Podcasts about Bumi

Bumi adalah tempat yang stabil, didirikan di atas pemerintahan Tuhan; Laut mewakili kekacauan bangsa-bangsa yang tidak stabil yang dibangun atas kesombongan manusia.

Bumi adalah tempat yang stabil, didirikan di atas pemerintahan Tuhan; Laut mewakili kekacauan bangsa-bangsa yang tidak stabil yang dibangun atas kesombongan manusia.

Pembahasan "Turun ke dalam kerajaan maut" di Perjanjian Lama banyak dibahasa secara negatif karena tidak mencerminkan apa yang Tuhan mau kerjakan di atas Bumi. Untuk itu, kita perlu memahami terlebih dulu apa yang sebenarnya Perjanjian Lama katakan tentang kematian, lalu mengapa kematian Kristus seperti menjadi puncak dari seluruh peristiwa yang dicatat dalam Perjanjian Lama maupun di dalam kehidupan Kristus.

“Kesehatan Gegandhengan karo Pikiran lan Akhlak” ” Kita kudu terus-terusan ngeculake gegeman ing bumi, lan naleni ing swarga”

Kencan Dengan Tuhan - Kamis, 27 Maret 2025Bacaan: "Sebab itu janganlah kamu takut, karena kamu lebih berharga dari pada banyak burung pipit." (Matius 10:31) Renungan: Tempat terdalam di bumi yang ditemukan ialah Palung Mariana dan pertama kali diteliti pada tahun 1951. Palung Mariana adalah jurang yang terletak di dasar laut, tepatnya di sebelah timur Pulau Mariana barat Samudera Pasifik dan dekat Pulau Guam. Titik terdalam Palung Mariana yang disebut Challenger Deep, mencapai 11 kilometer. Jika diukur memanjang, kedalaman Palung Mariana lebih panjang dibandingkan dengan tingginya Gunung Everest, yang menjulang hingga 8.8 kilometer dari permukaan air laut, yang merupakan puncak tertinggi di muka bumi. Menariknya, Palung Mariana diperkirakan terbentuk sekitar 180 juta tahun yang lalu di mana terjadi akibat tubrukan hebat antara lempeng tektonik Pasifik dan lempeng Filipina sehingga menyebabkan retakan yang dalam. Karena begitu dalamnya dasar di palung ini, maka cahaya matahari tak bisa menembus. Meski Palung Mariana adalah jurang terdalam di bumi tetapi ternyata bukanlah titik terdekat dengan inti Bumi. Palung ini kalah dekat dengan inti bumi dibanding jurang laut di Samudra Atlantik. Salah satu orang yang berhasil mencapai kedalaman Palung Mariana dengan menggunakan sebuah kapal selam mini Deepsea Challenger; pada tahun 2012 ialah James Cameron. Menurutnya, titik terdalam bumi ternyata mirip permukaan bulan yang paling terpencil. "Sangat mirip bulan, tempat yang sangat terpencil, sangat terisolasi, "jelas Cameron sang sutradara film Titanic dan Avatar. Selain menjadi tempat berbahaya karena tekanan airnya 1000 kali lebih kuat dari tekanan air dasar lautan lain, ternyata ada tanda kehidupan di sana. Pada ekspedisi tahun 2012, ditemukan beberapa jenis makhluk hidup di sana, yakni amuba raksasa, udang tak bercangkang, dan teripang kerdil. Di awal tahun 2016, para peneliti dunia laut dari AS menemukan spesies ubur-ubur kecil yang memiliki bagian kepala yang bisa bersinar. Karena nyaris tidak terdapat makanan di bawah sana, makhluk hidup tersebut mengandalkan zat kimia, seperti metan dan sulfur untuk membuat makanan. Makhluk hidup di bawah samudra ini, tidak dapat hidup di lingkungan yang berbeda. Dunia ini diciptakan Tuhan dengan segala keindahan dan keunikan, termasuk Palung Mariana. Jelaslah, la sebagai desainer yang agung telah merancang dan menciptakan segala sesuatu dengan ajaib dan dahsyat. Bahkan pemeliharaan-Nya yang sempurna bukan hanya terhadap makhluk hidup di udara dan darat, tetapi juga di dasar laut sekalipun. Pantaskah kita khawatir dengan kebutuhan pangan, sandang, dan papan? Percayalah, di lembah jurang terdalam sekalipun, Tuhan sanggup menolong kita. Jika kita bekerja dan mengandalkan Tuhan, ketahuilah la yang akan memelihara dan memberkati kita. Tuhan Yesus memberkati.Doa:Tuhan Yesus, ajarilah aku untuk tidak khawatir dan selalu mengandalkan Engkau dalam setiap langkah hidupku. Aku percaya, bersama Engkau semua akan baik-baik saja. Amin. (Dod).

What physiological and psychological challenges will astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams face now that they return to Earth? - Tantangan fisiologis dan psikologis apa yang akan dihadapi astronot Butch Wilmore dan Suni Williams sekarang setelah mereka kembali ke Bumi?

Renungan Malam || Langit Baru Bumi Baru || Ps. Steven Liem

BUNYI BUNYI BUMI is a cross cultural collaborative work that celebrates interconnected cultures. Its world premier was presented by Bunjil Place, in association with BlakDance, Asia TOPA 2025, from the 20th to 23rd of Feb in Melbourne. - BUNYI BUNYI BUMI adalah karya kolaborasi lintas budaya yang merayakan budaya yang saling berhubungan. Pertunjukan perdana dunianya dipersembahkan oleh Bunjil Place, bekerja sama dengan BlakDance, Asia TOPA 2025, dari tanggal 20 hingga 23 Februari di Melbourne.

Bumi adalah rumah bersama umat manusia. Jika bumi rusak dan tidak bisa dihuni lagi kemana kita akan pergi. Hingga kini belum ditemukan planet lain yang dapat dihuni manusia. Maka menjaga bumi sebagai tempat yang layak untuk dihuni menjadi tugas setiap manusia. Sayangnya masih banyak orang yang aktifitasnya merusak lingkungan. Namun banyak juga yang sadar akan pentingnya menjaga kelestarian lingkungan diantaranya yang menjadi tamu Kick Andy Show kali ini.

Kebohongan tentang karakter Allah yang dimunculkan oleh ular, lblis itu sendiri. Ular secara langsung membantah apa yang telah Allah katakan, dengan berkata kepada Hawa, "Kamu tidak akan mati", Kej. 3: 4.

Kebohongan tentang karakter Allah yang dimunculkan oleh ular, lblis itu sendiri. Ular secara langsung membantah apa yang telah Allah katakan, dengan berkata kepada Hawa, "Kamu tidak akan mati", Kej. 3: 4.

Michael Bumann, AKA Bumi, is the founder and CEO of Alby, innovative Lightning development company specializing in Lightning interoperability on the web and accessible node infrastructure. Join us to hear about everything going on with Bumi and at Alby!  Connect with Bumi: https://x.com/Bumi Connect with Us: https://www.bitcoininfinityshow.com/ https://bitcoininfinitystore.com https://primal.net/freedom https://primal.net/knut https://primal.net/luke https://twitter.com/BtcInfinityShow https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/lukedewolf Thanks to our sponsors - check out their websites for info: BitBox: https://bitbox.swiss/infinity StampSeed: https://www.stampseed.com/shop/21m-titanium-seed-plate.html Bitcoin Adviser: https://content.thebitcoinadviser.com/freedom ShopInBit: https://shopinbit.com/bitcoininfinity - Use code INFINITY for a €5 discount!    The Bitcoin Infinity Show is a Bitcoin podcast hosted by Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf.

Hai Wonder Kids, kembali dalam renungan anak GKY Mangga besar. Judul renungan hari ini adalah   ALLAH PEDULI KEPADAMU   Mari kita membaca Firman Tuhan dari Matius 6: 26 Pandanglah burung-burung di langit, yang tidak menabur dan tidak menuai dan tidak mengumpulkan bekal dalam lumbung, namun diberi makan oleh Bapamu yang di sorga. Bukankah kamu jauh melebihi burung-burung itu?   Wonder Kids, coba pikirkan tentang bumi ini. Para ilmuwan percaya bahwa bumi memiliki berat  (massa) sebesar enam septillion kilogram. Tahukah kamu bahwa septillion itu nolnya ada 21? Bumi ini memiliki kemiringan tepat di dua puluh satu derajat. Jika bumi miring lebih banyak atau lebih sedikit dari angka tersebut, maka dampaknya adalah salju di Kutub Utara dan Kutub Selatan akan meleleh dan musim di bumi akan berubah secara drastis. Meskipun bumi berputar dengan kecepatan seribu enam ratus kilometer per jam, tidak ada seorangpun yang terjatuh ke ruang angkasa!   Wonder Kids, ketika kamu memandang langit, pikirkan tentang pertanyaan ini: Jika Allah dapat menempatkan bintang-bintang di langit dan menopang langit seperti tirai, apakah menurutmu Allah dapat memimpin hidupmu? Jika Allah cukup berkuasa untuk menyalakan matahari, bukankah Ia juga cukup berkuasa untuk menerangi jalanmu?   Jika Allah mempedulikan planet Saturnus sehingga memberinya cincin atau peduli kepada planet Venus sehingga membuatnya bercahaya, bukankah Ia juga mempedulikanmu sehingga Allah bersedia mencukupi semua keperluanmu? Jawabannya adalah Ya!     MARI KITA BERTUMBUH DI DALAM ANUGERAH TUHAN   Wonder Kids, seperti tertulis di Mazmur 147: 4 bahwa Allah menentukan jumlah bintang-bintang dan menyebut nama-nama semuanya. Maka Allah yang sama sedang menjagamu. Sebagai pengingat, guntinglah karton menjadi berbentuk bintang, tambahkan glitter dan lekatkan tali untuk kemudian gantungkan bintang itu di dekat tempat tidurmu. Ketika kamu akan tidur, pandanglah bintang-bintang itu dan mengucap syukurlah kepada Allah yang sedang menjagamu.    Mari kita berdoa.   Bapa, terima kasih karena Engkau mengasihi setiap makhluk, termasuk burung-burung yang Engkau pelihara. Tolong aku untuk selalu percaya bahwa Engkau akan menjaga dan memenuhi kebutuhanku. Ajari aku untuk tidak kuatir, tetapi selalu bersyukur atas segala berkat-Mu. Dalam nama Tuhan Yesus aku berdoa, Amin.   Wonder Kids, SEPERTI ALLAH YANG MENGHITUNG JUMLAH BINTANG DAN MEMBERI NAMA SETIAP BINTANG. INGATLAH BAHWA KAMU SANGAT BERHARGA DAN ISTIMEWA DI MATA-NYA. Tuhan Yesus memberkati  

Diese Traumreise für Kinder zum Einschlafen ist etwas ganz Besonderes. Dein Kind lernt in der Geschichte Koala Bumi kennen und der entspannte kleine Kerl weiß so einiges über Mitgefühl und Selbstliebe. Die kleine Übung, die Bumi dem Traumreisekind beibringt, nennt sich Metta-Meditation. Sie hilft den Kids nicht nur ihr Selbstwertgefühl zu stärken, sondern auch ein Gefühl der Verbundenheit mit anderen zu entwickeln. Durch diese Traumreise lernt dein Kind Mitgefühl für sich selbst, aber auch für andere zu entfalten. Und das fühlt sich nicht nur verdammt gut an, sondern ist auch etwas sehr Wertvolles! Zauberhafte Träume wünsche ich euch! Eure Kathi Komplett werbefrei findest du diese Episode genau hier: https://bleib-entspannt.com/produkt/koala-kindergeschichte-der-kleine-koala-bumi-empathie-staerken ------------------------------------------------- Individuelle Traumreisen ganz nach den Wünschen deines Kindes gibt es hier: https://bleib-entspannt.com/produkt/einschlafbegleitung-individuelle-traumreise-fuer-dein-kind/ ------------------------------------------------- Hier findest du das zauberhafte Hexe Nuriel Album zum Herunterladen: https://bleib-entspannt.com/produkt/hexen-geschichten-mit-der-kleinen-hexe-nuriel ------------------------------------------------- So funktioniert das Traumreise-Wünschen: https://bleib-entspannt.com/wuensche-erfuellen-in-einer-geschichte-deine-wunschgeschichte/ Hier geht's zum "Bleib entspannt! Linktree" mit allen aktuellen Infos & Links: https://linktr.ee/kathi_klaudel ------------------------------------------------ Website: https://bleib-entspannt.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bleib_entspannt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kathi.klaudel ------------------------------------------------- ❤️ Unterstützung ❤️ Dir gefällt „Bleib entspannt!“ und du möchtest mich unterstützen? Dir ist wichtig, dass ich auch weiterhin kostenlose Meditationen, Silent Subliminals & mehr erstellen und dadurch ein wenig mehr Entspannung, Gesundheit und Glück in die Welt tragen kann? Du kannst mich sehr, sehr gerne unterstützen, indem du den Podcast bei Apple Podcast und YouTube positiv bewertest und ihn abonnierst! Auch bei Spotify, Amazon Music und Audio Now findest du „Bleib entspannt! Der Meditations-Podcast!" Über ein Abo von dir freue ich mich natürlich auch auf diesen Kanälen! Alternativ kannst du mir aber auch gerne einen Chai Latte ausgeben, wenn du magst: https://paypal.me/kathiklaudel oder du schaust in meinem Shop vorbei und gönnst dir ein wenig Entspannung zum Herunterladen: https://bleib-entspannt.com/shop/ Ich danke dir von Herzen für deinen Support & bleib entspannt! Deine Kathi ❤️ ------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: Die Urheberin dieser Podcast-Episode verspricht keine Heilung von Krankheiten oder anderer Leiden durch Hören der Folge. Die zur Verfügung gestellten Informationen geben den eigenen Kenntnisstand der Urheberin wieder. Dieser Track ersetzt keine medizinische oder psychologische Behandlung. Ernsthafte Krankheiten sollten einem qualifizierten Arzt vorgestellt und von diesem behandelt werden. Vor Nutzung dieser Episode sollte im Zweifelsfall ein Mediziner zurate gezogen werden. Die Urheberin übernimmt trotz sorgfältiger Recherche keine Garantie für die Korrektheit, Aktualität oder Vollständigkeit der zur Verfügung gestellten Informationen. Traumreise für Kinder zum Einschlafen - Der kleine Koala Bumi - Geschichte mit Metta Meditation - Gute Nacht Geschichte mit Koala, um Empathie bei Kindern zu fördern - Mitgefühl lernen

