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On 7 February 1943, the Japanese successfully evacuated 10,652 of their remaining troops from Guadalcanal. This action would come exactly six months to the day from when U.S. forces first landed on the island.
Two days later, the island of Guadalcanal would be declared secure.
William Finnegan was a Marine on Guadalcanal and took part in the battle of the Tenaru, known more famously as “Alligator Creek”, where they waited for the inevitable Japanese attack. The ferocity of the fight that followed would make Guadalcanal a household name back home.
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@RovingRoninEDC 7 месяцев назад

I served with 1st Marine Division, 3/7 Kilo in 29 Palms. Served in desert Storm and Somalia 92/93. Still get chills when I have the honor to hear stories from Marines who fought at Guadalcanal. For all the battles we’ve fought , that’s the name that adorns the 1 on our emblem. Men of the Old Breed , Semper Fi

@tigertiger1699 7 месяцев назад

Sir🙏🙏🙏🙏 from a grateful and ever indebted pacific nations…🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🇺🇸🇳🇿

@balldude8573 7 месяцев назад

29 palms…my second home. Semper fi brother

@makikookamoto1938 6 месяцев назад

I had a glance at your channel and it didn’t look like you were the veteran. STOP pretending to be a veteran!✋ Sir, just in case if I was wrong, I’m so sorry.

@RovingRoninEDC 6 месяцев назад

@@makikookamoto1938 that’s how you do things ? You insult people you know nothing about and then apologize if you’re wrong ? And that does what normally ? Covers you either way? What a troll … and if I’m wrong… I could care less

@richardmistic8344 6 месяцев назад

Never have been insisted I'm almost 60 now I think of everyone who has ever been daily!! Had a brother that was in special forces in the 80s I've got upmost respect for all that have served !!!!! US normal people don't have a clue! Just want to say thank you! You see videos but YET there's nothing compared to the horror these men went through! Not sure what you have ! Sad to see what our country has become with the loss of life of men that gave everything! God bless all and All you know!! Thank you.

@kidzing2411 7 месяцев назад

My father was there. He never said anything about it until just before he passed away. He said the water was pink and salt water crocs ate some of the bodies. He turned 18 on Guadalcanal and was severely wounded months later at Munda on New Georgia.

@steviechampagne 7 месяцев назад

the pacific theater is some of the worst fighting i think that has ever taken place in mankind’s history. every story from those jungles sounds like hell. and this was in the 1940s!! their technology and medicine wasn’t exactly adequate

@gregorywebster6640 6 месяцев назад

They don't make um like our dad's anymore..

@PaulSimmons-hp9ze 6 месяцев назад

God 🙏 bless

@Bob-tn5xn 6 месяцев назад

My grandfather was also on new Georgia with the C/P co. Raiders

@scrotooftheninefingers218 6 месяцев назад

War is so lit

@chrisr326 7 месяцев назад

Such a privilege to see him tell his story. Great man

@janethompson2305 6 месяцев назад

My dad fought in Pearl Harbor & he told us his war stories. It's truly amazing that they came home alive. Dad came home disabled 🙏 God bless all their souls & thank U for my freedom so very much 🙏🤲🕊✝️😇❤

@beatricemarquez5861 6 месяцев назад

Thank you sir for your service. Thank you all service men and vets for your service!

@tigertiger1699 7 месяцев назад

I read of this conflict years ago… it sounded beyond belief… to hear him recite it…🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@markhirsch1782 7 месяцев назад

Thankyou for your service ❤

@rodneymoore7270 7 месяцев назад

THANK YOU SIR!!! FOR FIGHTING AND COMING HOME!!!

@Thelategreatjohnnybratton 6 месяцев назад

My father was on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian. The last 3 as a combat engineer flamethrower. He never spoke of it until the end of his life. I found in a drawer in an envelope the Silver Star and Purple Heart he was awarded. When I asked him about them. He told me Medals don’t matter. The only hero’s are the guys who don’t make it home.

