GUADALCANAL - 1943 - Boxer Barney Ross recounts his experience at Guadalcanal as Marines climb down netting into landing craft and march along jungle roads.
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1943 - Japanese POWs are treated humanely on Guadalcanal.
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1943 - US Marines find Japanese money buried on Guadalcanal, while field artillery units fire Howitzers on the islands.
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GUADALCANAL - 1943 - US Marines fire from trenches as the night battle rages against Japanese forces. Barney Ross tells his friends he received honor for his company.
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GUADALCANAL - 1943 - Gun crew firing howitzers at Japanese positions in the jungle. Marines firing their machine guns from foxholes.
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UNITED STATES - 1943 - Boxer Barney Ross spars with a fellow Marine in a gym. His sparring partner asks him how he got promoted as a sergeant in the Marines.
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UNITED STATES - 1943 - Boxer Barney Ross tells his friends how his experience fighting at Guadalcanal got him promoted as a sergeant. Navy ships bombard islands in the Pacific.
1940s - Montage of allied Naval forces gaining ground against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater (narrated in 1945).
Animated Earth Zoom to Honiara in the Solomon Islands
1944 - US Navy nurses arrive for duty at Guadalcanal.