No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf"The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) was a small warship built for escort duty much like its namesake vessel, one of the "tin can" heroes of Leyte Gulf. But its commanding officer imbued his brand-new crew with their forebears' fighting spirit, and when the guided missile frigate was thrust into the Persian Gulf at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, there was no better ship for the job." "Journalist Bradley Peniston draws on hundreds of documents and interviews to present the first book about the Roberts heroic actions."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Paul Rinn and the Roberts | 6 |
A BathBuilt Ship | 19 |
Putting to Sea | 41 |
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