Battle of the Bloody Ridge - Pacific War #43 DOCUMENTARY

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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues. Ten months into the Pacific War, we are reaching one of the high points of the conflict. In the Kokoda Track, Horii’s South Seas Detachment continues its advance towards Port Moresby and in Guadalcanal, the forces of Kawaguchi are preparing for their second major offensive of the campaign and the Battle of the Tenaru. With both events happening at the same time, the Japanese came to be as close as possible for them to materialize their objectives of seizing New Guinea and recapturing Guadalcanal, but alas, fate would see them fail on both enterprises. Today we cover the Battle of Edson’s Ridge.
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[@josephsarra4320]

I have a question I want to ask, how's it going for episode #23 for Chennault and the Flying Tigers? It's been a few months now since that episode hasn't happened yet. Can you tell me what happened and when is it going to be uploaded?

[@ILikeMyPrivacytbt]

I can't wait for your video on the Ukrainian counter offensive in the Kharkiv region. That was a brilliant maneuver on their part and I can't believe the Russians fell for it. "Hey everybody, we are going to attack the south, see we are even attacking them now." Russians move almost all their troops including their best soldiers and leave the conscript nobody's in the north and then boom. How did they not know troop levels in the area? Isn't that Battlefield 101 right there?

[@chrismartindale7840]

@@ILikeMyPrivacytbt I did wonder why Ukraine was telling the whole world their plans. I (and Russia) should have guessed. Ukraine is putting on a clinic for how to fight a modern war.

[@redneckraconteur]

My Uncle survived Guadalcanal, but died a year later on New Britain. I appreciate these videos, they help me understand exactly what he fought through. (1st Marines)

[@anubisviodelefic7714]

salute to your uncle

[@jesseestrada8914]

The marine corps is covered in memorial to this battle. Basilone road, and Edison's range are both in camp pendleton

[@einruberhardt5497]

and you, even more so than i, are someone to experience first hand what he has fought for.

[@adebowaleadebiyi5998]

I salute your uncle.

[@gregusmc2868]

God bless your Uncle. My uncle was also with the 1st Marines on Guadalcanal. He survived the other fights and made it home. He was a platoon sergeant and was a quiet and funny guy who only talked to me once about his service on Guadalcanal-despite my constant pestering. Our uncles may have known each other. Semper Fi (and God bless The Old Breed. 👍🏼✌🏼🫡

[@gunman47]

This week on September 12 1942, the Bloody Ridge levels A to C (based on the Battle of Edson's Ridge) of the 2004 video game *Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault* begin as part of the Guadalcanal campaign. In these levels as Private Thomas Conlin, you will defend the Lunga perimeter near Henderson Field from surprise Japanese night attacks using M1919A4 machine guns.

[@gameragodzilla]

I first learned of this engagement from that game, too. Man, the old Medal of Honor games were so historically authentic.

[@HipiO7]

based game

[@zahidhassan6746]

You will be pushed all the way back to the airfield and fight till the end...I played that game too 😌

[@chrismartindale7840]

I played that game, but I don't remember that level.

[@perrynapier]

My grandfather survived 120 days on Guadalcanal, he might have lost his leg during one of these battles due to an aerial bomb. Thanks for these vids it's awesome to see my family's history

[@theplayerofus319]

Might?

[@martinford4553]

​@@theplayerofus319 maybe he lost a leg but never said how? Or he lost a leg and it killed him, with a likely cause being a bomb? Just guessing.

[@blockmasterscott]

What’s amazing is that both sides had to send troops and equipment thousands of miles across a vast ocean to fight each other on some obscure island that the general populace of both countries never knew existed.

[@eh1600]

Yup. Supply points and unsinkable airfields are pretty vital

[@pax6833]

Eastern Front: Decisive Battles involving 100s of thousands of troops African Front: Decisive Battles involving 10s of thousands of troops Pacific Front: Decisive Battles involving thousands of troops

[@eh1600]

@@pax6833 Well, good thing the nukes and the Soviet invasion of Manchukuo made them surrender. The invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall) would have made D Day look like a beach vacation. 5 million American and 1 million Commonwealth troops against 4 million Japanese army soldiers and tens of millions of conscripted civilian militia (similar to Volkssturm).

