Surrender of Japanese troops

At 0900 hours on 21st September 1945, 104 Japanese soldiers surrendered to the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion. They arrived at the top of Mount Shiburangu in batches of ten and were subjected to a thorough search by 'Don' Company officers who handed them over to 6th Australian Division Provosts. The Japanese were escorted down the Big Road to where trucks would take them to Wewak Point for shipment to Muschu Island. Included in the Japanese were Major General Araki of the General Staff, 18th Japanese Army.

[@brusewilliams2746]

That Damm near killed my father more than once. Even after all these years it still warms my heart to see his enemy give up.

[@user-ry1jr4ev1u]

Hey dude, soldiers in any war, just killing each other !!

[@j0an-07-arc6]

Yeah you think people wanted this both Germany and japan were under a brainwashed dictatorship there people had no say and the soldiers were nothing more then war dogs corpses with intentions of killing for honor

[@petermortimer6303]

@@j0an-07-arc6 You should look at some of the available documentaries on the militarisation of Japan from the end of the 19th century onwards. The vast majority of Japanese bought into it. A major difference for me is that in the German military the SS were fanatics and while there were Wehrmacht soldiers who committed atrocities in general they fought honourably. There are numerous examples of German soldiers who refused to kill civilians, especially Jews, who did not suffer any punishment. In Japan all of the military were involved in war crimes. I know of only one Japanese officer who acted decently towards prisoners and that was in the Philippines and he was eventually replaced.

[@condedooku9750]

@@petermortimer6303 You are very wrong, I could explain why but I'm sleepy so I'll leave this for you to read for yourself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_of_the_Wehrmacht

[@perineo2231]

@@condedooku9750 here on Wikipedia it says "completely denies the culpability of the German military command in the planning and preparation of war crimes" i wouldn't say that, but i too think that a lot of people send to war were normal people. I would say like 50% normal people 50% people who believes in the ideology

[@demef758]

Surrenders come and surrenders go, but this is FINAL surrender. The war is finally OVER! I can't imagine how satisfying this had to be for the Aussie. Bless our Aussie lads!!!!! From your USA friends.

[@Dogboy1092]

For a small nation we pulled above our weight. And I'm really proud of my family who served. But without you yanks, to send your men and equipment down here to push the Japanese back, we would have been in major trouble.

[@spinningnumbers]

look at the way they're being treated compared to how they treated us...

[@danielmedina3094]

michael sharp how did they treat you?

[@rcrinsea]

That’s not true. Americans murdered a lot of Japanese prisoners. You just don’t hear about it because American propaganda doesn’t teach you. Ask a war veteran. Read War Without Mercy by John Dower.

[@satoshi4773]

@@danielmedina3094 lmaoo

[@davidwillby3305]

rcrinsea both sides had war crimes etc however japan had war crimes that were on the extreme level, such as scientific experiments with human lives with no moral ground on a (large scale) Mostly Chinese.

[@BananaJamas]

history is determined by the victors

[@johnmccabe1974]

That's true toughness. Controlling your justified hatred and anger like a real soldier would.

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

I absolutely agree must be tough to have this type of discipline when you’re doing this type of enemy

[@peace-yv4qd]

I had a 9th grade teacher who was in a Japanese prison camp for three years. When he would tell us stories about what he went thru during the war we thought he was pulling our legs and joking around, like having to eat grass and bugs and so forth. It wasn't until he was retiring and on his last day when he went into detail that we realized he had been telling the truth. As kids we just couldn't believe that anyone could go thru what he went thru.

[@chuxxi5943]

My Grandpa said during that time he chose to be a slave just to survive.

[@nico-zt9od]

@My World nice move

[@billtsirtsis7060]

I could watch this all day.

[@prnothall9302]

My dad, a ww2 vet, would have nothing to do with anything Japanese. They were cruel , sadistic little bastards.

[@jamespotter936]

Mine too. We had nothing made in Japan in our house.

[@marcusbeck4656]

My brother’s father in law felt the same way. It was telling of the horrors committed by the Japanese.

[@benyaminyisrael4634]

its funny that they only acted that way when you invaded their land and attempted to force a western mindset upon them..other than that..they primarily kept to themselves and faught amongst other asian family groups.

[@marcusbeck4656]

@@benyaminyisrael4634 what history class did you take? 😂🤣

[@benyaminyisrael4634]

@@marcusbeck4656 I stayed all night at a holiday inn express! But seriously, I cant find anything in my studies where the Empire of Japan went into Africa or West Asia (aka Europe) to colonize and oppress people...I did see where they invaded other Asian Territories..but thats just a familial squabble among asians..enlighten me please.

[@dougyates7218]

Very rare and sad as so many chose death over giving up. What a messed up War it must have been, Thank You Veterans. Peace.

[@KB-tc5sd]

Itchy fingers on the triggers of those Owens...

[@neddelley8766]

and the Bren guns from on top of the rise, 30 rounds of 303 tends to stop an argument.

[@badmutherfunster]

The fella with the bren gun looked ready to use it

[@butchyshoe]

WHY SHOULDN'T HE BE !

