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Report, 3 (Hepburn Report Annex, 443). “Surface ships should be employed”: COMINCH, “Battle Experience: Solomon Islands Actions, August and September 1942,” 12–47. Surface battle doctrine: Hone, “U.S. Navy Surface Battle Doctrine,” 71–72. Scott’s battle plan: Commander, Task Group 64.2, “Memorandum for Task Group 64.2,” October 9, 1942, 1; see also Scott’s Memorandum Number Two, October 10, 1942, and Scott to Ghormley, October 4, 1942 (0600). “Any qualified watch officer”: Crenshaw, South Pacific Destroyer, 56. “The two lines on the chart”: Morris, The Fightin’est Ship, 34. “As grim as his guns” and “Captain seem to be worried?”: Ibid., 34–35. “We’ll catch it sure” and “The Japs would strike”: Ibid., 31. “We were moving west”: Ibid., 36. Pass the word from gun to gun: Morris, “Pick Out the Biggest,” 36. “There was little to do”: Morris, The Fightin’est Ship, 36. “Well, sir, these islands”: www.usssanfrancisco.org. “Dumpy and fat”: Morris, The Fightin’est Ship, 39. “One large, two small vessels”: CTG 64.2, “Report of Night Action,” 1. “The only indication”: Weems, “Solomons Battle Log,” 83. “Execute to follow”: USS Salt Lake City, Action Report, 6.

17: Pulling the Trigger

“Column left”: Commander, Task Group 64.2, “Report of Night Action,” 3; Crenshaw, Naval Shiphandling, 179. “Are you taking station”: McCalla, “Report of Action,” TBS Log, 2. “Do not rejoin”: CTG 64.2, “Memorandum for Task Group 64.2.” “Ships visible”: Morris, The Fightin’est Ship, 43. “The night had been still”: Ibid., 46. “The second never touched the water”: USS Salt Lake City, “Report of Action of USS Salt Lake City Against Japanese Surface Naval Units, Night of October 11–12, 1942, Off Savo Island, Solomon Islands,” 8. “Pick out the biggest” and “Daddy, I want to go home”: Morris, “Pick Out the Biggest,” 45. “I felt a wildly exultant joy”: Weems, “Solomons Battle Log,” 85. “I AM AOBA” and “Bakayaro!”: Ugaki, Fading Victory, 238. “Cease firing, all ships”: USS McCalla, “Report of Action,” TBS Log, 2; the Salt Lake City recorded, “Cease firing, our ships.” “Report of Action,” 7. “Rapid fire, continuous. … Begging your pardon, Admiral”: Spencer interview. “It took some time to stop”: CTG 64.2, “Report of Night Action,” 3. “Every time he could train”: Richardson, “My War,” unpaginated. “How are you? … Twelve is okay”: USS Salt Lake City, “Report of Action,” 7. “Stood there transfixed”: Richardson, “My War.” “Almost immediately she was observed”: USS Duncan, “Detailed Report of Action of USS Duncan During Engagement with Japanese Forces Off Savo Island, 11–12 October 1942,” 4.

18: “Pour It to ’Em”

“Getting hotter than a Joe Louis fight”: Morris, “Pick Out the Biggest,” 52. “Fired at Boise unopposed”: USS Boise, “Action Off Cape Esperance,” 8. “The fuze hasn’t gone off”: Morris, “Pick Out,” 58–60. “The battle had been a game”: Morris, The Fightin’est Ship, 53. “Take it easy, son”: Ibid., 60. “Outta my way!”: Morris, “Mike Moran’s Men,” part 1, 51. Damage to Salt Lake City: USS Salt Lake City, “Report of Action of USS Salt Lake City Against Japanese Surface Naval Units, Night of October 11–12, 1942, Off Savo Island, Solomon Islands,” 16, 19, 23–24. “The enemy was silenced”: Commander, Task Group 64.2, “Report of Night Action,” 4. “D491 v D456”: COMINCH, “Battle Experience: Solomon Islands Actions, October 1942,” 20–27. “Detail one of your boys”: USS Salt Lake City, “Report of Action,” 12. “ENGAGED ENEMY WEST OF SAVO”: Scott to Ghormley, October 11, 1942 (1528). “And the navigator pushed”: McCandless letter, Proceedings, 123. “Rather too sensitive … If we do not approve”: Ugaki, Fading Victory, 226. Loss of Furutaka: IJN Furutaka, “Action Record”; also Lacroix and Wells, Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War, 309. “Bow end looked cooked”: Lundstrom, The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign, 297. “As we pulled into harbor”: Barham, The 228 Days of the United States Destroyer Laffey (DD-459), 66. “Little things, remembered now in detail”: Morris, The Fightin’est Ship, 60. “Crude night firing practices”: CTG 64.2, “Report of Night Action,” 7. “The rapidity