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...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...
...have been preparing for this for a long time and now the time has come to quit practicing and start doing! At dawn tomorrow we are going in and land United States Marines by the carload onto the Jap-held Solomon Islands!!! And I hope the Jap Fleet comes to the rescue, because we'll land all over them...
...terse sentence was Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, Commander of the Marines in the Solomons, and he certainly had been busy. At 55, he had been climbing up & down cargo nets like a 25-year-old. He had lowered his high rank into damp foxholes. He had eaten captured Jap rice for want of anything better. Like his men, he had slapped anopheles mosquitoes, swum naked in the Lunga River...
...fell on the beachhead. In mid-morning a fence of enemy cruisers and destroyers shelled it from the north. Douglas dive-bombers went up and damaged a heavy cruiser. Then 16 enemy dive-bombers, which must have been carrier-based, attacked Henderson Field. Five were shot down. Nine more Jap divers swooped in. This time they did damage...
...Guadalcanal U.S. air power has been a shoestring magnificence. U.S. planes operate from a runway built by the Japs. The planes are maintained by mechanics who work blacked out under ponchos with flashlights. The pilots go out on two or three missions a day. They sleep out a chunk of each night in foxholes. They never complain. And they always win. So far U.S. pilots have shot down more than 400 Jap planes. In August 1940, when the Battle of Britain was at its height, the R.A.F. shot down 1,091 German planes-but they were meeting hundreds of planes...