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Overview"My interest in USS Howorth originated during my thirty-three months of duty in the Pacific Fleet destroyer Hamner, named after Howorth's gunnery officer killed at Okinawa, Lieutenant Henry R. ""Pete"" Hamner. His legacy jncluded the Reader's Digest subscriptions his mother presented each year to the wardroom and crew. Later, as executive officer in the hydrofoil Plainview, exasperated by the endless stream of logs and records demanded by higher authorities, I peevishly tested the navy's record system and wrote away for information on Lieutenant Hamner and Howorth. I was surprised by the magnitude of the material documenting Howorth's Pacific War, ranging from hourly barometric readings and seawater injection temperatures to ammunition effectiveness reports." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Yeoman James Orvill Raines , William M. McBridePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780367009014ISBN 10: 0367009013 Pages: 342 Publication Date: 13 September 2019 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface -- Introduction -- Training & Transit -- Commissioning and Stateside Training -- Fleet Training, Territory of Hawaii -- Westward to the War Zone -- “Some Eerie Hell” -- Invasion of Morotai Island, Moluccas Islands -- Invasion of Leyte Island, Philippine Islands -- Supporting the Leyte Campaign -- Invasion of Ormoc, Leyte Island, and Mindoro Island -- Lingayen Gulf and the Luzon Island Invasion -- “The Devil’s Own Creation” -- Invasion of Iwo Jima -- Invasion of Okinawa Shima -- Afterword -- Bibliographic NoteReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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