How to Win a War in the Pacific

This is how the US wrote the blueprint for war in the Pacific.

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Johnny Harris is an Emmy-winning independent journalist and contributor to the New York Times. Based in Washington, DC, Harris reports on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe, publishing to his audience of over 5 million on Youtube. Harris produced and hosted the twice Emmy-nominated series Borders for Vox Media. His visual style blends motion graphics with cinematic videography to create content that explains complex issues in relatable ways.

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[benjaminmajeski]

Bro they taught us that in history class it was called island hopping.

[quietman]

Tell me you didn't pay attention in high school world history without telling me.

[Sentient_Blob]

I don’t understand how islands with no natural resources and limited industry lost to the most industrious and resource rich country in history… just don’t get it man

[MrDirigible]

This video still gets it wrong, the vast majority of Japanese shipping sunk was done by US submarines based out of Pearl Harbor or Australia. The island hopping campaign was meant to liberate key areas for air bases which would help in interdiction and isolate Japanese outposts and garrisons causing a logistical and strategic drain on Japanese resources while utilizing the limited resources and manpower available to pacific commanders while the European front was made a priority to defeat Nazi Germany. Last but not least was to find airbases close enough to the Home Islands for staging bomber air raids which further destroyed Japanese infrastructure and industrial capacity for war.

[TheBlubberWhale]

"I don't understand how the U.S. beat Japan in WW2" brother its called a nuke

[rf]

"i never got how the us beat japan in ww2" dude we found out it was called the land of the rising sun so we gave them two.

[jdotoz]

It was submarines that sank most of those ships, based mostly out of Hawaii and later in Guam.

[thederpyhenchmen]

dog it’s because the USA had more factories than the UK, Germany and japan combined

[FacterinoCommenterino]

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[derekwhite]

Is the video called “how America STOLE some lil islands”?

[billinghamscuba]

The allies, the British empire and her commonwealth played a huge roll as well…especially our navy, but we fought the Japanese in Singapore…

[BesimtariBerat]

Yeah but without an atomic bomb, conquering mainland japan would have been an whole other ball game.

[Randy.Bobandy]

They had more stuff. It’s really that simple.

[ChrisJensen-serj]

Dude, the submarine service of the USN sank over 5 million tons of Japanese merchant shipping.

[Biga]

I mean Nimitz was pursuing the Island hopping campaign simultaneously with MacArthur pushing through Indonesia to take back the Philippines.

Oh and that was all while we were flying supply runs over the Himalayas and building a road through Burma to supply the Chinese resistance.

It really helped that the wartime American economy had the resources to put out a relentless amount of equipment and pull from a significant supply of manpower.

[GodSonBlessed]

I'm pretty sure it was the two nuclear bombs.

[regmbald]

You should read the book of Eugene sledge "the man and the old breed" about his experience in the pacific theater, there's also this TV show called "The Pacific" directly inspired from this book, it's a great show, it shows how brutal the war was against the japanese for the americans forces, also how they had to fight in harsh conditions with the tropical climate and jungle setting!

[cheongyiptuck]

US ARE LUCKY .THEIR HOMELAND ARE SAFE.THOSE AMERICAN JOE CAN MANUFACTURE WAR EQUIPMENT WITHOUT DISRUPTION

[Holly-hmwu]

This isn’t nearly the full story… this is like a high school level take and a narrow one at that.

Industrial capacity, access to resources, a decade of Sino-Japanese war, air supremacy and strategic bombing, submarine warfare, the manhattan project, Russian invasion of Manchuria.

[Quick-n-eg쿠이크앤이지]

Dropping H bomb won the war. Invading an island nation would have been difficult. The US had less military personnel after fighting in Europe and also running out of weapons.