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English: From left to right: Lieutenant colonel Leonard B. Cresswell (1st Battalion), Lieutenant colonel Edwin A. Pollock (Executive Officer 1st Marines), Colonel Clifton B. Cates (Commanding Officer 1st Marines), Lieutenant colonel William N. McKelvy (3rd Battalion) and Lieutenant colonel William W. Stickney (2nd Battalion) at Guadalcanal, October 1942.
Members of the 1st Division staff on Guadalcanal, August 1942. Sitting in the front row are George R. Rowan, Pedro del Valle, William C. James, Alexander A. Vandegrift, Gerald C. Thomas, Clifton B. Cates, and Randolph M. Pate. From the collection of Clifton B. Cates (COLL/3157), United States Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections
1st Marine Division patch. The 1st Marine Division's struggle to take Guadalcanal achieved legendary status: the heat and mud, the malaria and dysentery, the giant tropical insects and the fanatical, often suicidal, resistance of the Japanese combined to create an immense amount of sheer suffering. Today, the unit's insignia features the word ...
On 7 August 1942, Allied forces, predominantly United States Marines, landed on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida Island in the southern Solomon Islands, with the objective of using Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases in supporting a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain.
First Division Marines storm ashore across Guadalcanal's beaches on D-Day, 7 August 1942, from the attack transport USS Barnett (AP-11) and the attack cargo ship USS Fomalhaut (AK-22). The invaders were surprised at the lack of enemy opposition.
This is owing to the commitment the United States had made to Great Britain to undertake the invasion of North Africa in the fall of 1942, a commitment which essentially left the Guadalcanal operation with the naval leftovers. For this reason, American sailors and Marines referred to the invasion as "Operation Shoestring". [1] US Navy combat ships:
On 7 August 1942, Allied forces (primarily U.S.) landed on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands.The landings on the islands were meant to deny their use by the Japanese as bases for threatening the supply routes between the U.S. and Australia, and to secure the islands as starting points for a campaign with the eventual goal of isolating the major Japanese base at ...
Japanese siren utilized by the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing during the Battle of Guadalcanal. This siren is on display at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. During the course of the battle the men and equipment of the radar detachment were constantly exposed to enemy small arms fire, artillery shelling, naval gunfire, and aerial bombardment. [31]