History That Doesn't Suck — 208: The Pacific War, 1942–43: Guadalcanal, the Aleutians, and Operation Vengeance

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208: The Pacific War, 1942–43: Guadalcanal, the Aleutians, and Operation Vengeance

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“Guadalcanal is not the name of an island. It is the name of the graveyard of the Japanese army.” This is the story of America's first major offensive in the Pacific since Midway. Amid hard fighting among the frozen peaks of Attu at the tail end of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the Americans are gaining ground. But the…

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