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    Atlanta-class light cruiser torpedoed and sunk at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942. In total, 687 officers and sailors, including the...
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    Gibraltar. Pillsbury then reported to Task Group 21.12, consisting of USS Guadalcanal and four destroyer escorts, on hunter killer patrol to seek out and destroy...
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     46–48. Jurez de ne déposer les armes que le jour où nos couleurs, nos belles couleurs flotteront sur la cathédrale de Strasbourg. "Le serment de Koufra" (in...
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    Honiara (category Guadalcanal)
    largest city of Solomon Islands, situated on the northwestern coast of Guadalcanal. As of 2021[update], it had a population of 92,344 people. The city is...
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  • twentieth-century events; for example, the hero describes himself as a Guadalcanal veteran. Expatriate American actor Eddie Constantine plays Lemmy Caution...
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    Clostermann, Une vie pas comme les autres, éd. Flammarion, 2005. www.france-libre.net, Le site de la France-Libre, "Les origines des FNFL, par l'amiral...
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  • The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in...
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    Division to victory in its first ground offensive of the war, the Battle of Guadalcanal. For his actions from August 7 to December 9, 1942, during the Solomon...
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    several islands, including Tulagi and Guadalcanal, before they were halted by further events leading to the Guadalcanal Campaign. This campaign also converged...
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    les hommes lieux (livre 2) » dans Les fondements d'une identité : territoire, histoire et société dans l'archipel de Vanuatu (Mélanésie) : essai de géographie...
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