US Marines Battle of Guadalcanal

The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal, was fought between August 7, 1942, and February 7, 1943, in the Pacific theatre of World War II. This campaign, was fought on the sea, in the air and on the ground, pitted US Marines against Imperial Japanese forces, and was a decisive, strategically significant campaign of World War II. The fighting took place on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands and was the first major combined arms offensive launched by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan and our first major offensive victory of the Pacific theatre during World War II, Many have called it "The turning point in the pacific".

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[the82spartans]

Watching this makes me proud to know that such men lived.

Thank you.

5*'s

[TellTheMarines]

Makes me proud to know men such as these lived and walked amongst us.

Keep Attacking!!

Semper Fi!

[goodies77]

this video is amazin

and it helped me on my project thanks!!!

[TellTheMarines]

Glad we could help!! The Marine Corps Museum and The Marine Corps History Division are a couple of History sources.

Keep Attacking!!!

Semper Fi!!

[telkines]

"japs" xDDD instead of japanese

the yank language is onomatopeic

[TellTheMarines]

If you're going to correct our use of a word, why don't you spell it correctly!!!

Onomatopoeic is the correct spelling!!

[ebglider91]

'The little men of Nippon'

Newsreels were much more entertaining before political correctness :)

[usmarineraiders]

Oorah! The Marine Raiders were the original SpecialOps! Semper Fi! usmarineraiders[dot]org

[olvoro11]

@SaitoYoshida Nice one, long live Japan/US alliance

[SharkKid42]

my dad's uncle died there he was wounded by a sniper shot. we have his medals

[yankeeclipper2]

US Marines Battle of Guadalcanal will always be an Amerciacn victory. Army support came later, USAAC bombers from Australia plus Australia naval units in the surrounding waters were with us . The land battle stands tall, 1st USMC Division, went into action and defeated the forces of evil namely the Empire Of Japan". Slimmy scum sucking dogs those japs they were tough and were not afraid to die, to help them in their quest the USMC were only to happy to send them to meet their ancesters. 5/5

[SharkKid42]

My dads uncle died there he got a cross for his bravery we have it in my house now.

[aziqbal]

one thing i dont understand is why the Japanese didnt provide air cover for thier 11 transports on the night of 14 Nov 1942 when they were reinforcing thier forces on the island:? almost all of them were sunk and hardly any resupply made it to the island??? where was Japanese air support?

[RADDxSTEEZY]

@Robzinsser im done with u coward i like how u avoided the question...shame

[painfan476]

my great uncle died during this battle....

[Toddinfantry]

@Robzinsser Please go do some research, even just a little, then come back and post here. You have no idea what you are talking about, you are factually incorrect on many points. Please don't disrespect those men with your foolish ramble.

Semper Fi !