إن الله و بلاجكته يصلون على النبي يا أيها الذين هامنوا و صلوا عليه وسلموا تسليمهم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أنبياء الله جميعا و على سيدهم و خاتمهم حليل إله العالمين أب القاسم المصفى محمد و على أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المقصومين الذين هذا الله و عنهم و قدسه و طهرهم تظهير سنواتنا نتحدث عن الأشياء الذين يدفعون إلى المساعدة المساعدة المساعدة المساعدة المساعدة المساعدة المساعدة بعض هذه الأشياء والأشياء are somehow controversial و علينا to be able to answer every single Muslim male or female should be able to address these questions intellectually not emotionally but intellectually and we have to have the evidence from the Holy Qur'an لن نتحدث عن أشياء أشياء أو أشياء أشياء أو أشياء أشياء today or tonight one of them is the issue of inheritance why there is a difference in the distribution ratio of inheritance between the male and the female many people ask why where is justice where is firmness God is supposed to be the God of justice so how does God so called discriminate between male and female why should he give two portions to the male and only one portion to the female many people ask about this and they try to understand it and this is actually a verse in the Holy Quran in Surah An-Nisa you seekum الله في أولاتكم للذكري مثل حفل أمثيين God directs you you seekum means this is a directive this is an injunction this is mandatory you must listen to it this is mandatory so God directs you in the issue of inheritance when it comes to inheritance then to the male a portion equal to that of two females so each male like you gets two portions equal to one portion to the female where is justice here and we know God as the creator of justice and God advocate justice and God invite us to implement justice in every sphere every aspect of our life so where is it here I seek help from Allah سبحانه وتعالى to be able to address this and to answer it according to the wisdom of the Holy Quran this ratio of two versus one two portions to the male versus one to the female is not everywhere when it comes to the inheritance it's not a general one it has some exceptions I'll give you some examples if someone dies and he has parents his parents are still alive he has parents he has wife children in this case if he has wife and children then one sixth one over six of his inheritance goes to his father and the equal portion goes to his mother again one over six so there is no discrimination the father gets exactly the same portion that his mother gets this is one example another example is that if a father dies and he is survived only by his daughter only by one daughter no sons this daughter does not have siblings does not have brothers or sisters neither he survived by a wife or parents so the only inheritor wife to this father is a female then she gets 100% of his inheritance and nobody share anything with her the entire state the land property buildings in our ranches farms whatever gold silver cash money goes to his daughter because she's the soul even if he has a brother or sisters they don't get any share the whole money goes to his daughter so it is not a matter of gender preference when Allah says two portions for the male versus one portion for the female it's not about gender preference that male is better than female or the male deserves more than the female it's about economy and I explained women be it daughters sisters wives mothers they are free from all financial obligations in Islam under the Islamic law what does that mean it means that if you are a daughter then it is your father's responsibility to sustain you financially if he is able sometimes the father is not able sometimes the father is out of work sometimes the girl she makes more money than her father even if she makes more money than her father then religiously the father is responsible to sustain his daughter or daughters according to his ability if you get married then your husband is responsible for you even if you make money you make this money for yourself so you are responsible for your husband is responsible for your well-being if you are God forbid a widow the husband is dead she is divorced then your older son is responsible for taking care of you for your financial expenses this is the duty of you the oldest son or if the oldest one is fugitive you don't know where he lives then the second son the one who comes after him the second one is missing the third one one of the children has to take care of his living mother not only living mother but even his siblings in the family after the departure of the father the father is the breadwinner he is responsible for his family and the father is gone for any reason either he is dead or he is not there then it is the responsibility of the male children in the family to take care of the living mother and the siblings financially take care of their health care education rent mortgage food clothing so in this case the female is free from all these financial obligations before her marriage when she is single her father is responsible when she gets married her husband is fully responsible if there is no husband then the son should be responsible for his mother and his siblings at home therefore she has no financial obligation and in certain cases you know although the male gets two portions and the female one they end up the female because she saves her money they end up that she makes more money than the male because the male has to spend the money that he received he has to take care of his mother he has to take care of his family his sisters his brothers the younger ones so she ends up making more money than him although in the beginning she got half of that amount because she saves it this is according to the Islamic law now you may tell me say it who follows the Islamic law I don't know this is your problem this is not God's problem God says this is my law this is my Quran this is my constitution you better follow it if we do not follow it then we are guilty we should not blame God we should blame ourselves these are the boundaries that God has set for you do not transgress stay within these boundaries if you want to be happy and dignified stay with the boundaries of God and then more than that imagine there is a father who is worried about his daughter he has a daughter and he has a son and he knows after his death that the son is going to get two portions double the amount that his daughter is going to get but he loves his daughter and he wants her to get more than his son is there any way for that I am asking you is there any way the father during his lifetime can make a will and allocate one-third of his wealth one-third of his wealth to whomever he likes be it his daughter be it his wife be it his father his mother his a friend his mosque his church no not church sorry the orphanage you know whatever so he can give that so he says in this case because I am worried my daughter is going to get less I am going to write in my wasiyah that my one-third my fourth the one-third of my wealth is going to go to my daughter in this case she ends up making much more than her brother because she gets one-third and again when it comes to the two-thirds they give that portion for the life for the mother which is one-eighth the rest of it they distributed between the boy and the girl and she ends up taking more in this case are you with me do you follow me almost so there is no abuse for females in this case الله says this the law of inheritance the earth the ratio of distribution is based on economy of financial responsibility not on gender profits because Allah says الرجال قوامون على النساء بما فضل الله بعضهم على بعض و بما أنفقوا من أموانهم من are bread groups man have to spend don't have to give they are responsible for the well-being of their families the well-being of their dependents now what is the age of dependency where does it end it has no specific time maybe in america it's 18 years 21 years I really don't know but Allah says since your daughter and your husband are still single they are at home living with you then they are your dependents the day they get married and they have an income they have an income then after that they are no longer dependents but before that if they live with you at home whether they work or they don't work they are your dependents and you are responsible for their well-being now some wives they ask they say how much is responsible for my expenses Allah says he is responsible for what is necessary for you what is necessary for us number one food and drink and shelter and what else clothing now some people say what sort of clothing a handbag which is 500 box should we buy it for me if I ask him no this is not Allah says what is necessary what is necessary the clothing that is necessary the things that are extravagant he is not responsible he is not responsible for that what sort of house one bedroom apartment or a mansion Allah answers this in the Quran he says أسكنوا هن من حيث تسكنتم من وجدكم أي من طاقتكم shelter them place them lodge them in a place in a house according to your financial ability so if you are rich if you have good income then you cannot put her in one bedroom or