[@ludo9234]

Expect he was itching to squeeze that trigger.

[@MrKrumpetz]

He had every right to feel that way. After most likely witnessing a bunch of Japanese soldiers refuse to surrender and do suicidal attacks...that would put anyone on the edge of alertness.

[@shizukamori6755]

According to the terms of the Geneva Convention, prisoners of war or enemy soldiers who have surrendered should be treated humanely.

[@michaelmayes7757]

@@shizukamori6755 Japan refused to sign the Geneva convention.

[@bornofjuly3439]

When Filipino and American have surrendered to Japanese , they treated brutally. But when the Japanese surrendered to u.s , they treated like a friend. What a nice people of America.

[@neddelley8766]

There were surrendering to Australians, do try to read what your watching.

[@PsyphaX09]

He/she was referring to the Philippine campaign, learn to read yourself. This video reminded him/her of Japanese brutality against Filipino and Americans forces that surrendered.

[@daviddouglas6610]

My dad was royal navy in the war he brought back pow's from changi gaol on his ship the 'sobietski' he said those poor lads where in a terrible state

[@deannamorgan7586]

I can only imagine.....they had to be in the most pitiable state...one of my husband's relatives was a P.O.W. in Singapore/Malaysia of the Japanese...I met him at a family reunion a few years back (he was in his 90's), and we got to talking. i asked him: "how did you survive?"...he answered, almost immediately: "because I grew up poor...there were so many guys that were in better physical shape than me..but they gave up...they didn't know how to cope...but I was used to being deprived...growing up in the '20's and '30's in the hollers of Kentucky, I knew how to make do with nothing...

[@todaywefly4370]

My grandfather was one of them. He died when I was 6 or thereabouts(1965). Just remember a very thin old man. RIP pte Vic Anderson

[@leucetius8351]

My Grandfather many years ago gave me a copy of the Naked Island by Russell Bradon, being only about 10 at the time it led me to understand the horrific conditions and cruelty inflicted on those poor souls.

[@ctrlaltdel877]

My father was a Sergent in the U.S. Army fighting in the Philippines. He had lots of story's but none better than when the Japanese were surrendering by the thousands from starvation and lack of water.

[@conanthedestroyer4509]

My grandfather was with the New Zealand Army spent 4 years in the Pacific fighting Japanese he said they were very cruel they went to a neighbouring Island that the Japanese had occupied where their we're intelligence reports of Australian prisoners. The war had officially ended when they arrived Japanese had gone but killed all the prisoners before they left. My grandfather hated them.

[@alanpeterson6224]

I knew an old man in Colorado who survived the Battan Death march. When the war ended and he was back with the U.S. Army, he was asked if he wanted to be assigned to Japan with the occupation troops. He said, "I'll kill the first Jap I see." Another soldier with him, also a Death March survivor, said, "So will I."

[@josel8389]

New zealand? Cuando van a luchar por su independencia?

[@katherinegates1559]

✌️🇺🇸 My dad felt the same way ...He was 1st Marine division ... Guadalcanal and Okinawa...The horrors of WWII at the hands of the Japanese Soldiers. God Bless all our WWII Veterans always...🇺🇸 Never to be Forgotten.🇺🇸 God Bless Our America....🇺🇸

[@legazpi7933]

Wait a moment: sure that some japanese were cruel. No doubt. But what about the throwing TWO ATOMIC BOMBS over two non-offensive CITIES which nowadays still suffering the radiation effects. How we name that?

[@allanfifield8256]

@@legazpi7933 I got an idea! Don't bomb Pearl Harbor!

[@twstf8905]

The way some of these Australian soldiers were treated in Japanese prisoners of war camps, you GOTTA admire their professionalism and restraint here, in clips showing situations like this. 🇦🇺

[@nathan-ck3je]

The Japanese was treated similar in some places. My grandfather faced war crimes after the war because he shot up a Japanese medical camp in the Philippines killing over 500 un armed Japanese.. He only did 12 months jail after the war. There was reports also in New Guinea a unit of 1500 Japanese surrendered. Australian army made Japanese dig there own graves and shot them in the hole they dug. New Zealand soldiers cut of Japanese heads and stuck them on post or trees. Why Japanese was cruel to ours because they was told if they surrendered we will kill them anyway. This happened before the 8th division was captured at the beginning of the war. War crimes happened on both sides

[@j0an-07-arc6]

@Jimmy Convict lies every country has committed at least a war crime if it wasn’t there leaders then it was there soldiers

[@m101ist]

@@nathan-ck3je No excuse for both sides.

[@petermortimer6303]

@@nathan-ck3je Yes there are instances of soldiers on both sides committing what are war crimes. However you cannot equate the relatively small number of war crimes committed on the allied side in the Pacific War with what the Japanese did. Do I need to mention Nanking or Unit 731?

[@petermortimer6303]

I agree. I would understand it if they received the surrendered weapons and then smacked the Japanese soldiers in the mouth with the butt.

