The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they ... Norman Scott stood out for his role in two of the campaign's most critical naval duels. Born in ...

This book describes the air campaign in the Solomons – as well as some of that in New Guinea – starting with the invasion of Guadalcanal in August 1942 and ending with the defeat of Japanese airpower ...

Guadalcanal was a six-month campaign where two things were broken ... Grace in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: Night Action, 13 November, 1942, most notably by raising the notion that Rear Admiral Norman ...

This ambitious and successful work comprehensively analyzes the Allied air offensive against Japan that began with ace pilot James Doolittle’s raid of April 1942. The Army Air Corps’s ...