Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942
One of the untold stories of World War II is the guarding of Greenland and its coastal waters, where the first U.S. capture of an enemy ship took place. For six months in 1942 and against standing orders of the time, Thaddeus Nowakowski (now Novak) kept a personal diary of his service on patrol in the North Atlantic. Supplemented by photos from his last surviving shipmates, Novak’s diary fills a void in the story of American sailors at war in the North Atlantic. It is the only known diary of an enlisted Coast Guard sailor to emerge from WWII.
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Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942
One of the untold stories of World War II is the guarding of Greenland and its coastal waters, where the first U.S. capture of an enemy ship took place. For six months in 1942 and against standing orders of the time, Thaddeus Nowakowski (now Novak) kept a personal diary of his service on patrol in the North Atlantic. Supplemented by photos from his last surviving shipmates, Novak’s diary fills a void in the story of American sailors at war in the North Atlantic. It is the only known diary of an enlisted Coast Guard sailor to emerge from WWII.
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Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942

Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942

Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942

Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942

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One of the untold stories of World War II is the guarding of Greenland and its coastal waters, where the first U.S. capture of an enemy ship took place. For six months in 1942 and against standing orders of the time, Thaddeus Nowakowski (now Novak) kept a personal diary of his service on patrol in the North Atlantic. Supplemented by photos from his last surviving shipmates, Novak’s diary fills a void in the story of American sailors at war in the North Atlantic. It is the only known diary of an enlisted Coast Guard sailor to emerge from WWII.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813059174
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication date: 12/01/2005
Series: New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

P. J. Capelotti is senior lecturer in anthropology and American studies at Pennsylvania State University, Abington College, and author or editor of more than a dozen nonfiction histories, including Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki and By Airship to the North Pole, as well as a recent volume of poetry, God’s Meadow: A Summer of Poems on the Edge of Oslo Fjord.
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