[@pax6833]

@@eh1600 True. I have read a good book on Downfall. Apparently the US damatically underestimated IJA capabilities. The IJA had also correctly predicted US planning (there were basically no good options for the US). In all likelihood, there's good odds it would've been a US defeat. Though even a victory would've been insanely costly.

[@joeywheelerii9136]

@@pax6833 The Japanese didn't have the Capacity to win. Yeah they knew where the allies would land but they don't have the capacity to stop a successful landing. The Japanese don't have the technology to break a beachhead. It would be the bloodiest landing of the war for sure tho.

[@zebradun7407]

The tactics of the Japanese did more to defeat themselves than anything else, throwing men into Machine guns was a WW1 tactic and walked right into the Marines defensive fires.

[@randomname3109]

while this seems like it may be the case, the 'banzai charge' was very much a last ditch attack, these men were starving and unsupplied, and Japanese leadership had no intention of further supporting them , so in their mind it was far preferable to ' Die with honour'. As a terror tactic it was actually highly effective too and could break defenders morale significantly even if at great cost. further , the numbers involved in the Pacific war were MINUSCULE compared to those the Japanese had committed to their war in China, and the loss of these men was seen as a small price to pay to convince the Americans of the futility of assaulting the Japanese mainland. And no doubt this worked , however they had zero expectation that the USA would unleash the deadliest the world has ever seen in the form of nuclear weapons instead. in this respect the deterrence was created to such an extent that the use of inconceivable (for the Japanese) superweapons was how the USA decided to end the war in the pacific

[@cloudjumper8868]

You have to consider that they had no supply lines as the raiders cut them of and had very little supplies with them. So it was quite a necessity to take Henderson field because there was not much places to fall back to resuply (only west). Second thing to consider is, that they had to fight in the night, because of air superiority. Day fight would play into the hands of marine air force which could strafe them and bomb them. Sadly (for japaneese) night in the jungle is very bad for keeping your units under control and under command. By the way japaneese were supposed to be quite good at night fights (as I read everywhere) so it wasn´t so bad for them as would be for other units/armies? Third thing is attack was badly executed, but still, japaneese were able to penetrate the marine line and/or push them back significantly. There was a serious possibility of breaking through marine lines even with plan, that wasn´t executed as was supposed to. Fourth is the thing they faced very elite units with good command on marine side. Maybe diferent unit would behave diferently, resulting in worse (for americans) ends. The thing is we cannot imagine, how terrible jungle is/was. Everywhere I read about Guadalcanal, they stress this out. The jungle was the enemy no. 1, then there were enemy units on second place.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

@@randomname3109 except that in The Central, South and Southwest Pacific as well as in Burma the Allied troops quickly figured out that if you had enough machine guns and ammo the "General Attack" did the Allies a favor- all that yelling and screaming was a convenient signal that the Japanese were on their way.

[@me67galaxylife]

No. There was no such tactics in ww1, and obviously when this happened it meant something had gone horribly wrong. Stop spreading midwit myths.

[@ArchonShon]

#43 already? Amazing work covering the war week by week!

[@JalapenoSteve]

The series is following the 80th anniversary of every battle/event.

[@apexnext]

Yep. We got 3 more years of these! 😳

[@benjaminhodzic4840]

This channel has it all Great attention to detail, great narrator and amazing graphics.

[@wolfu597]

The deciding factor in this battle is the scattering of the Japanese forces during their march through the jungle. Had they all attacked at once as planned, the outcome would have been very differently. Instead they were sent in piecemeal, and what should have been a great victory, ended up as a crushing and humiliating defeat for the Japanese, at the hands of Marine machine guns and artillery.

[@zebradun7407]

They would have still lost either way.

[@SilentEmpires]

@@zebradun7407 says who? They still nearly won

[@wolfu597]

@@SilentEmpires I agree. Imagine what would have happened if an entire battalion had gotten through to the airfield? One company was hard enough given how stretched the Marines were at this time.

