Second Saturday: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

Our guests, Paul Stillwell, and Trent Hone discuss the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in this episode, recorded at the Jack Taylor Conference Center on the campus of the United States Naval Academy.

[@rondav41]

Excellent presentation. Thank you!

[@joeschenk8400]

Great discussion on the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on this 80th anniversary of the battle. Paul Stillwell and Trent Hone did an excellent job telling the story. All honor to the men lost and those who served at Guadalcanal.

[@timandellenmoran1213]

Good interaction with three fine folks!

[@majorlee76251]

Stand by, I am coming through said cousin willis.

[@stevefreeland9255]

Greatly enjoyed this presentation! It would have benefited greatly from visual aids such as Maps or animations depicting the developments of the battles particularly with timestamps. Frank does this with printed Maps in his wonderful book.

[@feemster8861]

Here are some videos that give great visual aids:
Operations Room: th-cam.com/video/G_QhTdzWBJk/w-d-xo.html
Kings and Generals: th-cam.com/video/VLvsHgE_9Aw/w-d-xo.html
Drachinifel: th-cam.com/video/Em_PuLURII4/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/eI24zwFLcuU/w-d-xo.html

[@anselmdanker9519]

I would like to ask if South Dakota was under fire and burning - why there was ambiguity as to the radar image of the kirishima?
I remain puzzled by this ?

[@chloehennessey6813]

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No sir he wasn’t being unfair to Callaghan.
Admiral Scott USED the tools he had available to him that night to win that battle.
Admiral Callaghan deliberately chose not to use the VASTLY superior RADAR and FIRE CONTROL on his ships to get the drop on the Japanese like Admiral Scott did. He chose the cruiser with the old radar sets and even than he didn’t trust them. And because of his inexperience and lack of trust he cost a lot of lives that night needlessly.

[@timandellenmoran1213]

Yes, Trent Hone and Paul Stillwell do a fine job, yet Hone, in my interpretation, does not let Stillwell actually contribute a fair share of information. This could have been prearranged, this is only my thought.

[@philliptukia8307]

I agree that Hone took over most of the discussion although Stillwell was a bit erratic with his statements. I also wish that Stillwell had spoken more about Ching Lee, my favorite U.S. admiral of WWII.