The Battle of Savo Island, a crushing World War II naval defeat for the Allies, ended on August 9, 1942. After the guns fell silent, the Japanese Navy would sink four Allied heavy cruisers ...

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273–81. Dennis Warner and Peggy Warner, with Sadao Seno, Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle of Savo Island (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1992), p. 55. 43. Vice Adm. Raizo ...

201. 3. Toshikaze Ohmae, “The Battle of Savo Island,” in The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers, ed. David C. Evans, 2nd ed. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute ...

So many second world war ships and planes were sunk around Savo Island in months of conflict between the US and Japan, that this stretch of the Pacific Ocean earned the new name Iron Bottom Sound.

Admiral Sir Victor Alfred Trumper 'VAT' Smith led the first mass torpedo strike against a major warship at sea, survived ...

Maxwell. He is somewhat charitable, and while he properly criticizes Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher’s decision-making process prior to Savo Island, Frank points out what might have had valid reasons ...

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