The Reminiscences of Adm. Harold Edson Shear, USN (Ret.): 1918-1999

Since his father died before he was born, Shear was raised in the 1920s and 1930s largely by his stepfather, the skipper of a menhaden fishing ship. The youngster thus developed an early love for the sea. He graduated the Naval Academy shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, then served in both the Atlantic and Pacific on board the destroyer USS Stack (DD—406). Following submarine school in the early months of 1944, he served to the end of the war in the USS Sawfish (SS—276). Pos...