The marines moved more warily against these rickety chinese shacks, and the tempo of their advance slowed. They also got a lesson in how good the japanese are a digging in. And by the time the marines figure out how they might handle this, the sun's going down, and they are going to have to fight at night. But then, analyzing for the war correspondent right afterwards, this is how he described the jap way of fighting.
Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare.