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Chapter I See JCS 23, Strategic Deployment of Land, Sea, and Air Forces of the United States, 14 Mar 42. JCS Minutes, 6th Meeting, 16 Mar 42. See JPS 21/7, Defense Island Bases along the Line of Communications between Hawaii and Australia, 18 April 42. (JCS 48 has the same title.) JCS, Directive to General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz, 30 Mar 42. The correct title of POA was actually Pacific Ocean Area, but because the POA included three Areas, the plural will be used. U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, The Allied Campaign Against Rabaul (Washington, D.C., 1946), P. 7. U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey will be cited hereafter as USSBS. Imperial General Headquarters, Navy Stf Sec, Ord No. 18, 5 May 42, in ATIS, SCAP, Doc No. 14016 B. Ibid., Ord. No. 19, 18 May 42; Japanese Studies in World War II, XXXIX., 17th Army Opns, I, (n.p.). A copy is filed with the Hist Div, SSUSA. ATIS, SCAP, Doc No. 14016 B, Ord No. 20, 11 Jul 42. USSBS, Interrogations of Japanese Officials (OPNAV-P-03-100, 2 vols.), I, 68. GHQ, SCAP, ATIS, MIS: Hist Rpts, Naval Opns: Rpt Battle Savo, 8 Aug 42 (Doc No. 15685, 15 Mar 46). ATIS reports and translations are in the MIS Library, Dept of the Army. See USSBS, Interrogations, I, 70; II, 474, 524; Allied Campaign Against Rabaul. pp. 46, 87. Maj Gen Shuicho Miyazaki (former CofS, 17th Army) Personal Account of His Experience during the Solomons Campaign, p. 5. Miyazaki and other 17th Army officers were interrogated, at the author's request, by G-3 AFPAC historians and ATIS, SCAP, in Tokyo in 1946. Miyazaki also proffered his personal account which, together with the interrogations, is in the files of the Hist Div, SSUSA. Allied Campaign Against Rabaul, pp. 43, 87; 17th Army Opns, I. See Commander Eric A. Feldt, RAN, The Coastwatchers (Melbourne, 1946). Rad, CINC SWPA to WDCSA, CM-IN-2068, 6 Jul 42. All times and dates given in this volume are local time except those in citations in the South Pacific War Diary. The latter bear Greenwich Civil Time. Rad, CINC SWPA to WDCSA, CM-IN-2333, 8 May 42. Rad, GHQ SWPA to OPD, 1 Jun 42. OPD 381 PTO Sec. II (5-28-42); Rad, WDCSA to CINC SWPA, CM-OUT-0095, 1 Jun 42. Memo, WDCSA for COMINCH, 6 Jun 42, sub: Early Attack on Japanese Adv Bases. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. II. Rad, GHQ SWPA to WDCSA, CM-4N-2264, 8 Jun 42. COMINCH to COMNAVEU, 0046 of 10 Jun 42. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. I. Memo, WDCSA for COMINCH, 12 Jun 42, sub: Opns in SWPA. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. I Case 73; rad, GHQ SWPA to WDCSA, CM-IN-7976, 24 Jun 42. Rad, WDCSA to CINC SWPA CM-OUT-23 19, 10 Jun 42. Memo, ACofS USA for WDCSA, 24 Jun 42, sub: Opns in SWPA. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. 11 Case 76; Rad, GHQ SWPA to WDCSA, CM-IN-7976, 24 Jun 42. Memo, COMINCH for WDCSA, 25 Jun 42, sub: Offensive Opns in SO and SOWESPAC Areas, copy of FF/1/A16-3 (1) Ser 00544. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. II Case 80. Ibid.; CINCPAC to COMSOPAC, 0017 of 23 Jun 42, in War Diary, South Pacific Area and South Pacific Force, 1 May 42-31 Dec 42 (hereafter cited as SOPAC War Diary); COMINCH to COMSOWESPACFOR, 1255 of 23 Jun 42; COMINCH to CINCPAC, 2306 of 24 Jun 42. SOPAC War Diary. A copy of the SOPAC War Diary is in the Office of Naval Records and Library, Dept of the Navy. OPD Estimate, in memo of Col W. L. Ritchie (Chief, SWPA Theater Gp), OPD, for Brig Gen St. Clair Streett (Ch Theater Gp, OPD), 23 Jun 42, sub: Offensive Opns in SWPA. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. 11 Case 80. Memo ACofS OPD (Brig Gen T. C. Handy) for WDCSA, 24 Jun 42. sub: Opns in SWPA. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. 