Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Special Terms
Chapter 1 The World Turned Upside Down
Chapter 2 “To Retrieve Our Initial Disaster”
Chapter 4 To Samoa with a Carrier
Chapter 5 The First Counterattack
Chapter 6 To the Southwest Pacific
Chapter 7 “The Best Day’s Work We Have Had”
Chapter 8 Alone in the Coral Sea
Chapter 10 Clearing for Action
Chapter 11 The Battle of the Coral Sea I: Opening Moves
Chapter 12 The Battle of the Coral Sea II: 7 May—Offense
Chapter 13 The Battle of the Coral Sea II: 7 May—Defense
Chapter 14 The Battle of the Coral Sea III: A Costly Victory
Chapter 15 From the Coral Sea to Pearl Harbor
Chapter 17 The Battle of Midway I: “Give Them the Works”
Chapter 18 The Battle of Midway II: Counterattacks
Chapter 19 The Battle of Midway III: Finale
Chapter 20 A Brief Intermission
Chapter 22 The 27 July Conference
Chapter 23 From Fiji to Guadalcanal
Chapter 24 The Watchtower Landings
Chapter 25 The Recommendation to Withdraw the Carriers
Chapter 28 The Battle of the Eastern Solomons I: In the Land of the Blind
Chapter 29 The Battle of the Eastern Solomons II: Anticlimax
Chapter 30 The Right of the Line
Chapter 32 War on the Periphery
Conclusion “An Excellent, Sea-Going, Fighting Naval Officer”