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THE LAST LIEUTENANT A TODD INGRAM NOVEL BY JOHN J. GOBBELL 2 Also by John J. Gobbell: The Brutus lie * * * * * The Todd Ingram series: The Last Lieutenant A Code For Tomorrow When Duty Whispers Low The Neptune Strategy * * * * * A Call To Colors A Novel of the Battle of Leyte Gulf: 3 Gordon W. Prange, Miracle at Midway, 1982, McGraw-Hill, Inc., Chapter 44, Japanese Order of Battle, used with permission of the publisher. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright: January 2010 by John J. Gobbell All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author: John J. Gobbell Starboardside Productions ISBN: 978-0-9839138-2-5 Originally Published in hardcover by St. Martin’s Press 1995, Library of Congress Catalogue 95-15831, ISBN 0-312-13108-9 and softcover by St. Martin’s Press, 1997, ISBN 0-312-95838-2 4 To the men and women of the Allied Forces of World War II -- Those who returned and those who didn’t. 5 6 7 8 9 CAST OF CHARACTERS AMERICANS -- U.S. NAVY, ABOARD MINESWEEPER USS PELICAN (AM 49), MANILA BAY Alton C. Ingram, Lieutenant. “Todd” Commanding Officer Frederick J. Holloway, Lt. (jg) Operations Officer. Oliver P. Toliver, III, Lt. (jg) “Ollie” Gunnery Officer. Bartholomew, Leonard (n), Chief Machinists Mate, “Rocky” Chief Engineer. Farwell, Luther A., Quartermaster Second Class Top helmsman. Hampton, Joshua P., Electronics Technician 1st Class Crew Whittaker, Peter L., Engineman 3rd Class, Crew Forester, Kevin T. Quartermaster 3rd Class Crew Forester, Brian I., Quartermaster Striker Crew Yardly, Ronald R., Pharmacist's Mate Second Class “Bones” Crew. Sunderland, Kermit G. Gunner's Mate 1st Class Crew. AMERICANS -- CORREGIDOR ISLAND GARRISON (FORT MILLS), MANILA BAY, PHILIPPINES Helen Z. Durand, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Nurse Otis (n) DeWitt, Major, USA Garrison Adjutant Dwight G. Epperson, LT. USN Commander, Naval Radio Intercept Tunnel at Monkey Point; Station CAST. Radtke, Walter, Cryptographer Technician, 2nd Class, USN Monkey Point B Abwehr Military Intelligence see GERMANS. Leon V. Beardsley, 1st Lieutenant, USAAF B-17 pilot. Carl R. Mordkin, Captain, USA Stockade Commander. George F. Moore, Major General, USA Garrison Commander, Corregidor Island (Fort Mills) Jonathan M. Wainwright, Major General, USA”Skinny" Commander US Forces, Philippines. 10 Gordon F. Plummer . Captain, USA Commander, Battery Craighill, Fort Hughes, (Caballo Island). La Follette, Bruno (n), Sergeant, USA Mortar Fire Controlman, Fort Hughes (Caballo Island) AMERICANS - U. S. NAVY, HAWAII Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA). Robert H. English, Rear Admiral Commander Submarine Forces, Pacific. Elphege Alfred M. Gendreau, Captain Pacific Fleet Surgeon; Nimitz' housemate. Milo F. Draemel. Rear Admiral Nimitz' Chief of Staff and housemate. Edwin T. Layton, Lieutenant Commander Nimitz' Fleet Intelligence Officer. Joseph J. Rochefort, Commander Commander station HYPO; OP-20-G, Naval Intelligence Unit. AMERICANS -- U.S. NAVY, ABOARD SUBMARINE U.S.S. WOLFFISH (SS 204) Roland M. Galloway, Lieutenant Commander Commanding Officer. Gordon E. Chance, Lieutenant Executive Officer. Morton A. Sampson, Lieutenant Operations Officer. Raleigh T. Sutcliff, Lieutenant Engineering Officer. Wallace Gruber, Ensign Torpedo Officer. Hall, Ernest, Radioman Chief Chief Radioman. Lorca, Dominic Federico Radioman 2nd Class Top radioman. FILIPINOS Don Pablo Amador Philippine Deputy Finance Minister, sawmill owner and lumber baron, Nasipit, Mindanao. Manuel Carillo Runs Amador’s lumber mill. Rosarita Carillo Carrillo’s wife. 11 Don Fito Diaz Fishing Fleet Owner - Northern Marinduque Island. Doña Valentina Diaz Wife of Don Fito Diaz. Don Emilio Aguilar Marinduque Island plantation owner. Doña Carmella Aguilar Aguilar's wife. Augustine Vega Aguilar’s foreman. Luis Guzman & Ex-Filipino scouts working for Amador. Carlos Ramirez, GERMANS Helmut Döttmer, Kapitänleutnant Kreigsmarine Abwehr--military intelligence, Posing as Cryptographer, Technician Second Class Walter Radtke, Corregidor Island; code named HECKLE. Kurt Döttmer Helmut's Father. Elsa Döttmer Helmut's Mother. Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral Head of the AbwehrCmilitary l intelligence, code named BESSON. Hans Oster, Colonel Canaris' Chief Assistant. Karl Dönitz, Admiral Germany's Chief Flag Officer of U-boats with the title of Befehlshaber der U-boote (BdU). JAPANESE Kiyoshi Tuga, Lieutenant Commander Kempetai (Thought Police) garrison, Northern Marinduque, later Nasipit, Mindanao. Akihiko Watanabe, Lieutenant Tuga's Kempetai second-in- command on Marinduque. Isoroku Yamamoto, Admiral, “Rengo Kantai” Commander in Chief Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. Kawai Chiyoko, Umeryu (Plum-Dragon) Yamamoto's mistress. 