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Events on Friday 7 August 1942 1
1942US Marines land on GuadalcanalFirst major Allied offensive in the Pacific beginsThe 1st Marine Division landed on Guadalcanal and nearby islands in the Solomons and captured an unfinished Japanese airfield, which became Henderson Field. Six months of heavy fighting on land, at sea and in the air followed. Japan evacuated the island in February 1943.