Portrait of Kemp Tolley

The late Kemp Tolley, also the author of Cruise of the Lanikai and Yangtze Patrol enjoyed a long naval career before retiring from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Rear Admiral.

Articles by Kemp Tolley

Surprise, Surprise

By Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, U.S. Navy (Retired)
August 1995
Why were Kimmel and Short "nailed to the barn door," when other commanders—such as MacArthur—were allowed to continue in command.

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Dr. Kenneth J. Hagan and Major Grant H. Walker, U.S. Army (Retired), Vice Admiral William P. Mack, U.S. Navy, (Retired), Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, U.S. Navy (Retired)
August 1994
Ironclads and Paddlers Ian Marshall. Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, Inc., 1993. 108 pp. Bib. Illus. Ind. Notes. $34.95 ($33.20). Reviewed by Dr. Kenneth J. Hagan and Major Grant H. Walker ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Colonel Brooke Nihart, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), Commander Carl O. Schuster, U.S. Navy, & Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, U.S. Navy (Retired)
October 1993
Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb George D. Fiefer. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. 622 pp. Append. Bib. Ind. Maps. Notes. Photos. $29.95. Reviewed by Colonel ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Colonel Wendell N. Vest, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), Commander Robert C. Whitten, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired), Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, U.S. Navy (Retired), Rear Admiral Randolph W. King, U.S. Navy (Retired), Commander John D. Alden, U.S. Navy (Retired), & Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
June 1992
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle Richard B. Frank. New York: Penguin Books, 1992. 812 pp. Append. Ind. Maps. Notes. Photos. Tables. $16.00 ($14.40) paper. Reviewed by Colonel ...

Ivan Gets Wise

By Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, USN (Retired)
September 1991
The Germans, by supplying the Finns with vital intelligence, prolonged what the Soviets had expected to be a 12-day war into one of over three months

Divided We Fell

by Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, U. S. Navy (Retired)
October 1966
At a ghostly two in the morning of 29 November 1941, two small U. S. warships slipped down Shanghai’s Hwangpoo River toward the open sea. Silently the white-and-buff ships passed ...

The Strange Assignment of USS Lanikai

By Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, USN (Ret.)
September 1962
In 1941, on secret orders from the President, the hastily commissioned schooner Lanikai was ordered in the path of the Japanese Fleet. Her real mission, suggests the author, was to ...