EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK: There were fourteen Japanese ships, all destroyers and cruisers: a formidable batch of firepower if they should catch the poorly armed minelayers. By now, darkness had settled in and with it came a series of line squalls that made it impossible to see from ship to ship. Lightning blazed down from the fronts, rain fell in buckets, and the wind howled. Still the four-stackers plowed on. Over towards Savo Island, the PT Boats...
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