Angels of Bataan - US Army Nurses in Japanese Captivity

The story of the brave US Army nurses abandoned to the enemy at the fall of Corregidor Island to the Japanese following the long Bataan Peninsula battle in the Philippines, and their imprisonment at Santo Tomas Camp in Manila.
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[@smsediting6985]

The lady standing up in the back of the truck wearing the boony hat is my wife’s aunt Mary. She stayed in the army and retired out as a major. We have all her uniforms.

[@ivywilliams4258]

Hats off to their service... Lest we forget.

[@VVtos174]

Did she give handys?

[@weebmedaddy1919]

@@VVtos174 bro wtf

[@gregw3044]

@@VVtos174 you wildin’ 🤣

[@BrendainPA]

@@VVtos174 That's ignorant

[@beanhavok2287]

In 1998 I was working door to door. I was in a retirement community in Indianapolis. I walked into a very nice ladies apartment and she had World War II memorabilia EVERYWHERE in her apartment. I asked her about it and we began talking about it. AS IT TURNED OUT, she was one of these nurses. I wish I had said more to her and had spent more time with her. She was an incredible friendly and loving lady. But I was working and had to answer for the time I spent everywhere. It would have been great to spend HOURS with her.

[@manwithmountain]

imagine the stories she would have told. That would have been awesome.

[@bsolutions525]

Too late now...

[@scottessery100]

@@bsolutions525 a bit callus mate

[@garymckee448]

It would have been a great opportunity to hear history from her.

[@stevovimy]

Of course you did mate......

[@chrisdevitto4340]

I was raised by a Navy nurse who was a prisoner in the Philippines her husband was a Navy engineer who died in a prison camp. She and her husband were in Japan before the war. They entertained pro baseball players, Babe Ruth, Lefty Odule and many others before the war. One story she told me was that while in prison camps Japanese guards would slaughter an ox and only allow the prisoners to suck the blood out of the dirt. She hated the Japanese till the day she died. I asked her what was the secret of dealing with the experience -- her only words to me was to survive. She died days later. Her name Teresa Robinson. She wrote a manuscript of her experiences it has yet to be published. She was a tough but forgiving woman. She loved her San Francisco Giants. When she told me of her rescue by American forces she was gleeful describing how they cut down the Japanese with tommy guns.

[@julz3tt3]

You should look into publishing her manuscript in her honor. Xoxo

[@PolGara0139]

I came across a KZbin video a few years ago about a Theresa Robinson, is thst her?

[@andrewbarry6702]

God rest her soul 🙏

[@stevemiller7433]

My Mother was a nurse on Kwajalein Island during the war. As a young woman she moved to Joliet Illinois and became an RN, studying at Silver Cross Hospital to escape the life on a tenant farm in Illinois, where she and her many siblings lived in a house with no indoor plumbing and her father made a living as a coal miner during the depression. She, of course, signed up for the Army nurse corps after Pearl Harbor. She worked with 8 other nurses in a hospital on Kwajalein taking care of Marines, she attained the rank of Captain, I have her Captains bars and cherish them. She met my father after the war in college where she obtained her bachelor's degree in nursing, paid for by the GI bill... I found out after her death that she had been engaged to a Marine during the war. While on Kwajalein she heard he had been killed on Iwo Jima. My mother's life had been one of extreme hardship overcome, and it left it's mark on her.. but her service in the Army Nurse Corps was, in her words, the accomplishment for which she was the most proud.

[@benadam7753]

God Bless your mom for her service!

[@davedduchene]

Truly, the greatest generation.

[@thunderbird1921]

I read the tragic story recently about a young American WAC serving in Britain who was so madly in love with her serviceman boyfriend that she married him in 1943 (rather than wait until after the war). Then, around D-Day he was killed. The local British ladies did their best to comfort her and remember him (they built some temporary memorial in the town where he had been stationed with his fellow GIs), but this is why so many waited to marry until 1945 (when the war was winding down or actually over). You had no idea what could happen to them. Absolutely heartbreaking. Thanks for sharing your mom's story.

[@jaygee4345]

My childhood was filled with trips to Silver Cross for stitches & casts

[@IntheBlood67]

De Oppresso Liber!

[@michaelbrennan7798]

Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel survived many atrocities at the hands of the Japanese during WW2 and became a national icon. Dr. Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop , Australian Army surgeon,survived the Burma railway construction and went on to become another national icon. Their stories are both inspirational and humbling.

[@Kingmick58]

Indeed Michael.

[@bloodybones63]

Starts the whistle in my head....

[@faylea-smith1037]

I had the honour of assisting Weary in the operating theatre in 1971 at the end of his career. A bit of gossip but he had a blood nose from an altercation with another driver on the way to the hospital.

[@chrisholland7367]

I did hear that the Australian military nurses were forcibly placed on ships some at gunpoint by orderlies onto ships as Singapore was falling. The ship carrying these nurses was bombed and sunk however some survived and made it ashore only to be machine gunned by the Japanese with only one surviver to bear witness to the massacre.

[@faylea-smith1037]

@@chrisholland7367 correct, Vivian Bullwinkle was her name. She was shot I the hip I believe.

[@8fox261]

My father was a WWII veteran who emigrated to the US in the late 1920's. Drafted into the US Army in 1941 he was soon recruited by Army Intelligence to Radio School. In early 1942 he reinserted to the Philippines via submarine to enhance intelligence gathering on Japanese troop strength on Leyte. Apparently he (and his fellow radio operators) was so effective the Kempeitai put a 10,000 peso price on his head. For his actions the US Army awarded him a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars (with 'V' for Valor), 2 Purple Hearts, and a CIB (Combat Infantryman's Badge).

[@stephaniek1076]

Wow...I'll bet u are rightfully proud of his dedicated and meritorious service. Thank you for sharing.

[@Firefighter2539]

Being Special Forces before you even know there are Special Forces 🤔.

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

I read a book about some of the atrocities these nurses faced. 1. Considered as "expendable" by their own government and country. 2. All of these nurses should have received recognition. 3. It shouldn't take 40 years to recognize the services of 1 or 2 nurses. What they endured. Their accomplishments and heroism are far beyond what is NORMAL EVERYDAY DUTIES.

[@thomashogan9196]

1) The US planned to send relief to the Philippines. That's why the US fleet was moved to Pearl Harbor in 1940. At that time, the US fleet outnumbered the Japanese in Battleships. On December 8, 1941, that wasn't true anymore. The US Asiatic Fleet was grossly outnumbered and ordered to leave the Philippines. There was no safe place for an American ship anywhere in the Pacific at that time, so everyone West of Seattle was "expendable" including the garrisons on Wake Island and Guam, which also fell. 2) A lot of people gave their lives in that war, 407,000 American men were killed in WWII, and 543 American women. Yes, past generations tended to focus on the 407,000 because men died at a rate nearly 1000 to every one American woman. So that's who they celebrated mostly, because they were the ones who died, almost exclusively.

[@stanlogan7504]

It's a national shame that needs correction.

