Sponsored by World of Warships! Register here ► https://wo.ws/3alYYIo to receive 200 doubloons, 2,500,000 Credits, the USS St. Loius, the SMS Emden Premium Cruiser, 20 Restless Fire Camos and 7 Days Premium Time when you use code BOOM. Applicable to new users only. The Battle of Vella Lavella (1943) was the last significant Imperial Japanese Surface victory in World War 2. »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » YouTube Membership - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA/join »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « Mawdsely, Evan: The War for the Seas. A Maritime History of World War II. Yale University Press: New Haven, USA, 2019. Symonds, Craig L.: World War II at Sea. A Global History. Oxford University Press: New York, 2018. Dull, Paul S.: The Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Naval Institute Press: Annapolis, USA, 1978. Morison, Samuel Eliot: Breaking the Bismarck Barrier 22 July 1942-1 May 1944. History of the United States Naval Operation in World War II. Volume VI. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 1950 (2010). Cox, Samuel: H-022-5: Battle of Vella Lavella—The Last Japanese Victory, 6–7 October 1943, https://www.history.navy.mil/about-us/leadership/director/directors-corner/h-grams/h-gram-022/h-022-5.html, last accessed: 18th August 2020 German Extended Translation (used for this video) Potter, E.B.; Nimitz, Ch. W.; Rohwer, Jürgen: Seemacht – Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Reardon, Jeff T.: The Evolution of the U.S. Navy into an Effective Night-Fighting Force During the Solomon Islands Campaign, 1942 – 1943. A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University. August 2008. Naval Analysis Division: The Campaigns of the Pacific War. United States Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific). Government Printing Office: Washington, US, 1946. Nevitt, Allyn D.: IJN Fumizuki: Tabular Record of Movement, http://www.combinedfleet.com/fumizu_t.htm, 1998, last accessed: 27th August 2020. Combined Fleet: Tabular Records of Movement Matsukaze http://www.combinedfleet.com/matsuk_t.htm Combined Fleet: Tabular Records of Movement Yunagi http://www.combinedfleet.com/yunagi_t.htm #Sponsored #LastJapaneseVictory #VellaLavella