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Trade Review"On November 24, 1943, the day before Thanksgiving, with the turkeys actually thawing in the galley, the American escort carrier USS Liscome Bay was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine as she steamed off shore in support of the American invasion of the Gilbert Islands. Noles has reconstructed life on board ship and, especially, the events of the 23 minutes from torpedo to sinking. The accounts are almost all heroic. Men saved others, helped their shipmates, sacrificed their own safety and even their own lives for their buddies. Rear Adm. Henry M. Mullinax and the ship's commanding officer, Captain Irving T. Wiltsie, went down with the ship." - The Anniston Star "Spellbinding.... [Not only does] Noles adroitly tell the story of the men whose paths crossed the Liscome Bay's decks, but he also deals with a number of background and tangential issues, such as CVEs in general, how and why they were made, their utility for the war effort, Japanese submarine operations, and naval aviation operations." - Military History of the West "A highly readable account of the short life of the USS Liscome Bay. Based on interviews with surviving crew members and an unpublished memoir of the ship's paymaster, the account makes for compelling reading,... of interest to military historians and general readers alike." - History"
