[Snickersnee]

My father (10th Marines) watched all this go down from Red Beach -- he said it was so intense it was as if the sun had not gone down that evening. The sinking feeling came when the sun came up the next morning and the horizon was completely empty. No USN to be seen anywhere! The Marines didn't know if they had all been sunk or whatever. For the next 60-90 days they lived on canned corned beef and hardtack crackers. In the early 1950s when my father was a printer at the Washington Post, I used to watch him as he made his perpetual night-shift lunch: canned corn beef sandwiches on Wonder Bread. That would be like you & me eating MREs for the rest of our days.

[SAMWolf]

I thank your father for his service. Guadacanal was a nightmare for the Marines, they were operating on a shoestring.