On March 15, 1952, a North Korean 155mm shell struck USS Wisconsin's starboard 40mm gun mount, lightly wounding three sailors as the Iowa-class battleship destroyed a rail tunnel near Ji Sung Jin.

With only slight changes, Robert Fowler could have opened this book with a quote from Nicholas Monserrat’s The Cruel Sea, “This is the story – the long and true story – of one ocean, two ships, and ...