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The Maine landings on Guadalcanal were the first American offensive operations of the war. By establishing the airbase at Henderson Field, it provided a foothold in the Solomon Island chain that provided the basis for the Island Hopping campaigns mapped out by the Plan Orange strategy to retake the Pacific.

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