| Caption | SBD aircraft destroyed in an air attack on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942 ww2dbase | ||||||||||||
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| Photos at Same Place | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, British Western Pacific Territories | ||||||||||||
| Added By | C. Peter Chen | ||||||||||||
| Added Date | 7 Sep 2006 | ||||||||||||
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| WW2-Era Place Name | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, British Western Pacific Territories |
| Lat/Long | -9.4280, 160.0548 |
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"We no longer demand anything, we want war."Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, Aug 1939
11 Jun 2012 08:10:14 AM
BATTLE FOR GUADALCANAL:
THE AIRFIELD WAS BUILT BY THE JAPANESE AND LATER CAPTURED BY THE US MARINES.
THE AIR STRIP LATER NAMED HENDERSON FIELD IN HONOR OF MARINE MAJOR LOFTON HENDERSON, WHO WAS THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF(VMSB-241)KILLED IN ACTION DURING THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY JUNE 1942.
AFTER WWII THE AIRFIELD WAS ABANDONED, LATER IT WAS REOPENED IN THE 1960s, AS THE SOLOMAN'S MAIN AIRPORT.
DID YOU KNOW: DURING THE GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN
THE US MARINES WERE USING THE SPRINGFIELD
M1903A3,30.06 (7.62MM) BOLT-ACTION RIFLE TROOPS WERE LATER ISSUED THE FAMOUS M-1 SEMI-AUTO RIFLE.