7 Aug 2017

Solomon Islands commemorates 75 years since Guadalcanal WWII

From Morning Report, 8:55 am on 7 August 2017

Services will be held today in Honiara to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle for Guadalcanal, which began on August 7, 1942. Nearly 38,000 soldiers - most of them Japanese - died during the campaign. RNZ Pacific’s Jamie Tahana reports.