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Black Company: The Story of "Subchaser 1264" (Bluejacket Books)
Eric Purdon
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Description for Black Company: The Story of "Subchaser 1264" (Bluejacket Books)
Paperback. Series: Bluejacket Books. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSL3; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
With the launching of Subchaser 1264 in the spring of 1944, the U.S. Navy began a social experiment designed to test the ability of a group of African Americans to live, fight, and survive under wartime conditions on a small combatant. At the time blacks served only as messmen in the navy, but ships were being built faster than men could be trained so the navy desperately needed manpower. Over strong opposition, PC 1264 went to sea with a crew of fifty black enlisted men and five white officers. The ship's captain and author of this book, Eric Purdon, had ... Read more
With the launching of Subchaser 1264 in the spring of 1944, the U.S. Navy began a social experiment designed to test the ability of a group of African Americans to live, fight, and survive under wartime conditions on a small combatant. At the time blacks served only as messmen in the navy, but ships were being built faster than men could be trained so the navy desperately needed manpower. Over strong opposition, PC 1264 went to sea with a crew of fifty black enlisted men and five white officers. The ship's captain and author of this book, Eric Purdon, had ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Bluejacket Books
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9781557506580
SKU
V9781557506580
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