landing that was very, very poorly done, the british, the new zealanders and the australians were niannihilad at tripoli. that is what it was. and he almost lost his job because of that. he was the equivalent of the secretary of the navy for the british. none of the milt, army or air force planned on it being successful so they didn't train for it. but we did train for it. you have heard of smith. he could yell. but, he believed in the concept so he trained and that is why we landed. when we landed, we landed against the beach head and it was said that it couldn't be done and we took that island in 76 hours. it was no larger or the island was no larger than a third thek. and a little over 1,000 people wounded. fortunately, of the killed, a little over 4,000 were japanese. fortunately for us. not for them. but when the general was talking about things happening that you don't expect, the complete general staff of the command was killed on the first day. and nobody knew it. how were they killed? some reason or other, the admiral wanted to change his command post so he got his men together and t