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Guadalcanal: The First Offensive, the U. S. Army in WW II
Guadalcanal The First Offensive the U S Army in WW II Author:John, Jr. Miller On August 7, 1942, American ground troops went on the offensive for the first time against the Japanese Army. Making an amphibious landing, the 1st Marine Div. attacked Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Using first hand accounts and after-action reports, the historians of the Army's Historical Division have reconstructed the Guadalcanal ca... more »mpaign. Their work includes eyewitness descriptions of the mass Japanese attacks on the Ilu River, the defense of Bloody Ridge and of the turning point after the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal when the Army and Marines went irrevocably onto the offensive in the Pacific.« less