Three bloody days later the Japs were retreating northward from Guadalcanal waters and the Navy had won one of the most ... U.S. admiral to lose his life in battle (the others: Rear Admirals ...

In the night of November 14-15, 1942, the USS Washington (BB-56) played head-swellingly big in the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, which wrote the momentous history of a Pacific war.

This footage highlights the Guadalcanal Campaign in World War II, where U.S. Marines fought Japanese units. The Battle of Guadalcanal began on August 7, 1942.

In the opening days of August 1942, a B-17 was flown over Guadalcanal and saw that the Japanese had nearly completed an ...

whom had just invaded Guadalcanal two days before. A US Navy strategical and tactical analysis of the battle, which was published in 1950, praised the commanding Japanese admiral, Gunichi Mikawa ...