Prior to the campaign, no one stateside had ever heard of Guadalcanal, and few even the Solomon Islands.
Early in the war, the Japanese were regarded as virtually invincible jungle fighters as no one had yet stopped them anywhere in the South Pacific. The Marine invasion force was landed but their Naval support was soon driven away by the IJN. For days the Marines knew not when, or even if, the Navy could return to support them.
For weeks, the IJN and later the USN would send heavy ships in at night to shell opposing positions on the island and sometimes each other. Meanwhile, the IJN would send reinforcements down the slot from Rabaul regularly, usually at night. The conditions were awful and the outcome in doubt for months.
The campaign lasted nearly six months before the island was secured and, along with Milne Bay in New Guinea, is considered the turning point of the ground war in the South Pacific.
My Mother, a WWII Army Nurse, served at Milne Bay and my first part time job while in high school was given to me by a Marine Guadalcanal Veteran.
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