'No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf' by Bradley Peniston describes salient events of the Tanker War in vivid detail. These include the Iraqi air-to-surface Exocet attack on the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate
USS Stark on 17 May 1987, the mining of the US-flagged supertanker
Bridgeton during
Operation EARNEST WILL on 24 Jul 1987, the capture of the Iranian minelaying landing craft
Iran Ajr on 22 Sep 1987, the mining of the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate
USS Samuel B. Roberts on 14 Apr 1988 and the subsequent retribution exacted by US naval forces on Iranian forces and infrastructure during
Operation PRAYING MANTIS on 18 Apr 1988. Click on the links for further details and photos.
The Iranian frigate IS Sahand (F 74) burns after being attacked by the
Joseph Strauss and A-6s. Sahand was hit by three Harpoon missiles,
Skipper rocket-propelled bombs, a Walleye laser-guided bomb,
and several 1,000-pound bombs
(U.S. Navy photo)