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... anchor overnight inside the bay's entrance . Ships were allowed to transit the minefield channel only in daylight . That the minefield was more bluff than reality hopefully was a high level secret . In a 7 October letter to Chief of ...
... anchor overnight inside the bay's entrance . Ships were allowed to transit the minefield channel only in daylight . That the minefield was more bluff than reality hopefully was a high level secret . In a 7 October letter to Chief of ...
Page 130
... anchor was not . In that coral - fouled bottom an anchor could irretrievably hang up . So much excitement had been caused by the hairy approach that nobody had paid much attention to the distant surroundings . On anchor- ing , we noted ...
... anchor was not . In that coral - fouled bottom an anchor could irretrievably hang up . So much excitement had been caused by the hairy approach that nobody had paid much attention to the distant surroundings . On anchor- ing , we noted ...
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... anchor , so that when the inexperienced skipper decided to up anchor and get under way once more , he would discover the river bottom had so built up that his windlass could not break out the deeply buried hook . Here , we had a sort of ...
... anchor , so that when the inexperienced skipper decided to up anchor and get under way once more , he would discover the river bottom had so built up that his windlass could not break out the deeply buried hook . Here , we had a sort of ...
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aboard Adair Admiral Hart Admiral Stark aircraft Allied alongside American anchor arrived ashore Asiatic Fleet attack Australia Bali boat bombers bombs British Camranh Bay Captain Cavite Chief of Naval CinC coast Commander in Chief Corregidor crew cruise cruisers December deck deckhouse defense destroyers Dutch East enemy engine February Filipino fire fish forces Fremantle Geraldton Glassford gunboat Hart's headed heavy Helfrich Houston intercept Island Japan Japanese Java Kimmel Lanikai later LCDR Lieutenant Commander Luzon MacArthur Madoera Strait Manila Mariveles miles Naval Operations Navy Cross night Oahu officer Pacific patrol Pearl Harbor Pecos Philippines planes President radio raid Rear Admiral Rockwell Roosevelt sail sent ship ship's Singapore skipper soon staff Strait submarine Surabaya Tjilatjap told Tolley torpedo U.S. Army U.S. Naval U.S. Navy United USS Lanikai vessel Walruff warning warships Washington wind wrote