@Carolina_Leadslingers 6 месяцев назад

He too, was definitely a hero.

@osvaldocaraballo7640 6 месяцев назад

Tragic but that's war license to killed or be killed

@gulzarrai43 6 месяцев назад

Your late Dad was, is & l'remain a Glorious Man, a Glorious soul ... These were the heroes who kept everythought of the battles they fought to themselves & only communicated with their dead comrades waiting to join their heroic journies for ever & ever ... Amen ... 😮

@nathanpaquette877 4 месяца назад

My dad gave his silver star to his little brother when he got back and of course he lost it. He couldn't care less about medals. He wrote his troops up for medals that he himself should have gotten because he didn't want the attention.

@user-lu9nb9eo9m 7 месяцев назад

God bless you Sir God bless all of our military 🙏

@raymondfryar1533 7 месяцев назад

These brave men and women weren't called the greatest generation for nothing. Though women weren't in combat they patched up the ones that were, among other duties. Thank you for our freedom.

@moniquemannaert3468 7 месяцев назад

Women did more than just patch up, but thank you for acknowledging their contribution.

@user-yq2rn2hy8p 7 месяцев назад

Winston Churchill wife, Clementine convinced the English prime Minister and leaders that England would not win the war unless women took over every job they could in order to release all men for combat. She also impressed Eleanor Roosevelt, Averill Harriman and Roosevelt's closest advisor that once pearl harbor happened, that the same support was necessary by American women. Imagine almost all jobs filled by women. As soon as the war ended. The women were sent back to the kitchen. NURSES WERE INSTRUMENTAL TO TEND AMERICAN WOUNDED. IMAGINE LYING IMMOBILE WITH BLEEDING WOUNDS COVERED WITH SWEAT, SAND, FLIES AND MOSQUITOS, FILTHY SEA WATER , AND DESPAIR. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE WOMENS ABILITY TO RISE TO THE NEEDS OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN!!!😮

@krazy4958 6 месяцев назад

women did more than just a patch up there are also ace pilot women in RAF :))))

@danielponiatowski7368 6 месяцев назад

@@krazy4958i dont think any women fought in the RAF but they did free up male pilots by doing other jobs like ferrying aircraft to their airfields from the factories etc, they flew everything from spitfires to lancasters. the russians had female combat fliers.

@bruh5744 6 месяцев назад

@@krazy4958There weren’t female pilots in the RAF but there were radio operators to my understanding

@jeffreyhanshawsr4884 7 месяцев назад

GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!

@jonbar140 5 месяцев назад

I think you need to rewatch this..m

@carlmontney7916 7 месяцев назад

Pretty sure we all know what cleaned out the ones who were left there meant. Our greatest generation. Tougher and more badass than any generation since. Heroes all!

@Harrison2253 7 месяцев назад

The horrors of that war these guys went through

@e.conboy4286 7 месяцев назад

Thank you all! 🇺🇸

@chopperchopper1418 6 месяцев назад

FK THE VA SYSTEM TWICE 💜

@Berm_Blaster 7 месяцев назад

Guadalcanal was brutal

@scrotooftheninefingers218 6 месяцев назад

Yeah, war rocks dude. 🤘

@user-ws1qf7ol4k 6 месяцев назад

@@scrotooftheninefingers218😂😂

@Mattnoble80 7 месяцев назад

As glad as I am that you have done your duty I truly wish that humanity could find a way not to fight wars

@williammcginley6543 7 месяцев назад

When politics fail,we go to war

@man4YAWEH454 6 месяцев назад

That would require people to follow our creator.And so many believe Yeshua is a myth.

@Mattnoble80 6 месяцев назад

@@man4YAWEH454people have to act as if they know right from wrong, it makes no difference what religion or god one believes in it is about stopping humanity’s proclivity toward violence

@louisjriversjr9093 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for serving Our Country, Sir!

