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Rent The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published: Mar 2005
Genre: History - Military - World War Ii
Retail Price: $25.00
Pages: 499
Synopsis
Based on eyewitness accounts, declassified Navy documents, and interviews and correspondence with veterans, this epic account chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific. Reprint. 37,500 first printing.