Former Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters, Tomigusuku
25th Nov 2017
During World War II, Japanese naval forces in Okinawa, led by Rear Admiral Minoru Ota, built an elaborate underground headquarters, with hundreds of meters of connecting tunnels under a hill in Tomagusuku. On June 4, 1945, the U.S. 6th Marines landed and a pitched battle ensued.
Ota sent his farewell telegram to the 32nd Army on June 11. In it, he commended the Okinawan people’s self-sacrifice and cooperation during the battle. Ota then, along with members of his staff, committed suicide on June 13 to avoid surrender. The Marines sealed the entrances to the underground headquarters rather than attempt to enter it. When it was unsealed in the 1950s, the remains of over 2000 sailors were found.
Today, the Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters can be visited by the public. Traces of the mass suicide by Ota and his men can still be seen. Blast scars from a hand grenade are visible on the walls and the farewell message left by Ota is still clearly visible.
Nishihara Village Office Wartime Underground Shelter - Okinawa, Japan
After the Pacific War began in 1941, and as the war situation worsened for the Japanese army, the Imperial Headquarters deployed the 32nd army force in Okinawa. More than 1200 soldiers were stationed at the Nishihara National Elementary School as well as in other parts of Nishihara Village.
In june 1944, the war situation had become even more severe. Local villagers were employed to dig the underground air-raid shelter. After the shelter was complete, a safe weighing approximately one ton was placed inside. the safe contained important documents such as family and land registers, public funds, office seals, account books and wartime credits.
All these governmental duties were continued until the United States Armed Forces landed in Okinawa. The village office staff went to the shelter every morning taking out documents, doing necessary work on them and then returning them back to the shelter during the evening for safe keeping.
After the war, the shelter was left untouched for a long time. Around 1980, a building contractor damaged a section of the main shelter while doing construction along a road side. The damage to the shelter caused it's entrance to be blocked off. There were originally two entrances facing the northeast.
Today, in Nishihara, the office shelter is one of the few historical artifacts left from the war. Such remains constantly remind us of the hardships and tragedies of war, even as it's lessons fade with time.
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In this episode I explain the story of Okinawa, an island to the west of mainland Japan that is a part of the Ryukyu Islands. From April 1 until June 22, 1945, there was inexhaustable resistance from the dug-in Japanese troops during the American Operation Iceberg. Naval assistance from UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada provided even more strength in numbers for USA so Okinawa was a lost battle from the start for the Japanese Imperial Army. The Japanese had a complex tunnel systems in the island mountains hidden away from the beaches. 3 coast-to-coast defensive line tunnels had been dug in early 1944 to fire from covered openings, pillboxes, fox holes and machine gun positions. The 10th US Army and the 3rd Amphibious Corps faced the 32nd Japanese Imperial Army with commanders Ushijma, Yahara and Cho supported by Admiral Ota. Op Iceberg began with the largest amphibious deployment in history on April Fool's Day. The beaches of Hagushi in West Okinawa were invaded while a dummy demonstration in the east created mass confusion. However, the islands seemed quite abandoned because the Japanese defenders had been instructed to lay low inside the mountains until the American troops were very close to the gun positions. The north was sealed off on April 7 along with the demise of Japan's mighty Yamato battleship during Japan's Operation Ten-Go. The entire northern region seemed abandoned but between April 13 and April 18, there was a heavy fight for the Motobu peninsula with Japanese gunners in the rocky ridges of Yae-Dake. A dangerous ravine location with a twisted mass of ridges. Ie Island was secured on April 21 despite Ushijma's success with nightly infiltrations but he was outnumbered by enemy troops. At the end of April, the Machinato defensive line was broken and a Japanese counter-attack was stopped on May 4 with US counter-battery fire. A week later, General Buckner launched an intense 10-day battle with important