Word: matanikau
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Guadalcanal. "The Japs attacked us and we suffered 85 casualties," said one marine. "Two thousand dead Jap bodies presented a disposal problem." In a little attack of their own the Marines slipped across their western boundary at the Matanikau River, cheerfully seized two 75-mm. guns that had been shelling them. This week, supported by fighters, by dive-bombers which knocked out Jap guns, and even by Flying Fortresses, the Marines pushed back that boundary a couple of miles...
...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. In the process 200 were killed. In the Air: Shoestring Magnificence...
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