Selamat hari lahir ke-100 tahun Bung Pram. Hari ini, tepat 100 tahun yang lalu, Pram kecil lahir di tanggal 6 Februari 1925 di sebuah kota kecil penuh sejarah, Blora. Karya-karya Pram seringkali dikaitkan dengan perlawanan, pergerakan rakyat kecil, dan potret sejarah feodalisme yang terjadi di Bumi manusia. Seolah diamini oleh rakyat Indonesia, karya-karyanya selain membawanya kepada popularitas, juga membawanya ke sudut-sudut penjara dan pengasingan ke tanah-tanah terpencil di Indonesia. Sebut lah pulau Buru, salah satu pulau di kepulauan Maluku. Dia ditangkap dan diasingkan ke pulau Buru pada era Orde Baru karena dianggap sebagai simpatisan dari PKI. Dia dijauhkan dari segala bentuk alat tulis, namun, alih-alih dia menyerah terhadap sastra, pengasingan tersebut justru malah melahirkan salah satu karya terbaiknya, Tetralogi Pulau Buru (Bumi Manusia, Anak Semua Bangsa, Jejak Langkah, dan Rumah Kaca). #SeabadPram #PramoedyaAnantaToer #BumiManusia #Maripadabaca

Kuliah Bahrul Mazi Jilid 21 yang berlangsung di Masjid Abdullah Fahim, Bertam, Kepala Batas, Pulau Pinang pada 8 Januari 2014. ~ Manusia ni, anytime boleh mati ~ Ajal maut ada di atas tengkok manusia ~ Manusia sangat bercita-cita dan berimpian besar ~ Kalau seorang manusia ada dua kawasan yang penuh dengan harta ~ Saat berhentinya tamak dan nafsu manusia (jangan tamak dan haloba) ~ Umur umat Nabi adalah antara 60-70 tahun ~ Sepatutnya gila dunia sudah tidak ada dalam diri ~ Manusia akan dibangkitkan diakhirat berdasarkan saat akhir dia mati ~ Bangkit dalam keadaan ceria dan gembira ~ Jika mati dalam keadaan berdosa maksiat ~ Apabila ajal seseorang ditentukan disesuatu tempat ~ Akan terasa nak pi ke tempat yang ditentukan mati ~ Hari kiamat nanti, bumi akan bercerita kepada Allah ~ Setiap budak yang dilahirkan, ditaburkan tanah di pusatnya ~ Kalau ditaburkan tanah Mekah, akan mati di Mekah ~ Tanah penciptaan Nabi Muhammad, Abu Bakar dan Umar ~ Tempat paling baik untuk mati ialah Madinah ~ Barang siapa yang mampu untuk mati di bumi Madinah, tentu akan diberi syafaat oleh Nabi ~ Istimewanya bumi Madinah, setiap pintu masuk ke Madinah dikawal oleh Malaikat ~ Dajjal tidak akan mampu masuk ke Madinah ~ Tidak akan ada sebarang wabak sebab ianya di pelihara oleh Allah ~ Akan datang kepada manusia, suatu masa, orang nak keluar dari Madinah ~ Nabi kecil hati sangat dengan orang yang tak suka kepada Madinah ~ Madinah seumpama tukang besi, yang membuang karat ~ Mati sedang menghambat kita -- BHARUL MAZI JILID 21 MUKA SURAT 19 -- ~ Bab Tafsir Surah Al-Baqarah ~ Asal kejadian Adam A.S dan manusia ~ Nabi Adam di cipta daripada tanah, kita di cipta daripada pati tanah ~ Nabi Adam dijadikan dari tanah seluruh bumi ~ Ulama-ulama berbincang perkara yang merugikan sehingga bergaduh dan saling mengkafirkan ~ Ilmu tidak membawa kepada kesatuan, tapi perpecahan umat Islam ~ Ketua kepada semua malaikat ~ Anak cucu Adam keluar dalam pelbagai rupa dan warna kulit ~ Rumpun Melayu pun ada pelbagai ~ Anak Pulau Pinang di seberang dan pulau berbeza ~ Poskod Terengganu, kecek Kelate ~ Allah jadikan perbezaan untuk saling kenal mengenal ~ "Celaka hang, lama tak jumpa.." ~ Kisah yang tercatat dalam pelbagai kitab ~ Tawadduknya Sheikh Idris Al Marbawi penulis kitab Bahrul Mazi ~ Rumah saya dekat dengan rumah Ustaz Shamsuri ~ Allah perintahkan kepada tanah untuk dijadikan manusia ~ Manusia serba tak kena, jawatankuasa masjid asyik kena marah ~ Kisah Lukmanul Hakim dengan Keldai ~ Hakikat penciptaan manusia ~ Bumi bercakap kepada Malaikat Jibril ~ Malaikat Jibril tak cukup garang ~ Malaikat Selendang Merah ~ Hang Tuah taat perintah Sultan ~ Kisah Ustaz berceramah di Tv Brunie ~ Fikiran cara otak bodoh masalah "kun faya kun" ~ Bukan semua benda berkaitan agama boleh diterangkan secara logik akal ~ Fikir benda yang Allah tak suruh fikir ~ Kenapa wuduk tak basuh ketiak? ~ Malaikat kagum dengan penciptaan manusia yang sangat cantik ~ Proses evolusi, daripada dinosour jadi mengkarung ~ Iblis masuk ke dalam tubuh Adam ~ Makhluk yang tidak ada sabar, kerana ada rongga ~ Kita hidup umpama putaran roda ~ Hujan dukacita dan sukacita silih berganti ~ Ilmu tentang roh hanya Allah yang tahu ~ Apabila nyawa sudah di gargarah ~ Masuk dengan terpaksa, keluar nanti pun dengan dipaksa ~ "Eyes Activated, macam robocop" ~ Doa syukur bangun tidur ~ Istimewanya Nabi Muhammad ~ Diciptakan manusia dengan sifat terburu-buru ~ Allah ciptakan manusia bagi cantik, kita jangan buat kerja cincai ~ Platform untuk mengajar itu satu amanah ~ Jangan jadi manusia yang tidak bertanggungjawab ~ Kisah sahabat Ustaz terbakar bulu mata ~ Pintu ditubuh badan manusia ~ Hidung tadah air hujan, mati lemas tengah jalan ~ Gigi boleh menyumbang kepada sedap makan ~ Airmuka Nabi sahabat tahu -- Sokong Projek Zonkuliah Dengan Menyumbang Ke Akaun Berikut : ➢ https://payment.tngdigital.com.my/sc/bDLnYClrWk ➢ MAYBANK (Produksi Zonkita) - 557250054584

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Hai Wonder Kids, kembali dalam renungan anak GKY Mangga besar. Judul renungan hari ini adalah   PIKIRKAN TENTANG TUHAN   Mari kita membaca Firman Tuhan dari:   MAZMUR 8:3-4 -Jika aku melihat langit-Mu, buatan jari-Mu, bulan dan bintang-bintang yang Kautempatkan: apakah manusia, sehingga Engkau mengingatnya? Apakah anak manusia, sehingga Engkau mengindahkannya?   Wonder Kids, hari ini coba pikirkan tentang TUHAN. TUHAN itu maha kuasa. Kasih setianya kekal selamanya, begitu juga kreativitas-Nya. Contohnya, kamu bisa melihat bagaimana TUHAN menciptakan alam semesta, merencanakan bagaimana bintang, planet dan galaksi termasuk perputarannya masing-masing. TUHAN bahkan memberi nama kepada setiap ciptaan-Nya.   TUHAN yang sama mengenalmu, dan Ia ingin agar kamu juga mengenal-Nya. Tidak ada yang mustahil bagi TUHAN. Dengan firman-Nya, maka:  - Bumi diciptakan. Kamu dapat membaca kisah ini di  KEJADIAN 1. -  Laut Merah terbelah. Kamu dapat membaca kisah ini di KELUARAN 14. - Matahari dan bulan diam di langit. Kisah ini dicatat pada YOSUA 10: 13 seperti ini, “Maka berhentilah matahari dan bulanpun tidak bergerak, sampai bangsa itu membalaskan dendamnya kepada musuhnya. Bukankah hal itu telah tertulis dalam Kitab Orang Jujur? Matahari tidak bergerak di tengah langit dan lambat-lambat terbenam kira-kira sehari penuh”. -  TUHAN bahkan mengorbankan Anak-Nya agar musuhmu dari dosa dan maut dapat dikalahkan selamanya. Kamu dapat membacanya di 1 KORINTUS 15: 54-57.   Dan yang lebih hebat lagi, TUHAN mengasihimu!   Hari ini, ingatlah bahwa TUHAN ada bersamamu. Carilah TUHAN apapun yang sedang kamu alami. Karena TUHAN adalah pelindung dan TUHANmu. Tidak ada yang perlu kamu kuatirkan.   Mari kita berdoa.   TUHAN, tidak ada yang mustahil bagi-Mu! Aku memuji Engkau dan mengucap syukur karena Engkau mengasihiku. Dalam nama Tuhan Yesus aku berdoa, Amin.   Wonder Kids, HARI INI, PIKIRKAN MENGENAI SEMUA YANG TELAH TUHAN CIPTAKAN. Tuhan Yesus memberkati.

Bumi & Stephan explore the evolution of Alby from a browser extension to a self-custodial Lightning wallet, Alby Hub. The conversation delves into the integration of Nostr for self-sovereign digital identity, security considerations for browser extensions, and the role of LSPs in channel management.  Bumi explains the architecture of Alby Hub, its user experience, and pricing models, emphasizing the importance of integrating Bitcoin into various applications. They also discuss the cost structures associated with Bitcoin services, the optimization of Lightning channels, and the challenges of on-chain payments.  The conversation highlights the importance of merchant adoption and the innovative Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) protocol, which decouples wallets from applications, making it easier for developers. They introduce Alby Go, a mobile application designed for seamless payments, and explore the future of self-custodial solutions in the cryptocurrency space. Takeaways

Kabupaten Sigi, Sulawesi Tengah punya komitmen pembangunan berkelanjutan, yang dituangkan dalam Perda Sigi Hijau. Komitmen ini untuk melindungi kelestarian Sigi yang 70 persennya merupakan kawasan hutan. Sigi juga merupakan anggota Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari (LTKL) atau Asosiasi Kabupaten Berkelanjutan, yang mengedepankan ekonomi hijau melalui semangat kolaborasi multipihak. Motor penggeraknya adalah kalangan muda Sigi yang tergabung dalam komunitas Gampiri. Mereka menginisiasi program inkubasi untuk mengembangkan usaha-usaha lestari. Jurnalis KBR Ninik Yuniati berbincang dengan peserta inkubasi dan orang muda Gampiri tentang efek pengganda ekonomi lestari. Simak kisahnya yang dibacakan Astri Yuana Sari. *Kami ingin mendengar saran dan komentar kamu terkait podcast yang baru saja kamu simak, melalui surel ke podcast@kbrprime.id

