Each side lost 24 ships.
The Japanese - 24000 men total. They also lost 2 battleships, 1 light carrier, 4 cruisers, 6 submarines, and 11 destroyers.
The U.S. Marines - 4200 wounded, 1600 killed, several thousand dead of tropic diseases and malaria, 14 destroyers, 8 cruisers, and 2 heavy carriers.

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