Challenge for the Pacific

W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Excerpts from Japanese Destroyer Captain by Commander Tameichi Hara, with Fred Saito and Roger Pineau, copyright © 1961 by Captain Tameichi Hara, Fred Saito, and Roger Pineau. Reprinted by permission of Ballantine Books, Inc.

eISBN: 978-0-553-90824-4

Maps by Liam Dunne

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FOOTNOTES

1

Ed. note: Lucky is the author.

2

The word “Marines” is interchangeable with “regiment.” It never denotes a division. Thus, to say First Marines is to mean First Marine Regiment, never First Marine Division.

3

Rice wine, pronounced to rhyme with rocky.

4

There were no brigadier generals in the Japanese Army. A Japanese lieutenant general was only equal to an American major general.

5

Naval artillery is measured by the diameter of the shells fired.

6

Truk was Japan’s naval bastion of the Pacific. It lay about seven hundred miles north of Rabaul.

7

Months later it was found that the “Tenaru” was actually the Ilu.

8

They were French Marines.