11 Case 76; rad, WDCSA to GHQ SWPA, CM-OUT-5704, 23 Jun 42. Ibid. Rad, GHQ SWPA to WDCSA, CM-IN-7976, 24 Jun 42. Apparently OPD had also misunderstood General MacArthur's plans. Complete details on General MacArthur's plans during this period will be given in a forthcoming volume of U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR II. Memo, WDCSA for COMINCH, 26 Jun 42, sub: Offensive Opns in SO and SOWESPAC Areas. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. II Case 80. Memo, COMINCH for WDCSA, 26 Jun 42, sub: Offensive Opns in SO and SOWESPAC Areas. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. II Case 80. COMINCH to CINCPAC, 1415 of 27 Jun 42. SOPAC War Diary. Memo, COMINCH for WDCSA, 29 Jun 42, sub: Amph Opns in So and SOWESPAC. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. II Case 80. Rad, WDCSA to CINC SWPA, CM-OUT-7356, 28 Jun 42. Memo, WDCSA for COMINCH, 29 Jun 42 (no sub). OPD 381 SWPA Sec. II Case 80. Rad, WDCSA to CINC SWPA, CM-OUT-7501, 29 Jun 42. Rad, WDCSA to CINC SWPA, CM-OUT-o677, 3 Jul 42. Joint Directive for Offensive Opns in SWPA Agreed on by U.S. CofS, 2 Jul 42. OPD 381 Sec. II Case 83. COMINCH to CINCPAC, 2100 of 2 Jul 42. SOPAC War Diary. Rad, WDCSA to CINC SWPA, CM-OUT-0677, 3 Jul 42. CINCPAC to COMSOPAC, 0125 of 7 Jul 42. SOPAC War Diary. Disp, CINC SWPA and COMSOPAC to WDCSA, COMINCH, CINCPAC, 1012 of 8 Jul 42, CCR 82 S, in ABC 370.26 Sec I (7-8-42), in Plans and Opns Div, GSUSA. WDCSA and COMINCH to CINC SWPA and COMSOPAC, 2100 of 10 Jul 42. SOPAC War Diary. On 12 July, the Joint Chiefs of Staff suggested the possibility that the offensive against Rabaul might be followed by an advance northward from the ". . . TRUK-GUAM-SAIPAN line, and/or northwestward through the Malay barrier and Borneo to the Philippines." Memo, Gen Marshall, Admiral King, Gen Arnold for the Pres, 12 Jul 42, sub: Pacific Opns. ASP docs in Special Collections subsection, Hist Rec Br. Chapter II Admiral E. J. King, Our Navy at War: A Report to the Secretary of the Navy Covering Our Peacetime Navy and Our Wartime Navy and including Combat Operations up to March, 1944 (U.S. News, March 1944), p.34. History of the United States Army Forces in the South Pacific Area during World War II: 30 March 1942-1 August 1944 (4 vols.), Pt. I, I, Ch. I, passim. Hereafter cited as Hist USAFISPA. A copy of the manuscript is filed in the Hist Div, SSUSA. Ibid., Pt. III, I, 441. COMSOPAC to CINCPAC, 0414 of 13 July 42. SOPAC War Diary. See (British) Central Office of Information, Among Those Present: The Official Story of the Pacific Islands at War (London, 1946). R. W. Robson (ed.), The Pacific Islands Year Book, (4th ed., Sydney, 1942), p. 131. For simplicity, Sealark Channel will be used throughout this volume to refer to all the waters between Tulagi and Guadalcanal. CINCPAC to COMINCH, 0251 of 27 Jun 42. SOPAC War Diary. Disp, CINCPAC to COMINCH, 2251 of 27 Jun 42. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. 11 Case 80. Rad, WDCSA to CINC SWPA, CM-OUT-2222, 3 Jul 42. ACofS for Intelligence, Air Staff, Hist Div, AAF Hist Studies No. 35: Guadalcanal and the Origins of the Thirteenth Air Force, p. 2. COMINCH to CINCPAC, 1415 of 27 Jun 42; COMSOPAC to CINCPAC, 0607 of 28 June 42. SOPAC War Diary. 