Posts Tagged ‘Destroyers’

Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke: Fifty Years in US Navy Destroyers, Volume 2 (Paperback)

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Deck apes, snipes, and powder monkeys alike will just eat up these evocative and entertaining tales of life in the United States destroyer fleet. Smartly told, irreverent and fun, Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke upholds the honor of the surface navy and captures the big-hearted spirit of the tin can sailor of every generation. This book belongs on every Navy man’s shelf. — –James D. Hornfischer, author of Ship of Ghosts and The Last Stand of the Tin Can SailorsThe (more…)

Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke:Fifty Years in US Navy Destroyers, Vol 1 (Perfect Paperback)

Review

The proudest Marine and the toughest SEAL will tell you, … destroyers? Now, there’s the REAL Navy. Find out why in the pages of Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke written by the true men of destroyers; those greyhounds of the sea; those TIN CAN SAILORS. — –John J. Gobbell, author of The Brutus Lie, The Last Lieutenant and A Code For TomorrowThis is how I remember my time in the Fleet – stories, people, incidents. A navy has ships, but men bring those ships to life. (more…)