British Couple Reacts to 450 Marines Vs The Imperial Japanese Navy - Wake Island

The U.S marines will always be the strongest fighting force in the world crayon eaters or not you got to admit they’re badass💪

My 6th Grade teacher was one of those 450 Marines. He was one hell of a disciplinarian, worse than any nun. OTOH, when I brought a training grenade, a gas mask and a bayonet to school one day for Show and Tell, he was the only teacher who wasn't losing his shit. That was in '75, but it was still unusual for a kid to bring a fragmentation grenade to school. Nowadays, I'd probably still be in the nuthouse.

As a former squid (navy), I am reluctant to admit this publicly but we are very proud of our marines. They do the impossible and have been doing so since they were first established. The marine hymn is an ode to impossible situations. It mentions the "shores of Tripoli". In effect, a naval officer named Stephen Decatur filled a rowboat with a bunch of marines and attacked a "battleship". They won. Even your Lord Nelson was impressed.

The reason you know the human body is 80% water is because the Japanese would weigh prisoners and put them into a convection oven until they were beef jerky and then weigh the bodies. Look up Japan's Unit 731

I wish you would watch til the end. He usually has something at the end. This one has the actual footage of the one guy saying they didn't have a dog on the island. Not all his videos have something at the end but a lot of them do.

I realize y'all are relatively new to TFE, but you need to keep playing until the very end. He almost always has a little extra after the credits roll. On this one he says he'd have kept the rugs then shows footage of the surviving men from that battle and has a couple of them talking about the movie he referenced at the end. He does this on almost all of his videos.

Wake and Midway were indeed two separate actions. Midway occured about 6 months after Wake

7:30-7:37 American "BB Guns" aren't always shooting plastic pellets, or at least they didn't when I was young in the 1970s and 1980s. They fired a metal ball about 2-3mm in diameter using the force of compressed air. Some BB guns can fire a half gram metal sphere at a velocity exceeding 500 feet per second / 152 meters per second which can actually break bones, and are sometimes used as a means of exterminating wild vermin or very small game hunting

Just so you know the BB referenced, I believe is the older model made of lead and dipped in copper fired with air pressure or spring power. It is not the much safer Airsoft BB made of plastic.

Marines back then were trained in near death conditions But the number one thing that was Trained into them was Accuracy Rifle Accuracy is the number one priority second only to close Quarter combat

Retired Navy here, one of the ships I was stationed on was the USS Elrod, named after Hammering Hank! I was a Plankowner (first crew) on the USS Elrod, the ship is no longer in commission but we do have an annual reunion. I enjoyed this reaction. Thank you.

It makes me very happy to hear our friends across the pond recognize how uniquely patriotic America is.

Wake Island is both a heroic story of what Marines and Americans can do when they are put into a dangerous situation together and a common enemy. It is also one of the most TRAGIC stories from WW 2, due to the way that after doing such a remarkable job of defending their island, they get "left behind" by politicians who were too afraid of failure to even TRUE to get them out. I mean, it is clearly one thing to attempt a rescue mission and it doesn't work. But it is entirely something else to LEAVE people behind and do NOTHING to give them hope, or help.

When I was a kid I had a freind whose father was a Marine in the Pacific War. Actually in the 50s and 60s most of our fathers were WWII vets, some were Korean War vets.

My grandfather was one of the Marines on Wake Island. After he was captured, he was sent to China, Korea, and finally Japan till the end of the war. The high survival rate was partially due to the fact that the camp was regularly visited by the Red Cross and that unlike the Philippines, the island was way too small to march them to death. He still ended up losing a hundred pounds due to malnutrition but had no ill will towards the Japanese people.

The guy tells the facts in a very interesting way. I was hooked.

Former President George H.W. Bush was a naval aviator during WW II. Because he flew Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers, the nickname for the USS George H.W Bush (CVN-77) is "Avenger." That was the last of the Nimitz class aircraft carriers built.

I work here!!! Been here for the past 3 years! The history here is insane

Another David vs Goliath (US vs Japan) story from WW2 is the story of US naval Task Force Taffy3 at the Battle of Samar. This time it's Navy badassery on display. Worth the watch.

My father and an uncle had served with the Marine Corps in the Pacific during WW-2. That's whey I joined out of high school in 1964. We still had some WW-2 and Korean war vets. as our instructors in boot camp at that time. Best thing I ever did. Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71 0331, Infantry machine guns / 0369 Infantry unit leader