We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/chunuk_bair.html Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Chunuk Bair. That's why the Kiwi flag whips from the staff at Castle Argghhh! today. A battle in the Gallipoli campaign of the Great War. As Kiwi and Castle Metalsmith Murray notes at his place: In the early hours of this day in 1915 the Wellington battalion under Col William George Malone took Chunuk Bair, the highest point reached by the allied forces during the Gallipoli campaign. The previous day Malone had refused to advance up Rhododendron Ridge after the Aucklanders had just taken over three hundred casualties in 20 minutes attempting to make the attack under concentrated machinegun... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/chunuk_bair.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/chunuk_bair.html Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:10:00 -0600