As the Marines consolidated their gains on Guadalcanal and set out to capture the all-important Lunga point airfield, the Japanese immediately responded to their incursion. The unit responsible for the naval defense of the “south […]
As the largest invasion fleet assembled so far in the war approached Guadalcanal to begin the landing operations, the first order of business for VAdm Frank J. Fletcher’s Task Force 61 was to clear the […]
Kido Butai’s defeat at the Battle of Midway meant that American positions in the Central Pacific, including Hawaii, were now secure. US Navy Commander in Chief Admiral Ernest J. King now felt that the time […]
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