two bedroom apartment it has to be according to you financial ability and Islam says you know yourself you know how much money you make I am not going to say you have to put her in this mansion in this zip code Islam does not sleep about that it is a general law Islam says if you have decent income good income if you are rich then put your family in a house compatible to your financial status but if you are struggling with your income then your family has no right to come and put a burden on you they have to understand they have to appreciate your condition Allah says to man do not allow your women to ask you for money you give them you should not allow them to come and beg they are not beggars they are your wives and you are responsible for them you have to give them money you have to give your children don't allow them to come to you and say I am broke I have no money don't allow it to reach that that level don't you have to take the initiative you have to be smart and you have to watch for the needs of your family at the same time Allah says to the wives اتطق الله be careful if your husband is struggling today this month, this year be careful no need for extra expenditure no need do not put burden on him do not let him go and get alone one after the other don't do that live within your means you must live within your means this is what we learned in Islam don't go and get alone because you need to have a vacation while you don't have leave the vacation until the future or don't buy something expensive while you know your husband is struggling so you have to take care of each other appreciate each other do not abuse misuse each other protect each other the best family is the family where the father the husband protects his children and his wife and the mother also protects her husband and her children that's the best family they care for each other they defend each other they sacrifice for each other this is family this is the beauty of family they worry about each other the husband worries about his wife and his children and their well-being and she also worries they don't take advantage of each other nowadays what we see is that they are not honest with each other especially when it comes to the financial things when it comes to financial matters they are not she saves money somewhere she doesn't tell her husband and he keeps another account somewhere else he doesn't want her to know this is not good this is not good the husband should be generous with it with his family وَلَبُ الْحَلَانِ جُزْ أُنْ مِنَ الْعِبَادَةَ وَلَبِ الْحَلَانِ the father struggles to earn the decent income to sustain his family this is a matter he's worshipping الكاد على عياله كالمجاهة في سدي الله someone who struggles to sustain his family and keep them healthy, strong is مجاهد he received the title of جهاد مجاهد في سدي الله the same thing with their wife a concerned wife wants to protect the dignity of her husband and her family she does not overspend she does not overspend even if the husband says it's your money go buy anything she does not go and buy anything she is responsible she may give this money her own money to someone else to all friends, to others to those who are in need to be responsible is beautiful you enjoy this life when you act responsible let us start to take advantage of each other the husband is stingy does not give and the wife wants to hijack his wallet and go and take this and take it's not good they are not going to enjoy this life so this is the first issue the ratio of distribution of inheritance is based on economic responsibility since the financial responsibility belongs to the husband then he has to get a double share in order for him to sustain his family so it's about monetary compensation it's not that women are less than men the second issue which is equally sensitive and we hear about it and many people ask this question I've been asked by so many Muslims and non-Muslims about this the second question which is the the matter or the issue of Shahada in the court testifying before the judge the longest surah in the Quran what is the longest surah in the Quran and what is the longest ayah in the Quran احسنت صلوات for say hi ayah 282 282 حسنت ورك الله 282 is the longest ayah in the Quran and that ayah speaks about something very important we think that well this might not be important but it is very important it says when you get a loan from someone تداينتم بدين إلى أجر مسما فكتبو when you ask someone to give you $500 $1,000 $100 write it on a piece of paper فكتبو if you don't know how to write فاليكتوب بينكم كاتبون بلعات some people they don't know how to write so ask someone to sit and write but today you took a loan from someone at this date $500 let's say in 6 months in a year 2 years you have to write it why because sometimes you forget he forgets that's not good so you have to write it and then the verse continues to say that sometimes in financial in financial you know matters some issues come up some disagreements when you have contracts so there will be some disputes and disagreements between people in this case you have to bring witnesses in this case the witnesses Allah says وَاَسْتَشْدُوا شَهِدَيْنِ مِرْ رِجَالِكُمْ you have to bring 2 male witnesses to the court when you have a disagreement regarding a financial issue with someone with your partner you go to the court you have to bring 2 witnesses شَهِدَيْنِ مِرْجَالِكُمْ فَاِنْ لَمْ يَكُونَا وَاَجُولَيْنِ if you don't have 2 men in this case what do you do فَاَجُولُمْ وَاَمْ رَأَتَانْ 1 male and 2 female and here people say why 2 female this means that 2 female are equal to 1 male this means that every female is 50% of a female of a male every female makes one half of a male where is justice here why God says at the time of testifying either you bring 2 men or if you have only one man then you have only one man you have to bring 2 females here 2 women why why not only one woman why man and woman again God says this is again it is not gender based decision it's not because women are inferior to men or we less trustworthy than men or we question their mental capability it's not about that we do not mention we do not question their intelligence or they are more deficient than men it's not about that it's about that mostly most of the time financial transactions and financial dealings and the business and the trade was done most of the time most of the time was done by men or women by men even today CEOs of companies look that up look at the names of the CEOs of most companies even in America and Europe 95% of them are women 95% because this issue is dealt by men usually these transactions and these dealings they are the profession of men so this is why Allah says because they know they are experts in this field this is their job this is their profession so they know better than others this is number one now if someone says okay how about now we have a lady who is a graduate of the best university in business she has a business degree MBA and maybe in the past they did not do these dealings they did not involve in business in financial matters but now they are doing it so what you say about now we say that the Quran goes with the norm the Quran deals always with the standard of the societies what is the standard in the society we don't go after the exceptions yes we do have exceptions we do have and sometimes I believe some women are much more smarter when it comes to business when it comes to administration when it comes to many things they are much more smarter than many men yes they are very competent in many fields not just business in many fields in teachings and education in administration she would do a good job insha'Allah so they might be very smart women it's not about the issue of trust but Allah says sometimes it's the issue of physiology and psychology how is that listen to this I have a friend who told me that his mother used to work in a lab many years ago and she used to go to hospitals maternity departments and hospitals where delivery deliveries are taking place neighbor so she goes there after women deliver their babies there is something called placenta placenta is the machine where the baby grows each one of us we were growing in this house called placenta in our mother's womb placenta is a layer that protects us and we nurture there we grow there until we leave that house and we come into this room so she would go there and all these disposed these placentas they disposed them she would collect them she brings them to the lab to make a test on them the liquid inside she takes this liquid out and she does some experiment with this liquid she takes this liquid she puts it in a needle and she gives it to her husband and before she inject him with this liquid which is taken extracted from these placentas she would show him some cards you are familial with cards I am not familial I am very ignorant when it comes to cards but you know the names of these cards each one has a name I am worried we need your help here so she would show him she tells him what is this card give me a name of these cards I know the name of the particular card so she tells him what is this he says she puts