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The multiphase Naval Battle of Guadalcanal consisted of a series of destructive air and sea engagements closely related to the continuing Japanese effort to reinforce their ground forces on the island. Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 12–15 November 1942 and Japanese ships and aircraft confronted each other on the morning of 26 October, just north of the Santa Cruz Islands. forces fought the Japanese ground offensive to a standstill in the battle for Guadalcanal’s Henderson Field, U.S. In support of a major ground offensive by the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese carriers and other large warships were positioned near the southern Solomons in the hope of drawing out, engaging, and decisively defeating Allied naval forces. Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942 task force surprised the Japanese cruisers and destroyers north of Guadalcanal’s Cape Esperance as they approached Savo Island. At the same time, but in a separate operation, three Japanese heavy cruisers and two destroyers were to bombard Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. On the night of 11 October, the Japanese dispatched a major supply and reinforcement convoy to their ground forces engaged on Guadalcanal. Battle of Cape Esperance, 11 October 1942

It was fought during Operation Ka, the Japanese counteroffensive against Allied landings in the eastern Solomons. and Japanese ships never sighted each other during the course of this engagement-all attacks were carried out by carrier-based or shore-based aircraft. Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 23–25 August 1942Īs in the Coral Sea and at Midway, U.S.

The battle has come to be identified as the worst defeat in a single fleet action suffered by the United States Navy. In response to the Allied landings on Guadalcanal, the Imperial Japanese Navy undertook a night surface attack on the ships screening the Allied landing force.

Guadalcanal and Tulagi Landings, 7–8 August 1942Įight months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the 1st Marine Division, supported by naval air and gunnery support, landed on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the eastern Solomons.
