"We Will Stand By You": Serving in the Pawnee, 1942-1945

Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, c1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 269, illus., footnotes, pencil erasure and sticker residue on front endpaper. Winner of the John Lyman Award in Naval History. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mason was assigned to the U.S.S. Pawnee, a fleet tug that toured the Pacific for 25 months, braving enemy torpedoes, bombs, and mines to rescue stranded ships. Condition: very good.

Keywords: WWII, Augusta Bay, Naval Operations, Campaigns, Damage Control, U.S.S. Pawnee, Theodore C. Mason, Military Logistics, Pacific Theater

ISBN: 0872497097

[Book #36008]

Price: $36.00