| Author: | Elmer Renner, Ken Birks | ISBN: | 9781612515045 |
| Publisher: | Naval Institute Press | Publication: | December 15, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Naval Institute Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Elmer Renner, Ken Birks |
| ISBN: | 9781612515045 |
| Publisher: | Naval Institute Press |
| Publication: | December 15, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Naval Institute Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
