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	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.
		In a series of combined air and sea engagements spread over three days, both sides lost a number of vessels in Ironbottom Sound; although the US lost more ships, the Japanese lost their battleships Hiei and Kirishima and lost loaded transports crucial to the resupply and reinforcement of their troops on Guadalcanal.
		On November 13, 1942 at about 01:00 the convoy entered Ironbottom Sound between Savo Island and Guadalcanal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal (877 words)

	Remembering 1942: The loss of HMAS Canberra, 9 August 1942 [Australian War Memorial] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Accompanying Canberra to the depths of Ironbottom Sound were the bodies of nine officers and 64 men - the first of a total of 84 personnel who would die as a result of what is now known as the "Battle of Savo Island".
		Sailing through a gap in the picket lines patrolled by US destroyers, the Japanese entered Ironbottom Sound and almost immediately came across one of two cruiser forces which had been positioned to deal with precisely the sort of threat which Mikawa's ships now posed.
		Failing to properly heed the sounds of battle away on their flank, these ships were promptly overwhelmed with similar ease before the Japanese raiders sailed off again into the night at 2.20.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/remembering1942/canberra/talk.htm (1509 words)

	Guadalcanal Campaign
		On October 11, 1942, Rear Admiral Norman Scott was patrolling near Savo Island at the entrance to Ironbottom Sound.
		Both sides would need to prepare to meet again, only the next time would be in Ironbottom Sound, the area that was attempting to be protected by forces in both battles so far, the battle of Savo Island and now the battle of Cape Esperance.
		However, this would form Task Group 67.4, which would be responsible for patrolling the entrance to Ironbottom Sound that night.
	www.angelfire.com /ia/totalwar/Guadalcanal.html (3211 words)

	Jarvis II dd 393 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Clearing Puget Sound 4 January 1938, Jarvis operated along the California coast and in the Oaribbean until 1 April 1940 when she departed San Diego for fleet exercises off the Hawaiian Islands.
		Warning of an impending air attack suspeded these operations; and the transports and their protective screen of destroyers and cruisers deployed in the body of water between Guadalcanal and Florida Island, soon to be called "Ironbottom Sound." When enemy torpedo bombers appeared about noon 8 August.
		Dezoey (DD-349) towed her to shallow anchorage off Lunga Point; and, after the attack, she crossed "Ironbottom Sound" to Tulagi, where she transferred her wounded and commenced emergency repairs.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/destroyer/JarvisIIdd393.html (1036 words)

	Pacific War Maps
		The night of October 11, 9142, found a U.S. task force commanded by Rear Admiral Norman Scott standing off the entrance to Ironbottom Sound.
		His mission was to screen the Sound from possible intrusion by any Japanese bombardment forces.
		As it happened, such a Japanese group, commanded by Rear Admiral Aritomo Goto, was approaching the entrance to the Sound at around midnight.
	www.combinedfleet.com /btl_ces.htm (536 words)

	Meade
		She reached Tulagi the 14th, and following the night battleship battle 14 to 15 November, she crossed Ironbottom Sound and for the better part of an hour blasted four beached enemy transports north of Tassafaronga with 5‑inch rapid fire.
		During 4 months of patrol and escort duty in the North Pacific, she provided shore bombardment and fire support during the invasion and occupation of fog‑shrouded Attu Island 11 May. Before departing the Aleutians, she also took part in the bloodless occupation of Kiska Island, previously evacuated by the Japanese.
		She departed Efate, New Hebrides, 13 November and sailed as part of the fire support group of the southern task force (TF 53) for the invasion of the Gilbert.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/m8/meade-ii.htm (1486 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ironbottom Sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fubuki was a Japanese destroyer sunk in Ironbottom Sound during the Battle of Cape Esperance in World War II.
		Furutaka was a Japanese cruiser sunk in Ironbottom Sound during the Battle of Cape Esperance in World War II.
		USS Gregory (DD-82) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and, as APD-3 World War II.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ironbottom-Sound (1562 words)

	DD-393 Jarvis
		Clearing Puget Sound 4 January 1938, Jarvis operated along the California coast and in the Caribbean until 1 April 1940 when she departed San Diego for fleet exercises off the Hawaiian Islands.
		Warning of an impending air attack suspended these operations; and the transports and their protective screen of destroyers and cruisers deployed in the body of water between Guadalcanal and Florida Island, soon to be called "Ironbottom Sound." When enemy torpedo bombers appeared about noon 8 August.
		Dewey (DD-349) towed her to shallow anchorage off Lunga Point; and, after the attack, she crossed "Ironbottom Sound" to Tulagi, where she transferred her wounded and commenced emergency repairs.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-393.htm (1033 words)

