Bruce Henderson, "Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II"Publisher: Smithsonian | ISBN: 0061173169 | 2007 | EPUB/MOBI | 384 pages | 1023 KB/1015 KB
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.