interview for Vet’s day--The Cactus Air Force on Guadalcanal

Renowned best-selling historian and author Tom Cleaver explores the incredible sacrifice of the US Marine and Navy fliers who flew forth every day in planes that were patched-up from Henderson Field. It was strafed and bombed practically every day for three months by the Japanese Imperial Navy fliers in the desperate battle for the Solomon Island chain in the South Pacific. For the Allies to lose would mean a Japanese invasion of Australia and New Zealand; an Allied victory would stop the forward-movement of the Japanese Imperial military. That's just what it did.