The Battle of Guadalcanal is over. After six months of fighting the last Japanese on the island is either dead or evacuated.
Tokyo announced the end this Tuesday. Secretary Knox confirmed it. Whatever new struggle may be brewing in the Pacific, it can hardly be another Jap attempt to reconquer Guadalcanal. That fight is over.
At the end the last 3,000 Japanese survivors were trapped on Cape Esperance on the northwest tip. For months the Americans had been fighting slowly up along the northern coast from Henderson Field 25 miles away. Last week a strong body of U.S. troops suddenly showed itself in...
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