After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, both sides took heavy casualties but neither could claim full control. No side was decisively defeated, leading to the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. The American battleships USS Washington and USS South Dakota faced off against the Japanese battleship Kirishima and a large fleet of heavy and light cruisers, and destroyers...

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