[@theelvensong4328]

And the intelligence obtained by the Raiders who informed them that the Japanese were attacking from the south, towards the ridge. Without that intelligence, the US Marines would had been unprepared for Kawaguchi's attack.

[@davidhughes8357]

This was truly "Hell on Earth" ! We must respect these men on both sides.

[@Chiller01]

The battles for New Guinea and for Guadalcanal need to be analyzed concurrently as events in one battle significantly influenced the other.

[@BinaryzeroNYC]

Here, at Iron Mountain Server-side North Manhattan, I keep this series on in the background/ waiting area for our client services. ( KZbin + other podcast / video -feed ) as the main guy who queues up the variety. . .I have to say...you make my mini-job at work very easy. Everyone loves your stuff. Educating the young and witless on how real men make history.

[@oasis1282]

That's cool.

[@BinaryzeroNYC]

@@oasis1282 it truly is

[@sirgalahad1376]

Such class to speak of your paying clients in terms such as “witless.” Perhaps one might act in a more professional and less judgmental manner when referring to the individuals from whom your paychecks originate.

[@wtgardner6914]

An excellent and well detailed account of a battle that I had not previously seen much about. Thank you for your attention to detail and amazing graphics. Love this series and look forward to it every Tuesday! Great work!

[@rossco7365]

Thanks!

[@alexius23]

My father’s best friend was in First Marines. Even today their division patch has the name Guadalcanal

[@kenc9236]

I like your maps and animations. Gives me a sense of the tactical as well as the top down view of the generals involved. Good job.

[@ThePacificWarChannel]

One of the most intense battles of the Pacific War and a battle where many Medals of Honor were earned!

[@NELCARM]

There was an segment on our national news tonight about a veterans ashes being scattered on the Kokoda track by current members of his original battalion. He lived to 100 & fought right through the New Guinea campaign as a 21 year old.Guadalcanal ,Kokoda & Milne Bay were inter related in time & place. All 3 are were Allied victories & mark the turning point of the land war against the Japanese .

[@mikehernandez5900]

Excellent series. The battle detail is astounding, not just for the American side, but enemy as well. Great work!

[@TomerHollander]

Packaging all this, from strategic overview to grassy outcroppings, all into to a neatly tied and clear story, must deserve the respect for the masterpiece it is. Oh - and it has my name in the credits! The joy :)

[@leojablonski2309]

I personally appreciate these videos as it gives insight into my Dad. He rarely spoke of his 4 year tour with the Seabees building airstrips in So. Pacific. I do know he had blonde hair before the war and white when he discharged . Out of 1,200 , 19 came home. Horrific nightmares.

[@bogdananghel2498]

Kawaguchi has the best moustache so far.

[@dolphineshong7913]

My favorite series in youtube

[@philly0976]

The book "islands of the damned" is a good read. One hell of a fight on thy ridge.

[@nathang5630]

Your videos help me understand this important moment in history. Thanks.

[@richardkeilig4062]

Excellent presentation. Both sides showed courage, honor, and dedication. The USMC and air support were decisive. It is sad that so many young lives were lost. I wish for no more wars. A US Army Veteran.

[@XenophonAnabasis]

I'm patiently waiting for the battle of peleliu. My grandpas ship (lst 225) was the first ship in the second landing. I remember him saying at one point he was off ship helping the Marines take the air field, but he never said really much about the war just little snippets here and there.

[@adameckard4591]

My father's ship LST 658 was in the first wave. He never spoke of it.

[@piotrzbies8683]

So... you have to wait a bit of time...

[@adameckard4591]

My father was on LST 658 in the first wave. He didn't say much either. Later he said it was scary as hell.

[@acbgames1766]

13:28 Japanese commander of 3rd Battalion's character is 渡辺久寿吉, probably read Watanabe Kusukichi.

[@spongebrain2259]

Can always rely on this channel for a well detailed description of battles and events!

[@existentiallifecoach2024]

I absolutely love the visual illustration. It is almost as you can imagine being there.

