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USS Helena, “Report of Shore Bombardment,” 1–3; Turner to Nimitz, November 7, 1942 (2358). “I know we haven’t got much”: Eller interview, 590. “It wasn’t the noise”: Halsey, Admiral Halsey’s Story, 123. “The gunners fired as though”: Morris, The Fightin’est Ship, 67. “For operations against Jap light forces”: Scott to Halsey, November 8, 1942 (0020). Pensacola’s problems: Holbrook, The History and Times of the USS Portland, 175. “He spent a great deal of time”: Mustin interview, 523. Japanese plans: Frank, Guadalcanal, 429. U.S. estimates: Turner to Callaghan, “Letter of Instructions Concerning Future Operations of Task Force 67,” quoted in COMINCH, “Battle Experience: November 1942,” 27-17, 27-18. “It looks this time”: Hoyt, How They Won the War in the Pacific, 182–183. “We must establish local naval superiority”: Baldwin, “Lessons of the Solomons Campaign,” 3.

26: Suicide

“I heard about all the plans”: Tarrant interview. Turner’s order to Callaghan: Turner to Callaghan, November 12, 1942 (0133), quoted in Nimitz, “Preliminary Report of Action, 12–13 November 1942,” 3. “He said to me, ‘Yes’ ”: Tarrant interview. “The wind carried their voices”: Bennett interview. “Calm, unemotional, resolute”: Bennett, “Callaghan Was Calm …, ” 18. “We were all prepared to die”: Whitt interview. “All hell seemed dancing”: www.siprep.org/about/si_history_brief.cfm. Callaghan, Virgil, and Dante: Murphy, Fighting Admiral, www.microworks.net/pacific/library/fa-chapter1.htm. Joe Foss interception: SOPAC, “Naval Air Combat Intelligence Report,” November 8–12, 1942; COMINCH, “Battle Experience: November 1942,” 27-8. “An old-time cavalry deployment”: McCandless, “The San Francisco Story,” 37. “With this beautifully clear view”: Mustin interview, 564. “Seemed to literally hammer them”: COMINCH, “Battle Experience: November 1942,” 28-8. “I just had time”: Wallace quoted at www.modelwarships.com/features/words/Wallace/Wallace.html. “We heard them yelling”: Morris, The Fightin’est Ship, 71. “To set his ship down” and Betty versus DD: Leavelle, “The Log of the Mighty A,” March 30, 1943. “There was no comment”: Jack Slack quoted in Parrent, Third Savo, 60. “Almost pathetically”: Morris, The Fightin’est Ship, 72–73. “I got him over my shoulders” and “How he got into”: Wallace, www.usssanfrancisco.org. “A delaying action”: COMSOPAC, “Operational History of the South Pacific,” 19. Turner wrote Callaghan, “At White Poppy (Nouméa) is Task Force 16. I have no knowledge as to its future movements.” COMINCH, “Battle Experience: November 1942,” 27-17, 27-18. “God’s burning finger”: Melville, Moby-Dick, 579. “This is suicide, you know”: Hammel, Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea, 112. “You will not fear”: Bible, Psalm 91, New International Version. “If Callaghan had had”: Mustin interview, 571, 574. “Only to show disparity”: Bennett interview. “You’re in no condition”: Bennett interview. “I was praying”: Howe interview, 21.

27: Black Friday

“A place of bitter struggles”: Ugaki, Fading Victory, 255. Volunteer Attack Force usage: Dull, Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 256–257. “In all the years of” and “This blessed squall”: Hara, Japanese Destroyer Captain, 138. “Small island” and “Prepare for gun”: Ibid., 140. “A blackness so thick” and “Where in the hell”: Hartney, “The Story of the Juneau,” 2. U.S. approach: USS Cushing, “Report of Engagement,” 1; USS Helena, “Action Off North Coast,” 17. “When we finally had”: Graff interview. “As uncomplicated as”: Morris, The Fightin’est Ship, 84. “We knew the bearing”: Hagen interview. “Solution! Enemy course 107”: Calhoun, Tin Can Sailor, 75. “I said a short prayer”: McKinney, CL-51 Revisited, 39. “There is a ship crossing”: USS Cushing, “Report of Engagement,” 1. “What do you make of it”: USS Helena, Extracts from Helena’s TBS Log for 0142. “Shall I let them have”: Ibid., 1441 GCT. “There in the starlight”: Mustin interview, 576. “What are you doing, Sam?”: USS Portland, “Night Action Between Task Force 67.4 and Japanese Forces, November 13, 1942,” 3. Turn ninety degrees left: The Portland’s action report states