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	Battle of Tassafaronga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The battle was the last in a series of naval battles during the six-months-long Battle of Guadalcanal.
		The battle occurred in the channel between Guadalcanal and Savo Island, and was named after Tassafaronga on Guadalcanal, a landing point for Japanese supplies on Guadalcanal and the destination of the Japanese destroyer squadron involved in this battle.
		In the battle, a US cruiser force was badly mauled by a squadron of Japanese destroyers, losing one cruiser sunk and three cruisers so badly damaged that they were all out of the war for more than nine months, while the Japanese lost but one destroyer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Tassafaronga (983 words)

	The Battle of Vella Gulf: August 6-7, 1943, by Vincent P. O'Hara
		Following up on their victory in the Battle of Kolombangara the Japanese moved troops into Vila, their principal port on Kolombangara, on the nights of July 19, July 22, and August 1 using destroyers as fast transports.
		From the battle area, burning oil covered the sea while the smell of gas was so strong it burned the eyes.
		The battle was catastrophic for the Japanese, both materially and psychologically.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/vella_gulf.htm (2506 words)

	Pacific War - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		They were soundly defeated in the Battle of Halhin Gol by a mixed Soviet and Mongolian force led by Georgy Zhukov.
		At the Battle of the Java Sea, in late February and early March, the Japanese Navy inflicted a resounding defeat on the main ABDA naval force, under Admiral Karel Doorman.
		The result was the indecisive Battle of Coral Sea, the first of the great carrier duels as the two fleets never came within sight.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Pacific_War (5865 words)

	LemaireSoft's Naval Encyclopedia of World War 2: War in the Pacific: the slow Reconquest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		During the 20 months that elapse between the battle off Santa Cruz (October 24, 1942) and the one in the Sea of the Philippines (June 19, 1944), only two carriers will be sunk, both escort carrier victim of submarines (one on each side).
		The battle in the Empress Augusta Bay was one of the most confused of the war.
		It could have turned still nastier if the Japanese had had time enough to implement their plan to launch a flotilla of three battleships (among them the Musashi) and five carriers to confront the three US battleships and the only escort carrier engaged by the Americans against the island.
	www.lemaire.happyhost.org /ship/edito/1959.html (1612 words)

	Attack on Rabaul - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The attack on Rabaul was a campaign of Allied air raids against the Japanese base at Rabaul in October and November 1943.
		It was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II.
		Rabaul, the chief port of the island of New Britain in the Bismarck Archipelago, was the main Japanese naval base for the campaigns in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Attack_on_Rabaul (459 words)

	DD-382 The Most Perfect Torpedo Attack
		This battle stopped the Tokyo Express and was called the most perfect torpedo attack in U.S. Naval history, and was required study at the U.S. Naval Academy for years.
		This cruiser was named after the Battle of Vella Gulf at a 50-year commemorative reunion for the crews of the destroyers involved in the battle.
		Their veteran crew presented the battle ensign (flag), that actually flew on the Craven during the battle, to the cruiser.
	www.destroyersonline.com /usndd/dd382/dd382attack.htm (1472 words)

	USS Grampus
		On 5 March the Japanese destroyers Minegumo and Murasame conducted an attack in the Blackett Strait[?], near Kolombangara Island[?], on 5 March 1943.
		The destroyers were soon sunk in a night action with U.S. cruisers and destroyers.
		Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 21 June 1943.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Grampus.html (1676 words)

	Naval Operations in the Pacific to March 1944
		The Battle of Midway was the first decisive defeat suffered by the Japanese Navy in 350 years.* Furthermore, it put an end to the long period of Japanese offensive action, and restored the balance of naval power in the Pacific.
		BATTLE OF KOLOMBANGARA, 13 JULY 1943: The circumstances of the engagement of 6th July are repeated.
		As the "Tokio express" was making nightly runs through Blackett Strait and Kula Gulf to supply and reinforce the Japanese at Vila and elsewhere, an American task force of cruisers and destroyers, under the command of Rear Admiral W. Ainsworth, was dispatched to intercept the enemy.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Compac44.html (17474 words)

	Battle of Blackett Strait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the night of 5 March 1943 the Japanese destroyers Murasame and Minegumo, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Yōji Tanegashima took supplies to the Japanese base at Vila, on Kolombangara.
		His crew was assumed lost by the US Navy, but found by islander scouts Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana in a dugout canoe.
		South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Blackett_Strait (579 words)

	Pacific War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Doolittle Raid in April was a token but morale-boosting air attack on Japan, and although the Allied navies were narrowly defeated in tactical terms at the Battle of the Coral Sea, it still managed to derail a Japanese naval attack on Port Moresby, New Guinea.
		The crucial Battle of Midway followed in June: the fortunes of War could easily have given either side the victory, but Japanese naval aviation suffered a devastating defeat from which it never recovered.
		Faced with the loss of most of their experienced pilots, the Japanese resorted to kamikaze tactics in an attempt to slow the US advance.
	pacific-war.iqnaut.net (3448 words)

