Battle of Guadalcanal

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground, sea, and air battle in World War II. Result: U.S. forces wore down and stopped the Japanese, thereby gaining the initiative and creating a turning point in the Pacific theater.

Guadalcanal was an epic struggle of attrition that lasted more than six months and heavily engaged the land, sea, and air forces of the United States and Japan. Guadalcanal, ninety miles long, fifty miles wide, and surrounded on three sides by other islands, had unhealthy, dank, and swampy terrain when it became the focal point of the Pacific war....

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