Japanese Fighters Couldn't Believe A Single BAR Burst Killed An Entire Cave Unit

Описание: November 20, 1943. Tarawa Atoll. Betio Island. A 29-year-old former messenger boy jumps off a landing craft into bullet-riddled water. He's first. Not second. First. Over the next 36 hours, he will destroy eight Japanese pillboxes — with a chest wound — and refuse evacuation. He won't survive the second morning.

His weapon weighed 9 kilograms. Its magazine held 20 rounds. And 208,000 of them changed the math of the Pacific War forever.

This is not a story about heroes or battles. This is a forensic audit of how an assembly line defeated the samurai sword — and the terrifying arithmetic behind every island from Guadalcanal to Okinawa.

📊 Inside this documentary:
— Why the U.S. Army's budget in the 1930s was smaller than Portugal's — and what it meant for the weapon they'd need most
— The typewriter company that taught American gunsmiths how to make guns better
— A Japanese machine gun that required oiled bullets — on tropical islands covered in sand
— 30 minutes: the number every BAR gunner knew but nobody said out loud
— The Japanese general who studied at Harvard — and banned banzai charges on his own island
— Why up to 60% of Japan's 2.3 million military dead never saw a single bullet
— The only enlisted Marine in WWII to earn both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross — and what happened to him on his second war

📚 Sources: U.S. Marine Corps operational reports, National Archives, Medal of Honor citations, Japanese Ordnance records, USMC fire team reorganization documents, period field reports from Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa campaigns.

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