Fifty-Three Days on Starvation IslandOn August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines between the USA and Australia. The night after the Marines