BOOKS ABOUT THE ASIATIC FLEET

ANOTHER SIX HUNDRED: J. Daniel Mullin; Walker, Evans, Cogswell 1984.
Great narrative of the employment of Asiatic Fleet destroyers, written by a man who was there as a crew member of U.S.S. Ford.

PAWNS OF THE WAR: Dwight Messimer; Naval Institute Press 9183.  The story of the pointless loss of the USS LANGLEY and USS PECOS.

SHIPS FROM HELL/JAPANESE WAR CRIMES ON THE HIGH SEAS: Raymond Lamont-Brown Sutton Publishing 2002

THE FLEET THE GODS FORGOT:  Walter Winslow; Naval Institute Press 1982

THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL: James Hilton; Little, Brown & Co.  1943
The story of a Navy doctor and his efforts to treat and evacuate the wounded of USS HOUSTON and USS MARBLEHEAD (resulting from the Feb. 4 air attack)

THE LONELY SHIPS: Edwin P. Hoyt; David McKay Co.  1976

WHERE AWAY: George Sessions Perry; McGraw Hill 1944
The Odyssey of the USS MARBLEHEAD.

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