources to contend with the Japanese. That's why such a spectacularly incompetent general like Arthur Percival was in command at Singapore, and why many of the troops and equipment in the Far East were somewhat old. All of that meant that the Americans, whom the Japanese had little regard for, would have to carry the brunt of the fighting in the Pacific. The expectation (and hope) was that the catastrophe at Pearl Harbour and subsequent defeats would force the Americans and British to sue for peace, securing Japanese hegemony in the Pacific. The Japanese dramatically underestimated the American fighting spirit.

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Yeah Nuclear power is the best. Hydro is decent but could cause wars over rivers, and wind and solar are really inefficient and solar wastes a lot of water keeping them clean.

@@Riftrender Hydro is troublesome from biodiversity perspective (most notably fish). This is why they're undoing dams as well. In general over time I'd rather see local small production over massive centralized grid based production. So small nuclear plants, geothermal, wind, solar... whatever works without pollution or consuming the environment from the other beings that we depend upon. Having diverse means of production is better than relying heavily on one or two. I'd like to have a house someday that secures electricity in three or four different means, needs depending on weather conditions and time of year.

I mean, coal plant blows up, its pretty alright in the grand scheme of things....not so much with nuclear plants 🤣🤣

I was only listening, so thanks for picking that up. I can't stand other environmentalists shunning nuclear while we are at dangerous levels or co2 emissions.

wow what a waste of life

@@christhomson8924 yea why couldn’t it be you lol

Pronunciation was so-so, but always appreciate the effort

he just got Tuguegarao wrong, but other parts of the video, the narrator said the wrong word that didn't match the captions. there was a point where he called some ships "conquerors" instead of "cruisers" in the captions

@@xXxSkyViperxXx He pronounced Aparri like "A pair e" when it's more "A par e". Trust me, there's a difference. Again, appreciate the effort and it's no big deal. It's very hard to nail the pronunciation, especially languages that are unfamiliar to a person. I just noted it because of the original comment.

@@MrHotBagel yes of course, im also from the philippines to know that difference. i just chalked up his pronunciation for Aparri as some british or american or canadian accent for him, but the Tuguegarao one was clearly misread since he don't understand the spanish orthography that influenced that spelling here in ph. ive just been watching this channel long enough to stomach the many pronunciation mistakes devin makes all the time in the names and placenames of countries hes not familiar with the local languages of. for example, every time this channel makes a video that has to do with china and pronouncing chinese names and placenames, devin always gets it most, if not all, wrong, especially cuz he does not understand how Mandarin Pinyin spelling works and the letters that mandarin pinyin decided to use to for their own logic. Devin understands enough some spanish orthography and orthographies of other european languages tho as his strong suit, like he knows how to pronounce spanish letter J and Ñ, but in other languages outside of europe, he sucks.

I have to disagree, pronounciation of about half of the Filipino place names were absolutely shocking. The rest were okay.

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Ye, all because of some Japanese insubordination. Would've been beautiful to visit today if that didn't happen.

@@ElkaPME The great loss of cultural and architectural heritage in Manila is such a tragedy.

@@ElkaPME Ah right Iirc it's blamed on Yamashita but the guy didn't order it but his subordinate destroyed it nevertheless

Have you even read accounts of how the Philippines was liberated, especially Manila? The Philippine campaign was just to save the bloated ego of MacArthur. It was an unneccesary battle costing hundreds of thousands of civilian lives. The Americans were unprepared for urban combat, causing needless destruction. They could have just by-passed the Philippines and made the Japanese garrison wither and die. Yamashita was still fighting even after the Japanese formally surrendered. The destruction of Manila, the country's economic hub, was one of the reasons the Philippines' slow post-war recovery.

