sterett pacific december 1939-1945

books:

Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945 (Bluejacket Books)

5 reviews
C. Raymond Calhoun

US Naval Institute Press, 2000

I Finally Got It!
I have read many books on destroyers during WWII. This is the first book that put me on the deck during a night surface battle, and I could SEE what was going on. There is no hype, no "I was a hero" type of comments, just the facts. You can feel the pain he felt when he saw a fellow sailor dead on the deck. It almost brought me to tears. If you want to SEE what life on a destroyer was like in ...

Typhoon, the Other Enemy: The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944

3 reviews
C. Raymond Calhoun

Naval Inst Pr, 1981

Excellent
This is a personal narrative of a destroyer commander who was caught in the Dec.1944 typhoon in the pacific. This typhoon swamped three destroyers: The Hull, The Spence and the Monahan. His destroyer almost turned turtle also.About 700men were lost from the three ships that sunk.