From Hitler to Pearl Harbor
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ISBN:
0-7414-1644-1
©2003
Price:
$11.95
Book Size:
5.5'' x 8.5''
, 138 pages
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Was it piracy to sink German U-boats in peacetime? Were American ships in Tahiti for pleasure only? Eye opening answers are found in author Cragg’s adventures in the Pre-Pearl Harbor Navy.
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Abstract:
Dick, enlisted in Naval Reserve, 1940, trained on Lake Michigan in the Wilmington, an antique gunboat. Promoted to Ensign, he was ordered to cruiser Brooklyn with adventures in California, Hawaii, Midway Island, Samoa, New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, Boston, and Iceland. Pre-WW II adventures involved Pearl Harbor, arming Midway Island, thwarted romance, meeting possible cannibals in New Zealand, and sinking German U-boats in the North Atlantic. Book closes with Dick ordered to Philippines from cipher machine school, Chicago.
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