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Naval Institute Press USA 3rd printing 1983. Hard cover dust wrapper 247pp b&w photos. A little foxing on page edges and reverse dw. Date on top fly else very good. Calhoun, the captain of the Dewey, tells of the tragic ordeal which, on 18th December 1944, cost the US Navy 3 destroyers, 100 aircraft and 778 men at the time of the Battle of the Philippine Sea. He describes the storm and the rescue operations which were undertaken in a still-raging sea. He also examines the court of inquiry's findings and provides documentation to support his belief that the Bureau of Ships was negligent in not following through on the reported instability of the Farragut-class destroyers.