1, The next big battle was at Guadalcanal, one of the Solomon Islands in the southwestern Pacific.

2, Last week reports told how on Guadalcanal a group of Japs of the 224th Infantry Regiment, veterans of China, Borneo and the Philippines, were trapped in a heavily wooded ravine.

3, The Japanese had lost Guadalcanal just six months before and now the contest centered on the fighting in the green hell of the New Guinea jungles.

4, A.P.'s Bill Hippie reported from Guadalcanal: "Aerial observers reported tonight that a large force of Japanese warships was headed for Guadalcanal."

5, Whether you choose Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima or the classic Wake Island, you'll experience the best balance of infantry combat complemented by land, sea and air vehicles.

6, "I fought in Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian, " he says. "The Navajo code talkers are going to be something in history.

7, In the naval Battle of Guadalcanal (Nov. 13-15), Jap surface ships hightailed it out of range of U.S. ships and planes, leaving the Jap transports and their thousands of soldiers to be slaughtered.

8, A U.S. convoy of transports, apparently going to Guadalcanal and covered by a naval task force, had been attacked twice.

9, Gradually they gained control in the air and, in February 1943, captured Guadalcanal.

10, The first attack was 60 miles due south of Guadalcanal,[http:///guadalcanal.html] off Rennell Island.

11, Japan was never able to regain the strategic initiative, and American forces went on the offensive at Guadalcanal two months later.

12, February 2, 1943: An American jeep proceeds along a trail through the jungle on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

13, Midway meant that Japan could not win the war, and Guadalcanal meant that America would not lose.

14, Aug. 29, 1942: After landing in force, US Marines pause on the beach of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands before advancing inland against the Japanese during World War II.

15, He was a skinny teenager in camo pants and a helmet, striking a pose with a machine gun, and a similar photo of another young guy: on the back it said "Woody Herald - killed on Guadalcanal."

16, The capital of the Solomon Islands, on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal. Population, 16, 125.

17, The capital of the Solomon Islands, on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal. Population, ', 25.

18, Telling the story of a group of Navajo Indians whose language was used to create a code that was impossible for the Japanese to decode, it takes us first of all to the battle of Guadalcanal.

19, For Americans, It'starts with Pearl Harbour and features the Normandy beaches and Guadalcanal.

20, It was the crucial weapon in historic victories at the Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal.

21, Aug. 1942: US Marines, with full battle kits, charge ashore on Guadalcanal Island from a landing barge during the early phase of the US offensive in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

22, The American navy gained control of the Island continuing its "island-hopping " strategy form Guam to Saipan to Iwo Jima to Guadalcanal to Okinawa and finally into to Tokyo.

23, According to Tokyo, a scouting task force of U.S. cruisers and destroyers was attacked by the Japs south of Santa Isabel Island—up the slot from Guadalcanal.