WEBVTT - Republican Primary Battles 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.160 It is The Jesse Kelly Show. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:07.840 Final hour of The Jesse Kelly Show on a Memorial Day, 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.200 reminding you. If you miss any part of the show, 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.440 you can download at iHeart, Spotify iTunes. We'll continue with 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.360 the little Korean War talk, probably do some air war talk. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.880 I want to read a medal of honor citation who 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.239 are just doing whatever we can do to honor the 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.440 falling and remember what today it's about. It is a 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.640 day to remember them. Before I continue with the Korean War, 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:38.599 remember them. Maybe you wonder, well, what can I do? 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:40.040 You know, what can I Is there anything I can 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.880 do on today or maybe do with your family. Maybe 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.720 you're thinking, hey, I'd like I'd like I'd like my 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:51.280 kids to acknowledge the day first, the most basic thing 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:56.400 that everybody can do. Gather around and talk about it 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.840 doesn't have to be long, five minutes, talk about it. 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:05.240 Remind everybody what today is about, why we have it. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:06.000 You can do that. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.720 Most people listening to the sound of my voice right now, 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:16.280 I would venture to gainst you. I bet you have 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:22.680 something close to you drivable distance away that has to 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.679 do with the troops or maybe look, maybe it's a 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.120 simple memorial plaque. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:29.600 Maybe you have. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.600 A grave site. Maybe maybe there's a big cemetery where 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:38.039 you are. Maybe if you did a little Internet search, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.040 maybe you'll find your town. As warriors who have fallen 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.880 and they are they're they're laid to rest, show up 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.720 and lay down flowers, the really cool powerful things show up, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.480 lay down flowers. Maybe it's maybe you got a museum. 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.440 Maybe you got a museum talks about these things. Pop 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.960 in the museum. There are things you can physically do 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.800 today to show your respect. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:04.440 All right. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:06.400 Back to the Korean War. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.120 North Korea invade South Korea. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.440 We don't like it. We go over there, we decide 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.240 to stop it. We start beating up on the North 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:20.160 Koreans and sending them back north. It's a very very 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.920 good thing. We don't have to get into all the 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:28.120 controversy right now. I've talked about it before. But as 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:33.079 we're sending the North Koreans back north, there is a discussion, 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.720 there are high level discussions that hey, how far do 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.800 we want to take This is just sending them back 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:46.560 home enough? Should we pursue them. It's one thing to 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.359 get someone out when someone is invaded in an area 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.240 where they shouldn't be it's another thing entirely to take 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:58.919 that fight into their territory where they are. We're beating 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:00.920 up on them pretty good, don't get wrong on their 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.120 spirits fighting, but we're beaten up on him pretty good. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.560 We're thinking, well, why don't we just keep going, Why 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:12.000 don't we just run these dirty comedies as far north 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.400 as we possibly can? And we decided we were going 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:20.720 to do that. Unbeknownst to us at this time, a 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.560 man maybe you've heard of him, by the name of 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:27.000 Mao ze Dung, the communist dictator of China. He has 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:32.679 decided this is a perfect opportunity to teach these Americans 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.400 a lesson. Remember, Mao at this point hates us for 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.960 a variety of reasons. The list is too long to 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.400 even go into at this point. But Mao does not 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.960 like us, does not like the United States of America, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.400 and he thinks, okay, we have an opportunity here. And remember, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.720 when it comes to communism, life is cheap. It's not 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.720 worth anything, certainly for the Chinese how they practice it. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:02.600 So Mao just starts sending whorors in hordes of Chinese 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:08.320 troops south. Some of these guys didn't even have weapons Mao, though, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.000 remember big of an evil piece of trash as he was. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.840 Mao was a seasoned warrior by this point in time, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.760 had been involved in conflict and war for a long time. