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	Battle of Guadalcanal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Battle of Edson's Ridge" began on September 11th and continued until the 14th before the attack was finally beaten back by the Marines.
		In the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, however, the transports carrying this reinforcement were badly damaged and the division was reduced to the strength of a regiment.
		Battle of Cape Esperance on 11 and 12 October
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	Battle of Cape Esperance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Cape Esperance, originally known as the Second Battle of Savo Island, was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the night of October 11, 1942 at the entrance to the strait between Savo Island and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
		On October 11, 1942 the Japanese sent a force under Rear Admiral Aritomo Goto to bombard the airfield and reinforce the Japanese attackers.
		The line-ahead tactic worked well at Cape Esperance, but the later battles of Tassafaronga and Kolombangara showed that at night linear gunfire tactics — the gun flashes lighting up ships and revealing their positions — were highly vulnerable to torpedoes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Esperance (521 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle-of-Guadalcanal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Battle of Cape Esperance Conflict World War II, Pacific War Date October 11, 1942 – October 12, 1942 Place Off Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal Result Allied victory The Battle of Cape Esperance, originally known as the Second Battle of Savo Island, was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War...
		Battle of Rennell Island Conflict World War II, Pacific War Date 29 January 1943 – 30 January 1943 Place Rennell Island, Solomon Islands Result Japanese victory The Battle of Rennell Island was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II fought on 29 January – 30 January 1943 between...
		Battle of Vella Lavella Conflict World War II, Pacific War Date October 7, 1943 Place Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands Result Japanese victory The Battle of Vella Lavella was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II fought on the night of October 6, 1943 near...
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		Battle of Cape Esperance on 11 & 12 October
		Battle of Santa Cruz Island on 26 & 27 October
		The land battle hinged around the airfield which the Americans named Henderson Field, a muddy airstrip hanging onto the edge of the island, and considered "an unsinkable aircraft carrier".
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /b/ba/battle_of_guadalcanal.html (332 words)

	Guadalcanal Campaign
		The majority of the land battles fought on the island involved guerrilla warfare by the highly trained and heavily armed Japanese marines, which were scattered throughout the island.
		Worse battles would follow, but Guadalcanal helped to boost Allied morale and also protected the route between the United States and Australia, which was a major launching point for many of the battles in the Pacific War.
		Guadalcanal was one of the first battles of the Pacific War that the Allies were on the offensive, and from Guadalcanal on, the Allies would have a string of victories that eventually led to the victory through the new island-hopping campaign that was used.
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	Guadalcanal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The island became the scene of the important Battle of Guadalcanal during World War II.
		The Battle of Cape Esperance was fought on October 11, 1942 on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal.
		In the battle, United States Navy ships intercepted and defeated a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
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	The Guadalcanal Campaign (David Llewellyn James)
		The Battle of Cape Esperance did nothing, however, to discourage the Japanese effort to evict the Marines from Guadalcanal, and the ground fighting was to reach its climax between October 14th.
		When the main carrier battle was joined the Japanese carrier Shokaku was so badly damaged that she was to be out of action for nine months, but the Japanese strike on the US carriers then overwhelmed the fighter defences, and both Hornet and Enterprise were hit.
		After the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal the Japanese command lost confidence in their ability to retake the island and began to think in terms of developing New Georgia, to the north of Guadalcanal, as a bastion to thwart the American advance in the Solomons.
	www.odyssey.dircon.co.uk /Guadalcanal.htm (5629 words)

	Battle of Cape Esperance -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The battle arose out of the epic struggle over the American airfield at (Click link for more info and facts about Henderson Field) Henderson Field.
		At about 23:30, off Cape Esperance, they encountered Rear Admiral (Click link for more info and facts about Norman Scott) Norman Scott's patrolling Task Force 64.
		Knowing that the Japanese had the advantage in night fighting, Scott intended to use his destroyers to illuminate the targets with their (A light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction) searchlights and destroy them with shellfire.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_cape_esperance.htm (328 words)

