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The First Battle of Savo Island
YouTube ^ | 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

1 posted on 09/26/2020 10:40:51 AM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx

Lost the first Vincennes there.....


2 posted on 09/26/2020 10:43:36 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: NRx

Never fully realize the fight you are in until you get a bloody nose...
Then the adrenaline really kicks in...


3 posted on 09/26/2020 10:46:44 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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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.


4 posted on 09/26/2020 10:54:23 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: NRx

Drachinifel is great. I really enjoy his videos.


5 posted on 09/26/2020 11:08:40 AM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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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.


6 posted on 09/26/2020 11:14:52 AM PDT by Does so (Kyle RITTENHOUSE neutralized three FELONS! ("Lefty" included).)
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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.


7 posted on 09/26/2020 12:07:07 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: SuperLuminal

Still waiting for the average American to realize we are in a fight to save the Republic.


8 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.")
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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...

9 posted on 09/26/2020 1:18:20 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: jmacusa
"This is the action that saw the loss of all five of the Sullivan brothers."

Light cruiser USS Juneau...

10 posted on 09/26/2020 1:21:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: NRx

I believe this campaign, along with Makin Island, was the first use of US Marine Raider battalions.


11 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)
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To: SuperLuminal

Those poor guys. They went through a terrible ordeal.


12 posted on 09/26/2020 10:02:49 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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The rest of the Guadalcanal keyword, chrono, edited a little:

13 posted on 09/27/2020 7:27:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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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.

14 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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