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==Further reading== ===Books=== {{Refbegin|30em}} * {{Cite book |last=Bartsch |first=William H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SThwBQAAQBAJ |title=Victory fever on Guadalcanal: Japan's first land defeat of World War II |publisher=Texas Univ. Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-62349-184-0 |series=Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series |location=College Station, Tex}} * {{Cite book |last=Braun |first=Saul M. |title=The struggle for Guadalcanal |publisher=Putnam |year=1969 |location=New York |oclc=27157}} * {{Cite book |last=Christ |first=James F. |title=Battalion of the damned: the 1st Marine paratroopers at Gavutu and Bloody Ridge, 1942 |date=2007 |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |isbn=978-1-59114-114-3 |location=Annapolis, Md |oclc=71946979}} * {{Cite book |last=Coggins |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Coggins |title=The campaign for Guadalcanal: a battle that made history |date=1972 |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |isbn=978-0-385-04354-0 |location=Garden City, N.Y |oclc=483439}} * {{Cite book |last=Crawford |first=John |author-link=John Crawford (author) |title=New Zealand's Pacific frontline: Guadalcanal-Solomon Islands Campaign, 1942-45 |date=1992 |publisher=[[New Zealand Defence Force]] |isbn=978-0-473-01537-4 |location=New Zealand |oclc=27363777}} * {{Cite book |last=DeBlanc |first=Jefferson J. |author-link=Jefferson J. DeBlanc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JopfCSFRw4C |title=The Guadalcanal air war: Col. Jefferson DeBlanc's story |date=2008 |publisher=[[Pelican Publishing Company|Pelican]] |isbn=978-1-58980-587-3 |location=Gretna, La |oclc=185031258}} * {{Cite book |last=Farrington |first=Arthur C. |title=The leatherneck boys: a PFC at the battle for Guadalcanal |date=1995 |publisher=Sunflower University Press |isbn=978-0-89745-180-2 |location=Manhattan, Kan., USA |oclc=32349291}} * {{Cite book |last=Feldt |first=Eric Augustus |author-link=Eric Feldt |title=The Coast Watchers |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-140-14926-5 |location=Ringwood, Vic. |oclc=27488029}} * {{Cite book |last=Hersey |first=John |author-link=John Hersey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AG1OPnFm3gC |title=Into the valley: Marines at Guadalcanal |orig-year=1943 |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |isbn=978-0-8032-7328-3 |year=2002 |location=Lincoln |oclc=48941819}} * {{Cite book |last=Hoyt |first=Edwin Palmer |author-link=Edwin Palmer Hoyt |title=Guadalcanal |publisher=Military Heritage Press |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-880-29184-2 |location=New York |oclc=19293942}} * {{Cite book |last1=Hubler |first1=Richard Gibson |author-link=Richard G. Hubler |title=Flying leathernecks |last2=DeChant |first2=John A. |publisher=[[Doubleday, Doran & Co.]] |year=1944 |location=Garden City, N.Y. |oclc=494189806}} * {{Cite book |last=Kwai |first=Anna Annie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hXVLDwAAQBAJ |title=Solomon islanders in World War II: an indigenous perspective |date=2017 |publisher=[[ANU Press]] |isbn=978-1-76046-165-2 |series=State, society and governance in Melanesia series |location=Acton, ACT, Australia}} * {{Cite book |last=Leckie |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Leckie (author) |title=Challenge for the Pacific: the bloody six-month Battle of Guadalcanal |date=1999 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=978-0-306-80911-8 |location=New York, NY |oclc=40126887}} * {{Cite book |last1=Letourneau |first1=Roger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PUgZLnPZcl8C |title=Operation KE: the Cactus Air Force and the Japanese withdrawal from Guadalcanal |last2=Letourneau |first2=Dennis |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-59114-446-5 |location=Annapolis, MD |oclc=817871003}} * {{Cite book |last=Lord |first=Walter |author-link=Walter Lord |title=Lonely vigil: coastwatchers of the Solomons |date=2006 |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |isbn=978-1-59114-466-3 |series=Bluejacket books |location=Annapolis, Md |oclc=70045788}} * {{Cite book |last=Lundstrom |first=John B. |title=Black shoe carrier admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal |date=2006 |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |isbn=978-1-59114-475-5 |location=Annapolis, Md |oclc=62782215}} * {{Cite book |last1=Marion |first1=Ore J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rB-hOp_AtBYC |title=On the Canal: the Marines of L-3-5 on Guadalcanal, 1942 |last2=Cuddihy |first2=Thomas |last3=Cuddihy |first3=Edward |date=2004 |publisher=Stackpole Books |isbn=978-0-8117-3149-2 |series=Stackpole Military history series |location=Mechanicsburg, PA |oclc=53374983}} * {{Cite book |last=Merillat |first=H. C. L. |title=Guadalcanal remembered |date=2003 |publisher=[[University of Alabama Press]] |isbn=978-0-8173-1290-9 |location=Tuscaloosa |oclc=50559909}} * {{Cite book |last=Merillat |first=H. C. L. |title=The Island: A History of the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal, August 7-December 9, 1942 |publisher=[[Houghton-Mifflin Company]] |year=1944 |location=Boston |oclc=487310466}} * {{Cite book |last=Mueller |first=Joseph N. |title=Guadalcanal 1942: the marines strike back |date=1992 |publisher=[[Osprey Publishing|Osprey]] |isbn=978-1-85532-253-0 |series=Osprey military Campaign |location=London |oclc=28111740}} * {{Cite book |last=Parkin |first=Robert Sinclair |title=Blood on the sea: American destroyers lost in World War II |date=2001 |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |isbn=978-0-306-81069-5 |location=Cambridge, MA |oclc=48497788}} * {{Cite book |last1=Poor |first1=Henry V. |author-link=Henry Varnum Poor (Yale dean) |title=The battles of Cape Esperance, 11 October 1942 and Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942 |last2=Mustin |first2=Henry A. |last3=Jameson |first3=Colin G. |date=1994 |publisher=[[Naval Historical Center]] |isbn=978-0-945274-21-6 |location=Washington |oclc=29031302}} * {{Cite book |last=Radike |first=Floyd W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-CUtrZfuB9MC |title=Across the Dark Islands: The War in the Pacific |publisher=[[Random House]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-891-41852-8 |location=New York |oclc=812906145}} * {{Cite book |last=Richter |first=Don |title=Where the sun stood still: the untold story of Sir Jacob Vouza and the Guadalcanal Campaign |date=1992 |publisher=Toucan Publishing |isbn=978-0-9611696-3-3 |location=Calabasas, Calif. : Agoura, Calif |oclc=27771674}} * {{Cite book |last=Rose |first=Lisle Abbott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=taeSaPXO5k8C |title=The Ship that Held the Line: The USS Hornet and the First Year of the Pacific War |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-557-50008-3 |location=Annapolis, Md. |oclc=48507810}} * {{Cite book |last1=Rottman |first1=Gordon |author-link=Gordon L. Rottman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LiwVDAAAQBAJ |title=U.S. Marine Corps Pacific theater of operations |volume=1: 1941-43 |last2=Anderson |first2=Duncan |publisher=[[Osprey Publishing|Osprey]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-841-76518-1 |location=Oxford |oclc=53459823}} * {{Cite book |last=Smith |first=George W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=quhqTbZ-TCcC |title=The do-or-die men: the 1st Marine Raider Battalion at Guadalcanal |date=2003 |publisher=[[Pocket Books]] |isbn=978-0-7434-7005-6 |location=New York |oclc=53009145}} * {{Cite book |last=Stafford |first=Edward Peary |title=The Big E: the story of the USS Enterprise |date=2002 |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |isbn=978-1-55750-998-7 |series=Classics of naval literature |location=Annapolis, Md |oclc=48493709}} * {{Cite book |last=Toll |first=Ian W. |author-link=Ian W. Toll |title=The conquering tide: war in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 |title-link=The Conquering Tide |date=2016 |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |isbn=978-0-393-08064-3 |location=New York, NY |oclc=1031380189}} * {{Cite book |last=Twining |first=Merrill B. |author-link=Merrill B. Twining |title=No bended knee: the battle for Guadalcanal |date=1996 |publisher=[[Presidio Press]] |isbn=978-0-89141-549-7 |editor-last=Carey |editor-first=Neil G. |location=Novato, Calif |oclc=503599358}} * {{Cite book |last1=Ulbrich |first1=David