Mac McCormick III’s Reviews > The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 > Status Update

The first book in Toll's Pacific trilogy focused on how and what the US & Japan learned early in the war. This second book points out the issues both had with interservice rivalry.

Good to see a mention, even though it was brief, of the Navy service squadrons under Admiral William Calhoun. Having read "Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil" by Admiral Carter, it is obvious that the U.S. war on the Pacific wouldn't have succeeded without the service squadrons' monumental logistics efforts.

"The South Pacific had become a meat grinder for Japanese airpower."

Chapter 1 immediately delves into interservice rivalry; not a bad topic to begin a book about the WW2 Pacific Theater with.