[@ruthsturgeon4979]

@@stanlogan7504 oh sthu we need to worry about today not the past . My mother was ww two nurse . What it is with today everyone focused on the past not what's happening today

[@ruthsturgeon4979]

Why don't you focus on today not 60 plus years ago newsflash the government today sees every military life as expandable Why are women lives more important then men's ? You want equality well take everything that goes with it. How is girl life valued more then a man's life ? Please explain why males are more expandable then females ? You want equality well you have it . You can't have it both ways take equality and STHU . It wasn't you my mother was world war two nurse

[@thomashogan9196]

@@ruthsturgeon4979 There is today a mythology in modern America that the "White American Patriarchy" didn't celebrate or care about women prior to the advent of Twitter. There were many movies, books posters and memorial statues that featured army nurses, including the Civil War Army Nurses Memorial dedicated in 1914. How do they think Ronald Reagan met Nancy? Nancy played a Navy Nurse in Hellcats of the Navy (which you would think would be a WWII aviation movie, but oddly, no).

[@2IDSGT]

Have book by nurse who barely got away in time. Heard about surrender and she went to the beach to put her toes in sand one last time before the Japanese found her. Then was picked up by that banana boat. She was evacuated from Corregidor on USS Spearfish. Her name was Lucy Wilson Jopling.

[@horseyhorselips3501]

My Uncle was Killed in Combat April 6,1942 Bataan Philippines was shot at Mount Samat and died at Hospital #1’s retreated location and is listed MIA RIP 2nd Lt. John Roslick of the 31st Inf Reg Thank You Angels of Bataan for taking Care of Our Soldiers in the Islands 🌴

[@GoogleKilledMyWife]

My great grandfather survived Bataan. I was left with his letters he was sent by fellow POWs after the war explaining how my grandfather sacrificed his food and energy to keep weaker prisoners alive. I was also left with a lot of literature meant for families of surviving pows explaining how to handle their PTSD after they come home.

[@GoogleKilledMyWife]

@michael boultinghouse you're actually crazy. The units left on Bataan and corregidor were left stranded and fought to the last bullet. The Japanese were so embarrassed that they were being beaten by such a small unsupported force. That's why they tortured them so horrendously.

[@rondodson5736]

They were all heroes, the lucky ones survived.

[@robertlewis1965]

I wonder if your great grandfather was at Cabanatuan , I've seen a movie called The Great Raid and a video Batan Rescue. All HEROES , prisoners, guerillas, and raiders.

[@keefymckeefface8330]

@@frozensmile6563 Well done! you have discovered how to use eh copy and paste functions so you can spam comment sections with your ignorant, emoji laden drivel! Maybe give it 20 years you might type something worth reading, hey?

[@lindajamshidi]

Tried to post my comment but it was rejected. You tube views truth as dissent. Typical response from leftist corporation.

[@thunderbird1921]

Getting captured by the Japanese must have been one of the most terrifying situations imaginable, particularly for a lady.

[@commissarkordoshky219]

@Make Commies Afraid of Helicopters Again Japan deserved everything the Allies threw at it, and more.

[@JJ-wk5wh]

@Make Commies Afraid of Helicopters Again the innocent people in nanjing? Or the people in Vietnam, Korea, and China forced into slavery by the Japanese? Those bombs saved lives.

[@Zer0.-_]

@Minister Of Propaganda Unfortunately, there are those who words alone do not reach. Japan was that, so the only option left was force.

[@Hagmire]

they absolutely earned those nukes, and in the big picture they saved more lives, if we had invaded Japan the casualties would have been over a million

[@90whatever]

@@Hagmire Yes....the cold calculus of "number of lives" justfies the nukes and forcing the surrender that would not have happened otherwise. I wish we would have had operational nukes earlier and could have dropped them on military-only targets though to get the point across.

[@romansternberg5696]

When I was stationed at Ft. Knox in the '80s, I met two survivors of the Death March. The attempts to portray the Japanese as the victims of anything besides their own stupidity, arrogance and infantile cruelty are utterly despicable.

[@walterbigsby6380]

I mean, not all were stupid, arrogant, and cruel, just conscripts

[@declanroberts8934]

No one is victimising the Japanese it's called humanising. They were human, so we Germans, British, French, Russians etc etc... All did bad things, it was a war.

[@chriszelez7970]

@@declanroberts8934 No the Japanese were brutal, ask the Chinese and the POWs. They made the Nazis and Reds look like friends.

[@robertgiles9124]

@@declanroberts8934 Hardly comparable. You must not be able to see the difference between the horrible way the Japanese acted in general and the occasional way the Americans did. No comparison.

[@robertgiles9124]

@@walterbigsby6380 Bullshit, The Leaders were some of the worst.

[@oioo32000]

My great uncle was in a coastal artillery battalion stationed in the Philippines before capture.Survived to Battan death march and was put on a prisoner transport ship called the yushon maru 2. The ship was sunk by a U.S. submarine in the south China sea during transport. Only 11 men out of 500+ crammed on board survived the sinking, he didn't make it. One of the survivors wrote a book about the incident years later. Still have his purple heart medal. Details of the conditions they were in are appalling to say the least. We must never forget the brave men and women who sacrificed everything to ensure our freedoms for what they are today. R.I.P Uncle Charlie, lost but not forgotten

[@marcvonklugermann1685]

My filipina wife's mother was a small girl during WW2. Her father was a barber in Manila. There was a trap door in the barbershop and she and a brother, who were all in the shop one day, were sent into the crawlspace beneath the shop by her mother, as japanese were wandering around. There was a vent where one could look up into the barbershop. 3 japanese soldiers came in inquiring as to the whereabouts of her teenaged sister. The mother said she was at home sick. After some messing around in the shop one of the honorable bushido grabbed up scissors and stabbed her father to death as she looked on thru the vent in horror, stifling the scream trying to leave her throat. My wife said her mom never had much good to say about japanese after that

[@dyllankeyes9478]

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[@marcvonklugermann1685]

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[@alastor8091]

I honestly don't see how any of their victims forgave them or why we didn't wipe their bloodline off the face of the earth. I've always loved Japan, but now hearing all of these atrocities, struggling to not click off the videos most of the time, I can't help but think "We should've killed every last one." The people of Japan today have nothing to do with what happened then and I don't want to hurt them, but I can't deny that I have a new seed of resentment in them for what they did to my countrymen ill never meet.

[@rondodson5736]

@@alastor8091 I am a Vietnam vet and hold no resentment towards the Vietnamese. I have returned twice to Vietnam and found it to be a beautiful country with wonderful people. My father served on a ship in WWII, and hated the Japanese until the day he died. I never understood his hatred since he was never exposed to combat per se. I am a history buff and understand a lot about Asian culture and especially about losing face. I understand the Japanese felt the U.S. was interfering in what they considered internal matters and told us to back off. When our govt refused to do so they felt if they did not take action they would lose face. The thing about Pearl Harbor is it was never intended to be a sneak attack. They sent a message to their embassy in Washington D.C. declaring war on the U.S. and was supposed to be delivered 30 minutes before the attack. Unfortunately the interpreter was slow at translation and did not deliver the declaration until 45 minutes after the attack. My point here is there is always two sides to a story and one should examine both to make a fair and impartial decision. You can always find atrocities committed in war but i believe it happens on both sides.

