Through a research expedition funded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the deep sea R/V Petrel vessel located the USS ...

On the stormy night of November 13, 1942, the Japanese battleship Hiei led a convoy toward Guadalcanal, aiming to reclaim the island from Allied forces. Confident of victory, Vice Admiral Hiroaki ...

Cushing attacked Hiei but was sunk by a broadside from ... leaving behind the first Japanese battleship loss since 1904. Ahead lay a second naval battle of Guadalcanal, which would seal the ...

During the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, O’Bannon engaged the Japanese battleship Hiei, causing significant damage and eventually sinking it by aircraft. The destroyer continued to protect ...

During the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, O’Bannon engaged the Japanese battleship Hiei, causing significant damage and eventually sinking it by aircraft. The destroyer continued to protect ...

Ever since the first bombs fell along Battleship ... becoming clear to the Japanese that their deception efforts had borne fruit. The Nov. 19 COMINT summary noted that Hiei “appears today ...

Kaneko said his father told him the boat was a cutter carried by the battleship Hiei of the Imperial Japanese Navy. “My father, who served in the war, said he bought the boat when he found it ...

The Japanese forces successively deployed about 30,000 soldiers ... That first year, the NPO conducted a seabed probe for the battleship Hiei, which sank during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal from ...

Leading the powerful Japanese naval forces was the Hiei, a 37,000-ton battleship. Marine Corps and Navy Avengers torpedoed and helped sink the Hiei. Although the Avenger was a sound aircraft ...