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August 07, 1942: Japanese airfield on Guadalcanal seized by Allies.

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On this day, in the Allies' first major offensive in the Pacific theatre of World War II, 6,000 U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, and seized the airfield, surprising the island's 2,000 Japanese ...