The Luck of the Draw: The Memoir of a World War II by USN (Ret.) Captain C. Kenneth Ruiz PDF

By USN (Ret.) Captain C. Kenneth Ruiz

ISBN-10: 0760321566

ISBN-13: 9780760321560

A coin turn most probably kept the lifetime of Kenneth C. Ruiz. It used to be August 1942 and he was once clean out of the U.S. Naval Academy. He and a classmate flipped a coin to determine who could stand watch at the bridge in their heavy cruiser, the USS Vincennes, off Savo Island because the Marines have been touchdown on Guadalcanal. Ruiz was once at the bridge while the send took an immediate hit and sank. He ended up within the Pacific and not using a lifestyles jacket, yet his classmate and the total radio room team perished within the assault. "The good fortune of the draw" is a habitual subject during this strong memoir. Following the death of the Vincennes, Ruiz volunteered to serve on submarines for the stability of the struggle and had a number of harrowing studies. He spent such a lot of his time at the USS Pollack, which was once sub-standard when it comes to expertise, yet was once nonetheless lethal and made an important influence on eastern delivery within the a long way reaches of the Pacific. A necessary addition to the litany of WWII books on submariners, The good fortune of the Draw is full of heartbreaking tales of ways the smallest judgements made the variation among lifestyles and dying for squaddies and sailors within the war.

    

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