Guadalcanal
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Supplies for Guadalcanal.
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In an unusual approach for the series, it then goes into a flashback to 1942 and Marines getting ready to go to Guadalcanal.
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The convoy is first going to take the men to New Zealand. It's something like 6,500 miles.
Convoys with men going to war put out from Japan, also.
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Allied planes take photos of an airfield that the Japanese are building on Guadalcanal. If they could get airfields working, then they could use those planes to threaten the convoy lines from the U.S. to New Zealand.
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The order is given to attack Guadalcanal, which is the first offensive action of its kind in the war by the Allies.
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August 7th, 1942, eight months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. takes the offensive.
The island of Tulagi is also attacked.
Japanese bombers from Rabaul attack the U.S. transports.
Henderson field is taking. Japanese equipment left behind is used to help fix the airfield.
Again, the Japanese attack from the air.
Japanese reinforcements come ashore at night.
The fighting is fierce.
The “Tokyo Express” is then talked about.
It then talks bout the various sea battles that took place in the area.
The film then takes an aside and talks about U.S. production of war goods. (This is, of course, one of the major reasons Japan lost the war. The U.S. could continue to produce goods and the Japanese could not stop that from being done. They couldn't bomb the plants or farms, but the U.S. could bomb the Japanese plants, farms and cities.)
The 1st Marine Division is finally relieved or, as the narrator puts it, “what's left of it” is relieved.
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