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| Â | The FReeper Foxhole Revisits The Battle of Savo Island - (8/9/1942) - September 9th, 2005 |
 | | The enemy might have escaped radar detection for a while by approaching close to the shore of the islands, but to reach Savo Island he had to cross open water, and at this point our radars should have picked him up easily. | | | Because the enemy cruisers came in very close to Savo Island, their destroyers may well have been on their starboard bow, perhaps at some distance. | | | Savo Island split The Slot, the body of water between the eastern and the western Solomons, in two lanes of approach. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1480729/posts
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| Â | USSBS: Interrogations of Japanese Officials -- 61/255 |
| | We did not have radar, but we saw one destroyer north and one south of SAVO Island. | | | Our orders were simply to pass around SAVO Island and bombard your ships, then go home. | | | Describe the Battle of SAVO ISLAND, 9 August 1942. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/IJO/IJO-61.html
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| | Chief Moran said the islanders have been aspiring for their own constituency because they speak one language while their Savo neighbours speak their own language. | | | He said Savo could join Buen Vesta to form one constituency while the Russell Islands could have their own constituency. | | | All members of the public are invited to attend the launch of the publication to hear how Solomon Islands fares compared to other countries in the world. |
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http://www.commerce.gov.sb/COMUNIT/PR6thSept.htm
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| Â | Savo Island |
| | Savo Island remained off Leyte until 30 October, when she sailed for the Admiralties. | | | Savo Island's first combat assignment was to provide air support for the landings on Peleliu Island in the Palaus. | | | Savo Island received 4 battle stars for her World War II service. |
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http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s7/savo_island.htm
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| Â | The Battle of Savo Island - Aug 9, 1942 _ U.S. Navy's Worst Defeat |
| | The enemy was lost in the visual and radar shadow of nearby Savo Island. | | | After Savo Island, the fact that Joe Foss and others maintained a fragile air superiority over Guadalcanal, from Henderson Field, was about all that stopped serious daytime naval bombardment of the Marines. | | | When the Japanese started to build an airfield on Guadalcanal across Savo Sound from their base at Tulagi, the United States felt it had to act before the airfield was completed. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/800416/posts
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| Â | Ethnologue: Solomon Islands |
| | Gela, Florida Islands, Guadalcanal (immigrants), and Savo Islands, central Solomons. | | | Literature in this language could be used by the Blablanga and Gao; a total of 6,344 people, or 70% of the island. | | | Literature in this language would also reach Kokota and Zazao; a total of 1,240 speakers, or 14% of the island. |
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| Â | HMAS Canberra lost at Savo Island |
| | As the meeting was in progress Admiral Mikawa and his force were making their approach to Savo Island. | | | As a result of the Battle of Savo Island just over 1000 Allied sailors lost their lives and another 700 were wounded. | | | The area south of Savo Island was being patrolled by a squadron of four ships, Chicago, Canberra and U.S. destroyers Patterson and Bagley. |
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| Â | Best Book Buys - Savo Island, Battle of, 1942 Books |
| | The Battles of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 and the Eastern Solomons, 23-25 August 1942 | | | Best Book Buys - Savo Island, Battle of, 1942 Books | | | Subject Category > History > Military / World War II > Savo Island, Battle of, 1942 |
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http://bestwebbuys.com/History-Military-World_War_II-N_10014344-books.html
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| Â | Japanese Account of Savo Island Battle |
| | Looking at Savo Island on the right side, he went inside of the water pass. | | | As Admiral Lee could not find the Japanese Battle Ship on the way back from the West side of Savo Island, he ordered a change of direction to the East at 19:00. | | | Soon after that, Japanese Destroyer Escorts and 4 Destroyers came from the South of Savo Island entering from the West and the U.S. started firing. |
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| Â | Battle of Savo Island; loss of HMAS Canberra |
| | Battle of Savo Island; loss of HMAS Canberra | | | He arrived off of the southern shore of Savo Island in the small hours of the morning of August 9th. | | | Fifteen minutes later, curving northward around Savo Island's eastern shore, the Japanese came upon the Northern Force, still steaming sedately along in a box patrol pattern. |
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http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-battles/ww2/savo_island.htm
