Shot Down Over Japan - The Treatment of American Airmen (Episode 2)

[@stevenhandorf3145]

My dad was the co-pilot of a B-24 in the East Indies. He told us he would have preferred to be killed in action than to be forced to bail out of his plane and land in the water or on some remote island. Better to die fighting than to face sharks, poisonous snakes, headhunters or Japanese jailers. What a selection of less-than-great choices.

[@astralclub5964]

The Japanese sowed the wind, and reaped the whirlwind - literally!

[@son_of_stan]

@@astralclub5964 hell yes

[@azurecliff8709]

At the end of World War II, the Allies, including the United States and Great Britain, indiscriminately massacred approximately 500,000 Japanese citizens through air raids and atomic bombings. You see? The Allies are desperately blaming Japan's past to cover up their own brutal war crimes. 😄😄😄😂

[@dave.of.the.forrest]

@@azurecliff8709 It works both ways. No one is innocent.

[@emeraldbreeze5204]

At the end of World War II, the Allied Forces indiscriminately bombed Japan, dropped atomic bombs, and massacred approximately 500,000 Japanese citizens. 😫😖😩👎😩👎😩👎 No matter how much Mark Felton rampages, the brutal Allied war crimes against Japan cannot be erased from history ❢❢❢ 😄😄😄😂😂😂

[@sheilastallard]

My father in law was a pow to the Japanese. He was in the Royal Navy we only learnt what happened to him after he passed away. We took his naval docs and his writings to the Imperial War Museum London. Stay Safe!

[@sheilastallard]

@T F And your point is?

[@argentinianbunker3976]

@T F your delirious

[@sheilastallard]

@T F same here

[@matpk]

@@sheilastallard compare 1930s Nazi Germany vs 2020s Communist China in your next video!!

[@timothysimpson1561]

@@matpkshow how sub saharan countries are under commie Chinese control.

[@brucemichelsen5943]

I really enjoyed this 2 part series in its detail and accuracy. Mark Felton"s knowledge and descriptions are very accurate. My father, now 95, was shot down on May 26, 1945 in the plane named Arkansas Traveler. He too was "saved" by the Kempeitai from sure death at the hands of civilians. Another crew member of his was not so fortunate. He was also questioned, beaten and held in the horse stalls of Imperial palace. Although, he was not put on display at the zoo, he was transferred to the Omori POW camp at the end of the war from where he was liberated. Not much is generally known or discussed about this aspect of the war, so I thank you for bringing awareness to this.

[@zclary923]

Tell your Father his service and sacrifices are appreciated. Without men like him, we wouldn't have the freedoms we do today.

[@qtig9490]

@@zclary923 Amen.

[@brucemichelsen5943]

Thank you for your note. I will relay your comment to him. This evening we watched both episodes together. He was able to give me some additional insights which I never knew before. I am lucky to have him still with me at 95 and in good health and sound mind.

[@billd.iniowa2263]

@@brucemichelsen5943 Can you relay those insights to us? May contact Dr. Felton and inform him? We need those insights, however trivial they may seem. Bless your Dad for his service. He still has a service left to perform, if he is willing.

[@brucemichelsen5943]

@@billd.iniowa2263 Hello Bill. It is nothing major, Just a couple of things that I didn't know before. Probably only meaningful to me, but I will share two. During episode 2 there is an aerial picture of of what I believe was Tokyo burning, possibly form the May 25/26 bombing raid which was when my father was shot down by anti aircraft flack, although the the actual raid doesn't matter here. You can see the main part of the city burning and on the right side of the photo there were small lights, which I assumed were individual bombs exploding on the ground. While this could be, he commented that that is what the anti aircraft fire coming up at them looked like, so he thinks that was the flack coming up to greet him. One other item, which I was aware of but he added something that was new to me. In the video, one of the prisoners, I think it was Hap, was asked for his address. As I understood the video, it was to notify his family which never happened obviously. My father had a different take on this. He was also asked about his address and, this is the new part for me, his telephone number. He gave them the address and a phone number but made a mistake on the phone number so it wasn't the actual family phone number in Minneapolis. Whether is was then or at a later interrogation, he was accused of lying because he had given an incorrect phone number. They also knew his parents names as well as his three sisters names. He told me that they had spies everywhere. This was intimidation I assume, that they knew more about him than he thought and his family too. If you google him, you will find some video and an oral history that he gave for a book in 2001He has spoken a couple of times at the WWII round table in St. Paul. In general, he doesn't like to talk about this very much anymore. I don't know if this is of any interest to you, but every now and then, I learn a new tidbit of the saga as well. There are other stories that he has shared with me about captivity and liberation. Some are actually humorous of you can believe that. Sorry for being long winded here. Have a nice day.

[@MattMG84]

Once again a brilliant narration on a little covered subject.

[@iraliegenberg2197]

Who needs fiction when we have Mark's fascinating and truthful war stories.

[@letsgobuffalo7]

I agree. The new Mortal Kombat movie was bad.

[@Boss-Possum]

All new movies are bad, thats why we are on youtube.

[@allovertheplace2089]

Mr. Mark Felton , thank you. These are so professional. You should have your own tv series.

[@robotorch]

Absolutely, he should be in charge of his own network

[@R0MULUS97]

No one watches TV anymore, it's become lazy and corporate, just like the "history" channel. YT is a much better alternative

[@steveperreira5850]

Star of The Show: you are right, regular TV sucks, and in large part because it is run and owned by a small Cabal of one ethnic group in Hollywood. Any guesses who?

[@catified2081]

Huh? He's to good for TV. Haven't watched TV in 10 yrs.

[@djquinn11]

@@catified2081 : 10 years? You were ahead of the curve sir!

[@colinmiles1052]

Very informative....thank you. My father was captured by the Japanese at Singapore and spent the rest of the war on the Burma Railway. Not sure how he survived but he did and that's why I'm here!

[@WAL_DC-6B]

My dad was in Tokyo, Japan as a U.S. Navy sailor shortly after the surrender of Japan in September, 1945. He was trained for riot duty, which was never an issue in postwar Japan. He did mention the incredible devastation all around Tokyo as a result of the B-29 raids.

