Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
ISBN-13:
9780802143372
ISBN-10:
0802143377
Edition:
First Trade Paper
Author:
Tom Clavin, Bob Drury
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
Grove Press
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
Category:
Naval
,
Military History
,
United States
,
World War II
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ISBN-13:
9780802143372
ISBN-10:
0802143377
Edition:
First Trade Paper
Author:
Tom Clavin, Bob Drury
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
Grove Press
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
Category:
Naval
,
Military History
,
United States
,
World War II
Summary
Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue (ISBN-13: 9780802143372 and ISBN-10: 0802143377), written by authors
Tom Clavin, Bob Drury, was published by Grove Press in 2007.
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Halsey’s Typhoon is the story of World War II’s most unexpected disaster at sea. In the final days of 1944, Admiral William Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of victories, the Fighting Admiral” and his thirty-thousand-man Third Fleet are charged with protecting General MacArthur’s flank during the invasion of the Philippine island of Mindoro. But in the midst of the landings, Halsey attempts a complicated refueling maneuver and unwittingly drives his 170 ships into the teeth of a massive typhoon. Halsey’s men find themselves battling 90-foot waves and 150 mph windsamid the chaos, three ships are sunk and nearly nine hundred sailors and officers are swept into the Philippine Sea. For three days, small bands of survivors battle dehydration, exhaustion, sharks, and the elements awaiting rescue at the hands of the courageous lieutenant commander Henry Lee Plage, who, defying orders, sails his tiny destroyer escort, the USS Tabberer, back into the storm to rescue drifting sailors. Halsey’s Typhoon is a gripping true tale of courage and survival against impossible oddsand one of the finest untold World War II sagas of our time.
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