Crescent City KuKum Beach, Guadalcanal 1942
Army and Marines on KuKum Beach, Guadalcanal, circa 1942. This scene of apparent confusion was the beginning of an era of close cooperation between the Army and Marine Corps to finish the “housecleaning” job on Guadalcanal. “Again off KuKum. Transport number forty. Which I believe is the Crescent City or the Jackson maybe.” From the Thayer Soule Collection (COLL/2266) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division.