Navy Times on MSN2d
How the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal escalated into an all-out slugfest
Both Norman Scott and Daniel J. Callaghan would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the intense ...
Business Insider India6y
Photos show the Battle of Savo Island, a brutal US Navy defeat that stranded thousands of Marines on Guadalcanal
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 ...
JSTOR Daily6y
ASYMMETRIC WARFARE AT SEA: The Naval Battles off Guadalcanal, 1942–1943
Naval Institute Press, 1992), p. 106. 35. For an overview of Japanese night-fighting tactics, see Evans and Peattie, Kaigun, pp. 273–81. Dennis Warner and Peggy Warner, with Sadao Seno, Disaster in ...