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”: Halsey, Admiral, 136. “The maximum possible urgency”: Halsey to Vice OpNav, October 21, 1942 (0517). “You are well aware of”: Hoyt, How They Won, 172. “What do we get in exchange?” and “We will continue to protect you”: Halsey, manuscript, 369–370; Potter, Bull Halsey, 184; Schom, The Eagle and the Rising Sun, 408–410. “If we are defeated”: Hayes, The History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in World War II, 191. “Today—our Saturday”: Nimitz to Mrs. Nimitz, October 24, 1942. “Tired, hungry”: Nimitz to Mrs. Nimitz, October 24, 1942. “The view expressed”: Hurd, “Pacific Command Shake-Up Is Laid to Guadalcanal Crisis,” 1, 41. “What did I do that was wrong?” Nimitz to Robert L. Ghormley, Jr., January 27, 1961. “Complete lack of offensive use … I presume most of us”: Hoyt, How They Won, 168. “When history is written”: Weaver, “Some Reminiscences,” 10. “My anxiety about the Southwest Pacific”: Arnold, Global Mission, 355.

22: “Strike—Repeat, Strike”

“Something is in the air”: Merillat, Guadalcanal Remembered, 226–227. “Smash anything we find”: Mustin diary, October 25, 1942. Japanese forces: Frank, Guadalcanal, 374–376; Morison, The Struggle for Guadalcanal, 206–207. “The victory is already”: Frank, Guadalcanal, 341–342. “2300 BANZAI!”: Ibid., 354. “This settled everything”: Ugaki, Fading Victory, 245. “Having inferior forces”: Hoyt, How They Won the War in the Pacific, 171. “They began to echo”: Halsey, Admiral Halsey’s Story, 116. “Are we going to evacuate or hold?” and “I can hold”: Halsey, Admiral, 117. “If Vandegrift had fired an arrow”: Richard B. Frank, email to author, September 24, 2009. “Carrier power varies”: Halsey, Admiral, 120. “Strike—Repeat, Strike”: Lundstrom, The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign, 349.

23: Santa Cruz

U.S. aircraft strength: Lundstrom, The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign, 353. “pROCEED WITHOUT hORNET”: Moore, The Buzzard Brigade, 29. “Drove the guns into the stops”: Grahn interview. “It was beneath the dignity”: Claypool, God on a Battlewagon, 5; Backus interview, 126. Backus disputed Morison’s description of the South Dakota as an “abominably dirty” ship, 200 fn. “Forasmuch as the spirit”: Claypool, God, 7. “In their borrowed clothes”: Ibid., 6–9. “Men have to have something”: Ibid., 74. “I wish we had as many carriers”: Nimitz to Mrs. Nimitz, October 27, 1942. “Numerically or tactically” and “Considering the great superiority”: Hara, Japanese Destroyer Captain, 134.

24: Secret History

Pilot and aircrew casualties: Scouting Squadron 3, “Report of Operations at Guadalcanal Island,” 1–4. “Have received most earnest attention”: Turner to Vandegrift, October 29, 1942. King’s lasciviousness: Buell, Master of Sea Power, 78–79, which elaborates, “Women avoided sitting near him at dinner parties because his hands were too often beneath the table. King’s interest in women led him into a number of extramarital affairs.” “Enemy offensives since September 15”: Halsey to Commander, Task Force 42, October 30, 1942. Japanese supply requirements and capacity: Parshall, “Oil and the Japanese Strategy in the Solomons.” “In the end, one side or”: Hurd, “Navies Manoeuvre for Big Stakes in Solomons,” E3. “We won”: Graybar, “Admiral King’s Toughest Battle,” 39. “So far as I’m concerned”: McCormick, “King of the Navy,” 20. Chicago Tribune incident: Toland, The Rising Sun, vol. 1, 427. “So mismanaged was”: Graybar, “Admiral King’s,” 40. “I spoke more frankly”: Baldwin interview, 356–359. The angry captain was Charles R. “Cat” Brown (see Samuel B. Griffith to Charles R. Brown, October 10, 1962, and Griffith to Hanson W. Baldwin, October 10, 1962, Baldwin Papers). “The Boise fired on six targets”: USS Boise, “Report of Action,” 1; Fox Movietone News, “Hero ‘Battleship X’ Revealed to Be the USS South Dakota” (newsreel). “There was every reason to believe”: Graybar, “Admiral King’s,” 42–43. “There was no one in Washington”: Baldwin interview, 361–362.

25: Turner’s Choice

“In the half dawn” and “He couldn’t thank us enough”: Leavelle, “The Log of the Mighty A,” March 29, 1943. November 4 naval bombardment: