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Neuvotteluklubi keskusta tariffit metsä | Koskela Roininen | #neuvottelija 321. Donald Trumpin tariffien shokkivaikutuksen jälkeen tarvitaan oikeansuuntaista toimintaa. Sitä tarjoaa Petri Roininen ja Juha Koskela, molemmat keskustapuolueen ehdokkaita. Voisiko Suomi hyödyntää EU:n deregulaation metsä- ja jopa turvetaloudessa? Miten vaalitaistelu sujuu miinoja pelkäävän vasemmiston ja perussuomalaisten yläpuolella?00:00 Juha Koskela ja Petri Roininen 00:30 Saipa mestariksi Tapparan tiputtua? 01:40 Putin ei häirinnytkään Suomen MM kisoja Suora Broadcasting-aikana03:10 Trumpin hirmutullit, inflaatio ja Euroopan varustautuminen04:21 Deregulaation mahdollisuus ja EU-alueen sisäkauppa05:21 Turvevarannot Norjan öljyesimerkillä06:28 Taikaraja Suomen ja Ruotsin metsien hiilensidonnassa07:28 Kivihiilestä luopuminen Helsingissä09:07 Prosenttiliike Itä-Suomen kehittämisessä10:44 Sipilän insinöörimallin merkitys12:26 Helsingin keskustan liikenne ja punavihreät ideat13:30 Keskustan rooli pitkän Suomen puolueena15:08 Väestönkehitys kouluverkon haasteena16:49 Julkisen sektorin verotulojen merkitys18:19 Seutukaupunkien elinvoimaisuus Pohjanmaalla19:50 Talouskasvu ja yrittäjyyden merkitys20:20 Petri Roinisen ja Juha Koskelan vaalinumerot22:59 Markkinatalous vs julkinen tuotanto24:24 Perusterveydenhuollon ja erikoissairaanhoidon ero25:58 Villapaitaekonomistit ja kulujen mittaaminen28:37 Japanin vakuutusmalli tehokkuuden esimerkkinä30:08 Sosiaali- ja terveysalan kustannusten vertailu31:37 Ranskan laitaoikeiston blokkaus ja politiikan dynamiikka33:23 Sipilän hallituksen rohkeat uudistukset34:29 Mannerlaattojen liikkuminen talouspolitiikassa35:55 Pakkolakien perintö ja sen vaikutus37:24 Omistajuus ja yrittäjyys talouden vetureinaTue Samia ja katso sisäpiirihttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRI34L9OtDJuZpaWicbNXzg/join#neuvottelija Sami Miettinen

Pelicans saa runkosarjan toiseksi viimeiseen kotipeliinsä vieraakseen Raimo Helmisen luotsaaman SaiPan, joka kärkkyy paikkaa neljän parhaan joukosta. Keskiviikon tappiopelistä Pelicans-hyökkääjä Konsta Hirvosella on selvä näkemys. - Ässät-peli oli pelillisesti hyvä, mutta maalit jäi. Nyt pitää olla jämäkämpi maalintekopaikoissa, Hirvonen sanoo Radio Voiman haastattelussa. Liigan runkosarjaa on jäljellä neljä kierrosta. Pelicans kohtaa vielä tänään kotijäällään SaiPan ja viikon päästä TPS:n sekä Nokia-areenassa sarjakärki tiistaina Ilveksen ja perjantaina Tapparan. Tänään Lahteen matkustava SaiPa hävisi eilen perjantaina Lappeenrannassa Jukureille. Miten Hirvonen kommentoi Sami Kapasen valmentamista, ja mitä ajatuksia kansainvälinen naistenpäivä hyökkääjässä herättää? Kuuntele haastattelu!

Kovasta kuumeesta huolimatta en voinut jättää teitä mussukoita ilman jaksoa. Sanat katosi ja ajatus harhaili, mutta muistakaa edelleen kova kuumeeni. Jaksossa yritetään kertoa jotain Lucia-neidosta laturaivoon. Muista, että omalla vastuulla kuuntelet ja kaikki mitä sanon on vain kateellisen ihmisen tuskastumista omaan saamattomuuteen. (00:28) Alkuhöpinät (27:31) Mediakatsaus (51:45) Saipa, Veiterä, Best, Patrik Laine, Katrin Krabbe ja Darts.

Radio Voiman studiossa arvuutellaan kotipelipäivinä pelaajan henkilöllisyyttä. Tällä kertaa vihjeenä oli, että pelaajalla on on-off-suhde joukkueeseen.  Onko sinulla Iikka Kangasniemi on-off-suhde Lahden Pelicansin kanssa?  – Kyllä sitä ehkä noinkin voi sanoa. Toisaalta muualle lähdöt eivät ole olleet pakotettuja ja tänne on aina ollut kiva tulla takaisin, Kangasniemi sanoo Radio Voiman haastattelussa.  Moneen otteeseen Lahdessa pelannut Kangasniemi kiekkoili viime kauden Tšekeissä HC Energie Karlovy Varyssa.  Edellisin kerran Kangasniemi nähtiin Pelicansissa kaudella 2022–2023 ja sitä ennen kaudella 2016–2018.  Radio Voiman haastattelussa kuullaan Kangasniemen mietteet kaudesta tähän asti, eilisestä Saipa-pelistä ja illan JYP-ottelusta, kuuntele podcast!  Toimittaja: Eeva Ristkari

Suokkaa hittaa ja hiilaa jäähyväiskiertueella. Hiton tuhti paketti kaikkea turhaa ja lämmitellään vanhoja juttuja uudestaan. On healing eraa, on sporttii, on SaiPaa, on salia, on mediaa, on pellei, you name it i got it. Joten ota kalja lapaseen ja kuuntele. Pistää miettimään? (00:28) Alkuhöpinät (22:52) Mediakatsaus (56:07) Pata jumiin salilla

Omistajien vaihdoksen jälkeen SaiPa on elänyt melko hiljaista aikaa. Soitimme urheilujohtaja Harri Aholle ja kysyimme millaisilla askelmerkeillä joukkuetta nyt rakennetaan, kun ensi kauden pelaajabudjetti on asetettu hyväksyttävälle tasolle.

SaiPa sai uudet omistajat ja se takaa ainakin toistaiseksi sen, että Kisapuistosta ei tarvitse sammuttaa valoja ihan vielä. Mutta miltä SaiPan lähitulevaisuus nyt näyttää ja millaisista palasista kauden 2024-25 joukkue alkaa rakentua? Sitä pohdimme tässä jaksossa.

Kaikki kolme askissa pitkästä aikaa. Jaksolla on kanssa hyvin mittaa, niin muistakaa kuunnella ainakin alta kaikki :) (00:01) Alkujargonit (03:11) Konstan ja Veikon tiedotteet (06:41) Porilainen Pikeluutio (15:07) SaiPa on myyty (21:37) Helsinki-hallin tulevaisuus (33:48) Turunen jää! (38:25) Lukon liikkeet ja Tieksolan tulevaisuus (43:35) JYPin jytkyt ja Ojantakasen potentiaali (50:22) Repo, Jandric ja jälkieditoinnin jalo taito (53:24) Terveisiä autovuokraajalle (56:00) Kurinpitodelegaatio (01:00:07) Kuulijoiden väittämät (01.19.03) Tappara-TPS -sarjan analyysi (01:36:21) Ilves-KalPa -sarjan analyysi (01:53:43) Pelicans-HIFK -sarjan analyysi (02:03:46) Kärpät-Jukurit -sarjan analyysi (02:13:57) Miksei paitsioita voi haastaa? (02:21:02) Liigapörssi-lätinät ja Leevin mainos (02:30:51) Loppupuheet

