World War II
First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal SIDEBAR: General Alexander A. Vandegrift The Landing and August Battles SIDEBAR: First Marine Utility Uniform Issued in World War II SIDEBAR: LVT (1)--The ‘Amtrac’ SIDEBAR: General Vandegrift and His 1st Marine Division Staf...
The enemy troops who had been fortunate enough to reach land were not immediately ready to assault the American positions. The _38th Division_ and the remnants of the various Ja...
3. Part 3_Capt Donald L. Dickson said of his watercolor: “I wanted to catch on paper the feeling one has as a shell comes whistling over.... There is a sense of being alone, naked and un...
1. Part 1First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal SIDEBAR: General Alexander A. Vandegrift The Landing and August Battles SIDEBAR: First Marine Utility Uniform Issued in Worl...
4. Part 4On 3 September, the Commanding General, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Brigadier General Roy S. Geiger, and his assistant wing commander, Colonel Louis Woods, moved forward to Guadal...
2. Part 2_When the 5th Marines entered the jungle from the beachhead, and had to cross the steep banks of the Ilu River, 1st Marine Division engineers hastily constructed a bridge suppor...
6. Part 6About 3,500 enemy troops had died during the attacks. General Maruyama’s proud boast that he “would exterminate the enemy around the airfield in one blow” proved an empty one. W...
5. Part 5_A M1918 155mm howitzer is fired by artillery crewmen of the 11th Marines in support of ground forces attacking the enemy. Despite the lack of sound-flash equipment to locate ho...
8. Part 8The medal’s reverse pictures a cow (the original design showed a Japanese soldier with breeches down) and an electric fan, and is inscribed: “In fond remembrance of the happy da...