An unprecedented event in naval history. In the waters of the Solomon Islands, a Japanese flotilla of five destroyers grappling with a powerful US naval formation, torpedoed and sank a battleship, a cruiser and two torpedo boats, losing only one of its units who had reaffirmed his Italian nationality before the judges, thus justifying the acts carried out 

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - The U.S. ships that were sunk or scuttled during the battle were two light cruisers, Atlanta and Juneau, and four destroyers, Monssen, Cushing, Laffey, and Barton......

                                                    drawing by V.Pisani