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Defeating
the Japanese Empire Japanese plans for China as of 3
December 1941. A.
Secure area and restore public order. B. Secure communications along Yangtze River and eliminate enemy resistance. C. Occupy strategic areas. Following the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, the capital was moved west from
Nangking (Nanjing) to Chungking. The city remained China's capital throughout the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 - 1945).
Japanese aggression from 1931 to 1942 Map shows the extent of Japanese
expansion by early 1931, with Korea and Formosa (Taiwan); by 1938, after occupying Manchuria and large parts of northeastern
China; and by 1942, after conquering most of the China coast and Southeast Asia. Japanese Empire in the western Pacific and east Asian mainland mid-1942
China's
War of Resistance The Lost Years of WWII July 1937 - May 1942 Lectue by Richard B. Frank
at the Kansas City Public Library, K. C., Missouri, in 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzGzbP0sKUE
China's War of Resistance The New History and New Perspectives Lecture by Richard B. Frank in 2014 ----------------------
Jap
Zero
Mitsubishi A6M Zero The
Rise and Fall of the Japanese Zero Episode
from Real Engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Mu4jJ0S0s ---------------
The China-Burma-India
(CBI) Theatre
The CBI theatre
of war: unshaded areas
CBI Theatre Chiang Kai-Shek, left; Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang), center; Claire Chennault, right Colonel Claire
Chennault, American advisor to Chiang Kai-Shek and the China Air Force, brought American pilots, mechanics
and planes - called the First American Volunteer Group (AVG) - to Burma
in late 1941, before the Japanese launched their attack across the central and southwest Pacific. The 1st AVG flew its
first combat missions in December 1941. The 1st AVG was replaced
by the U. S. Army Air Force (U. S. Army Air Corps) in July 1942. Chennault was recalled
to the U. S. army, promoted to brigadier-general, and took command of the China Air Task Force, which replaced the
AVG, with responsibility for all air operations in China for the U. S. Tenth Air Force, headquartered in
India. In March 1943, the China
Air Task Force was replaced by the new U. S. Fourteenth Air Force, separate from the Tenth Air Force. Chennault was promoted
to the rank of major-general by American president FDR and took command of the 14th Air Force, with its headquarters in Kunming.
Flying Tigers Join
U.S. Air Force in China Newsreel (1942) (00:03:34) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I36cglDOtJg or (00:02:16) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPE3GwFYYYc
A Curtiss-Wright film (1944) War Department Training Film in color (28 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOIg7JxHQBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BJhUDHS8WY
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlPYOPGfmfc or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7GmffDP-AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x-niV6uSYE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD90PrBvQbs
Madame Chiang addresses joint-session of U. S. Congress, 1943
Soong
Mei-ling (Madame Chiang) addresses a joint-session of the U. S. Congress, with members of both houses, in the U. S. House
of Representatives, Washington, D. C., February 18, 1943 Madame Chiang addresses joint house of Congress, Washington, D. C. 18 February
1943 Excerpt (first 11 min.) Sound only https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktsqzJpZ9k China's
First Lady Address U. S. Congress Newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlSMfF3hOJM Documentary about Chinese fighter pilots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0KkT6zb8g8 Chinese
Air Cadets Win Wings in U. S. Newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlEgaN4IapA Somewhere in America Newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXe-BkhfKSQ --------------------------
Campaign in Burma The Ledo
Road/Burma Road and "The Hump"/"Aluminum Trail" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt5w3vqw_Bs&feature=related The Himalayan Mountain Range, called "The Hump",
separates the Indian sub-continent and China. The Japanese cut rail transport from Indo-China
to China in December 1940. In early 1941, the Soviets and the Japanese
signed a neutrality pact and the Soviets ended trade with China and cut supply routes to China. By early 1942, the Japanese controlled
most of East China Coast. In January 1942, the Japanese invaded Burma and by May 1942 controlled Rangoon and Myitkyina and closed the Burma Road
to China. Supplies could not reach China by land
or sea. Thus, the Allies had to fly troops and
supplies from India to China over the Himalayan Mountain Range - "The Hump". Cargo flights over
"The Hump" began in April 1942 and ended in November 1945. Planes
based in India flew over "The Hump", often
blind through thick clouds and against sudden strong winds. Many
planes crashed in the mountains and jungles. Planes were made of aluminum. Thus, The Hump was called also "The Aluminum Trail". Flying the Hump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiLJdgjs12s&feature=related
Dragon
Wings The
Story of China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) 1941 - 1945 2 parts
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKEII7IeFMs 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr3AZo7mrbg The
Saga of China National Air Corporation (CNAC) Documentary
(2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_NGpcoN17A The
C-46 and C-47 Air Transport
Command (ATC) Flying "The
Hump" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCcJoHhVGFA&feature=related Peter Goutiere CNAC Captain and Hump pilot Interview
(2007) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vePKxxRN7cc 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FqMoywsn0U 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcNTOimokpc 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXeZP-Bjbog 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SghAR1aEZK0 Some
notable pilots who flew missions over The Hump: Dick
Merrill (aviator), Gene Autry (movie star),
Barry Goldwater (future politician), Arthur Chin (fighter pilot). Born in 1894,
at age fifty, Dick Merrill flew transport planes over The Hump as a volunteer civilian pilot. -------------------
In the
Pacific Japanese Empire in mid-1942 Defeating
Japan in the Pacific
The war in the central and southwest Pacific The war in the Pacific from 1943 to 1945
Two coordinated
Allied drives An Allied
advance northward from Australia across the southwest Pacific, commanded by General Douglas MacArthur An advance
westward from Hawaii across the central Pacific, commanded by Admiral Chester Nimitz Admiral Chester
Nimitz and Gen. Douglas
MacArthur
American and Australian landings from 1942
to 1945 Source:
Reports of General MacArthur (1950) (1994) (enlarge to view)
Sea Power in the Pacific U.
S. Navy documentary fllm of the Pacific campaign
(30 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffdKwbsz6SY Attack in the Pacific 1944 US government
film documentary (51:59) The Island War Episode 11 of 13 from the World
War II in Colour series (2009) (51:27) Solomon Islands, Papua New
Guinea, Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands, Battle of the Philippine Sea, Mariana Islands, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battle
of Manila Burma Road, Kohima, Imphal,
Rangoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQWGralFQI8 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUdeorc9JAs or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz7C1ZF3bpU or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS6DFkh2Ox4 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kElOmqsu578 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RHqiaHW4cw D-Days in the Pacific
Death at the Tideline
History Channel documentary (44:49) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzR95ZIXFfw ----------------------
The
Solomon Islands Campaign 23
August 1942 - 25 December 1943 The
Solomon Islands on a globe
Germany
claimed the northern Solomon Islands of Bougainville, Buka, Choiseul, Shortland, the Treasury
Islands and Santa Isabel in 1885. Germany claimed the island of Ontong
Java in 1893. The
British claimed the southern Solomon Islands in 1893 and the eastern Solomon Islands in 1899. By
the Treaty of Berlin in 1899, the Germans gave all of their northern Solomon Islands except Bougainville to the British in
1900. (The treaty recognised German claims to the island of Western Samoa in the South Pacific.) The
Australians took Bougainville Island from the Germans in the Great Wat (1914 - 1918). The
Japanese attacked the Solomon Islands in early 1942 and occupied them. Map of Solomos
Islands before the war Solomon
Islands Campaign timeline: 22 January
1942 - 24 March 1944 https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=8 Guadalcanal Turning
point in the Pacific War Rolling back
the Japanese 7
August 1942 - 9 February 1943 Timeline
of the Guadalcanal Island campaign (scroll down two-thirds of the page for outline): https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=9 The Approach, 7 August
1942 Landing on Guadalcanal
and capture of the airfield, August 7 - 8, 1942 U.
