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Event war Oceania

Battle of Guadalcanal

1942 CE – 1943 CE

First major Allied offensive in the Pacific, a brutal six-month campaign for a jungle island in the Solomon Islands.

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Standing in 1942 CE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

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