Last time we spoke about Operation HA-GO, U-GO and some action brewing up on New Britain and Bougainville. Mutaguchi basically tricked his superiors at Tokyo into allowing him to attempt an invasion of India. Operations HA-GO and U-GO were simultaneously unleashed, the only problem was the allies were very ready to meet them. General Slim's men captured documents indicating the true nature of the operations and he acted accordingly. The new box defense systems were employed as the allies lured the Japanese into major traps thwarting their designs against Imphal. The Japanese were fighting tenaciously, but time and supplies would not be on their side. Over on New Britain the allies advanced and managed to seize Talasea. Meanwhile on Bougainville the Japanese were preparing a large counteroffensive, attempting to breach the American defensive perimeter. The operation had just kicked off last episode and today we will continue the story. This episode is the Bougainville Counteroffensive  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.  The Marines departed Bougainville and were relieved by the Americal Division by the end of January 1944. Sporadic fighting emerged and through it Major General Griswold obtained intelligence indicating the Japanese would launch a major counter attack, most likely slated for early March. At the time Lt General Hyakutake was under extreme pressure to reduce the bombing against Rabaul. Rabaul as we know was smashed daily, suffering heavy losses. Admiral Koga had responded by taking away air units from Truk, but all this achieved was even more losses. Rabaul was neutralized, and Truk became vulnerable. The Americans had pummeled both so much, they were able to unleash a dramatic thrust into the central pacific aimed at the Gilberts, Marshalls and later the Carolines. Now it seems Hyakutake had been operating under some very bad intelligence, indicating to him the Americans were defending their perimeter with just a single division around the airfield. With the objective of destroying said airfield, Hyakutake did not know the actual number of defenders and would not enjoy movement by sea. The Americans had full control of the sea lanes, thus any IJN destroyers trying to move troops would run a risky gauntlet. By the first quarter of 1944, Rabaul had tossed meager attacks against the Americans, for example on January 23rd two bombers scored a direct hit over the living quarters of Brigadier General John Hodge and his senior staff officers.  What Hyakutake had to work with was 4300 men of the 45th regiment led by Colonel Isashi Magata. These men were considered the crack troops on Bougainville and they included artillery, mortar and engineering battalions. They were further supported by 4125 men of the 23rd regiment led by Major General Shun Iwara and 1350 men of the 13th regiment led by Colonel Toyo Horei Muda. All three units would be led by Major General Masatane Kanda. The 3 units made an arduous trek through the jungles to reach their jump off points by the evening of March 7th. Hyakutake then sent them a resounding message “time has come to manifest our knighthood with the pure brilliance of the sword. It is our duty to erase the mortification of our brothers at Guadalcanal. Attack! Assault! Destroy everything! Cut, slash, and mow them down. May the color of the red emblem of our arms be deepened with the blood of American rascals.” Major General Kanda also added his own message  “The cry of our victory at Torokina Bay shall resound to the shores of our beloved Nippon. We are invincible.” All of these troops received a large morale boost from such message, but on top of that there was something else incentivising them all. They had adequate food to last them until April 1st, they literally needed to overrun the Americans to steal their provisions. Such was the reality of the Japanese island hopping campaigns. Hyakutakes forces proved themselves far from invincible. Their artillery bombarded on the morning of the 8th, targeting the airfield at Piva Yoke. Their bombardment destroyed a bomber, 3 fighters, killed a single man, and forced a temporary evacuation of aircraft to New Georgia. It was now exactly the greatest of results. Artilleryman Stan Coleman vividly described the Japanese artillery attack “All of a sudden we heard a very different kind of ‘whoosh.' It was made by a shell at the end of its flight, not the beginning. It was ‘incoming mail.' All hell broke loose. In the rear some fuel dumps went up. Every American artillery piece in the perimeter went into action.” The American artillery counter-attack proved far more effective. The Japanese artillery units were forced to move positions constantly and then they were met by a new type of weapon.  As Coleman recalled “Four blue Marine Corsairs came in with rockets. Rockets were a new ground-support weapon and I had never seen them … The rockets in flight made a fearful display. There was a tremendous concussion when they struck their target.” That same night the Iwasa Unit attacked Hill 700 during a heavy downpour. Yet by 2:30am the first attacks were beaten off. It seems the experience persuaded the Japanese not to attempt another night attack on March 9th. Instead, they used occasional machine gun and mortar fire to disrupt the fitful sleep of the Americans. Then at 6:45am on the 10th, Iwasa launched another attack in coordination with Colonel Muda's assault against Hill 260. Iwasa's men clambered up the steep 70 degree slopes screaming maniacally. They would shout confused threats in English. A prolific slaughter occurred against one group of Japanese soldiers who seized out a pillbox and set up a machine gun post on the saddle of the hill. It was dearly bought. General Griswold had brought up more reinforcements for the 145th that same morning. Engineers put together a bangalore torpedo 72 feet long by connecting sticks of dynamite like a long pipe. The object was to climb the hill and then snake the charge down the opposite side into one of the pillboxes. Unfortunately the Japanese spotted them and fired a knee mortar, hitting the torpedo and killing the engineers. Another ruse was attempted shortly after noon with the object of getting the Japanese on the saddle to surrender. A public address system was set up with speakers aimed at Hill 700, and one of the division's Japanese interpreters spoke to the defenders. He informed them of the odds against their success and told them that they could not be reinforced. If they surrendered, it would be considered honorable. To die needlessly was foolish. For the short time he spoke all was quiet, but seconds after he had finished the Japanese directed a mortar barrage on the section of the hill from whence he was broadcasting. The day ended in victory for the riflemen of the 37th Division. At 11:15 an air strike by 26 planes and continuous artillery fire had devastated the Japanese. The day's assault cost the lives of some 500 or more Japanese soldiers.  Meanwhile further south, the 1st battalion, 13th regiment was knocked out by heavy artillery fire. Colonel Muda sent his 3rd battalion, 13th regiment to attack the southern positions of the 182nd regiment around Hill 260. Hill 260, a twin-peaked rise close to the west bank of the Torokina River approximately four miles north of its mouth, was covered with heavy vegetation. The hill itself measured only 850 yards along its north-south axis and at its widest a mere 450 yards, and it was shaped roughly like an hourglass, with the highest elevations to the north and south connected by a narrow saddle. The eastern slope of the hill was precipitous, steepest along the South Knob, where it was almost perpendicular. The South Knob, which was considered the most important part of Hill 260, had been occupied by men of 2nd battalion, 182th regiment since early January, and vigorous patrolling had also been carried on regularly along the saddle and on the unoccupied North Knob. The hill was about half a mile east of the 182nd's main line of resistance. Between Hill 260 and the main line of the Americal was a small stream named Eagle Creek, which provided a natural defensive barrier. There was but a single trail leading from the main perimeter to South Knob. A small bridge over the creek could take vehicular traffic. The last hundred yards to the top of South Knob was a steep stairway cut into the sides of the hill. Possession of this portion of the hill was important for both sides. The Americans had built a platform near the top of a 150-foot banyan tree from which forward observers could see any enemy-activity along the Torokina River or along the highlands to the northeast. Conversely, if the Japanese could seize the hill they could have good observation of the American-held Hills 608 and 309 and the area behind them. Under the cover of intense machine-gun and mortar fire, the Japanese managed to climb the steep slope of the South Knob and then burst in among the outnumbered Americans. The position was held by a reinforced platoon of Company G of the 182nd and a forward observer team of the 246th Field Artillery Battalion. The Americans were rapidly wiped out and dispersed as Muda's men established a defensive perimeter over the crest of South Knob. Hearing the dire news, General Griswold ordered General Hodge to hold Hill 260 at all costs, an order that surprised many of the Americal's staff since they had not expected to try to hold the hill in the face of a concerted Japanese attack. Companies E and F immediately advanced to occupy the North Knob and then attempted an encircling maneuver to counterattack the newly-established Japanese perimeter. Company E at 8:45 attacked South Knob from the southwest while Company F moved south. The company began its attack at 10:45 but halted after the troops had advanced a few yards into the cleared zone. The men took whatever cover was available and waited for flame throwers before trying to advance farther. At approximately 2:45 the commander, Lieutenant Colonel Dexter Lowry, ordered the attack resumed; Company E split and attempted an envelopment. The northern prong of the envelopment was halted but the infantrymen of the southern prong, using grenades and flame throwers, managed to gain a lodgment within earshot of the men of Company G who were still holding out in the pillbox.  Meanwhile, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 145th Regiment had been reorganized and launched a counterattack against Hill 700 at 5:00. The Japanese unleashed intense mortar and artillery ied, but gradually were dislodge from the crest of the hill, leaving just 4 pillboxes remaining under their control. After the reestablishment of the original resistance line, Iwasa prepared his men to storm Pat's Nose during the night. The Japanese had lost heavily during these attacks, which also cost the 145th three dead and 121 wounded. During the night, after a failed bayonet charge, the Japanese would reinforce their position on Hill 260. They then struck at Company E early in the morning of March 11th and although this attack was beaten off, the American situation in the lodgment had become desperate. Thus, after another Japanese flanking attack, the defenders would have to pull back towards North Knob.  Company G was sent to relieve the beleaguered Company E but was halted by yet another Japanese flanking attack on Company E. General Hodge, fearful of reducing his main defense line, felt that he could send no more reserves to the hill and therefore decided to break off the action and pull Company G and what was left of Company E off South Knob. They retired, unimpeded by the Japanese, behind Eagle Creek. There they joined Company B and then proceeded to cut a new trail up to the crest of North Knob. At daybreak on 11 March, Iwasa launched another attack against the promontory called ‘Pat's Nose,' some 150 yards to the west of ‘Hill 700.' Flanking 37 mm guns cut the Japanese charge to shreds. Iwasa's rear echelons kept advancing over the dead bodies of those who had been leading the charge and eventually managed to break through the barbed wire, though they too were ultimately destroyed. After an hour of suicidal attack Iwasa's troops receded leaving some 84 dead behind them. The 37th Division's historian described this attack: "Brandishing their prized sabers, screeching 'Chusuto' (Damn them!), the Jap officers climbed up the slope and rushed forward in an admirable display of blind courage. The men screamed in reply 'Yaruzo' (Let's do it!) and then 'Yarimosu' (We will do it!). As they closed with the American doughboys, the leaders cried' San nen Kire!' (Cut a thousand men!). General Beightler, concerned over the inability of the 145th to reduce the Japanese positions on Hill 700, decided to send the 2nd Battalion, 148th Regiment to finally wipe out the enemy opposition. After a heavy mortar and artillery bombardment, two platoons of Company E advanced east from Pat's Nose trying to flank the saddle while a third attacked west from Hill 700. Thirteen men were killed before the momentum of the attack waned and the battalion dug in on the ground it had gained. Meanwhile, Companies F and B, now under the command of Brigadier-General William McCulloch, began a  two-pronged attempt to drive the Japanese off South Knob. Supported by flamethrowers units from the 132nd, men of Company B got across the saddle and onto the knob, but were ultimately pulled because of the enemy's numerical superiority. Meanwhile, Colonel Magata Isashi's 45th Regiment had limited its actions to heavy patrol activity while the Iwasa Unit was attacking Hill 700. The terrain fronting the 129th Regiment, which was holding the center of the 37th Division line, was much more favorable for the Japanese than that encountered by either the Iwasa or Muda forces. The land was relatively flat, although cut by many gullies. The 129th's line, defended by two battalions, extended over two miles, curving slightly from just east of the Numa Numa Trail southwest to the right flank of the 148th Regiment. The Japanese had easy access to the 37th's lines, first via the Numa Numa Trail and then following the lowlands and gullies adjacent to the creeks. Colonel John Frederick, the regimental commander of the 129th, had recognized the potential vulnerability of this position and had organized a defense in depth during the two months prior to the attack. The position was anchored by a large number of mutually supporting earthen and log pillboxes and protected by a double apron of barbed wire, in front of which antipersonnel mines had been laid. Machine-guns had been sited to provide interlocking fire and additional barbed wire had been placed to channel potential attackers into the main machine-gun fire lanes. The 129th's cannon company of 75-mm pack howitzers, and its mortar sections had been augmented by 37-mm and 40-mm anti-tank guns, which could fire canisters in flat-trajectory direct fire. Thus although Colonel Magata's men did not have to climb up steep cliffs to get at the American positions, they would find the 129th's defenses near impregnable to relatively lightly supported infantry attacks, no matter how fanatically delivered. While patrolling, some documents were taken from dead Japanese bodies detailing Magata's plan, so Colonel John Frederick's 129th Regiment was expecting his thrust. On the 11th, the contact between Japanese and American patrols increased, as did the amount of incoming mortar fire, so the American supporting artillery was directed to fire intermittently into the areas where the Japanese were located.Colonel Frederick at 4:00pm ordered all his outposts back into the main perimeter and division artillery fired a ten-minute concentration along the 2nd Battalion front. At dusk, a heavy firefight then broke out as the Japanese opened up with machine-guns and mortars on Company G's area. During the exchange of fire, which lasted until 7:20pm, men in the pillboxes did not fire their machine guns, since they did not want to reveal their positions. The firing died down to only a few exchanges during the night, generally directed at Japanese infiltrators, who were attempting to cut through the barbed wire. Finally, at dawn on the 12th, Magata sent his 1st and 3rd battalions in column to strike Company G. Although the attacking Japanese suffered very heavy casualties from machine-gun fire, they penetrated the first line of defense by sheer weight of numbers. Moving up the streambed running into the sector, they captured one pillbox after another until they held a total of seven. Frederick then sent his reserve 1st Battalion to support Company G, while also launching a counterattack that managed to contain the enemy expansion and that also retook two pillboxes by late afternoon. Meanwhile, Companies E and F of the 148th were converging against Iwasa's remaining strongpoints. Using grenades, rifles, and flamethrowers, they finally reduced the pillboxes one by one, leaving the Japanese in possession of only one pillbox by 1:00pm. An historian of the 145th Regiment described the fight for this last strongpoint: “On the second day, the last held enemy pillbox was subjected to everything an infantryman has at his command. Hand grenades by the dozen were thrown at the emplacement. Still there was responding fire. Flamethrowers scorched the hidden Nip into silence. The searching parties entered the charred remains of the emplacement only to hear the click of a Japanese grenade being detonated. In the far corner they made out the dim outline of a Jap, eyes bloodshot, mouth bleeding, face seared, clothing burned. His clenched fist held a grenade. Even as the men dove for cover outside the pillbox, the Jap threw the grenade at them as in a dying gesture.” Despite a heroic resistance, this was cleared in the afternoon at last, thus completely restoring the original 145th's line.  While this was going on, after a heavy artillery bombardment, McCulloch sent Companies B and F once again to storm the South Knob. Company B in a column of platoons with six flamethrowers attempted to storm the height from the northwest. The leading platoon was halted by machine gun fire from pillboxes dug in on the west slope. Once these were spotted a concentration of mortar and machine gun fire was directed against these Japanese positions, enabling the following platoon to reach the top of the knob. There, it was pinned down by heavy fire from machine guns sited east of the observation post banyan tree. American mortar fire, together with the work of the flamethrower operators, who were covered by BAR men of the 3rd Platoon, soon negated these positions. Although it appeared that the South Knob would soon be in American hands, ammunition for the attacking platoons was running low, there had been numerous casualties, there were no more reserves, and it was already late in the day.  Despite this, Hodge sent Company A of the 132nd Regiment to reinforce the gained position. Company A of the 132nd tried to scale the height from the southwest to join Company B of the 182nd on the crest. A burst of machine gun fire killed the company commander, however, and disorganized the attack so much that under the best of conditions the men could not reach the top before dark. Hodge then reluctantly recalled his forces and, sensing the futility of further attacks, he requested permission to pull off South Knob. Yet Griswold refused the request and a new attack was ordered for the next day using two companies of the 1st Battalion, 132nd Regiment. After another heavy artillery bombardment, Company A attacked southward along the narrow saddle while Company B attacked up the southwest slope. Surprisingly, the two companies of the 182nd that had led the attack the day before had not been kept in immediate reserve but had been pulled back within the perimeter. Therefore there were no reserve troops available to help exploit the minor gains made during the afternoon. As night fell, Major Raymond Daehler, the battalion commander, reluctantly pulled his men off the knob and retreated to safer ground. Despite repeated attacks from 12 -16th, Magata had made no headway and finally withdrew his forces. After Iwasa's retreat, the men of the 145th had the dubious honor of policing the slopes of Hill 700 and burying the corpses left behind. In an area roughly 50 yards square, corpses that could be identified were counted. This count included only those within the barbed wire lines in front of the pillboxes. As one observer noted, the carnage was a sight to turn even the most cast-iron stomach: “Enemy dead were strewn in piles of mutilated bodies, so badly dismembered in most cases that a physical count was impossible. Here and there was a leg or an arm or a blown-off hand, all to show for the vanished and vanquished enemy. At one point, Japanese bodies formed a human stairway over the barbed wire. Five enemy were piled one on top of the other, as each had successively approached the location to use a predecessor as a barricade and then fall on top of him as he in turn was killed. Farther out from the perimeter, where a little stream wound its way parallel to it, Japs killed by the concussion of thousands of mortar shells lay with their heads, ostrich fashion, stuck under the least protection they could find”. What was left of Iwasa's shattered command to the relative safety of the Blue Ridge, Approximately two miles east of the American perimeter. During the day, as the Japanese were retreating, American planes dropped 123 tons of bombs on the intermediate areas, and destroyers off shore lobbed their five-inch shells into the high ground to the north and east of the perimeter. Further east, Magata launched a night attack at 4:00am, managing to gain another pillbox, so Griswold would decide to reinforce Frederick with a tank platoon. General Griswold agreed to send the 1st Platoon of Company C, tank battalion, forward, with the stipulation that they be used only to augment the infantry as they took back the lost pillboxes. 