@@marvinm8343 tell me how the hell were the Americans were unprepared of the urban fighting when they have more advance military equipment and men and they already have the some experience when fighting in ww1 what actually the Americans is unprepared for the resistance of the japanese. The reasons why manila was utterly destroyed was because of of their fierce resistance of the japanese and when they were losing they put their frustration towards the civilians and implementing so much destruction before retreating. So tell me would it make much difference if macarthur didn't return in manila? Even if macarthur didn't fight in manila Americans would still face the fierce resistance of Japanese remember what they japanese did to nanking. The japanese is not going to just give up without fighting.

@@bigduck6733 The Japanaese had the Sho-plan aka Luzon Jikyou Sakusen Keikaku (Luzon Attrition Plan) to defend the Philippines. Had the Americans by-passed the Philippines entirely, there would be no battle to speak of. No invasion of the Philippines and the planned victory march of MacArthur in Manila. Yamashita planned to attrite the Americans at every possible opportunity. He was well dug in the Sierra Madre mountains and planned to hold Corregidor to the last. Manila harbor was already rendered useless by the Japanese of its strategic value by smashing its vital infrastructure. MacArthur expected the Japanese to abandon Manila in the same manner as he did in 1942 but Iwabuchi didn't give him that pleasure so in that respect MacArthur was not expecting urban combat to retake Manila. Yamashita was so skillful in his defense that the Americans weren't in full control of the Philippines at the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945. That fact alone made the Philippine campaign questionable. Numerous Japanese garrisons were already neutered when by-passed and isolated. Truk, Rabaul, Formosa, parts of Borneo, Penang, and even Singapore. These were holding substantial Japanese garrisons at the time of surrender and were spared of destruction. My point is, if the Americans by-passed the Philippines, more than 300,000 Japanese troops would be stuck doing nothing. The Americans would just have to bomb the airfields located in the Philippines ala Operation Hailstone, and the Japanese would be struck with land troops with no one to fight. They would have even evacuated the Philippines to protect their homeland as the latter was the goal of the Americans. Before you counter with the argument that the IJN was destroyed in Philippine waters. My counter to that the IJN would have been destroyed any other way in some campaign like Okinawa or Iwo Jima.

@@bigduck6733 You speak of the Philippines being a strategic area. There is nothing strategic about the Philippines other than it being an American colony. It's chief export to Japan during its occupation was rice. It was not as strategic as say, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) which has oil which the Japanese sorely needed. Even if you make airfields on Batanes, these would be less than ideal than say, Iwo Jima or Okinawa , in terms of distance to Honshu or Hokkaido.. Please read on the Island-hopping campaign of the Pacific. The American strategic goal was always the invasion of the Japanese home island. This was even before the atomic bomb was made operational. They could afford to leave rear areas teeming with isolated Japanese because of overwhelming air supremacy. Once a Japanese forward base is effectively neutralized by massive air strikes, the Americans can afford to have that said base, regardless of the Japanese personnel present there, isolated because the Japanese can't supply the base. This strategy allows the U.S to conserve forces for the invasion of Japan. If you look at the Philippine campaign, it took the entire American Sixth Army to control the Philippine archipelago. And, they didn't even finish mopping up till after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. You also talk of the risk of Japan destroying the Philippines. But, the scenario is highly unlikely. If MacArthur did not invade. again, the Japanese troops will be stuck fighting no one, other than minor guerilla attacks. They probably won't implement the Three A strategy (Burn All, Loot All, Kill All) as that would also mean their own destruction as they will have no supplies coming from their homeland. Just look at the other places in southeast asia. Did the Japanese burn the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies? No. Did the Japanese raze Singapore to the ground before surrendering? No. It would be the same here in the Philippines with Yamashita. Yamashita, despite his reputation, was one of the more rational Japanese commanders. (It was Iwabuchi who was responsible for the bloodbath in Manila). The Japanese POWs would be used to rebuild infrastructture. Some may even choose assimilation to the Philippine Commonwealth once the latter gained independence. Their intact weapons could be used to re-arm whatever local Philippine military force once the Japanese occupation ends. Those weapons could have been useful in the fight against the rise of communist rebels which started in the 50s.

