Good Night Officially: The Pacific War Letters of a Destroyer Sailor - Hardcover

Orvill Raines, Yeoman James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367009013 ISBN 13: 9780367009014

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

My interest in USS Howorth originated during my thirty-three months of duty in the Pacific Fleet destroyer Hamner, named after Howorth's gunnery officer killed at Okinawa, Lieutenant Henry R. "Pete" Hamner. His legacy jncluded the Reader's Digest subscriptions his mother presented each year to the wardroom and crew. Later, as executive officer in the hydrofoil Plainview, exasperated by the endless stream of logs and records demanded by higher authorities, I peevishly tested the navy's record system and wrote away for information on Lieutenant Hamner and Howorth. I was surprised by the magnitude of the material documenting Howorth's Pacific War, ranging from hourly barometric readings and seawater injection temperatures to ammunition effectiveness reports.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367009013
• ISBN 13: 9780367009014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342