WW2 Iwo Jima Marine Describes Brutal Hand to Hand Combat and Fighting the Fanatical Japanese

[@RememberWW2]

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[@ericcaldwell2074]

Love your patriotism and that what you are doing reminds our youths that freedom is not free in a time when KZbin won't show bodies in old war footage.🥲

[@Chris-of6xm]

Channels like this are one of the few good things about modern technology. Thank you for bringing this to the public!

[@CJArnold-hq3ey]

Spot On mate 🇦🇺👌

[@mikealvarez2322]

Imagine if we had taped interviews with the passengers of the Mayflower or the people that eventually became the Lost Colony. Wow! At least our posterity will have these and other historic interviews that will bring our history to life.

[@Chris-of6xm]

@@mikealvarez2322 Well said, wow imagine that. Agreed.

[@SPARTANRTJ1]

Seen this uploaded clicked instantly

[@michaelagostini155]

Every single time… right? I watch these videos every night. I’ll listen to the same Veteran five to six times. The greatest generation 🇺🇸

[@DRFelGood]

Thank you Sir for your service and courage ❤ God Bless you 🇺🇸

[@davehiggins5903]

Thank you sir for my freedom, truly an American hero from the greatest generation.

[@susanbrown5004]

I watch these documentaries all the time and this is the 1st one that I cried. I am so proud of him.🇺🇸❤️thank you.

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[@michaeldouglas1243]

Sir, I do not know of you will read this, but either way, I want to thank you for our freedoms and I am deeply indebted.

[@BluMecker-ox6sx]

This is one of the most extraordinary personal testimonies I have ever heard. Thank you and God bless you Mr Robert Rickman

[@HRM.H]

Thanks for uploading these stories! ❤

[@76vike19]

My Dad was at Iwo Jima and never really talked about it. Once he said, “we were on Iwo Jima, the Japanese were in Iwo Jima” Rest in peace Pops

[@andrewferguson3535]

What an amazing man. Very sharp. Great interview 👏

[@Lavadawg0311]

Semper Fi, thank you Rishi

[@Iubek]

Rest easy John Gardel, your friend here never forgot about you.

[@stevenrafters7817]

Thank you Rishi for what you do. My uncle was a 5th Marine in Iwo as a forward observer. God bless them all

[@benyoung552]

Man I loved this interview! One of the best I’ve seen yet! Thanks Robert!!! And thank you Rishi for getting these important historical stories saved on video for the world to see forever!!!

[@PacificAirwave144]

He's doing well...for being over 100 years old ;-)

[@rickdozier3609]

Greatest generation ever!

[@dannyb.4034]

It’s so incredible, the stories these young went through. Both sides.

[@vincentmelini9129]

Love this channel and all our vets. Thank you sir

[@J23-o7u]

Me toooo

[@redwatch1100]

You have a better channel than the AVC. Better interviewer. You do a fantastic job bro.

[@AndrewLangloHighKing]

I wish my grandfather could have done this. He was a world war two veteran. He served on Leyte and Okinawa and Iwo, jima. Sadly, he passed away in 2011

[@philipnestor5034]

Your grandfather was part of the Greatest Generation! Men like him saved us!

[@AndrewLangloHighKing]

@philipnestor5034 Thanks. I wish my grandfather was able to have been interviewed on Veterans Chronicles so his story would have been told to the world..

[@Joseph-JMJ]

My Dad landed on Leyte on October 20th 1944 at 10:03 AM, 7th Infantry [Hour Glass) Division

[@ljchampion7952]

What a lovely chap with an incredible story ❤

[@rg4987]

Job well done Marine! Amazing recollections!! Thank you Rishi

[@Bicentennial1976]

Thank you Rishi Sharma, for your interview technique in that you let the interviewee’s tell their stories without constantly interrupting them like some other interviewers do on other channels. Also when you do ask a question it is a well thought out one and pertinent to the topic the interviewee is currently telling. I love the your channel and have subscribed!

[@johndilday1846]

Amazing experiences. Thank God he survived and has had a long life since then. Thanks for sharing.

[@elhonradojuann]

I FEEL SO VERY BLESSED TO BE LISTENING TO THIS HÉROE 7 DAYS AFTER HIS EXPERIENCE WAS UPLOADED 7 DAYS AGO KNOWING HE IS STILL ALIVE THANK YOU VERY MUCH SR FOR SHARING WITH US GOD BLESS YOU!