@earlenepeterson8065 6 месяцев назад

One of the greatest generation. A life well lived.

@justlucky8254 7 месяцев назад

"The Pacific" covered that battle pretty well.

@blawson4814 7 месяцев назад

Thank you from the daughter of a WWII British Army veteran 🌺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SemperFi

@johndeach4573 7 месяцев назад

God bless you sir.

@highecuador1873 7 месяцев назад

Where's full interview??

@paralrsd 7 месяцев назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mFyV5BPbxB0.html

@wrath-of-bath1920 7 месяцев назад

Your generation gave us everything, Im sorry society is letting you down...😢

@Jace-ew5si 6 месяцев назад

Truth

@lend3586 6 месяцев назад

Decades of weak parenting and soft wimpy men.

@DontLetTheOldManIn 6 месяцев назад

Amen. Can’t give up. Have to keep fighting. Sadly it’s our own governments.

@helensimmonds5182 6 месяцев назад

Demasculised men not weak men

@fayee8986 6 месяцев назад

😢 nobody will really know how horrible war is but those that lived it and died. Thank you sir for your great sacrifice in service❤❤ God bless you rest in Heavenly peace throughout eternity❤

@raymondfryar1533 7 месяцев назад

Both men and women going above are beyond for good of all..what a generation what a country.

@jamesmoriarty7796 3 месяца назад

When I see video like this I think of my grandpa and how much his generation sacrificed for all of us. I would give anything just to hear his voice again. Hearing this man speak gives me a glimpse into what my grandpa went through in those times. Thanks to all that have served, are serving, and will serve in the future.

@mikemorris5625 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service to our nation. My dad fought in WW2 and Korea. He was a 1LT part of Task Force Smith and survived the Chosan Debacle. All of his sons served in the military and my brother and I had multiple Combat tours in The Middle East. NSDQ!

@donnadoriand7324 6 месяцев назад

My uncle joined the Navy but somehow wound up as a Marine medic on Guadalcanal. He had some hair raising stories that he only told me as a 5 year old. I think I have PTSD from a war I wasn't even alive for.

@user-xh8ii2hj6r 6 месяцев назад

I hear ya....my Dad was in New Guinea...I've never been to New Guinea but I've seen it a thousand times through my Father's eyes.... Honest to God...he was telling me a war story once and I looked for a hole to dive into....and he hadn't even started talking yet.... just the look on his face...true story!

@donnadoriand7324 6 месяцев назад

@@user-xh8ii2hj6r I believe second hand PTSD is a thing.

@user-xh8ii2hj6r 6 месяцев назад

@@donnadoriand7324 Sure it is...I believe too. Like you...I knew of war even before I knew my ABC's...Dad drank a lot ... about the seventh or eighth beer he'd slam it down on the counter and change like a chameleon... Like your Uncle Dad was shipped out to the Pacific Theater... We were all in the living room one night I was 4 years old sitting against the sofa and " Back to Battan" came on the TV ( that was 56 years ago and I still remember like it was yesterday) Dad called to me and said " Hey Ivan ( my nickname) that's your Dad!" My big brother used as straddling my Dad's legs and my brother said " you never killed anybody" my Dad replied HELL I didn't - I killed two ! Mark ( my brother) said uh ahh you couldn't kill Cupie ( our family dog) I was watching my Dad like a hawk...He pulled a bead ( like pointing a gun at the dog) My Dad's whole demeanor changed and he said...." I could kill that dog right fuckin now" I was looking at a dead dog I thought to myself. My brother just laughed...I didn't.... Yeah it's a real thing....God bless

@donnadoriand7324 6 месяцев назад

@@user-xh8ii2hj6r Scary. My uncle became an alcoholic too. Sweetest guy in the world when he was sober. When he drank he wanted to fight everyone. He was only 5'9" but you could tell he could be dangerous.

