Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

by James D. Hornfischer

war is the craft of putting ordnance on target decisively, and it is really nothing else.

“In his final moments he was not in pain. The life jacket I gave him gave him comfort, and he just slipped away.”

When it was all said and done at Guadalcanal, three sailors would die at sea for every infantryman who fell ashore.