[@zamriahmad9567]

To British from Malaysia with love

[@maifa9922]

Ni askar Australia

[@asianz1011]

malu wei.. asal melayu selalu salah sangka

[@rstash1]

I spent 4 years in Japan. Fluent in Japanese, reading and writing. My wife spent 7 years off and on. There is a lot to admire in their culture, but scratch a Japanese and you have a beast. They are like all Orientals: they consider themselves the only humans on earth. Behind their smiles and bows is a lot of hate.

[@Fordnan]

Yes. Try talking to them about discrimination in their culture. They refuse to accept that any race other than ethnic Japanese exist on their islands. Advanced nation? Not socially.

[@coopermagee8977]

That is what I was told. About 20 years ago I was working on a project for a merchant banker, and, he told me that a 70 yo Japanese male was the most racist person on the planet. Their war crimes were based on their racial superiority.

[@bruhmoment9573]

@@coopermagee8977 that’s actually true they considered themselves more superior than europeans and also chinese hence their warcrimes there in china and treatment of american POWs

[@cameramanceltic4915]

yes not just japenese, all asians are alot more racist than europeans or americans, look what the japenese did to the chinese

[@xstoofpeer]

How tf can you talk about Asian people in such an inhumane way and than say that they are the hateful and racist ones. Weirdos

[@MIck-M]

Very proud to see this and grateful to those men. Good bunch of blokes.

[@reynaldoflores4522]

Yes. Those surrendering troops had nothing to be ashamed of.

[@deannamorgan7586]

My grandpa was a Navy Corpsman stationed in the Pacific in WWII. We (the family) always knew that he was in the Navy during the war, but he never, ever talked about what his job was to his kids or grandkids. It was only when he died in 1998 that we found out what he went through...

[@Jackalski57]

That's because the Navy Corpsmen went through Marine Corps training in addition to their Naval training. They accompanied the Marines as they landed on beaches, etc. and provided medical support under fire, in most cases. Not an easy job since in many cases they, along with officers, were directly targeted by snipers. I hope you were able to get his records (if they weren't burnt in the fire in the 70's) from the NPRC. If not, his DD214 should have had a list of where he served, as well as what commendations he earned.

[@deannamorgan7586]

@@Jackalski57 Hi Jack...I sent away several years ago for Grandpa's DD214(called something else prior to when grandpa got out in the late '40's, but it was just very general. Showed that he was a HA1C, where he had his training in San Diego, when he entered service (Alameda, CA in Feb 1942), and when he had his subsequent training for Med (Hospital Apprentice), but it's all rather vague. I was very surprised to have gotten his records at all, knowing about the fire in 1974 in Kansas City that destroyed so many serviceman's records....again, it's so very brief...I long to know more details, and wished I could've talked to him about it...but I do know this: a few months before he died, he became rather close with my brother-in-law (an Army veteran), revealed that he was a corpsman to him..but when my brother in law tried to press him further about his experiences in the Pacific..my Grandpa tried, but then told him "I just can't talk about it, Mike, I just can't...". ". My grandpa is one of my heroes...

[@Jackalski57]

@@deannamorgan7586 Since you were lucky enough to have gotten your Grandfather's DD214, perhaps his actual full record jacket was lucky enough to survive the fire. You may wish to send a request for a copy of his full record and see if that works. Depending on where his hometown was, they may have put out a World War II commemorative book like my Dad's hometown did. Many of the veterans had a listing of their rank, when they enlisted, and what actions they were involved in, etc. I listed all my Great Uncles and my Grandfather on the online WWII Memorial website based on what was listed in that book, since they listed them based on what the service member's record was. Anyway, if there's any way I could help, let me know. I do have access to some records through one of the sites I belong to. Best of luck!

[@lewisfrazier3506]

My Uncle would not talk about his Pacific time with the 1st Calvary. He said spent almost 5 years In hell. Will spend the rest of my life trying to forget it.

[@jharris0341]

Respect to your grandfather.

[@drdonwhill]

My Aunt Kris was a WWII RN. Never spoke of the war until her late 90s when she was on her death bed, dying from lymphoma. She hoped God would forgive her for "taking care" of the marines who had been captured and dismembered by the godless Japanese and left behind to demoralize their fellow Americans. I told her that I'm sure she was a good nurse and took care of those boys as best she could. She got angry and said, "You're not listening to me, goddamnit! I didn't say 'I took care of them'. I saId , 'I TOOK CARE OF THEM!!!' Don't you understand what I'm saying?!" It's been years since her passing and I pray she found redemption and perhaps even salivation for "taking care" of those boys...

[@joemellon5444]

I am sure your aunt has found both redemption and salivation for what she did. I know what the Japanese were doing from an uncle that was there and photographs that he brought back with him. Your aunt was doing the humane thing to do.

[@drdonwhill]

@@joemellon5444 Thanks, Joe. I'd like to think so...

[@kanthabelmaniac7906]

What did she mean?

[@Raymanujan]

@@kanthabelmaniac7906 she killed them... put them out of misery.

