That last aerial shot can't be Gaudalcanal. Just sayin'.

Thank you all for your'e service

My dad served there, 3rd Marines. Is there a way to get his service record? Thank you.

This campaign couldnt have been attempted if not for the overwhelming American carrier victory at Midway. The japanese probably wouldnt have attempted the taking of midway if they hadnt been stopped at the coral sea battle. Coral sea wouldn't have been fought where and when it was if the americans had not bombed tokyo with B25' a few weeks before. Such connections always fascinate me. And the tokyo ( Doolittle) raid could not have been conducted if the japanese had just dropped a couple of their bombs on the huge oil storage facilities at pearl harbor on Dec 7

My dad was there 😊

Australia was the first army to beat the Japanese in battle. Happened in New Guinea. Google it.

That was US Navy Seabees fixing Henderson Field.

After 75 years , No one on the " Island of Big Death " have Forgotten the Price of Freedom.... But it's a Damn Shame that , in the " Land of the Free and Home of the Brave " too many Have...!!

Salute...! To All those who served , fought , survived and especially those who didn't make it back home... SALUTE

My father was there at Henderson field he was from New Zealand in the NZRAF. He didn’t get back until 1946…my mother was very unhappy! Ha!

My dad was with the 132nd Americal Division and fought on Mt. Austin. Terrible fighting there but he survived, that's why I'm here writing this. He passed in 1965, before he should have, but that's life. Great video, my dad never talked much about his time there, like most who were there, so these videos are great. Thank you.

It was sad to hear this video say No one has forgot the price of freedom, yet look at our country today. To many in power try to ignore all that our country has been through and what it took to get it to where it is now. I can not understand how anyone can be so inconsiderate to our vets. I thank each and every one of them for their service and for what they have given us. Freedom! Lets not let that slip away.

Very interesting and enjoyable documentary. My Uncle, my Dad's younger brother, was a Motor Machinist Mate 1st Class on PT132 commanded by LT MacAdoo at the time of Guadalcanal, and they patrolled the Solomon's night after night looking for Japanese shipping. They were a brave lot those Marines and Sailors. God Bless them all!

The BEST book on 'America`s Pacific Island Hopping Campaign' during WW2, written by a Marine who was there: WITH THE OLD BREED, By E.B. Sledge.

I must have watched a thousand ww2 documentaries & videos. This one is worth the time & helps preserve the history.

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Thank you ❤ for your service

This is such a wonderful video. It takes me bak to my childhood. Thank you for sharing this part of history with everyone and showing "The Old Ways". God bless.

Thank you for the video, very moving. So, many, both sides.

Glad to See She is Still Operational !😊

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Wow, just wow.

My Fam has proudly served in every conflict since WWI. FREEDOM aint FREE!🇺🇸🍻✌🏻

So nice to see old Aussie John Innes in this video - now passed - an old friend of mine - vale John …

It wasn’t the Summer of 1942, in the Solomons it was winter - which was lucky for US troops because it is just that bit cooler …

Wonderful video! Thank you!

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changing the positions of the animals was something I never really focused on

The volunteers get as much from this as they give to the public

😊 it is Indians, of course Not Amerika

My family as well as my husbands family farmed with horses as recently as my own father, he was born in the thirties. My grandfather born 1893, the first of our family born in the US from Poland, they truly homesteaded our farm. I used to cut and rake hay , even plow with horses.

in the IJA, Guadalcanal indeed was called the Island of Death. IT was the first real defeat the IJA had had. Well at least the one that they could not deny; the Soviets had kicked IJA butt on some serious border battles.

Cool bridge but just feels so sketch when your on it

Another poorly researched bit of copy, e.g. PT boats were made of plywood. The were made of Mexican Mahogany, only the decks contained plywood.

simultaneously Australians defeated the japs at the battle of Milne Bay

They are truly the best of the best. God Bless Them All.

The southern coast of Guadalcanal is a piece of integrally hostile landscape : Mountains plunging directly into the sea.

Rather saucy detail : The Japanese & the 🇺🇸 Marines were just one creek apart & both sides bathed 🧼 in plain view of each other, & to spice it the Japanese used perfume soap to taunt the 🇺🇸 Last & not least they left on the Marines side mats printed with Oriental beauties Hefner-style. The 🇺🇸 let them rot where they were. The Japanese had yet to learn the meaning of USMC.

In 1938, an Englishman 😰 dreading the coming war in Europe bought a coconut 🌴 plantation there hoping to weather away the storm … He ended up a coastwatcher.

In 1938, an Englishman 😰 dreading the coming war in Europe bought a coconut 🌴 plantation there hoping to weather away the storm … He ended up a coastwatcher.

Excellent thank you 👍

The Woolstenhulmes are the best

Most of the Coast Watchers were Australians and New Zealanders. They were all already based on these Islands as Planters or in the Civil Service and joined the Navy at the beginning of WW2 which was in 1939 well before Pearl Harbor. They had good relations with the Indigenous people and New Guinea at the time was an Australian protectorate post WW1 and the Solomons was a British protectorate. After Singapore fell the Australian government realised that any forward protection of Australia from the North would require early intelligence from the outposts.

Thank you for this wonderful video.

The Jeremiah O’Brien is priceless! Thank God they were able to save her from the fire!

Thank you for the work you do. I was with Lima and H&S company thru out my deployment. We had just pulled the UN out of Somali and were heading to Perth,Australia. I had my boy who was very anxious one night and wanted to sneak out on deck to get a smoke. He asked me to come along, but I was just exhausted that day. I told him don't go, we'll go out later. At first, he said OK, but he then changed his mind and didn't tell me he was going up. Well, I passed out asleep and morning came. I couldn't find him in his rack, and morning muster was fast approaching. During muster, I advised my Ssgt that I could not locate him. We'll my Ssgt thought was covering for him. Well, when nobody could find him, they played the tapes. The seamen (actual rank in the navy) that was supposed to be on deck duty that night for got into trouble for half azz doing his job and nobody noticed my brother via security video. My boy had fallen off the ship. He didn't anchor the heavy outer door, and in one of those sharp turns, the ship made,the door knock him over. That always gets me cause we never found him.

Steaks are always getting higher.

i'm glad they restored all of it its a part of space history

Love the AC/DC shirt!