it here what is the second one ace she asks him what is the third one he says she puts king here ok that's it you are going to forget the Polanna so and then immediately she injects him this is a true story my friends she injects him with that liquid and after few minutes she tells him what was this card here that I put here he says I don't remember she says what was the name of this card here that you put yourself few minutes ago he says I don't remember the third one I don't remember Allah SWT has put this liquid so when women they give birth they forget if they don't forget if the mother keeps remembering the pain of labor she would never conceive again she would never become much pregnant again believe me but Allah makes it easy for them because he knows if they if they remember the pain that they went through impossible for them to to have babies again but this particular liquid makes them forget forget the pain the pain and the hardship of labor and it is found in women you don't have it the men they don't have it only women so when your wife says no more pregnancy you have to understand so this maybe the Holy Quran says indication Allah says فإن لم يكون رجلين فرجل ومرأتان من من تلظون من الشهداء the witnesses that you agree upon both of you have to agree upon and then listen to this أن تظل احداهما فتذكر احداهما in case one of them forgets she forgets she forgets she is standing before her job there is jury people listening she might forget she knew about it but at that particular instance she might forget انتظلة وولا here is forgetfulness not deviation of because وولا has so many means one of them is misguidance deviation one of them when someone forgets انتظلة احداهما so in case one of them becomes hesitant and she forgets فتذكر احداهما her friend will remind her about it are you with me so it's not about discrimination it's not about women are less intelligent less reliable they have no place in Islam they are second class citizens it's not about that in Islam we have only one class have you seen some of these airplanes here they have only one class there is no business first class all economy in Islam we have all first class we don't have this gender as first class and that gender second class we don't have this color as first class and the second color is less we don't have this culture as first class even arts are equal with non-arts this is exactly the wording of the Quran ان أكرم كون ان باللهي تقاتل you are all equal so if you want to get closer to God you have to do better than others now when it comes to testimonies to be a witness the judge depends on women more than men more than men he says no I am not going to accept the testimony of this man or men but I am going to accept the testimony شهادة of women how is that when it comes to family at first because they are more experts this is their field when it comes to pregnancy he is not going to ask a man about it he asks a woman when it comes to the consummation marital consummation if you know what I mean whether this whether the husband and the wife when they get together after marriage whether they have consummated their marriage or not who they are going to ask not the husband they are going to ask the wife because this is her body she knows about it the husband does not know about it when it comes to let's say and other issues she knows better this is her expertise so Islam says don't ask women we don't ask women in this case so these two issues they depend on expediency and wisdom they do not depend on prejudice against women because Allah says at the end of the day women and women and men in my eyes are equal are equal something good about something good about it first of all is color blind God is color blind he doesn't look at colors we look at colors we judge people by colors we like certain colors so we sway towards we dislike other colors we neglect them I mentioned yesterday something very painful happening in America serious since the incident of Charleston North Carolina is it North Carolina or South Carolina since that incident 2 weeks ago 9 other black churches were burned 9 other black churches were burned in the southern states North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Tennessee 9 black churches in America in a country where it takes pride in equality between people in a country where it takes pride in democracy and we have so much democracy here a surface of democracy that we want to export some of it to the Middle East to other countries we have so much democracy here we don't need it imagine 9 churches were destroyed because the people are black and this is 150 years after slavery was banned in America this is not good God is color blind God does not look at the color also God is genderless God is neither male or female الحمد لله God is neither male or female therefore God does not look at the gender God look at the heart He looks at the heart He looks at our contribution at our service He looks at the heart God judges us by our hearts and by our intentions نيات نيات المرء اخيهم من علي sometimes you love to do something good you love to help someone you love to give charity you love to shelter but you don't have money God says I will give you the credit because I looked at your heart I looked at your heart I know you could not do that but because your heart and your mind you wanted to do that and you could not but you still give you the credit where do you find such a lot you can't find him anymore accept him الله مخفر المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الأحياء منهم والأموات تابع لهم بيننا وبينهم بالخيارات إنك مجيبوا الدعوات إنك قاضي الحاجات إنك سامعوا الدعوات إنك على كل شيء يبتقبل منها صلاتنا والله اقصبت اقصبتنا بسفر اقصبتنا بحياتنا رسايتيشن ودعوة سافريكيشن وردنا اقصبتنا بردنا يومي بيومي هل تبقى؟ بيومي يومي يومي لذا اقصبت الانتباه بسرعة بسرعة ونذهب سنذهب بسرعة اقصبت الانتباه الله سبحانك الله سبحانك يرى بك يرى بك يرى بك لا تنسوا الوقت الله يوم كل وليك الحجة من حسن صلواتك عليه وعلى آباله في هذه الساعة وفي كل ساعة وليا وحافظا وقائدا وناصرة ودليلا معينة حتى تسكنه غرفك طوعا وتمتعه فيها طويلة واجل الله وفي فرجه واجعلنا من مصاره وعواله وإلى الواحي المؤمنة والمؤمنات والشهداء تواب الفاتح مع الصلاة وعلى آباله


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It is, he's slow starting first half and to keep putting guys behind it then when you find the rhythm you get going and you do some catching up but how much you guys got to get going out of the game? Yeah I know man just starting slow you know those penalties killed us, self-inflicted wounds, you can't start off like down the team like this you know and just gave them all the momentum with those you know with those penalties you got to start fast to be better you know as a whole and just be focused what we need to do. Were you getting a little bit frustrated to not get touches in the first and did you realize how few you had? No I wasn't frustrated at all I just wanted us to get going you know put some plays together you know so we can get some momentum going put points on the board you know because you know going in down 17 and a half time you know that's never good you know on a team like that so you know like I said we just shot ourselves in the foot once too many times you know we got going late you know in the second half you know but you know we just you know got to put plays together early you know to give us a chance. Coach Russell said that there were certain opportunities for Deion that they wanted to get earlier so coming into this week do you have an idea you were going to get so few carries and stuff? I mean I'm just do what I'm asked what I'm told and you know Deion had his plays and we went in there and tried to do his best unfortunately you know it was a fumble but you know I thought you know we had good momentum you know whenever he was in making plays because we made plays whenever we got a chance to get the ball so you know like I said we just filled ourselves with you know certain foot you know stuff. What was an offense Derek is the energy level where it needs to be when you guys are coming out and starting games? Oh yeah definitely everybody has confidence everybody relax on play at the time that's momentum you know put put plays together put drives together and get points but you know unfortunately you know yeah like I said set the rules with the penalties and no things like that you know we just have to be better you know and you know focus up this week another big game coming up so. You roll right down the field like you guys did that first try the second half do you find yourself wondering you know I wish we'd tried a little bit more this in the in the first half. I can only do what it's called and go out there try to make a play up this team so you know I was glad that you know we went out there and put a drive together you know put seven plays seven runs and you know made it work so you know I was happy with that but like I said you know just got to start fast as an offense and I'll have my defense. I'm sorry you found some space there in the passing game especially in the second half talk a little bit about that and how things opened up for you in the second half.