[@senakaweeraratna741]

The bombing raids on Tokyo conducted on March 9 and 10, 1945 killed over 100,000 civilians and made a million people homeless. It was mass murder of civilians for which the criminal justice system has yet to devise an accountability mechanism. Nobody should be allowed to evade accountability including bomber crews if they knew they were targeting innocent civilians. The defence of following orders was rejected at Nuremberg.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@senakaweeraratna741 You mean like what happened to Shunroko Hata, the commander of Japanese forces involved in the "mass murder" of over two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) Chinese civilians as part of retaliation for the U.S. Doolittle B-25 bombing raid over Japan in 1942? (which killed around fifty people in Japan). See what eventually became of him following the end of WWII. And what about all the people during WWII who were murdered by Japanese scientists who used biological weapons to experiment on them. What became of these scientists following the war? Talk about "Nobody should be allowed to evade accountability."

[@senakaweeraratna741]

@@WAL_DC-6B Agreed. Nobody should be allowed to evade accountability. What happened at Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials was meeting out Victor's Justice. Only one side i.e. the defeated side was called to account for committing Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, and the Victors escaped scrutiny, despite overwhelming evidence e.g. Katyn murders, bombing of Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[@ppj0241]

@@senakaweeraratna741 A Japanese surrender and no Atomic bombs.

[@senakaweeraratna741]

@@ppj0241 The Tokyo Bombing raids on March 9 and 10, 1945 followed by the Atom Bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, was mass murder by any yardstick. A huge crime against humanity. A new low of barbarism in war. Morally indefensible conduct.Shame on those who try to project bomber crews who had engaged intentionally in liquidating innocent Civilians in the hundreds of thousands, as war heroes.

[@atiqurrahman2002]

Thanks for bringing light to these war crimes, it always infuriates me when I see people ignore Japan's brutality in WW2.

[@nynphose]

Makes me actually enjoy the fact that the US used atomic weapons on the Japanese, such is war you beat and execute our soldiers, we send 50k of yours to hell. Glad we are all friends now, ahem.

[@djquinn11]

@@nynphose : I feel bad about bombing civilians. I had relatives fighting in the Pacific however and I understand it from the standpoint that it saved lives at the end of the day.

[@rameythe1]

@@djquinn11 Hiroshima was a military based that was bombed and Nagasaki built war materials. They tried to limit civilian deaths as much as possible

[@troystocker6179]

Japan got a pass because of its geographical location and the Soviet Union

[@accretor]

@@rameythe1 Hiroshima and Nagasaki were cities. How do you imagine they limited civilian casualties?

[@sarjim4381]

My dad spent from early 1943 until the3 end of the war on PT Boats in the Pacific, fighting off Japanese resupply missions to the isolated islands that resulted from out island hopping campaigns. One of his missions directly after the end of the war was to get back into those same isalns along with his squadron and evacuate allied POW's, mostly British and Commonwealth soldiers and sailors. He never would discuss much with me about those POW's except to say their treatment by the Japanese was absolute savagery. Right up until the day he died, refused to buy anything made in Japan. He had an abiding and intense hatred of anything Japanese.

[@johnbrowns6072]

I don’t fucking blame him.

[@chardaskie]

My stepfathers Grandfather was in the Navy serving in the Pacific towards the end of the war. Until his death he would refuse to sit next to Japanese people and was quite rude to them. And he knew the difference between Japanese and other Asian nationalities. Most Americans can not do that

[@LazyTestudines]

You know your situation is completely shit when you think, thank god the kempentai found me

[@marcusjohnbondurajr]

Right !!!

[@icewaterslim7260]

Yeah I guess that would be pretty damn bleak. I once saw a guy with a POW bumper sticker and asked him if he was 8th AAF as if it were some kind of damned reunion party or something. He replied that he was taken on Guam in about the 3rd day of the war. He looked like he carried the effects of malaria. I didn't know what the hell to say so I just stupidly said: "I guess you're lucky to be alive." He kind of grimaced and didn't reply anything affirmative about that. So I guess that told me everything i need to know about the difference in being taken as POW in Europe and being taken by the Japanese on Guam on the 3rd day of the war.

[@jeffcooper7255]

You win the internet! Great comment.

[@waldopepper1]

Very important subject to report on. Atrocities were unfortunately rampant during WW2. Well done Dr. Felton!

[@stephenmoore7386]

My father, age 97, saw combat as an infantryman in Sebu, Philippenes in 1944-45. He was sent to Japan as part of the occupation force for 9 months, soon after surrender. He never spoke too much about war, but he did say the Japanese people were friendly to American Army personnel, and invited them in for tea on more than one occasion. They were ready for the war to be over. They were not friendly to Army Air Corp members, however.

[@cassiecraft8856]

Probably saw airmen as spiders.

[@livethefuture2492]

this sort of two faced behavior makes me very uncomfortable, feels sick to think that these fanatic war criminals, who would torture and beat POW's and civilians of other nations, could just say a few nice words and think all was forgiven(or more accurately forgotten and swept under the rig).

[@cassiecraft8856]

@@livethefuture2492 yes it is really easy to to look at it this way. However,and I do agree that the hypocrisy of the attitude is gross; remember that they were taught all of their lives these things, and were blinded by their government as to what was really going on. In the end the shame they were made to bear was greater than we can understand. Because it was the first time that had ever happened to Japan.

[@thunderbird1921]

Now imagine the awkwardness of having to use sea, land and air bases IN Japan and work around those people during a war. That's how awkward the Korean War was.

[@azurecliff8709]

At the end of World War II, the Allies, including the United States and Great Britain, indiscriminately massacred approximately 500,000 Japanese citizens through air raids and atomic bombings. You see? The Allies are desperately blaming Japan's past to cover up their own brutal war crimes. 😄😄😄😂

[@boblobla1611]

Small correction. VMF 211 is known as the Wake Island Avengers, Pappy was the C.O. of VMF 214. I served with VMA 211 when they flew A4m Skyhawks, and VMA 214 was in the next hangar at MCAS El Toro. I had the honor of meeting Greg Boyington a couple of times. He was always willing to take the time to have a chat with this young Lcpl. Great memories being able to meet one of my heroes.

[@frankharley1000]

Semper Fi, devil dog. VMA -214 1987-1990 in Yuma.

[@SP-qo3pd]

Thank you for your service sir.

