Becton, F. Julian, USN, Ret. with Joseph Morschauser III, — The Ship That Would Not Die.

Missoula, MT, Pictorial Histories Pub Co, (2005). 8th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Off Okinawa the LAFFEY fought lff the greatest Kamikaze attack in naval history with 22 planes waiting to fireball into her. The ship and her men suffered the most intensive air attack ever hurled on one ship. The reader relives the ship's missions, rescuing downed airmen, her active fighting in the Normandy Invasion, her part in freeing the Philippines and the devastating assault on Iwo Jima. "I'll never abandon ship as long as a gun will fire!" Commander Becton, April 16, 1945.