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    South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf
    South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf
    South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf
    Audiobook9 hours

    South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf

    Written by Russell Sydnor Crenshaw, Jr.

    Narrated by Alan Bomar Jones

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Russell Crenshaw's riveting account of the savage night battle for the Solomon Islands in early 1943 offers listeners a unique insider's perspective from the decks of one of the destroyers that bore the brunt of the struggle. Drawing on his experience as a gunnery officer in the USS Maury, Crenshaw's vivid, balanced, and detailed narrative includes the Battle of Tassafaronga in November 1942 and Vella Gulf in August 1943, actions that earned his warship a Presidential Unit Citation and sixteen battle stars. Crenshaw also discusses the impact of radar and voice radio, the shortcomings of U.S. torpedoes and gunfire, and the devastating effectiveness of Japan's super torpedo.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 20, 2011
    ISBN9781452673868
    South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf

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    • 5/5
      Incredibly honest account of the Solomon's campaign. The author's respect for his captain and mentioning of NZ navy contribution. Tbh I learned a lot.
    • 4/5
      Very well written account of operating a destroyer in the Solomon Islands from the later part of 1942 onwards. The author is an Academy grad who basically commissioned into WW2. He served as gunnery officer and XO. His accounts are clear and thorough. The walk through the vessel by divisions is helpful to understand how a destroyer functions at sea and in port. There is what I assume is reconstructed dialogue, which given the long decades that intervened are likely more useful for tone than detail, no disrespect to the author’s memory. His battle descriptions do a credible job of conveying the confusion and difficulty in creating a picture of what is happening in the moment. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      It's a little hard to know what to make of this book, as it's more than a history and less than a memoir. I suppose that the best way to describe it is as being a portrait of the USS Maury when the author came of age as a naval officer, in the context of the broken-back war conditions that existed in late 1942 to the middle of 1943 in the Solomons campaign. As such, there is a lot of interesting detail, though one would have still enjoyed learning more about the author. Crenshaw's main concern in the end is to grimace at the memories of how inadequate testing and over-confidence in regards to weaponry (the destroyerman's perspective on the great torpedo scandal) made a waste of so many men and ships.

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