Descent into Darkness
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Descent into Darkness

MP3 CD – Unabridged, May 3, 2016

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Price
$10.02
Publisher
Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1511397940
Dimensions
6.5 x 0.63 x 5.5 inches
Weight
3.5 ounces

Description

Commander Edward C. Raymer was one of the divers who assisted with the salvage of the battleships at Pearl Harbor. He wrote a book titled "Descent into Darkness" describing his time as a diver during WWII. Commander Raymer started his navy career as an enlisted man and was a pioneer in designing, developing and using new underwater welding and cutting techniques that were needed to salvage the battle ships in Pearl Harbor. The technical details of the work and techniques developed by these men are still used today in underwater salvage and repair.

Features & Highlights

  • On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers headed by Edward C. Raymer are hurriedly flown to Oahu from the mainland. Their two-part orders are direct and straightforward: (1) rescue as many trapped sailors and Marines as possible, and (2) resurrect what remains of America's once mighty pacific fleet.
  • Descent Into Darkness
  • tells their story.

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A MUST HAVE AUDIO CD FOR A TRUE LIFE EVENTS IN PEARL HARBOR PRE & POST DEC 7th

This Audio Book is just fabulous.Being an avid scuba diver myself I was very familiar with all of the details and equipment being referred to in this book. Some facts I actually did not realize,and some were familiar. Listening to the book gives the listener a real world experience,and one of the main attributes I have always longed for about life in Hawaii before,during and after the Dec 7 attack was how life really was for our servicemen, and for sure this books gives great and VERY funny real stories about his life, and his buddies acted,where they would live,and stay,how there nights out with "The Babes" was having me LOL, what they ate,and all the little details mostly left out in Peal Harbor books and or audio CD's. There is also a very serious side of the CD,that is heart breaking and down right serious. I ended up listening to this CD three times once even my wife chimed in to listen also.
The audio is read by Peter Johnson, and he does a great job of reading with attributes to the characters accents of Hawaiian Pigeon talk.
I would highly recommend this Audio CD to anyone with a desire for the South Pacific/Hawaii during WW2.
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For those of us into Esoteric WW 2 personal stories this is a great one.Well written and as I listened to this on MP3 While driving it clicks away the endless miles...

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