defending the guadalcanal. of here.that tiny island ere comes the admiral with his well-trained crews. specifically trained for night them. falling upon this laid bare a number of navy's ies in the u.s. fighting spirit and doctrine the board. it laid bare the extent to which was not prepared to fight. a -- the air corps was shoe fleet, the surface its day.yet to see so it was a terrible loss. cruisers. awe when things burn, they lluminate and when they illuminate, they get hit again. that's how the japanese won and eventually icans learned to win in the battles followed. running resupply down what was as the slot. this chain of islands here. you can see it better here. runs would go at night because the americans had on guadalcanal. for an't ready for action weeks. what admiral scott went to in ize is the japanese are an operational straight jacket. ships suitably fast to get in and out after dark, before sunrise, they've got to leave their base at a time.predictable they have to arrive at much shortly etty bea

-guadalcanal navy sailors.s. were killed. 5000 killed in action, three times the number of men in the fighting on the island itself. about whys a question i didn't know that. i think it is constantly obscured. sacrifice of the navy is constantly obscured. they thought bravely for those outnumbered, undersupplied, under armed. they saved the day from the japanese assault. if the navy did not support them adequately, no amount of gallantry of any of the men would have saved them from the face of their brothers. and would have rolled up the navy would have failed to supply them. there is no chance for the marines to hold that island. this is a desperate struggle to resupply the garrison undertaken by both sides. it was run by c. this was a new mode of warfare than america never practiced before, we were learning it on the live. one of the themes is under preparation, rushed schedules. asked to do things that they were never trained to do. new technologies coming into the field that were untested and unrehearsed. deb

. >> admiral nimitz was at guadalcanal and mariana.acarthur surrendered in the philippines. >> macarthur presented more of an emotional argument. >>ize hiz emotional persuasion was enough, and nimtiz offered protection from the north with navy and marine. >> nimitz did command all the marine forces in the pacific. macarthur had the soldiers, the arm army. >> why peleliu? there's a dozen other places you could have gone. why peleliu? >> peleliu was 600 miles north of new guinea, which was where macarthur's forces were moving along the north coast. and it was judged to be necessary to take it, to protect that flank. >> from tulsa, oklahoma, gordon gayle was a 27-year-old marine in 1st marine division. >> nimitz then told the 1st marine division to get ready to go to peleliu. >> when they started forming the marine corporation for world war ii, nobody had ever commanded a division of marines in the field before. the 1st marine division had fought in what we called the banana wars. they became known as the old breed. >> when i joined the m

south pacific command airport air transport command eventually becoming its officer in charge and guadalcanal he was honorably discharged in 1946, didn't retire until 20 years later in 1996 during which time he served as us congressman, us senator and vice president of the united states. as president, richard nixon's commitment to the us military was unwavering. he face the reality of young men being shipped off by the thousands to fight in the jungles of vietnam. facing that challenge, richard nixon focused on negotiating an end to american involvement in vietnam and brought our soldiers home. he negotiated the release of deputies from the hellish prisons of north vietnam and welcome them home in 1973. he ended the draft and instituted today's all volunteer military. today's secretary of defense, jim matus recently visited the nixon library and from this very podium said an enemy on 9/11 thought he could scare us by hurting us. the maniacs who murdered 3000 innocent citizens of our country and 70 other countries that day of all been taught a hard lesson by the all volunteer military that pre

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these interpreters, colonel burton of the army inaugurates the first anglo japanese combat unit in guadalcanal in late 1943. there is a wonderful book about this but it is a struggle. what the missionaries can do as a result of white privilege is they have an opportunity to get voice to something asian that nobody else can get voice to. they do this not only in the government, but they bring in reverse visionaries. it will bring in a japanese evangelistor a tamal from south india and the characters that they can find from broadly represent their ideal of what a forwarder should be like. jimmy yen. chuck hayford has written a book about him. it's an example. this is the ideal chinese. this is a guy who does exactly what the missionaries want with all of his relief projects. the missionaries partly butlitate nonwhite voices, they are in a position to do so because of a prior anti-asian racism which is pervasive in this society. >> madeleine, do you want to speak? >> we also have the case, in the case of chinese, the first chinese get the u.s. degree in 1854. le.s was yet ak you have a growing nu