Contents


 

List of Photographs

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Special Terms

Chapter 1         The World Turned Upside Down

Chapter 2         “To Retrieve Our Initial Disaster”

Chapter 3         The Wake “Fiasco”

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 9         Nimitz Takes Charge

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 16       Time Is Everything

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 21       Watchtower

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 26       The Savo Disaster

Chapter 27       Covering Cactus

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 31       The Clean Sweep

Chapter 32       War on the Periphery

Conclusion       “An Excellent, Sea-Going, Fighting Naval Officer”

Task Organizations

Notes

Bibliography

Index