Eighty Years Ago: Asia Pacific, Sep 3 – 9, 1942

Sep 3, 1942: Brigadier General Roy Geiger assumes command of Cactus Air Force on Guadalcanal

Sep 4, 1942: Australian troops push east along Milne Bay

Sep 5, 1942: Prisoners at Japanese-run Changi camp, Singapore, sign pledge not to try to escape (see photo)

Sep 6, 1942: Royal Australian Air Force dispatches Beaufort planes to Milne Bay, New Guinea

Sep 7, 1942: US forces take control of Galapagos Islands, Pacific Ocean

Sep 8, 1942: US Marines attack Japanese positions at Taivu Point, Guadalcanal

Sep 9, 1942: Japanese Type 96 seaplane, launched from submarine, drops incendiary bomb over Oregon, the only time during the war that the continental United States is attacked by enemy aircraft

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