2301 of 27 Jun 42 (no addressee). SOPAC War Diary. CINCPAC, File A4-3/FF 12/A 16 (6) Ser 01994, Basic Supporting Plan for Advanced Air Bases at Santa Cruz Island and Tulagi-Guadalcanal, 8 Jul 42, in Plans and Opns Div, GSUSA. Rear Adm. Aubrey W. Fitch replaced McCain as COMAIRSOPAC on 21 September 1942. Commander, Amphibious Force, South Pacific Force, Pacific Fleet (TF62), War Diary, Aug 42-30 Sep 42, 18 Jul 42. A copy of this diary, hereafter cited as COMAMPIUBFORSOPAC War Diary, is in the Office of Naval Records and Library. COMSOPAC to CINCPAC, 0612 of 16 Jul 42. SOPAC War Diary. COMINCH to COMSOPAC, 1830 of 28 Jul 42. SOPAC War Diary. COMSOPAC to COMAIRSOPAC, 1300 of 20 Jul 42 in SOPAC War Diary, altered the plan. The original had been D minus 2 for Ndeni and D Day for Malaita. COMSOPAC, Opn Plan No. 1-42, A4-3/A 16-3, Ser 0017, 16 Jul 42. Copy No. 120 of Operation Plan 1-42 is in the Office of Naval Records and Library. Code names assigned were as follows: Task One, PESTILENCE; rehearsal, DOVETAIL; Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion, WATCHTOWER; Ndeni occupation, HUDDLE. The code name of Guadalcanal was CACTUS; that of Tulagi, RINGBOLT. COMSOPAC to COMAIRSOPAC, 2314 of 2 Jul 42; COMSOPAC to CG Efate, 2538 of 5 Jul 42, SOPAC War Diary. 11th Bomb Gp (H), Hist, P. 4, in Archives, AF Hist Off. COMAIRSOPAC, Opn Plan No. 1-42, A4-3/A16-3, Ser 0016, 25 Jul 42. A photostatic copy of this plan is in the Office of Naval Records and Library. COMSOWESPAC (CINC SWPA) to COMSOPAC, 1034 of 19 Jul 42. SOPAC War Diary. See also ONI, USN, Combat Narratives: Solomon Islands Campaign, I, The Landing in the Solomons, 7-8 August 1942 (Washington, 1943). COMSOPAC to CTF 61, 0240 of 2 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. COMAIRSOPAC to COMSOPAC, 1436 of 4 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. COMSOPAC Opn Plan No. 1-42. CTF 61, Opn Ord No. 1-42, Opn WATCHTOWER, Ser 0032 N, 28 Jul 42. A photostatic copy of this order is in the Office of Naval Records and Library. The numerical designations assigned to the component units may be confusing. What had been task forces of the Pacific Fleet became task units of one group of TF 61. The amphibious force, made up of two task forces, was given a task group number. CTF 62, Opn Plan No. A3-42, Opn WATCHTOWER, Ser 0010, 30 Jul 42. A copy of this plan is in the Office of Naval Records and Library. Admirals Fletcher and Turner, who prepared their plans separately, used different numbers to designate the amphibious force. Fletcher used 61.2, Turner, 62. COMINCH, F F 1/A3-1/A16-3(5) Basic Supporting Plan for the Establishment of the SOPAC AMPHFOR (Lone Wolf Plan), Ser 00322, 29 Apr 42. Copies of this plan are in Plans and Opns Div, GSUSA. 1st Mar Div, Final Rpt Guadalcanal Opn, I, 2. Copy in the files of the Hist Div, SSUSA. Ltr, CG 1st Mar Div to Comdt Mar Corps, 1 Jul 43, sub: Final Rpt Guadalcanal Opn, in 1st Mar Div Rpt, V. 1st Mar Div Opn Ord No. 7-42, 20 Jul 42, Annex A, included in CTF 62, Opn Plan No. A3-42 as App. D. 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, Int Annex E. 1st Mar Div Opn Ord No. 5-42, 29 Jun 42, in 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, Annex B. The terms in the operation order differ from present day usage. The combat groups would now be regimental combat teams. The combat teams would be battalion landing teams. 1st Mar Div Opn Ord No. 6-42, 9 Jul 42, in 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, Annex D. Airmailgram, CG 1st Mar Div to CO, Combat Gp A, 29 Jun 42, in 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, Annex C. SOPAC War Diary, 19 Jun 42. 1st Mar Div Admin Ord No. 1a-42, 29 Jun 42, in 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, Annex J. 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, 6; Ltr, CG 1st Mar Div to Comdt Mar Corps, 1 Jul 43, sub: Final Rpt Guadalcanal Opn. The first orders stated that the temporary pier would not be loaded. They were apparently changed, for the engineers brought the pier to Guadalcanal. No subsequent orders regarding the pier are in 1st Mar Div Rpt, I. 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, Logistics Annex L. 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, Med Annex M does not mention malaria. 