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| Â | Battle of Savo Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Battle of Savo Island was the most complete and humiliating defeats that the US Navy ever suffered and, as a result, the Allied warships and transports were withdrawn to the New Hebrides. | | | The Battle of Savo Island was a naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, fought on August 9, 1942, between cruiser squadrons of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Allied naval forces. | | | The Japanese were concentrating on supporting land operations on the Kokoda Track in New Guinea, but reacted quickly to the Allied attack on the Solomon Islands. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Savo_Island
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| Â | Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot HMAS Canberra Battle Of Savo Island |
| | HMAS Australia had not taken part directly in the Savo Island Battle because Rear Admiral Crutchley had been ordered to attend a conference with Rear-Admiral Turner on the transport McCawley and had left Captain H. Bode of Chicago in charge of his patrol group. | | | The Battle of Savo Island was one of the sharpest reverses suffered by the US navy in the war. | | | But he had to think of the arrival of daylight and the possibility of American carriers mounting air attacks on his force. |
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| Â | HyperWar: The Battle of Savo Island [ONI Combat Narrative] |
| | that she had sighted an aircraft flying eastward from Savo Island, and this word was given the captain. | | | Subsequently the plane could be heard as it apparently circled the island and moved off to the south. | | | The Blue to the west of Savo received the Ralph Talbot's warning and a moment later picked up the plane on her radar. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-Savo/USN-CN-Savo-3.html
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| Â | HRDQ.COM - Flight from Savo |
| | On an expedition to study volcanoes, you and your group of scientists barely escape injury when your vintage World War II aircraft crashes on the remote island of Savo. | | | Flight from Savo is designed for supervisors with minimum to moderate experience, but it can also be used as a refresher for more seasoned supervisors. | | | Guiding the Work: Taking the direction of the organization and translating it into actionable plans for the work group. |
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| Â | Lee Maritime Books - Naval & Royal Navy Books |
| | This book offers a graphic account of the American defeat in the Battle of Savo Island, and other naval actions, followed by a pictorial section containing a spectacular collection of underwater photographs of the warships sunk in the Guadalcanal campaign. | | | A participant, describes the exploits of the Levant Schooner Flotilla in the Aegean between mid-1943 and January 1945, when a handful of men in converted caiques made a series of dangerous expeditions against enemy held islands £9 | | | In Nov 1914, off the coast of Chile, a British cruiser squadron under Rear-Admiral Cradock was decisively defeated by Vice-Admiral Von Spee's powerful East Asiatic Squadron, but six weeks later, Von Spee's Squadron was itself annihilated off the Falkland Islands by a superior British force of battle-cruisers and cruisers commanded by Vice-Admiral Sturdee. |
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http://www.leemaritimebooks.com/Books/Naval.asp
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| | 59 The Battles of Savo Island 9 August 1942 and the Eastern Solomons 2325 August 1942 Combat Narratives Solomon Islands Campaign Winston B Lewis et al 0160429439 |
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| Â | USS Thorn |
| | On 22 September, during a Dawn Alert, the Thorn was struck by a stray 40 mm projectile, courtesy of the USS Savo Island (CVE-77). | | | The first landfall, on 1 February 1944, was Baltra Island in the Galapagos Islands. | | | As American forces massed for the initial assaults on the Japanese-occupied Philippine Islands. |
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| Â | USS Savo Island (CVE-78): Encyclopedia topic |
| | Savo Island departed Manus on 19 November and, between 22 and 27 November, served with two other escort carriers as a patrol and escort force in the convoy lanes leading to Leyte Gulf (Leyte Gulf: leyte gulf is the body of water immediately east of the island of leyte in the philippines,... | | | Savo Island performed similar duties during the Lingayen Gulf (Lingayen Gulf: the lingayen gulf is an extension of the south china sea on luzon in the philippines... | | | Savo Island's first combat assignment was to provide air support for the landings on Peleliu (Peleliu: peleliu (or beliliou) is an island in the island nation of palau.... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/uss_savo_island_cve-784
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| Â | Savo Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Savo Island in World War II Because of its proximity to Guadalcanal Island and the hotly contested nature of the battles for control of the Solomon Islands, Savo Island figured in many of the naval engagements of the Solomon Islands campaign. | | | Savo Island is a minor island in the Solomon Islands group in the South Pacific ocean. | | | Politically, Savo Island is a part of the province of Guadalcanal Province of the Solomon Islands. |
