Neptune's Inferno_ The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal Part 19

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(Photo Credit: 39) The destroyer Laffey brought hundreds of Wasp survivors home to Espiritu Santo. An Atlanta-cla.s.s AA cruiser is in the background.

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(Photo Credit: 40) In the Battle of Santa Cruz, the South Dakota (left) churns a heavy wake. A j.a.panese plane takes the plunge while the Enterprise takes a bomb.

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(Photo Credit: 41) The damaged Hornet under tow from the Northampton, October 26, 1942. Another j.a.panese air strike is inbound to finish her.

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(Photo Credit: 42) Chaplain James Claypool (facing camera, at left) presides over burials at sea on the South Dakota after the air battle off Santa Cruz.

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(Photo Credit: 43) Daniel J. Callaghan, shown here as a captain, served on Robert Ghormley's staff before returning to the fighting fleet.

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(Photo Credit: 44) Many argued the newly outfitted Helena should have served as Callaghan's flagship.

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(Photo Credit: 45) The Atlanta: a welterweight ship with a middleweight's jab.

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(Photo Credit: 46) Captain Gilbert C. Hoover

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(Photo Credit: 47) The Portland paid her freight on Friday the 13th.

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(Photo Credit: 48) Captain Laurance T. DuBose, shown here as a rear admiral in 1943, maneuvered the Portland out of a jam.

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(Photo Credit: 49) Captain Samuel P. Jenkins, shown in 1946.

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(Photo Credit: 50) Lieutenant Robert D. Graff, signal officer in the Atlanta.

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(Photo Credit: 51) Yard workers at Mare Island tend to the Portland's ma.s.sive torpedo wound.

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(Photo Credit: 52) The battleship Hiei, shown in dry dock in 1942.

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(Photo Credit: 53) Vice Admiral n.o.butake Kondo led j.a.panese forces against Admiral Callaghan in the Cruiser Night Action, November 13, 1942.

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(Photo Credit: 54) The Juneau alongside the Aaron Ward in New York shortly after their commissionings, March 19, 1942.

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(Photo Credit: 55) Captain Ca.s.sin Young (right) replaced Charles H. McMorris as commander of the San Francisco. He had received the Medal of Honor from Admiral Nimitz in April 1942.

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(Photo Credit: 56) Captain Lyman K. Swenson, commander of the Juneau, was among more than 700 lost when she was torpedoed on November 13.

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(Photo Credit: 57) Four of the Sullivan brothers were killed when the Juneau exploded. George died later at sea.

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(Photo Credit: 58) Damaged after battle with Callaghan's force, the Hiei burns and bleeds oil while evading attack from B-17 bombers the following day. She limped toward home but disappeared that night.

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(Photo Credit: 59) The Cushing led Callaghan's column-and paid the price.

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(Photo Credit: 60) The Laffey battled the Hiei at point blank range.

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(Photo Credit: 61) The Aaron Ward was heavily damaged the night of Friday the 13th.

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(Photo Credit: 62) Recruits at Bainbridge, Maryland, undergo testing, 1943.

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(Photo Credit: 63) New sailors at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, October 9, 1942.

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(Photo Credit: 64) Metalworkers at a Chrysler plant in Detroit turn out 40 mm gun tubes.

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(Photo Credit: 65) The battleship Washington off New York City, preparing to leave for the Pacific, August 1942.

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(Photo Credit: 66) Willis A. Lee reports to the USS Washington at Tongatabu, September 14, 1942.

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(Photo Credit: 67) The South Dakota, July 1942.

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(Photo Credit: 68) The South Dakota's secondary battery roars.

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(Photo Credit: 69) The South Dakota took a beating from j.a.panese cruisers on the night of November 14 but returned as a legend, hailed in the press as "Battleship X."

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(Photo Credit: 70) Note the effects of the blast, and the patches in the hull below the large hole.

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(Photo Credit: 71) A 14-inch sh.e.l.l from the Kirishima splintered the South Dakota's deck and disabled turret three.

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