Taste of Salt: A WWII Skipper Looks Back - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

With fascinating photographs and text, the author describes the parallel lives of himself and his ship during World War II. Treadwell was a commissioned naval officer, but says his true rating should have been "Landlubber 1/c." At the start of the war, he knew nothing about ships or the sea. He was fully aware he was prone to seasickness. These drawbacks notwithstanding, he longed for sea duty and wanted to be "where the action was." He states, "My only fitness for sea duty was that I was dumb and reckless."

He managed to wangle an assignment as Third Officer on a 110' wooden subchaser, the smallest commissioned warship in the navy. He served aboard this vessel, U.S.S. SC 648, in the South Pacific, for two years, the last nine months as her commanding officer. It was "enough war and sea duty to last a lifetime." he says today. As in his previous book, "Splinter Fleet," the people and the stories are all true.

Biografía del autor

A native of New Jersey, Theodore ?Ted? Treadwell lived most of his life in upstate New York and New England. After graduating from Rutgers University and Harvard Business School, he spent four years in the navy, two of them on a subchaser in the Pacific. After the war he and his wife Zan raised five children while he made a career in the packaging industry, from which he retired in 1984. Not long after that he began researching and writing about the little wooden subchasers. The years of research sent Treadwell and his sons Dan and Ted III to National Archives, the Naval Historical Center, the Naval Institute, and other facilities throughout the U.S., England, and Norway. Treadwell?s Fine Arts model of SC 648 is on display in the Navy Museum in Washington, DC. He continues to write while ?fully maturing? at the age of 91, in Bellingham, WA. The Treadwells maintain a website dedicated to subchasers: http://www.splinterfleet.org