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Yeah, it was the perfect storm that finally got him. Lightning was in the forecast that day, he got struck by it, as was deserved.
...not really ..by April 1943 there was no stopping the US--no matter who's in charge of the IJN“As long as he lived, the Japanese navy was a threat,
The decoded Japanese messages were Navy Intelligence coups and could have been disregarded. We may never know which Navy intelligence operator gets credit for putting the message on the front burner but when you consider the fragmented and sometimes incoherent relationship between Intel and front line commanders you have to say that the operation was quirky at best and showed that Military commanders in the Pacific were able to make critical decisions on the fly.THe reason he got it was because of the ability of the US to intercept messages and decipher then...
no it was not too closeGuadalcanal was hanging on by a thread after starving Marines managed to cobble heavy weapons together and withstand the Japanese invasion force. Marine Sgt.John Bassalone from Raraton N.J. was awarded the MOH for repairing weapons under fire and supporting his thin machine gun platoon during a night of Japanese suicide waves and ultimately using a .45 at point blank range. That's how close it came to losing Guadalcanal. The P-38's were barely functional and it was practically a suicide mission to fly to their fuel limit and expect to return while wasting fuel waiting for a speck that may or may not appear in the sky. It was the greatest intelligence/combat mission in the Pacific war.
part 2:Guadalcanal was hanging on by a thread after starving Marines managed to cobble heavy weapons together and withstand the Japanese invasion force. Marine Sgt.John Bassalone from Raraton N.J. was awarded the MOH for repairing weapons under fire and supporting his thin machine gun platoon during a night of Japanese suicide waves and ultimately using a .45 at point blank range. That's how close it came to losing Guadalcanal. The P-38's were barely functional and it was practically a suicide mission to fly to their fuel limit and expect to return while wasting fuel waiting for a speck that may or may not appear in the sky. It was the greatest intelligence/combat mission in the Pacific war.
. The Admiral knew that Guadalcanal must be held, and promised the support of all his available forces
Chapter 7: Decision at SeaBy the end of November, with the lessening of Japanese attacks against the Lunga area and the increase of Allied strength in the South Pacific, the Guadalcanal air force had increased in size although as late as 10 November the shortage of fuel prevented heavy bombers from using Henderson Field. General MacArthur on 14 November promised to send eight P-38's to the South Pacific.