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John I appreciate that kind introduction and I very much appreciate seeing this wonderful audience out here today while I talk about a very favorite subject of mine. James Jones the author of From Here to Eternity was a veteran of the War on the South Pacific. In the 1970s he wrote about those battlegrounds and he called them places that people in the United States mostly never heard of. Today I'm going to be talking about one of those forgotten battlegrounds Bougainville and I'll be showing how many important and stirring events occur there that are every bit as much worthy of being remembered just the way we remember Guadalcanal and it's particularly appropriate that I do talk about Bougainville because that is the subject matter on my book cover and we know who this Marine is. His name is Corporal William Coffrin of Flint Michigan and he appears here fighting on D-Day at Bougainville with the third Marine Raider Battalion. Now to understand how Bougainville fits in with the rest of the Pacific War we have to go back to the early days of the war when command in the Pacific is divided as between General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz. Nimitz will then subdivide his command and he appoints Admiral Robert Gormley to command in the South Pacific. However someone slater during a crisis at Guadalcanal he loses confidence that Gormley has the right fighting spirit to get through the crisis and he appoints instead someone who is certainly not deficient in that capacity and this of course is Admiral William F. Halsey known as Bull Halsey to the press. To his biographer the great professor Potter Halsey was a swashbuckler of the old tradition unlike many swashbucklers part little boy who never grew up. And now now we have this is the same area that we have in here. I'm going to point out just for orientation here down here at the lower left you've got a little bit of Australia that's peeking up just a little little smidgen right there. Here you have the lower half of the island of New Guinea. There's about as much of it that continues upward from there and if you continue a straight line you'd come to the Philippine islands in that direction. Out here across the Solomon Sea you have the chain of the Solomon Islands the island of Guadalcanal here at the southeast end. Extending up here is the island of New Georgia that figures in our story. Here is Bougainville the largest of the island chain. You get the island of New Britain here now what's very important about it is the great Japanese base of Rabaul sitting right here at the eastern end. Up here you'll have the Admiralty Islands which figure a little bit in our story later and if you go out to go do north you'd come to the Carolyn Islands and the great Japanese base of truck. Now here's how the situation stands in January of 1943. MacArthur's forces here at Papua have cleared this area of the Japanese after a very difficult six-month battle and pretty much at the same time and also after a difficult half-year battle Halsey's forces here on Guadalcanal have forced the Japanese to evacuate the island. And so after a year of retreats and holding actions the allies are now in a position to go on to the offensive. MacArthur's objective all along is going to be to get himself back to the Philippines but he can as long as Japanese power is extending here through the South Pacific with all the power radiating out of the central point of Rabaul. MacArthur conceives a plan that is called Cartwheel a very ambitious plan where in roughly over an eight-month period thirteen separate operations will be conducted some by his own forces and here I should say that his own forces are going to be principally Australians at this stage and some by Halsey's and they are going to obtain a string of air bases from which they can try to pound down Rabaul. It is thought of that stage of things that will be ultimately necessary to go into Rabaul and actually capture the place unfortunately that last step does not prove necessary. Now we're going to in this course this session talk about what's happening on Halsey's side. Halsey's first step is going to be here moving into New Georgia and his offensive as well as MacArthur's kicks off at exactly the same point the mid-year 1943 June 30th 1943 our dual offensive gets underway and while New Georgia is being fought over planning is already underway for that next leap up in the Salamis chain to Bougainville and that brings us to the situation right here. This is Halsey's headquarters on August 15th 1943. Incidentally this photo was unknown until I discovered it in the Marine Corps archives and what is happening here Halsey is holding an order appointing a new commander for the first Marine Amphibious Corps all abbreviated as IMAC. IMAC is the organization that is going to be conducting the invasion of Bougainville. The outgoing commander is at our left that is Archer van der Grifft who made a splendid name for himself as commander of the first Marine Division on Guadalcanal and in consequence has been slated to become the new Marine Commandant comes the first of the year between this point and then he is going to be going off on a tour of Pacific bases. The incoming commander is seated right here his name is Charles Barrett. Barrett comes from a distinguished Virginia family has a fine reputation in the Marine Corps though he has no combat experience but that's true of many a Marine at this point in the war. He is the man who had formulated amphibious co-doctrine for the Marines and most recently he is the man who trained the third Marine Division and they are the principal component of IMAC that is going to be going in there to invade Bougainville. Well as I said this is on August oh I just before we leave here I shouldn't make mention of this gentleman who will pop up in our story just a little later this is General Harman not to be confused with the General Harman who is in Europe he is a commander of the Army and Army Air Forces in the South Pacific it's an administrative command not a tactical command. This is on August 15th 1943 the planning is going forward for Bougainville until October the 8th when something very dramatic occurs. Barrett falls from the window of his headquarters building at Noumea. He's killed there's a hired court of inquiry and they reached the conclusion that he died accidentally. I got intrigued in this case eight years ago I found letters in the Marine Corps archives that had never been seen before that conclusively proved that Halsey had decided to fire him had that it had not yet been announced he took his own life and it was decided that they would hold a phony baloney court of inquiry with everybody knowing what result that they wanted they did not want the truth to out. The facts are indeed remarkable I devote my entire 10 chapter 10 to this including substantial excerpts for the most amazing letters that you will ever see these are letters that being exchanged some are from Van de Griff himself writing to the Marine Corps commandant and I think it had been supposed all long that note these letters would never see the light of day so people are not talking in militaries they are being very off the cuff in their comments so if you do read my book and read chapter 10 do not miss the notes at the end because I packed in as much as I could between the text and the notes. Now Van de Griff is still out in the Pacific making his tour preparatory becoming the Marine commandant so he is hurriedly called back to stay around long enough to execute the invasion and here is our target this is the island of Bougainville and the area that we have selected to invade is where you see the little arrow here on the west coast. We picked that area for a few different reasons number one we know that there are very few Japanese there and indeed when we get there we'll only find that there's a single Japanese company the trails into that area are very primitive from both the top end and the bottom end of the of the island where most of the Japanese are concentrated therefore we know we're going to get a nice long respite before the Japanese can arrive in strength and attack the perimeter and of course we want to build an airstrip and the soil is found conducive to that sort of thing so these are the factors that make that particular area desirable and then we get certain refinements of the plant and here is the treasury islands treasury islands are very close by and what makes them attractive to us is that it can be served as a good forward supply base if we can get our foot in there even before we're going into Bougainville and get ourselves established there we can avert a supply crisis like we ran into our Guadalcanal when it seemed for a while as if we might not even be able to hold on to the place that would be very convenient now the downside of our doing that is the fact that the way it is aligned with the west coast of Bougainville we'd be tipping our hands to the Japanese that we have designs and moving against the west coast and therefore we get the idea for a raid here at the northern end of the island of Schwazil we're just going to go in there to try