Summary of James D. Hornfischer's The Last Stand of The Tin Can Sailors

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 On January 20, 1944, three months before the commissioning ceremony that would make it a US Navy warship, the hull of DE-413, its prow festively draped in red, white, and blue bunting, slid off the ways at the Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston and entered the Houston Ship Channel with a roaring sidelong splash. #2 Rohde had skills the Navy valued. He was a proficient typist and had learned Morse code in ra