Are you familiar with the battleline with talk?

Nope.

See, that's interesting because you probably are,

but for one simple thing,

and that is a single picture, this one.

Oh, the thousand yards stair, yeah.

The famous Marine thousand yards stair picture,

which will be the cover of our episode

so listeners can see what we're talking about.

Right.

That comes from this battle.

Does not have a happy ending.

I thought we'll talk about that later.

That's probably the only reason anybody is vaguely familiar with this battle.

When I saw the name, the title of the episode in the link for the recording session,

I thought I was like that, that almost thought I was, oh, is this Dutch history? And then I was like, that, that almost thought I was,

oh, is this Dutch history? And then I was like, no, that sounds like something like Austronesian or

Melanesian. So it's like, I bet you this is one of those island campaigns. But no, I've never heard of it.

Well, for starters, Unwitaka is an Atoll. And it was known to the Japanese by the very, very catchy name,

Brown Island.

I don't know why I find that so delightful, but I do.

I like it.

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