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Title: Tin Can Sailor
Condition: New
Subtitle: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945
Author: C. Raymond Calhoun
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781557502285
ISBN: 9781557502285
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Genre: History
Topic: Military History
Release Date: 30/06/2000
Description: More than eight hundred sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those men and their beloved ship, recorded by a junior officer who served on the famous destroyer from her commissioning in 1939 to April 1943, when he was wounded at the Battle of Tulagi. Peppered with the kind of vivid, authentic details that could only be provided by a participant, the book is the saga of a gallant fighting ship that earned a Presidential Unit Citation for her part in the Third Battle of Savo Island, where she took on a battleship, cruiser, and destroyer and was the last to leave the fray. Calhoun's gripping and colorful account tells what it was like to be there during those furiously fought, close-range engagements. When published in hardcover in 1993, the book was widely praised as a good read loaded with rich and interesting details.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 313g
Release Year: 2000

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