victories in Chronical Hill, 476 feet above ground level and defended by 1,000 Japanese, and also in Sugar Loaf Hill. The southern city of Shuri seemed an easy target thanks to the capture of both hills but the advance was stopped by nature. Monsoon rains at the end of May 1944 turned the roads into mud and created a toxic setting with litter and dead bodies everywhere. Thanks to 3-day shell fire by the USS Mississippi, the Americans were able to break down the last defences at Shuri Castle. The Oroku peninsula was attacked on June 4 with 4,000 Japanese suicides on June 13 as a result. All of them where sailors and even their commander Admiral Ota had joined them in death. Ushijma's remaining forces were driven into a pocket and on June 21, the last remnants of the 32nd Japanese Imperial Army fell. Both Officer Cho and General Ushijma followed the ancient ritual of Seppuku: self-disembowlment followed by swift beheading. Colonel Yahara had been ordered to escape so the Okinawa story would live on and after being caught as a POW, Yahara wrote a book about the Typhoon of Steel. Okinawa was a vital objective to establish new US airbases for a possible invasion of mainland Japan. Nevertheless, the Japanese combatants managed to hold it out for 82 days, earning this battle the nickname 'Typhoon of Steel'. 20,000 Americans and 110,000 Japanese and Okinawans died. General Simon Buckner was killed in action near the end. finntroll 1984:
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00:02:40 1 Order of battle
00:02:50 1.1 Allied
00:04:38 1.2 Japanese
00:06:50 1.2.1 Military use of children
00:08:16 2 Naval battle
00:11:22 2.1 Operation iTen-Go/i
00:12:49 2.2 British Pacific Fleet
00:13:47 3 Land battle
00:15:09 3.1 Northern Okinawa
00:17:46 3.2 Southern Okinawa
00:28:29 4 Casualties
00:30:13 4.1 Military losses
00:30:22 4.1.1 American
00:34:34 4.1.2 Japanese losses
00:36:38 4.2 Civilian losses, suicides, and atrocities
00:41:54 4.2.1 MEXT controversy
00:46:15 5 Aftermath
00:47:34 5.1 Effect on the wider war
00:49:20 5.2 Memorial
00:49:54 5.3 Modern US base
00:50:25 6 See also
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SUMMARY
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The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen) (Okinawan: 沖縄戦, romanized: Uchinaa ikusa), codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The initial invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The 82-day battle lasted from April 1 until June 22, 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were planning to use Kadena Air Base on the large island of Okinawa as a base for Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands, 340 mi (550 km) away.
The United States created the Tenth Army, a cross-branch force consisting of the 7th, 27th, 77th, and 96th infantry divisions of the US Army with the 1st, 2nd, and 6th divisions of the Marine Corps, to fight on the island. The Tenth was unique in that it had its own tactical air force (joint Army-Marine command), and was also supported by combined naval and amphibious forces.
The battle has been referred to as the typhoon of steel in English, and tetsu no ame (rain of steel) or tetsu no bōfū (violent wind of steel) in Japanese. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of Japanese kamikaze attacks, and the sheer numbers of Allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific, with approximately 160,000 casualties on both sides: at least 75,000 Allied and 84,166–117,000 Japanese, including drafted Okinawans wearing Japanese uniforms. 149,425 Okinawans were killed, committed suicide or went missing, a significant proportion of the estimated pre-war 300,000 local population.In the naval operations surrounding the battle, both sides lost considerable numbers of ships and aircraft, including the Japanese battleship Yamato. After the battle, Okinawa provided a fleet anchorage, troop staging areas, and airfields in proximity to Japan in preparation for a planned invasion.
Les galeries japonaises d'Hacksaw Ridge
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1-Mettre les SOUS-TITRES pour le prologue, je sais que ma lecture est excessivement rapide ( notamment pour les numéros d'unités ) dans cette vidéo, j'ai vraiment bossé rapidement pour la sortir le plus vite possible.
2- J'ai rajouté pas mal de bruitage, c'est un exercice que j'aime bien faire mais c'est la première fois que j;'ajoute des bruitages à mes vidéos ( outre les cris de guerre japonais comme dans les sanglantes batailles de la guerre du Pacifique ) merci de me dire si c'est gênant ou pas pour vous !
