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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Personal narratives Personal narratives, American |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kemp Tolley |
ISBN: | 1612512232 9781612512235 |
OCLC Number: | 1162174536 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (362 pages) |
Series Title: | Bluejacket books Cruise of the Lanikai |
Abstract:
In 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 incide
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