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Cargando... Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity: The Final Voyage of the Escort Carrier USS Liscome Baypor James L. Noles Jr.
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A straight-up account of a little-remembered event; the death of the "Liscome Bay" during World War II. Noles does go to some effort to place the carrier's loss within the context of the military campaign to take Tarawa and Makin, but the main focus is on the effort to survive disaster in a ship's company that barely had time to develope a unit identity; all in all a good story well told. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A long-overdue history of America's ""forgotten flattop."" On November 24, 1943, a Japanese torpedo plunged into the starboard side of the American escort carrier USS Liscome Bay. The torpedo struck the thin-skinned carrier in the worst possible place the bomb storage area. The resulting explosion could be seen 16 miles away, literally ripping the Liscome Bay in half and killing 644 of her crew. In terms of lives lost, it was the costliest carrier sinking in United States naval history. Liscome Bay's lo No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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