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 night of November 14-15, 1942, the USS Washington (BB-56) played head-swellingly big in the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, which wrote the momentous history of a Pacific war.

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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 ...

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 ...