WW2 Marine Recalls Okinawa | Memoirs Of WWII #53

25 днів тому

World War II Veteran Charles Kelley had always wanted to join the Marines. But there was no way he could know the horrors he would experience in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, enduring such battles as Guam and Okinawa - the bloodiest battle in the Pacific.
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Written and Directed by Joshua Scott
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Artlist Songs and Composers:
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“Exploration” by Kyle Preston
“Family” by Josh Leake
“Soon” composed by Artie Shaw, performed by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 199

@johnkelley2615 23 дні тому

This is my grandpa, he’s 98 now. Thank you Memoirs of WWII for recording his story!

@ettajfan5882 23 дні тому

He is one of the true heroes of our country. Please tell him we thank him for his service!

@gilwhitmore9682 23 дні тому

We can't say thank you enough for him, and all those that were with him. Glad the angels were with him.

@jayrowe6473 23 дні тому

I'm glad he's still with us, and I hope he's doing well. Semper Fi.

@dmaextraordinaire8205 23 дні тому

I offer your grandfather, my sincere gratitude. Please thank him and give him a hug next time you see him. God bless him and America.

@DanielJMathews1 23 дні тому

god bless your grandpa im a active duty marine and i have mad respect for any and all devil dogs and service members past and present

@dmaextraordinaire8205 23 дні тому

This is what a real hero looks like.

@shannonobrien9922 23 дні тому

Unassuming as ever!!!!

@Poetry4Peace 20 днів тому

Chill shanno

@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 23 дні тому

Two years at war, older in heart, mind and soul than most of us ever will be, but still too young to go to the bar.

@shannonobrien9922 23 дні тому

Not then......the legal drinking age was 18 then! Plus, overseas they follow local law! I was a US Army brat and went to HS in Germany and I was bar hopping LEGALLY at 16

@skimmer8774 23 дні тому

Mr. Kelley sir I thank you a thousand times for the freedom my family has. We do not take it for granted. Also you sure don't look 98. God bless you.

@Bjorn_Algiz 23 дні тому

Always remember the fallen and those who served and live today to tell their story 😔🙏

@shannonobrien9922 23 дні тому

AMEN!!!!!! Freedom IS NOT free

@Sauerbrew777 23 дні тому

Amazing story. Thank you for recording it for posterity. Also, 54 magazines = 1080 rounds of 30-06.

@frenchfan3368 21 день тому

To add to your worthy comment, he said his BAR never jammed after putting 54 magazines through it. Wow!

@wendielangborders4116 16 днів тому

Smoking

@gilwhitmore9682 23 дні тому

I don't know how these men did it either, but I am thankful every day that they and all those that followed them did. So lucky to be able to hear these accounts from everyday heroes. God bless and keep them all.

@thomasmerrill2287 20 днів тому

Did all this before he turned 21 they don’t make them like this MUCH anymore thank you sir for your service 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🇺🇸

@user-tl3uf2fd5k 23 дні тому

Read a book called I think it was 40 days in Okinawa. It was very descriptive. I don't know how they came back without having been affected I don't think anybody came back unaffected. Just reading the book affected me. My uncle died in that battle. Killed by a sniper at the very end of the battle. Rip Omer Lemay

@jessicakcarvalho 21 день тому

RIP Omer Lemay!

@ettajfan5882 23 дні тому

Thank you for your continued dedication to our WWII veterans. As a proud daughter of a WWII veteran, I wish my father was still alive to recount his own story. He served in five countries in the European theatre as a 19 year old. God bless every veteran and God bless the United States of America.

@DaystromDataConcepts 23 дні тому

They really were the greatest generation. I salute all of them, they're bravery and endurance in the face of appalling conditions just boggles the mind. I dread to think how many nineteen year olds today would fare in those circumstances. I fear not very well at all, assuming they even volunteered. Okinawa has to be one of the most brutal and appauling battles of attrition in history. May I recommend to those interested the superb book entitled "with the old Breed" a memoir by Eugene Sledge. In it, he graphically describes the most horrific scenes imaginable. Those descriptions of his time on Okinawa and Pelilu will never leave me.

