韓德生基地戰役

韓德生基地戰役（英語：Battle for Henderson Field，又譯為韓德生機場戰役），日本方面稱為隆加岬戰役（Battle of Lunga Point），於二次世界大戰期間發生在瓜達爾卡納爾島的一場戰役，是瓜達爾卡納爾島戰役的一部份。1942年10月23日至26日間，在太平洋戰場的大日本帝國陸軍與海軍，對抗以美國海軍陸戰隊、美國陸軍為主體的同盟國軍隊，在此地進行一場陸、海、空的全面戰鬥，日軍最終遭擊敗。

韓德生基地戰役
第二次世界大戰的太平洋戰場的一部分
日軍於10月25-26日突襲失敗後，16步兵團及29步兵團戰死的士兵在戰場上遺留零亂不堪的局面。
日期 1942年10月23日-26日 地點 9°26′51″S 160°2′56″E 索羅門群島的瓜達康納爾島 結果 美軍決定性勝利
參戰方
美國	大日本帝國
指揮官與領導者
亞歷山大·范德格里夫特	百武晴吉
兵力
23,088人[1]	20,000人[2]
傷亡與損失
61–86人戰死 1艘拖船沉沒 1艘巡邏艇沉沒 3架飛機損毀[3][4]	2,200–3,000人戰死 1艘巡洋艦沉沒 14架飛機損毀[5]

在瓜達爾卡維爾島戰役初期，美國海軍陸戰隊成功登陸瓜達爾卡維爾島，控制島上的機場，建立了韓德生基地（Henderson Field，位於今天的霍尼亞拉國際機場）。但是日軍利用海軍艦炮為掩護（英語：Naval gunfire support），企圖重新奪回此地，因此爆發這場戰役。

註腳

1. Miller, Guadalcanal: The First Offensive, p. 143 and Frank, Guadalcanal, p. 338. Number reflects total Allied forces on Guadalcanal, not necessarily the number directly involved in the battle. 4,500 more American troops defended Tulagi.
2. Hough, Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, p. 323, Miller, Guadalcanal: The First Offensive, p. 139. 5,000 were present on the island after the Battle of Edson's Ridge and 15,000 more were delivered between that time and October 17.
3. ^ 引用錯誤：沒有為名為Hough Pearl 337的參考文獻提供內容
4. Frank, Guadalcanal, pp. 364–65. About 200 U.S. troops were wounded. Casualty figures from various official U.S. military records differ somewhat from each other.
5. Frank, Guadalcanal, p. 365. U.S. 1st Marine Division official history estimates 2,200 Japanese were killed but Frank states that that number, "is probably below the actual total." Rottman, Japanese Army, p. 63, says 3,000 Japanese were killed.

參考

書面資料

• Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Naval Institute Press. 1978. ISBN 0-87021-097-1.
• Frank, Richard. Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle. New York: Random House. 1990. ISBN 0-394-58875-4.
• Gilbert, Oscar E. Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific. Da Capo. 2001. ISBN 1-58097-050-8.
• Griffith, Samuel B. The Battle for Guadalcanal. Champaign, Illinois, USA: University of Illinois Press. 1963. ISBN 0-252-06891-2.
• Jersey, Stanley Coleman. Hell's Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. 2008. ISBN 1-58544-616-5.
• Lundstrom, John B. First Team And the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 New. Naval Institute Press. 2005. ISBN 1-59114-472-8.
• Miller, Thomas G. Cactus Air Force. Admiral Nimitz Foundation. 1969. ISBN 0-934841-17-9.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 – February 1943, vol. 5 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1958. ISBN 0-316-58305-7.
• Rottman, Gordon L. US Marine Corps Pacific Theatre of Operations 1941–43. Dr. Duncan Anderson (consultant editor). Oxford: Osprey. 2004. ISBN 1-84176-518-X.
• Rottman, Gordon L. Japanese Army in World War II: The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942–43. Dr. Duncan Anderson (consultant editor). Oxford and New York: Osprey. 2005. ISBN 1-84176-870-7.
• Smith, Michael T. Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal. New York: Pocket. 2000. ISBN 0-7434-6321-8.

網路

• Anderson, Charles R. Guadalcanal. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. United States Army Center of Military History. 1993 [2006-07-09]. CMH Pub 72-8. （原始內容存檔於2007-12-20）.
• Cagney, James. The Battle for Guadalcanal. HistoryAnimated.com. 2005 [2006-05-17]. （原始內容 (javascript)存檔於2012-05-26）. – Interactive animation of the battle
• Chen, C. Peter. Guadalcanal Campaign. World War II Database. 2004–2006 [2006-05-17]. （原始內容存檔於2012-05-26）.
• Flahavin, Peter. Guadalcanal Battle Sites, 1942–2004. 2004 [2006-08-02]. （原始內容存檔於2012-05-26）. – Web site with many pictures of Guadalcanal battle sites from 1942 and how they look now.
• Hackett, Bob; Sander Kingsepp. HIJMS Yura: Tabular Record of Movement. Imperial Japanese Navy Page (CombinedFleet.com). [2006-06-14]. （原始內容存檔於2006-05-14）.
• Hough, Frank O.; Ludwig, Verle E.; Shaw, Henry I., Jr. Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. [2006-05-16]. （原始內容存檔於2006-06-27）.
• Miller, John Jr. Guadalcanal: The First Offensive. United States Army in World War II. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History. 1949 [2006-07-04]. CMH Pub 5-3. （原始內容存檔於2007-12-25）.
• Shaw, Henry I. First Offensive: The Marine Campaign For Guadalcanal. Marines in World War II Commemorative Series. 1992 [2006-07-25]. （原始內容存檔於2006-06-14）.
• Zimmerman, John L. The Guadalcanal Campaign. Marines in World War II Historical Monograph. 1949 [2006-07-04]. （原始內容存檔於2006-06-19）.