August 1942: American marines coming ashore from landing craft at Guadalcanal. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

United States Marines advance along a Guadalcanal jungle road toward Tassafaronga during World War II, Solomon Islands, 1943. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sick and starving Japanese soldiers being taken down to the beach by American troops after the capture of an enemy stronghold on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

circa 1944: American Marines exhibit a Japanese flag captured on Guadalcanal. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

19th March 1943: Once a proud liner of the Japanese mercantile Marine, the 'Kinugawa Maru' lies beached at Guadalcanal - a costly monument to the Japanese failure to hold that strategic island. The Kinugawa was part of the invasion fleet destroyed by US warships in the Solomon Islands. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

28th October 1942: American marines manning a Japanese field gun emplacement which they have captured on Guadalcanal. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

November 1942: US soldiers in a Jeep crossing a makeshift bridge in the jungle on Guadalcanal with amphibian tractors as its base. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

7th October 1942: A Navy pharmacist's mate dressing the wounds of an injured survivor from USS 'Calhoun', sunk during an early assault on Guadalcanal, the Solomon Islands. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

5th October 1942: Japanese workmen captured by the Americans on Guadalcanal. They were brought over from Japan to set up installations on the island. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

circa 1944: American marines prepare to seek out the enemy in the jungle region of Guadalcanal. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

April 1943: Shattered Japanese barges and tank lighters on the river bottom after attack by American forces at Guadalcanal. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

2nd August 1943: A US jeep making its way through tall grass and being guided by a soldier to help avoid hidden ditches on Guadalcanal. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

circa 1943: Members of the New Zealand army unload equipment from their landing craft at Guadalcanal. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)