<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwuw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal_Campaign" id="mwvA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Guadalcanal Campaign">Battle of Guadalcanal</a> begins as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" id="mwvQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marines</a> initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal" id="mwvg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Guadalcanal">Guadalcanal</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tulagi_and_Gavutu–Tanambogo" id="mwvw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo">Tulagi</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands" id="mwwA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a>.<sup about="#mwt120" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"}}' id="cite_ref-23" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_7#cite_note-23" id="mwwQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 23;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwwg">[23]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"><cite about="#mwt117" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMcGee2002">McGee, William L. (2002). <i id="mwB4s">The Solomons Campaigns, 1942–1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville – Pacific War Turning Point, Volume 2</i>. Santa Barbara, CA: BMC Publications. p.<span id="mwB4w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>21. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB40" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB44" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0-9701678-7-3" id="mwB48" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-9701678-7-3"><bdi id="mwB5A">0-9701678-7-3</bdi></a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./OCLC_(identifier)" id="mwB5E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a><span id="mwB5I" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49317834" id="mwB5M" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">49317834</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt117" class="Z3988" id="mwB5Q" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Solomons+Campaigns%2C+1942%E2%80%931943%3A+From+Guadalcanal+to+Bougainville+%E2%80%93+Pacific+War+Turning+Point%2C+Volume+2.&amp;rft.pages=21&amp;rft.pub=Santa+Barbara%2C+CA%3A+BMC+Publications&amp;rft.date=2002&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F49317834&amp;rft.isbn=0-9701678-7-3&amp;rft.aulast=McGee&amp;rft.aufirst=William+L.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+7"></span></span>