10 Facts About Guadalcanal Campaign

Guadalcanal campaign, known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.

Guadalcanal Campaign followed the successful Allied defensive actions at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway in May and June, 1942.

Guadalcanal Campaign proposed the offensive to deny the use of the islands by the Japanese as bases to threaten the supply routes between the United States and Australia and to use them as starting points.

The troops sent to Guadalcanal Campaign were fresh from military training and armed with bolt-action M1903 Springfield rifles and a meager 10-day supply of ammunition.

The convoy of U S Army troops reached Guadalcanal as scheduled the next day and successfully delivered its cargo and passengers to the island.

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The constant pressure to reinforce Guadalcanal Campaign had weakened Japanese efforts in other theaters, contributing to a successful Australian and American counteroffensive in New Guinea which culminated in the capture of the key bases of Buna and Gona in early 1943.

Battle of Guadalcanal was one of the first prolonged campaigns in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II.

The Guadalcanal campaign ended all Japanese expansion attempts in the Pacific and placed the Allies in a position of clear supremacy.

The Allied victory at Guadalcanal Campaign was the first step in a long string of successes that eventually led to the surrender and occupation of Japan.

Guadalcanal Campaign is no longer merely a name of an island in Japanese military history.