S. marines land on Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942. U. S. Marines Land on Guadalcanal 7
August 1942 Silent
color film with narration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvIYyBlK5OY The
Marines Hymn Kate Smith (1942) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQBGPQCMBoU Solomon
Islands - America Attacks British Pathé newsreel
(1942) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJuRAkwMgQ First planes arrive on Henderson
Field, 22 August 1942. Guadalcanal America's First Offensive Episode
7 of the 1951 documentary series Crusade in the Pacific (30 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpTvTsFF-50 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8JLnJ1jd9Q The Battle of Guadalcanal Episode 5 of Season 4 of the documentary series Battlefield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEZBNqg5Weg Guadalcanal The
Turning Point A
survey of the soliders, coast watchers and island natives (1992) Part
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znbs8_jQJI8 Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZLb6z68v1Y The Secrets Behind the Battle of Guadalcanal Episode from the documentary
series Secrets of World War ll (51:21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5TJMTmxH9I Guadalcanal Episode from the 2004 documentary
series Lost Evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6auJ5bLBE0 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0nyLfx_pWs or, the same, in five clips: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqO32Lpgq5E 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83aDkChnHgs 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lACch-mcJk4 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoq_YpdTYY8 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jbP828i54w Guadalcanal Episode 4 of the documentary series Dogfights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVhdrGKITbQ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqpkoXVmB0 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpOnTOoleJw Guadalcanal Diary Advertisement for 1943 Hollywood
movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IaWMVI0aig or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVleogSXBp0 The movie (1:33:17): https://archive.org/details/GuadacanalDiaryNtsc Guadalcanal Odyssey 1975 movie with Leslie
Nielsen Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La591Fm1kOg (50:40) Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VGji6ynwW8 (45:11) Guadalcanal Episode 6 from the 1952 Victory at Sea documentary series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBcuZOR6ZuU This is Guadalcanal 1944 documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCLT94ea8FI Uncommon Valor The Battle for Guadalcanal 1955 documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4mPmzJ0dUU The Battle of Savo Island 8 - 9 August 1942 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWEEHOKcTnA Bloody Santa Cruz Episode from the documentary series Battle 360 USS Enterprise
The Battle of Santa Cruz Island 26 October 1942 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMFUXz_mqjo or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9b4YnY2Ct0 U. S. S. Hornet Last Hours Pathe
newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr1-BesW1eQ The Life and Death of USS Hornet US
Navy documentary (1943) The aircraft carrier
was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eJhMEErnAM
Admiral William Halsey, commander of naval
forces in the South Pacific, and Major General Alexander Vandegrift of the marines, at Halsey's headquarters in Noumea, New Caledonia
in January 1943. Halsey commanded naval forces
and Vandegrift led the marines in the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942 and 1943.
Personal Health in the Jungle U. S. Army film (1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmKd9DyhH5Y Clothing,
Equipment and Ration Problems in the Tropics U. S. Army film (1944) (25:12) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O386Z81Tq8U
Guadalcanal - The First Offensive Lecture by Richard
Frank at the 2011 International Conference on WWII at the National WWII Museum, New Orleans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFKQQYulHgA
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Japs Evacuate Guadalcanal 7 February 1943 End of the battle
for Guadalcanal, February 10, 1943
Front page of Telegram-Tribune
of San Luis Obispo, California, 7 February 1943 -------------
Battle
of the Bismarck Sea 2
- 4 March 1943 Allies
Bomb Japs in South Pacific Newsreel (1943) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtpMK_sFgi4 Jap
Convoy Annihilated Movietone News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVLV67xILI4 Bismarck
Sea Victory! Jap Armada Smashed! Castle
Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1zPYWc-n_U or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RFGDH7lIyM Battle
of the Bismarck Sea British Pathé
newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgone_pq1tc
Battle
of the Bismarck Sea Applying Game Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DDYtd5FDUk Air
Operations Death
of Admiral Yamamoto Isoruku Yamamoto (1884
- 1943) Bougainville Island April 18, 1943 The US Navy intercepted and decrypted a message on April 14 informing
Japanese air units in the Solomon Islands that Admiral Yamamoto scheduled a tour for April 18. Yamamoto would depart from his headquarters in Rabaul on New Britain at 6:00 a. m. and arrive at the Japanese
air base on Balalae Island south of Bougainville Island at 8:00 a. m. (Tokyo time). Yamamoto and his staff would fly in two
Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bombers escorted by
six Zero fighters. Mitsubishi
G4M bomber, nicknamed the “Betty". Yamamoto
flew in one of the two Betty bombers. Eighteen American P-88 fighters were assigned
to shoot down Yamamoto. Lockheed P-38 Lightning Four of the P-38s
would attack Yamamoto's party while the others were held in reserve and flew at 18,000 feet to cover against possible
fighter attacks. Two of the four-planes turned back due to malfunctions and were replaced. To avoid detection by radar and coastal watchers, the P-38s maintained
radio silence and flew a circuitous route at 50 feet above the sea and below the horizons of islands en route to the intercept
point. They dead reckoned all the way. Yamamoto was intercepted right on schedule, ten minutes and 30 miles north
of Balalae, at 4,000 feet. Frame from P-38 gun camera
