How to use in-sentence of “guadalcanal”:
+ The Guadalcanal battles made Japan lose a lot of equipment and soldiers.
+ The damage done to Tanaka’s convoy during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons made the Japanese decide not to deliver more troops to Guadalcanal by slow transport.
+ The air war got started again with a Japanese air raid on Guadalcanal on 27 September.
+ The troops sent to Guadalcanal were fresh from military training and armed with M1903 Springfield rifles and a 10-day supply of ammunition.
+ At 22:40 on 30 November, Tanaka’s force arrived off Guadalcanal and prepared to unload the supply barrels.
+ The efforts to send new troops to Guadalcanal had weakened Japanese efforts in other areas.
+ In an emergency meeting, the top Japanese IJA and IJN command staffs decided that, Guadalcanal might develop into the most important battle of the war.
+ Army troops reached Guadalcanal as scheduled the next day and delivered its cargo and passengers to the island.
Example sentences of “guadalcanal”:
+ The Battle of Guadalcanal was one of the first long campaigns in the Pacific.
+ At the same time, several army staff officers at the Imperial General Headquarters said retaking Guadalcanal would be impossible.
+ On 29 January, Halsey sent a resupply convoy to Guadalcanal protected by a cruiser task force.
+ On 7 September, Kawaguchi issued his attack plan to destroy enemy in the Guadalcanal Island airfield.
+ On January 20, 1943 he was killed in action during the Guadalcanal Campaign at the age of 28.
+ In the Pacific, the Navajo, the largest group of code talkers, served in every major campaign, from the battle on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from August 1942 to February 1943 to the conflicts on Okinawa, which lasted from April to June 1945.
+ The Battle of Guadalcanal was one of the first long battles in the Pacific, alongside the Solomon Islands campaign.
+ The Eighth Fleet’s Guadalcanal Reinforcement Unit was told to make five deliveries to Tassafaronga on Guadalcanal using the drum method on the night of 30 November.
+ Hyakutake sent more troops to Guadalcanal for another attempt to recapture Henderson Field.
+ Marine forces on Guadalcanal needed new soldiers if the Allies were to defend the island from the next Japanese attack.
+ He also ordered the supply ships at Guadalcanal to leave by early evening 12 November.
+ A separate attempt to establish bases in the central Solomons to use to send barge convoys to Guadalcanal also failed because of Allied air attacks.
+ Marines came ashore on Guadalcanal and met no resistance.
+ Marines fighting on Guadalcanal found them very effective against Japanese positions.
+ The 11,000 Marines on Guadalcanal at first set up a guard around Lunga Point and the airfield.
+ Around 01:30 on 13 November, Callaghan’s force met Abe’s bombing group between Guadalcanal and Savo Island.
+ The Battle of Guadalcanal was one of the first long campaigns in the Pacific.
+ At the same time, several army staff officers at the Imperial General Headquarters said retaking Guadalcanal would be impossible.
+ On 29 January, Halsey sent a resupply convoy to Guadalcanal protected by a cruiser task force.
More in-sentence examples of “guadalcanal”:
+ American deaths were 18,900 killed or missing and 53,000 injured, more than double of the soldiers killed at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal put together.
+ These fights included the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, many other fights during the Guadalcanal campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
+ Lee aboard “Washington”, reached Guadalcanal and Savo Island just before midnight on 14 November, shortly before Kondo’s bombing force arrived.
+ This would allow the slow, heavy transports to reach Guadalcanal and unload safely the next day.
+ When the destroyers arrived at Guadalcanal they would cut loose the drums and a boat from shore could pick up the rope.
+ In addition Midway helped make US landings on Guadalcanal possible.
+ Honiara is the capital city of the Solomon Islands and of Guadalcanal Province.
+ After the Japanese withdrawal, Guadalcanal and Tulagi were developed into major bases.
+ The total number of Marines on Guadalcanal and Tulagi on 6 January 1943 was 18,383.
+ When this group returned to Tokyo, Sanada recommended that Guadalcanal be abandoned.
+ The fighting took place on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands, and was the first major offensive launched by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
+ This started the Guadalcanal CampaignGuadalcanal and Solomon Islands Campaigns.
