The Conquering Tide (97 page)

35.
 Bergerud,
Fire in the Sky
, p. 80.

36.
 Vandegrift and Asprey,
Once a Marine
, p. 147.

37.
 Twining and Carey,
No Bended Knee
, p. 89.

38.
 Vandegrift and Asprey,
Once a Marine
, p. 148.

39.
 Emphasis in the original. McCain to Vandegrift and Geiger, September 14, 1942, p. 1, Alexander Vandegrift Collection, Coll/3166, Box 2, folder “Correspondence Jan–Sept 1942.”

40.
 McCain to Vandegrift, September 20, 1942, p. 1, ibid.

41.
 Harold H. Larsen, interview in Navy Department Bureau of Aeronautics, January 18, 1943, p. 3, in NARA, RG 38, “World War II Oral Histories and Interviews, 1942–1946,” Box 16.

42.
 Buell,
Dauntless Helldivers
, p. 125.

43.
 Bergerud,
Fire in the Sky
, p. 81.

44.
 Buell,
Dauntless Helldivers
, p. 147.

45.
 Clemens,
Alone on Guadalcanal
, p. 230.

46.
 C.O.
Enterprise
to CINCPAC, “Action of August 24, 1942, Report of,” September 5, 1942, CV6/A16-3/(10-My), Serial 008, p. 22, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 14.

47.
 CINCPAC Report, “Solomons Island Campaign—Torpedoing of SARATOGA, WASP, and NORTH CAROLINA,” Serial 03168, October 12, 1942, enclosure “Hull Damage and Damage Control Measures,” in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 17.

48.
 CINCPAC Report, “Solomons Island Campaign—Torpedoing of SARATOGA, WASP, and NORTH CAROLINA,” Serial 03168, October 12, 1942, in ibid.

49.
 Wolfert,
Battle for the Solomons
, p. 40.

50.
 Cmdr. William C. Chambliss, USNR, oral history, in NARA, RG 38, “World War II Oral Histories and Interviews, 1942–1946,” Box 6.

51.
 Ibid.

52.
 Lt. Chester M. Stearns, interview in November 1943 on board
Baltimore
, Morison's Notebook, Pacific XII 1943, Samuel Eliot Morison Papers, Coll/606, Box 26.

53.
 CINCPAC Report, “Solomons Island Campaign—Torpedoing of SARATOGA, WASP, and NORTH CAROLINA,” Serial 03168, October 12, 1942, enclosure “Captain Forest Sherman to Secretary of the Navy,” in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 17.

54.
 Hersey, “Sinking of the Wasp.”

55.
 Cmdr. William C. Chambliss, USNR, oral history, in NARA, RG 38, “World War II Oral Histories and Interviews, 1942–1946,” Box 6.

56.
 Ibid.

57.
 CINCPAC Report, “Solomons Island Campaign—Torpedoing of SARATOGA, WASP, and NORTH CAROLINA,” Serial 03168, October 12, 1942, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 17.

Chapter Five

1.
 
Kokusai Shashin Joho
(International Graphic Magazine), Vol. 21, No. 12, December 1, 2602 (1942).

2.
 Ibid., Vol. 21, No. 10, September 1, 2602 (1942).

3.
 Hideki Tojo, speech at the War Ministry, December 8, 1942, excerpted in Tolischus,
Through Japanese Eyes
, p. 155.

4.
 Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, former ambassador to Washington, January 22, 1943, in ibid., p. 154.

5.
 Diary indicates that this occurred on December 17, 1942; see Kiyosawa,
Diary of Darkness
, p. 6.

6.
 Hiroyo Arakawa, oral history, in Cook and Cook, eds.,
Japan at War
, p. 179.

7.
 Ibid.

8.
 Sakai, Caidin, and Saito,
Samurai!
, p. 184.

9.
 Asada,
From Mahan to Pearl Harbor
, p. 183.

10.
 Ibid., p. 281.

11.
 Ibid., p. 280.

12.
 Ibid., p. 279.

13.
 Junichiro Watanabe, “Isoroku Yamamoto and the Sword-smith Sadayoshi
Amada,” Hisato Takeuchi, trans., Nihontocraft.com, online at http://www.nihontocraft.com/Yamamoto NBTHK.html (accessed November 2014).

