One more summary of two salient events of Guadacanal:
One Marine, One Ship, by Vin Suprynowicz
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/one_marine_one_ship.htm
I’ll check that out, thank you very much!
Guadalcanal was a significant event, a land, air, and ocean (both above and below the surface) over a huge square mile area, between Rabaul and Guadalcanal. The first of its kind on that scale.
Seems unknown to many today.