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	USS OAKLAND HISTORY 1943
		Battle of the Komandorski Islands is fought between a task group comprising 2 cruisers and 4 destroyers (Rear Adm. C.
		Battle of Kula Gulf is fought in the darkness as a task group consisting of 3 cruisers and 4 destroyers (Rear Adm. W.
		Battle of Empress Augusta Bay is fought during darkness as task force comprising 4 light cruisers and 8 destroyers (rear Adm. A.
	www.rtcol.com /~weshortz/history/hist43.htm (2368 words)

	battle of vella lavella - 1st vellum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Battle of Vella Lavella (October 6, 1943) In October, the Japanese ran another /destroyer barge force towards Vella Lavella to try and rescue the 600-some soldiers stranded there.
		The battle was fought between the islands of Vella Lavella and Kolombangara on the night of 6 August 1943.
		Battle of Vella Lavella - As nine Japanese destroyers complete the evacuation of the island on the night of the 6th/7th, they are intercepted by three US ships.
	vellum.oteshapy.info /dir1/battle-of-vella-lavella.html (597 words)

	The Battle of Vella Gulf: August 6-7, 1943, by Vincent P. O'Hara
		This arrangement was an adaptation of Burke's basic destroyer battle doctrine: destroyers would operate in two groups, the group closest to the enemy when contact was made would attack with torpedoes.
		Shigure, lagging by 1,500 yards, had her torpedo tubes trained to port since the shores of Vella Lavella to starboard were clear of ships.
		From the battle area, burning oil covered the sea while the smell of gas was so strong it burned the eyes.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/vella_gulf.htm (2506 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		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.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Pacific_War.html (2897 words)

	Medal of Honor, USN, Submarines, Solomons, Sicily, Lae, New Guinea, Bougainville, Bismarck, Tarawa, Gilberts, Gilmore, ...
		Battle of Kula Gulf - On the night of the 5th/6th July, three U.S. cruisers and four destroyers are in a fight with 10 'Tokyo Express' destroyers off the north coast of New Georgia.
		Battle of Vella Lavella - As nine Japanese destroyers completed the evacuation of the island of Vella Lavella on the night of the 6th/7th October, they were intercepted by three US ships.
		Battle of Cape St George - Five Japanese 'Tokyo Express' destroyers headed for the Bougainville area and early on the 25th were intercepted by five US destroyers off the southern tip of New Ireland.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2USMoH1943.htm (5707 words)

	Fighting Steel: Review
		Battle sizes are determined by the campaign criteria and not by my ability to manage my fleet assets.
		Battle victory once inside an engagement is determined by the ability of the commander to maneuver his fleet into an optimal firing position, usually with all guns pointed at the enemy.
		While I was stretched to come up with any battles of the period that used landforms as a distinguishing part of the battle, I would have appreciated some kind of ability to simulate landforms in the engagements.
	www.combatsim.com /review.php?id=539 (2798 words)

	The Battle of Vella LaVella, October 6 - 7, 1943, by Vincent P. O'Hara
		Hara explains his old commander's conduct of this battle with this sighting report and the fact he was exhausted from sustained duty.
		Although the 8th Fleet recognized Vella Lavella as a victory, they bestowed cermonional swords on the skippers of Shigure and Samidare and ignored the commander.
		Nonetheless, flawed though it may have been, Vella Lavella was Japan's last surface victory of the war.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/vella_lavella.htm (1573 words)

	WORLD WAR II 1943
		The Battle of the Atlantic reaches a climax as German U-boats sink 27 merchant ships between March 16 and March 20.
		The gunboat USS Plymouth (PG-57) is sunk by a submarine torpedo.
		LST-167 is damaged by a dive bomber at Vella Lavella in the Solomons.
	www.blountweb.com /blountcountymilitary/wars/ww2/timelines/1943_ww2.htm (9086 words)

	Battle of Vella Lavella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Battle of Vella Lavella may refer to three related battles between the Allies and Japan in the Solomon Islands in 1943, during the Pacific campaign of World War II.
		The Land Battle of Vella Lavella from August 15 to October 9, 1943.
		The Naval Battle of Vella Lavella on October 6, 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Vella_Lavella (139 words)

