I've always been fascinated by Guadalcanal, as a kid I seemed to be only interested in the ETO, once I branched out to the pacific, Guadalcanal was what I first started reading about.
Not only the viscous struggle on the ground of course, but air and sea, where we took out biggest naval hit after Pearl Harbor at Savo. I seem to recall a couple nights where the Japs came by at night with a battleship no less and shellacked the island, and there was nothing we could do about it at that point. Also remember the Gottege [?] patrol, a force of over a dozen US guys who went on a patrol and were never heard of again until this very day.