to just shoot things up a little try to convey the impression that we have a real invasion that's going on there to give the Japanese the idea that we're clearing a path to move against the east side of Bougainville here we have a scene at Halsey's headquarters and he's enjoying a cool brew with the New Zealand Brigadier who is going to be leading something like 3,500 New Zealanders against something like under 300 Japanese and needless to say we do take the treasuries quite easily I love photographs like this that don't get too much play elsewhere and to the greatest extent possible in my book you will find if there's any question I would go with rarity versus a picture that's better though in some cases they are very well known pictures some cases I couldn't avoid that and next we have here a very youthful looking lieutenant colonel who's going to grow up to be marine legend Victor Krulak he conducts a brilliant raid on Schwazil destroys the Japanese barge base destroys lots of their supplies and we leave the Japanese guessing as to where Oblo is going to fall and here we are on invasion day the aircraft is hovering over the principal invasion beaches as well as that island in the foreground that is Pururata Island and that specifically is where the marine who's on my book jacket is doing his fighting on invasion day here we have a lower level photograph of pretty much the same scene however we know that this picture must date from at least several weeks later because right here you can see the airstrip at Cape Tarakina that we construct once we are in there the incidentally this is the hotspot during invasion day because you can see cross you can have a crossfire Japanese being here and Japanese being here and our boats are are entering the area in between so that is where the fighting is happening principally on invasion day here the troops are going down the cargo nets into the Higgins boats the Higgins boat circling here we have the men hitting the beach and here they are on the beach getting ready to move inland it's a very successful invasion day just according to plan we plan to bring in two regiments of the third marine division and we succeed in doing that we get most of their supplies out we incur under 200 casualties including 88 killed now these are very small numbers compared to some of the numbers that we come accustomed to in other battles but this is a matter of fact is a little on the high side for landings in the south pacific we have large land masses we can pretty much pick our shots and most of the time we are going in even without with either no casualties or just a handful of casualties but before the end of the day all our ships clear out of the harbor because word has come down that the japanese atra ball have set down a force of four cruisers to attack our beachhead they're too light and too heavy cruisers opposing them is admiral tipp merrill tipp merrill has four cruises but all our cruisers are light cruisers so we're somewhat outgunned by the japanese however we do have one ace up our sleeve we have very good radar the japanese do have radar but it's so poor the japanese admiral said that he never even really made use of it well the battle is called the emperor battle of empress augusta bay and here we see what that action looked like from the flagship of admiral merrill uh the uh big task that he had was to was to try to stay out of the way of that heavier japanese gunfire and he executes a brilliant figure eight with his ships very difficult maneuver to to execute and that prevents our ships from taking any uh that much damage uh however our gunnery is not at all good that day it's been estimated by samarillet marison that out of the approximately 4600 shells that were fired off by our four cruisers that day they made something like 20 hits that's not a very good batting average however the main thing is that we do keep the japanese out of empress augusta bay the japanese just the same way as uh the americans had during a night action it's very easy to go astray you see a ship out there and there's a flash and suddenly you don't see the ship anymore and it's easy to jump to conclusions that you're sending ships down it's not really happening well it's happening on both sides but uh fortunately the japanese admiral decides that he's done a good enough day's work breaks off the action and to that extent alone we can consider this a american victory because the japanese are not pressing on to bombard our beach heads as happened to us at guadalcanal well comes to dawn and there's no rest for the weary because admiral merrill's ships are being beset by an enormous swarm of japanese planes like we haven't seen in the longest while and they managed to fight them off and there would have probably been a further onslaught except for what we see here and here's rebal rebal harbor and what you're seeing is these are planes that are coming in from magatha's side until this point magatha's air force under general kenny has been responsible for the regular raids over rebal and they're going in on this day and just the way merrill you know found himself in a wasp nest that is exactly what is happening to kenny's planes they take a very high number of casualties i think it was 16 or 18 planes kenny referred to it as the hardest fought battle of his fifth air force during the war and this is what has happened the japanese before they knew when booganville was going to be invaded had made a decision let's beef up our air forces around rebal we're not going to need our carrier planes for a while they send 173 of their carrier planes with some of their best pilots to rebal to buttress their air forces and this is the reason uh why we run into such heavy opposition this will turn out in the longer run to be a rotten rotten decision on the part of the japanese because those planes are sitting out on those airstrips day after day they're going to be suffering tremendous attrition and by the time the japanese realize the extent that they have shot themselves in the foot in the foot and they have pulled those planes back to their carriers the damage has been done and just three weeks after booganville invasion admiral nimitz in the central pacific inaugurates the central pacific offensive with the invasion of tarawa and the gilberts the japanese fleet is in no situation to contest the uh the situation they're going to need a long rebuilding period and by the time they do rebuild you get the battle of the philippine sea and what's known as the philip as the marianas turkey shoot when the this new generation of japanese planes and pilots is nothing at all like what they had before so they've done tremendous damage to themselves and this is a very interesting event you know the ramification up in the central pacific to what occurred down here the decimation of the japanese air aircraft down here when you read about the war in general it's very easy to lose sight of the fact that these are war fronts really interlock and you do have you know ramifications that are happening one place that from events that are happening elsewhere and we'll see a similar thing happening just a little later on in the discussion and now we will come to what halsey called his most desperate emergency in his entire 20 months in the south pacific the japanese at truck have sent down a force of seven heavy cruisers to attack our beachhead and any shipping that they might encounter halsey has no firepower that can match that what he does have however our two carriers saratoga and princeton commanded by the most aggressive of our carrier radinals animal ted chairman we know the japanese are going to have to put in at rebal to refuel and that will give us a window of opportunity now we can't expect to catch them completely flat-footed they do have radar they do have very formidable defenses around the harbor and they have all those those planes that are still there including the as i say including those carrier planes it's a very very desperate gamble halsey has written that he's thought that he might lose both of the air groups as well as the ships but he goes has little choice except to go ahead with the gamble and here we have the scene at the left is what it looks like from the aircraft of commander henry caldwell who is coordinating the entire attack from the aircraft high above the harbor he's got a couple of wingmen with him and he's getting on the mic and he's making sure that his fliers down below are going after those heavy cruisers because you see you see lots of shipping down there but we don't want to waste our shots against anything other than those heavy cruisers if we have a cruiser target to give you a sense of what it looks like from a dive bomber up at the right you have the scene from one of the dive bombers coming in on the heavy cruiser chikuma the raid will take something like 25 minutes we lose incredibly only about 10 aircraft the japanese take rather heavy hits four of the heavy cruisers are badly damaged to sustain lighter damage and only one of them comes through pretty much unscathed so it's a tremendous victory and we have thwarted the japanese there's no way that they can continue on their mission after that