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THEY WILL LIVE A LONG TIME THESE MEN OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. THEY HAD AN AMERICAN QUALITY. THEY, LIKE THEIR VICTORIES, WILL BE REMEMBERED AS LONG AS OUR GENERATION LIVES. AFTER THAT, LIKE THE MEN OF THE CONFEDERACY, WILL BECOME STRANGERS. LONGER AND LONGER SHADOWS WILL OBSCURE THEM, UNTIL THEIR GUADALCANAL SOUNDS DISTANT ON THE EAR LIKE SHILOH AND VALLEY FORGE. (JAMES MICHENER)
Gill was born in Mark Illinois. After the war Gunny Serafini moved to Detroit. He and his brother Chesko opened a grocery store on 7 mile road in Detroit. After some years he then moved back to Mark Illinois where he retired from J&L Steel Corp. He enjoyed many years of retirement with his wife Dorothy and all of his children who lived close to him. "Juzzy" passed away in 2003.
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Gunny Serafini fought at Guadalcanal in WWII with the 1st Marine Division attached to the 24th Air Wing. He fought many battles during Guadalcanal including Edson's Bloody Ridge, Tulagi, Matanikau, Tenaru.
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Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-43)/Battle for Henderson Field
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The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson Field or Battle of Lunga Point by the Japanese, took place from 23–26 October 1942 on and around Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. The battle was a land, sea, and air battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II and was fought between the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy and Allied (mainly United States (U.S.) Marine and U.S. Army) forces. The battle was the third of the three major land offensives conducted by the Japanese during the Guadalcanal campaign.
In the battle, U.S. Marine and Army forces, under the overall command of Major General Alexander Vandegrift, repulsed an attack by the Japanese 17th Army, under the command of Japanese Lieutenant General Harukichi Hyakutake. The U.S. forces were defending the Lunga perimeter, which guarded Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, that had been captured from the Japanese by the Allies in landings on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942. Hyakutake's force was sent to Guadalcanal in response to the Allied landings with the mission of recapturing the airfield and driving the Allied forces off of the island.
Hyakutake's soldiers conducted numerous assaults over three days at various locations around the Lunga perimeter, all repulsed with heavy Japanese losses. At the same time, Allied aircraft operating from Henderson Field successfully defended U.S. positions on Guadalcanal from attacks by Japanese naval air and sea forces.
The battle was the last serious ground offensive conducted by Japanese forces on Guadalcanal. After an attempt to deliver further reinforcements failed during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942, Japan conceded defeat in the struggle for the island and evacuated many of its remaining forces by the first week of February 1943.
