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Pages: 282
Authors: Robert Lawrence Ferguson
Categories: Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943
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Here is one fighter pilot's view of the bitterly fought struggle that began just eight months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Poorly equipped and low on rati
Richard Tregaskis
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Pages: 384
Authors: Ray E. Boomhower
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American
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Pages: 227
Authors: Richard Tregaskis
Categories: History
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Guadalcanal - Island of Death
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The Author is a Guadalcanal Marine. His discharge reads-- "participated in the capture and defense of Guadalcanal." He is a survivor of that dark island. The ai
Hell's Islands
Language: en
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Authors: Stanley Coleman Jersey
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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Presents battlefield accounts and first-person narratives from over 200 Allied and Japanese veterans of the battle on Guadalcanal Island between August 1942 and