In the night of November 14-15, 1942, the USS Washington (BB-56) played head-swellingly big in the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, which wrote the momentous history of a Pacific war.

One notable fact about the Imperial Japanese Army’s combat in southern fronts, including the grueling battle on Guadalcanal, which was called “Gato” (starvation island), is the large numbers ...

In the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, during the night of November 14-15, 1942, the USS Washington, BB-56, sank the Japanese battleship Kirishima. It was viewed as one of the enormous turning ...

whom had just invaded Guadalcanal two days before. A US Navy strategical and tactical analysis of the battle, which was published in 1950, praised the commanding Japanese admiral, Gunichi Mikawa ...

Raymond M. Krepps, Jr. was still a pre-teen when he moved to Lewistown, from Brooklyn, New York with his parents and younger ...

As we look back at November 27th throughout history, we find ourselves reflecting on a tapestry of events that have shaped ...