General Alexander Patch declares Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, secure. A series of bitter combined-operations battles that began on August 7 1942 has ended in Allied victory.
The Battle of Midway (June 1942)put paid to Japanese hopes of a quick military victort that would force the Americans to accept a negotiated peace, but the task of actually dislodging the Japanese from the territory they'd occupied during their 'six months of victories' was a mammoth one. The bitter fighting at Guadalcanal, which culminated in a major naval battle in November 1942, marked the first stage in the Allied offensive.
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