Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay | Michael Olson

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	Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay Michael Olson Zenith Press, 2007 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

?What was life like on a destroyer during World War II? Find out by reading Michael Keith Olson?s superb telling of tales of the war in the Pacific as seen from the deck of a very luck ?tin can?? The son of a former Dale crewman, Olson interviewed 44 veterans and delved deeply into official documents to give this book the air of authenticity that puts the reader in the heart of the action.

?Tales from a Tin Can is the first oral history of one combat ship?s adventures, sometimes comic, sometimes mundane, sometimes heart wrenching, over the entire course of America?s involvement in the Pacific. An impressive accomplishment and highly recommended.?
WWII History

?This fascinating book captures not only the furious clashes with the Japanese but also the humdrum days in-between and the heart-stopping encounters with typhoons that could be as lethal as any engagement with the enemy. Anyone interested in stories from World War II will find this well-illustrated account of the naval campaign in the Pacific fascinating.?
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Looking up from his newspaper from where he sat on the deck of the destroyer USS Dale, Harold Reichert could see the pilot plain as day--the leather helmet with chin strap, the goggles, and then the red rising sun painted on the planes fuselage. "I saw the torpedo drop and watched as it ran up on the old Utah." It was daybreak at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the beginning of the war, and the Dale was there; she would serve until the end, when the atomic bombs were dropped and Japan surrendered.

In the words of those who manned her, the Dales war comes vividly to life in this first oral history of a combat ship from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. From carrier raids on Midway, Guadalcanal, and the Solomons to the bombarding of Saipan and Guam in the capture of the Marianas, from the Aleutians in the far north to strikes on Tokyo and Kobe, Tales from a Tin Can recreates the action aboard the Dale, and conveys as never before the true grit of wartime on a destroyer.

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Destroyermen The Few The Proud

This is a terrific read and well reflects the lives we endured on the "greyhounds of the sea". The memories of these terrific sailors is exciting and certainly reflects the challenges that they faced again and again. Having rode many of these ships over a 30 year Navy career I would certainLY recommend this to any and all. BRAVO ZULU!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Book

If you are a serious student of history, you cannot help but enjoy this book.
All too often when telling the story of WW II, the intimate and personal day to day experiences of the individual soldier or sailor get over looked.
This book tells that story, specifically how individual sailors dealt with the day to day stress of combat operations and the death of friends and shipmates; a great read.

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TALES FROM A TIN CAN; USS DALE

WHAT A NICE WAY TO READ ABOUT THE ACTUAL TREKS AND TURMOILS FACED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE CREW OF A BATTLESHIP DURING WWII.

THE BULK OF THE BOOK IS RIGHT FROM THE MOUTHS OF THE CREW. OTHER INFO IS FROM THE WAR DIARY OF THE SHIP. FOLLOW IT FROM PEARL TO TOKYO BAY OVER THE COURSE OF YEARS THROUGH BATTLES, BEERS, TYPHOONS, AND LACKANOOKIE.

Not a bad Navy story

As a Navy Vet and one who served for a short time on a tin can I found this book interesting. I enjoyed reading it not only from a veterans perspective but also from a historical viewpoint.

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