page_title: Battle of Guadalcanal order of battle
section_title: Japanese
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Guadalcanal order of battle / Japanese
caption_attribution_description: English: General Kiyotake Kawaguchi (1892-1961)
context_page_description: The Guadalcanal Campaign was fought from the initial American landings on 7 August 1942 until the final Japanese evacuation on 9 February 1943. It was the first major Allied offensive in the Pacific Theater of Operations.
context_section_description: On 10 August 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army's Seventeenth Army under Lieutenant General Harukichi Hyakutake assumed command of the Japanese efforts to retake Guadalcanal. The General arrived on the island to take direct command on 10 October.
caption: Maj. Gen. Kiyotake Kawaguchi was relieved of command and expelled from the island 23 October just as the Battle of Henderson Field was beginning
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