4 tanks supported a midmorning assault, which successfully retook two pillboxes. Another tank-infantry attack began at 1:15pm but was halted since the tanks were low on fuel and ammunition. They were replaced by tanks of another platoon, which assisted the infantry of the 129th in destroying all the other pillboxes held by the Japanese and in restoring the front line roughly to the positions held before the Japanese attack of the previous day. Alongside this, Griswold ordered the reconnaissance troop forward to occupy the right sector of the threatened area, with the 131st Engineer Regiment taking over the extreme left. General Hodge requested to be reinforced with tanks; but as they could not cross Eagle Creek, McCulloch and him reluctantly decided to cease any further attempt to drive the Japanese off South Knob. He thought that the three-day action against the Muda Unit had obviously so weakened it that it no longer posed a danger to the perimeter proper. Thus, it could be contained and continually harassed by combat patrols and neutralization fire.  On the 14th, the fighting fell into just intermittent small-arms and mortar fire from the Japanese as Colonel Magata shifted some of his troops to more favorable positions and as he brought his reserve 2nd Battalion, 45th Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 13th Regiment to reinforce further attacks. Magata also received the 1st Battalion, 81st Regiment and the 3rd Battalion, 53rd Regiment from the north, tossing them into his new reserve. At 4:00am on 15th, the Japanese launched a heavy local attack against the right of Company F. By dawn, they had captured one pillbox and penetrated approximately 100 yards into the perimeter, where they were ultimately checked. A coordinated counterattack by Companies F and C in conjunction with a 36-plane strike against the Japanese positions, managed to retake the pillbox. Further tank-infantry attacks finally drove the entrenched Japanese out of the salient and successfully restored the line. Losses for the day were 10 dead and 53 wounded, while 190 Japanese were counted dead. The Japanese then repeated the attack the next morning at 4:00am on the high ground east of Cox Creek with a larger force of elements from three battalions. They penetrated approximately 75 yards before their momentum was halted. Then, Company B, supported by a platoon of tanks, counterattacked and restored the original line by midmorning. Finally, shortly after noon, the tanks moved beyond the wire and shelled the draws and ravines in front of Company F until their ammunition was exhausted. Once again the Japanese had paid heavily for no gain. 194 dead were counted and 1 prisoner taken, while the Americans only lost 2 dead and 63 wounded. Though the counter offensive is nowhere near done, that is all for this week as we now have to jump over to the CBI theater. General Merrill's Marauders had been given the task of cutting the Japanese supply line over the Kamaing road. At Merrill's disposal were the three battalions of GALAHAD, each in turn broken down into two combat teams. The teams bore the code names Red and White for the 1st Battalion; Blue and Green for the 2nd Battalion and Khaki and Orange for the 3rd Battalion. Each team included a rifle company, heavy weapons platoon, pioneer and demolition platoon, reconnaissance platoon, and medical detachment, with a combined strength of sixteen officers and 456 enlisted men. The marauders had been recruited from units in the south-west pacific and from Trinidad in the Caribbean. Many of the volunteers were notably seen as pure psychopaths. Their training in India was quite painful, a lot so for the military police nearby. 10 percent of the Marauders went AWOL, many of them amused themselves by shooting at catte, chickens and other birds, apparently even at the feet of locals to make them dance. One incident apparently had some of them aboard a train to Ledo firing out of the windows. They were seen as arrogant, psychopathic, gung-ho and they had many colorful catchphrases such as ‘My pack is on my back, my gun is oiled and loaded, and as I walk in the shadow of death I fear no sonofabitch.'  The baptism of the Marauders did not impress their commander who was obsessed with speed and efficiency. The Galahad unit had departed on February 24th and on receiving orders to move to his forward assembly area, Merrill sent his three intelligence and reconnaissance (I & R) platoons to check trails as far as the Tawang Hka, the first of the three considerable streams that crossed the line of march. At 6:00am on the 24th, the 5307th moved out, screened by the I & R platoons. Next day two of them clashed with Japanese patrols and the point of one platoon, Pvt. Robert W. Landis of Youngstown, Ohio, was killed. Luckily radio communication between the 2nd Battalion, 56th Regiment and the 18th Division's headquarters broke down at this time, so General Tanaka was unaware that a semi-detached American unit was operating off to his flank.  Stilwell fretted at the time it took them to cross the 130 miles over the Naga range to the battlefront. Part of the problem was that 5307th Composite was mule-based and had to bring 700 animals with them but none of them knew anything about muleteering. Whatever misgivings Stilwell had when he saw his reinforcements, he kept them to himself and addressed them simply and quietly, explaining that their new mission was to hit Walawbum. On the afternoon of the 28th, Merill received the new orders, calling for cutting the road on either side of Walawbum, the 2nd Battalion led by Colonel McGee to the west, the 3rd Battalion led by Colonel Beach to the south, and the 1st Battalion led by Colonel Osborne to patrol along the Nambyu Hka north of the Kamaing Road. Positions near Walawbum would be held until the 38th Division relieved the 5307th. Unfortunately the freak rains already experienced by Stilwell and his men continued, so that the Marauders' eight-day, 60-mile trek to Walawbum turned into something of a nightmare. On March 2nd, the Marauders crossed the Tanai Hka and arrived at their assembly area. With the last elements at hand, General Stillwell initiated his offensive. On the 3rd, Colonel Brown's tankers, with the support of a battalion from the 65th regiment advanced against Maingkwan. Facing light opposition, they managed to advance 5000 yards northeast of Maingkwan by 3pm when they were halted by heavy Japanese fire. Meanwhile, Merrill's marauders were clashing with Japanese at various places throughout the day. The 3rd Battalion had a sharp fight at Lagang Ga, killing 30 Japanese and seized the area needed for the building of a drop field. One of the battalion's two combat teams, Khaki, stayed at Lagang Ga to build and protect the dropping zone. Orange Combat Team kept on to the high ground east of Walawbum and dug in, its heavy weapons commanding the Kamaing Road. This saw them securing high ground east of Walawbum. The 22d Division, was also moving ahead, and so far was in step with the tanks and GALAHAD. On  the 3rd, the 64th Regiment was near Ngam Ga, east of the Kamaing Road. The 66th to the west was in contact with the third regiment, the 65th, as it emerged from the Taro Plain. Tanaka's intelligence indicated the Americans were at Walawbum. The Chinese 22nd and 38th divisions were advancing slowly, so he believed his rearguard could hold them back so he could take the bulk of his strength to attack the americans. On the 3rd, the 55th and 56th regiment began retreating in order to launch an enveloping maneuver against Merrill's marauders. The next day, Brown found the enemy gone and his men were able to advance 3 miles southeast, getting his tanks in line with Maingkwan. Over at Walawbum, Merrills 3rd battalion were resisting against ferocious attacks from the Japanese. The drop field at Lagang Ga was attacked at dawn on the 4th but the garrison held. Orange Combat Team opened the battle in its sector with mortar fire on Walawbum, drawing mortar and 75-mm. fire in return from the 56th Infantry Regiment, which had been Tanaka's left flank, as it assembled for attack. When it moved, the 56th tried to cross the river and work around the Americans' flanks, where it met booby traps and ambushes thoughtfully prepared for just such a contingency. Some Japanese did cross to the east, but this failed to affect the course of the action, and 75 dead Japanese were counted, as against one American dead and seven wounded. These latter were evacuated by air the same evening. The 2nd battalion managed to get across the Kamaing road west of Wesu Ga where they established a roadblock. Finding out about the roadblock, Tanaka dispatched his forces to clear them out. On the 5th the Japanese appeared to be forming for an attack, but mortar fire seemed to be successful in breaking up such attempts. To the south, Allied aircraft could be seen bombing and machine-gunning what Orange Combat Team took to be Japanese reinforcements. One indication that the Japanese were increasing their strength in the immediate area lay in their being able to force Orange Combat Team's I & R Platoon back across the river about noon. Simultaneously, the 66th regiment liberated the abandoned Maingkwan and began advancing south over the Kamaing road. Brown's reconnaissance had found a good trail running south from Tsamat Ga, and on the morning of the 5th the tanks moved out through the jungle. After the engineers had prepared a small stream for crossing, the tanks broke into a freshly evacuated Japanese bivouac area. Jungle vines looping across the trail from either side, and connecting masses of vegetation and trees, made effective obstacles as they slowed down the tanks by catching their turrets; not until late afternoon did the armor break out on the trail running east and west between Maingkwan and Wesu Ga. Almost immediately the tanks encountered what seemed to be a company of Japanese defending a small but marshy stream. The stream did not seem fordable, so Brown attacked by fire alone. Unknown to him, his tanks were firing on Tanaka's division headquarters, and now lay squarely between the 18th's headquarters and its 56th Regiment. This understandably threw Tanaka's plan into chaos, as his forces who were unsuccessfully attacking Merrills marauders were becoming encircled. Tanaka decided to swing his force around the American roadblock, using a Japanese built trail that the Americans did not know about.The bypass road over which the 18th was to withdraw had been built by the Japanese engineers some days before and quote “The Engineer Regiment commander, Colonel Fukayama, had considered the possibility of reversals in our position and, in order to facilitate the withdrawal of the division, he had previously cleared a secret jungle trail about 20 kilometers long leading from the vicinity of Lalawng Ga to Jambu Hkintang on his own initiative. This trail was used in the withdrawal of the main body of the division.” By nightfall, Merrill's 2nd battalion had pulled out to Wesu Ga and were trying to link up with the 3rd battalion south of Walawbum. On the 6th after heavy artillery bombardment, at 5:15pm an estimated two companies of Japanese in line of skirmishers, with heavy supporting fire, crossed the river. The American mortars continued their work; the automatic weapons held back until the Japanese were within fifty yards. Two heavy machine guns, which had a clear field of fire along the river bank, were especially effective. The Japanese failed, leaving many dead on the open ground east of the river and on the river banks. Orange Combat Team found its ammunition low, and so sent a request for more to Khaki Combat Team, which was about one hundred yards downstream. This was however just a diversionary attack, as most of the 18th division were escaping unmolested. Meanwhile elements of the 113th regiment were beginning to arrive to Lagang Ga and unfortunately an incident of friendly fire would occur. The remainder of the 38th Division and an American patrol met near Walawbum on March 7th. The recognition signal had been arranged as three bursts of three rounds each. This necessarily meant there would be firing when the Chinese and Americans met. When the tops of the American helmets, which looked not unlike the Japanese pot helmet when their brims were invisible, appeared through and over the brush, there was a brief exchange of fire in which three Chinese were wounded before identity was established. Such is the nature of coordinating multiple nations' armies during actions. General Sun and Merrill's marauders made a withdrawal beginning on the 7th in order to circle south and cut the Kamaing road again, this time even further south than before. Brown in the meantime had advanced to Ninghku Ga where he secured support from a battalion of the 64th regiment and launched a coordinated tank-infantry attack against Kumnyen. At around 3pm, the tanks and infantry assembled across the Kamaing road in two places, establishing a roadblock while the tanks moved out aggressively along the road to east and west. On the 8th, Brown's tanks then moved along the Kamaing Road and onto a trail that showed signs of heavy traffic. This allowed them to discover Tanaka's evacuation route, finally occupying Walawbum by the end of the day. Brown later recalled, "swarming with people from the 64th Infantry and the 113th Infantry who, to the tankers' great disgust, disputed the latter's claim to have taken Walawbum”. Though the 18th division had managed to escape Stilwells traps, the American-Chinese forces had still scored a well-earned victory. The road to Myitkyina was not open.  The cost for this first series of victories in the North Burma Campaign were 802 Chinese dead and 1479 wounded, plus 530 undifferentiated casualties from the fall of 1943 to March 18, 1944. But the temporary American-Chinese collaboration did not presage a wider Sino-American synergy, and the Marauders found operating with their allies a major problem. One issue was that of disease: the Americans caught dysentery in large numbers and attributed this to the insanitary habits of the Chinese, especially their refusal to boil their water, or to wash their hands after using the latrines. The American K-rations also proved unsatisfactory and unsuitable for jungle warfare, as the Chindits soon discovered. Yet that is all for burma as we now have to jump over to New Guinea. The advance and pursuit upon Madang resumed on March 12th as the 2/12th Battalion found Ward's Village unoccupied while the 57th/60th Battalion secured the abandoned Saipa 2. The 57th/60th Battalion advanced swiftly by night and finally concentrated at Yokopi two days later. On the 16th, Brigadier Hammer then received a rather ambiguous order. Chilton had redefined the division's role "in the light of the present situation". While the 18th Brigade was to watch the 15th Brigade's immediate left flank from the high ground between the lower Evapia and Mene Rivers, and the commando troop at Faita the far left flank, the 15th Brigade would garrison Kankiryo Saddle, keep contact with the enemy along the Bogadjim Road and patrol along the Kabenau River towards Astrolabe Bay to join the Americans. Finally, the 15th Brigade would "provide a firm base for patrolling, by employing at the discretion of the commander, a force not exceeding one battalion forward of Kankiryo up to and inclusive of Yokopi". The order was ambiguous as far as the local commanders were concerned, and managed to overcome the ban placed by higher authority on any advance across the Finisterres to the coast: Hammer could not go beyond Yokopi but, at the same time, he was to maintain contact with the enemy along the Bogadjim Road—and they were already farther back than Yokopi. At this point Hammer decided that the supply route from the Saddle to the 57th/60th had to be developed. While the battalion patrolled and the enemy positions were bombarded, Saipa, Yokopi and Daumoina were built into staging areas. In the meantime, patrols from the 2/2nd Commando Squadron were harrying the Japanese from the left flank, successfully establishing a new patrol base at Jappa by March 17th. From there, the Commandos patrolled towards Aminik, Oromuge and Mataloi, which they finally found abandoned. Further east, the 58th/59th Battalion patrolled from the Nangapo and Yangalum areas towards Arawum and Kul 2 as they searched for the Americans at the Kabenau and Kambara Rivers. An accidental meeting had already taken place between the patrols of the two Allies. An American reconnaissance patrol was being towed in a rubber boat by a PT boat with the object of landing at Male and seeing if the Japanese were at Bogadjim. Off Garagassi Point, the tow rope broke and the Americans rowed to shore in their rubber boat which they deflated and hid in the bush near Melamu. Moving inland for about a mile they turned west and nearing the Kaliko Track met Lieutenant Norrie's patrol of the 58th/59th Battalion and accompanied the Australians to Barum, where the Americans were given supplies and a guide; moving via Wenga, they reached Jamjam on the 18th and found no signs of the enemy. On this day at noon about 30 Japanese with three machine-guns and a mortar attacked Norrie's position at Barum. The situation would have been serious had it not been for Sergeant Matheson and his two men who had remained behind at Kaliko and managed to bear the first brunt of the attack and warn those at Barum. The Americans moved on the 20th to Yangalum and next day set out for Kul 2, along almost exactly the same route as that taken by Brewster, who had departed on March 20. Brewster reached Kul 2 on March 21, where he joined the Americans from Saidor and remained with them until the 26th. In this period he went to Saidor where he met General Gill, giving him information about the area east of the Kabenau River and learning of the American intentions and dispositions. Brewster then returned to Yangalum having carried out an important and lengthy linking patrol—35 miles each way. On the other side, General Adachi ordered his 51st division to continue withdrawing towards Wewak and for the 20th division towards Hansa. There he sought for them to reorganize and receive around 5000 replacements from Palau each. By the 9th, both divisions had reached Bogia and the 20th division had established a new defense of the Hansa area. By mid March the 51st reached Wewak and would be able to assemble at Hansa. On March 20th, the bulk of the 41st division was ordered to withdraw towards Hansa as well. As a result of the invasion of the Admiralty Islands, the 18th army and 4th air army were now cut off from Rabaul. Thus they were reassigned to the 2nd Area Army under the command of General Anami Korechika with his HQ at Ambon. They would be responsible for the defense of the eastern part of the Dutch East Indies and the western portion of New Guinea. General Teramoto would also have to move his command from Wewak to Hollandia.  Back at Yokopi, Hammer anticipated that the constant patrolling and bombardment had forced the Japanese to withdraw from their positions. On March 28th, patrols of the 57th/60th moved past Daumoina and effectively found the enemy gone. The reality, however, was that General Nakai and Colonel Matsumoto had been ordered to pull back and follow its parent unit towards Hansa. The remainder of the 41st Division were following suit over the next few days. Only a 5000-men detachment, deemed the Madang detachment formed around the 239th Regiment, under the command of General Shoge, was left behind to hold Madang and cover the Japanese withdrawal. Hammer ordered the 57th/60th to move forward with speed towards Yaula, yet the Australians would be stopped at the Kofebi River on March 30. In response, a company would be sent in an enveloping maneuver across the river, successfully getting through to Mabelebu although they would be unable to draw away the defenders. During the night, the surrounded company would then have to resist a number of enemy counterattacks, though these weren't really counterattacks but the Japanese trying to retreat towards Madang. The following day, with the enemy gone, the Australian patrols would rapidly set out north towards Yaula. Meanwhile, the 2/2nd Squadron's patrols, after securing Mataloi 1, were also advancing towards Yaula with speed. Finally, the commandos would successfully enter Yaula on April 4, with the 57th/60th's vanguard arriving soon after and then occupying Kwato by nightfall.  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 Bougainville counteroffensive proved the Japanese could still unleash brutal offensives and meet some success. However the level of success was not going to win the war let alone the fight over Bougainville. Within Burma the mixed national armies of the allies were finding some difficult working together, but they were gradually pushing the Japanese back.  

