What Happened After Guadalcanal? - Central Solomons Campaign - PACIFIC WAR 

There is a time stamp to find what it was released already on previous videos and those reserved for patrons?

Will you tackle Majapahit kingdom aswel. We really like the classical conquest

Hello Kings and Generals, don't forget about "Dutch East/Indonesian campaign" full video on RU-vid. Just keep doing to upload new video about second world war 😊.

Wizards and warriors has a 4 and a half video on warhammer

​@npierce14 this is just a 3 hour video of a much much larger series on the pacific war. He was talking about the entire series, not this video.

@@frantictoast3741 you are so right idk what I was even thinking they started doing these Videos 2 years ago and roll 1 sometimes 2 out every week

@@npierce14 so why are you using a 4 and a half long video from a different channel as an example to try to compare it to their longest running series that clocks well, well, well over 4 and a half hours long?

@@frantictoast3741 ……I literally just said you were right and idk what I was thinking and W&W is the same channel bro that’s why they have it linked on here

Thank you

Please "No bended Knee" Merrill B Twining.

If I was a history teacher, I would probably get in trouble for showing too much RU-vid videos to the students. Honestly a lot of great history channels on RU-vid that I’ve learned a lot more from than I ever did in history class. But that’s the American public school system at work for ya.

I don't remember learning anything about WW2 in high school. We learned about Hannibal crossing the Alps & other ancient battles like Agememnon sacking Troy cuz his brother's wife ran away with the Prince of Troy. Stupid kid got his whole family & kingdom killed & ransacked over a piece of ass. I think that they covered the Pearl Harbor attack & the atomic weapons being dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki but pretty much nothing in between. And I always wondered what happened for the 4 years in between. I don't even remember learning about the Battle of Midway in school. Or the Battle of Britain. I learned about all of that simply by reading books. I would hear about stuff in movies & knowing you can't trust Hollywood to give a clear picture of what happened, even when they are trying. If something interested me I'd hit the library to see what I could find. And in the words of JRR Tolkien... "If you want to find something, there is nothing like looking. You don't always find what you were looking for but you usually find something." That is a statement that will probably forever remain true. And in a quest for knowledge of what happened.. there are two sides to every story & the truth lies somewhere in between them. And then there are facts too. A fact is something that is the truth no matter what side you are on.

"little less known" is what every one says about every other battle/campaign ever. I know the Marines dont live on laurels but the "1" on the blue diamond literally stands for Guadalcanal. The story got around.

@@Person0fColor no shit, anywhere the marines go it’ll get around, but compared to other campaigns especially in Europe, this is a bit lesser known.

@@Person0fColor Yet, this very battle is about the Battle for New Georgia, which is indeed seldom covered in most documentaries (even most Pacific-centric documentaries ignore it in favor of skipping to the Battle of Tarawa).

Was your grandpa in the 25th Infantry? Mine was. He served in all campaigns in WWII.

@@Scott-kc5fg lemme look at my Grandpa's records & I'll get back to you. My gut tells me he was 3rd Marines.

I was DEVESTATED when that happened. 😥

@@blockmasterscottI was too I have ADHD and can’t watch the long form videos

Nothing would have happened, by February 1942 the Japanese are already over extending their lines just 3 months after Pearl. By September while the Japanese and the Marines are battling for Guadalcanal America is already on a war footing that Japan cant match, The liberty merchant ships by September 1942 are being made in 4 weeks flat, the Robert E Peary is built that autumn in just 4 days. The Japanese cannot build like the Americans and once production outpaces tonnage sunk its all over for Germany and Japan. What if the Marines had a fully equipped marine division prior to Pearl? What if during the 30's we heeded Japan's challenge and after the dissolution of the five power treaty we just went ahead and started building aircraft carriers the way the Japanese did? Oddly enough Japan and Germany's best course of action would have been to keep the Americans out of the war, but for Japan this was impossible buts its only America's commitment to non intervention isolationism that allows the German and Japanese empire to grow. The minute America is pulled into war with Japan and then Germany the war is lost. Japan didnt do enough at Pearl, Coral Sea and Midway, maybe they couldve pounded the Americans so hard they would have lost the stomach for a fight, which I doubt, but by Guadalcanal the ship has already sailed and the Japanese while they still have naval superiority are really having their own strategy turned against them. Yamamoto wanted to draw out the PACFleet for a decisive engagement, but what is actually happening is the Japanese Navy is the one being drawn into naval engagements it cant afford to lose or even draw, it must deliver the knockout blow. Guadalcanal for the Japanese was a great expenditure of men and material, for the Americans its a morale booster and gives America some experience with their new enemy. Same thing happened during the American civil war so long as the South was in the union is could sure up its interest in slavery and defend it through the SCOTUS and President and senate and congress, but the minute they become radical secessionists and declare the only way to defend it is through a policy of war and aggression thats the minute they lose control of the situation which is what war really is. Its an admission that you can no longer defend your interests through conventional means. The Japanese for decades were involved in Navy conventions and peace treaties with the Western powers, once Japan realizes they can non longer obtain their national goal through these means they seek a policy of war and aggression.

