Even with 80 years of urbanization, you were still able to give us viewers the sensation of how terribly difficult the fighting had to be there. Great work.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for providing this contemporary view of the desperate fighting which occurred on Guadalcanal early in the Pacific War. Your videos are so valuable for those of us not able to visit these historic areas. It's amazing to see the "then and NOW" views of these very important (and seldom seen) areas of the Guadalcanal campaign. THANKS AGAIN
Not sure if anyone else will find this as interesting as I did, but Google maps finally has a street view on guadalcanal. It's only kukum hwy starting at alligator creek up north to hirokowa maru wreck site. For someone like me who will probably never make it out there, it is still kind of interesting seeing what the city looks like now. Honestly have been waiting for a while for a street view lol. And thank you David for your videos as always, didn't mean to divert from your topic. I just figured if anyone would be interested in the street view it would be followers of your channel.
In the Marine Corps, we were taught to use a twig to point out map features just like in this video. Presumably, if the map were captured, the enemy would not be able to see the fingerprint smudge marks on map to determine features the friendly soldiers were pointing at during the briefing. Keep up the good work.
I live near where Anthony Casamento lived. There is a park in the town named after him. I was so happy for him when he finally got the Medal of Honor. It was in all the newspapers.
I was sweating just thinking about humping down one steep jungle hillside, through a ravine, and up another almost vertical jungle hillside without being under fire. Then I tried to imagine doing it under fire! The amazing thing about it is that eventually they did take those Japanese positions. They had to kill just about every Japanese soldier defending them, but they did succeed. At what cost? What were the Marine and Army casualties Dave during this fight here?
There were only around 8000 on the island in 42. They were scattered around the 90 mile area. The site which is now the capital city only has a hundred or so in two villages and plantation houses.
Even with 80 years of urbanization, you were still able to give us viewers the sensation of how terribly difficult the fighting had to be there. Great work.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for providing this contemporary view of the desperate fighting which occurred on Guadalcanal early in the Pacific War. Your videos are so valuable for those of us not able to visit these historic areas. It's amazing to see the "then and NOW" views of these very important (and seldom seen) areas of the Guadalcanal campaign. THANKS AGAIN
Not sure if anyone else will find this as interesting as I did, but Google maps finally has a street view on guadalcanal. It's only kukum hwy starting at alligator creek up north to hirokowa maru wreck site.
For someone like me who will probably never make it out there, it is still kind of interesting seeing what the city looks like now. Honestly have been waiting for a while for a street view lol.
And thank you David for your videos as always, didn't mean to divert from your topic. I just figured if anyone would be interested in the street view it would be followers of your channel.
Wow another superb job!
Showing the bunkers, you can really see how one could walk over top of one and never see it. Thank you Dave. Wonderful, as always.
In the Marine Corps, we were taught to use a twig to point out map features just like in this video. Presumably, if the map were captured, the enemy would not be able to see the fingerprint smudge marks on map to determine features the friendly soldiers were pointing at during the briefing. Keep up the good work.
I use to use the good old piece of pine straw. STA 1/5 Semper Fi
Thank you, as always, for your consistent and excellent material. It is much appreciated!
Enjoyed, looking forward to your next video. Enjoy the holidays
Really appreciate this, my uncle was 8th Marine RGT 2nd Division and was there.
Excellent
Very informative. Thank you
I live near where Anthony Casamento lived. There is a park in the town named after him. I was so happy for him when he finally got the Medal of Honor. It was in all the newspapers.
I was sweating just thinking about humping down one steep jungle hillside, through a ravine, and up another almost vertical jungle hillside without being under fire. Then I tried to imagine doing it under fire! The amazing thing about it is that eventually they did take those Japanese positions. They had to kill just about every Japanese soldier defending them, but they did succeed. At what cost? What were the Marine and Army casualties Dave during this fight here?
As always, BZ Dave!
Not that there is probably good data - but I'm just curious of a rough estimate of the population difference of Guadalcanal in '42 vs now.
There were only around 8000 on the island in 42. They were scattered around the 90 mile area. The site which is now the capital city only has a hundred or so in two villages and plantation houses.