Pacific Glory

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to thank the Naval History Division in Washington for use of a picture used as the basis for the cover. Thanks also to my editor, George Witte, and my copy editor, India Cooper, for their substantial help in scrubbing the manuscript. As always, they make me look better than I am at this business. My father, Vice Admiral H. T. Deutermann, is long gone, but he felt passionately about what happened off Samar in October 1944, and this was the spark, I think, that ultimately led to this book.