[sarge83]

There is a book out there and for the life of me I cannot think of the title and author but it tells of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal Nov. 13 1942. It gives a running commentary of the battle from men on both sides. Destroyers and heavy and light cruisers on the US side against the same and two Japanese battleships. It was nothing but a knife fight where ships were so close the battleships could not depress their big guns enough to hit the US ships and US ships were raking the bridge and topsides of the heavy Japanese warships. Very good read!

[Gritty]

There is a book out there and for the life of me I cannot think of the title and author but it tells of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal Nov. 13 1942.

Check out the link I supplied above. Hornfischer's book Neptune's Inferno is the one about Guadalcanal. It's another superb book by this great author and you can find his other books here.

[alfa6]

Are you thinking of Hornfischer’s Neptune’s Inferno.

Neat factoid from the book. The US Navy lost almost 3 times the number of men than the Marines on The Canal!

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Tallguy]

Off Samar the destroyers & DE’s of Taffy 3 managed to destroy the upper works of a couple of Japanese heavy cruisers by rapid, accurate 5” fire. It wasn’t nearly enough to sink them — really only a torpedo could have done that — but it did perform what has since been termed a “mission kill”.

[jmacusa]

The Battle of Iron Bottom Sound. That's where the Japs got their revenge for Midway. It's also the action where the five Sullivan brothers , serving aboard the cruiser U.S.S Juneau were all lost. It also made the US Navy forever after prohibit family members from serving together on a ship.