Josh McCavendish had just finished his sophomore year in high school and was looking forward to a summer off--though it would not be the summer he expected. The girl arrived unexpectedly, stumbling in
Chronicles the struggle of the USS Neosho's crew, a group of men that, after their ship was attacked by the Japanese, survived as the Neosho slowly and defenselessly sank in the treacherous Coral Sea.
An acclaimed naval historian tells one of the most inspiring sea stories of World War II: the Japanese attack on the American oiler USS Neosho and the gutsy crew’s struggle for survival as their slowl