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December 1, 1941.

A baffling order zoomed across the wires in Manila, direct from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Admiral Thomas Hart. The directive defied logic: send three small, lightly armed vessels, no destroyers, no submarines, into the waters off Indochina, where the Japanese fleet was amassing in force.
One schooner was to patrol near Cam Ranh Bay, another off Cape St.

Jacques, and a third near the southern tip of Vietnam. Each would fly the American flag. Each was to observe, report, and hold its ground.
Hart was stunned. The vessels were too slow to run, too fragile to fight, and too few to matter tactically. They would be sitting ducks in hostile waters. Unless...

Unless that was the point.