Voices from the Pacific War : Bluejackets remember /

Presents a collection of oral histories and first-person accounts of the events and experiences witnessed by individual sailors during the Pacific War of World War Two.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Petty, Bruce M., 1945- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Annapolis, Marland : Naval Institute Press, [2004]
Subjects:	United States. > Navy > Biography. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area. World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American. Oral history. United States. > Navy. Military campaigns. Military operations, Naval > American. Pacific Area. 1939 - 1945 Personal narratives. Biographies. Personal narratives > American.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

1. Loss of the Yorktown (CV-5)
2. Flag allowance
3. Photographer's mate, USS Sewannee (CVE-27)
4. Crew Six of the "Boomerang"
5. Aboard the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
6. Repair Four aboard the USS Maryland (BB-46)
7. The USS Astoria (CA-34) and the Battle of Savo Island
8. The USS Indianapolis (CA-35): a survivor's story
9. S-Boat sailor
10. Quartermaster aboard the USS Buchanan (DD-484)
11. Aboard the USS Porterfield (DD-682)
12. Aboard the USS England (DE-635)
13. Aboard the USS Emmons (DD-457/DMS-22)
14. The goldbrick
15. Steward on the destroyer Ramsey (DD-124/DMS-16) and the submarine Pollack (SS-180)
16. Me and "Corky" Carkin
17. All the ships and all the battles of ... Charles Link
18. From Pearl Harbor to Manus Island (USS ABSD#4)
19. Aboard the USS Aldebaran (AF-10) and the USS Columbia (CL-56)
20. The fourteen-year-old sailor
21. Wake Island survivor
22. Survival at Corregidor
23. Mare Island Naval Hospital.