Hello, Yes, this absurd conspiracy theory stuff never dies...:rolleyes: But, I guess one could therefore make the same accusation against the...
Von Mannerheim, When will your Thesis be available for other researchers to read? I think there's a "HEAD" missing in your Wainwright...
Hello, I have a friend, now well into his eighties, who was a fire control man in the MB of USS SALT LAKE CITY. He wrote--immeditely after the...
Hello, The United States had no explicit, binding commitments in the Pacific to help Great Britain, the Dutch, or Australia prior to the war's...
Hello, Van Der Dat wrote a book on the German battlescruiser GOEBEN which is pretty good as an introduction to that episode, and another on the...
Hello, Each defendant would have had his own attorney or team of attorneys. These were not Japanese lawyers (usually) AFAIK. You might be...
Hello, It may be in Winslow or Morison; I can't recall either. The official US account of the Java Campaign says they were destroyed at...
Hello, The correct answer is NO way could or would the Navy have risked their carriers for Mac's doomed command. Wavell in ABDA had it in...
Hello, An excellent, well-researched text on this relatively little-known (and rather depressing) episode has just been published in the past...
Hello, USS Houston (CA-30) departed about Feb 15/16th with reinforcements for the NEI (Timor?), but her convoy was attacked and subjected to...
Hello, Many more ships were sunk at Darwin than recorded here, and it was a very significant raid, intended to destroy the port as a forward...
Hello, For those interested, it is worth noting that Ernest Evans was the former Executive Officer (XO) of USS Alden (DD-211) during the NEI...
Hello, ozjohn39 & slipdigit (Roll Tide! I can say that as an old Joe Willie fan...) I am glad to provide what info I can & when I can....
Hello, A new work--and the first ever to deal with this story--that of the old Asiatic Fleet destroyer USS Edsall (DD-219)-- is scheduled for...
Hello, Thanks very much for this information, and the anecdote from the HMAS Maryborough sailor. I always enjoy hearing these firsthand...
Hello, If this last post was addressed to me, yes, I do have--and have had--considerable contacts with the so-called "Lost Battalion." They are...
Hello, The 2nd Battalion/131st Field Artillery, Texas Nat'l. Guard was sent to Brisbane on the PENSACOLA Convoy, aboard USS REPUBLIC, after...
Hello, All 15 vols. of S.E. Morison's History of US Naval Operations in WWII H.P. Wilmott's Empires in the Balance (1982) and The Barrier...
Hello, Here is an excellent link to a website with much information on the Allied POWs sent to the Moluccas. COFEPOW - South East Asia Under...
Hello, My guess is that your uncle was one of the hapless British/RAF POWs captured on Java later taken along with Dutch prisoners by the...
