2022年8月26日 · "Coffin Corner" was an American nickname for an area southwest of of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal. Located nearby was Crash Strip (The Grassy Strip) near Henderson Field. During October 1942, this location was part of U.S. perimeter line guarded by U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) General Puller known as "Puller's Line".

The fighting for Coffin Corner took place in October 1942. Do you have more information about this location? Inform us! Source. Text: Kaj Metz; Photos: US Department of Defense; Pacific Wrecks

Map of Coffin Corner on Guadalcanal Annotations include 1st B, 3rd B confined U.S. barbed wire, WN - 7th 37mm gun June 3-5 and a large arrow indicating Jap attack. Credit: USMC via Peter Flahavin Date: 1942

This episode is on the Battle of Coffin Corner. The scene of the main Japanese attack in the October offensive. An area not often visited by most when they v...

Basilone landed on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on Sept. 17, 1942, and within weeks was in the middle of one of the campaign’s fiercest battles. His unit, led by COL Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, was spread thinly along one side of Henderson Field at …

The Battle of Coffin Corner and Other Comments Concerning the Guadalcanal Campaign John E. Stannard The Author , 1992 - Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 - 284 pages

Aerial view of Coffin Corner on Guadalcanal Coffin Corner is that triangular indentation in the jungle near the far right annotation arrow. Credit: USAAF via Peter Flahavin Date: March 1944

In 2010 I took Peter Flahavin (Guadalcanal Then and Now) on a tour of the Coffin Corner area. Peter recently sent me a picture of myself walking though the same spot as a US Army Soldier of the 164th Regiment on 28 or 29 October 1942. This …

The main effort, directed against the now-weakened southern part of the American perimeter, came on the night of 24 October. The main thrust of the attack came at a point thereafter nicknamed "Coffin Corner." It was beaten off after a vicious fight in a pouring rain.

The 164th is most remembered for its service in World War II. At Guadalcanal in October 1942, it became the first U.S. Army unit to engage in offensive action against the enemy. It was involved in the heaviest fighting of this campaign and was congratulated by the Marine unit it reinforced.