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Experiences in the Pacific by a North Carolina lieutenant
Lieut. J. A. McNeill recounts a perilous Pacific voyage after his LCT was towed by a Liberty ship. The crew of ten rookies endured 40 foot waves, misidentified as an enemy, adrift for days, and a lifeboat ordeal ending with a dramatic rescue and net ascent aboard the escort ship.
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J. A. McNeill
G. R. McNeill
Whiteville
University of North Carolina
Columbia University
San Francisco
Pacific
Olympic
LCT
Cruel Sea
Central America
States
Navy