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Title Page

Admiral Ernest J. King (Fox Movietone News, © University of South Carolina)

Part I

Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley (U.S. Navy)

Chapter 2

The Slot

Chapter 7

Battle of Savo Island

Part II

Rear Admiral John S. McCain (U.S. Navy)

Chapter 16

Battle of Cape Esperance

Part III

Captain Frederick L. Riefkohl (U.S. Navy)

Chapter 27

Cruiser Night Action

Chapter 33

Morning After In Ironbottom Sound

Part IV

Captain William G. Greenman (U.S. Navy)

Chapter 36

Battleship Night Action

Chapter 40

Battle of Tassafaronga

Photo Insert

1. Admiral Ernest J. King (Fox Movietone News, © University of South Carolina)

2. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (U.S. Navy)

3. Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley (U.S. Navy)

4. Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher (U.S. Navy)

5. Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner (U.S. Navy)

6. Rear Admiral John S. McCain (U.S. Navy)

7. An F4F Wildcat prepares to launch (U.S. Navy)

8. The heavy cruiser Vincennes opens fire (Royal Australian Navy/Collection of Brent Jones)

9. Captain Frederick L. Riefkohl (U.S. Navy)

10. The Astoria (Royal Australian Navy/Collection of Brent Jones)

11. Astoria gunners in drills (U.S. Navy)

12. Captain William G. Greenman (U.S. Navy)

13. The Astoria, shown in Hawaiian waters (U.S. Navy)

14. The last photo of the Quincy (U.S. Navy)

15. Rear Admiral Gunichi Mikawa (National Archives)

16. Captain Samuel N. Moore (U.S. Navy)

17. The Quincy in the South Pacific (U.S. Navy)

18a. Two U.S. destroyers, the Blue and the Patterson (U.S. Navy)

18b. Chicago sailors cut away damaged bow plating (U.S. Navy)

19. Captain Howard D. Bode (U.S. Navy)

20. Two U.S. destroyers, the Blue and the Patterson (U.S. Navy)

21. Lloyd M. Mustin (Naval Historical Center)

22. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Official portrait by Shugaku Homma, Naval Historical Center)

23. Rear Admiral Norman Scott (Collection of Michael Scott)

24. The light cruiser Boise (U.S. Navy)

25. Captain Robert G. Tobin receives the Navy Cross from Admiral William F. Halsey (U.S. Navy)

26. The antiaircraft cruiser Atlanta maneuvers with four destroyers (U.S. Navy)

27. The destroyer Farenholt (U.S. Navy)

28. Radar (U.S. Navy)

29. The SG radar (U.S. Navy)

30. Major Joseph Foss (U.S. Navy)

31. Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, USMC (U.S. Navy)

32. Marine tanks prowling near Alligator Creek (U.S. Navy)

33. Lieutenant Colonel Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller (National Archives)

34. The SBD Dauntless (U.S. Navy)

35. Nimitz with Vandegrift (Fox Movietone News, © University of South Carolina)

36. As the Wasp burns in the background, the destroyer O’Brien is torpedoed (U.S. Navy)

37. Rear Admiral Raizo Tanaka (National Archives)

38. The Wasp sinks (U.S. Navy)

39. The destroyer Laffey brought hundreds of Wasp survivors home (U.S. Navy)

40. A Japanese plane takes a plunge while the Enterprise takes a bomb (U.S. Navy)

41. The damaged Hornet under tow from the Northampton (U.S. Navy)

42. Chaplain James Claypool presides over burials at sea (U.S. Navy)

43. Daniel J. Callaghan (U.S. Navy)

44. Newly outfitted Helena (U.S. Navy)

45. The Atlanta (U.S. Navy)

46. Captain Gilbert C. Hoover (U.S. Navy)

47. The Portland (U.S. Navy)

48. Captain Laurance T. DuBose (U.S. Navy)

49. Captain Samuel P. Jenkins (U.S. Navy)

50. Lieutenant Robert D. Graff (Courtesy of Robert D. Graff)

51. Yard workers tend to the Portland’s massive torpedo wound (U.S. Navy)

52. The battleship Hiei (Courtesy of Anthony Tully)

53. Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondo (National Archives)

54. The Juneau alongside the Aaron Ward (U.S. Navy)

55. Captain Cassin Young (U.S. Navy)

56. Captain Lyman K. Swenson (U.S. Navy)

57. The Sullivan brothers (U.S. Navy)

58. The Hiei burns and bleeds oil (National Archives)

59. The Cushing (U.S. Navy)

60. The Laffey battled the Hiei at point blank range (U.S. Navy)

61. The Aaron Ward (U.S. Navy)

62. Recruits at Bainbridge, Maryland (U.S. Navy)

63. New sailors at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi (U.S. Navy)

64.