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The First Battle of Savo Island
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| 09-23-2020
| Drachinifel
Posted on 09/26/2020 10:40:51 AM PDT by NRx
An excellent video covering the First Battle of Savo Island in the Guadalcanal Campaign. Not our Navy's finest hour, but we learned some hard lessons that would serve us well in the future.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; guadalcanal; navy; savo; savoisland; worldwareleven; ww2; wwii
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posted on
09/26/2020 10:40:51 AM PDT
by
NRx
To: NRx
Lost the first Vincennes there.....
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posted on
09/26/2020 10:43:36 AM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: NRx
Never fully realize the fight you are in until you get a bloody nose...
Then the adrenaline really kicks in...
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posted on
09/26/2020 10:46:44 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: NRx
You can spend a lot of time watching Drachinifel’s and learn from each of them. I highly recommend his ‘Battle off Samar’ video to show what our WWII Navy was capable of. Also check out the ‘Voyage of the Damned” about the Russian fleets voyage to the Pacific in the Russo-Japanese War.
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posted on
09/26/2020 10:54:23 AM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: NRx
Drachinifel is great. I really enjoy his videos.
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posted on
09/26/2020 11:08:40 AM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
To: NRx
Better presentations are available. Drachinifel is a comprehensive collection, but dreary to suffer through.
Try Mark Felton, if not just for the martial/battle music theme.
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posted on
09/26/2020 11:14:52 AM PDT
by
Does so
(Kyle RITTENHOUSE neutralized three FELONS! ("Lefty" included).)
To: NRx
The Battle Of Iron Bottom Sound. The US Navy’s worst defeat. This is the action that saw the loss of all five of the Sullivan brothers.
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posted on
09/26/2020 12:07:07 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: SuperLuminal
Still waiting for the average American to realize we are in a fight to save the Republic.
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posted on
09/26/2020 12:22:27 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
To: ProtectOurFreedom
"Still waiting for the average American to realize we are in a fight to save the Republic." For most of them, the light-bulb will go on in their minds as they line up naked in front of the ovens...
Even Torchwood will not save them...
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posted on
09/26/2020 1:18:20 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: jmacusa
"This is the action that saw the loss of all five of the Sullivan brothers." Light cruiser USS Juneau...
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posted on
09/26/2020 1:21:57 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: NRx
I believe this campaign, along with Makin Island, was the first use of US Marine Raider battalions.
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posted on
09/26/2020 4:35:26 PM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
To: SuperLuminal
Those poor guys. They went through a terrible ordeal.
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posted on
09/26/2020 10:02:49 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
The rest of the Guadalcanal keyword, chrono, edited a little:
- Battleship Night Action Naval Battle of Guadalcanal November 1942 [2019]
- Colonel Mitchell Paige [2019]
- Today in military history: 12-year-old earns Purple Heart, Bronze Star in Guadalcanal [2018]
- On this date in 1942 [2017]
- The Boy Who Became a World War II Veteran at 13 Years Old [2016]
- Revisiting TFP.org And Its Search for Culture Reflections On Women In Combat [2016]
- Calvin Graham: The 12-year-old U.S. sailor at Guadalcanal [2015]
- One Marine, One Ship [2015]
- Japanese Unearth Remains, and Their Nation's Past, on Guadalcanal [2014]
- Kerry visits Solomon Islands, sees WWII memorials (and talks "climate change") [2014]
- 10 Things You Don't Know About Guadalcanal [2012]
- Service & Sacrifice: Dual Theatre WWII Veteran [2011]
- FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: John Basilone ~ June 21, 2010 ~ [2010]
- 7.2 magnitude quake hits near Solomon Islands (about 185 mi. WNW of Honiara, Guadalcanal) [2010]
- Some things are worth fighting for [2009]
- In 1942, it came down to one Marine [2009]
- Marines Travel to WWII Site [2009]
- Bonnie Henry : 16 sea battles hard to forget [2009]
- First Sioux to Receive Medal of Honor [2008]
- Jefferson DeBlanc, Honored World War II Fighter Pilot, Dies (Medal of Honor) [2007]
