Challenge for the Pacific

6. Seventeenth Army Operations, Office of the Chief of Military History (OCMH) File 8-51, AC 34.

7. Author’s conversation with Puller.

8. Leckie, op. cit., p. 99.

9. Davis, op. cit., p. 155.

10. Ibid.

11. Davis, op. cit., p. 156.

12. Ibid, p. 157.

13. Ibid, pp. 158, 159.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

1. Hara, op. cit., p. 127.

2. Ibid.

3. Leckie, Robert, Helmet for My Pillow (New York: Random House, 1957), p. 118.

4. Sherwood, op. cit., pp. 624, 625.

5. Seventeenth Army Operations.

6. Whyte, Hyakutake Meets the Marines, Part II (Marine Corps Gazette, August 1945), p. 41.

7. Hara, op. cit., p. 128.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

1. Hara, op. cit., p. 128.

2. Stafford, Cmdr. Edward P., The Big E: The Story of the U.S.S. Enterprise (New York: Random House, 1962), p. 165.

3. Pratt, op. cit., p. 93.

4. Whyte, op. cit., p. 42.

PART FIVE: CRUX

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

1. Tanaka, op. cit., p. 818c.

2. Leckie, op. cit., p. 119.

3. Author’s recollection.

4. Hara, op. cit., p. 135.

5. Clemens, op. cit., pp. 241, 242.

6. Simmons, op. cit., p. 96.

7. Arnold, op. cit., p. 351.

8. Sims, Edward H., Greatest Fighter Missions of the Top Navy and Marine Aces of World War II (New York: Harper & Bros., 1962), p. 57.

9. Simmons, op. cit., p. 102.

10. Halsey and Bryan, op. cit., p. 123.

11. Boyington, Gregory (“Pappy”), Baa Baa Black Sheep (New York: Putnam, 1958), p. 128.

12. Leckie, Strong Men Armed, p. 119.

13. Davis, op. cit., p. 166.

14. Ibid.

15. Halsey press interview on Guadalcanal, November 9, 1942.

16. Ibid.

17. Clemens, op. cit., p. 249.

18. Vandegrift and Asprey, op. cit., p. 196.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

1. Feldt, op. cit., p. 101.

2. Hara, op. cit., p. 138.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. Tanaka, op. cit., p. 821.

7. Hara, op. cit., p. 140.

8. Ibid, pp. 140, 141.

9. Ibid, p. 141.

10. Morison, op. cit., p. 242.

11. Ibid.

12. Author’s conversations with pilots.

13. Tanaka, op. cit., p. 821.

14. Morison, op. cit., p. 263.

15. Morison, op. cit., pp. 272, 273.

16. Ibid, p. 273.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Stern, Michael, Into the Jaws of Death (New York: McBride, 1944), p. 120.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Tanaka, op. cit., p. 824a.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

1. New York Times, Wednesday, November 18, 1942.

2. Halsey and Bryan, op. cit., p. 130.

3. Hayashi, Saburo, with Coox, Alvin D., Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War (Quantico: The Marine Corps Association, 1959), p. 62.