| Contents |
The agony of waiting : December 1941-September 1942 -- "You're in the Navy now" : September-December 1942 -- Farm boy in the Big Apple : December 24, 1942-March 4, 1943 -- Introduction to Africa : French Morocco : March-August 1943 -- Closer to the front : Algeria and Tunisia : August-December 1943 -- Agony at Anzio : January 1944 -- "No-hands ward ambassador" : January-March 1944 -- Cinq-deux-cinq : while I was away : January 26-March 10, 1944 -- Back aboard, back to Anzio : March-July 1944 -- Attacking the "soft underbelly" of Europe : July-September 1944 -- Another side of war : ashore in Sicily, Italy, Corsica, and France : January-September 1944 -- Back to the "good ole U.S. of A." : September-November 1944 -- Stateside interlude : Norfolk and Panama : December 1944-March 1945 -- Hiatus : California and Hawaii : March-June 1945 -- Bloody Okinawa : June-August 1945 -- Finishing off the Japanese : August-October 1945 -- Formosa, China, and Japan again : November 1945-January 1946 -- The long way home : January-March 1946. |
| Scope and content |
"This memoir is an intimate and often irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II. 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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010025079 |
| ISBN | 9780786458844 (softcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0786458844 (softcover : alk. paper) |
