DDH - Savo Island

Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast · Aug 9, 2022 · 36m

By the time the sun rose over Guadalcanal on August 9, 1942, the US Navy was just beginning to come to terms with the tragedy that had occurred in the dark night before. Many Naval Historians consider the action of the night of August 8-9, 1942 to be the worst blue water defeat ever suffered by the US Navy, including Pearl Harbor.

Just two days before the Marines had landed on the island and seized the airstrip which the Japanese had begun to build there. Just nine months after the war began, it was a bold move, made with confidence and élan. But now, that confidence was gone, destroyed at…