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- Title
'Give Them Hell!': The US Navy's Night Combat Doctrine and the Campaign for Guadalcanal.
- Authors
Hone, Trent
- Abstract
Examinations of the US Navy's tactical performance during the nocturnal engagements of the Guadalcanal campaign have largely ignored pre-war tactical developments, focusing instead on the details of the actions and extrapolating from their results to draw conclusions about the navy's preparedness for war. This article adopts a different methodology, concentrating first on the pre-war preparations and then examining the night battles in light of the tactical doctrine the navy developed before the Second World War. The result is a comprehensive view of the navy's night tactical doctrine, which provides the reasons for its successes and failures off Guadalcanal.
- Subjects
GUADALCANAL (Solomon Islands); SOLOMON Islands; UNITED States. Navy; NAVAL education; BATTLE of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943; NAVAL art &; science; COMBAT sustainability (Military science)
- Publication
War in History, 2006, Vol 13, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0968-3445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1191/0968344506wh335oa