Zimmerman, p. 58–60; Smith, p. 35; and Jersey, p. 196–199. Goettge was one of the first killed. Only three made it back to the Lunga Point perimeter. Seven Japanese were killed in the skirmish. More details of the event are at: Clark, Jack, "Goettge Patrol
", Pacific Wreck Database[1]Archived 2015-04-14 at the Wayback Machine and Broderson, Ben, "Franklin native recalls key WWII battle"Archived 2007-09-27 at Archive.today.
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Zimmerman, p. 58–60; Smith, p. 35; and Jersey, p. 196–199. Goettge was one of the first killed. Only three made it back to the Lunga Point perimeter. Seven Japanese were killed in the skirmish. More details of the event are at: Clark, Jack, "Goettge Patrol
", Pacific Wreck Database[1]Archived 2015-04-14 at the Wayback Machine and Broderson, Ben, "Franklin native recalls key WWII battle"Archived 2007-09-27 at Archive.today.
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Zimmerman documents the participation by native Solomon Islanders in the campaign at pp. 173–175.
Zimmerman, p. 58–60; Smith, p. 35; and Jersey, p. 196–199. Goettge was one of the first killed. Only three made it back to the Lunga Point perimeter. Seven Japanese were killed in the skirmish. More details of the event are at: Clark, Jack, "Goettge Patrol
", Pacific Wreck Database[1]Archived 2015-04-14 at the Wayback Machine and Broderson, Ben, "Franklin native recalls key WWII battle"Archived 2007-09-27 at Archive.today.
Frank, p. 290–291. 15 of the Marines and the three U.S. Navy sailors were killed when the Higgins boat carrying them from Tulagi to Aola Bay on Guadalcanal was lost. One of the Japanese killed in the raid was "Ishimoto", a Japanese intelligence agent and interpreter who had worked in the Solomon Islands area prior to the war and was alleged to have participated in the murder of two Catholic priests and two nuns at Tasimboko on 3 September 1942.(The Mysterious Mr. Moto on Guadalcanal
Zimmerman, p. 58–60; Smith, p. 35; and Jersey, p. 196–199. Goettge was one of the first killed. Only three made it back to the Lunga Point perimeter. Seven Japanese were killed in the skirmish. More details of the event are at: Clark, Jack, "Goettge Patrol
", Pacific Wreck Database[1]Archived 2015-04-14 at the Wayback Machine and Broderson, Ben, "Franklin native recalls key WWII battle"Archived 2007-09-27 at Archive.today.