Guadalcanal
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1st Marine Division Landing on Guadalcanal in LCPs August 1942
1st Marine Division LVT Alligator on Guadalcanal Fall 1942
35th Infantry troops returning to base after 21 days in a fighting line to capture the Gifu on Guadalcanal 1943
Battle of Guadalcanal 1942 Solomon Islands
Beach Guadalcanal Campaign Solomon Islands
Beachhead Guadalcanal Campaign Solomon Islands
Bridge Guadalcanal Campaign
First Division General Vandegrift and Staff on Guadalcanal 1942
First Group of U.S. Navy Nurses Arrive for Duty on Guadalcanal 1944
Guadalcana 's Bloody Ridge September 1942
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Guadalcanal Japanese bomb airplane hanger 1942
Guadalcanal Marine LVT amphibian tractors bridge supports 1942
Guadalcanal US Marines 155mm Howitzers in action 1943
Henderson Field Battle of Guadalcanal
Japanese Bomb Blasts as US Ship Pulls into Guadalcanal Port 1943
Japanese dispersal area near Lunga Airfield on Guadalcanal 1942
Japanese Landing Barges Leave Transport for Guadalcanal Beach
Japanese Prisoners Captured by US Troops on Guadalcanal
Japanese Soldiers Captured by Marines on Guadalcanal 1942
Jeep on Captured Japanese Air Base on Guadalcanal 1942
LST, LCT, and LSI's land US 145th Infantry Troops on Guadalcanal 1943
Marine after Battle on Edson's Ridge on Guadalcanal September 1942
Marine at Browning .50-cal, water-cooled antiaircraft machine gun - Guadalcanal 1942
Marine at Entrance to Japanese Camp on Guadalcanal 1942
Marine at Machine Gun Position on Edson's Ridge Guadalcanal 1942
Marine Chaplain Help Wounded In Jungle Guadalcanal
Marine eyes captured Japanese bathtub on Guadalcanal 1942
Marine guards a captured Japanese steamroller at airfield on Guadalcanal 1942
Marine leaves foxhole after Japanese air raid on Guadalcanal 1942
Marine Mortar Squad in Action on Guadalcanal
Marine patrol crosses the Matanikau River in September 1942
Marine Patrol In Jungle Of Guadalcanal
Marine Sells Japanese Items in Souvenir Shop on Guadalcanal
Marine uses a raft to cross a flooded road during the rainy season on Guadalcanal
Marine uses bayonet to dig foxhole on Guadalcanal 1942
Marine with captured Japanese Type 92 70 mm light howitzer Guadalcanal 1942
Marines digging in on Beach of Guadalcanal 1942
Marines Evacuating A Casualty 2nd Marine Division Guadalcanal
Marines Guadalcanal Campaign Solomon Islands
Marines in LVT Amphibious Tractor Land on Guadalcanal 1942
Marines in LVT Amphibious Tractor on Guadalcanal 1942
Marines Inspect Japanese Gun Emplacement on Guadalcanal 1942
Marines Jeeps and landing barges on Guadalcanal Beach 1942
Marines of VMF 221 by Scoreboard on Guadalcanal
Marines Playing Cards Beside Hut on Guadalcanal 1942
Marines search for Japanese snipers on Guadalcanal 1942
Marines set up mortar under enemy fire on Guadalcanal
Marines set up radio communication site on Guadalcanal 1942
Marines unload supplies on beach of Guadalcanal 1942
Marines use Japanese AAA gun named "Susie Q" 1942
Marines with Captured Japanese 76,2 mm Naval Gun Type 3 (1914) Kukum Guadalcanal 1942
P 38 Arrive On Aircraft Carrier Guadalcanal June 1944
Ruins of Japanese trucks after US bombardment of Guadalcanal 1942
Ruins of Radio Station on Guadalcanal hit by Japanese bomb 1942
Seabees Footbridge Over River On Guadalcanal
Soldiers fishing with dynamite on Guadalcanal 1943
Soldiers with Japanese Prisoners on Guadalcanal 1943
Troops Inspect captured Japanese barge on Guadalcanal 1942
Troops Lay Marsden Mats for Landing Field on Guadalcanal 1943
Troops on Beach by Wrecked "Kinugawa Maru" on Guadalcanal 1943
U.S. Marine Mortar Company Sets Up on Bloody Ridge, Guadalcanal
Unexploded Japanese Torpedo on Kukum Beach Guadalcanal 1942
US LCVP PO-20 unloads fuel drums at Kukum Guadalcanal 1942
US Officers Question Japanese Prisoner on Guadalcanal 1942
US officers ride on the "Guadalcanal, Bougainville & Tokyo Express" Railroad built by Seabees on Guadalcanal
US Reinforcements Landed at Lunga Point Guadalcanal 1942
US Troops Watch Guadalcanal Solomon Islands Burn pacific
Wildcats, Avenger and Lightnings on Henderson Field Guadalcanal 1942
Wounded Troops Await Transport on Guadalcanal Beach 1943
Wreckage Of Japanese Ship Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Wreckage Of Japanese Ship Kinugawa Maru Off Guadalcanal