3- Je n'ai pas fait de tirage au sort pour les drapeaux, je préfère les distribuer pour les 3 premiers qui m'enverront un mail finalement, pour économiser du temps et c'est mieux en anonyme je pense ! Donc n'hésitez pas : mateo.andre46@gmail.com
4-17:48 ( il y a un trou que je n'ai pas fait, il n'y a rien, c'est juste une mini-pièce éboulée ! )
Information complémentaire : Le 2e bataillon arrivé le 28 avril à Hacksaw Ridge, avait pour mission de renforcer l'escarpement après en avoir reçu l'ordre le 27 avril par le quartier général de la 32e armée à Shuri. Le bataillon était commandé par le Capitaine ( major ) Shimura. ( L'escarpement de Maeda fut protégé au départ par trois bataillons de la 62ème division avant d'être renforcé par des unités extérieures ).
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Dossier Numéro 1 : Les défenses du littoral d'Okinawa ✔
Dossier Numéro 2 : Les fantastiques galeries défensives d'Hacksaw Ridge ( Maeda ) ✔
Dossier Numéro 3 : Position d'artillerie de campagne de Nishihara
Dossier Numéro 4 : Le deuxième hôpital de campagne de la 24e division ( front Shuri )
Dossier Numéro 5 : Centre, QG, et position défensive de la 24e Division ( arrière du front Shuri / grande retraite )
Dossier Numéro 6 : Position d'artillerie du 7e Régiment de Chinen
Dossier Numéro 7 : Centre, QG, et position défensive du 89e Régiment d'Infanterie
Dossier Numéro 8 : Ossements dans la jungle [ INÉDIT ]
Dossier Numéro 9/10 : Bonus indéterminés pour le moment#batailleokinawa
#HacksawRidge #batailleokinawa #guerredupacifique #deuxièmeguerremondiale
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SUMMARY
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The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen) (Okinawan: 沖縄戦, translit. Uchinaa ikusa), codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The initial invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The 82-day battle lasted from April 1 until June 22, 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were planning to use Kadena Air Base on the large island of Okinawa as a base for Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands, 340 mi (550 km) away.
The United States created the Tenth Army, a cross-branch force consisting of the 7th, 27th, 77th, and 96th infantry divisions of the US Army with the 1st, 2nd, and 6th divisions of the Marine Corps, to fight on the island. The Tenth was unique in that it had its own tactical air force (joint Army-Marine command), and was also supported by combined naval and amphibious forces.
The battle has been referred to as the typhoon of steel in English, and tetsu no ame (rain of steel) or tetsu no bōfū (violent wind of steel) in Japanese. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of Japanese kamikaze attacks, and the sheer numbers of Allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific, with approximately 160,000 casualties on both sides: at least 75,000 Allied and 84,166–117,000 Japanese, including drafted Okinawans wearing Japanese uniforms. 149,425 Okinawans were killed, committed suicide or went missing, a significant proportion of the estimated pre-war 300,000 local population.In the naval operations surrounding the battle, both sides lost considerable numbers of ships and aircraft, including the Japanese battleship Yamato. After the battle, Okinawa provided a fleet anchorage, troop staging areas, and airfields in proximity to Japan in preparation for the planned invasion.
Les défenses japonaises du littoral d'OKINAWA
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Dossier Numéro 1 : Les défenses du littoral d'Okinawa ✔
Dossier Numéro 2 : Les fantastiques galeries défensives d'Hacksaw Ridge ( Maeda )
Dossier Numéro 3 : Position d'artillerie de campagne de Nishihara
Dossier Numéro 4 : Le deuxième hôpital de campagne de la 24e division ( front Shuri )
Dossier Numéro 5 : Centre, QG, et position défensive de la 24e Division ( arrière du front Shuri / grande retraite )
Dossier Numéro 6 : Position d'artillerie du 7e Régiment de Chinen
Dossier Numéro 7 : Centre, QG, et position défensive du 89e Régiment d'Infanterie
Dossier Numéro 8 : Ossements dans la jungle [ INÉDIT ]
Dossier Numéro 9/10 : Bonus indéterminés pour le moment
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