1st Mar Div Opn Ord No. 7-42, Annex A. AFPAC G-3 Hist Sec, and ATIS, interrog of Lt Gen Harukichi Hyakutake (former CG, 17th Army), Maj Gen Shuicho Miyazaki (former CofS, 17th Army), and Lt Gen Masao Maruyama (former CG, 2d Div), 31 Aug 46; 17th Army Opns, I, gives even lower figures—1,850 on Guadalcanal, 1 company on Tulagi, and 1 platoon on Gavutu. In the early maps, the names of the Tenaru and the Ilu Rivers were transposed. The Ilu lies about 2H miles cast of the Lunga. The wide part of the river is also known as Alligator Creek. 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, 9, gives 19,546; Annex K gives 19,105; V, Personnel Annex W, gives 19,360 effectives. 1st Mar Div Opn Ord No. 7-42, 20 Jul 42, in 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, Annex F, and in CTF 62, Opn Plan No. A3-42, App. D. See Landing in the Solomons, pp. 9-13. Ibid., p. 21. Ltr, CG 1st Mar Div to Comdt Mar Corps, 1 Jul 43, sub: Final Rpt Guadalcanal Opn. 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, 7; Landing in the Solomons, pp. 21-22; COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 29 Jul 42. 1st Mar Div Opn Ord No. 7-42, Annex F, in App. D, CTF 62, Opn Plan No. A3-42; Landing in the Solomons, p. 34, gives 467. Marine Corps designations for landing craft have been changed since August 1942. These craft were then designated as follows: 3o-foot boats, X; LCP(L)'s, T Boats; LCP(R)'s, TP Boats; LCV's, TR Boats, and LCM's, YL's. For a complete exposition of doctrine on landing operations, see Division of Fleet Training, Office of Naval Operations: Landing Operations Doctrine, United States Navy, (FTP 167), 1938, and subsequent revisions. COMSOPAC to CG Samoa, 0245 of 14 Jul 42. SOPAC War Diary. Chapter III Hist USAFISPA, Pt. I, I, 85. 11th Bomb Gp (H) Hist, p. 6. Rads, COMGENSOPAC to WDCSA, CM-IN-3200, 4 Aug, and CM-IN-5391, 14 Aug 42. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 6-7 Aug 42. Ibid. 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, 9. CTG 62.1 SOPACFOR: Rpt Action Guadalcanal-Tulagi Area, Solomon Islands, Aug 7-8 and 9, 1942, Ser 0027, 23 Sep 43, P. 3. This report is filed in the Office of Naval Records and Library. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 7 Aug 42. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Annex N (1st Mar Div D-3 journal), I. Landing in the Solomons, p. 10. Hist Sec, Hq, USMC: The Guadalcanal Campaign: August 1942 to February 1943 (June 1945), p. 14. Flame throwers were not then in use. General Vandegrift wrote that they would have been "practical and effective," and recommended dive bombing with depth charges. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 8. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 8 Aug 42. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 4. Rpt, Asst Div Comdr 1st Mar Div to CG 1st Mar Div, 1714, 8 Aug 42, in 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Annex B; Ltr, Col John M. Arthur to Hist Sec, Hq, USMC, 11 Oct 45, in files of USMC Hist Sec. The 1st Marine Division had objected to this use for liaison planes on the ground that they might easily have been shot down, and because smoke is not good for marking beaches. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 15, and Avn Annex K. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Annex L (5th Mar Record of Events, 7 Aug 42), I. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 1. CTG 62.1, Rpt Guadalcanal-Tulagi. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Arty Annex I, 1. Interv, AGF Mil Obs, SWPA, with CG 11th Mar and ExO 11th Mar, 19 Dec 42, included as App to Rpt, Mil Obs, SWPA, to CG AGF, 20 Sep-Dec 42, 2 Jan 43. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. II Case 108. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Annex M (1st Mar Hist), 2. