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Tin Cans and Greyhounds

The Destroyers That Won Two World Wars

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Tin Cans and Greyhounds

By: Clint Johnson
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
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This action-packed narrative history of destroyer-class ships begins with destroyers' first incarnation as torpedo boats in 1898 through the last true combat service of the ships in the Vietnam War.

Nicknamed "tin cans" or "greyhounds", destroyers were quick naval ships used to defend larger battleships - and they proved indispensable in America's military victories.

In Tin Cans and Greyhounds, author Clint Johnson brings listeners inside the quarter-inch hulls of destroyers to meet the men who manned the ships' five-inch guns and fought America's wars from inside a "tin can" - risking death by cannon shell, shrapnel, bomb, fire, drowning, exposure, and sharks.

©2019 Clint Johnson (P)2019 Tantor Americas Armed Forces Military Naval Forces Wars & Conflicts World War I World War II War Air Force Submarine Naval History
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The excellent presentation helped me to better understanding of my father's experience. Thought a little more time could have gone to the Aleution Island campaigns.

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A very entertaining and informative book, the reader was a bit monotone at times but did good overall.

Great overview of our Nation's destroyers in WWII.

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If you want information about ww2 Tin Cans, this is the book for you! Great!

Comprehensive info about Tin Cans

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Excellent work about DD’s inWW1 and WE2. Did get a little annoyed when the name and ship number were used every time

Detailed without being boring

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This was an excellent lesson on how one of the most useful types of ships came into existence and how their use helped shape the world through peace and war. Making this a must have for anyone whose a fan of naval history.

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This book is very informative. There is so much good information about warships, etc but the delivery is very technical. That’s not the fault of the narrator. He’s excellent. One needs to pay close attention to catch each detail. All told, it’s fascinating to see how things developed by from before WWI and after.

Very good but dry

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narrow focus was too limiting. Needed to be a broader discussion of both oceans. It could have been a great read

too narrow a focus

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seems to be for novices interested in history more than accounts engineering advances and various classes .
so far nothing one cant acquire free on the net. i was hoping for more than public domain plagiarism.

a lengthy history lessonn

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