Savo Author:Richard F. Newcomb The tide was starting to turn in our favor. We'd beaten the pants of the Japs at Midway. The Marines had just pulled off fantastically successful landings at Tulagi and Guadalcanal. — The one thing nobody reckoned with that night was Admiral Mikawa and the Japanese fleet. Thanks to almost unbelievable ineptitude on the part of the American com... more »manders, Mikawa was about to hand the American navy the bitterest defeat of its history. He was about to kill 1024 American boys, sink the pride of the fleet, and bring America to the brink of total defeat.« less