Landing at Amchitka - Pacific War #66 DOCUMENTARY

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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues. Today, we return to the Solomons to cover the direct aftermath of the Guadalcanal Campaign, as the Americans prepare to embark on a new offensive operation against the Russell Islands, in an effort to prevent the Japanese from using them again against the Allies. But that’s not all, as we’ll also return to the Aleutian Islands, one of the most forgotten theaters of the Pacific War, to cover some new developments that transpired during the last few months. Thus, join us as we delve into another exciting episode of the Pacific War and talk about the landing at Amchitka.
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#2 - Japanese Invasion of Malaya: • Japanese Invasion of M...
#3 - Japan attacks Guam, Wake, the Philippines: • Japan Attacks Everywhe...
#4 - Japan attacks Borneo, Philippines: • Japan Continues Attack...
#5 - Wake Island: • Fall of Wake Island - ...
#6 - Kampar: • Battle of Kampar - Pac...
#7 - Slim River: • Battle of Slim River -...
#8 - Dutch East Indies: • Battle for the Dutch E...
#9 - Invasion of New Britain: • Invasion of New Britai...
#10 - Fall of Malaya: • Fall of Malaya - Pacif...
#11 - Makassar: • Battle of Makassar Str...
#12 - Fall of Singapore: • Fall of Singapore - Pa...
#13 - Sumatra: • Japanese Invasion of S...
#14 - Timor: • Japanese Invasion of T...
#15 - Java: • Fall of Java - Pacific...
#16 - Rangoon: • Fall of Rangoon - Paci...
#17 - US Response: • How the US Responded t...
#18 - Tojo: • Hideki Tojo: Bringing ...
#19 - Japanese Raids in the Indian Ocean: • Japanese Raids in the ...
#20 - Fall of Bataan: • Fall of Bataan & The B...
#21 - Doolittle Raid: • Doolittle Raid: Americ...
#22 - Japanese Advance on Burma Road: • Japanese Advance on Bu...
#23 - Australia's Pearl Harbor: • Australia's Pearl Harb...
#24 - Coral Sea: • Battle of the Coral Se...
#25 - Fall of the Philippines: • Fall of the Philippine...
#26 - Fall of Burma: • Fall of Burma - Pacifi...
#27 - Sei-Go: • How Japan Responded to...
#28 - Midway: • Battle of Midway - Pac...
#29 - Japanese Invasion of Alaska: • Japanese Invasion of A...
#30 - Japanese Attack on Sydney: • Japanese Attack on Syd...
#31 - MacArthur and the Philippines Disaster: • How MacArthur Caused t...
#32 - Attacks New Guinea: • Japan Attacks New Guin...
#33 - Biological Warfare in China: • Japanese War Crimes: B...
#34 - Japan Attacks the Continental United States: • Japan Attacks the Cont...
#35 - Invasion of Buna-Gona: • Invasion of Buna-Gona ...
#36 - Kokoda: • Battle of Kokoda - Pac...
#37 - Invasion of Solomon Islands: • Invasion of Solomon Is...
#38 - Savo Island: • Battle of Savo Island ...
#39 - Raid on Makin Island: • Raid on Makin Island -...
#40 - Battle of Eastern Solomons: • Battle of Eastern Solo...
#41 - Isurava: • Australia's Thermopyla...
#42 - Milne Bay: • Battle of Milne Bay - ...
#43 - Bloody Ridge: • Battle of the Bloody R...
#44 - Ioribaiwa: • Battle of the Ioribaiw...
#45 - Matanikau: • Battle of Matanikau - ...
#46 - Cape Esperance: • Battle of Cape Esperan...
#47 - Kokoda Track Counteroffensive: • Kokoda Track Counterof...
#48 - Henderson Field: • Battle for Henderson F...
#49 - Santa Cruz Islands: • Battle of the Santa Cr...
#50 - Oivi-Gorari: • Battle of Oivi-Gorari ...
#51 - Guadalcanal: • Naval Battle of Guadal...
#52 - Buna-Gona: • Battle of Buna-Gona - ...
#53 - Carlson's Patrol: • Carlson's Long Patrol ...
#54 - Tassafaronga: • Battle of Tassafaronga...
#55 - Fall of Gona: • Fall of Gona - Allied ...
#56 - Battle of Mount Austen: • Battle of Mount Austen...
#57 - 1st Arakan Campaign: • First Arakan Campaign ...
#58 - Fall of Buna: • Fall of Buna - Pacific...
#59 - Sanananda: • Sanananda Campaign - P...
#60 - Galloping/Sea Horse: • Galloping Horse and Se...
#61 - End of Buna-Gona: • End of the Battle of B...
#62 - Rennell Island: • Battle of Rennell Isla...
#63 - End of Guadalcanal: • End of the Guadalcanal...
#64 - Wau: • Battle of Wau - Pacifi...
#65 - First Chindits: • Britain Strikes Back A...
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Brilliant as always! I had read one of informal hearings and saw an ex-Japanese soldier said "At this moment we were holding our ground on the mainland US." So I could understand a little why IJA/N were completely scrapped both legally and practically after the defeat, although I'll never consent about that

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I was born in 1951, so a classic baby boomer. My father turned 17 the year the war ended, but most of the fathers in the post-war, suburban housing tract where we lived had served. My father-in-law served in the US Army Signal Corps in the Aleutian Campaign, participating in the retaking of Attu and Kiska. Like many men of his generation, he was reluctant to speak of his war service.