[@josephgunter2563]

VMA 214..SEAT SHOP..GUNNY HICKS WAS MY BOSS..1975..1976...YUP 211 WAS JUST A LITTLE FURTHER UP THE FLIGHT DECK..I REMEMBER 1 OF YOUR BIRDS..WASNT CHOCKED PROPERLY..AND ROLLED DOWN AND BUMPED INTO 1 OF HOURS..OR THE TIME A C..141..CAME TO MOVE PEOPLE..AND EQUIPMENT ATTEMPT ED TO FLIP A U TURN BETWEEN SQUADRONS..WITH NO WING WATCHERS..AND HIT 3 OF 214..A4MS ..FULL BIRD AT THE YOKE..OF THE 141..DAMAGE WAS IN THE MILLIONS..

[@JackF99]

My father had a similar experience to Lt. Halloran- being rescued by the enemy from certain death at the hands of local civilians. His B-24 was shot down over Yugoslavia where he was picked up by local yokels who were pro-Nazi Ustasha fascists. They were going to string him up but some German soldiers came along and took charge of him. They put him on a train to a PW camp in Germany where he survived the war.

[@delta7155]

A very lucky "escape"!!

[@jonathanperry8331]

The German army was really diverse. Most of them were humane but then you had your cult like indoctrinated ones. If they underperformed they would be court-martialed and killed sometimes on-site. I have a cousin whose grandfather was a prisoner of war and they sent them out to fill the bomb holes in the runway. Another raid came in and all the Germans ran away and he managed to steal a German fighter and flew back to Britain. Unfortunately I never met that's all the details I have.

[@azurecliff8709]

At the end of World War II, the Allies, including the United States and Great Britain, indiscriminately massacred approximately 500,000 Japanese citizens through air raids and atomic bombings. You see? The Allies are desperately blaming Japan's past to cover up their own brutal war crimes. 😄😄😄😂

[@JackF99]

@@azurecliff8709 The estimates of defenseless Japanese civilians killed by the allies in World War is about 700,000 including both atomic bombs. The estimates of defenseless civilians and prisoners killed by the Japanese in WWII is about 8 million.

[@emeraldbreeze5204]

At the end of World War II, the Allied Forces indiscriminately bombed Japan, dropped atomic bombs, and massacred approximately 500,000 Japanese citizens. 😫😖😩👎😩👎😩👎 No matter how much Mark Felton rampages, the brutal Allied war crimes against Japan cannot be erased from history ❢❢❢ 😄😄😄😂😂😂

[@Ninja-Alinja]

My Bavarian grandmother told me that late in the war an American pilot came down not too far from our family farm outside Falkenberg (lower Bavaria/Rottal Inn). He was apprehended by locals and one guy grabbed his hunting rifle (a rare occurrence since the German people were more or less disarmed) and shot him in the leg. Other people intervened and the police took him into custody. The shooter was sentenced after the war, and I assume the pilot survived as POW, but not sure.

[@kingjoe3rd]

Pappy Boyington and John Ripley are two men I admired so much that I decided to join the Marine Corps because of them.

[@1967davethewave]

I met Pappy Boyington when I was a kid at the Oshkosh airshow. It was about 1977. I had a copy of his book. He autographed it and asked me if I was going to join the Marines when I was old enough? I said I sure was! I didn't join, a pre-existing medical condition kept me from being able to join. I had that book for years, it was a prized possession. Someone stole it when I was in my 20s.

[@djquinn11]

You chose some good heroes S G G, and thank you for your service!

[@daneboro6847]

Thank you for your service 🙏

[@jeepinbanditrider]

Rah!!

[@MrJeepmarine]

Rah

[@Sakura_Matou]

As someone who lives in Japan this kind of thing is something we sweep under the rug or try to ignore, thank you for the unbiased reporting and allowing me to see the west's point of view, It is best to see all sides of the story to get the truth.

[@mountainguyed67]

We in the U.S. are told that young Japanese know very little about WWII, and reject western point of view.

[@donkeyholmes4581]

@@mountainguyed67 I wonder how many US children are educated about the many atrocities the allies committed during the numerous wars they have been involved in. Never a war trial for the victors.

[@samalex8724]

Get over it, the war is over and Japan is moving forward while you fools are still fighting endless wars with AmeriKKKa.

[@Devsfan202]

Well done, as per usual, Dr. Felton

[@axeljenkins5887]

Just finished watching episode one. Brilliant timing. Thank you for the upload.

[@shazbotnanu7037]

Japan's Unit 731 experiments read like a horror movie. From what I have read they also used POW's as well as civilians

[@Crashed131963]

And the Americans did not punish the leaders of 731 in exchange for their human experiment research.

[@StuSaville]

@@Crashed131963 Save your moralizing. Shirō Ishii opened a Pandora's Box of biological warfare that was an ongoing threat to the American public, they had no choice but to cooperate with him to shut it down.

[@qtig9490]

@@StuSaville ..and after that they could have hung the lot of them but didnt. 731 were monsters and none should have been allowed to live to an old age after we extracted whatever knowledge we could from them given the blood behind it.

[@destubae3271]

@@qtig9490 Did they know the research was gathered in those horrifying ways? I've heard from someone else that they were only told it was classified medical research and little else, and found out how brutal it was afterwards, but that could be wrong

[@billd.iniowa2263]

@@qtig9490 Sounds alot like what the Japanese would do.

[@penultimateh766]

"I was told to answer all your questions because it won't make any difference for you anyway"....discouraging a thing for a Japanese official to hear from a prisoner...

[@johnburke3445]

A noteworthy aspect of "Hap" Halloran's captivity experience that wasn't mentioned in this video was his account (told to me in the very early 1970s when I was a childhood friend of one of his sons) of a Japanese guard who dispensed small kindnesses to Halloran that were both unexpected and greatly appreciated. One excounter with this guard provided an explanation for this uncharacteristic behavior: the guard made the sign of the cross in front of Halloran, indicating that this Japanese soldier was also a Christian, part of small minority of Japanese who adhere to that faith. This raises a question that could be a subject for a future Mark Felton video: What was the experience of Japanese Christians during World War II?

