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Smith (DD-378)
Solace (AH-5)
South Dakota (BB-57), Chapter 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 21.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 25.1, 35.1, 37.1
armament
armor
attack on, Chapter 37.1, 37.2
Battleship Night Action, Chapter 36.1, 36.2, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3
burial at sea
casualties
as a hard-luck ship, Chapter 12.1, 16.1
power failure, Chapter 37.1, 37.2
reception of
Washington, crew conflicts with
Sterett (DD-407), Chapter 3.1, 13.1, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1
Cruiser Night Action, Chapter 27.1, 27.2, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1, 32.1, 32.2, 34.1, 39.1
courage of the crew
Halsey’s visit
reception of
Suwannee (ACV-27)
Tennessee (BB-43)
Trout (SS-202)
Truxtun (DD-14)
Vestal (AR-4)
Vincennes (CA-44), Chapter 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 9.1, 12.1, 17.1, 41.1
the Battle of Savo Island, Chapter 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 8.1
Walke (DD-416)
Battleship Night Action, Chapter 36.1, 37.1
burning
casualties
friendly fire, victim of
survivors, Chapter 37.1, 38.1
Washington (BB-56), Chapter 2.1, 8.1, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 25.1, 35.1, 39.1, 40.1
armor
Battleship Night Action, Chapter 36.1, 36.2, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4
and friendly fire
and the IJN Kirishima, Chapter 37.1, 37.2
and radar technology, Chapter 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4
reception of
South Dakota, crew conflicts with
Wasp (CV-7), fm.1, Chapter 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 41.1
survivors, Chapter 12.1, 13.1
torpedoed, Chapter 12.1, 13.1, 24.1
West Virginia (BB-48)
Wichita (CA-45)
Wilson (DD-408), Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Yorktown (CV-5), Chapter 1.1, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2, 17.1
Zeilin (AP-9)
Valley Forge, Battle of
Valor of Ignorance, The (Lea)
Vandegrift, Alexander Archer, fm.1, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 35.1, 38.1, 44.1
and Operation Watchtower, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 36.1
Saratoga conference
Vincent, Patrick
Vose, James E. “Moe”
Vouza, Jacob
Wake Island, Chapter 3.1, 3.2
Walker, Frank R.
Wallace, John G., Chapter 26.1, 26.2
Walsh, H. T., Chapter 36.1, 37.1
Wang, Charles
Ward, Alfred G.
Watkins, C. C.
Weaver, Charles W., Chapter 20.1, 21.1, 35.1, 43.1
Weems, George B., Chapter 16.1, 17.1
Weschler, Thomas R., Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 12.1
Whitt, Joseph, Chapter 34.1, 34.2, 34.3
Widhelm, William “Gus”
Wiggens (gun captain)
Wilbourne, William W., Chapter 26.1, 30.1, 30.2, 34.1
Wilkinson, E. R.
Wintle, Jack
Wirth, Turk
Wolfe, Henry A.
Wolverton, Tom, Chapter 17.1, 18.1
Wood, Hunter
Woods, Louis, Chapter 24.1, 33.1
World War II
the Blitz
France, invasion of, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
Germany first vs. Pacific first strategy, Chapter 1.1, 12.1, 15.1, 39.1
Germany’s U-boat campaign
Japanese surrender
Marco Polo Bridge Incident and
North Africa campaign, Chapter 2.1, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 25.1, 44.1
Operation Sledgehammer
Operation Torch (Operation Gym-nast), Chapter 1.1, 2.1
recruits, training of
Russian front, Chapter 1.1, 10.1, 21.1, 25.1
War Department
World War II (cont’d)
campaign to bolster morale
See also Pearl Harbor; Tokyo Express
Wright, Carleton H., Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 40.1, 40.2
and Hepburn’s inquiry
inaccurate claims
Wulff, John T., Chapter 33.1, 34.1
Wylie, Joseph C., Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, 26.1, 31.1, 31.2, 34.1, 40.1
Yamamoto, Isoroku, Chapter 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 21.1, 22.1, 25.1, 26.1, 33.1, 35.1, 37.1, 37.2, 40.1, 41.1, 41.2
Yeamans, Donald
Yokota, Minoru, Chapter 11.1, 16.1
Young, Cassin, Chapter 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 34.1
Zarker, Raymond
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JAMES D. HORNFISCHER, a native of Massachusetts, is the author of Ship of Ghosts and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, which won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and was chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of the five best books on “war as soldiers know it.” A graduate of Colgate