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How the US Marines seized Guadalcanal and forced Japan into a desperate counteroffensive
In the summer of 1942, the remote island of Guadalcanal suddenly became one of the most important battlegrounds of the ...
The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese ...
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How Red Mike Edson and 800 US Marines stopped a massive Japanese assault near Henderson Field
Weeks after the Battle of the Tenaru, the struggle for Guadalcanal intensified as Japanese forces prepared another massive ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almost no Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division stationed on Guadalcanal — an island 90 miles long and 25 miles wide in the ...
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