@user-xh8ii2hj6r 6 месяцев назад

@@donnadoriand7324 yeah...those men certainly seen the absolute worst of humanity...it's hard to imagine being a medic out there...my God! Absolute worst circumstances...ya know in the European Theater of war at least they had a sense of civilization...but not in the Pacific Theater... My Dad put it this way....he was in a poker game with a big sum of money on the line I think it was 900 dollars Dad was holding 3 sevens and got the fourth seven on the draw! He'd always stop and say " Son....that was a HELLUVA LOT OF MONEY BACK THEN! ....but you know what money is good for in the Jungle? It's good for wiping your ass with! " Excuse the language but I want to keep it real! The soldier Dad was betting with won The Congressional Medal of Honor! Yup...you can look that up...Dad was in the 32nd Division 126th Combat Infantry Regiment.,Medal of Honor recipient. We're from California 5 generations

@ronaldweed6103 7 месяцев назад

Thank you the Greatest Generation

@tigershark2524 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service sir there are no words I can say to express how grateful I am for you

@jeffadinolfi8023 7 месяцев назад

Thank you brother😎🔥

@barbjohnson778 6 месяцев назад

Thank you, sir for your bravery and dedication. Thank you for documenting your experiences in the war. God bless you.

@anthonyfoutch3152 6 месяцев назад

I'm glad these men have put their experiences on film. My father refused to.

@danielponiatowski7368 6 месяцев назад

yeah its a shame so much of what they experienced has gone untold, then again theres a reason they kept quiet. i heard most of my grandfathers (Australian AIF) stories from my grandmother. he was injured in north africa and didnt join his friends fighting in the pacific.

@jackbraunstein4860 6 месяцев назад

I can’t imagine the courage of these brave men who at that time liberated the world from evil.

@scottdahl3975 6 месяцев назад

bad ass right there - Thank You Sir!!

@bobfrederick8037 6 месяцев назад

Thank you sir

@user-rg8fq1dn4q 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service During WW2 God bless you sir 🙏

@maxxdog 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service sir. God bless you.

@barroningram7286 6 месяцев назад

now you understand why they name these amphibious assault ships after all the tough battles of world war two

@billydrybread7876 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service my man.

@seanskolkin5896 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service!

@ziggyfreud5357 6 месяцев назад

We have no idea what these guys went thru - very few other than combat vets.

@busterdog321 6 месяцев назад

He talks slow now, but still knows what he's talking about. He can't hear as well but still has the ringing in his ears. Hes had a lot of time for smell the flowers, but still can smell that oddly sweet aroma. His eyes aren't 20/20 anymore, but he still can see the waves lapping at those bodies. Take it sleezy devil

@KC-603 6 месяцев назад

Thank you Sir for your service and sacrifice!! 🫂🙏🏻🙏🏻🫡🇺🇸❤️

@wlodell 6 месяцев назад

‘Cleaned out’? May God have mercy on us all.

@imochiexe5056 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service ❤💪💯👍🤘🫡🇺🇸

@Mavrick121 6 месяцев назад

2nd Battalion 1st Marines. Gunsmoke, sir. Semper Fi

@thomascorrea3937 6 месяцев назад

Thank you Sir for your service and welcome home

@user-oj6zc4vn2g 6 месяцев назад

His memory is good 👍 thanks HERO

@ImOnAJourney 7 месяцев назад

What a sight that must’ve been. Like a horror movie scene.

