Week 306 - Aussies Land on Borneo - WW2 - July 6, 1945

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Australian forces land at Balikpapan to hopefully secure the oil facilities there; In Burma, the Japanese try a diversion to allow some troops to escape the country, but the timing is not what it should be; in the Philippines there is an American landing on Mindanao, but behind the scenes there are those wondering if they really need to push Japan for complete unconditional surrender.
00:00 INTRO
00:31 RECAP
00:55 LANDINGS ON BALIKPAPAN
03:23 A DIVERSION IN BURMA
06:10 LUZON AND MINDANAO
07:39 UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER?
11:18 POLLS AND POLLING NUMBERS
15:25 NOTES
15:48 CONCLUSION
16:56 US ARMY’S 11TH AIRBORNE DIVISION MEMORIAL
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@WorldWarTwo 25 дней назад

Thanks to Brent Sapp for dedicating this video with a memorial to the 11th Airborne Division. If you’d like to dedicate an episode join the Timeghost Army at Timeghost.tv or Patreon www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory

@sch1191 25 дней назад

Well done, Brent Sapp! I love contributions from the TG Army.

@jeremycholm 25 дней назад

Thank you, Brent, for the shoutout and the kind words. This is a fantastic channel that does a great job sharing history!

@bjpowerequipment1023 24 дня назад

Brett Sapp is a prince among men. Thank you.

@alitlweird 22 дня назад

11th AB! 🇺🇸

@XRunNGun 25 дней назад

Only 6 of the +2,000 Australians and British POWs survived the Sandakan Death Marches mentioned at the start of the episode - all of whom escaped. A number of years ago I was able to visit the mountains of North Borneo, learn more about the atrocities and see parts of the trail and locations where the POWs had been marched. We visited an old lady who as a young girl, helped hide one of the Australian escapees. If they had been caught, the entire family would have been murdered. I still struggle to comprehend the absolute barbarity and depravity of the Japanese. The POWs were completely emaciated, riddled with tropical diseases and were forced to carry heavy sacks of rice on their backs. Whoever was too weak to continue was bayoneted. Its an absolute disgrace that most Japanese people today are never told about what their grandfathers and great grandfathers partook in during the war.

@martinricardo4503 25 дней назад

What purpose would that serve? The people of Japan, Germany, and Italy are not responsible for what past generations did , nor are any peoples on Earth deserving of praise for what their ancestors accomplished. Never Forget does not mean throwing the past into the face of others who you want to blame for the sins of their fathers.

@XRunNGun 25 дней назад

@@martinricardo4503 So to you, never forget means never learn in the first place?

@XRunNGun 25 дней назад

@@martinricardo4503 Nobody is blaming the individual Japanese person for actions of 80 years ago. BUT... everyone should be made aware of the wrongdoings (and honourable doings) of previous generations - the German attitude today is a good example. If you don't learn what your nation was once capable of, you will never understand why other people's may feel animosity towards you and you won't understand what a nation may be capable of doing when radical political extremism is not stopped.

@boomslangCA 25 дней назад

@@martinricardo4503 I think the point is not to allow a situation where future generations get a bastardised narrative of the war (see Germans after WW1) where they end up being the aggrieved party who fought a just war and were ultimately invaded and defeated by evil enemies which starts a whole new cycle of grievance that can be mined by new radicle leaders. Germany after WW2 had a much healthier outlook, acknowledging the past and their part in it and trying to do better. That was in large part due to the Allied powers not repeating the post WW1 mistakes. It feels like Japan never faced the idea that they did anything wrong in WW2. Maybe Spartacus can do a final episode on this issue, both with the Germans and Japanese.

@ralphe5842 25 дней назад

The Japanese in particular do not teach about these things and continue to make out they really weren’t that responsible they just lost. Many of the most horrible folks were let off because of the start of the Cold War

@TrailBlazer65 25 дней назад

An interesting point to note is that many of the Australian units fighting in Borneo here were veterans of the fighting in North Africa, Syria and Greece earlier in the war. By this time, some Australian soldiers had a pretty crazy set of combat experiences going from the deserts of North Africa to jungles of the Pacific, fighting radically different enemies in completely opposite environments. By the end of the war some units such as the 9th Division (aka the Rats of Tobruk) had fought against at least 3 (or even 4) of the axis powers... Italy, Germany, Vichy France and Japan.

@danendraabyantara2931 25 дней назад

Maybe aussie is the master every terrain in warfare idk, but that's a good info right there, just one month before enola and fat man guys 😊

@ternel 25 дней назад

Some of the few who could say they fought on 3 continents

@jorikrouwenhorst7220 25 дней назад

Talking about axis bingo

@amo-kd9cn 25 дней назад

Could it not even be 5 with Bulgaria in Greece?

@belbrighton6479 25 дней назад

Amazing

@nigelbarker8726 25 дней назад

When a sentence starts with "A Gurkha patrol.." It's going to end well.

@Raskolnikov70 25 дней назад

Not for whoever the Gurkas run into.....

@ethanmcfarland8240 25 дней назад

Great if you’re a friend of the Ghurkas….not so if your a foe

@rajeshkanungo6627 23 дня назад

"A Gurkha patrol" or "A Gurkha ON patrol"? It could mean the same thing :)

@gunman47 25 дней назад

An interesting sidenote this week on July 3 1945 is that the first civilian passenger car made in the United States in three years will roll off the assembly line of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit.

@Significantpower 25 дней назад

It's impressive how quickly the economy reverts to normal.

