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(More customer reviews)This book relates the history of a ship that was built in the early 1940s. It served as a training ship for merchant mariners, and then in the late 1950s was brought back into service to gather data essential to developing a ballistic missile defense system. By 1966 it had begun a new role, serving as a target for Navy planes.
I served aboard this ship in 1964-1965, and when I stumbled into an article about our work (Wikipedia "DAMP Ship") I found a reference to this book with its ISBN. Off to Amazon to see what I could find! There it is, with a wide range of prices. I decided the lowest price copy would be good enough for my library, and promptly ordered it. A week later, the book was in my home.
The book was advertised as "used but excellent condition, with a letter from the author included" and it was as described. Other than an inscription in the frontispiece, it looked new.
I'm sure that those who served aboard as officers, crew, students, or technicians would find the book interesting. There is something about having a document that you can say "I was there" to your grandchildren.
I noticed an error -- the author provides a list of ports visited by the American Mariner in her career. I was aboard for a port call to Monrovia, Liberia and it was missed in the list. Then again, it was Monrovia, and perhaps the author agrees it wasn't a very memorable call -- just fuel and some supplies, and back out on station.
The vendor provided the book as advertised, in a timely way, for a reasonable price. I recommend their service.
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