DESTROYER SQUADRON 29, Captain Herbert Victor Wiley USS Black Hawk, AD 9, Commander George L. Harris USS Paul Jones, DD-230 (flagship), Lt. Commander John J. Hourihan DESTROYER DIVISION 57, Commander Edwin M. Crouch USS Whipple, DD 217 (flagship), Lt. Commander Eugene Simon Karpe USS Alden, DD 211, Lt. Commander Lewis Elliott Coley USS John D. Edwards, DD 216, Lt. Commander Henry Effingham Eccles USS Edsall, DD 219, Lieutenant Joshua James Nix
DESTROYER DIVISION 58, Commander Thomas Howell Binford USS Stewart, DD 224 (flagship), Lt. Commander Harold Page Smith USS Parrott, DD 218, Lt. Commander Edward Nelson Parker USS Bulmer, DD 222, Commander Leon Jackson Manees USS Barker, DD 213, Commander Louis G. McGlone DESTROYER DIVISION 59, Commander Paul Hopkins Talbot USS Peary, DD 226 (flagship), Lt. Commander Harry H. Keith USS Pope, DD 225, Lt. Commander Welford Charles Blinn USS John D. Ford, DD 228, Lt. Commander Jacob Elliott Cooper USS Pillsbury, DD 227, Lt. Commander Harold C. Pound References: Roscoe, Winslow, W.G., The Fleet the Gods Forgot, 1982, Annapolis, Naval Institute Press. United States Navy Combat Narrative: The Java Sea Campaign, Publication Branch, Office of Naval Intelligence, United States Navy. |