Which was one of the first islands taken in the island-hopping campaign?

Guadalcanal was one of the first islands targeted in the U.S. island-hopping campaign in the Pacific. The battle began in August 1942, before the later campaigns to take Guam and Saipan. Midway was a major naval battle, but it was not an island captured as part of that early campaign.

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