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Department, 22. “The rescue of these three men”: USS Astoria, “Executive Officer’s Memorandum,” 4. “I stood for a moment”: Jones, The USS Astoria (CA-34) and the Men Who Sailed Her, 133–134. “Shaking with cold and fright”: Ibid., 129–130. “Able-bodied men”: Custer, Through, 139. “One of the most horrible sights”: Jones, The USS Astoria, 137. “Off her slanting side”: Custer, Through, 142. “The day was beautiful”: Jones, The USS Astoria, 189. Sinking of Astoria: USS Astoria, “Battle of Savo Island”, 7–12. “These were endless hours”: Ghormley, “The Tide Turns,” 104. “Most of them were young kids”: Bennink, narrative, 8. “If the San Juan had been up there”: Rivero interview, 125. “I couldn’t help but”: Smoot interview, 98. “Without information except”: Kinkaid, Four Years of War, 279. “Blackest day of the whole war”: Lundstrom, Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, 398. U.S. fatalities were Quincy: 370, Vincennes: 332, Astoria: 216, Canberra: 85, Ralph Talbot: 11, Patterson: 8, Chicago: 2, per Newcomb, The Battle of Savo Island, 257. “Look what we’ve got here”: Custer, Through, 149–150. “A sound that I felt”: Ibid., 169. “That body burned in my dreams”: Jones, The USS Astoria, 105. “When he got to me”: Ibid., 50. “Don’t you say one word”: Powell interview. “The conceited British and Americans”: Ugaki, Fading Victory, 181.

PART II:

Fighting Fleet Rising

9: A New Kind of Fight

“We drank a cocktail toast”: Nimitz to Mrs. Nimitz, August 10, 1942. “Obsessed with a strong feeling”: Turner, “Comment on Hepburn Report,” 9–10. Air search sectors: Frank, Guadalcanal, 91. “Could not be heard”: Ghormley to King, “CTF 62 Communications During the Occupation of Tulagi and Guadalcanal” (Hepburn Report Annex, 644). “Was completely uninformed”: Task Force 18, War Diary, August 9, 1942. “Had timely and accurate information”: Kinkaid, Four Years of War, 284. “The way these carriers operate”: Mustin diary, August 8. “Was always trying” and “Three times during the night”: Weschler interview, 88. “We had to be very careful”: Wylie, NWC interview, 58–59. “I can take any dumb son”: Wylie, USNI interview, 28. “Hey, Cap’n”: Wylie, NWC interview, 66. “They were highly motivated”: Ibid., 60. “The moon rose”: Soule, Shooting the Pacific War, 37. “The Nation has passed through”: Bureau of Navigation Bulletin, “Information for Naval Personnel,” February 1, 1942, 28. Navy muster rolls statistics: COMINCH, First Official Report to the Secretary of the Navy, March 1, 1944, 494. “They go to war because”: Hynes, quoted in The War, episode 1, first broadcast on PBS, September 23, 2007. “I thought I was in a forest” and “Well, this doesn’t make”: Hagen, Nimitz interview, 3–5, 25–26. “As a bunch”: George T. Sullivan, undated letter, on display, NMPW. Sullivan brothers’ early life: Satterfield, We Band of Brothers, 23–29; Associated Press, “Five Iowa Brothers,” 10. “I guess our minds are made up”: Satterfield, We Band, 55. “Magic box”: Brown, A Radar History of WWII, 248. “There wasn’t any real training”: Rivero interview, 104. “A narrow man” and “Our flag officers”: Baldwin, “The Naval Defense of America,” 454–455. “Neither I nor”: Turner, “Comment on Hepburn Report,” 7–8. Operation of SG and SC radar: Brown, A Radar History of WW II, 237, 248. Radar in the Aaron Ward: Hagen 7, 10; Hagen, Nimitz interview, 6–7. “It is to be hoped that”: COMINCH, “Battle Experience: August and September 1942,” 11-10–11-11. “The war has been variously termed”: Commander, Naval Base Guadalcanal, “History of U.S. Naval Advanced Base Guadalcanal,” 137. Preparation of Espiritu Santo: Gardner interview, 2; Ghormley to King, “Advance Bases, South Pacific Area.” “A gleam in Ghormley’s eye”: Dyer, The Amphibians Came to Conquer, 257. “It was dry”: Eller interview, 578–579. “There is going to be a”: Mustin diary, August 13. “They’re so goddamned scared”: Ibid., August 9. “I wish to God”: Ibid., August 11. “All their fleet”: Baldwin, “The Naval Defense of America,” 455–456. “Our planes had come”: Larrabee, Commander in Chief, 281. “That night we went to bed”: Soule, Shooting, 81.

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