Примеры использования Lunga point на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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To protect the airfield, the US Marines established a perimeter defense around Lunga Point.
The U.S. Marines at Lunga Point received intelligence that a Japanese landing had occurred and took steps to find out exactly what was happening.
Thus, that same day the 5th Marines andthe Whaling group were recalled to Lunga Point.
Thus, after observation of the American defenses around Lunga Point by his staff officers, Hyakutake decided that the main thrust of his planned attack would be from south of Henderson Field.
To protect the airfield, the U.S. Marines established a perimeter defense around Lunga Point.
Advancing towards Lunga Point, they encountered no resistance except for"tangled" rain forest, and they halted for the night about 1,000 yards(910 m) from the Lunga Point airfield.
Vandegrift placed his 11,000 troops on Guadalcanal in a loose perimeter around the Lunga Point area.
The 11,000 Marines on Guadalcanal initially concentrated on forming a loose defensive perimeter around Lunga Point and the airfield, moving the landed supplies within the perimeter and finishing the airfield.
Thus, he ordered most of the Marine units currently engaged west of the Matanikau to return to Lunga Point.
The 2nd Battalion,7th Marine Regiment(2/7)-commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Herman H. Hanneken-marched east from Lunga Point at 06:50 on 2 November and reached Koli Point after dark the same day.
At 09:10 on 7 August, General Vandegrift and 11,000 U.S. Marines came ashore on Guadalcanal between Koli Point and Lunga Point.
The ones who 1942,the US 1st Marine Division stormed the shore at Guadalcanal… seizing a nearly complete airfield at Lunga Point… which was renamed Henderson Field… and an anchorage at nearby Tulagi… that would later be known as Iron Bottom Sound… because of the number of ships sunk there in battle.
By 7 September, most of Kawaguchi's troops had started marching from Taivu towards Lunga Point along the coastline.
The Japanese destroyers then sighted and sank the U.S. tugboat Seminole andpatrol boat YP-284 before beginning their bombardment of the U.S. positions around Lunga Point.
Reinforcements over the next two months increased the number of US troops at Lunga Point on Guadalcanal to more than 20,000.
The Japanese units east of the river were to assist in preparing positions from which heavy artillery could fire into the U.S. Marines' perimeter around Lunga Point.
He radioed 17th Army and requested that it carry out air strikes on Henderson Field beginning on 9 September, andthat naval warships be stationed off Lunga Point on September 12 to"destroy any Americans who attempted to flee from the island.
At 05:30 on 4 November, two companies from the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion-commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson, landed by boat at Aola Bay, 40 mi(64 km)east of Lunga Point.
Japanese forces used the area to regroup from attacks against U.S. forces on the island, to launch further attacks on the U.S. defenses that guarded the Alliedairfield( called Henderson Field) located at Lunga Point on Guadalcanal, as a base to defend against Allied attacks directed at Japanese troop and supply encampments between Point Cruz and Cape Esperance on western Guadalcanal, and as a location for watching and reporting on Allied activity around Henderson Field.
Kawaguchi set the date for his attack on the Lunga perimeter for 12 September andbegan marching his forces west from Taivu towards Lunga Point on 5 September.
Additional reinforcements over the next two months increased the number of U.S. troops at Lunga Point to more than 20,000 men.
Meanwhile, on 4 November, two companies from the2nd Marine Raider Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson landed by boat at Aola Bay, 40 miles(64 km) east of Lunga Point.
Concern grew when in early July 1942 the Japanese Navy began constructing a significant airfield near Lunga Point on nearby Guadalcanal island.
Papers discovered on the bodies of some of the Japanese officers in the patrol revealed that they belonged to a much larger unit andshowed detailed intelligence of U.S. Marine positions around Lunga Point.
The Japanese defenders, believing a major landing was underway after observing the concurrent approach of an Allied supply ship convoy heading towards Lunga Point, retreated into the jungle, leaving behind 27 dead.
Throughout the campaign, the Japanese used Mount Austen(called Bear Height by the Japanese and Mount Mambulu by the local Solomon Islanders), located west of the Lunga River and about 6 mi(9.7 km) from Henderson Field,to observe the American defenses around Lunga Point.
By nightfall on 8 August, the 11,000 Allied troops secured Tulagi,the nearby small islands, and a Japanese airfield under construction at Lunga Point on Guadalcanal later renamed Henderson Field.
Reports to Allied forces from patrols of Solomon Islanders, including retired Sergeant Major Jacob C. Vouza of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Constabulary, under the direction of Martin Clemens, a coastwatcher and officer in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force(BSIPDF), along with Allied intelligence from other sources,indicated that Japanese troops were present east of Lunga Point.
Aware of the Japanese efforts on Tulagi,the Allies' concern increased in early July 1942 when the Japanese Navy began constructing a large airfield near Lunga Point on nearby Guadalcanal.
Fletcher arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia on 5 October 1942 from the east coast, and at once began escort and patrol duty in the Guadalcanal operation,bombarding Lunga Point on 30 October.