[@williamavery9185]

My uncle survived Chagi. When returned he was a total wreck never able to work again. Because he was 6' 4" tall he was beaten terribly. His whole body was covered in scars, most of his teeth knocked out fingers and toes had been broken. At night he would scream constantly.

[@britishpigtechno1949]

Ok man respect for your uncle

[@williamavery9185]

Thanks

[@alberts2208]

Take no prisoners, I heard from my grandma how cruel the Japanese soldiers were during the war.

[@ricksgarage8069]

So, I get it. Let's be just like them.

[@katherinegates1559]

✌️🇺🇸 God Bless Our America....🇺🇸

[@alberts2208]

@@ricksgarage8069 you weren't there nor experienced the atrocities.

[@ricksgarage8069]

@@alberts2208 Nor were you.

[@alberts2208]

@@ricksgarage8069I wasn't judging, you were.

[@Marcfj]

I remember as a young man back in 1963 meeting an Englishman at the youth hostel in Gibraltar who had been a prisoner of the Japanese. He said they were, "the work of the Devil."

[@mayaescott6250]

B

[@mayaescott6250]

M6opppp

[@catsamazing338]

Was that hostel in Gib ‘Toc H’ by any chance? Run by Jock an old Scotsman. Cheers

[@Marcfj]

@@catsamazing338 - Yes, indeed it was! He told us not to leave any of our valuables lying around because those rock apes might get into the hostel and steal them. In fact, as I remember it, the Toc H was located next to a wall that run up the rock. So, maybe the rock apes came down to the hostel on it. When were you there?

[@catsamazing338]

@@Marcfj Stayed there November and December of 73. Arrived penniless from Morroco. Got day work sometimes at the docks unloading cargo at 50p an hour. Old Jock was a grand fellow. Only regret was I did leave owing him £3 for rent. “Pay it when you can laddie’. Shame on me I never did. Yet it stays with me. You probably know it was a jail for French POW’s in the 1800’s. When I arose in the morning I’d kick the waste paper basket and about 6 mice would jump out. Cheap entertainment.👍

[@joseericksonagustin5025]

That time my grandmother said she will never forget the terror of japanese done in our country Philippine

[@Gabenor1093]

Jose Erickson Agustin so do Malaysia

[@valdeslester7954]

Yes in the past japanese but in present japanese they want peace now.

[@spacecatboy2962]

my grandpa was in the american army in the philippines when they were clearing out the past of the japanese there.

[@toniotulyanes1894]

I thought these Japanese soldiers will die for the emperor how come they surrender? They were told before they left Japan that it is a shame for them to come back alive in Japan

[@onlythewise1]

were does it say that @@toniotulyanes1894

[@butchyshoe]

It was said if the Allies invaded Japan, their would have been millions of casualties on both sides. Better the casualties be Japanese.

[@thonatim5321]

Right. The 2 Atom bombs killed about 300,000 Japanese. Invasion would have killed 2 million Japanese.

[@tedwarden5803]

@@thonatim5321. I’m certain that the two nuclear bombs made a consideration in the Japanese thinking as to their capitulation. However firebombing of other cities which caused more damage and indeed killed more people did not? I question your thinking. The real reason for the Japanese capitulation was the advance of the Soviet army’s in Manchu and the capture of the Northern Japanese islands. Quite simply surrender to the Americans was the best option the Japanese had. The two Atomic weapons used were as much a message to the Soviets than the Japanese.

[@tedwarden5803]

@@erichmutchler3262. Your argument is so persuasive. I’m left in no doubt at all that you are a complete twat.

[@apefromthekitchen]

My Uncle saw the Japanese cut off many heads in the Dutch East Indies.

[@thomasmusso1147]

@@bagas4733 Until 1949 it was known as The Dutch East Indies.

[@750suzuki7]

@John Edi If they would have done sepukku BEFORE they started the war, it would have benefited all.

[@nathan-ck3je]

Same happened to Japanese at New Guinea. New Zealand soldiers used to hang there head on trees. This was at the start of the war just after the bombing of Darwin in February 42. Probably why they started cutting of our captured troops heads of.

[@Willysmb44]

I knew a GI at the end of the war who took the surrender of a Japanese HQ. His brother had been killed during the Bataan Death March. The CO of the unit was higher rank than he was and was offended at turning himself in to a lesser officer. He did better than killing them (which he said he seriously considered at the time), he ordered their CO to hand over his sword, bow to the GI, then he slapped the Japanese officer with his own glove. The GI stood there with the biggest smug look he could muster (not tough to do), told him that MacArthur was going to do the same to the Emperor and reminded them all they were now a conquered army who had failed. Over 60 years later at that time, he told me that he knew that was the biggest revenge he could serve on them on a level that would really get to them.

[@ABC_DEF]

Perhaps, as well as slapping him with a glove, he should have kicked him hard in the balls, for good measure.

[@PravoslavacZauvek]

Put sword on imperial flag, spill japanise blod on flag and sword soo that item get methaphisical power to them and then piss on it. Now they are ready to go home.

[@brandenburg2388]

But that's against the Geneva Convention concerning treatment of POWs.....

[@rcrinsea]

Don’t hate.