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Last time we spoke about Operation Flintlock, the invasion of Kwajalein. The Americans had unleashed an incredible amount of air, sea and land forces against the Marshall Islands. The amphibious invasion of most of the islands saw little resistance, but on Kwajalein they would meet a determined enemy. The Americans achieved strategic surprise; artillery preparation, naval gunfire, and aerial bombardment had successfully softened up the target in a fashion unexcelled at any other time in the Pacific War; the ship-to-shore movement had been conducted expeditiously and without too many hiccups; supplies flowed ashore and to the front lines relatively smoothly and without interruption; the infantry-engineer teams assisted by tanks moved steadily clearing the enemy from shelters and pillboxes; and American casualties had been fairly light. Altogether, the battle for Kwajalein represented the ideal for all military operations. Then we covered a bit of the Burma front where the allies unleashing an offensive, while the Japanese unleashed Operation HA-GO. This episode is Operation Hailstone: the Smashing of Truk 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.  For those who came rushing over to see the scene at Kwajalein descriptions given were comically noted as “a hell of a Spruance Haircut, with some Mitscher shampoo”. Looking down at Roi and Namur a F6F pilot recalled “ it looked like “the moon,” or “plowed ground.” The beach and roads were strewn with the charred and misshapen remains of equipment, tanks, and armored vehicles. I don't think there was a stick of anything standing. It looked just completely beaten up.” A sailor who visited one of the captured atolls had observed “palms were shredded where shells and bomb fragments had made direct hits, leaving stumps that looked like old-fashioned shaving brushes stuck, bristles up, in the sand”. Holland Smith was greatly annoyed by the number of sightseers who came to Kwajalein stating. a “regular tourist haunt. . . . The big army and navy brass from Pearl Harbor descended on us like flies. The photographers had a gala day snapping pictures against the background of shelled buildings, while visiting brass hunted for samurai swords and other souvenirs.”  Meanwhile a single battalion was assigned to capture Majuro, and their battle would consist of walking up some beaches completely unopposed. The Japanese garrison had pulled out a week earlier. Admiral Hill declared the atoll secure only 2 hours after landings were made. Its huge anchorage would accommodate all the mobile floating logistical assets of Service Squadron 10 and for the time being became the principal advance base for the 5th fleet. Jaluit, Mille, Wotje and Maloelap, which had sizable Japanese garrisons, would not be invaded by the Allied forces. Since the Japanese were cut off from outside assistance, the garrisons were doing no harm to the Allied effort, so they would be left alone, thus saving many American and Japanese lives by not forcing the issue.  But Eniwetok Atoll would not be bypassed, because she held the second largest lagoon in the Marshall Islands. As Admiral Nimitz and his commanders considered the repercussions of their surprising quick and low cost victory, they soon elected to accelerate the schedule of future operations in the region. Eniwetok had been originally slabbed for May, but it seemed obvious the Japanese power in the Marshalls was crumbling a lot faster than anticipated. Consequently, Admiral Nimitz knew it would be necessary to capture the atoll to give shelter to all the ships he intended to deploy westward in the drive against the Japanese inner empire. Since it now seemed Brigadier-General Thomas Watson's 8000 reserve troops of the 22nd Marines and the 106th Regiment would no longer be required, Admirals Spruance and Hill began preparing them for the invasion of Eniwetok. However Eniwetok was within Truk's air combat radius, thus to hit Eniwetok, they would first have to neutralize what was called the Gibraltar of the Pacific, Truk. Prior to WW2, Truk was neither well developed nor well defended. Although the US feared the Japanese had been fortifying Truk for nearly two decades; in truth, the Japanese largely ignored Truk after capturing it during WW1. When the Pacific War started on December 7, 1941, only a few coastal batteries and naval minefields added since November 1939 covered the passes into Truk Lagoon. Few other defenses, including inadequate anti-aircraft artillery, protected it. To the US Navy, Truk appeared impregnable and sailors spoke the name in awe‑struck tones. This was because Truk needed few artificial defenses to make it virtually impregnable to surface invasion. Truk was a naturally sheltered and easily defended anchorage, large enough to accommodate the entire IJN and out of range of enemy naval guns. Their defense, however, depended on the air garrison, one of the strongest in Japan's Southeast Pacific theater. Dangerous long‑range reconnaissance flights flown by B‑24s from bases in the Gilberts in December 1943 managed to bring back photos that allowed intelligence officers to map out the air bases and the various anchorages in the lagoon. Analysts thus began to realize there was not as much there as expected. And thus Operations Catchpole and Hailstone were born. Catchpole would be the invasion of Eniwetok while Hailstone would be the neutralization of Truk and as a secondary objective, to discern if Truk could be bypassed similarly as Rabaul or Maloelap  was. Operation Hailstone would be bigger than December's raid against Kwajalein. Vice-Admiral Raymond Spruance's 5th fleet would deploy Task Group 50.9 and three of Task Force 58's four fast carrier task groups. Task Force 50 was under Spruance himself while Admiral Mitscher had command over the carrier task force. Spruance would also had overall command over the operation. Fleet carriers Enterprise, Yorktown, Essex, Intrepid, and Bunker Hill and light carriers, Belleau Wood, Cabot, and Monterey would be launched aircraft in the operation. Admiral Lea would control a fast striking force consisting of light carrier Cowpens, and battleships Iowa, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Alabama, South Dakota and North Carolina. 10 submarines would be lurking like sharks around Truk independently seeing if they could possibly intercept some IJN forces or rescue down US pilots during the attack. To prepare for the operation, on February 4th a lone PB4Y Liberator launched off Torokina's airfield to carry out reconnaissance of Truk. The photos indicated that Truk Lagoon held a battleship, two aircraft carriers, six heavy cruisers and four light cruisers, 20 destroyers, and 12 submarines. The PB4Y was spotted and fired on by warships in the harbor and several fighters were launched to intercept, but only one, a floatplane fighter, came close enough to open fire. The pilot managed to high tail it out of there safely.  The American reconnaissance flight alerted Admiral Koga that they could expect a heavy raid at any moment, so he ordered all his warships to depart the lagoon before February 21st, the date they predicted the Americans would hit. The departure was extremely hasty. 2 auxiliary aircraft carriers had just arrived at Truk the previous month. When the departure order came, they haphazardly unloaded their aircraft in order to leave quickly. The aircraft were left parked nose-to-tail on airport aprons and taxiways. Cargo ships equally hastily unloaded stores so they could leave. Fuel barges were drained to top off the tanks of the Combined Fleet's major units. They had to be tediously refilled from tankers, a task made difficult by choppy seas kicked up by rough weather between February 13 and 15. On February 12, most of the Combined Fleet's major units left Truk for Palau. The light cruiser Agano, previously damaged and under repair, could not depart until February 16. Its departure was so late that it would be caught and sunk by the newly arrived US submarine screen. Other ships were still preparing to leave, their departure delayed by bad weather and slow refueling. Of those ships trapped still at Truk were the 4th fleet of Vice-Admiral Kobayashi Masami, consisting of light cruiser Naka; destroyers Maikaze and Oite, alongside some units of the 8th Fleet and several transports. There were also various auxiliary, destroyer, repair ships, transports and the 6th Fleet of Vice-Admiral Takagi Takeo headquarters. On February 5th, Admiral Hill learnt he would be commanding the Eniwetok expeditionary forces and have less than two weeks to prepare them. Moving up the invasion of Eniwetok required stripping the new garrisons of Kwajalein and Roi-Namur of manpower and supplies. The landing boat crews were green and had no real training with the troops. As recalled by General Watson “the infantry, amphibian tractors, amphibian tanks, tanks, aircraft, supporting naval ships, and most of the staffs concerned had never worked together before.” Yet we will be talking about Eniwetok in the next episode so we will be diving straight into Hailstone. Operation Hailstone had been long on American drawing board. On December 26, 1943, Admiral Nimitz had informed King that he thought the operation would become feasible by the following April, but he pledged to do it earlier if circumstances allowed: “Much depends on extent of damage inflicted on enemy in all areas in next 2 months.” Located 669 miles southwest of Eniwetok, Truk was a colossal atoll, it held a cluster of around a dozen islands near the center of its lagoon. Around 2000 Micronesian natives lived on the islands, mostly in thatch huts on grassy plains and beaches. There was a sense of dread amongst the aviators and crewmen of the task forces assigned to the operation. They were to attack the “mystery base”, Truk had acquired a reputation as an unassailable fortress. It was thought to be a major hub of Japanese airpower, defended by hundreds of crack pilots in Zeros. The task forces sortied westward on February 12th and no Japanese would bother their approach. The carriers got to their assembly point 90 miles northeast of Dublon before sunrise on February 17th. AT 4:43am the operation kicked off when 5 fleet carriers launched 72 Hellcats to go knock out the enemy air power prior to sending in the bombers. This was a new technique Admiral Mitscher had concocted himself. The Japanese were caught completely unprepared, no Japanese aircraft were in the air when radar picked up the incoming aircraft. The IJN's 22nd and 26th Air Flotilla's were on shore leave and their radar had difficulty detecting low flying aircraft, a weakness allied intelligence exploited. Despite this, the Japanese tossed 90 aircraft, half of which attempted to intercept the US fighters without coordination.  Within minutes of combat, 30 Japanese fighters were shot down, by the end of the engagement a total of 55 would fall. The Americans lost 4 Hellcats, and at least one according to VF-6 pilot Alex Vraciu was a victim of friendly fire. “There were dog fights all over the place. I even saw one of our Hellcats shoot another Hellcat down. It was a great deflection shot but . . . one of our guys just shot first before being sure and this other poor pilot was forced to parachute out. In the course of the action, I saw a number of Japanese parachutes in the air.” The American pilots had expected to be facing 200 Japanese aircraft. According to estimates given in postwar interrogations, the Japanese had 68 operational airplanes on the Moen field; 27 on the Dublon field; 20 on Eten and 46 on Param, for a total of 161. Parked on the big field at Eten were some 180 aircraft that were damaged, most grounded for lack of spare parts, or immobilized for lack of aircrews. Most of these would be destroyed on the ground. Although Admiral Koga anticipated the American move against Truk, air and naval forces were not on the alert when the American planes suddenly appeared overhead. According to Masataka Chihaya, a staff officer with the 4 Fleet, the pilots, ground personnel, and ships' crews had been kept in 24hr readiness since the overflight of the 2 marine PB4Ys two weeks earlier, and had reached a state of collective exhaustion. Another factor to the catastrophe was that of morale and even discipline had eroded since the withdrawal of the heavy warships. Pilots had refused to climb into their cockpits when ordered, many had gone absent without leave. The atoll's commander, Vice Admiral Masami Kobayashi, had apparently concluded that the American fleet was still engaged in the Marshalls, and authorized a downgrade in the alert level. On February 16, many pilots and other personnel had left their barracks for R&R. The morning of the American raid found a large proportion of Truk's aviators asleep in the atoll's largest town, on the island of Dublon, having partied pretty hard into the night at local drinking establishments. Their only means of returning to their airfield on the island of Eten was by ferry, and the ferry could not accommodate all of them at once. Many aircraft, both on Eten and on the airfields of Moen and Param islands, had also been disarmed and drained of fuel. Kobayashi's ignominious failure to keep his forces on alert put an end to his naval career; he was relieved of command and then forced to retire from active service. Having swept the skies of opposition by 6:00am, the Hellcats began strafing the seaplane base at Dublon and the airfields on Moen, Eten, and Param, successfully destroying another 40 aircraft on the ground. As the fighter sweep was ending, 18 Avengers emerged dropping their payloads onto the airfields,  neutralizing Truks air power. As such, the living hell created by strafing and bombs saw a total of 125 operational aircraft and 110 air arsenal aircraft get destroyed or seriously damaged on the ground. With Truk's air power neutralized, the next American objective was to hit the shipping in the lagoon, so the carriers then began launching full deckload strikes, staggering the launches so that there were aircraft over Truk virtually continuously for the rest of the day. James D. Ramage, flying a VB-10 Dauntless, noted that several Zeros flew by him without offering combat. He assumed that they were dispirited by the one-sided results of the air fight and were determined to survive it. It was a syndrome that had become increasingly common during the later stages of the South Pacific air campaign.  Due to the lack of air cover or warning, many merchant ships were caught at anchor with only the islands' anti-aircraft guns for defense. At 07:30, the first shipping began to be attacked. Yorktown's bombers rapidly sinking the cargo ship Fujikawa Maru and then bombing the submarine tender Rio de Janeiro Maru was hit by 1,000lb bombs dropped by Yorktown SBD Dauntlesses east of Uman. It stayed afloat, but sank the next day. Another submarine tender, the Heian Maru, headquarters of Vice-Admiral Takagi Takeo was hit twice , but the ship would successfully survive the relentless American attacks, then offloading Takagi on Dublon after sunset. By 9:23am, Lee's battleships, heavy cruisers and destroyers came in to try and catch escaping ships. Some Japanese vessels attempted to flee via the atoll's North Pass; but were bottled up by the aerial attack and by Lee's warships, most of them would be successfully sunk by 13:00.  The famed marine fighter ace Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, of the Black Sheep squadron VMF-214, had been shot down and captured off Rabaul a week before Hailstone. Alongside other POW's he was flown into Truk while the raid was developing. As the Betty bomber carrying them rolled to a stop, Pappy and his fellow prisoners were thrown out onto the airstrip. They looked up and were shocked to see an F6F Hellcat flying low over the airfield, walking .50-caliber fire across  parked planes. The bomber from which they had just been ejected went up in a sheet of flame. The Americans were shoved into a pit by the side of the airfield, and watched the action overhead and cheered for the attackers. Pappy recalled this “There was so much excitement I couldn't do any differently. I just had to see those Nip planes, some of the light planes like the Zeros, jump off the ground from the explosion of our bombs and come down “cl-l-l-lang,” just like a sack of bolts and nuts. The planes caught on fire and the ammunition in them began going off. There were 20-mm cannon shells and 7.7's bouncing and ricocheting all around this pit. Some of these hot pieces we tossed back out of the pit with our hands”. Enterprise dive-bombers dropped 1,000-pound armor-piercing bombs on targets chosen from the aerial photos taken earlier. The planes hurtled down through flak bursts and smashed the stationary ships. A bomb hit the stern of the 13,000-ton Hoyo Maru. The 7,000-ton aviation stores ship Kiyozumi Maru and lit her up. A VT-6 Avenger flew low over the ammunition ship, the Aikoku Maru, and landed a bomb dead-center amidships. The target went up in a huge, rolling ball of flame that engulfed the plane and destroyed it. The shockwave was powerful enough to rock Lieutenant Ramage's aircraft, more than 2,000 feet overhead. “It was, I think, the biggest explosion I've ever seen, other than the atomic bombs. It was just an enormous blast.” 5 ships managed to escape the carnage within the lagoon. The light cruiser Katori, auxiliary cruiser Akagi Maru, destroyers Maikaze and Nowaki, and the small trawler, Shonan Maru. Unfortunately for them they ran directly into Lee's force at 1:30pm. Only the destroyer Nowaki managed to outrun the Americans as she fired a spread of torpedoes trying to keep the Americans at a distance. Spruance was ultimately the one who ordered the surface ships to come into the combat area and this resulted in close calls for friendly fire. Mitscher would continuously order pilots to hold back their payloads against fleeing ships and wait for identification first. Many of the aviators would accuse Spruance of seeking to have “the big guns” get their taste of the blood. But the big guns would basically only finish off some crippled ships. Minneapolis and New Orleans sank two immobilized ships with 3-4 salvos. Meanwhile the USS New Jersey nearly took two torpedo hits from a sinking IJN destroyer. American ships came to the ailing IJN vessel trying to pick up survivors, but almost all the Japanese sailors took their own lives. The Iowa would take a bomb hit from a Japanese aircraft, but suffered little damage. If one or more of the American surface ships were hit by torpedoes, it may have very well cost Spruance his command. The ordinarily conservative fleet commander had behaved with impulsive bravado, and it seems for no better reason than a blackshoe's inborn desire to claim a piece of the action for the big guns. Admiral Sherman's tactful conclusion was that “this expedition accomplished little and only complicated the attacks by the carrier planes.” Lieutenant Ramage was less gentle: “So the big battleships finally drew blood against a cruiser that was almost dead in the water. It must have been a great victory.” The death toll for the first day of Hailstone was more than 20 Japanese ships sunk, but the fun was not over. 6-7 Radar-equipped B5Ns capable of tracking ships at night launched perhaps from Rabaul or Saipan, hunting for the US carriers. They were spotted on radar as they approached the US ships. Night fighters attempted to intercept them, but were unable to find them in the darkness. The task force maneuvered to avoid the incoming bombers, which would have worked if the Japanese were using aircraft blindly flying a standard search pattern. However, the radar-equipped Nakajimas detected the course change and continued to home in on the carriers. Between 7:00 and 10:00, the aircraft made several approaches to the US ships, but were kept at a distance by heavy radar-directed anti-aircraft fire. The Yorktown launched a night fighter F4U Corsair at 9:20 to intercept a particularly persistent Nakajima, vectoring the fighter towards the torpedo bomber. But for once, the Japanese used radar to better advantage than the US, so the Corsair never made contact with the Nakajima. The Nakajima was then able to press its attack, launching a torpedo at the USS Intrepid. It struck near the starboard quarter, jamming the rudder, killing 11 aboard, and wounding 17. The B5N that dropped the torpedo apparently escaped unharmed. Intrepid was in no danger of sinking, but made her way to Majuro to be safe. The Americans then launched their own night attack on Japanese shipping in Truk Atoll. At 2:00 am, the USS Enterprise launched a flight of 12 radar-equipped Avengers to attack the surviving Japanese ships in Truk Lagoon. Each aircraft was armed with 4 500-pound bombs. The concept of performing a low-altitude night attack, with the planes guided to the targets by radar alone, had been studied and discussed but never attempted before. It required the pilots to navigate to Truk on instruments alone. Once over the lagoon, they circled over the anchorages until radar echoes provided an image of the targets. The mission would be a tactical breakthrough, unprecedented in the annals of aviation or naval history. Lieutenant Commander William I. Martin, who trained the airmen, recalled “Radar displays at that time required an operator to do a great deal of interpreting. It was like learning a new language. Instead of it being a polar plot, looking down on it like a map, the cathode ray tube just gave indications that there was an object out there. After considerable practice, a radar operator could determine that there was a ship there and its approximate size. You related the blip on the radar scope to the image of the ship”. In about 30 minutes, the Avengers made 25 passes over Dublon and Eten, scoring 13 direct hits on ships, two on rocky islets mistaken for ships and seven near misses. As a result, around 12 vessels were sunk during the attack, including the Heian Maru. It was a remarkable performance by a dozen aircraft in the US Navy's first carrier-launched night attack.  