*The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour* by James D. Hornfischer was recommended to me here on Reddit, and I read it last year. It is an excellent read.
>Author “Herman Wouk wrote in *War and Remembrance*, ‘The vision of [Rear Admiral Clifton A. F. ‘Ziggy’] Sprague’s three destroyers—the *Johnston*, the *Hoel*, and the *Hermann* [plus the Destroyer Escort *Samuel B. Roberts*]—charging out of the smoke and the rain straight toward the main batteries of [Japanese Vice Admiral Takeo] Kurita’s battleships [the *Yamato, Nagato, Kongō,* and *Haruna*] and cruisers [heavy cruisers *Chōkai, Haguro, Kumano, Suzuya, Chikuma,* and *Tone*; light cruisers *Yahagi* and *Noshiro*], can endure as a picture of the way Americans fight when they don’t have superiority. Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it.’
>“According to Fleet Admiral [Chester W.] Nimitz, ‘The history of the United States Navy records no more glorious two hours of resolution, sacrifice, and success’” (p. 406, *The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour* by James D. Hornfischer).
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*The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour* by James D. Hornfischer was recommended to me here on Reddit, and I read it last year. It is an excellent read.
>Author “Herman Wouk wrote in *War and Remembrance*, ‘The vision of [Rear Admiral Clifton A. F. ‘Ziggy’] Sprague’s three destroyers—the *Johnston*, the *Hoel*, and the *Hermann* [plus the Destroyer Escort *Samuel B. Roberts*]—charging out of the smoke and the rain straight toward the main batteries of [Japanese Vice Admiral Takeo] Kurita’s battleships [the *Yamato, Nagato, Kongō,* and *Haruna*] and cruisers [heavy cruisers *Chōkai, Haguro, Kumano, Suzuya, Chikuma,* and *Tone*; light cruisers *Yahagi* and *Noshiro*], can endure as a picture of the way Americans fight when they don’t have superiority. Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it.’
>“According to Fleet Admiral [Chester W.] Nimitz, ‘The history of the United States Navy records no more glorious two hours of resolution, sacrifice, and success’” (p. 406, *The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour* by James D. Hornfischer).