footage of the two Mitsubishis Betty bombers sighted. One of the planes carried Admiral Yamamoto. One of the four P-38s broke off due to a malfunction. A second escorted it. The remaining two fighters climbed
after the two Betty bombers. The bombers dove to evade the P-38s by flying low over the jungle. One Betty was shot down and crashed in
the jungle and the other crash-landed in the sea. Survivors were rescued shortly afterwards. Yamamoto was not on this
plane. One P-38, escorting the plane with a malfunction, did
not return and presumed lost at sea. 1. Attack on Yamamoto (00:03:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0onaMrjck8&feature=related 2. Attack on Yamamoto (00:01:13) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iIss3SUMbE&feature=related Pilot Remembers War Adventures Pilot shot down Yamamoto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI6-LmvHucE P-38
Lightnings Shoot Down Admiral Yamamoto Who
exactly shot down Yamamoto? Excerpt from a documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKvJgFldgGA United
Press article about Yamamoto's death. The following
day a Japanese search party found Yamamoto's plane and his body, with two bullet holes, one to the shoulder and one to the
head. The
Japanese were informed of Yamamoto's death one month later. Admiral
Yamamoto received a state funeral in June. Yamamoto's Plane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wza-3AdxnE Recent photo of the wreckage of Admiral Yamamoto's plane
in the jungles of Bougainville Island. Admiral
Yamamoto vs "Bull" Halsey Episode
from the documentary series Rivals! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2obAoxHmvA ----------------
Bougainville - A Step
to Victory
Lecture by Alan Rems South Pacific Cauldron World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds lecture series at the Naval War College Museum June 11, 2015
The Allies flew supplies from India over the Himalayas to
China. The Allies
built a road from Ledo in Assam, called the Ledo Road, to join the Burma Road in Mong-yu near Wanting on the Yunnan Border of
China. The road building
began in December 1942 and joined the Burma Road in December 1944. The first
convoy left Ledo in January 1945. The
Road to Mandalay Episode 24 of the
documentary series Victory At Sea (1953) (30 min.) A brief overview
of the war: The Japanese invaded eastern China in 1931. They invaded Thailand in December 1941. They invaded Burma and cut the Burma Road to western China in 1942. The Allies flew supplies from India over the Himalayas to China
and built a road, the Ledo Road or Stillwell's Road, from Ledo in Assam
to the Burma Road in northern Burma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvhFugfb7Q The
War in the China-Burma-India Theatre Episode 16 of
the 1951 TV documentary series Crusade in the Pacific (30 min.) A brief overview:
of the war: Japanese invade Burma and cut the Burma road to China; Allies supply China from India by air and build the
Ledo Road through Burma to China; Allies retake Burma from the Japanese. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_dBlF84hoo or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtP7o30Igcs or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHH8aEELo5Q The
Ledo Road U. S. army film
narrated by Ronald Reagan (1945) (52 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVyLkG7RXiw Back
Door to Japan U. S. army film
(1944) (14 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mfLEDx0DwE General Stillwell's proposed plan in July 1942 for the recovery of CBI. The Allied drive from India into Burma from October 1943
to March 1945. Quebec Conference 17 - 24 August 1943 Newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM7hUiTYHdg The Quebec Conference August 1943 British Pathé newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usTtob2Sg6w Quebec Conference Movietone newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI18Iw13b6M Mountbatten meets Stillwell Allied Deputy Supreme Commander Lt. Gen. Stilwell of the U. S. meets Allied Supreme
Commander Admiral Mountbatten of Great Britain at an airfield in Delhi, India, October 9, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jWhgZ00W-U Shorter newsreel
with sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nobVfQoKK9s China: A Century of Revolution 1911 - 1949 Part 1 of a 3-part documentary history series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg-PgXt8Tkc The
Battle of China Sixth of seven
films from the documentary series Why We Fight (1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIkrgOmsbVY Front cover of Time Magazine issue of 6 December 1943 Chennault of the Fourteenth Air Force Dragon to the Chinese, Tiger to the Japs In March 1943,
the China Air Task Force, with headquarters in Kunming, of the 10th Air Force, headquartered in India, was replaced by the
new U. S. 14th Air Force, a separate air force. Claire Chennault,
commander of the China Air Task Force, was promoted to the rank of major-general by American president FDR and took command
of the 14th Air Force, with its headquarters in Kunming.
The
Story of the Fourteenth Air Force
1945 documentary (41 min.) (40 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-6x3_gNOBA or (35 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7ZsY4UDmM or
14th
Air Force in the CBI Theater c. 1943/44 Silent
color film footage of Flying Tigers in India and China Gen.
Stillwell decorates Gen. Chennault https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG1HcPgY-ZA ---------------------------
War Department Report Late 1943 documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh0Id9z5M2w -----------------------------
FDR, Churchill
and Chiang Kai-Shek 22 - 26 November 1943
Cairo, Egypt, November 25, 1943; From
left to right: Chiang Kai-Shek (China), FDR (USA), Churchill (GB), Madame Chiang
Cairo
Declaration, November 27, 1943: - Allies to pursue
the war until Japan's unconditional surrender; - Japan to give
up Pacific islands taken and occupied since 1914; - Restore to
China all territories taken from it by the Japanese - Manchuria, Formosa,
and the Pescadores;
- Korea to be free and independent
Cairo Conference
Teheran
Conference November 28 - December 1, 1943 Soviet Embassay, Teheran, Iran, 1943: The "Big Three":
Winston Churchill (GB), left; FDR (USA), center; Marshall Stalin (USSR), right - Soviets to attack Japan after Germany defeated Central Pacific November 1943 - The Central Pacific campaign Map shows the conduct of the Pacific campaign against Japan - from the Coral Sea in the
Southwest Pacific; from Hawaii across the central Pacific; and from Alaska in the north.
