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.

In January 1943, as the Battle of Guadalcanal neared its final days, the USS Chicago led a critical mission to reinforce exhausted American troops. But as the cruiser crossed the waters near ...

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 ...

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 ...

the battles of Coral Sea and Midway, and the invasion of Guadalcanal and its immediate aftermath. Lundstrom has researched this period extensively for his former works and this one. He uses as sources ...

The first battle addressed is the Battle of the Coral Sea, beginning Part One with a description of ... Part Four of the book deals with the naval operations of the campaign for Guadalcanal which ...