Map of the naval engagement of November 13, 1942, at 01:45 just before several U.S. warships began to turn left (indicated by dotted black arrow) in preparation to engage the Japanese ships and the U.S. column began to jumble. The Japanese warship groups are represented by red arrows.
Background taken from [1] (which is a U.S. government public domain document) and modified by user:Cla68, on June 21, 2006 to include warship forces battle tracks, then by user:Pibwl, with ships' names. Released under the GFDL