The Fighting Fleets
Subtitle: Five Months of Active Service With the American Destroyers And Their Allies in the War Zone
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781417965465
Subjects: Naval forces & warfare; Military - Naval; History; History - Military / War; Military
First sentence: MY first glimpse of these splendid destroyers of ours was from the deck of a liner out of an American port, cracking on at nineteen knots through the war-zone, navy gun crews standing watch and watch, smoke-boxes ready to be dropped overside, passengers prudently girdled with life-belts, regarding it as a great adventure to imperil their precious lives in daring the Atlantic voyage.