WW II PC-606 Sailor "THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HIMSELF: THE WAR YEARS" Vet Signed

Description: I COMBINE SHIPPING $1.50 per book. FREE SHIPPING for orders over $60. Send books to your check-out cart. E-Bay will automatically adjust shipping costs.PACKAGING & SHIPPING RULES:1. Individual books Under $18.00 are shipped in padded poly envelopes. 2. Individual books Over $18.00 are shipped in a poly envelope inside a box. 3. Buy Three or more books and the order is shipped in a box.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LISTING: This has been signed by the vet-author. See pictures. This book covers a young man during his life in the Depression, pre-war years and then 1942-1945 for five years in the US Navy during WW II The author is assigned as a sonar man to a 174 foot long anti-submarine patrol craft, PC-606. 65 sailors and officers were on board. The PC was assigned to Key West and performed anti-sub duty. In June 1943 they were involved in their first Atlantic convoy duty helping to screen ships as they sailed along the coast (they did not cross the Atlantic) After the convoy duty they mostly did anti-sub duty around Cuba. For several months they escorted ship from New York to Cuba. In December 1943 the ship was sent to the Pacific Theater of war. In the Pacific they served as an escort ship for various operations. For a while in 1943-44 they operated out of Guadalcanal. Later they went to other islands and did more escort work until the end of the ear. The Personal Record of his life - During the Great Depression and his naval service aboard a Sub-Chaser during World War II. The author was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1922. His mother died in 1926, leaving his father widowed with three small children, they were placed in St. Paul's Orphanage in 1928, due to economic conditions. He and his siblings remained there for eight years. When his father remarried he made a home for them in Brookline, a suburb of Pittsburgh. This book tells his personal story of what it was like living in an orphanage during the years of the great depression. Then five short years later, to spent his youth in World War II aboard a Sub-chaser fighting the Nazi and Japanese undersea menace. During his teen years it was evident America would soon be involved in the world conflict. After graduation from South Hills High School in 1942 he enlisted in the Navy, and in November of that year he was sent to boot camp at Great Lakes Naval training Center in Chicago, Ill. Selected to train in the war against the Nazi U-Boat's menacing Americas coasts he received anti-submarine training at Key West Florida for service on a sub-chaser, the USS PC 606. He served aboard the ship in the Atlantic and Pacific war zones, escorting troop and supply vessels in convoy to their destinations. He served aboard his ship until wars end, in September 1945. After discharge from the Navy in April 1946 his Navy training in electronics was a great help in obtaining employment with the Western Electric Company. a subsidiary of AT&T communications. He spent 35 years with the company, as installer and supervisor, installing telephone office equipment in Pennsylvania and Florida. During his working years, he helped to install the first all-electronic telephone PBX system in the country for the Apollo space project at Cape Canaveral Fla. He also worked for time on the historic, nuclear submarine project, Nautilus, at Westinghouse Atomic Plant in Pittsburgh Pa.

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Location: Livonia, Michigan

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