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

During the 1942-43 campaign for the southern Solomon Island of Guadalcanal, many naval battles were fought to cement the material advantage gained by the Allies after the stunning Japanese losses ...

9A00199) During the opening hours of the U.S. assault on Guadalcanal, the air battle produced one of the ... which was published in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings in 1943.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...