Tales from a tin can: the USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

In the words of those who manned her, the destroyer USS Dale?s war comes vividly to light in the first history of a WWII combat ship told by the veterans who served in it themselves.

From the bombing of Pearl Harbour, where the Dale, commanded by an ensign, fought back, to carrier raids on Midway, troop landings and combat at Guadalcanal, escort and combat duties in the Solomons, the bombardment of Saipan and Guam, capturing the Marinas, from the Aleutians in the far north to strikes on Tokyo and Kobe, this book covers the Pacific war from a unique and thrilling perspective: the personal accounts of action that re-create the true grit of wartime on a destroyer.