![]() USS Wren DD 568 Photo by the author |
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Aircraft carriers, Battleships, Cruisers and all destroyer types are featured.
Many smaller vessels such as tugs, landing craft and merchant ships, are
written about. To gather information, I have read the history of every ship
commissioned in the U.S. Navy, and I was there as a destroyerman, on the USS
Wren DD568. We tell the story as it happened, from beginning to end, with a
graphic pictorial account.
Bill Sholin
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Review:
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In the nearly 50 years that I have been collecting and reading books about
the U.S. Navy, I have never been more riveted by such a really great "read"
as I have found in this book by Bill Sholin. Not only is it fact filled
but it covers every ship hit by Kamikazes, not just destroyers though
destroyers were their main nemesis and therefore became their main
targets. Bill Sholin also adds authority because Bill Sholin was there.
More than any other book that I have seen, this one brings home just how
close the US Navy was nearly stopped by what in essence was a ready made
"guided missile." It clearly shows what would have been in store for the
american navyman had an invasion of Japan been necessary. Destroyers OnLine
recommends this great book as a definite "buy!"
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Dimensions: 8.5 inches wide - 11 inches high Hard Cover 248 pages
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