Starving to death are Japanese soldiers, because the United States control of air power, the Japanese army can only be transported by sea supplies, but by this way of transporting supplies so that a large number of supplies fell into the hands of the U.S. army, only a small part of the supplies are really to the hands of the Japanese army. The Battle of Guadalcanal was a very important battle in the Pacific War, and it marked the beginning of the Allied counteroffensive in the Pacific War.
In the early part of the war, because of the Japanese loss in the Midway War, it directly led to their loss of air and sea control in the Pacific. Japan was eager to expand outward, intending to take down Australia as a base and then launch an attack on the Americas, so they built airfields on Guadao, trying to use it as a springboard for their attack. The U.S. Army won the Battle of Midway, but it could not afford to be complacent, and in order to prevent a Japanese counterattack, they tried to capture the Solomon Islands, of which Gua Island is the second largest.
And on July 4, 1942, U.S. reconnaissance planes spotted the Japanese building an airfield on Gua Island, so the U.S. focused its attack on Gua Island.On August 7, 1942, without the knowledge or preparation of the Japanese, U.S. troops landed. Because most of the Japanese troops remaining on the island were artisans, this attack on the island went extremely well for the U.S. Army. Unwilling to take this blow, the Japanese sent Mikawa to lead a fleet of ships to attack, and with a single blow, the Japanese mistakenly thought that the U.S. forces were weak, and a misjudgment arose.
On August 16, 1942, the Japanese sent 1,000 men to the island, but they were heavily attacked by U.S. artillery. So the Japanese sent another 6,000 men lightly armed, forgoing carrying heavy weapons and food. The Japanese battled the Americans fiercely, but because the Japanese lacked food supplies, they had to call their headquarters for help. But since this was the first time that the U.S. Army had gained control of the air, the Japanese Army was unable to use airdrops to deliver supplies to the Japanese troops on the island. Instead, the supplies were delivered by sea and were usually salvaged or sunk by the U.S. forces, and very few of them actually reached the Japanese troops. The lack of food caused the Japanese army to have a nervous breakdown, and launched many suicide attacks on the U.S. Army, during which countless Japanese soldiers starved to death, and food became less and less available, and the rest of the Japanese army that did not starve to death committed suicide in large numbers.