The Harrowing Battles Of Guadalcanal and The Relief Of Leningrad | Battles Won And Lost | Timeline
The campaign where the tide turns, kicking off the beginning of the end for the Axis powers...
Across every theatre of the Second World War battle strategies were designed to capitalise on terrains with better access to supplies. Despite these tactics, many forces were stretched beyond their limits, facing unforeseen conditions and underestimating targets. These battles won and lost would determine possession of territory, resources and the strength to go on fighting. For some of the battles it was the victory that most influenced the future course of the war. For others, it was the defeat. From sweeping offensives to special operations, this is the story of the battles won and battles lost that shaped the outcome of the greatest conflict in history.
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My dad was a Marine Raider, 1st Marine Division. He was in the first wave at Guadalcanal. He'd never talk about his experiences in the war, which is par for the course. After his death, I found a shoebox filled with medals, ribbons, and pictures, including a Purple Heart and Silver Star with cluster. I saw one picture of my dad after he was evacuated in November, and I almost didn't recognize him. He was always built like a tank, but it looked like he lost close to 100 pounds. He had bouts of malaria for over 20 years. At my dad's funeral, one of his war buddies came up to me and said, "You know, your dad was a real hero." He was always this little girl's hero, so it came as no surprise. I miss him every day.
that is amazing! thanks for sharing that story. They were all heroes but some like your father was special.
My dad was a marine at Guadalcanal also. I think perhaps many who served in the islands did not care to talk about their experiences, and I know mine certainly did not. Somehow, though, he liked to watch the movies regarding WWII, and I usually got to stay up to watch them with him. Marines certainly seem to make great dads, especially for little girls, and I still miss mine very much also.
My dad flew a Corsair with the RNZAF from various US forward airstrips in the Solomon Islands to attack Rabaul and other places. Aircrew avoided some of the tropical diseases the soldiers were more prone to although his third “tours was curtailed when he was invalided out with perforated eardrums.
Your Dad sounded, as though he was a really fine man! I'm sorry for your loss!
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Thank you for not censoring /blurring this video. 👍
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Leningrad always chokes me up. What those people went through is unreal. Rip to all the soldiers and civilians who lost their lives.
If your choice is surrender and death or fighting to death they chose fighting to final person!
Of whichever side ☹️.
1:48 The Guadalcanal Campaign 1942 12:50 The Allied Bombing Campaign 1942 20:10 The Battle of Dakar 1940 26:24 The Relief of Lenigrad 1944 31:27 The Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944 38:30 The Battle of Crete 1941
Thank you!
GREAT SERIES!!! If you are a huge WW2 person... then you know there is only so many ways you can tell a WW2 documentary... but this series is something new, fresh and out of the box!!
I agree. I have watched many but this storytelling is not exactly like the rest. It broke down into smaller parts than trying to tell a continuous story. There are clips that were new and have not been reused by so many other documentaries.
I agree, excellent series with one exception. The use of un-identified icons to represent each side on the maps is very confusing.
@@pat8988 ...YES! Exactly! I agree totally and in fact, I thought of mentioning that in my original comment but I thought might as well let it pass... but again I totally agree!
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@@pat8988as you watch, the red is allies and green is Axis. It's pretty easy to figure out what is happening by the way the icons are Being moved around
The commentary on Leyte is wrong. Kurita did NOT sail north after exiting the San Bernadino Strait; he turned south toward the invasion force, running into three groups of escort carriers and destroyers. Halsey took the bait. Kurita, however, forgot the whole point of his mission, to destroy the landing force. After a confusing couple of hours, he turned around and sailed away. Drachinifel explains this battle wonderfully in "Odds? What are those?"
Drachinifel at his finest! “Odds, what are those” is my favorite episode of his. Ive listened to it nearly a dozen times and still find something new to think about. And the comment section is just plain hilarious!
Sir !! -------------MY Father was in the 1st platoon to land on Guadalcanal; he was a machine gunner. He contacted Dengue Fever , & " Combat Fatigue " , spent 15 months recovering in New Zealand, receiving a Navy Cross for his time in the war. --------------------------------WolfSky9, 73 y/o
MY FATHER was at Guadalcanal . He and his older brother were in the Pacific for 3 yrs. !! I have alot of B/W pictures of them taken while they were there , SO I always try and watch these films to see if I just might see them or one of them , He told alot of detail about the places they were so I can follow the films real well !!