Conquest of Micronesia Episode 12 of the documentary series Victory
at Sea (1953) (26:22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-id7unO5Q Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign
1943 - 1944 The campaigns in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands from November 1943 to February 1944 Gilbert Islands November 13 - 24, 1943 Tarawa November 20 - 23, 1943 Source: US Marines Attack in the Central Pacific Makin and Tarawa Episode 11 of the documentary series Crusade in the Pacific (1951) (26:57) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNlAItoodi4 or (25:16) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJujCP3R7hc Tarawa Episode in color from the documentary series WW2 Pacific Battlefront (3 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BV_xZbCTR4 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQTEixRhhqw 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtjuLk7SqGA Battle of Tarawa Breakdown National Museum of the Pacific War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKr8S-Pers The Battle of Tarawa, 1943 1943 Newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0CbzVtmiKM With the Marines in Tarawa WW2 film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4q4NZH-eVM Tarawa Episode from the documentary series The Lost Evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR6g4fBo32w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-YoC53XQVU Battle of Tarawa Pentagon Channel documentary about filming
the battle and the later recovery of soldiers' remains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgdDZQRMMEg Tarawa Then and Now 2008 documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6tTXzKIkAA The Gilbert Islands (Kirabati) Today Kirabati - For Travellers, Not
Tourists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-lPqJtwF0 Tarawa Battle Films 8 clips of silent black and white film 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JZN1rosV_Y 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1z4WPRx3eA 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6tpBUd98fM 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KKzADWUDcg 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bYPCn20cbo 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwyvrFdfbIM 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NgxXhpDdNI 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDlVvGdb42w
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Marshall Islands January - February 1944 Roi - Namur Majuro Kwajalein Eniwetok Thirty-two atolls Yanks Invade Marshalls Castle Films The News Parade (1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWvI0NfXBCw What Makes A Battle? Armed Forces Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuc4dQr75YU or Battle of Kwajalein January 31 - February 3, 1944 Americans invaded the Marshall Islands with landings on Kwajalein
Atoll in the south and Roi-Namur in the north Kwajalein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtU4S7C5GeM The Battle of Kwajalein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkKVSAKYwF0 7th Infantry Division on Kwajalein Atoll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyR-gUKiK8M ------- Truk February
17–18, 1944 Truk Atoll in the Caroline Islands was the Imperial Japanese Navy's main base of operations and
supplied Japanese forces throughout the central and south Pacific. To achieve American
superiority in the air and at sea before its planned invasion of the Marshall Island of Eniwetok, the US navy attacked
Truk, the closest Japanese airbase, and neutralized it. However, the Japanese considered
Truk unsafe and moved must of their shipping out a week before the American attack. Another American air attack on Truk on April 29 and 30 destoyed some 100 Japanese
aircraft moved there recently from Rabaul. Yanks smash Truk Castle Films News
Parade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2DzjQknLfk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-qqTVsrxb4 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4MUh5k1QZI We blast Truk Jap Fortress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvdsz042Izk
------- Battle of Eniwetok February 19 - 21, 1944 U. S. Marines take Eniwetok
1944 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKq1--82qkE
Charles Lindbergh in a P-38 Lockheed Lightning
J in Hollandia in July 1944. Lindbergh flew 50 combat missions in the Southwest Pacific as a civilian airman in 1944. He was
shot down four times. ------------------------- Japanese Balloon Bombs Thousands
of Japanese balloon bombs floated from Japan across the Pacific and landed in North
America from Alaska to Mexico in 1944 and 1945 Japanese Paper Balloon 1944 U. S. Navy film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmZ9aCl0ZgY&feature=related Japanese Balloon Bombs of WWII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NlyJ4Zbld8 Jean
Shepherd, Radio talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_PShtpdQQ&feature=related Japanese balloon bomb killed six people in Bly, Oregon,
May 1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt9lx4wJ1Ag&feature=related Japan's Last Secret Weapons Documentary film about Japanese cross-Pacific
bomb-carrying balloons; kamakaze planes and submarines; and Japanese plans for the atomic
bombing of the U. S. from submarines ------------------------ CBI Theatre (November 1943 - May 1944) The Battle of China Episode 6 of 7 of the documentary
series Why We Fight Directed by Frank Capra; animations by Walt Disney (1944) (63 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iww_Psy4QHo or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1-pBEMCXc Excerpt from above documentary The Battle of Chengde The Japanese took the city but withdrew as the Chinese encircled it 2 November 1943 - 20 December
1943 Chinese troops drive Japs from Changteh Hunan American newsreel (1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuWHXLmD4KA Death and Glory in Chengde 2010 Chinese movie Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkrL-D5GHdQ Movie with English sub-titles (94 min.):
---------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXC-wYLF8dM Jungle
Warriors Unconventional Warfare
in the Asia-Pacific Theatre of World War Two Lecture by Robart Fleming
at the National War Museum in London (Uploaded 2016) Orde Wingate in India
after a campaign in Burma in 1943 Orde
Wingate, centre, beside map, with troops in Burma in January 1944. War in the Wilderness Chindit Campaigns of
1943 - 1944 Lecture
by Tony Redding at the National Army Museum in London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeO_EWVdR_U Burma: The Forgotten War BBC documentary film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9bvTrK-130 The
Forgotton Army British Pathé
newsreel (1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GvYhq4-7mA
The
Chindits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMxco9uUX9E Wingate and
the Chindits Episode from
the documenary series Narrow Escapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP4yqSF4Oso Wingate
Last Picture British News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_MxFCAyI8 The
OSS U. S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Film footage of the OSS with Karen and Kachin From
the National Archives, Wash., D. C. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx7MhLrRxOc OSS Detachment 101 in northern
Burma O. S. S. Detachment
101 Espions dans la Jungle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3CPQNj_aU Project Gold Dust O. S. S. 101 with Ray Pears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKbmCBrWqmk Burma: OSS
Detachment 101 Silent film
footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAvADd_6tjw OSS in Kachin
Village Silent film footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy6GgyZw95k OSS in Kachin
Village Silent film footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzsKn_JvYsI OSS in
Northen Burma Report (sound film
with narration) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf94SDdkC1M OSS
training Kachin, Gurlhas . . . Silent film footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE3j0mwEQfk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xpt_OagORk "Objective,
Burma!" 1945
Hollywood movie with Erroll Flynn Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qv3vdElwKM Suite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbFjSdV41yQ Destination
Burma Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mPCDFHD3Fk West African
soldiers in Burma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWIHOIZVZtE On the Arakan Front British
Pathé newsreel (1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U2bIBWd-aI The 14th Army in the Arakan British Pathé newsreel
(1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwbEeWs21QA Japs defeated
in India
Map from
24 April 1944 issue of Life Magazine Battle
of Kohima April 4 -
June 22, 1944 The
Japanese wanted to control all of South Asia, from the Philippines to India. After
capturing Burma in 1942, the Japanese pushed northwest toward northeastern India. The British stood their
ground and defeated the Japanese advance. The Japs retreated.
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSFXzAoUQrM
Frank Merrill
Merrill's
Marauders Film by David L. Quaid 1944 (25:43) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLp08KhVqo or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un5kb7Xpe5A
Merrill's Marauders
Episode
from the documentary series Secrets of World War ll (51:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF2GwGmANqg also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je3wR0p4QnE
Merrill's Marauders in Burma
Merrill's Marauders
Episode from the documentary
series Dangerous Missions (44:54) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHEQSSj3Dy0
Merrill's Marauders with
Chinese army soldier Veterans
of Merrill's Marauders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgreO4YrO8
Merrill's
Marauders Hollywood
movie (1962) Preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60C-cmbtRDs
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Britain Stops the Japanese Invasion of India
B-29 Superfortress
B-29 Superfortress The Doolittle raid over Japan in April 1942, launched from an aircraft carrier in
the Pacific, was the first aerial bombing raid of Japan in the war. In July 1943, American B-24
and B-25 bombers, took off from recaptured Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and bombed Japanese bases in the Kuril Islands, a long chain of islands between the Kamchatka Peninsula
and the Japanese north home island of Hokkaido. At the Cairo Conference in November 1943, Chiang Kai-shek pressed FDR for planes to bomb Japanese home islands with.
FDR promised planes by the New Year. But they did not arrive in India before May 1944. The B-29 Superfortresses arrived in India in May 1942. Many were stripped of guns and used to ferry supplies over
"The Hump". The B-29 averaged one combat mission for every
six cargo runs over the Himalayas. B-29
reaching China after flying over the Himalayan Mountain Range ("The Hump") from India in 1944. Birth of the B-29 Superfortress "Design,
production and testing of the World War II bomber" 1943(?)
