Tin Cans and Greyhounds

The Destroyers That Won Two World Wars

By: Clint Johnson

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

This action-packed narrative history of destroyer-class ships begins with destroyers' first incarnation as torpedo boats in 1898 through the last true combat service of the ships in the Vietnam War.

Nicknamed "tin cans" or "greyhounds", destroyers were quick naval ships used to defend larger battleships - and they proved indispensable in America's military victories.

In Tin Cans and Greyhounds, author Clint Johnson brings listeners inside the quarter-inch hulls of destroyers to meet the men who manned the ships' five-inch guns and fought America's wars from inside a "tin can" - risking death by cannon shell, shrapnel, bomb, fire, drowning, exposure, and sharks.

©2019 Clint Johnson (P)2019 Tantor

Great overview of our Nation's destroyers in WWII.

A very entertaining and informative book, the reader was a bit monotone at times but did good overall.

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The excellent presentation helped me to better understanding of my father's experience. Thought a little more time could have gone to the Aleution Island campaigns.

Detailed without being boring

Excellent work about DD’s inWW1 and WE2. Did get a little annoyed when the name and ship number were used every time

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If you want information about ww2 Tin Cans, this is the book for you! Great!

Anchors Away

This was an excellent lesson on how one of the most useful types of ships came into existence and how their use helped shape the world through peace and war. Making this a must have for anyone whose a fan of naval history.