Fleet Adm. Wiliam F. Halsey Jr.

James Cagney

Lt. Cmdr. Andy Lowe

Dennis Weaver

Capt. Harry Black

Ward Costello

Mike Pulaski

Vaughn Taylor

Lt. Cmdr. Roy Webb

Richard Jaeckel

Capt. Frank Enright

Les Tremayne

Maj. Gen. Roy Geiger

Robert Burton

Horace Keys ("Doc")

Walter Sande

Maj. Gen. Archie Vandergrift

Raymond Bailey

Bill Bailey

Karl Swenson

Vice-Adm. Robert Ghormley

Carl Benton Reid

Father Gehring

Richard Carlyle

Capt. Joseph Foss

Harry Landers

Thomas G. Lamphier Jr.

William Schallert

Manuel

Leon Lontoc

Rear Adm. Jiro Kobe

James Yagi

Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto

James T. Goto

Maj. Gen. Millard F. Harmon

John Zaremba

Narration (American scenes)

Robert Montgomery

Lt. Harrison Ludlum

John R. McKee

Narration (Japanese scenes)

Art Gilmore

Lieutenant Harrison Ludlam (uncredited)

John McKee

Colonel Evans Carlson

Carleton Young

Adm. Dan Callaghan (uncredited)

Nelson Leigh

Rear Admiral Norm Scott (uncredited)

Sydney Smith

Red Cross Nurse Young (uncredited)

Maggie Magennis

Adm. Murray

Herbert Lytton

Adm. Chester Nimitz

Selmer Jackson

Richard H. Cutting

Adm. Ernest J. King

Tyler McVey

Marine

Robert Montgomery Jr.

Frank Latimore

Rollin Moriyama

Stuart Randall

Arthur Tovey