American film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSi5QKDUu8 B-29 Superfortress Documentary from the Great
Planes series or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UDLnjh9Y0M B-29 Flight Procedure and Combat Crew Functioning
1944 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsvLi8QyVwU
Chinese
build airfields for B-29 Bombers 1944 The
B-29 1944 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKlKRaOFPNg Superfortress August 1943 - June 1944 Chapter 21 of the documentary series The Air Force Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxoSQ39GdNw B-29 Superfortress Documentary from the World's
Deadliest Aircraft series (2 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvzeIGzBArQ 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=0emwvceHfts&NR=1 B-29 pilot 1998
interview with a Harry Chagnon
Flying cargo from Calcutta
over “The Hump” to China and flying bombing missions over Japan from bases in China. Flying the Hump 29-minute interview 1.
B-29 Pilot – Training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHOwXTm7MFs&feature=relmfu 2.
B-29 Flying The Hump - Engines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_VUTFG2FI4&feature=related 3.
B-29 Flying the Hump - Aluminum Trail #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfrC9anInro&feature=related 4. B-29
Flying the Hump - Missions #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuwKjz-ZejU 5. B-29
Flying the Hump - Missions #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SltnZzmNsk&feature=relmfu 6.
B-29 Flying The Hump - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCleMqoRU2c&feature=relmfu CBI Hump Pilot Interview with Carl F. Constein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIFmqdhhFso First
B-29 bombing raid of the war Bangkok,
5 June 1944 On
5 June 1944, 98 B-29s took off from India to bomb Bangkok. This was the first B-29 bombing raid of the war. Seventy-seven
B-29s reached Bangkok at 11:00 a. m. and bombed from 17,000 and 27,000 feet. Eighteen bombs hit the Makasan rail yards. A
Japanese military hospital and the secret police headquarters were damaged. Bangkok
was bombed many times during the war. Bombing
Bangkok B-24
bombing raid over Bangkok in 1944 Silent
film footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4LgI0VqhE B-29 bombing
raid on Bangkok in 1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdTYy4G6ROk
B-29 bases in India and Ceylon and bombing targets from June 1944 to January 1945 The
B-29 had a range of almost 3,000 nautical miles. Thus, it could strike a target 1,500 nautical miles away.
From bases in western China, the B-29 could reach the southern Japanese home island of Kyushu.
B-29s flew bombing missions over Japan from China
to the end of January 1945 and from India to the end of March 1945. B-29 bases in China and bombing targets in Japan and Formosa from July 1944 to January 1945. First Bombing Raid of Japan since Doolittle First B-29 Bombing Raid of Japan The first aerial bombing
of the Japanese home islands since the Doolittle Raid with B-25s in April 1942 was conducted by B-29s on 15 June 1944. B-29s bombed took off
from Chengdu in western China and bombed the iron and steel works at Yawata on the Japanese home island of Kyushu. They did
little damage.
The second B-29 raid over Japan in the war on 7 July 1944. LeMay Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, commanded
B-29 bombing raids over Japan from August 1944 to war's end. LeMay commanded
bombing missions from China from August 1944 to January 1945. LeMay took command of bombing
raids from the Mariana Islands in January 1945. LeMay
arranged with Mao Tse-Tung, leader of the Chinese Communists in northern China, to help downed American pilots in the region.
Many years later, in 1971, Mao Tse-Tung recalled that he had an old friend in America called Kurt Lee-May. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grhf7d-29Ps Burmese Campaign The
Stilwell Road (Ledo Road) 1945 documentary narrated by Ronald Reagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42jVEqV6qUc&feature=related Why
We're Here A
Report from U. S. Gen. Daniel Sultan1945 U. S. Army documentary film explains why the U. S. and allies
are fighting in Burma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMpRIdRx0wQ
The
Battle of the Philippine Sea and
the Mariana Islands Campaign June
12 - August 10, 1944 Chronology: The Battle of Saipan, June 13 - July 7, 1944 The
Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 19 - 20, 1944 The
Battle of Tinian, July 24 - August 2, 1944 The
Battle of Guam, July 21 - August 10, 1944 Saipan and the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot From WW2 in Color https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIgpluBCzpI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KxwHFiQbFE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZxfQo7eaw --------------- US Marine Corps films released in
1944 and 1949: Capturing
Saipan, July 1944 The
Marianas Operation - Phase I: Saipan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lunCn70vYhc Capturing
Guam, August 1944 The Marianas
Operation - Phase II: Guam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5U3pWItc6E Capturing Tinian, August 1944 The Marianas Operation Phase III: Tinian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykrYIiSicwI or The Marianas
Operation Phase III: Tinian US
Marine Corps film released in 1944 (4 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGWK4K2xFkM 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRBrdbu_DKs 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KtkEqWmaL8 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK1taTytSc4&feature=relmfu
------------------ Saipan Episode from the documentary
series Lost Evidence 1. Saipan, 2. Philippine Sea, 3. Saipan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWCoAE-mk80 Or in 5 clips: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNusk-NUoWs 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks62ez25alg 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Dvz9tkgI4 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HilugMavRQM 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPm0dyY7it4 Civilian mass suicides in
Saipan Excerpt from a documentary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDUy0uzmaU4 June 19 – 20, 1944 "Battle of the Aircraft Carriers" "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" The Battle of the
Philippine Sea (map) The
Battle of the Philippine Sea Excerpt
from the documentary series WWll
in Colour (referred to above on this page) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jVyixNQhE D-Day in the Pacific https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkxVcqW90a4
The
Zero Killer Episode from the documentary series
Dogfights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Oz4ASZaOw The
F6F Hellcat and the Marianas Turkey Shoot
2
clips: "The
Fighting Lady" The Lady and the Sea 1944 U. S. Navy documentary film about life on an aircraft carrier in
1943 and 1944. The aircraft carrier was actually the USS Bon Homme Richard.
