Graham Family Reacts To 450 Marines Vs Imperial Japanese Navy

[@emmettdwyer7584]

you have to watch to the end with this guy. they have the dog comment from the Marine

[@DarkKatzy013]

This THIS This !!!!

[@diggity1039]

With Nic's videos, ya gotta stay till the end.

[@Cody38Super]

Nic was an Army Medic...aka...Doc.

[@Bill-1370]

We were on our way to Okinawa back in 1983, we stopped to refuel at Wake Island and were able to walk around for a few hours, It was beautiful but until you are there you can't really comprehend just how small the island is, you can stand in the middle of the island and see nothing but ocean in any direction. Just an airfield and a few hangers, barracks. There are still old bunker and gun emplacements along the beach.

[@casualguy3938]

We stopped there in 1987 on our way from Hawaii as well. While my father served in the US Navy in the defense of the Philippines, standing on the same sand that previous Marines stood on was humbling and energizing at the same time. Looking across the water, hearing and seeing the various ocean birds... I could only imagine the memories it would have caused if those Marines could experience what I was experiencing then.

[@kylrean3891]

It's important to remember that at the time, Pearl Harbor had just happened. The US Pacific fleet had been decimated. They really didn't have the ability to go rescue them. I'm sure that decision kept a lot of people awake at night for a long time...

[@casketman14]

Most of the fleet itself was decimated but not a lot was damaged

[@Cody38Super]

You need to let his videos play...there's usually an "end credit scene".

[@grumblesa10]

"Special Naval Landing Forces" (SNLF), are equated with USMC, but in reality they are sailors given additional basic infantry training. Not at the level of the USMC at the time..or later for that matter. Also, they were NOT abandoned. Planners were literally sifting through the wreckage at Pearl and Schofield Barracks to see what could be sent. Reinforcements, heavy weapons, and supplies WERE inbound with a scheduled arrival on the 23rd IIRC. But the island surrendered on the 22nd. 1 Catalina made it as well evacuating wounded and as many civilians as they could carry

[@davidnoel2977]

I hate to break it to you genius but when you are bombed on the 8th and 9th and then shelled from ships on the 11th and then bombed for 10 days straight after that, and then invaded on the 22nd and have to fight out a battle while no one has even bothered to send anything your way in the form of reinforcements and no one has plans to show up until the 23rd that's called being abandoned.

[@davidnoel2977]

@grumblesa10 look dude you can say whatever you want to say but when you're only a thousand miles away from someone who could send at least something to help your ass out and they don't show up for almost 2/3 of a month then that's called being abandoned. How about you check out one of the videos of the actual veterans who were there who actually said they felt like they were abandoned. Because I know I have.

[@kingjellybean9795]

ALWAYS WATCH TILL THE END JONO

[@Sean-sx9cr]

In Australia we have it different. Each new year means each new year at school not half way threw the year.. That must be so confusing. Like we come back from Christmas and New years holidays and we are in a new year not in July in the middle of the year. Love your video's keep them up

[@jackfalce]

I agree it would be very confusing we have the same thing here in New Zealand where at the start of the new year you go up a year in school and not do it half way threw the year.

[@marklatheam2806]

yeah I'm with you on that one it must be stressful having to start something new in the middle of the year instead of the start of every new year with a fresh start on thing's.

[@kevinbrown3075]

🦅 🌎 ⚓️ Semper Fi Jarheads!

[@gk5891]

Over 1200 civilian contractors on the islands. Approximately 400 took up arms. 55 confirmed civilian contractor deaths during invasion. 895 civilian contractors survived the war to return home. The last 98 civilian contractors who had remained on the island were executed by the Japanese in 1943. Whether these were men that took up arms (guerillas were subject to execution by international law) or non-combatants would determine whether this was a warcrime.

[@Austin.Kilgore]

PLEASE react to “America’s War Horse Marine: Sergeant Reckless” by The Fat Electrician! It’s one if his best videos in my opinion!

[@oak6845]

Brother it's not "Having Balls of Steel", it's about being an American. I'm a US Army Special Force Ranger and I can tell you if we Rangers have our sights on you, your soul had better know the Lord Jesus for your about to see him!

[@Roboto2073]

You typically shouldn't cut the Elicitation videos short. He has a little bit at the end. Still, a great reaction.

[@4325air]

To be fair to the higher military authorities in the US, they had nothing to send to Wake or the means to get it there. They had no transport ships readily available. The US Pacific Fleet had taken a drubbing at Pearl Harbor and was in no condition to take on the Japanese fleet. Further, the US had no intelligence information at to the true size and composition of the Japanese naval task force around Wake. Finally--and more critically--the Philippine Islands, then a protectorate of the U.S., was being attacked and invaded. Another consideration, in the shock after the attack on Pearl, rumors abounded, and it was feared that the Japanese fleet was on its way to Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Accordingly, units that survived the Pear attack were being held in reserve to defend the US mainland. Even had the reinforcements been available, even had the US navy been sufficiently strong, even if the US had adequate intelligence on their enemy.....the Philippines and the US west coast were a much higher priorities..

[@RanManRaider]

"Hey" from the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Hope y'all doing fantastic ! :) Enjoy the heck outta ya videos. Also, I ain't a stick-in-the-mud old sorta man, but I do understand why ya don't include the kids for a video from the Fat Electrician. As enjoyable as the Fat Electrician videos are too me, it is still adult stuff. Have fun and be safe. f:)

[@itsjustme7719]

You never finish his videos!!!!

[@Plastikdoom]

Definitely need to watch his videos to the end.

[@warrenelkins1861]

The battle of Midway Island was also amazing .

[@loudelk99]

This was the beginning of the Japanese education about Americans in general and marines in particular.

[@becool4223]

The US Navy abandoned the Wake island defenders to their fate in the same way as they did the thousands of American forces in the Philippine Islands because they felt that they couldn't risk losing the few ships they had remaining after the Pearl Harbor attack against what at the time was an overwhelmingly larger Japanese Navy. All of the US battleships were damaged or sunk and the Japanese Navy had nearly a 3 to 1 superiority of aircraft carriers in the Pacific Ocean. As things turned out it wasn't long before the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise was the only capital ship left to hold the Pacific against the Japanese Navy. 1942 got really interesting in a hurry.

[@txbeachbum]

Watched a few of yalls reactions to the Fat Electrician and yall cut it off about 30 seconds early. He always has another joke, story, pictures, video, etc.. at the end.

[@artforpizza]

oh you've done it again... lol. clicked off too soon😆

[@tiffanyokeefe]

Another fat electrician video that he just did is called the white death. About simo hoya a Finnish sniper vs the Soviet military .

[@CloudJLaw]

20:28 Realistically and unfortunately.. our ships would’ve never made it in time. Japan is closer to Wake Island than it is to America. So if our ships were to make it, supposed those ships were destroyed as they just made it to Wake or before? Plus I don’t think our naval power was really strong at the beginning of WW2

[@jonathanhernandez5282]

Stay till the end of the video

[@AndrewSmith-qw5kt]

Why don't you do a story on the Americans who in WWII helped liberate France and how 100's of U.S. soldiers went on graping sprees against French women. Same in Vietnam.

[@MrVince8]

I would like to suggest that you watch the video first, before recording a KZbin video. Then you can get all of your questions and comments out of the way and respond to the video at the end. Therefore, not interrupting the flow of the video we are watching.

[@seth9382]

I dont mind it, its better for them to say it when they think it, its a reaction video / kinda the point