[@johe90]

Never stop making these. These men should forever be memorialized by their stories. We owe it to them to LEARN about how horrible war is and why we should do everything we can to avoid it.

[@2024s_truth-speaker]

Unfortunately there isn't many WWII vets left and these interviews are getting scarce. Sad really..

[@fullsendington8422]

I put this on for background stimulation while I edit my resume... I didn't get much work done. I don't know why but Iwo Jima is incredibly fascinating to me. Thank you for my freedom sir.

[@DelcoAirsoft]

I swear this may be the greatest interview I’ve ever heard. It sounds like he met a time traveler, maybe it was his great relative from the future telling him that he was going to live. Plus the land mine story is absolutely insane! And this has to be the only account of someone accidentally touching the enemy. It’s the only one that I’ve heard anyway.

[@RememberWW2]

Thanks for watching…please make sure to subscribe for more videos of the WWII veterans. Thanks and GOD BLESS

[@susanbrown5004]

I totally believe that he saw that image❤

[@dalehusak6633]

There are multiple stories I’ve heard told by marines who heard a voice clearly say something like, “You will survive the war.” Eugene Sledge recounts a similar experience in his book “With the Old Breed.” This is the first account I’ve heard of someone seeing someone, however.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

@@dalehusak6633Eugene Sledge talked of a Marine stepping on a mine and being atomized!

[@roderickstockdale1678]

How could it have been an American land mine though?

[@jessel9930]

What a great man and great interview. Keep up the great work!

[@RememberWW2]

Thanks and GOD BLESS the WWII veterans

[@garymckee63]

As always, it was an outstanding interview. SEMPER FIDELIS to you, MARINE.

[@davidphillips7321]

God Bless OUR Veteran's - All of Them, and Thank Them Every Day...Greatest Generation Ever...Never Forget...

[@Jeff-n6o]

Much respect for these veteran's my father was on Saipan never talked about it

[@laserus3333]

A spiritual experience before total Chaotic warfare. Amazing. My dad was on Iwo Jima as well. Thanks for your insightful recollection. Semper fi

[@johngiovine8792]

Amazing recall from this hero of the Greatest Generation, and Harry S.Truman IMO made the correct and yet toughest decision of the whole 20th century, which and but for I would not be writing this comment!

[@sjb3460]

The Japanese civilians were starving. There was very little food and most of that went to the soldiers. Plus, the children were being trained into suicide bombers. We saved the lives of 95% of the entire population and hundreds of thousands of Allies lives. The Germans and Japanese, on the anniversary of VE and VJ day, should get on their knees and thank the Allies for sparing their lives. And not doing to them what they did to the soldiers and civilians of the countries the Nazi's and the Japanese conquered.

[@Briandw161]

​@@sjb3460Excellent point! Totally agree

[@jdschock9582]

Amazing work sir.

[@davetheotter7039]

Very interesting story told by a great marine of his horrible experiences.

[@brianford8493]

Just can't imagine the horror of that chap...great work keep it up mate.✌️

[@FlightLine4240]

Thank you Rishi for documenting this history. You are doing very important work sir!

[@GerardPetrone-n4n]

Thank you for your service.

[@craignedoff991]

My father served with these Marines. A special generation of heroes.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

Was he one himself or Navy?

[@matthewketelhut4966]

Man he reminds me of my Grandfather. Makes me want to cry 😭 RIP to all Pacific heros

[@LittleFarmer14]

American hero’s. All of them.

[@YouT00ber]

What an amazing story. I especially like the story of the man who promised him he’d be safe

[@WhiteGoldtube]

What a lovely guy. Very graceful.

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

51:34 I think was a Nambu pistol, not a Luger. They look very similar at first glance. Anyway, thanks for sharing your story and for your fearless service in WWII

[@roderickstockdale1678]

Yea the only real difference is is that the nambu has a bigger trigger guard.

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

@@roderickstockdale1678 Well sort of. Luger had a toggle lock action and the Nambu doesn't. Also they used two different cartridges.

[@benjaminfrazier5419]

I was thinking Nambu also….

[@kevinkranz9156]

THANK YOU SIR FOR YOUR STORY MR RISHI AMEN 🙏 SIR

[@JBo77]

Your a good man Rishi!

