narrative first-hand employment

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Another six-hundred: A true history in narrative form, on the employment of Destroyer Division 59, and other ...

1 review
J. Daniel Mullin

J.D. Mullin, 1984

Historical Fiction That is More Accurate than most Nonfiction history Books!
I never thought I would read a fictional accounting of the first 85 days of WWII in the Pacific that had more truth and information than actual history books have. I was greatly surprised and pleased by what I discovered between the covers of "Another Six-Hundred". WWII Navel Veteran and author J. Paul Mullin treats the reader to a "fictional" chronicle of surface naval warfare that paints a ...

Destroyer: An Anthology of First-Hand Accounts by Those Who Served on the B- and C-Class Destroyers in the ...

2 reviews

US Naval Institute Press, 2003

Essential for Naval Warfare Readers
What historian Ian Hawkins has done previously for the air war, he has now done for the war on the Atlantic--put together a first-rate collection of eye-witness accounts by the men who fought and risked their lives on the Atlantic in the Second World War. Mr. Hawkins is known for his riveting use of eyewitnesses to put together books that bring the Second World War to life. His greatest book, ...

Destroyers On The Rocks: Seven Ships Lost

2 reviews
Spencer Duckworth

Cypress House, 2005

A lively true-life adventure/disaster story which proves hard to put down
In 1923 the U.S. navy's Destroyer Squadron 11 headed off to its home port of San Diego from San Francisco. Clear blue skies, mid-summer, and accompanied by a fleet of some thirteen destroyers packed with experienced officers and commanders. By day's end all seven would be stranded on the coast and lives and millions of dollars lost. DESTROYERS ON THE ROCKS: SEVEN SHIPS LOST is the vivid ...

Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II

10 reviews
Robert Sinclair Parkin

Sarpedon Publishers, 1996

Blood On The Sea
An excellent work, describing the loss of various classes of U.S. destroyers sunk in WWII. With help from crew members of the many ships, Mr. Parkin describes the horrors of fighting losing battles against man and nature. Having served aboard a Fletcher class DD in the Viet Nam conflict, I can appreciate the efforts by which the "tin can sailors" of WWII fought to keep their ships afloat under ...

From Africa to the Arctic: A Year on the Destroyer HMS " Beagle " During WWII
Peter Ward

Brewin Books, 2003

Playing for Time: War on an Asiatic Fleet Destroyer (Military Monograph, 93)
Lodwick H. Alford

Merriam Press, 2006

The author's memoir of his service as an officer on board the destroyer USS Stewart (DD-224) of the Asiatic Fleet from before the war through its abandonment in a dry dock in Java in February 1942, also serving as a history of the ship's wartime service, including as a patrol boat in the Japanese Navy. The author also provides a history of the Asiatic Fleet during that time period when it was part of the naval forces that stopped the Japanese ...