Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942
Title | Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 |
ISBN | 9781943604142 |
"This is a combat narrative prepared in 1943 by the Office of Naval Intelligence concerning the Battle of Tassafaronga and the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal."--Provided by publisher.
Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942
Title | Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 57 |
Release | 1944 |
Genre | Guadalcanal Island (Solomon Islands), Battle of, 1942-1943 |
ISBN |
The Battle of Tassafaronga
Title | The Battle of Tassafaronga PDF eBook |
Author | Estate of R S Crenshaw |
Publisher | Naval Institute Press |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2010-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1612515517 |
The Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II’s Guadalcanal campaign. It ended a string of Japanese victories, but it was also a horrible embarrassment to the U.S. Navy, which had three heavy cruisers damaged and one sunk to enemy torpedoes. After the battle, American commanders erroneously reported that multiple enemy ships had been sunk or seriously damaged, leading Admiral Nimitz to focus on training as the missing ingredient. Not until more than half a century later did Captain Russell S. Crenshaw, Jr., the destroyer Maury’s gunnery officer during the battle, discover that the outcome hinged instead on critical shortcomings that had been built into the U.S. Navy before the war—defective torpedoes, poor intelligence, blinding gunfire, over-confidence, and a tendency to equate volume of fire with effectiveness of fire—factors that turned the battle into “a crucible in which the very nature of the U.S. Navy and its weapons was tested [and] a miniature of what might have been, under other circumstances, a truly devastating defeat.”
Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942
Title | Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Office of Naval Intelligence |
Publisher | |
Pages | 57 |
Release | 1944 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN |
The naval battles for Guadalcanal 1942
Title | The naval battles for Guadalcanal 1942 PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Stille |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2013-05-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1780961561 |
A highly illustrated account of the series of naval battles around the embattled island of Guadalcanal in late 1942. The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific. The battle of Savo Island on the night of 9 August 1942, saw the Japanese inflict a severe defeat on the Allied force, driving them away from Guadalcanal and leaving the just-landed marines in a perilously exposed position. This was the start of a series of night battles that culminated in the First and Second battles of Guadalcanal, fought on the nights of 13 and 15 November. One further major naval action followed, the battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942, when the US Navy once again suffered a severe defeat, but this time it was too late to alter the course of the battle as the Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal in early February 1943. In this compact, engaging volume, Mark Stille examines the contrasting fortunes experienced by both sides over the intense course of naval battles around the island throughout the second half of 1942 that did so much to turn the tide in the Pacific.
The Campaigns of the Pacific War
Title | The Campaigns of the Pacific War PDF eBook |
Author | United States Strategic Bombing Survey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1946 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN |
Hell at Tassafaronga
Title | Hell at Tassafaronga PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert C. Brown |
Publisher | Ancient Mariners Press |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780970072146 |