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

by Olson, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780760338261
• ISBN10: 0760338264
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-12
• Publisher: Zenith Press

Summary

Looking up from his newspaper as he sat aboard the destroyer USS Dale, Harold Reichert saw the pilot plain as day: leather helmet, goggles, and, finally, a red rising sun painted on the plane. "I saw the torpedo drop and watched as it ran up on the old Utah."

Author Biography

Michael Keith Olson is an agriculturalist and journalist. He consults on farm projects throughout the world, from the city of Watts to the jungles of the Amazon. Olson has produced, written, and photographed news for the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner newspapers, NBC, ABC, the Australian Broadcast Commission, and KQED Public Television. His previous book, MetroFarm, is a guide for small-scale farming in the city. Olson is the executive producer and host of Food Chain, a syndicated radio talk show, and is currently president of the MO MultiMedia Group in Santa Cruz, California, where he lives with his family. Robert “Pat” Olson, his father, served on the USS Dale.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. 8
Preface	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 16
1941	p. 17
November: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii	p. 22
December 7 to 8: Japanese Attack	p. 26
0700 to 0755	p. 28
0755 to 0820	p. 32
0820 to 0855	p. 40
0910 to 1930	p. 46
1930 to 0500	p. 48
December 8: Return to Pearl Harbor	p. 50
December 9: Battleship Row	p. 52
December 15 to 31: Cleanup	p. 52
1942	p. 55
January: The Recruits	p. 56
January to March: Carrier Raids	p. 61
Rabaul, New Britain	p. 64
Lae-Salamaua, New Guinea	p. 69
March to June: Carrier Battles	p. 71
Coral Sea	p. 71
Midway	p. 76
July to December: Solomon Islands	p. 84
Espiritu Santo	p. 87
Guadalcanal	p. 92
1943	p. 107
January: Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea	p. 108
January to March: Amchitka Island	p. 112
March 26: Battle of the Komandorski Islands	p. 119
April to June: Attu Island	p. 142
June to August: Kiska Island	p. 154
September: Aleutian Islands to Pearl Harbor	p. 162
October: Central Pacific and Wake Island	p. 165
November: Gilbert Islands	p. 168
December: Pearl Harbor to San Francisco	p. 175
1944	p. 179
January to March: Marshall Islands	p. 180
Kwajalein	p. 181
Eniwetok	p. 184
Majuro	p. 186
March to May: Caroline Islands and New Guinea	p. 188
Task Force 58 Raids	p. 188
Majuro	p. 197
June to July: Mariana Islands	p. 200
Saipan	p. 201
Guam	p. 206
August to October: United States	p. 208
Bremerton	p. 209
San Pedro	p. 213
Pearl Harbor	p. 217
November to December: Philippines	p. 219
Eniwetok	p. 222
Ulithi	p. 225
Typhoon Cobra	p. 228
1945	p. 233
January: Philippines and South China Sea	p. 234
Ulithi	p. 235
Philippines	p. 238
South China Sea	p. 241
January to March: Iwo Jima	p. 247
March to June: Okinawa	p. 253
June to July: Balikpapan	p. 266
July to August: Ulithi, Guam, and Japan	p. 272
September to October: New York City	p. 281
Epilogue	p. 287
Appendices	p. 293
The Crew	p. 293
USS Dale World War II Battle Stars	p. 295
Chronology: November 1941 to October 1945	p. 297
Task Force Assignments	p. 302
Notes	p. 305
Glossary of U.S. Navy Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Slang	p. 307
Bibliography	p. 313
Index	p. 317
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