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Kiyonao Ichiki
The Brutal Night Attack That Shattered Japan’s Myth of American Weakness in the Pacific
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Japan Expected the Marines to Break Before dawn on August 21, 1942, Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki’s first detachment attacked the U.S. Marine perimeter on Guadalcanal near Alligator Creek, also remembered as the Battle of the Tenaru. He advanced with roughly 900 men and believed a determined Japanese night assault could break the Americans. Instead, the attack […]
