Matanikau Offensive

The Matanikau Offensive took place from 1–4 November 1942. It was one of the last of a series of engagements between U.S. and Japanese forces. Allied forces had landed on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands on 7 August 1942. The landings were meant to deny their use by the Japanese as bases for threatening the supply...