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| Battle for Henderson Field | |||||||
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| Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II | |||||||
 Dead soldiers from the Japanese 16th and 29th Infantry Regiments and American 7th Marines cover the battlefield after the failed assaults on 25–26 October. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| United States | Japan | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Alexander Vandegrift William Rupertus | Harukichi Hyakutake | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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1st Marine Division 164th Infantry Regiment 821st Engineering Aviation Battalion | 17th Army | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 23,088 | 20,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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61–86 killed, 1 tugboat, 1 patrol boat sunk, 3 aircraft destroyed |
2,200–3,000 killed, 1 cruiser sunk, 14 aircraft destroyed | ||||||
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- Guadalcanal Campaign
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- 1942 in the Solomon Islands
- Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
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