James Cagney as Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey

Dennis Weaver as Andy Lowe

Ward Costello as Harry Black

Vaughn Taylor as Mike Pulaski

Richard Jaeckel as Roy Webb

Les Tremayne as Frank Enright

Walter Sande as Horace Keys ("Doc")

Karl Swenson as Bill Bailey

Richard Carlyle as Father Gehring

Carl Benton Reid as Robert Ghormley

William Schallert as Thomas G. Lamphier Jr.

Raymond Bailey as Vandergrift

Leon Lontoc as Manuel

Robert Burton as Roy Geiger

Harry Landers as Joseph Foss

Robert Montgomery as Narration (American scenes)

Art Gilmore as Narration (Japanese scenes)

Carleton Young as Colonel Evans Carlson

James Yagi as Rear Admiral Jiro Kobe

Nelson Leigh as Adm. Dan Callaghan (uncredited)

Sydney Smith as Rear Admiral Norm Scott (uncredited)

Maggie Magennis as Red Cross Nurse Young (uncredited)

John McKee as Lieutenant Harrison Ludlam (uncredited)

Richard H. Cutting as

Selmer Jackson as

Jim Jacobs as

Frank Latimore as

Herbert Lytton as

Tyler McVey as

Robert Montgomery Jr. as

Rollin Moriyama as

Stuart Randall as

William Schallert as

Arthur Tovey as

John Zaremba as