The Guadalcanal Campaign: US Returns to Recover
August 13, 2024
August 13, 2024
CAMP SMITH, Hawaii, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news:
HONIARA, GUADALCANAL IS, Solomon Islands
On August 7, 1942, the U.S. deployed its military personnel to the Solomon Islands amid World War II to prevent the Japanese Imperial Navy from creating a defensive opposition and disrupting supply routes to Australia. Thus began the Guadalcanal Campaign. For six months U.S. forces and its allies fough . . .
HONIARA, GUADALCANAL IS, Solomon Islands
On August 7, 1942, the U.S. deployed its military personnel to the Solomon Islands amid World War II to prevent the Japanese Imperial Navy from creating a defensive opposition and disrupting supply routes to Australia. Thus began the Guadalcanal Campaign. For six months U.S. forces and its allies fough . . .