Both Norman Scott and Daniel J. Callaghan would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the intense ...

64, No. 1, Winter 2011 ASYMMETRIC WARFARE AT SEA: The Naval Bat... ASYMMETRIC WARFARE AT SEA: The Naval Battles off Guadalcanal, 1942–1943 This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

Both on sea and on land, they are capable of giving up. In the naval Battle of Guadalcanal (Nov. 13-15), Jap surface ships hightailed it out of range of U.S. ships and planes, leaving the Jap ...

Guadalcanal was a six-month campaign where two things were broken: the back of Japan’s naval aviation, and the myth of Japanese superiority in jungle warfare. The book provides much more detail than ...

a history of air operations against Rabaul that included the Guadalcanal campaign, two books that overlap in content. The Cactus Air Force’s maps and naval battle track charts are also recycled and ...

USS President Jackson under attack during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In the center background, smoke rises after an Japanese plane crashed into the superstructure of USS San Francisco.

Rear Adm. Scott was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism and conspicuous intrepidity during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command ...