This is the most complete study of the actions of the US naval forces in World War II. Its author, Samuel Eliot Morison, is a famous American historian, professor at Harvard University. Having received the support of US President F.D. Roosevelt, S.E. Morison had access to any information, collected unique material and, on its basis, created a fundamental fifteen-volume work. This volume is dedicated to the battle for the island of Guadalcanal - one of the key ones in the war in the Pacific. Along with the battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein, the naval campaign on Guadalcanal (August 1942 - February 1943), this island forgotten by God and people, can be called the turning point of the Second World War - a kind of Verdun of the Pacific Ocean.