This series will serve as a very comprehensive review of US military activities in WW2. Looking through a logistics scrying glass does provide an interesting and often overlooked viewpoint for examining the before, execution, and aftermath of battles. Egregious command errors create the Tarawas and Savo Islands as it becomes evident that our senior officers were ill-prepared and often not capable of providing the leadership that warfighting required. Clark should have been fired in Italy and ended up making similar mistakes in Normandy. Unfortunately, he was typical of the leadership rather than the exception, that West Point and Annapolis provided. The few good men also made mistakes but they learned from them. ( )