Classic Warship Pictorial #31 USS Buchanan DD-484

This book covers the US Navy destroyer USS Buchanan DD-484, a Gleaves class destroyer of the US Navy from the Second World War period. Extensive photography on Buchanan and her sister ships, nearly every portion of this type of warship is displayed in detail, right down to the rivets, from her commissioning in 1942 to her retirement and sale to the Turkish Navy in 1949. This book is comprised of 72 pages, 8 in color, with a total of 70 B&W and 11 Color Photographs, 1 color and 1 B & W illustrations. Also included are a brief history and general statistics, plus extensive and informative captions that help to explain each and every one of the multitude of photographs, many previously unpublished, of this class of famous US Navy destroyers. There are also 10 line drawings of weapons, boats and life rafts that were carried aboard this class of warship. This book is a fantastic reference for the Gleaves class destroyers, as well as Buchanan, and is loaded with more on-board detail photographs than ever before, in any Warship Pictorial book.