@T54_tank 25 дней назад

@@Significantpowerford 1940:travel 1941:for democracy 1945:some travel

@ethanmcfarland8240 25 дней назад

People back in the states want their boys back so they can have lots and lots of babies

@chipschannel9494 25 дней назад

Henry Ford was a Nazis sympathizer as was Sloan and Kettering who were part of the plot to overthrow FDR with the help of Gen. Smedley-Butler , (“War is a Racket”, 2-time MoH recipient, and U.S. colonial interventionist) who would have nothing to do with the plot .

@BeanManolo 24 дня назад

It's impressive how the War in Europe barely ended, and the one in the Pacific already in its final stretch, but the american industry already managed to revert back to civilian-oriented production; That shows how the distance from the front was fortunate for the american industry, giving them a sheltered status not possible for neither the Axis nor the other powers in Europe and the Pacific (with even the Soviet Union losing part of their industry even though they managed to move the rest away from the front)

@unironicallyDot3 25 дней назад

balikpapan resident here, the aussie landing site is now a huge plaza & there's a monument to the allied landing a few km to the west, often confused as the landing site. while paramatta ridge which saw heavy fighting then, is now a dense urban area. and there's still a lot of surviving bunker from ww2 commonly found on graveyard & undeveloped lands, particularly around manggar & sepinggan area. some even still have bullet holes in them

@unironicallyDot3 25 дней назад

there is also a small and often forgotten detatchment of US troops that partook in the landing. to this day many australians still consider the battle as a waste of life fought for only a political statement and no strategic gains except a foothold in east borneo. balikpapan and samarinda would be garrisoned by the australians until 1946(?). some good articles to read more about this would be some from Australian War Memorial (awm.gov), and a single post on mapoftheweek where a direct descendant from a US troop that fought there talked about their contribution and the details of the battle edit: indonesia and australia relation would deteriorate later on in history, mostly because of konfrontasi, timor and papua. ironically an australian landing ship named after Balikpapan partook in timor's liberation by the UN. for that i would like to use this opportunity to apologise to the aussies for any wrongdoings our country has done, we recognize and appreciate the contributions you have on our country's early history and let us all pray for a brighter future in our relations

@MartinHutasoit09 25 дней назад

Considering that parts of Borneo are controlled by Australians directly rather than given back to the Dutch is interesting to me. As an Indonesian too, it's interesting how parts of Indonesia that were liberated by the Allied forces were under American and Australian control rather than the Dutch. Something must be terrible enough for the Allies to not give them back to the Dutch. Or Dutch diplomacy in WW2 sucked. And to think that Australians think that this whole operation is a waste of military power because the Philippines is already liberated (thanks MacArthur) makes the whole prospect of full Indonesian liberation didn't happen. That makes the independence of Indonesia easier because there's only Japanese military presence in major Indonesian islands (mainly Java, Sumatra, and Bali).

@Dogboy1092 25 дней назад

@@unironicallyDot3 thanks for this bit of local knowledge. My grandfather went to Balikpapan in July 1945, I’m hoping one day I get to go there myself to honour him

@algardaus 25 дней назад

@@unironicallyDot3 Thank you man, it matters, hopefully both our nations can grow together now.

@MM22966 24 дня назад

@@MartinHutasoit09 That, and there were effectively no Dutch troops to conduct a landing at that scale or do occupation duty afterward at the time. Even their "Free" forces in Europe amounted to only a brigade of combat troops.

@hawkman917 25 дней назад

Interesting fact: one of the troopers of the 11th Airborne Division was a Technician Fourth Grade from Binghamton, New York (my hometown). After the war, he would go on to be a writer in the nascent medium of television. In 1959, he would go on to create one of the most iconic anthologies ever. The series…The Twilight Zone. The creator…Rod Serling.

@kemarisite 25 дней назад

Rod Sterling was also mentioned in a recent episode of the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War Podcast, which discussed the 11th on Luzon approaching Manila.

@hgababu 25 дней назад

I had no idea Rod was a member of the 11th! I live in Binghamton now, always knew he created the Twilight Zone but had no clue he served! In hindsight, I suppose it's a logical assumption, but still, pretty neat to hear of it.

@archlich4489 25 дней назад

Rod Serling was a bona fide badass. Fact!

@alitlweird 22 дня назад

11th AB! 🇺🇸

@user-px8eo2cs4g 25 дней назад

This is such a weird part of WW2 to me. The end of Okinawa to the atomic bombings hold such a forgotten place in the war.

@randolacle 25 дней назад

Normally after the end of the war in Europe, the narrative of WWII is rounded up like....."and then they fought a bit more in Asia, and then they dropped two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the war in Asia also came to an end"

@mgway4661 25 дней назад

@@randolaclethats basically what happened

@andrewb1921 25 дней назад

At least in the US, this part of the war is usually presented as a few months of sitzkrieg before Hiroshima. But that forgets the fighting and dying that was still going on, as the Allies consolidated their holdings

@scottlarson1548 25 дней назад

Also... British and Australians fighting Japanese? They taught us that there were no Japanese soldiers outside of Japan when we dropped the bombs and won the war.

@adamlakeman7240 25 дней назад

@@scottlarson1548 Impressive that they somehow missed the million-strong Kwantung army in China.

