Battle of the Eastern Solomons
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Description: Account of the August 1942 Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the first major carrier battle of the Guadalcanal campaign. Includes action report, first-hand account.
Battle of the Eastern Solomons: August 24, 1942 The Most Decorated Ship of the Second World War "This was a horrible day." Following the US Marine landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi on August 7-8, 1942, and the shattering defeat of U.S. and Australian cruisers off Savo Island August 9, an uneasy parity existed in the eastern Solomons. Early each afternoon - "Tojo Time" the Marines called it - Japanese bombers from Rabaul raided the Marines' beachhead, and pounded the fledgling airstrip the Marines were struggling to clear on Guadalcanal. At night, enemy cruisers and destroyers regularly raced down "The Slot" - the narrow course from Rabaul southeast through the islands - to hammer away at the Marine positions, withdrawing before daybreak. Less frequently, Allied destroyer-transports would dash into Ironbottom Sound, delivering badly needed supplies and fuel to the 16,000 increasingly beleaguered Marines.
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| Page title: | Battle of the Eastern Solomons: August 24, 1942 |
| Keywords: | enterprise, uss enterprise, cv-6, carrier, aircraft carrier, saratoga, eastern solomons, guadalcanal, wasp, fletcher, halsey, ghormley, nimitz, rabaul, the slot, tojo, tokyo express, yamamoto, marines, australia, samoa, coral sea, ichiki, solomons, shokaku, zuikaku, ryujo, truk |
| Description: | Despite the severe damage to Enterprise, the Eastern Solomons were an American victory, tactically and strategically. |
| IP-address: | 66.162.33.189 |