Cast
- James Cagney as Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., USN
- Dennis Weaver as Lieutenant Commander Andrew Jefferson "Andy" Lowe III, USN
- Ward Costello as Captain Harry Black, USN
- Vaughn Taylor as Commander Mike Pulaski, USN
- Richard Jaeckel as Lieutenant Commander Roy Webb, USN
- Les Tremayne as Captain Frank Enright, USN
- Walter Sande as Captain Horace Keys, USN
- Karl Swenson as Captain Bill Bailey, USN
- Leon Lontoc as Salvador Jesus Maravilla
- Robert Burton as Major General Roy Geiger, USMC
- Carleton Young as Colonel Evans Carlson, USMC
- Raymond Bailey as Major General Archie Vandegrift, USMC
- Harry Landers as Captain Joseph "Joe" Foss, USMC
- James Yagi as Rear Admiral Jiro Kobe, IJN
- James T. Goto as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, IJN
- Carl Benton Reid as Vice-Admiral Robert Ghormley, USN
- Nelson Leigh as Rear Admiral Dan Callaghan, USN (uncredited)
- Sydney Smith as Rear Admiral Norm Scott, USN (uncredited)
- William Schallert as Captain Thomas G. "Tom" Lanphier Jr., USAAF (uncredited)
- John Zaremba as Major General Hubert R. Harmon, USAAF (uncredited)
- Herbert Lytton as Admiral George Murray, USN (uncredited)
- Richard Carlyle as Father Frederic Gehring
- John McKee as Lieutenant Harrison Ludlam, USN (uncredited)
- Tyler McVey as Admiral Ernest J. King, USN (uncredited)
- Selmer Jackson as Admiral Chester Nimitz, USN (uncredited)
- Stuart Randall as Rear Admiral Kelly Turner (uncredited)
- Maggie Magennis as Red Cross Nurse Young (uncredited)
- Art Gilmore as Narrator (Japanese sequences)
- Robert Montgomery as Narrator (American sequences, uncredited)
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