“The wind had increased to a force I had never before experienced. It drove spray and spume with the force of a sand blaster. Capillary bleeding was etched on any face exposed directly to it. When the lookouts and signalmen turned away from it their cheeks and foreheads were pocked with a bloody tattoo. It sanded the paint from patches of the hull and superstructure.”
Captain C. Raymond Calhoun
USS Dewey
Third Fleet-Pacific Typhoon Dec.…