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.560 He knew some things. Mao knew that the Americans had 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.479 air power, the North Koreans didn't. The Chinese didn't the 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:32.880 Americans did. Mao knew our planes were constantly overhead observing 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.839 what was happening on the ground, bringing that information back down. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.760 So how if you want to send in let's call it, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:45.440 five hundred thousand Chinese troops down into North Korea, how 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.159 in the world can you get them down there without 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.440 the Americans finding out you get them down there? Well, 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:56.360 they did things like traveled at night. During the day, 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.640 they would hide into trees to the point they would 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:04.760 stre themselves to the trees to sleep standing up during 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.880 the days, so the plains flying overhead couldn't see it. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.120 When it was time to sleep, you find a tunnel 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.320 of some kind a forest. They did all kinds of 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:19.960 different things. So we are cruising north after these North Koreans, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.800 and we do not realize that the Chinese legions of 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.600 them are coming south to meet us, and the Chinese 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.520 have a plan because there was a place known as 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:37.320 Chosen Reservoir. It was a gigantic, frozen over reservoir, of course, 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:43.960 surrounded by mountains. We are talking a freezing cold, mountainous area. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.120 But part of the appeal for Mao and the Chinese 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:53.360 was this. There was really one road into it and 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.480 one road out of it, and that was the same road. Sorry, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.160 there's one road, all right, one way in, one way out. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.160 If you outnumber the Americans, if your intention is to 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.760 wipe out the Americans, well you couldn't possibly pick a 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.719 better place. You have the numbers, find a way to 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.359 cut off that road that's the Americans lifeline, and you 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.080 might just have a victory that the world would fear. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.520 We got all the way up there, marines and army 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:30.240 Chosen Reservoir, and then the Chinese began to attack, and 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:35.120 we figured out pretty quickly that we had eight Chinese 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:42.800 divisions around us. Now the men are dying. How fierce 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.839 is the fighting? Well, I've throwed you before the fighting 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.840 in Korea, not all of it, but for the most 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:53.320 part it's hill top fighting. You want to claim high 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.520 ground always, so we would fight to get high ground. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.160 If the Chinese had it, we would have to fight 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.800 our way up the hill to take it. Then once 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.520 we took it, they would gather up their troops and 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.160 counterattack and take it back. Then we would take it back. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:13.280 It's an endless fight for hilltops. That's really one of 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.520 the central themes you'll see if you ever do any 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:20.000 reading in the Korean War. How much artillery did we drop? 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:21.480 Did you know? 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:26.760 In some cases the height of these hills was reduced 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.880 by twenty feet or more. That's how much artillery was 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:36.120 dropped on top of the hill. Horrible fighting in the 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:41.200 freezing cold, in the rocks. You are there now, Remember 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.280 you have a line. You always have a line your unit, 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.880 whatever size it is, you have a line. If you're marching, 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.160 you're marching in a line. If you're on patrol, you're 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.840 in a line. You don't want anyone too far ahead, 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.400 too far behind. You want a line. When you dig 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:05.200 in and the defense, it's surprise, surprise, circular. There's a line, right. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.480 No one's allowed through the line. You keep people out 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.800 of the lines. That's the idea. If someone gets in 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.760 between your lines, behind your lines, it creates a nightmare. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.640 You want everyone out in front of all your fighting holes, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:23.400 you have fields of fire. Then you can stop him here, 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.400 and he's gonna stop him there, and you understand the 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.400 basic battle lines. One thing you read about over and 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.600 over and over and over and over again was the Chinese. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:41.200 They would have bells and whistles to signal time to charge, 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.120 so they would have a mass. You know, let's say 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.080 we have the top of a hill. They would a mass, 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.840 and as they gathered up when it was time to go, 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.720 they would communicate that it was time to charge us 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:56.360 with bells and whistles. So you're an American, it's fifteen 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.760 below on top of the mountain. You can't feel your feet. