Guadalcanal - The First Offensive

On August 7, 1942, American ground troops went on the offensive for the first time against the Japanese Army. Making an amphibious landing, the First Marine division attacked Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Using first-hand accounts and after-action reports, John Miller, Jr. working with the historians of the Army's Historical Division have carefully reconstructed the Guadalcanal campaign. The work includes eyewitness descriptions of the mass Japanese attacks on the llu River, the defense of Bloody Ridge and the turning point after the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal when the army and the marines went irrevocably onto the offensive in the Pacific.