LEADER 00000cam 2200361 i 4500 001 sky283844150 003 SKY 005 20170601102538.0 008 160926s2017 mauabf b 001 0 eng 010 2016042188 020 9780306824302 (hardcover) 020 0306824302 (hardcover) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dDLC|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 092 940.545973|bWUK 100 1 Wukovits, John F.,|d1944-|eauthor. 245 10 Tin can titans :|bthe heroic men and ships of World War II's most decorated Navy destroyer squadron /|cJohn F. Wukovits. 246 30 Heroic men and ships of World War II's most decorated Navy destroyer squadron 264 1 Boston :|bDa Capo Press,|c[2017] 300 xiii, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-301) and index. 520 When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron 21 (Desron 21) to lead his victorious ships into Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender, it was the most battle- hardened US naval squadron of the war. But it was not the squadron of ships that had accumulated such an inspiring resume; it was the people serving aboard them. Sailors, not metallic superstructures and hulls, had won the battles and become the stuff of legend. Men like Commander Donald MacDonald, skipper of the USS O'Bannon, who became the most decorated naval officer of the Pacific war; Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, who survived his ship's sinking and waged a one-man battle against the enemy while stranded on a Japanese-occupied island; and Doctor Dow "Doc" Ransom, the beloved physician of the USS La Vallette, who combined a mixture of humor and medical expertise to treat his patients at sea, epitomize the sacrifices made by all the men and women of World War II. Through diaries, personal interviews with survivors, and letters written to and by the crews during the war, preeminent historian of the Pacific theater John Wukovits brings to life the human story of the squadron and its men who bested the Japanese in the Pacific and helped take the war to Tokyo. 610 10 United States.|bNavy.|bDestroyer Squadron 21|xHistory. 650 0 Fletcher Class (Destroyers)|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xNaval operations, American. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|zPacific Area. 655 7 Nonfiction.|2local
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