Guadalcanal Campaign

August 7 1942 1943 Guadalcanal Solomon Islands (archipelago) Frank Jack Fletcher William Halsey, Jr. Kiyonao Ichiki Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo Battle of the Tenaru Battle of the Eastern Solomons Battle of Edson's Ridge Battle of Cape Esperance Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands Naval Battle of Guadalcanal Battle of Tassafaronga Battle of Rennell Island Cruiser Kamikaze Operation MO Honiara Lunga Point Australia Allies Strategic bomber Mitsubishi G4M Australia (continent) Marines Troopship Minesweeper Counter admiral Major general Alexander Vandegrift Military supply chain management Rabaul Danish straits Gavutu Tanambogo Grumman F4F Wildcat Kavieng Savo Island Machine gun M3 Stuart Shortland Islands Kiyotake Kawaguchi 2nd Division (Imperial Japanese Army) Chester W. Nimitz Elephant grass LCVP (United States) Norman Scott (Medal of Honor) Seaplane tender Espiritu Santo Masao Maruyama (Japanese Army officer) William H. Rupertus Japanese battleship Hiei Daniel J. Callaghan USS Washington (BB-56) USS South Dakota (BB-57) Willis Augustus Lee Hirohito Autobiography Terrence Malick James Jones (author) 25th Infantry Division (United States) Battalion Alexander Patch J. Lawton Collins Operation Cartwheel Anthony Quinn Richard Jaeckel John Wayne Robert Ryan Raoul Walsh Van Heflin Aldo Ray Leon Uris The Thin Red Line (1998 film) Sean Penn John Savage (actor) George Clooney The Thin Red Line (novel) Andrew Marton The Pacific (TV miniseries) HBO Band of Brothers (TV miniseries) Miguel Ferrer Integrated Authority File
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