@finnyishere3532 25 дней назад

Good to see Leslie Morshead back on the channel. He was the guy who held Tobruk against the DAK in 1941 for context

@merdiolu 25 дней назад

He was also one of the best division commanders in El Alamein battles (both in First and Second Battle of Alamein) between July - November 1942

@Dogboy1092 25 дней назад

Thanks for posting this. My grandfather was deployed with the Australian Air Force to Balikpapan. Many Aussies aren’t aware of it (as wasn’t a “war winning” battle). As an Aussie this is why we should always be grateful to the Americans. MacArthur was a bad leader who wanted his own show. But the USA actually gave the 7th Div one of the largest landing barrages and aerial bombardment for a division in the war. During the battle going inland, if the army needed close air support, the US pilots jumped at the chance to help. And most importantly, if the USA didn’t drop the bombs and end the war, the invasion of Japan wasn’t the only battle left. Throughout the Pacific more campaigns were being planned to clear Japanese. In the Australian area of ops alone there were 300,000 left. And if the USA didn’t end the war, Balikpapan was going to used as a staging ground to liberate Java (Indonesia) and Singapore. And plenty of other “mopping up” operations that would’ve taken more time off allied servicemens lives from their families (by this stage my grandfather was 4-5 years in service).

@philroberts1069 24 дня назад

Something to add is that Australia's wartime prime minister from 1941, John Curtin, died while in office on the 5th of July. He did a lot to protect Australia during the war including bumping heads with Churchill and ignoring British orders to keep the Australian 6th, 7th and 9th divisions in the European theatre. Those units would return to Australia and play some important roles in the Pacific theatre.

@Bottle-OBill 25 дней назад

My Grandfather, who died a few years before I was born, served in the Australian 2/2nd (Second-Second) Machine Gun Battalion. He volunteered in '39 at the outbreak of the Nazi offensive, after earlier, pre-war service in the Light Horse militia. It's been a long journey watching the war week-by-week, but there's something special about this episode covering the start of his last operational deployment. From training in Palestine, garrisoning Mersa Matruh, and the battles of El Alamein, to Lae, Tarakan, and Borneo... Thank you Indie, and thank you to the entire Time Ghost team. You have helped me to understand the sheer length of his service, and gave me an inkling of how much he gave to do his small part in defeating the tyranny of Fascists, Nazis, and Imperialists.

@belbrighton6479 25 дней назад

That is amazing, any more details about your grandfather? It is very touching to hear these stories.

@Bottle-OBill 25 дней назад

@@belbrighton6479 He was in D Company and was trained as a member of a Bren Gun section. What I know of his story is from my Dad, the youngest child of the family and the only one that he would talk to about his experiences, my understanding is he was the only one that was interested beside my Nanna. Being a farmer before the war he was one of the few people in his unit that could drive a truck, so he also became the Company supply driver early into his service. At some point in Palestine he impressed his C.O. with his navigation skills and became his driver of choice. One time he and a few others were griping to an American on guard duty at a depot of U.S. lend lease equipment that had yet to be distributed, saying they could really use some of that stuff cos there equipment is old and buggered, but since it wasn't the sentries place to hand out trucks and motorcycles they were told to leave. The next morning a truck and a selection of bikes were missing from the depot, and the 2/2nd inventory had acquired some new vehicles of unknown origin. He would also tell my Dad of how they would lure the Japanese into a charge by using the Bren's select-fire, setting it to semi-automatic during probes to give the impression the position has no automatic weapons, and when the rush would come, they'd flick over to full and "we'd just mow em down" in his words... There is also the story of a landing (can't remember if it was something at Lae or Tarakan, or another one entirely) where he saw a very large man with a massive double-chin carrying a flamethrower and after wading ashore they all were taking cover behind trees. The big man had his head turned and was talking to another guy behind a different tree when a bullet went right through his double-chin, missing everything else. He was apparently unharmed beside the two holes. Very lucky!

@belbrighton6479 24 дня назад

@@Bottle-OBill wow that is amazing. Thank you for sharing your family’s story.

@21bugger 25 дней назад

Had a little chuckle when Indy mention to look to the Pearl Harbour miniserie for the "too much" detail - certainly a lot of details and, along with the D-day miniserie, wildly ambitious! Definitely worth a watch though. It's those little details that Indy et al. mention that makes the history come alive...Keep it up 👏

@WorldWarTwo 25 дней назад

Both were a big project for the team! We are happy to have been able to do them thanks to the TimeGhost army.

@francispaniagua4228 8 часов назад

@@WorldWarTwo I had met this channel thanks to the Pearl Harbor series in 1941, much love guys.

@anthonyburke5656 24 дня назад

My Father was STILL fighting IJN Marines 6 months after the end of the war, in Borneo. He had fought all through the African campaign, been shipped back to Australia after Singapore fell, then fought in PNG, over the Owen Stanley’s. In Africa he was hospitalised twice with wounds, in the Pacific he was hospitalised 3 times for disease, Scrub Typhus, Malaria, Malnutrition. All through growing up he would wake up the house with nightmares. He came home from the war and went back to his job, which was heavy engineering, he was in a protected job, he didn’t need to go to war. After I was drafted, he started to tell me stories, of marching down to the troop ships to go to Africa and being spat on and called “5 Bob a day murderers”. He told me about fighting in the desert, he told me of incredible beauty in the Lebanon mountains and learning to ski! He told me about fighting off waves of IJN Marines, who, having run out of ammo, charged with satchel charges, bayonets, sharpened stick and swords. He told me about a Japanese bomber being shot down on fire and a crewman jumping out, without a parachute, landing in the middle of their camp!

@greybirdo 25 дней назад

Indy is incorrect regarding the Sandakan-Ranau death march. At this stage of the war there were still dozens of prisoners alive, as well as the six escapees he mentioned. In fact, more than twenty prisoners survived to the end of the war. These survivors were murdered by their captors on 27 August, almost a full fortnight after the surrender of Japan. They were machine gunned while sitting under trees waiting, as they thought, for release. One of them, doctor Captain John Oakeshott, had given his boots to one of the escapers and chosen to stay with the men rather than participate in the escape. It is a forgotten but bitter postscript to a horrible war.

