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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

  1.  Like Lambs to the Slaughter

  2.  Good Luck . . . and Good Hunting

  3.  Reversing the Tide

  4.  Away All Boarding Parties

  5.  The Only Man on the Place

  6.  Blood Frozen in My Veins

  7.  Off the Shores of New Jersey

  8.  Sailors in the Shadows

  9.  Coming Right at Me

10.  Pink Streaks of Afterglow

Epilogue: Gray Ghost from the Past

Appendix I: Destroyer Escorts Lost during World War II

Appendix II: Shipyards in which Destroyer Escorts were Built

Appendix III: Destroyer Escorts Manned by Coast Guard

Notes

Bibliography

Index