The new book SHIP OF GHOSTS by James D. Hornfischer is a must read for all of us who are interested in the Asiatic Fleet. It tells the story of the HOUSTON...
I look forward to the article - having recently completed the book. It is truly an excellent work and should be widely read. May I also suggest a recent work...
My uncle Robert H. Pullen (aka "Sam") was an A.A. first loader on the top deck of the Houston. As a POW, he aided the CO, Lt. Comdr. Harold Hamlin, Jr., by...
I just posted 2 pictures. The first one is the crew of the Houston taken Sept. 1941 or later (that's when my uncle was aboard). The second is of one of my...
Clay, I rec'd an email from Don stating as such. He also sent a picture which I am going to use for my model. I am currently reading some of my uncle's letters...
I interviewed a number of the survivors and of course at the time, Otto Schwarz was one of the most available to me since I live in NJ. It was Otto, I think,...
Thanks, Vic. As I look at all the photos online, it does look like the sides and everything else is the same color (Cavite blue). The upper portions appear to...
Hello to all, Some of you already know this-- but tomorrow morning I'm off to China, specifically Shanghai, for some 10 days. All of you are very dear to me,...
An interesting article in MILITARY magazine this month. A POW massacre in PI by Japanese in 1944. Many of the marines involved were from the old Shanghai force...
Hi folks. I've been a WWII buff since my youth. The first 6 months of the Pacific war, and the preceeding decade, are my niche. Having read Rising Sun in the...
Hello, Peter, Lou here. It sounds as if we are two birds of a feather. I, too, have been deeply involved in the Far East campaign since my early days. The...
peter, i have read the books you mentioned & like you this part of the naval war has my interest the most. there are 2 books also written about that peroid but...
Hello everyone,My name is Stephen.I'm happy to see there is someplace i can visit that covers the asiatic fleet,i've had a long standing interest in what i...
OOPs! i posted an introduction in here somewheres,i thought it would show on the home page? excuse me,i'm not very computer savvy. maybe i can do a little...
I'm looking for another book about the asiatic fleet,Dallas Widick formerly of the PEARY DD 226,told the title of one several years ago,i believe it was...
Hi Steve. The book you are looking for is Another Six-Hundred by J. Daniel Mullin. It was originally published in 1984 and was in soft cover only. Mr. Mullin...
Hi Mr.Gustafson,Thanks for reminding me of the title,there were alot of things that Mr Widick and covered,but i could not be sure of the book title if it saved...
Hi Mr.Gustafson,Thanks for reminding me of the title,there were alot of things that Mr Widick and covered,but i could not be sure of the book title if it saved...
Hello, Steve Gustafson... I've seen your name before and wanted to ask... In the Patrol Wing TEN organization, either VP 101 or VP 102 there was a Painter...
I was stationed in San Diego,Ca. and the apt. complex where i was living i had a U.S.Flag and a flag that had U.S.NAVY printed on it,I was told to take it down...
Hi Lou, I wasn't aware of that. No relation though. The book In The Hands Of Fate didn't mention him. There was a Lieutenant A.L. Gustafson on the Peary....
Stephen, The Edsall went down at 106d 45m long; 13d 45m lat. It is well south of the Java trench in fact it is near what is called the Roo Rise, an undersea...
Jim,The money order for the DVD is on it's way,I mailed it today.I've always wondered where alot of the wrecks lie now,and what condition they may be...
Jim,The money order for the DVD is on it's way,I mailed it today.I've always wondered where alot of the wrecks lie now,and what condition they may be...
Are we missing something here? Jim speaks of the edsall--then suddenly, the money order is on its way--for what? Eric Stephen Greene <bilgerat1073@...>...
Mr.Niderost,I was giving Mr.Nix a heads up on a money order I sent to him for a DVD,Call the 'heads up' a courstesy, or depending how someone else may look at...
Stephen, I only know about the I-124 in Darwin bay as a war grave. After a number of unsuccessful attempts by divers to board her in the 70's the Aussies...
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