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.760 You are dug in as much as you can be 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:08.120 in a line around the mountain. It's pitch black. You 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.760 can't see anything. You certainly can't see down the hill. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.960 And then the whistles and bells start going off, and 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.320 you know the Chinese are coming, and they're coming in 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.280 such numbers that even though you're killing them as fast 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.839 as you can possibly kill them, quantity as equality all 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.079 its oone. There are so many of them that they 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.240 are now behind your lines. In your lines. You're not 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.040 only trying to machine gun and grenade the people in 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.520 front of you. You are having to fight off bayonet 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:47.880 attacks by people who've gotten in behind you. It sounds 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.240 like the most terrifying thing in the world when you 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:56.280 hear a Korean War veteran describe it, and men died 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.880 our men died in droves in Korea. And if you 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:05.079 have a Korean War veteran in your family today, it's 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.800 a great day to maybe ask him about it. Maybe 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.920 he's ready to talk about it a little bit. Those 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.959 guys are getting old, all right, You want to hear 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.440 those stories. Maybe he has friends he want honored today 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.400 that didn't come home. All right, we'll move on. Still 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:21.480 a Medal of honor citation. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.599 It is the Jesse. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:28.280 Kelly Show on a Memorial Day, as we attempt as 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.400 best we can to honor the fallen, to talk about 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.840 the troops, to talk about the things they did. Here's 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:40.120 one for you. You ever heard of John Harlan Willis. John 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.840 Harlan Willis was a Navy corman. Remember a Navy corman. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.800 He is essentially a medic for marines. Marines don't have 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:54.200 their own medics, so Navy provides corman who live with 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.480 fight with. They really are Marines, we had our own. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.439 We call him. This was in World War Two. Let 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:08.200 me read his citation for you for conspicuous gallantry and 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.680 intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.520 the call of duty as Platoon Corman serving in third Battalion, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:20.280 twenty seventh Marines, fifth Marine Division during operations against enemy 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.840 Japanese forces on Iwo Jima Volcano Islands twenty eight to 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:30.240 February nineteen forty five. Constantly imperiled by artillery fire and 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:35.559 mortar fire from strong and mutually supporting pillboxes and caves 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:41.120 Studding Hill three six' two in the Enemy's Cross island, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:46.400 Defenses willis resolutely administered first aid to Many marines wounded 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.440 during the furious close in, fighting until he himself was 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.960 struck by strapnel and ordered back to the battle aid. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:59.320 Station without waiting for medical, release he quickly returned to his, company, 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:03.640 and during a savage hand to hand enemy counter, attack 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.040 daringly advanced to the extreme front lines under mortar and 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:12.079 sniper fire to aid a marine lying wounded in a shell, 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:16.920 hole completely unmindful of his own. Danger as The japanese 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:22.360 intensified their, Attack willis calmly continued to administer blood plasma 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.320 to his, patient promptly returning to the, first returning the 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.120 first hostile, grenade which landed in the shell hole while 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:35.600 he was, working and hurling back seven more in quick 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:41.400 succession before the ninth exploded in his hand and instantly killed. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.480 Him by his great personal valor in saving others at 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:49.439 the sacrifice of his own, life he inspired his, companions 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.599 although terrifically, outnumbered to launch a fiercely determined attack and 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.800 repulse the. Enemy his exceptional fortitude and courage in the 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:03.000 performance of duty reflect the highest credit Upon willis and 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:07.200 THE Us Naval, service and he gallantly gave his life 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:12.240 for his. Country you know what it would be like 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.880 to be fighting The japanese in fierce combat like, that 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.520 find yourself with some terrible wound and a shell, crater 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:29.079 and to see that guy coming over the top to save, 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.679 you to help. You can you imagine how rigging amazing 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.199 that would. Be and a, guy as he's saving your, 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:42.040 life chucks back eight grenades The japanese are throwing into the. