Fleet Destroyer was written during the time the Eastern Fleet took to steam from its base in Ceylon, lambast Surabaya, and steam back again. Few people know there is a flotilla of Australian destroyers, manned and officered by Australians, serving with Admiral Mountbatten’s Eastern Battle Fleet.
Here, then, is her story; and the story of a thousand men of the Royal Australian Navy, men who have fought from Murmansk to Moresby, and most places in between, and who, positioned between Jap-occupied East Indies and the land of their birth, are even now seeking the main obstacle to their return there—the Japanese Fleet.