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	Guadalcanal Naval Battles
		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)

	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 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal was the last major attempt by the Japanese to seize control of the seas around Guadalcanal.
		The last resistance in the battle of Guadalcanal ended on February 9, 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal (1203 words)

	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.
		These naval battles did not produce a tactical victory for either side, but the battle was strategically critical in that the Japanese were unable to quickly replace their lost ships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Guadalcanal (1536 words)

	Guadalcanal, Battle of
		The fight for the island of Guadalcanal was the first battle to include an American amphibious invasion of Japanese-held territory.
		A Japanese naval force came toward the much smaller American task force, and was able to sink two cruisers, but at the cost of a battleship.
		The Japanese came after American forces with all of their remaining naval units, which were four cruisers and a battleship.
	library.thinkquest.org /15511/data/encyclopedia/guadalcanal.htm (208 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)

	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.
		The Guadalcanal campaign had several naval battles throughout the months of fighting, the largest of which include Savo Island, the Battle of Cape Esperance, the First and Second Naval Battles, the Battle of Tassaforonga.
		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)

	The Wargamer - PC Game Review: Naval Campaigns: Guadalcanal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Air-Naval Battle of Guadalcanal fought 12-15 November proved to be the turning point in the over all campaign.
		The Battle of Cape St. George was the last surface naval battle to be fought in the Solomons.
		Guadalcanal covers the battles of Savo Island, Cape Esperance, First and Second Naval Battles of Guadalcanal, Tassafaronga, two PT and destroyer actions, Kolobangara, and Cape St. George.
	www.wargamer.com /reviews/guadalcanal/page2.asp (1015 words)

	ipedia.com: Battle of Guadalcanal Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The invasion of Guadalcanal by sixteen thousand United States troops began on 7 August, 1942 and was the first American offensive of the Pacific Campaign.
		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.ipedia.com /battle_of_guadalcanal.html (560 words)

	Guadalcanal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		On the 8th, the Japanese naval commander Mikawa sent a naval force from Rabaul down between the islands of the Solomon Chain (known as "The Slot") on the night of the 8th and hit TF 44 by surprise.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/ww2timeline/guadal3.html (2042 words)

	Guadalcanal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Naval action in the spring and summer of 1942 gave American ground forces and opening into the South Pacific.
		That is, naval forces would secure the seas around the objective for as long as it took ground forces to clear Guadalcanal of enemy.
		Fire support in various forms-air, naval, and field artillery-remained plentiful throughout the campaign, although in the early weeks air squadrons were occupied with enemy aircraft.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/72-8/72-8.htm (7764 words)

	Book Review: Guadalcanal Decision at Sea
		The three-day air and naval action incorporated America’s most decisive surface battle of the war and the only naval battle of Pacific in which American battleships directly confronted and mortally wounded an enemy battleships.
		Guadalcanal Decision at Sea Second book in his Guadalcanal series, first three chapter quickly summarize the previous book: the setting for the decisive naval battle of Guadalcanal with the US Marine's landing in August, subsequent Japanese countermoves.
		The crippling Naval treaties of Five Powers Naval armament treaty of 1922 humiliated its prestigious navy, and put it behind British and Americans in the number of warships.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /reviews/guad-sea.html (797 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Battle of Guadalcanal [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Template:Battlebox The Battle of Guadalcanal was one of the most important battles of World War II.
		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.
	encyclozine.com /Battle_of_Guadalcanal (1188 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)

	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.
		Since the Battle of the Coral Sea had also been fought in the area of the Solomons (the first naval battle in history in which opposing ships didn't even see each other), a study of carrier tactics necessarily means a study of the War in this area.
	www.friesian.com /history/guadal.htm (2830 words)

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		Guadalcanal, the then unheard of island where the Americans (along with the Australians at Kokoda in Papua New Guinea) destroyed the myth of Japanese invincibility in the Pacific.
		As Napoleon once remarked, "Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense, and there stand empires." While the US victory at Midway may have shut the door on the Japanese, it was the eventual American supremacy at Guadalcanal that firmly locked it.
		Guadalcanal finally 'belonged' to the Americans and their push up the Solomon chain and on to Japan was set to begin.
	www.iantd.com /articles2.html (6922 words)

	Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
		There were a number of major sea battles fought for control of the sea ways to Australia including the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle which was fought entirely by air.
		Thus was established the Japanese expertise and overwhelming superiority in night fighting tactics which would come back again and again in the numerous night surface engagements in the Solomon campaign, especially in the Naval Battle for Guadalcanal on November 13th.
		Admiral Yamamoto was hoping that his new "Operation KA" would bring the decisive battle he was hoping for although the main objective was to provide air cover for the transport group that was to land 1,500 Imperial Marines on Guadalcanal.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/4072/Guadbatl.html (1689 words)

	Action Report: 13-15 November 1942
		This action report details Enterprise's involvement in the 13-15 November 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: a series of brutal day and night engagements that marked the turning point of the Guadalcanal campaign, and arguably of the Pacific War.
		At 1925, November 12, 1942, a report was received from Radio GUADALCANAL of two enemy CV and two DD at 1450 (Love) on course 135°, speed 15, bearing 265°, distant 150 miles, from LUNGA POINT, or approximately 575 miles to the northwest of Task Force 16.
		The almost total absence of reports from GUADALCANAL as to the status of the landing field introduced an unnecessary element of uncertainty.
	www.cv6.org /ship/logs/action19421113.htm (3244 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)

	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)

	Books on Naval Battles with UKshelf.com
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		Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal November 13-15, 1942 --- Â£27.50
	www.hlebooks.com /UKSHELF/MARINE/navbat.htm (673 words)

	Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle Book Reviews
		Guadalcanal was a six-month campaign where two things were broken: the back of Japan’s naval aviation, and the myth of Japanese superiority in jungle warfare.
		The only exception to Frank’s charitable assessments of naval commanders appears to be the performance of Daniel Callaghan at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
		His recounting of the battle contains discrepancies from the account done by James W. Grace in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: Night Action, 13 November, 1942, most notably by raising the notion that Rear Admiral Norman Scott was killed by friendly fire from the heavy cruiser San Francisco.
	www.strategypage.com /bookreviews/225.asp (494 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.
		#1 = Battle of Makassar Strait, February 4, 1942
	www.combinedfleet.com /map.htm (492 words)

	World War II> Battles & Main Events > 1939 and 1940 > Naval Battle Of Guadalcanal
		The first part of the battle took place early in the morning hours of the 13th.
		The battle turned into a melee, during the course of it two American cruisers were sunk.
		The battle continued through the next day with two Japanese cruisers sunk by American planes.
	www.multied.com /ww2/events/NavalBattleGuadalcanal.html (164 words)

	The Battleship Kongo
		Previously, naval battles had been fought at close quarters, and many warships in the late 19th century had been built with rams.
		Although Britain had restarted its naval race with German by the innovation of the Dreadnought, the kind of thing that the Royal Navy had always tried to avoid, in 1909 it was on the verge of falling behind.
		There were other advantages too, however, and the Battle of Tsushima, 27-28 May 1905, turned out to be one of the more decisive naval battles in history, with most of the Russian fleet, including all the battleships, either sunk or captured.
	www.friesian.com /kongo.htm (6746 words)

	Fletcher Class Destroyer
		Naval art prints of US Destroyers of the Mahan, Gridley, Bagley, Somers, Allen M Sumner, Gearing and Fletcher classes including USS Maddox.
		Late October 1942 in the waters east of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Santa Cruz saw the sinking of the US carrier Hornet, in what proved to be the last major carrier battle of the South Pacific theatre.
		USS Hornet, Eye of the Storm by Anthony Saunders Late October 1942 in the waters east of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Santa Cruz saw the sinking of the US carrier Hornet, in what proved to be the last major carrier battle of the South Pacific theatre.
	www.naval-art.com /us_destroyers.htm (880 words)

	NWCR, Spring 2000: Review of Grace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	THE BATTLE FOR GUADALCANAL, 7 August 1942 -7 February 1943
		By November 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy appeared to be narrowly winning the battle for control of the seas around Guadalcanal, and control of the seas was essential to supply and reinforce the American Marines and Japanese troops engaged in a bloody battle of attrition on the island.
		After the first Naval Battle of Guadalcanal had ended disastrously for the US Navy during the hours of darkness on the morning of 13 November 1942, Marine aircraft of the "Cactus Air Force" attacked and caused the destruction of the Japanese battleship Hiei off Savo Island.
		Upon learning that the Japanese were building an airbase on Guadalcanal, Admirals King and Nimitz agreed on 5 July 1942 that capture of this airstrip should be included in the Solomons operation.
	www.users.bigpond.com /battleforaustralia/Guadalcanal.html (1106 words)

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