MalibuJerry
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Lots of ordinance undersea and in the jungle. I found live 45 rounds just walking around Tulagi and Guadalcanal and underwater everything imaginable. The battlefield is pretty crazy. Walk as much of it as you can.
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Better book was Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer, about the epic Guadalcanal Naval Battles (for every Marine or Soldier who died in battle, three Sailors were killed-in-action at sea). Robert Ballard's Ghost Ships of Guadalcanal is good read too. Best movie of the WWII battlefield is Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, with a fantastic musical score by Hans Zimmer and soundtrack featuring several Melanesian Choir chants & hymns (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j924qaMb0d8)I just read a great book titled Guadalcanal by Richard Frank...that region became the focus of the War in the Pacific and had epic battles on land and sea. Coast watchers, Banzai charges, battleships, US Marines....Cactus Airforce...PT boats.....The history is incredible.
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I'll be on the Solomon Star later this year. If you can wait that long I'll post a bit of a trip report.Does anybody have an opinion on the Solomon Star? It's supposed to be a new live-a-board. I have seen some advertising with attractive prices.
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Will do some onland WWII sight-seeing while offgassing in Honiara until our 3pm flight to Uepi.
Supposedly there is still ordnance on the seabed that you can see on dives. My son is going to go nuts!