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In this episode, we continue the Battle of Guadalcanal,

specifically the Battle of Bloody Ridge,

as well as the first battle of Savo Island and Torpedo Junction.

So let's get started with episode 27, Sabres in the Sun.

I have been astonished. with episode 27, Sabres in the Sun.

I have been astonished that Japan should in a single day have plunged into war against the United States and the British Empire.

What kind of a people do they think we are?

Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere

against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? The

The With the fleet withdrawing and the Marines isolated in the vicinity of Henderson Field, the immediate morale victory went to the Japanese.

Through their domestic and English language propaganda channels,

they boasted of sinking the American destroyers at the Battle of Savo Island, and of the

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