They are the historians who are working to preserve the legacy of the destroyer veterans, a.k.a. The Tin Can Sailors. The National Association of Destroyer Veterans is a group numbering 12,000 ...

It made him the most decorated U.S. naval officer of this war. U.S. destroyers, the “tin can fleet,” are generally named after naval heroes. MacDonald’s can, the O’Bannon, is named after a ...

“Destroyers,” he writes in “Tin Cans & Greyhounds,” “played the major role in fighting both world wars.” In pressing his case, Mr. Johnson, a history writer whose prior work includes ...

The destroyer Johnston was first to engage the ... suicidal act that was immortalized as The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors in a book by James Hornfischer. This occasioned Copeland’s speech ...

Leyte Gulf was the focus of “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors” (2004), the book ... but his legacy lives on in “Destroyer Captain,” a biography of Lt. Cmdr. Ernest E.

One would have to include the “tin cans,” i.e. the destroyers, and a shining example of a U.S. Navy destroyer was the Fletcher class. Designed in 1939, the Fletcher-class destroyers were named ...