	CVE-88 USS Cape Esperance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Off Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal, at midnight on 11-12 October 1942, an American task force commanded by Rear Admiral Norman Scott defeated a Japanese force under Rear Admiral A. Goto, which was attempting to reinforce Guadalcanal.
		Cape Esperance (CVE-88) (name changed from Tananek Bay on 6 November 1943) was launched 3 March 1944 by Kaiser Co., Inc., Vancouver, Wash., under a Maritime Commission contract, sponsored by Mrs.
		Cape Esperance was decommissioned 15 January 1959, and sold 14 May 1959.
	www.navyhistory.com /ecarrier/Capeesperance.html (437 words)

	Battle Of Guadalcanal
		A battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces.
		The inboard destroyer, with the distorted bow, is probably USS Mahan (DD-364), which was damaged in a collision with South Dakota at the close of the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 27 October 1942.
		She was en route to the west coast for repair of damage received during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, on 12-13 November 1942.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/Battle+Of+Guadalcanal (996 words)

	Battle of Cape Esperance - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Battle of Cape Esperance - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The line-ahead tactic worked well at Cape Esperance, but the later battles of the Santa Cruz Islands and Guadalcanal showed that at night linear gunfire tactics—the gun flashes lighting up ships and revealing their positions—were highly vulnerable to torpedoes.
		The article about Battle of Cape Esperance contains information related to Battle of Cape Esperance and References.
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	Cape Esperance
		Off Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal, at midnight on 11-12 October 1942, an American task force commanded by Rear Admiral Norman Scott defeated a Japanese force under Rear Admiral A. Goto, which was attemping to reinforce Guadalcanal.
		Continuing to operate from Ulithi and Guam through January, Cape Esperance carried fresh aircraft to the far-ranging TF 38 for its strikes on Japanese air bases on Formosa and the China coast.
		Reclassified CVU-88 on 12 June 1955, Cape Esperance made her first transatlantic crossing in 1956 to ferry aircraft to and from Italy, France, and Portugal.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/c3/cape_esperance.htm (513 words)

	Prelude to Battle
		The Allied forces were initiated in the art of night surface combat at the Battle of Savo Island with sobering results.
		Some measure of success was scored at the Battle of Cape Esperance where Admiral Scott had succeeded in crossing Rear Admiral Aritomo Goto's "T".
		Scott had commanded an American Task force to victory at the Battle of Cape Esperence on October 11, where the American cruiser-destroyer force prevented the Japanese from bombarding Henderson Field.
	www.modelwarships.com /features/current/Friday13/history/Prelude.html (1218 words)

	Battle of Savo Island -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The group was commanded by the British Rear Admiral (Click link for more info and facts about Victor Crutchley) Victor Crutchley, who was attached to the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Australian Navy) Royal Australian Navy.
		From 15 August all supplies sent to (A battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces) Guadalcanal came by high-speed transports while Allied land-based planes from the New Hebrides flew frequent covering missions.
		The Second Battle of Savo Island is now better known as the (Click link for more info and facts about Battle of Cape Esperance) Battle of Cape Esperance.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Ba/Battle_of_Savo_Island.htm (397 words)

	USS Cape Esperance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		USS Cape Esperance (CVE-88) (name changed from Tananek Bay on 6 November 1943) was launched 3March 1944 by Kaiser Co., Inc., Vancouver, Wash., under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs.
		This was the first of a series of such voyages in which she brought tothe western Pacific a large number of the aircraft which roared over Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Japanese home islands in the massive carrier raids of the war's lastmonths.
		At the close of the war, Cape Esperance sailed from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, returning to San Francisco 11 September 1945 with aircraftand passengers.
	www.therfcc.org /uss-cape-esperance-284181.html (482 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On World War II Battle
		It was the last major battle of WWII as well as the largest amphibious invasion and battle of the entire Pacific war.
		All veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, as well as their families and friends, are invited to join in this remembrance of the World War II battle.
		The battle was the British 1st Airborne Division's assault on the massive road bridge which spanned the Lower Rhine at Arnhem.
	military.surfwax.com /files/World_War_II_Battle.html (4566 words)

	Stumbling into Victory: The Battle of Cape Esperance,
		He added what was left of Rear-Admiral Goto Aritomo's Cruiser Division Six into the action with the mission of bombarding Henderson Field and reduce its air component to impotence.
		Scott had headed almost directly north until he was the same latitude as Cape Esperance, the western tip of Guadalcanal, then shifted his course north-east to cover the entrances to Iron Bottom Sound.
		A strategic draw (one mission prevented, one not) was the result, and intensified operations followed.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/cape_esperance.htm (1559 words)

