Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (CG Documentary) - YouTube Kinkaid's summary of damage to the Japanese included hits to a battleship, three heavy cruisers, a light cruiser, and possible hits on another heavy cruiser. Aircraft from Henderson Field attacked the convoy throughout the day, sinking the Despite the failure of the Japanese ground offensive and the loss of The Japanese naval forces were divided into three groups: The "Advanced" force consisted of the carrier At 02:50 on 26 October, the Japanese naval forces reversed direction and the naval forces of the two adversaries closed the distance until they were only 200 nmi (370 km; 230 mi) away from each other by 05:00.At 06:45, a U.S. scout aircraft sighted the carriers of Nagumo's main body.Meanwhile, Kondo ordered Abe's Vanguard force to race ahead to try to intercept and engage the U.S. warships. The Japanese ground offensive on Guadalcanal was under way in the Santa Cruz was a tactical victory and a short-term strategic victory for the Japanese in terms of ships sunk and damaged, and control of the seas around Guadalcanal. RAdm Thomas C. Kinkaid. In mid-October the Japanese launched a rare coordinated attack on Guadalcanal. In Prados' view, the real story of the aftermath is that the Imperial Navy failed to exploit their hard-won victory.Fourth carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War IIA damaged Japanese dive bomber (upper left) dives towards Carrier action on 26 October: post-first strike actionsCarrier action on 26 October: post-first strike actionsAfter this incident the then U.S. carrier task force commander The Japanese counted two cruisers sunk. Expertly splitting port and starboard for an “anvil” attack, they torpedoed One heroic Nakajima pilot, his plane aflame, flew into the escorting destroyer Nagumo’s second strike in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands had taken crippling losses: twenty-one of thirty-five bombers versus six American.Dozens of TF-61 aircraft remained overhead, gasping for fuel.
Coordinated with a large Imperial Army offensive ashore, the Japanese Navy sought to defeat America’s remaining carriers, depriving the Marines of essential support at sea.Once again Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo headed the Imperial Navy force, sisters Commanding the U.S. carriers was Rear Admiral Thomas Kinkaid, a veteran of Eastern Solomons.
Unlike Eastern Solomons two months before,the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands was a clear Japanese tactical victory. Knowing that the first blow was crucial in carrier combat, Nagumo and Kinkaid both cleared their decks, eager to get in the initial strike.
Aircraft Carrier. Left to lead the attack was Lieutenant James M. “Moe” Vose, who recalled, “I was first to dive. It is available to order now at The malarial Santa Cruz Islands bear three hundred miles east of the Solomons, and might remain unknown to history but for the fourth carrier battle of World War II’s Pacific Campaign, fought nearby in October 1942, and known as the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.In a rare example of strategic cooperation, the Japanese Army and Navy put aside their bitter enmity long enough to plan a serious effort to end the Guadalcanal campaign.
Two Zeros were harrying the on-scene scouts, handing Strong and Irvine an unexpected gift: a clear shot at what Strong called “a big carrier,” actually The opposing air groups crossed paths before 9:00, each side eyeing the other.
The landings initiated the six-month-lon… American Forces. In the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, October 26, 1942, the Japanese again tried to drive the United States' forces from Guadalcanal.
Arguments based on aircrew losses or who owned Guadalcanal are about something else—the campaign, not the battle. The following article on the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman’s book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. On 7 August 1942, Allied forces (primarily U.S.) landed on Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. This last one, although a victory, unfortunately, was not an overwhelming victory.
However, Japan's loss of many irreplaceable veteran aircrews proved to be a long-term strategic advantage for the Allies, whose aircrew losses in the battle were relatively low and quickly replaced.
The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands was fought 25–27 October 1942 in the waters northwest of the Santa Cruz Islands by forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy's (IJN) Combined Fleet and the United States Navy's (USN) Pacific Fleet.
180 & 339. The U.S. lost 81 aircraft of the 175 U.S. aircraft at the start of the battle, of which 33 were fighters, 28 were dive-bombers, and 20 were torpedo bombers.
The planes lurched and staggered onto the deck, every single fighter and bomber bullet holed ... As the pilots climbed wearily from their cramped cockpits, they told of unbelievable opposition, of skies choked with antiaircraft shell bursts and tracers.At 13:00, Kondo's Advanced force and Abe's Vanguard force warships together headed directly towards the last reported position of the U.S. carrier task forces and increased speed to try to intercept them for a warship gunfire battle.