Cruise of the Lanikai: Incitement to War (Bluejacket Books) by Kemp Tolley (Out of Print) FILIPINO AMERICAN EXPERIENCE & FILIPINOS IN THE DIASPORA - Women Writers (Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko)

Cruise of the Lanikai: Incitement to War (Bluejacket Books) by Kemp Tolley (Out of Print) FILIPINO AMERICAN EXPERIENCE & FILIPINOS IN THE DIASPORA - Women Writers (Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko)In early December 1941 in the Philippines, a young Navy ensign named Kemp Tolley was given his first ship command, an old 76 foot schooner that had once served as a movie prop in John Ford's "The Hurricane." Crewed mostly by Filipinos who did not speak English and armed with a cannon that had last seen service in the Spanish American War, the Lanikai was under top secret presidential orders to sail south into waters where the Japanese fleet was

they render other problems facing Filipino communities invisible

deprived of authority by his President

Publisher: UP Press

a nuclear safeguards inspector in Vienna

including martial law years

ISBN: 978-1-7772758-0-8

Stories on the Asian immigrant experience continue to hold a certain fascination with readers everywhere

The war was something they encountered in the midst of their lives

Publisher : The University of the Philippines Press (January 1

’” (Lisa Suguitan Melnick Positively Filipino blog)

Joann Faung Jean Lee is the author of the oral histories Asian Americans and Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century

About the AuthorErma Cuizon