Have you looked at google earth?, it's all very familiar and easy to see where everything happened.
@@scottleft3672 YES , thanks, not many of these videos show maps of where the smaller battles took place ,
I never could understand why the European battles get all the historical attention? These pacific battles were brutal.
So was mine. Was your dad 1st Marine Div, too? I always look, too. I did find a picture of him in the book, "The Old Breed: a History of the First Marine Division in World War II" by George McMillan.
@@scottleft3672 if your photos have locations you can post them on Google Earth ... great context for people interested in the topic. Perhaps consider posting them somewhere like Instagram as well or official archives. "Unofficial' photos like yours are fascinating and often useful for historians and authors.
These have been great documentaries. Thanks for reposting, I haven't seen these ON cable WHEN they aired.
Untold human suffering for all including women, children and older people. The insanity of war and power. So sad
I would just like to say that the re-telling of military history and wars is invaluable. Thank you.
I recommend to another, but you might enjoy The Great War channel, goes through WWI week by week. They also do between the wars and are on ww2 now.
We have to hope that this generation and future ones never forget.
Belize central America!! pray for world peace!!✌🙏🌎
I like how there's a "competition" between the two piece movers in the "war room". I wish the commercials and the film were at the same volume. I have to turn it up all the way for the show and get blasted with ads
You know I've been trying to figure that out I think it's deliberately done... Never in my life in a history class have I ever had so much background noise as what you see on KZhead...
Seconding Mr. Sewell's statement that the commentary on Leyte is all wrong. Your description of Kurita's retreat off Samar is incomprehensible without describing the ferocious counterattack by the hopelessly outgunned Taffy 3. Kurita, already exhausted by losing his flagship Atago in the Sibuyan, expected to see carriers and battleships. He saw escort carriers and thought they were fleet carriers. The ferocious, suicidal counter attack by Taffy 3's "Small boys"--destroyers Johnston, Hoel, and Heerman, and DE Samuel B Roberts--made Kurita think he saw battleships. The "small boys" and the vigorous counterattack by the air crews of Taffies 1, 3, and 3 convinced Kurita that he was up against a much stronger force than he actually was.
*Well done indeed. Thank you for creating these videos!!!*
I don't mind them....the movements on the game board gives a simplified version of what's being described - archival vision can't do that, and static maps are a little old fashioned. Also, the films aren't just for knowledgable folk like many of us. We surely want to encourage younger people to understand this important part of our history.
Your Docs are rad.
This series is a grand idea but borders annoyance with wave after wave of ad's.
Many historians now say bombing campaign against Germany was wildly successful, just not in the way intended. It forced Germans to pull pretty much all their fighters back to defend Germany, which gave Brit, Americans, Russians complete air superiority over the battlefields. Many estimate at least an extra year, if not more, plus many more tens of thousands of troops dead had they not had that air superiority. For example, the number of days it took for German tank reserves to get to Normandy after D-Day.
At last, a programme that recognizes the few dead and no change at the battle of Dakar as crucial to the outcome of WW2. Historians take note!
This series is good but leaves me unsatisfied, they should have done one battle per episode. Heck some battles should have rated several episodes.
Not only short but random on highlights that leave the narrative disjointed. Only the Crete segment was relatively informative as to how the whole see-saw campaign transpired.
Check out battlefield series. It's on KZhead its in line with what you are after...
I saw another recommendation for you, or you may enjoy "The Great War" (channel name, WWI) and anything else Indy Neidell has been involved with showing either war, or literally "Between Two Wars" (another channel).
One of the best.
Sir ! --------------THE 1st " offensive mission" was the Raid on Tokyo, April 1942, from the USS Hornet.--------------------WolfSky9, 73 y/o
Never understood the Japanese navy flinching when it came to fighting to the death when it would have made a difference!
