The Battle of Guadalcanal, 11-15 November 1942
Author : Colin G. Jameson
Publisher : Naval Historical Center
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1944
Category : History
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Author : Colin G. Jameson
Publisher : Naval Historical Center
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1944
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Colin G. Jameson
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), Battle of, 1942-1943
ISBN : 9780160429453
Author : U. S. Navy
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 2012-12-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781481858830
The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal was the most complex naval engagement of the arduous Guadalcanal Campaign. Commencing on 11 November 1942, it lasted for five days and consisted of three phases: a cruiser night action, a carrier action, and a battleship night action. The Japanese precipitated the battle by launching a determined effort to land reinforcements in order to seize Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, the key American facility on the island. The U.S. Navy countered that effort and, in the ensuing action, both navies suffered heavy losses. But the Japanese failed to seize control of the seas around Guadalcanal or to significantly increase the strength of their force ashore. This action marked the last time that the Imperial Japanese Navy would launch a major offensive in the Guadalcanal area.
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Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Guadalcanal Island (Solomon Islands), Battle of, 1942-1943
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Author : James W. Grace
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
One of the most ferocious naval battles of World War II, the night action off the coast of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942 - between U.S. cruisers and Japanese battleships fighting at point-blank range - claimed the lives of two American admirals. Though famous for tipping the scales in favor of the U.S. Navy in this critical area of the Pacific, this action has never before received the treatment provided in this book. Here, James Grace describes events from deck level and from both sides. He draws on a wealth of previously untapped primary sources, including the vivid personal recollections of some two hundred Japanese and American survivors of the fight. These eyewitness accounts lend immediacy to a work that will appeal to the general reader as well as to serious World War II buffs and historians.
Author : United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 1944
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Colin G. Jameson
Publisher : Naval Historical Center
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 1944
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Mark Stille
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1780961561
A highly illustrated account of the series of naval battles around the embattled island of Guadalcanal in late 1942. The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific. The battle of Savo Island on the night of 9 August 1942, saw the Japanese inflict a severe defeat on the Allied force, driving them away from Guadalcanal and leaving the just-landed marines in a perilously exposed position. This was the start of a series of night battles that culminated in the First and Second battles of Guadalcanal, fought on the nights of 13 and 15 November. One further major naval action followed, the battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942, when the US Navy once again suffered a severe defeat, but this time it was too late to alter the course of the battle as the Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal in early February 1943. In this compact, engaging volume, Mark Stille examines the contrasting fortunes experienced by both sides over the intense course of naval battles around the island throughout the second half of 1942 that did so much to turn the tide in the Pacific.
Author : Henry V. Poor
Publisher : Naval Historical Center
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 1943
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Mark Stille
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1780961553
A highly illustrated account of the series of naval battles around the embattled island of Guadalcanal in late 1942. The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific. The battle of Savo Island on the night of 9 August 1942, saw the Japanese inflict a severe defeat on the Allied force, driving them away from Guadalcanal and leaving the just-landed marines in a perilously exposed position. This was the start of a series of night battles that culminated in the First and Second battles of Guadalcanal, fought on the nights of 13 and 15 November. One further major naval action followed, the battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942, when the US Navy once again suffered a severe defeat, but this time it was too late to alter the course of the battle as the Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal in early February 1943. In this compact, engaging volume, Mark Stille examines the contrasting fortunes experienced by both sides over the intense course of naval battles around the island throughout the second half of 1942 that did so much to turn the tide in the Pacific.