Battleship Sailor
1st Edition
Published on 15. January 2013
288 pages
978-1-61251-156-6 (ISBN)
Description
Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Liberty of 5 December 1941
- 2. Boot Camp at San Diego
- 3. Destination Diamond Head
- 4. Life in the USS California
- 5. Lahaina Roads to Puget Sound
- 6. Christmas in Bremerton: High and Dry at the Navy Yard
- 7. Bad Luck at the Breakwater: A Couple of Jonahs?
- 8. Return to Pearl: "This Bloody Awful Hole
- 9. Summer and Gunsmoke (And a Few Training Casualties)
- 10. "Strength Through Love" in the States
- 11. Reverie on the Midwatch
- 12. The Desperate Hours: "Battle Stations! This Is No Drill!
- 13. The Desperate Hours: "Abandon Ship!
- 14. Postscript to Pearl
