On the stormy night of November 13, 1942, the Japanese battleship Hiei led a convoy toward Guadalcanal, aiming to reclaim the ...

Cushing attacked Hiei but was sunk by a broadside from ... leaving behind the first Japanese battleship loss since 1904. Ahead lay a second naval battle of Guadalcanal, which would seal the ...

Kaneko said his father told him the boat was a cutter carried by the battleship Hiei of the Imperial Japanese Navy. “My father, who served in the war, said he bought the boat when he found it ...