Four Years

H.C. Doc Goldsmith served in the U.S. Navy during the early 1930s. Never imagining a return to service he willingly re-joined the Navy in the fight against the Axis powers after the invasion of Pearl Harbor. Discovered after his death in 2000 by his grandson this book is a compilation of journals written in 1965 that described in vivid detail H.C.'s World War II experiences aboard the U.S.S. Sentinel a minesweeper assigned to the European theater.</p>From air raids in North Africa and London to his ship sinking in the invasion of Sicily H.C. describes his experiences with the simplicity and awe of a farm boy from Lewisville Texas and the calmness of a Navy medic who helped his men survive the horrors of war.