Reminiscences of Mr. William T. Smoot
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- ISBN 9781682692394
- Weight: 403g
- Dimensions: 215 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Most of the oral histories in the Naval Institute collection deal with the active service of career naval personnel. Mr. Smoot spent only four years on active duty, and this memoir covers only one operation from one tour of duty. But it is a powerful one, because Smoot had an unusual vantage point during the abortive attempt to invade Fidel Castro’s Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. Smoot was an officer in the escort destroyer Eaton (DDE-510) and watched firsthand the covert support provided to the Cuban rebels. He saw the landing craft and the invasion site, listened to voice radio transmissions, and went ashore in a motor whaleboat to rescue rebels who were stranded there. Smoot’s destroyer came under fire on one occasion while in the Bay of Pigs.