here we have the planes returning to saratoga and we'll sell with a picture on the right that is commander henry caldwell hopping out of his aircraft you see the plane is tilted over he's coming on one wheel plus no flaps no aileron no radio down below you see what they are doing they are removing the body of the photographer japanese uh saw those planes up there they knew that they were acting as to controlling the event and the japanese you know really went after him and after his wingmen miraculously they all made it back full holes but they all didn't make it back to the carriers in the picture at the left there is the chariot gunner from the same aircraft his name is kenneth bratton we know that bratton is going to make a full recovery from his wounds because later in the war there's a wonderful photograph that shows bratton back in uniform and looking at a blow-up of this now iconic photo at the at the upper left we have a very happy carrier admiral uh ted sherman and he is being a prize for the results of the raid by his very colorfully uh nicknamed fighter commander jumping joe clifton who as a matter of fact took down one of the japanese planes during that action uh halsey flies up to meet the carrier when it pulls out of the war zone and there again you have jumping joe with a very happy admiral halsey who's uh who's bet certainly paid off here and now we've been through two great naval actions and now we are going to have another one and it's going to involve someone who is not yet famous but certainly will be later and right here on the bridge of the destroyer charles osborne is arlie berke berke at this stage of the war is in command of destroyers uh they their nickname is a little beaver's this little beaver insignia and those who remember the old red rider comic strip will remember little beaver's little indian boy uh here's a nice painting showing oops didn't work yes here are some of the little beavers in action and their great day is very auspiciously going to occur on thanksgiving day of 1943 up till this point the japanese destroyer men have pretty much ruled the waves when it comes to clashes between their forces and our forces on a uh in most cases well that is going to end abruptly on this day all uh berke is going to be leading four destroyers against four japanese destroyers will send three of the enemy destroyers to the bottom without loss this is the battle of cape saint george and it's still a classic that i think is still taught about in the naval academy so now we have now had three great naval victories all during the same month of november 1943 well meanwhile what's been happening on shore and it's this mud and what's on it we discover that uh there is this uh vast swamp that lies just immediately beyond the beaches we did not know it until we got there and that you know it makes you makes you wonder but there's one reason why there weren't there many japanese there because i think they they said well who's going to want to land here well all in all it was not the most pleasant place i i quote one marine who was in all sorts of nasty places during the war but he said just for sheer living conditions there was nothing as bad as as uh boogenville boogenville was sheer hell and here we have beginning up at the upper left here is admiral halsey who's flown to boogenville uh about 10 days after the landings uh at the upper left you you can see uh i don't know how well you can see it he has the shirt off to show off that nice anchor tattoo that goes back to his days at the naval academy in uh the picture at the right here he is talking with the his commanders and here is the man who has now taken over iMac that is Roy geiger geiger is very unusual in that up to this point he has been an airman he was the one who commanded our air forces on guadalcanal uh and then afterwards he had been whisked off to washington he was sitting behind a desk but he's just a natural fighter and it was just intuited correctly that boy he could make a great ground commander too and he makes a truly great ground commander uh by the end of the war on okinawa he takes over the 10th army when the army general is killed and that is the highest command that a marine has ever had and probably ever will have wonderful wonderful commander who should be better known in our pantheon uh and then down here at the bottom here is geiger again with halsey and they're watching the this marching past of army troops we uh have uh the ohio national guard 37th division that has come to bougainville to operate along with the marines because the idea is we are only going to keep the marines in there long enough to do their business and then get out we're not going to keep them in too long the way we do at did at guadalcanal and really wore them down to the bone here is a typical japanese position and it's not that easy to see but here you can see the the bar of a of a machine gun peeking out of one of their positions and in the other picture you have one such position that is being taken out with flamethrower and we acquire some very valuable forefooted allies we have had war dogs before but never on such an organized basis as on bougainville these are mostly doberman pinchers some german shepherds one german shepherd appropriately named caesar acquitted himself very courageously in battle was wounded got a commendation from the marine commandant and a promotion from pfc which all the dogs were to start with to sergeant and i don't know i don't know how how he spent his extra pay but that was his business and here we have some very tired looking marines that came back from one of the many engagements in my book i go through all these individual battles that they are fighting what they're doing is they're carving out a secure perimeter to enclose both the tarakina airstrip that we saw earlier plus two additional airstrips that we have decided that we are going to construct there and one of our last battles there and this is here we are in the middle of december of forty three and one of the last battles was known as the battle of helse poppin ridge and coincidentally it was fought just around the time when we had to finish that that cape tarakina the first of the airstrips and we were actually able to land planes there and have them go off on one of the one of the shortest bombing missions of world war two to to attack japanese just almost the stones throw away and that did materially help to win the position well we have now reached the point where the marines have pretty much accomplished everything that they were interested in doing on boogenville so we pull them out and the army will take over and the air campaign can now begin here we have some pilots running out to their corsairs and we use the corsairs among other things they use that both as escorts but also we do fighter sweeps as well over the japanese airstrips we try to lure them up and our planes can usually knock down a heck of a lot more than they can knock down of ours so that's all part of their missions and the best known of our corsair pilots is of course this fellow pappy boington hopping in his aircraft and here he is with with some of his men boington is shot down in january in 1943 not 44 over a ball japanese submarine fishes him out of the harbor he's whisked off to japan we have no idea what's happened to him because the japanese don't disclose that he's a prisoner we award him the medal of honor during that time and then comes the end of the war and he is released from captivity and he reports truthfully or otherwise we have no way of knowing for sure that he downed two japanese planes during that last mission so the the air campaign is getting underway in earnest in december of 1944 it starts off very slowly at first we're just putting lots of holes in the japanese airstrips and they are filling them in as fairest as we can hold them uh well we get into january we are seeing some more substantial results and we get into february and we can really see the light at the end of the tunnel but we're still getting some very very you know strong opposition the last big air battle over a ball is fought on on february the 19th of 1944 and then abruptly the air war in the south pacific essentially ends because you get another one of these seismic effects such as what i had described earlier in this case it was happening up in the central pacific at truck in the carillon islands admiral mark mitcher has conducted on february 17th a devastating carrier attack on the japanese base he destroys lots of the japanese shipping and even more important than that he destroys a tremendous number of aircraft including many that had been destined to be brought down to the south pacific and they were just waiting for somebody to ferry them down and the japanese have now had to make a decision they cannot hold everywhere and they realize it they're going to have to give up the south pacific they've already decided certain areas are more more crucial for them than others so something has to give in the south pacific that's giving here they pull out their aircraft or almost all their aircraft from the south pacific and then on top of all that and for this i'll have to use the other