Wreckage of Japanese Ship KINUGAWA MARU on Guadalcanal 1943
Wrecked Japanese Transport ship and Landing Craft on Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal Campaign 1942 - 1943 (Operation Watchtower), Solomon Islands Bibliography:
- William S. Butler, L. D. Keeney - This Is Guadalcanal: The Original Combat Photography
- Samuel B. Griffith - The Battle for Guadalcanal
- Charles River Editors - The Turning Points in the Pacific: The Battle of Midway and the Guadalcanal Campaign
- Stephen L. Moore - The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal
- Eric Hammel: Guadalcanal: Starvation Island
- Mark Stille - The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942: Clash for Supremacy in the Pacific - Osprey Campaign 255
- Mark Stille - Guadalcanal 1942-1943: America’s First Victory on the Road to Tokyo - Osprey Campaign 284
- Merrill B. Twining - No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal
- Robert Leckie - Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War
- USMCR Lieutenant Colonel Frank O. Hough, USMC Major Verle E. Ludwig, Jr. Henry I. Shaw - Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal: History of U. S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II, Volume I
- John B. Lundstrom - The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942
- James D. Hornfischer - Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
- Jim McEnery, Bill Sloan - Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu
- Charles Cook - The Battle of Cape Esperance: Encounter at Guadalcanal
- Robert Ferguson - Guadalcanal, the Island of Fire: Reflections of the 347th Fighter Group
- Franklin Watts - Midway and Guadalcanal, Turning Points of World War II
- Barrett Tillman - Dauntless: A Novel of Midway and Guadalcanal
- Gordon L. Rottman - US Marine vs Japanese Infantryman: Guadalcanal 1942-1943, Osprey Combat 8, 2014
- William B. Johnson - The Pacific Campaign in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal - Naval Policy and History
- After the Battle 108: Guadalcanal, Battle of Britain International 2000
- Tameichi Hara - Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes
- Mark Stille - USN Cruiser vs IJN Cruiser: Guadalcanal 1942 - Osprey Duel 22
- Joseph N. Mueller - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back - Osprey Campaign
- Roger and Dennis Letourneau - Operation KE: The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal
- Martin Clemens - Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher's Story
- Naval Operations in the Campaign for Guadalcanal - Historical Section Admiralty 1949
- Charles R. Anderson - Guadalcanal 7 August 1942 - 21 February 1943, Center of Military History United States Army 1993
- John Miller - The War in the Pacific. Guadalcanal: The First Offensive, Center of Military History 1995
- William Wolf - 13th Fighter Command in World War II: Air Combat over Guadalcanal and the Solomons, Schiffer Military History
- Sir Basil Liddell Hart, Barrie Pitt - History of the Second World War - Part 56 - Guadalcanal to Bougainville
- Major Brian S. McFadden - Marine Close Air Support In World War II
- Wesley Frank Craven, J. L. Cate - The Army Air Forces in World War II Volume Four: The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan. August 1942 to July 1944
- Barrett Tillman - Wildcat Aces of World War 2 - Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 003
- Charles Walker - Combat Officer: A Memoir of War in the South Pacific
- Peter Schrijvers - Bloody Pacific: American Soldiers at War with Japan
- Peter Schrijvers - The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II
- Eric Hammel - Air War Pacific Chronology: America's Air War Against Japan in East Asia and the Pacific, 1941-1945
- Edward Young Jim Laurier - F4F Wildcat vs A6M Zero-sen: Pacific Theater 1942, Osprey
- John Prados - Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun
- Donald L. Miller - D-Days in the Pacific
- US Marine Corps Pacific Theater of Operations 1941-1943 - Osprey Battle Orders 01
- Santa Cruz 1942: Carrier duel in the South Pacific Osprey Campaign 247
- The Marines in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (G.I. Series), Greenhill Books 2000
- Steven J. Zaloga - US Marine Corps Tanks of World War II - Osprey New Vanguard 186