Guadalcanal Campaign

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• The Guadalcanal Campaign

  • The Guadalcanal campaign of 1942-43 became a crucial victory by Allied forces in the Pacific.
  • The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and code-named Operation Watchtower, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.
  • The Allies also intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain.
  • The Guadalcanal campaign was a significant strategic combined arms victory by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theater.
  • Guadalcanal is located in the lower right center of the map.

• The Allied Push

  • After the 1942-43 Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific theater, the Allies initiated several operations against Japan in the Pacific.
  • By May 1943, sizeable German submarine losses forced a temporary halt of the German Atlantic naval campaign.

• The Battle of Midway

  • After Midway and the exhausting attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's capacity to replace its losses in materiel (particularly aircraft carriers) and men (especially well-trained pilots and maintenance crewmen) rapidly became insufficient to cope with mounting casualties, while the United States' massive industrial and training capabilities made losses far easier to replace.
  • The Battle of Midway, along with the Guadalcanal Campaign, is widely considered a turning point in the Pacific War.

• Coral Sea and Midway

  • After Midway, and the exhausting attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's shipbuilding and pilot training programs were unable to keep pace in replacing their losses while the U.S. steadily increased its output in both areas.
  • Although the Japanese continued to try to secure more territory, and the U.S. did not move from a state of naval parity to one of supremacy until after several more months of hard combat, Midway allowed the Allies to switch to the strategic initiative, paving the way for the landings on Guadalcanal and the prolonged attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign.

• MacArthur's Leapfrogging

  • The protracted battle for Guadalcanal—followed by the unopposed seizure of the Russell Islands (Operation Cleanslate) on February 21, 1943—resulted in Japanese attempts to reinforce the area by sea.
  • The disastrous losses suffered by the Japanese prompted Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to initiate I Go (Operation 'I'), a series of air attacks against Allied airfields and shipping at both Guadalcanal and New Guinea, which ultimately resulted in Yamamoto's death.
  • Three months later, airmen reported no signs of enemy activity in the Admiralty Islands and MacArthur ordered an amphibious landing there, commencing the Admiralty Islands campaign.
  • The campaign showed the effectiveness of a strategy which avoided major concentrations of enemy forces and instead aimed at severing the Japanese lines of supply and communication.
  • The Philippines Campaign included the Battle of Leyte Gulf - the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.

• Japanese Aggression

  • Building on the hard won victory in Shanghai, the Japanese army captured the Chinese nationalist capital city of Nanjing (Nanking) and Northern Shanxi by the end of 1937, in campaigns involving approximately 350,000 Japanese soldiers and considerably more Chinese.
  • They also consolidated their lines of supply through capturing key islands of the Pacific, including Guadalcanal.
  • Further defeats by the Allies at Guadalcanal in September 1942 and New Guinea in 1943 put the Empire of Japan on the defensive for the remainder of the war.

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  • Successful campaigns usually require a campaign manager to coordinate the campaign's operations.
  • Apart from a candidate, the campaign manger is often a campaign's most visible leader.

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• The Modern Political Campaign

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