On the night of October 11–12, 1942, Rear Admiral Norman Scott led a force of cruisers and destroyers to a decisive victory at the Battle of Cape Esperance off Guadalcanal. Using radar and a well-drilled night-fighting doctrine, Scott's force crossed the T on a Japanese reinforcement convoy, sinking a cruiser and a destroyer and driving the rest off — one of the first clear-cut U.S. naval victories of the bitter Guadalcanal campaign. Details of the action had been withheld for security reasons; this article in the December 1942 Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin — the publication later renamed All Hands — finally revealed Scott's triumph to the wider Navy.
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