@jeffreyknight3884 23 дні тому

It's sad, all the world war 2 veterans are dying off everyday. Damn, I'll miss the stories, including my dad who lived to be 100 years old.

@roderickstockdale1678 20 днів тому

Did you get any of his?

@jgonzalez101 12 днів тому

So thankful for these brave and courageous men who served our Country with honor and dedication!❤️🇺🇸

@BoldLion 23 дні тому

It's been awhile! I know it's hard to find them and then get to them as quickly as possible!! Love Yaw

@brianhornsby4627 20 днів тому

This is the generation of folks that were around me when I was growing up. The conversations and lessons I learned from these old timers should have been cast in iron and taught in schools in perpetuity. Great men they were and forever will be. Courage and humility are almost non existent today. Hard times forge strong men. You know the rest. God be with us all. Bless you and no amount of gratitude could be afforded to your generation that would suffice. Thank you, sir.

@tundralou 7 годин тому

98 years old and remembers his comrades names so clear-so glad his memories are recorded

@bitterellaselectricgroove8544 21 день тому

Bless him!! Can fight a war but can't go have a beer. Thank you sir for your incredible story and service. 🇺🇸

@adriannogales7676 22 дні тому

Mr. Kelley is a national treasure. He and Joe Pinio and Jimmy Malleson, Goertz, Bobby Monroe and the rest of those gents are legends, Oklowitz and all the corpsmen too

@kennethcaine3402 21 день тому

Great video, Great Man, I can't believe he is 98 years old, he has been blessed. My Father was on Okinawa, 1st Marine Division his mother's birthday was April 1st the day of the invasion.

@Hevynly1 23 дні тому

How does he look that fabulous at 98?! I don't know what I am struck by more- his story or how youthful he looks and sounds! I love that he mentioned the fallen soldiers he knew. It's nice to learn a bit about them as well.

@SmoothBalla1 13 днів тому

Growing up, I’ve always learned that the relationship between a Corpsman his Marines is something special. I’m so glad I joined the fold and became one myself! Thank you all who served, and paved the path for future Docs🤙🏾

@airgunfun4248 23 дні тому

My Grandad was 7th infantry Okinawa was his landing. He went from there on a hospital ship to Guam I believe. He was sick for a long time. He got down to 97 pounds. He told his family dysentery when my mom was a kid. When I was a teen he said to me the doctor told him it was nerves. He told me a lot of things that he didn't tell them

@mycigaradventures8322 7 днів тому

“I’ll be here 100 years if that’s what it takes” Soldiers mindset like that is what made us win the war

@wattsnottaken1 22 години тому

I’m not religious but god bless the Marines and Army Dogs who fought in the Pacific and Europe. We owe them everything

@robertweingartner2055 23 дні тому

Another great video, Josh! Thanks for keeping their stories alive. I dread the day our WWII vets are no longer with us.

@minuteman-RN 22 дні тому

Truly and different breed and definitely the greatest generation. Thank you for your service, sir! You and your fallen comrades will not be forgotten.

@markcmann 23 дні тому

What an incredible Gentleman, he is an excellent example of the Greatest Generation. 🇺🇸👍🏻

@macmccollum6064 23 дні тому

Great video. Great hero.

@leonmeekel5486 4 дні тому

2:17 you know, these stories are always so incredible that its hard to relate sometimes. People today can only kinda do it when they have a modern day equivalent like those marines essentially saying: "we are doing our part but we don't know how you guys ever did it when you didn't have flak jackets". But this little moment is something that i, probably along with most people here, can relate to. Just your mom wanting to say goodbye to you right before you are being send to fight far away for a long time. I can't imagine what it must have been like for those mothers and fathers who's children never returned.

@RDMash 20 днів тому

As I say in all my WW2 memoirs, these fighting Men were absolutely the GREATEST Generation!! Thank You All 🙏

@nick3d155 23 дні тому

I was so excited to see there was a new video today

@Wil_Liam1 23 дні тому

The greatest generation of all time.. The greatest war machine ever... There will never be another generation that even comes close to them... Thank you sir for your service,HOOOAH !.

