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Down to the Sea : An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II by Bruce B Henderson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In December 1944, while supporting General MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey neglected the Law of Storms—the unofficial bible of all seamen since the days of sail—placing the mighty U.S. Third Fleet in harm's way. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly every living survivor and rescuer, many families of lost sailors, transcripts and other records from two naval courts of inquiry, ships' logs and action reports, personal letters, and diaries, Bruce Henderson offers the most thorough and riveting account to date of one of the greatest naval dramas of World War II.

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Author

Bruce B Henderson

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061173172

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14