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:47.000 Hole he's saving your life while chucking back enemy. Grenades 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.800 i'm gonna do another. One who's one for? You have 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:57.319 you ever heard Of WILLIAM. H Pittsen. BARGER Us Air. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.119 Force by the, way this one took place In. Vietnam 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.199 here is The medal Of honor. Citation airman First Class 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:11.240 William pitsenbarger distinguished himself by extreme battor On april, eleventh 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:16.480 nineteen sixty, six Near Kam, Maie republic Of, vietnam while 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:21.480 assigned as a para rescue crew Member detachment six thirty 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:26.080 Eighth Aerospace rescue And Recovery. Squadron on that, Date Airman 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.760 pitsenbarger was a board of rescue helicopter responding to a 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:35.400 call for evacuation of casualties incurred in an ongoing firefight 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.880 between elements of The United States army's First Infantry division 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:43.520 and a sizeable enemy enemy force approximately thirty five miles 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:48.040 east Of. Saigon with complete disregard for personal, Safety Airman 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:53.120 William pitsenbarger volunteered to ride a hoist more than one 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.280 hundred feet through the jungle to the. Ground on the, 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.840 ground he organized and coordinated rescue, efforts cared for the, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.720 wounded prepared for prepared casualties for, evacuation and ensured that 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.520 the recovery operation continued in a smooth and orderly. Fashion 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.920 through his personal, efforts the evacuation of the wounded was greatly, 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.800 expedited as each of the nine casualties evacuated that day were. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:22.000 Recovered William pitsenbarger refused evacuation in order to get one 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.280 more soldier one more wounded soldier to. Safety after several, 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.560 pickups one of the two rescue helicopters involved in the 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.480 evacuation was struck by heavy enemy ground fire and was 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.040 forced to leave the scene for an emergency. Landing Air 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.040 William pitsenbarger stayed behind on the ground to perform medical. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.960 Duties shortly, thereafter the area came under sniper and mortar. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:49.520 Fire during subsequent attempt to evacuate the, Site american forces 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.560 came under heavy assault by a large Viet cong. Force 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.840 when the enemy launched the, assault the evacuation was called 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.960 off And Airman William pittsenberger took up arms with the besieged. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:04.840 Infantrymen he courageously resisted the, enemy braving intense gunfire to 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:09.160 gather and distribute vital ammunition To american. Defenders as the 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.720 battle raged, on he repeatedly exposed himself to enemy, fire 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.000 to care for the, wounded pull them out of the 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.520 line of, fire and returned fire whenever he, could during 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.280 which time he was wounded three. 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.000 Times despite his. 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:26.120 Wounds he valiantly fought, on simultaneously treating as many wounded as. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.720 Possible and the vicious fighting which, followed The american forces 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:34.440 suffered eighty percent casualties and their perimeter was breached And 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:40.200 Airman William pitsenbarger was fatally. Wounded Airman William pitsenbarger exposed 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.520 himself to almost certain death by staying on the ground 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.800 and perished while saving the lives of wounded. Infantrymen his 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.680 bravery and determination exemplify the highest professional standards and traditions 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.800 of military, service and reflect great credit upon himself his 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:03.800 unit in The United States Air. Force not too, shabby right' 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:13.000 do one? More let's do one, More, hey. 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.520 The Jesse Kelly show on A Memorial. Day, member you 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:14.520 can email. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:18.720 ME i am Back jesse At jesse kellyshow dot. Com 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.520 before we get to the middle of honor citation the next, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.959 one let's just recap really quickly what battle we're talking about. 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:32.720 Here The battle Of. Saipan saipan was part of The 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.800 World War two in The, pacific and it was terrible 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.919 for a variety of. Reasons they were all terrible in 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.000 their own. Way but this is one of those battles 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:47.439 where we finally started encountering. Civilians you, know if you 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.840 go to a battle Like guadalcanal or something like, that 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.199 every person you see who was in An american is an. