Friday Film: Guadalcanal

7 August 1942 - the first major offensive by U.S. and its allies against Japan begins with the landing on an island in the Solomons - Guadalcanal.



A great book on this campaign, Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer:

Neptune’s Inferno details the grim, protracted campaign for Guadalcanal that has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy’s sacrifice – three sailors died at sea for every man lost ashore – Hornfischer tells for the first time the full story of the Navy men who fought in the deadly waters of “Ironbottom Sound.”