Marines coming ashore on August 7, 1942.
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Marines coming ashore on August 7, 1942.
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Similar to above.
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August 7, at Lunga Point.
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Some Marines were able to exit their landing craft
directly in the palm tree line.
Landing close to the trees gave the Marines cover from possible Japanese defenses.
(source: Decisive Battles of the Pacific War, edited by Anthony
Preston)
The US seized little Tulagi Island, located just off of
Florida Island and only a short distance from Guadalcanal, in August 1942.
Both sides realized the logistics importance of Tulagi's port in the coming bitter
struggle for possession of the Solomons.
(info and text from United States Destroyer Operations in World
War II by Theodore Roscoe, 1953 edition)
Only a few supplies for the Americans could be brought
ashore before the transports were ordered out of the area.
The lack of supplies made it very hard on the Marines in the coming months.
(source: ebay)
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