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In mid-June 1943, Snelling Robinson, a twenty-year-old Harvard graduate and freshly commissioned ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve, joined the precommissioning crew of the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Cotten. The new crew trained for the remainder of the summer and then sailed to Pearl Harbor in time to join the newly established Fifth Fleet. Under the command of Adm. Raymond Spruance, the Fifth Fleet was given orders to invade Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands in November 1943.
Robinson chronicles this offensive, along with the naval battles in the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf and the invasion of Iwo Jima in February 1945 from his perspective as a young deck officer. He also integrates these events with the background of the larger conflict.
After Japan's surrender, the Cotten became a part of the Occupation Force anchored in Tokyo Bay. Robinson smoothly narrates how he and his friends took advantage of their good luck and brought their roles in the war to a fitting conclusion.
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Kathileen Bishop
reviewed 200,000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten on February 01, 2016
200,000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten
Not a book for everyone that is for sure. Still was quite an interesting first hand account of war life both on the ship and off. Some of the on ship is quite boring as probably ship life can be a bit boring and he includes some of the mundane. All in all was pretty good as a whole.
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