A Glimpse of Hell The Explosion on the USS Iowa and It's Cover Up by Charles C. Thompson ll 1999 Norton Publishing Naval History books
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This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover with dust jacket. 1999 Norton Publishing. This copy is still crisp and clean inside and out. The inside pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Black hardcover boards under jacket are also near fine with only a hint of shelf wear and feature gold lettering along spine. The accompanying dust jacket is still clean and shiny with only very light shelf wear corners/edges. Medium octavo book size or 6.5" x 9.5" with 430 pages including index.
A Glimpse of Hell The Explosion on the USS Iowa and It's Cover Up by Charles C. Thompson ll is a vivid , harrowing account of a disaster at sea. Early one April morning in 1989, during a routine training exercise in the Caribbean, the center gun of Turret Two on the battleship USS Iowa blew up. There were 47 fatalities as the fireball released clouds of gases and ignited bags of powder which set off further explosions. The botched investigation began mere hours after the disaster. The Captain, an Annapolis football star who had just recently taken command of the Iowa, declined assistance from a professional accident team aboard a nearby aircraft carrier. He ordered clean up that saw immense steel plates and equipment tossed overboard. The continued investigation on land faired no better. Key evidence was lost. Testimony was twisted. There surfaced an effort to place blame on a seaman who had died in the explosion and that blame ultimately destroyed careers up the chain of command in the Navy.
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