Type of bind: Hardcover
Label: Dodd, Mead & Company
Manufacturer: Dodd, Mead & Company
Page Count: 500
Printing Date: 1946
Publishing house: Dodd, Mead & Company
Sale Popularity Level: 1458670
Studio: Dodd, Mead & Company
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This is an incredible tale of a great patriot, Edward Ellsberg, re-enlisting in the US Navy a week after Pearl Harbor, and traveling about 8000 miles by American tramp freighter and military aircraft to Massawa, Eritrea on the Red Sea. He was supposed to aid the British in clearing the harbor, even in 140 degree F temperatures and high humidity, the worst summer climate on Earth, with no American military aid at all, and very little from the British. With some American civilian volunteers, native Eritrean help and Italian Prisoners of war, Ellsberg overcame incredible obstacles in salvaging floating dry docks, merchant ships, a floating crane and also in repairing waht was left of Britain's fleet in the eastern Med - a few light cruisers. Some of the obstacles were lack of coordination between Army and Navy, and a corrupt contractor. Very highly recommended.
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