Wartime Sea Stories Life Aboard Ships, 1942-1945

Little-known are the ships that repaired cruisers with bows blown off, carriers with gaping bomb holes on deck, many at sea: This is their story. The author was born is St. Louis, Missouri in 1923 to World War I Navy veterans, a Chief Electricians Mate and a Navy nurse. He joined the Navy on December 9, 1941. He graduated from signal school at Pearl Harbor and was assigned to Admiral Nimitz's flag ship, theUSS West Virginia. He transferred to theUSS Vestalin August 1942, and served on that ship until November 1943. He was assigned to theUSS Silverbell, a net tender. Though an auxiliary vessel, theSilverbellsaw four months of bombing and kamikaze attacks at Leyte Gulf. The small ship was also endangered by three typhoons. His tour of duty on theSilverbelllasted until January, 1946. He also served three months on theUSS Trego. His last ship was theUSS Norton Sound, spending three months in the Arctic.Evans, Walter is the author of 'Wartime Sea Stories Life Aboard Ships, 1942-1945', published 2006 under ISBN 9780595412709 and ISBN 059541270X.