[@erichaynes7502]

I've read this also happened during the Vietnam war. In this case an American POW was a guest of the Hanoi Hilton. One day while sweeping the courtyard the North Vietnamese guard drew a cross in the dirt with his boot, then after the American POW saw and acknowledged this the guard quickly and quietly wiped the Cross away.

[@bepolite6961]

I believe that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had the highest population of Christians in Japan. Not that it should matter, after all, what were the vast majority of the German and Italian forces?

[@IMfromNYCity]

@John Burke There are two primary sources from Japanese Christians about their lives during the war and their survival of the atomic bombings. One is Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, whose account was recorded in John Hersey's "Hiroshima." Tanimoto studied in the US at various seminaries, working at several churches in the States before going to Hiroshima to establish his church over there. Because of his Christian faith and perceived pro-US bias, Tanimoto was investigated by the Kempeitai (although luckily he was never imprisoned). After surviving the atomic bombing, he would dedicate the rest of his life to serve his fellow survivors and try to help them cope with their loss. The second primary source is Takashi Nagai, who wrote "The Bells of Nagasaki." He was a Catholic and radiologist who lived in the Urakami neighborhood of Nagasaki. Urakami was the heart of Japanese Catholicism since Portuguese Jesuits arrived there in the 1500s, and despite the intense persecution during the Tokugawa era, Christianity still survived. In the center of Urakami was its famous namesake Cathedral, which was the first cathedral to be built in Japan and also one of Nagasaki's most prominent and tallest buildings. Urakami Cathedral's prominence unfortunately allowed Maj Charles Sweeney, the pilot of the B-29 Bock's Car, to pinpoint where to drop Fat Man. The atomic bomb exploded above the Cathedral and nearly annihilated the Catholic heart of Japan. Ironically, Maj Sweeney himself was a devout Catholic; yet despite his shared faith, he killed more Japanese Catholics in a three seconds than the Tokugawa Shogunate could in three centuries. As for Nagai himself, he was conscripted into a medical unit in the Japanese Army after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, and he was immediately sent to China. While there, he witnessed the harsh realities of war and saw the intense suffering of the local Chinese populace. After Nagai returned to Japan, he was diagnosed with leukemia due to exposures to his experiments at his radiology department (similar to Marie Curie). Then, while working at his hospital in Nagasaki, Fat Man exploded above the city, forcing him to treat the thousands of victims who began to arrive at the hospital, even though Nagai was ill with cancer and suffered severe blood loss from the atomic bombing. Nagai would later find out that his wife was killed in the bombing, though their two children survived. After the war's end and severely ill by his leukemia, Nagai became a sort of a hermit, writing his thoughts on theology and radiology, while condemning nuclear weapons and, surprisingly, promoting the use of nuclear power for peaceful purposes. Nagai died in 1951, and there are discussions in the Catholic Church whether to canonize him and make him a Saint.

[@billfariss1514]

Dr. Felton, this was an excellent 2 part series. One of your best! Your research was so in-depth and precise, but that's how you have always delivered your videos(dispensing with the legend and being highly concentrated on historical facts).

[@pippa212]

Am I the only woman on here who loves his videos? My husband is thrilled I’m so into war history, especially WW2

[@toddscallan8781]

Got a sister?

[@pippa212]

@@toddscallan8781 lol, none of my friends are interested in war. I’m sure they think I’m weird!

[@pippa212]

@Daniel S does she need a friend? None of my friends have an interest in this subject!

[@mandywalkden-brown7250]

You’re certainly not alone here!

[@DrJones20]

@@pippa212 Your friends are boring normies

[@superg3962]

My father in law (now passed away) Major General- Kenneth O. Sanborn was a B-29 pilot who crashed one plane in the ocean and was on one of the last bombing runs over Japan- I found these thing out while talking with him while doing a painting-portrait in his uniform in NH many years ago.....

[@noahsenz854]

Wow, that’s amazing

[@upperpeninsulaphotography6624]

One correction. Greg Boyington's final command was with VMF 214 rather than 211. I was not aware that he was part Sioux either. Maybe so.

[@M167A1]

You are correct on the squadron numbers. I met Boynton at an airshow as a child he was really quite a character.

[@richardm1062]

Not sure about him being part Sioux. I checked Bruce Gamble's biography and he made no mention of it. Boyington's parents were Charles Boyington and Grace Gregory, from Wisconsin and Iowa respectively.

[@stevencox8771]

@@richardm1062 from what i read, he was a member of the Brule Sioux tribe and he was born in Idaho

[@mrj4990]

I was honored to visit Pappys gravesite at Arlington. A great man.

[@stephenm4138]

I love spending part of my daily lunch hour watching your videos Mr. Felton. Both of your channels are top notch!

[@gram8821]

Several years ago I read a story about a USN Helldiver crewman who bailed out over Japan just before the of the war. He lived off the land until he noticed US aircraft flying overhead unmolested. That’s when he turned himself in.

[@paulbeesley8283]

You remember stories of Japanese living for decades in the jungle, refusing to believe the war was over, even when leaflets were dropped and loudspeakers were rigged up to broadcast the news? Well, in the late 30s a Laurel and Hardy, film ("Blockheads," I think,) involved Laurel, stuck in a trench for 20 years untill a passer by informs him that WW1 is over. At the time, it was thought that only Stan Laurel could be that stupid. What's more, even he accepted the war was over when someone told him.

[@arkbuilder2012]

As one who was prone to cut classes, I believe I’d be a few minutes early for Professor Felton’s lecture.........

[@joem3999]

One of your original subscribers here. Joined with my first profile when you had 20,000 subs It's good we don't forget this history. We cannot allow history to be rewritten. You sir are a hero.

[@lawdpleasehelpmeno]

Can you imagine what it would have been like to be Wilbur Abel, to have witnessed the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima from the ground? What an unbelievable twist of fate. And he survived the war, even more astounding. I wonder if there is an interview with him somewhere?

[@azurecliff8709]

At the end of World War II, the Allies, including the United States and Great Britain, indiscriminately massacred approximately 500,000 Japanese citizens through air raids and atomic bombings. You see? The Allies are desperately blaming Japan's past to cover up their own brutal war crimes. 😄😄😄😂

[@josephstabile9154]

@Azure Cliff ...says the person who obviously understands nothing of war.

