Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific

                                    Chapter 16.  "The Summer of '42"
                   
                            Bonus Photos--not among the 42 included in the book  
                                                   
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Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific


Chapter 1  "The Tree Army"

Chapter 2  "Joining the Navy"

Chapter 3.  "Basic Training"   

Chapter 4   "The Destroyer"  

Chapter  5  "Radio School"     

Chapter 6.  "The Cruiser"

Chapter 7.  "The Submarine Base"  

Chapter 8.  "The Attack on Pearl Harbor"  

Chapter 9.  "Aftershocks"  

Chapter 10.  "The Submarine"     

Chapter 11.  "The Aircraft Carrier"        

Chapter 12.  "The Battle of Coral Sea"                 

Chapter 13.  "The Battle of Midway"                      

Chapter 14.  "Abandon Ship"                               

Chapter 15.  "Rescued at Sea"                           

Chapter 16.  "The Summer of '42"                         Current Page, See Photos Above

Chapter 17.  "First Leave"                                   

Chapter 18.  "The Naval Research Laboratory"

Chapter 19.  "Cold Bay"       

Chapter 20.  "Kodiak"   

Chapter 21.  "Victory Days"

Epilogue
By the summer of 1942, most of the drill press operators in this American aircraft factory were women.

   Above photo illustrates Radioman, Chapter 16 ("The Summer of '42"), page 138
Source of Photo:  Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, # 66312(62)
Radioman Ray Daves's liberty card was among the documents salvaged from the carrier Yorktown
(CV-5) before it sank at Midway, June 7, 1942.  (Original size:  1 3/4" x 3")

  Above document illustrates Radioman, Chapter 16 ("The Summer of '42"), page 138
                            Source of Document:  Ray Daves Collection
Fear of invasion by Japanese troops after the attack on Pearl Harbor prompted armed guards and barbed
wire on Waikiki and other Oahu beaches during World War II.  (Above is Kahuku Beach, March 1945.)  

Above photo illustrates Radioman, Chapter 16 ("The Summer of '42"), page 141
                      Source of Photo:  National Archives, ARC # 531323
Upon his return to the submarine base at Pearl Harbor after the Battle of Midway, Radioman
(RM2c) Ray Daves was photographed for this temporary idenfication/liberty card.  June 1942.  

Above document illustrates Radioman, Chapter 16 ("The Summer of '42"), page 138
                           Source of Document:  Ray Daves Collection
Bonus Photos for All Other Chapters:
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