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Guadalcanal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Guadalcanal is a 2,510 square mile (6 500 km²) island in the Pacific Ocean and a province of the Solomon Islands. Guadalcanal is infested with mosquitoes, and malaria is an endemic disease. The Battle of Cape Esperance was fought on October 11, 1942 on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guadalcanal   (449 words)

Battle of Guadalcanal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The assault on the Japanese-occupied island of Guadalcanal by the Allied navies and 16,000 United States troops on 7 August 1942, was the first offensive by US land forces in the Pacific Campaign. Guadalcanal is situated in the middle of the long Solomon Islands chain, north-east of Australia. During the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, however, the transports carrying this reinforcement were badly damaged and the division was reduced to the strength of a regiment. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Guadalcanal   (1780 words)

Guadalcanal The outposts at Tulagi and Guadalcanal were the forward evidences of a sizeable Japanese force in the region, beginning with the Seventeenth Army, headquartered at Rabaul. At 1030 on 7 August, an Australian coastwatcher hidden in the hills of the islands north of Guadalcanal signalled that a Japanese air strike composed of heavy bombers, light bombers, and fighters was headed for the island. In the offing as part of the Guadalcanal defending force were the rest of the Americal Division, the remainder of the 2d Marine Division, and the Army's 25th Infantry Division, then in Hawaii. www.nelsonresidence.com /steveneggie/guadalcanal.htm   (17574 words)

Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Guadalcanal is a high, rugged island with mountains reaching up to 2400m, a challenge for adventurous bush walkers. Guadalcanal was, of course, the setting for one of the most fiercely fought battles of WW2. The Guadalcanal Campaign of 1942-3 is regarded as one of the most crucial Allied victories, if not the actual turning point of the war in the Pacific. pacificislandtravel.com /solomon_islands/about_destin/guadalcanal.html   (601 words)

Guadalcanal In its early stages, the Guadalcanal Campaign was primarily a Navy and Marine Corps effort. On 13 October the 164th Infantry, the first Army unit on Guadalcanal, came ashore to reinforce the marines and took a 6,600-yard sector at the east end of the American perimeter. The Guadalcanal Campaign is one of the most extensively written about of all in World War II, with more than one volume published in each of several categories: official histories, journalistic views, and personal accounts. www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/72-8/72-8.htm   (7764 words)

DOUGLAS MUNRO AT GUADALCANAL by Dr The initial landings were made on Guadalcanal in August 1942, and this hard-fought campaign lasted for nearly six months. Tulagi and Guadalcanal, both at the end of the chain were picked for an assault. Guadalcanal was strategically important because the Japanese were building an airfield, and if finished would interfere with the campaign. www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/Munro.html   (1766 words)

Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942 - February 1943 With all this, the campaign's outcome was very much in doubt for nearly four months and was not certain until the Japanese completed a stealthy evacuation of their surviving ground troops in the early hours of 8 February 1943. Guadalcanal was expensive for both sides, though much more so for Japan's soldiers than for U.S. ground forces. At Guadalcanal, the Japanese were harshly shoved into a long and costly retreat, one that continued virtually unchecked until their August 1945 capitulation. www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-pac/guadlcnl/guadlcnl.htm   (1522 words)

The Guadalcanal Campaign (David Llewellyn James) It is a popular misconception that the discovery of the embryo airfield on Guadalcanal was the event which led to the Allied landings in the southern Solomons. On Guadalcanal there was only token ground opposition, before the Japanese construction workers and the small force of combat troops with them retreated into the jungle. After the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal the Japanese command lost confidence in their ability to retake the island and began to think in terms of developing New Georgia, to the north of Guadalcanal, as a bastion to thwart the American advance in the Solomons. www.angelfire.com /fm/odyssey/Guadalcanal.htm   (5629 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) On 3 September, Headquarters of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing under Brigadier General Roy S. Geiger arrived on Guadalcanal and took command of the composite organization that came to be known as CACTUS Air Force after the code name of the island. The Japanese high command at Rabaul assigned the task of erasing the American position on Guadalcanal to the Seventeenth Army, but made the mistake of underestimating the strength and tenacity of the Marines ashore and in the air. The seizure of the island from the Japanese was the all-important first step forward on the road to Tokyo, the signal of the end to a year of retreat and the switch to the offensive. www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/usmchist/guad.txt   (3542 words)

