In this video Justin and Austin talk about the (Special) Naval Landing Forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It discusses the often brought up comparison with Marines like the US and Royal Marines and how valid or invalid this comparison is. Additionally, they look at the development of Naval Landing Forces, their combat performance, actions in Shanghai and before the Second World War among many other aspects.


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Adachi, Austin: Rikusentai – The illustrated Encyclopedia of Japanese Naval Landing Forces 19271945

History of Japanese Naval Landing Forces, Yamaguchi Kiyomatsu https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1...

Weekly Intel Vol 1 #13 October 6, 1944 https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/4...

Kure 3rd SNLF Organizational Chart, 1942 (1) JACAR ref. C08030773900

Kaigun rakkasan butai (Japanese Navy Paratroopers), Yamabe Masao ISBN 4875651198
Senshi Sosho Volume 31, National Institute of Defense

Infantry Reference Manual, Naval Gunnery School Department https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1...

etc.


#JapaneseMarines,#SpecialNavalLandingForces,#NavalLandingForces


00:00 Introduction
00:56 When did the Imperial Navy form Naval Landing Forces? Why? (Can go into more detail on the shortlived Japanese marines if you have any info.)

01:56 Does that mean that it is incorrect to refer to Naval Landing Forces as “Japanese Marines,” as is commonly done in English? (You can dig a bit more into this as well, if you have any interesting quotes or examples related to how they were referring to themselves, how you have seen English works refer to them, etc.)

02:50 What were the differences between what we think of as “marines” (e.g. Royal Marines, USMC) in the Englishspeaking world versus the Naval Landing Forces? What were the Naval Landing Forces at this early stage (19th century, into the early 20th)?

06:20 How much infantry training did sailors receive? Did they have refreshers as part of their regular training aboard ship?

08:02 When an operational need to form a Naval Landing Force was identified, how were the sailors picked from ships to form the Naval Landing Force? Drawing lots? Just pulling crewman who happened to be idle at that time? Perhaps certain positions aboard ship earmarked for it? Or was there some kind of planning in advance that Seaman Adachi was on the ship’s list to be deployed in a Naval Landing Force if needed?

09:03 What did the Naval Landing Forces do in the various early conflicts fought by Imperial Japan (i.e. First SinoJapanese War, RussoJapanese War, Siberian Intervention, First World War, etc.)? What were their peacetime duties?

10:36 Performance in the wars?

11:19 peace time duties

11:39 When did the famous (relatively speaking) Special Naval Landing Forces appear, what were they, and why were they formed? What made them “special?”

12:59 What was the combat role of the Naval Landing Forces in the 1932 Battle of Shanghai?

15:02 how established were the SNLF by 1932?

15:59 What noteworthy organizational changes occurred to SNLFs from their creation through to 1941?

19:05 What combat roles did the Naval Landing Forces undertake in the Second SinoJapanese War up to 1941?

20:34 Where do naval paratroopers and raider units fit into the SNLF?

23:32 What may come as a surprise to some viewers is that the SNLF, while the most famous of the Naval Landing Forces, were far from the only type of unit employed by the Imperial Navy. What were some examples of other Naval Landing Forces? Were some types of units more influential/important than others in your opinion?

26:36. Can the term “elite” or at least “welltrained” be applied to the Naval Landing Forces? Some Englishlanguage works are quite dismissive of their capability, writing them off as little more than poorlytoadequately trained “armed sailors.” Was this something that varied greatly between individual units or categories of Naval Landing Forces?