Ebook: Shepherds of the sea: destroyer escorts in World War II

Like lambs to the slaughter -- Good luck ... and good hunting -- Reversing the tide -- Away all boarding parties -- The only man on the place -- Blood frozen in my veins -- Off the shores of New Jersey -- Sailors in the shadows -- Coming right at me -- Pink streaks of afterglow -- Epilogue: gray ghost from the past -- Appendix I. Destroyer escorts lost during World War II -- Appendix II. Shipyards in which destroyer escorts were built -- Appendix III. Destroyer escorts manned by Coast Guard.;This compelling tale of courage, heroism, and terror is told in the words of ninety-one sailors and officers interviewed by the author about their World War II service aboard fifty-six destroyer escorts. They reveal many never-before-told details of life at sea during wartime and, along with information found in secretly kept war diaries and previously unpublished personal photographs, add important dimensions to the official record. Unseasoned teenage recruits when they first went to sea, these sailors were led by inexperienced college boys more accustomed to yachts than warships. Their.