- Ace fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient dies [2007]
- G.I. Joe was just a toy, wasn't he? [2007]
- This day in History 1942 : U.S. forces invade Guadalcanal [2007]
- Australia Issues Solomons Threat [2006]
- Professor William O. Beeman [2006]
- In history's trenches [2006]
- Lunch with Ben Bradlee: From Guadacanal to Iraq (Interview With a Living Artifact) [2006]
- Semper Fi - a history lesson [2006]
- The "Superhumans" that we face in this War (Vanity) [2005]
- The FReeper Foxhole Revisits The Cactus Air Force - Guadalcanal - October 27th, 2005 [2005]
- The FReeper Foxhole Revisits The 1st and 2nd Guadalcanal Nov 13-15, 1942 - Aug. 19th, 2005 [2005]
- Waiting for Another Hiroshima [2005]
- This Day In History | World War II August 7, 1942 U.S. forces invade Guadalcanal [2005]
- To Honor a Three War Marine, my Father (vanity) [2005]
- Vanity - My Father's K-Bar from Guadalcanal 1944 [2005]
- The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Major General Merritt Edson - Dec. 27th, 2004 [2004]
- WSJ: Semper Fi -- The story of Fallujah isn't on that NBC videotape [or al-Jazeera, or al-NBC/MSNBC] [2004]
- The FReeper Foxhole Revisits "Operation Watchtower" - Guadalcanal (8/1942-2/1943) - Aug 27th , 2004 [2004]
- The FReeper Foxhole Revisits The USS Juneau and the Sullivan Brothers - June 19th, 2004 [2004]
- The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Alexander Vandegrift - May 3rd, 2004 [2004]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Douglas Munro, Medal of Honor Recipient (9/27/1942) - Mar 10th, 2004 [2004]
- AV's Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 82 [2003]
- Legend honored [Col. Mitchell Paige, MOH Guadalcanal ] [2003]
- Last Medal of Honor recipient from the Battle of Guadalcanal USMC Colonel Mitchell Paige has died [2003]
- <b>Autumn,1942: It came down to one Marine, and one ship.(61 yrs ago)</b> [2003]
- Basilone celebrated as Raritan Boro's hero [Famed WWII Marine] [2003]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Santa Cruz(10/25-27/1942) - Sep. 25th, 2003 [2003]
- Looking for Info on WWII Bronze Star Winner (Vanity) [2003]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers "Operation Watchtower" - Guadalcanal (8/1942-2/1943) - Aug. 28th, 2003 [2003]
- Peaceful Return To Guadalcanal (Aussie Military To Solomons) [2003]
- WWII: Memories of fallen consecrate name of Solomons' airport (Henderson Field ) [2003]
- FR "exclusive" - Henderson International Airport Tipped to Retain Name [2003]
- Remember Henderson Field, Guadalcanal! [2003]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The USS Juneau and the Sullivan Brothers - Feb. 5th, 2003 [2003]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Cactus Air Force - Guadalcanal - Feb. 4th, 2003 [2003]
- Joe Foss, WWII Hero and Former South Dakota Governor, Dies at 87 [2003]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The 1st and 2nd Guadalcanal Nov 13-15, 1942 - Dec. 29th, 2002 [2002]
- US Marine Corps Birthday - Nov. 10th [2002]
- Oft-forgotten battle at Guadalcanal was turning point in WWII [2002]
- True grit - A review of Twenty-Five Yards of War [2001]
- One Marine, One Ship [2001]
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posted on
09/27/2020 7:27:00 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
Japan's high command viewed their entire navy expendible, particularly after losing their four big flattops at Midway. They knew that if they lost their (stolen) oil fields, they'd have no fuel for the ships, so they went all-in. Overall, the Guadalcanal Campaign led to their meeting up with the one navy in the world that didn't scare worth a ****, and beat their sorry asses into a continual retreat, beginning mere months after Pearl Harbor. Japan started their war with us with naval and air supremacy in the Pacific, and six months later lost their advantage in the air for the duration of the war. After the Battle of the Philippine Sea, they were unable to take the initiative even briefly, and by Okinawa viewed their ships as floating suicide bombs.
This oldie is not exactly a "real" Guadalcanal topic, but, sorry about that, Chief, I'm posting the link anyway.
- Don Adams has died (Get Smart) [09/26/2005]
Born Donald James Yarmy on April 13, 1923 [correct, despite frequently reported erroneous dates] in New York City to Irish-Hungarian parents, Adams hoped for an engineering career. He joined the U.S. Marines in the early days of World War II and served as a drill instructor. He saw combat in the invasion of Guadalcanal and was the only survivor of his platoon. He contracted blackwater fever and nearly died, remaining hospitalized for more than a year.
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posted on
09/27/2020 7:30:05 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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