NEW!
Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke by Bob
Cohen & Terry Miller
Volume One $14.95 + $3.00 Shipping Item B-62
Volume Two $14.95 + $3.00 Shipping Item B-63
Scurvy
Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke: Fifty Years in U.S. Navy Destroyers is a
two-volume work of 18 destroyer veterans, many of whom, including TCS
Executive Director, Terry Miller, have had stories published in The Tin
Can Sailor. These two books are filled with stories from the experiences
of these men.
All profits from the sales of this book will go to benefit
Navy-Marine Corps
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NEW!
Quicksilver: A Greyhound at Sea by CDR. Jack L.
Wells
$18.95 Media Rate ($23.95 Priority Rate) Item B-60
This book
portrays men at sea in a difficult and unpopular war. In the fall of 1967,
Vietnam was on the way to becoming an American nightmare. Yet each man had
to find his own way to cope with the exhaustion, boredom, and, ultimately,
combat with a resourceful and persistent enemy. Ens. Patrick Dillan was
assigned to the USS LARTER (DD 766). Only 26, he was a bit of a rebel on
what was supposed to be a six-month WestPac deployment. The reader will
learn how he dealt with normal evolutions, port calls, and combat while
wrestling with his own and his ship mate=s
emotions.
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NEW! Black Oil Chief USN by
William E. Sneed
$19.95 Media Rate ($24.95 Priority Rate) Item B-61
Chief Boiler
Technician Phillip Keith is just three weeks short of his much-anticipated
retirement. Spoiled by his post with a modern class cruiser, Keith is
counting on an easy voyage to the United States from the Philippines. When
fate intervenes, he is reassigned to an old World War II destroyer, the USS
Biscay, to ensure its safe return to the States.
This
action-packed novel with a compelling spiritual message about courage,
faith, and destiny will both entertain and inspire.
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Tales from
a Tin Can by Michael Keith Olson
$20.00 Media Rate ($25.00 Priority Rate) Item B-59
The first oral history of one combat ship's
adventures, sometimes comic, sometimes mundane, sometimes heart wrenching,
over the entire course of America's involvement in the Pacific. An
impressive accomplishment and highly recommended. WWII History.
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Inside the
Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf 1987-1988 by Harold Lee
Wise
$30.00 Media Rate ($35.00 Priority Rate) Item B-58
A history of U.S. military involvement in
the Persian Gulf in 1987 and 1988--a time of burning ships, air strikes, and
secret missions--the prelude to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Desert Storm,
and the most recent U.S. invasion of Iraq. Based largely on first-hand
accounts from veterans of that era, it is an up-close, detailed report from
the front lines of a guerrilla war at sea. Many of the dramatic incidents of
this period are told in depth, with new information and details never before
seen in print.
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Halsey's Typhoon by Bob
Drury and Tom Clavin
$22.00 Media Rate ($27.00 Priority Rate) Item B-53
In December 1944, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey and the U.S. 3rd Fleet
confronted an onslaught as relentless and deadly as any Japanese attack. A
powerful typhoon, surging with 150 mile-per-hour winds, struck the warships
in the deepest, most shark-infested waters of the Pacific. Using recently
declassified official documents, Halsey's Typhoon captures the
unfolding of this "natural" wartime calamity.
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DESTROYER DESIGN by Howard A. Chatterton, Jr.
$14.95 (Shipping charge $2.33) Item B-49
This publication describes the destroyer design process. Use of a
computer allows the techniques described here to be done quickly and
consistently in much greater detail than was possible by hand. |
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NO HIGHER HONOR
by Bradley Peniston.
$23.00 Media Rate ($28.00 Priority Rate) Item B-50
The USS Samuel B. Robert (FFG-58) was a small warship built for
escort duty much like its namesake vessel, on of the "tin can" heroes of
Leyte Gulf. Journalist Bradley Peniston draws on hundreds of documents and
interviews to present the first book about the Roberts heroic
actions. |
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SHIP OF GHOSTS
by James D. Hornfischer.
$22.00 Media Rate ($27.00 Priority Rate) Item B-51
James D. Hornfischer, acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin
Can Sailors, delivers an unflinching account of heroism and honor at the
limit of human endurance--and of the unsung warriors who waged one of the
most remarkable battles of World War II.
Using journals and letters, rare historical documents, including
testimony from postwar Japanese war crimes tribunals, and the eyewitness
accounts of Houston's survivors.
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MODERN U.S. NAVY DESTROYERS
by S. F. Tomajczyk.
