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In Honiara, the chief town in Guadalcanal, and the capital of the Solomons, the situation is dangerously different.
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After Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in Hawaii in December 1941, ferocious fighting on Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) and Bougainville (PNG) brought Americans in large numbers to the islands.
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It has been trying to bring peace to the Solomon Islands, another former British territory, where ethnic groups from the islands of Malaita and Guadalcanal are in dispute, mainly over land.
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But the Japanese pulled out of the Taiyo fish cannery at Noro, timber exports were hit by the Asian slump, Ross Mining closed its Gold Ridge mine and Guadalcanal's palm-oil plantations have been abandoned.
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The hard lessons learned in places like Tarawa and Guadalcanal served the U.S. well when Marines turned the tide of war in Korea years later by mounting a daring amphibious landing at Inchon, behind enemy lines.
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Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam.
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Rural Guadalcanal has similar ambitions.
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