Guadalcanal part 6 – selection of photos from tour

[finn]

Just to share to You who have interest in Guadalcanal

US memorial on Guadalcanal

Battle of Ilju/Tenaru river - app place where the famous photo were taken

Bloody Ridge

Bloody Ridge - barbed wire

No wonder the japs got lost - this was the area they had to go through to approach Bloody Ridge

And through this for several days

Beached japanese cargo ships - the remains - good for diving

Memorial service for Munro

Relics left to visit

This guy was one of those who saved JFK

USS Sampson on visit

Funeral for a sister to one of the sailors lost on USS Quincy. She had requested to be laid to rest together with her brother

Well - back to basis - a 0,5 cal on a modern warship to protect against approching speed boats with terrorists

[Scott-Chomitzky]

Too Awesome for words! Great Pictures!

Scott

[Chewbacca]

Awesome pictures, I want to go there as well, someday

[NormanStewart]

@finn

Memorial service for Munro

For those interested:

Medal of Honor recipients (September 1942)

SM1 Douglas Albert Munro, 22, USCG (1919–1942) USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) Point Cruz, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands September 27, 1942 Presented May 24, 1943 Posthumous [Douglas_A._Munro] The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (posthumously) to SM1 Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard, for extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry in action above and beyond the call of duty as Petty Officer in…

[finn]

I have a special connection to this story. On Guadalcanal I was reading Thomas B. Franks excellent book about Guadalcanal. I was reading on the lawn of the hotel, and looked into the maps now and then.

I realised that the event with Munro happend exactly on the Beach in front of the hotel. So I was looking at the exact place I was reading about. There were a very fine memorial for Munro with high ranking naval officers and fine speeches.

[sjwoz]

Terrific photos Finn, thank you very much for sharing.

[Spindrift]

These are fantastic, thank you for sharing them here! Very moving about the sailor’s sister being laid to rest on the spot where he made the ultimate sacrifice so long ago.

[ValeryPPK72]

We had American Soviet documentary movie “Unknown war” 1978 in Soviet Union. That movie made in US for American, who doesn’t know about Eastern front and terrible battles in Kiev, Kharkov, Stalingrad and Rzhev e t c. So we need the same movie “Unknown war 2” about South Pacific battles. Like Guadalcanal battle.