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Battle of Tassafaronga, The by Russell Sydnor Crenshaw Jr Soft Cover
Battle of Tassafaronga, The by Russell Sydnor Crenshaw Jr
Soft Cover
165 pages
Copyright 1995
CONTENTS
List of Illustrationsvii
Forewordix
Acknowledgmentsxi
I Prolog1
II The Plan19
III The Battle33
IV The Report54
V The Endorsements 69
VI The Enemy79
VII The Tokyo Express86
VIII The Other Side106
IX The Torpedo Problem114
X The Gunnery Problem122
XI Analysis & Critique129
XII Epilog149
Index157
ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1 USS Fletcher's Track Chart.64
Figure 2 Lieutenant Callahan's Chart I.65
Figure 3 Lieutenant Callahan's Chart II.66
Figure 4 The major guns of the ships of Task Force Sixty-Seven.128
Figure 5 Summary track chart and torpedo fire.134
Figure 6 Positions at 2325 and U.S. gunfire between 2320 and 2325.142
Figure 7 Positions at 2330 with gun and torpedo fire between 2325 and 2330.143
ON THE BACK COVER
The Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II's Guadalcanal campaign. It ended a string of Japanese victories, but it was also a horrible embarrassment to the U.S. Navy, which had three heavy cruisers heavily damaged and one sunk by enemy torpedoes. After the battle, American commanders erroneously reported that multiple enemy ships had been sunk or seriously damaged, leading Admit-Al Nimitz to focus on training as the missing ingredient. Not until over half a century later did Crenshaw, the destroyer Maury's gunnery officer during the battle, discover that the outcome hinged instead on critical shortcomings that had been built into the U.S. Navy before the wardefective torpedoes, poor intelligence, blinding gunfire, overconfidence, and a tendency to equate volume of fire with effectiveness of firefactors that turned the battle into "a crucible in which the very nature of the U.S. Navy and its weapons was tested [and] a miniature of what might have been, under other circumstances, a truly devastating defeat."
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