@chrisstone7924 25 дней назад

Respect to all allied personnel who fought in the war there sacrifices never forgotten

@janelavie4115 25 дней назад

Norway declares war on Japan 😯 This is the beginning of the end.

@HS-su3cf 25 дней назад

Read an interview with a Norwegian-American veteran, who served as a navy fighter pilot on a US carrier. He and his mates had a good laugh when they heard this.

@sam74mumm 24 дня назад

I am sure that was the real reason for the upcoming capitulation 😄

@jliller 24 дня назад

Berserker rage will be unleashed!

@rajeshkanungo6627 24 дня назад

The Vikings scared the Japanese.

@phetproductions5818 25 дней назад

I’m a Filipino history student and in my research about local history during WW2 I actually encountered the 11th airborne. After the landings in Nasugbu, Batangas in Southern Luzon they also airdropped paratroopers on Tagaytay Ridge at Feb. 1945. They would encounter little resistance advancing north up in Cavite province and they would come in contact with various resistance groups such as the Hunters ROTC. Elements of the 11th airborne would defeat the Japanese Garisson in Imus, Cavite which freed up the road to Manila. Isolated Japanese garrisons and soldiers were dealt with by the local guerrilla forces. Thousands of guerrilla troops from Cavite were reorganized into units and then attached to the 11th airborne as they fought the Japanese in Northern Luzon. I just want to show my appreciation to the 11th airborne which liberated my province all those years ago.

@jeremycholm 24 дня назад

My grandfather's company were the first ones to enter Imus from the 11th Airborne. They were the Angels who fought at the cathedral and found the route across the river for the rest of the division to continue forward

@MM22966 24 дня назад

They just "stood up" the 11th Airborne Division again...in Alaska, LOL! Send their Public Affairs website at Fort Wainwright a thank you note! I am sure they will appreciate it.

@graemegillett6437 25 дней назад

My father was a coder on the HMAS Manoora, landing ship, and was part of the landings on Tarakan, Labuan and Balikpapan.

@Wayne.J 25 дней назад

Death of Australian PM John Curtin on 5 July 1945.

@MM22966 24 дня назад

The emus got him, didn't they?

@riptidemonzarc3103 25 дней назад

But why are the Americans asking all those Poles about how the war in Japan should go?

@BiggestCorvid 25 дней назад

I clean as I watch and did a double take when I heard poles on the war in Japan. I also once went to a nail salon and saw French Nails and Polish nails and was similarly confused

@lukeclarke267 25 дней назад

Well, the war started because of the poor Poles, so it makes sense they be asked about the end of it...

@petergray2712 25 дней назад

Poland and Japan were allies in the interwar period, owing to their shared enmity with the USSR. This alliance included joint planning for hostilities with the Soviets and intelligence sharing. In 1942, the other Allied governments pressured the Polish government-in-exile to declare war upon Japan.... which was promptly rejected by the Japanese government. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BO-mnNg4iZo.htmlsi=ZEVKVAfW8PvoJ_xm

@thehistoryvideogameandgame4730 25 дней назад

And speaking of the 11th Airborne Division, On June 6th 2022, The Army reactivated the 11th Airborne Division as a Arctic Warfare Unit specializing in combat in extreme cold weather, Their new nickname is “The Arctic Angels”

@TheRandCrews 25 дней назад

Arctic Airbone interesting

@aaroncabatingan5238 24 дня назад

From the jungles to the arctic.

@speedyjago 24 дня назад

Sounds like a Space Marines chapter from Warhammer 40k

@DMS-pq8 24 дня назад

Based at Joint base Elmendorf in Alaska

@chiefkalif9675 18 дней назад

I did a training with the 1/11 Arctic Wolves recently. It's pretty intense. Paratroopers already have to land with all their gear either on them or dropped separately and collected, then march to their objective and still be expected to fight. The 11th Airborne not only has to do that, but also drag a 100lbs Ahkio sled through snow, navigate terrain such as snow dunes and muskeg, and tolerate temperatures as low as -40 while still fighting. The 1/11 in particular is a bit more laid back and expects slower movement, but it's still all very intense.

@jliller 24 дня назад

The Borneo landings are probably one of the most obscure parts of WW2, especially among combat operations. I think 99% of Americans have never heard of them. I had never heard of them until reading Max Hastings' book Nemesis aka Retribution.

@briantarigan7685 25 дней назад

Balikpapan is now one of the largest and the richest city in Borneo, together with the whole east Kalimantan, not just the Indonesia's side,but the whole Borneo, with Indonesia new capital being build there the area would develop even further.

@ibanheadhunter8317 25 дней назад

I'm loving that WW2 South East Asia is getting more recognition to the world. It is such a niche yet fascinating part of history.

@seanlander9321 25 дней назад

The Australian capture of Borneo was a technical masterpiece and easily the most successful allied amphibious invasion of the war.

@cpj93070 24 дня назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂Oh man here he is the Emu is back again.

@seanlander9321 24 дня назад

@@cpj93070 Meanwhile, the British have run away, again.

@cpj93070 24 дня назад

@@seanlander9321 Are you that thick? we are literally in Burma you silly Emu. 😂😂😂

@rajeshkanungo6627 23 дня назад

After the Allies did everything wrong in every possible manner, they finally got it right...

@rajeshkanungo6627 23 дня назад

@@cpj93070 I have always wondered what would happen if you grew a bunch of emus and let them loose in enemy territory.

