The Fleet the Gods Forgot: The U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II
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The Fleet the Gods Forgot: The U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II
Book Details
- Author
- W. G. Winslow
- Publisher
- Brand: Naval Institute Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- World War II
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780870211881
- ISBN-10
- 0870211889
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ISBN: 0870211889
Author: W. G. Winslow
Condition: New
1982, 332 pages, 2 photo sections, 5 3/4 By 8 1/2" Here the reader will find graphic details of the fleet's only victory at Balikpapan; the disastrous Battle of the Java Sea that broke the back of the combined Asiatic fleet; the ghastly spectacle at Sunda Strait where the Houston struggled in vain to survive; the suspenseful episode aboard the submarine Perch trapped in the mud at the bottom of the sea; and the daring escape from Corregidor of eighteen crew members from the USS Quail who refused to surrender to the Japanese forces...."
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