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Invasion Of Guadalcanal Shocked Japanese Stronghold
Special dispatch recounts the Guadalcanal landing and early battles in 1942. U.S. Marines storm Henderson Field as Japanese forces, short on supplies and malaria, attempt to hold the airstrip and resupply via the Slot. The campaign sees heavy naval losses for Japan and a strategic withdrawal by February 1943.
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South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Pearl Harbor
Americcans
Solomons
Coral Sea
Australia
Henderson Field
U.S
John F. Kennedy
Tulagi
Cavutu
Florida
Battle of Midway
Adm
Richmond Kelly Turner
Rabaul
New Britain
Endo
Quincy
Vincennes
Astoria
Canberra
Farr
PRICE
Turner
Tenaru River
Japan
Munda
Army
Kommand
Kenrya Sato
Carly
Japanese War Ministry
Alexander M
Patech
Consolidated Navy
Pacific