14.
 Reiji Masuda, oral history, in Cook and Cook, eds.,
Japan at War
, p. 301.

15.
 Entry dated August 13, 1942, in Ugaki,
Fading Victory
, p. 183.

16.
 Entry dated August 20, 1942, in ibid., p. 186.

17.
 Entry dated August 24, 1942, in ibid., p. 193.

18.
 Entry dated September 1, 1942, in ibid., pp. 202–3.

19.
 Entry dated August 24, 1942, in ibid., p. 193.

20.
 Entry dated September 13, 1942, in ibid., p. 214.

21.
 Entry dated October 7, 1942, in ibid., p. 228.

22.
 Astor,
Wings of Gold
, p. 62.

23.
 Potter,
Nimitz
, p. 76.

24.
 Ibid., p. 236.

25.
 “CINCPAC Conference in
Argonne
,” September 28, 1942, p. 1, Samuel Eliot Morison Papers, Coll/606, Box 24.

26.
 Ibid.

27.
 Ibid., pp. 1–3.

28.
 Arnold,
Global Mission
, pp. 360–61.

29.
 Arnold to Hopkins, “Plans for Operations Against the Enemy,” September 3, 1942, Harry L. Hopkins Papers, Book 5: The Air Offensive, Box 313.

30.
 Ibid.

31.
 Arnold,
Global Mission
, p. 344.

32.
 Ibid., p. 342.

33.
 Vandegrift and Asprey,
Once a Marine
, pp. 171–72.

34.
 Entry dated September 30, 1942, excerpted in Merillat,
Guadalcanal Remembered
, p. 159.

35.
 Arthur Lamar, oral history, in
Recollections of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
, p. 13.

36.
 Les Cleveland, “Soldiers' Songs: The Folklore of the Powerless,”
New York Folklore
, Vol. 11, 1985, online at
http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/folksongs/les01.htm
.

37.
 Turner to Vandegrift, September 28, 1942, quoted in Vandegrift and Asprey,
Once a Marine
, p. 169.

38.
 Merillat,
Guadalcanal Remembered
, pp. 177–78.

39.
 Huie,
Can Do!
, p. 41.

40.
 Harold H. Larsen, interview in Navy Department Bureau of Aeronautics, January 18, 1943, p. 7, in NARA, RG 38, “World War II Oral Histories and Interviews, 1942–1946,” Box 16.

41.
 Mears,
Carrier Combat
, p. 136.

42.
 Tregaskis,
Guadalcanal Diary
, p. 250.

43.
 Joseph J. Foss, USMCR, interview in Navy Department, April 28, 1943, in
NARA, RG 38, “World War II Oral Histories and Interviews, 1942–1946,” Box 9, p. 11.

44.
 Harold H. Larsen, interview in Navy Department Bureau of Aeronautics, January 18, 1943, p. 7, in NARA, RG 38, “World War II Oral Histories and Interviews, 1942–1946,” Box 16.

45.
 Ibid., p. 11.

46.
 Merillat,
Guadalcanal Remembered
, p. 180.

47.
 Action Report, U.S.S.
San Francisco
, night action, November 12–13, 1942, p. 60, item 300, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 23. This report contains a detailed description of the same shells employed in the October 13–14 night bombardment. Also see Admiral T. Koyanagi, memorandum entitled “The Retreat from Guadalcanal,” dated May 1, 1967, John Toland Papers, Box 3, “Guadalcanal.”

48.
 Entry dated October 14, 1942, in Merillat,
Guadalcanal Remembered
, p. 179.

49.
 Mears,
Carrier Combat
, p. 145.

50.
 Huie,
Can Do!
, p. 46.

51.
 Vandegrift and Asprey,
Once a Marine
, p. 176.

52.
 Twining and Carey,
No Bended Knee
, p. 121.

53.
 Vandegrift and Asprey,
Once a Marine
, p. 176.

54.
 Merillat,
Guadalcanal Remembered
, p. 180.

55.
 Huie,
Can Do!
, p. 46.

56.
 Clemens,
Alone on Guadalcanal
, p. 257.

57.
 Mears,
Carrier Combat
, p. 146.

58.
 Twining and Carey,
No Bended Knee
, p. 157.

59.
 Bergerud,
Fire in the Sky
, p. 82.

60.
 Lt. Cmdr. John E. Lawrence's notes in Halsey and Bryan,
Admiral Halsey's Story
, p. 116.

61.
 COMSOPAC to CINCPAC, Info COMINCH, 160440, in CINCPAC War Diary, Book 2, p. 950.

62.
 John L. McCrea, USNI Oral History Program, 1990, pp. 170–71.

63.
 See Col. Brown's notes in Halsey and Bryan,
Admiral Halsey's Story
, p. 111.

64.
 Layton, Pineau, and Costello,
“And I Was There,”
pp. 461–62.

65.
 CINCPAC TO COMINCH, 160937, in CINCPAC War Diary, Book 2, p. 895.

66.
 COMINCH TO CINCPAC, 160245, in ibid.

67.
 Col. Julian Brown's notes in Halsey and Bryan,
Admiral Halsey's Story
, p. 109.

Chapter Six

1.
 Lt. Comdr. Roger Kent quoted in Halsey and Bryan,
Admiral Halsey's Story
, p. 116.

2.
 Wolfert,
Battle for the Solomons
, p. 99.

3.
 Vandegrift and Asprey,
Once a Marine
, p. 185.

4.
 Ibid.

5.
 Hara,
Japanese Destroyer Captain
, p. 116.

6.
 
