The Marines' First Battle With the Japanese

This is the Marines, this is Smith's people's first tangle with the Japanese. Two F4Fs were heavily damaged, but managed to return to cactus eventually being deemed total losses. The P 400s that landed that day got up and sprayed some of the some of the remnants of a cheeky's forces kind of given a preemptive view of what these air cobers are actually going to do for the main part of the campaign. It didn't really nothing to change the battle about already been decided. But what it did do is boost that all important United States Marine Corps morale. Absolutely.