	Naval Battle of Vella Lavella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The U.S. destroyer Chevalier was sunk in the Naval Battle of Vella Lavella
		The Battle of Vella Lavella (Japanese: 第二次ベララベラ海戦) was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II fought on the night of October 6, 1943 near the island of Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands.
		After their defeats on New Georgia and in the battle of Vella Gulf, the Japanese had evacuated their garrisons in the central Solomons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Vella_Lavella (563 words)

	Home > Corte Madera, California, CA, 94925, Corte Madera Real Estate, Corte Madera Yellow Pages, Corte Madera ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In response to this, officers of the Japanese Kwantung Army, manufactured the Battle of Lugou Bridge (also known as the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident") on July 8, 1937, which succeeded in provoking a conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, the Sino-Japanese War.
		They were soundly defeated in the Battle of Halhin Gol by a mixed Soviet and Mongolian force led by Georgy Zhukov.
		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.cortemaderacaus.com /section/Pacific_War (6905 words)

	USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is named for the Battle of Vella Gulf, a naval engagement in the Solomons campaign of World War II.
		In the battle of Vella Gulf, six American destroyers - Dunlap, Craven, Maury, Lang, Sterrett, and Stack - engaged a group of four enemy destroyers attempting to reinforce Japanese troops on Kolombangara.
		Vella Gulf is employed in support of carrier battle groups, amphibious assault groups, as well as in interdiction and escort missions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Vella_Gulf_(CG-72) (825 words)

	Pacific Naval Battles
		Pacific Naval Battles in World War II The Pacific War was the largest naval conflict in history.
		Every conceivable type of naval activity was represented: carrier aviation battles, surface engagements, bitterly fought night-fights, the largest amphibious landings of the entire war, and the stealthy, brutal battles waged by and against submarines.
		I have compiled information on a number of the more important (and, I think, interesting) battles of the war, including a synopsis, tabular displays of the forces involved, and in some cases ship movement track charts.
	www.combinedfleet.com /map.htm (492 words)

	DD-468 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		That sea battle never materialized because the enemy activities upon which he predicated his actions were actually movements preparatory to a Japanese withdrawal.
		Taylor went alongside Selfridge in the closing moments of the battle and evacuated most of her crew while a skeleton crew began their successful attempt to save the damaged destroyer.
		That night, as the Battle of Surigao Strait opened, Taylor and the other destroyers of her division were anchored near the entrance of San Pedro Bay.
	members.tripod.com /BIW_History/shiphistory/hull194.html (5824 words)

	WW2DB: Solomons Campaign
		In his usual tendency to devise complex battle plans, Yamamoto sent the light carrier Ryujo ahead of the rest of the fleet on a bait role, sending her planes to attack Guadalcanal, thus drawing attention from the American pilots; meanwhile, the aircraft from the two fleet carriers would charge in to attack the American counterparts.
		During the battle, American destroyer Porter was lost, and destroyer Smith's superstructure was damaged from a suicide attack from a torpedo bomber.
		This battle is important because for the first time American destroyers had demonstrated that, given the opportunity, they could meet and best their opposite numbers.
	ww2db.com /battle_spec.php?battle_id=8 (6881 words)

	The 35th on Vella Lavella
		Preparations were made for any potential counterattacks by the Japanese and improvements to the new base of operations were made so that it might be used in further operations against the Japanese, who were still in strong positions in the Solomon Islands.
		Forces, instead, were committed on Vella Lavella, the island northwest of Kolombangara, which was reported to be held only by a small group of Japanese, and on Arundel.
		This was the situation when, on 18 September, Admiral Halsey turned the command of the forces on Vella Lavella over to Maj. Gen. H.E. Barrowclough, commander of the 3d New Zealand Division, which relieved the 35th Infantry.
	www.cacti35th.org /regiment/history/history/vellalavella.htm (958 words)

	USN Ships--USS Chevalier (DD-451)
		Late in that month, while serving in the screen of a task force of cruisers, escort aircraft carriers and destroyers, she participated in the air-sea Battle of Rennell Island, one of the final actions of the long and bloody Guadalcanal Campaign.
		On the night of 6-7 october, she was one of three U.S. destroyers that took on a force of six Japanese destroyers.
		When this Battle of Vella Lavella was over, Chevalier and her companion destroyer Selfridge had been hit by enemy torpedoes and one of the Japanese ships had been sunk.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/dd451.htm (576 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 (1324 words)