[@user-se7mh7vl2k]

Rishi thanks for posting the interviews, kudos to the Ekstrom Foundation for the help; had the rare privelege to have climbed Suribachi-yama twice and to see the airfield in Iwo during an ARG-EX. Semper Fi, you know who you are, shipmates.

[@stevep9559]

Thank god for people like you mate.

[@ocularpressure4558]

Ty rishi

[@TheFatNooblet]

6:10 reminds me in “With the Old Breed” when Eugene Sledge randomly heard a voice telling him that he would make it through the war. Weird phenomenon maybe some kind of hallucination?

[@PVT.Ramirez-x2y]

Or probably other dead soldiers who already passed away and where still there watching over their friends giving them hope

[@frederickking1660]

That's Jesus or God talking to them

[@thatsthewayitgoes9]

Thank you

[@ronniechilds2002]

This man is a hero, in my opinion. HE and all of the men and women who won WWII are heroes to me. This old guy is a hero for having such great hair.

[@tbone6203]

R.s- i heard about your docs way back - u sir are the best our nation has left- when ur ready for next phase my life started in 99- - spent 22 yrs most in gwot

[@poonstangable]

Thank you and God Bless

[@CharlesFlato-wn2qf]

As is said: War is War!!! The truth is the truth!!!

[@frankdodgee]

Wonderful episode. Thankful for documenting these precious memories of these HEROES 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Raven-vp2ky]

Thank you for doing what you do, God bless🙏🏻

[@cars2drive298]

Thank you all veterans ✌️👍

[@Greg-xi8yx]

Can you please be sure to always put the date or at least the year that the conversation takes place as well as the age of the subject? It’s very important honestly. Thanks.

[@mikejosephson2594]

My father fought with the 5th Marine Division. He was a machine gunner. Never said much about it when I asked him about it. Must have been horrible. Semper Fi sir.

[@susanbrown5004]

Thanks!

[@williamnellist2555]

God bless you sir

[@ron56pvi13]

Decades ago I was talking to the starter while waiting in a long line at the first tee of Jaworski's course in Pa. He told me how he took one of the few prisoners at Iwo. The guy kept pointing to the cup hanging on the gunny's belt. He poured some water into the cup and gave it to him. As the PW tilted his head back, gunney shot him through the cup with his M1. I asked him if he felt bad about that and he said, " Hell yeah, I needed that cup".

[@scotttyson7970]

I'm a proud son of the Greatest Generation

[@John-w6s]

I'm a proud nephew three uncles

[@rog9601]

Same here !

[@petegreen4455]

A Bad Ass American Hero!

[@wjj0311]

Semper Fi Sir

[@mr.m1garand254]

BAR always goes hard

[@RememberWW2]

Thanks and GOD BLESS

[@jeanf8998]

My uncle was there ❤

[@gpunk76]

Reminds me of my own marine father , Semper fucking fi

[@wallacebrucker1584]

I care deeply about preserving these histories.As someone who had relatives on both sides in WW2. History must be preserved.

[@RememberWW2]

Thanks for the nice comment! Please consider helping me do this by donating at www.rememberww2.org/donate Thanks and GOD BLESS!

[@Fuhgit-lu4tj]

Two books I highly recommend: Red Blood, Black Sand by Chuck Tatum and With The Old Breed by Eugene Sledge.

[@freshhistorynow967]

6:45 -- an angel or maybe a time traveler?

[@jmmck2361]

My father got his second purple heart on Iwo Jima. He was wounded several days after the flag raising on Surabachi. He landed with the 4th Division. Before that he was in the 2nd Division at Tarawa and Saipan.

[@johnwren3976]

My Dad was 4th Marines. Kwajalien, Roi Namur, Saipan & Tinian. Horrible action. He didn't speak of it.

[@MarkNostrant]

The german lugar was a nambu.

[@J23-o7u]

Unbievable story omg 😢

[@richardmills8575]

My older cousin was wounded on Iwoa. He definitely suffered from PTSD. He never said much but did tell me one time “we killed everything, men, women, children.

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

"richardmills8575"= BOT ACCOUNT

[@JC-fh6uw]

Unlikely on Iwo. All civilians were evacuated before the battle.

[@jordonsky]

@@JC-fh6uwno not true family’s hid in caves and Americans killed them by mestake

[@jordonsky]

@@JC-fh6uwand some joined the Japanese army

[@Heisenbergg69]

Why you lying?

