Crossword-Solution: GUADALCANAL
We have 18 clues for the answer “GUADALCANAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Island, scene of American offensive. | 1 answer |
| the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces | 1 answer |
| Where Lunga Bay is. | 1 answer |
| U.S. conquest of 1943 | 1 answer |
| Stepping-stone to Tokyo. | 1 answer |
| Stepping stone to Tokyo. | 1 answer |
| Site of W.W. II's first amphibious landing | 1 answer |
| Locale of Henderson Field. | 1 answer |
| La Cruz is its chief town. | 1 answer |
| Aug. 12, 1942. | 1 answer |
| 1942-43 battle site | 1 answer |
| "___Diary" (1943 movie) | 1 answer |
| Solomon Group Islands | 4 answers |
| Islands Solomon Group | 4 answers |
| Historic island | 7 answers |
| A BATTLE IN WORLD WAR II IN THE PACIFIC | 11 answers |
| A MOUNTAINOUS ISLAND | 11 answers |
| SOLOMON Islands, island of the | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
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Sentences with GUADALCANAL (5)
What did these jungle savages of the dark heart of Guadalcanal know of helmets? Had Mendana’s men-at-arms worn helmets and penetrated here centuries before? And if not, then whence had the bush-folk caught the motive? Advancing over the litter of gods and bones, Balatta whimpering at his heels, Bassett entered the shadow of the Red One and passed on under its gigantic overhang until he touched it with his finger-tips.
Ever he struggled to combat the fever, to live, to continue to live, to grow strong and stronger against the day when he would be strong enough to dare the grass-lands and the belted jungle beyond, and win to the beach, and to some labour-recruiting, black-birding ketch or schooner, and on to civilization and the men of civilization, to whom he could give news of the message from other worlds that lay, darkly worshipped by beastmen, in the black heart of Guadalcanal’s midmost centre.
Then would he lead an expedition back, and, although the entire population of Guadalcanal he destroyed, extract from the heart of the Red One the message of the world from other worlds.
Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam.
And if you'd gone ashore on Malaita instead of Guadalcanal you'd have been _kai-kai'd_ long ago, along with your noble Tahitian sailors." Joan shuddered.
Quotes with GUADALCANAL (3)
Take your time. Stay away from the easy going. Never take the same way twice. Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance Guadalcanal 1942
Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come back to in the intervals between a greater love - the only real love - the lust for riches buried in the earth, that are your own if you can find them. Perhaps you do not call it home, even to yourself. Perhaps you call them 'my house,' 'my woman,' What if there was another 'my ho…
The South Pacific is not a paradise, in the sense that Eden wasn't either. There are always apples and snakes. But it is a wonderful place to live. The green vales of Tahiti, the hills of Guadalcanal, the towering peaks about Wau, and the noonday brilliance of Rabaul have enchanted many white travelers who have stayed on for many years and built happy lives. Often on a cool night when the beer was plentiful and the stories alluring, we have envied the men and women of the South Pacific
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1942–2017).