[@knightofthesun758]

@@brandenburg2388 Have you seen a baby tossed up the air, then boyeneted or a civilian walking 2 steps without a head because he forgot to bow to a Japanese officer he met in the street? Well, my relatives have seen these things. Imperial Japanese don't care about you, they only served thier god-imperor. And so, how do we apply the Geneva Convention during that time, where the Japanese themselves did not recognized it?

[@benji.B-side]

My grandfather was captured by the Japanese after the ship he was on was sunk. He became a POW on the Burma Railway for over four years, but classed as 'missing presumed dead' in the local paper back home. When he was liberated, he was too ill with Malaria to go on the ship home. That ship to take him back home was attacked and sunk with loss of most life. He was very lucky he never boarded that ship. He never spoke about the war and only on his death bed in old age, did he tell the priest of the horrors and torture he went through and witnessed as a POW. The priest told us that he was most upset when talking about burying his POW friends. War is so cruel.

[@jonvancil4431]

The Aussies were the first to stop the Japanese. Fitting they should be there at the end to round them up. Love for 🇦🇺from🇺🇸

[@chrisholland7367]

No arguments there, but the battles of kohima and imphal on the Burmese Indian border where the British and Indian army stopped a Japanese force far larger than those defending said positions broke the back of the Japanese advance into India costing the lives of thousands of imperial Japanese troops possibly turned the tide of the Japanese war machine in south east Asia theatre.🇬🇧🇮🇳

[@chrisholland7367]

@hIstory buff I'm fimilar with the brave stand of the 38th battalion in the Owen Stanley mountains .

[@andrewd7586]

hIstory buff My late father was at both...

[@andrewd7586]

hIstory buff Dad had his 4 other brothers fighting too. 2 in Darwin, my dad & 2 other brothers in Papua New Guinea. In between one uncle was a Rat Of Tobruk. Thankfully they all came home! Dad tried joining at age 16, got found out!😂 Went back at 17 & got in! Then fought in the Middle East briefly against the Germans, then 4 years against the Japanese. My father had nightmares for the next 65 bloody years! They were ALL heroes! Every single one of them from the cooks, truck drivers, all soldiers.

[@JeffSpehar-ov1cn]

What? Aussies my ass. Americans.

[@philipterzian4581]

I suspect they were treated rather better than Allied prisoners in Japanese hands . . .

[@jamespotter936]

My Dad told me a story of guarding Japanese soldiers in the Philippines well into 1946.

[@robertmendick3195]

There is a horrific WW2 story of 1000 Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender on Ramree Island which is located off the coast of Burma. The Japanese tried to escape into the island's mangrove swamp. Almost half of them were eaten by saltwater crocodiles before finally surrendering. The British soldiers heard the screams of the attacked all through the night.

[@tonygumbrell22]

Note: Some of those commenting seemed not to realize this was shot after Japan had surrendered. The War was officially over, and over in fact. This is the aftermath.

[@1ambrose100]

The war was long over. So why were they still armed to the teeth?

[@tonygumbrell22]

@@1ambrose100 1) They were in the remote New Guinea jungle, and may not have learned of the surrender, it would have been hard to contact them, and they would have wanted some official confirming notice. 2) When notified they would have been told to move to a certain location and then their surrender would be accepted and their all their weapons collected. You are smart enough to figure this out. Look at the date of the newsreel above and compare it to the date of the surrender in Tokyo Bay. It took some time to round up all the Japanese forces, collect their weapons, and repatriate them.

[@terrycurran780]

My wifes grandfather perished in Changi because of these butchers

[@shagshagrto]

R.I.P to your grandpa..Love from Singapore

[@alexlinkinparkful]

Nobody cares

[@histriamagna1014]

@@alexlinkinparkful Idiot.

[@mavisgreen5728]

Not only our boys but civilian men women and children, in pow camps. .

[@2NDCBT]

True. But all anyone mentions is that we had the Japanese in interment camps in the U.S and how wrong it was.

[@jackclingenpeel5020]

Mavis Green I met a Woman who was a prisoner at Santo Tomas in Manila when she was a child. The word Cruelty doesn’t explain how sick they were to those poor prisoners.

[@Kanamit.]

@@2NDCBT It wasn't wrong at the time.

[@budoumurasaki5856]

You should stop saying like Japan did such a thing. Japan was the one got cruelty that word can’t explain how sick others were to poor citizens.

[@budoumurasaki5856]

Not only Japanese boys but civilian men women and children....in pow camps

[@eglin32]

Far too much mercy being shown by the Aussies.

[@deadby15]

Hmmm.. by the same token, prolly Australian Aboriginals are way too forgiving of the European Genociders? Just wondering...

[@eglin32]

@@deadby15 genocide? In Australia? What sort of absolute pathetic moron are you?

[@stinkypete891]

@@deadby15 Amiga? The Spanish did their fair share. Eh' Amiga?

[@deadby15]

@@eglin32 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenous_Australians#:~:text=40%20to%2070.-,1838.,African%20settlers%20were%20successfully%20prosecuted.&text=Eleven%20men%20were%20charged%20with,initially%20acquitted%20by%20a%20jury.

