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of each show. In this episode, we continue the Battle of Guadalcanal, but also discuss the

New Guinea campaign and the Greater Eastern Solomon's campaign.

We are now so close to finishing Guadalcanal.

I think there should be one more episode that covers it, but we are close to shifting our focus to the European theatre once again.

But for now, let's begin episode 29, Thermopylae on Madaniko.

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 As the battle for Guadalcanal raged, another equally ferocious battle was taking place

about 800 miles to the west on the island of New Guinea.

The Marines had been tasked with taking Guadalcanal to begin to climb up the Solomon's chain, but the army had been tasked with securing the northern coast of New Guinea. The Marines had been test with taking Guadalcanal to begin the climb up the Solomon's

chain, but the army had been test with securing the northern coast of New Guinea. When the

Japanese landed at the village of Boona on the northeastern coast of New Guinea on July 21st,

1942, the battle for Guadalcanal was still three weeks away, and American troops wouldn't

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