WWII Imperial Japanese Army Infantry Impressions: Philippines 1941 - 1945 

Funnily enough our interactions with older Filipinos who lived during the occupation have been quite positive and showed curiosity in the uniforms & equipment

@@hattorihan7503 Now that's beautiful. Reminds me of how we easily loved Japanese cars and motorbikes postwar. Heck even my cars are Japanese.

นายพูดดีมากเลยดีมากเป็นกำลังใจให้ซึ่งกันและกัน

@@user-ov8sb3kx1f i dont speak thai or something

@@user-ov8sb3kx1f โอ้ ใช่ ขอบคุณ! แม้ว่าคุณจะพูดภาษาไทยแม่ของฉันก็พูดเหมือนกัน

Taiwanese and Korean conscripts would have been equipped exactly the same as their Japanese counterparts. You may use the video as long as there is credit.

確かに純粋な解説ってのは、ゆっくり系とかしかやってない印象だわ。

@@jiuxiangzhongdao413 楽しい動画が必要なのは分かるんですよ でも現状皆無なのはさすがに日本人よ…って思いましたね 私の叔父も蒼龍で戦死してますし祖父は陸軍でしたので 歴史を無視されるのはつらいですね。

The clip is from the propaganda movie Dawn of Freedom (1944). So far, all of the photos I've seen of Japanese troops with M1917 rifles were equipped with Type 30 bayonets. It could theoretically fit the M1917 rifle if the bayonet's barrel hole was enlarged but it is unclear if they did so.

@@hattorihan7503Thank you very much. I'm now curious how much of the scenes from Dawn of Freedom are from the actual US surrender and Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Do you know if there are other Japanese propaganda movies set in the Philippines?

@@georgebenta3435As far as I know this is the only one. I think they only reused the artillery footage from the campaign, the rest are recreations made with actual American POWs

Soldiers wearing it this way pretty much show up in a lot of press photos and footage in the Pacific campaigns, mostly while they're on the march or during their surrender.

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Grenades were held in the Breadbag/haversack and a soldier typically would have 2

For tunics it’s usually on the collars. For undershirts it depends on the unit as they can choose to wear it on the collars, sleeve, or left/right side of the chest

The kenpeitai were a separate military police organization but they were sometimes attached to garrisons for occupation police duties

actually madami bago pa man dumating mga hapon nung ww2 panahon pa ng colonial spain pa madaming hapon na napadpad sa pinas kaso after ww2 karmihan sa kanila umalis kasi nga tingin ng ibang pinoy mga traydor sila !

Japan was our ally during Philippines American war

Yes

No sir. It is sad and let no yank lover tell you otherwise. It represents the fall of the old world. But be it for good or for bad, it is good to remember that part also.

They got off lightly

​@@fulcrum2168 For me, as a follower of the Bushido code, death is better than captivity

Should Hideki Tojo be appointed Prime Minister or should someone better than him deserve to be Prime Minister?

Say that to the great grandparents of other Filipinos who suffered under the Japanese

Good for you, can't say the same for the near 1 million Filipino's killed during Japan's occupation. The Americans weren't better when they invaded too.

i guess your mother's family is lucky for not being hunted down as collaborators or as makapili. In Bulacan my grandfather joined the resistance after the Japanese captured and killed all the men in their town. He was the only one who escaped due of him working in the field but his parents and brothers didn't. He fought the Japanese and the collaborators with their unit and they even killed a Japanese officer which he has the katana stored albeit damaged and used as weed cutter in the fields. He often told me stories that when the Americans returned his resistance unit were recognize and supplied with better weapons then hunter down the collaborators, he recall how a woman who often collaborate with the Japanese and even led them to kill people that she hated saying they are part of resistance. She was dragged and beaten to death by the entire town then hanged her body until the Americans convince them to put it down off which the people comply but they didn't stop and mutilated it before being thrown to an abandoned pig farm where the corpse was eaten by the pigs. He later joined in during the battle of Manila as adhoc and security to Filipinos who managed to escape the city and sorted out the collaborators. His last battle was during the push to the north where a lot of resistance fighters and units joined in and capture Baguio. He still hated the Japanese after his family was murdered and even to this day without the apology from the Japanese

@@joshuajoaquin5099 my great grandfather was a soldier of the 1st republic , when the republic fell and aguinaldo captured , he was not given a heroes welcome , rather the country he fought for was looking unto him like a traitor . After the conflict with the americans he gained his lost land to the Spanish and started life as a farmer and then running for a barangay level captain . When the japanese arrive he was acknowledge by them and gave him honorary he didn't expected from anyone , he was grateful to the japanese that they were available to acknowledge his contribution to his country which failed to honor him after the americans won .... After ww2 he was forgiven and the people regretted for looking down on our family as he served under the revolutionary republic , ultimately my family gained political gains until one of our generation decided to drop the political line in favor of medical and law enforcing

@@joshuajoaquin5099 if you are gonna ask if my great grandfather ever became a makapili , he didn't but he served the japanese in a friendly way , he was use by the japanese to do activities in his barangay to do social activities . The officers liked him and ordered him to just have a good connection with the locals and his men .

Probably not. The Japanese military forces used the Arisaka rifle, the type 99. Made in Japan and possibly Korea. Using a rimmed 6.5mm cartridge. The most used pistol was the Nambu pistol. Not a very dependable pistol.

One scene showed a captured M-1917 Enfield. Used by American forces in WW-1. The M-1917 was used by American forces on the Philippine Islands, New Guinea and New Caledonia. The only reason these captured American weapons were used by the Japanese was because of all the captured ammunition. A gun with no ammunition is not useful. The American M-1917 was chambered in 30-06 Springfield. The British Enfield rifles were chambered in .303 British. America made a lot of rifles for the British during WW-1.

I don’t think there were much P14 rifles in the Pacific theater, but if you are reenacting the later battles in the Philippines then you can use it as a replacement for the M1917 Enfield since they are almost the same except the cartridge.

@@hattorihan7503 It's just that this is my only rifle that I can buy in Russia, and they are sold in small quantities, that is, rarely. I wanted to use it for the Civil War of 1917-1922. But I haven't decided to get carried away yet and I'm most fixated on the Japanese army. And, as it turned out, a similar rifle was spotted in the Pacific Ocean. We also have a large shortage of Arisaka type 38 rifles in Russia, it is unrealistic to find them. In the meantime, I can use the Arisaka type 38 airsoft. But, according to the law, only non-combat rifles can be used at historical festivals, namely training ones with simulated shots. Therefore, it is difficult to get Arisaka in Russia.I was surprised when you announced that the price of Arisaki in your USA is very cheap in our rubles, if translated.I use Google Translator, the text may be distorted