[@mannarmylie4195]

Because all "barbershops" have trap doors..🤔

[@spankflaps1365]

If anyone is interested in this part of WW2, the BBC did a good drama series in the 80s called “Tenko” with Burt Kwouk. It was more about British and Australian women in Japanese captivity than Americans, but it’s well worth a watch. Those were the days when the BBC made some pretty cool telly.

[@johno9008]

Mark’s run the BBC out of business, along with the other now-obsolete history channels

[@Norm475]

Many years ago I was watching a TV program about the Pacific campaign, throughout the whole program it was the British did this and the British did that, the American's involvement was hardly mentioned. I thought WTF but then I saw the credits and it was produced by the BBC. I then understood. I am sure when the British watch some of our programs and see very little of their contribution in the Pacific they think the same thing. It does give one a different perspective when watching a program produced by a foreign country.

[@scottessery100]

@@sydneyjames2705 what are you on about

[@scottessery100]

@@Norm475 your program producer would pitch scrips characters and plots to the major ordinance so some bias exist. I’d India or Pakistan or Indonesia made such a programme they would do the same

[@Norm475]

@@scottessery100 Nothing wrong with showing your country in a favorable light. I do wish the producers were a little more honest in their production though.

[@rocksandoil2241]

My father talked of riding the train during the war to a new duty station from California and 2 men were escorting their nurse sister after she was liberated from a Japanese camp. They had cut her tongue out and she had basically gone insane.

[@theprinceoftides6836]

From what I've heard from my own Grandmother who experienced the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, that's probably the Japanese being nice, as horrible as it sounds. The Depravity of the Japanese soldiers actions against the civilians population and captured POWs will truly make U sick about being a human being.

[@rmuns1262]

@@theprinceoftides6836 do you mind sharing some of her experiences? I’m curious

[@davedduchene]

..understandable considering the inhuman treatment.

[@horseyhorselips3501]

So very Sad

[@gnaruto7769]

makes me want to time travel with a gun and shoot a lot of people in the face

[@Joe-gu6oe]

My father had troubling memories of his days in PI . I returned home as a Vietnam Vet and a Philippine Island lover, he and I became closer.. He always insisted that America will always owe the wonderful People of PI for saving our hide! ***

[@mattwest250]

My dad was stationed at Clark Air Base in the late 1960s and absolutely loved his time there.

[@Franky46Boy]

Kempeitai.... A name that sended shivers down the spine of many Europeans, Americans and Asians, like the word 'Gestapo' did in Europe.

[@scottessery100]

The man in the high castle gives an idea what secret police are like

[@rutabagasteu]

The SS and the Gestapo were shocked at how the Japanese treated their prisoners.

[@Soundbrigade]

Frank McDonough has written an interesting book about Gestapo and all the myths. As noted here, the Gestapo work as a security force, tracking down spies and counteractivities, planning their own covert operations, but also dealing with a lot of nonsense task, forced upon them by newly issued laws, like taking on defatists etc. From what I have learned, Kempetai can more be compared with SS or the Einsatz Commandos, whose object was to plunder, rape and murder behind the front lines. Also, in a documentary, the “worst of the worst” were recruited to Kempetai, making it an army of psychopaths.

[@Franky46Boy]

@@Soundbrigade Gestapo was part of the SS organisation. Heinrich Himmler was in command, so...

[@Franky46Boy]

@Chad Plow They were very different from every modern intelligence agency in that they were carrying out the policies of National Socialism. In fact they were part of the SS organisation and Heinrich Himmler was in command...

[@robertwilliams3730]

My uncle spent three years as a guest of the Imperial Japanese forces. Broken in health but not spirit he the spent another two years hospitalized in South Africa where he met his future bride, a nurse, and returned to England in the middle of the worst winter in living memory. His opinion of Japan and all things Japanese never altered. He never brought anything " Made in Japan " and voiced his objections to anyone who did. Never spoke publicly about his treatment in captivity but suffered constant nightmares and ill health until his premature death.

[@jonathanLToronto]

My neighbour who is a english told me about his uncle who went through Japanese captivity. He cursed them until his last day and last living hour. Thats what my neighbour said.

[@bonnie_gail]

my Grandfather served in Europe in WWII and he wouldn't speak about it except when his small town twinned with a Japanese city and he was absolutely livid and spoke about his extreme distrust of Japan, I never saw him so angry

[@m.w.6526]

Don't even have to watch the video to know this will be top tier content. When I see Dr. Mark Felton's name pop up on my notifications, I put down what I'm currently doing and tune in.

[@DukeofEarl]

Ha me too. The joys of working from home.

[@mattkaustickomments]

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[@Dreadn0va]

#FACTS

[@vvr881]

Teachers pet🤣

[@Lezcho]

It’s my favorite notification to get from KZbin. Never listened to or watched content that wasn’t interesting!

[@leomarkaable1]

The book by Paul Fussell "Thank God for the Atom Bomb " sums it up perfectly : the US troops who had somehow survived the slaughters in Europe were now stateside waiting for the inevitable invasion of Japan - and their very likely death. Those troops were jubilant when they heard of the atom bombs. They couldn't believe their good fortune and were completely unconcerned about Japanese casualties. No author who writes of the guilt American should feel about the loss of Japanese life can withstand Fussell's scrutiny, I.e., that all of these guilt-ridden types were born after the war or were not eligible for service because of DOB. None of these hypocrites faced combat like Paul Fussell did. All the hand wringing is false.

[@rondodson5736]

Even so one should feel compassion for loss of life. I did a lot of killing in Vietnam, didn't think about it till years later, but those i killed had families, hopes, desires for a future. I often wonder what if they had survived and went on to do something great for mankind. Taking a life should never be done lightly.

[@JF-xm6tu]

They were still Japanese civilians. There was no firebombing in America like there was in Japan

[@Mondo762]

My father was a US Army Combat Engineer getting ready to invade Kyushu back in August 1945. He had already been through a lot of brutal cave fighting on Guam and Okinawa. Hearing that the Bomb had been dropped (twice) was wonderful news for all the Soldiers that had been through so much fighting already. Six years later I was born on an air base in Japan. I truely believe that if not for the Bomb, I wouldn't be here.

[@steveelsholz5297]

@@JF-xm6tu Japanese Government didn't care about their civilians, that's the problem. They refused to surrender unless Hirohito wasn't touched. If they cared they would have surrendered after Hiroshima. But the military wanted to fight to the end. Civilian suffering 100% fault of the Japanese government and their damn emporer.

[@JF-xm6tu]

@@steveelsholz5297 the emperor was nothing more then a puppet of the military. The guy was a introvert who just wanted to read about marine biology.

[@vincentthekeeper2163]

The way Japanese infantry took out their losses and setbacks on civilian populations and POWs is why the atomic bomb drops made sense. Just depraved.

[@prieten49]

Two wrongs make a right, in other words.

[@bloodybones63]

@@prieten49 I think he's saying that we had to kill the bastards to win the war & stop them from carrying out the same sub human deeds for a much greater time period. Even after the bombs, a great deal of them were not going to surrender. There was even an attempt from the army to force a coup & prevent it. It's a right making a wrong right again.

