Discharging stores at Lunga Point, oil, by John Hamilton. U.S. Marines landed virtually unopposed on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942, and work began at once to complete the airfield which was to become known as Henderson Field. However, the Japanese reaction was immediate and it seemed that the American forces faced disaster.

United States Navy
Combat Narrative

The Landing in the Solomons
7-8 August 1942

NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
WASHINGTON
1994


Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ware, Leonard.


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