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	Battle of Guadalcanal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guadalcanal is situated in the middle of the long Solomon Islands chain, north-east of Australia.
		During 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.
		Although the Battle of Midway is widely considered to be the turning point in the Pacific theater, it was a strategic naval victory rather than a land-based one.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Guadalcanal (1526 words)

	Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The naval Battle of Guadalcanal took place on 13 - 15 November 1942 and was of one of a series of naval battles that took place between Allied and Japanese forces during the months-long Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
		The destroyers Barton, Cushing, Laffey and Monssen were sunk and the cruisers San Francisco, Portland, Helena and Juneau were heavily damaged (Juneau was sunk by a torpedo from a submarine the next day as she struggled south, killing the five Sullivan brothers).
		The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal was the last major attempt by the Japanese to seize control of the seas around Guadalcanal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal (1221 words)

	Guadalcanal
		Although the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway had badly damaged the Japanese fleet's offensive capabilities and crippled its carrier forces, enemy naval aircraft could fight as well ashore as afloat and enemy warships were still numerous and lethal.
		At 1030 on 7 August, an Australian coastwatcher hidden in the hills of the islands north of Guadalcanal signalled that a Japanese air strike composed of heavy bombers, light bombers, and fighters was headed for the island.
		In the offing as part of the Guadalcanal defending force were the rest of the Americal Division, the remainder of the 2d Marine Division, and the Army's 25th Infantry Division, then in Hawaii.
	www.nelsonresidence.com /steveneggie/guadalcanal.htm (17574 words)

	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.angelfire.com /fm/odyssey/Guadalcanal.htm (5629 words)

	Wikinfo \| Battle of Guadalcanal
		The invasion of Guadalcanal, Operation Watchtower, by sixteen thousand United States troops began on 7 August, 1942 and was the first American offensive of the war.
		These naval battles did not produce a victor, but the Japanese were unable to replace their losses.
		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.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Battle_of_Guadalcanal (307 words)

	Guadalcanal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Battle of Guadalcanal affected the whole tide of war in the Pacific.
		This Battle took place after the crucial US victory at Midway, and is forever remembered as a great battle with many losses, which was won by the Marines, the pride of the US armed services.
		Guadalcanal is an island 90 miles by 25 miles located in the lower Solomon Chain that is covered mostly by rain forests, mountains, and swamps.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/guadal3.html (2042 words)

	Guadalcanal Campaign
		Guadalcanal was one of the longest campaigns in the Pacific Ocean during World War Two.
		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.
		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.
	www.angelfire.com /ia/totalwar/Guadalcanal.html (3211 words)

	A Guadalcanal Chronology
		The intensity of the battles at sea and on land was due in great part to the rough equality of the forces involved.
		The five battles in the waters off Guadalcanal, which include the two nights of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, are listed in sequence to the left of the island.
		A major land battle might have occurred, but did not, in November, since most of the Japanese forces that were to be landed to participate in the offensive were destroyed at sea.
	www.friesian.com /history/guadal.htm (2830 words)

	Guadalcanal
		In the Battles of the Coral Sea in May and Midway in June, the U.S. Navy seriously damaged the Japanese fleet.
		In its early stages, the Guadalcanal Campaign was primarily a Navy and Marine Corps effort.
		The Guadalcanal Campaign is one of the most extensively written about of all in World War II, with more than one volume published in each of several categories: official histories, journalistic views, and personal accounts.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/72-8/72-8.htm (7764 words)

	Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942 - February 1943
		At sea, the campaign featured two major battles between aircraft carriers that were more costly to the Americans than to the Japanese, and many submarine and air-sea actions that gave the Allies an advantage.
		With all this, the campaign's outcome was very much in doubt for nearly four months and was not certain until the Japanese completed a stealthy evacuation of their surviving ground troops in the early hours of 8 February 1943.
		At Guadalcanal, the Japanese were harshly shoved into a long and costly retreat, one that continued virtually unchecked until their August 1945 capitulation.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-pac/guadlcnl/guadlcnl.htm (1522 words)

	Guadalcanal: Grassy Knoll Battle
		The battle began on December 18, in the rain, with a heavy artillery bombardment of the Japanese positions.
		With bulldozers, the engineers were ripping a jeep road over the ridges and through the jungles toward the front, but for the last mile and a half everything had to be carried.
		In addition he has been present at the Battle of the Coral Sea, at Midway, and at Savo Island, where the cruiser on which he was stationed, the Vincennes, was sunk.
	www.janeresture.com /grssknoll (317 words)

