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136 - Marines vs Japanese: Brutal Battles for Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo

50 min•15 september 2025

This is the second episode of our Guadalcanal series with historian and author Dave Holland.

Shoestring invasion planning
Koro rehearsals fiasco
Risking the aircraft carriers vs time to unload the convoy
Crutchley's covering cruisers
Rupertus leads Tulagi
Blue Beach landing
Fighting at "the Cut"
Improvised cave tactics
Gavutu–Tanambogo battles
Tanks combat

Dave is an ex-Marine and was posted to Guadalcananal with the Australian Federal Police.  He regularly leads battlefield study tours through the area. He is a world-leading expert on the battles of Guadalcanal and author of Guadalcanal's Longest Fight - The Pivotal Battles of the Matanikau Front.

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