	Fork In The Road
		The mission was simple: sweep Ironbottom Sound off Guadalcanal on the night of the 14th, shell the airfield, cover the convoy arrival, then high-tail it home before dawn of the 15th.
		Naval War College doctrine forbade the use of battleships in a tightly confined space such as Ironbottom Sound, just north of Guadalcanal, but Halsey knew that wars were won at sea, not in a textbook.
		After Washington headed south from Ironbottom Sound on the morning of November 14, it was clear which way the war would go.
	www.usswashington.com /forkroad.htm (6379 words)

	A Tin Can Sailors Destroyer History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the early morning hours of August 22, 1942, USS BLUE was patrolling the waters of Ironbottom Sound, escorting a convoy in the company of two of her sister ships.
		A Japanese destroyer, slipping into the Sound behind a group of attack transports (APDs), launched two torpedoes at the destroyer.
		On August 22, 1942, USS BLUE sank beneath the waves of Ironbottom Sound.
	www.destroyers.org /nl-histories/dd387-nl.htm (455 words)

	Turning Point in the Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Davis fretted over navigating in Ironbottom Sound's close quarters, but navigator Schanze was calm.
		His only chance of landing the remainder of the convoy depended on Kondo's ability to clear Ironbottom Sound.
		As soon as Ironbottom Sound was secure, Tanaka would land his transports.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blturningpointinthepacific/index1.html (986 words)

	The Battle of Savo Island: August 9th, 1942
		Admiral Mikawa's approach was made even easier when Rabaul signalled him that air strikes had already accounted for a good deal of the enemy forces in the sound, including eight transports (which may have been important in his later decision to leave the transports alone instead of going after them).
		On the latter, the sudden shock of gunfire from the north brought the bridge watch into action and Captain Getting to the bridge, but her engagement that night would be swift and violent.
		Silence fell over the sound, and no hints remained that only a day before, Allied and Japanese naval forces had fought the largest surface battle to that date in the Pacific.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/savo_island.htm (4150 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - Oct. 4, 1942
		Scott turns his ships into Ironbottom Sound to intercept, for the first surface engagement since Savo Island.
		The night sky is clear except for occasional heat lightning to the northwest of Ironbottom Sound.
		USS Washington sounds General Quarters at dawn, and the battleship and her escorts head south from San Cristobal, bound for Espiritu Santo.
	www.usswashington.com /dl11oc42.htm (8697 words)

	Meade
		She reached Tulagi the 14th, and tot/owing the night battleship battle 14 to 15 November, she crossed Ironbottom Sound and for the better part of an hour blasted tour beached enemy transports north of Tassafaronga with 5 - inch rapid fire.
		The hapless transports previously had suffered aerial strafing and bombing attacks, and Meade's concentrated gunfire left them wrecks "blazing with many internal explosions." Thence she cruised the waters between Savo Island and Guadalcanal and rescued 288 men from destroyers Preston (DD-379) and Walke (DD-416) sunk during the fierce fighting of the previous night.
		During 4 months of patrol and escort duty in the North Pacific, she provided shore bombardment and fire support during the invasion and occupation of fog-shrouded Attu Island 11 May. Before departing the Aleutians she also took part in the bloodless occupation of Kiska Island, previously evacuated by the Japanese.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Base/1250/meade.html (1244 words)

	Battle of Savo Island; loss of HMAS Canberra
		Ahead of him were several groups of Allied warships, their crews exhausted from days of continuous combat operations.
		Due to the three entrances to the soon-to-be-infamous Ironbottom Sound, the Allied forces were compelled to divide their strength into three patrolling squadrons: Southern, Northern, and Eastern.
		An attack on the anchorage, according to one of Mikawa's staff officers, would have added nearly two hours to the operation, placing Mikawa's force in a dangerous position when dawn broke at around 0400.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww2/savo_island.htm (588 words)

	Ironbottom Sound
		Thanks to both Paul Mason and a simultaneous intelligence report of approaching enemy submarines, all Allied ships were under way and carrier fighter aircraft were in position to intercept by the time the Japanese aircraft arrived over Guadalcanal on 7 August.
		American destroyers sank the damaged Canberra in ‘Ironbottom Sound’ at 8.00 am on 10 August 1942.
		The Plymouth Naval Memorial, one of three erected in the United Kingdom after the end of World War I, lists the names of Royal Navy personnel whose home port was Plymouth as well as Royal Australian Navy (RAN) personnel from both world wars who have no known grave but the sea.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /waratsea/ironbottom.html (1217 words)

	The Wargamer - Historical Article: Pacific Lancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shigure was also on hand with Des Div 27, but this latter division was detached to patrol the waters between Guadalcanal and the Russell Islands rather than to follow the main force.
		Abe's raiding force was not well prepared for a surface action as it steamed into "Ironbottom Sound" between Guadalcanal and Savo Island on the night of November 12/13.
		A larger US cruiser/destroyer group ambushed his ships, and the destroyer Takanami was lost to gunfire, but Tanaka and his destroyer crews kept their wits and countered with a torpedo salvo that sank one heavy cruiser (Northampton) and heavily damaged three others.
	www.wargamer.com /articles/pacific_lancers/page4.asp (1081 words)