[@SamO-ik2cm]

@@deadby15 any and all massacres were retaliation. take your propaganda elsewhere.

[@AmarSingh-el2qr]

We indians never attack to any country..... We only saves our land from enemy.....i proud to be indian 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@sisilian509]

No you attacked Pakistan and china over disputed territory

[@nohandleforme....]

Most of them were probably glad the war was finally over, even though they lost.

[@shagshagrto]

there's no winners in war, both side lost brothers, fathers, youth...

[@another_random]

@@shagshagrto that only applies for the invader. Imagine if poland stopped germany and the soviets, damn you would call that a loss for poland? Please man.

[@geoffreylee5199]

Still no apologies.

[@budoumurasaki5856]

Geoffrey Lee From Allies to Japan

[@andypeterson3070]

@@budoumurasaki5856 Yeah the allies should apologize to Japan. Of course they were so terrible.

[@vincenzodimattia3710]

The Japanese soldiers look pretty young, indeed. Almost children. As well the Aussies. Poor boys both them.

[@johnrutko1131]

on what island was the surrender when and where failing to provide any other backup information just a view of a surrender leaves much to be desired but the video itself is a thousand words so thank you

[@rhannay39]

New Guinea.

[@foucher77]

Nice one Mate

[@saburosakai9129]

Respect

[@MarkFeltonSwamphare]

They dishonor themselves, the army, their ancestors and their emperor. So much shame.

[@grisall]

Japan announced surrender on Aug 15 and formerly surrendered on September 2, 1945. This was after the war was over.

[@gortnewton4765]

Australian soldiers absolutely demolished Japanese in New Guinea, despite facing far superior numbers.

[@katherinegates1559]

✌️🇺🇸 Love all our Australian Soldier's... God Bless them all...🇺🇸

[@lewisfrazier3506]

Our Aussie buddies are fierce fighters. They kicked ass in Vietnam too!!!!

[@bruhmoment9573]

God bless them

[@aloysiusjones3985]

CMF with basic weapons and not much training as well. Chockos. 🇦🇺🍺👍

[@soponchanseatipon7761]

My grandma always told me about how bad the Japanese troops were that was why she emigrated to Thailand from Guangdong province , China. We usually had a chat when we were free . "NO WAR , PLEASE".

[@PMdaddyArgent]

21st September...5 weeks after the formal surrender in Tokyo Bay. I hope no Aussies were harmed between then and accepting the surrender of Japanese troops here on New Guinea.

[@tonygumbrell22]

Probably not, offensive operations would have stopped with the surrender in August, and efforts made to notify Japanese commanders throughout the far east. It would have taken a while to collect all the Japanese forces as they were spread out in very remote places.

[@timrobertsgb]

Surrendering to Aussie troops - possibly New Guinea ????

[@frednerk3477]

Yes. New Guinea.

[@alanmarsh7174]

Kno Won a

[@jimdavis6532]

The Japanese are marching to the Australian’s camp. At the end of the war only a couple islands were both side were located together. One was Bougainville. I can’t think of anywhere that had both sides at New Guinea. However, the Japanese were starving and in tatters after being isolated for over two years. I also question if this is Bougainville.

[@MrTreeofWoe74]

The video description identifies the Australian troops to be of the 2/1st Battalion AIF. If this is accurate, that battalion was in the Aitape-Wewak region at the end if the war.

[@MrCapKorzeniowski]

... or Borneo

[@willvearone932]

i cannot imagine the horror of our villagers experienced during japan occupations in borneo & their brutality. now they reap what they sow. natural disaster is their punishment.

[@aurifelix4402]

Sei.... você também está procurando comentários em português...

[@williamavery9185]

Oh how I wish I was the sword taker.

[@Kraterlandschaft]

Oh and how I wish I was a sword swinger.

[@rondiarelli]

Where? Philipines? Manchuria?

[@sallydelacruz884]

Was this happened in the Philippines???

[@anthonywilson38]

New Guinea, see the fuzzy wuzzys standing near the end of the video.

[@joelombrdo]

@@anthonywilson38 Anthony!

[@maayongaga729]

So Sad...these Japanese soldiers got an easy way out while thousand Filipinos died and suffered the devastation of their greedy Empire. None of them offered to build those buildings they destroyed and pay those families they killed.

[@danielmedina3094]

Mauli Ako and what did the US do after after the Spanish American war? They killed plenty of Filipinos. Burned their rice to deny the fighters in the mountains food. And concentrated people into cities they controlled. They would go on to develop the Philippines but not before preventing its independence. Nganu man daghang tao forgets ani? And what is the Philippines today? I love the Philippines. Pero daghang problema.

[@maayongaga729]

@@danielmedina3094 You created your own problems. Your politicians are as Corrupt as Hell. The legacy of the Spanish Empire. Have you seen South America? Same as hell as yours. They all want to migrate to the US and there you are pretending to be Somebody that can stand on its own feet. Tapos pg binomba ng mga Chekwang yan takbo kaagad hihingi ng tulong sa America. One of these days they will say "The Hell with You!!!!" We've lost thousands of men to save your A.s from becoming Japanese and this is what you gave us in return? "GO TO HELL!"

