First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - War & Military

Authors: Henry I. Shaw, Jr. In Year : 1992

Book Language: English

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First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal
SIDEBAR: General Alexander A. Vandegrift
The Landing and August Battles
SIDEBARS: First Marine Utility Uniform Issued in World War II; LVT (1)—The ‘Amtrac’; General Vandegrift and His 1st Marine Division Staff; The Coastwatchers; The 1st Marine Division Patch
September and the Ridge
SIDEBARS: Sergeant Major Sir Jacob Charles Vouza; M3A1 37mm Antitank Gun; Douglas Albert Munro
October and the Japanese Offensive
SIDEBAR: Reising Gun
November and the Continuing Buildup
SIDEBARS: 75mm Pack Howitzer—Workhorse of the Artillery; The Japanese Model 89 (1929) 50mm Heavy Grenade Discharger
December and the Final Stages
SIDEBAR: The ‘George’ Medal

In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands triggered a demand for offensive action in the South Pacific. Completion of the Guadalcanal airfield might signal the beginning of a renewed enemy advance to the south and an increased threat to the lifeline of American aid to New Zealand and Australia. On 23 July 1942, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in Washington agreed that the line of communications in the South Pacific had to be secured. The Japanese advance had to be stopped. Thus, Operation Watchtower, the seizure of Guadalcanal came into being. - Summary by Henry I Shaw