The Fighting Fleets
Subtitle: Five Months of Active Service With the American Destroyers and Their Allies in the War Zone
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780898758719
Subjects: Naval forces & warfare; Military - Naval; History; History - Military / War; History: American; USA
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.