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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.
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 ...
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.
"Ironbottom Sound" (alternatively Iron Bottom Sound or Ironbottomed Sound or Iron Bottom Bay) is the name given by Allied sailors to the stretch of water at the southern end of The Slot between Guadalcanal, Savo Island, and Florida Island of the Solomon Islands, because of the dozens of ships and planes that sank there during the naval actions ...
Then: The Janes House. The Janes House is a 1903 remnant of the Victorian homes built on Hollywood Boulevard starting in the 1880s. The Jane sisters opened a school in the house in 1911 and taught ...
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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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.