Ira Wolfert was sent to Guadalcanal by the North American Newspaper Alliance early in October, 1942. He traveled to Honolulu by troop transport, and by plane down the amazing seaway and skyway the navy has thrown southwest across the pacific, reaching Guadalcanal just as the Japanese task force had battered its way through, and the Americans were slugging it out of them, toe-to-toe. The mounting tempo of battle reached its peak during mid-November in the great naval victory which Wolfert watched from a front seat on the shore. Meanwhile, he had visited the front lines to taste the Hell's brew of jungle fighting, and had been in a flying fortress which fought one of the most exciting forty-five minute duels on record with a Japanese flying boat – “A git or git got” battle fought in the midst of a tropical storm and ending with three Americans wounded and all the Japanese dead. Battle for the Solomons' is an eyewitness account of fighting in three dimensions air, land, and sea that has come to date from the Second World War. -- Adapted from the book jacket.

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Nice shooting weather -- Sky road and sea Road -- The loss of the wasp -- Slugging it out -- Round three -- 'Git or git got' -- Battle in three dimensions -- The Tokyo express -- jungle battle -- The fifth battle of the Solomons -- The sinking of the president Coolidge -- Americans can fight.