Description: I COMBINE SHIPPING $1.50 per book. FREE SHIPPING for orders over $60. Send books to your check-out cart. E-Bay will automatically adjust shipping costs.PACKAGING & SHIPPING RULES:1. Individual books Under $18.00 are shipped in padded poly envelopes. 2. Individual books Over $18.00 are shipped in a poly envelope inside a box.3. Buy Three or more books and the order is shipped in a box.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LISTING:This is a memoir and history of an officer on the Destroyer USS Sterett. He served on the ship from 1939 until he was wounded in the 1943 Battle of Savo Island. The book also tells the history of the ship during WW II Though no longer a crewman after his wounds he used interviews with other crewmen to tell the rest of the story. The following I pulled from the ships website; DD-407 USS SterettUSS Sterett was built in South Carolina as a 1500-ton Benham class destroyer. Commissioned in August of 1939, she was sent to the Western Atlantic and the Caribbean through May 1940. At that time, USS Sterett was transferred to the Panama Canal and then went on to Hawaii where she remained until June 1941. Sterett was sent back to the Atlantic for neutrality patrols and other events until December when she was a part of the U.S.’s formal entrance into WWII. Through June 1942, she was responsible for escorting convoys, and training exercises in the Atlantic.USS Sterett was then sent back to the Pacific and went on to Fiji, taking part in initial engagements with the Japanese. She maintained this role of support and bombardment through late 1942 when she was sent for repairs. In 1943, Sterett was back in the Pacific on escort duty, and also participated in invasions and battles through 1945, including the Marshalls campaign and seizure of the Marianas. In April 1945 off Okinawa, USS Sterett was hit by a suicide plane. She was sent for repairs and then for training missions before being decommissioned in November 1945.
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Publication Year: 1993
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Book Title: Tin Can Sailor
Author: C Raymond Calhoun
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, War & Combat
Topic: American History, Combat, Memoir, Military History, Navy, Ships, True Military Stories, World War II