The following dawn, Mitscher sent another fighter sweep, though it would not be very effective as the Japanese had basically no surviving aircraft in the area. 200 aircraft met negligible air opposition over the atoll as they worked over the remaining targets at their leisure. Hundreds of incendiaries were dropped on smoking airfields, parking areas, and hangars. The bombers paid special attention to the fuel tank farms, which had been spared on the first day in order to prevent smoke from obscuring visibility. By noon, Japanese resistance was almost non-existent and there were no more worthwhile targets, so Spruance and Mitscher decided to call a halt to the attacks, as it was considered that Truk no longer posed a threat to the Eniwetok invasion.  Hailstone cost the Americans 12 fighters, 7 torpedo bombers, 6 dive bombers and 2 floatplanes. 29 aircrew died; and 28 sailors died aboard the Intrepid. The operation had been one of the most smashing carrier raids of the Pacific war. Though most of Japan's heavy naval units had fled the lagoon, the Americans had sunk three light cruisers, four destroyers, three auxiliary or training cruisers, and six other naval auxiliaries. In addition, around 30 merchant ships were sent to the bottom of the lagoon, including 5 precious oil tankers. The total shipping losses approached 200,000 tons and many of those vessels had been laden with munitions and other supplies that could not be recovered. 17,000 tons of fuel went up in the attack, at a time when fuel was running very short for the Japanese. The Japanese lost 249 aircraft, most on the ground. As Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison would later write, “Courage and determination the Navy had shown from the first, but in the Marshalls it demonstrated mastery of the art of amphibious warfare; of combining air, surface, submarine and ground forces to project fighting power irresistibly across the seas. The strike on Truk demonstrated a virtual revolution in naval warfare; the aircraft carrier emerged as the capital ship of the future, with unlimited potentialities.” The IJN Combined Fleet would never return to Truk; the 4th Fleet headquarters remained at Truk, but its warships left; and the transports carrying the 52nd Division to Truk, some of which had arrived on February 19, hastily unloaded and quickly departed. Vice-Admiral Kobayashi Masami was held responsible for the defeat and would consequently be relieved of his command, never to return to active duty. But that's it for the Marshall Islands campaign for now as we are shifting over to the south pacific.  In preparation for the invasion of the Admiralty Islands, the allies first would need to seize the Green islands, situated 117 miles southeast of Rabaul. Admiral Halsey had been tasked with landing General Barrowclough's 3rd New Zealand Division consisting of the 14th Brigade; Special Army Tank Squadron; 17th Field Regiment; 29th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment; 144th Independent Battery; 53rd Anti-Tank Battery; 967th Coast Artillery Battalion; Naval Base Unit No. 11 and other supporting units. Halsey assigned Admiral Wilkinson to command the operations. He would transport the men in 3 echelons using a plethora of Destroyers, Destroyer Transports and countless landing crafts. AirSols would be providing coverage alongside Admiral Merrill's Task force 39 consisting of light cruisers Cleveland, Columbia and Montpelier; and destroyers Charles Ausburne, Dyson, Stanly, Spence and Converse. There would also be Admiral Ainsworths Task force 38. Wilkinsons echelons departed Vella Lavella and the Treasury islands On February 12th and 13th. They met near Bougainville and together advanced towards the departure line off Barahun Island. The Americans expected Rabaul's airforce to be greatly depleted by this point, but the convoy was still harassed by 15 Vals and 17 Zeros during the night of February 14th. 10 vals managed to score a hit and 3 near misses against cruiser St Louis, killing 23 men and causing moderate damage. The bombers also tried attacking the landing craft, but apart from a near miss on LST-446, the landing would proceed quickly and smoothly. The landing craft began taking off on the morning of February 15th as AirSols fighters gained air supremacy over the skies of Nissan Island. 32 fighters form Squadron 14, RNZAF, commanded by Squadron Leader S. G. Quill, and Squadrons 1 and 18, commanded by Squadron Leader J. A. Oldfield, both kept 18 aircraft continuously over the island until dusk, flying sorties from the airfields at Empress Augusta Bay.  12 Japanese bombers would be reported shot down. This was the last air opposition encountered during Operation Squarepeg. With such a numerous  fleet sending thousands of troops ashore with impunity only 115 miles from Rabaul proved AirSols was a force to be reckoned with. Ferried ashore in LCIs and LCVPs, into the lagoon in southern Barahun Island, the troops would disembark at several landing beaches around the Pokonian and Tangalan Plantations.  Within just 2 hours, about 5800 New Zealanders were ashore. Patrols were then sent out, and carrying parties began moving stores off the beaches further inland. As the beachhead was established, there was only a brief resistance from several Japanese barges around Sirot Island, before a perimeter was established. By nightfall, in addition to the aforementioned troops, Wilkinson had also landed 58 jeeps, 67 trucks, 44 guns, 8 Valentine tanks, 426 tons of petrol in drums, 2000 gallons of fresh water in tins, and 267 tons of rations. The following day, as the Kiwis fanned out along Nissan Island, about 21 Japanese were encountered on Sirot. Late that afternoon, natives reported that an unspecified number of Japanese had taken refuge on the densely wooded island of Sirot, and the task of clearing the island was assigned to B Company, led by Captain D. Dalton. The Japanese were swiftly dealt with, but the Kiwi's would suffer 5 deaths and 3 wounded in the firefight. On February 18, patrols from the 37th Battalion reached the northern tip of Nissan Island and reported it clear while the 30th and 35th Battalions dealt with a large group of Japanese at the south point of the island. The Kiwis accidentally came upon the remaining Japanese garrison on 20 February, in an area previously declared clear by patrols. It was along the coast near a few deserted native huts passing as the village of Tanaheran on the map. On February 19, the remaining 100-man Japanese garrison signed off on their radio ‘We are charging the enemy and beginning radio silence'.The Kiwi's suffered 3 deaths and 11 wounded. The Japanese had been overwhelmed and annihilated. The next day the second echelon of Admiral Fort arrived. Organized resistance had ceased. In total, 120 Japanese had been killed against the 13 killed and 24 wounded of the Allied forces.  With the Green Islands under their control, the Allied forces now needed to do something about the 1200 friendly native Melanesians whose taro gardens and coconut groves were about to be turned into airfields. The answer was a temporary evacuation to Guadalcanal. This was explained to the natives' head men, and, as the Melanesians are born rovers, the prospect of a boat ride to the Solomons and free food there was highly pleasing. Accordingly, "Grandpa" Roger Cutler's LSTs of the Second Echelon took on the function, new even for Love-Sugar-Tares, of evacuating natives; and so well was this done that by the time the flotilla of Melanesian Mayflowers reached Guadalcanal the 1147 embarked had increased to 1148. The Green Islands would prove to be a very useful link in the strangling of Rabaul, with a PT base immediately opening on February 17 and with a new fighter strip being completed by March 4, which for the first time put Kavieng within range of AirSols fighters and bombers. But now we have to shift over to the boys in New Guinea. The last time we were in New Guinea, the Australians were in hot pursuit of General Nakano's men. On February 3rd, the 30th battalion of Lieutenant-Colonel William Parry-Okeden had set off from Singor to take over for the 4th battalion at Crossington. The next day, the Australians reached Nemau and the day after that established a new supply beach at Butubutu. On that same day orders came in stating all commanders must make every endeavor to capture prisoners. This prompted Cameron to call off the Papuans from leading the advance and sent the leading Papuan platoon to reconnoiter the inland trails while the infantry led the advance on the right. The men advanced sluggishly as a result of the mixture of muddy tracks and enemy corpses. They reached Roinji 1 on the 6th then Roinji 2 on the 7th. During the afternoon the Papuans reached Gali 1 where they managed to kill 24 Japanese stragglers and captured 3 prisoners. Each day the Papuans killed on average 10-15 Japanese, but it was not until the 8th when they encountered a real Japanese rearguard at Weber Point. The Papuans performed a frontal assault killing 53 Japanese and captured another 4 prisoners. By the night on February 9, the leading company was 2000 yards west of Malalamai and 3500 yards from the American's most forward outpost at Yagomai when they fought another larger group of Japanese. 61 Japanese were killed and 9 prisoners taken in the day; and on February 10, the 30th Battalion at last reached Yagomai. Here they finally linked with the American force at Saidor. It was decided that the 5th Division would not operate west of the Yaut, so Brigadier Cameron was instructed to mop up the Tapen and Nokopo areas. Meanwhile, the 35th Battalion advanced towards Bwana, where they killed 31 Japanese. On the 18th, the Australians killed 40 Japanese at Gabutamon and another 142 in the Tapen area; 3 days later, they attacked Wandiluk, where they killed 57 Japanese. After the 22nd, the pursuit was largely carried on by the Papuans towards Nokopo. During this time until March 1st, the 8th Brigade reported killing 734 Japanese, found 1793 dead and took 48 prisoners. The Australians and Papuan had suffered 3 deaths and 5 wounded. Despite his losses, General Nakano and his men had yet again cheated death. In a letter on 21st March Lt General Frank Berryman wrote: "About 8,000 semi-starved, ill equipped and dispirited Japanese bypassed Saidor. It was disappointing that the fruits of victory were not fully reaped, and that once again the remnants of 51st Division escaped our clutches." Meanwhile General Morshead had been planning to relieve the 7th division with the fresh 11th division Major-General Allan Boase. But General Vasey convinced him instead to let him take over the drive on Madang by the end of January. Now the 58th/59th Battalion relieved the 2/10th in the right-hand sector from 4100 through Crater Hill and Kankirei Saddle to Cam's Hill, with the task of patrolling the area east of Cam's Hill, the headwaters of the Mosa River, and forward along the upper Mindjim River Valley to Paipa 2. The 57th/60th relieved the 2/9th on the left with positions on the 4100 Feature, the Protheros and Shaggy Ridge, and the task of patrolling forward from Canning's Saddle along the high ground west of the Mindjim. The 24th Battalion relieved the 2/12th in reserve.  Now Brigadier Hammer had the task of patrolling forward from the Kankirei Saddle. As typical for New Guinea, the terrain facing them would be formidable. Hammer had this to say in a report "The country in the Finisterre Ranges is rugged, steep, precipitous and covered with dense rain forest. It rains heavily almost every day thus making living conditions uncomfortable. By day it is hot, by night three blankets are necessary. There is, therefore, a constant battle with mud, slush, rain and cold. To allow freedom of movement over this mud it was necessary to corduroy every track in the area." By late February Hammer dispatched a number of small patrols towards Amuson and Saipa 2. On the right flank Lt Brewster with a patrol from the 58th/59th investigated the valley of the Mosa River as far as Amuson, and returned after 4 days reporting the area was clear. In the central area a patrol from the 57th/60th brushed with an enemy patrol near Saipa 2, with some support from the guns of the 4th Field Regiment. On the 28th a patrol from the 57th/60th, led by Lt Besier, attacked Saipa 2 three times with supporting artillery fire, but all attempts to enter the village were repulsed. On February 26, the 58th/59th Battalion was instructed to establish a company patrol base on Amuson and send out a platoon reconnaissance patrol to the coast in the Mindjim-Melamu area, which managed to establish some observation posts overlooking Astrolabe Bay in early March. Hammer also sent the 57th/60th Battalion to the Paipa area in preparation for an attack on Saipa 2.  Meanwhile, after the conclusion of Operation Dexterity on February 10th General Krueger handed command to Major-General William Gill over the Saidor area and he began to bring the remaining elements of his 32nd division.  Gill then began plans for a secondary landing at the Yalau Plantation, around 30 miles west of Saidor. He hoped to establish a new forward base there and possibly intercept enemy stragglers trying to bypass the Saidor area.The 2nd battalion, 126th regiment led by Lt Colonel Oliver O. Dixon successfully landed on March 5th. 54 landing crafts unloaded 1348 within 9 waves, seeing little to no opposition. As men patrolled east and west from Yalau, they encountered and killed a few Japanese and found many already dead. They would reach Bau Plantation on March 9th, where they ran into a detachment of General Nakai's 3rd battalion, 239th regiment. But yet again we must not shift our attention somewhere we have not been in quite some time, the Indian Ocean.  The Commander in Chief, Southwest Area Fleet, Vice-Admiral Takasu Shiro had decided to dispatch heavy cruisers Aoba, Chikuma, and Tone, under the command of Rear-Admiral Sakonju Naomasa, to raid Allied shipping on the main route between Aden and Fremantle. Departing the Lingga Islands on February 27, the heavy cruisers were escorted by light cruisers Kinu and Ōi and 3 destroyers through the Sunda Strait. The raiders were also supported by 10 medium bombers and 3-4 seaplanes based in Sumatra and west Java which conducted patrols in the direction of Ceylon. 3-4 submarines from the 8th Flotilla also monitored Allied shipping movements near Ceylon, the Maldive Islands and Chagos Archipelago. On March 6th the allies detected the force near the Lombok Strait. Fearing a possible attack, Western Australia was reinforced and the British Eastern Fleet was diverted. On the morning of March 9th, Sakonju's cruiser came across the 6200 ton British steamer Behar between Fremantle and Colombo. Upon sighting the Japanese ships, Behar's Captain Maurice Symons, ordered that his radio operator transmit the "RRR" code in order to notify other ships and Allied bases that the merchant ship was being attacked by surface raiders. Tone's signals room picked up the message,. The Tone then began signaling repeatedly to the Behar to surrender, but the Behar continued to flee, prompting the cruiser to open fire. Behar was hit a few times to her prow and stern, killing 3 crewmembers. Within 5 minutes Behar's crew and passengers began abandoning ship as she sank. 104-108 survivors were rescued by the Tone. Following the attack, Sakonju believed it was too dangerous to continue raiding as Behar had sent out a distress signal. So he turned back, reaching Tanjung Priok on March 15th.  Shortly after the Behar survivors were rescued, Sakonju sent a radio message to Tone's commanding officer, Captain Mayuzumi Haruo, reprimanding him for taking non-essential personnel prisoner and not capturing the merchant ship. In this message Sakonju ordered that the survivors be killed. Mayuzumi was unwilling to do so, however, as he felt that this would violate his Christian religious beliefs. His executive officer, Commander Mii Junsuke, also opposed killing the prisoners deeming it dishonorable. Mayuzumi radioed a request to Sakonju that the prisoners be put ashore, but this was rejected. The captain then visited Aoba to argue his case, but Sakonju remained unmoved and told Mayuzumi to "obey my orders". Despite his misgivings, Mayuzumi ultimately decided to kill the prisoners. On the night of March 18, all the prisoners on board Tone were beheaded by several of the cruiser's officers. Mayuzumi watched the killings from the ship's bridge but Mii refused to take part. The number of the crew to be executed was between 65 and at least 100. Following the massacre 15-36 survivors were transferred to Aoba. The party sent to Aoba included Symonds, the Behar's chief officer and several of the senior officers as well as both of the ship's female passengers. All of this group were later landed at Tanjung Priok. After the war, the Allies prosecuted the officers responsible for the murders on board the Tone. Vice Admiral Takasu died from disease in September 1944, but Sakonju was tried by the British in 1947 at Hong Kong and sentenced to death and executed 21 January 1948. Mayuzumi was convicted for his role in the killings and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment. Sakonju stated in his affidavit that he was 'retaliating against the execution and inhuman treatment of Japanese prisoners by the allies in Guadalcanal'. Mayuzumi stated in his defense that he was following Sakonju's orders. Mayuzumi received a light sentence due to his repeated requests for clemency for the prisoner's lives. 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. Operation Hailstone saw what was once called the Gibraltar of the Pacific, Truk nearly annihilated. She could no longer be counted upon to thwart allied sea and air units in the region. The Australians on New Guinea were not letting up on the retreating Japanese and a terrible and needless massacre took place in the Indian Ocean.  

