LUCKY THIRTEEN: D-Days in the Pacific with the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II by Ken Wiley |
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The Hooligan Navy is the third book of a trilogy based upon the author's Navy (WW2) and Coast Guard (post-WW2) experiences. It is the frank and quite often humorous confession of what life was like in the late 1940's aboard a variety of U. S. Coast Guard cutters. Wesley Hall, at the age of 22, joined the Coast Guard in Oklahoma City, near his home, was sent to Government Island, Alameda, California. From there he went to the CGC Alert, based in Humboldt Bay, Eureka, California. His record was a clean slate, and his future as a radio operator seemed bright. Fate, however, intervened and, incredibly, during the next two years, when his hitch was up, he served aboard five other cutters, including two Indian cutters assigned to Ocean Station Fox (the Chautauqua and the Escanaba); the Taney, another and larger cutter assigned to gather weather information at Station Fox; the Bramble, a buoy tender, assigned to the northern California coast; and the Storis, an icebreaker that took him from Baltimore, Maryland, to Juneau, Alaska.
It is the true story of a young man whose first black mark inexorably led to a second and a third, despite his good intentions.
About the Author
Wesley Hall, now retired from teaching, lives in Holly Springs, Mississippi, with his wife, Sharon. Surrounded by an almost impenetrable forest of hardwoods on a ten-acre estate just outside town, they grow wine grapes and lavender and all shapes and sizes of sunflowers (and whatever else reminds them of Provence).
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