[@kevinmcfadin2141]

If the axis would have one that would have slaughtered millions .

[@bloodybones63]

@@kevinmcfadin2141 True, that's why the Allies are the good guys. Thank God they got it first.

[@johnwolf2829]

@@bloodybones63 Good point, but try telling that to a Leftist today.

[@brandontanis388]

I read this story in the book "We Band of Angels". The story of these nurses is one of courage and perseverance. Thank you for sharing.

[@lizzysmira]

My great-uncle, Captain Harry E. White of Jackson, MS, died at Canabatuan after surviving the Bataan death march. Your videos give me such a harrowing insight into what he experienced before his death. I know he did not die for nothing though. My ultimate dream is to visit his resting place in the Philippines someday.

[@dianaverano7878]

Japanese invaders were cruel. Your family member is a hero. Salute. Thank you that he placed his life, so we Filipinoes will be free. Your family member fought many months till they are pushed back to bataan, the last stand. A brother of my grandma was sent to the Japanese war too. He was there, to Bataan, the last stand. He died only on death march. I am a proud descendant.

[@tomortale2333]

wooo thats a beautiful story....G B HIS SOUL

[@45sticky]

These women were truly remarkable and heroes. And it’s not surprising that they were deemed expendable by our government because of their rank and status. It is so telling that a corporation such as GE would demand repayment of an IOU after the war. I would be interested to know if those GE representatives ever receive medical care from those nurses. And if so by the same logic they should be charged for those medical services. Because you simply can’t have it both ways.

[@rondodson5736]

I had the honor of meeting the lady who was in charge of the nursing services for Vietnam at a concert in Las Vegas. I considered meeting her a great honor.

[@ArmenianBishop]

The photograph, shown throughout the video, was taken in February, 1945; it shows recently liberated "Angels of Bataan" nurses. They're photographed in their newly issued uniforms, their former clothes no longer suitable to wear. The truck is there to drive them away into their wayward journey back home, in the USA.

[@jdd8826]

Thank you. I was wondering about the picture.

[@jaykechurchil484]

For anyone wanting to know more about the trials and tribulations of wartime civilians, please research the historical play "The shoehorn Sonata". It depicts the suffering and heroism of two Australian wartime nurses, along with there comparatists in Japanese captivity. It is a immensely powerful play, that shows the always overlooked role and sacrifice of wartime civilians in military service.

[@helenpomerleau6455]

My father WWII vet of the Pacific, had just distain for McArthur, for not evacuating the Nurses and the hospital. He took his dogs and household items and left them . He always called Dogout Doug. He was in the 7th Infantry Division from Attu to Okinawa

[@Orphen42O]

If MacArthur took so much as an umbrella before evacuating the nurses, then he is worthy of criticism. MacArthur knew how savagely the Japanese treated captive women. Although about 20 nurses were evacuated with some staff members, over 60 nurses were abandoned. Also, who allowed MacArthur to keep his wife and child in a battle zone? They should have been ordered out when civilians were firs evacuated for their safety and MacArthur's ability to concentrate.

[@josephking6515]

How many nurses didn't survive their first encounter with the Japanese military? Bangka Island is just one of the incidents that are known. Two weeks after the war in the Pacific ended, some Australian POWs were marched into the jungle and murdered by the Japanese who *knew* that hostilities had ceased. Among them was a doctor who had twice given up a chance to escape so others could go in his place, one of whom he gave his boots, and so he stayed with the sick. Sorry Dr Felton but I don't think I can watch this right now. Maybe in a year or two.

[@kellybreen5526]

I can listen to it, but it does make me feel disgust and anger.

[@dashcroft1892]

St. Stephen’s College Massacre in Hong Kong is another horrific chapter in this story. Hard to fathom the depth of the depravity - and that was at the start of the war.

[@Jadeserphant]

Take care of yourself @Joseph King. It's important that these stories are remembered, but sometimes they are so horrific we have to take turns.

[@chico9805]

This is what war is, horrors upon horrors. Being a female nurse hardly spares you from the wrath of your enemies

[@varpingeviking]

@@dashcroft1892 thank you, I hadn't heard of this. It's incredible that every time the atrocities of the of the Japanese is brought I find out about a couple of one's that are new to me. There just is no end to it, one wonders how many have been lost or covered up

[@philbachmann6398]

In Australia, in the early 60s when in Primary School (Prep) I had a teacher, I won't identify her whose daughter was a nurse with the Australian Army. She and others were herded into the sea and shot effectively fead to the sharks. Now my entire family drive Japanese cars. The Japanese are now Australia's close allies and friends. History moves along. Our Pacific Region has had its share of tragedies as has Europe. Thank you Mark.

[@horseyhorselips3501]

I’ll Never Own a Japanese or German Car or Truck

[@philbachmann6398]

@@horseyhorselips3501 thanks for your reply, depends where you live I guess and what's available..

[@jrmckim]

@@horseyhorselips3501 wtf...

[@rondodson5736]

@@horseyhorselips3501 Your choice and your right but you might want to check and see if any of the parts in your auto were made in Japan or Germany.

[@icebaby6714]

At least 10,000 Americans soldiers died in Bataan death march in the Philippines and 2,434 Aussies and British soldiers lost their lives in the 3 Sandakan death marches in Borneo.

[@christelcombs4005]

One of my Mother's best friends in later years was one of these nurse's. Lt Col. ret. Hattie R. Brantley was one hell of a woman. I am fortunate to have been able to know her and call her my friend. She autographed my copy of "We Band of Angels", I treasure it to this day and will pass it one to my grand daughters when I pass. We lost her in 2006 and I miss her to this day.

[@josephesposito3499]

What a disgrace that a nurse can be called Lt Col. a nurse is a nurse. It is not a command position. God gave wo-MEN a subordinate role. Nurse is a wo-MAN'S job, they don't deserve any special credit for it

[@priscllamccain1423]

@@josephesposito3499 I beg to differ with you sir. I am a Navy veteran and a medical officer can “pull rank” on a line officer.

[@josephesposito3499]

@@priscllamccain1423 You can "pull rank" WHAT/ ELSE DID YOU PULL? Wouldn't be a surprise

[@josephesposito3499]

@@priscllamccain1423 I DON'T BELIEVE IN CALLING she-MALES 'officer' SIR...

[@BearAnkles]

@@josephesposito3499 mental case, relax

[@davidcardin3271]

I am from the USA, but i live in the Philippines. Just south of Manila. The past 2 days i have been in Manila on business. Been to a lot of museums and memorials. I love it here

[@forlornhope1116]

Whats the lockdown/vax status there

[@marshaldillon4387]

Sir Mark this story is Pure Excellence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@njdarudedovich6126]

🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 thank you for reviewing the scars of our country.

[@okletmesignup]

It still bothers me how many Japanese citizens and politicians today defend displaying the Imperial Japanese flag on public events and how the Japanese education system seems to omit the atrocities carried out by Imperial Japan, as opposed to how Germany has admitted, repudiated and made clear what happened during the Nazi rule. Even the victors have admitted and teach the history of atrocities committed by their side.