Tiukassa olivat pisteet Lappeenrannassa, mutta Pelicans haki kuin hakikin pisteet kotiin. Ratkaisu jäi tällä kertaa aika kalkkiviivoille. Selostus: Ili Varmavuo. Kuva: Katja Luoma/ESS

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SaiPa tarjoili viime viikolla kannattajilleen harvinaista herkkua, kun joukkue voitti kolme ottelua peräkkäin. Tällä viikolla muistutettiin kuitenkin arjesta, kun Antoine Morand liittyi Adam Helewkan seuraksi myytyjen pelaajien listaan. Jaksossa jutusteltiin myös Jyväskylän kannattajareissusta, jossa Kaukaan Päädyn edustus oli tasan 100%. (00:00) Pelaajasiirtojen takaraja (09:55) Sami Niku (14:10) SaiPan siirrot (26:55) Voittoputki (33:36) Kannattajareissu Jyväskylään (46:48) Kannattajayhdistys 20v

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Koronasta toivuttu ja voimia oli tehdä uusi jakso. Toki intohimo kadonnut koronan mukana, mutta pituutta sentään jaksolla on. Käydään tällä kertaa pitkän kaavan mukaan mediakenttää läpi, siitä sujahdetaan RUKin hyötyihin ja lopetellaan Saipaan. Joten ota kalja lapaseen ja nauti elämästä vaikka jakson kera. (00:28) Alkuhöpinät (31:27) Mediakatsaus (58:08) RUK (01:11:33) Saipanurkkaus

