Where away
Subtitle: a modern odyssey
By: with illustrations by John J. Floherty, Jr. ...
Contributors: Leighton, Isabel, joint author.; Floherty, John Joseph, 1907- illus.
Publisher: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc.
Published: 1944
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Marblehead (Cruiser); World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.
Notes: At head of title: George Sessions Perry and Isabel Leighton.
Map on lining-papers.
A story of the U.S.S. Marblehead and its crew.
Table of contents: title: ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Rear Admiral (then Captain) Arthur G.; title: Robinson. Frontispiece; title: Commander (now Captain) Nicholas B.; title: Van Bergen. between 14 and 15; title: Lt. Commander Martin }. Drury. 15; title: Chief Bos'n Harvey Andersen. 15; title: Hawkins and the Deacon. 15; title: Moran and Percifield. 30; title: Forward view of the U.S.S. Marblehead. 31; title: Illustration. 46; title: Captain Robinson on the bridge. 62; title: Clarence "Bull" Aschenbrenner. 94; title: Illustration. between 118 and 119; title: Joe DeLude.  135; title: Death, pain, and fire.  135; title: The wounded. 135; title: Lacking tannic acid, gunners smear gun grease on the burned. 135; title: Johnson reaches into the sloshing muck to grapple for the drainage plugs. 142; title: Martines carrying powder. Pipe bunks being torn out for use as stretchers. 143; title: Illustrations; title: Below decks, men are ceaselessly bailing water. 159; title: The "Bull" works aft. The quiet indomitability, the uncrushable peasant stubbornness of spirit of Fook Liang. 1 59; title: Jarvis and his gang do some emergency electrical rigging. 174; title: Native dock workers at Tjilatjap. 182; title: Commander Goggins, with gifts, is carried ashore. 183; title: U.S.S. Marblehead in drydock at Simonstown, South Africa. between 222 and 223; title: Hello, Mom. This is Eddie. 230