Social Is the Moros (ethnic group from the Phillipines) going up against the Japanese with melee weapons the craziest scenario in ww2?

[Nizam al-Mulk]

Early in the war the when the Japanese invaded, there was a colonial distrust and a lack of guns available and these crazy mofos decided to go against people armed with rifles and in rare cases maybe smgs with machetes and knives. It was not a a desperate last stand, they went out and hunted them. Even being the home team that is probably the most insane thing i heard.

 

[DougieJones]

"You ever heard of the Masada?"

 

[SirRealKiller]

My uncle married a Filipino lady and have gotten to know some Filipino people pretty well that way. They certainly seem to have a thing for blades.

 

[Osculater]

What, FilipineX didn't have bow&arrows?

 

[HHJ]

"A highly effective guerrilla campaign by Philippine resistance forces controlled sixty percent of the islands, mostly forested and mountainous areas."

Sick.

 

[650lb Sumo]

The Japanese did sword and bayonet charges against western troops several times in WW2, of course usually with disastrous results, but they weren't doing them with an expectation of success.

 

[Jesus X]

My uncle married a Filipino lady and have gotten to know some Filipino people pretty well that way. They certainly seem to have a thing for blades.

They invented the balisong.

 

[syct23]

Warriors of the Rainbow type stuff…

 

[fungi]

 

[SirRealKiller]

They invented the balisong.

Yes, as well as the Bolo.

 

[Osculater]

Warriors of the Rainbow type stuff…

That's a new LGTBQIA2SPSC++ group

 

[pugilistico]

I remember reading about some indigenous fighter in New Guinea who was assisting the Australians against the Japanese, and this guy apparently hated the Japanese so much he would go out into the jungle to hunt them and bring their heads.

In thick jungles if you're a local who knows the terrain and fighting against a foreign force, I can see it being possible to fight them even if you don't use guns. Guns would give away your position so stealth kills with knives is more feasible. Jungles can be extremely thick and if you don't know what you're doing, you could walk 5 feet and easily get lost.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[Zer]

I think one of the craziest stories of WW2 was Operation Ten-Go. With Japan in a desperate, losing situation they launched their last major naval operation, sending out a fleet that included the legendary battleship Yamato in a suicidal mission that involved beaching Yamato and turning it into an unsinkable gun emplacement

 

[Sweater of AV]

Call me old-fashioned but I think the craziest scenario of WW2 is some can trying to take over the world and killing tens of millions of people in the process based on being a "good" public speaker.

 

[650lb Sumo]

I remember reading about some indigenous fighter in New Guinea who was assisting the Australians against the Japanese, and this guy apparently hated the Japanese so much he would go out into the jungle to hunt them and bring their heads.

In thick jungles if you're a local who knows the terrain and fighting against a foreign force, I can see it being possible to fight them even if you don't use guns. Guns would give away your position so stealth kills with knives is more feasible. Jungles can be extremely thick and if you don't know what you're doing, you could walk 5 feet and easily get lost.

During the Philippine-American war the Americans were often attacked under those kind of circumstances by Moros. The Moros are a (mostly) Muslim ethnic minority there. They would be bound up with cloth tightly, in a way that would staunch bleeding without hindering movement, chew betel nut, then do suicide attacks with bladed weapons, ie creep up through the jungle as close as possible, then attack berserker-style, trying to chop as many people as possible before being shot dead. The Americans found that the 38 calibre weapons wouldn't stop these Moros quickly enough, so switched to 45.

Must have been hard on the nerves for both sides.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

I remember reading about some indigenous fighter in New Guinea who was assisting the Australians against the Japanese, and this guy apparently hated the Japanese so much he would go out into the jungle to hunt them and bring their heads.

In thick jungles if you're a local who knows the terrain and fighting against a foreign force, I can see it being possible to fight them even if you don't use guns. Guns would give away your position so stealth kills with knives is more feasible. Jungles can be extremely thick and if you don't know what you're doing, you could walk 5 feet and easily get lost.

I could see archers vs gunslingers using revolvers being somewhat balanced.

It is not like in the dtv action movies it is almost 100% the dude will scream like you are cutting off his balls.

Stealth kills are way harder than shooting someone. Especially doing it quietly. The losses of the Taiwanese headhunter tribes vs Japanese around 1900 were like 10 of them for 1 Japanese killed.

 

[pugilistico]

An even crazier case is a bayonet charge done by British troops in the Afghanistan War against the Taliban. The Brits got ambushed and were pinned down so they fixed bayonets and rushed the Taliban fighters and succeeded in routing them.

 

[Ardaric]

Being the largest conflict in human history means a whole load of mad shit happened Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Izbushensky Or things that have not happened before or since Sinking of U-864

 

[Flower2dPeople]

During the Philippine-American war the Americans were often attacked under those kind of circumstances by Moros. The Moros are a (mostly) Muslim ethnic minority there. They would be bound up with cloth tightly, in a way that would staunch bleeding without hindering movement, chew betel nut, then do suicide attacks with bladed weapons, ie creep up through the jungle as close as possible, then attack berserker-style, trying to chop as many people as possible before being shot dead. The Americans found that the 38 calibre weapons wouldn't stop these Moros quickly enough, so switched to 45.

Must have been hard on the nerves for both sides.

"What finally stopped the Juramentados was the custom of wrapping the dead man in a pig's skin and stuffing his mouth with pork. As the pig was an unclean animal, this was considered an unspeakable defilement."

Juramentado - Wikipedia

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