Get the hell off this ship!

<p> James Claude Beasley was a typical American teenager in the 1940s--a child of the Great Depression with an abiding commitment to family and country. With the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the Navy at 18.</p><p> His plainspoken personal memoir recounts three years of service (1942-1945) from his induction at Winston Salem North Carolina to the sinking of his ship the escort carrier USS <I>Liscome Bay</I> by a Japanese submarine through the end of the conflict and his return to civilian life.</p>