	WWII Military History Books - World War II Destroyers and Naval Warfare in the Pacific
		This battle involved a series of related actions subsequently grouped together under the name of just one of these engagements, but in fact none of the actions were fought inside Leyte Gulf.
		In fact the battle was four separate actions, none of which were fought in the Gulf itself, and the result was the destruction of Japanese naval power in the Pacific.
		Many accounts of the battle of Midway have been written from the American point of view and of the reasons for our success--code breaking and trickery to reveal the target, the amazing repair job done on the Yorktown, and American adaptation to battle conditions plus a little bit of luck.
	www.valoratsea.com /bookstore1.1.htm (5212 words)

	IJN Fubuki Class Destroyers
		Later in the war, she was present for the Battle of Midway, Third Battle of Solomon, Battle of the Bismark Sea, as well as the Battle off Biak.
		Employed as a high-speed transport during the Central Solomons Campaign, she participated in the Battle of Kula Gulf on the night of 5-6 July 1943.
		Later in the year, she was at Rabaul during the U.S. carrier air raids on 5 and 8 November and carried troops to Bougainville on 6-7 November.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/japan/fubuki-dd.htm (673 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/USS Denver (CL-58)
		During this action her force engaged and sank two Japanese destroyers, Minegumo and Murasame, in the Battle of Blackett Strait.
		In the resulting battle of Empress Augusta Bay on the night of 1 November–2 November, the American ships sank one enemy light cruiser and a destroyer and damaged two heavy cruisers and two destroyers, while the four other enemy ships broke off the action and retired.
		Denver covered the support landings on Cape Torokina on 10 November and 11 November 1943, and 2 days later during a heavy air attack was hit by an aerial torpedo which knocked out all power and communications and killed 20 of her men.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/USS_Denver_(CL-58) (1020 words)

	World War II Battles Of The Pacific
		Battle of the Komandorski Islands, 26 March 1943
		Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 3-4 March 1943
		Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19-20 June 1944
	www.navweaps.com /index_oob/OOB_WWII_Pacific/index_OOB_WWII_Pacific.htm (172 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Farthest Forward
		If you were a busy author writing about JFK and you focused on the Battle of Blackett Strait, in which his 109 was run down by a Japanese destroyer, your reasonable conclusion would be that PT boats were ineffective, and you would be wrong.
		The destroyers kept right on going straight down Blackett Strait and then straight back a couple of hours later, after they had delivered whatever to their troops on New Georgia, and when the 109 got in the way, they ran over it.
		An amphibious plane was sent up to Blackett Strait, but it never saw the bow of the 109 with its crew still clinging to it, hoping that we would come back for them.
	americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1998/4/1998_4_60_print.shtml (6421 words)

	Forum: The Search for PT109 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Dick Keresey, who was captain of PT 105 and in the same battle the night that PT 109 was sunk, and Maxwell Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy who is currently writing a book on World War II.
		And the reason was is that I was thinking that the bottom of Blackett Strait would be like the bottom of Iron Bottom Sound, which was basically a flat muddy bottom.
		Well, there was something about that kind of fighting that I think caused more battle fatigue, which we didn’t understand too well back then, than in the usual case because you went out at night.
	www.cs.umb.edu /~rwhealan/jfk/forum_search_for_pt109.html (7352 words)

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		Following their losses in the several battles of Kula and Vella Gulfs during July the enemy showed marked hesitancy in risking larger vessels south of Vella Lavella.
		Four 500# bombs were dropped on Vila along with 10,000 leaflets informing the Japs that their officers were being evacuated and the rest would be left to die of starvation, gun fire or bombing.
		He observed the sea battle in which three Jap DD's were sunk but did not sight the retiring Jap forces.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /tenison/297/vp54anal.htm?nocache=918763485 (15232 words)

	DD-451
		On 27 January she sortied with TF 18 to cover the movement of troop transports to Guadalcanal.
		On 29 and 30 January Chevalier joined in protective antiaircraft fire as her force came under intensive Japanese air attack in the Battle of Rennell Island.
		On 7 May she escorted three minelayers as they mined Blackett Strait, and Kula Gulf, Solomon Islands.
	members.tripod.com /BIW_History/shiphistory/hull192.html (688 words)

	Doubts surface on JFK wreck find - smh.com.au
		Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation yesterday reported that the exploration team had located the wreck in Blackett Strait between Kolombangara and Gizo Islands in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands.
		Ballard's search began with a sonar scan from a vessel on the surface of the strait and then proceeded with a close-range visual investigation of promising wreckage using a submersible equipped with a camera.
		He and his team will now need to analyse images from the submersible and data from the sonar and cross-reference their findings with historical data to determine whether they have a match.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/30/1022569812473.html (628 words)