[@okletmesignup]

@geoduck Nobody fucking said that, today Japanese people are not to be blamed for the crimes of past generations, but the criminals of the past should not be raised to hero status. I'm saying you don't see the German government allowing the nazi flag at public events or their history classes denying the crimes committed by the nazis, I'm also not saying Imperial Japan should be erased from history, but be considered as such, history, not as a present entity or ideal to aspire to.

[@andypozuelos1204]

^ this, their whole history during WW2 seems to be "America just nuked us for no reason"

[@okletmesignup]

@geoduck you have the right to be proud of rapists and murderers all you want. The rest of the civilized world has the right to recoil in disgust at you.

[@philbachmann6398]

Another incredible story but unfortunately true was that Japanese soldiers cooked and ate the flesh of young Chinese women commenting on the tenderness. These vile acts were based on the Japanese notion of Bushido with the belief that their conquered peoples were as animals.

[@earlcollinsworth4914]

They ate captured allied servicemen too!

[@alfredpambuena6874]

In the mid 70s I had the honor of meeting a nurse that was captured on corrigadore and remained in a Japanese pow camp until just before the war ended....she showed me her original military i.d. card which was faded and frayed...down in the lower right corner was the expiration date...in typed block letters it said...duration...later the day of 9/11 I was visiting a nursing home and we were all watching tv in the common area...as the 2nd plane plowed into the tower...this one elderly lady stood up with a cane and said.....just put me back in my B-17 and I will show them what hell is like....she was a member of the women's flying corps during ww2 and ferried B-17s.....this was really the greatest generation....

[@Hipporider]

My grandmothers Australian Army nurse comrades were machine gunned to death while standing in the water at a beach by the Japanese Army. I'm guessing young Japanese have no idea what happened, which they should. 🇦🇺

[@PeterStrider]

"Chin up, girls, I'm proud of you all and I love you all" Last words of the matron, recounted by the only survivor of this atrocity Sr Vivian Bullwinkle 😪

[@orneryokinawan4529]

Good luck. They're clueless.

[@shooter7734]

Young Japanese interested in WWII spend more time trying to create excuses and mythology of how the atrocities like the Rape Of Nanking and the activities of Unit 731 never happened

[@rondodson5736]

We all should. When i returned from Vietnam and was being debriefed in 1973. We were asked what we thought was the reason for the downfall of Vietnam for America. I replied colored tv. When asked why i said because we love to invest in wars but when it is brought home in living color every evening on the six o clock news, Americans don't like having their faces rubbed in it.

[@dianaverano7878]

Thank you for the medical staff who took care of American & Filipino soldiers during this war. Words are not enough to express gratitude. A brother of my grandma was sent by his family to fight in the Japanese war. He fought fighting for months and reached bataan. He is a young man. No children. He died in death march walk. You took care of him nurses, doctors & medical staff. I am a proud descendant. And will never forget that I live with happy life & with freedom now, because people were killed & fought it.

[@douglasjames.2337]

I have actually visited Corregidor. A lovely place which is not substantially haunted. I spoke with a cook there who works a 6 and a half day week. 12 hours off during the day each Sunday. He commented to me that outside his small living quarters, he hears the sounds of a lone soldier, ( he believes it to be that of a Japanese soldier), patrolling up and down outside his room each night. A group of school girls posed for a photograph near a gunnery emplacement one time. When the photograph was developed, ( before smart phone times), there was a Caucasian man, presumably American, in military uniform posing in amongst the girls as they had their photograph taken. Another one was where a woman tourist who was using the toilet heard some walking inside the toilet block. She looked up to see a Japanese soldier wearing a cloth Ke-pe looking over the top of the toilet door directly at her, causing this woman some considerable fright and discomfort. I visited there back in 2018.

[@megalith2159]

Ghosts?

[@shooter7734]

Should've went to the old Clark AFB Hospital That place is supposed to be haunted as well I've seen videos of KZbinrs taken there and haunted or not it's definitely a creepy place

[@JLStanton1968]

As a kid, my mom lived down the street from a Navy vet who was on one of the ships that took MacArthur out of the Philippines. The man told her the seamen wanted to throw MacArthur overboard because he basically had six ships loaded up with his personal collections and taken back to civilization instead of taking troops and the nurses. To these vets, MacArthur was the biggest POS in the Pacific. Just an awful person.

[@ellisjames7192]

Yeah, he was not loved as much as the media tried to make the public believe. "Dugout Doug" they called him.

[@rondodson5736]

Hadn't heard that about him, but if true story then i would have to agree with how the vets felt. I could never understand how fellow pow's with mccain never spoke of how he did while a pow. I wonder if they were threatened if they told the truth.

[@JLStanton1968]

@@rondodson5736 I don't know what to think of McCain. There's an interesting KZbin clip of him confronting the sister of an MIA/POW who was in charge of the organization. He did this when she was testifying and McCain was leading the efforts to normalize relations with Vietnam without having them give full disclosure about MIA/POW issues. Look it up. Was in the 1990s. Very sad.

[@ghjjfrs7211]

Every dog has its day.

[@josephbingham1255]

@@JLStanton1968 McCain went back to the Hanoi Hilton and met up with the man who tortured him and others. He worked for the prison museum. The man said if he had not done what he was ordered to do then HE would would have been in a similar situation. Remember also that being the son of a Vice Admiral McCain was given the option of being bumped up in the line of POWs being released. He refused and said those imprisoned the longest should go before him. My first wife's father was an A-6 navigator off a carrier over N. Vietnam. Maybe it was the Kitty Hawk? He went on to become the senor economist for the Western States United States Forest Service. I gave him a excellent VFW produced book on the N. Vietnamese Air Force of that era that had to have been made with Vietnamese collaboration. Great information, photographs and statistics only the NVA Air Force historical unit would have access to. P.S. Did you see the Ken Burns "Vietnam" tv series mostly done from a Vietnamese Leftest point of view? They have a clip of Jane Fonda actually saying American captured pilots should be executed. I don't think I could ever enjoy watching any of her movies again after actually viewing her saying that. Well maybe Barbarella :)

[@laurencetilley9194]

Thank you for this documentary Mark. The behaviour of GE was despicable, the directors should have been charged with war crimes after profiteering from prisoners of war. The liberation of Manila by the British and the Americans was an absolute dogs breakfast. The in house fighting between Lord Mountbatten and MacArthur is comprehensively recorded. Maybe you might like to research the story of Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel and the 65 Australian Nurses that were driven into the sea and machine gun massacred by the Japanese after surviving the sinking of the SS Vyner Brooke and making it to at Radji Beach on Banka Island , in what is known as the Bangka Island Massacre. Another 40 or more British soldiers, nurses and children on board the SS Vyner Brooke were also murdered in the sea after the sinking, . Their ship the SS Vyner Brooke was sunk by the Japanese air force as the ship was trying to escape the fall of Malaya in December 1941. Vivian Bullwinkel was the only survivor of the massacre, Her story of her captivity and evidence at the war trials is heart wrenching. Lest We Forget.

[@georgemartin4963]

My father fought in the Battle of Manilla. He would have terrifying nightmares on many nights. It wasn't until late in life would he discuss it, recounting the horrors of the battle

[@smokysams]

My Grandfather was a C-47 navigator in the Pacific during WWII. His plane was tasked with the evacuation efforts of the Philippines. Once there, he learning he was going to fly out MacArthur's personal property, he protested and refused the order saying "there's civilian personnel, like nurses, that need to be taken off the island." His protest ended when they threatened to take him to the beach to be shot. This story was told to me by my Grandmother.