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در این قسمت، با محمد رضا عاشوری همراه شدیم، فردی که در دنیای خودروهای خودران کار می‌کنه و حالا توی شرکت جگوار لندروور هست. از روزهای کار تو کارخانه سایپا تا روزهایی که داره توی انگلستان تکنولوژی رو جلو می‌بره، حرف‌های زیادی برای گفتن داره. در مورد چالش‌ها و جذابیت‌های طراحی خودروهای خودران، نحوه کار این تکنولوژی‌های جدید مثل رادار و سنسورها، و اینکه چطور این همه چیز داره صنعت خودرو رو عوض می‌کنه، با هم گپ زدیم. Today's episode features an insightful conversation with Mohammad Reza Ashouri, a prominent figure in the field of autonomous vehicle technology at JLR. With a rich background that spans from Iran's Saipa car factory to the innovative environments of the UK, Mohammad shares his deep understanding of autonomous driving, vehicle simulation, and software development. We delve into the complex world of vehicle design, the role of cutting-edge technologies like radar and Lidar, and the challenges of manufacturing advanced cars. Join us as we navigate the fascinating journey of automotive evolution, where tradition meets technology, and vision drives innovation.Mohammad Reza AshouriLinkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-reza-ashouri-6652454aTabaghe 16----------Castbox https://castbox.fm/channel/id3083907Spotify https://spoti.fi/2CiyRoHTwitter https://twitter.com/soh3ilInstagram https://www.instagram.com/tabaghe16/Everywhere else https://redl.ink/tabaghe16/links#پادکست #طبقه۱۶ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Teipistä teippiin -podcastin 16. jaksossa jaetaan Liigan joukkueiden syystodistukset! Jakso on tekijöistä riippumattomien syiden takia äänitetty sunnuntaina 12.11, eli poikkeuksellisesti äänityksen ja julkaisun väliin jäi yksi päivä. Onneksi maanantaina ei kuitenkaan tapahtunut mitään mullistavaa, kuten pelaajasiirtoja tai Liigan osakkeen hinnoittelua ja siitä johtuvia suuria päätöksiä! (00:01) Alkupuheet (02:48) Uutiskatsaus (08:14) Syystodistusten läpikäynti (10:01) Tappara (15:02) Ilves (21:02) HIFK (28:30) Kärpät (35:51) JYP (46:43) Lukko (54:55) Ässät (01:04:13) Jukurit (01:15:43) KalPa (01:22:24) KooKoo (01:30:11) Sport (01:35:08) Pelicans (01:45:47) TPS (02:03:30) HPK (02:05:08) SaiPa (02:11:23) Liigapörssiasiaa (02:13:04) Loppupuheet

01:30 Eevi Ilvosen vierailu 19:10 Maajoukkueasiaa 27:00 Kirjeenvaihtaja Kaila 38:05 Podiadin tähdistökentällinen 42:50 Alene Sankalan vierailu Lapa jäähän -podcastin tämänkertaisen jakson vieraina ovat pitkän uran SaiPassa tehnyt Eevi Ilvonen, 26, joka on täksi kaudeksi siirtynyt TPS:ään ja murtautunut Naisten Liigaan sekä Alene Sankala, 18, joka siirtyi perheen muuton myötä Kärppien akatemiajoukkueesta Saksan DFEL:ään ERC Ingolstadtin takalinjoille. Jaksossa käydään läpi myös päättyneitä maajoukkuetapahtumia ja pureudutaan niin Naisleijonien kuin Tyttöleijonienkin otteisiin. Lisäksi kirjeenvaihtaja Jenna Kaila saapuu kertomaan viime aikojen kuulumisiaan. Kaila pääsi myös vetämään leijonapaidan ylleen Deutschland Cupissa naisten maajoukkueen matkassa. Tuttuun tapaan myös uusi podiadin tähdistökentällinen näkee päivänvalon tuoreen jakson myötä.

Kausi käynnistyi ja näyttää siltä, että SaiPa pelaa taas uskottavaa lätkää! Pureuduimme jaksossa tietysti ensimmäisten otteluiden antiin mutta näiden lisäksi tapetilla ovat talousluvut ja niiden julkistaminen, areenakeskustelu sekä muutamat sekalaiset huomiot liigastartista. Puhelinvieraana SaiPan kapteeni Miska Siikonen.

Economist Ettiene Retief Chairman of the National Tax and SARS Committee at SAIPA

1. Сергей Миронов предупредил о новой "коммунальной бомбе";2. Американцам нужно молиться после решения президента России Владимира Путина разместить ядерное оружие в Белоруссии;3. Поставки российской нефти в Индию в 2022 году выросли в 22 раза;4. Продажи иранских автомобилей SAIPA стартуют в России с июня 2023 года.Новости

SaiPa avasi kevään siirtomarkkinat aidosti, kun Jarno Koskiranta siirtyi Ilvekseen ja nuori Emil Järventie keltamustiin. Kysyimme Jussi Markkaselta kasvattaako SaiPa liigapelaajaa Ilvekselle. Lisäksi puhuimme SaiPan ympärillä vellovista aiheista ja todennäköisesti niiden vierestäkin.

Kun runkosarjaa on jäljellä kolmasosa ei SaiPan toimistollakaan voida enää haaveilla pudotuspeleistä.  Tämänkertaisessa jaksossa ajankohtaisten aiheiden lisäksi mietitään ketkä olisivat mahdollisia lähtijöitä, kun SaiPa pyrkii paikkaamaan talouttaan pelaajasiirroilla. Siirretään myös katseita jo tulevaan kauteen ja käydään läpi kokoonpanon tilannetta optioiden käytön ja värväystarpeiden suhteen. Lisäksi soittelimme Ville Vainikaiselle ja kysyimme mistä miehen hyvä vire johtuu.

The number of students interested in accounting and auditing has been falling worldwide. A member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Christina Ho, recently called the shortage a “crisis”. This has also been the case in South Africa where the profession is facing the same challenge. The CEO of the South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA), Shahied Daniels, told BizNews that a reason for the decline is digital transformation and the lack of skills thereof. He reveals the professional accountancy organisation (PAO) is upskilling its members with digital tools to ride the Fourth Industrial Revolution wave, sustainably and ethically. According to him, the days of bean counters as well as the title chief financial officer, are over, as they have evolved to much more. The era of the chief value officer and Professional Accountant (SA)– who plays a much bigger role in business and society, and contributes to the sustainability of the economy of the country – has arrived. – Linda van Tilburg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liigalize tänään | Liigalize ikväll: (00:00) Liigalize jakso #53 (02:58) Mitä pukinkonttiin: SaiPa (09:58) Sport (14:14) JYP (19:20) KooKoo (24:19) HIFK (33:26) HPK (37:21) Jukurit (43:17) Ässät (47:01) TPS (53:47) Kärpät (01:00:22) KalPa (01:06:11) Ilves (01:09:31) Tappara (01:14:08) Pelicans (01:20:17) Lukko (01:23:35) Mitä Liigalle pukinkonttiin? Instagram & Twitter: @liigalize / @lennu37 / @jonipetrell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Joukkueen ja seuran tilanne huolestuttaa niin kannattajia kuin Kaukaan Päätyäkin. Tässä jaksossa ruoditaan synkkää tilannetta.

Another one! If you've been waiting for guests, then you are about to cream yourself 'cause I have another treat for you - back to back. Veeti "Riverboat" Vainio joins us to tell us about his young and eventful career as we go through his struggles, triumphs and most memorable experiences from his junior career. Critical but humorous (factory promise) episode ahead, so take a comfortable position and enjoy the following 50 minutes! Intro (01:18) U18 Medal Mystery? (03:08) The Start (04:46) Blues jun. (06:54) Medals Only (08:03) Accolades (09:09) Blues' Magic (10:22) Pressure from Success? (12:06) Restrictions? (13:57) DFD - OFD? (14:59) Shoutout Time (15:47) End of an Era - Espoo Blues (16:41) Skating (19:40) Roller Hockey? (21:15) Junior National Team (22:03) Standouts (24:05) 141st - Blue Jackets (24:41) The Draft Experience (25:16) Draft Projection (26:21) Dev. Camps & Big Boys (27:47) First Full Liiga Season (29:30) Mentors & First Game (30:10) The Rookie (32:16) KooKoo & Mestis (33:31) SaiPa (34:53) I Can Prove It (36:36) 70min of Penalties? (37:50) SaiPa --> Pelicans (38:30) IF Björklöven (39:47) Differences: Liiga - SHL/Allsvenskan (41:23) Finals Disappointment (42:10) The Target (42:52) The Mind (44:01) Goals (45:20) NHL Dream? (46:06) The Injuries (46:40) Prime Time & Highlights (47:23) Any Other Sports? (47:56) Golf Talk (48:44) Stanley Cup Prediction (49:46) Nickname (50:39) The Snapshots (51:39) The Trifecta: (53:20) Outro: (54:48) IG: thedrop_pass / jtoivaTwitter: _JToiva Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liigalize tänään | Liigalize ikväll: (00:00) Jakso #47 (00:41) Kuulumiset (06:43) Liigakarsinnat takas!! (16:26) Joensuun sahaus (18:12) Alkukauden bros&cons (19:01) Lukko (24:19) Pelicans (28:02) Kärpät (31:51) Tappara (36:41) Ilves (42:51) TPS (46:05) HPK (50:08) Kalpa (55:38) KooKoo (1:00:02) JYP (01:06:59) Ässät (01:10:48) Sport (01:16:02) HIFK (01:22:40) Jukurit (01:26:55) SaiPa (01:30:36) Loppusanat Instagram & Twitter: @liigalize / @lennu37 / @jonipetrell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SaiPa ensimmäisen liigaviikon saldo jäi ohueksi mutta mitä peli kertoi? Otteluiden analysoinnin lisäksi juontajakaksikko päästeli höyryjä ulos mm. SM-liigan verkkosivujen, U20 sarjajärjestelmän ja CMOREn lätkätuotteen tason parissa. Pitkän pätkän SaiPassa työskennellyttä Jussi Viljakaistakaan ei jaksosta unohdettu.

Liigalize tänään: (00:00) Intro (00:39) Kuulumiset (04:18) Leo Komarov+Luleån suomalaiset (07:10) Suomalaisia pelaajasiirtoja (10:14) Jonin CHL katsaus (16:56) Liiga ennakko: Ässät (25:38) SaiPa (32:41) JYP (40:18) Sport (44:47) KalPa (49:59) Lukko (55:05) Pelicans Instagram & Twitter: @liigalize / @lennu37 / @jonipetrell

Syksyn toisessa Liigaennakossa pureudutaan taas viiteen joukkueeseen(HPK, Lukko, Sport, SaiPa ja KooKoo). Lisäksi Juho Kokon avustuksella käydään läpi Mestiskauden koukeroita. Aihelistalla myös naisten maajoukkueen tilanne. Sporttimeisterit somessa: www.twitter.com/sporttimeister1 www.instagram.com/sporttimeisterit

Kevin Fitzgerald is getting a little taste of one tradition of European hockey. In a number of European leagues, the league leader in points wears a gold helmet during games. For Fitzgerald, he wore the gold helmet on July 2 playing for Team Mullen in a 3ICE tournament in Grand Rapids, Mich. After the season is completed, Fitzgerald will play this fall for SaiPa in the top league in Finland in the city of Lappeenranta. Fitzgerald discusses all this and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten on this episode of the Huskies Hockey Insider Podcast. For more hockey coverage, visit The Rink Live.

Tammikuun toiseksi viimeisen Hokipodin haastatteluissa JYPistä Pelicansiin siirtynyt hyökkääjä Brad Lambert sekä lahtelaisseuran urheilutoimenjohtaja Janne Laukkanen. Hockey Time -podcastin puheenaiheet: Brad Lambert palasi Pelicansiin. JYP-sopimuksensa purkanut hyökkääjä sai runsaasti vastuuta uransa ensimmäisessä kasvattajaseuransa väreissä pelaamassaan Liiga-ottelussa. (00:08) Pelicansin urheilutoimenjohtaja Janne Laukkanen tekee selkoa Lambertin siirtokuviosta sekä lahtelaisseuran johdon, valmennuksen ja pelaajan välisistä pelisäännöistä. Puhetta myös (Lambertin) mahdollisesta NHL-sopimuksesta saatavasta kasvattajarahakorvausta. (04:38) Ajatukset Laukkasen kommenteista ja Lambertin kolmannesta seuravaihdosta alle kolmen vuoden sisään. Taustakeskusteluissa on esitetty monenlaisia näkemyksiä Bradin isästä Ross Lambertista sekä niin sanotusta "seurashoppailusta". Nähtäväksi jää, miten homma lähtee rokkaamaan Lahdessa ja Tommi Niemelän alaisuudessa. (11:14) Aatu Jämsen pyrki häiriköimään Brad Lambertin haastattelua. Oliko Juhamatti Aaltosella vaikutusta 18-vuotiaan hyökkääjän pelinumerovalintaan? Oulua kohti matkanneesta bussista tavoitettu Lambert on tottunut median paineeseen: "En tiedä, miksi kaikesta tehdään niin iso juttu. Näin se on ja näin se tulee jatkossakin olemaan". Valtaosa agentti-isä Rossiin liittyvistä väitteistä ei pidä Bradin mukaan paikkaansa: "En anna pienten asioiden pyöriä mielessä, vaan keskityn olennaiseen eli jääkiekon pelaamiseen". Hetkellinen pudotus Suomen alle 20-vuotiaiden ykkösmaajoukkueesta sai Lambertin tarttumaan puhelimeen – langan toisessa päässä luuriin vastasi pikkuleijonien päävalmentaja Antti Pennanen. (22:11) Ajatukset Lambertin kypsistä kommenteista. (31:09) SaiPa aloitti tyhjennysmyynnin hyvissä ajoin. Lukuisista poissaoloista kärsivän Pelicansin peli sakkaa tällä hetkellä pahasti. Turhautuminen paistoi olympialaisiin valitun tshekkihyökkääjä Jiri Smejkalin otteissa tiistain tappiollisessa Lukko-pelissä. Torstaina lahtelaisjoukkue metsästää alkaneen kalenterivuoden ensimmäistä pistettään Oulun Raksilassa. Pelicansin edellisestä kolmen pisteen voitosta on kulunut jo kuusi viikkoa. (31:38) Vielä on viikko aikaa osallistua Hokipodin tammikuun kuuntelijakilpailuun! (https://oma.media.fi/ess/hockey-time-kuuntelijakilpailu/) (39:24) Kommentteja, risuja tai ruusuja voit lätyttää Twitterissä tilille nimeltä Hockey Time Lahti (@HokiPodi) ja aihetunnisteella #hokipodi.

