"A great book!!!! What a prodigious work. Three Minutes Off Okinawa does everything one would want it to do… it instructs, entertains, and chronicles, with explicit detail the story of a great ship and her crew that experienced some of the worst of WWII."

— DAVID N. ADAIR, ENSIGN, ABOARD THE U.S.S. MANNERT L. ABELE, 1944-45

"Filled with dramatic and tragic eyewitness accounts of one destroyer’s desperate fight… Gut-wrenching stories of the bonds among shipmates… who repeatedly risked their own lives to save those of their buddies. Bravery, heroism, valor and selfless devotion to duty were all in abundance…"

— CAL CALHOUN, CAPTAIN, USN (RETIRED) AND AUTHOR, TIN CAN SAILOR AND TYPHOON

"…refreshing… Andersen’s account is terse, unembellished with hyperbole, and deeply affecting.... A fine tribute to the USS Abele and her crew."

— ALBERT B. SOUTHWICK, WORLD WAR II NAVY PILOT OF PBY’S AND PB4Y’S, RETIRED CHIEF EDITORIAL WRITER, WORCESTER (MA) TELEGRAM & GAZETTE

"Suspense [is] being at the receiving end of a swarm of 30 Japanese kamikazes. They came in groups of three until the Abele was sunk. Andersen, a survivor, makes it possible for the reader to live that experience."

— BRUCE ABELE, ELDEST OF THE THREE SONS OF CAPTAIN MANNERT L. ABELE

"An amazing account of a brave ship and crew fighting off the terrible attack of kamikazes. I agonized with every hit that the Abele took. I just couldn’t imagine the horror and feelings of helplessness that the crew must have felt when they knew the ship was doomed."

— SONNY WALKER, PRESIDENT, USS LAFFEY (DD 724) ASSOCIATION