[@omarbradley6807]

It was a brave defence by the Marines, and the sixth company didn'r pincer the US flanks, instead advanced towards the airfield. Kawaguchi was nevertheless a very honorable man. Respected the POWs, and criticize his superiors "revenge killings" in the Philipines. Edson went to serve as the director of the NRA after the war.

[@luigitosti7599]

Does anyone know who or how the battle field maps are created, is there an editor or service ? Just asking out of interest, I enjoying these videos so much, watching how the battles play out. Thanks for providing such a visually rich and informative video.

[@saxo9266]

i'd like to know this too! i think its adobe animation or some highly advanced animation/painting software

[@ballsack6547]

love the series K&G does , they're all superb . class historical battle channel, this and history marche , or armchair historian, plus people's profile.

[@thesoothedones]

This is so good, so detailed, so clearly instructed, so beautiful!

[@MarkErikEE]

Good one, been enjoying the series about the war in the Pacific.

[@chrismartindale7840]

I have met two different soldiers of the 1st Marine Division from WWII. They told me that they still have nightmares of that banzai charge. I wondered if they did about New Britain and Peleliu as well but didn't ask.

[@joeywheelerii9136]

Most definitely, the 1st marine division took higher battle losses at Peleliu then Glouscester and the canal combined in only a month.

[@cornishdiaspora918]

Excellent stuff! Love the maps.

[@robbabcock_]

Another great video! Can't wait for next week.

[@cfeltonfleming2398]

My father was an antiaircraft machine gunner on Fighter 1 during this battle.

[@Roberto-tu5re]

I love this series and can not wait for the next instalment

[@jamesbrowne6351]

Very good details. Thank you.

[@jongason660]

Thank you once again.

[@christopherhanton6611]

the series IS SO GOOD FOR SURE

[@denniscleary7580]

Perfect, I was just wondering what I should do this morning 👍

[@13thravenpurple94]

Great work Thank you

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , K&G . 🐺

[@misterbaker9728]

Well done and I love the graphics and map. I’m a huge pacific guy. Keep em coming…

[@jamesforreal]

Henderson Field was in trouble! So close to collapse. Great telling of this story and nice use of graphics.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

The research in this episode is heavily indebted to the Austalian War Museum's translation of the Senshii Saisho- the official Japanese war histories. Unfortunately, only the Dutch East Indies Campaign and the New Guinea Campaign volumes are translated to English. There are another 109 volumes covering the rest of the war to be translated.

[@-RONNIE]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks for the video & keep up the great work 🇺🇲

[@robijnbruinsma4489]

A wonderful series!

[@collintrytsman3353]

keep up the good work

[@adamstephenson7518]

I love this pacific series. Very cool

[@gelotinrobinhood4298]

spectacular

[@insect1572]

Well done

[@langleyj8199]

Excellent

[@sanmechrocker]

You should definitely think over making a Video like this on Kargil War(India vs Pakistan) that's the only war fought at that elevation. Pakistani soldiers (disguised as terrorist) infiltrated Indian posts over high mountains inside the Indian part of Kashmir and then Indian soldiers defeated them in a full scale war.

[@alejandrobetancourt8123]

What does a terrorist look like? Serious question

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nicely informative video

[@ryanrondine8388]

Stephen the great battles!!!!!!!!

[@Awesomewithaz]

Another Pacific War video!

[@tombombadilofficial]

The first time I learned of Edson's Ridge was from William Manchester's WW2 book, Goodbye, Darkness back in 1997.

[@guymcmullan9297]

Thank you 🐓

[@jlvfr]

Your Patreon email had "PW#43" on the tittle, and my first thought was "why are they senting a password request?!" :D Another great video!

[@bartroger7620]

Lol

[@Conn30Mtenor]

The Marines were probably tempted to quote The Duke of Wellington. "They came on in the same old way and we stopped them in the same old way".

[@skelejp9982]

We have a Map in the WW2 game I play, called Edson's Ridge. A continued banzai attack, total chaos..

