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Parsons, Robert P. MOB 3: A Naval Hospital in a South Sea Jungle. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1945.

Percival, Franklin G. “Wanted: A New Naval Development Policy,” Naval Institute Proceedings, May 1943, p. 655.

Pogue, Forrest C. George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope, 1939–1942. New York: Viking, 1966.

Poor, Henry V., Henry A. Mustin, and Colin G. Jameson. The Battles of Cape Esperance, 11 October 1942, and Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1994 (originally published without attribution as Combat Narratives: Solomon Islands Campaign by the Office of Naval Intelligence, 1943).

———. The Battles of Savo Island and Eastern Solomons. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1994 (originally published without attribution as Combat Narratives: Solomon Islands Campaign by the Office of Naval Intelligence, 1943).

Pope, Quentin. “ANZACs Criticize Ghormley Tactics,” New York Times, September 18, 1945, p. 5.

Potter, E. B. “The Command Personality,” Naval Institute Proceedings, January 1969, p. 18.

———. Nimitz. Annapolis: Naval Institute, 1976.

———. Bull Halsey. Annapolis: Naval Institute, 1985.

Potter, E. B., and Chester W. Nimitz (eds). Triumph in the Pacific: The Navy’s Struggle Against Japan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1963.

Prados, John. Combined Fleet Decoded. New York: Random House, 1995.

Pratt, Fletcher. The Navy’s War. New York: Harper, 1944.

———. The Fleet Against Japan. New York: Harper, 1946.

Rasenberger, Jim. America 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation. New York: Scribner, 2007.

Reeder, Russel P., Jr. Fighting on Guadalcanal. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1943.

Reynolds, David. In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War. New York: Basic, 2005.

Roosevelt, Eleanor. “To Care for Him Who Shall Have Borne the Battle,” Collier’s, November 28, 1942, p. 20.

Ruiz, C. Kenneth, with John Bruning. The Luck of the Draw: The Memoir of a World War II Submariner, from Savo Island to the Silent Service. St. Paul, Minn.: Zenith, 2005.

Satterfield, John R. We Band of Brothers: The Sullivans and World War II. Parkersburg, Iowa: Mid-Prairie, 1995; second edition 2000.

Schom, Alan. The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1943. New York: Norton, 2004.

Sears, Stephen W. “A Coastwatcher’s Diary,” American Heritage, February 1966. www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1966/2/1966_2_104.shtml (last page view, October 29, 2009).

Seno, Sadao. “A Chess Game with No Checkmate: Admiral Inoue and the Pacific War,” Naval War College Review, January–February 1974, p. 26.

Shalett, Sidney. Old Nameless (about the USS South Dakota). New York: Appleton-Century, 1943.

Shanks, Sandy. The Bode Testament (fiction). Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, 2001.

Shaw, Elizabeth R. P. Beside Me Still: A Memoir of Love and Loss in World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2002.

Shaw, Henry I., Jr. The First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal (Marines in World War II Commemorative Series). Quantico, Va.: Marine Corps Historical Center, 1992.

Sheehan, J. M. “The Wardroom Mess,” Naval Institute Proceedings, June 1936, p. 842.

Sherwood, Robert E. Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History. New York: Harper, 1948.

Simpson, B. Mitchell, III. Admiral Harold R. Stark: Architect of Victory, 1939–1945. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.

Smith, S. E. (ed.). The United States Navy in World War II. New York: Morrow, 1966.

Soule, Thayer. Shooting the Pacific War: Marine Corps Combat Photography in WWII. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

Stafford, Edward P. The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise. Annapolis: Naval Institute, 1962.

Steinbeck, John. Once There Was a War. New York: Viking, 1958.

Stevenson, Nikolai. “Four Months on the Front Line,” American Heritage, October–November 1985. www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1985/6/1985_6_49.shtml