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-ये मेरी YouTube वीडियो की स्क्रिप्ट है और इसको अच्छे से एनालाइज करो, इसमें कोई कैप्चरल मिस्टेक है तो वो भी फाइंड आउट करो और बताओ क्या ये बेस्ट AVD के लिए अच्छा है, इसका क्या पोटेंशियल आप देखते हो. Bloody Ridge: The Night 840 Marines Saved Guadalcanal Final narration script, exactly as voiced in the video (15:12). Timecodes show where each line starts in the video. Cold Open [0:00] Late in the afternoon of September 13th, 1942, a Marine officer climbed onto an empty grenade box on a grassy ridge in the Solomon Islands. Around him sat about eight hundred tired, dirty, hungry men. [0:14] His name was Merritt Edson. He was a quiet man with a soft voice, and his men called him Red Mike, for the color of his beard. He did not give long speeches. This one was short. [0:27] ‘You men have done a great job,’ he said, ‘and I have just one more thing to ask of you. Hold out just one more night.’ [0:36] Behind those men was the only airfield the United States had in that whole part of the Pacific. In front of them, somewhere in the jungle, were about three thousand Japanese soldiers who had marched for days to take it back. [0:51] Before the sun came up again, those Marines would be pushed off half the ridge. Some of them would run. And the whole battle for Guadalcanal would come down to a few hundred yards of grass and coral. [1:04] This is the story of that night, and of the ridge the Marines never forgot. They called it Bloody Ridge. Chapter 1 - A Field Of Mud [1:19] To understand why anyone would fight this hard for one ridge, we need to start with a muddy, half-built airstrip. [1:27] In the summer of 1942, Japan was building an airfield on an island most Americans had never heard of: Guadalcanal, at the bottom of the Solomon Islands. Planes from that field could cut the sea road between America and Australia. [1:44] So on the 7th of August, the 1st Marine Division landed. The Japanese building crews ran into the jungle, and the Marines took the airfield almost without a fight. Within two days, about eleven thousand Marines were ashore. [1:59] They named it Henderson Field, after Major Lofton Henderson, a Marine pilot who had been killed at Midway two months earlier. [2:08] And then something strange happened. The Marines owned the island by day, because their planes could hit any ship that came close. But at night, the sea belonged to Japan. [2:20] Fast Japanese destroyers came down a channel the Americans called the Slot, dropped off soldiers in the dark, and were gone before sunrise. The Marines called it the Tokyo Express. The Japanese sailors had a less proud name for it. They called it rat transportation. Chapter 2 - The General Who Counted Wrong [2:42] The first Japanese force to come back for the airfield did not last long. On the 21st of August, about nine hundred men under Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki attacked straight across a sandbar at the mouth of a creek. Only about one hundred and twenty-eight of them survived. [2:59] You would think that would make the next commander careful. It didn’t. [3:04] The next man was Major General Kiyotake Kawaguchi. He was an experienced officer, and by early September the Tokyo Express had landed about six thousand of his soldiers on Guadalcanal. [3:17] But Kawaguchi believed there were only about two thousand Americans on the island. The real number was more than twelve thousand. He was offered one more battalion of men, and he said no. He didn’t think he needed it. [3:31] There was another problem. Most of his heavy guns, his trucks and a lot of his food could not fit on fast destroyers. His men landed light, with what they could carry on their backs. [3:44] His plan was bold. Instead of attacking along the beach like Ichiki, he would march his main force inland, deep through the jungle, and hit the airfield from the south at night, where nobody expected him. Chapter 3 - ‘This Is The Place’ [4:02] On the American side, the man watching the jungle most closely was Edson. His Raiders were the Marines’ first special assault battalion, men picked and trained to hit hard and move fast. [4:16] Local island scouts, led by a British officer named Martin Clemens, brought word that Japanese troops were gathering near a village called Tasimboko, about seventeen miles east. [4:29] So on the 8th of September, Edson took his men there by boat and walked into the village. Kawaguchi’s main force had already left for the jungle. What Edson found was his supply base. [4:42] There was food, ammunition, medicine, a radio, and stacks of