@nickhtk6285 25 дней назад

I visited the POW memorial in Sandakan. A sad place. Even more sad was the realization that we were still using the airport/runway they'd built with not even a plaque to be seen....

@jasonking3182 25 дней назад

Rod Serling creator of the Twilight Zone and one of the most important writers of the 20th century served in the 11th airborne division.

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

He did, some of his work was shaped in a large part by his experiences of the war.

@gregbailey1753 25 дней назад

I served in Desert Shield/Desert Storm with D/2-187 Infantry (101st Airborne Division) We were the descendants of 2-187 Glider Infantry Regiment of 11th Airborne WW2, 187 Airborne Regimental Combat Team of Korea and 3/187 of Vietnam/Hamburger Hill fame. Thank you for reminding the world of the Angels (11th Airborne Div), one of the best trained and performing units in WW2. I also appreciate Jeremy Holm's efforts.

@archlich4489 25 дней назад

Thank you for your service.

@BenZedrene 24 дня назад

Also worth mentioning this week- On July 3rd, Josei Toda is released from prison after being held there for two years as a thought criminal for opposing Japan's war effort. Before the war, he was a businessman and very good at it, owning more than ten businesses at the height of his career. He was also the closest disciple to Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, who founded the Soka Kyoiku Gakkai or Value Creation Education Society. When he was imprisoned for his spiritual beliefs, he lost all of them, and despite his harsh prison conditions, recurrent torture, finding out about the death of his mentor, and the SKG falling apart, he never gave up his faith. Upon release, he is hundreds of thousands in debt with no means to pay it off, all his businesses failed, the SKG has fallen apart, and he's in terrible shape. But he refuses to give up, and after the war declares to what was left of the organization that there would be 750 thousand households actively practicing his Buddhist philosophy by the time of his death, and NOBODY believes he can pull it off. Not only does he do so by the time of his death in 1958, he also overshoots his target with 800k households and counting. He did this so that everyone could know that they too have the power to make the impossible possible through Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Today, the Soka Gakkai International has an active membership of 12+ million members worldwide.

@rrl4245 25 дней назад

My father was a paratrooper and a grunt in F company, 511th Airborne Infantry of the 11th Division. Their jungle war in the Philippines was much the same as our jungle war in Viet Nam.

@Belowbluewaterdiver 25 дней назад

Back in April I went to the 100th birthday of the last living man in F/511

@bullettube9863 24 дня назад

That operation to rescue Japanese prisoners happened just in time, as the prison guards had orders to execute the people kept there if the Americans came too close. The cruelty of the Japanese during WW2 must never be forgotten! I love the fact that this video series covers the long struggle of the British and Australians in the Asian war during WW2. Their contribution to total victory is mostly forgotten here in America.

@fuzzydunlop7928 25 дней назад

I worked with the US army war college conducting oral history interviews with 11th Airborne vets - what would later help inform the decision to reactivate the unit, or so I was told. Can't speak to the current day iteration, but the original (and post-war) iterations are a fascinating story. It's a toss up between the 11th Airborne and the 82nd Airborne for the "most important" US airborne unit of the war - and resultingly - of the airborne concept in general. Without the 11th Airborne's success during the Knollwood exercises in the aftermath of the messy Operation Husky, it's very likely that no US Airborne divisions would be dropping into France or elsewhere in the war. Eisenhower was not convinced in the efficacy of the Airborne Divisional concept after Sicily. The 11th's CO persuaded Ike to hold the aforementioned exercises which rekindled his faith in the airborne. The irony of course is that the 11th Airborne would hardly ever function as a full Airborne division during the war, utilizing small aircraft to drop companies and platoons behind Japanese lines instead - essentially innovating helicopter assault and airmobile tactics during the war, after which the 11th would become the US Army's testbed for helicopter tactics, as well as becoming the "go to" whenever somebody wanted some guys to walk into a mushroom cloud for whatever reason - they did that, too. In the early 60's (maybe late 50's) the 11th AB was dismembered and its constituent parts were used in the reconstituted 101st Airborne. That's how the 187th ended up in the 101st AB. So not only is the lineage of the 11th represented in the modern day 11th Airborne, but the 11th Airborne is a significant part of the DNA of the modern 101st Airborne.

@Belowbluewaterdiver 25 дней назад

I went around the country between 2018-2020 interviewing members of the 511th PIR 11th AB. I wonder if we got some of the same guys. I found 18 total, now just 3 are still alive

@extrahistory8956 25 дней назад

Nice to see the action in Burma get pretty detailed coverage. The Battle of Sitting Bang shall be the death ride of the Burma Area Army, which shall be reconstituted into the IJA's 18th Area Army in the final days of the war.

@jeremycholm 25 дней назад

Your channel is fantastic. Thank you for sharing history in this way! And thank you and your subscriber for the kind words about our efforts to tell the story of the 11th Airborne Division in World War II and beyond. Truly grateful

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

We are happy to have Brent as a part of the TimeGhost Army.

@kingblondie7075 25 дней назад

Now we see why the Japanese surrendered, Norway. In those days it probably took a few weeks for Japan to hear of this, and another few weeks to locate Norway on a map. Then some library research to realize the Vikings are coming for them. Clearly that gave them no other choice.

@belbrighton6479 25 дней назад

😂

@ernestcline2868 25 дней назад

Vikings are known for spamming their attacks a lot. One could say they Spamalot!

@badmutherfunster 25 дней назад

To be honest if I was a Japanese soldier and a hoard of sword wielding long haired angry norse men rocked up from a longship I would probably shit myself

@aussiedonaldduck2854 23 дня назад

@@ernestcline2868 They also use the highly trained & deadly Norwegian Blue Parrot's in their attacks.

