Cruise of the Lanikai

Tolley, Kemp: 2002 Bluejacket Books USA, softcover 345 pages, illustrated. Kemp Tolley recounts how the schooner Lanikai, under secret presidential orders, was to provoke a Japanese attack by spying near their fleet, but the mission was overtaken by events when Pearl Harbor was bombed before the ship could depart. The book follows Tolley and his crew’s perilous 4,000-mile escape from the Philippines to Australia through Japanese-controlled waters, making Lanikai one of the few U.S. vessels to survive the early chaos of World War II in the Pacific. ISBN 9781557504067 In very good condition