Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze

Author: Brent E. Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During the late stages in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer was wounded in action, but vowed to return. In 1944 he accepted an assignment on the heavy cruiser the USS Astoria. This was a "vengeance ship" whose mission was to avenge a sunken warship lost during the worst sea defeat in American naval history. Just getting into action would prove to be a...Read more