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The Last Days of the United States Asiatic Fleet
Language: en
Pages: 430
Authors: Greg H. Williams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-25 - Publisher: McFarland

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After the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7), American sailors of the Asiatic Fleet (where it was December 8) were abandoned by Washington and left to conduct
In the Highest Degree Tragic
Language: en
Pages: 560
Authors: Donald M. Kehn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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In the Highest Degree Tragic tells the heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet’s sacrifice defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in the first three
The Fleet the Gods Forgot
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Walter G. Winslow
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-15 - Publisher: Naval Institute Press

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The dramatic tale of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II received little attention prior to the publication of this book in 1982, when Winslow chronicled the
Playing for Time
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Lodwick Houston Alford
Categories: Destroyers (Warships)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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Subtitled: War on an Asiatic Fleet Destroyer. The author's memoir of his service as an officer on board the destroyer USS Stewart (DD-224) of the Asiatic Fleet
A Blue Sea of Blood
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Donald M. Kehn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-15 - Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA

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On the morning of March 1, 1942, the WWI-era destroyer USS Edsall—under orders to deliver some forty Army Air Force fighter crews to the beleaguered island of