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Dead soldiers from the Japanese 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment lie piled in a ravine on Guadalcanal after being killed by mortar and small arms fire from United States Marine Corps troops of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines under Chesty Puller on October 9, 1942.

Source: Hammel, Eric, Guadalcanal, 2007, p. 106. Book states that image is "Official USMC photo."

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