✦ History

Part of World War II, Pacific War

Guadalcanal campaign

August 7, 1942 – February 9, 1943 · Guadalcanal

Result Allied victory

First major Allied offensive against Japan, fought for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. US forces landed in August 1942 and held the island through months of land, sea and air battles until Japan withdrew in February 1943.

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Allies

Axis

Other

United States
Australia
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Japan
Chester W. Nimitz military commander Frank Jack Fletcher military commander Alexander Vandegrift military commander Robert L. Ghormley military commander William Halsey Jr. military commander Richmond K. Turner military commander
Isoroku Yamamoto military commander Chūichi Nagumo military commander Nobutake Kondō military commander Harukichi Hyakutake military commander Jinichi Kusaka military commander Hitoshi Imamura military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
60,000
Killed
7,100
Wounded
7,789
Captured
4
Aircraft lost
615
Ships lost
6

Units

XIV Corps (United States) 1st Marine Division 25th Infantry Division (United States) 2nd Marine Division Americal Division 11th Marine Regiment 147th Regiment (United States) 1st Marine Regiment 5th Marine Regiment 7th Marine Regiment Paramarines 1st Reconnaissance Battalion 1st Tank Battalion 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines Task Force 44 Task Force 61 (1942)
Seventeenth Army (Japan) 2nd Division (Japan) 38th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 7th Division (Japan) Kanoya Air Group
27th Infantry Regiment (United States) 67th Fighter Squadron

Battles 10

Also involved 1