29/08/2024
Genre: War & Military
Chapter: 12
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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
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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