Read e-book online Aboard the Farragut Class Destroyers in World War II: A PDF

By Leo Block

ISBN-10: 0786442220

ISBN-13: 9780786442225

This publication describes the lifetime of the enlisted males aboard a Farragut classification destroyer in the course of the pre–World battle II years; the battle guidance interval in 1941; and the wartime years. It positive factors first-person narrations accumulated from interviews and correspondence with the few last Farragut type destroyer sailors, and in brief describes the evolution of the destroyer and the Farragut type destroyers, 5 of which survived the war.

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