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Much smaller minesweeping boats (MSBs) kept the Long Tau River, which passed through the dangerous \"Forest of Assassins\" and connected the South China Sea to Saigon, open to merchant vessels delivering military cargos to allied forces. Facing daily the possibility of death by Viet Cong mine or riverbank ambush, the thirteen boats of Mine Squadron Eleven Detachment Alfa comprised the first Navy unit to be awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for heroism by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Possessing too few minecraft to support its riverine combat operations, the U.S. Navy also pressed existing landing craft and newly built assault support patrol boats and minesweeping drones into these duties. The unheralded MSBs and steel-hulled minecraft collectively garnered four Presidential Unit Citations, three Meritorious Unit Commendations, and three Navy Unit Commendations. 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These vessels included schooners, ancient ferry boats, luggers, fishing trawlers, tuna boats, tugs, launches, lighters, surf boats, ketches, yachts, and yawls. The services took whatever craft they could get—some barely seaworthy—as the urgency of need did not permit discrimination in what was purchased or chartered. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, needing his own Navy to support leapfrog operations up the New Guinea coast, found his vessels in Australia and New Zealand, and the Navy its small ships and craft in America. These \"Pacific island hoppers\" were later supplemented with other small vessels newly constructed in American boat and shipyards. Among them were sixty Navy wooden-hulled 103-foot small coastal transports, hundreds of Army freight-supply ships and large tugs, and lesser numbers of coastal tankers and harbor tugs. The Army ships—most of steel construction, a few of wood—were manned by Coast Guard, Merchant Marine, or Army crews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe islands hoppers worked mostly with amphibious forces, but also supported PT boat squadrons, and as \"maids of all duties\" engaged in a variety of operations. Periodic combat with Japanese planes off the New Guinea coast and in the Solomon Islands transitioned to frequent battles with conventional and kamikaze aircraft and suicide Q-boats during the Philippine Islands Campaign. Significant numbers of the island hoppers earned battle stars, and crewmen awards for valor including the Navy Cross, the Silver Star and the Bronze Star medals. Following the war, the Navy acquired some of the Army ships; many served in the Korean War and a few in Vietnam. Three of the former freight-supply ships were employed for intelligence gathering; the most famous, USS \u003cem\u003ePueblo\u003c\/em\u003e, was captured by North Korea. Others led interesting careers under civilian ownership; one was run aground while engaged in drug smuggling in the Caribbean, and another served as a \"radio pirate\" off England, broadcasting BBC-banned rock and roll music over the airwaves in 1966. Numerous photographs, maps, data-rich appendices, and an index to full-names, places and subjects add to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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San Diego tuna fishermen—including those that would be aboard their boats at the Battle of Midway and at Guadalcanal supporting the 1st Marines—donned Navy uniforms without the benefit of \"boot camp\" training and went off to war. They were joined by fishermen and yachtsmen from ports and harbors all across America, as well as men straight from cities and rural towns.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOfficers and crewmen who took vessels into harm's way received the Navy Cross, and other awards for valor for acts of heroism performed under fire. Officers aboard the yachts \u003cem\u003eFisheries II\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMaryanne\u003c\/em\u003e were awarded Navy Crosses for their actions during the defense of the Philippines—three posthumously, as they died while prisoners of war. Three men aboard the \u003cem\u003eYP-346\u003c\/em\u003e—sunk by the Japanese light cruiser \u003cem\u003eSendai\u003c\/em\u003e—also earned Navy Crosses, and the \u003cem\u003eYP-346\u003c\/em\u003e and two other former tuna boats at Guadalcanal received the Presidential Unit Citation for heroism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYPs and PYs at Saipan, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Leyte, and Balikpapan earned battle stars for combat; the ex-halibut boat \u003cem\u003eYP-251\u003c\/em\u003e was credited with sinking a Japanese submarine in Alaskan waters, and the patrol yacht \u003cem\u003eSiren\u003c\/em\u003e earned a battle star during one of the most successful series of attacks on a convoy by a single German submarine. Others did not fare so well; the \u003cem\u003eYP-389\u003c\/em\u003e and patrol yacht \u003cem\u003eCythera\u003c\/em\u003e were lost to German U-boats in infamous \"Torpedo Junction\" off North Carolina. All of the unheralded vessels served when called, and like militiamen of old, they were mustered out when no longer needed. \u003cem\u003eBattle Stars for the \"Cactus Navy\"\u003c\/em\u003e is a companion book of \u003ca href=\"\/products\/101-b5541\" title=\"MacArthur and Halsey's\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMacArthur and Halsey's \"Pacific Island Hoppers\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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It soon comes to light, however, that the brutal death of the ship's second in command was but one of a series of terrible tragedies that befell the Weichert family. In their day, each of those incidences quickly became sensationalized stories in newspapers across the country. With the passage of time, those events slipped into obscurity — until now. Chapters include: Robert and Viola Weichert, with accounts of their wedding and children; Walter Robert Weichert's Sea Service, touching on \u003cem\u003eAbarenda\u003c\/em\u003e's First Officer, with testimonies of Third Officer Harry M. Bostwick and Seaman William Easton of the U.S.A.S. \u003cem\u003eAbarenda\u003c\/em\u003e and the official report of Walter Weichert's death; The District Court of Porto Rico [Puerto Rico]; Carpenter Dickson's Trial, with a chronology, statement to the petit jury by Judge Bernard S. 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The author provides personal eyewitness details of the nineteen-day naval battle with naval artillery support for invasion troops at Omaha Beach, including E-boat and bomber attacks, which ended 24 June with the bombardment and capture of Cherbourg. Detailed descriptions of problems encountered by assault forces advancing through the German mined defense system bring the reader to realize how dangerous it really was for the soldiers to advance up the beach to the base of the cliffs, which afforded their only protection from accurate German shell fire. The Normandy invasion could never have been attempted without the support of the U.S. Navy. In the second half of the book the author describes the many battles with the kamikazes (Japanese suicide planes) for the liberation of the Philippines, and the final battle of Okinawa. A foreword by David F. 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