Guadalcanal in a sentence

The film, however, portrays Yamamoto's death as occurring in November 1942, the day after the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, and the P-38 aircraft that killed him as coming from Guadalcanal.

Tokyo Express main Japanese troops load onto a destroyer for a "Tokyo Express" run to Guadalcanal By 23 August, Kawaguchi's 35th Infantry Brigade reached Truk and was loaded onto slow transport ships for the rest of the trip to Guadalcanal.

He fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal during World War II, and this song is about a soldier fighting through a war.

Airacobras engaged in intense air battles supporting marine and army troops on the islands of Guadalcanal and.

At this stage of the Guadalcanal campaign, this was a fair assumption.

Continued fighting between rival militias on Guadalcanal has also prompted acknowledgements by senior Australian defence officials and politicians that Australian and other troops could soon he committed to help solve the crisis.

Hashimoto had worries of his own as he prepared for this run to Guadalcanal.

The Japanese completely missed the timing of the Guadalcanal landing.

In 1942, Chesnutt was aboard the Fletcher which arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia, and began escort and patrol duty in the Guadalcanal operation, bombarding Lunga Point.

Navy and Marine fighters like the F4F Wildcat and F4U Corsair didn’t have the range to intercept Yamamoto’s aircraft over Bougainville, four hundred miles from the nearest American air base on Guadalcanal.

One of his Grandfathers was Samuel Aqarau of Talise of Guadalcanal who helped the first Methodist missionaries to settle in and convert the people of Roviana to Christianity.

Private Mulligan’s Marine unit on Guadalcanal.

Their lives ended in a place called Belleau Wood, the Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno, and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice patties and jungles of a place called Vietnam.

About 30,000 refugees, mainly Malaitans, had to leave their homes, and economic activity on Guadalcanal was severely disrupted.

After Allied reconnaissance discovered the Japanese airfield construction efforts on Guadalcanal, its capture was added to the plan and the Santa Cruz operation was (eventually) dropped.

After dark, Tanaka and the remaining four transports continued towards Guadalcanal as Kondo's force approached to bombard Henderson Field.

After Guadalcanal, Allied personnel regarded the Japanese military with much less fear and awe than previously.

After unloading their cargo, the U.S. transports evacuated the 2nd Marine Regiment from the island, which had been on Guadalcanal since the beginning of the campaign.

A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.

Allied intelligence detected the Japanese movements, but misinterpreted them as preparations for another attempt to retake Henderson Field and Guadalcanal.