Cruise of the Lanikai: Incitement to WarIn early December 1941 in the Philippines, a young Navy ensign named Kemp Tolley was given his first ship command, an old 76-foot schooner that had once served as a movie prop in John Ford's "The Hurricane." Crewed mostly by Filipinos who did not speak English and armed with a cannon that had last seen service in the Spanish-American War, the Lanikai was under top-secret presidential orders to sail south into waters where the Japanese fleet was thought to be. Ostensibly the crew was to spy on Japanese naval movements, but to Tolley it was clear that their mission was to create an incident that would provoke war. Events overtook the plan, however, when Pearl Harbor was bombed before the Lanikaicould get underway. When Bataan and Corregidor fell, she was ordered to set sail for Australia and became one of the few U.S. naval vessels to escape the Philippines. In this book Tolley tells the saga of her great adventure during these grim, early days of the war and makes history come alive as he regales the reader with details of the operation and an explanation of President Roosevelt's order. Tolley's description of their escape in Japanese warship-infested waters ranks with the best of sea tales, and few will be able to forget the Lanikai's 4,000-mile, three-month odyssey. |
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... Stark.Their silence isperhapsmore eloquent than words. A numberof others support mefully. They include fourstarand other admirals, members ofCongress, and many wellknown authors and historians. After their having read the evidence ...
... Stark.Their silence isperhapsmore eloquent than words. A numberof others support mefully. They include fourstarand other admirals, members ofCongress, and many wellknown authors and historians. After their having read the evidence ...
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... Stark, Harthad complained about defective mines: “Onebroke loose from itsanchorand was recovered by fishermen. The antenna was found so covered with barnacles that it would not possibly have functioned. . . . We simply have a mine that ...
... Stark, Harthad complained about defective mines: “Onebroke loose from itsanchorand was recovered by fishermen. The antenna was found so covered with barnacles that it would not possibly have functioned. . . . We simply have a mine that ...
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... Stark to get cracking on allocating funds, therelatively piddling sumof $96,000, for Navystoragetunnels on Corregidor. “I am as positive asI haveeverbeen of anything,” he wrote,“that if wedo not proceed to complete the underground work ...
... Stark to get cracking on allocating funds, therelatively piddling sumof $96,000, for Navystoragetunnels on Corregidor. “I am as positive asI haveeverbeen of anything,” he wrote,“that if wedo not proceed to complete the underground work ...
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... Stark told him. Fourdays beforethat, Ambassadorto Japan JosephC.Grew entered in his diarya sentence Richardson's successor, Admiral Husband Kimmel, might haveread withmore profit, had not acting Director of NavalIntelligence, Captain ...
... Stark told him. Fourdays beforethat, Ambassadorto Japan JosephC.Grew entered in his diarya sentence Richardson's successor, Admiral Husband Kimmel, might haveread withmore profit, had not acting Director of NavalIntelligence, Captain ...
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... Stark.It bitterly complained about Hart's “arbitrary and illegal action,” which “dictatorial procedure cannot failto arousethe bitterest resentment throughout the ranks of this Army.” Under these inauspicious circumstances, the first ...
... Stark.It bitterly complained about Hart's “arbitrary and illegal action,” which “dictatorial procedure cannot failto arousethe bitterest resentment throughout the ranks of this Army.” Under these inauspicious circumstances, the first ...
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