Tin Can Sailor

More than eight hundred sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those men and their beloved ship, recorded by a junior officer who served on the famous destroyer from her commissioning in 1939 to April 1943, when he was wounded at the Battle of Tulagi.

After World War II, C. Raymond Calhoun (1913-2015) served as executive officer on the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet and had command of the destroyer USS Moale. He also served as deputy chief of staff for U.S. Naval Forces Europe and as director of research at the National War College, where he earned the Legion of Merit. He was vice chancellor of the Minnesota state university system from 1968 until his retirement ten years later. He also authored Typhoon: The Other Enemy, published by the Naval Institute Press.