“As Herman Wouk wrote in War and Remembrance, ‘The vision of Sprague’s three destroyers – the Johnston, the Hoel, and the Hermann – charging out of the smoke and the rain straight toward the main batteries of Kurita’s battleships and cruisers, can endure as a picture of the way Americans fight when they don’t have superiority. Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it.”