	HEAVY LITTLE OBJECTS: #313 :: U.S. Navy Drafting Kit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Her mission was to sink enemy shipping which might try to run westward through Blackett Strait in an attempt to escape United States surface forces scheduled to bombard Vella Lavella on March 6.
		It seems possible, however, that GRAMPUS was caught and sunk by two destroyers which passed through Blackett Strait on the night of March 5th.
		She was awarded three battle stars for her service and her name was struck from the Navy list on 21 June 1943.
	www.factoidlabs.com /heavy/archives/000315.html (1744 words)

	PT-109
		The Allies were in a campaign of island hopping since capturing Guadalcanal in a bloody battle in 1942.
		It was one of 15 boats sent to intercept the Tokyo Express, a convoy of destroyers employed as fast transports and an escort on a night resupply mission to avoid air attack.
		Three nights later on August 6, in the Battle of Vella Gulf, American destroyers were given the same task of stopping the Tokyo Express as the unsuccessful PT boats.
	www.zdnet.co.za /wiki/PT-109 (3901 words)

	Unofficial Home Page of the USS Radford (DD446) Museum
		She was named for Rear Admiral William Radford who had overall command of the Union squadron at Hampton Roads during the battle between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (aka Merrimac) in 1862.
		She was named for Rear Admiral William Radford who had overall command of the Union squadron at Hampton Roads during the battle between Monitor and Virginia in 1862.
		Radford also saw action in the Battle of Kolombangara a week later, after which she escorted Helena’s damaged substitute, HMNZS Leander, home to New Zealand.
	www.angelfire.com /de3/ussradford (532 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - November 1, 1942
		This battle turns into a melee, and the Germans score the lucky hit this time, when a shell hits 24th Brigade headquarters, killing Brigadier Godfrey and three of his staff.
		Also loaded are newly developed fumigation bags to fight lice, and goggles for the troops, to battle African sun and dust.
		Henry Josselyn, battling a broken radio on Vella Lavella, has taken a canoe to the Methodist mission at Bilau, where the Reverend A.W.E. Silvester has been running his station since 1935.
	www.usswashington.com /dl01no42.htm (4200 words)

	LOST BOATS
		Last Contact at 5°05'S 152°37'E. USS Grampus (SS-207) was lost on 5-Mar-1943 with the loss of 72 officers and men when it was sunk in the Blackett Strait, possibly in Vella Gulf.
		Last contacts at 4°55'S 152°30'E. USS Triton (SS-201) was lost on 15-Mar-1943 with the loss of 74 officers and men when it was sunk at 0°09'N 144°55'E. USS Pickerel (SS-177) was lost on 3-Apr-1943 with the loss of 74 officers and men when it was sunk within lume of Shiramuka Light off Honshu.
		USS Tang (SS-306) was lost on 25-Oct-1944 with the loss of 83 officers and men when it was sunk in north end of Formosa Strait in vicinity of Turnabout Island.
	diodon349.com /Stories/Stories_SS/lost_boats.htm (1930 words)

	Books by Robert Ballard
		John F. Kennedy squints into the fog and fl while at the wheel of PT 109, idling in the Blackett Strait off Gizo in the Solomon Islands.
		Capturing the irresistible lure of the sea in lively text and 200 vivid illustrations, this is a fascinating book that combines stirring history with the excitement of discovery that Robert Ballard knows so well.
		It has been called ''the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar.'' On June 4, 1942, near a tiny island 1,500 miles from Hawaii, the course of the Pacific War changed dramatically.
	literati.net /Ballard/BallardBooks.htm (920 words)

	USS Waller
		The Battle of Rennell Island, which resulted in the loss of one American cruiser and damage to a destroyer succeeded in diverting Japanese intentions from the transports off Lunga Point and allowed vital American reinforcements to enter the final phase of the battle to drive the Japanese from Guadalcanal.
		Entering Kula Gulf shortly after midnight on the 5th, Waller's radar detected two ships—later determined to be Murasame and Mineguno—at the eastern entrance to Blackett Strait and standing out at high speed, apparently unaware of the American ships' presence.
		Later in the day, Waller again battled persistent Japanese planes, picking up on her radar eight torpedo planes heading in at low level.
	www.multied.com /Navy/destroyer2/Waller.html (3500 words)

	USN Ships--USS PT-107, 1942-1944
		In July 1943, her squadron moved forward to the new base at Rendova, in the Central Solomons, where she actively employed in combat operations.
		PT-107 fired her four torpedos at Japanese destroyers during a night battle in Blackett Strait on the night of 1-2 August 1943.
		In the middle of that month, she put troops ashore during the preliminary phase of the invasion of Vella Lavella Island.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/pt107.htm (613 words)

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