Word: kula
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Japanese Navy had been lying low for months. The last time Japanese units had shown themselves in battle was in Kula Gulf on July 7, and the last time before that was in the final tussle off Guadalcanal in November...
Pearl Harbor to Kula. Only once in World War II has the Japanese Navy fought a major surface action which was not linked with Japanese troop movements. That action was also the only defensive battle the Japanese Navy has fought. The record...
...planes, and the squat derrick cocked on her fantail, marred her clean lines. She was water-borne in the murky tide off Brooklyn in August 1938, while Japanese "fishermen" could still map soundings off U.S. coasts. She died in the early dark of July 7, 1943, deep in the Kula Gulf between New Georgia and Kolombangara in the South Pacific. Her pallbearers: the eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers which had gone down under her guns in her short career of headlong action...
...Helena steamed on to her destiny. She pounded enemy airfields, troop areas, shore batteries. Down in her log went names now legendary: Munda, Vila, Kolombangara, Enogai Inlet, Bairoko Harbor. Finally came the Battle of Kula Gulf, a turning point which cost the Jap something between nine and eleven cruisers and destroyers. It cost the U.S. one ship: the Helena...
Duncan Norton-Taylor traveled 10,000 miles and waited three months in the South Seas for his chance to go into action with our fleet-but his firsthand story of the naval victories in the Kula Gulf was well worth waiting...