Pacific counterblow : the 11th Bombardment Group and the by United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 11th.;
By United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 11th.; United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 67th
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Cape Esperance Army reinforcements were moving up to Guadalcanal in the second week of October. Partly to cover the flank of this convoy, but expressly to seek battle with Japanese units on the Guadalcanal run, a task force under Rear Adm. Norman Scott went hunting in the Solomons. The eyes of this force were the B-i7's covering Bougainville's southern tip. Current search routine of the B-17's was roughly as follows. Four planes departed daily from Espiritu and Henderson Field. Those from Espiritu took off at 0500, searched i,ooo miles between 2940 and 324', then landed at Henderson.
The decision in November, unlike that of the previous month, had been obtained in two short but intense naval actions. The 67 th, chief victim of the only Japanese shelling during the critical period, had been unable to strike heavy blows. Nor, in the nature of the case, could the B-17's based 640 miles away at Espiritu. Admirals Scott and Callaghan, killed in action, and Admiral Lee deservedly garnered the greater part of the glory. After their decisive beating in mid-November, the Japanese made no major effort to recover Guadalcanal.
Targets abounded-at Bougainville's lower tip, where the harbor of Tonolei and Buin settlement lay behind densely wooded Shortland Island, and in The Slot, funneling down to Guadalcanal between the New Georgia group and Santa Isabel and Choiseul to the east. Tonolei, protected by Kahili Field, received shipping from Rabaul, Palau, and Truk, while sightings in The Slot included every category in the Japanese Navy. Destroyers Hard to Hit Unfortunately, it was not easy to hit shipping. Destroyers were most numerous in The Slot, but they were extremely maneuverable and almost defied direct hits.