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  2. Battle of the Eastern Solomons - Wikipedia

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    The naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons (also known as the Battle of the Stewart Islands and in Japanese sources as the Second Battle of the Solomon Sea) took place on 24–25 August 1942 and was the third carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II and the second major engagement fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Guadalcanal ...

  3. Eastern Solomons order of battle - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Eastern Solomons was fought August 23–25, 1942 in the waters east and northeast of the Solomon Islands by forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet and the US Navy's Pacific Fleet. The battle resulted from a major effort by the Japanese to reinforce their troop strength on the island of Guadalcanal.

  4. Solomon Islands campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II.The campaign began with Japanese landings and capture of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville, in the Territory of New Guinea, during the first six months of 1942.

  5. Chūichi Nagumo - Wikipedia

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    Chūichi Nagumo (南雲 忠一, Nagumo Chūichi, 25 March 1887 – 6 July 1944) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.Nagumo led Japan's main carrier battle group, the Kido Butai, in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and over the next months in successful raids on Darwin in Australia and in the Indian Ocean.

  6. Japanese aircraft carrier Chitose - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Eastern Solomons began on 24 August 1942. At around 10:15, three F1M2s from Chitose attacked a PBY Catalina searching for the Japanese aircraft carrier force, and another three F1M2s drove off a PBY looking for Japanese troopships. [1]

  7. Thomas C. Kinkaid - Wikipedia

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    The American landing on Guadalcanal evoked a furious reaction from the Japanese, who sent their fleet to reinforce the Japanese garrison on Guadalcanal. Fletcher's carriers had the mission of protecting the sea lanes to the Solomons. The two carrier forces clashed in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. [39]

  8. Mamoru Seki - Wikipedia

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    Mamoru Seki (関 衛, Seki Mamoru, March 8, 1909 - October 26, 1942) was a dive bomber pilot and officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.He is best known for being the commander of the dive bomber squadron of carrier Shōkaku and for leading strikes against United States Navy (USN) carriers in both Battle of the Eastern Solomons and Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands ...

  9. Cactus Air Force - Wikipedia

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    On 24 August, during the naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons between aircraft carrier forces of Japan and the U.S. east of the Solomon Islands, Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo sent the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) light carrier Ryūjō ahead of the main Japanese warship force to send an aircraft attack force against Henderson Field.