Guadalcanal
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Last Americans Leaving Guadalcanal Seven Years After Marines First Landed
From Our Own Correspondent November 5, 1949.
AMERICAN forces in the Solomons left , Guadalcanal for Oahu, Hawaii, by various ships during this week. With the exception of one officer and 15 men who remain at Camp Guadal in guardianship of surplus US Army property until it is disposed of to outside buyers, this is the end of US “occupation’ in
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Officers of the departing forces were formally farewelled by the Resident Com missioner (Mr. J. D. A. Germond), on October 3. The last vessel to depart this week was a tug towing two 210-ft. harges loaded with equipment and fuel—the second barge nearly a mile behind the oyer seven ye^ rg s ince American Marines made their initial landing on Jap-occupied Guadalcanal.
Thev landed about two miles east of the Lunga River, on August 7, 1942, and after six historic months, Gaudalcanal was de clared “no longer a combat zone on February 21, 1943.