Related: Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Doctrine for amphibious operations.

General

• UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY
  Campaigns of the Pacific War
  Chapter 7: The Solomons Campaign

• The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, by Vice Admiral George C. Dyer, USN (Ret.)
  Chapters 7-12

• US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II--WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  Strategy and Command: The First Two Years, Part III: Seizing the Initiative

"...in the air,...": The Cactus Air Force

• USMC 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY
  Time of the Aces: Marine Pilots in the Solomons, 1942-1944

• THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. 4 -- The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944
• WINGS AT WAR
  Pacific Counterblow, the 11th Bombardment Group and the 67th Fighter Squadron in the Battle for Guadalcanal
• Guadalcanal and the Origins of the Thirteenth Air Force

"...on land,...": Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Gavutu-Tasambogo

• HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
  
  Part Six--The Turning Point: Guadalcanal
• USMC HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH
  The Guadalcanal Campaign
• MARINES IN WORLD WAR II COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY
  First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal

• UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II--WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
• THE UNITED STATES ARMY CAMPAIGNS OF WORLD WAR II
  Guadalcanal
• History of Task Force 6814 (Americal Division)

"...at sea,...": A Slugfest in the Solomons

• Building the Navy's Bases in World War II: Chapter 25-- Campaign in the Solomons
• HISTORY OF U.S. NAVAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II, by Samuel Eliot Morison
  Vol. V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942--February 1943

• The Amphibians Came to Conquer, Chapter VII-XII

• OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE COMBAT NARRATIVES
  • The Landing in the Solomons, 7--8 August 1942
  • The Battle of Savo Island, 9 August 1942
  • The Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 23--25 August 1942
  • Battle of Cape Esperance, 11 October 1942
  • Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
  • Battle of Guadalcanal, 11--15 November 1942
  • Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942
  • Japanese Evacuation of Guadalcanal, 29 January--8 February 1943 (including loss of the Chicago

• The Battle of Savo Island, August 9th 1942. Strategical and Tactical Analysis, by Richard W. Bates, Naval War College [pdf: 22MB]
• Disaster at Savo Island, 1942 by Lt. Col. David E. Quantock, USA (Army War College: 2002)

• USS Benham (DD-397) Action Report: Battle of the Eastern Colomons, 24Oct42
• USS Benham (DD-397) Action Report: Bombardment of Guadalcanal, 30Oct42

• The War at Sea 1939-1945, Vol. II, The Period of Balance [HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES]
  Chapter IX. The Pacific and Indian Oceans, 1st August-31st December, 1942

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  Additional Resources

  World War II DVDs from The History Channel Guadacanal Diary of J. R. Garrett "Guadalcanal: A Reevaluation", Wayne P. Hughes, Jr. [Naval War College Review, Spring 2000:208-14] Third Battle of Savo, November 14-15, 1942. Excerpt from: Operational Experience of Fast Battleships: World War II, Korea, Vietnam. Second Edition, compiled and edited by John C. Reilly, Jr., Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington: 1989, pp 61-67. "Captain recalls 1942 Savo Island defeat [Naval History, August 2002] Douglas Munro, the Coast Guard and the Guadalcanal Campaign Pharmacist's Mate First Class Louis Ortega describes his experiences serving with the Marines at Guadalcanal. [NHC: oral history] The Guadalcanal Campaign

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