@ffifteenstrikeeagletiktok 4 месяца назад

Gunnery SGT. “Manila John” John Basilone was in the position of a machine gun that night, he shot down an estimated 38 Japanese men and was awarded the Medal of Honor and had gone on a Warbonds tour. He then returned to the Marine Corps in (either) late 1943 or 1944. On February 19th, 1945 he landed on the beaches of Iwo Jima. He ran through machine gun fire and threw a satchel charge into the position, he then led his men onto Iwo Jima’s airfield before being cut down and killed by possibly machine gun fire or a mortar. He was rewarded the Navy Cross for his actions on Iwo Jima Rest in peace, Manila John

@Goaway735 6 месяцев назад

My dad was a WWII veteran, he was in Guadalcanal at age 17 , he lied about his age to join the Marines ,he said another year older and he would have thought about a little more after fighting the Japanese. He told us kids some things, but not everything. He said you never forget the smell of a couple hundred bodies getting burned to keep the flies down

@ChrisBedfordForrest-cs7od 6 месяцев назад

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

@thebantabrigade9130 7 месяцев назад

I wonder if he knew Robert leckie

@lend3586 6 месяцев назад

The fear factor would be off the charts.

@jacintoherrera9635 6 месяцев назад

America's Greatest Generation !!!

@aj-tp2yh 7 месяцев назад

Peace

@chrisbuckas5622 6 месяцев назад

Thank You for our Freedom

@saltyassassin 6 месяцев назад

Those water cooled .30 cals were heavy AF!! Checked one out at the museum. I never complained about lugging my Pig M-60 again. They don’t make them like this fella anymore! Greatest Generation!!

@JudeAtisele-sk2lr 6 месяцев назад

Some people have to live to tell the stories in most human catastrophic happenings like world War two. You guys were brave warriors.

@gulzarrai43 6 месяцев назад

ull remain heroes forever ... only those who in future battles fight like u all did at Guadalcanal & similar battles will be remembered for all times to come ... I salute u all incl all the Japanese soldiers who died not knowing ur machine guns were already zeroed on the beaches ... All soldiers regardless of which side they belonged are Heavenly Soldiers ... Our tributes to all of u ... Ur the finest examples for all future generations .. ✔️👏😮

@petesheppard1709 3 месяца назад

The battle is known as the 'Tenaru River' to the Marines. 'Alligator Creek' is a modern term.

@user-xk1pv5bw8t 6 месяцев назад

Youre a thru hero fiting a just war thank you for youre service sir may gob bless you❤

@rotorheadv8 6 месяцев назад

They called it Alligator Creek but there were not any alligators. There were crocodiles.

@rodneypattonsr3179 6 месяцев назад

This was war. And our boys had no other choice, kill or be killed. My Uncle, who has passed on, told me that. He was in a little scrimmage called Iwo Jima.

@williamkeck7378 6 месяцев назад

God bless them. 🙏

@jacquelinedunne8641 6 месяцев назад

Tu Sir. Your service helped with our freedoms. God bless all our soldiers and keep them safe and protected in Jesus Christ amen

@rogerhart5623 6 месяцев назад

These men have my greatest respect. And respectfully I have one question. What does cleaned out the surviving Japanese mean?

@ColdWarVet607 7 месяцев назад

God Bless The Greatest Generation. Where Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue. Band of Brothers dedicated an episode to exactly what he is recalling. Watching it is one thing, but listening to a Man who fought it is an honor.

@ralphalvarez5465 6 месяцев назад

It was reenacted in "The Pacific" where Robert "Lucky" Leckie and fellow Marines fought the multiple banzai charges.

@Schedule1ne315 6 месяцев назад

“Cleaned out”

@rossjohnson1872 6 месяцев назад

Marines who contracted malaria on Guadalcanal in 1942 & 3 did not get completely cured until late 1970's, early 1980's.

@Thelategreatjohnnybratton 6 месяцев назад

Right. My father got malaria on Guadalcanal, as did most, and had malaria attacks when I was a child in the 1950’s. He and most of the others also contracted dengue fever. He told me that was the most painful and brutal sickness yet they fought on

@2-Hands 6 месяцев назад

"Thank You" for my FREEDOM...

@jamesbubba1331 7 месяцев назад

The young Japanese soldier's were sent too their deaths, they charged straight into machine gun fire

@danholman4398 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service. ❤ 😮

@BambiDextrous 6 месяцев назад

War is horrible. No one should be subjected to these horrors.