	Tarawa group commemorates WWII battle at Guadalcanal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Addressing the formation with Guadalcanal in the background, the Commodore of the Tarawa ARG, Capt. A.D. Wall, challenged the Sailors and Marines present to imagine a time more than 50 years ago.
		Wall highlighted the importance of the battle, which has often been described as a turning point in the Pacific theater.
		Before the Battle of Guadalcanal, which began in the late summer of 1942, the Americans had suffered a string of defeats that enabled the Japanese to expand further west.
	www.c7f.navy.mil /news/2000/09/1.html (737 words)

	NPR : The Battle for Guadalcanal, Radio Expeditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As the district officer on Guadalcanal, he served as administrator, judge and police chief.
		And when the Japanese arrived, he served as a critical part of an intelligence network, reporting by radio details of their actions and plans from a hideout in the hills.
		A journal of the Guadalcanal battle by Sgt. James A. Donahue, United States Marine Corps.
	www.npr.org /programs/re/archivesdate/2002/aug/guadalcanal (834 words)

	Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
		The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ended the Japanese hope for conquest.
		The carrier, Enterprise (CV-6) and battleship, South Dakota (BB-57) that had taken bomb damage at the Battle of Santa Cruz and were repairing at Noumea.
		The Japanese now had 32,000 troops on Guadalcanal, but their Navy had to give up on support.
	www.ww2pacific.com /nbgc.html (652 words)

	Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
		Last night we finished the Guadalcanal scenario of the Solomon Seas "campaign sequence," and therefore the sequence itself.
		Reese later said, and I think he was referring to this portion of the battle though it might have been Day 3, that at one point the two sides' carrier groups were in adjacent hexes and did not sight one another.
		But the Kates were not strong, and were of course carrying bombs instead of torpedoes, so as to be able to fly the three hexes, and I was not able to sink the carrier.
	www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at /user/mst/games/sol/seq_mccue_guadalcanal.html (1161 words)

	The Invasion of Guadalcanal
		Because the Japanese were busily building an airfield on Guadalcanal, the Americans launched the first phase of "Operation Watchtower", to occupy the Santa Cruz Islands and recapture Tulagi and Guadalcanal.
		It was the courage and fighting spirit of both the Marines and Army soldiers that won the Battle of Guadalcanal.
		Fighting continued for the Allies on Guadalcanal into 1943 although the weary 1st Marine Division was evacuated at the end of Dec 1942 and replaced by elements of the 2nd Marine Division.
	www.geocities.com /stu_hill/Guadalcanal.html (2503 words)

	Pacific War Maps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Having lost practically every cruiser in the inventory either sunk or damaged, the American forces left to dispute Japan's ability to reinforce Guadalcanal were running thin.
		As the damaged survivors of the Battle of Friday the Thirteenth withdrew, the Americans knew that the Japanese were moving another force into the area.
		For the Japanese, it was the end of any hope of wresting Guadalcanal from the Americans; in the course of three days of constant fighting in and around the area, they had lost two battleships, one heavy cruiser, three destroyers and eleven combat transports, not to mention 5,000 infantrymen drowned, and several thousand naval casualties.
	www.combinedfleet.com /btl_gn2.htm (322 words)

	The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (I), 12th/13th November, 1942
		However, by the time of the Battle of Santa Cruz, little of this damage remained and fighting spirits were high again.
		The last loss of the battle was also one of the most shocking examples of the deadliness of the calm, blue expanses of the Pacific Ocean.
		The battle in its form probably was the only way to stop the Japanese, disrupting their formation and providing, with close-range 203mm fire, the only way to pierce the battleships' armor.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/naval_battle_guadalcanal_1.htm (3347 words)

	The Battle of Guadalcanal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Air reconnaissance and intelligence showed the Japanese were building an airfield on Guadalcanal, located in the Solomon Island Chain.
		Geographically, Guadalcanal is an island covered in rain forests, mountains, and swamps and measures about 90 miles by 25 miles.
		These raids and battles continued for days until the Marine fighter planes were up and running.
	www.60wwii.mil /Presentation/history/guadalcanal.htm (726 words)

