Islands of Blood III: Guadalcanal

The first land battle between Japan and the US was on a little-known jungle island in the Solomon Islands, called Guadalcanal.

A lot happened in the first few months of the Pacific War. There were a couple of large carrier battles in the Coral Sea and at Midway. America launched a bombing raid on Tokyo from aircraft carriers off the coast of Japan. The Philipinnes fell and thousands of American and Filipino POWs died on the Bataan Death March. Hong Kong fell. Singapore fell. Ne…