Publisher's Synopsis
The reader of this book will follow the path of a young man growing from childhood to manhood while serving in the United States Navy. He enlisted in the Navy on his seventeenth birthday during World War II, and was discharged several days before his twenty-first birthday.His life in the Navy included an introduction to military life, and to the adventures of travel to interesting, strange and historic places. He lived through many exciting, dangerous, and comical experiences. Sea stories galore!