Shepherds Of The Sea: Destroyer Escorts in World War II Robert F. Cross

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Shepherds Of The Sea: Destroyer Escorts in World War II
Robert F. Cross
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Naval Institute Press (30 April 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591141443
ISBN-13: 9781591141440

A new history of the WWII US Navy destroyer escorts as told by those who served on them. This compelling tale of courage, heroism, and sheer terror is told in the actual words of the young, World War II destroyer escort sailors who lived to share their experiences. They came from the farms, small towns, and large cities all across the nation, sent out on the high seas to battle the Nazis and Japanese. Facing mortal danger, this unseasoned crop of teenage recruits went to sea aboard destroyer escorts, a novel yet untested vessel, designed by a man with no formal training in ship design, and which many navy officials viewed as a waste of money. Led by Ivy League college boys more accustomed to being aboard yachts than warships, these young men are credited with helping to turn the tide of the war in the Atlantic, single-handedly sinking some seventy U-boats, and then fighting side by side with Allied battleships and destroyers in every major Pacific battle. Although President Franklin Roosevelt first wanted these vessels built in 1940, navy brass convinced him to use the nation s limited resources to build more American destroyers instead, a mistake that would carry a heavy price for the Allies. The author interviewed 91 destroyer escort (DE) sailors and officers from 56 different ships, and was given access to secretly kept war diaries, and other never before published information and photographs to illustrate the remarkable stories of this group of heroes to whom this nation owes a very special debt.

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