Combat 12, page 8 by Sam Glanzman

"Guadalcanal" by Paul S. Newman. April-June 1964.

I like Sam's dry-brush rendering of ack-ack bursts. Although he tells the colorist in the margin to put "yellow in all blasts," the published page shows more red, orange, and white than yellow in them.

His margin note "F6F" identifies the fighters he drew as Grumman F6F Hellcats. However, they didn't go into action until later in the war, according to Wikipedia. Aviators from the carrier task force protecting the invasion probably flew F4F Wildcat fighters. Marines pilots on the island at Henderson Field flew Wildcats as well as Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, both of which were also flown during the Battle of Midway. SDB stood for Scout Bomber Douglas, although its nickname was Slow But Deadly. Together these and other aircraft constituted Henderson Field's Cactus Air Force, Cactus being the island's codename.