[@jonbaxter2254]

What an awesome name for a battle, sounds like something in an Abercrombie book.

[@barbiquearea]

I remember this battle from the 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific. Although in the show it was much more visceral and there was open jungle skirmishing between the Japanese and US marines. The show had some pretty good production quality put into it, pretty good acting and its part documentary and part drama style was both quite exciting to watch and really educational. Plus it was executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Its worth checking out.

[@theawesomeman9821]

was Tom Hanks in it?

[@barbiquearea]

@@theawesomeman9821 No, unfortunately not.

[@theawesomeman9821]

@@barbiquearea ok

[@stephendean2896]

When I think of Guadalcanal. I think about the United States never getting or understanding how powerful and the crazy range of the long lance torpedoes

[@zainmudassir2964]

Hope you do vid on Ledo road and flying over 'the Hump' from India to China. it was huge feat in logistics and specialised jungle warfare like the Chindits

[@GothankPrenjul]

Perjuangan luar biasa

[@John-ju9dt]

Love the transatlantic accent

[@bypyros1933]

Can you do a video of Diego García de Paredes?

[@farrela3620]

10:55 When the front class arguing with the teacher, meanwhile the guys on the back watching while having party

[@lishiping84]

In the comment section of the series, We can see people from different countries mentioning their ancestors' participation in this war. This is a kind of unique experience for a world war.

[@prvdntus]

Guadalcanal was the campaign which proved that the USMC is a premier combined arms fighting force of the world.

[@akronym4439]

Yesterday I saw the film hacksaw ridge! Has nothing to do with this but nevertheless was not a bad film.

[@davidhughes8357]

Today we can watch our videos and enjoy the historical events described. But we will never know the terrible costs. Thus the view of all soldiers in combat everywhere with the question. " were you there " ?

[@DarrylMiglio]

It was interesting to hear that the Japanese saw the battle of Edson's Ridge to be the turning point of the war. It was only one of the first battles for the Americans. The rest of the war was the Japanese retreating and trying to take out as many of the enemy as they could before meeting their own end

[@Martijn_Steinpatz]

All I will say is that Kawaguchi had a dashing mustache

[@sanjayghimire7695]

Brave men forged these boundaries 🇺🇲🇳🇵

[@rodofgod5262]

This was a great battle for the Marine Corp. Apparently the Japanese had a good plan of attack however the Marine commander placed his fighting positions right smack in the middle (the ridge) of the Japanese avenue of approach which ended up just barely repelling them.

[@DininDalael]

I remember this from Band of Brothers, The Pacific....

[@pierre-alexandreclement7831]

❤️

[@raoufduc1441]

The first time I'm this early 😁

[@SamGray]

There is a small error in company lettering. You're including J in 3rd Battalion, but the American tradition is to never use the letter J. 3rd Battalion should be Companies I, K, L & M. Back in the old days the script version of I and J looked the same, so J was skipped to avoid confusion.

[@-JA-]

👏👍

[@dongochoangkhang]

Company K in TV series Pacific

[@jjjjj3749]

Please mack content for general Romel and African wars in ww2

[@bulalonglomi7995]

3:07 I think it's supposed to be "P-400" Airacobra fighters, not P-4000

[@HardscrabbleBlake1968]

Do the 3rd Battalions of Marine regiments have J companies? I know Army 3rd Battalions had companies I, K, L, and M, skipping J.

[@bigsarge2085]

👍👍

[@minoru5760]

Great movie as usual. Thanks K&G! As a side note, while the IJA was making its starving retreat, Marines began collecting skulls or teeth as trophies from bodies of JP soldiers. Of course they should be praised for bravery.

[@impostor101]

AH YES 3rd place isn't a bad place after all

[@aaronseet2738]

Where were the 7th Mairnes regiment?

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

This anime is great, I just wish the characters got more development for me to invest into them. :v

[@joshuadamroth5303]

✌

[@theawesomeman9821]

Let's go team America!

[@Jobe-13]

How unfortunate

[@clintonrenzgando3397]

Japanese army decipline is incredible

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Banzai blunted by intelligence.