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 10. Ltr, CG 1st May Div to Comdt Mar Corps, 1 Jul 43, sub: Final Rpt Guadalcanal Opn. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 18; Int Annex G, 2. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Avn Annex K. COMSOPAC to COMINCH, 1400 of 13 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 12. Ibid., Int Annex G, 8. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 9 Aug 42. Ibid., 7 Aug 42. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 16. CTG 62.1, Rpt Guadalcanal-Tulagi. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 11. General Vandergrift [sic] suggested using 1,500 in a division unloading party. Feldt, op. cit., pp. 88-89. ATIS, SWPA: Int Rpts, Yazawa Butai Hq and Oki Shudan (17th Army) Gp Hq, 8 Mar-30 Sep 42: Enemy Publication No. 28, 21 Jul 43, p. 50. USSBS, The Campaigns of the Pacific War (GPO, Washington, 1946), p. 106; Interrogations, I,255-56. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 8 Aug 42. The warning stated that three cruisers, two destroyers, and two gunboats or seaplane tenders were approaching. CTF 61 to COMSOPAC, 0707 of 8 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. For fuller accounts of the naval aspects of these operations, see ONI, USN, Combat Narratives: Solomon Islands Campaign. I, The landing in the Solomons, and II, The Battle of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 (Washington, 1943) relate to the operations described in this chapter. COMSOPAC to CINCPAC, 0834 of 9 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 8 Aug 42. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 13. CTF 62.6 (Rear Adm V. A. C. Crutchley), Rpt Battle Savo Island, 8-9 Aug 42, Ser 231, 6 Apr 43, 16. A photostatic copy of this report is in the Office of Naval Records and Library. USSBS, Interrogations, II, 472. Ibid., pp. 361-62. CTF 62 to CTF 61, COMSOPAC, COMAIRSOPAC, 0508 and 0725 of 9 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. CO 2d Mar to COMSOPAC, CINCPAC, CTF 62, and COMSOWESPAC, 1400 of 12 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 9 Aug 42; 1st Marine Division Report does not give exact figures. Rad Noumea to rad Tulagi, 0640 of 14 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Annex K, 1. Messages from commanding general of the 1st Marine Division in SOPAC War Diary in August, September, and October 1942 report enemy air raids and naval bombardments almost daily. Chapter III Hist USAFISPA, Pt. I, I, 85. 11th Bomb Gp (H) Hist, p. 6. Rads, COMGENSOPAC to WDCSA, CM-IN-3200, 4 Aug, and CM-IN-5391, 14 Aug 42. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 6-7 Aug 42. Ibid. 1st Mar Div Rpt, I, 9. CTG 62.1 SOPACFOR: Rpt Action Guadalcanal-Tulagi Area, Solomon Islands, Aug 7-8 and 9, 1942, Ser 0027, 23 Sep 43, P. 3. This report is filed in the Office of Naval Records and Library. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 7 Aug 42. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Annex N (1st Mar Div D-3 journal), I. Landing in the Solomons, p. 10. Hist Sec, Hq, USMC: The Guadalcanal Campaign: August 1942 to February 1943 (June 1945), p. 14. Flame throwers were not then in use. General Vandegrift wrote that they would have been "practical and effective," and recommended dive bombing with depth charges. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 8. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 8 Aug 42. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 4. Rpt, Asst Div Comdr 1st Mar Div to CG 1st Mar Div, 1714, 8 Aug 42, in 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Annex B; Ltr, Col John M. Arthur to Hist Sec, Hq, USMC, 11 Oct 45, in files of USMC Hist Sec. The 1st Marine Division had objected to this use for liaison planes on the ground that they might easily have been shot down, and because smoke is not good for marking beaches. