Название: Typhoon, the Other Enemy: The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944
Автор: C. Raymond Calhoun
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 1981
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 266
Размер: 30,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is the story of the U.S. Third Fleet's battle with a devastating typhoon in the Philippine Sea on 18 December 1944. It is about men and ships under conditions of extreme adversity, and tells of their desperate, often heroic, sometimes tragic struggle to survive. The account describes the loss of seven hundred and ninety officers and men, three destroyers, and well over a hundred aircraft. It notes that two of the three ships lost were Farragut-class destroyers, long known to have low margins of stability.