@scottlehman9738 20 днів тому

SEMPER FI brother. Thank you for your service.

@PoupstainKilla 23 дні тому

I'm in Flint RIGHT NOW watching this

@dave3156 23 дні тому

Very moving account--so glad you got his story! Thx

@jeremyronald 18 днів тому

If you ever read this Mr. Kelley, hello from a fellow Michigander and thank you so much for your service ❤

@xvsj5833 23 дні тому

Thank you for your service Charlie 🇺🇸💕

@williamcampbell6794 23 дні тому

The work you guys do is incredible, thank you so much for documenting these stories, it’s incredibly important, thank you.

@debrakleid5752 18 днів тому

I really like this channel and appreciate all you do keeping their memories alive because in the next few years there won’t be any WW2 vets alive.

@JEM133 16 днів тому

My dad was there with you,1st Marines! God bless you all!

@jonathanmanzano3902 23 дні тому

Thank you for these memoirs

@masudaharris6435 21 день тому

Only 20 years later, in 1965, Okinawa was a quiet, sleepy place where trash collectors came in horse-drawn carts. Yet, every time it rained, vestiges of the war would wash out of the soil...bullets, parts of equipment, and bits of uniforms. I was told where I lived was the site of some of the fiercest fighting in the battle. But in 1965, we lived in a palatial home, across from a huge sugar cane plantation.

@garymckee63 13 днів тому

This individual still has a great memory and is very articulate. SEMPER FIDELIS

@kranjcalan 23 дні тому

Thank for all the videos. keep up the good work.

@drew9195 21 день тому

Everyyyy timeeee i watch these it makes me cry Jesus Christ. So many brave lives lost. Children. Some not even recognized as adults in most governments (17). And most not old enough to drink. But old enough to watch their friends, new and old blow up by mortar strikes & get left in the dirt under the hot sun for days until the day they’re able to retrieve the bodies. God bless these men.

@davewelsh4505 23 дні тому

God bless you and thank you for your service!!!

@asherweck 15 днів тому

Can’t imagine having conversations with friends again a common enemy and then surviving the war and knowing/ seeing they perished in the battle. Must hurt like hell

@magnumx70 23 дні тому

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!

@JLAvey 23 дні тому

Too bad something like this channel wasn't around twenty-five years or thirty years ago. Could have recorded the testimonies of the last surviving Great War vets. If you're old enough, it gives you something to think about, knowing the last WWII vet will soon die. If Grandpa was still alive, he'd be a bit over a hundred.

@dianehansen2263 23 дні тому

Well, here is another 'thank u for serving' and putting your life on the line in hellish conditions. U are indeed one of the greatest generation! 🤟🙂

@shoktroop 16 днів тому

These are our national treasures. The Greatest Generation and my family was a part of that! Semper Fi

@Mattman2500 11 днів тому

I served in the Marines Corps from 2004-2011. Did some time in Iraq early on in GWOT. I'm glad to have worn the same uniform. Has men like this. Marines are a different breed for sure.

@zackbratton5485 23 дні тому

Thank you

@Texicankush 11 днів тому

“Jimmy mallison now there was an artist” loved how he says artist bcuz he knew him and what he was passionate about not just some soldier named Jimmy but an artist named Jimmy who had to be a soldier

@ChairmanLebron 23 дні тому

Lest we forget.

@fufu889 21 день тому

Thank you sir! You are incredible & your soldier friends too. You are the best! ❤

@henrywinchester9372 23 дні тому

Couldn’t even go in a bar when he got back from fighting in Okinawa… war is awful

@rusty_shackleford 16 днів тому

I wish I was half as hard as as this man.. We live so great right now due to people like you, sir

@TRockett55IRISH 16 днів тому

Memoirs of WW2 thank you for another amazing episode Mr. Kelley was one of your best interviews yet and that is saying something keep up the phenomenal work in seeking out the Men and women of the GREATEST GENERATION to get these stories told for all to see just thank you for all this.

