The Japanese Fleet, and the Australian destroyer 'Wind Rode', astern, moved on into the eye of the wind. And then Bentley could see, as the sky lightened, that the mass ahead of him was not an indeterminate bulk, but a Jap battleship. He lowered his glasses and he breathed in slowly and deeply to steady himself. Then he said, deliberately:
"Increase to two-five-oh revolutions. Starb'd twenty, steer 180.
"Stand-by torpedo attack"

The giant carrier was on a capsize angle...It was Bentley's decision to run alongside and rescue her men, but to do this before she sank, meant coming in on the dangerous low tide. Should he risk his own ship and the lives of his men?

Walt Kenyon and his crew roar full speed through a dangerous mission on the high seas. These are the adventures of the men who fought the war aboard the vulnerable PT boats, where one direct hit was all the enemy needed to finish the job.....

Two men, violently opposed, forced together on a dangerous mission against four Japanese cruisers - and a volcano.....SAINSBURY, VC The spinsterish tigerish little captain of the cruiser 'Tempest'. 'DUTCHY' HOLLAND....Destroyer commander, built like a bulldozer, tough, with no regard for impossible obstacles or senior officers...