It was renamed the USS Yorktown (CV-10) to commemorate the lost carrier of the same name, sunk in the Battle
of Midway in 1941. It was called "The Fighting Lady" in the film to hide its actual identity. Includes aerial raida on Marcus Island, Kwajalein, Truk, and the Mariana Islands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5JbXRDOP60 Battle
of Guam July 21 - August
10, 1944 The
Turkey Shoot Episode 17 of the 1953 documentary series Victory at Sea The Battle
of Guam Episdoe from
the documentary series Lost Evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bk9kY5rBlU or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9i9TrVE2E or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hBS9OU5eJk
----------------------- The situation in October
1944
Master of the Pacific The The It was master
of the Pacific. With the Japanese capability
of waging war so severely reduced, the Meanwhile, the aerial
bombardment of military and industrial sites would continue. It
was estimated that Japan under siege would surrender in two years. The There were
arguments for and against an invasion of There were also arguments for and against the blockade. The steady aerial bombardment of Japan, even if highly destructive, was not having the desired
demoralizing effect upon the Japanese people that would compel their leaders to surrender. The
longer the blockade lasted, and the more the Japanese suffered as a result, the more the possibility that world
opinion could turn against the blockade. The Allies prepared both the blockade and the invasion of It was believed
that the Allied invasion of the four Japanese home or main islands - Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido - could
be best launched from the island of Okinawa, sometimes called
Japan's fifth home island. From there,
Thus,
the invasion of
There
were arguments for and against the immediate liberation of the The
The
Eventually,
FDR was persuaded by the army to liberate the The
island of Formosa, held by Japan, and Japanese bases on the China coast were to be attacked by air. US
Army Gen. MacArthur, commander in the southwest Pacific (left), US President FDR (center), and US Navy Admiral Nimitz,
commander in the central Pacific (right) onboard the USS Baltimore in Pearl Harbor in July 1944. MacArthur convinced
FDR that the Philippines had to be liberated. General MacArthur, commnander
in the southwest Pacific (left): President FDR (second from left): Admiral William Leahy, (chairman) of the (joint) chief(s)
of staff (third from left): Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander in
the central Pacific (standing) FDR Visit to Hawaii Silent
film footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBEJfDyzgG0 FDR, Nimitz, MacArthur, Leahy, Confer on Holmes Estate, Waikiki 07/30/1944 Silent
film footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q232u5QnAjc Pearl Harbor America's Five Star Heroes Documentary
(2000) William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, William "Bull" Halsey, Douglas MacArthur Chester Nimitz Thunder of the Pacific
Documentary (2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNWXhp9Blqg
The Battle for Leyte Gulf The
Second Battle of the Philippine Sea October 23 –
26, 1944
Battle
of the Sibuyan Sea Battle
of Surigao Strait Battle
of Cape Engaño Battle
off Samar -
end of the Japanese navy -
biggest naval battle of World War II -
last use of battleships in a naval battle -
first appearance of kamikazis
Brought to Action! U.
S. Navy documentary (December 1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I8z64NFCKc The Battle for Leyte Gulf Episode # 19
from the 1953 documentary series Victory At Sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBMrZSOno-c Battle
of Leyte Gulf Episode
from the documentary series Battle 360 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uj1P9YlbxE&feature=related The
Battle of Leyte Gulf Episode from the
Battlefield documentary series (1 hr., 55 min., 20 sec.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=posrOr6jCRQ or in 12 clips: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbPAYRwtpRw&feature=relmfu 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuYGR01gtBA&feature=relmfu 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj4uiDNkcLI&feature=relmfu 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9dd0rS0RKY&feature=relmfu 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tkbuqMuA5s&feature=relmfu 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjNUT8ENbR8&feature=relmfu 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECqZkS9mu_0&feature=relmfu 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgALWo0lJow&feature=relmfu 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNT7AuZinVI&feature=relmfu 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22nWV_NQRR4&feature=relmfu 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEtEPHk4NSc&feature=relmfu 12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EigfX3UcCNA&feature=relmfu Endgame The
Battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf # 14 of the audiobook series Naval
Battles that Changed History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpQYdY51Cf8 Pacific - Leyte Gulf Episode rom the
documentary series Lost Evidence (5 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DapU6pTetd4 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr-qp4oB9ik&feature=relmfu 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihTVPCn6Hw0&feature=relmfu 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJnjZm-Q9Rw&feature=relmfu 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRDbahAA64 Leyte
Gulf Episode from the documentary series Dogfights
(5 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWxcLabPfik&feature=related 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hei7O05_4g&feature=relmfu 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vsVhTe0Do&feature=relmfu 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj6cPaFGkWY&feature=relmfu 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwGAiYNfgZk&feature=relmfu End of the Imperial Japanese Navy Pearl
Harbor - The View from Japan A review of Japanese naval history
1994 Japanese documentary (dubbed in English) about the Japanese Imperial Navy: its build-up
with much support from the British; its victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 - 1905; its attack on Pearl Harbor
in 1941; and its defeat and destruction in the Battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf in 1944. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NDRDVavpWs ----------------------
The End of the Battleship A history of the battleship The Battleships 2000
British documentary series A history
of the battleship Four
episodes 1.
A Thirst for Blood and Iron (4
clips) 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JneQKH_oNjA 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juWrlwYmylw&feature=relmfu 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk16nvq36v8&feature=relmfu 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ikppdbE9fs&feature=relmfu 2. Jutland - Clash of the Dreadnoughts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCH-05Ijao 3. The Darkness of the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otvrS-AYq80 4. Terror from Above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs7OkkrOrLQ&playnext=1&list=PL304ECCA5F418E17E&feature=results_video The Great Ships Documentary series The Battleships (episode
2 of 6) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkWIe7tpIjI&feature=related The Dreadnoughts (episode 5 of 6) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBGlCcPa8XE&feature=relmfu The Destroyers (episode
4 of 6)
The Musashi and Yamato Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato (1941- 1945), biggest battleship
ever built, sunk by a torpedo from a submarine between Kyushu and Okinawa The Yamato Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po0mht6LcwA Formosa (Taiwan) is directly north above
Luzon Island The Soviets, concerned that the Americans would win the Pacific War too quickly,
alerted the Japanese to American plans to bomb Formosa The Air Battle
of Formosa October
10 - 20, 1944
With the invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese in December 1941, President Quezon
appointed his secretary, Jose Vargas, secretary of defense, and, shortly afterwards, mayor of Manila. The Japanese ordered the Commonwealth dissolved in January 1942 and appointed Vargas to
chair a commission - an interim or provisional government. In June 1943, the Japanese Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo, promised an independent Philippine
republic and appointed a committee of Filipinos to prepare it. Japanese newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPf4xoFJIb8 A national assembly passed a constitution drafted by prominent Filipinos, proclaimed an independent republic, and elected Jose P. Laurel president of the Philppines on 14 October
1943. Japanese
newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjGQh4ratqk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrdkHJ5XbFk First anniversary of Philippine Independence October 14, 1944 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckDbfnomuBI This is the Philippines
1944 documentary
Full version (30:14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEUUiUA0snE
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The Philippines Campaign
1944 -1945
On board landing craft heading for the Leyte beach, October 20, 1944 From left to right: Major General Basilio J. Valdes (Chief of Staff of the Philippine Army; Secretary of National Defense in the Osmeña War Cabinet); Lieutenant General George C. Kenney; Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland (Gen. MacArhtur's Chief of Staff); Philippine President Sergio Osmeña (centre); and General Douglas MacArthur.
Liberation of the Philippines
"I Shall Return!"
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Australia (1942)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEbwuehH35I&feature=related
Leyte
Landing
October 20, 1944
MacArthur and Osmena return https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQt3mFr-hU4&feature=related
General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines Speech 1944 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6WioCDbC-A&feature=related
MacArthur Returns to the Philippines Allied Newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gbXmTaTyj0
General MacArthur's Promisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6unvhX418Rw
General Douglas Macarthur, second from left, wades ashore Leyte Island on his return to the Philippines on October 20, 1944. Philippine President Sergio Osmena is on MacArthur's right; Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Carlos Romulo is behind MacArthur.
