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Japanese Troops Were Terrified By America's Jungle Warfare At Guadalcanal Explore how ⚔️ the Guadalcanal Campaign of 1942–1943 shattered Japan’s illusion of invincibility and exposed the terrifying power of American jungle warfare. On the humid, disease-ridden battlefields of the Solomon Islands, elite Japanese troops—victorious across Asia—faced an enemy unlike any they had known. At the Battle of the Tenaru, 800 Japanese soldiers were wiped out in one night by relentless Marine firepower, and