Eighty years ago, the battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands saw some of the fiercest fighting of World War II.
That campaign was the first major land offensive by the United States against the Japanese, and marked a turning point for the Allies, as they sought to wrest back the Pacific Islands from Japan.
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