Guadalcanal
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- proper noun
- /ˌɡwɑːdəlˈkænəl/
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Guadalcanal
- The Battle of Guadalcanal was a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
- fighting on Guadalcanal
Yeah, he was in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Fiji's.
- Yeah, he was in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Fiji's.
- We spent a lot of time down at the Marine Corps base in Quantico where there was a trail called the Guadalcanal Trail.
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I was in the Guadalcanal campaign, not as a Marine, but as US Naval Air.
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The First Marine Division landed on August 7, 1942, on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomons.
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We're not - in Guadalcanal anymore.
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On their way to Guadalcanal
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All set to move in on Guadalcanal.
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The morale of the boys is good here at Guadalcanal, despite heavy losses.
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I received the Purple Heart at Guadalcanal.
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As Americans are forced to confront the sobering reality of war, reporter Richard Chagascus's book Guadalcanal Diary hits the best seller list.
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I carried this gun on Iwo Jima and before that on Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Saipan, and Tinian.
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You seem to forget your WW2 history: Iwo Jima, Tarawa, the first 4 months of Guadalcanal, Paleilue.
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Compounds
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A major fight in World War II from 1942 to 1943 when American forces took Guadalcanal back from Japan
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A series of battles in World War II in which Allied troops fight to retake Guadalcanal from Japanese forces
Surface Forms
Etymology
Guadalcanal was named by Spanish explorers after a town in Spain called Guadalcanal, and that Spanish name comes from the Arabic word wadi which means 'river' or 'valley'. So the name began as a description of a landscape and later became the island's place name.