what is a three day naval battle in Solomon island?

Question

A, midway
B, coral sea
C, naval Guadalcanal
D, leyte

Answer 1

None of the above, actually.

Midway wasn't anywhere close to the Solomons (a group of islands, not just one.)

The Coral Sea is located closer to Australia and New Guinea.

Leyte is in the Philippines.

And while Guadalcanal is in the Solomons, there wasn't techinically a three-day battle there.

Check the link for an excellent overview of the naval war in the Pacific.

Answer 2

Guadalcanal should be as well known as Midway or D-Day....if not Gettysburg and Yorktown.......for it was a savage 6 month fight where the US and Japanese navies went toe to toe, while ashore the US and Japanese Marines were at it even closer....a fight that was in the balance to the very end when the US pushed the Japanesee back back and back and then into the sea......the first time that had happened in the opening months of WW2 and really the first time the Japanes had been beat in a fair fight since...well, 1860?

the 3 day fight was Nov 12, Friday the 13th and the 14th of Nov 1942.....the first night Japanese cruisers bombarded the Marines ashore; the second night the desperately outgunned US Navy ran into two Japanese battle-cruisers and their supporting ships and in a point blank night fight known as the "Barroom Brawl" the cruisers Helena, San Fransisco and Portland shot the Japanese battle-cruiser Hiei to pieces; but at a terrible cost to the US forces...the next night the battleships Washington and South Dakota sank the Japanese battle-cruiser Kirishima

Answer 3

Not just the Solomon Islands. New Zealand, Fiji, and many other south sea islands. America's day begins in Guam. The International Date Line is the start of a new day. 180 Degrees Longitude. If you are JUST west of the line you see the new day first.