Playing for Time: War on an Asiatic Fleet Destroyer

Name: Playing for Time: War on an Asiatic Fleet Destroyer
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ISBN-10: 1576383385
ISBN-13: 9781576383384
Series: Playing for Time
Pages: 302
Language: English
Published: 2006-04-01
Publisher: Merriam Press
Author: Lodwick H. Alford

Description

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.