Lt. Col. Harold W. Bauer - Guadalcanal Hero While a token Australian force was posted on Guadalcanal, a Japanese strike at any time was considered possible and a radar set was installed on an Efate mountain top. Guadalcanal was one the few places in the region able to support a bomber-capable airstrip, so the Japs occupied it in July and began building one. In mid-October, the Japanese made one of their major efforts to regain Guadalcanal, shelling it with battleships for three nights in a row. www.acepilots.com /usmc_bauer.html   (1795 words)

A Guadalcanal Chronology & Order of Battle Thus, although many think of Guadalcanal in terms of the land battles, there were more naval battles fought off the island in six months than the British Royal Navy fought in all of World War I. There is nothing else quite like them in even the rest of World War II. In popular culture, the naval war off Guadalcanal gets less attention than the land war, even though the intensity of naval fighting was extraordinary and the fate of the land campaign depended absolutely on its outcome. Madej does not give details of unit organization for Japanese forces on Guadalcanal, and, indeed, such details may not even be known, considering the attrition suffered in their delivery and the chaotic conditions that prevailed in the command on site. www.friesian.com /history/guadal.htm   (3885 words)

Guadalcanal Diary (1943)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) For the Battle of Guadalcanal is one of the key battles in all of history. This momentous event, which took place at the same time the Soviet Union was battling the Germans at Stalingrad, marked the end of Japanese expansion in the south Pacific and the beginning of the process that would lead to Japan's ultimate defeat. It should also be noted that the Battle for Guadalcanal was an entirely American operation, fought several thousands miles away from home and against an enemy that had months, if not years, to prepare their defenses. www.imdb.com /title/tt0035957   (432 words)

Guadalcanal Guadalcanal became a primary strategic objective of the American Pacific offensive in 1942. The US Marines managed to withstand continuous attacks including the battles of Tenaru River (21st August) and Bloody Ridge (12th September).Another 20,000 Japanese soldiers were landed on Guadalcanal and this led to a renewed offensive at Matanikau River on 23rd October. Eighty percent of the division in the Guadalcanal campaign was less than twenty-one years of age. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWguadalcanal.htm   (451 words)

Guadalcanal: The First Offensive The most decisive engagement of the campaign was the air and naval Battle of Guadalcanal in mid-November 1942, an engagement in which neither Army nor Marine Corps ground troops took any direct part. Guadalcanal: The First Offensive rests upon somewhat different sources from most other volumes in the Pacific series of U. The War Department's historical program had not yet been established in August 1942 when the Solomon Islands were invaded by the Allies. The official records for the Guadalcanal campaign, upon which this volume is based, are of ten sparse and inadequate. www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/GuadC/GC-fm.htm   (1751 words)

Guadalcanal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) It was the story around Guadalcanal that at one point when the Marines had withdrawn and turned the island over to the Army, the Japanese had thrown the Army back to the beach, even before the Marines had left on the ships. It was said that the Army guys were on the beach waving at the Marines to come back, and they had to unload again and go back onto the island and drive the Japanese back into the jungle again. We would unload at Guadalcanal in the beginning and then return to Noumea, New Caledonia to reload, and then return past the New Heberdes to Guadalcanal. www.friederich.net /guadalcanal.html   (1997 words)

GUADALCANAL DIARY + WING AND A PRAYER - DVDs Filmed just months after the actual invasion of Guadalcanal late in 1942 and based on Richard Tregaskis' wildly popular (but excessively jingoistic and poorly written) memoir of the same, Guadalcanal Diary is interesting for a glimpse at the Hollywood propaganda machine of WWII if not for any other reason. With predictable inflammatory dialogue and plotting and broad burlesque performances by a gaggle of recognizable character actors in familiar stereotypes, Guadalcanal Diary is a rush job notable today for an early appearance by Anthony Quinn, in a role as the token ethnic fellow meant to inspire volunteerism in the barrio. Being a Chinese man whose mother calls Nanking her hometown, I must confess I'm loathe to disagree with that characterization, yet I still find the casual racism of these films to be disturbing (if proximately understandable), and worse, distracting. filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/guadalcanalwing.htm   (589 words)