+ Marines landed on Guadalcanal and 3,000 U.S.
+ Hyakutake, with the agreement of General Headquarters, ordered his troops on New Guinea who were within of their goal of Port Moresby to pull back until the Guadalcanal battle was finished.
+ The Japanese 17th Army withdrew to the west coast of Guadalcanal while rear guard groups stopped the American attacks.
+ From there, the Japanese planned to deliver Kawaguchi’s men to Guadalcanal by destroyers.
+ If the invasion fleet had been spotted a day or two before 7 August, the Allied fleet, with its slow moving ships, most likely would have been destroyed Guadalcanal Echoes, Volume 21, No.
+ The landings on Guadalcanal had much less resistance.
+ The Allies chose Tulagi and Guadalcanal as their first attacks.
+ Hyakutake realized that to send sufficient troops and supplies to defeat the Allied forces on Guadalcanal he could not support the major ongoing Japanese attacks on the Kokoda Track campaignKokoda Track in New Guinea.
+ The Japanese supply convoy unloaded at Guadalcanal and began its return journey without being discovered by Scott’s force.
+ The air war over Guadalcanal stopped for a while.
+ Because the Allied attempt to take Buna was considered a more severe threat to Rabaul, Imamura delayed sending new troops to Guadalcanal to concentrate on the situation in New Guinea.
+ The Japanese troops that were supposed to land on Guadalcanal was forced back.
+ American deaths were 18,900 killed or missing and 53,000 injured, more than double of the soldiers killed at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal put together.
+ These fights included the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, many other fights during the Guadalcanal campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
+ The Japanese troops delivered to Guadalcanal during this time comprised the entire 2nd Infantry Division, two battalions from the 38th Infantry Division, and various artillery, tank, engineer, and other support units.
+ The 3rd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment had landed at Kamimbo Bay on the western end of Guadalcanal on 11 September.
+ The Guadalcanal Campaign Also known as: the Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle for Guadalcanal; Codename: Operation Watchtower.
+ The Guadalcanal Campaign ended all Japanese expansion attempts and placed the Allies in a position of power.
+ The Japanese planned to transport 17,500 troops from these two divisions to Guadalcanal for the next major attack on the Lunga Perimeter set for 20 October 1942.
+ On 9 February, Patch realized that the Japanese were gone and declared Guadalcanal secure for Allied forces, ending the battle.
+ They did one rehearsal landing prior to leaving for Guadalcanal on 31 July.
+ Major ground units stayed in camps on Guadalcanal before being sent further up the Solomons.
+ Army infantry battalions, and ammunition and food to Guadalcanal on 11 November.
+ The 2nd Marine Regiment had arrived at Guadalcanal with most of the 1st Marine Division, but remained behind to rejoin its parent unit, the 2nd Marine Division.
+ After dark, Tanaka and the remaining four transports continued towards Guadalcanal as Kondo’s force approached to bomb Henderson Field.
+ Marines on Guadalcanal captured an airfield under construction by the Japanese.
+ The Guadalcanal attack would be carried out in at the same time as an New Guinea campaignAllied offensive in New Guinea under Douglas MacArthur.
+ It was only after the Allied victories in Guadalcanal and New Guinea that the Japanese attacks ended.
+ As Kondo’s ships pulled back, the four Japanese transports landed near Tassafaronga on Guadalcanal at 04:00 and began unloading.
+ Two months later, the Allies launched the Guadalcanal Campaign.
+ The 2nd Marines had been on Guadalcanal since the beginning of the campaign.
+ Empire of Japan forces arrived in early 1942 and the United States Marine Corps attacked them, starting the Guadalcanal Campaign.
+ Eighth Fleet sailors thought of a plan to help reduce the time that destroyers delivering supplies to Guadalcanal were exposed to Allied attack.
+ Bad weather allowed the Allied force to arrive near Guadalcanal unseen by the Japanese on the night of 6 August and the morning of 7 August and take the defenders by surprise.
+ The Japanese convoy reached Guadalcanal at midnight on 14 October and began unloading.
+ Army’s 25th Infantry Division’s 35th Regiment arrived at Guadalcanal on 17 December, the 27th Regiment on 1 January, and the 161st Regiment on 4 January.