@ernestcline2868 23 дня назад

@@aussiedonaldduck2854 Norwegian Blue Parrots make the perfect spies and observers with their ability to remain absolutely still to the point that uninformed owners mistake them for dead.

@pmwalt22 25 дней назад

I really enjoy how you, through your description of events, place the audience in the moment of time when decision are being made. Your broad approach to all the events in theater and abroad offer a great insight into the thinking of the leading decision makers and their advisors during this time of the war.

@AdamTube12345 23 дня назад

Thank you @worldwartwo again for another high-quality video. I was excited to watch this video as my Grandfather served as a medic in Borneo, he even published a book about his experiences. I too was unaware of the 11th Airborne Division and their story. After watching this amazing video I am glad to say there is at least one more person who will learn of and remember their struggles and sacrifices. To Brig Sapp, Holm, the 11th, and my Poppa, Thanks!

@erikdam8850 25 дней назад

that was one hell of a dedication. well written, showing exactly what this channel is all about: Never Forget.

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

Thanks for watching.

@j.4332 23 дня назад

A large part of what is fascinating about military history is not so much the combat but all the political machinations.

@pacificostudios 24 дня назад

As an American, I never knew Borneo was reoccupied in 1945. Thanks!

@scottdonohue6486 25 дней назад

Well that just inspired me to take a look at the 11th’s war record. Thanks for this!

@WorldWarTwo 25 дней назад

Hope you enjoy!

@poorwotan 25 дней назад

A "Between 2 Wars" series is needed to bridge this and Korea. So much happens that leads to Korea... Start of Cold War, the bomb, insurrections/rebellions around the world, leaders falling/rising, technological changes, economies, mass repatriations, reconstruction, etc.

@Southsideindy 24 дня назад

Here’s the thing, based on what we’ve released the past ten years, why would someone think we’d just leave out a chunk of history like that? Of course it will be covered.

@CryoDesCoberic 25 дней назад

Today being my birthday, this is an excellent gift of history.

@Icicle_Racing 25 дней назад

Happy birthday! 🎉

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

Happy birthday!

@Sakai070 25 дней назад

This is such an interesting time in the war. With germany defeated it almost seems like everyone is phoning it in....except for those like my grandfather in the Pacific still fighting.

@andrewsoboeiro6979 25 дней назад

The Intrepid is still in NY to this day; I strongly recommend it for anyone wanting to learn more about the US Navy during & in the decades after WWII!

@Freedomfred939 25 дней назад

Thx for descibing the atom bomb as the "plutonium" bomb. The uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima was untested but everyone was confident would work. This distinction was confused in the recent Oppenheimer movie. As illustrated in the movie however was the big difference in how much more uranium was needed for a bomb when compared to the much smaller amount of plutonium as illustrated in the movies use of marbles.

@ralebeau 25 дней назад

MacArthur never met a camera he didn't like. If Roosevelt had not ordered MacArthur to leave his troops in Bataan, and someone else had led the forces, history might have been much different.

@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw 25 дней назад

Chances are the Philippines would have been bypassed, as that was very much MacArthur's obsession that he managed to push through.

@enterprise9001 25 дней назад

@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5ywCould would have led to an invasion of Taiwan instead. The US wanted to slice the Japanese empire in two and either Taiwan or the Philippines was the means to achieve that goal. Even without MacArthur’s ego, the American POWs in the Philippines made it pretty tempting regardless.

@graceneilitz7661 25 дней назад

I highly doubt that. You can hate MacArthur, but you have to be realistic.

@OldFellaDave 25 дней назад

The US Navy, under King, who was just as 'headstrong' (read: annoying and arrogant) as MacArthur, wanted to invade Formosa (Taiwan) instead of the Philippines. MacArthur won the argument. So yeah, a MacArthur less Pacific Theatre would have gone that way instead.

@pax6833 24 дня назад

@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw No, liberating the Philippines would always have happened, because it was strategically prudent. Invading Taiwan instead would've been utterly stupid.

@UncleJoeLITE 24 дня назад

So great to see coverage of Australia's war [and with bonus Gurkhas/Indians!], now that it's a strategic clearing out operation. Re those PoWs. My great-uncle was a PoW & yeah, badly scarred. Utter silence about it & he'd eat at amazing speed, even at Christmas lunch in his 80s. As a little kid into history, I was told why he was so damaged & it gave me great respect for him. RIP. _Ironically, I was asleep in AU's odd time zone when this premiered!_

@cpj93070 24 дня назад

And you Aussie left out the British because?

@answerman9933 25 дней назад

I just noticed that the world map in the background shows the Caspian Sea. But it missing the Aral Sea, which still existed at the time of World War II.

@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw 25 дней назад

Press F to pay your respects to the Aral Sea.

@MM22966 24 дня назад

@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw To quote Captain Falco: "DAMN COMMIES!!!"

@stevehansen5477 25 дней назад

The 11th Airborne was recently reactivated in Alaska.

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

@Jarod-vg9wq 25 дней назад

I wonder how Many people in Japan 🇯🇵 have seen videos of there nation’s atrocities in ww2? I hope they see these videos on the channel.

@matheusbarbosa4438 25 дней назад

Well, this channel has no japanese subs (I assume lack of manpower in TGA for such things) so not a lot. There are Japanese video on youtube talking about those subjects, as you can expect the comment sections are a cesspool.

