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US forces gain in east and west drives, Guadalcanal; planes attack 5 Jap destroyers east of New Georgia Is; 2 Grumman Wildcats attack 15 Zeros, destroy 1; US Navy credits carrier-based naval plane squadron with balking Jap attack on US task force, Aug 24
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Eisenhower radio appeal to French Fleet to join Allies by sailing to Gibraltar reptd
16 Axis planes reptd destroyed, Algiers area
1942Maurice O'Neill, executed Irish Republican[†]
Maurice O'Neill (1917-1942) was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) Captain, captured in 1942 after a shoot out with Irish police, and promptly tried and executed, one of only two people executed in independent Ireland for a non-murder offence.
1942World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.[†]
The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal took place from 12 to 15 November 1942 and was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied and Imperial Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The action consisted of combined air and sea engagements over four days, most near Guadalcanal and all related to a Japanese effort to reinforce land forces on the island. The only two U.S. Navy admirals to be killed in a surface engagement in the war were lost in this battle.