Editing United States Asiatic Fleet (section)

===Asiatic Fleet components: 8 December 1941===
Asiatic Fleet Headquarters, ashore from mid-1941 at the Marsman Building on the Manila waterfront. The Fleet flagship, {{USS|Houston|CA-30|2}}, was assigned to lead Task Force 5 (TF&nbsp;5).

TF&nbsp;4, Asiatic Fleet: Patrol Wing 10, seaplane tenders, and aviation resources.

TF&nbsp;5, Asiatic Fleet: surface strike forces, including cruisers and Destroyer Squadron 29 (DesRon&nbsp;29).

TF&nbsp;6, Asiatic Fleet: submarines force, including all submarines, tenders and rescue ships.

TF&nbsp;7, Asiatic Fleet: patrol force, including gunboats {{USS|Tulsa|PG-22|2}} and {{USS|Asheville|PG-21|2}}.

4th Marine Regiment

Commandant 16th Naval District (COM16): The Cavite Navy Yard and all the shore establishment on Luzon, including the radio station, ammunition depot, hospital, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron THREE, naval air station, mine depot, and similar facilities on Corregidor, at Mariveles, Bataan, and Olongpago, on Subic Bay.

The historic [[Yangtze Patrol]] was concluded in early December 1941. Of the five remaining gunboats, {{USS|Tutuila|PR-4|2}} remained at [[Chongqing]], {{USS|Wake|PR-3|2}} was in reduced commission at Shanghai as a radio station for the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]], and ComYangPat sailed in {{USS|Luzon|PG-47|2}} with ''Oahu'' for Manila, joined by {{USS|Mindanao|PR-8|2}}.