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The Ghosts that Died at Sunda Strait



Walter G. Winslow | 2013 | ISBN: 1612513018 | English | 264 pages | ePUB | 4 MB
Series: Bluejacket books

By mid-February 1942, still the only major American fighting ship in Southeast Asia, the Houston had lost one-third of her main armament to enemy bombers. She was in Darwin, Australia, with a convoy, when suddenly came the dread news: the Japanese were unleashing their big guns in an all-out attempt to capture the last of the Netherlands East Indies. The crippled Houston was rushed back into action.

What happened next—in the Battle of the Java Sea and then in the climactic Battle of Sunda Strait—is thrillingly recounted in The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait. Here is the story of a gallant ship, outgunned but never outfought, and of the men who lived and died trading shell for shell with vastly superior Japanese forces. Here too, is the story told by my friend Captain “Windy” Winslow, a survivor of the Houston’s finest hour. He then survived a virtual hell—three-and-a-half years in Japanese POW camps—but fortunately returned to tell the tale.

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