This web site contains:

• An introduction to La Vallette’s namesake, Rear Admiral Elie Augustus Frederick La Vallette.
• La Vallette’s war record and history from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
• Images of La Vallette from 1944 and 1945.
• The diary of Dow H. Ransom, Jr., La Vallette’s doctor in 1943–45.
• First person accounts of tbe Battle of Rennell Island by Chuck Witten and Jack Wilkes, and of the Battle of Vella Lavella by George Eisenberg.