Books like "We will stand by you" by Theodore C. Mason

Admiral Edwin T. Layton, fleet intelligence officer for Admiral Nimitz during World War II, recounts how intelligence failures and internal feuds at the U.S. Navy headquarters helped enable Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Battle of Guadalcanal, a grueling four‑month campaign, shifted the tide of the Pacific War as the U.S. Navy evolved from early defeats to decisive victories over Japan.

The last stand of the tin can sailors tells the true story of the Battle of Samar, where a squadron of small U.S. destroyer escorts held off the largest Japanese fleet yet turned a certain defeat into a celebrated victory.

An intimate memoir of eight daring patrols on the USS Jack, a World War II U.S. submarine, tracing the crew’s hardships, victories, and the author’s rise from ensign to seasoned sailor.

"Presents the story of Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, who was marooned on a South Pacific island and waged a one-man war against Japanese forces. By the author of The New York Times best-seller The Last Battle, "--NoveList.

A gripping historical adventure story about the USS Hornet, an aircraft carrier that shaped the Pacific War and is remembered today as a legendary vessel of naval warfare, in the wake of the 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea.

Russell Crenshaw's riveting account of the savage yet largely unknown night battles for the Solomon Islands in early 1943 offers readers a unique insider's perspective from the decks of one of the destroyers that bore the brunt of the struggle. Not content to rely on his memory as a gunnery officer and later as executive officer of the USS Maury (DD-401), the author conducted extensive searches of official U.S. and Japanese records in pursuit of the unvarnished truth. The result is a vivid, balanced, and detailed narrative of the destroyer's experiences in the Pacific that earned the warship a Presidential Unit Citation and sixteen battle stars. Captain Crenshaw focuses on the bloody campaign from the Battle of Tassafaronga in November 1942 to Vella Gulf in August 1943, and then completes the picture by chronicling the Maury's actions from Pearl Harbor through the Philippines. In conclusion, armed with facts not known until after the war, Crenshaw discusses the impact of the new technologies of radar and voice radio, the shortcomings of U.S. torpedoes and gunfire, and the devastating effectiveness of Japan's supertorpedo.

From the Preface... Experience proved that intelligence functions best when limited to its proper tasks: the collection, collation, evaluation, and distribution of information concerning the enemy. Although. for best efficiency, those who work in intelligence must cooperate closely with those who use it, they must never attempt to usurp the functions of either those who make plans or those who direct operations. As this book demonstrates, secrecy is often essential to security and continuing production of intelligence, but it is a double-edged weapon that must be wielded carefully lest it would the wielder ,ore deeply that the enemy. Restricting intelligence to "those who need to know" sometimes requires both omniscience and omnipotence.