	Pacific, British, Fleet, Kula, Gulf, Empress, Augusta, Bay, Vella Lavella, Leyte, Sibuyan, Sea, Samar, Engano, Cape, ...
		In the seven main naval battles alone, US losses had been one carrier, six cruisers and eight destroyers plus the "Wasp" and Australian "Canberra".
		In the few months she was out there, there were not one carrier battle to follow on the 1942 Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz.
		In fact the Japanese were about to lose three battleships, four carriers (admittedly with few aircraft on board), 10 cruisers and nine destroyers in the battles and actions known collectively as the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsPacific2.htm (5771 words)

	A Tin Can Sailors Destroyer History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The land and naval battles of Guadalcanal had reached the critical phase and control of the island, just over eight hundred miles from Australia, could decide the outcome of the war in the Pacific.
		The battle seemed won, but heavier Japanese forces were moving south into the battle.
		At the Battle of Vella Lavella, DD-445, in company with USS SELFRIDGE (DD-357) and USS CHEVALIER (DD-451), USS O’BANNON slashed at the final Japanese effort to evacuate the area.
	www.destroyers.org /nl-histories/dd450-nl.htm (1071 words)

	Selfridge II dd 357
		On the morning of the 9th, she assisted survivors of the Battle of Savo Island and, with Ellet sank the badly-damaged Australian cruiser, Canberra, then, toward evening, departed the area to escort the transports to Noumea.
		In late September, as a unit of the 3d Fleet's amphibious force, she escorted an LST convoy to Vella Lavella, then commenced nightime patrols up "the Slot" to intercept Japanese shipping.
		In the ensuing Battle of Vella Lavella, Chevalier was torpedoed and damaged beyond repair.
	www.multied.com /Navy/destroyer/dest2/SelfridgeIIdd357.html (1364 words)

	USS Oakland CL-95 History 1943
		Battle of Kula Gulf is fought in the darkness as a task group consisting
		Battle of Empress Augusta Bay is fought during darkness as task
		Japanese naval vessels sunk, Battle of Empress Augusta
	www.rtcol.com /~oakland/hist43.html (1853 words)

	Battle_of_vella_lavella info here at en.16-yo.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Naval History - Oct. 06 1943 - In the Battle of Vella Lavella, three US destroyers attack nine Japanese destroyers to stop evacuation of Japanese troops from Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands.
		The john doe Battle of Vella Lavella may refer to four parallel battles at intervals the Allies und Japan in the Solomon Islands in 1943, when the Pacific campaign of World War II.
		The naval Battle of Vella Gulf on the eventide of August 6-7, 1943.
	en.16-yo.info /Battle_of_Vella_Lavella (244 words)

	Two Great Ships
		Nicholas was alongside De Haven when the latter was lost to air attack in February, and in line ahead of Strong when that ship was torpedoed in July.
		O’Bannon engaged shore batteries while Chevalier rescued Strong survivors in July, then rammed the torpedoed Chevalier and picked up her survivors during the Battle of Vella Lavella in October.
		O’Bannon ended the war with 17 battle stars earned (a number surpassed only by aircraft carrier Enterprise’s 20, 7 of which were earned before O’Bannon earned her first); Nicholas earned 16.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /fletcherclass/ussobannon/twogreatships.html (618 words)

	Vella Lavella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vella Lavella is an island in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands.
		It lies to the west of New Georgia, but is considered one of the New Georgia Group.
		The sea around the island was the site of the Naval Battle of Vella Lavella in World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vella_LaVella (97 words)

	Were the Best Good Enough?
		Prior to the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (13 Nov 42), Japanese torpedo firing doctrine appears to have been to fire half the torpedoes in the tubes in one salvo, then fire the remainder in a second salvo, then reload all tubes fired.
		From the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal through the Battle of the Komandorski Islands (26 Mar 43), torpedo firing doctrine appears to have been in flux, with some ships/units firing two half salvos and then reloading while others completely empty their tubes in a single salvo and then reload.
		After the Battle of the Komandorski Islands, torpedo firing doctrine appears to have shifted to firing all tubes in a single salvo and then reloading.
	www.navweaps.com /index_tech/tech-067.htm (4166 words)

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