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Weaver, Charles W., Jr. (SOPAC operations staff, lieutenant). “Some Reminiscences of the Pacific War,” speech, Nashua Rotary Club, May 6, 1963. NWC.

Wilde, E. Andrew (ed.). The USS Aaron Ward (DD-483) in World War II: Documents and Photographs. Privately published, 1998; revised 2001. www.destroyerhistory.org/benson-gleavesclass/ussaaronward/research483.html (last page view January 24, 2009).

Wristen, Henry A. (ed.) (USS New Orleans, seaman first class). History of the United States Navy Ship New Orleans, CA-32 (incorporating the ship’s official reports). Revised edition, September 10, 2007. Revised again by Carl Hartzell and Hank Wristen, under the title An Amended History, November 2009.

Books and Articles

Abend, Hallett. Ramparts of the Pacific. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.

Agawa, Hiroyuki. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. New York: Kodansha, 1982 (original Japanese edition 1969).

Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, and Robert Howe Connery, with Jennie Barnes Pope. Forrestal and the Navy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962.

Aldrich, Robert. France and the South Pacific Since 1940. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.

Arnold, H. H. Global Mission. New York: Harper, 1949.

Associated Press. “Boise Captain Gives Credit to His Crew,” New York Times, November 24, 1942, p. 8.

———. “Bridge Blasted from Battleship by U.S. Destroyer off Guadalcanal,” New York Times, January 13, 1943, p. 1.

———. “Five Iowa Brothers Lost in Pacific Battle,” New York Times, January 13, 1943, p. 10.

———. “5 Sullivans Died, Survivor Writes,” New York Times, January 15, 1943, p. 7.

Baldwin, Hanson W. “A Sailor-Diplomat Runs Up His Colors” (Adm. Arthur J. Hepburn), New York Times, July 5, 1936, p. SM9.

———. “The Naval Defense of America,” Harper’s, April 1941, p. 449.

———. “Lessons of the Solomons Campaign,” New York Times, October 24, 1942, p. 3.

———. “Handling of the News of the War,” New York Times, November 23, 1942, p. 10.

——— (ed). The Navy at War: Paintings and Drawings by Combat Artists. New York: Morrow, 1943.

Ballard, Robert D., with Rick Archbold. The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal: Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South Pacific. New York: Warner, 1993.

Bath, Alan Harris. Tracking the Axis Enemy: The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Battle Stations!: Your Navy in Action. New York: William H. Wise, 1946.

Becton, F. Julian, with Joseph Morschauser III. The Ship That Would Not Die. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1980.

Bennett, John E. “Callaghan Was Calm and Collected at Guadalcanal,” Shipmate, April 1996, p. 18.

Bergerud, Eric M. Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2001.

Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

Braisted, William Reynolds. The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1909–1922. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.

Brodie, Bernard. A Guide to Naval Strategy (3rd edition). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1944.

Brown, Herbert C. Hell at Tassafaronga: The History of the Heavy Cruiser USS New Orleans (CA-32). Reston, V.: Ancient Mariners Press, 2001.

Brown, Louis. A Radar History of World War II: Technical and Military Imperatives. Philadelphia, Pa.: Institute of Physics, 1999.

Buell, Thomas B. The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond E. Spruance. New York: Little, Brown, 1974.

———. Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. New York: Little, Brown, 1980.

Bulkley, Robert J., Jr. At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1962 (Naval Institute reprint, 2003).

Butcher, M. E. “Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, Pioneer Warrior or Gross Sinner?” Naval War College Review, Winter 1987, p. 69.

Calhoun, C. Raymond. Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939–1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute, 1993.

Casey, Robert J. Torpedo Junction!: With the Pacific Fleet from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,