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Originally Posted by Jim O
Do you have a sense of how many were lost in all of those sinkings?
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Nice pics Jim! All the sources I have found list about 4000 sailors of All Combatant Nations died in the Naval Actions around the Solomons. In Iron Bottom Sound where my pics are from, is where the majority now lie, with the ships they served on. It was a solemn ceremony that day, and it touched all of us who were there. 4000 sailors, in a scope you can understand....thats the entire population of my home city and our sister city, all gone.....dead. And that don't even go into Marine, Army, and IJA losses on the Island. A lot of Sacrifice for a place many had never even heard of before August 1942. But it helped to save Northern Australia from Imminent invasion and turn the tide on Japanese Expansion in the PTO.