The last stand of the tin can sailors the extraordinary World War II story of the US Navy's finest hour
Chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific.
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2005.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Hornfischer, James D. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The last stand of the tin can sailors : |b the extraordinary World War II story of the US Navy's finest hour / |c James D. Hornfischer. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Bantam Dell, |c 2005. | ||
| 300 | |a 499 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally published in hardcover: New York: Bantam Books, 2004. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Tin cans -- Last stand -- A vanishing graveyard -- Highest traditions -- Men of Task Unit 77.4.3 killed in action, October 25-28, 1944. | |
| 520 | |a Chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Naval operations, American. | |
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