One of the most effective "small weapons" that were used against paratroopers in Crete in 1941 was a makeshift one. It used a long wooden pole, anything really above 2 meters long would do, with a kind of knife, ANY kind of knife, tied to its "business end". Scores of hapless paras were introduced to the fabled Cretan hospitality when they were skewered by these "weapons", many of which were wielded by local men AND women defending their homes. Even today, ANZACs that fell during the Battle of Crete are specially honored in the military cemetaries on the island. Cretans will never forget those who fought here, especially those who came from half a world away, probably not even knowing the island existed, to die here. This is a debt that can never be repaid. Note 1: Freiberg was either an idiot or totally incompetent. To have intelligence early and not act on it is nothing short of criminal. Note 2: Charles Upham won his second Victoria Cross (the only combatant to do so in the decoration's history) for actions conducted in Crete.
Wonderful material, wonderfully explained. Great work!
I have allways heard of guada canal but did not know what it was
No, the turning point of the Pacific War was Midway, mentioned here in one sentence. This was why the Japanese only operated at night at Guadalcanal and could not follow up victories because American carrier based aircraft would have sunk their ships
More episodes like this
Too many ads on Timeline vids
The war has become a world war, when Brits have promised to protect Poland. Which they didnt. The poles then went to UK, and had the most successfull Squadron of Battle of Britain. Fought at Tobruk, conquered Monte Cassino, fought at Arnhem, and many other places. After war, they were given to Stalin, and were not even allowed to march in the Victory parade. And now Poles in the UK are commonly threated or attacked just because they are Polish, while at the same time UK is giving moral lessons to the Eastern Europe about its racism.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing, Thank God good men did something.
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nah i prefer the axis to win
6:14 some of those Wildcats looks like Mig-15s
Bomber Command’s efforts may have saved Fighter Command, however, when they hit Berlin. The Germans shifted from attacking RAF airfields to trying to level London, giving Fighter Command a break when it was badly needed. And the combined bombing offensive against Germany shifted fighters, along with massive numbers of 88mm guns and the crews to man them, away from the front lines. Was it worth it? It’s probably impossible to say one way or the other. Or rather, it’s equally possible to take either position, and produce numbers to back it up.
I though EERYONE knew this.
Details are important 1st marine division was relieved by the 14th US army corps, not a marine unit.
I had never heard of the battle of Dakar.
5:00 so both of them(both sides) were ignorant against each other!!!!
30:55 facts
Hollywood should make a movie about what happened at Guadalcanal. It would help with their influence in the Pacific over the Chinese at this time. But they would want to include the coast watchers and the island natives who helped a lot during the battle. This documentary doesn't mention their contributions at all.
Awfully complimentary of De Gaulle considering all the antics he pulled especially the last 18 months of the war.
adverts every 5 mins
What is the point of the guys playing Risk in the middle of the show?
To show the geography, and movements of troops. The quickest way to show that info, and they dont talk. I don't see the issue
@@rugratrik cause they are super akward
@@blakemortellaro They are historians, what did you expect xD If you want sexy and glamorous, watch the Olympics or Hollywood hahaha
Your accuracy leaves something to be desired. You said it was two years before another 1000 bomber raid on Hamburg when in fact it was 13 months later in july 1943. Also it would be nice if you gave the year and not just the month. But don't get me wrong I have learned much that I have always wondered about.
Square inch for square inch, Malta has got to be the toughest little Nation, would Luxembourg running a close second.
Nothing about the Battle off Samar. And the Japanese had a carrier...Shinano. (sunk by the submarine Archerfish, on 29November, 1944)
Inaccurate in relation to bombing, after Hamburg over 3000 skilled staff from the ship yards leave the area and they struggle with production
Yes that not was ideological not historical
Good video. Bad audio.
Can you remove the 2 actors? waste of time.
I could'nt agree more ! it's so cheesy
Reagan and Trump? Not really actors. Not really men. Both at one time, both Democrats and at others both Republican.
@@johnkallsen6356 Was that an attempt at humor?
@@jamesworkman6777 they are your heroes, laugh if you want.
@@johnkallsen6356 yikes
Some battles are a actually a draw. The documentary started well...
Vichy France in W. Africa choosing to fight their allied sides French troops is sad .... basically saying “it’s okay we lost Paris and were embarrassed, let’s prove to our German daddies that we are good soldiers”
8:30 KawaGucci
The bait was taken by Adm. Halsey’s unit.