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 15, and Avn Annex K. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Annex L (5th Mar Record of Events, 7 Aug 42), I. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 1. CTG 62.1, Rpt Guadalcanal-Tulagi. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Arty Annex I, 1. Interv, AGF Mil Obs, SWPA, with CG 11th Mar and ExO 11th Mar, 19 Dec 42, included as App to Rpt, Mil Obs, SWPA, to CG AGF, 20 Sep-Dec 42, 2 Jan 43. OPD 381 SWPA Sec. II Case 108. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Annex M (1st Mar Hist), 2. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 10. Ltr, CG 1st May Div to Comdt Mar Corps, 1 Jul 43, sub: Final Rpt Guadalcanal Opn. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 18; Int Annex G, 2. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Avn Annex K. COMSOPAC to COMINCH, 1400 of 13 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 12. Ibid., Int Annex G, 8. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 9 Aug 42. Ibid., 7 Aug 42. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 16. CTG 62.1, Rpt Guadalcanal-Tulagi. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 11. General Vandergrift [sic] suggested using 1,500 in a division unloading party. Feldt, op. cit., pp. 88-89. ATIS, SWPA: Int Rpts, Yazawa Butai Hq and Oki Shudan (17th Army) Gp Hq, 8 Mar-30 Sep 42: Enemy Publication No. 28, 21 Jul 43, p. 50. USSBS, The Campaigns of the Pacific War (GPO, Washington, 1946), p. 106; Interrogations, I,255-56. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 8 Aug 42. The warning stated that three cruisers, two destroyers, and two gunboats or seaplane tenders were approaching. CTF 61 to COMSOPAC, 0707 of 8 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. For fuller accounts of the naval aspects of these operations, see ONI, USN, Combat Narratives: Solomon Islands Campaign. I, The landing in the Solomons, and II, The Battle of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 (Washington, 1943) relate to the operations described in this chapter. COMSOPAC to CINCPAC, 0834 of 9 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 8 Aug 42. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, 13. CTF 62.6 (Rear Adm V. A. C. Crutchley), Rpt Battle Savo Island, 8-9 Aug 42, Ser 231, 6 Apr 43, 16. A photostatic copy of this report is in the Office of Naval Records and Library. USSBS, Interrogations, II, 472. Ibid., pp. 361-62. CTF 62 to CTF 61, COMSOPAC, COMAIRSOPAC, 0508 and 0725 of 9 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. CO 2d Mar to COMSOPAC, CINCPAC, CTF 62, and COMSOWESPAC, 1400 of 12 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 9 Aug 42; 1st Marine Division Report does not give exact figures. Rad Noumea to rad Tulagi, 0640 of 14 Aug 42. SOPAC War Diary. 1st Mar Div Rpt, II, Annex K, 1. Messages from commanding general of the 1st Marine Division in SOPAC War Diary in August, September, and October 1942 report enemy air raids and naval bombardments almost daily. Chapter VII COMSOPAC to all CGs Island Bases SOPAC, CTFs 16 and 17, all CTFs SOPAC, COMSOPAC Admin, COMGENSOPAC, 1350 of 18 Oct 42. SOPAC War Diary. Halsey was a vice admiral on 18 October, but was promoted to admiral shortly afterward. William F. Halsey and Julian Bryan, III, Admiral Halsey's Story (New York, 1947), p. 117. COMSOPAC to CINCPAC, 1230 of 17 Oct. 42; COMINCH to CINCPAC, 1523 of 21 Oct. 42. SOPAC War Diary. Disp, Pres Franklin D Roosevelt to JCS, 24 Oct 42. OPD 381 PTO Sec. III (10-24-42). Memo, COMINCH for Pres Franklin D Roosevelt, 26 Oct 42. OPD 381 PTO Sec. III (10-7-42). The 24 submarines included 12 submarines from the Southwest Pacific Area. Memo, WDCSA for Pres Franklin D Roosevelt, 26 Oct 42. OPD 381 PTO Sec. III (10-7-42). 