Guadalcanal & Convoys in the SW Pacific 1945

My searches are not producing insight into several questions, with a particular interest in April 1945:

• Is there a good map of convoy routes in the general area of Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines?
• Would those routes have included Guadalcanal, or was it (as I suspect) generally bypassed and out-of-the-way by that time?
• Would troop ships from the U.S. have gone from San Francisco to Guadalcanal, or would they rather have gone to Finschhafen, Hollandia, or some other port in the region?

It seems the port at Guadalcanal was developed after the Allies captured it, but I'm not sure to what extent.

 

It depends on where in the Pacific the troops were headed. Guadalcanal was developed into a major training base, but obviously all troops didn't train there.

 

Funafuti was the major convoy destination in the area, convoys came from Pearl Harbor/Honolulu.

 

...The Canal certainly was not an ''efficient''/developed port during the critical, early battles ......in fact, it wasn't a ''port'' at all--at first ..I thought Tulagi was developed more as the Naval port since it had a sheltered harbor

 

Guadalcanal was not the end destination of a convoy sailing out or Calif
Wellington, and Noumea. were, ports with docking, and repair facilities.
you my have heard about this but if you have not, I'll paraphrase it.
In May and June of 42 when the 1st Marine was being assembled, the destination was
Wellington Nz. By this time the operation watchtower was falling behind Adm Kings schedual
he envisioned Aug 1 as D day
When the Marines landed in Wellington, it was a weekend and raining, and the Dock works would not
work. So the Marines had to unload the ships.
And the idiots in SF and other ports loaded the ships for commercial usage not military
so the ships had to be reloaded in military order, and that was a lot of work
But can you believe that the Dock workers would not work!!!!!!!
should have let the Japs have Nz...

 

Seems to me I read something about that in “The Conquering Tide” by Ian Toll.

 

Of course, pay no nevermind to the fact that New Zealand suffered the most casualties, by proportion of population, of all Commonwealth nations.

Also, by this logic, we should have let the Nazis have Britain...2,000+ strikes and some 3.4 million lost hours of work in 1944 alone.

 

HyperWar has some good reads on that subject ....I think it's just as interesting, if not more, than the battles ....the build up of bases and logistics was a critical issue regarding how ''fast''' we moved across the Pacific