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Author Winslow, Walter G., 1912-

Title The fleet the gods forgot : the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II / W.G. Winslow.

Publication Info. New York : Naval Institute Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (345 pages)
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Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; I. OPERATIONS ; 1. Profile of a Fleet; 2. Cruisers; 3. Submarines; 4. Destroyers; 5. Aircraft; 6. Gunboats; 7. Minecraft; 8. Torpedo Boats; II. BATTLE REPORTS; 9. The Doomed Destroyer-USS Peary (DD-226); 10. The Old Lady-USS Canopus (AS-9); 11. The S-38 in Lingayan Gulf ; 12. Disaster at Jolo ; 13. The Little Giant-Killer-USS Heron (AVP-2); 14. A First for the Navy ; 15. The Battle of Balikpapan; 16. The Miraculous Survival of Commander Goggins ; 17. Delayed Report of a ""Routine Patrol"" ; 18. Through Hell and High Water.
19. The Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (CA-30)20. The Cruel Fate of the Destroyer USS Pope (DD-225); 21. Abandon Ship ; 22. Loss of the USS Perch (SS-176); 23. The Expendable Ship USS Isabel (PY-10); 24. A Refusal to Surrender ; Epilogue ; U.S. Asiatic Fleet December 1941; Notes; Bibliography ; Index.
Summary The heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet at the outbreak of World War II and their disastrous encounter with vastly superior Japanese forces.
Subject United States. Navy. Asiatic Fleet -- History.
United States. Navy. Asiatic Fleet. (OCoLC)fst00566033
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Ocean.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Military operations, Naval -- American. (OCoLC)fst01710245
Pacific Ocean. (OCoLC)fst01243528
Chronological Term 1939 - 1945
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Original 155750928X 9781557509284 (OCoLC)30964231
ISBN 9781612512938 (electronic bk.)
1612512933 (electronic bk.)
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