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Sea of sharks : a sailor's World War II survival story / Elmer Renner and Kenneth Birks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Renner, Elmer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ruff, Cheryl Lynn, 1958-.
- Ruff, Cheryl Lynn.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Medical care--United States.
- Nurses--United States--Biography.
- Nurses.
- Nurses--Iraq--Biography.
- YMS-472 (Ship).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- First Naval Institute Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Caught off Okinawa in the fiercest typhoon in history at the end of World War II. Elmer Renner, then a young officer aboard a US minesweeper, recounts the horror of his ship sinking. Renner and eight other sailors clung to a small raft for days, battling thirst, hunger, shark attacks and, eventually, madness. Renner and co-author Ken Birks describe the men's panic as distant ships seemingly ignore their desperate calls, the sea turning blood red when one of the men loses his life to a shark, and how another slips silently away into the unforgiving Pacific.
- Contents:
- part one. The Makurazaki typhoon
- part two. Adrift.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 3, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-61251-504-5
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