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Throughout the World War II campaign in the Pacific, an ordinary seaman defied navy regulations by surreptitiously compiling a diary on scraps of paper. One of the most extraordinary personal documents to emerge from the war, James J. Fahey's diary presents a vivid picture of an average sailor's daily life -- from the first battle to the typhoons and food shortages to the final desperate attacks by kamikaze pilots and Japanese suicide ships.

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Fahey conveys Ýwhat thousands of his fellows have never managed to convey to wives or friends back home: this is what it was like.

Fahey conveys �what� thousands of his fellows have never managed to convey to wives or friends back home: this is what it was like. Fahey conveys [what] thousands of his fellows have never managed to convey to wives or friends back home: this is what it was like.Time Magazine

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James J. Fahey (1918-1991) was a seaman first class on the USS Montpelier. He kept his secret diary from October 1942 to December 1945. He lived in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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