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A PT Skipper in the South Pacific
A PT Skipper in the South PacificA Naval Officer's Memoir of Service on PTs and a PT Boat Tender
- by Kenneth W. Prescott, Captain, USNR (Ret.)
- Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series
- Second Edition 2011
- 177 6 × 9 inch pages
From training at Melville, Rhode Island, to the South Pacific where as XO and CO of PT 61 and CO of PT 48 he served at Tulagi-Florida Island, Guadalcanal, and the Russells, as well as on different assignments in Torokina, Bougainville, and Emirau, New Ireland, back to Melville and on to the USS Jamestown (AGP-3) as XO, home based in the Philippines, and finally to his post-war career in the Navy.
Included are his bird collecting and taxidermy efforts during and after the war, as well as an encounter with future president John F. Kennedy.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Pearl Harbor and Joining the Navy
- Chapter 2: Motor Torpedo Boat Training, Melville, Rhode Island
- Chapter 3: To the South Pacific
- Chapter 4: The Old-Timers: Heroes of the PT Saga
- Chapter 5: Calvertville
- Chapter 6: XO of PT 61
- Chapter 7: Patrolling and Boxing
- Chapter 8: The Russells, Rats, and Poker
- Chapter 9: Taxidermy—South Pacific Style
- Chapter 10: CO of PT 61
- Chapter 11: Kennedy, Crocs, and Gunboats
- Chapter 12: CO of PT 48
- Chapter 13: Torokina and Malaria
- Chapter 14: Bougainville and Bird Collecting
- Chapter 15: Emirau and Back to the U.S.
- Chapter 16: Melville Again
- Chapter 17: Back to the Pacific
- Chapter 18: XO of the Jamestown
- Chapter 19: Japan Surrenders and Jamestown Returns Home
- Chapter 20: Recuperating in Hollywood
- Chapter 21: My Post-War Studies
- Chapter 22: Naval Reserve and Civilian Life
- Chapter 23: Epilogue
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