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Guadalcanal Campaign

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/Feburary 7, 2018 by Ealdgyth - Talk 15:58, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

 The Guadalcanal Campaign of the Second World War was a series of battles in which the Allies stopped and reversed the offensives of Imperial Japan in the southwest Pacific. US forces had inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, but Japan remained on the offensive, including a drive down the Solomon Islands from Rabaul, which Japan had seized in the first two months of the war. The Allies decided to oppose this drive, which threatened supply lines between the United States and Australia and New Zealand. On 7 August 1942, U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands. The Allies overwhelmed the surprised Japanese defenders, who had occupied the islands since May 1942, and captured an airfield (later named Henderson Field) being built by the Japanese. Continuous battles on land, at sea, and in the air culminated in the decisive Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in early November, in which the last Japanese attempts to take Henderson Field were defeated. In December, the Japanese abandoned their campaign, and evacuated their remaining forces on 7 February 1943. This victory at Guadalcanal, together with victories in New Guinea, marked the Allied transition from defensive operations to the strategic initiative, and was followed by a series of offensives leading to the surrender of Japan.
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 * Promoted: 2008
 * Reasons for nomination: 75th anniversary of the end of the World War II battle for Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific. That battle, together with Australian victories in New Guinea, enabled the Allies to shift from the defense to offensive operations against Japan in the Pacific War
 * Support as nominator. Kablammo (talk) 16:44, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support A very thorough article. Freikorp (talk) 10:26, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * While the battle was declared to be over on 9 February, the last Japanese troops actually evacuated on the late evening of the 7th. Accordingly I am willing to vacate the 9th for Cragside posted above (which also has a date correlation to the 9th), and move this to 7 February. If there is no objection I will do that, but will not able to accomplish that until later today. (If anyone wants to make the switch, please feel free to do so.) Kablammo (talk) 14:47, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Now moved to here; blurb edited to show date of withdrawal. Kablammo (talk) 18:02, 10 January 2018 (UTC)