Iwo Jima Saving Relics

Iwo Jima Saving Relics. Just by random chance we stumbled upon and found some relics on Iwo Jima Hill 362A. This battle was bloody and many men died to take this hill. I tried to do the best I could with the video. The relics were just unbelievable. Sitting outside for decades. How could no-one ever see or find these again? I hope this video helps with some visual aspects from the history books. Thank you for taking this journey.

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[stevenball]

Thanks for sharing my dad was there with the 3rd marines. He always talked about wanting to go back and visit. He passed in 1975 at the young age of 57. Still miss ya dad

[jmmck]

My father landed on Iwo Jima with the 4th Marine Division. He got his second Purple Heart a few days after the flag raising. He got his first on Saipan.

[ivarkoslovski]

I am a real German and a military buff, visiting military museums, fortifications, battlefields etc. all over the world, but mainly Europe. Only by now I discovered your channel. But what I want to say : Thanks an awful lot for handing, all the found artefacts over to the local museums ! Here in Europe most of such valuable finds end up in the wrong hands and vanish for ever. Well done !

[calimann]

It’s disheartening to know the greatest generation is coming to an end. I grew up watching WWII documentaries with my father. Truly an amazing and brave generation. Thank you to all that have served and most of all, thank you to everyman who gave all. As the first born generation in the USA, all these men are my fathers.

[JohnClark-rwul]

My Dad was at Iwo Jima. Third Division, Ninth Regiment. Like most of those veterans from that time he never said much about it. My neighborhood growing up had many WWII veterans. Several childhood friends fathers were WWII vets. They would get together with my Dad and pitch horseahoes. I never heard any war stories among them. Guess none of them wanted to discuss or hear about each others personal hell. Never heard them discuss The Great Depression either for that matter. Another different kind of hell for that generation.
John Clark, son of WWII USMC veteran

[vf]

I knew an old guy who is now passed on who was a marine that fought on Iwo Jima. I only knew him as a senior citizen and I’m sure he wasn’t the man he once was. Small in stature at 5’4” he wasn’t much larger than the opposition. He was always worried about us kids getting hurt. I’ve always wondered how he fought being so concerned with safety? But I know he was in the thick of it, Alfred had night terrors until his death. He was haunted by his experiences in the Marine corps. He didn’t run around openly proud of his service and until you got to know him he didn’t mention it.

[davidperdue]

I had the opportunity to go there on a Battle Study out of Okinawa in 1988. The Coast Guard had a small LORAN base there then.
We walked the battlefield, climbed Mt. Suribachi and did lots of cave exploring.
As we were leaving, another Marine and I tracked down some Japanese comm wire on the ground. It continued to be joined with other wires until it went into the base of a hill that had obviously received shellfire to collapse the hill. I can only imagine what was buried there.

[jgmopar]

My Grandfather was 1 of 9 Marines killed on March 26, 1945, on Iwo Jima He was part of the 5th pioneer battalion 5th division. Thank you to all that served o7

[dflo]

When I saw my foot Dr., he told me he had treated a 99 year old Marine who survived Iwo Jima without a scratch after 33 days of combat. Amazing story. I heard he went and met a 19 year old who was learning to be a artillery man at fort Sill here In Oklahoma. He was supposed to be one of the youngest Marines in active service.

[felixcat]

To see the windswept greenery looking so peaceful, and to look back at footage taken during the offensive to capture the island, one can barely imagine that they're the same location!

The amount of blood spilt and human tissue, organs and bone blasted over that ground is truly unimaginable.

[christophermarks]

Thank you so much for exploring 362A. It was one of the critical battle sites and your video allowed me to imagine the Japanese soldiers hustling through those caves and spilling out to man defensive positions - and the Marines slowly beating them back in costly attacks. I'm glad you found so many artifacts. Imagine what lies behind some of those closed-in tunnels! Scrape marks on the walls are from Japanese efforts to find their soldiers with excavators.

[charlielaudico]

My dad was a 19 year old marine who was on okaknowa, who survived the 2nd wave of the invasion! He never talked much about his experience to anyone, God reat his soul, he passed away at 94 years old!

[williamvess]

My father in-law fought on Iwo, he drove a bull dozer. He mentioned how he just plowed everything under, enemy soldiers, swords, n guns.he said the enemy booby trapped everything so he touched nothing.he would pump diesel fuel in the caves and light it.the fumes would penitrate and force the enemy out.he said they would bury their helmets in the ground and heat from the island volcanic surrounding would heat their food! His memory and service is my artifact.

[paulstan]

How’s it going? Hope you are staying healthy. I can only imagine how insane it must have been for both sides during the battle. As always I really appreciate the tours. Amazing finds. Thanks for doing them for us who will never be there in person.

[hydrogreen]

Years ago I flew out to Iwo Jima on a C130 resupply for the Coast Guard who were at the time operating the LORAN station there. I spent the day driving around the island going into many of the caves and along the beach. Up on top of Mt. Surabchi I was able to see the entire ten square mile island. Korean slaves carved out those tunnels when the island was mined for sulfur used in Japan's war industry. I wonder how many of those "Japanese" soldiers were Korean? When we went through some of the tunnels the heat and humidity made it very difficult. Sure would have been great if I had the digital capability including video back then as people have today. Some of us went snorkeling off the shore and that was pretty cool.

[emilioalcazar-suvi]

Awesome relics and places of the Battle..really amazing!!

[ant-]

That blue bottle @ 9:07 is a sake bottle. Found hundreds of them at a Japonese logging camp in British Columbia Canada. The camp was active right up to the start of the war, when all the men were removed to internment camps.

[rustj]

Thank you for showing us this footage you took, I eventually want to visit there one day myself. I also find all the artefacts you discover so fascinating and some of them very personal to the soldiers that fought there. These are things like the shaving kit, canteens and even the spur. Thanks again for sharing.

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

That white thing you called a sake cup looks like the type of candle holder that Japanese still use on their shrines. Great video, thank you.

[thinghammer]

Such a "no win" situation. These poor guys were left on the island against a force that they knew were going to take them out. Gregg Allman sang it best..."ain't but one way out, baby, and I just can't go out that door..."