	USS Cape Esperance (CVE 88)
		Recommissioned on August 5, 1950, the CAPE ESPERANCE was assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service, serving as T-CVE 88 until re-classified as CVU 88 on June 12, 1955.
		Finally decommissioned on January 15, 1959, the CAPE ESPERANCE was stricken from the Navy list on March 1, 1959, and was sold on May 14, 1959.
		CAPE ESPERANCE (name changed from TANANEK BAY on 6 November 1943) was launched 3 March 1944 by Kaiser Co., Inc., Vancouver, Wash., under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs.
	www.united-states-navy.com /cve/cve88.htm (597 words)

	GUADALCANAL:ISLAND OF DEATH DVD, RARE FOOTAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Battle Of Savo Island 3:35 • 5.
		The Battle Of The Eastern Solomons 9:20 • 8.
		The Battle Of Edson’s Ridge 13:42 • 10.
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	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Naval Battles in the Solomon Islands over August/November 1942 turn the tide of the Pacific ...
		Another shell struck Aoba’s bridge and Vice Admiral Goto mortally wounded, Furutaka was also in trouble being hit, as was Murakumo, it was the turn of the IJN to be on the wrong end of the gunfire tonight.
		On the Japanese side of the fence, Admiral Tanaka thought the Battle of Cape Esperence a crushing defeat for the IJN.
		Battle of Cape Esperance, click on the picture to see a bigger image.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /Solomons/BattleofCapeEsperance.html (1035 words)

	Advanced Japanese Destroyers of World War II
		The Royal Navy would use its night training to devastate the Italian navy at the battle of Matapan in 1941, but then the Japanese would frequently use their night training to devastate both the British and United States navies in 1941, 1942, and 1943.
		The supreme achievements of Japanese torpedo and night combat were the battles near Guadalcanal of Savo Island, 9 August 1942, and Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942.
		In subsequent battles in the Solomons, the Japanese were without all of their previous advantages, and their reliance on destroyers to carry the brunt of supply as well as combat actions simply meant a terrific attrition in the destroyer force.
	www.friesian.com /destroy.htm (1294 words)

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		The scenario we chose was the Battle of Cape Esperance, where US forces for the first time surprised the Japanese in a night battle off Guadalcanal (see quotation in my signature, below).
		Since IBS II does not attempt to deal with the limited intelligence aspect of the night battles, the scenario begins with both sides deployed, at the moment that the US task force, in a somewhat disordered formation after its last turn, opened fire on the unsuspecting Japanese.
		The scenario lasts seven turns (about 21 minutes), which corresponds pretty much to the 'hot' phase of the actual historical battle, from the opening of fire at 2350 to the near-lethal hit on Boise which effectively ended the pursuit of the Japanese at 0012.
	grognard.com /reviews/ibs.txt (1087 words)

	HyperWar: USSBS: Campaigns of the Pacific War
		Following the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Japanese continuously reinforced their Guadalcanal garrison with personnel from the Ikki and Kawaguchi units by means of destroyer transports.
		During the battle the United States destroyer Duncan, which had closed to attack with torpedoes, was caught in a position between the two forces and fired on by both, receiving such damage that she sank the next day.
		Following the Battle of Guadalcanal, 12-15 November, all plans to recapture that island were abandoned by the Japanese, and all their efforts were directed instead toward making its final capture by the Americans as expensive as possible.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/PTO-Campaigns/USSBS-PTO-7.html (6917 words)

	Various Artists - Hell-Bent: Insurgent Country, Volume 2 And The Battle of Cape Esperance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This important work is being brought back into print for the 50th anniversary of the naval battle that broke the stalemate in the long and bloody campaign for Guadalcanal.
		Though little known, the midnight battle off the northwest point of the island is memorable for the novel circumstances under which it was fought.
		The author, himself a participant, describes the battle from both sides, drawing on a number of firsthand accounts from the time late on 11 October 1942 that U.S. Task Group 64.2 opened fire on three Japanese cruisers and two destroyers.
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