papers. Headquarters radioed Edson more than once to come back. He kept going. The Marines took what they could carry, destroyed the rest, and came home with the papers. [4:58] Those papers told the Americans at least three thousand Japanese soldiers were on the island and getting ready to attack. Edson thought he knew exactly where. [5:09] Just south of the airfield ran a long, bare ridge, about a thousand yards from end to end, covered in tall grass, with jungle on both sides and the Lunga River close by. It pointed at the airfield like a finger. [5:24] A week earlier, Edson had walked that ridge himself. He turned to one of his officers and said, ‘This is the place. This is where they’ll hit.’ [5:35] General Vandegrift, the division commander, wasn’t so sure. He expected the attack to come along the coast. In the end, his staff found a clever way around it. They told him the ridge would be a nice quiet spot for Edson’s tired Raiders to rest. [5:51] So on the 11th of September, about 840 Marines, Edson’s Raiders and the paratroopers placed under him, moved onto the ridge. They dug in on two small hills. The Marines named them by their height in feet. Hill 80 at the southern end. Hill 123 in the middle. [6:11] The Japanese had their own name for the ridge. Its long, twisting shape on their maps reminded them of a centipede. Chapter 4 - The First Night [6:25] Kawaguchi wanted his men in position by two o’clock in the afternoon of September 12th. The jungle had other ideas. [6:33] His columns had bad maps and at least one broken compass. They hacked through vines, waded streams and zigzagged for hours. They didn’t reach their start points until after ten at night. [6:48] Later Kawaguchi wrote, ‘Due to the devilish jungle, the brigade was scattered all over and was completely beyond my control. In my whole life I have never felt so disappointed and helpless.’ [7:01] At half past nine that night, a Japanese cruiser and three destroyers began shelling the Marine lines. A searchlight swept across the ridge. [7:11] One Japanese battalion found the Raiders on the low ground between the ridge and the river, and pushed one company back up onto the ridge. Other units got lost in the dark and ran into each other. [7:24] By morning the attack had fizzled out. Twelve Marines were dead. But Edson knew this was not the real attack. That was still coming. Chapter 5 - One More Night [7:39] On the 13th, Edson made a hard choice. He pulled his whole line back about four hundred yards, closer to the airfield, so the Japanese would have to cross open grass to reach him. [7:51] The new line was thin. The holes were shallow, because there was no time to dig deep. Many men had only one or two grenades. A reserve battalion and some artillery moved up behind them. [8:04] That afternoon came the speech on the grenade box. One more night. [8:09] When the sun went down there was no moon. It was so dark a man could hardly see the man in the next hole. [8:16] Around ten o’clock, Marine observers saw Japanese troops gathering in the jungle below Hill 80, and called in the artillery. A few minutes later, about three hundred Japanese soldiers came up the slope with bayonets fixed. [8:32] The paratroopers on the east side were driven off the ridge. The Raiders on Hill 80 were ordered back to Hill 123. Now the Japanese were on top of the ridge, and only open grass lay between them and the last hill. [8:47] And here, the line almost broke. In the smoke and the dark, somebody yelled ‘gas’. Men who’d thrown away their gas masks long ago started to panic. Others shouted ‘withdraw’, and some began heading back toward the airfield. [9:03] It wasn’t gas. It was most likely smoke and the smell of burning flares. But in that moment, it didn’t matter. [9:11] Major Kenneth Bailey, one of Edson’s officers, ran in among them with a pistol in his hand. Along with other officers, and in language I won’t repeat here, he turned them around and pushed them back into the line around Hill 123. [9:26] Now the Marines held a horseshoe around one small hill. And the Japanese kept coming. Charge after charge, up the saddle from Hill 80, and up the steep side from the east, under parachute flares dropped by a Japanese floatplane. [9:43] The Japanese even dragged a mountain gun up to the top of Hill 80 to fire straight into the Marines. Marines who saw it said it never fired. The firing pin was faulty. [9:55] Around midnight, Edson sent the paratroopers forward again on his left, with bayonets. They swept back over ground they had lost and closed the gap. [10:06] Bailey, wounded in the head, kept carrying ammunition and grenades to men who were running out. His Medal of Honor citation says he led them in hand-to-hand fighting for ten hours. [10:18] Behind all of it, the Marine artillery never stopped. One battalion of 105 millimeter guns fired nearly two thousand shells that night. A Japanese prisoner later said only one man in ten from his company came back. [10:34] And through the whole night, Edson stood, not crouched, about twenty yards behind his firing line. A Marine captain named Tex Smith watched him. He said, ‘If there is such a thing as one man holding a battalion together, Edson did it that night. He stood just behind the front lines - stood, when most of us hugged the ground.’ [10:56] One more thing from that night is hard to forget. A group of Japanese soldiers who slipped around the ridge came across a pile of Marine food. They hadn’t eaten properly in days. So, in the middle of the battle, they stopped and ate. [11:12] Some Japanese did get past the ridge and reached the edge of a fighter strip next to the airfield. Marine engineers, men who normally built roads and runways, picked up rifles and drove them back. [11:26] Before dawn, the reserve battalion came up onto Hill 123, and together they threw back the last two attacks. The line held. Chapter 6 - Morning [11:41] When the sun came up on the 14th, about one hundred Japanese soldiers were still out in the open on the south slope of Hill 80, maybe getting ready for one last charge. [11:53] Bailey went to the airfield himself and asked for help. Three Army fighter planes took off and flew straight down the ridge, firing. That was the end of it. [12:02] A little after one in the afternoon, Kawaguchi led what was left of his brigade away into the jungle. [12:09] The march that followed was terrible. His men had eaten their last rations. They carried their wounded on their backs, and dropped first their heavy gear, then their rifles. By the time they reached their own lines in the west, only about half still had a weapon. [12:26] Kawaguchi lost about 830 men killed in the attack, and many more wounded. The Marines lost between 104 and 111 killed, and hundreds wounded. [12:39] The paratroopers paid the most. Of about 240 who went up on that ridge, only 86 walked off it the next morning. Chapter 7 - Why It Mattered [12:54] You might think one ridge on one island couldn’t change much. But look at what happened next. [13:01] When the news reached the Japanese high command, they held an emergency meeting. Their conclusion was that Guadalcanal might become the decisive battle of the war. [13:11] To send more men to Guadalcanal, they had to take them from somewhere. So they told their troops in New Guinea, who were only about thirty miles from the Allied base at Port Moresby, to stop and pull back. They never got that close again. [13:26] General Vandegrift later said that the fight on the ridge was the only time in the whole campaign that he had doubts about how it would end. The historian Richard Frank put it simply. The Japanese never came closer to victory on the island itself. [13:42] Merritt Edson received the Medal of Honor for that night. So did Kenneth Bailey, the major with the pistol and the head wound. But Bailey never knew. Twelve days after the ridge, on the 26th of September, he was killed leading his men at the Matanikau River. Conclusion [14:05] If you go to the Marine Corps recruit depot in San Diego, the last test a recruit faces is called the Crucible. It ends with a long climb up a steep hill they call the Reaper. [14:16] At the top, the recruits are told about a man who stood up all night on a ridge in the Solomon Islands. Edson’s Medal of Honor citation is read to them there, before they receive the emblem that makes them Marines. [14:30] So more than eighty years later, every new Marine still hears about Bloody Ridge, and about the night a few hundred tired men were asked to hold on just a little longer. [14:41] Hold out just one more night. They did. [14:48] If you’d like to see what happened after the ridge, when Japan sent a whole army to take that airfield back, that story is next on this channel. Thank you for watching, and I’ll see you then. Sources Richard B. Frank, Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (1990) Michael T. Smith, Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal (2000) Joseph H. Alexander, Edson’s Raiders (2000) James F. Christ, Battalion of the Damned (2007) Hough, Ludwig & Shaw, Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal (USMC Historical Branch) Medal of Honor citations of Merritt A. Edson and Kenneth D. Bailey