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U.S. Navy photo #80-G-16312, now in the Natio: 14:52, 22 June 2006: 740 × 615 (143 KB) Cla68: Aerial view of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, late August 1942. The view looks northwest with the Lunga River and Lunga Point at the top of the image. Several aircraft are parked to the left. U.S. Navy photo #80-G-16312, now in the National Archives.
Battle at the Overland Trail, One Night of Combat on Guadalcanal. Warwick House Publishers. ISBN 978-1936553266. Hoffman, Jon T. (2001). Once a Legend: Red Mike Edson of the Marine Raiders. Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-732-X. Smith, George W. (2003). The Do-or-Die Men: The 1st Marine Raider Battalion at Guadalcanal. Pocket. ISBN 0-7434-7005-2.
American authorities declared Guadalcanal secure on 9 February 1943. The Guadalcanal campaign was a major turning point in the war, as it stopped further Japanese expansion. Two U.S. Navy ships have been named for the campaign: USS Guadalcanal was a World War II escort carrier. USS Guadalcanal was an amphibious assault ship.
"Guadalcanal Campaign". World War II Database; Flahavin, Peter (2004). "Guadalcanal Battle Sites, 1942-2004" - Web site with many pictures of Guadalcanal battle sites from 1942 and how they look now. Hoffman, Jon T. (1995). "Matanikau" (brochure). FROM MAKIN TO BOUGAINVILLE: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War.
An official U.S. Marine Corps photograph of Richard Tregaskis (left) with Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, ca. 1942. Richard William Tregaskis (November 28, 1916 – August 15, 1973) was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is Guadalcanal Diary (1943), an account of the first several weeks (in August - September 1942) of the U.S. Marine Corps invasion of Guadalcanal in ...
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Strategic initiative passed to the Allies, as it proved, permanently. The Guadalcanal campaign ended all Japanese expansion attempts in the Pacific and placed the Allies in a position of clear supremacy. [174] The Allied victory at Guadalcanal was the first step in a long string of successes that eventually led to the surrender and occupation ...
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