[@michaelchevreaux7780]

@@azurecliff8709 Another Revisionist Historian, That Claims Allies As Bad As Axis. He Ignores The Absolute Brutality And Crimes Against Humanity, Committed By Japan In China; Especially With Rape Of Nanking, And The Covert Unit 731 (Where There Was NOT a Single Survivor!)

[@waynegreene6405]

@@azurecliff8709 GOOD !!!!

[@adamcheeseplease]

​@Azure Cliff I always wondered who took the time to program bots like this. Very well made, but your simple repetition gives you away as a bot

[@michaelsessions1653]

As with so many others I too had relatives that served in WWII. One particular cousin fought on Okinawa. Several years Before he passed away he told me several stories of the brutality of the Japanese soldiers. The absolute horrid conditions they found some of their buddies, who were captured, in the aftermath of battles left him unable to forgive or forget.

[@apersonontheinternet8006]

@پیر الکساندر خان I always found it odd how Hitler and the Nazis always seem to top the list of bad guys when the reality is the Nazis had rookie numbers compared to the Soviets and neither rise to the level of brutality of Imperial Japan during the first half of the 20th century.

[@comtedeloach2]

Boyington commanded VMF-214 that was called the Black Sheep.

[@nordan00]

Great TV show! Just started rewatching episodes. Mostly fiction but entertaining nevertheless!

[@caseyholland7860]

A rookie mistake, mark must have a new intern writing for him

[@frankharley1000]

Correct. VMF-211 was the Squadron that fought at and was eventually destroyed at Wake Island when the Japanese attacked it in December 1941. I served in VMA-214 Blacksheep Squadron from 1987 to 1990.

[@TheSaxon56]

@@frankharley1000 I have a picture of your A-4's lined up on the tarmac. Took it when I was stationed at Cubi Pt. Philippines in '77-'78 I believe they were A-4M's then

[@frankharley1000]

@@TheSaxon56 That's cool😎 👍Cubi Pt was a great place. We had the A-4Ms as well, we sent our last Skyhawk to the Davis-Monthan boneyard in 1989, then started receiving our brand new AV8B Harriers that year.

[@ericschultz7714]

Boyington was first assigned to VMF-122 and later commanded VMF-214 not 211. I've watched most of your videos and this is the only error I have discovered, Well done Mark!

[@chronicargonaut4866]

...you mentioning pilots and crew were generally well treated by the Germans rings true...my father's closest friend was a tail gunner on a B-17 that was downed over Germany...he was the only one that survived, bailing out at a low altitude and breaking his leg in the process...civilians tried to pitch fork him to death, but German soldiers showed up and stopped them immediately...he was never ill treated and they never confiscated his Red Cross parcels even while the camp guards were clearing starving

[@jmccallion2394]

I've said it before, and I will repeat it: this guy is incredible in the way that he can ferret out these usually overlooked gems of military historical knowledge!!!!

[@stanleyhornbeck1625]

Thank you so much for these videos,my Father served on LST 1039.They truly were the greatest generation.

[@billbaker3565]

Perhaps you could make a video of the war crime trials of Japanese military members after the war. I finally understand my father’s (a US Navy veteran) hatred for everything Japanese when I was a child in the 1960’s. It was not till many years later he could release that anger and accept that the Japanese people of my generation were not liable for the actions of their parents and grandparents.

they owe a debt

[@livethefuture2492]

yeah i still feel the japanese got let off really easy, never had to answer for their actions for face any consequences. and to this day many of the occupied nations feel bitterly about this, including china, korea, Philippines just to name a few.

[@protosszocker5678]

@@livethefuture2492 well millions died in ablaze cities and hunger. Repaying destruction with destruction ain't a good system. It's part of the reason we got a second world war after all. Obviously some more individuals should have been punished in the aggressor nations but hitting the public even more would just have created more hate

[@LiebeNachDland]

I had a grandfather in the navy fighting the Japanese stationed in Guam. After his death in late life, a Type 99 Japanese rifle was found in the house, along with its bayonet. The story of acquiring its possession is unknown.

[@phillipjones3342]

Amazing story thanks for sharing your knowledge and research

[@OpalBLeigh]

Your videos are so well done and so looked forward to for me, sometimes I forget that you don’t have millions of subs 🤗 thank you for doing what you do anyway! I think for some people, the past is just too painful ❤️

[@tylerfoss3346]

Wonderful once again, Mark Felton. Bravo! I never heard any of these things! Marvelous!!!

[@CocoaBeachLiving]

I remember an old fellow, fixed F-4 Corsairs on some island, who lived in the neighborhood I grew up in liked to say: "The Japanese liked to dish it out, but couldn't take it"..and.. "They started it, we finished it.." Different times.. Fascinates me how everything changed once the Emporer said, no mas..the whole thing is so incredible to me.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Funny thing is modern revisionism now paints the British as the aggressors, and Germans were only victims when it came to the bombing campaign over Germany. They started it, we ended it.

[@uffa00001]

@@owenshebbeare2999 "Aggressors" is a concept that should be banned from the mind of the intelligent Historian. Wars originate from non-military conflicts which end up being military conflicts. It's usually the result of a clash of imperialisms, or attempt to prevent a nation to unify etc. The UK declared war on Germany for having invaded Poland, and was allied to the Soviet Union who also invaded Poland in alliance with Germany. To use your metaphor, the Soviet Union both started it and ended it. Nobody has a patent of sanctity or righteousness in a war. Japan imperialism in the Pacific is not at all different from US, British, or Dutch imperialism in the region, although certainly, for the cultural reasons well expressed in this documentary, the Japanese were certainly exceeding all European measures of cruelty or inhumanity. But a clash of imperialisms it was.

[@crystaldbj]

​@@uffa00001 Yes, the US imperialistically refused to sell oil and metals to the Japanese to allow them to continue to enslave other non-Japanese. How sophisticated you are! So far beyond good and evil.

