i always appreciate your insight and learn something every time
here’s a white paper i found i will read later
Great link...thanks.
Boy, we had soooo much to learn, and paid for those lessons in blood.
Didn’t know tactics, didn’t know communications protocols, underestimated the enemy, made foolish decisions, and any time luck came into play, it played into the IJN’s hands that night. Hard to believe, nearly a thousand of our men killed in such a brief battle.
By the end of the Guadalcanal campaign, there would be three dead sailors killed at sea for every soldier or Marine killed on land.
Things must have looked pretty black and hopeless the next morning.