[@dianaverano7878]

Salute to your grand father. He fought so Americans & Filipinoes now lived happily & with freedom. Greetings from Manila, Philippines. Philippines at that time was an American colony. I am a descendant of a Filipino fighter too. A brother of my grandma was sent by the Family to fight in japanese war. He fought in Bataan, the last stand. He died in Death March walk.

[@janetceniza8091]

My father, a NAVY CHIEF during the war had nothing good to say about MacArthur. He left the PI with his piano and left the nurses to the Japanese.

[@thomasweatherford5125]

How some people give a thumbs down to this content makes no sense to me. Great stuff as usual Dr. Felton!!!

[@EroticOnion23]

Probably japanese...

[@jeffblacky]

we had a Bataan veteran at our Legion Hall . He died in 1995

[@luckymale00]

I am Filipino, and I am living in Luzon. Dambana ng Kagitingan is located in Bataan. They built the Big Cross for the heroes of Bataan.

[@360Nomad]

Germans capturing American servicewomen: "very polite interrogation" Japanese capturing American servicewomen: "very *impolite* interrogation"

[@dougearnest7590]

Youth in Germany today: "We hate who we are because of what they did." Youth in Japan today: "Atrocities? What atrocities?"

[@hendriktonisson2915]

Doug Earnest What you said is even more accurate about the Soviets, US and the other allies. US nuked Japan TWICE and also killed countless Japanese civilians with other type of aerial bombings. Both US and Britain are responsible of killing countless German civilians in the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg. Many crimes were also commited by US ground troops in several European countries during the war. French colonial soldiers commited attrocities on mass scale both in Italy and Germany. I think I don't even need to mention the Soviet war crimes. Some of the Allied war crimes are mentioned in a wikipedia article.

[@dougearnest7590]

@@hendriktonisson2915 "More accurate" about the US???? Oh, you poor thing, you don't have a clue, do you? Let me guess, you're under 40 and a product of the U.S. public education system? (Of course if you are you'll just deny it trying to make me look wrong again, but we'll both know the truth, won't we?)

[@hendriktonisson2915]

Doug Earnest Since the US education system is often infested with marxists and other leftists don't you think that it's weird to accuse me of being a 'product of the US public education system' although I'm tring to bring attention to Soviet war crimes? Also why do you assume I'm from the US?

[@jordanbrown4886]

Henrick, Japanese deaths would have been far higher had they not dropped the bombs and invaded the home islands.

[@gaylemc2692]

My mother was a World War II RN, stationed in France and the Philippines. I respect all the nurses conserved. Bless them all.

[@dianaverano7878]

Respect. Thank you for the service. Her life was at stake during that dark times. I am a Filipino who is now enjoying the freedom your family member fought for. Greetings from Manila, Philippines. I am also a descendant of a Filipino fighter. Brother of my grandma sent to fight that Japanese war and died on Death March walk.

[@SoulsNThings]

I love these audio only episodes to listen to on my drive to work and back. Amazing work Dr. Mark!

[@drprocter8655]

Your my favourite historian. History is my life and ive learnt more from your videos than i did in a life time of school. Please keep them coming. Much thanks.

[@blank557]

Some have complained about the cartoon caricatures of the Japanese leaders and soldiers in US WW2 posters, saying it dehumanizes them. After this and other egregious historical examples of their atrocities, I think not so much anymore.

[@mito88]

the cartoon caricatures did work.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

The Japanese worked very hard to deserve the sobriquet "subhuman".

[@mito88]

@@Conn30Mtenor hard working people aren't subhuman.

[@blank557]

@@mito88 No, they are not. But murdering troops that start a war without cause, enslave, rape, torture civilians and POWS, use them to test the sharpness of their Samurai swords and for medical experiments, deliberately bomb civilian targets, play dead or pretend to surrender, only to shoot their opponents by surprise, and condition their troops to perform acts of suicide than taken prisoner, or perform Banzai attacks, kamikazes, and as human bombs, back then in WW2 sure are.

[@ermining1]

@@blank557 forgetting the bombing of Tokyo which killed more people than in Hiroshima? Forgetting the atomic bombs? Forgetting the rapes commited by IS forces in Okinawa?

[@PhilGreeleyJR]

Thank you again for all your hard work keeping history alive!

[@irvingnerdbaum7256]

A+! Listening to Dr. Felton and then reading the comments of others, one learns so much that is mostly unknown and unsuspected in history. Great!

[@rutabagasteu]

One of my family members was part of the anti-aircraft units in the Philippines. A relative found he also fought on as a tank driver, then infantryman. I presume this is due to changing situations and changes on available ammo. He told my mother one story, and the relative a different story. So I don't know much about his experience there.

[@YO3A007]

Remember when an old man or woman dies, a library dies with them.

[@jdd8826]

A library dies with them. Very well said.

[@prieten49]

What a story! I'm an American living in Japan and confess that I have avoided the whole topic of Japanese atrocities. Another reason is that, with my German background (my father was in the German army), I didn't feel I had any right to point fingers. But it is important to remember history and hopefully learn from it. The USA hasn't only covered itself with glory throughout the years. We should all strive to make this world a better place for everyone where wars are unnecessary.

[@DrJones20]

Point fingers at Japan you coward

[@tandiparent1906]

But everyone should know his/her country's true history, good and bad no matter which country it is. Unfortunately, if people don't know their history and that of the rest of the world, then they are prone to repeat it.... although, as we're seeing today, some repeat these things anyhow.🥺

[@hunnerat-touaregi4439]

The past 30 years the us has shown no glory but wannabe neo colonial barbarism in the name of "the war on terror".

[@chrisbarrett7006]

Thanks so much for these vids. I'm learning something new all the time. Well done.

[@linkdude64]

16:10 - the fact that I heard a page turn along with your pause here made me realize that your delivery has been SO consistent across every hour of video content I've watched that I've been under some kind of subconscious assumption that you've been unfolding these stories stream- of- consciousness style. You know you have good delivery when nobody can notice exactly how good it is. Bravo and thank you for another interesting and illuminating video.

[@collind3670]

Thank you for the upload! You have the best historical channel imo

[@virginiawilkinson5038]

This is where I got lucky as a Home Care nurse getting to know many former/retired military from WWII.

[@philliphall5198]

I bet it’s very enjoyable to help and visit with them plus hear there stories 😊😊

[@dustoffrotorblades2067]

I met one of these wonderful ladies in Marysville Ca a few years back. She was a delight with her Veteran hat on and full of life.

[@cherryrunner7205]

I am happy you published another video Mark Felton, keep up the amazing work. And I hope to see and learn about more stories about other conflicts and incidents that are not very well known. Keep up the great work and content.

[@rayyanali4471]

For all the horrors the Nazis committed, you can still come across several stories of wholesome positive interactions between the Allied troops and the Wehrmacht. Never heard of anything like that involving the Japanese Imperial army.

