‘Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island’ Review: The Marines on Guadalcanal
Their first target was Guadalcanal, an island some 3,600 miles ... Japanese bombers—proved more difficult: The enemy aircraft ...
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This WW2 Aircraft Carrier Went Beyond the Call of Duty
San Diego was vital in major battles like the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and the assault on Okinawa. The ship also served as an escort for aircraft carriers like theUSS Enterprise and the USS Hornet.
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75 years ago, US troops began the main battle of the long, bloody fight to kick the Japanese out of the Philippines
which included Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian, Tarawa, and Peleliu. The islands would provide runways for US aircraft and deny them to Japan. Rather than strike directly at Luzon, Army and Navy ...
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ASYMMETRIC WARFARE AT SEA: The Naval Battles off Guadalcanal, 1942–1943
Mikesh and Shorzoe Abe, Japanese Aircraft: 1910–1941 (Annapolis ... Raizo Tanaka, with Roger Pineau, “Japan’s Losing Struggle for Guadalcanal,” part 1, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 82, no. 7 (July ...