Playing for Time: War on an Asiatic Fleet DestroyerThe author's memoir of his service as an officer on board the destroyer U.S.S. Stewart (DD-224) of the Asiatic Fleet from before the war through its abandonment in a dry dock in Java in February 1942, also serving as a history of the ship's wartime service. The author also provides a history of the Asiatic Fleet during that time period when it was part of the naval forces that stopped the Japanese juggernaut on their southward expansion in the Pacific. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
USS Stewart DD224 | 17 |
Saga of the USS Peary Japanese Juggernaut Rolls | 81 |
Destroyers Win | 93 |
Impending | 105 |
The Beginning of the | 123 |
Abandon Ship | 177 |
Allied Defeat | 189 |
Ordeal of Edsall and Whipple | 221 |
Isabel Runs Gauntlet | 231 |
Titivate | 241 |
Born AgainUnder the Rising | 257 |
Homeward Bound | 269 |
Remaining Destroyers and Other Ships | 277 |
Recognitions Decorations | 287 |
The Enemy Mops | 205 |
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Playing for Time: War on an Asiatic Fleet Destroyer Lodwick Houston Alford No preview available - 2008 |
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Admiral Doorman Admiral Hart aircraft anchored anti-aircraft arrived Asiatic Fleet Australia Badoeng Strait Bali Balikpapan battle bombers bombs Bulmer Captain Smith Commodore Binford convoy course crew damage deck Destroyer Division drydock Edsall enemy cruisers enemy destroyers enemy planes enemy ships engine escort Exeter February fight fire Ford four stack Fremantle fuel gunfire gunnery guns headed heavy cruisers Houston Isabel Island Japanese Java Sea John killed in action knew knots Langley later Lieutenant Commander light cruiser Makassar Makassar Strait Manila Bay Marblehead March merchant ships minefields night Pacific Fleet patrol Paul Jones Pearl Harbor Peary Philippines Pillsbury Pope Port Darwin reported Ruyter salvo Sea Witch ship’s shipmates shipyard sighted sinking of Pecos soon speed starboard stroyers submarine Sunda Strait sunk Surabaya survived sinking Tjilatjap torpedoes transferred to Pillsbury Tromp U.S. destroyers U.S. Navy underway USS Peary DD-226 USS Stewart DD-224 Vice Admiral wardroom Wassel Whipple