One Brush of the Armored Sleeve-Tulagi and Tenaru with special guest Dave Holland

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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This week Seth and Bill welcome historian and Guadalcanal expert Dave Holland to the show as they discuss the landings and subsequent fighting on Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo. After diving into some of the personal stories of the Raiders and Paramarines who fought there, the trio dives deep into the history and story of the first of many major land battles on Guadalcanal, the Battle of the Tenaru River. Check out the video to see what the team talks about.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 113 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:22.6	My name is Seth Periden, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby, and with me as always, as my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Todi, former skipper of the Fast Tech submarine U.S.S. Indianapolis, Commodore of Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other postings. Bill,
0:38.5	how are you this afternoon? Doing great. Looking forward to our special guest today.
0:43.4	Excellent. And speaking of special guests, aside from Bill and I, we're happy to welcome a special
0:48.0	guest for this week's episode, Dave Holland. Dave is a former United States Marine. He owns
0:53.1	and runs the Facebook and YouTube channel called Guadalcanal Walking a Battlefield. He's a Solomon Islands Battlefield Guide. And most importantly, Guadalcanal expert, hence the reason he is here. Bill and I are very happy to welcome Dave for our show. Dave, welcome. And how are you doing, man? I'm doing well well and thanks again for let me come on your show
1:12.2	it's an honor and a pleasure and i'm just excited to talk about guadda canal you guys
1:16.6	hey dave before we jump into this last time we we exchanged notes i mentioned that you're
1:23.5	wonderful um youtube site and facebook page and all of that.
1:28.4	But I said I was confused by your accent.
1:31.8	Do you remember what you told me about that?
1:35.0	I can't remember, but you said it was a mixture of Australia and somewhere in the Midwest.
1:44.2	Oh, yeah, yeah the U.S.
1:47.4	Oh, yeah, yeah, Alabama.
1:48.3	Alabama.
1:56.8	I had one person one time tell me on a comment, he says, I don't know if either from Alabama or Adelaide, so you couldn't work it out.
1:57.7	Exactly.
2:03.8	It's a hybrid mixed bastard accent, I'll call it, but yeah. And what years were you in the u.s and the marines uh from 85 to 93 okay yeah great i was born and born and raised in the states but yeah
2:10.9	went in when i was 18 got out when i was like six and came to australia and 95 and i've been here
2:16.9	in oh 28 years now.
2:19.3	Well, exactly. Well, welcome again and Semperfy.
2:24.3	Yeah, you too, sir.
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