Dibawakan oleh Hendrina dan Germanus dari Paroki Santo Damian Bengkong di Keuskupan Pangkal Pinang, Batam, Indonesia. Wahyu 14: 14-20; Mazmur tg 96: 10.11-12.13; Lukas 21: 5-11 TIBA SAATNYA MENUAI   Tema renungan kita pada hari ini ialah: Tiba Saatnya Menuai. Hubungan kita dengan Tuhan dapat digambarkan dalam aneka bentuk dan keadaannya. Salah satunya ialah terkait dengan peristiwa akhir zaman, Tuhan hendak mengadakan kegiatan panen raya. Ia sebagai pemilik kebun atau ladang, para malaikat-Nya sebagai orang suruhan untuk memanen, kebun adalah dunia pada umumnya dan Gereja secara khususnya, hasil kebun adalah kita.   Kegiatan itu harus dilakukan oleh Tuhan karena Dia-lah yang menaburkan semua benih, dengan menaruh setiap orang ciptaan-Nya ke dalam dunia. Tuhan Allah tidak bisa membiarkan kita dinilai, dihakimi dan dimurnikan oleh pihak lain selain Dia. Dalam kegiatan itu, kita manusia adalah pihak yang menjadi buah-buah untuk dipanen. Mereka dipanen pada waktu yang sesuai, seperti yang dikatakan oleh kitab Wahyu dalam bacaan pertama, bahwa sudah tiba saat untuk memanen yang sudah masak. Yesus juga menyinggung tentang tiba saatnya, ketika akhir zaman itu terjadi, tetapi tampaknya jauh lebih dahsyat daripada sekedar panen. Bumi dan langit ini diliputi tanda-tanda yang luar biasa.   Saat itu ialah akhir zaman, dan bagi kita merupakan saat-saat terjadinya penghakiman terhadap setiap pribadi kita, berdasarkan perilaku hidup kita di dunia. Seorang ibu rumah tangga memberikan nasihat kedua anak laki-lakinya yang sudah remaja begini: “Berusahalah untuk selalu jujur dan jauhilah kejahatan apa pun bentuknya. Karena Tuhan mempunyai malaikat-malaikat yang mengawasimu setiap saat, mulai dari pikiranmu, rencanamu, dan tindakanmu yang nyata.   Para malaikat itu mencatat semuanya. Nanti pada saatnya penghakiman terakhir, akan dibacakan semua tindakanmu itu. Semua perbuatan dan perilakumu di dunia akan membuktikan sendiri, apakah kamu sebagai seorang pribadi manusia yang baik, yang normal, atau yang jahat. Setiap kualitas baik, normal dan jahat kemudian mendapatkan ganjaran dari Tuhan”. Nasihat tersebut sang ibu tulis kepada setiap anaknya ketika bersekolah di tempat yang jauh dari rumah dan orang tua.   Kedua putra tersebut selalu membawa nasihat itu sepanjang hidup dan pekerjaan mereka. Mereka masing-masing membangun keluarga, dan nasihat yang sama diteruskan mereka kepada anak-anaknya. Betapa bijaksananya kita di dalam keluarga, komunitas, dan kelompok persekutuan masing-masing, yang saling mengingatkan akan pentingnya akhir zaman. Kita tidak menunggu saja untuk dijelaskan atau diingatkan oleh Uskup, imam, biarawan atau seorang pewarta. Namun kita sungguh merasa bahwa seseorang yang kita kasihi di dalam keluarga atau masyarakat perlu diingatkan akan datangnya akhir zaman. Marilah kita berdoa. Dalam nama Bapa... Ya Allah, semoga Roh-Mu selalu menerangi kami tentang kenyataan akhir zaman bagi kami. Kemuliaan kepada Bapa dan Putra dan Roh Kudus... Dalam nama Bapa...

Karunia Alloh dan Solusi Bagi Penduduk Bumi (Pengantar Ekonomi Islam) - Ustadz Dr. Hawari, Lc., M.E.I. | Ekonomi Islam

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Buku "Kepemimpinan di Bumi Baru: Menjadi Pemimpin Kristiani di Tengah Dunia yang Terus Berubah" (Victor P.H. Nikijuluw, Aristarchus Sukarto)

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Publik Korsel diramaikan dengan pelarangan lagu APT. dari Rose dan Bruno Mars bagi pelajar, hal ini berkaitan dengan mendekatinya ujian nasional di Korsel. Lho, emang ada apa sih dengan lagu APT.? Emangnya punya efek candu kayak napza? Yuk lah kita geboy buat bahas fenomena earworm yang sering banget hadir di keseharian kita. Sebenernya gak ada yang salah dari lagu APT., bahkan lagunya terbukti sukses. Di YouTube aja, video klipnya udah ditonton 256 juta kali ketika aku record. Kebayang kan kesuksesan APT. di mata industri musik Korsel? Atlantic Records yang menaungi Rose dan Bruno Mars udah jelas ketiban durian runtuh akibat kesuksesan lagu APT., bayangin aja, lagu ini bukan hanya memuncaki tangga lagu Korsel dan Amrik doang, sampe ke 40 region lain seantero Bumi. Merujuk The Black Label, agensi ROSE, lagu ini bahkan sukses menginjak angka 100 juta pendengar di platform Spotify dalam tujuh hari. Hal ini membuktikan keberhasilan ROSE sebagai salah satu bintang kpop terpopuler masa kini. Tapi, akankah keberhasilan APT. bakal menyusul kesuksesan Gangnam Style dari PSY? Kita tunggu saja… Selengkapnya, dengarkan sampai habis!

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Close The Door Podcast bersama Coki Pardede & Tretan Muslim

Much like the sun setting on a seaside town, season 8 draws to a close with the raucous cries of seagulls as we take on a newspaper article that set out to find Britain's hardest gulls. It wouldn't be How many geese? though if we didn't meander to Melbourne or detour to Darwin, and true to form our friends down under have their own tales to tell of tackling seaside seagull shenanigans in trying to keep snacks on the shoreline safe*.  That's not all, as Roddy fights a bird so obscure that not only was Jack unaware of it....but it might not even exist at all!  We learn about a photographer who truly went above and beyond the call of duty with MPB, and BOS UK keep us up to date on orangutan shenanigans as we check in on the show's swinging son Bumi.  Lastly, a magnificently crafted listener question sees us assemble a team of earth's finest to defend the world from planetary attack - with none other than a certain pygmy superstar being called upon to unite the team.  Need more geese? Our Patreon is up and running - come join the flock for extra episodes and your chance to appear on the show! https://www.patreon.com/howmanygeese  In need of camera gear? You can check out our show sponsors MPB Here http://www.mpb.com/  To learn more about the work BOS UK do to save orangutans, and adopt your very own, head over to https://bos-uk.org/bumi-geese/    (*DMs are open on the Instagram page for whoever can get more alliteration in a show description for us)  

We've accidentally curated an episode laden with slime as we talk all things deep sea and mucus! Following last week's chat that went to the roof of the world in search of how yak's can live so high, we've done a full 180 and are going deep, deep DEEP down in the sea to understand why life there is just so difficult and hear about some of the crazily named fish that call the ocean depths home.  Sticking with the (genuinely accidental) theme, Roddy fights a lungfish, Jack recaps what it takes to photograph a coelacanth in the MPB segment and we possibly bite off more than we can chew in trying to work out which animal has the snottiest nose... It's not all slime and sea though - as we stick firmly to dry land in checking in on our adoptive son Bumi the orangutan courtesy of BOS UK In need of camera gear? You can check out our show sponsors MPB here http://www.mpb.com/  To learn more about the work BOS UK do to save orangutans, and adopt your very own, head over to https://bos-uk.org/bumi-geese/  Need more geese? Our Patreon is up and running - come join the flock for extra episode and your chance to appear on the show! https://www.patreon.com/howmanygeese 

Melalui Astrobiologi para ilmuwan mencari kehidupan di luar bumi. Hal ini memerlukan pemahaman tentang kehidupan, dan sifat lingkungan yang mendukungnya, serta planet, sistem planet dan interaksi serta proses bintang. Namun untuk tujuan apa pencarian itu?

Aang heads to Omashu to take care of the Bumi, Jet, Secret Tunnel, and Mechanist plotlines with a dash of Tales of Ba Sing Se on the side. Peter and Eli give their takes on what works (more than usual!) and what didn't work. This is episode 65 of Avatar: The First Viewing, the podcast where two first time viewers and a series veteran watch Avatar: The Last Airbender from start to finish. We go episode by episode to recount Aang's story. If you're a fan of ATLA or The Legend of Korra — or are watching for the first time — join us as we recount the series!

Audio Siar Keluar Sekejap Episod 105 antaranya membincangkan Perutusan Negara oleh PMX malam tadi.Episod ini turut membincangkan tentang pembukaan UiTM kepada bukan Bumiputera untuk program kardiotoraks.Keluar Sekejap turut mengulas tentang penswastaan MAHB yang berkai dengan Blackrock.Bagi yang berminat menaja episod Keluar Sekejap untuk 2024, boleh hubungi+601119191783 atau emel kami di taja.keluarsekejap@gmail.com.

Kajian Program Lingkungan PBB menunjukkan manusia memproduksi 400 ton sampah plastik setiap tahun. Hari Bumi 2024 mengajak warga mengurangi limbah ini hingga 60% pada tahun 2040. Sementara terkait konflik Iran-Israel, pakar menilai serangan Israel ke Iran untuk memperluas konflik Timur Tengah.

A roller coaster ride through Omashu that leaves you questioning - How did they channel the animated fun into these high-stakes, live-action sequences? That's just a glimpse of the exciting dissection we have in store as we discuss the latest episodes of the earth-shattering series "Avatar: The Last Airbender."Dive into the nuances of a world where the bending of elements reflects the complexities of its characters. This episode peels back the layers of the alterations, specifically around the secret tunnel's wall, and how they reshape the original narrative. We debate the darker tones in the new adaptation, from Bumi's aggressive stance to Jet's morally ambiguous journey, and whether these shifts deepen the lore or dilute the essence.Join us as we discuss Aang's capture, Iroh and Zuko's familial ties, and the absence of Sokka and Katara's "creeping crystal" escapade, which we might have kept for its sheer, crystalline charm. And remember to stay till the end for a spirited chat about those cut episodes – were they really non-essential filler or missed opportunities for rich character development?DISCLAIMER: Spoiler alert! "We're Too Literary" will dive deep into the folds of the narrative, characters, and world-building aspects of the media we dissect. Our conversations are filled with analysis and reimagining, which are crucial for offering our take on how the story unfolds. Thanks for tuning in and getting literary with us.

TTYL is excited to announce the official launch of #TTYLReligi, a vertical dedicated to discussing issues and seeking opinions from Islamic perspectives and Asatizah. Sempena bulan Ramadan ini, dengarkan perbualan santai berserta nasihat-nasihat keagamaan bagi panduan dan refleksi diri untuk kehidupan seharian. Opposite attraction in marriage Apa wajar kita buat bila nak komen isu viral rumah tangga orang di social media Perihal bergaduh antara antara suami isteri Bumi mendengar apa yang kita cakapkan Barrier dengan asatizah: salah siapa? Macam mana boleh jadi asatizah cool dan chill? Mastika pernah jadi majalah intelektual Metodologi dakwah berbeza mengikut ustaz Ya Hanana bukan selawat? Check tahiyat akhir korang! Ustaz adalah standup comedian? CREDITS Podcasters: Nell Hanan (@soimnell) and Zul Zamir (@zul.zamir) Guests: Ustaz Akhil Hayy (@ustaz_akhilhayy) & Waheeda (@scarlett_requiem) Editor & Sound Engineer: Zul Zamir Jangan lupa rate TTYL dengan 5 stars di Spotify. Let us know if you enjoy this episode and follow our official podcast Instagram ⁠⁠@ttylpodcast⁠⁠. Gunakan common sense dan bahasa yang beretika ketika meninggalkan komen di laman sosial ⁠⁠#TTYLcult⁠⁠

In this episode, Khari and Mike discuss their excitement and concerns about the live action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. They share their personal fandom and rank the series among their favorites. The hosts also discuss the importance of getting the characters right and the challenges of adapting an animated series to live action. They highlight standout moments from the live action adaptation and discuss the character development of Sokka and Katara. The hosts also touch on the impressive waterbending scenes and the fan service done right in the adaptation. The conversation covers various aspects of the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. They discuss the importance of showing Aang's waterbending skills, favorite and surprising castings, Bumi's arc and portrayal, Zuko's character and casting, choreography and fight scenes, anticipation for Season 2 and Toph's introduction, and a debate on Aang vs. Korra. They conclude with their overall rating of the show and excitement for the next season.