[@uffa00001]

@@crystaldbj Certainly more sophisticated than you! The point is not whether selling oil and metals to the Japanese was appropriate or inappropriate politically for you, but whether, once you stop selling them, Japan is or not forced to actually make war. If you had an average intellectual sophistication, you would understand the difference. Besides, if an imaginary Country had been in a position to lock the US away from oil and metals in order to prevent them to occupy the Hawaii or the Philippines or some archipelagos in Oceania, or to invade Cuba 20 times in his history, or Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. and the US attacked that imaginary Country as a result, you would not consider the US the "aggressor". I understand you want to see the world as clearly divided between the Goods (you) and the Evils (they), but that's exactly the result of your lack of sophistication. The sanctions to 1941 Japan made the war practically certain and unavoidable, and that's what Roosevelt wanted. And this might even be a good and moral thing, but it still made the war inevitable.

[@rickb1973]

1:45 Do you think that's a shadow cast on the plane or is it oil from the damaged No. 3 engine sprayed back across the wing and tail?

[@TheEvilmooseofdoom]

It looks like the result of an engine fire.. I think.

[@Baza1964]

They had built in fire extinguisher systems . Possible a fire was put out . Maybe a bad oil leak as well.

[@rickb1973]

@@Baza1964 Yeah, I was thinking about the tendency the B-29 had for engine fires...It might not even have been from battle damage.

[@Baza1964]

@@rickb1973 it's a great pic as well.

[@rickb1973]

@@Baza1964 It sure is....I don't remember ever seeing it before, either....I would have remembered.

[@ModelCarHobbyist]

WOW! Your videos are great and informative. Watching your videos made me remember studying WWII back in school years ago. I enjoyed studying history. Now I can enjoy hearing it anytime because of your channel.

[@romanbrough]

I recently read a book about a US submarine, that operated very effectively in the waters of Japan. After being sunk in a freak accident when one of its own torpedoes went rogue, the Captain and a few others were captured. They were subject to similar treatment to the aircrew and met some of them in the prison. The Japanese really misunderstood the Allies. Their horrendous treatment just causing the Allied soldiers, naval crew and airmen to fight harder, and they rarely surrendered.

[@normanalbertsen752]

The submarine was the U.S.S. Tang. The Captain was Richard O'Kane. The survivors were taken to the Omori camp. My father was in the Omori camp and was also a submariner. He became friends of the Tang crew that were captured and stayed in contact with them after the war.

[@stevefox8605]

Thank you Dr Felton 👍🏻👍🏻

[@PanzerBuyer]

You can be sure none of this history is taught in Japan.

[@TheEvilmooseofdoom]

Just about none of it.

[@KK-TO]

I suspect your right. That’s why Mr. Feltons channel is important. It teaches us all so that we can, perhaps, avoid repeating history.

[@phased-arraych.9150]

They prefer to treat this part of their history like a bad dream.

[@RCAvhstape]

Which is worse, hiding your shameful past or constantly telling your children that they are horrible people because of what their forebears did long before they were born? Surely there is a more sensible way to deal with history.

[@cactuslietuva]

"Glorious Nippon nation did none war crimes and fought bravely till the end."- Some otaku probably

[@milkwalker3259]

Been here since the beginning, KEEP IT UP !!!

[@paulmichaelsmith3207]

My father flew B-24s with the 15th the last six months of the war. Last mission or two they hit Linz, Austria. The crew in the tent next to theirs, good friends, went down that day. They all successfully bailed out. The Soviets liberated the city a day or two later. They found the entire crew dead, hung in the city square.

[@gerardfrederick5504]

Allied airmen were regarded as murderers by both the Germans and the Japanese -- and rightfully so.

[@paulmichaelsmith3207]

@@gerardfrederick5504 I assume that would also apply to German and Japanese airmen as well? You know, the Blitz, China, etc.

[@cjandthevindicators]

Nothing much on KZbin today I guess. But wait! A new Mark Felton video just popped up. Ah, thank goodness. Now I can listen to something that's actually interesting, professional, and well prepared. Happy, Happy, Happy!

[@bdcochran01]

If you think that the cruelty imposed by the Japanese was incredible, I want you to reflect upon the following. There were few, and probably no enlisted US Army or Marines freed by the VC or the NVA after the Vietnam War. I am not including pilots who were ransomed. Then you will understand why US troops were told never to be captured.

[@46FreddieMercury91]

Isn't this what inspired the storyline to Rambo 2 ? Looking for missing prisoners

[@jurgschupbach3059]

till this days

[@stevencox8771]

Great two parter! Thank you for honoring the memory of those who faced death to end a horrific war. We owe a great debt to those who died and those who returned

[@robinrobyn1714]

-' I told them I didn't know the difference between a Chinese and a Japanese....... and they beat me severely!"

[@knownknot]

DIDN'T matter what you said !!!!

[@brandonburr4900]

This continues to be my favorite channel on you tube! Leave kit to mark to tell it like only he can! Thank you mark! Hope to see more in this series of captured airmen! It was be cool to follow this up with how airmen (usa and other countries) from other countries and how they were treated. Thanks!

[@JJay-m1x]

i never knew American Pow died in Hiroshima because it never came into my mind they were brought there but it totally makes sense know. Thx Dr. Mark Felton for another prime example as to how historical documentaries should be. :) I'm really glad i found your channel a long time ago :) and congrats for the Military Order of the Loyal Legion

[@krissantana4660]

At least 6 people were nuked twice and survived, people who went to Nagasaki to stay with relatives after being nuked in Hiroshima.

[@alanmoffat4454]

MAD MATT DOES IT AGAIN MUCH MORE HISTORY TAUGHT HERE THAN HISTORY LESSONS GREAT WORK .

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

Theres a limitation what you can teach within a year. Honestly though, wish they taught more but fundinds in the US are sadly none to 0. In other schools from what I hear, they focus more about their history speaking very little about foreign, honestly should be taught as an option

[@fordpopular8792]

I was in a camp at R.N.A.S SEMBAWANG in the 1950s Singapore and the doors of the Aircraft Hanger were RIDDLED WITH BULLET HOLES at chest height were prisoners were executed - lined up against these doors, American pilots were executed at NEE SOON Rifle Ranges. The officers mess (Wardroom) at Sembawang Camp Singapore, had short cuts on the stone floor where the short Japanese Officers dragged their long swords which had a disc wheel at the end of the scabbard which cut into the stone floors.

[@MichaelGGarry]

Sembawang is a little different these days, turning into one big housing estate....

[@christiansummers562]

Been waiting for this part two!!!!

[@rybuds47]

Thank you Mark!

