Challenge for the Pacific

CHAPTER NINE

1. Author’s recollection.

2. Ibid.

3. Butterfield, op. cit., p. 92.

4. Author’s recollection.

5. Ibid.

6. McMillan, George, The Old Breed: A History of the First Marine Division in World War Two (Washington: Infantry Journal Press, 1949), p. 61.

7. Few historians agree on the exact time that the Battle of the Tenaru began. Therefore, I have relied on my own recollection and those of other participants.

8. McMillan, op. cit., p. 62.

9. Vandegrift and Asprey, op. cit., p. 142.

CHAPTER TEN

1. Tanaka, Vice-Admiral Raizo, Japan’s Losing Struggle for Guadalcanal, Part I (United States Naval Institute Proceedings, July 1956), p. 690.

2. Ibid.

3. Griffith, op. cit., p. 90.

4. Hara, op. cit., p. 109.

5. Ibid.

6. United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Interrogations of Japanese Officials (Washington: Naval Analysis Division, 1946), Vol. I, p. 31.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

1. Hara, op. cit., p. 119.

2. Tanaka, op. cit., p. 694d.

3. Griffith, op. cit., p. 93.

4. Tanaka, op. cit., p. 696.

5. Ibid, p. 697.

CHAPTER TWELVE

1. Sherrod, Robert, History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II (Washington: Combat Forces Press, 1952), p. 82.

2. Vandegrift and Asprey, op. cit., p. 147.

PART THREE: AT BAY

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

1. Vandegrift and Asprey, op. cit., p. 149.

2. Ibid.

3. Author’s recollection.

4. Tregaskis, op. cit., p. 154.

5. Hara, op. cit., p. 120.

6. Sherwood, op. cit., p. 632.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1. Unsigned article by Marine Combat Correspondent under dateline Avu-Avu, Guadalcanal, Nov. 27, 1942. Article quotes natives in vicinity of Tasimboko. On file in folder marked “Guadalcanal, Miscellaneous” at R&R, Arlington, Va.

2. Russell, Lord, of Liverpool, The Knights of Bushido: The Shocking History of Japanese War Atrocities (New York: Dutton, 1958), p. 269.

3. Griffith, op. cit., p. 110.

4. Ibid.

5. Vandegrift and Asprey, op. cit., p. 151.

6. Davis, op. cit., p. 118.

7. Ibid, p. 119.

8. Ibid, p. 120.

9. Griffith, op. cit., p. 112.

10. Ibid, p. 113.

11. Vandegrift and Asprey, op. cit., p. 152.

12. Ibid, pp. 152, 153.

13. Ibid, p. 153.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid.

16. Griffith, op. cit., p. 115.

17. Vandegrift and Asprey, op. cit., pp. 153, 154.

18. Griffith, op. cit., pp. 116, 117.

19. Ibid, p. 118.

20. Undated and unsigned story filed by Marine Corps Combat Correspondent and included in “Guadalcanal, Miscellaneous” folder on file at R&R, Arlington, Va.

21. Ibid, quoted in interview with “Lt. Col. Reeder.”

22. Ibid.

23. McMillan, op. cit., p. 78.

24. Ibid.

25. Griffith, op. cit., p. 119.

26. Ibid.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN