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With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts , James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
- - Describes in detail what it would have been like to be a part of the fighting navy during WW II.
People edit
- Ernest J. King: Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (COM-INCH) and Chief of Navel Operations (CNO)
- Chester W. Nimitz: Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC)
- Isoroku Yamamoto: Commander of the Imperial Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy
- Osami Nagano: Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff
- Robert L. Ghormley: Commander of the South Pacific Forces
- Frank Jack Fletcher: Operation Watchtower Expeditionary Force Commander
- Richmond Kelly Turner: Operation Watchtower Amphibious Force Commander
- John S. McCain: (1884-1945) American admiral. S pioneer of aircraft carrier operations who in 1942 commanded all land-based air operations in support of the Guadalcanal campaign, and who ultimately in 1944–1945 aggressively led the Fast Carrier Task Force, in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II.
- Rear Admiral Gunichi Mikawa: Imperial Japanese Navy, commander of the 8th Fleet
- Captain Frederick L. Riefkohl: Commanding officer of the USS Vincennes and Task Group 62.6
- Captain William G. Greenman: Commanding officer of the USS Astoria
- Captain Samuel N. Moore: Commanding officer of the USS Quincy
- Captain Howard D. Bode: Commanding officer of the USS Chicago
- Captain Samuel P. Jenkins: Commanding officer of the USS Atlanta
- Martin Clemens: Born in Scotland. He was Educated at Cambridge and was an agent of the British crown, serving as administrator of Guadalcanal when the Japanese landed forces on the island. He then became a covert agent by establishing a career as a Coastwatcher.
- General George Marshall: U.S. Army Chief of Staff
- General Alexander Archer Vandegrift: Commander of the 1st Marine Division
- Richard Tregaskis: Correspondent and author of Guadalcanal Diary.
Setting & Locations edit
- Solomon Islands
- Guadalcanal
- Tulagi
- Ironbottom Sound: The stretch of water at the southern end of The Slot between Guadalcanal, Savo Island, and Florida Island of the Solomon Islands, because of the huge number of ships and planes that sunk there during the Battle of Guadalcanal. Prior to the war, it was called Sealark Sound.
- The Slot: The principle water route of Japanese reinforcement into Guadalcanal, located in Georgia Sound.
- Rabaul
- Midway Island
Organizations edit
First Sentence edit
Two years before the war began, an old Spanish priest in a Filipino village said to an American journalist, "The Pacific: Of itself it may not be eternity."
Table of Contents edit
PART I
SEA OF TROUBLES
1. Trip Wire
2. A Great Gray Fleet
3. The First D-Day
4. Nothing Worthy of Your Majesty's Attention
5. Fly the Carriers
6. A Captain in the Fog
7. The Martyring of Task Group 62.6
8. Burning in the Rain
Part II
FIGHTING FLEET RISING
9.A New Kind of Fight
10. The Tokyo Express
11. A Function at the Junction
12. What They Were Built For
13. The Warriors
14. The Devil May Care
15. The Visit
16. Night of the New Moon
17. Pulling the Trigger
18. "Pour It to 'Em"
Part III
STORM TIDE
19. All Hell's Eve
20. The Weight of a War
21. Enter Fighting
22. "Strike-Repeat, Strike"
23. Santa Cruz
24. Secret History
25. Turner's Choice
26. Suicide
27. Black Friday
28. Into the Light
29. The Killing Salvo
30. Death in the Machine Age
31. Point Blank
32. Among the Shadows
33. Atlanta Burning
34. Cruiser in the Sky
35. Regardless of Losses
Part IV
The Thundering
36. The Giants Ride
37. The Gun Club
38. The Kind of Men Who Win a War
39.On the Spot
40. The Futility of Learning
41. Future Rising
42. Report and Echo
43. The Opinion of Convening Authority
44. Iron Bottom Sound
Authors & Contributors edit
- James D. Hornfischer (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-553-80670-0
Page Count: 516
Publisher: Bantam Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-553-80670-0
Page Count: 516
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: D767.98 .H665 2011
- Dewey: 940.54
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