Tammikuun toisen Hokipodin haastattelussa valmentajapaikkaansa kaupitelleen lahtelaisseuran sanavalmis maalivahti Emil Larmi. Hockey Time -podcastin puheenaiheet: Missä kunnossa Liiga-kiekkoilijat palaavat työmaalle koronakaranteenin jälkeen? (00:07) 100 000 eurolla Pelicansin valmentajaksi. Poikkeusolosuhteissa lanseerattu innovatiivinen ja puolihumoristinen tempaus ei juontajien mielestä pyllistä urheilun tai valmentajien ammattikunnan suuntaan. (04:30) Haastattelussa viisi nollapeliä kuluvalla Liiga-kaudella torjunut Pelicans-vahti Emil Larmi. "Lähdin aikoinaan Lahdesta, että pääsin eroon lempinimestä". "Elan" kymmenen päivän koronakaranteeni sisälsi jumppailua ja nikkarointia kotioloissa. Larmin Porschessa ei ole talvirenkaita. (10:32) Isossa kuvassa Larmi on tyytyväinen omaan alkukauteensa. "Kaikenlaistahan tässä on syksyn aikana tapahtunut". Mystisten poissaolojen takaa löytyy useita syitä. Jenkkivuosien joukkuekarusellia ei ole ikävä. Larmin ja Jasper Patrikaisen yhteistyö on sujunut ilman väkivaltaa. (16:00) Mitä Pelicans-torjuja mahtoi kuiskata SaiPa-puolustaja Kalle Maalahdelle joukkueiden edellisessä kohtaamisessa joulukuun lopussa? "Tunnetta voisi näkyä kaukalossa enemmän. Olen ihminen joka elää tunteella myös arjessa." (22:42) Muistutus Hokipodin tammikuun kuuntelijakilpailusta (https://oma.media.fi/ess/hockey-time-kuuntelijakilpailu/). Karanteenikaverikseen Emil Larmi hankki höyrysilitysraudan sijaan robotti-imurin. Nuorempana Larmin seinältä löytyi Pelicansin pääomistaja Pasi Nurmisen juliste. Niko Hovinen ja Antti Niemi ovat antaneet vaikutteita 25-vuotiaan lahtelaiskassarin pelinumerovalintoihin. (29:05) Larmi lupaa laittaa viiksensä peliin, mikäli Pelicans juhlii keväällä jääkiekon Suomen mestaruutta. (32:40)

SaiPan tuloskunto pysyy tasaisen kehnona ja monien usko mestarivalmentaja Pekka Virran metodeihin horjuu. Onko mahdollista, että SaiPa teki sitenkin virheen vai häämöttääkö jalometallin värinen tulevaisuus yhä horisontissa?

SaiPa sai yhdeksän ottelun mittaiseksi venyneen tappioputken poikki mutta se ei pudotuspelipaikasta haaveilua enää pelasta. Pistekeskiarvojen lisäksi jaksossa käydään läpi SaiPan tämän kauden ulkomaalaishankinnat sekä analysoidaan kahden viime viikon ottelut.

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Hockey Time -podcastin puheenaiheet: Isku Areenan tulevaisuus. Jiri Smejkalin huima marraskuu ei riittänyt – HPK-vahti valittiin Liigan kuukauden pelaajaksi. Torstaiaamuna Radio Voiman studiossa piipahtaneesta Marko Jantusesta tehdään elokuva – ”alikersantti Lehto” näyttelee pääroolin. (00:23) Hokipodin joulukuun kuuntelijakisassa sujahdetaan persoonallisten Pelicans-valmentajien maailmaan. Vastaa ja voita Euronics Lahden lahjoittama tehosekoitin! (12:10) Pelicansin päävalmentaja Tommi Niemelä antaa tiukkasanaista palautetta Liigan kurinpidon suuntaan. Lahtelaisjoukkueen puolustaja Aleksi Laakson niitti poiki viiden ottelu pelikiellon, mutta SaiPa-luutija Kalle Maalahden vastaavanlainen kolaus ei aiheuttanut lisäsanktioita. Ovatko eri seurojen pelaajat samalla viivalla kurinpitäjien päättäessä tuomioista? Loukkaantumissumasta kärsivä Pelicans valmistautuu viikonlopun KooKoo-tuplaan. (14:48) Kurinpitojatkot. Voitokkaiden SaiPa-pelien summaus. Perjantaina Pelicans matkaa Kouvolaan. Lauantain KooKoo-kotiottelussa juhlistetaan Lahden ympäristöpääkaupunkivuotta ja kuvataan Marko Jantusesta kertovaa elokuvaa. (27:40) Kommentteja, risuja tai ruusuja voit lätyttää Twitterissä tilille nimeltä Hockey Time Lahti (@HokiPodi) ja aihetunnisteella #hokipodi.

Exclusive Interview with Masoud Shojaei (FARSI), Former Iran National Team Captain with 87 caps, formerly of Osasuna, Las Palmas, AEK Athens, Panionios, Al-Shahania, Al-Gharafa, Al-Sharjah, Saipa, Sanat Naft and Tractor, currently playing for Nassaji Mazandaran. We speak about his current club situation, his time at Osasuna, Team Melli, 2006, 2014 & 2018 World Cups, the Next Generation of Iranian Footballers and Much More! Full English Transcript: Coming Soon on https://golbezanpodcast.com Chapters: Intro - 00:00 Nassaji Mazandaran - 02:25 Offers before joining Osasuna - 04:45 Worst career injury - 10:03 Javad Nekounam - 15:48 Spanish Language - 19:44 Clubs after leaving Osasuna - 20:33 On Female Iranian Supporters - 26:50 Current Iran National Team - 30:58 Does he believe he should still be in the team - 32:17 2006 World Cup - 33:26 Carlos Queiroz - 35:22 2014 World Cup - 36:40 2018 World Cup - 39:58 Marc Wilmots - 43:10 Tractor - 48:27 Fan Questions - 50:15 The Next Generation of Young Iranian Talent - 52:11 Outro - 01:01:29 Follow us on social media @GolBezan, leave a like/review & subscribe on the platform you listen on - YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts, SoundCloud, Amazon, Castbox. Host: Arya Allahverdi Guest: Masoud Shojaei Editor: Samson Tamijani Graphic: Mahdi Javanbakhsh Intro Music: CASPIAN by ASADI instagram.com/dannyasadi smarturl.it/CASPIAN Outro Music: K!DMO instagram.com/kidmo.foreal Arya - twitter.com/Arya_Allahverdi Masoud - instagram.com/masoudsshojaei Samson - twitter.com/713Samson Mahdi - twitter.com/mativsh twitter.com/GolBezan twitter.com/GolBezanFarsi instagram.com/GolBezan facebook.com/GolBezanPodcast

SaiPa sai riveihinsä kokemusta, kun 32-vuotias maalivahti Jaroslav Janus liittyi joukkueeseen. Jaksossa käsittelemme SaiPan maalivahtitilannetta sekä tietysti kuluneen viikonlopun Pelicans -otteluiden saldoa.

Liigalize tänään: (0:00) Kuulumiset (Miten meni pikkujoulut?) (8:58) Matti "Mölli" Keinonen (15:34) Kuinka HIFK-paita päätyi Bidenin sukulaiselle? (20:33) Katsaus Liigaan (21:51) KooKoo (23:26) Kärpät (26:17) TPS (31:09) Pelicans (36:12) HIFK (42:00) Ilves (45:05) Tappara (49:29) HPK (56:56) Jukurit (59:40) Sport (1:02:33) Kalpa (1:05:44) Lukko (1:07:18) SaiPa (1:13:17) JYP (1:17:04) Ässät (1:25:24) Ebel-katsaus

Liigalize tänään: (0:00) Kuulumiset (3:24) Liigahallien ruokatarjonta (11:41) Osanotot Patrik Laineen perheelle (15:38) Barkovin loukkaantuminen (23:12) Katsaus Liigajoukkueisiin (25:28) KooKoo (28:22) Kärpät (32:03) TPS (34:53) Ilves (37:01) HIFK (43:18) Pelicans (46:42) Tappara (49:29) Sport (1:08:54) Kalpa (1:12:47) HPK (1:17:47) Jukurit (1:21:35) Lukko (1:24:30) SaiPa (1:29:17) JYP (1:35:13) Ässät

Hockey Time -podcastin puheenaiheet: Pelicans-pelaajia nähtiin viime viikolla maajoukkueiden matkassa. Aatu Jämsenin ilmaveivi säväytti Vierumäellä (01:14). Vielä on viikko aikaa osallistua Hokipodin marraskuun kuuntelijakilpailuun (05:03). Läpileikkaus Liigan ensimmäisestä runkosarjakolmanneksesta: KooKoo, Ilves ja Kärpät (06:03), TPS, HIFK ja Tappara (10:59), Sport, Jukurit ja SaiPa (15:13), Lukko ja KalPa (20:20), HPK, JYP ja Ässät (23:23). Haastattelussa tiistaina 21 vuotta täyttänyt Pelicans-hyökkääjä Aleks Haatanen (29:47). Maaottelutauko tuli Pelicansin kannalta kreivin aikaan. Lahtelaisille on tuomittu vain vajaat kuusi minuuttia jäähyjä ottelua kohti. Tasakentällisin laukaisusuhde on pahasti pakkasella. Turkoosimiehistön onnistujat ja epäonnistujat (39:06). Kommentteja, risuja tai ruusuja voit lätyttää Twitterissä tilille nimeltä Hockey Time Lahti (@HokiPodi) ja aihetunnisteella #hokipodi.

Liigalize tänään: (0:00) Kuulumiset (4:38) Leijoniin muutoksia (15:10) Arvosanat Liigajoukkueille (17:57) Ässät (21:58) JYP (25:00) HPK (31:16) Kalpa (33:58) Lukko (39:40) SaiPa (43:15) Jukurit (49:38) Pelicans (55:43) Sport (59:55) Tappara (1:08:50) HIFK (1:16:11) TPS (1:19:21) Kärpät (1:22:10) KooKoo (1:24:56) Ilves (1:29:34) Lokakuun valinnat (1:32:44) Räty vs Mustonen (1:44:17) Ebel-katsaus

SaiPa-legenda Ville Kohon numero nousee Kisapuiston kattoon upeassa gaalassa lauantaina 30. lokakuuta. Juttelimme Villen kanssa kapteenin velvollisuuksista, uran päättämisestä, valmentamisesta ja paljon muustakin.

Idän jättiläinen… Punainen kolmonen… Kiekkoleijona #52... Legendaarisilla jääkiekkoilijoilla on useita lempinimiä, mutta vain harva nimi herättää edelleen yhtä paljon kunnioitusta lätkäfanien keskuudessa, kuin Saipan ja HIFK:n puolustajasuuruutena tutuksi tullut Lalli Partinen. Partinen pelasi Saimaan Pallossa vuosina 1959-1969, luotsaten kapteenina joukkueensa sen ensimmäiseen ja tähän asti ainoaan pääsarjamitaliin, SM-pronssiin. HIFK:ssa hän vaikutti vuosina 1969-1977, juhlien kahdesti Suomen mestaruutta (1970 ja 1974). Hän lopetti peliuransa vuoteen 1977. Aikalaistensa joukossa kookkaan Partisen pelityyli oli raju. Hänen ennennäkemättömän kovat taklauksensa pehmensivät vastustajan toisensa perään. Reippaista otteista kertyi myös runsas määrä jäähyjä – peräti 858 minuutin verran. Partinen johtikin Suomen pääsarjan jäähytilastoa aina kauteen 2002-2003 asti. Elokuussa 80 vuotta täyttänyt Partinen ehti pelata myös viisissä MM-kisoissa sekä yksissä olympialaisissa. Peliuransa jälkeen hän toimi Jääkiekkoliiton toimitusjohtajana ja joukkueenjohtajana monilla maajoukkuetasoilla. Saipa on jäädyttänyt hänen pelinumeronsa 3. Jean Mancini haastatteli Lalli Partista puhelimitse 23.9.2021. Tykkää, seuraa, tilaa, jaa, kommentoi, peukuta: Facebook, Instagram, Youtube Ota yhteyttä Jeaniin ja Manciniin: jean.mancini.podcast@gmail.com Kannen kuvalähde: SaiPa

Liigalize tänään: (1:48) Emil Larmi ja nollapeli migreenissä (6:41) Tuomaripomo myönsi virheen, milloin viimeksi? (14:12) Konna Kontiolalla on asiaa testituloksista (20:40) Seksikäs Saipa ja katsaus liigaviikkoon (47:57) Miksi MacKinnon selittelee ruokavaliotaan? (56:12) Katsaus Liigan tuleviin peleihin (1:01:30) Ebel-katsaus