1st Mar Div Rpt, V, Avn Annex Q, 3. CG 1st Mar Div to COMSOPAC, 2311 of 25 Oct 42. SOPAC War Diary. 1st Mar Div Rpt, V, Personnel Annex W, 2. 5th Bomb Gp (H) Hist, p. 7. AF Hist Sec Archives. COMAIRSOPAC to COMSOPAC, 0207 of 21 Nov. 42. SOPAC War Diary. CG 1st Mar Div to COMSOPAC, 2156 of 23 Nov 42; 2328 of 29 Nov 42. SOPAC War Diary. Army in the South Pacific, p. 3. See also Admiral Halsey's Story, p. 119, which contains some minor errors. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 30 Oct 42. A shortage of artillery pieces had led to the equipping of K Battery with British field howitzers temporarily. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC to rad Guadalcanal, 1025 of 29 Oct 42. SOPAC War Diary. CTF 62 to McKean, Manley, 0435 of 29 Oct 42; CTF 62 to CTG 65.5, 0235 of 4 Nov. 42. SOPAC War Diary. CG 1st Mar Div to CTF 62, 0555 of 22 Nov. 42. SOPAC War Diary. 1st Mar Div Rpt, V, Int Annex N, 16. Rpt, G-3 USAFISPA to COMGENSOPAC, period 28 Nov-15 Dec 42, 16 Dec 42, in USAFISPA G-3 Worksheet File, 28 Nov-15 Dec 42, in Org Rec Br AGO. G-3 Worksheet File, 28 Nov-15 Dec 42, in Org Rec Br AGO. The elements of the 5th Defense Battalion which had been landed from time to time were designated as the 14th Defense Batallion on 15 January 1943. Turner's reports refer to the battery which landed on 2 November 1942 as A Battery, 14th Defense Battalion. CTF 65 to COMSOPAC, 0330 of 4 Nov 42; CTF 65 to CTF's 63, 64, 62, 16, COMSOPAC, 1747 of 5 Nov. 42. SOPAC War Diary. USSBS, Interrogations, II, 468-469. 17th Army Opns, I. USSBS, Interrogations, II, 470, states that the plan to land the 38th Division at Koli Point was cancelled when the Americans gained control of the point in the first days of November. Amer Div Int Rpt, Tab A. For a more complete account of naval action see ONI, USN, Combat Narratives: Solomon Islands Campaign, VI, The Battle of Guadalcanal, 11-15 November 1942 (Washington, 1944). Ibid., p. 4. 1st Mar Div Rpt, V, Arty Annex R; 1st Mar Div Rpt, V, 21, implies that 155-mm. guns had arrived by 23 October, which is not correct. 1st Mar Div Rpt, V, Arty Annex R. Battle of Guadalcanal, p. 4. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC, Rpt Opns TF 67 and TF 62.4, Reinf Guadalcanal 8-t5 Nov 42 and Summary Third Battle Savo, Set 00469, 3 Dec 42. This report is filed in the Office of Naval Records and Library. CTF 67 to COMSOPAC, 0140 of 13 Nov 42. SOPAC War Diary. TF 6814 and Amer Div, Hist Data, Inc 8, pp. 1-2. The bulk of Americal Division records when consulted were in HRS DRB AGO. USSBS, Campaigns of Pacific War, App. 46, p. 127; Interrogations, II, 469, lists 2 battleships and 13 destroyers. Ibid., 470. USSBS, Campaigns of Pacific War, App. 46, p. 127. Campaigns of Pacific War erroneously states that the Helena sank on her withdrawal to the south. Ibid., p. 126. USSBS, Interrogations, II, 469. Ibid.; Campaigns of Pacific War, p. 125, and App. 46, p. 128; Allied Campaign Against Rabaul, p. 108; 17th Army Opns I; 3d Battalion, 229th Infantry, landed in New Guinea at this time. ATIS, SWPA, Enemy Pub No. 29: Orders of Giruwa Def Area, p. 10. Campaigns of Pacific War, App. 46, p. 129. 259th (formerly 244th) Sep CA Bn (HD) Hist, 1 Jan 42-30 Jun 42 (np), in HRS DRB AGO. 3d Def Bn, 5-inch Rpt, p. 4. COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC War Diary, 15 Nov 42. 1st Mar Div Rpt, V, 33. Allied Campaign Against Rabaul, p. 93. Ibid., p. 108. USAFISPA, Japanese Campaign in the Guadalcanal Area, pp. 29-30, estimates that 7,700 troops had been aboard, of whom 3,000 drowned, 3,000 landed on Guadalcanal, and 1,700 were rescued. USSBS, Interrogations, II, 470. 1st Mar Div Rpt, V, Personnel Annex W, 3. Download 376.75 Kb. Share with your friends:
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