WWII--U.S. NAVY--USS HORNET--WYOMING SAILOR'S RIVETING WWII MEMOIR! OOP

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"CROSSING THE LINE--A BLUEJACKET'S WORLD WAR II ODYSSEY" is the memoir of Alvin Kernan who left his family's Wyoming ranch to join the U.S. Navy in 1941. He spent WWII aboard aircraft carriers and was in the battles at Midway and Okinawa and was onboard when his ship--the USS HORNET--was sunk at Guadacanal in 1942. He became an aerial gunner in torpedo planes and was involved in the first night-fighter (TBFs and F6Fs) action off carriers in 1943. Here's his MESMERIZING memoir to include rare glimpses into an enlisted man's daily life, bar-room brawls, boredom, terror and the entire life of a WWII enlisted sailor onboard a WWII aircraft carrier!
Book is HARDBACK with DUSTJACKET published in 1994. It is a 1st  PRINTING, is in NEAR MINT CONDITION, measures 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", and contains 173 pages with several PHOTOGRAPHS throughout.
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