Dark Waters, Starry Skies Quotes

“One can argue that a US Navy destroyer equipped with radar and sonar and armed with a 5-inch main battery”
― Jeffrey R. Cox, Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943

“it seems”
― Jeffrey R. Cox, Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943

“Communications and information. Those two twin towers – intertwined twin towers – of any military operation. This narrative has hit the theme time and again that without one or both of those towers”
― Jeffrey R. Cox, Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943

“The Japanese were highly reluctant to admit that hundreds of aviators had been burnt to a crisp because the aircraft engineers scorned the weight penalty of protected fuel tanks.”
― Jeffrey R. Cox, Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943

“By early November, after three months of air attacks, rat transportation, convoy runs, carrier battles, nighttime naval battles, and three major land attacks, the Japanese were no closer to recapturing the Lunga airfield. The Combined Fleet and the Imperial Army did what any self-respecting bureaucracy would do: more of the same and hope for a different result.”
― Jeffrey R. Cox, Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943