The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought...
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Mendaña's expedition. During 1942 and 1943, it was the scene of the Guadalcanal campaign and saw bitter fighting between Japanese and U.S. troops. The Americans...
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(primarily American) and Imperial Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The action consisted...
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counterattacked the Japanese in the Solomons with landings on Guadalcanal (see Guadalcanal campaign) and small neighboring islands on 7 August 1942. These landings...
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International News Service (INS) during the first seven weeks of the Guadalcanal campaign, from the first landings on August 7, 1942 to his departure on September...
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strengthen Allied forces during the Guadalcanal campaign. There, she screened aircraft carriers engaged in the campaign and took part in the Battle of the...
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Operation Ke (redirect from Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal)
largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal, concluding the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. The operation took place between 14...
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This is the order of battle for the Guadalcanal Campaign, called Operation Watchtower, the first major Allied offensive in the Pacific Theater of Operations...
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Imperial Japanese Navy during the lengthy and strategically important Guadalcanal campaign. As in the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomons...
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Guadalcanal Diary is a 1943 World War II war film directed by Lewis Seiler, featuring Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony...
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January 1943, part of the New Guinea campaign Guadalcanal: 7 August 1942 – 21 February 1943, the Guadalcanal campaign New Guinea: 24 January 1943 – 31 December...
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Haven (DD-469) Guadalcanal campaign USS Conway (DD-507) Guadalcanal campaign – Philippines campaign (1944–45) – Korean War USS Cony (DD-508) Guadalcanal campaign –...
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Battle of the Tenaru (category Guadalcanal Campaign)
of Guadalcanal during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The battle was the first major Japanese land offensive during the Guadalcanal campaign. In...
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number of battles including the Battle of the Tenaru during the Guadalcanal Campaign and the Battle of Cape Gloucester. He reported that his mortar crew...
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Henderson Field Henderson Field is a former military airfield on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, during World War II. Originally built by the Japanese Empire...
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halted by further events leading to the Guadalcanal Campaign. This campaign also converged with the New Guinea campaign. In May 1942, the United States fleet...
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Takao-class cruiser (section Guadalcanal campaign)
Islands campaign as escorts for the Second Carrier Striking Force. Following Midway, the ships were sent to assist in the Guadalcanal campaign. On August...
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Battle for Henderson Field (category Guadalcanal Campaign)
three major land offensives conducted by the Japanese during the Guadalcanal campaign. In the battle, U.S. Marine and Army forces repulsed an attack by...
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USS Washington (BB-56) (section Guadalcanal campaign)
fighting the Guadalcanal campaign, the ship became the flagship of Rear Admiral Willis Lee. She saw action at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on the night...
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attempts to reinforce their troops on Guadalcanal, and thus marked a turning point in both the Guadalcanal Campaign and the Pacific War. Lee was also a...
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John Basilone (section Guadalcanal)
of Honor for actions during the Battle for Henderson Field in the Guadalcanal campaign, and the Navy Cross posthumously for extraordinary heroism during...
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Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo (category Guadalcanal Campaign)
landings on Guadalcanal were essentially unopposed. The landings on both Tulagi and Guadalcanal initiated the six-month-long Guadalcanal campaign and a series...
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Douglas Albert Munro (category Guadalcanal Campaign)
Dust Twins, so-called because they were inseparable. During the Guadalcanal Campaign, Munro was assigned to Naval Operating Base Cactus at Lunga Point...
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USS Helena (CL-50) (section Guadalcanal Campaign)
service, Helena was assigned to the forces participating in the Guadalcanal campaign in the south Pacific. There, she took part in two major night battles...
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Battle of Tassafaronga (section Guadalcanal campaign)
Navy warships during the Guadalcanal campaign. The battle took place in Ironbottom Sound near Tassafaronga Point on Guadalcanal. In the battle, a US force...
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Cruiser (section Guadalcanal campaign)
1942 US Marines were landed on Guadalcanal and other nearby islands, beginning the Guadalcanal Campaign. This campaign proved to be a severe test for...
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The Thin Red Line (1998 film) (category Guadalcanal Campaign)
fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, it portrays U.S....
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Japanese cruiser Atago (section Guadalcanal campaign)
Retrieved 30 March 2021. Lundstrom, John B. (2005). First Team And the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 (New ed.). Naval...
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John S. McCain Sr. (section Guadalcanal campaign)
II, McCain commanded land-based air operations in support of the Guadalcanal campaign. He served as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics and Deputy Chief...
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USS Wasp (CV-7) (section Guadalcanal Campaign)
the battles of Coral Sea and Midway. After supporting the invasion of Guadalcanal, Wasp was hit by three torpedoes from Japanese submarine I-19 on 15 September...
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