@@Person0fColor Counterfactuals are always tricky, but specifically at the start of Watchtower, American resources were very limited. They had a big division but not all their equipment and 3 good regiments. With collaboration between the army and navy the Japanese had more resources than that -- just ended up delivering the piecemeal and launching unfounded attacks. Now if your point is that the US could have survived a loss at Guadalcanal with little to no long term impact, I agree. In all probability in just means that they progress through the central pacific as their greater resources start to come online. Once they have Essex class carriers with Hellcats everything that follows is just a matter of time and a loss on Guadalcanal might actually have led to more resources being allocated to the Pacific. (Actually I think everything is a matter of time after Midway and after the US sorts out their torpedo issues) I'm thinking specifically of Guadalcanal itself which from the Japanese point of view is a study in disfunction. A loss on Guadalcanal would never have made the Americans give up.

@@ronjohnson6916nonsense. Guadalcanal was unholdable. Even if it was held it would’ve been bypassed. You sound delusional

@@rohanthandi4903 Invective doesn't make an opinion more compelling. The loss of the First Marines was certainly possible at the time -- Vandergrift was concerned about that possibility. Does it change the eventual outcome of the war? No Does it change the outcome of the next few months? Yes.

@@ronjohnson6916 my bad totally confused u for another guy who was trolling lol

15 months? dood 2nd Marine Raider Bn was in action 8 months to the day after Pearl, what you mean 15 months?

@@Person0fColor Damn, I forgot about them taking the airfield in August, I had too much tunnel vision on thinking about the Solomon Campaign in the beginning of 43 lol.

No it wasn’t lol

Nope, just only one of the few you have seen. Tubi has the best documentaries for Marines in the Pacific hands down

Indeed. Kursk, Tunisia, New Georgia, Operation Cartwheel, the North Burma campaign, the Dniper River crossings, Sicily and Italy, etc. 1943 was a very busy year for both the Allies and Axis, as well as the year where things turned decidedly on the Allies' favor.

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Wow what an awesome idea! I would buy this.

He was a moron

Challenging maybe for a minimum wage worker

@@rohanthandi4903 ​in the beginning of this Pacific War project K&G stated that each week (Tuesday) they would release a Pacific War video which matches the current calendar. That was done for over 100 episodes and I watched them all. That pacing gave gave a sense of how the battles progressed. K&G then stopped those weekly releases for non paying viewers due to needing more funding from viewers. Now we have 3 hour + videos. * In the prior weekly format there would be a focus on one aspect of the Pacific War campaigns. It started with weekly videos about the causes of the war. Then it moved to campaigns in Singapore and the Philippines. One week it would be the Aleutian Islands. Another week it would switch to Burma. Another week it would go back to Guadalcanal. Another week it would focus on the New Georgia campaign and the battle of Munda Point. Several weeks were spent on the New Guinea campaign. The weekly releases fitting the current calendar was the preferred format by K&G. It gave a sense of how the generals and admirals of each side were countering each other’s moves. It was very interesting to see the details of that strategic chess match. But eventually a viewer had to pay see that. Now we have the combined videos which do not have the weekly focus on the minute strategic detail of the original K&G videos.