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.880 Enemy you just kill them. All let's kill them. All 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.119 but as we started getting closer and closer to The 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:08.760 japanese home, islands we started to encounter a large population of, 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:15.040 civilians and the population of civilians On. Saipan they were 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:21.080 brainwashed repeatedly by The japanese to think that if they 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:26.119 fell Into american, hands That americans would treat them the 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.600 way The japanese treated everybody they. Captured you, know The 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.240 japanese when they took control of a civilian population In 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:38.040 World war, two did a lot of rape and murder and, torture, rape, murder, torture, rape, 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.280 murder torture. Constantly you see this over and over. Again 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.360 it didn't matter who it. Was it'd Be, Chinese, Australians, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.719 americans printed. Whoever The China japanese came into contact with 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.680 In World War. Two there was a lot of, rape, 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.040 murder and. Torture it was just, horrible absolutely. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:53.399 Horrible. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:19:00.159 FILIPINOS a good, analyst well The, japanese the gull all 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:05.119 this took managed to convince so many people In saipan 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:09.480 and everywhere else that that's how we operated. Too that 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.240 if you if you gave, up if you're you're sitting, 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.359 there you're huddled in a. Cave if you give up 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.359 to The, americans they're gonna do terrible things to. You 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:25.200 you're better off killing your children than surrendering To. Americans 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.000 it's uniquely terrible because as you, know we don't do 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.240 that sort of. Thing everyone who surrendered to, us we 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:39.920 treated them, wonderfully, food, water. Shelter certainly children Were. Americans 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.399 we have a heart for. Children the children were always cared, 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:48.919 for guys or dumping chocolates on. Them the. Works saipan 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.720 is the. One if you're familiar with, it you already. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.880 Know saipan is the one that's famous for two main. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:20:00.280 Reasons the first is we got to a place in 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.600 the island where there was a, cliff and the civilians 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.840 were gathered in the cliff and they started jumping off 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:14.119 the cliff to their, death and parents were throwing their 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:20.280 children off the cliff to their. Death stories Of american 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:24.439 troops begging them not to sobbing as they watched. It 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.840 these are hardened, troops just can't handle the sight of, 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:32.359 it all. Right that's one Thing saipan's famous. For the 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:37.720 other thing is just, again it's one of those things 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:42.920 out of a horror. Movie it's famous for the largest 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:50.400 and Last bonzei charge of The. Japanese The japanese had 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:55.439 tried to use these quote bonzei charges many times during the. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:21:00.920 War they never ever. Worked, ever there was just some 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:07.640 kind of ancient warrior fascination with fixing, bayonets drawing your 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:12.280 sword and charging at the. Enemy, well that may have 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.840 worked out in the year eighteen oh. Five in the 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:20.200 year nineteen forty, five you're just going to get mowed. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:24.280 Down it's just not going to. Work so The japanese 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.560 had tried this a few, times and to be, fair 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.639 oftentimes they knew it was. Suicidal they always knew it was, 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:33.840 Suicidal i'll put it that. Way it's not like they 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.320 thought they were going to win the. Battle but if 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.080 they thought they were at a place where they couldn't, 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.600 win and they were going to die. Anyway why not 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:43.560 go out in a blaze of. Glory maybe you get 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.960 through and take An american with. You so On, sipan 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:50.840 The japanese get to a point where they know they cannot. 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.840 Win we are rooting them out of. Caves we are. 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.840 Winning it's been a costly. Battle we are winning In, 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:01.080 saipan and The japanese know they are. Lost they are 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:07.480 running out of, food, water, ammunition the. Works we are 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:09.679 close enough to them where we can hear. Them we 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.359 can hear their, lines and we're hearing this is at. 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:16.840 Nighttime we're hearing something that is a little bit. Unsettling 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:23.040 The japanese sound like they are getting, drunk and they 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:29.200 are singing. Songs generally not a great sign because noise 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.119 discipline is a really important. Thing if you get a 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:37.720 group of Drunken japanese soldiers singing melancholy, songs that probably 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:41.760 means something bad is, happening and something bad did. Happen 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:47.040 they fixed, bayonets drew their. Swords there weren't just soldiers. 