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    Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945
    Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945
    Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945
    Audiobook10 hours

    Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945

    Written by C. Raymond Calhoun

    Narrated by Norman Dietz

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 27, 2018
    ISBN9781977376053
    Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945

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    • 5/5
      This is a genuine heart and mind account by someone who obviously 100% knows what he's talking about, because he lived that life, and survived to tell not only his own tale, but the tale of many of his comrades.
    • 5/5
      This is a great memoir you understand the comradery of men at war on a small vessel. I recommend this book 100%.
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