Ahead lay a second naval battle of Guadalcanal, which would seal the island's ultimate fate and place the initiative in the Pacific in American hands for the duration. Vice Adm. Abe and Captain ...

seeing action in notable naval battles such as the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and the assault on Okinawa. The ship also escorted aircraft carriers, including the USS Hornet and the USS Enterprise.

Instead, it led to a four-day-long combined air and sea engagement known as the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal that, in the end, turned back Japan’s last effort to re-take the airfield. During an ...

The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal was the last major naval battle between 1942 and 1943, with the next major maritime combat in 1944. One of the most challenging engagements for the US Navy in the ...

Richard Frank, in his book “Guadalcanal,” called the Aug. 9 naval battle off Guadalcanal “the most humiliating defeat suffered by the U.S. Navy in World War II.” Some 1,000 U.S. sailors ...

Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith carries what are believed to be the remains of a fallen Marine killed in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during a repatriation ceremony at ...

USS President Jackson under attack during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In the center background, smoke rises after an Japanese plane crashed into the superstructure of USS San Francisco.