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... heavy and 13 light cruisers had been promised him as well . The total of seven battleships was only a little fewer than a British Admiralty agenda of 22 November 1940 had recommended as a sensible spotting of the 15 Yankee battlewagons ...
... heavy and 13 light cruisers had been promised him as well . The total of seven battleships was only a little fewer than a British Admiralty agenda of 22 November 1940 had recommended as a sensible spotting of the 15 Yankee battlewagons ...
Page 138
... heavy vegetation . Some nipa shacks perched amongst the greenery . Our colors had been hoisted with trepidation , but the few figures that flitted through the grove were more apprehensive than we and no one ventured out . This was Moro ...
... heavy vegetation . Some nipa shacks perched amongst the greenery . Our colors had been hoisted with trepidation , but the few figures that flitted through the grove were more apprehensive than we and no one ventured out . This was Moro ...
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... heavy rain squalls and mist set in , making it difficult to follow the land , which flattened out into low plain . About midnight , we gratefully rounded the peninsula's tip and with the wind on our port quarter , scudded along on a ...
... heavy rain squalls and mist set in , making it difficult to follow the land , which flattened out into low plain . About midnight , we gratefully rounded the peninsula's tip and with the wind on our port quarter , scudded along on a ...
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aboard Adair Admiral Hart Admiral Stark aircraft Allied alongside American anchor arrived ashore Asiatic Fleet attack Australia Bali Bataan boat bombers bombs British Camranh Bay Captain Cavite Chief of Naval CinC coast Commander in Chief Corregidor crew 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