John J. Domagalski follows his Lost at Guadalcanal (2010) about the USS Astoria (CA-34) and Chicago (CA-29) with this account focusing on the final action of the USS Helena (CL-50) and the engrossing story of the multiphase rescue of her survivors. The Helena was a modified version of the innovative Brooklyn-class cruiser, each armed with 15 rapid fire 6-inch guns, 8 5-inch guns, and an ever more numerous antiaircraft battery. Damaged by a Japanese aerial torpedo at Pearl Harbor, following repairs she participated in two savage night battles around Guadalcanal from which she emerged nearly unscathed. American naval officers preferred the gun to the torpedo and deemed the Brooklyn class ideally suited to the night battles in the Solomons. They believed-wrongly, it turned out-that the American storm of shells (each 6-inch gun could fire up to 12 rounds per minute) would disable or sink Japanese vessels before the latter could launch torpedoes.
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机译：约翰·J·多马加尔斯基（John J. Domagalski）跟着他在瓜达卡纳尔岛（2010）失事的情况，讲述了阿斯托里亚号（CA-34）和芝加哥（CA-29）的故事，着重介绍了海伦娜号（CL-50）的最终行动以及令人费解的故事。她的幸存者的多阶段营救。海伦娜是布鲁克林级创新巡洋舰的改良版，每艘配备15辆6英寸快速射击炮，8英寸5英寸火炮以及数量更多的防空炮。维修后，她在珍珠港遭到一架日本空中鱼雷的破坏，参加了瓜达尔卡纳尔岛周围的两次野蛮夜战，几乎毫发无损。美国海军军官更喜欢鱼雷而不是鱼雷，并认为布鲁克林级非常适合所罗门群岛的夜间战斗。他们错误地认为，事实证明，美国的炮弹风暴（每门6英寸的炮每分钟可发射12发子弹）会在日军发射鱼雷之前使其瘫痪或沉没。
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