Typhoon, the other enemy: the Third Fleet and the Pacific storm of December 1944

C. Raymond Calhoun

Naval Institute Press, Sep 1, 1981 - History - 247 pages

Tells the story of how the U.S. Third Fleet weathered a severe typhoon in the Philippine Sea

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Calhoun's Typhoon at 221 reading pages is amazing in that it is part biography, leadership primer, naval architecture text, meteorological text, human interest story and seamanship text rolled into ...

Contents

• Symptoms of Instability: 3
• Typhoon Warning at Ulithi: 9
• DesRon One Joins the Third Fleet: 19

Bibliographic information

• Title: Typhoon, the other enemy: the Third Fleet and the Pacific storm of December 1944
• Author: C. Raymond Calhoun
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 1981
• ISBN: 0870215108, 9780870215100
• Length: 247 pages
• Subjects: Destroyers (Warships); History / Military / World War II; Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944; Philippine Sea, Battle of the, 1944 (June 19-21); Philippine Sea, Battles of the, 1944; Typhoons; Typhoons/ History/ 20th century; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945/ Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945/ Personal narratives, American