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Navy’s innovative airplane-carrying airships

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

at the far eastern end of the Hawaiian chain

and Savo Island

Solomons Naval Campaign visible chiefly Polish workers resident inNote: 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