[@soultraveller5027]

Many many,veterans never spoke of the wartime experience when they returned from the war and remained silent till they passed away certainly my great grandad from little i know of him a veteran of the Burma campaign a long drawn out war fighting in the jungles of burma Many, veterans did like this gentleman and spoke very candidly and vividly about the war in detail,describing the japanese soldier as fanatical brave and obedient soldier a fantastically discipline soldier, however they behaviour and mistreatment of allied prisoners of war and civilians alike in the most barbaric and brutal fashion which cannot be described here, which is well documented elsewhere in other accounts from vets and historians. One thing that stood out when talking to veterans unlike the germans in europe nobody surrendered to japanese soldiers in that war the japanese were not taking prisoners so either or lived long if they did, in the battle of Imphal and Kohima no prisoners we knowley taken by allied forces after the battle , it was a most brutal and vicious close quarter combat from day to night the japaneses fought with fanaticism that shocked allied soldiers they [allies] had no choice to but stand firm the order of no retreat was given by general slim of the 14th army of burma supplies would be dropped by air this was tactic saved the 14th army even if they were outflanked my great grandad when he passed away my mother helped collect grandads belonging as the house was being sold a box of war medals were found no my understanding he never wore them or displayed them, one was the burma star a campaign medal to all those that served.

[@winstonchurchill3597]

That part about the well dressed man with military bearing who told him he would be alright and live to an old age was really weird. There are some things that just can't be explained.

[@charlieLund-v4r]

Robert Reichman, is the WWII Marine Veteran giving his story here. Incredable story he gives here. Saw so much death and distruction all around him, none of us can comprehend what these young guys lived through. God bless you Mr. Reichman.

[@gnarkillgnarkill7725]

RIP John❤

[@ImreDemech-c4e]

There will always be war somewhere in the world. America must be prepared always 24/7!. My best buddy & I volunteered for the Draft,& we helped each other make it through the Marine Corps & Vietnam.

[@PonticLyra]

Real American Men. God bless the Greatest Generation. And this isn't the first time at the 7min 8 min mark. I've heard similar stories also with Korean War vets. The Archangel Michael. God bless this veteran.

[@crevecouer6772]

No quarter was asked none was given after the Japanese tortured and killed US forces.

[@frankdodgee]

Exactly

[@4catsnow]

Wonder what this Marine thought when Johnson gave the island back...

[@redwatch1100]

He probably didn't care. The island served it's intended purpose as an emergency landing strip for returning B-29s. The Japanese were probably the best, most sensible defeated nation we ever fought. They accepted their losses and worked hard to restore their country so it could thrive as it does today as one of America's best allies.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

That was almost 25 years before, time treads waters man.

[@marcwinfield1541]

He probably didn't notice it in the news when it happened. Those islands are integral parts of Japan. I agree with the other poster. Iwo Jima was another stepping stone. Johnson was a big-time traitor and criminal but for other reasons. Think of November 1963

[@roderickstockdale1678]

@@marcwinfield1541 exactly…

[@gravitypronepart2201]

❤❤❤

[@tonytonez3769]

🙏

[@alphalima6810]

For a minute, I thought it was the "man" in the brown shirt calling out when he was going back to his unit. Angelo passed in 1999.

[@RubyBandUSA]

nice head of hair on that 100 year old

[@nedisahonkey]

Wait Garret Bolles the LT for the broncos? What a cool way to give back to charity.

[@andredefrancesco7111]

Did he meet John Basilone?

[@HEAVYDRAGON72]

The photo was taken on the second try.

[@samhui9433]

prob beyond the scope of your mission but getting other nation veterans interviews translated to english would be great value. And I mean not the western allies but other countries.

[@carlbodene8150]

I just watched a video on Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota. Stolen Valor and a coward of the highest order. Then watched this brave man Robert Reichman and am in awe. He was met by an Angel before climbing down the rope ladder and winessed horrors, he has lived a long healthy life as predicted.

[@MikaelLansfalken]

Take your bs and hate elsewhere. This is not the place.

[@Albert-the-Astro]

This man reminds of what Waylon Jennings would look like as an old man.

[@garysmith789]

War one of 5he most horrible experiences that one could have

[@John-n2x4s]

Amazing experiences.

[@MiClLC]

Interview Japanese soldier on Iwo

[@ImreDemech-c4e]

I went to Vietnam & found out guys were getting killed or wounded.