In Episode 23 of the Crossroads of Destiny podcast, Chelsea, Andrew, and Melanie talk about Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 2 Chapter 3, “Return to Omashu”! Crossroads of Destiny on Apple Podcasts Stats Book 2, Chapter 3 “Return to Omashu” Directed by: Ethan Spaulding Written by: Elizabeth Welch Aired on: April 7, 2006 Animated by: DR Movie Contact Crossroads of Destiny Email - xroadspod@gmail.com Twitter - @xroadspod Facebook - http://facebook.com/xroadspod/ Chelsea Twitter - @ChelseaCC_17 The Cinescope Podcast An American Workplace Podcast Andrew Lol social media Melanie Instagram - @melanieamanda44

Join the From the Spirit World crew as they recap & review the new Netflix live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series! This time, our discussion on Episode 4 “Into the Dark” talking about Bumi, the lack of Kataang, & more. […]

The 7th Bumiputera Economic Congress or BEC 2024 will begin on Thursday, the latest government attempt to revamp the long-running, and contentious, bumiputera economic empowerment agenda. Will the congress critically examine the discrepancy between aspiration and reality in the bumi agenda, and how might it chart new ground? We discuss with our panel of experts.

"Secret Tunnel," Bumi, Cabbages - the whimsy is back!Riki Hayashi and Paul Hoppe join host Matthew Fox to talk about episodes 3-4 of Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.Topics we discuss include:The show is starting to capture more of the original's whimsy and charm while still being a bit darker and more "grimdark."Zuko's characterization and his relationship with Iroh.The writers cram a lot of story arcs from multiple episodes into just two.Side characters like Teo are given strong representation and well-acted emotional moments.Is this portrayal of Jet more or less sympathetic than the original?Introducing Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai this early undercuts tension and menace later on.The challenges of adapting animation to live-action and child actors growing up over a long production.Possibilities for extending the story past the original three seasons.We've started the conversation. Now we want to hear from you!Want to continue the discussion with us? Agree or disagree with what we talked about, or add your own thoughts? We've got options for you!Email: ✉️ Matthew@TheEthicalPanda.com

Dax woke up to a crappy situation, Adam's got a home theater problem and may have been kicked off the committee of entertainment, and Dax talks about how and what Bumi might pivot to become, and the lessons they've learned from the experience.Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.Links:MoonbowBumi (@withbumi) / XRocket MoneyLinear – A better way to build productsScreens - StewartJBL SCL-6 SpeakersLetterboxd • Social film discovery.The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)Topics discussed: (00:00) - This is Me Trying (01:02) - Waking up to a lovely smell (05:11) - Sleeping as a superpower (07:00) - Learning new natural phenomenons (10:27) - Learning from Bumi about building for others (18:14) - What Bumi could become instead (27:16) - Serverless apps on maintenance mode (34:27) - Home theater woes (41:03) - Being moved to the committee of entertainment (48:50) - Deciding on what movies to watch

Michael Bumann (aka Bumi) is a Lightning network developer best known for working on Joule and creating Alby. Today, Alby is one of the most popular wallets for sending and receiving Nostr zaps. In this episode, he explains more about his work & vision.

