Navy Afloat

An improbable naval officer afloat – a memoir

  1. A Naval Heritage – Part 1
  2. A Naval Heritage – Part 2
  3. War Within The War – Part 1
  4. Between Miami and Tuscaloosa
  5. The Mister Roberts Syndrome
  6. This Eagle Wasn’t Flying
  7. The Reduction Gear
  8. The Sharpshooter
  9. The Steam Pump
  10. Beneke
  11. The Bosun
  12. Rockets
  13. Havana
  14. A Reason Born of Desperation
  15. The Washing Machine
  16. Decommissioning
  17. Reveille
  18. 12 April 1945
  19. War Within The War – Part 2
  20. The Commodore
  21. Dinner On Board
  22. The Asiatic Cat
  23. Foghorn
  24. Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre II
  25. Wally’s Tug
  26. Santa Barbara
  27. San Francisco – 1945
  28. Slug
  29. Tammy
  30. Romeo’s
  31. White Soot
  32. Manila
  33. Sugar Charlie
  34. The Market
  35. The Deckhouse of the Rising Sun
  36. Corregidor
  37. Panama
  38. Traveling with Augie
  39. The Oiler
  40. Opeola
  41. Readiness
  42. All Chiefs and No Indians
  43. Tribute
  44. Big Man – Big Ship
  45. Postscript

Copyright (text only) © 2005 by Louis D. Chirillo