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Caught off Okinawa in the fiercest typhoon in history at the end of World War II, Elmer Renner, then a young officer aboard a US minesweeper, recounts the horror of his ship sinking. Renner and eight other sailors dung to a small raft for days, battling thirst, hunger, shark attacks and eventually, madness. Renner and co-author Ken Birks describe the men's panic as distant ships seemingly ignore their desperate calls, the sea turning blood red when one of the men loses his life to a shark, and how another slips silently away into the unforgiving Pacific.

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Elmer Renner served on active duty in U.S. Navy from August 1942 to February 1946, then in the Naval Reserve until January 1954. When the typhoon struck in 1945, he was aboard the USS YMS 472. Ken Birks, who served with the U.S. Marine Corps on Iwo Jima, was instrumental in bringing their book to fruition. He died in 2003.

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