Last time we spoke about the Huon Gulf offensive. The Japanese until now had not considered their losses at Guadalcanal and Buna-Gona as irretrievable, but with the loss of Salamaua and Lae there was a brutal realization they were going to have to pull back their defensive line. The absolute defense line was established as the entire empire of the rising sun took two steps back. Meanwhile General Douglas MacArthur and the allied war planners decided to revise operation Cartwheel. The enemy was in disarray and this provided an opportunity to keep them off balance and maintain the momentum. They decided to launch an offensive against the Huon Peninsula, to hit places like Finschhafen. The offensive began with another bang as forces landed and advanced to seize immediate objectives to the misery of the retreating Japanese.  This episode is Drive to Finschhafen  Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  Before we leap back over to New Guinea, we first need to talk about some developments in the Solomons. Admirals Kusaka and Samejima were about to launch Operation Se-Go, the evacuation of Kolombangara. Now after the battle of Vella Lavella, Brigadier Potter's 35th battalion was closing in on the Marquana Bay area by September 26th. Potter sent two New Zealander Platoons as a vanguard. To face them, Captain Tsuruya had organized his meager forces and successfully surrounded the New Zealander Platoons. This began a fight for the New Zealander's survival that would last until October 2nd. Worried about the fate of his two platoons, Potter ordered Lt Seward with 3 companies to rescue the platoons. Seward described the endeavor as running straight into a hornets nest. They ran straight into some Japanese machine gun positions, which they nicknamed Machine Gully, and it cost them 18 dead and 10 wounded. Tsuruya managed to halt their advance using Machine Gully, which was a dense rainforest concealing his men. On October 2nd, the two platoons were finally rescued. The horrible casualties prompted Potter to halt attacks until every landing craft could bring over the 37th battalion from Tambala bay to hit the other side. The 37ths movement down the rugged coast would be sluggish, giving the Japanese ample time to prepare for the evacuation of the Tsuruya unit. Meanwhile General Sasaki and Admiral Ota were getting their forces ready for the evacuation. Each unit was responsible for its supply and had to carry enough rations to last until october 5th. All the troops had to carry their weapons and as much ammunition as they could, while medical supplies were divided amongst them. Mountains guns, quick fire guns, heavy machine guns could be disassembled and carried if possible, everything else was to be destroyed. And I mean everything, even street signs were destroyed. Sasaki moved all the wounded to the north shore of Kolombangara who were to be the first loading onto the destroyers. Ota was in charge of all matters related to the embarkation such as communications; locating hiding places for the barges and loading which would take place between September 28-30th. They were expecting to evacuate 7660 men in all. Operation Se-Go began on the 27th, as General Yoshimura's barges headed for Kolombangara in separate groups and Admiral Ijuin prepared his force of 11 destroyers to run towards the northern coast the following day. Only one of Yoshimuras groups led by Commander Tanegashima were intercepted as they headed down the slot. 5 destroyers, the USS Claxton, Spence, Dyson, Foote and Charles Ausburne led by Captain Martin Gillan pounced on the force destroying 4 barges, but the rest eventually escaped to Kolombangara by the 28th with the other groups. Ota hid the barges as he awaited Ijuins destroyers. Ijuin's force were spotted by a PBY due northeast of Green Island, prompting Generals Moore and Twining to launch an air raid. A strike force of radar equipped B-24's of the 394th bombardment squadron intercepted Ijuin's destroyers as they were passing Bougainville strait. None of their bombing attempts found a hit luckily for Ijuin. Meanwhile the barges began to depart up the slot towards Choiseul seeing zero opposition. At Tuki point the barges awaited the destroyers before the loading process began. The only major mishap would occur when the commander of the barges carrying 735 men from Jack Harbor to board the Amagiri steered too widely, missed the signal light from the destroyers and began heading for Vella Lavella. By the time they figured out the mistake and returned to the loading area, the destroyers were gone, with only 1950 men aboard. With the 1950 men aboard, Ijuin's destroyers made their first dash, but would be intercepted again, this time by 27 B-24's. The strike was thwarted by Zero fighter escorts and bad weather allowing Ijuin to arrive safely at Buka by the 29th. After this, the Americans were now fully alert to what was going on and responded by bombing Choiseul. At 9:15am on the 29th, Kakasa was attacked by 17 Dauntless, 12 Avengers and 56 fighter escorts. Destroyers Patterson, McCalla, Foote and Ralph Talbot led by Captain Frank R Walker were sent up the slot to hunt barges as well. On september 29th, Tanegashima headed for Choiseul with 11 barges carrying 1100 men. At 10:30 the Americans found them. There was no moon that night, and frequent rain squalls dotted the slot. Upon seeing the Americans, Tanegashima ordered the barges to scatters and Walker detached McCalla to hunt a small group while the rest of his force hit a larger one. Yano, whose battalion was on the barges recalled his barge running at full speeds as shells flew all around them. No barge was sunk or seriously damaged as they made a quick escape. Thus the first stage of operation Se-Go saw the rescue of over 6000 men, relying on the combination of surprise and gambling to be honest. But 25 barges were lost in the process. For stage 2 Samejima would reinforce the surviving 43 barges and 5 vedettes with 3 torpedo boats and two other armed boats. Yoshimura and Ijuin planned to toss 3 destroyers Kazagumo, Yugumo and Akigumo to be a diversion for the Americans. On the other side, Admiral Halsey ordered Admiral Merill's task force 39 consisting of Light cruisers Montpelier and Denver; and destroyers Eaton, Waller, Cony, Renshaw, Spence, Claxton, Dyson, Selfridge and Charles Ausburne, to sweep the slot. Commander  Chandler with four destroyers, Pringle, Saufley, Radford and Greyson was in the lead, followed by Merrill with two cruisers and nine destroyers.  On the night of October 1st, while Yoshimura's barges were leaving Choiseul en route to Kolombangara. The Americans spotted the decoy destroyers northwest of Choiseul at 9:20 via a VP-54 Black Cat that began tailing the force as it heading in the direction of Vella Lavella. Now Merill had orders to not risk his cruisers unless heavy Japanese units were found, so he turned back and allowed Wilkinson's destroyers to advance. The American chased the decoy towards Vella Lavella as Yoshimura's barges went by relatively unmolested, though a small group of barges would be fired upon by US destroyers, losing 2 in the process. On the morning of October 2nd, Ijuin departed Rabaul with 9 destroyers and at Vila, the Yokosuka 7th guns would fire their last rounds before moving towards the coast. That night, Ijuin approached Kolombangara as Tanegashima awaited with 2100 men to be transported onto the destroyers. They managed to load 145 men by 10:35, but then the destroyers were forced to pull back as Americans had been spotted in the slot. Tanegashima nonetheless, headed for Sumbe Head with the rest, 600 men in all.  Commander Harold O. Larson with three destroyers, Ralph Talbot, Taylor and La Vallette dashed across the slot to hit barges. Largson located the barges and began firing upon them when Ijuin's destroyers appeared at 10:42. The Americans closed in on the Japanese and fired torpedoes at 11:25 scoring no hits. They then opened fire with their guns targeting the Minazuki. The Japanese scattered, prompting a chase, but it fell into nothing by midnight. In the end the Americans managed to sink 5 of Tanegashima barges. With that the Japanese had successfully completed operation Se-Go rescuing 4000 men in the second stage, for a near total of 10,000 men in all. The Japanese had truly proved themselves capable evacuatee's if that is a word, with the evacuation of Guadalcanal, Kiska and Kolombangara. That's all for the Solomon's as now we need to venture back to Green Hell. Poor General Adachi's 18th army was not giving a single break. Just a week after the fall of Lae, General MacArthur's southwest pacific area had launched two new offensives aimed at the Ramu Valley and Finschhafen. Operation Cartwheel had initially scheduled an offensive against the Huon Peninsula to take place 6 weeks after the taking of Lae, but MacArthur pushed this forward due to intelligence indicating the Japanese were in the process of sending heavy reinforcements from Madang to aid Ramu Valley and Finschhafen. The first objectives for the allies were Kaiaput and Dumpu in the Markham and Ramu valleys where airfields could be constructed to help General Kenney extend his arm. Lack of air and naval capability meant the Japanese would be forced to march nearly 200 miles to reach places like Finschhafen with reinforcements, giving MacArthur ample room to hit the port before they could.  Now in the previous episode we saw Brigadier Windeyer successfully land is forces at Scarlet Beach, with the 2/17th advancing further to secure the Song River area; the 2/15th captured Katika and the 2/13th were advancing southwards towards Heldsbach and Tareko. Just like at Lae, the Japanese were taken completely off guard by the landings, prompting General Adachi to order General Yamada to hit the enemy at the most opportune moment while General Katagiri's 20th division were quickly dispatched on 20 large barges for a coastal advance. Katagiri's men reached Sio by barge on September 21st and from there he dispatched his 2nd battalion, 79th regiment with 3 machine gun platoons and an artillery company to the Kalasa-Kelanoa area while the rest would concentrate around the Sio area until september 30th. Yamada ordered his forces to concentrate at the Sattelberg mountains, a important point 1000 meters above sea level which dominated the Finschhafen area. It was hoped holding such a point would allow a launching pad for future counter offensives. Meanwhile Windeyer ordered the 2/15th battalion to lead an advance towards the Bumi river while the 2/13th consolidated at the Heldsbach plantation Launch Jetty area. Yet Wootten also gave Windeyer that task of securing Sattelberg, so he ordered Lt Main's company of the 2/17th with an additional platoon for the job. On September 24th, Main signaled “Coy less one pl now approx 3 miles along main track and proceeding to Sattelberg. Patrol P.I.B moving ahead of coy”. Sattelberg was an interesting spot to defend. It was initially a 19th century German mission, about 5 miles inland with a height of 3150 feet. It offered a birds eye few of the coastal area making it a particularly important point. Allied intelligence misjudged how inaccessible it was and there was the belief its occupation was merely a method of guarding one's right flank. Yamada's men were easily able to slip into Sattelberg via the Tirimoro, Gurunkor and Kunawa, this certainly would not be the same case for the allied forces. On September 22, the 22nd battalion had departed Hopoi. They marched through a swampy terrain towards Wideru without opposition. By 8am on the 23rd, they saw their first signs of the Japanese occupation. They also ran into locals who began reporting to them the Japanese had spent the night at Buiengim. At 1:35pm they reached Bua where leading troops had a small skirmish with a Japanese outpost which quickly withdrew. By 4pm part of the Australian forces seized a steep ridge where the track cut around 250 yards east of Bua. When it began to get dark they began to be fired upon from a mountain gun. The fire was coming from an area near the mouth of the Mongi river. Meanwhile the 2/15th battalion were advancing along a coastal track with its leading platoon reaching the mouth of the Bumi by midday. The river looked to be fordable, what they didnt know was two mixed companies of the 85th naval garrison had fortified and wired positions on its southern bank. When the Australians began crossing they were fired upon, prompting Lt Shrapnel to order 6 3 inch mortars to be brought up to support the Bumi crossing. The battalion continued their advance along the foothills of the Kreutberg Range. This was the first time any units of the 9th division apart from the 2/24th battalion and some individual companies had done any hill-climbing on New Guinea. It was a very tough initiation. There was no track and zero water, the force had to cut their way for about 800 yards through dense jungle and then go up a slope so steep that any man carrying a heavy load had to have it passed up to him. Several tin hats clattered down the hillside and the stretcher bearers left all but two stretchers going half way up. The unsexy stuff about war, but terrain can be just as much of an enemy to you and your objective than the actual enemy. They reached the crest of the ridge, took a breather and then began advancing south. The next day the 2/13th began to join them, allowing the 2/15th to move off towards the Bumi. However to their amazement, upon reaching the river at 10am, they found it unoccupied on the southbank. Barbed wire was seen, but no Japanese. Then as they advanced some more they were fired upon, it was a deception. A company led by Captain Snell was ordered to cross the river to create a beachhead on the opposite bank. The men entered the waist deep water further down, seeing one man killed by enemy fire. Bullets were flying around as the Australians were providing cover fire. As the men crossing went further down they found an area not occupied by the enemy and formed a bridgehead. From there more men were able to safely get across. However the position under pouring rain forced the Australians to improvise. They had a supply issue and needed better access, so they cut a track around the foothills to the bridgehead positions. The difficulty was that the rain had really begun to kick in and it was causing enormous delays. Windeyer ordered a jeep track to be established from the coastal track due north of Kamloa to the bridgehead to compensate. A platoon of the 2/3rd pioneers and some men of the 2/17t7, 2/13th and 2/15th were employed to carry supplies along the current path until the track was made to their misery.   On September 25th Lt Mair led a patrol of the 2/13th out to deal with some troublesome enemy mortars to the east. At around 9am they found a Japanese outpost 20 feet above them. They were fired upon losing 2 men dead and 4 wounded. The enemy was firing from some bunkers and foxholes with barbed wire coming up from the river. Other patrols were made prodding the area as the 2/3rd field company and the pioneers of the 2/15th finished cutting the new jeep track. When the track was completed, Windeyer ordered the men to not advance south of the Bumi for another two days to allow more supplies to be brought up near the river crossing. Back over at Scarlet beach, Japanese aircraft were striking them early in the morning as allied aircraft hit airfields on New Britain. At 12:30pm on September 24th, a Japanese airforce of 12 bombs and 20 Zeros hit Australian positions at the north end of the airstrip. Artillery pieces that had been pounding Kakakog and the Salankaua plantation areas were hit hard. 60 or so bombs were dropped leading to 18 gunner casualties and the 2/3rd field company had 14 deaths and 19 wounded. Despite the airstrikes, by September 25th there was something worse to worry about emerging from the west. After the 2/17th began its advance to Sattelberg which Papuan infantryman had reported was unoccupied, it soon became apparent this was false. After passing 800 yards beyond Jivevaneng, the same papuan infantry could visually see the Sattelberg area was anything but unoccupied, it was heavily fortified. Now the 2/17th were still on the merry way to Sattelberg none the wiser, in fact they reached Jivevaneng and mistook it to be Sattelberg, not realizing they had to cross a place called Coconut Ridge to get to Sattelberg. Windeyer received brand new reports from the Papuans that Sattelberg was heavily fortified while simultaneously the 2/17th vanguard patrols ran into some forward defensive lines around Sattelberg. The 2/17th patrols were hit hard by mortars and grenades forced to pull back quickly. Windeyer decided he was stretched to thin in the area so he ordered everyone to pull back to Jivevaneng. The Japanese now saw the Australian presence on the Sattelberg Road, General Yamada planned an offensive against Heldsbach to cut the enemy off north of Arndt Point. Meanwhile by 2pm, Colonel Grace of the 2/13th was ordered to seize Snell's Hill a high ground southeast of the bridgehead. By 9am some platoons were patrolling the area, when Lt Webb's platoon ran 400 yards into a Japanese position sitting on a Spur controlling a track from Tirimoro. Lt Webb reported it in prompting Colonel Grace to call in for support. The men would be facing around 150 men of Yamadas 85th naval garrison.   Two companies of the 2/15th took up the job and would begin by literally falling and tumbling 150 yards from their assembly line. They were tripping over vines, bamboo and heavy timber descending down a valley. When they got 450 yards from the slope of Snell's Hill they were pretty exhausted. However Yamada's naval troops gave them no time to take breath as they began lobbing grenades down at them. Luckily the grenade shower was rather ineffective. The Australians used cover fire as they could not hope to toss grenades them themselves lest they tumble back down upon their charging men. The Australians charged up the slope bayonets fixed and as they came to its summit, many of the Japanese turned and fled. Sergeant Fink took his men through a kunai patch to try and hit the Japanese rear, managing to clear some machine gun nests in the process. During his sweeping maneuver 10 casualties were inflicted upon the Australians. Finks men drew a lot of the enemy fire, relieving pressure from the others who led a frontal and left wing attack. Over on the left wing Captain Stuarts men charged through some kunai grass overrunning two 13 mm machine gun nests. 40-50 Japanese panicked upon seeing this and ran back to an observation post. Soon the Australian platoons began to consolidate and applied pressure. Stuarts advanced in what he termed “an extended line-desert formation, not in a file according to orthodox jungle tactics”. Three 13mm guns were captured, 7 LMGS, a ton of mortars and rifles and 52 Japanese would be buried on the summit. It was an intense actions seeing potentially 100 casualties inflicted by the 2/15th who in return had 3 deaths and 7 wounded.   