@extrahistory8956 25 дней назад

@@matheusbarbosa4438I've seen the odd Japanese show up on the comment section of these video, but they aren't likely that many watching

@jonnyv9049 25 дней назад

I heard about that it's a completly different thing there like it's here in Germany. The Japanese are more like "War is bad because we lost and suffered". But now they rebuild their mighty Kido Butai, with the permission of the US who wants them as a strong ally for the new war. The war against China. And in Germany the voices getting louder and more angry to intervene in the Ukraine War while the german war machine is rolling like it never did since 1944 producing more and more Leopard 2 tanks and hundreds of thousands of artillery shells for bulk up it's forces for the European theater, the german Green Party, self proclaimed left wing, wants to avenge their Nazi grandpas who died at Stalingrad and calling the german youth again to join the Wehrmachts successor, the Bundeswehr. The two blocks are looking at eachother, seeking for a mistake, and one little bad situation, like the assasination of a crown prince, could make the pounder keg explode. And then we would see, in 50 years or so, the start of a new channel: "World War 3 - Week by Week".

@Motorbronx 24 дня назад

Very good info, love the format!

@indianajones4321 25 дней назад

Another great episode!

@WorldWarTwo 25 дней назад

Thanks for watching!

@enricoflor3601 6 дней назад

Thank you for highlighting the 11th Airborne. We were eagerly awaiting your possible coverage of the raid at Los,Baños for February, but were kinda disappointed to see it was overlooked (again, as in most historical recaps). Just the same, thank you, and maybe have a look.

@alexamerling79 25 дней назад

Great stuff Indy!

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

Thanks for watching!

@lloydzufelt7514 25 дней назад

Another fantastic show

@WorldWarTwo 25 дней назад

Much appreciated!

@andrewroberts7428 24 дня назад

really beautiful dedication in this one

@ternel 25 дней назад

By this point in the war, the wheels have not only fallen off the wagon for Japan, but the wagon is rolling violently down the mountain while on fire. Japanese troops have little hope of being resupplied since the Japanese airforce is non existant and the japanese merchant navy has been involuntary converted for submersible duty. The few weapons that japan is still producing are termed 'last ditch' by the allies. The rifles are little more than rifled pipes glued to shaped 2x4s with a bolt and a magazine. Starvation is a very real issue, especially for japanese garrisons who are now abandoned on small islands in the middle of the pacific.

@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw 25 дней назад

On the bigger islands or the Asian mainlands they could still help themselves to food at the expense of the local population. Japanese forces still control most of Indonesia, Malaya, Indochina, Thailand, Korea and large swaths of China.

@Raskolnikov70 25 дней назад

@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw They no longer had a way to export that food to the Japanese mainland though. Japan has been dealing with near-famine conditions since the start of the war, it won't take long for the blockade to cause a massive famine among an already-stressed population.

@ternel 25 дней назад

@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw yes, the japanese on the continent could still live off the land but in terms of resupply from Japan itself, they were cut off.

@scottmwilhelms2437 25 дней назад

We humans can be firm of opinion or staunch in belief when the efforts or consequences are for others.

@naveenraj2008eee 24 дня назад

Hi Indy Another interesting week. Seems this war going to end soon. Thanks for the video.

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

It does seem to be approaching...

@gilwhitmore9682 25 дней назад

Even though the outcome is inevitable the Japanese are determined to take as many pounds of flesh as they can.

@joeltucci1916 25 дней назад

That was always their plan, they knew they couldn’t “win” as in totally defeat the allies, they were trying to inflict enough casualties to get the allies to lose their will to fight.

@anonymousanonymous7250 25 дней назад

Surprised you didn't do a special episode on the death of John Curtin.

@Tempestzzzz 25 дней назад

LITTLE KNOWN FACT: One person who served in the 11th Airborne Division in the Philippines was TV writer/creator of the TWILIGHT ZONE Rod Serling. From what I read It was very traumatic for him and inspired some of his TWILIGHT ZONE stories.

@Valdagast 25 дней назад

I think Japan's goal at this point isn't so much to win the war as to not lose it.

@RenaultFT 25 дней назад

That's been their goal since June 8th, 1942

@SmilingIbis 25 дней назад

They just don't know they've lost already.

@danendraabyantara2931 25 дней назад

The moment when saipan taken that is the moment when tojo and all of his ija crooks is f'd up 😅

@danendraabyantara2931 25 дней назад

@@SmilingIbisright now japan has almost ran out fuel by the end of july and august, yet japan still want to negotiate peace for rusky lol, what are they thinking

@kemarisite 25 дней назад

@@RenaultFTmaybe the end of January, 1943. There is an argument that the Kantai Kessen (decisive battle) they always sought was the entire Guadalcanal campaign.

@billerator 25 дней назад

What a superb commemoration video. Good call!

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

We are happy we could work with Brent on this, and thanks to him for sharing his Grandfathers history with us.

@markgarin6355 25 дней назад

Nice episode

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@brucechynoweth 25 дней назад

I am going to miss those phones when we go to Korea. And the pocket watch. Time Ghost on....OH, I was amazed by Your interview video !!! You have had quite an adventure in Life...Bravo You old Texan...Well Played Sir, Well played...

@isleiff 25 дней назад

Oh, there are phones again on the korean set, but the design is ... original. The series started two weeks ago.

@brucechynoweth 25 дней назад

@@isleiff LOL, I know, it was a joke, I had commented on the phones on the new series....They were in the time travel/ghost area.....The new series rocks.

@ikopi56 25 дней назад

A slight adjustment to the memorial text at the end of the video. The men who raised the flag were Marines, except one. He was a Navy Corpsman, as was I.