@snookmeister55 6 месяцев назад

Marines in the Pacific generally didn't take prisoners.

@ralphalvarez5465 6 месяцев назад

The Japanese weren't very kind to prisoners of war such as the civilian contractors on Wake Island or the POWs on the Bataan Death March.

@user-tj1fn1ly3e 6 месяцев назад

What a man !!

@Rdibo24 6 месяцев назад

Is this a full episode on the channel?

@345Weeehrs 6 месяцев назад

TRUE AMERICAN HEROS

@b_Loopy 6 месяцев назад

He looks great for being 95+

@peggyelchert8340 6 месяцев назад

So, so compelling…🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@AL_theDrifter 6 месяцев назад

My grandfather faught here, said the same thing about the bodies everywhere.

@graciehale4219 6 месяцев назад

Honer this hero❤

@HarleyThompso 6 месяцев назад

You are a true hero to me you all were and will have the blessing of god

@MACLAD6666 6 месяцев назад

Brave men fighting a nasty nasty war against a very finatical enemy I did get the message of some of the survived but I heard nothing after it. My Grandfather would never speak of fighting the Japanese he nere said a word about what he went through he signed up at 16 years old with his 19 year old cousins birth certificate after has was refused for hearing issue's. He never came back the same son that left.

@blatantfoul8836 6 месяцев назад

Semper FI, Brother.

@williambethea8095 6 месяцев назад

They had to do what needed to be done. We can imagine but never truly understand. Army, 5 combat deployments. Gulf War, then Irag and Afghanistan. The Pacific fight is not well known.

@frank1720 6 месяцев назад

THEE UNDISPUTED GREATEST generation of American!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ HI DAD , UNCLE JOE, UNCLE ERNIE, UNCLE AL, UNCLE JIM..RIP

@kathyrussell8816 6 месяцев назад

My Daddy was a full Bird.. He fought in 11WW and Korea! Thank You Sir for your service!! UHRAH

@user-yp4ns7ws6f 7 месяцев назад

❤️🇺🇸🪖🌎💯🙏🏼

@larrywhittaker9901 7 месяцев назад

ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO WARNED HIS SUPERIORS NOT TO AWAKEN THE SLEEPING TIGER "AMERICA"

@paulsaragosa371 6 месяцев назад

You guys got issues Tom y guns are neat stuff

@edmundcowan9131 6 месяцев назад

Hero 🇺🇸🙏🏼🇺🇸

@user-lk1qq2cl3k 6 месяцев назад

Battle of Gualcanal north coast.

@LBCB94025 7 месяцев назад

*Does **_"cleaned out"_** mean **_"killed"??_* 🧐🤔🤨🤷🏼

@NONEYAZ 6 месяцев назад

He Means: They Litterially Cleaned By Removing The Exposed Expired Bodies From The Entire Area Via Counting, Tagging, Cataloging And Bagging All The These Corpse To Minimize Or Prevent: The Nasty Smells And Potential Illness, Sickness, Diseases, Etc! 😎

@ralphalvarez5465 6 месяцев назад

That's exactly what he means. The United States Marine Corps 1/5 motto is "locate, close with and destroy the enemy with fire and maneuver." 1/5 Marines fought in Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Chosin Reservoir and Battle of Hue City. They didn't earn their reputation by playing patty cake.

@grantstutters1304 6 месяцев назад

The women during world War 2 were the machine !! My grandmother worked in van port during the War2 she was a welder ribits !! She was a great lady !!!!!! She busted My ass severl times !!!😅😅😅 great generation !!!!

@robertmartin9677 6 месяцев назад

The Japanese qere the Bravest Warriors, who knew NO FEAR.THEY DID NOT SURRENDER THEY FOUGHT UNTIL THEY WERE KILLED.ALL HONOR TO TGE LAST TRUE WARRIORS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS PLANET!! BANZAI BANZAI BANZAI!!!