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Guadalcanal The Essential Victory | 72.69 MB
Title: Guadalcanal
Author: Jon Diamond
Category: Nonfiction, History, Military, Pictorial, Naval, World War II
Language: English | 364 Pages | ISBN: 1036130967
Description:
After the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese quickly captured Hong Kong, Guam, Wake Island, the Gilbert Islands and Rabaul. Japanese conquests of Malaya and Singapore, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies and Burma followed into the spring of 1942. The Japanese juggernaut continued southwards with bases established at Salamaua and Lae in Northwest New Guinea followed by landings at Buna, Gona, and Sanananda along Papua's northern coast as a prelude to capture Port Moresby over the Owen Stanley Range to threaten Australia.
Despite a strategic American naval victory at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the sinking of four Japanese aircraft carriers at the Battle of Midway, the Allied situation remained desperate. Japanese naval troops invaded Tulagi Island and nearby islets off the coast of Florida Island on 3-4 May 1942 to construct a seaplane and naval base. Japan's goal of advancing through the southern Solomon Islands and beyond to New Caledonia, Fiji, and...
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