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They were long piers on Guadalcanal
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and we really and trully figured none of us
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will survive err, are there... we were expandable.
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The Japanese navy came in
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and sank all of our escorts.
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The American navy suffered one of their worst defeats in history.
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And our supplies, food
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and most of our reanimation went down with it.
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By September of 1942,