First Offensive

First Offensive The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal

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Publisher's Synopsis

In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands triggered a demand for offensive action in the South Pacific. The leading offensive advocate in Washington was Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations

Book information

ISBN: 9781687268600
Publisher: Independently Published
Imprint: Independently Published
Pub date:
DEWEY: 940.5426
Number of pages: 340
Weight: 367g
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Spine width: 19mm