Robert Leckie - Challenge for the Pacific

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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