“At dawn on August 7, 1942, several thousand U.S. Marines, with Australian support, landed on Guadalcanal and the neighboring island of Tulagi.”“In February 1943, after six months of fighting on land and at sea, the Battle of Guadalcanal finally ended. After losing more than 24,000 of a force of 36,000 soldiers, the Japanese abandoned what they came to call “the Island of Death.”
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World History
Roger B. Beck, Linda Black, Larry S. Kreiger, Phillip C. Naylor & Dahia Ibo Shabaka
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/world-history/id542387424?mt=13
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“As Rommel retreated west, the Allies launched Operation Torch. On November 8, an Allied force of more than 100,000 troops—mostly Americans—landed in Morocco and Algeria. American general Dwight D. Eisenhower led this force. Caught between Montgomery’s and Eisenhower’s armies, Rommel’s Afrika Korps was finally crushed in May 1943.
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Excerpt From
World History
Roger B. Beck, Linda Black, Larry S. Kreiger, Phillip C. Naylor & Dahia Ibo Shabaka
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/world-history/id542387424?mt=13
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