Table of Contents

List of Maps Foreword Preface CHAPTER ONE: Torpedo Junction CHAPTER TWO: Forging the Sword CHAPTER THREE: Leadership CHAPTER FOUR: First Contact CHAPTER FIVE: Butch is Down! CHAPTER SIX: The Spruance Haircut CHAPTER SEVEN: Gibraltar of the Pacific CHAPTER EIGHT: The Captain from Hell CHAPTER NINE: Lifeguards CHAPTER TEN: Operation Forager CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Marianas Turkey Shoot CHAPTER TWELVE: The Mission Beyond Darkness CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Iwo Jima Development Corporation CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Halsey’s Rampage CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Battle of the Formosa Sea CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Battles of Leyte Gulf CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: No Rest for the Weary Bibliography Index

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A thorough and compelling investigation of the Central Pacific campaign in World War II that saw the US Navy progress from the edge of disaster to the brink of victory, from Guadalcanal to the recapture of the Philippines.

About the Author

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the best-selling The Frozen Chosen, a history of the 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, published by Osprey Publishing in 2016. He is also a regular contributor to Flight Journal magazine and the author of Aces of the 78th Fighter Group and F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat Aces of VF-2, as well as Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15 and The Bridgebusters: The True Story of the Catch-22 Bomb Group. During his 30 years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, he wrote the cult classic The Terror Within and worked as a supervising producer on a number of TV and cable series. He served in the US Navy in Vietnam.

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