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Author:   Michael Gillen
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780786494675

ISBN 10:   0786494670
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   02 January 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface: The Ship 1 deleteWilliam J. “Bill” Bailey: “I just couldn’t take it any longer” 2 deleteHoward Bethell: “No longer bums, they were heroes” 3 deleteDaniel J. Bradley: “I’ve been on borrowed time” 4 deleteRexford Dickey: “He died from a broken heart” 5 deleteStanley E. Gorski: The Minefields of Manila Bay 6 deleteJack A. Holt: “We all piled out on deck” 7 deletePaul J. Jarvis: “Okinawa was absolute hell” 8 deleteEric H. Johanson: “We were scared to death” 9 deleteRuel N. Lawrence: “The ship pulled me down” 10 deleteJohn M. Le Cato: “Norluna, you’re supposed to be sunk!” 11 deleteEdward A. MacMichael: One Step Ahead of the Japs 12 deleteEdward C. March: Torpedoes and Molasses Don’t Mix 13 deleteJohn S. “Jack” McCusker: “Did you ever hear a ship die?” 14 deleteHarry A. Morgan: Walnuts and Bauxite for the War 15 deleteDennis A. Roland: A Prisoner of the Japanese 16 deleteWilliam J. Shearer: “She was there, and all of a sudden it wasn’t” 17 deleteHenrik E. “Hank” Sievers: Cargo for Pearl and Nawiliwili 18 deleteRobert B. Smolen: “Captain, they’re gonna ­machine-gun us!” 19 deleteJohn H. Tiencken: “I hated to see her lost” 20 deleteDonald E. Zubrod: 42 Days in a Lifeboat Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: The Crew of a Typical Liberty (Dry Cargo) Ship During World War II Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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the transcriptions are gripping in their details of the perils faced by mariners...an enjoyable read --<i>Military Review</i>; an invaluable work --<i>H-Net Reviews</i>.

the transcriptions are gripping in their details of the perils faced by mariners...an enjoyable read --Military Review an invaluable work --H-Net Reviews.

the transcriptions are gripping in their details of the perils faced by mariners...an enjoyable read --Military Review; an invaluable work --H-Net Reviews.

“the transcriptions are gripping in their details of the perils faced by mariners...an enjoyable read”—Military Review “an invaluable work”—H-Net Reviews “Gillen deserves a large amount of praise for his skill as an interviewer”—The Northern Mariner.

Author Information

A former merchant seaman, Michael Gillen (Ph.D., Public History, New York University) was later a maritime labor reporter, an historic site curator and a program director and professor of Asian history at Pace University in New York. He also served as director of the project that preserved the Liberty Ship John W. Brown as an operational World War II ship museum in Baltimore. He lives in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.

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