Guadalcanal: From the Archive
Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories
Robert Kirk
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:03.0 | Not much to it is there? |
| 0:06.0 | Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:10.0 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:13.0 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:16.0 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:18.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.0 | This presentation of with walkers. Delicious. |
| 0:29.2 | This presentation of, in their own words, is dedicated to the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces. |
| 0:31.5 | In the late 1930s, the world was at the doorstep of dramatic change. |
| 0:36.8 | For the young men of the U.S. Marine Corps, |
| 0:39.3 | this change would mean nearly five years of incredible hardship and brutal combat. |
| 0:44.3 | Victor Croyzat, retired Marine Corps colonel, was one of those young men. |
| 0:49.3 | After a brief period of training and conditioning, |
| 0:52.3 | he was shipped off with thousands of other men |
| 0:55.3 | to the then-obscure island of Guadalcanal. |
| 0:58.8 | As the furthest westward extension of the Japanese Empire, |
| 1:02.4 | the island represented one of the last chances for the United States to turn back the Japanese in the Pacific. |
| 1:08.6 | And so it was, in August of 1942, a long seven months after the horrible events in Honolulu. |
| 1:15.7 | The American Pacific Fleet landed 19,000 Marines on Guadalcanal, and then engaged the Japanese |
| 1:22.3 | Navy in some of the most devastating naval battles of World War II. |
| 1:27.1 | Victor Croyzat was then a second lieutenant |
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