[@mustsphamatto3601]

Hey just shut up

[@michaellincoln3739]

Brilliant again Mark. I look forward to more war stories. I was told 2 different true WW2 war stories just a few years ago by 2 WW2 survivors, the stories of which I believe have never been publicly revealed. One is a Dutch man survived a POW camp in Indonesia who claims to have been "saved" by the Japanese from Indonesian Nationalist forces in 1945, the other story was about an Australian guy who by chance, was drafted into the German army in 1943 whilst living in Germany ! He was captured by the Soviets and almost died in a Siberian POW camp and only a few years after the war. He is still alive I believe living in Sydney.

[@23draft7]

So many excellent comments. Thanks to all nurses. Most nurses, even today are totally underestimated. There the best, most.

[@mattwiser8406]

Mark: ten Army nurses and one Navy nurse were evacuated from Corregidor on 3 May 42 by U.S.S. Spearfish, and there were two PBY flights in late April that flew out 22 nurses. 67 were captured on Corregidor, two at Camp John Hay and later Bilbid Prison, Manila. Ten of those flown out were captured on Mindanao when their PBY was wrecked on takeoff from a lake (the other plane and the nurses aboard escaped to Australia). The five Navy nurses on Guam were held in the same POW camp as the Marines and sailors from Guam until an exchange of diplomats and journalists in Sep '42, when they were released along with the staff of the U.S. and other Allied embassies. Elizabeth Norman's book on the nurses goes into detail on their experiences. Not one died in captivity, despite the poor food and atrocious conditions.

[@isaacsilverman5249]

2 grandfathers and my great uncle all served in Pacific theatre. One in Burma and one was KIA in Korea. My family never got the remains of my mothers father.

[@lessssssgooooo]

The japanese really where the most babaric in ww2 sad what humans can do

[@Golmar_227]

well yeah, guess Korean,Chinese and many South East Asian nations don't hold grudge against the Japanese for nothing it seems

[@gladiammgtow4092]

China is going to try and beat their record if we don't watch out.

[@rpm12091]

My father was in the Pacific, don’t call them human.

[@andrewchin2626]

@@gladiammgtow4092 You've got the wrong idea.

[@marilyndargis6758]

Our potus at the time abandoned our troops that pos m

[@nursedaniel72]

Thank you so much Mark I have been hoping you would do a story on the nurses of world war 2. Brilliant. Nurses are often unsung heroes.

[@MrNextMx]

Another truly great doc from you dr. Felton, I wasn't aware of this part of pacific war

[@MrGchiasson]

I had a great-aunt who was a nun at a Catholic school in Japan before WWII until 1946. Japanese students were not harassed and the school was never assaulted. No atrocities. A strange truce, or sorts. When I read of the Sun-Times atrocities done by Japanese military on civilians everywhere they went...it disgusts me. These US nurses must have endured a hell-on-Earth that we cannot imagine. They are surely before along with the men.

[@fritzvenezia9338]

US Army was so weak before WWII that even their colonial posessions were almost unarmed. They have undergo the great depression, and their armed forces were like of the WWI era. When Japan came and attacked Philippines, they captured so many Americans and rounded them up with no hope of escape no US returning. But after US industrialized so massively and started its offensive, the planes flying around the camps, the bombers flying so high, and the technologies that US fighter plans saw by US prisoners look alien to them. When US forces liberated a camp in Philippines, one US prisoner soldier was so shocked after seeing an American in front of him in prison and thought they were looking like another people from another dimension. Their tanks, their weapons, and their unit. They even saw how massive the US army became, and how overpowered they are when they once thought they won't be liberated. It must've been astounding that from a mid to secondary power in terms of military, the US immediately become the most powerful nation, even American prisoners were shocked that the US navy is the one ruling the seas rivaling the Britain, France, USSR, Italy, and Germany combined. They left the US unknown as WWI tactics and organization and was freed to see they are now the most powerful nation and specially when the news of the first atom bomb came.

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Congrats well said indeed....Thanks very much friend....!

[@johnvercellone1988]

Just one stat I believe USA manufacturing from 1940 to 1946 put 400,000 plus new planes in the sky. What politician said recently when was America great? If stat above is true,I'd comp as re the total tonnage of those 400,000 planes out in sky with today's robotized aerospace usa manufacturing same 5 years..if former is greater tonnage then think about USA other huge war production in ships,tanks,trucks guns etc..anyone know how to stop these goofy useless mime figures pooping up on my smartphone when dictating.you see this I..t garbage has

[@samuelvimes1]

The US had a comparable and more modern navy than the British empire in the 1930's. Admiral Yamamoto, the mastermind behind pearl harbour had been to the US before the war and his assessment was that Japan had only a year before the industrial might of the US crush Japan. The British strategy after the fall of France was to remained on the defensive until the US join the war. And the US army prior to WW2 was several times larger than it's WW1 counterpart. The US rise began after WW1, not WW2.

[@fritzvenezia9338]

@@samuelvimes1 No. Even US is modern and has industrial capability, it still lags behind them. It is comparable to modern day France, or even modern day Iran today. If WWII broke out, the US's position back then was that of not a supreme power, and all the rest of the countries fall to Germany. US who has power to change the tide of war wasn't comparable to Britain either. US is so undersupplied even in PH. If only you know how bad their troops' status in PH, and how small their army are. They have even to train on dummy rifles, use jeeps as tank training, and even airforce has no airplane and had to fight as infantry. Their navy is asset, but it is incomparison to Britain at that time. Also, their industrial capacity is great, but it is currently disorganized. They are powerless without the war. If you think they are powerful enough already after WWI, they coudl've crushed the Japan, they could treathen anyone, but no. They can only apply diplomatic solutions, trade, and embargo. McArthur's army had even so short of food that they had to ration their army and pick fruits on the way and forage. They have became so powerful on WWII that they went rapid mobilization overnight. They can build ships daily, and they can produce bullets for the ret of the entire war. It is incomparison to what US looks like before his entry to WWII. Many Americans are hopeless and was shocked when America came and was astounded how powerful they are. They were given so many medics, staffs, foods, and very good organization. Prisoners won't recognize the planes without the US insignia of Star because of their advancement compared to what they known.

[@samuelvimes1]

@@fritzvenezia9338 nope. Both the Washington and London naval treaty guaranteed the US parity with the Royal navy but while the royal navy ships have mostly been built prior to WW1, the US navy had the luxury to slowly build up their strength over 2 decades between the wars. By the late 1930's, the US had a much more modern navy. As for industrial strength, not only did Britain and France bankrupt themselves in trying to win WW1, the US were the main beneficiaries as it became the allies main manufacturing hub, just like it became in WW2. The US also demanded that both empires drop their trade barriers to their colonies for US firms which help trigger a boost in US economy. As for the Philippines, it was the best garrison and armed colony in South East Asia and probably the world in 1941. Mostly due to general Macarthur . US planners had always planned for Philippines to be a diversion. The plan was for Japan to attack the Philippines and the US Pacific fleet to counterattack and destroy the Jap fleet but Macarthur insisted that the Philippines could be held. He had his way. He had 30000 soldiers and several squadrons of fighters , including a squadron of heavy bombers. Unfortunately neither he nor any US planners foresaw Pearl Harbour.

