Marine Raiders and US Army troops landed on the Russell Islands shortly after, and an airbase was established there.
In addition to their native languages, they speak Solomon Island Pijin, the Lingua franca of the Solomon Islands.
The corps were stationed at all military establishments, especially the large bases at Guadalcanal, the Russell Islands, and Tulagi.
Canary Islands | Faroe Islands | Solomon Islands | Channel Islands | Falkland Islands | Marshall Islands | Bertrand Russell | South Shetland Islands | Russell Crowe | Hawaiian Islands | Pacific Islands | Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands | Aleutian Islands | Cook Islands | Balearic Islands | Frederick Russell Burnham | British Virgin Islands | Cayman Islands | Russell Simmons | Kurt Russell | Channel Islands of California | Andaman Islands | Ryukyu Islands | Russell Brand | Ken Russell | Galápagos Islands | Chatham Islands | Leon Russell | Caroline Islands | U.S. Virgin Islands |
After detecting a build-up of aircraft, on 1 April 1943 a fighter sweep of 58 Mitsubishi A6M3 Zeros of the 204th, 251st and 582st Kokutai was met by Allied fighters over the Russell Islands intercepting the Japanese en route to Tulagi and Guadalcanal, that claimed 18 Zeros at the cost of six Allied aircraft.