USS Little (DD-79)
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USS Little, a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II. She was the first Navy ship named for George Little.
USS Little (DD-79), running trials in icy waters, 4 March 1918.
Little and Gregory on 30 July 1942.
Ironbottom Sound
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"Ironbottom Sound" is the name given by Allied sailors to the stretch of water at the southern end of The Slot between Guadalcanal, Savo Island, and Nggela Islands of the Solomon Islands, because of t
USS Little (DD-79)
…0100 on 5 September, Little observed gun flashes to the east and believed this to be an enemy submarine. Moments later a Navy PBY Catalina flying over Savo Sound released a string of five flares to illuminate what he also thought was a submarine. The flares illuminated the APDs instead. A surprised Japanese…
Ironbottom Sound, Savo Island (center), and Guadalcanal (left) on 7 August 1942, the day Allied forces landed on Guadalcanal and Tulagi.
Shipwrecks in the Ironbottom Sound
Wreath-laying ceremony at Guadalcanal in 2015
Kinugawa Maru