Never to Return

Never to Return
ISBN-10
1493031236
ISBN-13
9781493031238
Category
History
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2017-10-01
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Authors
Randall Peffer, Robert Nersasian

Description

Never to Return is the harrowing tale of the torpedoing and sinking of a Coast Guard ship and the loss of 171 Coast Guardsmen off the coast of Iceland during WWII. The USS Leopold was a U.S. Coast Guard destroyer escort in a convoy of merchant ships carrying war materiel to England, on the lookout for the deadly U-boat wolf packs lurking in the North Atlantic. The Leopold was largely unarmored, lightly armed, and no match for the U-255’s torpedoes. Never to Return is the story of gunner Sparky Nersasian and his shipmates’ struggles to survive the Leopold’s sinking.

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