MacArthur Landing Memorial Park, Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines (2012)
"People of the Philippines, I have returned." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1PF0tAE1s
Reenactment of landing in Leyte and MacArthur wading ashore Excerpt from the 1977 Hollywood movie MacArthur with Gregory Peck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IOugKxTmk
The Battle for the Philippines Documentary uploaded as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSx1X7eSpYg
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2U32LVgFYI 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFMWV_xz-4
U.S. Troops Land in Cebu Philippines March 1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H380Sq4y8FA&feature=relmfu
Battle for Luzon Documentary from the Lost Evidence series (5 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6AwtrclRdE&feature=related 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_XuIfVCILs 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWtkRgVzfV4&feature=relmfu 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-A5KxO4bIU&feature=relmfu 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsCm95vXddM Same in one clip uploaded as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXaE0A7pkDQ
1st Pictures Manila Drive Newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgcjwZMS8II
Manila Free of Japanese Domination February 1945 Newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDx2dvTYizk
MacArthur Liberates Manila! Castle Films News Parade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vz0TUSRGhQ
Manila Retaken British Pathé newsreel
Manila's V-Day British Pathé newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq8r6EQxfJA
Manila after Liberation Short documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIrZ3U3OOA8
This is the Philippines Documentary (1944 - 1945) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0sYBdRrAj0
General MacArthur recaptures Corregidor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuycqjrD-LE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlEC94XgGU
Retreat and Advance Episode 23 of the documentary series The Air Force Story (14 min.) June 1944 - March 1945 Includes story on the 14th Air Force in China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70fTGDdkF1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppH0JLaThEE or Ghost Soldiers
2001 interview with Hamton Sides, author of
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission, about the infamous Bataan Death March in
1942 and the rescue of American POWs from the Japanese prison camp in Cabanatuan in 1945.
The Great Raid on the Death Camp at Cabanatuan Episode from the documentary series Shootout 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZIPsqwnhZM 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahH_clMtv_U 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z8RznAlqWE 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8lg3_Ao8No 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFRoMnfWlMs
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Halsey's Typhoons Episode from the documentary
series Wrath of God (2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4yXC1WwCrs Pacific Force
Closes in on Japs Soft Peace not for Halsey Newsreel Adm. Halsey warns against a negotiated peace with Japan Gen. MacArthur on Luzon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZr60s2E7H8 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7jPiXgLWk -------------------------------
1944 Bombing Campaign
The range of the B-29 Superfortress was
1,600 nautical miles. From bases in India, the B-29 could reach targets in Thailand. From bases in China the B-29
could reach targets Manchuria, Korea, the south of the Japanese home island of Kyushu, and Formosa. From bases in the Mariana
Islands, the B-29 could reach targets in southern Japan - the southern half of Honshu and all of Kyushu
and Shikoku. B-29
approaching Tinian Island, Mariana Islands Target
FIRST B-29
RAID ON
Narrated by Ronald Reagan
First B-29 bombing raid over
the Japanese home islands from Saipan in the Marianas Islands.
First attack on Tokyo since the 1942 Jimmy
Doolittle raid.
The target: Nakajima
Aircraft Company Musashi engine plant in a suburb of Tokyo.
The claim
in this documentary film, that B-29s caused severe damage to
their targets, was incorrect.
Flying over the target at 27,000 to 32,000 feet altitude,
the B-29 formations were disrupted by the jet stream,
a 200-mph wind from the west, and accurate bombing was impossible. Also, clouds covered the target. Only 25% of the planes dropped bombs close to the target and it was barely damaged.
B-29 bombing from 31,000 feet In
any case, precision bombing proved ineffective. Dropped from high altitudes, bombs were blown off-course by the wind and missed
their targets.
Iwo Jima February
19 – March 26, 1945 Iwo
Jima was a Japanese air base. Japanese
fighter planes on Iwo Jima attacked American bombers, which flew without fighter cover, on their way to bomb Japan. The
Japanese on Iwo Jima also gave Japan warning of the approaching American bombers. The
Japanese fighter planes also attacked the air bases recently captured by the Americans in the Mariana Islands The
Americans wanted to take Iwo Jima as a base for fighters that could accompany bombers to Japan. B-24s bomb Iwo JIma on December 15, 1944. Battle
of Iwo Jima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rfsRNeiing&feature=relmfu
US Marines planting American flag on top of Mount Surabachi Iwo
Jima: 36 Days of Hell Documentary about the Battle
of Iwo Jima, including considerable review of the war, in 2 parts) (3 hrs. 10 min.)
Iwo Jima Documentary
from the Lost Evidence series 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xABTXdi_MLs&feature=relmfu 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iqvrXenqTI 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXhs7cXJUM&feature=relmfu 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgXiB-5qrtk&feature=relmfu 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6YsiUtBisY The
capture of Iwo Jima knocked out Japan's advance warning system and offered a base for fighter planes to accompany B-29s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqbHflC1tkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh5OlT-cslQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TOj0Bru3nk B-29s took off on bombing
missions from their bases in the Mariana Islands. Fighter planes on Iwo Jima accompanied the B-29s to Japan. -------------------------
Pouring
it on Bombing of Japan Intensifies Bombing Tokyo 1945 Major-General Curtis Lemay at a briefing. B-29s bombing with napalm from low altitude. The first low-level fire raid on Tokyo Operation Meetinghouse The Great Tokyo Air Raid 325 B-29s Night of 9 - 10 March 1945 This raid has been called the deadliest air raid of the entire war and the deadliest
air raid in history. B-29s dropping canisters of phosphorus in a firebomb raid of Tokyo
on 10 March 1945. A fire raid on 10 March 1945 burned more than 15 square
miles of Tokyo's industrial centre and world's most populous area. In the above photo, Major-General LeMay, centre, with pipe, Commander of the 21st Bomber Command, and
Brigadier General Lauris Norstad, Chief of Staff for the 20th Air Force, receives a resume of the raid from Brigadier-General
Thomas S. Power (on the right), Senior Officer on the raid and leader of the B-29 units from Guam. Other
units flew from Tinian and Saipan. The bombers flew in single file at 5,600 feet over eastern Tokyo.
The first planes, to mark the target, arrived shortly after midnight. Eastern Tokyo was laid bare.
An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Japanese were killed and one million made homeless. Fourteen American
planes and some 96 men were lost, less than the 5% Lemay had anticipated.
------------ B-29s fly by Mount Fuji on their way to Tokyo Interview with Harry Chagnon, B-29 pilot, 1998 (cont.) Flying bombing missions over Japan from Tinian 7. B-29 - Marianas - Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O3E3WqJKec&feature=relmfu 8. B-29 Marianas - Precision Bombing https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=UgO4S7umEBU&feature=relmfu 9. B-29 Pilot - Missions - Bombing Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rH6kKeibFU&feature=relmfu 10.
