7 August 1942
Allied forces, led by the 1st Marine Division, land on Guadalcanal meeting
very little Japanese resistance. Most of the Marines' supplies are offloaded
from the transports before Japanese bombers, escorted by Zekes, (Zeroes),
come and bomb the transports after the Navy withdraws. Day one begins
disastrously.
8 August 1942
First contact with the enemy. The 17th Area Arny, of the Imperial Japanese
Army, hands the Marines another loss as they're driven back from the airfield
they'd been sent to take.
9 August 1942
The Marines try again to take the Japanese airfield but the Japanese, for the second time, repulse the Marine attack.
10 August 1942
The Japanese complete the airfield. Zekes, (Zeroes), Betty, and Nell bombers, come in from Rabaul, and land on the completed airfield. The
Marines, without aircover, and air superiority, are now on the defensive. A fourth attempt to take the airfield is repulsed.
11 August 1942
Japanese land-based planes attack the Allied invasion force. Sinking HMAS
Canberra, USS Juneau, and USS Wasp. USS Enterprise is severely damaged forced to retire from the battle.
18 August 1942
The 17th Army attacks the Marines at the Ilu, (called the Tenaru River,
on old maps), and wipes them out. Bayoneting the bodies to make sure they're dead.
25 August 1942
Japanese reinforcements pour into Guadalcanal while the Marines, starving, and without reinforcements, food, and water, are forced to surrender and are taken to the brutal Japanese prison camps in the Philippines. The Japanese succeed in isolating Australia and cutting its
supply lines to the United States. Australia surrenders and its government goes into exile in Britain.