Foreword; Acknowledgments; I. OPERATIONS ; 1. Profile of a Fleet; 2. Cruisers; 3. Submarines; 4. Destroyers; 5. Aircraft; 6. Gunboats; 7. Minecraft; 8. Torpedo Boats; II. BATTLE REPORTS; 9. The Doomed Destroyer-USS Peary (DD-226); 10. The Old Lady-USS Canopus (AS-9); 11. The S-38 in Lingayan Gulf ; 12. Disaster at Jolo ; 13. The Little Giant-Killer-USS Heron (AVP-2); 14. A First for the Navy ; 15. The Battle of Balikpapan; 16. The Miraculous Survival of Commander Goggins ; 17. Delayed Report of a ""Routine Patrol"" ; 18. Through Hell and High Water
19. The Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (CA-30)20. The Cruel Fate of the Destroyer USS Pope (DD-225); 21. Abandon Ship ; 22. Loss of the USS Perch (SS-176); 23. The Expendable Ship USS Isabel (PY-10); 24. A Refusal to Surrender ; Epilogue ; U.S. Asiatic Fleet December 1941; Notes; Bibliography ; Index
Summary
The heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet at the outbreak of World War II and their disastrous encounter with vastly superior Japanese forces