J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zKmr26HPRU4C |title=Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936-1943 |last2=Neimeyer |first2=Charles P. |date=2011 |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |isbn=978-1-59114-903-3 |location=Annapolis, Md |oclc=670481778}} * {{Cite book |last=Walker |first=Charles H. |title=Combat officer: a memoir of the war in the South Pacific |date=2004 |publisher=[[Presidio Press]] |isbn=978-0-345-46385-2 |location=New York, NY |oclc=56656650}} * {{Cite book |last=Werstein |first=Irving |title=Guadalcanal |publisher=[[Crowell-Collier Publishing Company|Crowell]] |year=1963 |location=New York |oclc=1370693}} {{refend}} ===Web=== {{Refbegin|30em}} * {{cite web |last=Australian War Memorial |author-link=Australian War Memorial |date=n.d. |url=http://ajrp.awm.gov.au/ajrp/ajrp2.nsf/Web-DocSecondary/flat?OpenDocument |title=Secondary Bibliography by Author |format=bibliography of Japanese-language sources |work=Australia-Japan Research Project |access-date=6 November 2008 }} * {{cite web |last=Burbeck |first=James |year=2008 |url=http://www.wtj.com/articles/guadalcanal/ |title=The Guadalcanal Campaign |publisher=Flash animated combat map series at The War Times Journal }} * {{cite web |last=Cagney |first=James |url=http://www.historyanimated.com/Guadalcanal.html |title=An Animated Map History of the Battle for Guadalcanal |publisher=HistoryAnimated.com |access-date=4 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319032658/http://www.historyanimated.com/Guadalcanal.html |archive-date=19 March 2009 |url-status=dead }} * {{cite web |last=Craven |first=Wesley Frank |author2=James Lea Cate |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/IV/index.html |title=Vol. IV, The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944 |work=The Army Air Forces in World War II |publisher=U.S. Office of Air Force History |access-date=20 October 2006 }} * {{cite web |last=Donahue |first=PFC James A. |url=http://www.guadalcanaljournal.com |title=Guadalcanal Journal | work=GuadalcanalJournal.com}} * {{cite web |last=Dillard |first=Nancy R. |date=20 May 1997 |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA325157.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604203353/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA325157&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=4 June 2011 |title=Operational Leadership: A Case Study of Two Extremes during Operation Watchtower |format=Academic report |publisher=Joint Military Operations Department, [[Naval War College]] |access-date=4 August 2009 }} * {{cite web |last=Dyer |first=George Carroll |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ACTC/index.html |title=The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |access-date=20 October 2006 }} * {{cite web |last=Emberton |first=Keith D. |date=1 May 1996 |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA307601.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903165130/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA307601&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=3 September 2009 |title=Operational Leadership Once Beyond the Culminating Point: Perspectives on Calculated Tactical Risk to Achieve Operational Success |format=Academic report |publisher=Joint Military Operations Department, [[Naval War College]] |access-date=4 August 2009 }} * {{cite web |last=Garrett |first=James R. |url=http://www.nettally.com/~jrube/index2.html |title=James R. 'Rube' Garrett A Marine Diary: My Experiences on Guadalcanal |work=An Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Guadalcanal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211031833/http://www.nettally.com/~jrube/index2.html |archive-date=11 February 2007 }} * {{cite web |last=Gillespie |first=Oliver A. |year=1952 |url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Paci-_N84545.html |title='The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939β1945'; The Battle for the Solomons (Chapter 7) |publisher=New Zealand Electronic Text Center |access-date=11 July 2006 }} * {{cite web |last=Hoffman |first=Jon T. |year=1995 |url=http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/From%20Makin%20to%20Bougainville-Marine%20Raiders%20in%20the%20Pacific%20War%20PCN%2019000313000_1.pdf |title='From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War' |format=brochure |work=World War II Commemorative Series |publisher=Marine Corps Historical Center |access-date=29 August 2006 }} * {{cite web |last=Hoffman |first=Jon T. |url=http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/Silk%20Chutes%20and%20Hard%20Fighting%20-%20U.S.