Cradle Cruise: A Navy Bluejacket Remembers Life Aboard the USS Trever During World War II Review

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Cradle Cruise: A Navy Bluejacket Remembers Life Aboard the USS Trever During World War II ReviewVery well written memoir from an author who joined the pre-war navy to escape the difficult environment of depression era Chicago. After training he is assigned to the destroyer escort USS Trevor. Dawsons excellent prose makes even his training, which is often times kind of dry in some memoirs, interesting and then he progresses to his experiences in Hawaii just before the attack on PH. After the war begins his destroyer spends time escorting troop transports during the Guadalcanal campaign. Overall there is not a lot of combat in this book though there are several compelling passages such as the time his DE and another are chased by a larger Japanese naval force off New Georgia, surviving Typhoon Cobra and an action in which his DE attacks a Japanese submarine which sinks one of the ships they are escorting in an allied convoy. The chapter ends with the author giving me the impression at least that they sunk the sub however strangely there is no post war follow up by the author! I checked wikipedia and the Trevor is not credited with a submarine. What makes the book a strong buy is that the author, who has written a few other non-war books writes very well and and his writing primarily concentrates more on the personal experience of serving on a wartime escort. For example some of the chapters deal with subjects such as the animosities between lifers and new boots, a cat who becomes ship mascot and an incident when the crew decide to strip down and bathe on the fantail in a very populated foreign port. There is very little "bigger picture" attention given here yet in this type of book and I really didnt mind. I personally like war memoirs in which the author takes the time to flesh out the characters and tell the smaller, less dramatic but still interesting non-combat stories too. If you are like me and read naval books serially I would rate this a strong buy and one to put on your list!Cradle Cruise: A Navy Bluejacket Remembers Life Aboard the USS Trever During World War II Overview

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