Challenge for the Pacific

1. Jitsuroku Taiheiyo Senso (Personal Records of the Pacific War). The Kawaguchi memoir: “Struggles of the Kawaguchi Detached Force.” I am deeply indebted to Brig. Gen. Griffith for having provided me with a translation of this source.

2. Hara, op. cit., p. 120.

3. Arnold, Gen. of the Army H. H., Global Mission (New York: Harper & Bros., 1949), p. 338.

4. Ibid.

5. Whyte, Capt. William H., Jr., Hyakutake Meets the Marines, Part I (Marine Corps Gazette, July 1945), p. 11. (Note: Captain Whyte was to become famous a decade later as author of The Organization Man.)

6. Author’s conversations with pilots.

7. Clemens, op. cit., p. 183.

8. Hanson Baldwin, New York Times, Nov. 3, 1942.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

1. Whyte, op. cit., p. 9.

2. Sherrod, op. cit., p. 91, fn.

3. Davis, op. cit., pp. 135, 136.

4. Vandegrift and Asprey, op. cit., p. 169.

5. Ibid, p. 170.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid, p. 164.

8. Ibid, pp. 171, 172.

9. Griffith, op. cit., p. 141.

PART FOUR: CRISIS

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

1. Clear, op. cit., p. 20.

2. Ibid.

3. Clemens, op. cit., p. 193.

4. Ibid.

5. Pratt, Fletcher, The Marines’ War (New York: William Sloane Associates, 1948), p. 76.

6. Ibid, pp. 76, 77.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

1. Quoted in full in Miller, John, Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History, 1949), as Appendix A, pp. 357, 358.

2. Griffith, op. cit., p. 147.

3. Ibid.

4. Hara, op. cit., p. 137.

CHAPTER NINETEEN

1. Morison, Samuel Eliot, The Struggle for Guadalcanal, Vol. V, “History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II” (Boston: Little, Brown, 1959), p. 193.

2. Author’s recollection.

3. Leckie, op. cit., p. 82.

4. Tanaka, Japan’s Losing Struggle for Guadalcanal, Part II (United States Naval Institute Proceedings, August 1956), p. 815.

5. 67th Fighter Squadron History Mar.–Oct. 1942, quoted in Morison, op. cit., p. 175.

6. Quoted in undated and unsigned Marine Combat Correspondent’s report filed at R&R, Arlington, Va.

7. Morison, op. cit., p. 176.

8. Sherrod, op. cit., p. 102.

9. Griffith, op. cit., p. 157.

CHAPTER TWENTY

1. Leckie, op. cit., p. 92.

2. Halsey and Bryan, op. cit., p. 109.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

1. Monitored Japanese broadcasts, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

2. Simmons, Walter, Joe Foss: Flying Marine (New York: Dutton, 1943), p. 66.

3. Halsey and Bryan, op. cit., p. 117.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

1. Hara, op. cit., p. 125.

2. Ibid, p. 126.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid, p. 127.

5. Ibid.