Yep, he under-estimated the bloody-mindedness (read included-stupidity) of the Bushido code. You've just lost the Musashi and you order the turn around and go back? Nearly worked but they turned again! Mindless generalship.
I'm fight with.captain America against hydra. He crash into the ice,and live 70 years later. But mine also crash but into the volcano and when I wake up I were in the kree planets. Miracle...
If anyone knows, was it Fryburg who had men blast out some personal quarters out of solid rock ?
They did a lot of that on Malta, and also in the Italian Alps during both wars. That high mountain combat is no joke.
How can you cover the Battle of Leyte Gulf and not even mention the Battle Off Samar? smh
Yeah...this read as if Halsey played everything right when, in fact, he took the bait and almost got the invasion fleet destroyed. Only luck and some awesome fighting by Taffy 3 saved the day.
48:53 This video is 99% Western documentary, 1% how it affected the natives
Make your own documentary then
Who cares
@@Yeeted_Utensil Joe cares
This notion that "strategic bombing did nothing" is nonsense. Factories were destroyed, factory workers killed. One less guy making shells, that obviously affected production. Multiply that by 1,000,000.
"The Japanese called the main island (says Guadalcanal in a bad Japanese accent)". You don't say?
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*The world needs more cowards to put an end to war.*
Nice historical video....when populations livings under totalitarian authorities...innocence civilian centres are not causing official authority's decrease morale.!!!because citizens spirituality has not any prices inside Totalitarian elite minds but bombarding of industry centres and strategic positions brings positive result
History repeated itself
WAaaaaaaaaaYYYYY too many commercials. Every 30 sevonds
Get an ad-blocker. I use UR (and its no-ads setting) as a browser. Sorted.
14:00 ... for Germany perhaps - but the general consensus is that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did shorten the war with Japan..
They are way off about strategic bombing. They are making a revisionist SJW pronouncement on It. Sure it certainly wasn't moral but the effect it had especially US Airforce and RAF bombing raids on Japan and Germany was to deal critical blows to production, basically tanks, Aircraft, artillery etc along with munitions were being destroyed before they reached the battlefield. German & Japanese cities were knocked down and burned to the ground destroying factories and killing hundreds of thousands of skilled replaceable factory workers. Was Strategic bombing a war winner on its own? No. Did it break the enemies will to fight on? No. Did it shorten the war? In my view yes. Was it moral? Only if you consider it immoral to prolong war. A big problem in my view we have today in the west is that we try to moralise that war is moral and just, this idea has led us into many bloody prolonged conflicts like the Vietnam war or the war on terror, if these wars had been quick and brutal at the start they wouldn't have lasted so long and were immoral in that respect.
@@jmcfintona999 agree with you
The biggest counter attack since normandy was in the Arden forest after those thousand bomber raid, the bombing was killing hundreds of thousands of civilians but it wasn't stopping the army from fighting and production of armaments was at it's highest during that time,in short it never worked.
Lol!!! is that what the Japones call that main island, did they just derived that from the Spanish/Portuguese or Iberian term?
One huge Allied loss: the Battle of the Straits of Messina. This was when the British and American navies cut off the German forces in Sardinia, destroying them as they tried to escape to the Italian mainland. It didn't happen. Huge victory for the Germans.
Leningrad! Noonee ever brings up the shortage of tiolet paper!
I watch
Only two allied cruisers were sunk at the Battle of Savo Island?
I'm pretty sure it was four (HMAS Canberra, USS Chicago, USS Quincy, USS Astoria)
I always say imagine if Japan invaded Hawaii or instead just fought with Germany and didn't fight in Pacific only near homelands
At 39:20 "...so the issue of special rations was doubly welcome." Bully Beef plain, Bully Beef with shoe leather, Bully Beef with spoiled milk, Bully Beef with scorpion, and Bully Beef with slight e-coli.
Too many advertisements
All japanese outside Japan was never ment to return home unless they won the war, they were there to fight to the death...
These 2 turkeys pretending to move pieces on maps is ridiculous. I'm gone!
