The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour Feature
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour Overview
“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”
With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that represented the last hope of a staggering empire. All that stood between it and Douglas MacArthur’s vulnerable invasion force were the Roberts and the other small ships of a tiny American flotilla poised to charge into history.
In the tradition of the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers, James D. Hornfischer paints an unprecedented portrait of the Battle of Samar, a naval engagement unlike any other in U.S. history—and captures with unforgettable intensity the men, the strategies, and the sacrifices that turned certain defeat into a legendary victory.
From the Hardcover edition.
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On October 25, 1944 the Japanese Navy their last major company American intervention began in their home islands to draw a detailed plan for the protection UP Navy station the U.S. military who are going to re-conquest of the Philippines and allow Japan to stop slaughtering sweeping fleet to destroy the army bombardment. Too complicated plan that achieved its goal of luring away the most important guardian of the Army and Navy last battle oncepowerful Imperial Japanese Navy weighed on its goal was the only thing kept in his way six escort carriers providing air support for troops on the ground and their7 destroyers and destroyer.
Ringing "Tappy 3" this power all the water with less than cargo Japanese flag fell on them and displaced so insignificant right to power, as described in any Japanese fleet operations in the ocean itself. "It was not fast enough toOutlet of Japanese battleships and cruisers on it, so that the captains of the three Tappy the only thing he could, was, attacked! What is the Battle of Leyte Gulf later. It 'been a battle in which the U. S. Navy destroyer Imperial Navy warship used in pistol duels. This was not David against Goliath. This was the younger sister of Big Brother David over Goliath. What should have been a brake on the Japanese battle was not won. In this battle, I say Hornfischerwrites what is one of the best books on the war in the Pacific that I have ever had the pleasure of opening.
Horn Fischer has an open conversation and writing style. His charm and his ability to realize some of the men in this Tappy 3 with little anecdotes from his life, training and career that you think you know and care about their fate. You are not uniform for large ships faceless, but individuals. They are fathers and brothers, children and lives in front of them andWe hope that after this battle. The back of the book have been damaged and how Hornfischer is the character, real people, I was still experimenting and still there to see, "he 's done?" This is something I never before with a book like this, but did so thanks to the writing of Horn Fischer, see what you know.
Normally concentrated hyper book is not for new readers. Lynn Macdonald write similar books on WW1 a great experience for men, but little ingreat plan. Hornfischer deftly avoids this. Explain in a few cartoons and well chosen, the role of different types of ships and how they were used, painted the canvas in principle, led to war and men of Tappy More than 3 people in a desperate fight will be iconic of all Navy personnel in the war. Because of Fischer Horn Ability to read then you must book well written less about what people have marine or not, because this book is reallyUnderstand what they were doing.
involved in considering the sheer numbers of Leyte Gulf, never should have been something like a "battle" there. With all the logic of war, common sense and self Tappy 3 should have taken half or were uprooted. Tappy found 3 option of 3rd and brilliantly Horn Fischer said his story in a way that almost 70 years after the fact, the reader feels he knows the men who stood up to the Japanese navy. By Tappy 3 is reallymight say, "It must have been in the wrong place, wrong time. Sure, they were heroes."
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