Both Norman Scott and Daniel J. Callaghan would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the intense ...

a history of air operations against Rabaul that included the Guadalcanal campaign, two books that overlap in content. The Cactus Air Force’s maps and naval battle track charts are also recycled and ...

Guadalcanal was a six-month campaign where two things were broken: the back of Japan’s naval aviation, and the myth of Japanese superiority in jungle warfare. The book provides much more detail than ...

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 ...