Military Officer - April 2009 - (Page 51) mini fact: The 1st Marine Division counted 8,580 cases of malaria on Guadalcanal. (top) Tired and dirty Marines bathe in the crocodile-infested Matanikau River, guarded by a fellow Marine manning a .30-caliber medium machine gun. (above) The bridge no longer exists and the landscape has become overgrown, but the river still resembles the way it looked in 1942. 23 !1)- % )5)2). - 6 !2. - )32. 6 - 4- 3)+ !)1#1!&3&1. , !1)- % )1#1!&3 1. 4/ !11)5%$ 4' 6 . $!72+ !3%1 3( % 1, 7: 3( )'( 3%1 04!$1. - !11)5%$ 2 6 )3( 2 ! ; - % '1. 4- $ 24//. 13 !)1#1!&33( % !1)- %204)#*+ /433. 42% 7 - 4' 3( % !57: 2!5)!3). - !1, ; 123 6 !21%/1%2%- 3%$ 6 ( %- $)5% ". , "%12 &1. , 3( % USS Enterprise !11)5%$ 1. , 3( %- . - 3( %1% 6 !2!- )11%'4+ !1 < . 6 . &!+ 37/%2. &/+ %2 #. + %#3)5%+ + !+ 7 *- . 6 - !23( % 8 !#342 )1 . 1#% 9 ( %7 $%&%- $%$ 3( % !)1; %+ !- $ !33!#*%$ !/! $ - %2% 2( )/2"1)- ')- ' 1%)- &. 1#%, %- 32 After its initial landing, 3( % PHOTOS: ABOVE, MAJ. DALE ROBINSON, USMC-RET.; TOP, U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES JANUARY 2007 51
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