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Why Japanese Commanders Began Fearing U.S. Marines in the Dark

☕ Creating these videos takes hours of research, writing, and editing. If you enjoy this content and want to see more stories like this, consider buying me a coffee ❤ 👉 Support the channel here: buymeacoffee.com/wartimeaviationtales Every coffee directly supports the next video. Thank you for keeping these stories alive. 🚀 And if you're not subscribed yet, consider joining the channel and helping us reach our first 100 subscribers. Every subscription truly makes a difference! Before the first shots were fired in the Pacific, Imperial Japanese Army commanders believed they had already mastered the night. For decades, Japan’s military doctrine taught that darkness was a weapon. The 1928 Night Combat Manual emphasized speed, shock, steel, and spiritual resolve — Yamato-damashii — as the key to breaking an enemy’s morale. In China and Manchuria, these tactics had worked. Night infiltration. Totsugeki charges. Sudden violence in the dark. American forces, many Japanese officers believed, would panic and scatter. They did not. This documentary tells the story entirely from the Japanese perspective — from the commanders who designed, ordered, and witnessed the collapse of their most trusted offensive doctrine against U.S. Marines who refused to break. From Colonel Kiyono Ichiki’s catastrophic assault at the Ilu River… To Major General Kiyotake Kawaguchi’s three-night attack on Bloody Ridge… To Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s decision to abandon traditional Banzai charges at Iwo Jima… This is not a story of immediate defeat. It is the slow erosion of certainty. The moment institutional pride met an enemy trained to stand firm in the dark. Japanese intelligence reports gradually shifted in tone — from contempt, to confusion, to grim respect. The central revelation was not American firepower alone. It was psychological discipline. Japan’s night tactics required the enemy to panic. The Marines did not. ⏱️ CHAPTERS: ACT 1: 02:25 - THE DOCTRINE OF DARKNESS ACT 2: 09:57 - THE ILU RIVER ACT 3: 16:06 - BLOODY RIDGE ACT 4: 22:26 - THE DOCTRINE DYING — 1943 TO 1944 ACT 5: 29:35 - IWO JIMA If you enjoy deeply researched WWII documentaries told from unexpected perspectives, consider subscribing. History is rarely as simple as victory and defeat. Sometimes it is about the moment belief collapses.