Last week the Japs had a big edge on naval ... Guadalcanal waters and the Navy had won one of the most satisfactory victories of the war. The Results. Jap losses: one battleship (the first claimed ...

In the opening days of August 1942, a B-17 was flown over Guadalcanal and saw that the Japanese had nearly completed an ...

In the night of November 14-15, 1942, the USS Washington (BB-56) played head-swellingly big in the Second Naval Battle of ...

many naval battles were fought to cement the material advantage gained by the Allies after the stunning Japanese losses at the Battle of Midway. Guadalcanal Naval Battles includes these scenarios ...

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The Irish American Sullivan brothers - George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert - were the first multiple ... was struck during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In the tumultuous days ...

The Battle of Savo Island, a crushing World War II naval defeat for the Allies, ended on August 9, 1942. After the guns fell silent, the Japanese Navy would sink four Allied heavy cruisers, kill ...