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Title: Great book. The Battle to save the Houston.
Post by: GtoRA2 on March 09, 2005, 08:30:14 PM

The book:
 The Battle to save the Houston, October 1944 to march of 1945

It is about the light cruiser Houston getting torpedoed twice, and being towed with a broken back over 1000 miles to Ulithi, and then 900 more to another naval base to be patched up to sail back to the US under her own power, with a hull still so damaged rough weather would have sent her down.


Great read, I could not put it down.  The damage to the ship was unbelievable!!

From what they say in the book it also helped the US navy move from a policy of Sink a cripple and save the crew to, try and save the crew and cripple.

Great book and it was 4.95 at half price books.




(http://i.walmart.com/i/p/09/78/15/57/50/0978155750540_500X500.jpg)

Title: Great book. The Battle to save the Houston.
Post by: Maverick on March 09, 2005, 10:22:52 PM

Wow, for  a minute there I thought you were saying they were trying to save Houston the city and I couldn't for the life of me understand why anyone would want to do that!!!!! My mother in law lives there. EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEE EEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek:

Title: Great book. The Battle to save the Houston.
Post by: DiabloTX on March 10, 2005, 12:42:37 AM

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Originally posted by Maverick
Wow, for  a minute there I thought you were saying they were trying to save Houston the city and I couldn't for the life of me understand why anyone would want to do that!!!!! My mother in law lives there. EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEE EEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek:

:rolleyes:


Basically, if you were a cruiser in WWII named USS Houston...you were screwed.

Title: Great book. The Battle to save the Houston.
Post by: GtoRA2 on March 10, 2005, 11:05:55 AM

Was a great read.

I am bumping this so more see it.

Title: Great book. The Battle to save the Houston.
Post by: Siaf__csf on March 10, 2005, 11:17:37 AM

I'm a sucker for old naval stories too.

Title: Great book. The Battle to save the Houston.
Post by: JB73 on March 10, 2005, 11:19:04 AM

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Originally posted by Siaf__csf
I'm a sucker for old naval stories too.

dont read moby dick then.