The Battle of Savo Island, a crushing World War II naval defeat for the Allies, ended on August 9, 1942. After the guns fell silent, the Japanese Navy would sink four Allied heavy cruisers, kill 1,077 ...

In the dead of night, August, 1942, Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa led the Japanese Eighth Fleet toward Savo Island, relying on human lookouts and spotter planes. He was fully aware of the nearby Allied ...

On the night of Aug. 8, 1942, a young U.S. sailor named Ernie Coleman dove into the flame-engulfed waters of the South Pacific off Savo Island in a desperate attempt to save his life. Coleman had been ...

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: For more than 70 years American historians have wrongly blamed an Australian air crew for contributing to a Second World War naval disaster. Twelve hundred allied sailors died ...

Winston B. Lewis authored the account of the Battle of Savo Island, while Henry A. Mustin authored the description to the Battle of the Eastern Solomons which the Office of Naval Intelligence ...