Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific

Radioman is the biography of Ray Daves a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and an eyewitness to World War II. It is based on the authors handwritten notes from a series of interviews that began on the eighty-second birthday of the combat veteran and gives a first-person account of the worlds first battles between aircraft carriers.. Ray Daves grew up on a small farm near Little Rock Arkansas. Impatient with school and the prospect of becoming a farmer like his father he joined the CCC and went from there to the navy where he learned to use the radio to send messages and soon found himself in the momentary peacefulness of Pearl Harbor. . Most of Americas World War II veterans were not in uniform when the war began. Daves is one of the few who was. He could also tell what was happening on the bridge of the famous carrier Yorktown before it went down and of the secretive relationship between the Russian and American forces in Alaska at the time.. Carol Edgemon Hippersons discovery of this one mans inspiring story is shared with great skill and energy. A must-read for those looking for a personal intimate account of the events of this tumultuous time in American history.