This book is more of a scrapbook than a history. It contains stories and photos covering thirty-five years in the life of one U S Navy warship. These are stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary and mundane things. These stories reveal what was like to be one small cog in the huge machine that was the U S Navy in that period after World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The USS Fiske spent most of her life in the Atlantic but circled the globe twice and was part of the Mediterranean Fleet no less than a ...
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This book is more of a scrapbook than a history. It contains stories and photos covering thirty-five years in the life of one U S Navy warship. These are stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary and mundane things. These stories reveal what was like to be one small cog in the huge machine that was the U S Navy in that period after World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The USS Fiske spent most of her life in the Atlantic but circled the globe twice and was part of the Mediterranean Fleet no less than a dozen times and patrolled the Red Sea more than three times. All in all this is a book telling tales of the people that served on her. Performing the heroic deeds that are part of the daily routines and duties of a life at sea. Hundreds of men - and women - coming from all over the nation to become 'Tin Can' sailors. These are their tales and they should be heard
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