An epic narrative of World War II naval action that brings to life the sailors and exploits of the war's most decorated destroyer squadron.

Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature

When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron twenty-one (Desron twenty-one) to lead his victorious ships into Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender, it was the most battle-hardened US naval squadron of the war. But it was not the squadron of ships that had accumulated such an inspiring resume; it was the people serving aboard them. Sailors, not metallic superstructures and hulls, had won the battles and become the stuff of legend. Men like Commander Donald MacDonald, skipper of the USS O'Bannon, who became the most decorated naval officer of the Pacific war; Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, who survived his ship's sinking and waged a one-man battle against the enemy while stranded on a Japanese-occupied island; and Doctor Dow "Doc" Ransom, the beloved physician of the USS La Vallette, who combined a mixture of humor and medical expertise to treat his patients at sea, epitomize the sacrifices made by all the men and women of World War II.

Through diaries, personal interviews with survivors, and letters written to and by the crews during the war, preeminent historian of the Pacific theater John Wukovits's Tin Can Titans brings to life the human story of the squadron that bested the Japanese in the Pacific and helped take the war to Tokyo.

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• Publication Date: March 14, 2017
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• Print Length: 518 Pages
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