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:49.879 Here keep in mind they also armed the civilians as 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:57.359 best they, could and thouans Of, japanese thousands of them 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:03.960 charge The american lines and the largest Deadliest bondzi, charge 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:08.000 and there were so many of. Them scores Of americans. 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:14.760 Died let's talk about this, Gentleman Captain BEN. L. Solomon 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.399 he was a surgeon at the, time but please remember 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.400 that he was also a former machine. Guninstructor he may 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:23.959 have been a surgeon, now but this dude was already a. 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:27.320 Stud what, happened, well here he. Was Captain BEN. L 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:31.520 salomon was serving At saipan and The Marianna's islands On july, 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:35.159 seventh nineteen forty, four as the surgeon for the Second, 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:38.719 battalion one hundred and Fifth Infantry, regiment twenty Seventh Infantry. 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:42.560 Division the regiments first and second battalions were attacked by 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:47.720 an overwhelming force estimated between three thousand and five Thousand japanese. 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:51.080 Soldiers it was one of the largest attacks attempted in 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:55.320 The pacific theater During World WAR. Ii although both units fought, 0:23:55.359 --> 0:24:00.560 furiously the enemy soon penetrated the battalion's combined perimeter to 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:05.040 talk about lines and inflicted overwhelming. Casualties in the first 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:08.840 minutes of the. Attack approximately thirty wounded soldiers, walked, crawled 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:12.040 or were carried Into Captain solomon's aid, station and the 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:16.080 small tent soon filled with wounded. Men as the perimeter 0:24:16.160 --> 0:24:20.080 began to be, overrun it became increasingly difficult For Captain 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:23.119 solomon to work on the. Wounded he then saw A 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:27.080 japanese soldier bayoneting one of the wounded soldiers lying near the, 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:31.640 tent firing from the squatting. Position Captain solomon quickly killed 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:34.840 the enemy. Soldier, then as he turned his attention back 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:38.159 to the, wounded two More japanese soldiers appeared in the 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:41.560 front entrance of the. Tent as these enemy soldiers were, 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:45.720 killed four more crawled under the tent, walls rushing Then 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:49.720 captain rushing, Them Captain solomon kicked the knife out of 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:53.399 the hand of, one shot, another and bayoneted a. Third 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:57.960 Captain solomon butted the fourth enemy soldier in the, stomach 0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:01.320 and a wounded comrade then shot and killed the enemy. 0:25:01.359 --> 0:25:06.160 Soldier realizing the gravity of the, Situation Captain solomon ordered 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:08.879 the wounded to make their way as best they could 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:12.960 back to the regimental aid station while he attempted to 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:16.720 hold off the enemy until they were. Clear Captain solomon 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:19.359 then grabbed a rifle from one of the wounded and 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:23.040 rushed out of the tent after four men were killed 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:26.879 while manning a machine. Gun Captain solomon took control of. 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:32.439 It when his body was later, found ninety eight dead 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:36.960 enemy soldiers were piled in front of his. Position Captain 0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:40.920 solomon's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping 0:25:40.960 --> 0:25:44.520 with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great 0:25:44.560 --> 0:25:49.000 credit upon himself his unit in The United States. Army 0:25:51.280 --> 0:25:55.879 what a Stud and that's the kind of thing today is. 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:59.879 About not just to honor, him all of our guys 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:03.440 men and women who have died throughout all of our. 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:08.120 Battles that's What Memorial day is. For and to remember 0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:11.639 keep their families in your prayers because today is a 0:26:11.840 --> 0:26:16.040 very very, heavy heavy heavy day for children and widows 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:19.760 in this. Country All, right one more quick segment The 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:21.080 Jesse Kelly. 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:24.520 Show final segment Of The Jesse Kelly show on A. 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:26.720 Monday we'll be back to our. 0:26:26.800 --> 0:26:32.080 Regularly scheduled programming tomorrow with politics and goofing off and everything. 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:35.840 Else but, today you, know freedom is not. Free today 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:39.639 we honor the fallen in this. Country that is What 0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:44.600 Memorial day is. About talk about the air. Guys the 0:26:44.680 --> 0:26:47.440 air guys haven't gotten a lot of love during this, 0:26:47.520 --> 0:26:53.119 show but for, Instance World war two air. Guys but 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:58.040 it's not just. Them even, today it's a hazardous thing 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:01.840 to go up in a military. Aircraft how many times 0:27:01.840 --> 0:27:03.960 have we had to come on this show and talk 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:08.320 about a training, accident, combat whatever the case may, be 0:27:09.560 --> 0:27:12.480