On the Canal: The Marines of L-3-5 on Guadalcanal, 1942

Real Battles. Real Soldiers. Real Stories.

Eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor, U.S. Marines landed on the Pacific Island of Guadalcanal. Their mission: to seize the airfield the enemy was building and stem the southward tide of the Imperial Japanese Army. Initially unopposed and ultimatrly triumphant, for four months these young soldiers engaged in a ferocious combat and endured debilitating heat, hunger, and disease. Sometimes with humor, always with brutal honesty, U.S. Marine Ore Marion takes readers into the jungle hell that was the Canal.

Author: Ore J. Marion
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Stackpole Books Gpq
Published: 09/01/2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781493096855
Reissue Edition