%20Marine%20Corps%20Parachute%20Units%20in%20WWII%20%20PCN%2019000314700.pdf |title=Silk Chutes and Hard Fighting: U.S. Marine Corps Parachute Units in World War II |work=Commemorative series |page=1 |publisher=Marine Corps History and Museums Division |access-date=26 December 2006 }} * {{cite web |last=Mersky |first=Peter B. |year=1993 |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Aces/index.html |title=Time of the Aces: Marine Pilots in the Solomons, 1942β1944 |work=Marines in World War II Commemorative Series |publisher=History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps |access-date=20 October 2006 }} * {{cite web |last=Newell |first=Clayton R. |year=2003 |url=http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/72-4/72-4.htm |title=Central Pacific |work=The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II |publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]] |access-date=6 August 2008 |archive-date=2 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202165835/http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/72-4/72-4.HTM |url-status=dead }} * {{Cite book |publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]] |url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/macarthur%20reports/macarthur%20v2%20p1/macarthurv2.htm |title=Japanese Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, Volume II β Part I |series=Reports of General MacArthur |access-date=8 December 2006 |archive-date=25 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125072601/http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/MacArthur%20Reports/MacArthur%20V2%20P1/macarthurv2.htm |url-status=dead }} β Translation of the official record by the Japanese Demobilization Bureaux detailing the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy's participation in the Southwest Pacific area of the [[Pacific War]]. * {{cite web |last=U.S. Army Air Forces |year=1992 |edition=Reissue |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/WW/index.html |title=Pacific Counterblow: The 11th Bombardment Group and the 67th Fighter Squadron in the Battle for Guadalcanal |work=Wings at War |publisher=Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence |access-date=8 December 2006 }} * {{cite web |year=1943 |url=https://www.sonsoflibertymuseum.org/docs/fighting-on-guadalcanal.pdf |title=Fighting On Guadalcanal |work=Fighting On Guadalcanal with short commentary and stories by individual participants including Merritt Edson |publisher=[[United States of America War Office]] |access-date=21 July 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212193057/https://www.sonsoflibertymuseum.org/docs/fighting-on-guadalcanal.pdf|archive-date=February 12, 2023 }} {{refend}} ===Audio/visual=== {{Refbegin|30em}} * {{Cite video |people=Adams, M. Clay (Director) |year=1952 |url=https://archive.org/details/VAS_06_Guadalcanal |title=Victory at Sea β Episode 6: Guadalcanal |medium=Video documentary |publisher=[[NBC|National Broadcasting Company]] (NBC) Film}} One episode from a 26-episode series about naval combat during World War II. * {{Cite video |people=[[Robert Montgomery (actor)|Montgomery, Robert]] (Director) |year=1960 |title=[[The Gallant Hours]] |medium=Feature-length film |publisher=[[United Artists]]}} Biographical film about [[William Halsey, Jr.|Admiral Halsey]] during the Guadalcanal campaign. * {{Cite video |people=[[Tim Van Patten|Van Patten, Tim]] (Director) |year=2010 |title=[[The Pacific (miniseries)|The Pacific]] |medium=TV miniseries |publisher=[[HBO]], [[Seven Network]], [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]]}} "Part One" and "Part Two" deal with the Guadalcanal campaign. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110610020909/http://www.awesomestories.com/assets/guadalcanal-war-in-the-pacific Video including historical footage of the Battle for Guadalcanal] {{refend}}
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