This account of the first victory over Japanese ground forces, told at the level of companies, platoons, and even individuals, demonstrates the relationship between air, ground, and surface forces in modern warfare.

A detailed account of the Americans' first ground offensive against the Japanese in World War II, which occurred in August 1942 on the island of Guadalcanal.

A recreation of the Guadalcanal campaign, using first hand accounts and after action reports.

This account of the first victory over Japanese ground forces, told at the level of companies, platoons, and even individuals, demonstrates the relationship between air, ground, and surface forces in modern warfare.

“First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal” provides an account of the first American victory over Japanese ground forces, told at the level of companies, platoons, and individuals. Demonstrates the relationships between air, ground and surface forces in World War II. Includes maps, tables, charts, illustrations, appendixes, bibliographical note, glossary and index.

On August 7, 1942, American ground troops went on the offensive for the first time against the Japanese Army. Making an amphibious landing, the 1st Marine Div. attacked Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Using first hand accounts & after-action reports, the historians of the Army's Historical Division have reconstructed the Guadalcanal campaign. Their work includes eyewitness descriptions of the mass Japanese attacks on the Ilu River, the defense of Bloody Ridge & of the turning point after the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal when the Army & Marines went irrevocably onto the offensive in the Pacific.