[@KirklandRed100s]

I think an interesting video would be a video on the allies foreign forces in WWII. Gurkhas, French foreign legion or any others that I am not aware of.

[@ColinH1973]

Indians? The Indian monument at The Menin Gate is testament to their bravery in WW1. It was the same in WW2.

[@edwardoleyba3075]

@@ColinH1973 . I spent a week in a Belgian army camp near Ypres in the late 60’s as part of a visit by our ATC Squadron at the time. Our band had the privilege of attending, and playing at the Menin Gate, and also seeing how the local Fire Brigade kept up that tradition.

[@ColinH1973]

@@edwardoleyba3075 Thanks for that Edwardo. I found it a profoundly moving place and ceremony.

[@edwardoleyba3075]

@@ColinH1973 . Me too. I also had the opportunity to visit a part of the preserved trenches that were near to Ypres, as well as the two main cemeteries. ‘Tynecot’ with endless rows of white crosses marking the allied graves and, in stark contrast, the German cemetery, (‘Langemark’, I think), with all the rows of black crosses, and not so well maintained. I’ve not been back since then, (maybe one day), but I hope the German cemetery is being maintained in a better way since then.

[@wilsonj4705]

07:00 Blacksheep Squadron was VMF-214 not VMF-211

[@chrisberman4102]

That seems like a bonehead mistake. Makes me wonder how accurate the rest of the show is?

[@wilsonj4705]

@@chrisberman4102 Minor error, it happens to the best of them

[@haithamal-hashmi7135]

Thanks for this information.

[@82Echo411]

FYI, the USAF ROTC Arnold Air Society honorary group at Syracuse University is named after Halloran.

[@yakkityyak9336]

I think it is named after Hap Arnold, the founder of the Air Force. >>>USAF 76-81 (wink)

[@82Echo411]

@@yakkityyak9336 Correct.

[@cbbees1468]

Legend has it that Neville Chamberlain puts a thumb down on all Mark Felton videos since he claimed peace would be had in this time.

[@gertbonk7075]

Neville Chamberlain saved England. They needed a year to get the Spitfire into production. He got it for them.

[@phillipecook3227]

" Hiroshima was off limits to the American bombers in order that the Americans could measure the effect of an atomic bomb on an undamaged city". Chilling

[@toddscallan8781]

No. It was well thought out and incredibly smart to test the effects of a weapon that cost over $2 billion dollars to design and deliver to the Japanese military.

[@frostedbutts4340]

@@toddscallan8781 I mean it can be both. It takes a pretty hard heart to do that particularly knowing how horrific a death by radiation exposure is.

[@DoggoneNexus]

@@toddscallan8781 Pragmatic and chilling are not mutually exclusive. No need to be contrarian here.

[@protosszocker5678]

Yeah this war brought out a brutal side in everyone involved. Even in those with the right cause. Let's hope it never comes to it again in this scale.

[@frankmithra6140]

War is Hell on Earth! God bless your work 😇 We must not repeat the past!!!

[@RayB1656]

Sadly, the Past will be repeated ! Mankind ( HomoSapien sapien ) has been fighting for the last 100,000 years... and used all the weapons he has created.... all of them, only, a question of time....there is no escape !

[@walterthecat2145]

i saw the first episode yesterday and i didn't realise this episode realised 10 mins ago haha

[@korbell1089]

Same here, I kept wondering why it was showing up on my alerts when I had already watched it. Took about man hour before I noticed that it was part 2

[@chrisamon4551]

I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I never knew Pappy Boyington was a Sioux Indian. Thanks for the random factoid!

[@jimwednt1229]

You did a wonderful narrative of the video. Well done sir !

[@RCAvhstape]

7:00 Mark, a correction, Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron was VMF-214, not 211. Today they are VMA-214, and equipped with Harrier jets. VMFA-211 is the "Wake Island Avengers" and equipped with F-35B jets.

[@markwheeler202]

Nothing about the cannibalism of POWs on Chichi Jima as documented in the book "Flyboys" by James Bradley. :-(

[@kangmw94]

'Flyboys' too Good Book. I readed it! and､I respect it James Bradley!

[@vcv6560]

@@kangmw94 I read that too, found it more moving than Flags of Our Fathers probably because I didn't see where the narrative was going.

[@StuSaville]

They cannibalized Australian soldiers captured on the Kokoda track too.

[@tommallon4052]

The last place you ever want to bail out over is the place you just bombed. People there tend to take it personally. This also goes for Germans, Italians, Koreans, Vietnamese, and even Swiss.

[@toddscallan8781]

Sorry. Please refer to Episode #1 of Mark's series. Japan was the only country that made it legal, and reinforced by law the execution of downed fliers in Japanese controlled territory. The Japanese Government encouraged this ruthless conduct by its citizens.

[@sleazyfellow]

Of course it's personal when someone is bombing where you live. Look at 9/11, people were pissed off about that who lived on the other side of the country and wanted revenge.

[@kwd3109]

Sounds like the Japanese got what was coming to them.

[@jinngeechia9715]

@@fidneusdiller8123 I think the anime/manga Zipang explains it very well. The Japanese author argues that the A-bomb is the best thing that ever happened in WWII for Japan. It must happen because this brought Japan forward in many ways. Economically, culturally and even politically as a nation in the geopolitical stage. If it didn't happen and Operation Coronet happened instead, they would have been utterly destroyed as a nation instead of having two A-bombed and a couple of firebombed cities. He doesn't consider it a loss in the conflict. Rather the events that unfolded though tragic had something very good that came out of it. The A-bombs preserved Japan as a nation.

[@kwd3109]

@@jackventuras5050 The Brits and Germans didn't mistreat downed airmen like that. Why are you making excuses for the war crimes Japan committed??

[@Joanla1954]

Sadly, that is true. But at such a high cost! My daddy was at Pearl Harbor on that horrid day in 1941. Being in the Navy he saw a lot of action in the Pacific. Back about 1966 I asked him why the US had to drop those 2 atomic bombs, he didn't call them anything racist but said that they were a proud and stubborn people and that the war could have carried on and on. This was our only choice.

[@marsillinkow]

@@jinngeechia9715 anime reset button confirmed

[@rannxerox3970]

@@jackventuras5050 Nope, I would disarm them, give them first aid if needed, and take them to the nearest police/military station.