@isakferm7686 24 дня назад

Can we get a special episode or a OOTF-episode over the liberation of Denmark and Norway and the Lapland War in Finland? It is a bit in the shadow.

@TrickiVicBB71 25 дней назад

Interesting Polls segment. Wonder if Operation Magic Carpet will be talked about on Home Front series

@JTA1961 24 дня назад

Depending upon how you word your pole, you can get any answer you want...to this day I refuse to bite...

@williamgallop9425 25 дней назад

How about a video of cargo cults after the war?

@Raskolnikov70 25 дней назад

A fascinating bit of history I'd be willing to be the majority of viewers here have never even heard about.

@pmwalt22 25 дней назад

Thanks!

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

Thank you for the superchat!

@JLAvey 25 дней назад

Comes back to that one word, doesn't it. What they need to do is compromise; word their proposal in a way that it still looks like unconditional surrender to our people while not looking like it to the enemy. Now, Borneo-- I recognize those names from P.T.O. For anyone who doesn't know, Pacific Theater of Operation is a strategy game for the SNES. Came out thirty years ago and I still play through it every few years.

@jamesgillen2339 25 дней назад

"Take a poll! But changing the questions just a little can have a change in the results." As we are seeing.

@pnutz_2 25 дней назад

F for Curtin

@charlesworth8699 23 дня назад

I find it tragic that even at this late stage in the war people where still dying in their thousands

@OdysseusIthaca 25 дней назад

There was a third option. Force Hirohito to abdicate and appoint a regent, like his father did. Then a few months later, try him as a war criminal. He's no longer the Emperor, so the US isn't trying the Emperor, just the former Emperor. The Japanese might actually approve of the subtlety in this.

@welcometonebalia 24 дня назад

Thank you.

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

Thanks for watching.

@galloian 25 дней назад

A good book on the 11th Airborne is "Angels Against the Sun" by James Fenelon. a former paratrooper himself. Just came out last year.

@lewiswestfall2687 25 дней назад

Thanks TG

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

Thanks for watching.

@richardanderson2742 25 дней назад

Leaving Hirohito in place has to be considered one of the smartest diplomatic and militarily astute moves ever by the US. Removing the emperor, much less executing him, would have been tantamount to killing their god, religion and culture…leaving the people little to lose in resisting occupation at every turn. No replacement authority would have been considered legitimate by the Japanese people and the resulting anarchy would have made rehabilitation/reconstruction impossible.

@richardanderson2742 22 дня назад

@@marcel-ifc17 The deeply held devotion of the average Japanese in the 1940s to the Emperor was instrumental in the occupation of Japan. Leaving him in place was the issue being addressed and had nothing to do with whether to prosecute or not prosecute the myriad of true war criminals.

@jimmyjimmy2075 24 дня назад

Norway declares war on Japan...

@UncleJoeLITE 24 дня назад

15:45 When Norway randomly declares war on you, you've screwed something big up!

@markberesford7107 24 дня назад

Indy, you should explain political polls - you have a great way of explaining the nuance.

@Elongated_Muskrat 25 дней назад

Potsdam, July 17th. Something big might happen by then.

@elspurso 24 дня назад

Great tribute to the 11th Airborne Division at the end of this episode.

@1Dropboys 25 дней назад

I wish I could donate so that I could dedicate an episode to the 8th air force, in which my grandfather was a mechanic during the war, he met my grandma who was an English nurse. my dad followed in his footsteps and was the same except during the gulf war. I spent alot of time around b-52's as a kid living by barksdale

@danielnavarro537 24 дня назад

Good video

@WorldWarTwo 24 дня назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@CARL_093 25 дней назад

thanks indy and crew

@WorldWarTwo 25 дней назад

Thanks for watching.

@gordybing1727 22 дня назад

Eric Frank Russell was a science fiction writer during the 1950's, of relevance here is "The Wasp" and "-and Then there were None".

@rb95051 25 дней назад

The point here is that you can’t fight wars by polls…once in that situation, one lead, follow or get out of the way.

@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw 25 дней назад

You can't fight a way by going against public opinion though. Not in a Western democracy (and yes, I count the US as one). The USSR could get away with fighting wars regardless of what its public thought, because the NKVD would visit you and offer you an all expenses paid Siberian vacation if you did speak out, Western democracies don't have that option and need to build a consensus by convincing their people for the need of going to war. Especially back then when armies were composed of draftees, not volunteers.

@KKKKKKK777js 25 дней назад

@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw You can for a while, but yes in the end you need to follow the public will in a democracy. (See the Vietnam war for both examples.)

@garyyork2457 24 дня назад

I turn out to be a distant relative of Andrew Carrico going back several generations to the Carrico's in Virginia. Thanks for this memorial, interesting!

@benjaminoatham8817 24 дня назад

A shame the passing of John Curtin wasn't mentioned. Cool episode.

@maxsmodels 24 дня назад

"Down from heaven there's Eleven and there's hell to pay below; shout Geronimo, GERONIMO" From the 11th ABN DIV song.

@user-iw8pg8kq2q 25 дней назад

Any vids on the Australian coast watchers, and their contributions?😊

@warrenklein7817 25 дней назад

Not aware of any coast watchers in Borneo. Australian commandos had infiltrated several months before landing.

@user-iw8pg8kq2q 24 дня назад

Warren Klein, I shd hv clarified what I meant. I meant in general, the contribution the coast watchers made. Where ever they were. Tks 4 ur reply Warren. Hv a great day. God bless U and yours.😊

@gordybing1727 22 дня назад

Two movies "Father Goose" and "The Wackiest Ship in the Army".