Two months after the U.S. defeated Japan at the Battle ... Guadalcanal, then kept the Japanese from retaking it. John Bruning’s “Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island” focuses on the air ...

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 ...

Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in the Pacific War: the defeat of the Japanese at Guadalcanal ... a two-day sea and air battle off the coast of Saipan.

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 ...

The three narrative threads occasionally intersect, and cover events such as the Guadalcanal campaign and the Battles of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa, as well as Basilone’s contribution to the ...

Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in the Pacific War: the defeat of the Japanese at Guadalcanal ... a two-day sea and air battle off the coast of Saipan.