Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ndị isi na okwu nchịkwa. Mkpebi nke ndị Allied ịwakpo Guadalcanal mere n'oge nke esemokwu n'ọkwa kachasị elu nke iwu. N'ọnwa Febụwarị afọ 1942, onyeisi ndị agha US bụ Admiral Ernest King bidoro ịkwado ka ndị agha na-aga agha n'Oké Osimiri Pasifik. Nke a megidere ma ndị US Joint Chiefs of Staff, gụnyere General George Marshall, na ndị ndu agha Britain, ha niile kwekọrọ karịa na "Germany mbụ" ihe ndị dị mkpa maka akụ agha. King nwere ihe ịga nke ọma n'inwekwu ihe ndị a na-etinye na Pacific, ọbụna ka mgbalị ndị America na North Africa na-ada mbà. Ka ọ na-erule March, esemokwu kpụ ọkụ n'ọnụ bilitere n'etiti Admiral King na Ọchịagha Douglas MacArthur banyere otú a ga-esi tinye ihe ndị a n'ọrụ. E mechara dozie nke a site n'ime nkwekọrịta nke mere ka Gen. MacArthur bụrụ onye na-ahụ maka mpaghara Southwest Pacific na ebubo nke ijide
Solomon Islands nke dị n'ebe ọdịda anyanwụ Guadalcanal, n'ụsọ oké osimiri ebe ugwu ọdịda anyanwụ nke New Guinea, na Bismarck Archipelago gụnyere ebe ndị agha mmiri nke ndị Japan dị na Rabaul. Admiral Chester Nimitz ga-achị mpaghara oke osimiri Pacific ma gafee etiti Pacific. Admiral Robert Ghormley, n'okpuru Nimitz, ga-eduzi mpaghara South Pacific ma weghara Tulagi, ebe ndị Japan guzobere ebe ụgbọ elu mmiri. Ghormley ga-ejidekwa Guadalcanal, ebe ndị Japan na-ewu ụzọ ụgbọelu. N'okpuru Ghormley, Admiral Frank Fletcher ghọrọ ọchịagha nke Allied Task Force 61.