This is Guadalcanal DVD

This Is Guadalcanal describes one of the most famous of all battles in the Pacific when on August 7 1942 the US Navy and US Marines invade and eventually conquer the stubbornly held Japanese Island of Guadalcanal during intense jungle fighting to capture it's highly important airstrip! The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was supposed to prevent the ability of the Allied Forces to maintain the grinding attritional battle that was the hallmark for the bloody fighting of Guadalcanal. The capture of this strategically crucial island in the Solomans during which more than... 25 000 Japanese lost their lives was the key to the US victory in the Philippines which paved the way for the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the defeat of the Japanese Empire. This is Guadalcanal is a concise history of the battles incorporating dramatic film footage and rare photographs. [show more]

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