Travel with sanjib on Instagram: "🌊✈ Final dive over the Solomon Sea — 1942 During the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (25–27 October 1942), an Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft was struck in combat and plunged into the ocean. This clash — also called the Third Battle of the Solomon Sea — was a pivotal engagement in the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. It was fought primarily between U.S. Navy and Imperial Japanese carrier forces in the waters northeast of Guadalcanal. The battle saw intens