map as i said the last big air battle was on february the 19th on the last day of the month and that we have leap year there so actually we're talking on february 29th on february 29th right here in the admiralty islands magatha's forces that have worked their way up here move here into the admiralty islands and magatha says that will put the cork in the bottle and you can kind of see what he meant by it his forces have come up here holsies have come up here we have been encircling them and now we have covered the the top part now is that the end of the war in the south pacific absolutely not there's another year and a half of the war still to go the war in the south pacific will go on for another year and a half that is usually the point where most riders will break off they lose interest in the south pacific but i find lots and lots of interesting things are happening from here out as i said the army has taken over and here we have the army high command there's harman behind the wheel of the jeep you may remember him in that photo sitting next between holsy and barrett harman commanding both the army and the army air forces in the south pacific next to him is nathan twining who commanded the 13th air force until during the battle of bougainville he moves to europe takes over air forces there and some of you may remember twining as being a chief of staff in the years after world war two the gentleman in the middle of the photo in the helmet that is oscar griswald griswald commands the 14th army corps and it's his troops that are now manning the perimeter on bougainville and if you're interested in knowing who the fourth gentleman in the jeep is he is one of our great unsung heroes of world war two here he's a colonel later on he becomes general brine who has responsibility for coordinating all supply in the south pacific a horrendously difficult task which does not get the credit it should and here we have the two division commanders under griswald at the left this is general beatler commanding the 37th division a high on national guard beatler is very unusual he is the only army national god general who is allowed to retain command of his division throughout the entire course of the war and for that reason alone you know that he must be a very able individual the other is general hodge hodge is commanding the americal division that has now joined the 37th division on the perimeter uh he uh will rise to become a corps commander later on during the philipine campaign and in the later after war years he'll actually move up to become an army commander two very able men and they will be facing this gentleman this is general hyakotaki he was the commander on guadalcanal who was forced off forced to evacuate by admiral halsey and he would like nothing better to do than have the americans uh as a matter of fact he is so confident of success he has his maps marked to show where the americans are going to surrender to him uh what he manages to do is really quite remarkable given how primitive the jungle trails are and the fact that he has at the very end no air or naval support he manages the greatest concentration of japanese infantry and artillery that will fight at a single place in the south pacific and you can leave it to the japanese to never do something with ease if it can be done with difficulty they are very good at coming up with the most complex of plans and for their initial blow they have selected this point on our parameters known as hill 700 and you can see from the steepness of that hill that is one hell of a hill uh but the way the 37th division historian wrote about it uh it was hard to to hit an enemy that was hiding almost literally under the front lines you couldn't depress your guns enough to be able to hit them while they were gathering at the base of the hill while during one dark and stormy night they come up the hill on all fours which is about the only way you can you can do it with their rifles slung across their backs they by sheer weight of numbers they break into the front lines of the 37th division and then those ohioans have the fight of their lives on their hands now most of the battle is taking place on the 37th division front except here this is not actually on the perimeter this is a hill in advance of the perimeter it's called hill 260 and what makes it special is that's enormous banyan tree that you see at the left from which you can just about see everywhere the japanese sees it early on in the action sees the hill early in the action and they hold on to it and we we try every which way to try to win it back and we don't succeed some wheg refer to that tree referring to the blood that was expended for it as the most expensive tree in the world well that tree does not look like it's worth very much comes the end of the battle and you can see the bare remnants uh that are left there again that's on the americal front but all the other action is happening by the america on the okay here on the 37th division front here are the troops in action and here you see something that you'll not oh wait a second went too far something that you do not see very often here is a division commander john beatler with a rifle in hand who's gotten right into the battle and he wrote a letter to his wife saying all the fun that he had in a battle that he you know i shot people from uh some so many yards away and all and his commanders were not at all thrilled about having their division general acting like a second lieutenant and they they told them that they gave him a silver star anyway well we are we are now very late in the battle the japanese have been losing very many men in fruitless attacks because we are along most of our front very very well defended because we know sooner or later the japanese were going to be arriving uh and uh we rebuff them and then at the very end of the action we unloose a tremendous artillery barrage and they go limping away and they will never again be a serious offensive threat on booganville and now for the next many months here we were in march of 44 when you get right all the way down into december there's hardly anything happening there we own as much of booganville as we're interested in owning the japanese are certainly in not in any position to attack us anymore they are content to just cultivate their gardens and try to stay alive till the end of the war and during this period you get a experiment and these are african-american troops from the 93rd division now if the army was left to its own devices it probably would have not try this experiment to see if these troops might be used in combat pressure had come down from the white house it was an election year and uh it was what they decided to do is they would take the troops company by company out into the jungle and acclimate them and from there they will it was somebody referred to as it was like a clean glided atmosphere they really had it under the microscope to see how they would perform well the experiment went on until what was called the company k-affair it was one company that just came up against a handful of japanese and they pretty much folded up shooting at each other and it was a great mess uh there were lots of reports full-scale investigation and consequence uh it was the experiment was closed down however there were other african-american troops on booganville who we see right here and these are been in the 25th infantry regiment and they acquitted themselves very nicely their situations were very different and what it really boils down to i think is that there was only one solution to the problem and that is an integrated army and that had a way till the end of the war uh the situation was very complex and you get too many simplistic books that are written about the situation during the war we're very lucky that a very able african-american historian named ulysses lee wrote one of the volumes in the official army history called the employment of negro troops and he went into the whole worldwide situation with tremendous objectivity and it makes wonderful readings still after these many years and if you own a computer you own the book because every one of our official histories the army official history the marine official history the air core official history not the navy but those are all have all been digitized and they're all available on your computers and now we will be going into what i consider most tragic phase of the entire war in the south pacific and i say this because warfare is bad enough but sometimes it's something you got to do this time we don't have to do it and as far as i'm concerned the villain of our story is right here this is australian general blamie very controversial figure for on many scores he is clearly a very able individual as far as military talents it's also a very brutal aspect to him and also some rather unsavory aspects he was the chief of the british general staff said about him that one morning he looks entirely drink sodden as if he spent the most debauched night is the way he he referred to it which is but in any event blamie makes the decision that this tacitrus that is set in between the americans and the japanese that has gone on for now many months he