While the 2/15th had been tackling Snell Hill, the 2/13th tried to cut across the Tirimoro track to another high ground called Starvation Hill. Around 5 minutes after the Snell battle started, some gunfire could be seen coming over from the other high ground. A few platoon of the 2/13th were immediately ordered to check it out. As the men advanced along the Tirimoro track they came across thick vegetation along the slope going up to Starvation Hill. Companies 7 and 8 of the 238th were defending Starvation Hill and they held a great field of fire looking down. The men began to crawl through it going up along the slope. Men were on their hands and knees going through thick bamboo, the progress was slow and noisy because the bamboo would make sharp snapping sounds. The two leading platoons took what cover they could as a storm of fire erupted. Japanese LMG's were opening up forcing the Australians to try and pull back safely 150 yards and hunker down for the night. 9 men were cut down during the mayhem.  Over in the north, Yamada ordered the 3rd battalion, 80th regiment to hit Scarlet Beach. Enroute to Scarlet beach was Major Pike's company of the 2/17th who were guarding the approaches to the beach from Katika. Pike had sent a small patrol out and 2500 yards to the west they ran into patrols of Yamada's force. At around midday, 30 Japanese attacked a position west of Katika held by Lt McLeod. Two Japanese were killed, including an officer who had a marked map and what looked like an operation order on him. To the south Windeyer received a report of what was going on and ordered Pike to send out a stronger patrol to hit and locate the enemy so their artillery could fire upon them. A platoon went out in the afternoon and after 2000 yards or so found the enemy and ordered the artillery fire in. The platoon was met with heavy fire, leading Sergeant Brightwell to be shot dead as the men pulled back to Katika. Thus Yamada's plans to hit Scarlet Beach quickly dissolved into back and forth patrol skirmishes in the Sattelberg and Katika areas.   The new threat to the west, forced Windeyer to request reinforcements. Reluctantly, General MacArthur and Admirals Barbey and Carpender authorized the sending of reinforcements to an area they had assumed had a small enemy presence. General Herring met with Barbey aboard the Conyngham informing him Finschhafen would required an additional brigade. Barbey declined to transport the extra troops to Finschhafen on the grounds it was against MacArthurs orders. Apparently MacArthur's planners felt that Finschhafen was going to be a pushover and they had pretty much considered the operation won and down already. Herring then asked Carpender to help transport the additional units, but was amazed to discover that the Americans would not comply unless the matter went first to MacArthur. None the less Carpender planned to transport the units via small craft staging out of Lae when Finschhafen was cleared. Then Windeyers urgent requests for reinforcements came in, indicated things were not won and down and Finschhafen had not fallen. Herring then sent a secret signal to Blamey and MacArthur pleaded for additional help, which finally secured him the 2nd battalion of the 43rd regiment by the end of the month. Back over at Jivevaneng on the 27th telephone lines to Zag were suddenly cut and one of hte 2/17th's patrols made contact with the Japanese. The 2/17th at Jivevaneng opened fire with artillery  upon the Sattelberg area and along the main track. Then after dusk a platoon of screaming Japanese apparently screaming Tojo charged the Jivevaneng defensive lines. 6 of them were killed in the attack. Windeyer ordered what became known as the Sattelforce, two companies of the 2/17th led by Lt Main and Lt Pike to take control of the Sattelberg track and the tracks leading back to the beachhead. On the 28th, Sattelforce began probing, but between 3-8pm a company of Japanese made three consecutive attacks against them. All the attacks were coming from the front and left flank, seeing screaming Japanese charging madly upon them. Main's company was soon running low on ammunition and they feared a dawn attack was approaching. Main estimated the enemy had suffered up to 60 casualties at this point. During the morning of the 29th, Main's assumption about a dawn attack came true, as they were hit by a Japanese platoon, but after this the Japanese retired. Main's men found 30 dead Japanese after performing a intense defense in a rather isolated position. The 2/43rd battalion landing at Scarlet beach at 3:30am and their commander Lt Joshua was immediately ordered “you will relieve the troops known as Sattelforce…This relief to be completed as speedily as possible to enable 2/17 battalion to concentrate for operations against Finschhafen”. 13 Hours later they did just that. On september 27th, Windeyer ordered the 2/13th to exploit the gains made by the 2/15th to capture Kakakog, while the 2/15th would attack the Salankaua Plantation. Back over at Starvation Hill, Mortar Sergeant Chown led a patrol, getting as close as possible to the hill. A telephone wire was carried up and Chowne found himself an observation point at the edge of a bamboo patch, just 20 yards or so near the Japanese. Despite being dangerously close to the enemy, he directed 3 inch mortar fire down upon them. He only had 15 mortar bombs, thus this led him to be so critical with his positioning. Before firing them off he sent word to the other Platoon leaders that an attack could be made. A platoon led by Sergeant McVey advanced to the edge of the bamboo ready to pounce. Chown lined up McVeys men called the mortar fire and they charged up the slope. The Japanese were caught by complete surprise seeing the enemy suddenly on top of them. Many of the Japanese fled at the offset, thus Starvation Hill was captured with pinpoint precision. Unbeknownst to the Australians, the only Japanese atop Starvation were rearguards as the 7th and 8th companies of hte 238th regiment had already withdrawn over to Sattelberg that morning. The next day, the 2/13th made their way cautiously over to Kakakog. Their objectives were three demolished buildings known as the “triangle” and the remains of the Kakakog hospital designated “the city”. These were found on the west and east ends of Kakakog respectively. D Company led by Lt Cribb and A company led by Lt Cooper crossed over a spur on their way to hit the triangle. Cribb took the left and Cooper the right as they advanced upon the objective. They were met with a heavy bombardment, but the aim was apparently so bad the men joked “we were under more danger from falling coconuts than the gunnery itself”. Their attack only got 300 yards past Snell's Hill by september 29th. The next day the men continued to advance, and now the enemy's artillery took a toll upon them causing them to halt. Two other companies led by Lt stuart and Colbin were penetrating east of the Ilebbe Creek without any opposition. They got within 50 yards of the Salankaua Plantation but had to cross a bridge to close the distance. To ford the river was just as dangerous as attempting the bridge leading the companies to launch smaller patrols to prod out options. It quickly became apparent by the late afternoon the element of surprise was lost. Luckily for the frustrated men, the Salvation Army and YMCA were up with the troops. The religious and welfare organizations looked after the mens physical and spiritual comfort. After the war there were few Australian ex-soldiers who would not put a coin in a Salvo's box when it was passed around the pub or street corner, as it brought back memories of their aid during the fighting. One soldier who fought across the Bumi wrote  “Another army came down to the Bumi—its weapons a coffee urn, its captain a Good Samaritan. Proudly he hoisted his unit's flag… He came not to reproach us for past sins or preach of the men we might have been. It is ideal, practical Christianity; he succoured the wounded and sick, revived the tired and weary; his was a happy little half-way tavern for those that passed.”   The next day, the 2/17th were relieved and would advance south, while the 2/13th came up for another assault against Kakakog. At 6:20am Colvin reported back to Windeyer there was going to be delays as the men needed to first take some higher ground. Windeyer back over in Scarlet beach decided he would come over to see it for himself. In the meantime some patrols were poking around the Triangle and to their surprise they saw no sign of the enemy. When Windeyer arrived it was decided the men would attack from the northwest. The 2/13th hit the Triangle while the 2/17th hit Salankaua plantation. On October 1st they were supported by an aerial strike at 11am followed up by artillery. For some reason know one ever found out why, this all began at 10:35am instead. 10 Vultee Vengeances and 8 Bostons bombed and strafed Salankaua plantation and Kakakog, doing little damage, but keeping the Japanese hunkered down. As the aircraft disappeared the infantry had run to their assembly points just in the nick of time to be ready to advance under artillery barrage. When one platoon got 250 yards near the City, grenades and mortar fire occurred. The australians could now see the enemy was hiding in the area and waiting for them to advance. As men forded the Ilebbe creek they were fired upon heavily suffering a few casualties before the men dispersed for cover. Instead of continuing across many changed direction and joined the assault upon the Triangle. The Australians were getting pinned down in every sector, seeing men trying to hide behind anything they could. The situation seemed desperate, then suddenly Lt Crawford took charge of the situation and organized a bayonet fixed direct attack across the Ilebbe. Crawford ordered the men to toss their grenades over the top of two platoons charging over the creek in an attempt to rush the enemy post on the other side. One Private Rolfe stood up at the bank of the creek and began firing his Bren from the hip providing wild cover fire. The men charged over the creek, being fired upon by Japanese snipers from tree tops. Despite their firepower, the Japanese were unable to stop the bayonet charge as the Australians ran them down. Crawford was wounded during the action, but they practically annihilated the entire outpost, bayonetting many Japanese. Due east of them near the Salankaua plantation, the men began to take out the tree top snipers. 12 2 inch mortars helped keep the pressure and momentum going. The Creek area was secured seeing 50 dead Japanese at the cost of 27 Australians. With the Ilebbe Creek cleared out, the pressure increased against the Triangle and City. Artillery was raining down upon them, likewise heavy fire was coming back from Kakakog ridge. By 3pm the Australians found themselves pinned down again. Yet again they had to halt their attack and dig in for the night as they had 10 deaths and 70 wounded, though they estimated that they had killed between 80-100 Japanese atop Kakakog ridge. The casualties would force the Japanese to abandon the Salankaua plantation. Meanwhile  after advancing to Kasanga, the 22nd battalion was able to seize Timbulum and Logaweng without opposition and were now preparing to cross the Mape River. On October 2nd, the 2/13th would find Kakakog ridge abandoned, but they very cautiously checked every nock and cranny upon it expecting Japanese ambush. A forward patrol went to the triangle and saw signs of an evacuation, numerous dead Japanese and abandoned equipment everywhere. The 2/17th likewise found the mouth of the Bumi unoccupied and easily secured a bridgehead before finding Salanakaua plantation unoccupied as well. With the enemy gone, the 2/15th were set forward towards Simbang and the 2/17th towards Kolem. With that, Finschhafen had fallen. It was a bitter fight, but by early October it was evident the enemy were yielding the coastal stip to assemble further west at the peak of Sattelberg which dominated the entire area. The 2/17th had already found out the hard way what it was to approach Sattelberg, and now the 2/43rd were trying to rescue one of their companies pinned down at Jivevaneng. Though Finschhafen was theirs, it was by no means secure. Papuan infantry and friendly locals were sending reports the Japanese were entering the wareo-sattelberg area from the north. The cost for this victory had been 73 Australians killed, 285 wounded and 301 sick. To the west at Kaiapit, the Australians were consolidating their position along the Markham valley and preparing to resume their advance on Ramu. Brigadier Dougherty's brigade were flown over to Kaiapit to relieve King's valiant commandos. Meanwhile General Nakai ordered the Saito unit to infiltrate and raid the Australians position. The 80 men of the Saito unit were led by Captain Morisada who organized his men into 4 smaller attack groups. Back on September 23rd, 3 Saito groups carried out their first operation, successfully blowing up the billet of a commanding officer and setting fire to a entire kunai patch that delayed an Australian advance. Meanwhile the bulk of the Nakai detachment withdrew back to the Ramu valley where they established fortifications at the Kankirei Mountains. Kankieri means “summit of joy” and was named so on June of 1943 when troops of the 20th division reached its peak to look down upon Ramu valley, cheering as they did because they had just completed the road from Madang. However by late september the Australians now looked to be approaching said road to Madang.   By the 23rd the 2/16th battalion captured Antiragen and the Umi river crossing. The next day was quite a handful for them alongside the 2/6th independent company. Both had patrols probing the Sagerak when they ran into some Japanese rearguard. 2 inch mortars and rifles pushed the rearguard to pull back and soon some patrols were moving on towards Narawapum. Meanwhile a papuan company was patrolling its northern foothills trying to find a fast route for the Australians to take to catch up to the Japanese in the Boana-Wantoat areas. Around midday the 2/16th and 2/6th were crossing the Umi to secure some high ground south of Sagerak. They clashed with around 20 Japanese carrying full packs in the Narawapum area causing them to flee. All of these Japanese forces were from the 1st battalion, 78th regiment, struggling to estalbish decent delaying actions.    General Vasey then appointed a new objective, Dumpu, where he hoped to catch General Nakano's men whom he assumed were retreating up the Ramu Valley towards Bogadjim. In reality, Nakano's 51st division were withdrawing through the Saruwaged Range, whose track deteriorated as it went up the upper reaches of the Sanem river. Private Kitamoto who was traveling with the 51st would recall “After we escaped the clutches of the enemy we were confronted by nature. Here the living had to walk across the dead to stay on the track. Using the dead bodies as stepping stones and clinging to the slippery lichen covered rocks, the men made their way up the mountain. Fresh red blood ran from the mouth of the dead when they were stepped on and their glassy eyes stared us in the face. Approaching 4000 meters, the cold bit hard into the light summer uniforms the soldiers wore but the exhausted men could not stop to sleep or they would freeze to death. The screaming voices of the men who slipped from the log bridges to their death in the canyons below, and the wailing cries of the men who could move no more and were asking for help. It was a sense of hell, something quite out of this world.'   Under the belief there was a strong enemy presence covering the withdrawal, possibly the full 20th division, Dougherty decided to order the 2/16th back across the Umi river on september 25th. At the same time, Nakai had ordered the bulk of his 78th regiment to take up a position in the Gurumbu-Kankirei area;  for the 1st battalion, 26th field artillery regiment to defend the seashore in the Erima area; and for the 2rd battalion 78th regiment to advance into the Yokopi mountain area to defend Kesawai. Meanwhile the last battalion of the 21st brigade had just arrived to Kaiapit, so Vasey ordered Brigaider Eathers 25th brigade to be the next one flown in.  General Herring had decided to place the Bena Force under Vasey's command, which was ordered to cross the Ramu and assault Dumpu and Kesawai. For the next few days, heavy patrolling was conducted at Dumpu, the upper Ramu valley, Kaiapit, Sagerak and eventually past the Umi. Patrols would find no enemy at Kaiapit, nor Sagerak, this prompted Dougherty to believe there were no enemy east of the Umi. On september 28th, Dougherty ordered the 2/16th battalion to recross the river and successfully began occupying Sagerak as the rest of the brigade made their way over after. On the 29th, the 21st brigade were advancing west, taking Wankon Hill and Marawasa facing no opposition. On that same day, some Australian commandos of the Bena Froce led by Captain Dexter were advancing west of Kesawai where they established a new abmush position. The Australians tried to lure the Japanese to the ambush area with 3 men boldly coming over to the Japanese base, drawing their attention. The 3 men ran back to the ambush position and wondered if it worked, and soon 60 Japanese appeared. Their commanding officers were within 30 yards of the ambush are, when the Australians opened fire. The Australians had taken a semi circle position and the effect was like “a reaper's sycthe”. A larger group of Japanese then rapidly came over once they heard the gunfire and the Australians were soon running low on ammunition. Dexter was wounded, another man was killed, so they began a quick withdraw, racing back for the Ramu in broad daylight. While this was going on Eathers forces were beginning to assemble at Kaiapit.  On September 30th, Dougherty's units advance to the Gusap River which divided Markham and Ramu. In the battalions report of the crossing of the Gusap, they described it as such "It was a complete surprise to most of the battalion to learn that during the day's march—actually just before reaching Arifagan Creek—they had crossed the divide between the Markham and Ramu River basins. The divide was impossible to pinpoint on the ground as the gradients were imperceptible. The only visible indication that a divide had been crossed was that rivers were now flowing in the opposite direction from the Markham drainage basin." It was at this point Vasey realized he might not be facing the full strength of the 20th division as he received a report Wootten was apparently fighting them over at Finschhafen. Upon looking over the matter, Blamey and Herring decided to not heavily commit to Markham and Ramu Valleys, but instead prioritize the battle for Finschhafen. The commanders met at Lae on October 1st, where Herring agreed to allow Vasey to push towards Dumpu, but he would not allow him to remove the whole of two independent companies from the Benabena plateau. Vasey  ordered Dougherty and Eather to concentrate on the Gusap area and for the 2/7th independent company to scout the Bumbum area. God I love new guinea.  I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The Japanese pulled off another incredible evacuation, similar to that of Guadalcanal and Kiska with operation Se-Go. Over on Green Hell the battle for Finschhafen was turning out not to be a pushover, and it was looking like another major offensive was afoot.   