	First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
		Japan had just lost 74 planes at Santa Cruz, but the United States had lost the aircraft carrier Hornet, and her sole remaining flattop, Enterprise, was badly damaged.
		American planes ruled "The Slot" and Ironbottom Sound off Guadalcanal by day, but Japanese ships dominated them by night.
		Early on the morning of November 12, the Americans won the race to reinforce Guadalcanal when eight U.S. transports steamed into Ironbottom Sound.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blnavalbattleofguadalcanal (1064 words)

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		Subject: Ironbottom Sound II replay: Battle of Cape Esperance We played our second game of Ironbottom Sound II yesterday.
		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).
		But then, this is not the scenario where they're likely, and most japanese torpedo mounts were scrap by the time they could have been used.
	grognard.com /reviews/ibs.txt (1087 words)

	The Green Head - Shopping : Video Shop - National Geographic - The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By the time Guadalcanal was firmly held by an occupying Allied force, the northern water passage, dubbed Iron Bottom Sound, was strewn with the wrecks of some 50 warships from both sides.
		Comment: This documentary splits its time between the past, the Guadalcanal campagne, and the search at present (1992) for the many ships lost there in "Ironbottom Sound." The historical segment gives a relatively good account, giving a concise and understandable explanation of events.
		It was here from August 1942 to February 1943 that some of the greatest naval battles of World War II were fought.
	www.thegreenhead.com /emporium/6304475284/National-Geographic---The-Lost-Fleet-of-Guadalcanal.html (923 words)

	Tropical Adventures Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guadalcanal, Ironbottom Sound, the "Slot", Savo Island, all invoke memories of air/sea battles that saw hundreds of ships and aircraft destroyed and sunk.
		Now these wrecks have been transformed into striking reefs by brilliantly coloured corals, seafans and gargonians.
		Both M.V. Bilikiki and M.V. Spirit of Solomons operate from Honiara, on Guadalcanal Island, to dive sites in Ironbottom Sound, and in the Florida Islands, the Russell Islands and Marovo Lagoon in the New Georgia Islands.
	www.diversdiscount.com /travel/spiritsol.html (169 words)

	Naval Campaigns: Guadalcanal - from CDAccess.com
		The inexperienced American Navy, with the advantage of radar, was fighting against the Japanese Imperial Navy and their superior torpedoes.
		This action would result in such familiar names as Ironbottom Sound and the Tokyo Express.
		The outcome would determine if the American campaign to retake the Solomon Islands could succeed or if the Japanese would retain their conquered empire.
	www.cdaccess.com /html/pc/guadalc.htm (350 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - August 25th-August 28th, 1942
		The Japanese, incredibly, believe they have sunk two American carriers..They send in three destroyers to sweep Ironbottom Sound for shipping after midnight (find none), and shell the American premises, killing two Marines.
		"The men were quiet," records the official history, "the silence was broken by a strange sound coming from the east...when a light was seen through the jungle, an angry voice yelled 'Put out that bloody light!' It was thought to be one of the battalion's Bren carriers." Instead the Japanese open fire.
		The ships sweep into Ironbottom Sound by night, unload men and materials, hurl a few shells at the Americans, and head home.
	www.usswashington.com /dl25au42.htm (3422 words)

	A Tin Can Sailors Destroyer History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		USS DRAYTON was in the van of Task Force 67 as the force swept up "Ironbottom Sound" west of Guadalcanal.
		The target was a group of eight Japanese tin cans commanded by Rear Admiral Raizo "Tenacious" Tanaka, intent on landing supplies.
		DRAYTON would spend the next several hours slowly scouring the waters of Ironbottom Sound for the cruiser's survivors.
	www.destroyers.org /nl-histories/dd366-nl.htm (696 words)

	The Diary of a Corsair Pilot in the Solomons: Guadalcanal, Flying Strikes against Munday, Rendova & Kahlil
		Tulagi was an island base just north across "Ironbottom Sound" from Cactus.
		Ironbottom Sound got its name from the many American, Australian and Japanese warships which had been sunk and now littered the bottom.
		It has been said that there were so many ships sunk there that magnetic compasses were not dependable.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /wdiary9.html (1173 words)

	t a c i t u s \|\| Comments Like Vietnam or Guadalcanal? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We lost the Hornet, they lost the Ryujo, but we came off the better long term (also hit Shokaku pretty hard, knocked her out for a while).
		Some of my favorite naval battles of WWII happened around Savo Island, Ironbottom Sound.
		More to the point, the USN didn't learn carrier task force ops at Guadalcanal; they had been working on them during the pre-war period, and US carrier operation even in the early part of the war was generally superior to Japanese.
	www.tacitus.org /comments/2004/9/25/65942/7403/22 (146 words)

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