|
Antisubmarine Warrior in the
Pacific
By:
John
A. Williamson
(232 pages)
(7 photos)
Reviewer:
Dr. V.H. Schumacher
Overall Rating: Four Stars - Highly
recommended. An excellent book.
A look back in
time to the period of the Great
Depression and World War II and
their impact on one young man
from his formative years growing
up in a small town in Alabama to
his command of the USS ENGLAND
(DE-635). The author presents
vivid portrayals of his
shipmates, of the periods of
quiet and of those hours of
anticipation and terror in both
the Atlantic and Pacific
theaters during the war.
Especially impressive are the
descriptions of how this small
but tough ship and her crew sank
six Japanese submarines in
twelve days, road out a typhoon,
and survived a direct hit by a
Kamikaze carrying a 500 pound
bomb.
Read five pages
and you will not be able to
close the cover! |