Tin Can Sailor Quotes

“If there was a plan at Savo, it certainly was not apparent to us in the critical opening stages of the battle—and I have seen no evidence in the fifty years since to indicate that one did in fact exist.”
― C. Raymond Calhoun, Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945

“Our highest priority in torpedo firing exercises was not hitting the target but rather recovering the torpedo.”
― C. Raymond Calhoun, Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945