Word: tassafaronga
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...place against explicit historical back drops. The novel's involvement with the complicated struggle to build an atomic bomb includes a conversation on pioneer nuclear physics that is a masterpiece of layman's clarity. The Navy's little-remembered but terrible defeat at the Battle of Tassafaronga is described more vividly by Wouk than by the late naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison...
...hours later to pave the way for troop landings. Halsey's land-based airmen went out to meet the transports, sank eight of twelve. The remaining Jap transports went on toward Guadalcanal. The U.S. warships closed in again. Next morning four more transports were found beached at Tassafaronga, seven and a half miles west of Henderson Field. Presumably some of their troops had landed under fire during the night. But the Jap armada had fled...
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