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Big thanks to VAER for sponsoring this video. Check them out and get a free watch roll with your purchase using this link: https://www.vaerwatches.com/battleguide On the night of 12 August 1942, a 25-man US Marine patrol came ashore on Guadalcanal’s north coast hoping to find Japanese troops willing to surrender. By dawn, the Goettge Patrol had been almost entirely destroyed, and only three men made it back to American lines. This documentary reconstructs the disaster using survivor testimony, Japanese accounts, the 1st Marine Division’s D-2 journal, and the ground where it happened. It begins with Colonel Frank Goettge, the division’s intelligence officer, and a captured Japanese warrant officer whose interrogation suggested some enemy troops near the Matanikau River might give up. Goettge turned a planned combat patrol into a mission made up largely of mapmakers, photographers, a surgeon, a translator, and other specialists. They were lightly armed and carried no radio. Their boat then ran aground on a sandbar in the wrong place, east of Point Cruz, directly in front of a waiting Japanese force. We follow the fight on the beach and the escapes of Sergeant Charles “Monk” Arndt, Corporal Joseph Spaulding, and Platoon Sergeant Frank Few, each of whom swam and waded miles along the coast to reach safety. We also examine why the rescue force landed miles from the patrol, and what the official records left out. The loss of the Goettge Patrol shaped the Guadalcanal campaign. It hardened Marine attitudes toward taking prisoners, stripped the division of intelligence specialists it couldn’t replace, and halted intelligence patrols for months. The men’s remains have never been found. The ground where they died now lies beneath Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. Creating these videos is a lot of work, and it would not be possible without your support. If you like our work, you can help us with a regular or one time payment: • Support us via Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/BattleGuide • One Time Support: https://battleguide.co.uk/support Newsletter: If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Links: • Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/podcast • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattleGuide • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BattleGuideVirtualTours • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@battleguide • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/battle.guide/ Sources: • Dave Holland of "Guadalcanal – Walking A Battlefield" for research assistance • Will Few for the photographs of Frank Few and Monk Arndt • Heidi Sundberg-Nakayama for photograph of Ed Sundberg General Sources: • US National Archives (NARA) • Google Earth Pro & Web Versions • Maptiler Pro (Desktop Version) Credits: • Research: Geoff Roecker • Script: Geoff Roecker & Dan Hill • Narration: Dan Hill • Editing: Shane Greer • Music & Sound Effects: Shane Greer • Thumbnail Design & Production: Linus Klassen • Production Assistant: Sophie Rebairo • Dubbing: Lydie Moreno, Julius Houben & Ingrid Delfolie

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