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Álvaro de Mendaña
(c. 1542–1595),Spanish explorer who discovered the Solomon Islands and Marquesas. After the conquest of the Inca Empire, the Spanish crown sought to expand its empire into the newly discovered ...
Battle of Guadalcanal
A long-running air, sea, and land battle on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in World War II. The Japanese had initially targeted the island as a strategic ...
David Shoup
(1904–1983), general and Marine Corps commandant.The son of an Indiana farmer, Shoup graduated from DePauw University in 1926 with an ROTC commission. After a month as a lieutenant in ...
Isoroku Yamamoto
(1884–1943) Japan's greatest naval strategist in World War II, and the naval officer who conceived of the surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in 1941. He ...
John Byron
(1723–86),as a midshipman on one of the ships of Anson's squadron, was wrecked on an island off the coast of Chile in 1741. His ‘Narrative’ of the shipwreck, published 1768, was used by his grandson ...
Marc Andrew Mitscher
(1887–1947) naval officer and leading exponent and practitioner of naval aviation, born in Hillsboro, Wisconsin. During World War II Mitscher was active throughout the Pacific theater: he was captain ...
Melanesia
The geographical region of Melanesia lies in the Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line and south of the equator, comprising New Guinea, New Ireland, New Britain, Manus (formerly ...
Pacific campaign
(1941–45)The naval and amphibious engagements in the Pacific during World War II. The war spread to the Pacific when Japanese aircraft attacked the US naval base of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Japan was ...
PT-109
The motor torpedo boat commanded by Lt. Junior Grade John F. Kennedy. It was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amigiri off Kolombangara Island in the Solomon Islands on August 2, 1943.[...]
Roy Stanley Geiger
ˈgīgǝr(1885–1947) U.S. Marine Corps officer, born in Middleburg, Florida. Geiger was one of the first marines to be designated a naval aviator. He received the Navy Cross for his ...
Terra Australis Incognita
The name given to the great and unknown southern continent required by the classical Greek geographers, who knew that the earth was spherical, to balance the land mass which was known to exist north ...
USS Vincennes
CA-44 a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser torpedoed and sunk by Japanese warships off Savo in the Solomon Islands on August 8, 1942.
W. F. (‘Bull’) Halsey
(1882–1959)US admiral. In 1941, commanding the Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers, he and his fleet were out of harbour when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. In 1942 he led a spectacular raid against ...
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