Avenging Pearl Harbor: The Saga of America’s Battleships in the Pacific War - Keith Warren Lloyd
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It was a miracle three years in the making, a testimony to American fortitude and ingenuity—and perhaps the key to why the United States won a war that after Pearl Harbor seemed hopeless.
Impeccably researched deep in the archives at Pearl Harbor and Washington DC, Revenge of the Dreadnoughts is colorfully written, personal, chilling, visceral,
Historian Keith Warren Lloyd brings his gift for injecting life and personalities and heretofore untold stories of the men and women involved-–members of what became known as The Greatest Generation—whose heroism and sacrifice brought about the miraculous new life of a sleeping military force that was reeling and on its knees.
It is a story has never before been old in such detail and with such vibrancy.
On the night of 24 October 1944, a force of two battleships, one heavy cruiser and four destroyers from the Imperial Japanese Navy steamed into Surigao Strait in the Philippines. Their objective: to attack the invasion fleet of General Douglas MacArthur’s army in Leyte Gulf. Alerted by scouting PT boats, the U.S. 7th Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf prepared a deadly trap. Waiting for the enemy force were five American battleships and supporting cruisers and destroyers. Oldendorf performed the classic naval maneuver of “crossing the T” which allowed the American ships to fire broadsides at the oncoming Japanese vessels, while the enemy could only fire with their forward turrets. When the smoke cleared, the Japanese fleet had been all but annihilated.
Only one destroyer escaped.
The victorious American battleships were the Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, California, and Tennessee, five of the eight dreadnoughts that had been sunk at Pearl Harbor.
The five ships had been raised, repaired, modified and re-manned. After three long years, they finally had their revenge.
Revenge of the Dreadnoughts takes readers from the attack on Pearl Harbor, telling the story of the severe damage dealt to each ship and the incredible acts of courage performed by the sailors of each crew that morning. It continues with how each ship was raised and repaired—Herculean in scope– and the mustering of new commanders, officers and crewmen.
The final drama unfolds as of each ship returns triumphantly to the battle fleet, and the ultimate triumph at the battle of Surigao Strait. (less)
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 4.5/5
March 12th, 2022
Interesting fact skipped over in American high school history on WW II.
In June of 1941 (6 months before Pearl Harbor), the U.S. Navy instituted a Pacific Ocean blockade between South America and Japan. Japan was reliant on Venezuelan oil for its hideously brutal war against China, Korea and the rest of Southeast Asia. In furtherance of this blockade, the Navy relocated its Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor.
A blockade of a country’s critical resources by another country not officially at war with is itself an act of war and an international crime.
Japan, desperate to break the blockade, attacked at the hub of the blockading fleet - at Pearl Harbor - on December 7, 1941.
They restricted their attack to the naval base and 2 airfields. Oddly enough, this was the last major combat attack in history that did not target civilians (American early bombing of Europe was carried out in daylight at low levels to avoid civilian casualties, but was too dangerous and they soon switched to the British high-altitude night-time bombing that was totally indiscriminate).
The U.S. responded in April, 1942 with a massive air attack on Tokyo, targeting civilians and killing many tens of thousands. April was also the month of the “Bataan Death March,” and we will never know whether Japanese brutality to captured U.S. soldiers would have happened anyway, as well as later mistreatment of Americans throughout the war (Japan certainly showed a capability for unimaginable brutality in the Rape of Nanjing), but I will always wonder if the Japanese soldiers at Bataan were at least in part motivated by family losses from the Tokyo carpet bombing by the U.S. Winners always write selective histories and only intense study of WW II in my Political Science undergraduate courses at a U.S. Ivy League university opened up many hidden stories on all sides of the war.
March 12th, 2022
Kind of what the US and the rest of the world is doing to Russia right now while they’re trying to win a hideously brutal war of aggression in Ukraine.
Be sure to let President Biden know that “A blockade of a country’s critical resources by another country not officially at war with is itself an act of war and an international crime.”
March 12th, 2022
Thanks sir
March 12th, 2022
Thanks for the history lesson, BlueSun03.
I’m sure I’d also enjoy hearing your justification of the 9/11 attack. And might we have a definition of “international crime”? If I ever heard the term in law school, I sure don’t remember it.
Several syntactical clues in your screed lead me to suspect that you’re not a native English speaker (Also, most of us Americans don’t need to be told that Ivy League universities are located here in the U.S.), so, I guess that might be a clue as to your point of view.
March 13th, 2022
Thanks for this and all the other great WW2 titles.
March 15th, 2022
BlueSun’s statements are not helpful. He includes a bunch of real stuff, but then mixes in exaggerations and errors.
Yes most Americans will have no clue why Japan attacked the US. Well stated. It was indeed about access to oil after the US embargo.
But an embargo being international crime? Hah. Especially when much of that oil was allowing Japan to wage aggressive war into China?
And I don’t think Venezuelan oil was a big part of Japanese oil use. Or at least, it was the US freezing Japanese assets (especially money), that made it difficult for Japan to buy more oil.
The Doolittle raid on Tokyo was a pinprick raid, that may have infuriated the Japanese, but was hardly a large scale killer of civilians. Wikipedia suggests, “After the war, the casualty count was 87 dead, 151 serious injuries, and more than 311 minor injuries”. Enough said.
March 23rd, 2022
BlueSun03 Just look at what Japan did to civilians before Perl Harbor.
Sorry but it was Germany and Japan’s fault WW2 happened, not the USA.
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