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The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.
The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, sometimes referred to as the Third and Fourth Battles of Savo Island, the Battle of the Solomons, The Battle of Friday the 13th, The Night of the Big Guns, or, in Japanese sources, the Third Battle of the Solomon Sea (第三次ソロモン海戦, Dai-san-ji Soromon Kaisen), took place from 12 to 15 November 1942 and was the decisive engagement in a series of ...
Guadalcanal Campaign: 1942 –1943 World War II: 29,100 [120] –31,100 [121] ... Casualties Battle of Megiddo: 1457 BC Thutmose III's first campaign in the Levant ...
6,217 (total Japanese troops on Guadalcanal at the time) [2] Casualties and losses; 104–111 killed or missing 278–283 wounded ... The Battle for Guadalcanal ...
The deadliest single-day battle in American history, if all engaged armies are considered, is the Battle of Antietam with 3,675 killed, including both United States and Confederate soldiers (total casualties for both sides were 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing Union and Confederate soldiers September 17, 1862). [1] [a] [2]
Non-battle casualties totaled 225, of which 125 suffered from malaria, 29 from dysentery, and 71 from ringworm or jungle rot. Most of the remaining Raiders were also suffering some type of physical ailment. On 17 December, the Raiders departed Guadalcanal by ship and arrived back at their home camp on Espiritu Santo on 20 December.
Guadalcanal American Memorial. The Guadalcanal American Memorial is a World War II monument on Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands.Dedicated on August 7, 1992, [1] it was established as a tribute to the Americans and their allies who lost their lives during the Guadalcanal Campaign from 7 August 1942 to 9 February 1943.
USS Juneau (CL-52) was a United States Navy Atlanta-class light cruiser torpedoed and sunk at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942. In total, 687 officers and sailors, including the five Sullivan brothers, were killed in action as a result of her sinking.