Playing for Time: War on an Asiatic Fleet Destroyer

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Merriam Press, 2006 - History - 302 pages
The 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
Copyright

The Enemy Mops
205

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