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The Last Days of the United States Asiatic Fleet - The Fates of the Ships and Those Aboard, December 8, 1941-February 5, 1942 (Paperback)
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The Last Days of the United States Asiatic Fleet - The Fates of the Ships and Those Aboard, December 8, 1941-February 5, 1942 (Paperback)
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After Pearl Harbor, the American sailors of the fabled Asiatic
Fleet were abandoned by Washington and left to conduct a war solely
on their own, isolated from the rest of the fleet, while Congress
discussed the hiring of 600 "sports coordinators" President
Roosevelt thought were necessary for the prosecution of the war,
despite his early efforts to wake up a pacifist nation and
Congress. For sailors in the Philippines and the Netherlands East
Indies there was no hope of seeing waves of battleships, aircraft
carriers, heavy cruisers, submarines, and B-17s come over the
horizon to save the day. Their fate was death aboard a burning,
exploding ship, being executed upon being captured, or spending
three and a half years as a prisoner, trying to avoid being
murdered or dying of starvation or disease. Soldiers, sailors, and
Marines were abandoned because of the failure of Washington to
maintain a strong, well-prepared Navy in the face of Imperial
Japanese and Nazi Germany aggression. Many books have been written
about the ships of the Asiatic Fleet but this is the first book
that looks behind the scenes through the writings of war
correspondents and concentrates on the sailors who were on the
ships.
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