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Russell Crenshaw's riveting accounts of the savage night time battle for the Solomon Islands in early on 1943 offers listeners a unique insider's point of view from the decks of one of the destroyers that bore the brunt of the have difficulty. Drawing on his experience as a gunnery official in the USS Maury, Crenshaw's brilliant, balanced, and comprehensive narrative includes the Challenge of Tassafaronga in November 1942 and Vella Gulf in August 1943, activities that gained his warship a Presidential Unit Citation and sixteen battle superstars. Crenshaw also talks about the impact of radar and voice radio, the shortcomings of U.S. torpedoes and gunfire, and the devastating efficiency of Japan's super torpedo.