CONTENTS

        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 Lingayen 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