is going to stop it and the austrians are going to go after the japanese and he makes some very poor excuses that are in my book here we have the scene the second figure from the right is general britchford commander of the austrian third division and here he is taking over on boogenville from the americans american troops are wanted by macawther for his campaign in the philippines so he pretty much this is happening not just here on boogenville but it's happening elsewhere in the south pacific of the austrian is taking over from the americans and most of these battles uh... the situation is much as you see it uh... in the picture on the right these droves of you know whereas the austrians in most cases only take very few casualties the austrians the japanese they've been cut off from all supply uh... they're in a semi-stavation state and uh... their casualties tend to be very numerous however uh... sometimes the japanese can strike back very forcefully as we see in the picture at the left uh... this was an amphibious attack that was attempted by the austrians at a place called porten plantation uh... it went completely awry and in my book i refer to it as agallipoli in miniature well here you have very forceful looking austrian brigadier very very appropriately his name is hammer and brigadier hammer in this picture is explaining his plan of attack for the final battles to his higher echelon commanders uh... the idea is we're going to be pressing on to the japanese main japanese base at buin at the south of the island the japanese have nowhere to run nowhere to hide uh... so knowing what the japanese are like we would have had one heck of a battle in those last stages and we have pretty much the same thing going on on new guinea which i covered in my book i've just been able to just focus in on one little period area here the uh... rain set in fortunately fortunately and when things finally dry out and takes a while for the austrians to get organized for that last big push japan's surrenders the war is over and here is the scene at austrian headquarters the man at the left who is signing the the surrender is general kanda uh... because general hiakotaki is still on the island however he suffered a stroke and in his incapacitated state it was not possible to remove him because boomville has been completely cut out from the world uh... i found very interesting oops okay i'll point to it the second figure from the right uh... that is an american his name is john causey and i was curious who john causey was i did a little look up and i'm discovering that he was a marine who was aboard the the arizona on december 7th 1941 he was part of the minority that survived when i when i brought this to the attention of the historic office at quantico they thanked me for it and they were especially notating the records but that was an interesting little uh... a little something that occurred now in closing i don't think there's a danger why am i giving away the ending because i'd like to read from the last page of the book with the coming of peace in the south pacific each man needed to find peace on his own terms blamie left no question about his feelings when he presided over the capitulation of the japanese second army in the netherlands east indies he told the japanese in receiving your surrender i do not recognize you as an honorable and gallant foe but others felt differently none of the austrian brigadiers was more fiercely anti-japanese than arnold patz who needed to be leashed in by blamie in the final months of the war placed in charge of bougainville and its prisoners patz ordered a full dress inspection that included seventeen japanese generals and fifteen admirals it was wondered how he would react to everyone's surprise at the conclusion of the proceedings patz exclaimed good show and he shook hands with the conquered he would explain quote many dreadful things have been done during the course of the war by both sides there should not be recriminations after the event once it was over it was over thank you all and any questions please sir those two uh makes it uh happy shut down did i get in 26 uh i think i've got i think i've got it in the book i can't somehow it feels right that sounds right yeah that's quite a accomplishment there was a quite an accomplishment though i i believe that that he added in the the uh the planes that he took out before he was with the americans when he was flying with the flying tigers in china and i think he he threw those in as well so it wasn't all with the american air forces uh any any other questions uh if not just to kind of move things along uh you know when you write a book like this you know it's very hard not to get invested to a certain extent uh with the uh with the characters uh halsey i have to admit that in terms of this period halsey is a great favorite of mine and he's great favorite only for this reason that he does not get enough credit for these 20 months in the south pacific for those of you who don't know the halsey's full story what happens after the south pacific is pretty much subjugated uh in june of 1944 he moves on to command ships again he starts out the war on command of ships and during the centrum period he's just sitting behind a desk at numea he goes back aboard ships and uh to bet actually may i should say three uh he uh allows uh uh the japanese to uh almost inflict to inflict tremendous losses on us at lady gulf that that could have been avoided uh he's lucky because net net at the end of the battle we still are coming out ahead so there's not too much of a fuss that is made during the war uh however our fleet gets caught later in two typhoons well it's been enough to get caught in one typhoon but by the time he's caught in the second typhoon uh there there's a quarter of inquiry uh it's presided over by a very hard known individual named uh geniel john hoover because he was anything except geniel and he wanted to sack uh halsey uh admiral nemesse appreciating his fine services earlier on in the war said no we can't have that and particularly since the war is winding down so that does save halsey but but these are dark clouds that hang over his head and hang over his head among historians who are too ready to not give full cognizance of this one period where he is just absolutely doing an amazingly good job i can't even hit hit on every aspect uh he was so uh it's very interesting that in the magazine that i write for naval history uh there was someone else richard frank very fine writer he had to assess our different navy commanders and he went right down the line in terms of what they were they uh superior average or inferior he had to chop halsey in half he had to take a take the the pre pre-mid 1944 halsey gets the highest marks and the low marks for the second half of halsey so uh you just can't uh you can't just look at somebody and just make a too much of a flat out judgment sir you had a question what were the casualty numbers for the entire moving bill for japanese and for the american uh i think that i i'm pretty sure that i do have the numbers including the australians that they're in my book if you if you come up here i think i can i can show them to you the japanese uh the point i make about the japanese casualties is that bougainville uh has some of the highest you know if you compare it against battles like saipan or others higher profile battles uh a lot of them are not dying battle a lot of them are dying just to malnutrition and and just because it's a very insolubrious environment there uh but the uh the japanese as i recall i think they're their casualties are roughly the same during the uh the austrian phase in the american phase and if you come up here i think i can lay my hands on it pretty quickly further questions yes sir the airstrips were they built by construction battalion maybe uh yes yes and they were there were three in total uh there was the one at cape turkina and then the the two additional strips that were built did a great job yes sir was interesting i was in japan in the early 50s and they had a train came through one of the stations and it was loaded with trucks that had been used in world war two taking them back into the words of japan and staring all around and they were kind of like no but it was the japanese who went back and got that but back and got that yes it's so much different we're just like france if you're throwing stones at us in france southern france we thought what's going to happen to us when we got to japan we got there that people were like the life yes the japanese tend to be very obedient and if the government says obey they will they will obey and uh one thing when i was in the army i put the taxi cab and my friend had made somebody like about generals on the country cab driver pulled right over the cab get out i hope it wasn't a really isolated place he's still out there okay are we there yet any other questions all right thank you very much thank you all


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And here we are on the west side of Longs Peak, and there's Clark's Arrow. A little bee thing faded away, and this is the surrounding area. Pretty gnarly, that's Longs Peak Summit.