Enterprise
Action Report, November 10, 1942, enclosure: Fighting Squadron 10 Report on Flight of October 25, 1942, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 21.

7.
 Edward L. Feightner, “The
Enterprise
and Guadalcanal,” in Wooldridge, ed.,
Carrier Warfare in the Pacific
, p. 82.

8.
 C.O.,
Enterprise
to CINCPAC (via etc.), November 10, 1942, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 21.

9.
 Ibid.

10.
 “CO, Striking Fleet to CinC, Combined Fleet,” October 27, 1942, item 7, p. 2, Samuel Eliot Morison Papers, Box 25, Folder “CruDiv 8 Combat Report.”

11.
 
Enterprise
Action Report, November 10, 1942, enclosure B: “Comments, Action by the Task Force on October 26, 1942,” by Lt. Cmdr. James H. Flatley, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 21.

12.
 “CruDiv 8 Combat Report No. 5,” WDC 161270, November, 18, 1942, item 3, Samuel Eliot Morison Papers, Box 25.

13.
 VS-8 and VB-8 Reports to CO, U.S.S.
Hornet
, November 2, 1942, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 21.

14.
 Author's interview with Oral L. “Slim” Moore, Berkeley, CA, February 27, 2013.

15.
 “CO, Striking Fleet to CinC, Combined Fleet,” October 27, 1942, item 7, p. 2, Samuel Eliot Morison Papers, Box 25, Folder “CruDiv 8 Combat Report.”

16.
 Hara,
Japanese Destroyer Captain
, p. 121.

17.
 
Hornet
Action Report,
Hornet
CO to CINCPAC, et al., October 30, 1942, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 21.

18.
 Kernan,
Crossing the Line
, p. 63.

19.
 Interview with Cmdr. F. Monroe, Morison's Notebook, Pacific XII 1943, p. 2, Samuel Eliot Morison Papers, Coll/606, Box 26.

20.
 
Hornet
Action Report, Executive Officer to CO, October 30, 1942, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 21.

21.
 
Hornet
Action Report,
Hornet
CO to CINCPAC, et al., October 30, 1942, in ibid.

22.
 “War Damage Report,” enclosure to
Enterprise
Action Report, November 10, 1942, in ibid.

23.
 Beaver,
Sailor from Oklahoma
, p. 184.

24.
 C.O.
Enterprise
to CINCPAC (via etc.), (
Enterprise
Action Report), November 10, 1942, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 21.

25.
 Francis Foley, “The
Hornet
and the Santa Cruz Islands,” in Wooldridge, ed.,
Carrier Warfare in the Pacific
, p. 73.

26.
 
Hornet
CO to CINCPAC, et al., October 30, 1942, in NARA, RG 38, “WWII Action and Operational Reports,” Box 21.

27.
 Report of Cmdr. E. P. Creehan, enclosure B,
Hornet
Action Report, October 30, 1942, in ibid.

28.
 Report of C. H. Dodson, Communications Officer,
Hornet
Action Report, October 30, 1942, in ibid.

29.
 “CO, Striking Fleet to CinC, Combined Fleet,” October 27, 1942, item 4, Samuel Eliot Morison Papers, Box 25, Folder “CruDiv 8 Combat Report.”

30.
 “CruDiv 8 Combat Report No. 5,” WDC 161270, November 18, 1942, item 7, Samuel Eliot Morison Papers, Box 25.

31.
 Hara,
Japanese Destroyer Captain
, p. 125.

32.
 Halsey and Bryan,
Admiral Halsey's Story
, p. 122.

33.
 Clemens,
Alone on Guadalcanal
, p. 267.

34.
 Peattie,
Sunburst
, p. 184.

35.
 Lt. Cmdr. Iyozo Fujita, oral history, in Werneth, ed.,
Beyond Pearl Harbor
, p. 241.

36.
 Read, “Report by Lieut. W. J. Read on Coastwatching Activity,” p. 78.

37.
 Leahy,
I Was There
, p. 118.