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WASHINGTON--American forces on Guadalcanal are pushing a two-front offensive east and west of Henderson Airfield, the Navy said today in a communique which also disclosed the Japs have returned to Attu Island in the Aluetiana...
WASHINGTON--More Japanese troops have landed on the eastern side of Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal and are being attacked by United States Marines, the Navy reported late today in a communique hinting that fighting is picking up momentum...
...attack was launched to the west of Henderson Airfield and a "small force" of Marines succeeded in driving across the Mantanikan River...
...Hersey reached Guadalcanal it was strafed by Jap Zeros. The day before he left he watched the Marines shoot down eight of 27 Jap bombers trying to knock out our airfield-and he took off the day the Jap cruisers first ventured inshore to shell the American beachhead by daylight...
...guns and tanks caught them, and 670 bodies were found in the jungle and on the sand. Later 120 more bodies washed in from the sea. The second battle came in mid-September, when the Japs tried to force Lunga Ridge to the South, nearly succeeded in taking the airfield, but were finally stopped. Nearly 500 were killed. The third battle, in which the Marines took the initiative for the first time, was last fortnight: they caught the Japs, as they prepared to attack the beach head from the Matanikau River to the west, and forced them back ten miles...