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This memoir is an intimate and sometimes irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II. Born a North Carolina farmboy, Jones served as a U.S. Navy sonarman aboard a wooden submarine chaser operating from Africa and Sicily during the Allied invasions at Anzio and Southern France. He also served as sonarman and yeoman on two fleet mine sweepers in the Okinawa, Formosa and China operations. This memoir is drawn not only from memory, but from the author's surviving diaries from the conflicts, daily logs of the three ships upon which he served, and the secret reports of military commanders and other official records.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Agony of Waiting December 1941 -September 1942
2. "You're in the Navy Now" September-December 1942
3. Farm Boy in the Big Apple December 24, 1942-March 4, 1943
4. Introduction to Africa: French Morocco March-August 1943
5. Closer to the Front: Algeria and Tunisia August-December 1943
6. Agony at Anzio January 1944
7. "No-Hands Ward Ambassador" January-March 1944
8. Cinq-Deux-Cinq While I Was Away January 26-March 10, 1944
9. Back Aboard, Back to Anzio March-July 1944
10. Attacking the "Soft Underbelly" of Europe July-September 1944
11. Another Side of War: Ashore in Sicily, Italy, Corsica and France January-September 1944
12. Back to the "Good Ole U.S. of A." September-November 1944
13. Stateside Interlude: Norfolk and Panama December 1944-March 1945
14. Hiatus: California and Hawaii. March-June 1945
15. Bloody Okinawa June-August 1945
16. Finishing Off the Japanese August-October 1945
17. Formosa, China, and Japan Again November 1945-January 1946
18. The Long Way Home January-March 1946
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
