Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Fahey, James J.

Pacific war diary, 1942-1945 / by James J. Fahey. - New York, N.Y. : Zebra Books, [1982?] - 404 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.

Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1963.

Throughout the World War II campaign in the Pacific, an ordinary seaman defied navy regulations by surreptitiously compiling a diary on scraps of paper. One of the most extraordinary personal documents to emerge from the war, James J. Fahey's diary presents a vivid picture of an average sailor's daily life -- from the first battle to the typhoons and food shortages to the final desperate attacks by kamikaze pilots and Japanese suicide ships.

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World War--Naval operations, American. --1939-1945
World War--1939-1945--Pacific Ocean

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