US WW2 Intelligence Booklet; “Fighting on Guadalcanal”. Printed for the United States War Office by the “United States Government Printing Office, Washington: 1943”. 4 ½” w. x 6 7/8” tall. 69 pages in print with several blank pages at the end. Slightly stiffer blue cover. Marked “RESTRICTED” on cover and title page. This booklet is a collection of comments by United States Marine Corp and Army Personnel, who fought on Guadalcanal. The quoted comments are identified to the Soldier or Marine who said them. This Booklet has been wet in it’s life and has a wrinkled condition. The single staple at the edge of the spine has rusted and a stain has spread onto the paper close to it. Several of the front-most pages have pulled free of the staple. The lower edge of the back blue cover has worn and is missing a small area (approximately ¾” x ½”). All of the printed content is in excellent condition and very readable. The stories range from asking for extra canteens of water in areas where water is scarce, to American Indian “Talkers” and the USMC use of heavy machine guns. These identify just a few of the stories in this booklet. This is a great, current (current in 1943!) discussion of the first major confrontation of U.S. Marines and later Army soldiers who took over a small island, Guadelcanel, in the southern Saloman Islands, and made it a pivotable battleground against the Japanese Army, Airforce and Navy. Japanese fighters and the jungle fighting of the US Army and the United States Marine Corps. U.S. Military Intelligence booklets are rare. “Fighting on Guadalcanal” is a great subject in this scarce booklet. This intelligence booklet was commissioned by General Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, who sent Chief of Staff, General Marshall sent Lt. Colonel Russel P. Reeder, Jr and three other intelligence officers to the island, to interview Marines and soldiers who fought the Japanese, and gain insight on jungle warfare. “Fighting on Guadelcanal” is referenced in the book; “Midnight in the Pacific, Guadalcanal, The World War II Battle that Turned the Tide of War”, by Joseph Wheelan, chapter six, page 263. An original copy of a scarce WW2 Intelligence Booklet. Price: $65.00 (ref. TB A-332)