[@salmonjason4470]

dude.. this is after the war ended.

[@tonygumbrell22]

Part of Manila was laid waste by American artillery when we invaded Luzon in the last year of the war.

[@jenniferlarson6426]

Nice to see everyone getting along.

[@TimNelson]

If you travel anywhere in Asia, even in the outback reaches, you will find that the Japanese are still hated to this very day for their brutality. What on earth were they thinking?

[@danielmedina3094]

Most Filipinos and koreans I’ve met love japan. Lol. And you act as if every single Japanese soldier who served was a murderous lunatic lol. Not all were. Just like not all Americans are good. There’s been plenty of trash Americans, back then, and now.

[@missyb9438]

They’re still doing it, only now it’s whales and dolphins 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@salmonjason4470]

@@missyb9438 yep. let me guess? A democrat majoring in liberal arts?

[@oslopedroza2181]

Pra mim e raro ver uma fração de tropa se entregando... no caso as tropas Austrálianas...

[@davidk6271]

Didnt anyone look under their hats?

[@AllanahHemsworth]

My great grandfather was the driver who took the Japanese to the surrender line, he didn’t like talking about what happened so we didn’t hear many stories as it was very emotional for him. Les’s just say the Japanese’s people weren’t very nice at all

[@reynaldoflores4522]

Keep your chins up and be proud. You have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.

[@NN-ry6zs]

I am very proud of them.

[@dannyh8288]

Why were they allowed to live?

[@SamDru]

Killing a surrenderees is a war crime

[@zacharypeery4082]

It violates the geneva convention to kill troops who have surrendered

[@snakechrmr6398]

Must of been very strange after the atrocities the Japanese put on allies that surrendered to be treated humanely. They must of been scared shi*less wondering what was coming next after what they had done next.

[@danielmedina3094]

snakechrmr it’s likely a lot of these soldiers hadn’t seen much happen aside from regular combat and maybe executions. But what they did have on their minds was what the High command had told them, that western people were barbaric murderers.

[@snakechrmr6398]

@@danielmedina3094 Exactly. They had been so indoctrinated as to what would happen if captured I'd imagine for the first few days or even weeks they were waiting for what was coming in the next minute.

[@lifeisabanan]

Don't waste your life on behalf of a country that turns its citizens into expendable. It can take even more courage to give up fighting than to keep fighting.

[@inthedesert2008]

Amazing they let these guys walk into their midst fully armed.

[@itikey]

I heard that the U.S. soldiers were kind and the Australian soldiers were not.

[@osvaldoiamashita6289]

@Jimmy Convict Yeah, they nuked America twice.

[@humdingerdog6523]

It goes to show they got treated better than they treated our prisoners

[@gtc1961]

it's that way in every war...it's the reason we fight them, they're pure evil...we're the good guys.

[@kennethquesenberry2610]

Everyone on both sides looks thin.

[@Absaalookemensch]

They treated their POWs inhumanely and never, as a nation accepted responsibility for the widespread actions of their military. In Nanking, in just a few months they murdered around 200,000 civilians. They also butchered prisoners for food as they routinely had insufficient food for their troops.

[@jacksagrafsky4936]

It appears that these Japanese soldiers had a love of life. Instead of killing themselves as the more radical emperor followers.

[@jansandman6983]

those japanese soldiers should be really ashamed of themselves. when the allied forces surrendered to them they treated every POW badly and even tortured them.. but when it was their turn to surrender they were treated with dignity and mercy.

[@zakijunaidi9150]

This japanese should surrender to the soviet army so they can teach this japanese soldier a lesson how they the japanese treat a prisoner

[@leomerida3370]

Masganda ganito panunuurin

[@user-vz7fi1dj8e]

負けたものは仕方ない。 ご苦労様でしたと申し上げたい。

[@user-jo9pg7pv1p]

俺ならはよ自決しろと申し上げるわ。

[@danielngui3941]

Bakayaro!!

[@TurfSurf]

Everyone in this film has since passed on.

[@iwillnotcomply2002]

God bless the AIF

[@joseloza4376]

Now you know size don't matter it's the fight in the dog

[@Jleed989]

Or the number of dogs in the fight

[@user-sf8td8me1k]

I love this game.

[@SincereSentinel]

Alot of good men died that day....still haunts my every waking moment.

[@reedsilvesan2197]

they were a tenacious enemy and a proud group of men In The End they were just soldiers no different than our boys no different than any other Soldier doing what they were ordered to do

[@budoumurasaki5856]

Agree. Too many people are saying Japan is evil and America is hero! They must doesn’t know what other counties had done to Japan before the war.

[@craiga2002]

Ve vere chust followink orders! Jawohl!

[@garybanglebangle7949]

If you look at history Japan and Italy were fighting before Germany. Japan all over China and the south Pacific. Italy in Ethiopia and parts of Africa. In 1939 Germany marched into Poland. So that is when WW2 was supposed to start. To the victor history is made. A lot of little battles just happen to start.

