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Tin Cans and Greyhounds
- Author
- Clint Johnson
- Narrator
- Tom Perkins
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 19 February 2019
- Run Time
- 9 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Clint Johnson
- Narrator
- Tom Perkins
- Duration
- 9 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 February 2019
- ISBN
- 9781977335616
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- History, Transport: general interest, Ships and boats: general interest, Second World War, First World War, Naval forces and warfare, Military history, Ships and boats: general interest, Shipbuilding technology, engineering and trades, Military history
Synopsis
This action-packed narrative history of destroyer-class ships begins with destroyers' first incarnation as torpedo boats in 1898 through the last true combat service of the ships in the Vietnam War. Nicknamed "tin cans" or "greyhounds," destroyers were quick naval ships used to defend larger battleships—and they proved indispensable in America's military victories. In Tin Cans and Greyhounds, author Clint Johnson brings listeners inside the quarter-inch hulls of destroyers to meet the men who manned the ships' five-inch guns and fought America's wars from inside a "tin can"—risking death by cannon shell, shrapnel, bomb, fire, drowning, exposure, and sharks.
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