Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "Japan’s Perspective on the Major Allied Armies of WW2 - Where Did they Rank Them?" video.

in the British empire troops the Japanese feared the Gurkhas and Aussies, as well as African commonwealth troops.
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The KMT Chinese army had very poor leadership and coordination between units. due to the fact the KMT army was fractured into different opposing political factions, like the KMT high command had to negotiate with political factions to get them to order their units to fight the Japanese, the Japanese were stalled into conquering China since the Japanese did not have enough men to fully pacify China with a hostile population ten times their own along with very poor interior transport infrastructure rugged terrain and at times fierce Chinese resistance and the KMT Chinese were heavilly supported in weapons by the USSR and later 1941 onwards the USA.
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which nation the Japanese feared the most it was the USA of course they got their asses kicked to hell by the yanks. In fact, among the US armed forces they feared the US marines the most. The USMC was probably the best branch of the US armed forces and at the time the USMC was a branch of the USN. USMC were probably the best trained branch of the US armed forces. with fanaticism morale brutality approaching that of the Japanese but with abundant equipment weapons superiority and a more flexible leadership. I find it amusing the Japanese hated fighting the USMC due to their deaths being dishonorable while they were committing brutal dishonorable acts vs. POWs and civilians. Japanese troops of WW2 are hypocritical brutal and disgusting.
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@Dick_Sanormus also true. and the USMC were fighting in some of the most rugged terrain in the world Jungle hills swamps in very hot humid climate and doing amphibious assaults against probably the most fanatical axis enemy whcih are the Japanese, the Japanese were probably less well equipped and had poorer tactics than the Germans but they were a lot more fanatical and were hard to dig out on the defense. the USMC had to contend with an enemy who mostly fought to the death. and the USMC was also mainly a infantry heavy force with some tank units.
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the stupid twisted bs Japanese bushido code of killing and abusing POWs and civilians proved their undoing and made their enemies fight harder and to the end. That was why they only conquered 25 percent of China, and got stalled bloodily.
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@Dick_Sanormus Be interesting to see how the Marines fared if they were deployed to Europe to fight the Germans.
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@Dick_Sanormus and the US army also I think had better leadership than the USMC, while Patton was a dick , he was good at manuever armoured warfare flexible and in the end his tactics actually lessened casualties. However in a rugged terrain of the pacific which was not friendly to armoured maneuver warfare Patton may have to resort to possibly frontal infantry assaults. Also the army leadership in the Pacific was also not as good as the ones sent to Europe, US army general like Buckner, and Stillwell resorted to frontal attacks like the USMC. A US army general who was a standout in the pacific was General Frank Merill of the Merills Marauders who used infantry commando style tactics vs. teh Japanese in Burma. Stillwell totally misused the Merrill's Marauder in Burma using them for frontal attacks in the battle for Myitkina 1944. which resulted in the end the unit was disbanded and rendered kaput with 99.9 percent casualties.
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yah plus Japanese troops had better leaders bit better command and control what the Chinese were superior in were numbers, Japanese were usually heavilly outnumbered, rugged defensive terrain, and better small arms,
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@kenneth9874 its not only commie factions the KMT was divided among various political cliques which were regional cliques or warlords. these guys claimed KMT membership but many a time did not follow Chiang and were opposed to him. The CCP guerillas were a different group altogether, and the KMT fouight them as much as the Japanese. as Chiang really hated the Chinese commies but ironically the biggest commie in the world the USSR was his best supporter.
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the Americans did atrocities on the Japanese since . they were enraged not only by the sneak attack but also Japanese atrocities on POWs civilians and fought brutally and to the death. Also the ones who were taking souvenirs will mostly from the USMC who had been fighting the Japanese mainly in the Pacific, they had first hand experience on the Japanese hard USMC training plus fighitng the brutal Japanese made the USMC prone to atrocities on the Japanese.
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The Chinese understood the Japanese mindset a few years later and when they would fight the Japanese it would also be to the death.
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