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Tales of a Tin Can Sailor is a wide ranging story of a sailor, two ships and many dedicated fighting men who, working together with a single purpose, accomplished sometimes heroic things. From waging submarine warfare in the Atlantic, participating in all of the invasions in the Mediterranean, to battling kamikazes in the Pacific, shooting down the last Japanese plane, with a task group the first to fire on the Japanese mainland, and the first allied ship of any kind to drop anchor in Tokyo Bay. Of particular interest and historical significance, are the actions described during the year spent in the Mediterranean. In all of the invasions-Sicily, Salerno and Anzio-the Navy played a major role in the success of each of the landings. None more so than the Salerno operation, where the Navy prevented the defeat and evacuation of our forces from Italy, the first landing on the European continent.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Military history

• Full title: Tales of a Tin-Can Sailor
• Author: Lawrence G Reid
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 324
• EAN: 9781420827088
• ISBN: 9781420827088
• ID: 08405357
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Weight: 646 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. September 2005

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