On the morning of March 1, 1942, the WWI-era destroyer USS Edsallâunder orders to deliver some forty Army Air Force fighter crews to the beleaguered island of Javaâsplit off from the USS Whipple and the tanker Pecos and was never seen again by Allied forces. Despite the later discovery of bodies identified as Edsall crew members near a remote airfield on the coast of Celebes, what happened to the ship remains a matter of mystery and, perhaps, deliberate obfuscation. This book explores the many puzzling facets of the Edsallâs disappearance in order to finally tell the full story of the fate of the vessel and her crew. Based on exhaustive research of the historical recordâincluding newly deciphered Japanese documents and previously unrevealed material from the crewâs family membersâA Blue Sea of Blood offers a painstaking reconstruction of the shipâs history. The book investigates not only the Edsallâs mysterious final action, but also her wide-ranging pre-war career and the curious uses to which her story was putâgenerally under false pretensesâfirst by the pre-war US Navy and then by the Japanese wartime propaganda machine. And finally, military historian Donald Kehn considers the circumstances surrounding the curious obscurity of the Edsallâs heroic service and final battle in American histories. Redressing six decades of official indifference, Kehnâs account recovers a significant chapter missing from the history of World War IIâand tells a long-overdue story of courage and tragic loss.
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