📝 🔒Field Note: Guadalcanal – First Battle of the Matanikau, 18-19 August 1942
Matanikau Village site, August 2026. I am exploring the site of the First Battle of the Matanikau, 18-19 August 1942. The battle was the first major battle west of the Matanikau and bears many similarities with the other five or six battles (depending on how you count them) on the Matanikau that would follow, each progressively larger and more costly than the previous battles.