Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke

by Bob Cohen (Editor), Terry Miller (Editor)

Fifteen members of the Secret Scurvy Dog Society relate their own accounts, many humorous and some pointedly not, of life at sea on U.S. Navy destroyers during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War.Beginning with the question - Why the Navy? - and ending with reflections on how their experiences during hard lives at sea came to be considered cherished memories, these men, both officers and enlisted, tell the quintessential Sea Stories of the latter half of the 20th century.Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke is the first joint effort for these writers, most of whom have been published previously in the Tin Can Sailor, the journal of the National Association of Destroyer Veterans.

184 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1999

Reviews

[David Engel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is filled with numerous vignettes about life aboard a destroyer and liberty. I like personal accounts and this is nothing but.

[Corto]

I liked this volume better than the previous one. Especially interesting are the anecdotes on navigation in the era before GPS.