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| Â | USS Savo Island (CVE 78) |
| | SAVO ISLAND's first combat assignment was to provide air support for the landings on Peleliu Island in the Palaus. | | | SAVO ISLAND departed Manus on 19 November and, between 22 and 27 November, served with two other escort carriers as a patrol and escort force in the convoy lanes leading to Leyte Gulf. | | | SAVO ISLAND was reclassified CVHE 78 on 12 June 1955 and AKV 28 on 7 May 1959. |
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| Â | USS Savo Island (CVE 78) |
| | SAVO ISLAND departed Manus on 19 November and, between 22 and 27 November, served with two other escort carriers as a patrol and escort force in the convoy lanes leading to Leyte Gulf. | | | SAVO ISLAND's first combat assignment was to provide air support for the landings on Peleliu Island in the Palaus. | | | SAVO ISLAND was reclassified CVHE 78 on 12 June 1955 and AKV 28 on 7 May 1959. |
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http://www.united-states-navy.com/cve/cve78.htm
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| Â | USS Savo Island (CVE 78) |
| | SAVO ISLAND departed Manus on 19 November and, between 22 and 27 November, served with two other escort carriers as a patrol and escort force in the convoy lanes leading to Leyte Gulf. | | | SAVO ISLAND was reclassified CVHE 78 on 12 June 1955 and AKV 28 on 7 May 1959. | | | SAVO ISLAND's first combat assignment was to provide air support for the landings on Peleliu Island in the Palaus. |
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| Â | Solomon Islands |
| | Because of these, the Geology Division of the Solomon islands is concentrated on one particular island due to its geographical position to the main urban and development centres and that is Savo Island. | | | Savo island is the surface expression of a stratovolcano ; only the top one third of the structure is visible above sea level. | | | Savo Island is situated some 35 km Northwest of Honiara Solomon Islands Capital and urban centre. |
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| | Instead of the unsuccessful box format that was used in the battle of Savo Island, Rear Admiral Scott had his ships in a line ahead formation, which allowed him to use his destroyers to put the spotlight on targets, then using the cruisers to destroy them. | | | The Guadalcanal campaign had several naval battles throughout the months of fighting, the largest of which include Savo Island, the Battle of Cape Esperance, the First and Second Naval Battles, the Battle of Tassaforonga. | | | Both sides would need to prepare to meet again, only the next time would be in Ironbottom Sound, the area that was attempting to be protected by forces in both battles so far, the battle of Savo Island and now the battle of Cape Esperance. |
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| | These reinforcement missions--delivering men and supplies to the Japanese-held shore of Guadalcanal--were called the "Tokyo Express." When those forces were spotted by plane or coast watcher, the torpedo boats put out from Tulagi and stationed pickets in the channels around Savo Island. | | | The two western entrances, one between Cape Esperance and Savo Island to the south; and the other, between Savo Island and Sandfly Passage to the north, were relatively narrow. | | | On the night of 2-3 January, she had two bombs from an enemy plane explode off her port beam and, after firing torpedoes at an enemy destroyer, a Japanese patrol plane strafed her wake east of Savo Island. |
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| Â | Savo Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Savo Island is a minor island in the Solomon Islands group in the South Pacific ocean. | | | Prior to the First Battle of Savo Island there was a racist belief within the USN that the Japanese had poor eyesight and would not do well in night naval fighting. | | | The battles fought near Savo in the period 1942-1943 were initially called the "First Battle of Savo Island", the "Second Battle...", through the Fifth. |
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| Â | Best Book Buys - Savo Island, Battle of, 1942 Books |
| | The Battles of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 and the Eastern Solomons, 23-25 August 1942 | | | Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle of Savo Island | | | Books > Browse > Subject Category > History > Military / World War II > Savo Island, Battle of, 1942 |
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| Â | Savo Island: Information From Answers.com |
| | Savo Island is a minor island in the Solomon Islands group in the South Pacific ocean. | | | Prior to the First Battle of Savo Island there was a racist belief within the USN that the Japanese had poor eyesight and would not do well in night naval fighting. | | | The battles fought near Savo in the period 1942-1943 were initially called the "First Battle of Savo Island", the "Second Battle...", through the Fifth. |
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