[PAR35]

USMC Major General Vandergrift landed his 11,000 Marines of the 1st Marine Division on the island of Guadalcanal.

Then the US Navy cut an ran with his heavy equipment, most of his artillery shells and food.

[Bull Snipe]

Not one of our Navy’s finer moments.

[njslim]

After getting a$$ handed to them by Imperial Navy at SAVO
ISLAND

Lost 4 cruisers sunk (3 USN, 1 Australian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Savo_Island

[hinckley buzzard]

The Navy had its own problems, if you had bothered to learn some history instead of spewing BS. Ever hear of the battle of Savo Island? The night the Japanese Navy came down the Slot? Iron Bottom Bay? You insult thousand of braver men, and hundreds who died, a--hole. Cut and run? KMA.