Scurvy dogs, green water and gunsmoke

fifty years in U.S. Navy destroyers

1st ed.
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Scurvy dogs, green water and gunsmoke

fifty years in U.S. Navy destroyers

1st ed.

Secret Scurvy Dog Society members relate stories, many humorous, some pointedly not, of life on US Navy destroyers during the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars.

Eighteen Destroymen describe life at sea (and on the beach!) during their service in the US Navy. Their 2-volume book contains over 100 stories -- some entertaining, some poignant, but all real.

In the stormy Atlantic and the beautiful Pacific, in the Mediterranean, Caribbean and South China Seas, come sail with the Scurvy Dogs as they circle the globe in those greyhounds of the oceans, the United States Navy destroyer fleet. The destroyermen describe the adventures, dangers and excitement of a life at sea...

* leaving friends and family on the pier in Narragansett Bay Departure
* stumbling into Communist Party headquarters during wartime in Exploring Hong Kong
* life-and-death decisions during a Pacific storm inTyphoon!
* an inside look at the engineers in What Are Those Animals Doing Down There?
* cartoon characters come to life in A Mickey Mouse Operation
* nuclear security breached in I Have the Missile Keys

The authors' royalties are donated to the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society. Please support our troops.

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Publisher
Oak Tree Press
Language
English

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Edition Notes

The title is available at Amazon.com, BN.com and the www.thritybookmall.com

Plus it is available to bookstores through Ingram and Baker/Taylor.

Published in
Taylorville, IL
Genre
Anecdotes., Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
359.3/254092273
Library of Congress
V825.3 .S36 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL16365430M
ISBN 13
9781892343062, 9781892343079
LCCN
2007052300
OCLC/WorldCat
186348535
LibraryThing
9738541
Goodreads
4573861
138291

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18596104W

Work Description

A two-volume collection of short stories by 18 ex-U.S. Navy destroyer sailors from late WWII to the 1990s. Some stories are humorous, some are poignant. All are true.

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