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Comment by Bill Black on November 7, 2013 at 10:58am

Also, I have recently acquired DVDs from the History Channel called Hero Ships. These are excellent accounts of some of the greatest Naval Ships ever. I bought a separate one on the 3 wars of the Mighty Mo. After my wife goes to bed, that is how I spend my late nights!

Comment by Bill Black on November 7, 2013 at 10:44am

While in San Diego we toured the USS Midway. Wow! I was like a kid in a candy shop! I saw across the bay the USS Carl Vinson, CVN 70, and the USS Ronald Reagan, CVN 76 both of which had just returned from deployment. What an incredibly awesome site!
BTW, going back to WWII with the reading. I have started "Neptune's Inferno" about the US Navy at Gaudalcanal.

Comment by Bill Black on November 7, 2013 at 10:40am

Just got back from vacation....well last week and then digging out at work ever since! I finished "No Higher Honor". Great book! It was even more special having been in San Diego and going to the Leyte Memorial and saw the Samuel B. Roberts, DDE 413, predecessor to FFG 58, memorialized there. I got a shiver and tear standing there! My dad was a Lieutenant and a communications officer in WWII. He was stationed at Leyte and deployed on LST 818. He received a ribbon and battle star for being a part of the Phillipine liberation.

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on November 6, 2013 at 9:28pm

Oh how cool is that Ralph....now THAT is a true American heirloom!!! I've got Six Frigates on my list to read ......

Comment by Ralph Pinney on November 6, 2013 at 9:07pm

I got sidetracked and have started 1776.   I was fascinated with the history of the period when I read 'Six Frigates'.  Somewhere around my 9th or 10th great grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War.   We have a copy of one of his pay stubs hanging on our wall.

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on November 6, 2013 at 4:15am

both good...No Higher Honor is a great Navy read! Slogging through The Admirals when I get a chance but an currently also listening to:

THE WAR BELOW is the riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying the nation's economy.

Focusing on the unique stories of three of the war's top submarines; Silversides, Drum, and Tang;James Scott takes readers beneath the waves to experience the determination, heroism, and tragedy that defined the submarine service. From the thrill of a torpedo hit on a loaded freighter to the terror of depth charge attacks that shattered gauges and sprang leaks, The War Below vividly re-creates the camaraderie, exhilaration, and fear of the brave volunteers who took the fight to the enemy's coastline. Scott recounts incredible feats of courage;from an emergency appendectomy performed with kitchen utensils to the desperate struggle of sailors to escape from a flooded submarine trapped on the bottom;as well as moments of unimaginable tragedy, including an attack on an unmarked enemy freighter carrying 1,800 American prisoners of war.

The casualty rate among submariners topped that of all other military branches. The war claimed almost one out of every five subs;and a submarine crewman was six times more likely to die than a sailor on-board a surface ship. But the submarine service accomplished its mission; Silversides, Drum, and Tang sank a combined sixty-two freighters, tankers, and transports. So ravaged from the loss of precious supplies due to the destruction of the nation's merchant fleet were the Japanese that by the war's end hungry civilians ate sawdust while warships lay at anchor due to lack of fuel and pilots resorted to suicidal kamikaze missions. In retaliation, the Japanese often beat, tortured, and starved captured submariners in the atrocious prisoner of war camps.

Based on more than 100 interviews with submarine veterans and thousands of pages of previously unpublished letters and diaries.

Comment by Ralph Pinney on November 6, 2013 at 12:10am

Just finished The Admirals. Trying to decide between No Higher Honor and Command and Control.

Comment by Ralph Pinney on October 30, 2013 at 11:40pm

The Admirals

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on October 22, 2013 at 11:17am

Been involved with some physical therapy and projects for NavyDads and haven't even picked up a book in a couple of weeks....and haven't downloaded anything either!  What is everyone else reading these days?

Comment by Bill Black on October 11, 2013 at 10:02am

Yes, since the USS Forrester in 1964, the single most important piece of training rendered by the Navy.

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