Table of Contents (Click selected chapters below to read excerpts from the book.) Acknowledgements In Memory of PT 81 Final Mission Crew Members Forward: The Telling of my World War II Story 01 - Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor And Changes a Nation 02 - World War II Scars that Still Wake Me in the Night 03 - Boot Camp Was Over None Too Soon 04 - MacArthur Leaves the Philippines on a PT Boat 05 - A Williwaw Welcome to Aleutian Bound PT-Boats 06 - The First Day and First Night of the Battle of Attu 07 - American Victory on Attu in Spite of Everything 08 - One Last Japanese Surprise in the Battle for Kiska 09 - One Last Look at the Aleutians Before We Leave 10 - Interruption on Moon-Light Cruise in South Pacific 11 - Catching Up with World War II in the South Pacific 12 - PT Boats Did Not Come With Luxury Accommodations 13 -Picking up Military Secrets and Engines Full of Sand 14 -War’s Fiery Furnace Forges the Character of Men 15 – If It's the Right Thing to Do, The Lord Knows How 16 - Time at the Bow of PT-Boat 81 Before Night Patrols 17 - PT Boat Night-time Patrol with Unexpected Guests 18- A Long Trip Home 19 - PT Boats Used as Troop Landing Craft 20- Incoming Kamakazi! Port Bow! 21 - A Foxhole View of a South Pacific Night 22 - More and More Special Assignments 23 - Rescuing Prisoners of War 24 - Looking for Imprisoned Nurses 25 - The Evening of the Just In Case Notes to our Mothers 26 - The Sky Full of Whatever it Takes to Build a Ship 27 - Shrapnel Soaring Like Steel Kites in the Sky 28 - An Empty Pail Floating in a Quiet South Pacific Sea 29 - From the End of PT-81 to the End of World War II 30 - My Plan to Spend the Rest of My Life as a Hermit 31 - Then a New Kind of Night-Time Dream 32 - Before I Close this Book Epilogue - The Price of Liberty Appendix, Map, and World War II Memory Pictures |
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