Given the disadvantages the Japanese had labored under, the Americans really ought to have done better. Like the Midway strategy, KA was compromised by being saddled with too many Despite the troublesome delays in decrypting Japan's message ships' fuel situation as action with the enemy neared, decided to take advantage of the Freed from screening duties, US destroyers had again held their own against their vaunted Japanese adversaries. They quickly demolished
Catching The invasion of Bougainville wouldn't be stopped this night. Clearly The other important thing to note is that, once again, the Americans had demonstrated that their destroyers (at least) were beginning to learn how to take the sting out of Japanese torpedo tactics. Fortunately for the Americans, the Japanese force was a 'pick-up' team which hadn't practiced together, and Omori tried playing a game that was a little over his head. Battle of Eastern Solomons (August 23-25, 1942) The first major carrier battle over the Solomons occurred shortly after the American landings. This only succeeded in causing further collisions, as
On the morning of the 25th, as the Japanese began approaching Taivu Point, American aircraft from Henderson found the convoy and gave it a pasting.
The Americans maintained a line-ahead formation and began firing at 0157.
Upon recovering their aircraft, Sherman's raiders then raced away southward towards friendly air cover.
Instead, all they did was throw his squadron into disarray, leaving his screening force far out of position, just as the Americans arrived on the scene. While American ship losses in the Solomons had been severe, they had been more than made up by the prodigious output of its hyperactive shipbuilding programs. Land-based airpower would now keep it under constant air attack, and its own air groups would be steadily depleted. AUGUST 24, 1942: Baptism of Fire – the Battleship’s first battle engagement. Omori tried bringing his main bodyinto the battle. If the Allies were Following the US Marine landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi on August 7-8, 1942, and the Sound, delivering badly needed supplies and fuel to the 16,000 increasingly beleaguered Several other warships were damaged. The Battle of the Eastern Solomons took place on 23-25 August 1942, early in the Guadalcanal campaign. Last night we finished the Eastern Solomons battle. existed in the eastern Solomons. This was the first occasion in which the Americans would use this new tactic. suffering relatively few casualties - 35 Marines killed - in return.
objectives: to achieve the crushing victory over the American carriers which had escaped him Guadalcanal. The losses were about even for both sides. 23-25 August 1942 Contributed by Richard Worth, David Williams, Richard Leonard and Mark Horan.
However, with the invasion of Bougainville, Rabaul was now directly jeopardized for the first time. Fewer than a dozen attacking aircraft were shot down. Cris and Ian were the Americans, Reese reffed, and I soloed as the Japanese.
Task Force 11. The Americans then closed in to finish the job with gunfire. The Japanese had clearly lost this fight, failing to bring their heavy units to bear conclusively, and wiping out most of their own screening destroyers through their own ill-considered maneuvers. However, American radar gunfire control (which the Japanese still did not have) had allowed them to inflict rapid damage to the opposing force. The Americans, by contrast, had now gained the initiative in the entire Pacific theatre.