Exciting and interesting. This one is no exception. I have seen so many friends who have come from far and wide, including my good friend all the way from texas. Thank you for coming. We are now in the portion of our program, we have had a wonderful introduction to the road to guadalcanal from richard frank. Someday we are going to do a rich frank symposium, eight straight hours. No one would object. I know that. Now, we are in the portion of our program, for the next three sessions, we will be looking at land, sea, and air fighting around and over guadalcanal. We will start with the land portion. Dr. Andy west is universal dr. Andrew wiest is a distinguished professor. He is the codirector of the dale center for society. That rivals the length of my own title, and i think andy needs his own placard. He is the author of numerous books, including war in the pacific, vietnams forgotten army, and the boys of 67. He is also a great undiscovered rock drummer. He is here to speak about the f
The smoke hadnt cleared from the devastating losses of the island when admiral gormley allowed his flattops to leave guadalcanal. He create as precedent that the marines have never forgotten and that precedent is they should always bring their own airplanes with them because they cant rely on the navy. Were we abandoned . Yes, i have to say we all felt that way. Well, i think they were right. They were, in essence, abandoned during the time that the Tokyo Express came down without any effective opposition. Admiral gormley was someone who was very prudent and very reluctant to gamble. From fishtown, pennsylvania, Charles Calhoun was a 29yearold lieutenant aboard the destroyer. He saw the convoys in action. Tokyo express. Thats the name that was given by our navy to the force which came down from the island chain to bombard guadalcanal on almost a nightly basis. While the marines held onto henderson field, jacob boozer spied on the enemy. They were supposed to be provide bag controls and
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