How the Big E Survived the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, and Became a Legend | Battle Stars

Nearly a million tons of the world’s best warships pointed their gray bows for Guadalcanal to determine whether a few thousand United States Marines who hated the place would stay or go. Today we look at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, and the Japanese attack on USS Enterprise (CV-6).

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Credits: US National Archives, US Naval Institute, Naval History & Heritage Command, Naval Historical Foundation (now apart of USNI)

Sources:
Lundstrom, John B. The First Team at Guadalcanal: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994)

Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. V, The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942—February 1943 (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1949; reprinted Naval Institute Press, 2010).

Stafford, Edward P. The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise (New York: Random House, 1962; reprinted Naval Institute Press, 2002).

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