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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