[@larrypowers2515]

@Mark Felton Productions Correction, Boyington was commander of VMF-214 AKA Blacksheep Squadron, not VMF-211.

[@budkingston3347]

VMF-214 is the Blacksheep Squadron. VMF-211 are the Wake Island Avengers.

[@le4421]

I always wonder who the hell would ever press the thumbs down button on a mark Felton video?

[@djquinn11]

IKR

[@nogisonoko5409]

People that thought Japan is a true owner of Asia?

[@jordancruz621]

Democrats

[@pippa212]

@@jordancruz621 now that’s just a silly thing to say.

[@gazza2933]

As far as the quality of the videos, I agree with you. Perhaps many people don't like the content.

[@DavidBrown-cs1tq]

Maj Greg "Pappy" Boyington was C.O. of VMF-214 not 211

[@keithdaniels5918]

Correct....I was stationed in Iwakuni while they were there for a while back in the 70's. Flying A-4's they took the television series to heart, we "scuffled" a few times with them at the Eclub. :)

[@HootOwl513]

@@keithdaniels5918 I was at Iwakuni with VMA-513 when ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'' was first run on Far East Network. [Fall '76?] We laughed our asses off. We could not believe Marine officers would ever be that sloppy, even in '43. The F4Us were cool, but we all knew too much to ''buy'' SNJ's as Zekes. I don't think 214 was out there yet. They later became a Harrier squadron. When 513 was decommissioned at MCAS Yuma, AZ, in JUL 2013, VMA-214 got our birds. But that was long after my time.

[@keithdaniels5918]

@@HootOwl513 I remember VMA 513 when I was in Yuma. Between pinning the main gear (hell hole we called it) on those AV8's and the damn J79's on the F-4's my hearing is shot !! Those were good times for me ..looking back now.

[@HootOwl513]

@@keithdaniels5918 Semper Fi, Brother. I spent many an hour in the AV8A 's hell hole. Usually changing batteries. I was with 231, and VMAT203 at CPNC, [even pulled a TAD w/ 542 on a Guns Det at Yuma to OJT on gun cameras] and then PCS'ed to WesPac VMA513. Stayed with the Nightmares when they moved to Yuma. If you count the TAD, I was with every original AV8A Harrier squadron. One tour and out.

[@keithdaniels5918]

@@HootOwl513 Semper Fi !!! Crash Rescue here. The start up program on the AV8A’s was a little over 100 birds....they were down to about 90 when I got to Yuma. All pilot error I understand..

[@jacksongatlin5418]

Jeez, all 8 airmen made it out and 7 parachutes opened. What an awful thing to have to witness. And to think that wouldn’t even be the worst of it.

[@tomfrazier1103]

Hiroshima City & Prefecture were the ancestral home of many Americans of Japanese origin. My first Japanese language teacher was an American student caught in Japan on the War's outbreak, and whom survived the A-bomb.

[@raycast6277]

Another informative vib You work is second to none Sir

[@glenntremblay5406]

It always amazes me how the Japanese atrocities of ww2 have been glossed over for the most part.

[@eleanorkett1129]

To think American airmen were victims of the atomic bomb. Thank you so much for this amazing episode.

[@PhantomHarlock78]

Hope you do a video about the investigation and trial of those war criminals.

[@claudenewbolt2659]

PRODUCTION IS EXCELLENT ABOUT AMERICAN AIRMEN WHO WERE SHOT DOWN OVER JAPAN, AND WERE MISTREATED.

[@kilo21swp]

That Superfortress had one heck of a oil leak once it seems.

[@greghilscher7631]

That’s the Shadow of the plane above it (where the photo was taken from)

[@colinm2056]

😁

[@kilo21swp]

@@greghilscher7631 makes sense.

[@sillyone52062]

@@greghilscher7631 The fact that the "shadow" continues on the horizontal stabilizer leads me to believe that that was a massive oil leak.

[@franciscouderq1100]

Another interesting account, thank you.

[@MrShoki44]

To my knowledge the TNK Haruna sustained 8 bomb hits from Task Force 38's aircraft on the June 28th 1945 and sank at her moorings at 16:15 and was not hit by any strategic bombers.

[@toddscallan8781]

Correct. It was P 38's.

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@troystocker6179]

The British take history to the next level , I dont even need to read the book

[@davidhayes7596]

Brilliant reporting!

[@andrewkappler5503]

Felton is awsome

[@trj1442]

A great episode. Thankyou Dr Felton.

[@HiddenHistoryYT]

When are we going to get a Netflix series?!

[@andyjarman4958]

Why should he? Netflix has had its day.

[@HiddenHistoryYT]

@@andyjarman4958 Production budget buddy

[@cassiecraft8856]

Good job. I hope there will be a Part3!

[@davidwhite8019]

My uncle John A. Long was waist gunner in the “Lonesome Lady”. His widow and his brothers and sisters never forgave the Japanese.

[@pdlawson-venusloon359]

Incredible. Thank you Mark.

[@peace-yv4qd]

I had a ninth grade teacher that was a prisoner of the Japanese. He would tell these crazy stories and being kids we didn't believe him because he seemed so casual about it and would sometimes act like it was no big deal. . He was retiring and on his last day he went into detail about what he experienced and only then did we realized he was telling the truth.

[@fernandoreynaaguilar1438]

Can you elaborate? Thanks!

[@peace-yv4qd]

@@fernandoreynaaguilar1438 It's been over sixty years since I was in the gentlemen's class. I was in the ninth grade at the time. I do recall the students making fun of him because we as kids could not imagine someone going thru what he described. We thought he was making up stories about eating bugs and rats and so forth. I think he was in the Philippines, but I can't be sure. He was a nice guy and didn't seem bitter at all.

[@fernandoreynaaguilar1438]

@@peace-yv4qd thank you. May those times never repeat in our day. Though I've been watching a few documentaries on China and I'm a bit pessimistic.

[@fernandoreynaaguilar1438]

@Joff RH you try yo hijack common sense by lying. But people can see thru your lies.

[@fernandoreynaaguilar1438]

@Joff RH I'm not talking about war (thou china seems to want It). The West should decouple, like Japan and Australia.

[@generals.patton546]

Iconic intro music as always, never change it.