Allied Invasion Battle of Guadalcanal (8) Maps WW2 Operation Watchtower Campaign

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Allied Invasion Battle of Guadalcanal (8) Maps WW2 Operation Watchtower Campaign:
$75.00

Allied Invasion / Battle of Guadalcanal Pacific Ocean Deployment Campaign Strategy and Movements Maps /Charts

Provenance

Authorized Map prints removed from an Atlas (1959) printed for Military Cadets at West Point

Published Date

1959

Map Titles

THE WARWITHJAPAN AREA UNDER JAPANESE CONTROL (6 AUGUST 1942) THE ALLIED REORGANIZATION (30 MARCH 1942)

THE WAR WITH JAPAN AREA UNDER JAPANESE CONTROL (6 AUGUST 1942)

THE WAR WITH JAPAN GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN THE LANDING, 7 AUGUST 1942 AND CONCURRENT OPERATIONS

THE WAR WITH JAPAN GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN INITIAL LANDINGS AND CAPTURE OF HENDERSON FIELD, 7-8 AUSGUST 1942

THE WAR WITH JAPAN GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN LANDING SCHEDULE AND OPERATIONS IN THE TULAGI AREA, 7-8 AUGUST 1942

THE WAR WITH JAPAN GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN OPERATIONS DURING AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1942

THE WAR WITH JAPAN GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN OPERATIONS DURING OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 1942

THE WAR WITH JAPAN JAPANESE EVACUATION OF GUADALCANAL 1-7 FEBRUARY 1943 AND OPERATIONS SINCE 1 JANUARY

Authenticity and Condition

These areguaranteed genuine vintage maps! Maps were printed on large sheets of heavy stock paper. There are no folds, creases, marks or stains, and the paper is clean, and not brittle. Important Note: there is some age toning of the Maps as might be expected with something of this nature. Suitable for framing. NOT a modern copy or reproduction! These maps will increase in value over time. Please ask all questions before making your purchase.

Size

Page Size for all Maps: 10” x 13”.

INFO

Allied Invasion and Battle of Guadalcanal

Allied Forces

Robert L. Ghormley

William Halsey, Jr.

Richmond K. Turner

Alexander A. Vandegrift

Alexander Patch

Japanese Forces

Isoroku Yamamoto

Nishizo Tsukahara

Jinichi Kusaka

Hitoshi Imamura

Remarks

From Wikipedia:

The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.

On 7 August 1942, Allied forces, predominantly American, landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands with the objective of denying their use by the Japanese to threaten the supply and communication routes between the US, Australia, and New Zealand. The Allies also intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. The Allies overwhelmed the outnumbered Japanese defenders, who had occupied the islands since May 1942, and captured Tulagi and Florida, as well as an airfield (later named Henderson Field) that was under construction on Guadalcanal. Powerful US naval forces supported the landings.

Surprised by the Allied offensive, the Japanese made several attempts between August and November 1942 to retake Henderson Field. Three major land battles, seven large naval battles (five nighttime surface actions and two carrier battles), and continual, almost daily aerial battles culminated in the decisive Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in early November 1942, in which the last Japanese attempt to bombard Henderson Field from the sea and land with enough troops to retake it was defeated. In December 1942, the Japanese abandoned further efforts to retake Guadalcanal and evacuated their remaining forces by 7 February 1943 in the face of an offensive by the US Army's XIV Corps, conceding the island to the Allies.

The Guadalcanal campaign was a significant strategic combined arms victory by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theatre. The Japanese had reached the high-water mark of their conquests in the Pacific, and Guadalcanal marked the transition by the Allies from defensive operations to the strategic offensive in that theatre and the beginning of offensive operations, including the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and Central Pacific campaigns, that resulted in Japan's eventual surrender and the end of World War II.