B-29 Marianas – Iwo Jima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y7RdF5hR7A&feature=relmfu 11. B-29
Marianas - Last Mission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vxQepqC3pE&feature=relmfu Firebombing Japan March to August 1945 Bombing military and industrial sites in Germany and Japan
with high explosives was destructive but more was needed. Thus, the firebombing of the German city of Dresden in February
1945. And thus the firebombing of Japanese cities - with high-incendiary phosphorus causing "firestorms". Firestorm rages across Tokyo after B-29 night firebombing raid Tokyo on fire Yokohama ablaze
after B-29 firebombing Target Invisible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RDjlYNqcwA Firebombing Tokyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FxZF3FkmtU&feature=related Proportionality A Guideline
in War? Interview with Robert S. McNamara https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=pmJDj-oLYyM&NR=1 or Robert McNamara
on bombing Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdmfPThGZ-s&list=LPRwFwI_nTb9c&index=3&feature=plcp
Firebombing Tokyo A talk from the Lessons
Learned series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdAvWfVD5Fk B-29 Firebombing
of Japan Documentary about the firebombing of Japan from the Battlefront series
(3 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivHbs6DnZ-s 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FD1IXWqKos&playnext=1&list=PL66F09569A8639B98&feature=results_video 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTMOK9Wnh3Q
The
same in 4 clips: 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Aj9Jw5MXo 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEMgA9LKrmE&feature=related 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wItTcDaMvTg&feature=related 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hMf-bnjwG8&feature=related ----------------
Okinawa April
1 – June 22, 1945 Gateway
to Japan Japan's
fifth home island Dress
Rehearsal for the Invasion of Japan Last
Great Battle of World War II At
Japan's Doorstep - Okinawa Episode
20 of the documentary series Crusade in the Pacific (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvfeFoueb3c or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM0x_z3cB5w The
US 6th Marine Division on Okinawa Marine Corps movie
(1945)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCpeVzZB2aM Okinawa Episode from
the documentary series Lost Evidence series (5 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1aIwZcvck&feature=related 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbx-2PX27Mo&feature=relmfu 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdUGpUBpWlY&feature=relmfu 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPEZKQxFW4A&feature=relmfu 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucfZz0gI_qU Destination Okinawa Episode from the Battlefield documentary series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQa8jxAI-A or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rEMOxCgjFI or
in 11 clips: 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9tDRXlrHT8 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL5EwB4Ie2U 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5C4pEfRxMM&feature=relmfu continued . . .
The fleet
that came to stay US Navy/Marine Corps/Coast
Guard film of combat on Okinawa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv6xP95AtaU
-------------- Japanese warned to surrender US President Truman warns Japs to give
up June 7, 1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InTPC6oylK8&feature=related -----------------
Allied Plan to Invade Japan 1945 - 1946 Operation Downfall X-Day set for November 1, 1945
Four maps, one for each of the four Japanese home islands: Hokkaidō, Honshū (the "mainland"), Shikoku and
Kyūshū. 22 August 1945 The Allied plan to invade the Japanese home islands was called Operation Downfall. The Allies, led by the Americans, planned to invade Japan in two
separate attacks. The first attack, called Operation Olympic, would be on the southern island
of Kyusha, launched from the south and southeast. It was scheduled for November 1945. The second attack, called Operation Coronet, would be on the main Japanese
home island of Honshu, launched from the east. It was scheduled for March 1946. The invasion would cost an estimated 2 million American casualties. X-Day:
The Plan to Invade Japan 2005
History Channel documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUUV7TJQf90 Currently available in Spanish: Dia
X La invasion de Japon - Episodio 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt8BFErV85c Episodio 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AfkHEt6rgw The Invasion of Japan Operation Downfall
Operation Olympic Scheduled
for November 1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2NZVQzfAbo Japan: The
Invasion That Never Was Episode
from the documentary series Secrets of War narrated by Charlton Heston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN29KqVIYrQ Nuking Japanese Beaches? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIY1-TYirIw
------------ The Submarine
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBLvrtyLvB8 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WAxMAMpNNQ 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pRlD7zbFwg 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFqXk9QwUC4 The submarine in the Pacific War Japan had the best and most diverse submarine
fleet in the war. It built the biggest and fastest submarines. Japan had also the best torpedoes. American submarines
- less than 2 percent of the U. S. navy - sank over one-third of the Japanese navy. Of 25 Japanese carriers, 20 were sunk
- eight by American submarines. American submarines
sank about two-thirds of the Japanese merchant marine. Japanese submarines were used mostly against warships and thus sank far fewer
American merchant ships. In the Pacific
war, the Americans lost 52 of 336 submarines. The British lost three subs. The Japanese lost
128 of 174/186 submarines, more than two-thirds of its submarine fleet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74U8AM3MGzs The second film can be viewed separately as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mxzKuzN4wc or as
The
War against the U-Boats Episode 2 of the Battlefield documentary
series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHY1M2TkSro Or in 10 clips: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZdiAEz6AoU continued
. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A4JIYBtImI or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBx2Bu-jnOs --------------------- CBI map
goes here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyflv3YjpTI
Churchill, Auchinleck,
Wavell, Slim, Wingate, the Indian Army and CBI What
Churchill left out Some thoughts on Churchill, India and WW2 Lecture by Raymond Callahan at the Winston Churchill Symposium at the National
WW2 Museum, New Orleans, La., 2011 (1:12:04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l7feDDRpVM
The
Forgotten Army Indian documentary about the INA (c. 1995) Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcgLbAbzzGY Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOEijhpOFko Aung San of Burma Htein Lin ("Aung San") (1915 - 1947) was a Burman, the ethnic majority in
Burma. Aung
San was a nationalist and opposed to British colonial rule in Burma. Aung
San was one of the founders of the Burmese Communist Party in 1939. With the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), Aung San organised and
led a collaborationist Burmese army, called the Burma Independence Army (BIA), which accompanied the IJA in its
invasion of Burma from Thailand in 1942 and fought against the Allies. BIA
soldiers destroyed many villages of the Karen, a large ethnic minority, and massacred many Karens. Aung
San and the IJA set up the collaborationist provisional Burmese government headed by Ba Maw in 1942. Burma Independence 1942 Japanese set
up Burmese government, August 1942 Japanese newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML5lWWCfgRM One year later, in 1943, Japan granted Burma independence, Burma formally became a partner of Japan and declared
war on Britain and the U. S. The BIA, renamed the Burma National Army (BNA) by the Japanese, fought against the guerrillas of the Karen, Kachin,
Chin, Mon and other ethnic groups allied to the Americans and British. As
the tide of war turned in 1944, Aung San decided to go over to the Allies. In mid-May 1945, after considerable negotiation, Admiral Louis
Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of Southeast Asia, accepted Aung San's offer to join the Allies against the Japanese.
Aung San, in light khaki,
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