$14.95 Item B-52
This book takes you below the deck of some of the most feared ships in
the world. A tour inside the destroyer including the computerized
Combat Information Center, the spacious Arleigh Burke-class dining
area, the cramped Spurance-class crew's quarters, the surprisingly
quiet engine control room and the flight control room.
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A CALL TO COLORS
by John J. Gobbell.
$8.00 Media Rate ($13.00 Priority Rate) Item B-54
The Battle of Leyte Gulf took place on October 24 and 25 in 1944.
Without a doubt it was the final battle in the history of the world where
naval surface combatants were in actual physical sight of each other. The
author takes us back to that tenuous time late in the war when most of the
strategic minds within the U.S. and Japanese militaries were certain of one
thing. The Japanese had lost the war. The questions that remained were, how
would the remaining resources of the Japanese armed services be used.
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The
"Sacrificial Lamb" by Bill Sholin.
$20.00 Media Rate ($25.00 Priority Rate) Item B-55
This story is not about one sailor or just one ship; rather, it's about
an event in U.S. history that needs to be told. Okinawa where 4,907
sailors lost their lives and 4,832 were wounded in the greatest air-sea
battle of all time. |
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"Truman's Decision" by Bill Sholin.
$12.00 Media Rate ($17.00 Priority Rate) Item B-56
U.S. destroyermen stood between thousands of Kamilkazes and the U.S.
Fleet. They paid a terrible price -- but virtually saved America. The
following pictorial review will give our readers a hint of what American
sailors went through to keep the United States of America free. |
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Sea
of Thunder by Evan Thomas.
$27.00 Media Rate
($32.00 Priority Rate)
Item B-57
The book tells the story of the Japanese and
American commanders whose fates converged in history's last great naval
engagement, the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. It is also a story of
competing traditions and the extraordinary influence of personality,
organizations and culture on warfare -- despite the advanced technologies
wielded in World War II.
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THE NEPTUNE STRATEGY by John J. Gobbell.
$22.00 Media Rate ($27.00 Priority Rate) Item B-47
This is
Gobbell’s fourth book in the series. Commander Todd Ingram finds himself in
many dangerous situations and is successful in “getting out” of his
dilemmas. As in the previous stories, actual military events, real persons
and warship details are carefully woven into the telling of the story.
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THE LAST STAND OF THE TIN CAN SAILORS
by James
D. Hornfisher,
winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval
Literature.
$14.00 Media Rate ($19.00 Priority Rate) Item B-46b
(Available Paperback Only)
An inspiring chronicle of courage under fire. A
portrait of a naval battle unlike any other in U.S. history--a story as much
about the values that define a warrior and a nation as it is about war.
Filled with riveting detail and based on the author's extensive interviews
and correspondence with veterans, unpublished eyewitness accounts,
declassified documents and rare Japanese sources, this is war at sea as it
has seldom been presented before! Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award
for Naval Literature.
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CORRY: A D-DAY SURVIVOR'S STORIES ABOUT THE DESTROYER THAT LED THE
NORMANDY INVASION
by LTJG Francis M. McKernon as told to Kevin
McKernon.
$15.95 Media Rate ($20.95 Priority Rate) Item B-45
Paperback. June 6, 1944: D-Day-After leading
the massive Allied invasion armada to France, off Utah Beach the destroyer
USS Corry (DD-463) engaged in a fierce battle with German artillery firing from the
Normandy shore. She was the only US destroyer sunk on D-Day. After
abandoning ship, crewmembers fought to survive in bone-chilling water for
more than two hours under constant enemy shelling. Includes D-Day front-line
action, U-boat encounters, the Battle of the Atlantic, and more.
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THE LAST LIEUTENANT by John J. Gobbell.
$8.00 Media Rate ($13.00 Priority Rate) Item B-41
This is the first book in a series of three books. This book focuses on an
escape from Corregidor as it succumbs to incessant bombardment, thus ending
U.S. organized resistance in the Philippines. Paperback.
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A Code for Tomorrow by John J. Gobbell.
$9.00 Media Rate ($14.00 Priority Rate) Item B-42
The second in a series of three. From the whispers of lovers parted by
war to the explosive, harrowing naval action in the Battle of the Santa Cruz
Islands, "A Code for Tomorrow" brilliantly portrays WW II and the lives it
irrevocably touched. Paperback.
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When Duty Whispers Low by John J. Gobbell.
$20.00 Media Rate ($25.00
Priority Rate) Item B-43
The third in a series. Highly recommended. Although fiction, this book uses
actual historical events to follow the exploits of LCDR. Todd Ingram during
WW II. Linked to the story are the shooting down of Admiral Yamamoto and the
introduction of the highly secret VT proximity fuze. An excellent book. Hard Cover.
