A01=Susan Cosentino
Author_Susan Cosentino
Category=JWCK
Category=NHK
Category=NHWL
Category=NHWR7
Destroyers
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Life aboard ship
US Destroyers
US Navy
USN
War in the Atlantic
War in the Pacific
World War II
WWII
Product details
- ISBN 9781557502285
- Weight: 65g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jul 2000
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