@Simbadalion 18 днів тому

Thank you for your service

@Sleeperdude 22 дні тому

Incredible

@longtyler182 19 днів тому

My favorite channel on UKposts. Thank you for finding these vets and recording their stories so they may live on forever now

@johngrogan7585 21 день тому

Thank you Sir

@williamcarroll8601 10 днів тому

Very brave man and thank you for your service.

@kirkmanning6232 19 днів тому

Great presentation! The film clips were well done and placed.

@mikeschillinger4427 18 днів тому

❤ what else is there to say? A very moving story to listen to.Thank-you for recording it and to the Marine who so generously shared it. God bless our Veterans.

@AndrewGrey22 20 днів тому

Nice job on this one about this great man.

@2DSTORMS 21 день тому

Been waiting for a new episode....finally, another great one!!

@matthewjay660 13 днів тому

My grandfather is still alive at 97. He fought in the USN at Okinawa. 🇺🇸🦅⚓️

@asherweck 15 днів тому

What a living legend. I wish I had half the bravery these guys had..

@876r876rf 22 дні тому

Beautifully edited video

@Psalms144_1_2 22 дні тому

Amen brother, God bless all who served, God Love you.

@lovetolift82 18 днів тому

I think I can speak for us all... im going to miss these guys when they are all gone.

@waldirleandro4997 19 днів тому

Parabéns pelo relato herói

@EliteFuller 22 дні тому

respect

@elliottrau9845 4 дні тому

True American Hero! Thank you. 🫡🇺🇸🙏

@BornAJarhead День тому

Respect Semper Fi

@ChevyBoyCallofDuty 5 днів тому

Thank you WWII Vets! ✝️🙏🏻🇺🇸

@lonnyjaw 19 днів тому

Thank GOD for these REAL MEN that fought for OUR liberty and freedom! GOD Bless you Charles Kelley.

@johnstevens9673 23 дні тому

Memoris of WWII have the absolute dream job. Getting paid amazing money to travel the country/world with your entire family interviewing the remaining WWII survivors. Wow, I'd do anything to have their job and make the money they do.

@peteypete24a 23 дні тому

Great documentary, but I could do without the music

@PrayerfullyBlessedMama 12 днів тому

My grandfather, my dad’s dad, served in Okinawa during WW2. He was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart 💜. He died before I was born. My dad served in Okinawa at the end of the Vietnam war. Supposedly fulfilling a promise to his dad, to pee on the hill his father had been shot on.

@marcusdelk7708 22 дні тому

Thank God for this generation. I commission in the Army in 2030, and the men of their Era truly inspired me.

@michaelfoort2592 21 день тому

An eloquent man

@Ddayboy1944 3 дні тому

Having spent only a few days on oki as a marine, I would never have wanted to attack that island. It’s a nightmare of heat and jungle… they did it with maggots and mud. What a mess.

@Naserati-oc9fo 18 днів тому

5:22 when he said they were all over the place you heard the coldness in his voice

@buzz5969 17 днів тому

Hes in Japan naturally The Japanese are gonna be ALL OVER the place.

@djonpow 20 днів тому

Semper Fi CB.

@Aaron-ik8iq 19 днів тому

A few years ago I donated money to your channel. I really like your videos. Unfortunately I cannot find the link to donate through PayPal. I don’t do Patreon and I don’t do monthly memberships. I spent more than five minutes trying to figure out how to contribute. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@christopherch7307 23 дні тому

👍❤️👍

@kubikariYOU 22 дні тому

Thanks!

@pigpaul 4 дні тому

❤

@PaulJordan318 21 день тому

Toughest generation. Glad to have known my grandparents.

@malasagagaming9614 20 днів тому

Is there a data that counting the WW2 Vets living? Cause Imagine if your grand father is the last living WW2 Vet that would be awesome and sad at the same time.

@markevanger4791 23 дні тому

SALUTE SIR 🌹 🇺🇸 🫡

@Ryan____Z 20 днів тому

Not old enough to drink legally , but old enough to go into war. Crazy

@matthewmarshall8685 20 днів тому

Can’t go in a bar but you can fight a war

@owendremel7832 18 днів тому

Where do you find ww2 vets? I’m desperately trying to find them and talk to them before they’re gone! Can you point me in the direction of where to go?