Guadalcanal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) The Battle of Guadalcanal affected the whole tide of war in the Pacific. Guadalcanal is an island 90 miles by 25 miles located in the lower Solomon Chain that is covered mostly by rain forests, mountains, and swamps. The loss of life in the Guadalcanal campaign was tremendous for both sides. history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/guadal3.html   (2042 words)

Guadalcanal-Tulagi Invasion, 7-9 August 1942 In the darkness a few hours earlier, what was for mid-1942 an impressive invasion force had steamed past Savo Island to enter the sound between the two objective areas: Guadalcanal to the south and, less than twenty miles away, Tulagi to the north. Led by Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, this armada was supported from out at sea by three aircraft carriers, accompanied by a battleship, six cruisers, sixteen destroyers and five oilers under the command of Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who was also entrusted with the overall responsibility for the operation. The great majority of these ships (9 AP, 6 AK and most of the escort and bombardment ships), with Marine Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift and the bulk of his Leathernecks, was to assault Guadalcanal a few miles east of Lunga Point. www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-pac/guadlcnl/guad-1.htm   (875 words)

The Invasion of Guadalcanal Because the Japanese were busily building an airfield on Guadalcanal, the Americans launched the first phase of "Operation Watchtower", to occupy the Santa Cruz Islands and recapture Tulagi and Guadalcanal. It was the courage and fighting spirit of both the Marines and Army soldiers that won the Battle of Guadalcanal. Fighting continued for the Allies on Guadalcanal into 1943 although the weary 1st Marine Division was evacuated at the end of Dec 1942 and replaced by elements of the 2nd Marine Division. www.geocities.com /stu_hill/Guadalcanal.html   (2503 words)

Guadalcanal Journal Not a man was lost in the landing operation on Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942. The battle for Guadalcanal had been pretty much decided when the First Marine Division departed the island in late December. He is the picture of contentment, sitting in his sunny backyard, surrounded by flowers and trees, listening to the birds and the Big Band sound of WPEN on the radio, a newspaper on his knee... www.guadalcanaljournal.com   (2718 words)

USS Gaudalcanal Story The task group, consisting of the baby flattop, USS Guadalcanal and five destroyer escorts: the USS Pillsbury, USS Chatelain, USS Pope, USS Flaherty and USS Jenks, encountered the enemy submarine as it was returning to its base in Brest, France after an eighty day commerce destroying raid in the Gulf of Guinea. While denying the danger of booby traps and racing against time, the boarding party, reinforced by a larger crew from the Guadalcanal, proceeded to plug all leaks found. In the meantime, the Guadalcanal's boarding party completed temporary salvage measures and decided that to keep the 505 afloat they would have to tow it. www.fransorb.com /cve60.htm   (1301 words)

Amazon.com: Guadalcanal : The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle: Books: Richard B. Frank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) He argues convincingly that Guadalcanal was the turning point in the Pacific--not least because it proved that the U.S. armed forces could meet their enemy in adversity and prevail. Richard B. Frank's book, Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, not only covers the events that took place between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943, but also deals with the Guadalcanal campaign's genesis as part of the overall Pacific War's conduct by both the Japanese and the Allies. Midway was the turning point, Guadalcanal solidified that and Okinawa was the beginning of the end for Japan. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140165614?v=glance   (1885 words)

guadalcanal During 1995 - 99 I made 4 trips to explore the Guadalcanal land battlefields. My most recent trip was in August 2004.The ethnic violence of 1999 - 2003 on Guadalcanal made battlefield explorations a no go, but  I had no trouble on this  trip. I have even heard Guadalcanal called "The Stalingrad of the Pacific". www.guadalcanal.homestead.com   (159 words)

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