<p>Tales From A Tin Can is a beginning-to-end eyewitness account of World War II in the Pacific. Tales From A Tin Can consists of 424 stories from 44 of the officers and crew who served aboard the US Navy destroyer USS Dale from 1941 to 1945. Their colorful from-the-deck stories include the major naval campaigns that earned Dale 12 Battle Stars as she steamed from the homeports of the Pacific Coast, to the tropical outposts of the South Pacific, through the glutinous fogs and williwaw winds of the Bering Sea into the killer typhoons of the South China Sea. Their stories include Dale’s escaping from Pearl Harbor while under Japanese attack on 7 December, 1941; participating in the U.S. carrier raids on Japanese bases throughout the Western Pacific and the carrier battles of the Coral Sea and Midway; dodging the torpedoes, aerial attacks and naval gun fire of the Japanese at, and around, Guadalcanal’s “Iron Bottom Sound;” invading Attu and Kiska; fighting the Battle of the Komandorski Islands – said to be the longest gun-fight in modern naval history; invading the Gilbert, Marshall, Caroline and Philippines Islands; surviving the swarms of kamikaze at Iwo Jima and Okinawa; and then, going home winners. The Dale’s tin can sailors also provide personal insights into what the young men from America’s heartland experienced as they sailed through World War Two in the Pacific, including modeling for James Michener’s Tails from the South Pacific at Espiritu Santo; transitioning from pollywog to shellback on the equator, discovering women in the fog of the Bering Sea, threatening their Captain with a game of cops and robbers, participating in a real life ice-cream mutiny, hanging on during a South China Sea typhoon, and many, many more stories of their tin can sailor life at sea.These stories told by the tin can sailors of the USS Dale will bring the boys of the Greatest Generation to life for you.</p>

Tales From A Tin Can: World War II in the Pacific – Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay – as told by the officers and crew of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Dale (DD–353)

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Tales From A Tin Can: World War II in the Pacific – Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay – as told by the officers and crew of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Dale (DD–353)