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77 years ago today, the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
Posted on 11/14/19 at 8:15 am
Posted on 11/14/19 at 8:15 am
Last in a series of confused nighttime melees which until this point the US had gotten the worst of. This time the battleships Washington and South Dakota sank the Japanese battleship Kirishima using radar directed gunfire, turning back a resupply convoy and ultimately sealing the fate of the Japanese defenders on Guadalcanal. LINK
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Posted on 11/14/19 at 8:18 am to Jim Rockford
Ching Chong China Lee 
Posted on 11/14/19 at 8:26 am to Jim Rockford
My Grandfather was in the 1st Marine Division when they left New Zealand. They were told they were headed to Alaska. They had cold weather gear and WW1 guns. They got dropped off on Guadalcanal and the Navy left them while Japan brought in thousands of troops on the other side of the island. He fought in Tarawa, Sipan and Tinian but he never talked much about Guadalcanal. After Guadalcanal there wasn't enough Marines left in the 1st Division so they transferred them to the 2nd Division.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 8:29 am to Jim Rockford
Thank you Jim.....I enjoyed reading that. 
Posted on 11/14/19 at 8:30 am to Jim Rockford
LINK
go to page 8 of this report and see how bad we wailed on the Jap battleship Kirishima
go to page 8 of this report and see how bad we wailed on the Jap battleship Kirishima
This post was edited on 11/14/19 at 8:31 am
Posted on 11/14/19 at 10:46 am to Jim Rockford
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The first USS Juneau (CL-52) was a United States Navy Atlanta-class light cruiser sunk at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 13 November 1942. In total, 687 men, including the five Sullivan brothers, were killed in action as a result of its sinking.
Sullivan brothers
Caroline's Spine -Sullivan
Great tribute song
Posted on 11/14/19 at 11:05 am to Jim Rockford
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A few hundred miles away, a Japanese staff officer was also penning a report, an appreciation of the Pacific war situation just before the two battles of Guadalcanal, which read, ‘It must be said that the success or failure in recapturing Guadalcanal Island, and the vital naval battle related to it, is the fork in the road which leads to victory for them or us.’
That was the day that the tide turned in the Pacific War. From that point on the US had the initiative and never lost it.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 11:13 am to Jim Rockford
My paw paw was a Navy Seabee at Guadalcanal in 1942. He ended up getting malaria but survived that. He passed about 10 years ago. Great man and great American.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 11:28 am to Jim Rockford
Ironbottom sound is a solemn place for american and japanese sailors.
Lots of men died there.
Lots of men died there.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 6:39 pm to Jim Rockford
My grandfather was on the San Francisco heavy cruiser at Guadalcanal. Pearl through the Leyte Gulf. I was about 12 or so when he died but he never talked about it to me. I think he was a corpsman so he probably saw the worst the war had to offer.
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