Tales from a Tin Can The USS Dale, From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

Looking up from his newspaper as he sat on the deck of the destroyer USS Dale, Harold Reichert could see the pilot plain as day: the leather helmet with chin strap, the goggles, and, finally, the red rising sun painted on the plane's fuselage. "I saw the torpedo drop and watched as it ran up on the old Utah." It was daybreak at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the beginning of the war, and the Dalewas there; she would serve until the end, when the atomic bombs were dropped and Japan surrendered. In the words of those who manned her, the Dale's war comes vividly to life in this first oral history of a combat ship from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. Tales from a Tin Canrecreates service aboard the Dale-from the carrier raids on Midway and Guadalcanal to the kamikaze raids of Okinawa, from the Aleutians in the far north to strikes on Tokyo and Kobe in the Far East-conveying as never before the true grit of wartime on a destroyer.Olson, Michael Keith is the author of 'Tales from a Tin Can The USS Dale, From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay', published 2007 under ISBN 9780760327708 and ISBN 076032770X.