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2016-04-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

This Week in Books - April 3, 2016

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Posted by swksvolFF 2016-04-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Great read. I packed this book into my son's seabag before he shipped out to report to his DDG in the Pacific.

While he has heard about his great-Uncles who served aboard Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts during WWII, he really couldn't get his mind around their experiences until he read Hornfischer's book.

Truly, today's sailors stand on the shoulders of giants.

Posted by GORT 2016-04-03 09:09|| 2016-04-03 09:09|| Front Page Top

#2 My father was aboard the USS Kitkun Bay at Samar.

Posted by badanov 2016-04-03 09:48|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2016-04-03 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Wow badanov.

Ran across someone who said they were aboard the Midway. Looking back, I wonder if he was saying St. Lo. I was a mere welp, so I asked, "What boat is that?" I got the shit happened tone I recognize now, decades later. "That ain't no boat son, that's a ship."

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-04-03 16:44|| 2016-04-03 16:44|| Front Page Top

#4 I'll endorse Neptune's Inferno as well. Fantastic read.

Posted by davemac 2016-04-03 19:22|| 2016-04-03 19:22|| Front Page Top

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