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Carregando... For Crew and Country: The Inspirational True Story of Bravery and Sacrifice Aboard the USS Samuel B. Robertsde John Wukovits
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The story of the Battle of Samar and the sacrifice of the USS Samuel B. Roberts documents how the destroyer and its small unit confronted formidable Japanese forces to secure the region for MacArthur's transports inside Leyte Gulf, in an account that also describes the harrowing three days endured in the sea by the ship's survivors. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)940.54History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War IIClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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Of the seven destroyer/destroyer escorts three, destroyers Hoel and Johnston and destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts were sunk. This book, For Crew and Country, is about one ship in that fight – the Samuel B. Roberts.
The book covers the history of the ship and crew, from the Roberts keel laying on 6 December 1943 at the Brown Shipbuilding Company to her sinking off Samar less than a year later. Through the pages of author Wukovits’s book the reader is introduced to the captain and crew. The introduction includes details of lives of various individuals before their induction into the Navy, their Navy experiences (if any) prior to assignment to the Roberts, and their change from a group of men assigned to a ship to a well-trained command of a new U.S. destroyer escort.
The author follows the ship and crew through training, shakedown exercises, initial training assignments off the Atlantic coast, their assignment to the Pacific theater of operations, the move to the far east, and their assignment to the naval group designated Taffy 3 off the Samar coast.
Starting with the captains address to the men over the public address system “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can” and blending survivors’ stories of the fight and its aftermath, the author provides an almost minute-by-minute account of the near suicidal torpedo attack by the Samuel B. Roberts, its going down with all guns blazing after a successful torpedo run, and the three-day ordeal of floating in the sea waiting for rescue that was the lot of those who escaped the ship with their lives.
The book is very well written. The author paints vivid word pictures which gives the reader a sense of being on board the Roberts from the beginning to the end. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in history of any kind. ( )