Release Day: September 8, 2026

Book 6 in the bestselling LAST GUNSHIP SERIES (On Amazon)

From the #1 Best Selling Author of Last Gunship Series

The Easter Day Invasion: North Vietnamese forces pour across the DMZ in the largest invasion of the war. S. Vietnamese Marines fight for survival. Just offshore, destroyer USS Mullinnix DD-944 is ordered into the fight with naval gunfire support.

During Operation Song Than 6-72, her three 5-inch 54-cal guns answered desperate calls from the Marines. Day and night, her crew hammered enemy positions while North Vietnamese shore batteries responded in kind. For the sailors aboard Mullinnix, Vietnam is no longer something happening beyond the horizon. Explosions, fires, death, counterbattery, death and unimaginable destruction.

This is the story of a destroyer and her crew. A story of young men who came to Vietnam innocent as the day is long, and became combat veterans with memories, regrets, anger, a few tears, and a simple desire to go home, alive… Wood’s memoir takes you to a place, that after 54 years, doesn’t exist anymore. If you were there, no words are necessary. If you weren’t, no words can explain.

Frank Wood was in the US Navy from 1970-4, serving aboard USS Mullinnix DD-944. This is his sixth novel set aboard the last all-gun destroyer. He is currently working on his next book. A cold war naval espionage and smuggling thriller set during the mid-60s in the Mediterranean. Wood lives in northwest Arkansas with his wife Kim, and Ely.