12 FOREWORD Imperial Japan expanded her conquests at a dizzying rate beginning with the Pacific war’s outbreak in December, 1941. By mid-1942, she controlled an area equal to one-seventh of planet Earth. To support a voracious war-machine, she desperately needed raw materials to the south, namely the Dutch East Indies and New Guinea (now Indonesia), French –Indo China (Viet Nam, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar), and the Philippines. But one of these objectives lay beyond her grasp: Manila Bay on Luzon’s west coast in the Philippines. Manila Bay is an enormous natural harbor; so large, that it could easily have anchored all ships in the world at that time. Four US Army fortified islands stood at the entrance to Manila Bay: Corregidor Island – Fort Mills; El Fraile Island – Fort Drum; Caballo Island – Fort Hughes; and Carabao Island – Fort Frank. The Bataan Peninsula forms the northern part of the entrance to Manila Bay. Tragically, it became known for the Bataan Death March after the Fil-American forces surrendered it to the Japanese in April, 1942. The final hold-out in Luzon became the three mile-long, tad-pole shaped Corregidor Island. This was the largest and most heavily fortified island that guarded the entrance to Manila harbor; a harbor desperately needed by Japan so she could fulfill the strategic objectives of her so-called Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. But Corregidor held out, the 5,000 man garrison swelling to 11,000 after the fall of Bataan. After a sustained round-the-clock artillery barrage, Corregidor fell on May 6, 1942 to a Japanese night time amphibious assault. To stop the hideous slaughter of wounded and civilians, Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright surrendered to General Masaharu Homma, commander of the Imperial Japanese 14th Army. But Homma refused to cease fire on Corregidor. He continued his attacks on the surrendered troops demanding that Wainwright give up all forces in the Philippines. With great reluctance, Wainwright did so, resulting in the capitulation of well over 120,000 Fill American forces in the Central and Southern Philippines. Overall, 135,000 allied troops fell to the Japanese in that campaign; the worst defeat in American history. But some got out including the late John H. Morrill, II rear admiral, USN, -- then a lieutenant commander. With sixteen men off his sunken minesweeper Quail, Lieutenant Commander Morrill escaped Corregidor the night it was surrendered to the Japanese. He navigated to Darwin Australia and freedom through 1,900 miles of enemy-controlled waters, much of it under the cover of night -- a heroic voyage by any measure. Morrill wrote about this in his book, South From Corregidor, Simon & Schuster, 1943. Thus Todd Ingram’s voyage through the Philippine Archipelago loosely approximates that of Lieutenant Commander Morrill. * * * * * 13 This novel, about the Japanese siege of Corregidor, is the first novel in the Todd Ingram series. All are stand-alone works featuring Ingram. Chronologically, the next work in the series is: A Code For Tomorrow: a novel of the naval battles of the Solomon Islands. After that is When Duty Whispers Low, a work about the shoot-down of Japanese naval CinC Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. And finally, the most recent work is The Neptune Strategy: Todd Ingram is captured by a Japanese long-range submarine. Another Todd Ingram novel is underway; working title is EDGE OF VALOR. An embarrassment of riches flowed during my research for The Last Lieutenant, particularly in the following categories: Historical and submarine nomenclature; the late Alvin P. Cluster, Vice Admiral Patrick J. Hannifin (retired), Hank Maclean, the late Rear Admiral John H. Morrill, II (retired), Lieutenant John W. Nelson, USN; Medical; Drs. Joseph N. Lambert, M.D., Russell J. Striff, M.D., and Kenneth J. Wegner, M.D; B-17 nomenclature; Robert Armstrong, Richard Bertea and David Tallechet; Radio Procedures; the late Hal Rosenberg and Linde Williams; Music; Drs. Richard Berkmeir and William B. Roberts. Elsewhere, I benefitted from the help of the Los Angeles Consulate of the Republic of the Philippines, and Orange County Fictionaires. And fortunately, we are served by library systems with incredible capabilities. The Doheny Library at the University of Southern California -- thanks go to Tyson Reyes -- and the Newport Beach Main Library are solid examples and were extremely helpful, more than fulfilling my research expectations. Every attempt has been made to conform to events of the time and all settings are actual except for the Japanese garrison on Marinduque. Any inaccuracies herein are attributed solely to me Discovered during this process was the full meaning of "What are friends for?" Thus, unending thanks go to Richard M. Geiler, Larry T. Smith, and Dr. Russell J. Striff, M.D., friends for a long, long time who truly fulfill the essence of that phrase. Last, don’t hesitate to visit my website at www.JohnJGobbell.com . Simply find your book on the main page and click on it to find book reviews, photos of actual locations, equipment, people, and charts portrayed in each of these works.
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