Last time we spoke about the conclusion to the Lae-Salamaua campaign. Operation postern was unleashed with a bang. The Japanese were taken by complete surprise when the allies landed in the Lae Area. General Nakano frantically withdrew the forces from Salamaua over to Lae having been duped by the allied deception. Despite their fighting withdrawal, the Japanese not only lost Lae to the surprise attack, but ironically lost Salamaua at the same time. It was a race for the allied divisions to see who would seize both objectives. As the allies marched into Salamaua they realized it was so desolated, it probably would not be of use as a forward base, but Lae would prove extremely beneficial. Ultimately Nakano managed to get 8000 or more men out of the mayhem, now marching north for salvation, but the allies were not done yet. This episode is Huon Peninsula Offensive Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.    Before we venture back to the boys on Green Hell, there had been some developments in the Solomons. On September 18th, Admiral Wilkinson brought over the first units of General Barrowcloughs 3rd division, the 35th and 37th battalions of the 14th brigade. They were brought over to Les Gill's plantation located at Joroveto north of Barakoma and they landed without any conflicts. Unbeknownst to them however, Admiral Sakamaki had launched an airstrike of 12 vals and 48 zeros. Luckily the allies tossed an interception in the form of 17 F4U Corsairs, 6 Hellcats and 4 P-40's which ran into them just over Baga island as Admiral Wilkinsons escorts force of 7 destroyers were making their escape. The air battle spread towards the east where the landing area was, but no shipping was damaged as the allies claimed to have knocked out 15 enemy aircraft at the cost of 3 Corsairs. Once he got ashore, Barrowclough assumed command of the Northern Landing force and set up his HQ on the eastern coast of Vella Lavella. In response, Wilkinson spread his fighter cover more thinly and scattered his LSTs away from Barakoma's anti-aircraft guns. On September 25th a large convoy carrying the 30th battalion, 14th brigade and some marines and Seabee units arrived at Ruravai. They began establishing an advance Marine base for an upcoming operation against Bougainville. This prompted Sakamaki to launch another air strike, this time of 8 vals and 40 zeros. Brigadier General James Moore had roughly 20 fighters to cover the convoy, but some of the vals managed to slip past them. At 11:13, 12 Hellcats intercepted the enemy, leading to dogfights with the Zeros, but two minutes later the Vals had come out from hiding in front of the sun. The vals were targeting the IMAC landing site at Ruravai where the 77th seabees had been clearing a beach area. The marines had some 40mm guns already set up when the Vals struck. Two bombs hit LST-167 forcing it vessel to beach itself while the rest of the bombs scattered across the beach killing 32 men and wounding 58. Sakamaki followed this up with another air strike on October 1st consisting of 8 vals and a dozen zeros again against Ruravai. The 1st marine parachute battalion was landing at the time, as Sakamaki's bombers successfully evaded allied rader and fighter patrols to hit the LSTs. LST-334 took a hit and near miss causing damage but no casualties. LST-448 was hit twice leaving her bursting into flames, killing 52 men with many more wounded. LAST-448 was hit again leading to her sinking while under tow. It was some pretty devastating air strikes, but it was also to be the last as the Japanese were in the midst of evacuating their troops from New Georgia and the 26th air flotilla was withdrawing from Buin. To the northwest, Fijina commandos ha discovered the Horaniu defense force were now scattered in an area between Tambala Bay and Marquana Bay. Barrowclough decided to order Bridagider Leslie Potter's 14th brigade to take out the enemy there. Potter planned to take the 35th battalion and his HQ up the western coast to Matu Soroto Bay while the 37th battalion would land at Doveli cover on the northern coast, hoping to trap the Japanese between both forces. On September 21st, Captain Tsuruya Yoshio had just arrived from Buin to take command of the rather disorganized Vella Lavella forces and began concentrating at Marquana Bay establishing a defensive perimeter. Potter's forces successfully landed at the designated points by september 24th and prepared their advance for the next day. Meanwhile Admiral Samejima and Kusaka were planning the evacuation of Kolombangara. To help them General Imamura was tossing over Major General Yoshimura Masayoshi's 2nd shipping detachment alongside 30 barges. Plans were quickly formed back in early september for Yoshimura to carrying out the evacuation in two stages beginning on September 28th and October 20th via the Choiseul route. Admiral Ijuin proposed using the 8th fleet destroyers for both transport and cover. Kusaka approved the plans and granted an additional 6 destroyers for Ijuins task, taken from the combined fleet, while also arranging some air cover from Sakamaki over Choiseul. The operation designated Se-gō, was mostly complete. Yoshimure assumed command over the Barges designated the 17th army sea battle unit, while under command of Samejima. He would have ultimately at his disposal 70 barges. Yoshimura had armed the barges usually with heavy machine guns and trained the crews to expect attacks from American destroyers and PT boats. He also outfitted them with repair tools. One of the largest problems he faced was how to move 70 barges and 9 small naval vedettes to the forward bases while keeping them hidden from enemy aircraft. The NGAF would confirm this problem on September 20th, when 8 Corsairs were patrolling and came across some barges. They managed to destroy 5 out of the 8 they found. Yoshimura recalled “it was an inauspicious start to the operation”. But he carried on none the less. Leaving buin on september 23rd, they arrived at Sumbe Head by the 25th where the 8th fleet sent a detachment of the Kure 7th to establish a base of operations. Kusaka flew into Vila to meet with General Sasaki and Admiral ota, landing in the midst of exploding shells. To prepare for the withdrawal Sakai had established 3 boarding points along Kolombangara; Jack harbor, Tuki point and Hambare harbor. At the same time he tried to conceal his intentions by increasing patrols and firing off the Yokosuka 7th guns against the enemy. Alongside this he had demolition teams blowing up all the airfield installations, which was mingling with General Barker's artillery. Construction units were beginning to cut trails to the boarding points. Against them was Admiral Halsey who held intelligence indicated the Japanese were planning to either reinforce or evacuate Kolombangara. Halsey send Admiral Merrills task force 39 to move up the Slot while Admiral Wilkinsons destroyers would swing south up Vella Gulf with the objective of catching the enemy between them. Halsey called it a “mouse trap”. On september 25th however, both the USS Columbia and Clevland reported sighting torpedo wakes, indicating a possible submarine force prompting Halsey to pull back the cruisers before the mousetrap was sprung, leaving only Wilkinsons destroyers to pounce on the evacuating Japanese. But thats all for the solomon's for now as we are jumping back to Green Hell. Salamaua and Lae had fallen. General Adachi was now determined to hold the Finisterre range, the Ramu Valley and the Huon Peninsula. He ordered Nakai detachment consisting of the 78th regiment less one company and a battalion of the 26th field artillery regiment led by Major General Nakai Masutaro to take up a position at Kaiapit. Masutaro's boys were to try and help halt the enemy pursuing General Nakano's fleeing 51st division. To make matters worse, although the original orders were for the fleeing men to carry their weapons, the Japanese progressively began to abandon their equipment as they fled. Rifle ammunition was the first to go, followed by helmets, then rifles. Kitamoto Masamichi ordered his engineers to gather as many of the abandoned rifles as they could and use their files to erase the chrysanthemum insignia off them. For those of you who don't know, the chrysanthemum is the symbol of the emperor, so they were going to literally waste time and resources to mitigate what they thought was a disgrace. Men also dropped rice, personal belongings, clothes, whatever they had to in order to survive. The logical thing to do is survive, not take time to file off the symbol of your emperor off the rifles. Major Shintani's 1st battalion of the 80th regiment apparently carried all their weapons across the Saruwaged, including 4 heavy machine guns. Shintani had told his men “the soldier who abandons his arms will be shot to death”. Shintani actually died during the crossing of the Saruwaged, but his men carried on his orders. Some of you might know already, but I am a Dad Carlin fanboy and he said it quite right in his piece on the pacific war about the Japanese. They did everything to the extreme. You just don't see the same radical behavior from the other belligerents of WW2. I find we often mock the Japanese naivety about believing their spirit would overcome the material difference, but by hell come high water they tried. They marched north via the Markham valley while General Katagiri's 20th division was sent to help defend Finschhafen. The Japanese had to shuffle their strategic plans at this point. Thus far they had not regarded the losses of Guadalcanal and Buna-Gona as irretrievable, always believing a decisive victory could be obtained allowing for their recapture. Now after losing Lae-Salamaua, the central solomons and the Aluetians, a brutal realization had dawned on them. With a new thrust into the central pacific, they now saw their perimeter was overextended and they needed to withdraw it. This created what became known as the absolute zone of national defense also called the absolute defense line. Tokyo drew the new perimeter line from western New Guinea through the Carolines to the Marianas, leaving most of the southeast area on the outpost line. The main goal was to build strong fortifications along the perimeter while General Imamura and Admiral Kusaka held the enemy at bay as long as possible.  General Imamura kept his 38th division to defend Rabaul and dispatched the 65th independent mixed brigade to Tuluvu. The 65th were ordered to develop a shipping point there and to maintain its airfield. Back on September 5th, Imamura sent Major General Matsuda Iwao to assume command of all the forces at Tuluvu which at that time consisted of the 65th brigade and the 4th shipping detachment, thus together they would be designated the Matsuda detachment. They were going to defend the coasts of western New Britain. Lt general Sakai Yasuchi's 17th division were dispatched from Shanghai to Rabaul to reinforce New Britain while Lt General Kanda Masatane's 6th division were sent to Bougainville to defend it at all dost. The 2nd battalion, 238th regiment would defend gasmata and the 51st transport regiment were deployed at Lorengau in the Admiralties. Now back over with the allies, when Lae was captured with such ease, this caused General Douglas MacArthur's HQ to revise the Cartwheel schedule. Originally it was planned to hit Finschhafen, the primary Japanese base for barge traffic. This was supposed to occur around 6 weeks after the fall of Lae. But like I said, because of Lae's quick capture, combined with some intelligence indicating the Japanese were heavily reinforcing Finschhafen and the Ramu Valley, MacArthur decided to order and immediate operation to secure the villages of Kaiaput and Dumpu in the Markham and Ramu valleys and to construct airfields for Kenney. Allied intelligence indicated the number of Japanese defending the immediate area of Finschhafen was roughly 350 men, providing MacArthur and his staff some optimism. It would be later discovered General Adachi had 5000 available men there. On September 17th MacArthur ordered Admiral Brabey to begin amphibious attack plans for Finschhafen to commence as soon as possible. The Markham and Ramu valleys were like a giant corridor some 115 miles long running from southeast and northwest, separating the Huon Peninsula from the rest of New Guinea. From end to end of the river corridor were large mountains rising on the north and south. The valley itself was flat kunai grass land, very suitable for airfields.  General Vasey's 7th division were earmarked to advance along the Markham and Ramu valleys as far as Dumpu. Dumpu would provide General Kenney with airfields required to isolate the Huon Peninsula. From there Kenney could hit Japanese supply convoys moving between Madang, Wewak and Hansa Bay. Meanwhile General Wootten's 9th division were given the task of amphibiously assaulting Finschhafen before exploiting along the coast to Sio and Saidor. Yet before any major operations could be unleashed there was still work to be done at Lae. General Milford's 5th division was given the task of cleaning up Lae so it could become a major forward base of operations. On September 22nd Milford moved his HQ to Lae. The western boundary between the new Lae Fortress and 7th division would be a line running north and south through Nadzab. The southern boundary would go as far as Nassau bay. Milford had the 15th, 29th and 4th brigade at his disposal. Milfords men immediately set to work clearing the interior approaches to the town of Lae against any possible Japanese counterattack while simultaneously aiding in the pursuit of the fleeing Japanese. The successful evacuation by the Japanese of Salamaua and then Lae had shocked the Australian commanders despite the fact they had been informed as early as May of intense Japanese patrol activities along the interior trails. A young Australian officer had earlier reported that the Japanese were surveying interior trails for a possible retreat across the mountains. On September 8th they acquired a order of evacuation document leaving no doubt how the Japanese were going to withdraw north. Mildfords HQ deduced the line of retreat was going to be from the Melambi river, Boana, Melasapipi, Iloka and Ulap. However this would prove to be deception on the part of General Nakano who changed the direction of the march to a steep trail along the east side of the Atzera range towards Sio.  Going back to the Quadrant Conference held in Quebec city between August 17th and August 24th, the allies had decided to make some major changes to Operation cartwheel. The main focus was now shifting to the Central Pacific and the Joint chiefs of staff planned to employ the 1st and 2nd marine divisions. For the southwest and south pacific areas this meant the central thrust was going to take a bunch of warships, transport ships and cargo ships. MacArthur was livid at the idea two marine divisions would basically prevent him from his objective of Rabaul. Thus in Quebec, it was decided to neutralize Rabaul rather than capture it. MacArthur also brought up the question of invading the southern philippines, but received no answer. He feared that even if the idea was approved, it might be handed over to Admiral Nimitz. Thus to bypass Rabaul, MacArthur's forces would seize Kavieng and the Admiralties. MacArthur would also have to neutralize Wewak and liberate the valuable Vogelkop Peninsula along New Guinea's northern coast.  