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Subject 1: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Iron gate open and close. Timecode In: 00:11:52. Timecode out: 00:12:19. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: John Innes. Timecode In: 00:12:27. Timecode out: 00:27:07. Notes: Battle of Guadalcanal; WWII. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: John Innes. Timecode In: 00:38:42. Timecode out: 00:42:24. Notes: Battle of Guadalcanal; WWII. Equipment Notes: Two-Track Mono; Electrovoice RE50 Dynamic Omni Microphone. Show: Guadalcanal Log of DAT #: 2 (pt109) Engineer: Neal Conan Date: May 27 2002 JI = John Innes NC = Neal Conan :05 Mic test :12 NC This is the ferniculur :15 Colorful bird songs :16 Good morning. you going to take the ride down? I didn't realize we had another guest :35 What are you up to? :37 well I work for a radio station in the states, so I was trying to get the sound of it but I didn't' want to get in your way. There's plenty of time so just go ahead.. :49 birds :55 can I give you a hand with any of that? 1:02 birds chirping, several different birds 1:31 low rumbling noise 2:47 strange mechanical noise, low continuous, birds 3:40 mechanical noise "powers down" 3:51 birds, loud and clear¿ some squawk, some chirp 4:37 more birds 4:50 mechanical "airy" sound, like an air compressor 5:45 clanging, clunking 5:58 getting out of a vehicle, clanging/banging¿ 6:21 LOUD rumbling, stops at 6:32, rusty car door swinging. Sounds like a drier with shoes in it. Loud pounding is regular 7:28 joined by a rattling 8:00 sounds of voices in a foreign language in background 8:32 whistling, sound of a stool/chair being dragged across the ground 9:09 Rumbling, pouding starts again, with a small rattling. 10:05 stop 10:11 birds chirping 11:11 footsteps approach, on a deck or wood 11:25 get further away 11:30 Good morning 11:52 metal clanging, like playground equipment. 12:15 zipping/unzipping of bags 12:28 it's an impressive memorial, this one. 12:31 this one was built for the 50th anniversary, on 1992, 7th august '92 was the official opening. And as you can see it's got remarkable views.. Solomon islands, iron bottom sound, across to Tulagi, slightly hazy today but on a clear day very spectacular. All the shipping in the harbor here, on up to the hills and when they were excavating the site, quite after I suppose you could say, they found the remains of an American, and there's a plaque here for the unknown warrior. There's a further story to this. This was chosen for the sit of the memorial because it had outstanding views. It was the main reason, it was the only reason for it being chosen. But coincidentally, on the 19th of ..18th of august I'm sorry, it was chosen by another group of Americans because it had remarkable views. 5th batt., 1st marines were the first company to cross the Botanico river. They were going to camp on the other side, as a matter of fact they were bivouacking the other side of the river, and their executive officer, George Meade, who's the heir to the Meade fortune in America, the meade family, quite wealthy. He noticed this hill, and he crossed the river, forded the river, inspected the hill, and said 'now that's where we're going to stay the night,' so they came up , and the old company, 5 battalion, 5th marines stayed the night on this hill. The next morning the came under small arms fire from the Japanese from this hill over here where the red roof is, and sgt john Harold brannock was killed, and they moved on to complete their operation which was to move to the mouth of the river and in fact they wiped out a Japanese force there, they killed 65 of them, and indeed that's where they found the remains of the gechi patrol, and they were able to identify some of the members of the gechi.. now interesting when I was doing some inves... (Notes truncated)
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- 3 May 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 3 May 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 3 May 2010 - Ben Brotman