years ago a former Navy Corps man told me of helping to clean up the San Francisco after the battle. He said that the only thing they found of Admiral Callahan was an arm. They identified it as his by his Annapolis class ring. When a Heavy Cruiser and a BB go at it at ranges like those, some estimates as close as 1700 yards, Human Beings are just bits and pieces flying in all directions.
I recently picked up Morrison's volume on the Guadalcanal campaign and though I'm only through Savo Island, it is a grim reminder of what a lot of American's suffered through to win that war.
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