On August 7, 1942, Japan received an urgent alert that Allied forces had begun an invasion of the Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal ... Navy’s superior night battle tactics against the unprepared ...

Approaching was one of the victors at Savo Island ... Ahead lay a second naval battle of Guadalcanal, which would seal the island’s ultimate fate and place the initiative in the Pacific in ...

I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour.’ It was not an isolated episode. Earlier, at the Battle of Savo Island (near to Guadalcanal), the sinking of the USS Vincennes dumped a thousand men ...