[@testfortester7131]

Idiot, only 1 nation fought all around the world and it was the USA that’s why it was a world war when USA entered battle and won.

[@andypeterson3070]

@@testfortester7131 USA entered in '41 the World War started in '39. Where was the USA then? Win the war...like North Vietnam!! PMSFL.

[@ludo9234]

Expect all the officers pistols and swords went home with the victors.

[@martinjeffery3590]

Should have been used to dispatch them in a timely manner unlike many pows were given

[@roberthaworth8991]

Yes, I note none were immediately returned in an gesture of the honor of the fight. There was no honor in how the Japanese fought; they violated every rule in the book.

[@missyb9438]

Should have shown them the same courtesy that they gave our POWs. Starved them, worked them hard, tortured them then executed them🤷🏼‍♀️

[@buzaldrin8086]

The officers should have been segregated and subjected to the worst possible conditions. The poor enlisted men in the Japanese army were treated horribly from training and in service. I'm not excusing their actions with prisoners. I suspect they had no choice to follow the orders or their superiors.

[@tonydivito3489]

In China, Nationalist Government had given Japanese forces permission to shoot at Communist forces before surrendering their weapons. Likewise, some Japanese POW's were later "deputized" into the Nationalist Army to fight against the Communist until Chinese KMT forces arrived. At that time Chiang Kai Shek was more concerned about getting leverage against the Communists than retribution. But one should not question the Nationalist resistance against the Japanese. Among the allies, Chinese Nationalist forces fought the longest war with limited resources and suffered greater casualties. But most importantly they never surrendered to the Japanese.

[@kvt113]

it is kind of communist bull-shit propaganda I have heard from Mainland China for more than 50 years.

[@westnblu]

very rare footage of Japanese soldiers surrendering en masse thanx for the upload.. By en masse when it comes to the Japanese soldier in world war two means more than one!! wow .

[@rinchhana94]

me i rather see this than a body lying on the ground......

[@2NDCBT]

Now show how the British and all other Allied prisoners were treated by the Japanese when they surrendered to The Japanese...

[@rcrinsea]

Or show how thousands of Japanese POWs were murdered by the whites. Read War Without Mercy by John Dower, a white.

[@budoumurasaki5856]

rcrinsea People saying bad about Japan are always pretending like Japan was the only evil country. While other countries did much same things in the war. Glad I found sane person like you

[@clawcross]

@@rcrinsea it is a lie

[@garymcaleer6112]

For those who don't know: Captain Mitsuo Fuchida, led the first air wave attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Fuchida was responsible for the coordination of the entire aerial attack. In September 1949, after reading the Bible for himself, he became a Christian.

[@dashcroft1892]

Did he repent his previous life and role in the deaths of thousands, or just convert?

[@garymcaleer6112]

@@dashcroft1892 Good question. The testimony I read concerned the Christians in Japan after the war. Mitsuo witnessed "the Spirit of Christ" in the forgiveness of Christians over the sins of Imperial Japan. As you may know, others have turned their sin ridden lives around. Saul of Tarsus being the classic example. Even king Manasseh who murdered Isaiah. Imagine their meeting in Glory. :^)

[@user-jo9pg7pv1p]

まるで遠足だな。帰りの準備かな？

[@orhanoguz132]

WAR İS TERRİBLE!

[@basshuntet1455]

Hell they started it

[@andypeterson3070]

Indeed it is. I hope we never see another.

[@nicknack8926]

In the beginning i was seeing just a few Australian troops with many more Japanese troops with weapons and i thought G they are asking to get killed and then they panned up and there are all these Australian troops with guns on the hill. Phew!

[@andrewwerner2061]

Sad that we treated them like kings and queens.

[@sid2112]

Guys that's not who we are. We are better than that, they got treated well because we are the good guys.

[@dustytrails1]

You wouldn't know it with our current politicians, they seem have forgot what the Greatest Generation earned.

[@aboutme9515]

even in defeat, they're still disciplined.

[@zacharypeery4082]

Disciplined in getting owned

[@richardthomas9263]

It is easy to be disciplined when you are treated with respect, not so easy if you are being beaten, threatened, starved, or sick.

[@kanth66]

Soon, we will go home and create Suzuki, Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, and Toshiba and rule the world!

[@theallseeingmaster]

The Japanese fought dishonorably.

[@thisislaflaretv5250]

They don't seem as fanatical

[@maxwellfan55]

dameyale rooster. Then you're a fool.

[@thisislaflaretv5250]

Yeah yeah I hear ya

[@bruhmoment9573]

of course the war has ended their country is bombed to shit their emperor that they treated as a god has surrendered there isn’t anything’s worth fighting anymore

[@ecsean1415]

The Japanese that were present during thr end days of the war were kids. You can see how war really can bring horror and chaos to everyones lives. I pray for the souls of those who died preserving the free world. And pray for those lived through it and changed. Long live the free world!

[@SimAG117]

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