[@martinfinster9899]

Mark Felton, I have enjoyed many, many of your videos, but this one made me cry.

[@jehuirasales3588]

To our Philippine Army brethren here. REMEMBER BATAAN!

[@guyorsini1044]

The Filipinos may have been poorly trained, ill-equipped, and inexperienced, and they fought like hell, just as their fathers had against the Americans during the Philippine Insurrection, and as their Grandfathers and great grandfathers, Etc,etc had against the Spanish.

[@RCAvhstape]

I met some Filipino Marines once. Scary dudes, whose organization modeled itself after the USMC. Those guys were well trained and tough as hell.

[@billpetersen298]

I hope you guys, can get your islands back, from the Chinese. Without, too much blood shed. That would be great.

[@bradryanroy]

@@billpetersen298 yes, thanks. That's for another discussion though - as it stemmed to corruption from their leaders.

[@jimkirk4357]

They are ALL to be commended for service above and beyond the call of duty. God bless them.❤

[@gerardoramoncesarreynaldo9469]

Great, Dr. Felton. As for the Battle for Manila, there's a book titled "Rampage" by James Scott. The situation of the Allied civilians interned at the University of Sto. Tomas campus are in there too.

[@chuckboyle8456]

Absolutely epic episode, thanks!

[@ellisjames7192]

It is amazing how the US helped to rebuild Japan after the war. Especially after the way the Japanese treated American prisoners during the war.

[@thunderbird1921]

It wasn't easy, plus remember that many American military folks had to work out of Japan during the Korean War (since that's where the main bases were). I've found videos on KZbin meant to brief personnel on "the new Japan" to convince them that this wasn't the same one they or their loved ones had fought. There was also a video of a WAC platoon being taken on a tour of the new parliamentary buildings to prove this "change" (probably trying to ease any emotions those ladies may have held).

[@SamuelHallEngland]

Yeah because Soviets and Chinese were even more of a threat.

[@philliphall5198]

Really it was the best thing to do and heal for everyone I’m proud there our allies and have made a great contribution to the world 😊

[@darrellwhittington4645]

another great subject by this gentleman,,really wish I would have had this man as MY history teacher !

[@Riel_Rami]

This video hitting different for me since I'm training to be a US Army Nurse.

[@dustyak79]

Imagine having to pay back IOU's to a company who made millions upon millions of dollars in war contracts and your government which you are basically their property being in the service and responsible for your imprisonment, didn't step in and ether pay them for you or tell them to F off we gave you plenty of cash or force Japan to pay it back!

[@mtsenskmtsensk5113]

dustyak79 Corporations rule America not goverments, unbridled capitalism has destroyed common sense and morality.

[@douglasjones2570]

@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 From Day 1.

[@milangovedarica6952]

Excellent storytelling. I could almost see the people's faces.

[@truthcrackers]

"Primarily an opportunity to travel for free" - wow what an expensive tragic discount that coupon cost them......

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Excellent research....Well said Congrats....Thanks

[@fabianekmartin]

Thank you for another great video.

[@nathan3252]

Videos like this are very important. Many people are basically trying to repaint japan as heroic with america being the only villain in the war when in truth japan was far far worse. When individuals try to erase stories like this it only cheapens the lives lost during these times of conflict. Thank you for preserving this history and giving a reminder that all history needs to preserve not just that which fits into someones agenda.

[@hunnerat-touaregi4439]

I wouldve fought both of you. If i had been a super power.

[@harropizza]

I've been stuck in lockdown in Auckland for the last month and must have watched almost all your vids in this time. Thanks Dr Felton for the enthralling content and for destroying my productivity while working from home.

[@gginternational.8868]

Thank you for your videos. Really appreciate them.

[@stevenodland]

Thanks for sharing Dr Felton

[@jaylopes8489]

This reminded me of the 1965 movie King Rat - George Segal played a POW that was so good at the barter system that he looked better than other prisoner - so when the camp was freed - everyone looked at Segal like he was a rat . . . Excellent movie about human nature . . . Very believable . . . 👋🇵🇹

[@wittwittwer1043]

Jay wrote: " ...This reminded me of the 1965 movie King Rat ...." ........ I read the book and saw the movie; the book was better by far. The author, Australian James Clavell (1921--1994), was himself a POW of the Japanese. In the novel, the "rat" is an American corporal. According to a Wikipedia article on him: "Shot in the face, he was captured in Java in 1942 and sent to a Japanese prisoner of war camp on Java. Later he was transferred to Changi Prison in Singapore, where only 1 in 15 prisoners survived. In 1981, Clavell recounted: "'Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life -the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving, the most important course of all." Perhaps Clavell had acquired some of the traits that he ascribed to the King Rat.

[@jaylopes8489]

@@wittwittwer1043 Appreciate the reply, yeah the movie being in black & white looked more like a 1940's documentary, watching it you appreciate the detail they put into it, said much about human nature . . . Like Lord of The Fly's 👋🇵🇹

[@georgesakellaropoulos8162]

The book is much better. "As you got closer, Changi began to look like it was, an obscene, forbidding prison."

[@whiteonggoy7009]

Dr felton,your saddest upload to date,i walked the streets of manila/quezon today as an expat..your video moved me as I think of these poor souls.

[@billmiller7613]

Another tremendous history lesson! Thank you very much

[@motorTranz]

Superb content as always Dr. Felton! Thank you!

[@hilndr3279]

In the 60's my father was stationed to Clark afb. He bought Gen Wainwrights staff car. My brother and I had to refill the radiator after each trip. That thingwas great as a kid to play in. It was legal then to leave the kids in a car and go shop for a few hours so we had to find ways my brother and I could entertain ourselves.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Oh how tides can change...not surprised what the prisoners did to the Japanese officers after liberation.

[@adamsmith8370]

@Albert Strauss the nurses left couldn’t get out.

[@pizzafrenzyman]

@Albert Strauss "The killing of Japanese prisoners of war was done out of simple sadism" Do you have sources for such killings?

[@pizzafrenzyman]

@Albert Strauss Space was EXTREMELY limited, and gold and silver take up less space on the minimal patrol boats and aircraft used in the evacuations. Trained officers with experience fighting the Japanese were at a premium to the American war effort, so they were given priority, and even then only a few hundred were evacuated. Nurses could be easily replaced by comparison. Air evacuation was practically a death sentence as there were no airfields within range for refueling to reach bases in Australia. Many air evacuees would make extraordinary measures to find boats to complete their get away.

[@user-rf9mx4qf7z]

@Albert Strauss They were only able to get limited numbers out. Obviously, they had to prioritise those who were most crucial to winning the war. For the most part, that's going to be trained officers who are harder to replace, but some lower-ranking personnel were also evacuated based on expertise while higher-ranking officers were left.

[@user-rf9mx4qf7z]

@Albert Strauss History doesn't really bear out that position. On the contrary it shows that having officers killed/captured negatively impacts morale, in addition to other effects. There's a reason snipers etc. have always been trained to target officers.

[@tigerimschlamm2724]

Well done Dr felton sir. Quality like always.

[@ianrosie4431]

Quite superb. Thank you.