Carriers Hit Tokyo; Old Glory Over Iwo Jima 1945/3/19 | Tokyo
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1) "Plowing through tempestuous seas the U. S. Fifth Fleet takes positions several hundred miles off Tokyo ... the huge carriers of Task Force 58 emerge from the armada ... and fleets of war planes swoop away, their destination Tokyo. En route, Jap ships are plastered and sunk by air cannon. Tokyo's docks are pounded. Mammouth Imperial air fields are strafed repeatedly. Intercepting Zeros are destroyed. Gun cameras record power dives on sprawling Jap factories. Rockets speed down into an aluminum factory, and huge fires mount from Tokyo. "Combat loss - Jap 817 planes, 51 vessels - U.S. 9 planes and 4 pilots." 2) Old Glory Flies Over Iwo Jima - "With the costly beach head finally secure on Iwo Jima, the U.S. Marines turn their attention to Mt. Suribachi, the volcano which is covered with Jap guns. Off shore, U.S. Naval ships pour tons of shells into the mountain. The Marines slowly advance uphill as U.S. dive bombers place sticks of bombs immediately ahead of the Leathernecks. Jap fortifications with narrow entrances and huge, thick walls are reduced with hand grenades. Battered Jap gun emplacements, and scores of slain Japs are passed. When at last the summit is reached, the Marines enact one of the stirring scenes in American history, the Stars and Stripes are planted on Suribachi, 750 miles from Tokyo!" (partial newsreel)
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Cr4yv3n, kirten is right, there was no other choice but to drop the a-bombs. if you want to blame someone, blame the Japanese government for knowingly "awakening a sleeping giant", and not surrendering after the initial flying fortress bombing.
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I thought this was a myth they actually did that with the flag.i thought that picture was made up.
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newsreels are awesome. great look into the past.
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America is full of idiots, thats why the whole world hates us right now. The dumb rednecks never had control before, now there everywhere, except on the coasts where educated people are.
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i NEVER forget those who support and are greatful for the AMERICAN VETERAN! GOD BLESS!
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Right....They forget what those creeps did to the Marines on Wake Island, and on the Bataan Death March.. The Japs murdered over 40 civilian workers on Wake..Nobody says anything about those events.
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Right on!!!...The only mistake we made in dropping the A-Bomb on Japan, was that we only dropped 2 of them....Should have been 200.
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but its ok for him to allow all companies to move over seas and build things for nothing, with no reguard for the enviorment? anyone joing the military now is an absolute sucker.
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semper fidelis you maggot! these men died defending their country against the japanese invasion of AMERICA! you may drive a japanese car now but, you sure as hell don't speak japanese do you? as for GEORGE BUSH...he has to battle the liberals who allowed the japs to start producing cars in this country! SEMPER FI!
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those men fought and died so that george bush and his nazis could pilage and destroy our country. thank you and im sorry for what has become of our once great nation. i wish someone would shoot down his plane
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My father saw this same video, in a cine , here in Brazil.Good video.
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Yes that was real footage
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That's the second US flag raised there. The first was smaller, I think.
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is that the real flag raising or a re-enactment?