@@marvinm8343 Taking this stronghold In the Philippines was necessary because troops there could block the entrance of Manila Bay. The Americans needed to establish a major harbor base at Manila Bay to support the expected invasion of Japan, planned to begin on December. So Capturing and secure the Philippine Islands was crucial to japans effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast Asia flank. The Philippine Islands, some 7,000 in number, form a natural barrier between Japan and the rich resources of east and southeast Asia. Philippines is important is to act like a bridge to supply all the ongoing invasion to liberate all the South East asia from the japanese hand. leaving Philippines to the japanese will make the allies struggle for thier campaigns to liberate all the nations under japanese. Like i said McArthur promise to return and liberate our country Philippines is a strategic area whatever shenanigans you think about for some reason. Isn't the point of the American advance to the Pacific is to liberate the countries not leave it alone with thousand of Enemy soldiers stranded on thier homeland and who knows they might kill and steal from the local population to survive you think that if the American did not intervene the japanese occupation on our land would make things better. So your saying after all the planing of Americans your's are better for some reason? How do you think it would play out if the allies leave the Philippine under japanese occupation? Do you actually think that they would not kill or destroy anything if the allies just left them alone? Or their intact weapons could have been used by the communist rebels? Since they already been fighting so if the were not destroyed they were probably going to the hands of the communist probably. Why would the Japanese destroy Singapore if the allies already stopped them same as the east indies. And also Since Singapore is much farther than tokyo why would they destroy it for no reason? Only the Dutch East Indies directly to the south remained in Western hands. Japanese didn't fully have taken control over all of the oil so destroy some of it wouldn't make a difference. The Filipinos already keep fighting the Japanese invasion and they even called 1 Filipino death equal to 100 of a Japanese soldiers they already have been killing and destroying cities raping locals thats why so many Filipino keep on fighting even tho the government already surrendered. So they thought killing and destroying everything would make the Filipinos lose thier morale. Even without the allies invading manila. they would have destroy everything still macarthur promise to return so he did he liberated the population to the harsh brutally of the Japanese.

Japan is like that one player who utilised his resources efficiently and can micromanage extremely well but lose because his opponent got more paper than him

@@aimanasyraf5657 Calling WW2 Japan efficient is just plain stupid. Japan did not account for the simple fact that the oil and rubber of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies would not magically appear in Japan if they conquer those islands. They would still have to be shipped to Japan to feed Japanese industries, and they do not have the shipping to do that, even if they seize local shipping. They also do not have an actual long term goal aside from the nebulous idea that once they have their empire, they could offer the US peace and the US would just accept because it would be such a hassle for them to retake all of those islands(yeah it sounds stupid, but this was the actual Japanese plan). Their training of their naval aviators is also an example of inefficiency. Individually, Japanese pilots are impressive, but modern war does not rely on an individual but a unit. An efficient military would have a detailed plan on how to replace their losses. Japan do not. And the reason why they went to war is just plain idiotic, Japan needed resources to finally defeat China. That's it. Japan went to war with 2 of the worlds largest empires just so they can beat China. And no, you can't justify this by saying that 'the US provoked this because they embargo Japan'. The US only embargoed Japan when Japan occupied Southern Indochina, which doesn't make any sense unless Japan wants to use Southern Indochina as a jumping off point for an invasion of British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. Basically, Japan went into an unwinnable war because they wanted to destroy an already crippled nation, and they didn't pay attention to the details so they ended up getting bombed to oblivion. They're like that one player who would do something extremely stupid to fix a stupid thing they did before without thinking of the consequences.

@@aaroncabatingan5238 Japan occupied Indochina with the permission of the French Government (Vichy Regime which was the American recognized legitimate government of France).

@@aaroncabatingan5238 that part hurt them later. They eventually ran out of "good" pilots, like literally.

