In October 1942, the U.S. Navy confronted the Imperial Japanese Navy off Guadalcanal in the Battle of Cape Esperance. As ...

With only slight changes, Robert Fowler could have opened this book with a quote from Nicholas Monserrat’s The Cruel Sea, “This is the story – the long and true story – of one ocean, two ships, and ...

Henry V. Poor authored the account of the Battle of Cape Esperance while the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands was written by Henry V. Poor, Henry A. Mustin, and Colin G. Jameson; both were published ...

Henry J. Kisiel celebrated his 20th birthday in the midst of a typhoon in the Philippine Sea. Kisiel, a machinist’s mate, third class, was on the Navy carrier USS Cape Esperance. It was Dec. 16, 1944, ...