Solomons Naval Campaign visible Navy’s innovative airplane-carrying airships

Navy’s innovative airplane-carrying airships

chiefly Polish workers resident in France

The ships and planes of the famed German Plan Z

and Savo Island

a surprise attack by Japanese torpedo boats on the Russian Pacific Fleet ignited 19 months of war that propelled Japan into Great Power status and began a series of calamities that would bring down the Russian Empire

Solomons Naval Campaign visible Navy’s innovative airplane-carrying airshipsNote: This historical study is a companion piece to the South Pacific: Ironbottom Sound scenario book The Solomons Campaign of 1942 saw the American and Japanese navies engage in the most intense naval combat of World War II. For months the two sides fought over Guadalcanal, a miserable jungle covered island with a vital airbase. Solomons Naval Campaign tells of the Solomons campaign from the days before the August 1942 invasion of Guadalcanal through