Back over in New Guinea, General Nakano's men were continuing their withdrawal with the Australians in hot pursuit. On September 17th, th 2/14th battalion crossed the Atzera Range to capture Boana. The Japanese 30th independent engineer regiment and 51st engineer regiment were constructing a small bridge across the busu river using jungle wood. General Nakano had rejoined his HQ with the second echelon of men and he had such a rough time marched he had to be carried by four soldiers. On September 18th the 2/24th battalion reached Musom and Gawam. The Japanese defending Markham point had been completely cut off as of september 14th, receiving no supplies from Lae nor any information about the fact Lae and Salamaua had fallen into enemy hands. On the night of september 16th, 100 men of the 2nd battalion 328th regiment evacuated from Markham point, retreating towards to coast trying to get to Salamaua or Finschhafen. On the 18th, Captain Proctors company of the 15ht battalion were at Labu when they saw a group of 30 armed Japanese trying to escape in folding boats across the Labu lagoon. His company fired upon them forcing the Japanese to quickly row away and flee into the jungle. At 5:10am the next day the Japanese returned to attack Proctors company, trying to break out of what had become an encirclement. Three consecutive attacks were made, with the third reaching the edge of Proctors defensive perimeter when the fighting fell into hand to hand combat. The Japanese were driven off after they had 13 deaths, including their commanding officer. The rest of the Japanese would disperse into the jungle or die to future mop up operations. The next day Boana was taken and now the 2/14th were being held up by a Japanese rearguard on the upper reaches of the Busu. On September 20th, Nakano's first echelon finally crossed the Busu river and by the 22nd the other 3 echelons did likewise. In pursuit, a platoon of the 2/24th began to hit the Japanese at Kwapsanek, but Wootten's forces ultimately failed to catch the Japanese rearguard. In the end the Australians prepared to launch a new offensive against the Ramu valley and Finschhafen, the pursuit units were gradually called back allowing Naknao's men to reach the north coast almost unmolested. General Blamey predicted the remnants of the enemy would need “to escape the hardship of the mountain tracks”. I believe he was quite right on that one. The men of Colonel Watanabe's 14th field artillery regiment continued their march going up the range carrying their single mountain gun towards Lumbaip and then Kemen. Kane Yoshihara noted the officers and men “clung on to the rocks with truly formidable spirit”. General Nakano recalled “I was deeply stirred by their sense of responsibility but could not overlook their suffering”. Nakano ordered the last of the regiments guns to be abandoned. He recalled “the gunners with tears in their eyes, bade a formal farewell as they did so”. Colonel Watanabe would survive the trek alongside 280 of his men. There was a saying amongst the Japanese armed forces that “Java is heaven, Burma is Hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea”. An American soldier once referred to New Guinea as ‘a green hell on earth”. The conditions were so horrible a veteran of the 32nd division went on the record to say “If I owned New Guinea and I owned hell, I would live in hell and rent out New Guinea”. Vasey and Blamey decided the next objective would be Kaiapit as they believed Naknao was retreating through the Markham and Ramy valleys. They earmarked Captain Gordon King's 2/6th independent company to quickly capture the village before the Japanese could get there. On september 17th, King's company flew over from Port Moresby landed at Sangan on the western bank of the Leron River. Two platoons from Captain John Chalf's Papuan infantry battalion company also reached the western bank of the leron that day coming overland from Chivasing. They would act as a screen ahead of King's men. Kings men began their march for Kaiapit and against them would be Major General Nakai Masutaro who had departed from Bogadjim with the 78th regiment on september 7th. He dispatched the 3rd battalion and Morisada company towards Kaiapit while the bulk of his forces advanced towards Nadzab where they planned to hit its airfield. The Takano Platoon, a reconnaissance unit were the only ones able to reach Kaiapit by September 19th just as the Australians were approaching. King have strict orders to the men that no movement was to be on the track to the village itself as it was believed the enemy would be covering such an approach. Instead the men came through kunai patches, bringing their 2 inch mortars close in to hit the enemy. The mortars began to smash the enemy forward positions sending Japanese fleeing or dying at their posts. The Australians then began to pin down the defenders using grenades and rushed their positions. Japanese treetop snipers unleashed hell, but soon the Australians began firing upon the treelines and village huts where they were hiding. The storming of the village was intense and fast seeing 30 dead Japanese and the rest fleeing. King lost 3 men dead with 7 wounded for the assault. The Australians quickly went to work creating a defensive perimeter placing booby traps everywhere they could. Vasey's decision to swiftly hit the village had paid off big time. The following morning, 300 men led by Major Yonekura Tsuneo arrived to Kaiapit, under the belief it was still in Japanese hands. Just before dawn of September 20th, the Australian commando's saw the incoming Japanese column and immediately opened fire upon them. The Japanese erupted into pure chaos as men of all ranks bunched up and milled about in confusion. Some of the men could be heard screaming in Japanese “we are Japanese let us through!”. Others soon realized Kaiapit was in Australian hands. Thousand of rounds were fired back at the Australians, but their positions were well concealed. King watched as the confused enemy did exactly what he taught his men not to do, shooting at shadows, wasting ammunition and firing high “In all that enormous activity of firing, nobody got hit nobody got hurt at all”. The situation came as a shock to King as well, because the sheer volume of return fire indicated it was a considerably large force. Some of  King's men wanted to advance, but he advised caution. Platoon leader Watson waited for King's signal for when he could advance and King recalled “each second seeming like a minute as the Japanese gathered in the half light. Watson was standing up there, looking back to me waiting”. When King dropped his arm, Watson blew his whistle and his men charged. Lt Bob Scott of section 7 recalled “we killed over a hundred Japanese in the first 100 yards”. Scotts group had cut down Yonekura and his command group in the first wave of Australian fire. Lt Bob Balderstone of section 9 sent his men into the right flank as Lt Jack Elsworthy's section 9 took up the left flank. The Australians had seized the moment and inflicted hellish pain on the Japanese. Watson's platoon lost 8 men killed, 14 wounded. King tossed another platoon through the right flank to grab Mission Hill which dominated the battlefield. As the men advanced, they drove off Japanese in their path and would seize the deserted hill. Once it was captured the Australians had a bird's eye view that allowed them to better direct their forces. Seeing the hill secured, Watson judged the time was ripe to continue the advance so he ordered Balderstone and Elsworthy's sections forward. Balderstone was hiding behind a coconut palm when a bullet nicked his right arm prompting him to scream out “who did that!”. It was not a serious wound, but he was fired up and he yelled to his men to surge forward. Balderstone personally tackled a Japanese machinegunner afterwards. After clearing some machinegun positions below mission hill, the enemy was becoming surrounded. The casualties had become so severe the Japanese began to rout in disorder towards Antiragen and Narawapum. It was an incredible victory for King, they buried 214 Japanese and believed many more were dying or wounded. General Vasey arrived around midday and walked over the corpse strewn battlefield to Mission hill stating ‘My God, my God, my God,'. The scale of the carnage and size of the force against a single Australian company was incredible. Gordon King was resting a wounded leg on a shady spot atop the hill when Vasey approached him. King struggled to get to his feet and Vasey said ‘No, no, sit down,' But King stood up to talk nonetheless. Vasey told him to get the first available aircraft out before adding, ‘Gordon, I promise that you'll never be left out on a limb like this again.' Vasey then returned to his plane, which headed back down the Markham Valley. Some months later, Vasey told King, ‘We were lucky, we were very lucky.' King replied, ‘Well, if you're inferring that what we did was luck, I don't agree with you, Sir. Because I think we weren't lucky, we were just bloody good.' For this victory King had lost 14 men dead, 23 wounded, it was something out of a Rambo film. Brigadier Dougherty's 21st brigade were beginning to land at Kaiapit on september 21st. Kings victory allowed Vasey to bring a fresh bridge into position to keep the advance going against Markham and Ramu valleys. The Yonekura battalion had nearly been wiped out to a man, thus General Nakai ordered the 1st battalion to rescue the battered force. Most of the Morisada company were unscathed as they did not engage in the battle at Kaiapit, alongside them were some stragglers left behind and around 40 men who managed to escape the carnage. Aided by the rescue battalion they managed to withdrew back towards Marawasa by September 24th. A volunteer unit was formed under Captain Morisada named the Saito unit, which consisted of around 80 men from the 10th company 78th regiment. They would work as a special infiltration unit who would begin raiding operations. Back over at Lae, Generals, Blamey, Herring and Wootten began to plan their offensive against Finschhafen. Towards midnight on the 17th, Herring arrived to Lae by PT boat for a meeting with Wootten. Wootten had warned Blamey and Herring that he might be required to carry out an attack on Finschhafen at short notice, leading Wooten to order Brigadier Windeyer to look at Finschhafen on the map because it might be of interest to him soon. Before Herrings arrival, plans were already being formed. At 9am of the 18th, Windeyer and his staff attended a 9th division conference at the HQ on the Bunga river. There Herring outlined a plan for the capture of the Finschhafen-Langemak Bay-dreger Harbor area with a quick swoop which would gain control over the eastern coast of the Huon peninsula and thereby Vitiaz strait. Windeyers 20th brigade would be join General Heavy's 532nd engineer boat and shore regiment and Admiral Brbey's landing craft armada to perform an amphibious assault against Scarlet Beach. Scarlet beach was on the southern part of the Song River just due north of Finschhafen where it was believed the Japanese would not be expecting a landing. From there it was possible they would be able to cut off the Japanese supply lines. Wootten and Blamey tossed up an additional brigade, but the available crafts: 4 destroyer transports, 15 LCI's and 3 LSTs were only capable of lifting a single brigade. In the end the decision was made that after the landings, the 22nd battalion would advance round the south coast of the Huon Peninsula to try and deceive the Japanese as to where the real direction of the threat was coming from. Windeyer planned to hit the beachhead with two battalions, the 2/17ths on the right and the 2/13th on the left. Once the beachhead was secured, the 2/15th would advance south along the main road towards Finschhafen. Additionally an expedition would be launched from G Beach on the night of September 21sst to also land at Scarlet Beach the following morning. To support the landings a large air armada of both American and Australian planes would protect the convoy during the daylight. General Kenney would be tossing air strikes against Cape Gloucester with Liberators, while the RAAF hit Gasmata with Kittyhawks and Bostons and Mitchells against Finschhafen. All of the key airfields and supply points between Wewak and Finschhafen would get smashed. Barbeys destroyers likewise would bombardment Finschhafen as well. To meet the boys coming to the beaches was Major General Yamada Eizo commanding the 1st shipping detachment, a naval force based around the 85th naval garrison. Around 1200 men were stationed at Finschhafen, many of them however were barge operators and mechanics. But there were some combat units; Major Shigeru Tashiros 2 battalion, 238th regiment had companies 7 and 8 at Finschhafen with company 5 at Tami islands. Additionally there was the bulk of the 80th regiment coming over from Madang via the coastal road that would arrive just in time to meet the Australian offensive. In the end Yamada's combat strength would be roughly 4000 men strong. On September 10th, after the allies landings at Lae and Nadzab, General Katagiri marched the rest of his forces from Madang to Finschhafen in a grueling advance along the coast. The first elements of his 79th regiment assembled at Gali by September 21st. Because of all of this, Madang was left pretty much undefended. The 239th regiment was chosen to reinforce the base, departing Wewak on October 3rd. Over in Finschhafen, Yamada began deploying the bulk of his forces at Logaweng; with 4 companies holding the Mongi river's mouth and two mixed companies of about 50 engineers and 300 naval personnel holding the Bumi river. To the north, Yamada could only deploy company 9th company of the 80th regiment towards the Song River to secure Sattelberg. Looking at it all on paper it seemed the Australians were set to face little resistance. On the afternoon of September 21st, Barbey's force of 8 LCM's and 15 LCV's departed Lae for Scarlet Beach.  Windeyer's landing plan called for two companies of th 2/17th battalion were going to land on the right beach while two companies from the 2/13th would land on the left. While the rest of the brigade landed, the right companies would hit North Hill and the left companies would hit Arndt Point. Barbey's convoy arrived off Scarlett Beach at 4:45am and the barges began to lower. After an 11 minute bombardment by destroyers Perkins, Drayton, Smith, Lamson and Flusser the barges began to speed over to the shore. However due to the darkness of the night, the whole wave landed a bit further south than intended and as a result the 4 assaulting companies were landed not only on the wrong beaches but also got mixed with other groups. This caused a fit of confusion as a platoon of the 2/13th drew fire from some machine gun nests near the mouth of the Song River. They quickly engaged the enemy with grenades and small arms, gradually silencing the two enemy posts. When the 2/17th battalion began to become organized in the area the platoon moved further south to rejoin its company. This all resulted in a failure to secure Scarlet Beach, forcing the second wave to veer further left and beach near Siki Cove under heavy enemy fire. But the LCI's of the 2nd and 3rd waves responded to the heavy fire with their 20 mm guns sending the Japanese fleeing. After that Scarlet beach was secured. Funny enough, if it was not for the misstep landing further south, the operation would have seen more casualties amongst the Australians, as the Japanese machine guns proved to be sited in a deadly position to hit Scarlet Beach. As the remaining waves disembarked, Lt Gibb's platoon of the 2/17th advanced inland and were soon met by some machine gun nests. Within half an hour of combat, the platoon killed 7 Japanese and sent the rest fleeing. Other platoons of the 2/17th began to advance up the Song River fighting only limited skirmishes. The 2/13th meanwhile were sending two companies towards Siki Cove where they had to clear a few pillboxes taking some Japanese prisoners. Windeyers forces then launched an attack against Katika. Makes me think of the show Vikings haha (do a Floki thing). A company led by Lt Pike passed through Katika at 6:45am, heading for some high ground beyond. There Pike's men ran into some strong resistance. Another platoon led by Lt Birmingham ran into a Japanese position who tossed a ton of well directed grenades their way killing 3 men and wounding 7. Pike's platoon stormed some huts seeing the Japanese begin a encirclement maneuver against him. Luckily the encirclement was thwarted with the help of another platoon led by Lt Cribb. Companies of the 2/17th and 2/13th were led by Pike and Cribb respectively and both found themselves close against one another. Cribb informed Pike he would launch a bombardment upon the enemy holding some high grounds allowing Pikes men to make a hook maneuver to hit the enemy. Under the cover of 15 3 inch mortars they hit the Japanese, ultimately taking the village at the cost of many men.  While Scarlet Beaches defensive perimeter was being consolidated, the 2/13th advanced south towards Heldsbac and Tareko as Barbey's destroyers were attacked by an air strike. 20 bombers, 10 torpedo bombs and 40 fighters had come over from Rabaul to hit the landing beach. Three American fighter squadrons were waiting to intercept them, successfully shooting down 10 bombers and 29 fighters, while losing 3 lightnings. Likewise the destroyers anti aircraft fire managed to take down 9 torpedo bombers, without receiving any significant hits back. Scarlet Beach was now in allied hands. 5300 troops, 180 vehicles, 32 guns and 180 tons of supplies had been landed successfully. The cost amounted to 20 dead australians, 65 wounded and 9 men missing. For the Americans 8 engineers were killed with 42 wounded. Yet again the rapid pace of the allies had caught the Japanese off guard upsetting their plans to reinforce Finschhafen. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The landing at Scarlet beach was a large success. The Japanese had planned to reinforce Finschhafen with 5000 troops, but now they had been caught completely off guard and would only have a fraction of the troops they wanted to support the area. In New Guinea, when it rains it pours.