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Old 11-01-06, 08:35 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Subnuts
I really thought more people would be interested in this book.
Just finishing up on this one--great read--and thks-- your review is what drew my interest to getting it. Have read before on the invasion of the phillipines but dealt mostly with the land side and the "american ceaser" and maybe looked at the naval side in passing.---this book was an eye-opener and informative for one not read in naval history--thks for the heads up

Have toured the USS North Carolina at wilmington N.C. (I know it's not a destroyer) but it helped while reading the book to give me a picture in my mind of what the guys below the decks went through----like I said eye-opening--any other book recomendations along the same lines of this one?
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