	Guadalcanal Journal
		A big naval battle ensued the second day we were here, which resulted in our ship, the Elliott, being sunk.
		Action is what he got at the pivotal battle of Hell’s Point (also known as the Battle of the Tenaru River), which he describes at length.
		He is the picture of contentment, sitting in his sunny backyard, surrounded by flowers and trees, listening to the birds and the Big Band sound of WPEN on the radio, a newspaper on his knee...
	www.guadalcanaljournal.com (2718 words)

	NWCR, Spring 2000: Review of Grace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Keep in mind that although the battle of Tassafaronga had not yet been fought, in that engagement U.S. cruisers and destroyers (facing destroyers only) would be devastated by Japanese torpedoes because they were in a tight, orderly column with their beams to the salvos.
		They do not talk much about the battle (they mostly exchange liberty-port tales), but if you draw them out, they will tell you that what they remember is about five minutes of ferocious fighting followed by interminable efforts to save the ship and then to survive in the water.
		The whole three-day naval battle of Guadalcanal (especially the first bloody night) is well worth close study by anyone who wishes to see the nature of what we now call joint littoral warfare, and how land, sea, and air forces each make indispensable contributions.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2000/spring/re1-sp0.htm (2075 words)

	Amazon.com: The Battle for Guadalcanal: Books: Samuel B. Griffith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Carrier Clash: The Invasion of Guadalcanal & The Battle of the Eastern Solomons August 1942 by Eric Hammel
		Further, the photos and scale drawings of the military equipment and colorful battle maps, both of the land conflict and the complicated sea battles were easy to understand.
		This book covered all the bases for this historic battle was fought in the air, on land, and brother, some incredible sea battles were waged around this small island.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0252068912?v=glance (1054 words)

	guadalcanal
		During 1995 - 99 I made 4 trips to explore the Guadalcanal land battlefields.
		My most recent trip was in August 2004.The ethnic violence of 1999 - 2003 on Guadalcanal made battlefield explorations a no go, but I had no trouble on this trip.
		I have even heard Guadalcanal called "The Stalingrad of the Pacific".
	www.guadalcanal.homestead.com (159 words)

	First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
		United States Marines held Guadalcanal's vital Henderson Field but were ringed in by Japanese soldiers.
		Ahead lay the mountains of Guadalcanal, barely visible against a dark background of clouds.
		Scott had commanded an American task force at the Battle of Cape Esperance and had won that battle.
	www.historynet.com /wwii/blnavalbattleofguadalcanal (1064 words)

	Griffith / The Battle for Guadalcanal
		Launched on August 7, 1942, to protect Allied control of the strategic South Pacific islands, the Guadalcanal operation was the most costly American offensive in the history of the U.S. Navy up to that time.
		Griffith, who fought with Edson's Raiders on Guadalcanal, describes in gritty detail the vicious close-range fighting, the valiant defense of the Henderson Field airstrip, and the dramatic naval engagements that led, in February 1943, to an American victory.
		A breathtaking narrative of military action anchored by a historian's objectivity, The Battle for Guadalcanal is a story of raw courage, desperate measures, and ultimate triumph.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f00/griffith.html (276 words)

	Guadalcanal Naval Battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, in June the Japanese began constructing a full-fledged airbase on the nearby island of Guadalcanal.
		For the next four months, the waters around Guadalcanal would be the unlikely scene of the most bitter, protracted naval struggle of the Pacific War.
		Unfortunately, it wasn't just a battle, it was a campaign; a campaign they could not hope to win, as the material superiority of their adversary, and the willingness of the Americans to accept stunning naval losses to hold the island gradually eroded the vital cruiser and destroyer strengths of the Japanese Navy.
	www.combinedfleet.com /guadal.htm (238 words)

	Oft-forgotten battle at Guadalcanal was a turning point in WWII
		To veterans who landed 60 years ago Wednesday on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal, it is a silence almost as eerie and inexplicable as the quiet of the early hours of their raid _ the first U.S. offensive of the war.
		The enemy was using Guadalcanal as a site for a new airfield, which threatened to expand the reach of Japan's empire toward New Zealand and Australia.
		Policy expert John Pike of Globalsecurity.org called the back-and-forth battles for Guadalcanal and the surrounding Solomon Islands "definitely a forgotten corner of the war."
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2002/020807-war1.htm (1028 words)

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