Don't forget the never ending; "Give me 10,000 Filipino soldiers and I can conquer the world." BS when he has 100,000+ combined Filipino-American troops in defending the Philippines during Dec. 1941 but failed in defending it.

Marawi city will tell you how hard it is to take a city without destroying it.

Manila never really recovered from that

@@albertohusay3002 well that's because MacArthur should have followed and supported Nimitz's plan to go straight to Japan by island hopping. There's no reason to take Philippines in 44-45 military speaking. Once Tokyo surrender, all of Japanese troops in the cities will surrender as well. The retaking of Philippines resulted to the deaths of thousands of Allies soldiers and Filipino civilians needlessly. Philippines should have been bypassed to end the war sooner.

@@animeyahallo3887 You have a point. What Nimitz did not know is that Japan has a powerful Japanese fleet in the Philippines. They could have coordinated with Tokyo to ambush the US Fleet heading to Japan.

Let's ask Craig :-)

Containing them to his actions only in the Pacific War, he is certainly a figure that deserves criticism. The Clark Field disaster and his blunder of War Plan Orange-3 alone were quite egregious, but the insult to injury was really how he used his personal press entourage to send misinformation/lies back to the US. The enormous amount of positive press coverage for MacArthur forced Washington on many occasion to bend to its will and allow MacArthur to have more control then he should have in Australia. Yet on the other side of the coin, the man was quite brilliant and made major achievements throughout his life. Its a bit of an older read but "America's Caesar" by William Manchester digs pretty deep into MacArthur personally, and one of my favorite books "Rampage: macarthur, yamashita, and the battle of manila" by james m. scott really gives you a good look at MacArthur while he is making decisions.

He is viewed as an American 'national hero' by the Filipinos who survived the war.

​@@ThePacificWarChannel In Australia he is remembered as incompetent. My grandfather hated him with a passion haha. Would discredit the diggers work on the one hand while claiming it as his own personal victory on the other.

A general is best described by the quality of their defeats, not their victories. In that regard, MacArthur was really quite abysmal. He's in good company, mind you. Some US Navy admirals of that period were also horrendously imcompetent. Unfortunately, MacArthur's unprofessional media activities only made him worse. He wasn't quite on the level of incompetence of Arthur Percival or Lloyd Fredendall, but he was a far cry from the more capable Allied generals.

It is men like your grandfather who won WW2 not MacArthur. Tank corp had very high casualties.

@@ricgunn1439 Why thank you, friend.

Was he ever caught and put on trial?

@@rayray6490 no... as i just said. They were sleeper agents. All they do is intel gathering etc.

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Agree about giving the Phillipinos their due. As for the rest of your post, if the only study you make of the Pacific war is watching commercial American television and you tube videos you will remain entirely ignorant of all the documents and books that will teach you about the history you lack. If you don't know much beyond "the "glorified American view" it is your fault and no one else's.

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Anime lol

Huh?

They are but those plans were complicated AF like the Japanese plan during the Battle of Midway.

@@paulsteaven The japanese plan was sound for midway, they wanted to surprise the americans, but the americans already decoded their plans, what would have happen if the americans didnt. The japanese carriers were basically caught with their pants down halfway preparing to bomb the island when they came under attack by air forces with no time to rearm their fighters for air battles.

We felt bad As you can see from the replies

Bad, the Japanese soldiers tossed babies up in the air and then stab them with their katana the give it back to the horrified mother

Like most countries they invaded, the imperial Japanese soldiers also used Filipina comfort women for their own disgusting sexual desires

They tortured a lot of my fellow Filipinos and their cruelty is so disgusting. There's a story here that American forces completely surrendered Manila to the Japanese Imperial army and navy but they still sacked,burned and bombed our capital.

Filipino here, it was bad. Japanese treated the Filipino population as 2nd class citizens. They put the germans and soviets to shame in the number of atrocities they committed in Asia and Pacific.