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Crossing the Line: Bluejacket's World War II Odyssey (Paperback)

by Alvin B. Kernan (Author)
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  • Paperback: 173 pages
  • Publisher: Naval Institute Press; First Edition edition (5 May 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1557504555
  • ISBN-13: 978-1557504555
  • Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,184,354 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Looks at the life of a Navy petty officer during World War II, detailing his experiences in battle and on leave.

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5.0 out of 5 stars accurate description of life "on the line", 28 Jul 1998
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This review is from: Crossing the Line: Bluejacket's World War II Odyssey (Bluejacket Books) (Paperback)
As a Vietnam carrier vet I found this book to give an accurate and previously unkown to me view of life on the line during WWII. Things hadn't changed much in the Navy when I went to sea on the USS Oriskany 1966/1967 & USS Hancock 1968 in the south china sea off the coast of N Vietnam. Very well written and fills in much naval history but from the guy in the trenches.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Honest and involving, beautifully written, 2 Sep 2009
By J. Hood (Cheshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is more than a WW2 memoir. it's a beautifully written account of a young man's physical and metaphorical journey to maturity against the background of the war that took him from his ranch through just about every major carrier action of the war in Pacific.
I was not surprised to read that, after the war, Kernan gained a PhD in English Lit and became a respected academic.The cadence of his prose and his choice of apposite vocabulary combines with his clear recall of events and emotions to make the book vivid both vivid and engaging.
I particularly liked his description of the return of the USS Enterprise to Pearl Harbour just after the Japanese attack, and of air operations over Tarawa in 1943 - especially his account of the subsequent crude demands of the reporter to know the full story of Butch O'Hare's death, the moment that Kernan's plane had made a perilous night landing on the Enterprise with a wounded radar operator.
He points up the insurmountable barrier that existed between enlisted men such as himself and the officers under whom he served: his word for the gulf is "medieval".
Kernan writes sparingly, but all the better for it. Commenting on on a coach at Flight Training School, he says "His faith in the uniformity of nature was as absolute as it was unwarranted." It captures the man's character simply and perfectly.
This is a quiet memoir, narrated with feeling and without bombast, and without a doubt one of the very best and most enlightening WW2 eye-witness accounts I have read.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book., 26 Jun 1998
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Good story of a young man coming of age during the most exciting period of WWII. Includes fascinating first-person accounts of carrier warfare.
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