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My Great Grandfather was a civilian contractor in that theater, as a carpenter.

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Looking at the islands on Google Earth you can still see the landings strips seventy years later.

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The map at the beginning of the video has the “attack on Sydney Harbor” info in the wrong location. It is marked at the location of Brisbane, Sydney is more than 700km further south

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Building an airstrip in the Aleutian Islands would be a major challenge any time of year but in the winter January and February it would be especially challenging. Frozen soil is extremely difficult to grade, I just rolls around in large chunks, then turns to mush when it thaws.

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This is the first time I've ever heard mention of the P-43 fighter or B-18 bomber being used in the Aleutians. Most sources had those aircraft designated as unfit for combat within a few months of the start of the war. Is there a source on their use in the Aleutian campaign?

[@jacobjones4766]

The 11th us army airforce was mostly equipped with outdated equipment including a b10 bomber initially. The 18th pursuit squadron had p40s and p36s im not sure about p43s tho. However b18 bolos were there and used by the 36th bombardment squadron. The us navy also had some old pby and kingfisher planes. The 72nd heavy bomber squadron later came with b24 liberators f4 wildcats and a host of other aircraft would also become available. This is all from the us navy and airforce websites. Alaska troops were always equipped with 2nd rate mostly obsolete equipment. Even the tanks used were the obsolete marmon Harrington ctls4 tankettes.

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At the beginning, you mark Sydney on the map where Brisbane is

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I still wonder at what the war would've looked like if the Japanese had been more aggressive in the Aleutians. It could've pulled more resources from the southern Pacific where the US was beginning to gain momentum and would've possibly allowed the Japanese to hit the US mainland with air raids. It would've just delayed the inevitable, but even so, I still wonder.

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It would require a complete rerouting by the IJN (not IJA) from their focus in the South Pacific, but that would mean a complete change in their raison d'etre for war in the first place (securing resources from the Malaysia/Dutch East Indies after the IJA's failure in China/Russia and the following disastrous US embargo on oil that cut 90% of supply). It's a fanciful dream

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Nothing say success like an unopposed landing.

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This series just shows how fast the US changed to being able to support forces and attacks everywhere.

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Crazy to think 50 years before this moment the Americans barely had much of a navy at all.

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The start of many American beach parties to come.

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“Inevitable volcano”.

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Geez, American logistics were incredible. Those Polynesian cargo cults didn't appear for nothing!

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B-25 Mitchell, normally a medium bomber (aka the "Doolittle Raid"). Not after my boy Col.(1948) Paul "Pappy" Gunn gets his Grubbin' Meat Hooks deep into it's Bowels. 8 - M2 .50 Cal. placed in nose racks (Sorry Bomber Boy, you're not needed No 'Mo on this new Get-A-Long), 2 - M2 .50 Cal. in Blisters below the pilot, both sides, and the only piece of equipment that came with the Plane, 2 - M2 .50 Cal in the Dorsal Ball Turret. That's 14 Forward Facing Ma Deuces going all off, all at once, guys said didn't need to puncture Armor, that much mass would rattle the hull plate Welds Apart That would have been almost as much fun as a AC-130 in full Dawg Daddy Mode (my hav-a-wish if I should ever get one)

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How is this like, the least known part of the Pacific War? You'd think with how Americans are that the first invasion of our soil since 1812 would be trumpeted from the rooftops forever after!

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Putting the embarrassing state of American education aside, the focus people usually have on 1942 is North Africa and the Eastern Front, followed by the South Pacific. "Germany first" was the policy for the US and UK during this time, after all

[@TheHypnogog]

Eh, mostly uninhabited islands- save a fishing village here or there- perhaps strategically significant if invading thru Canada- but that would be a logistical disaster.

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Technically, this wasn't US soil at the time.

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Just imagine if Japan won the war: Alaskans would be speaking Japanese Japan would be a global oil producer The American automobile industry would be run out of business and the whales would have been hunted to extinction from Japanese whalers within the 20th Century.

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US must be free by 1943

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In reality, the Japanese have managed to bog down the Americans and Australians on insignificant islands for over a year

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