Herewith is a summary of the five naval battles which have been fought off the Solomons since the initial attack on Tulagi: Battle of Savo Island. On the night of Aug. 8-9, the Japs caught a U.S.
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Destroyer night battles that turned the tide in the Pacific
Close range surface engagements between destroyers and cruisers produced sudden and violent clashes that altered campaign ...
The Second World War was home to some brutal fighting. Few theaters were quite as grueling as the War in the Pacific, which saw American and Allied forces squaring off with the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Maritime experts on an expedition around the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific recently explored the wreckage of the USS Laffey, a destroyer sunk during a pivotal series of battles in World War II.
The wreckage of the USS Edsall, an American warship that was sunk during a battle with Japanese forces in World War II, has been discovered more than 80 years after it was lost at the bottom of the ...
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The bomber called destroyer that fought a very different war
Introduced in the 1950s and later deployed over Vietnam, the Douglas B-66 Destroyer carried a name that suggested brute force ...
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