Talk:Battle for Henderson Field

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[edit] Strength in numbers

While I don't question the threat from the AAF, weren't the Japanese slow to feed in troops because they disbelieved the Americans were actually on the island in the (actual) strength they were? And didn't that drive the unwillingness to (or absence of) use of carriers to escort APs/AKs? Trekphiler 16:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

That could be the reason that they didn't use their carriers to try to protect transport convoys going to Guadalcanal, but I haven't found anything that says that for sure.. But, the main reason that the Japanese didn't use transport ships to deliver their troops and materiel to Guadalcanal was because of what happened to Tanaka's convoy during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. His convoy of several slow transport ships took heavy damage and was diverted to the Shortland Island. From there on out, the Eighth Fleet decided to warships as much as possible at night to deliver the troops and supplies to the island. Reinforcing this decision, on August 28 a destroyer convoy that tried to make a delivery during daylight hours took heavy damage from a strike by Henderson aircraft. Cla68 20:42, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I think that's a circular argument. The convoy was slaughtered because it wasn't escorted adequetly because IJA didn't believe Vandegrift had large numbers & so couldn't do serious harm; when this proved mistaken, they switched to DDs. (If it was up to me, I'd add something about IJA-IJN rivalry & lack of IJA shipping driving it, if I could source it for sure.) Trekphiler 08:05, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I just personally haven't read anything that states that for sure. If I come across it, I'll add it to the article. Cla68 10:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Have you got Hayashi & Coox's Kogun, or Willmott's Empires in the Balance & Barrier & the Javelin? (I'll look into Warriors of the Rising Sun; the local library doesn't have the others...) It's in one of them... Trekphiler 23:01 & 23:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I have an electronic copy of Kogun so I'll check that. Cla68 04:06, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Warriors, p.285, says it, but I think there's a less POV cite, too. Trekphiler 23:16, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay. Kogun doesn't say it. Cla68 01:02, 19 October 2007 (UTC)