Best part
Dub-ya dub-ya two
i hate it that the axis lost the iniative. this is my mom's account
Germany lost it in late 41 basically and Japan didn't really have it, it was just a question of how long America will take to mobilize
How can you skip Midway when talking about battles that turned the tide of the Pacific War ? Without the victory there America would still be in defense of not only Pearl Harbor, Alaska, but also the entire West Coast.
The channel has deteriorated with the new production crew. However Midway turned purely on luck. Provided by McLusky. In his excitement he neglected one carrier entirely and nearly did the same for two more. But they were low on fuel, etc...
This is nonsense. Civilians were bombed because they were located near the war production factories that they worked in. These were not to a great extent innocent civilians, they were civilians who were building bombs, Gans, bomber’s, tanks, etc. it would be absolutely impossible in any modern at the time city to bomb the factories without bombing the workers of those factories. Certainly they were innocent civilians killed in mass. But to say that serious war planners on either side were counting mostly on the demoralization of citizens it’s nonsense.
He was wrong about strategic bombing. It was vital for victory.
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My man, why do you always forget the eastern front ? It was the biggest and bloodiest in WW2
If you like documentaries about the Great patriotic war i recommend you the SOVIET STORM .. with the Russian perspective.
I have here in KZhead, and it is a really great documentary.
To all that brag that there family served , did you honor them by serving ?.
woodland mills are not worth buying don't bother
Hmm. Sounds like another case of terrible British leadership…again. Did Mount Batten ever do anything of worthwhile note? Or did he just completely fail all the time. Full disclosure; I say this as a biased Canadian with family ties to the Ontario regions where the bulk forces of the Dieppe raid came from.
Lol, love how so manny of the hot take opinions in the documentary are just malarkey
I don't believe that not a single one airmen British or American didn't question the civilian bombings raids
Of course they did. The madness of it all was the source of much mental illness and PTSD in allied bomber crews
So many African Americans denied their chance to fight and lead
O no, they didnt get a chance to fight and die and got to stay home and work. They were treated so badly.
WW2 was a colossal waste of skill flesh and finance how about them 9/11 war games and put options
Tennōheika Banzai!
And know we're allies with the Japanese 😅
The titles of this series are misleading. They don't match the episodes they cover. Plus the mish mash of battles and dates that range all over the world and all over the war timeline make this confusing and almost nonsensical. Seems very poorly organized. It's too bad because most of the individual episodes are done well. Whoever concocted the idea of scrambling them into this tangled mess of episodes blew it! I can't watch any more of these Battles Won and Lost - they're making me angry!
Russia SHOULD always be our allies. President Turman was a terrible President and started the cold war. One fact that can't be denied about Stalin, he always kept his word from those meets at Potsdam AND from other meeting Churchill AND Roosevelt, AND Stalin. I say this ALL the time I wish Roosevelt would've lived just LIVED 6 TO 9 MONTHS LONGER that whole end of the war would've went down differentt
Wow, Truman started the Cold War? You might try reading something about the end of WWII.
REMOVE. THE. DEDES!! They are so unnecessary and make watching this kinda cringe.
TruISMS HIS-Story not yours.
Min 32:53, Dr. Peter Pedersen: "...all the (kamikaze) pilot had to do was take off, fly straight and level and dive straight into his target." ...EASY!!! PIECE OF CAKE!!! WTF!!!! This "Doctor" doesn't know what his talking about. A rather simplistic and light assessment, to say the least, when presenting the facts. I would like to see Dr. Pedersen (hypothetically) in command of a Japanese fighter aircraft taking off "easily" from an unprepared and improvised airfield in a theater of war, flying "straight and level" in the middle of an air battle, then diving towards the target, in the middle of a hail of anti-aircraft artillery, crossfire, with turbulence generated by the detonation of the AAA warheads and then, if survives that, trying to hit a moving target (a naval ship) that is making evasive maneuvers. EASY!!! These "academics" only knows the theory and talk with a superiority and certainty only provided by the ignorance of not knowing the practice.
Least rewarding actions in history: Allying with the French
Which? The French division that fought for the Waffen SS?
This video has some merit, but it is such a disorganized mish-mash that the good commentary is wasted. The two guys, table, and cardboard symbols are a total waste as well.
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