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USS KIDD (DD-661) by Robert F. Sumrall.
$14.95
(Shipping charge $2.33)
Item B-38
The latest in our book series. Our USS
KIDD book has 80 pages of text, drawings,
and photos. Written for Tin Can Sailors by internationally known author
Robert F. Sumrall.
This book details the ship’s history, construction, and
equipment. An outstanding publication that you will find both enjoyable
and informative. An excellent value. |
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USS ALABAMA (BB-60) by Robert F. Sumrall.
$14.95 (Shipping Charge $2.33) Item B-36
Our USS ALABAMA book has 68 pages of text, drawings,
and photos. Written for us by internationally-known author Robert F.
Sumrall, this book details the ship’s history, construction, and
equipment. An outstanding publication that you will find both enjoyable
and informative. Cover art by Tom Freeman and color renderings add to this excellent value. |
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U.S. NAVY DESTROYERS LOST OR DAMAGED DURING WORLD WAR II
by Tin Can Sailors.
$10.95 Item
B-15
Twenty eight pages of listings of ships lost or damaged due to
enemy action, collisions, storms, friendly fire, etc. Gives the name of the
ship, location, and cause of damage. Over 40 photos. A Tin Can Sailors
exclusive! Third edition. |
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WARSHIP BONEYARDS by Kit and Carolyn Booner
$19.00 Media Rate ($24.00 Priority Rate) Item B-34
Author
Kermit Bonner takes readers through the entire disassembly process from
start to finish, describing in detail how these surplus cruisers,
submarines, destroyers, and aircraft carriers are scrapped, including more
complex processes involving nuclear submarines. |
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DESTROYER SQUADRON 23 by
Ken Jones
$17.00 Media Rate ($22.00 Priority Rate) Item B-39
History has recorded many instances in which the
right man was present at the right time to further a just cause and bring
credit to his nation at a critical moment. This book tells the story of such
a man and such a time. Commodore Arleigh Burke provided the fire of
leadership that fused a squadron of destroyers into a superb combat
organization - the gallant squadron of this book - a real fighting outfit
with that vital combat ingredient we know as "fighting spirit". |
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USS CASSIN YOUNG (DD-793) by J. Scott Harmon.
$8.00 Item B-9
This large
format paperback showcases the service life of CASSIN YOUNG from her
launching until her current status as a memorial. Excellent photos, a color
rendering, and outstanding diagrams make this a fine addition to anyone's
library. Paperback, 48 pages. |
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DESTROYER ESCORTS OF WORLD WAR II
by Thomas F. Walkowiak.
$9.00 Item B-4
This inexpensive, large-format paperback present a truly exceptional overview of the
destroyer escorts developed during the Second World War. Paperback, 48 pages, with photos,
illustrations, diagrams, and color renderings. |
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FLETCHER DDs IN ACTION by Jerry Scutts.
$12.00 Item B-7
This Squadron-Signal "In Action" publication features the
FLETCHER-Class destroyers in WWII. An inexpensive way to expand your
knowledge about this extensive destroyer class. Paperback, 48 pages with
photos, illustrations, diagrams, and color renderings. |
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WARSHIP'S DATA: USS BOWFIN
(SS-287) by Robert F. Sumrall.
$8.50 Item B-23
In
depth descriptions of Bowfin and her career. Paperback, 40 pages with
photos, illustrations, diagrams, and color renderings. |
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WARSHIP'S DATA: USS MISSOURI
(BB-63) by Robert F. Sumrall
$9.50 Item B-22
In
depth descriptions of the Missouri and her career. Paperback, 64 pages
with photos, illustrations, diagrams, and color renderings. |
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COLD WAR AT SEA by
Kit and Carolyn Bonner.
$24.00 Media Rate ($29.00 Priority Rate) Item B-32
Mighty ships of the U.S. and Soviet navies squared
off continuously throughout the Cold War: monitoring each others’
maneuvers, intercepting radio transmissions, targeting one another with
weapons, and forcing each other off course. This book chronicles the key
combatants, detailing naval growth and development through intense moments
of superpower brinksmanship. Paperback, 160 pages, 200 illustrations. |
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HISTORIC NAVAL SHIPS GUIDE by the Historic Naval
Ships Association. Completely
revised and updated for 2005.
$6.95 Item B-16
(Currently being reprinted unavailable until April 08)
This guide to more than 130 ships on
public display is packed with color photos, information about the ships,
and their locations, phone numbers, and web sites. Paperback, 98 pages and
about 200 photos. |
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